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Nearly Half of Women Struggle With Wardrobe Fit Issues
Plus-size might be the body buzzword at the moment taking over the fashion world, but most women know that finding the right outfit is a lot more complicated than just the size printed on a tag.
According to new research that examines the shopping habits of women of all sizes, there certainly are a few patterns. Just one in eight women (13 percent) say they dress to show off their body, and the majority (53 percent) saying that they dress to actively cover things up.
In fact, the new poll of 2,000 women across the country conducted by Trunk Club revealed that no matter their shape, 46 percent of women struggle with some size or fit issues that impact what they wear and what trends they'll try simply because of the makeup of their form.
The most common priority for women when shopping is hiding their belly - with 65 percent naming it as a top consideration. Covering thighs is something 29 percent of women think about at the store, while 27 percent also look to cover their arms.
Only 19 percent of women report feeling confident in a bikini, making it the most avoided clothing item, followed by miniskirts, form fitting dress, strapless tops and dresses, and jumpsuits/romper.
As for what sort of clothing American women feel the most confident in, cardigan sweaters take the top spot, followed by long coats and knee-length skirts -- simply more proof that American ladies prefer to cover up.
The biggest fit issue among US women is finding pants that fit in both the waist and in the hips, with half reporting that they have this problem.
It seems this is the top issue for women of all body types, including those with round bellies, long torsos, short torsos and even those with narrow hips or exaggerated curves, proving that women share a number of struggles behind the fitting room doors!
Such shopping tribulations have led more than half of women (57 percent) to feel like there are simply no clothes made to fit their particular body type.
Even when trying to be more adventurous it's not always easy -- 46 percent of women have wanted to try out a new trend they saw in the media, but subsequently couldn't find it in their size.
With that in mind, it's no surprise that 43 percent of ladies report they struggle with body confidence when they are shopping for clothes Only 12 percent say they feel more confident in the fitting room.
These frustrations also likely contribute to 66 percent of women buying multiples of an item that fits whenever they are lucky enough to find one that fits perfectly.
The average American woman owns five button-up shirts, six pairs of jeans, three form-fitting dresses, nine loose t-shirts and three low-cut tops or dresses. But, of course, these numbers vary over different body types.
Women who prioritize hiding their belly shy away from sheath dresses, and women with small waists own twice as many fitted frocks as the national average.
With this sort of selective shopping apparent among women, it makes sense that 61 percent believe that avoiding certain clothing because of their shape has played a massive role in how their personal style has been formed.
"All women have different body types and bring their own individuality to style, but it's frustrating when you can't find the clothing in the style or fit that helps you confidently flaunt your figure and express who you are," explains Linda Bartman, chief marketing officer at Trunk Club.
"I often hear women talk about having a difficult body type to fit. Because sizes and styles vary across brands and categories, the real challenge is not your body type but rather figuring out how to navigate through the plethora of options to find the perfect fit for you."
It's not to say that American women haven't ventured out of their comfort zones, but they don't always hit the mark.
The average woman has six items in her closet that she never wears but is hanging on to until they fit better. They also have four items that do fit, but that they feel they don't feel confident enough to pull off.
Respondents reported that they only feel confident about their outfit around four days per week, with one in ten saying they never feel confident in how they look.
To help address the problem for women no matter their shape or size, Trunk Club's Expert Plus Size Panel, a group of 14 stylists well versed in women's fit issues, compiled their top tips for all fit issues. Their biggest piece of advice?
"Be open to trying new trends and playing around with different styles until you figure out what works best for your body," says Tara Nesser, Trunk Club's director of sales training.


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Songwriter Claims He Was Exploited By Google... But A Few Seconds Of Logical Thinking Disproves That
from the ok,-let's-work-this-through dept
There are probably more details here, because no one actually says how much Google paid overall. For example, part of the problem may simply be the deal that Waterman himself signed concerning his royalties. But, more to the point, it's not Google that's doing any exploiting at all. Here's the simple logic process to run through (which Waterman and all the folks supporting this PR stunt failed to do):
- How much attention did Waterman's song get last year thanks to YouTube?
- Fine, take away YouTube. How much attention would Waterman and his song have received last year
Furthermore, it was never YouTube making use of the music, but it was all these people on the internet, adopting the meme. YouTube was just the platform they used for it. So, no, Waterman wasn't exploited by YouTube in the slightest, though he seems to have no trouble at all trying to exploit the fact that he got lucky and whine about it -- even though it's the only reason his name is now in the news again.


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I work a lot with children and young people who have suffered a brain injury. It is one of the most devastating conditions. Brain injury often results in changes to personality, to memory, to social ability and sometime to physical disability. It often occurs to normally developing individuals. Because brain cells do not repair themselves there is no cure and it is a case of living with and adapting to the condition. I have noticed however that there is one area of functioning that seems to be preserved and often actually enhanced following a brain injury and that is creativity. Although the brain can not repair itself new neural pathways can develop which I believe can allow new talents to emerge or create a different way of seeing the world. I have worked with several young people who have gone on to A level and university to do photography or Art despite their disability. One person I know, Spencer Aston is working as a freelance photographer. He takes photos from a unique perspective in my opinion. I have come across other individuals who have become artists following a brain injury- see this site for examples. Also in terms of music there it the amazing Melody Gardot who makes beautiful music despite or perhaps as a result of suffering a severe brain injury as a teenager. Other singers I really like and who have suffered severe brain injury and recovered to do some great work include Marc Almond (details of injury here) and Edwin Collins (details of recovery here). All these people are inspiring. The message is that while having a severe brain injury can be devastating there is hope and possibly new futures. I would encourage young people with brain injury or their parents to explore different potential creative opportunities. I would also love to hear of other stories of people with a brain injury who have developed creatively following their injury.Published on July 4, 2010 · Filed under: Uncategorized, brain injury, head injury, physical disability, rehabiliatation; Tagged as: art, brain injury, music, photography, rehabilitation
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Ann-Marie Edson said on September 25th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
I have found this article to be very interesting.
At the age of 17 (I am now 52), I suffered a ruptured AVM and underwent two experimental craniotomies. I now have MS, which was diagnosed about three years ago, after 16 years of tests and doctors throughout the country. I have developed a new interest in poetry. This began in recent years as I have developed a strange way of creating rhymes in my mind. I now see the world differently, and find myself writing poems and other thoughts in a journal, which I never did in the past.
Thanks for your very interesting comment Ann-Marie. I am increasingly finding examples of creativity after brain injury and your experience adds to that.
Really good stuff. Thank you for posting.


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I think we can all agree Hipster Runoff is crushing it with the Stuff Blog People Like meta-funnies on music/web culture, unless you haven't read it yet in which case go there and read some and then come back to agree with us. Today HRO tackles Blog House, inspired by the genre definition offered by this CurrentTV feature. Those CurrentTV dudes look great, but still Blog House is a nebulous concept. So HRO's Carles leaves the straight talk to those moderately alt bros, and goes for the sum via its parts, seeking insight into what is comprised by "the remix economy" by determining artists' Blog House status. Some of the Runoff's rundown:
- The Teenagers (yes)
- Justice (no. Too bangery, but maybe. I don't rlly know abt them any more. We'll have more answers after their 2nd album.)
