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Time and Place
Saturday, 6th of February 2010, at FOSDEM2010 in Brussels, Belgium.
FOSDEM is simply the biggest free software developers event in Europe. For the last 10 years, on one weekend in February, a campus from the Brussels Free University gets raided by some 5000 open source developers and enthusiasts. There are main tracks with high profile talks, there are project specific devrooms with talks and hands on session, there are booths, and all of it is free (although donations are appreciated).
Coreboot DevRoom
Coreboot will have its very first DevRoom at FOSDEM this year. We will have AW.124, which can hold 60 people, from 13:00 to 19:00. We will have talks and hands-on sessions there and generally be very cool and interesting :)
- 13:00 : Peter Stuge - Coreboot.
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- 15:00 : Rudolf Marek - ACPI and Suspend/Resume under coreboot.
- 16:00 : Carl-Daniel Hailfinger - Flashrom.
- 17:00 : Luc Verhaegen - Flash Enable BIOS Reverse Engineering.
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- Rudolf Marek - ACPI and Suspend/Resume under coreboot.
Ever wanted to know more about ACPI? The aim of the talk is to introduce the software part of ACPI as well as provide the necessary hardware details to get the bigger picture. The tour through Coreboot ACPI implementation will be given. Suspend and resume procedure will be presented with all nifty parts explained.
- Carl-Daniel Hailfinger - Flashrom.
- Luc Verhaegen - Flash Enable BIOS Reverse Engineering.
Many board makers provide extra write protection for their bioschips. The developers at the flashrom project have to devote part of their time on finding out what protection is provided and how this can be disabled. Some of this information comes from the BIOS itself, and the procedures for some common BIOSes, and the tools involved will be introduced in this talk. Half of the time will be spent on digging through an actual BIOS with a crude tool like ndisasm.
Information for Speakers
A DevRoom at FOSDEM contains a sometimes working network (several thousand people are trying to use wireless at the same time), power, an LCD projector and some whiteboards. Next to that, the room will be filled with highly interested free software people, some of which you know or will get to know after your talk. It always is a very friendly and highly interested audience that can handle very technical information well. Talks should not be kept shallow at all as little pandering is needed. Talks should generally last about 45 minutes, so that there is some time for people to move in and out of the room or to come and talk to you directly.
If you want to give a talk at this DevRoom (and as you can see, there are plenty of slots still available), please contact Luc Verhaegen (libv) by dropping him an email at libv at skynet dot be.
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Lockyer, Dunn And Perata Introduce New Legislation To Solve Gun Crimes
Measure Would Put Unique Identifiers on Each Bullet Made and Sold in California
(SACRAMENTO) - Attorney General Bill Lockyer, Sen. Joe Dunn and Senate President pro Tem Don Perata today unveiled legislation to help law enforcement personnel solve firearms-related homicide investigations.
SB 357, authored by Dunn, co-authored by Perata and sponsored by the Attorney General would create a new "bullet serialization" system that will allow investigating officers to trace bullets recovered from crime scenes to the person who purchased the ammunition.
"Gang-related gun violence is one of the fastest growing concerns for communities throughout California," Lockyer said. "We are losing too many of our young people to seemingly random shootings and anonymous killers. SB 357 will strip criminals of their anonymity and give law enforcement evidence it can use to quickly and effectively solve more gun crimes."
The new system would require every bullet sold or manufactured in California to be affixed with an identifier. When an ammunition vendor sells handgun bullets to a purchaser, the vendor would match the identifier on the ammunition with the purchaser, and then log the match into an electronic database run by the Attorney General's Office. When a bullet is recovered from a crime scene where a firearm is used, law enforcement investigators will be able to check the bullet for the identifier and match it with a purchaser.
"With the passage of SB 357, California will bring law enforcement investigative tools into the modern age," Dunn said. "This system will be an important new tool to help law enforcement personnel identify and convict violent felons and murderers."
In 2003, over 72 percent (1,733) of California homicides were committed with a firearm. Almost 45 percent of these homicides were unsolved. Additionally, 63,597 robberies were reported in 2003, with armed robbery accounting for 53.9 percent (34,252) of these crimes. A firearm was used in 64.7 percent (22,161) of all armed robberies. Only 27.1 percent of robberies were solved in 2003.
"SB 357 offers crime scene investigators a valuable new tool to help solve and deter crimes," Perata said. "Numbers on bullets mean criminals off streets."
Specifically, SB 357 does the following:
* Requires all handgun ammunition manufactured or sold in California to be marked with a unique identifier.
* The identifier would then be associated with the purchaser of the handgun ammunition at the point of sale and maintained in an electronic database run by the Attorney General's Office.
* Requires all vendors and manufacturers who conduct handgun ammunition sales in the state to register with the Attorney General's Office.
* Assesses vendor and end-user fees to pay for the costs of the program.
* Creates criminal and civil penalties for individuals and corporations who circumvent the requirements of SB 357.
A graphic representation of how bullet serialization works and photos of serialized bullets fired into car doors can be found here.


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Despite being forced out of the pool by a shoulder injury this year, Ionia sophomore Shyenne Fish is heading back to the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 3 Girls Swimming and Diving Finals for the second-straight year.
After heading to the state meet for the first time as a freshman last season, Fish said she is a little better prepared for what to expect, but is still just as happy to be heading back.
"I'm excited to go and try and do better than I did last year," she said. "This year I know what's going to happen and how it all works, so I will be more prepared."
Fish qualified for three events, the 100 Backstroke, 200 Freestyle and 500 Freestyle. Her coach and mother Kimarie Fish said seeing her daughter qualify in three events is something special for her.
"It's really cool," she said. "I was excited last year when she made it, but this year she qualified for three events, so that was pretty exciting and I know she would like to make it to finals. That would be fun."
Although she qualified for the 500 Free last season, Shyenne has decided to opt out of the event this year. After having to set out a portion of the season and rehabbing her shoulder, Both her and her mother decided it was best to just focus on the other two events.
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Ok I got it and im sitting in the truck waiting for my Mom who was in a store so i pull out my knife and cut the litlle peice of plastic tape **** that keeps it sealed. After opening it i was kinda shocked at how the books seem alot bigger than they were in 8.1 which i bought in like January of this year. Well I open the thing up and pulled out the books.
The design of the CD/DVD holding case is alot sleeker. It looks VERY good. (Bill gates said if you cant make it good make it look good. Maybe he should hire SuSE people) The SuSE Linux User guide is NICE looking and has alot in it (I Wont got into detail yet because to be honest I only flipped through it) The Admin Book as always is bigger than the user guide and also looks top notch as anyone who knows anything about SuSE would expect.
When i got home I opened up the box and took everything out. I set the books down and pulled out the CD/DVD holder, and then I pulled out the other little booklets. One is a catologue for 2003 Which has alot of information on SuSE products. Very nice. The other is the support booklet.
I opened up the CD/DVD holder and was greeted with an AWESOME sticker! (I was wondering where they were!) If you bought SuSE 8.1 professional you got 4 SuSE stickers. Well for 8.2 you get 1 sticker but, it's not a cheaply made one. This one is a professional design similar to the design on the SuSE Linux boxes and it says "SuSE LINUX" It looks amazing.
The stickers fairly high quality and something you would see on a server.
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One thing i noticed right away during install is that when you select packages yourself like me, it goes alot faster. I did a fresh install on my machine that was running 8.1 profesional and noticed quickly how much they have done with the GUI interface. This is am AWESOME distro and of course if youv ever talked to me before you know I'm a bit of a SuSE fanatic.
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awesome product for protect carbon soles
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
If you have carbon soled shoes these are essential. They are very durable and are good for probably 10 cleat changes, maybe more. I've used these on 3 pairs of Specialized S-Works and they've outlasted one set of shoes & just mounted them on some new Sidi's.
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These are a must have with carbon soled shoes and SpeedPlay pedals. Slip these between your cleats ans shoes and ride with comfort knowing that your beautiful carbon soles are protected
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I never install Speedplay cleats without the protector shims anymore. I discovered these as a "pro secret" many years ago; using them with your standard cleats to prolong the life of the cleat and pedal.
They are a no-brainer if you are using Speedplay specific shoes so that you don't damage the sole of your shoe; but they are also a fantastic and worthy addition to the standard cleat setup.
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You decide - spend $10 now or $500 on a new set of Sidis or Lakes in 6 months.
These provide a stainless layer to protect the carbon soles of your fancy uphill dancing slippers. They last forever, in fact I rarely buy additional pairs - only when I want to add a pair of shoes, not replace.
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If you are using a 3 hole shoe, adding http://www.competitivecyclist.com/speedplay-fore-aft-extender-base-plate to the setup really makes a huge difference in extending cleat life as well.
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one of those things you've lived without but when you use them you'll realize that for not much money you should have had them all along. I used them on Sidi, and Lake and worked great.
Are the mounting screws that come with the cleats in the box the same ones that are needed when using these?
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Have Sidi Genius speedplay shoes. The shields have kept the shoes carbon sole from any wear from the continuos clipping in and out from the pedals as you come to stops. Also being thin, they add very little weight if any to the shoes at the end of the day.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hawaiian Airlines said on Monday it plans to buy Airbus EAD.PA A321neo planes in an order valued at up to $2.8 billion, a move that puts Airbus ahead of Boeing (BA.N) as the airline's main supplier of jets that fly between Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast.
Hawaiian Holdings (HA.O), the carrier's parent, said it signed a tentative agreement with Airbus to buy 16 jets with options for nine more. The deliveries are scheduled for between 2017 and 2020.
Airbus has now won Hawaiian's last three competitions, supplying A330s, A350s and now the A321neo.
Boeing declined to comment.
The Airbus neo is a family of single-aisle planes that will be equipped with new engines for better fuel savings. The A321neo, which seats about 190 people, will be used on routes to the U.S. West Coast, the carrier said.
The new jets fit the strategy of Hawaiian Airlines' CEO Mark Dunkerley of providing more connections to mainland U.S. cities, using fuel-efficient single-aisle planes instead of the wide-body Boeing 767 jets that now fly the routes.
"With its slightly smaller size, we'll be able to open new markets that are not viable for wide-body service, while also being able to augment service on existing routes to the West Coast of North America," Dunkerley said in a statement.
The purchases are contingent on the airline signing agreements with unions representing its flight attendants and pilots to operate the new type of aircraft.
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Airbus looks set to announce 900 orders for 2012. Confirming a report in French newspaper La Tribune, industry sources say it delivered 588 aircraft in 2012.
Hawaiian's current 43-jet fleet is dominated by Boeing 767 and 717 jets, but includes nine Airbus A330s.
The airline has ordered 13 more A330s and six A350XWB-800s. It plans to phase out its fleet of 16 Boeing 767s over the next decade.
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Another reason for the delay is that we've been doing lots of DIY projects around the MD place. That's also why I have not been blogging regularly. My spare time really needs to be spent doing project stuff for now. We're still not finished, but we decided we couldn't let a long holiday weekend pass. Especially one where the weather was shaping up to be pretty darn nice.
So we made a last-minute decision to head to West Virginia on Saturday morning.
|Our bikes fits the new trailer perfectly.
We've been anxious to get the bikes to the WV place. Remember, we just got them in January. We hadn't had a chance to ride them on our favorite roads before Saturday.
|Downtown Romney from our truck en route to the WV Place.
Between Saturday and Sunday, we rode a total of about 250 miles. It was fabulous. I am so, so, SO glad we bit the bullet and bought new bikes. :-)
|Me on a snack/drink break.
|Hubby heading into Paw Paw, WV.
|Crossing the Potomac River into Maryland.
|My handsome Hubby gassing us up.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Aug 2007 06:08 UTC, submitted by Kaj de Vos
Kelly Wilson ported the Gnash Flash player clone to Syllable [screenshot], enabling the playing of Adobe Flash content. It uses the Boost C++ libraries, the SDL and Anti-Grain Geometry libraries for graphics rendering and FFMPEG for multimedia decoding. Work on the player is continuing to add the FreeType library and make the player native to Syllable, so it can be integrated in the web browser. Also, on some Adobe Flash news, an upcoming update will be supporting native h.264 videos, HE-AAC audio support, as well as hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback.
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RE[3]: gnash & flash video...
by gilboa on Wed 22nd Aug 2007 16:57 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: gnash & flash video..."
... While I don't agree with the OP ("Gnash sucks"), at least for me (Fedora 7/CentOS 5, x86_64, nVidia) gnash doesn't seem to handle YouTube videos.
Once I have some free time I'll see if I can dig some meaningful debug information and post a bug report about it.
Never the less, I rather have a semi-working open source Flash player the works on any platform/browser that bothers to port it then a stable (?), closed source player that only works on a -very- limited set * of platforms/browsers.
- Gilboa
* E.g. No 64bit support, no BSD/Solaris, etc.
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RE[4]: gnash & flash video...
by hobgoblin on Wed 22nd Aug 2007 21:00 in reply to "RE[3]: gnash & flash video..."
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(CNN) -- Bode Miller fulfilled his Olympic dream at last with a gold medal in the men's super-combined at Whistler Creekside on Sunday.
The flamboyant U.S star has been in superb form at the Vancouver Winter Games and his victory completes a full set of medals, after he claimed silver in the super-G and bronze in the downhill.
Miller, seventh after the downhill section, relegated pre-race favorite Ivica Kostelic of Croatia to the silver medal position after producing a superb slalom run.
Silvan Zurbriggen of Switzerland claimed the bronze medal ahead of teammate Carlo Janka, with reigning Olympic champion Ted Ligety of the United States back in fifth.
Super-G gold medalist Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, quickest on the downhill, slid out near the finish to spark scenes of wild celebration as Miller realized the gold was his after drawing blank in the 2006 Winter Games in Turin.
SI.com: Gold medal proves Bode has finally come full circle
Miller, who snubbed the official U.S. ski team in 2007 and appeared on the brink of retirement, returned to the fold last year and prepared carefully for the Games.
He added to his two silvers from Salt Lake City in his first two events and finally made his breakthrough with another virtuoso display.
"When I passed the line I did my normal thing and stood for a second and I was like, 'that was unbelievable, I can't ask for anything more'," Miller told reporters.
"For my first Olympic gold, it was absolutely perfect."
Miller's combined time of 2:44.92 left him 0.33 seconds faster than Kostelic, who won silver in the discipline in Turin behind Ligety, who left himself with too much to do after a lackluster downhill display.
The first ever gold in the new Winter Olympic sport of ski cross went to Switzerland's Michael Schmid with Austria's Andreas Matt taking the silver and Audun Groenvold in the bronze medal position.
Canada's Christopher Del Bosco was the fourth member of the final but saw his medal hopes disappear when he crashed near the end of the final at Cypress Mountain.
Russia's Evgeny Ustyugov took the first gold of the tenth day with a comfortable victory in the men's 15km mass start biathlon.
His flawless shooting display saw him cross the line ahead of France's Martin Fourcade and Slovakian Pavol Hurajt. Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen failed in his bid for a sixth Olympic gold as poor shooting saw him finish 27th.