- Cut Copy (pre-dated blogs)
- Ladyhawke (not sure yet)
- Feist (no)
- Feist (Boys Noize Remix) (deffs)
- Simian Mobile Disco (too intelligent, but they attract bloghouse fans)
- Klaxons (not usually electro-enough)
- Animal Collective (did u srsly just ask that? ur ghey and don't know shit abt music)
- Chromeo (this is a brain teaser!)
- David Matthews (yes)
- Rob Thomas solo (no)
- Santana (ft Rob Thomas/Michelle Branch) (yes)
Creed (no)
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While Google has always been willing to release vague numbers regarding Android tablet activations, they have been silent about how popular the Nexus 7 truly is. Fortunately, Asustek's CFO David Chang let slip that sales of the Nexus 7 have nearly doubled since launch and are now averaging just below 1 million units per month. It's hard to say how sales of the Nexus 7 will fare with strong competition from Amazon, but we doubt the launch of the iPad Mini (priced at $130 more than the Nexus 7) will play a factor in the success of Google's tablet.
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Crimea's Parliament said Tuesday that if the public votes to become part of Russia, the peninsula will declare itself independent and propose becoming a Russian state. That could offer a way of de-escalating the standoff between Russia and the West.
The vote in Crimea's Parliament about Sunday's referendum could give Moscow the option of saying there is no need for Crimea to become part of Russia.
The dispute between Moscow and the West over Crimea is one of the most severe geopolitical crises in Europe since the end of the Cold War. Russian forces have secured control over the peninsula, but Ukraine's government and Western nations have denounced the referendum as illegitimate and strongly warned Russia against trying to annex Crimea.
The Crimean Parliament's declaration could put the bid to join Russia on hold, depending on the outcome of Russian President Vladimir Putin's bargaining with the West.
In Sunday's referendum, the public will be given two options: becoming part of Russia, or remaining in Ukraine with broader powers.
Crimea, where Russia maintains its Black Sea Fleet base, became the epicenter of tensions in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych fled last month in the wake of months of protests and outbreaks of bloodshed.
Kiev-based political analyst Vadim Karasyov said the Crimean Parliament's move is "a message to the West that there is no talk about Russia incorporating Crimea." He said "It's a tranquilizer for everybody - for the West and for many in Ukraine who are panicking."
Karasyov speculated that Crimea could exist as a "quasi-legitimate" state, while Russia and the West negotiate.
After a brief war between Russia and Georgia in 2008, some leaders in Georgia's breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia lobbied to join Russia, but their request was never granted.
Putin's "task now is to get a stake in the shareholding company called Ukraine. He believes that the West now has the majority stake and he doesn't even have a blocking package," Karasyov told the AP. "So Crimea is an attempt to get a blocking package."
Russia's Foreign Ministry later said in a statement that the Crimean parliament's action was legitimate. "Russia will respect the results of Crimea's referendum that will be monitored by OSCE observers," the ministry said.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke by telephone Tuesday at Washington's initiative.
"From the Russian side, the necessity was underlined of taking into complete account the interests of all Ukrainians and all regions in the search for an exit from the crisis and also the respect of the right of the residents of Crimea to determine their fate on their own in accordance with the norms of international law," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Sergei Zheleznyak, a deputy speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, rejected proposals to draft new legislation to facilitate Crimea's accession into Russia.
Zheleznyak wouldn't elaborate, and it wasn't clear whether his statement signaled the Kremlin's willingness to relax tensions or was part of legal maneuvering over the annexation plans.
If Putin can't negotiate a solution to the crisis with the West, the Crimean Parliament's move could also facilitate accession into Russia. Under current law, Russia needs to reach agreement with a foreign state to incorporate part of it. Crimea's declaration of independence could solve that, though the West made it clear it would not recognize the annexation.
In a sign that some members of Putin's entourage would prefer a negotiated solution to an all-out confrontation with the West, Konstantin Remchukov, the well-connected publisher and editor of the daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, spoke strongly against annexing Crimea.
Remchukov, who avoids criticizing Putin, said on Ekho Moskvy radio that the move will trigger painful Western sanctions and cripple the Russian economy.
Remchukov said he believes Russia could negotiate a deal that would have the West guarantee the rights of Russian speakers and ensure its Black Sea Fleet's continuing presence in Crimea. Russia could promise concessions on the Syrian and Iranian crises in response to the Western willingness to respect Russian interests in Ukraine, Remchukov suggested.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's acting president on Tuesday called for the formation of a national guard and for the mobilization of reserves and volunteers into the country's armed forces.
At the same time, acting Ukrainian Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh admitted that Ukrainian armed forces and equipment were significantly outnumbered by the Russian army and exhorted wealthy Ukrainians to donate money to equip the nation's army.
He said Russia has some 220,000 troops, 800 tanks, 400 helicopters, 150 planes and 60 ships used in Crimea and in military exercises near Ukrainian borders, "several times" more than what the Ukrainian army has.
"What secures victory at war is organization, resources, strategy, tactics and fighting spirit. Today, the armed forces only have the latter two elements - tactics and fighting spirit," Tenyukh told parliament.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who will fly to Washington to meet President Barack Obama on Wednesday, called on Western nations to defend Ukraine against a nation "that is armed to the teeth and that has nuclear weapons."
Yatsenyuk asked Russia, the U.S. and European Union member Britain to abide by a treaty signed in 1994, in which they pledged to guarantee Ukraine's security in exchange for surrendering its share of Soviet nuclear arsenals to Russia.
"We are not asking for anything from anyone," Yatsenyuk told parliament. "We are asking for just one thing: military aggression has been used against our country. Those who guaranteed that this aggression will not take place must from the one side pull out troops and from the other side must defend our independent, sovereign state."
Later in the day, parliament passed a resolution calling on the U.S. and Britain to "use all possible diplomatic, political, economic and military measures for an immediate stopping of aggression."
Yanukovych, speaking in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, repeated Russia's claim that the new Ukrainian authorities are kowtowing to radical nationalists, and posed a threat to Russian-speaking eastern regions.
Yanukovych, who fled last month after months of protests, said he would soon return to Ukraine.
The European Union, meanwhile, on Tuesday proposed a package of trade liberalization to support Ukraine's economy, unilaterally abolishing almost all import tariffs on Ukrainian products in a step that is expected to save the country's exporters 500 million euros ($695 million) annually.
The measure comes without asking Ukrainian concessions in return.
Europe "is committed, and ready, to support Ukraine to stabilize its economic and financial situation," said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
"I'm delighted that we have been able to act so swiftly to prepare the way for help to Ukraine," said EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht.
The decision still requires approval from the European Parliament and the 28-nation bloc's member states, but that is widely considered to be uncontroversial.


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Jules Tompkins of ArizonaSports.com reports, not counting pitchers, Kirk Gibson has had 392 different lineups in 486 games. The Arizona Diamondbacks manager takes a lot of heat for this but I don't think it's warranted.
First off, good managers of good teams juggle lineups just as much, if not more. Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon, for example, has filled in 557 different lineup cards over the last four seasons (648 games). The Rays made the playoffs out of the AL East in three of those four seasons.
Secondly, the D-backs have had a lot of injuries to their everyday players, especially last year. Although I'm willing to admit this has little to do with the lineup machinations of Kirk Gibson, it must be mentioned.
But I believe the real reason for Gibby's juggling is found in the dearth of offensive firepower the D-backs have had. During the Gibby era, even when Justin Upton was here, they have never had a lineup that was deemed prolific or even dangerous.
And it's not like the Diamondbacks offense stunk last summer. They were No. 5 in hitting, No. 5 in runs and No. 3 in hits in the National League. Not prolific, not prodigious, not dangerous, but not awful either.