The women's 12.5km mass start event led to a second gold of the Games for Germany's Magdalena Neuner, who also took a silver in the sprint.
Ireen Wust of the Netherlands claimed the women's 1500m crown at the Richmond Oval as she got the better of home hope Christine Nesbitt in the final heat.
Nesbitt blew up on the final lap and failed in her bid for a second gold at the Games, finishing sixth but fellow Canadian Kristina Groves did take silver ahead of Czech Martina Sablikova.


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In The Wrong?: Mississippi Police Walk Up To Family's Porch & Tells Them To Get Inside The House While They Arrest & Put Unarmed Family Member In A Choke Hold! (Raw Footage)
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Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals" and was one of the early "killer applications" on Macintosh.
Photoshop CS4, the current eleventh iteration of the program, was officially announced on 23 September 2008 and released on 15 October 2008. "CS" reflects its integration with other Creative Suite products, and the number "4" represents it as the fourth version released since Adobe re-branded its products under the CS umbrella. Photoshop CS4 features additions such as the ability to paint directly on 3D models, wrap 2D images around 3D shapes, convert gradient maps to 3D objects, add depth to layers and text, get print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine, and enjoy exporting to supported common 3D formats; the new Adjustment and Mask Panels; Content-aware scaling (previously known as seam carving); Fluid Canvas Rotation and File display options . On 30 April, Adobe released Photoshop CS3 Extended, which includes all the same features of Adobe Photoshop CS3 with the addition of capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, and high end film and video users. The successor to Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4, is the first 64-bit Photoshop on consumer computers.
Adobe Creative Suite is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe Systems. The latest version, Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), was announced on September 23, 2008 as the successor to Adobe Creative Suite 3. It was officially released on October 15, 2008.
All applications in CS4 feature the same user interface, with a new tabbed interface for working with concurrently running Adobe CS4 programs where multiple applications can be opened inside multiple tabs contained in a single window. It was announced that nVidia CUDA technology is now supported to allow for the accelerated encoding of video.
Adobe CS4 is also developed to perform better under 64-bit and multi-core processors. Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and Adobe Soundbooth CS4 will officially support 64-bit. However, Adobe CS4 64-bit will not be available for Mac OS X. In early testing of 64-bit support in Adobe Photoshop CS4, overall performance gains ranged from 8% to 12%. Those who work with extremely large files may realize noticeably greater gains in performance, in some cases as dramatic as ten times the previous speed. This is because 64-bit applications can address larger amounts of memory and thus result in less file swapping — one of the biggest factors that can affect data processing speed.


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Food Processors Baking Profits into Energy Savings
P&L meets environmental sustainability in the baking business as Energy Star and associations put energy savings at the forefront.
Ready to put his Purdue University degree to work, Dave Van Laar, dug into one of his first assignments as an industrial engineer: to cost-justify the purchase of a cardboard bailer. "When I did the initial justification, we were going to make $10,000 a year selling the cardboard scrap. But by the time we got it purchased and installed, the board market had changed so much we had to pay someone to haul it off."
That was the 1970s. Since then the board market has changed. A lot. Also since then, Van Laar's career took off with operations and management positions leading him to baking companies including Pepperidge Farm and ultimately, Oak State Products, a Wenona, Ill.-based contract baker of cookies and bars. As president and CEO at Oak State, he again presides over a compacting-and-baling operation that is decidedly more profitable than using open-top containers and loose hauling of waste. One truck does the work of seven, eliminating an annual 213 truckloads and 6,390 gallons of diesel a year to save him $44,730.
"We're saving fuel, we're saving transportation costs, and we're also eliminating trips to the landfill," he says, adding that one of the company's goals is "zero landfill" by 2013. To help him reach that goal, the company also is bumping up recycling and vendor packaging reductions.
Another company shares the same zero-landfill dream: that granddaddy of the supply chain, Walmart. Picking through its waste stream, literally and figuratively, to donate usable goods and streamline its suppliers' packaging materials, the company reduced its landfill load more than 80 percent; a national rollout is now planned.
"You go through your P&L," Bill Simon, president and CEO of Walmart U.S., said at the company's Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting in March, "and you see this big line that's called 'waste removal' and it's a negative charge." Through commitment analysis and teamwork, "that line, that was a big negative on our P&L, is now turning into actually a fairly large positive."
Anyone doing business with Walmart or any company with global brand recognition knows that environmental sustainability isn't just a marketing ploy. It's a prerequisite for doing business -- as well as a mandate, and opportunity, to make wise capital investments. The environmental aspect of sustainability, alongside financial and corporate responsibility initiatives, is prominent on Wall Street and tracked in the Dow Jones, Ethibel and other sustainability indexes.
Another index, Walmart's Sustainability Index (http://walmartstores.com/Sustainability/9292.aspx), hits lesser-known companies who rank among the mega-retailers' 100,000-plus suppliers now subject to sustainability assessments, measurements and improvements. Walmart requires suppliers not only reduce their own carbon footprint, but ensure that their own suppliers are in line with those efforts. This includes ingredient and material suppliers as well as, say, contract bakers.
Oak State's profitable sustainability
Oak State Products had been working on sustainability "for several years because it was the right thing to do," says Van Laar. "As we did that, we found it also became the profitable thing to do."
In addition to its landfill reduction efforts, Oak State has made investments in several areas:
- Electricity: A switch to high-efficiency fluorescent T5 and T8 lighting saved the company an annual 1 million-plus kilowatt hours for a 45 percent reduction in operating costs and a one-year payback. Motors continue to be replaced as needed with "the highest-efficiency motors we can get," says Van Laar, which is a "no brainer" in light of advances in technology.
- Natural gas: Usage gauges, burner efficiency tests, meters on individual zones and data loggers as well as tuning individual oven burners "give us a better handle on what we're using per zone," says Van Laar. Tuning burners has improved burner efficiency by 10 percent. Oven exhaust and heat recapture and reuse may be in the cards.
- Water: Reductions in consumption include a switch from using water for cleaning to dry cleaning and sanitizing as much as possible. A wastewater treatment project is underway targeting biological oxygen demand reduction to less than 200 mg/L.
Oak State's environmental efforts gained steam when one large customer who had requirements to meet, in turn, helped the bakery along the way.
"From there it just took off to looking at everything in the plant," Van Laar says.
Such assistance from larger companies is commonplace, according to Walt Tunnessen, national program manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program for Industry. He says large companies in the program have been "very active" in mentoring others in their journey into compliance and sustainability.
Oak State's sustainability efforts earned the company an Energy Star certificate in 2010 that has proved to be a "huge boost," says Van Laar, noting that customers familiar with the company "don't even ask us about sustainability anymore. They know we 'get it,' that we know what we're doing and we get it done," he continues.
The marketing value of brandishing an Energy Star logo is just an echo of the operational and financial benefits gained, because being "green" in public is a result, not the cause, of significant operational efficiency improvements. Oak State's example is as inspiring as -- perhaps more so than -- the efforts of industry giants, because the single-plant company shows that you don't have to be PepsiCo to be – to borrow a term – an Energy Star.
Energy Star provides the tools
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glass beads about 1.5cm (0.6inch) in diameter/ 10.5cm long (about 4.1 inch), metal part about 9cm / about 9g
lampwork glass beads/ metal bookmark (antique gold color)/ faceted glass beads/ black jewelry metal parts
|Handmade Glass Beads
The size, color and pattern slightly varies since they are handmade beads.
The unique charateristic of StudioWAZA jewelry is to combine lampwork glass beads with natural gemstones, faceted crystal glass and metal parts. The traditional style was to wear just one bead on a cord or several of them linked together. We adapt modern materials and suggest new ways of wearing lampwork beads. It's the best way to mix them with current fashion trends.
Lampwork glass beads are called "Dragonfly Jewels" in Japan. They became very trendy during the Edo period (1603-1867 AD). At that time, glass beads with round circle designs were very popular and people thought they look like the eyes of a dragonfly. The method of making beads with glass rods over a flame reached Japan during the Nara period (AD 710-794). Artisans wrapped melted glass around metal rods to create the round shapes.
Osaka - the home of StudioWAZA's Japanese studio - produces the finest highest quality glass, designed exclusively for glass beads and sculptures. There is no quick way to make a lampwork glass bead. Every color in a bead comes from a different glass rod and they all have to be melted together in one sitting.
The patterns and colors we use are very traditional in Japanese fashion. For more than 10 centuries, people have enjoyed similar glass beads on their kimono, hair pins, purses and so on. Glass beads have always been a favorite item of jewelry.
*** Japan to the World ***
| *** Realizing the Depth of Japanese Culture in America ***
Shortly after, I moved to Tampa, Florida where I learned ceramics from Wesley Allen. His ceramics caught my eye because I didn't expect to see such traditional Japanese-style arts in Tampa. I really liked the process of making ceramics and finding a sense of beauty in them. Wesley is a talented artist and my detailed workmanship complimented his creativity well. Staying away from my own culture helped me to recognize what is "Japanese Style". The core concept is DETAIL with SIMPLICITY and HARMONY. When people tell me my creations look somewhat Japanese I take it as a compliment, but I have never intended to make my work "Japanese". It's just my background flowing out from my hands.
*** Jewelry and Digital Design ***As I started spending more time in Japan, away from my kiln, I had to find something new to satisfy my hands. Luckily, it didn't take me long to find a new outlet. Making glass beads has a lot of similarities with making ceramics. They both have infinite design possibilities. On the other hand, the process is quite different. Glass beads can be made in a smaller space and the processing time is much shorter, a fact I really like. Plus I enjoy the added element of designing jewelry.
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Gertie's Pencil Skirt - Hand Dyed
Added Mar 4, 2013
by shavlin
Perth, Australia
Pencil Skirt from Gretchen Hirsch's new Book "Gertie's New Book for Better Sewing". I used some couture techniques in the skirt – catch stitching the seams flat, fell stitching the hem and waistband, and underlining the whole skirt. I am really please with the final fit and finish – this skirt is going to get some serious wear! The fashion fabric in this project is my own hand dyed fabric using fibre reactive dye with bleached white calico, adding the underlining turned what could have been a very ordinary piece into something really special with just enough body in the fabric for that column shape to hold. I love how good this skirt looks on the inside as well as the outside (hence all the inside pics). I pick stitched the zipper in place and absolutely love it – I will be doing it all the time from now on, total control and it looks great!
Material Notes
Bleached calico; fibre reactive dye; non-iodised salt; silk organza (for underlining); scrap of printed silk for waist band facing (I didn't have enough of the fashion fabric for the facing, so I interfaced a scrap of very expensive but very lovely silk and used another couture technique to roll the seam of the waistband in slightly and steam in place so the facing will never show).
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Mar 4, 2013, 03.53 PMby Mary Athey
Love the hand dying. The skirts lovely x
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Mar 5, 2013, 11.10 PMby shavlin
Thank you – I am really happy with it :)
Mar 4, 2013, 01.33 AMby puffinlove
Impressive! I love the hand dying, and all that effort paid off – it's lovely!
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Mar 4, 2013, 02.27 AMby shavlin
tyvm :-)
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Diskectomy is a surgical procedure to remove the damaged portion of a herniated disk in your spine. A herniated disk can irritate or compress nearby nerves and cause pain, numbness or weakness. These symptoms can affect your neck or back or may radiate down your arms or legs.
Diskectomy works best on radiating symptoms. It's less helpful for actual back pain or neck pain. Most people who have back pain or neck pain find relief with more-conservative treatments, such as pain medications or physical therapy.
Your doctor may suggest diskectomy if conservative, nonsurgical treatments haven't worked or if your symptoms worsen. There are several ways to perform a diskectomy. Many surgeons now prefer minimally invasive diskectomy, which uses small incisions and a tiny video camera for viewing.
Laminectomy is surgery that creates space by removing the lamina — the back part of the vertebra that covers your spinal canal. Also known as decompression surgery, laminectomy enlarges your spinal canal to relieve pressure on the spinal cord or nerves.
This pressure is most commonly caused by bony overgrowths within the spinal canal, which can occur in people who have arthritis in their spines.
Laminectomy is generally used only when more-conservative treatments — such as medication, physical therapy or injections — have failed to relieve symptoms. Laminectomy may also be recommended if symptoms are severe or worsening dramatically.
Lumbar puncture (spinal tap) is performed in your lower back, in the lumbar region. During lumbar puncture, a needle is inserted between two lumbar bones (vertebrae) to remove a sample of cerebrospinal fluid — the fluid that surrounds your brain and spinal cord to protect them from injury.
A lumbar puncture can help diagnose serious infections, such as meningitis; other disorders of the central nervous system, such as Guillain-Barre syndrome and multiple sclerosis; or cancers of the brain or spinal cord. Sometimes doctors use lumbar puncture to inject anesthetic medications or chemotherapy drugs into the cerebrospinal fluid.
Spinal fusion is surgery to permanently connect two or more vertebrae in your spine, eliminating motion between them.
Spinal fusion involves techniques designed to mimic the normal healing process of broken bones. During spinal fusion, your surgeon places bone or a bone-like material within the space between two spinal vertebrae. Metal plates, screws and rods may be used to hold the vertebrae together, so they can heal into one solid unit.
Because spinal fusion surgery immobilizes parts of your spine, it changes the way your spine can move. This places additional stress and strain on the vertebrae above and below the fused portion, and may increase the rate at which those areas of your spine degenerate.


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The McDonald's McRib sandwich has managed to gain a following that would rival that of the Beatles in the '60s, but this summer, the sandwich is getting some competition. Burger King is announcing its 2013 summer menu items Thursday, and they will include a limited-time BK rib sandwich.
Beginning May 21, Burger King will start selling its version of the McRib. The BK sandwich is almost a carbon copy of the McRib with a boneless pork product slathered in a tangy sauce topped with sweet pickles.
"Our guests have grown to look for a variety of options," Eric Hirschhorn, vice president of global innovation," told USA Today. "It's not just about beef anymore, but other proteins like chicken and turkey and pork."
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This isn't the first pork product the King has offered. In 2010, the fast food chain put Fire Grilled Ribs, an on-the-bone item, on the menu, but it never caught on.
The new BK rib sandwich was tested in Shreveport, La., before hitting a larger market. Retail prices for the sandwich will vary, but should be sold around $3.49 a la cart and $5.59 as a meal.
Other items on the new summer menu include the return of the Memphis pulled pork sandwiches, sweet potato fries and Carolina BBQ sandwiches and a new BBQ chicken salad. The new items, including the rib sandwich, will be available only through the summer.
McDonald's seems to have enough confidence in its own McRib not to care about the competition.
"We know our customers love McRib, and we won't disappoint them," McDonald's spokeswoman Danya Proud told USA Today. "It will be returning."
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Taco Bell's waffle taco debuts in O.C.; have you tried it?