If the D-backs had great talent and were No. 5 in hitting and runs or they had the lineup of last year and were 13th or 14th in those categories in the NL, I could see where you might question the lineups Gibby has been running out there.
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If 15-year-old Kimberly Anyadike had run into any trouble flying the Cessna 172 from Los Angeles to Newport News, Virginia, and back—the youngest African-American pilot to make the trip—she carried along the perfect instructor pilot in the seat behind her. That would be veteran Air Force pilot Levi Thornhill, with about 3,000 hours in his logbook, plus innumerable hours prior to that as an Air Force mechanic. Anyadike got her training at Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum (TAM), an organization at South L.A.'s Compton-Woodley Airport that teaches local, at-risk kids how to fly.
On the other hand, Thornhill, 91, learned all of his courtesy of the U.S. military several decades ago. "I'd gone out [to TAM] because I'm interested in flying, and whatever," he says. "This girl was training there as one of the young pilots, and so Petgrave [Robin Petgrave, founder and chief pilot of Celebrity Helicopters, who started and runs TAM] came up with the idea to make this cross-country to promote her and the program." Petgrave supplied a Cessna 172 and Thornhill went along in back, while another instructor pilot flew in the right seat. "She had the job of flying and navigating the airplane," he says, "and we talked a lot before and after each leg."
Thornhill's advice is worth paying full attention to. He joined the Army Air Forces in 1942 and was shipped to Tuskegee, Alabama, for basic training; to Nebraska for aircraft mechanics school; and then to Italy as a P–47 crew chief for the 337th Fighter Group—aka the Red Tails, aka the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, Thornhill stayed in the service, getting his private certificate in light taildraggers courtesy of the GI Bill. The Air Force accepted him for pilot training, and after graduating as a second lieutenant at Nellis Air Force Base in 1950, he received deployment orders for Munich—where he flew P–47s. He transitioned to jet fighters: F–86s, F–84s—all told about seven or eight different types—ending his career in T-33s and retiring as a major.
Of flying with Anyadike cross-country, he says, "It was quite a thrill. That young lady was unbelievable. I know she'll go far in anything she decides to do. It was just a real, real joy for me, being around somebody like that." Anyadike's now in college studying medicine, while former Tuskegee Airman Thornhill keeps working with the South L.A. kids, talking about flying, and whatever.
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At this writing, interior shop Air Mod is smack dab in the middle of its renovation of the sweepstakes Debonair. The old interior is long gone, new seats have been fabricated (thanks very much to longtime sweeps contributor Garrett Leather, of Buffalo, New York), new side panels have been built, new floorboards created, and perhaps the biggest of the work package—locating and treating corrosion—draws to an end. Referring to corrosion treatment, Air Mod's Dennis Wolter says that, "Of all the work we do here in restoring old airplanes, corrosion control is by far the most important." Listen to him long enough and you hear a recital of horror stories: spars rotted through by mouse urine, wing skins corroded beyond repair by trapped moisture, salt air causing entire airframes to rot through. You get the idea.
Luckily, the Debonair hasn't shown any untreatable corrosion. What has been detected has been very light—a true shock when you consider that this airplane is 50 years old. But there has been a lot of dirt. That's bad, Wolter says, because dirt can hold corrosion-causing moisture. So a big part of the Debonair's time at Air Mod has been spent cleaning up the dirt—a total of four pounds was found in the airplane's belly—then treating the now-shiny aluminum with zinc chromate to inhibit any future corrosion. By the way, the dirt removal alone took 80 man-hours of painstaking labor.
Air Mod is performing other work. The Debonair has an overhead pushrod control that opens a fresh- air scoop on the airplane's dorsal skin. The scoop's air box had developed cracks that leaked air and also made operation of the pushrod difficult; now it's fixed. A tail-mounted beacon/strobe assembly from Knots2U has been installed. And an Airwolf Filter Corporation remote-mounted spin-on oil filter has been installed. So yes, the aircraft is getting a new interior, but that's not all that Air Mod is doing for the Debonair.
Those who have been following the Debonair's oil-analysis saga—and there have been a lot of you—no doubt welcome the addition of the Airwolf filter. The original engine comes with a mere oil screen, so having a proper oil filter will help us do two things: Check the filter element for contaminants at oil changes; and hopefully aid in reducing the amount of metal particulates that have been showing up in the recent oil analyses. To see a more thorough discussion of the oil-analysis issue, as well as feedback from members, check the Sweepstakes Logbook blog (http://blog.aopa.org/sweepstakes_logbook/).
Believe it or not, folks, we're nearing the end of the Debonair's restoration. Yes, we'll be keeping a close eye on any engine issues, but once the final paint scheme has been applied the job will be done! Then it will be time to show off the Debonair in its full glory. As always, stay tuned, and watch the blog for the latest developments.
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By Alton K. Marsh
Tourists think of Santa Rosa north of San Francisco as wine country, and that is correct. But it is also a great day trip for pilots, as photographer Chris Rose and I found out, even before we got off the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport property. Just a two-minute drive from the terminal is the small but fascinating Pacific Coast Air Museum, one of two must-see discoveries we made. The first was the McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F-15 fighter that led a flight of two in an effort to stop two airliners under control of terrorists that struck the World Trade Center. The jet was on the chopping block when the museum discovered it. The museum also has warbirds and spy planes. The second discovery was the chance meeting of Christina Olds, daughter of the late triple-ace fighter pilot Brigadier General Robin Olds, who helped assemble her father's memorabilia into the book he meant to write, "Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds." She is the museum's operations director. Twelve minutes from the airport terminal building is a Smithsonian-like gem, the Charles M. "Sparky" Schulz Museum and Research Center. Headed by his widow, Jean Schulz, the museum includes the studio where Schulz created the "Peanuts" comic strip. You'll learn how the strip was created. His son, Craig Schulz, said the actual drawings of characters came together not in an organized way, but were drawn from all directions at once (see "Pilots: Craig Schulz," September 2013 AOPA Pilot).
The museum sits on a campus that includes a gift shop (schulzmuseum.org) and an ice arena the cartoonist built for the children of Santa Rosa. The arena includes the Warm Puppy Café where Schulz often ate breakfast and lunch.
Lunch at Kin in Windsor, California, north from the Santa Rosa airport was outstanding. It's probably great for dinner, too, but for that we explored John Ash & Co. (above) south of the airport terminal. The food officially rated 4.5 stars out of five and will cost $60 to $70 for a meal. Chef Tom Schmidt spent 20 years learning his craft in Germany.
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By Alton K. Marsh
We all need to consider when it is time to hang up the headphones as we grow older. Lefty Leftwich considered his options carefully, nearly quitting in 2010, and decided to end his flying days on his birthday August 7 at 96 in a Quicksilver Sprint ultralight.
A.J. "Lefty" Leftwich flew admirals, State Department officials, and cargo to war in a four-radial-engine Boeing 314 flying boat from 1942 to 1945. He captained the first Douglas DC–6 for Pan American World Airways and was greeted by Berlin's Lord Mayor Wily Brandt. He left airline service in the jet age as captain of a Boeing 727.
"It is with great sadness that at age 96, I'll pull up anchor from my World War II flying boat days and cast off into the 'wild blue yonder.' It's been a 70-year aviation love affair, undimmed by the sands of time," Leftwich said in an e-mail.