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The journey of the acclaimed Fox action-drama 24 making it to movie theaters is becoming as winding as the series' plot lines. This movie spin-off was in development years before the show wrapped in 2010, but Twentieth Century Fox has repeatedly failed to get 24 into production, pushing from December 2011 to April of 2012, once Kiefer Sutherland wraps on season one of his new mystery series Touch. Last week we told you that a 2012 start was looking impossible thanks to the Touch schedule, and now The Wrap reveals Fox has gone back to tinkering with the film's budget, making it even more unlikely the 24 movie will be ready for its most recently revealed start date. Assuming Touch earns a second season, Sutherland would not be available in the fall, which would push the film's production to the spring of 2013.
In the interim, the script, which was originally penned by Billy Ray (Shattered Glass), will get further revisions from an unnamed new writer, who will presumably be tasked with pairing down the script's more costly elements. Among the high price items the film's producers are hoping to haggle on is Sutherland himself. The crucial star was initially offered $1 million dollars to lead the 24 movie, but demanded $5 million. In response, Fox allowed for $2 million, capping the feature's budget at $30 million overall, which is $10 million less than producer Brian Grazer felt the action-packed project demanded.
At the end of the day, the 24's fate will be determined by a battle of wills between its studio and star. Willy Fox fold to the costly demands of its leading man? Will Sutherland hold out until Fox ponies up his price? Or will their continued contention lead to the project sputtering out of existence? With so many delays and deep-seated disputes, I'd wager on the last.


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Are food bloggers big fat fibbers? Hell, while we on the subject, why stick to food bloggers...are cookery book writers, photographers and stylists liars?
Ever had the experience of finding a great recipe in a book, in a magazine or on a blog, going out, buying all the ingredients then gearing yourself up to make it? And... it doesn't work out. That gorgeous cake turns out to be a messy half risen blob.
When I was writing my cookbook, I was chatting to some professional restaurant chefs about it, who rather shocked me when they said "Oh it doesn't matter if the recipe doesn't work, the home cook will blame themselves". And we do.
You never know do you? Is it your crappy skills in the kitchen? Was when you replaced their gourmet ingredient with something maybe a little more available (ie at Tesco metro on the way home from work) and a little less expensive? Or....did the recipe never really work except in the author's head and in the photographer's software?
Yesterday I'd prepared for my readers a Valentine's post, pretty and topical, about white chocolate covered raspberry ganache flavoured lollies. Mmm, sounds good huh?
I amassed the ingredients, even the specialist chocolate transfer sheet, and got to work. Result: an icky unworkable mess. However, with skillful photography, nice lighting and a little fudging, I could have presented you with ta da! ...this:
Valrhona cookbook. My chocolate transfer technique could use a little work but hey not too far off.
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David Nutt, professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, told The Sunday Times that bankers' cocaine habits were to blame for the recent financial crisis as well as the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank.
Nutt said the drug made the bankers "overconfident" and prone to taking more risks. He said the cocaine contributed to bankers' "culture of excitement and drive and more and more and more. It is a 'more' drug."
Nutt was famously fired from his position as the British government's senior drug advisor in 2009 after publishing a paper saying that there was "not much difference" between the harm caused by ecstasy and riding a horse. He also opposed the decision to upgrade cannabis from a class C to class B drug.
He was ordered to apologise by the then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who admonished him for trivialising the dangers of taking drugs. Nutt went on to say that alcohol and tobacco were more dangerous than many illegal drugs, including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis.
The professor spoke to The Sunday Times against the government's policy on hallucinogenic mushrooms, ecstasy and cannabis, which makes it difficult to study their beneficial qualities. He said the "insane" and "absurd" laws hindered harnessing psilocybin, the chemical found in the mushrooms, which could be used to treat depression.
"We have regulations which are 50 years old, have never been reviewed and they are holding us back, they're stopping us doing the science and I think it's a disgrace actually."


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It's all over on Breaking Bad. We learn Walt's fate on the series finale.
Breaking Bad follows up one of its best episodes in history with "Granite State."
Circumstances change big time on Breaking Bad this week, with only three episodes remaining in the series.
Things heat up for Walt on this episode of Breaking Bad. In unexpected ways.
New plans are set in motion on this episode of Breaking Bad. It's titled "Rabid Dog."
Jesse chooses to make a change on this episode of Breaking Bad. Walt and Skyler, meanwhile, face an unexpected demand.
Jesse continues to struggle with his guilt on this episode of Breaking Bad. Elsewhere, Skyler's past comes back to haunt her.
Hank grapples with new, key information on this return episode of Breaking Bad Season 5.
Walt considers a bold, dangerous move on the summer finale of Breaking Bad.
Mike faces repercussions for his actions on Breaking Bad this week, while Walt tries to take care of business.


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First things first, it would be quite incredible to see Lionel Messi in the Premier League.
Watching the world's greatest player playing for any of England's elite clubs would be a dream come true for many. And, after he's been linked with a move to Chelsea in recent weeks, it has got some fans dreaming of what could be.
However, the reality is, he will never depart Barcelona and no matter what some may say, he doesn't need to. Arguments will forever be made that the Argentine superstar needs to prove himself in another league - not just La Liga - and some will suggest that the little maestro needs to star without the likes of Andres Iniesta and Xavi supplying him.
Again, these arguments would be wrong.
Messi has proved time-and-time again that he is the best player on the planet, and may well go down as the greatest ever player to live. He has not just been a goal-scoring star in La Liga, he is also a superstar in Europe and has caused havoc in the Champions League for a number of years.
He's been the catalyst to Barcelona's great success in recent years. The Catalans have put together one of the world's greatest ever sides and a huge part of that has been the influence of Lionel Messi.
A scorer of the most ridiculous goals, Messi possesses everything - he can do anything. He's made defenders all around Europe look silly for many, many years and he will continue to do that for a number of years yet.
Having already broken a number of records in La Liga and at Barcelona, he will continue to do that in the future. At just 26-years-old, it's scary to think he hasn't even reached his prime.
He could well win his fifth Ballon d'Or award in a row next year, so to say Messi could do with a fresh start or a new challenge is laughable, to say the least.
He has a new challenge at Barcelona anyway. The Catalans have been knocked off their perch as the kings of Europe. Bayern Munich now hold that crown and Messi and Co. will be desperate to prove Barca are still a formidable force.
Additionally, Messi still has Cristiano Ronaldo and now Gareth Bale to deal with in La Liga, and he will also take great joy in working and playing alongside Neymar.
The challenges at Barcelona will never end.
He will continue to thrill, continue to thrive, continue to shine and continue to succeed in La Liga, at Barcelona. So, I'm sorry Chelsea or any other club that think they may one day prize Messi away from the Nou Camp, it's just not going to happen.


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Earlier this year, Samsung Italy announced that the Samsung Omnia W would receive Wi-Fi tethering capability with the Windows Phone 7.8 update. Well... that didn't happen.
Samsung Italy sites that the Windows Phone 7.8 update was issued directly from Microsoft and for whatever reason, the tethering feature didn't make the cut. That's the bad news. The good news is that Samsung Italy is working on a separate maintenance update for the Omnia W that will bring tethering into the fold. Look for the update to hit the air in the coming weeks.
Source: Windows Phone Italy


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Volunteer Opportunities
Below is a listing of volunteer opportunities for this center. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, click the link below to contact the center for more information. We also have other volunteer opportunities available as well.
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Meals-On-Wheels Driver
Make a senior smile! Deliver hot meals in your neighborhood on any day from Monday through Friday. Pick up meals between 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Delivery takes about an hour and a half.
- Requirements: must be 18 years old, have a valid driver's license, own your own vehicle and have current auto insurance. Because we serve a frail and vulnerable clientele, all volunteers will be subject to a background check.