He was given the FAA's Master Pilot Award and has spoken at gatherings of the Commemorative Air Force about his boat days. The photo shows his final landing of his career—a good one, no doubt.
His son, Bill Leftwich, who inspects aircraft for Gulfstream Aerospace, said his dad enjoyed the last flight. "He flew around for at least an hour, taking pictures with his right hand while holding the stick with his left. When he finally landed, taxied up to the hangar, and motioned me over, he said softly in my ear, 'OK, you can take it back to Savannah with you, I'm done.'"
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Lt. Col. Peter Weber Jr. retired Air Force, of Cameron Park, California, can claim more years of flying than most people have been alive. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1919, Weber fell in love with flying at 16 years old, took two lessons, but couldn't afford to continue. He was making 20 cents an hour working at a gas station and flight lessons were five dollars a half hour. In 1942, Weber, then 23 years old and in the U.S. Army Air Forces, became an aviation cadet, launching his 30-year military flying career. His service spanned three conflicts: World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Weber talks affectionately about the 34 military and civilian airplanes he's flown, including the Lockheed P–38 Lightning, North American B–25 Mitchell, and the Lockheed C–130. "I've flown 19 different military airplanes, and my favorite is the P–38," he said. "It was a pleasure to fly."
Weber now flies a Piper Archer, owned by his son Pete, and the Cessna 172 he rents and flies several times a month. He still flies solo and plans to celebrate his ninety-fourth birthday in the air this month. In 71 years of flying, Weber has logged approximately 8,500 hours. "I love everything about flying," he says. —Geri Silveira
Ted stows away on departing aircraft. Some think it is just airport lore, but others know it is true. Do not doubt that Ted the Cat of Steamboat Springs/Bod Adams Field in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, is a stowaway. He will climb aboard your airplane and hide, revealing himself only in flight.
Ted is the airport security cat and is good at what he does; mice dare not lay claim to Steamboat Springs turf and sparrows are caught in mid-flight as they try to take off. There's no escaping Ted. That said, everybody needs a little personal time off. Every day Ted watches humans fly off to exotic locations, and sometimes it just becomes too much to bear.
His best caper was a flight to New Mexico. When he came forward to greet the pilot in the cockpit at the halfway point, the pilot was too far into his flight to turn back. Ted ran up an $80 bill at an animal care center with room service before he was shipped home. Airport officials have pardoned him for that, and the other three times he did it. Now, Ted has a computer chip in him that provides his real identity.
Once a pilot reported he was returning to the airport to drop off a passenger. The pilot had just departed, so the call was puzzling. The aircraft taxied to a stop, a door opened, Ted was ejected, and the airplane departed again.
An airport official says that Ted, "nonchalantly" walks near an airplane he knows will soon depart. Then he disappears inside. He's smart enough to avoid propellers—although he is down to eight lives. He slept under the tug once and was roughed up, but recovered by the time he reached the vet's office. If he wasn't so good with kids he would probably lose his job. —AKM
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My wife Diana has a service dog named Gizmo. He is 12 pounds and picks up things for her. Gizmo accompanies us as we fly around Northern California in a Cessna 172 looking for our next $100 hamburger airport and, so far, he has logged 72 hours of flight time. He is very attentive during taxi, run-up, and climb-out, but falls asleep when we settle into cruise. He sleeps well with his Mutt Muffs and is secured to Diana's shoulder harness.
This spring, we were flying around San Francisco Bay considering lunch at Half Moon Bay (HAF), but I was concerned about fog. We decided to head north to Ukiah along Tomalas Bay. About midway up the bay, Gizmo sat up and began staring at the instrument panel with a very business-like face. He then looked at me, then back at the panel. Back and forth he looked for about 30 seconds when the engine began to sputter. I immediately knew what was happening—ice was forming in the carburetor. I applied carb heat and the engine returned to normal. Gizmo looked at me, relaxed his face, and went back to sleep.
I do not understand how he recognized the icing up of the carburetor considering the engine noise and his Mutt Muffs, but he did. All I know is now I have a co-pilot service dog.
—Submitted by Allen James, president of the PBY Catalina Foundation, Petaluma, California.
By Ian J. Twombly
It's been a few years since we've looked at WingX, and it's clear the company has been very busy in the meantime. WingX remains toward the top of the popular all-in electronic flight bag application list, with good reason. It's a solid, innovative application that does everything you could want and a whole lot more.
WingX is on version 7.1 as I write this. Given the features race in iPad applications, there likely will be an update by the time you're reading it. Regardless, it's easy to recommend WingX if for no other reason than it remains one of the easiest applications to use. Although I've been told that because of its menu-based home screen WingX doesn't necessarily follow the Apple-decreed design philosophy, it's a key differentiator and unquestionably a positive feature. It makes the application easy to use immediately after starting up, and without referencing a manual.
The big update in version 7 is a partnership with Baron Weather Services for overlay weather on the ground. Instead of importing static weather from DUAT or DUATS, the user can now import Baron's extensive suite of weather products, including many with motion. With this the application becomes a much better flight planning tool. One of WingX's core business philosophies has been partnerships with everything from traffic providers to secondary screens. Although confusing at times, it does lead to some real gems like Baron's weather products.
Also included in the update is more seamless approach chart integration that now lays the course line and a breadcrumb trail on an approach chart.
WingX remains one of the best mapping and flight planning applications available, and is certainly worth a new look.
Price: $99.99 a year, plus additional fees for certain features
Contact: www.hiltonsoftware.com; Apple App Store
Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck VFR
The biggest surprise in Jeppesen's Mobile FlightDeck VFR may be that it's from Jeppesen, a company not exactly known for being quick or responsive to market demands. But credit where it is due, because Jeppesen has absolutely nailed it with its newest iPad offering.
The trend in mapping and flight planning iPad applications has long been to cram as many features as possible into one application and then sell that same application to all pilots, regardless of the type of flying they do. Jeppesen is the first to acknowledge the fact that not every pilot has an instrument rating, and even many of those who do don't use it regularly. Mobile FliteDeck VFR is a delightfully restrained application based on the company's VFR + GPS charts. These were a great product at the wrong time, but with Mobile FliteDeck VFR the company has figured out a way to use the basic design of the charts in a more modern format.
The application gives VFR pilots exactly what they need—charting, preflight weather, basic flight planning, and airport data—and nothing they don't. The charts aren't scanned versions of the FAA's sectionals, but rather Jeppesen's own VFR-optimized digital charts that are considerably easier to use. Best of all, the application is database driven. This may sound insignificant, but how many times have you sat there waiting for a chart to load on an iPad application? That's because the files are massive. It also means zooming is limited to the digital equivalent of a magnifying glass. With Mobile FliteDeck VFR, the charts load almost instantly and when you zoom in on an airport, for example, the whole presentation changes to one that's optimized for that situation. There's no more switching between airport diagrams and maps.
Mobile FliteDeck VFR is a superb application that every VFR pilot should consider, and I'd venture to say most IFR pilots would use it often as well.
Price: $49 a year
Contact: www.jeppesen.com; Apple App Store
AOPA selected 12 top flight training professionals and 11 flight schools as winners in its annual Flight Training Awards. The top winner in each category was announced at AOPA Aviation Summit 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas. The top winners are Conor Dancy of Aviation Adventures in Manassas, Virginia, for Top Flight Instructor, and the San Carlos Flight Center in San Carlos, California, as Top Flight School (owner Dan Dyer).