- Hours: 10:30 a.m. until noon
Kitchen Support
Help to pack meals in coolers for Meals-On-Wheels drivers. Serve beverages to seniors as they come into the center, set tables, serve lunches, help clean up.
- Requirements: must be at least 13 years old
- Hours: Flexible shifts from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.


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Trend Spotting: Modern Pastels
In recent months, pastel hues have been taking the design world by storm. If, like me, you're partial to beautiful, barely-there shades, here's a little inspiration to get your design motor running.
Top Row:
1. Light accents in a kitchen from The Yvestown Blog.
2. Why not paint a furniture find in the lightest of colors? From pinjacolada.
3. I love how the subtle hues in the bedding complement, and don't compete with, the bold art. From Interior Magasinet.
4. These subtly colored cups from Leif remind me of dyeing easter eggs as a child.
5. Subtle shades soothe a marriage of old and new. From The Yvestown Blog.
Bottom Row:
6. Etsy shop nellianna sells pastel colored textile-covered cords that you can use in DIY lighting projects.
7. This beautiful print by James Welling reminds me of sorbet.
8. Pastels keep a textured living room light and airy. Photo by Fryd Og Design via My Scandinavian Home.
9. Ana Antunes' softly-hued living room.
10. From Hay, a rug that's as beautiful as a piece of art.
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On the shelf this time: historical books about the assembly plants which built the Corvette over the years and a series of legendary racing Vettes; and more how-to books, including one from one of Corvette Fever's own experts.
From A "Drive-Away" Garage to a State-Of-The-Art Plant
If you've got an eye for the history of America's Only True Sports Car, and you've got volumes in your Vette book collection that cover your favorite years/generations of Corvettes (if not every single one), there's one more type of book that you need. Namely, one that details where production Corvettes have been assembled, from the early-production '53s to where they're built now.
Mike Mueller's The Corvette Factories: Building America's Sports Car is like a well-optioned Corvette-loaded with lots of features. That includes tons of Chevrolet and GM archival photos showing how each generation of Vette went together at each plant, starting with the first Corvette assembly operations in what was the Customer Drive-Away garage at Chevrolet's Flint Assembly Plant. It then details the move for '54 to St. Louis Assembly and how it (and Corvette) changed over the years-and why Corvette had to leave it if it was to be a real world-class car. Then it goes into detail about the building of Bowling Green Assembly and relocating Vette production there, and about BGA's modernization and expansion that accompanied each new generation of Vette.
There are lots of in-progress photos detailing just about every step of Corvette production over the years that you're likely to give your closest scrutiny, even if they don't show your Vette being built.
There's also an in-depth chapter about the National Corvette Museum, showing the planning, construction, and expansion of the "Good Neighbor" to Bowling Green Assembly, plus historical sidebars covering significant Vettes and moments relating to the three plants. All this and more makes The Corvette Factories: Building America's Sports Car a must-read for anyone interested in Corvette history.
What Makes a Vette a Legend?
In one case, it involved a Regular Production Option (RPO) that was installed on just 216 Corvettes: RPO L88.
Peter Gimenez has written and published a thorough history of that legendary race-only Vette option package, and the ground-shaking engine at the heart of it, in Corvette Racing Legends: The Story of the L88 Option Package. In it, he tells the L88's history by first going back to the roots of Corvette racing in the '50s, and the factory option packages that turned the C1 from a cruiser into a serious race car on street circuits, purpose-built road courses, and airport tracks alike. Then, he takes you through the C2's racing development, from early Z06s to the Grand Sports, to the first regular-production L88s, which arrived at the very end of the 1966 model run (and made it onto the option list for '67) through the all-aluminum ZL1s and the displacement of the factory-built L88 by tube-framed Corvette race cars in the '70s.
The trackside photos are worth the price of this book alone, as you see the L88-powered Sting Rays and Sharks raced by drivers like Roger Penske, Don Yenko, Dick Guldstrand, Tony DeLorenzo, Bob Bondurant, George Wintersteen, Doug Bergen, Bob Johnson, Rex Ramsey, Ed Leslie, Jerry Grant, and Jerry Thompson, on tracks ranging from local SCCA tracks to Sebring, Daytona, and LeMans. It also has plenty of detail about the teams of L88 Vettes that ran in the late '60s and early '70s, including Penske's Sunoco-sponsored ones, the Owens-Corning Fiberglass-sponsored L88s, and James Garner's American International Racing team.
If you remember seeing these all-out racing Vettes run, or if you have an active imagination, you might need a set of earplugs to read Corvette Racing Legends: The Story of the L88 Option Package, as the sound of the L88 (and its all-aluminum sibling the ZL1) will be ringing through your mind the way the sound rang through your ears long after they flew by you!
Three More How-To's from CarTech Books
You've got to hand it to the CarTech Books crew. They keep coming up with thoroughly-detailed and lavishly-illustrated how-to books that would make great teaching texts. Their latest titles include Designing and Tuning High-Performance Fuel Injection Systems; Musclecar Interior Restoration Guide; and How to Design and Install In-Car Entertainment Systems.
The first one, Designing and Tuning High-Performance Fuel Injection Systems, is of particular interest to VetteRodders (or VetteRodders-to-be) who are thinking about turning the carburetors on their engines into permanent museum pieces. Greg Banish follows up his previous CarTech how-to (Engine Management: Advanced Tuning) with in-depth basics on fuel injection systems, as well as the benefits and limits of stand-alone FI systems. There's also plenty of information about useful formulas, VE equation and airflow estimation, setups and calibration, creating timing maps, and start-to-finish calibration examples (illustrated with lots of screen shots). There's also a detailed glossary, and appendices that include a resource guide for stand-alone FI system manufacturers and test-equipment makers.
The interior pictured on the cover of Daniel Strohl's Muscle Car Interior Restoration Guide is familiar to any Chevy lover: the '69 Camaro Super Sport (a car which Chevy showed in a memorable print ad alongside a same-year Corvette with the caption "We'll Take On Any Two Cars In This Magazine"), and the information inside pertains to vintage Vettes as well as steel-bodied cars. There's a lot of detail about the interior-resto process, the tools and materials needed, as well as each aspect of the interior from the dash to the carpets and everything in between-wiring, seats, door panels, pedals, the steering wheel and column, and more. You'll also find information about glass replacement, seat repair (leather or vinyl), and convertible top replacement. If you like the inside of your Vette to look like a couple of tigers fought in it, don't get this book. But, if you want to learn how to do it before you jump into an interior-resto project in your Corvette, this book is a must-read.
If you want the sound system inside your Vette to be as much a set of high-performance hardware as the powertrain or suspension, then Jefferson Bryant's How to Design and Install In-Car Entertainment Systems is for you. With it, you'll not only be able to choose the right amplifier(s), speakers, head units, and other hardware for your Vette, but you'll also learn how to install it yourself like a pro-saving you the big bucks that professional installs cost. There's also a section on tuning your sound system for your car's interior, plus sections on fabricating speaker enclosures and kick panels, electrical upgrades, and how to add the latest goodies like iPods, GPS navigation systems, and satellite radio. It all means your favorite tunes can go with you on the road, the way you want them to (and, in the case of satellite radio, you can still hear legendary DJs like "Cousin Brucie" Morrow and Michael Tearson).
For Weekend Wrenchers
Even the latest-generation Corvettes can use a little attention on the weekend, be it basic maintenance or upgrades inside or out. Tom Benford, who writes Garage Talk and C5/C6 Solutions each month for Corvette Fever, has written a bunch of straightforward projects for '84-later Vettes in his new Motorbooks Workshop book, Weekend Projects for Your Corvette C4/C5/C6.