The awards were selected from 3,375 respondents who voluntarily reviewed their flight training experience through an AOPA online poll. The process yielded an evaluation of 508 different flight schools and 956 individual flight instructors.
"It was clear from the customer reviews that every one of these schools and instructors are operating at an outstanding level of quality and service," said Shannon Yeager, vice president of AOPA's Center to Advance the Pilot Community.
To select the award winners, AOPA invited those who have taken flight training within the last 24 months to complete the Flight Training Excellence Poll. Each participant could nominate no more than one flight school and one flight instructor.
The online poll was conducted from April 10 to August 9, in a process that contains several safeguards to ensure fair competition. It consisted of 39 survey questions designed to measure the overall performance of a flight school or flight instructor through the customer's eyes. The results were scored and averaged. Four questions that required free response answers were scored by AOPA employee-panelists who were unaware of the identity of the school or instructor.
AOPA also released an honor roll of 87 flight schools and 69 flight instructors, all of which demonstrated a high standard of accomplishment by achieving an average score of 70 percent or more.
Flight Schools
Aviation Adventures Manassas Regional Airport, Manassas, Virginia
Panorama Flight Services Inc. Westchester County Airport, White Plains, New York
Rochester AviationSkyhaven Airport, Rochester, New Hampshire
Riverside Flight AcademyRiverside Municipal Airport, Riverside, California
San Carlos Flight CenterSan Carlos Airport, San Carlos, California
Sporty's Flight Center Clermont County Airport, Batavia, Ohio
Summit Aviation, Inc. Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport, Bozeman, Montana
The Flight School, Inc.Weiser Air Park, Cypress, Texas
Valley Aviation, Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Western Air Flight Academy Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, Broomfield, Colorado
Worcester Regional Flight Academy Worcester Regional Airport, Worcester, Massachusetts
Flight Instructors
Dileep Anne Front Range Airport, Watkins, Colorado
Conor DancyLeesburg Executive Airport, Virginia
Ray de Haan Leesburg Executive Airport, Virginia
Kelby Ferwerda Skyhaven Airport, Rochester, New Hampshire
Eric Florence Warrenton-Fauquier Airport, Virginia
Christopher Freeze Metropolitan Oakland International Airport, Oakland, California
Michael Gilbert Leesburg Executive Airport, Virginia
Bob HeppManassas Regional Airport, Virginia
Randall Holliday Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport, Bozeman, Montana
Robert Keleti Republic Airport, East Farmingdale, New York
Buchanan Smith Leesburg Executive Airport, Virginia
Brent Tuchler Manassas Regional Airport, Virginia


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Police have filed fraud charges against a former American Red Cross employee after they say she stole about $200,000 in relief money from the agency.
Police have filed fraud charges against a former American Red Cross employee after they say she stole about $200,000 in relief money from the agency.
Gainesville Police said local Red Cross employees found fraudulent transactions that all involved an employee of five years, Casey Marie Schmelz, 29, of Gainesville. An internal audit of the cases confirmed Schmelz had been involved in about 60 cases that involved fraudulent activity, said GPD spokesperson Officer Ben Tobias in a press release.
In a statement, the Northeast Florida Chapter of the Red Cross said the organization is cooperating fully with the police, and that while the investigation is in progress, it is unable to comment, spokesperson Amber Bierfreund said.
Authorities found that Schmelz stole the money by using a system the Red Cross has to help victims. One of the ways the Red Cross administers disaster relief is by issuing debit cards to victims with a cash amount based on their emergency, which should be used to purchase food, clothing and necessities, the press release said.
Schmelz discovered the username and password of another employee who had authorization to add funds to the debit cards. Officials said Schmelz would log into the system, load funds onto a debit card and then get the cash from local ATMs, the release said.
"She was very clever," Tobias said. "An employee reviewing satisfaction surveys from past clients became suspicious when they found aid given for emergencies that did not exist."
Schmelz accessed a cash total of $203,648.21 since 2011. Police discovered Schmelz through the use of surveillance video, transaction history and her own statements, the press release said.
GPD's Detective Chris King said Red Cross employees were disappointed by Schmelz and had no idea what she was doing.
"These people were like her family" King said in the press release. "She was working for a company that is designed to help others. She lost sight of that mission with her criminal behavior."
Schmelz did not give officials an explanation for the missing money, Tobias said.
King filed a sworn affidavit with charges of grand theft and scheme to defraud, the release said.
The State Attorney's office will determine if formal charges will be filed.


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Recompute has just launched a "green" pc whose chassis is made up entirely of cardboard. No joke. It can be ordered in different configurations, from an Athlon X2 Linux, to an Athlon II Quad Core Windows 7 model. Please note this is not for sensitive viewers. Steve Jobs and other aesthetes are encouraged not to read further.


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|2011-03-10, 13:35
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help me find this old anime series please
i watched this anime like around 14years ago and love it alot
now i just have this urge to watch it again but cant find it anywhere
it would nice if some of you old school anime fans can help me identify this anime
okay.. so the story goes somewhat like this
so the human race makes a huge step to create a space station... and this station is so big that it looks like the "ring thing" around a planet. and it was located around the earth.
and then mysteriously... aliens invaded the earth...they look like this huge spider with 4 legs around 6story tall and same width. and ofcourse they destroyed the space station too and left it ruined and haunted.
humans weapons of war dont even scratch those aliens
so the aliens are like no brain soldiers and they listen to these armored-suited knights(they were originally human but got infested in the moon station) during the infestation... they were cocooned in like a bug.. and one of them somehow got loss.. and maintains the human sanity ( the main character of this series)
okay now the 1st episode begins with....2 armor-mobile suited guys fighting in the ruined space station..one with white armor(main character) and one with dark green armor (they are not that big.. around 7-8feet tall...but really fast and strong)
and our white armor opens his cannons on his 2 shoulder and shoots a really huge beam.
our main character is not fully compatible to use the suit....because he was cut lose from the cocoon pre maturely and thats why he still has the human sanity
he can only stay in the armor for 30mins any longer than that he will turn to 'one of them'
and when they are not in their suits the suit will turn to a small crystal thats as big as an iphone and a star shape....
and when they when they want to transform i guess in to the suit ...it will just glow and all the special effects coming and ....oh ones they are in the suit...their cloth will all be burned away..and they are always naked when they come out of the suit lol.....
so theres only 1 high end spaceship that... a surivior team has..they somehow picked up our main character and later learn that he is the only chance they can fight back to the aliens..and thats how the series goes on,.....
lol i hope some of you can help me find this one ;p
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Another one.
Who ever you were that identified scrapped princess for me I thank you. I'm buying the box set on friday.
I have another, the name was n kingdoms. I don't know what # the n was. Somewhat typical alternate universe story, where someone from earth gets taken there. She's royalty or something.....but what stands out most in my memory is that the series was unfinished. The reason I want the name is so I can hopefully find translated manga's of it.
Google fails for the first time..... the Anime is "Twelve Kingdoms" and apparently it IS finished, but I couldn't find the right fansubs. Both problems solved, and I've also found scanalations of the manga...thank you.
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Girl leaves and comes back with different personality?
Have to ask maybe someone or I asked it before. So here it goes.
It is a manga I think where the boy like a girl but before he can really tell her how he feels about her she goes overseas and few years down the road comes back but she is the same outside but for some reason she acts different then before as he last remember her before she left?
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Hi i'm looking for a hentai ova where there's this teacher who starts dating the sister of his ex-girlfriend (they even had an engagement) and at one point they start living togheter. The girl had light red hair if i remember right.
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Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 23rd Jun 2010 06:23 UTC
It's been a while since any of us have seen head or tail of the Open Graphics Project, but they haven't been just sitting around twiddling thumbs. Enjoy an in-depth interview between OSNews and Timothy Miller, the founder of the Open Graphics Project and the main man behind the drive that keeps it going, and Michael Dexter, Program Director at Linux Fund and a key player in Linux Fund's partnership with the OGP. Though it's been some time since there has been much public action, much of the work that the OGP has been putting into the OGD1 is finally coming to fruition.
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by theosib on Fri 25th Jun 2010 02:50 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: What about a real GPU?"
No, OGD1 itself is not intended for most end users. Hobbyists who want to do FPGA development would find it useful for lots of things, and THEY are "end users" in that domain. But most people are not chip designers. OGD1's purpose is to provide chip designers with a platform they can use to develop (prototype) products that can be turned into end-user products.


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by Franklin Habit
There's a box under my bed where I keep certain things I'm slightly ashamed of. No, not that box. Another one. A larger one. The one with all the swatches in it.
I like to swatch. I swatch all the time. Even when I'm not planning to make anything in particular, I put yarn on needles and play with it. I swatch for the sake of swatching.
"What are you making?" somebody will ask me. "A hat," I reply. Or, "A scarf." I never say it's a swatch, because the next question is always, "A swatch for what?" And admitting that you swatch for the sheer pleasure of it is like admitting that you feel slightly aroused whenever the office photocopier develops a paper jam.
One of my knitting companions, who has serious boundary issues, was visiting one day and while searching for a crochet hook she uncovered my box of secrets. Not that one, the one with the swatches in it.
"Squares for a blanket?" she asked. As well she might, because my swatches aren't just swatches, they're pretty swatches with nice garter stitch borders and all the ends woven in. I should have said yes, squares for a blanket, because everybody is always making squares for a blanket but nobody ever finishes the blanket, so nobody ever asks follow-up questions about your squares.
But there had been rum that afternoon. So I said, "Those are my swatches."
And she said, "Swatches for what?"
And I said, "Just for the fun of it."
She held up a swatch that I made to see what happens when you try to do complicated intarsia in pure cotton (the answer is you smack loved ones) and said, "Wow. You're definitely a Process Knitter."
I had no idea what she was talking about, but asking her for clarification seemed like a good way to get her out of my bedroom, so I asked what "Process Knitter" meant.
"Well," she said, "there are Process Knitters and Product Knitters. Process Knitters are mostly in it for the making. Product Knitters are more in it for the wearing."
She was still rooting around under the bed and had one hand on the other secret box, so I asked her to please elaborate in the living room.
"If you're a Product Knitter," she said, "you see a new pattern for a hat and decide to buy the pattern because you want the hat. If you're a Process Knitter, you see a new pattern for a hat and decide to buy it because the way the hat is designed looks interesting."
"Interesting how?"
"I don't know," she said. "It's a hypothetical hat. Maybe it has stranded colorwork tropical fish on it."
"Is it a winter hat?"
"What? I don't know. Probably."
"Tropical fish on winter hat seems weird to me. Not interesting. Weird."
"Well, some other kind of fish, then. Cold fish."
Then she remembered that what she had been looking for was a crochet hook, and changed the subject.
I kept thinking about it, though. Was I a Process Knitter? The word "process" sounded so orderly. Orderly I am not. I generally feel that my knitting is just fumbling plus yarn. Occasionally I fumble my way to a whole sock. More often, I do not.
"Are you really sure I'm a Process Knitter?" I asked.
"What does that have to do with Kim Kardashian?" she said.
"Nothing," I said. "Unless she's a Process Knitter too. Why do you ask?"
"We were talking about Kim Kardashian. But obviously you were thinking about something else."
"I always do," I said, "when the subject is Kim Kardashian."
"Of course you're Process," she said. "What are you making right now?"
"A lace shawl."
"Why are you making a lace shawl? Are you going to wear it?"
"Do your shoulders get chilly at the gym and you feel a lace shawl would be just the very thing?"
"Do the other guys at Murphy's Bleachers make fun of you because you're the only one without a lace shawl?"
"You're making it because you thought lace would be an interesting thing to play with for a while, am I right?"
"You're right."
"You're a Process Knitter, then. You have no need of the shawl, yet you make the shawl. Whereas I am a Product Knitter: I knit the hat because I want to wear the hat."
"I thought you were making a cowl."
"No, not this. A hypothetical hat."
"Oh. The tropical fish hat?"
"Any hat. If I want it badly enough, I'll knit it. Even if I think working through the pattern might be a little boring, I'll still knit it because I want that particular hat."
"You don't even like stranded color work," I said.
"But I'll do it," she said, "if I want the hat."
"You know who would wear a tropical fish hat in winter?" I said. "Kim Kardashian."
She decided it was time to go home.
That night, after I had sorted and packed away the contents of my secret box (not that box, the one with the swatches in it), I pulled out another box (not that box) that's full of odds and ends of yarn. Then I got out some graph paper and pencils. Then, suddenly, it was four o'clock in the morning, and I had about five square inches of knitting.
"Maybe you are a Process Knitter," I thought.
I saw my friend the Product Knitter the next afternoon at the coffee shop.
"What's that?" she said.
"New swatch," I said. "Stranded colorwork."
"And are those…"
"Tropical fish."
"I thought you said that was silly."
"Silly, but interesting."
"I'm not wearing it, even if you finish it."
"It's not for you," I said. "It's for Kim Kardashian."
We haven't spoken much since.
Designer and illustrator Franklin Habit is the proprietor of the popular knitting blog The Panopticon (the-panopticon.blogspot.com) and the founder of Yarn Shaming (yarnshaming.tumblr.com). He loves yarn, but yarn does not always love him back.


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Missing (UK - DVD R2)
Our Marcus pulls in for a chicken soup and ends up with an axe in his head....
After discovering that quiet farmer Pan-gon (Moon Sung-keun) isn't all that he seems, it's already too late for the movie director he kills and the young actress that he keeps locked up in his basement. Keeping her in a cage and then subjecting her to a hose spray down, his singing, rape and some teeth pulling, Pan-gon thinks he can do whatever he likes. That is, until the young actress' sister comes looking for her.
Missing isn't all that original. In fact it feels like I've seen this movie countless times over the years, and despite a pretty solid bad guy performance from Moon Sung-keun, Missing somehow feels a little paint by numbers.
Despite some of the nastier scenes (one involving a disturbing misuse of cake frosting and another testing the limits of a grinder), the movie has a lightness to it that was a lot like watching an Australian soap opera or something along those lines. The small town mystery never really ramped up any sort of tension, every character wore their true intentions on their faces and there was a distinct feeling from very early on that this was going to follow a very predictable path (which it does).
That said Pan-gon's sinister acts may very well have felt more disturbing because of the fairly fluffy backdrop. Goofy cops, an even more goofy moped girl and some almost comedy dialogue in places counters the grimy torture Pan-gon's victims go through quite well, and even if Pan-gon himself is still semi-funny in his interactions, there's no escaping the nastiness of this guy.
This is one pretty looking standard definition transfer. The summer colours quite literally pop off the screen and the combination of bright reds, yellows and greens are not at all what I expected from a movie about kidnapping and torture.