There are a total of 52 projects inside, one for every weekend during the year, ranging from underhood projects like installing an oil filter magnet, repairing intake manifold vacuum connectors, or adding stainless steel hood struts; interior projects like replacing targa top weatherstripping, adding an aluminum dead pedal or upgrading your sound system with a satellite-radio receiver; exterior projects, from replacing your C5 headlight bulbs to putting on a nose mask the right way; as well as chassis projects like upgrading to performance shocks and replacing your C4's upper control arm bushings.
Tom tells you exactly what is needed in the way of tools and supplies for each job, about how long it will take you to complete each one, and he gives a cost estimate for each project. That's in addition to text and photos that take you through each one step-by-step.
When you get Tom's Weekend Projects for Your Corvette C4/C5/C6, you'll get those "little" Vette projects done sooner, and you'll make more time to enjoy your Vette later-especially if you live where Vette cruising season is waiting for the weather to warm up!


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MDP needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 68 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Perry Pottery / Poterie Perry (in French)
We're Mark and Nicole, a husband and wife team looking for a LOGO for a new on-line pottery website called: Perry Pottery (in English) and Poterie Perry (in French).
Nicole is the potter; Mark takes care of the website.
From Nicole:
"I believe in surrounding oneself with beautiful things that are useful. That's why I create pottery that is both functional and artistic."
"My pottery is made to be enjoyed, whether it's eating out of a handmade cup, bowl or plate, or admiring a gallery-style vase or ornament."
"My creations will not be the most expensive out there, but they will not be the cheapest either. I'm looking for a customer who is ready to pay a little extra to get that special, handmade item that's totally different from what they'll find in stores like IKEA or The Pottery Barn."
"Think of my pieces as classy and country chic."
"Perrypottery.com will have something special for anyone looking for unique coffee cups, exotic sushi plates and ceremonials bowls, one-of-a-kind vases, weird and wonderful teapots and much much more!"
"Please check out: http://gallery.me.com/markdavidperry for a sampling of my work."
People and companies looking to own or give their clients homemade, one-of-a-kind gifts or art pieces.
Upscale bistros and coffee shops that serve fine foods on handmade pottery can also be interested in our offerings.
People of all ages buy pottery; however, the typical buyer is a female shopper who loves beautiful things for her home and office.
We also want to attract men who are looking for a place to buy top-quality gifts for themselves or others.
In other words, the LOGO must attract individuals as well as corporate clients and not be gender based.
We'd like to start with the English and French LOGO and then work with a designer on the website and other marketing materials.
We're looking for a LOGO that communicates high quality, trust, dependability, and creativity. Again, not gender based.
We're not looking for a "homey" or a "country" feel to the logo. Think "classy".
Same applies to the font, the graphic element (s) and colors.
All should suggest honesty, trustworthiness, loyalty, confidence and technical skill.
This means no cartoons or tacky graphic using smiling pots, cups, plates, etc. But of course, don't hold back. We love surprises.
The logo will also be used for print and video.
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
Originality and creativity are key.
Again, please check out: http://gallery.me.com/markdavidperry to stimulate your imagination and to see the variety and quality of Nicole's work.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
We hope this is the beginning of a long term relationship!
Good luck to all!
Nicole and Mark
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Zhang's research model showing HER2 activation of MED1 drives estrogen receptor corepressor/coactivator switch by tamoxifen
Zhang's research model showing HER2 activation of MED1 drives estrogen receptor corepressor/coactivator switch by tamoxifen
Xiaoting Zhang, PhD, (center) and his laboratory research team
Xiaoting Zhang, PhD, and Dingxiao Zhang at the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies.
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New Clues for Overcoming Tamoxifen-Resistant Breast Cancer
CINCINNATI�A University of Cincinnati (UC) cancer biology team reports breakthrough findings about specific cellular mechanisms that may help overcome endocrine (hormone) therapy-resistance in patients with estrogen-positive breast cancers, combating a widespread problem in effective medical management of the disease.
Xiaoting Zhang
, PhD, and his colleagues have identified a specific estrogen receptor co-activator�known as MED1�as playing a central role in mediating tamoxifen resistance in human breast cancer. The team reports its findings in the Nov. 1, 2012, issue of
Cancer Research
, a scientific journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
According to the National Cancer Institute, nearly 227,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer annually in the United States. About 75 percent have estrogen-positive tumors and require adjuvant hormone therapy such as tamoxifen, a drug that works by interfering with estrogen�s ability to stimulate breast cancer cell growth.
Despite advances in hormone therapy drugs, cancer surveillance research has shown that 50 percent of patients will develop resistance to the drug and experience a cancer relapse.
The hormones estrogen and progesterone can stimulate the growth of some breast cancers. Hormone therapy is used to stop or slow the growth of these tumors. Hormone-sensitive (i.e., positive) breast cancer cells contain specific proteins known as hormone receptors that become activated once hormones bind to them, leading to cancer growth.
Based on new findings,
UC Cancer Institute
scientists believe that tamoxifen resistance may be driven by a novel molecular "crosstalk� point between the estrogen and HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) signaling pathways.
Testing in both pre-clinical models and human breast cancer tissue samples showed that MED1 co-amplifies and co-expresses with HER2, a gene that has an increased presence in 20-30 percent of invasive human breast cancer and plays a major role in tamoxifen resistance.
HER2 over-expression led to MED1 activation while reduction of MED1 caused breast cancer cells that were otherwise tamoxifen-resistant to respond and stop dividing. Further mechanistic studies showed that HER2 activation of MED1 resulted in the recruitment of co-activators instead of co-repressors by tamoxifen-bound estrogen receptor. This, explains Zhang, drives expression of not only traditional estrogen receptor-positive cancer target genes, but also HER2 and those estrogen receptor target genes abnormally activated by HER2.
"Together, these findings suggest this �crosstalk� could play a central role in mediating tamoxifen resistance in human breast cancer, especially because recent published data also indicated that high MED1 expression levels correlate with poor treatment outcome and disease-free survival of patients who underwent endocrine therapy,� explains Zhang, an assistant professor of cancer biology at the UC College of Medicine and breast cancer researcher with the UC Cancer Institute.
"We are currently utilizing RNA-based nanotechnology to target MED1 in an effort to simultaneously block both estrogen and HER2 pathways to overcome endocrine-resistant breast cancer.�
UC study collaborators include cancer biologists Jiajun Cui, PhD, Katherine Germer, MD, Shao-chun Wang, PhD; environmental health researcher Tianying Wu, PhD; and pathologist Jiang Wang, MD. Qianben Wang, PhD of the Ohio State University College of Medicine, and Jia Luo, PhD, of the University of Kentucky, also contributed to this study.
The study was supported with start-up funding from the UC Cancer Institute, Ride Cincinnati/Marlene Harris Pilot Grant, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training�home to UC�s institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award program grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The University of Cincinnati Cancer Institute is one of four UC and UC Health collaborative centers of excellence for research, patient care and education. The UC Cancer Institute and Cincinnati Children�s Hospital Medical Center Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute together form the Cincinnati Cancer Center, a joint cancer initiative aimed at advancing cancer care faster through innovative research.