The darker scenes bring in the greys, browns and darker greens but even then the image never gets all that murky or anywhere near as dark as you'd expect (again something that some could argue lets the movie down a bit). The entire movie keeps a noticeably clean appearance and despite the odd flutter of noise, Missing stays quite impressive throughout.
Again Missing brings the unexpected. The 5.1 Dolby Digital track here offers up multiple layers of atmospheric sound that fill up the track well. Chirping birds, crickets, dogs barking; you name a sound you'd expect on a farm in the middle of nowhere and it's there in your rear speakers.
Add to that some solid sound in the fronts from the strong dialogue and some show off pieces of axe wielding or harmonica playing and there's not too much to complain about here especially considering the smallness of the movie didn't really need to do any of this at all.
All we get for the movie itself is the short teaser trailers, the full theatrical trailer and twelve trailers for other CineAsia releases.
Missing is a messy movie but it's certainly not as visually disturbing as a lot of the torture movies out there, even if the visuals still hint at the what we're not seeing pretty well. The story isn't at all fresh but it's still entertaining (thanks largely to Moon Sung-keun's creepily upbeat performance), but even with the disc's solid A/V presentation, the total lack of any real features might make this one more of a rental consideration.
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Release Date: 31st January 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Korean, Dolby 2.0 Stereo Korean
Subtitles: English
Extras: Trailers
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Director: Kim Sung-Hong
Cast: Moon Sung-Keun, Choo Ja-Hyun
Genre: Drama, Horror and Thriller
Length: 98 minutes
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Over the weekend, Apartment Therapy got a sneak peek at DwellStudio's brand new, first ever direct-to-consumer catalog. It's got everything we've come to expect from the ten year old design studio - beautiful photography, modern prints and a distinctive yet easy to work with color palette.
Christiane Lemieux (founder of DwellStudio) tells us: "Catalog shopping has been around for more than a century. Unfortunately, a lot of what I see in my mailbox every week looks about a hundred years old. We wanted to create a catalog for the way people really live now."
One thing that we've always liked about DwellStudio is their color palette and it clearly comes through in the catalog, as you see the flow of the colors across the pages and product lines. It is an interesting range of strong hues that all work well together, making it fairly foolproof to mix and match the patterns in a way that always reads as fresh and modern to our eye.
A nice touch are the editorial comments peppered throughout in a larger, more hand drawn font - a la Domino. These little asides are what give the pages life - everything from decor tips and ideas to try at home to what makes the products special - they definitely are our favorite piece of the catalog design.
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Chandigarh: Congress on Saturday accused Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of shooting from the hip and asked him to come clean on alleged loss of revenue of Rs 1 lakh crore caused to the exchequer by "malpractices" of the state government.
"In June 2012, Congress MPs represented to the Central Vigilance Commissioner that there has been a revenue loss of Rs 1 lakh crore to the exchequer as a result of various instances of omission, commission and malpractices of Gujarat government.
"The Chief Minister of Gujarat shoots from the hip on every issue," Information and Broadcasting Minister, Manish Tewari said, adding if Modi has the "conviction or gumption", then "let him rebut the charges" on the revenue loss issue.
On Gujarat riots issue, he said that "in so far as the quest for justice for riot victims is concerned, that is a humanitarian issue. That is an issue which has been pursued very proactively...Who are committed to plurality of India.
Asked about the black money stashed abroad, Tewari said "I want to ask why we keep talking about such money only in foreign shores and hit it like a political football. We should also talk about black money in our own economy so that it is made transparent."


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Yale Student Creates Unblockable Replacement For Useful Course Catalog Site Yale Blocked; Yale Reconsiders Initial Block
from the boom-goes-the-dynamite dept
The same kind of thing played out last week, with a story you might have heard of, concerning Yale blocking access to a site built by a pair of students (two years ago), creating a better course catalog. Unlike Yale's official course catalog, this one made it easy to see class evaluations and teacher ratings. Yale came up with a variety of excuses for this block, first saying that the site's name, YBB+ (for Yale Blue Book Plus) violated the university's trademark on Yale Bluebook. After the students changed the name to CourseTable, the university blocked it again, claiming it was "malicious."
Then, after all of that, Yale also claimed that CourseTable violated the copyright in the course descriptions. I would think that the developers would have an incredibly strong fair use claim here (use in education, not interfering with the market "value" of the original, etc.).
Either way, another Yale student, Sean Haufler, saw how ridiculous all of this was, and decided, what the heck, he could write a system that clearly gets around all of Yale's supposed complaints: he created a Chrome Extension, so that the same information from CourseTable/YBB+ shows up whenever anyone using it surfs through Yale's official site. He notes that this seems to get around all of Yale's claimed issues:
As Haufler points out, he's hoping to demonstrate to Yale's administration that not only was this whole censorship effort stupid and futile, but that if it's granting students access to data, it shouldn't then try to block how they use that data. It seems especially troubling that an institution of higher learning would do this kind of thing.
I built a Chrome Extension called Banned Bluebook. It modifies the Chrome browser to add CourseTable's functionality to Yale's official course selection website, showing the course's average rating and workload next to each search result. It also allows students to sort these courses by rating and workload. This is the original site, and this is the site with Banned Bluebook enabled (this demo uses randomly generated rating values).
Banned Bluebook never stores data on any servers. It never talks to any non-Yale servers. Moreover, since my software is smarter at caching data locally than the official Yale course website, I expect that students using this extension will consume less bandwidth over time than students without it. Don't believe me? You can read the source code. No data ever leaves Yale's control. Trademarks, copyright infringement, and data security are non-issues. It's 100% kosher.
Just as I was finishing up this post, I learned that Yale dean Mary Miller has admitted to perhaps reacting too hastily, and recognizing that technology has changed quite a bit. While she still seems to claim that using the data violates an acceptable use policy, she seems at least willing to consider this:
Although the University acted in keeping with its policies and principles, I see now that it erred in trying to compel students to have as a reference the superior set of data that the complete course evaluations provide. That effort served only to raise concerns about the proper use of network controls. In the end, students can and will decide for themselves how much effort to invest in selecting their courses.
Technology has moved faster than the faculty could foresee when it voted to make teaching evaluations available to students over a decade ago, and questions of who owns data are evolving before our very eyes. Just this weekend, we learned of a tool that replicates YBB+'s efforts without violating Yale's appropriate use policy, and that leapfrogs over the hardest questions before us. What we now see is that we need to review our policies and practices. To that end, the Teaching, Learning, and Advising Committee, which originally brought teaching evaluations online, will take up the question of how to respond to these developments, and the appropriate members of the IT staff, along with the University Registrar, will review our responses to violations of University policy. We will also state more clearly the requirement/expectation for student software developers to consult with the University before creating applications that depend on Yale data, and we will create an easy means for them to do so.


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Qi ill and Co. SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1881. QUILL & Co. will sell by public auction, at their Yards and Rooms, SAUCODER'S ' BUILDINGS, on SATURDAY, JANUARY 22nd, atone o'clock p.tn., > A variety of useful HOUSEHOLD * GOODS, Furniture, Sewing Machine, Pictures, etc. i Also— CHEESE, NEW POTATOES, Etc. E QUILL & CO., Auctioneers. Messrs. Quill & Co., AUCTIONEERS, STOCK, LAND, & ESTATE AGENTS SAUNDERS' BUILDINGS, Ashburton, BEG to announce to station-holders, landed proprietors, farmers, cattledealers, and residents in Ashburton and the surrounding districts, that they have COMMENCED BUSINESS in the above line ; and, from their long experience in the various departments, feel assured that all commissions entrusted to them will be conducted satisfactorily to their patrons. Sales will be held as required, at the Salerooms and Yards in Ashburton, or any part of the district. They will also hold a Regular Sale of STOCK, LAND, FARM PRODUCE, FURNITURE, and GENERAL MERCHANDISE, at their Rooms, every Saturday, particulars of which will be duly advertised. The interest and the support of sellers and buyers are respectfully solicited. Cash Advances made on all classes of Goods placed in their hands for sale. For particulars of Sales please see advertisements. A NUMBER of FIRST-CLASS TOWN and SUBURBAN SECTIONS on hand for private treaty, on VERY EASY TERMS. Colonial - made Sauces. QUILL & CO. are the Ashburton Agents for Carew & Co.'s Dunodin-made WORCESTERSHIRE and TOMATO SAUCES—articles that are superior to anything that can be imported from any part of the world, and are sold in New Zealand, the site of their manufacture, at a price with which no foreign maker or colonial importer can compete. Wholesale—Tomato Sauce, 265. per case of two dozen pints. Worcestershire Sauce, 30s. per rase of two dozen pints, and 325. per case of four dozen half-pints Quill & Co., AUCTIONEERS, SAUNDERS BUILDING} S, Ashburton. 883g-9960 T. QUILL'S GRAND CONSULTATION, No. 1, ON THE DUNEDIN CUP, To be Run in February, 1881. 1000 Subscribers at 10s. each. First Horse.,. ... ... £l4O Second Horse ~, ... 90 Third Horse ~, ~, 60 Other starters and nonstarters (divided) 220 Tickets to obtained at all the Hotels.
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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utter unconsciousness how joyful I am with myself!
The darling sewed up my eyes so that I might not see other than him, so that suddenly I opened my eyes on his face.
My soul fought with me saying, "Do not pain me"; I said, "Take your divorce." She said, "Grant it"; I granted it.
When my mother saw on my cheek the brand of your love she cut my umbilical cord on that, the moment I was born.
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Sony Open, Russell Henley Hijacks the Lead January 12 2013
Russell Henley / Hugh Gentry/Reuters Russell Henley hijacked the second round lead in the Sony Open in Hawaii, from his friend and first round leader Scott Langley, with another round of -7 under par 63. The two rookies continue to defy all the odds and dominate the leaderboard between them. Russell, who is just two days into his PGA Tour career is already in the record books, breaking the 36-hole tournament scoring record by two shots, at -14 under par and a total of 126, the previous 36-hole record at the Sony Open was 128, shared by five players, most recently John Cook in 2002. Russell said it all seems a bit unreal; " It's pretty surreal." The two Scotts, Langley and Piercy are now tied two shots behind on -12 under par, Scott Langley followed his opening round 62, with a second round of 66, and Scott Piercy had another round of 64, both players total 128. Scott Langley admitted it was hard to match his amazing first round 62; "It's never easy to back up a really good round, I kind of got off to a little slower start, but it was certainly nice to finish the way I did and kind of get back in it with Russ. He played so well, and I was just trying to keep pace as much as I can. To finish that way was really good." Scott Piercy had to admit he knew very little about the two new rookies; " It's Russell something and Langley? I think Russell won when he was in college, right? Hey, they're playing well. I think I played in five final groups as a rookie and didn't come through. There's a learning curve, but maybe their curve is quicker than mine." Matt Kuchar is in fourth place alone on -11 under par, with his second round score of -7 under par, 63. Matt was real happy with the conditions here at the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, coming from last weeks windy weather in Maui; " Coming from last week, it feels really easy out there, this course, is not as simple as it seems, it's one of the tougher courses on tour. If you're not playing well, you're going to make some bogeys. I understand the wind is supposed to really die down over the weekend, so I certainly expect low scoring. The course is in great shape, greens are beautiful, so there's going to be a lot more birdies and your foot has definitely got to be down on the pedal." One sad note today, Dustin Johnson who won last week at Kapalua, withdrew after nine holes today, suffering from the flu. Dustin will now not get a chance to match Ernie Els as the only players to sweep the two Hawaii events. He said of his malaise; " I feel like I'm coming down with whatever my caddie's got, just not feeling well. Stomach hurts, headache, tired." I think that as long as Scott and Russell are paired together one of them will win this tournament they are helping each other and are not too bothered about the rest of the field. But if they are split up for the last round, competing against a seasoned Tour professional, then the going will get a little tougher coming down the stretch on Sunday.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (June 15, 2010) - ETSU women's soccer head coach Heather Henson announced the 2010 schedule on Tuesday. Nine home contests and eight road matches make up a schedule that will start slow but will finish with a bang.
"We are very excited about this year's schedule," Henson said. "It offers some old rivals as well as new teams. Some old rivals like Gardner Webb, a former Atlantic Sun member, as well as Radford and UNC Asheville. All of them are old rivals and have years of tradition and success."
The Bucs start off the 2010 season with exhibition contests against Charleston Southern (Aug. 12) and Radford (Aug. 15). ETSU will face UNC Asheville on Aug. 22 in the season opener as the Buccaneers head down I-26 to face the Bulldogs. The Bucs continue the season on the road at former A-Sun rival Gardner-Webb (Aug. 27) before facing Tennessee Wesleyan in the home opener on Aug. 30 at 5 p.m.
ETSU closes out the non-conference slate with home games against King College (Sept. 2), Temple (Sept. 10) and Winthrop (Sept. 12) as well as a road match against Francis Marion (Sept. 5). The King College match is slated to be the first ever true night game in the program's history.
"We are excited that we will be playing our home games under the lights," Henson added. "Due to the dedication of the ETSU administrators, Summers Taylor Stadium will have lights on the game field. I am deeply grateful and appreciative of the ETSU administrators and community supporters for their tireless efforts to complete this stadium project."
The Temple and Winthrop contests will be a part of the 2010 ETSU Women's Soccer Invitational Tournament presented by DoubleTree Hotel. Temple and Winthrop will give the Bucs a tough test as they open the conference season the following weekend. A year ago, Winthrop fell just short of the 2009 Big South Tournament Championship as the Eagles upset the top seed in the tournament on the way to the finals, while the Owls have a good program and always compete in the Atlantic 10.
"It is very special for us to again host the ETSU Women's Soccer Invitational Tournament presented by DoubleTree Hotel," Henson said. "We have some great teams in Miami (Ohio), Temple, and Winthrop coming into compete that weekend."
Campbell comes to town on Sept.18 as the Buccaneers open the A-Sun slate with a three-game home stand. Lipscomb (Sept.24) and 2009 A-Sun Regular Season Co-Champion Belmont (Sept. 26) also will make their way to Johnson City, Tenn. during the home stand.
The Bucs then head to the River City to face North Florida (Oct. 1) and Jacksonville (Oct.3) before finishing the home season with Florida Gulf Coast (Oct. 8) and Stetson (Oct. 10). ETSU closes out the regular season with a three-game road stint as the Bucs head to Mercer (Oct. 15), 2009 A-Sun Regular Season Co-Champion Kennesaw State (Oct. 17) and USC Upstate (Oct.24).
For more information on the ETSU women's soccer team, please visit www.ETSUBucs.com. Also you can follow daily post and updates on the official ETSU women's soccer Twitter page at www.twitter.com/ETSUSoccer.