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Grant Will Fund Breast Cancer Research Aimed at Targeting Protein MED1
Nanoscale Targeting May Improve Breast Cancer Treatment
Researchers Visualize Second Bonding Site for Popular Breast Cancer Drug
New Biomarker Predicts Effectiveness of Breast Cancer Drugs
Team Studies Role of Gene, Its Mechanisms in Breast Cancer Tumor Growth
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Scott Witter is an advertising and editorial photographer based out of Los Angeles and represented by Wonderful Machine. He writes:
'Cure People is a series of images I've been creating since this past November of diehard fans of the musical group The Cure. I'm a longtime fan myself and was inspired to do the project at a Cure concert back in 2011 at the Pantages Theater. As of now I have photographed over 20 fans and plan to keep shooting.'


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Speaker Coordinator Assignments
These pages are specifically for individuals coordinating the 2007 Spectrum Leadership Institute. Please do not edit unless you are listed as a coordinator below. If you have interest in planning future Institutes, contact the Office for Diversity and Spectrum at 800-545-2433 ext. 5048 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Note to Coordinators
To update information on this wiki please complete this two-step process for every update you do:
- Find the session you need to update on this page below, click edit, remove your name and replace with the word "CONFIRMED".
- Email bio, email address (and if possible photo) of speaker to Gwendolyn Prellwitz no later than March 16th.
Any standard speaker communications you may need can be found on the Speaker Communications page. Please note these documents need editing.
Room information is not available just yet but all speakers will receive a final confirmation from Gwendolyn (POF committee will notify those participants) when the room assignments are finalized.
Thank you to the following individuals for their work in planning the 2007 Spectrum Leadership Institute!
- Alanna Aiko Moore, 2003 Spectrum Scholar
- Angela Barnes, 2000 Spectrum Scholar
- Lana Thelen, 2005 Spectrum Scholar
- Luiz Mendes, 2003 Spectrum Scholar
- Maria Carpenter, 1999 Spectrum Scholar
- Mark Puente, 2003 Spectrum Scholar
- Rachel Garza Carreón, 2003 Spectrum Scholar
- Shannon Jones, 2001 Spectrum Scholar
- Sonia Alcantara, 2004 Spectrum Scholar
- Tamika McCollough, 1998 Spectrum Scholar
- Gwendolyn Prellwitz, ALA Staff Liaison
- Tarshel Beards, ALA Staff Liaison
Schedule of Events w/ Speaker Coordinator Assignments
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Meet & Greet
Join us for cookies and beverages and take the opportunity to learn more about your fellow 2006 Spectrum Scholars.
Opening Ceremony
- Welcome to DC [CONFIRMED]: Ginnie Cooper, Chief Librarian, District of Columbia Public Library
- Welcome to the Profession [Invited, Gwendolyn]: Norman Maas, Director, Norfolk Public Library
- Welcome to Profession [CANNOT ATTEND,Gwendolyn]: Robert Newlen, head of the Legislative Relations Office--Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
- Welcome to ALA [Invited, Gwendolyn]: ALA Leadership - President Loriene Roy [CANNOT ATTEND], Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels, Office for Diversity and Spectrum Director TBA
Buffet Dinner Served from 5:30-6:45pm
A Brand Called "YOU": Tips for Breaking Out of the Pack and Making Your Mark
The writing is on the wall--personal branding is not a trend, it's survival. Being too passive about your career will likely result in your being "passed over" for plum assignments and new job opportunities. Join the Office for Diversity as we invite notable Library Journal "Mover and Shaker" award winners to share tips for creating a personal trademark, navigating the career ladder, and inventing and reinventing yourself. Not to be missed!
- [CONFIRMED]Miguel Figueroa:
- [CONFIRMED]Veronda Pitchford: Urban Libraries Council
- [CANNOT ATTEND]Felton Thomas: Las Vegas-Clark County Will not be arriving until Friday and regrets that he can't attend--Lana 12:54, 12 March 2007 (CST)
- [CANNOT ATTEND]Tito Sierra, NCSU Libraries Digital Technologies, Development Librarian, Digital Library Initiatives
- Moderator, Alanna Aiko Moore (2003 Spectrum Scholar) Sociology, Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies Librarian, University of California at San Diego
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Breakfast Served 7:30-8:15am
Merengue: the Cultural Genesis of My Leadership Style
Featuring: [CONFIRMED]José Aponte, Library Director, San Diego County Library
Concurrent Sessions 10:30am-12pm
The Essential Management Tool Kit for Aspiring Library Leaders: MBA, MPA, and HR Pros spill the beans
- [CONFIRMED]Em Claire Knowles: MPA-Assistant Dean, Simmons College
- [CONFIRMED]Patricia Fisher: Consultant & Author, P. Fisher & Associates (will moderate)
- [Invited, Gwendolyn] Mary Baykan, MBA-Director, Washington County Free Library and LJ Librarian of the Year 2007
Path to the PhD
- [CONFIRMED]Dr. Naomi Caldwell, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, University of Rhode Island
- [CONFIRMED]Christa Hardy, Ph.D. Student, UIUC
- [CONFIRMED]Clara Chu, UCLA
- [Cannot attend]Kate Vo Thi-Beard (2001 Spectrum Scholar), Ph.D. Student and Advanced Opportunity Fellow, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- [Cannot attend] Jon Cawthorne, Associate Dean, San Diego State University and PhD Student, Simmons College
Deli Buffet Lunch Served 12-1pm
Each One-Reach One: Reflecting on the 10th Anniversary of the Spectrum Scholarship Program with Spectrum Scholars and Champions
- [CONFIRMED]Loriene Roy
- [CONFIRMED]Rachel Garza Carreón, 2003 Spectrum Scholar
- [Invited, Gwendolyn] 1998-99 Scholar
- [Invited, Gwendolyn] 2005 Scholar
- [will not be able to attend] Elizabeth Martinez
- [will not be able to attend]Sandra Rios Balderrama
Job Skills Workshop
Resume Overview provided by [CONFIRMED]Jenifer Grady, Director of the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association
Resume Reviewers include:
- [CONFIRMED]Dr. Em Claire Knowles, Assistant Dean for Student Administrative Services, Simmons College
- [CONFIRMED] Dr. Ruth Jackson
- [CONFIRMED]Sonia Alcantara, 2004 Spectrum Scholar
- [CONFIRMED]Juliette Douglas, 2005 Spectrum Scholar
- [Invited, Gwendolyn] - sent to multiple lists
Dinner Served 6-7pm
Professional Options Fair
Coordinated by Sonia Alcantara (2004 Spectrum Scholar), Tamika Barnes McCollough (1998 Spectrum Scholar) and Shannon D. Jones (2001 Spectrum Scholar). The Professional Options Fair allows participants the chance to visit with representatives from a wide range of library environments and professional organizations. Representatives from ALA's ethnic caucuses and affinity groups will also be in attendance. Take full advantage of this unique opportunity to explore your options and network by visiting as many tables as you can. Note add Lana Thelen from Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library
- [CONFIRMED] Camila Alire, will open POF
Friday, June 22, 2007
Breakfast Served 7:30-8:15am
Thinking Outside the Box: Librarians Outside the Library
- [CONFIRMED] Sandra Littletree: Librarian, National Museum of the Native American Indian
- [CONFIRMED]Anne S. Caputo: Director, Info Pro and Academic Programs, Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company
- [CONFIRMED] Elisa Johnson - Prison Libraries
- [Invited, Mark]Marcia Farabee: Librarian, National Symphony Orchestra in D.C
- [unable to attend]Librarian from CNN
Advocacy and Librarianship in the Larger Consciousness
- [Invited, Gwendolyn]Doug Newcomb,SLA's Chief Policy Officer
Boxed Lunch Served 12-1pm
Closing Ceremonies
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
[Gwendolyn, Maria, Tamika, Mark, Alanna, Angela] All former Scholars should be invited.