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One Thimble issue 15 is out! I have been collaborating with One Thimble on promotional blog tours since issue 5 (you can see all blog posts by typing "one thimble" on the search box, on your right) and it was love at first sight. It's such an amazing digital sewing magazine! Always jam packed with great articles and sewing tutorials and tips, and lots of sewing patterns! For issue 15 I have picked three patterns, for my girls and my little wee baby. On this blog post I am showcasing the Phillipa Blouse and sharing a full review on this issue, and the other makes will be shown later today.
Phillipa Blouse, pattern by Bobkin Designs.
Floral Baptiste (gifted by my Canadian aunt Judy, thank you!).
This pattern is available in sizes 2 to 10. It features:
- two neckline options (round or V-neck),
- three collar options (round, angled or ruffle)
- two sleeve options (cap sleeve with bias trim or plain gathered sleeve with elastic hem).
- back button placket
- optional enclosed seams (French seams).
The instructions are amazingly thorough and will walk you through all the steps and options. although it is rated as Intermediate, this pattern is suitable for confident beginners who would like to go up a level.
For this version I have opted the round neckline + ruffled collar, since ruffled collars are all the range around here in girls fashion.
On One Thimble issue 15, you will find:
PDF patterns/tutorials:
- #116 V-Neck Cardigan (size 2-10)
- #115 Pom Pom Beret (size newborn to adult)
- Metro Slimfit Blazer (size 1-14)
- DAX Trousers (size 2T-12)
- Military Messenger Bag (measures 12″x10.75″x2″)
- Phillipa Blouse (size 2-10)
- Miriam Skirt (size 12months-8years)
- Josephine Dress (size 6mths-12yrs)
- Hipster Teddy Bear
- Oh Teddy FMA (free motion applique)
Articles and tutorials (here's just a few):
- Storing your digital patterns
- Mental Health Benefits of Sewing
- Stamping fabric
- How to make a journal cover
- How to make a table quilt
- Understanding Bamboo Fabric
- Understanding Vintage Fabrics
- Getting shorts and pants to fit
- Scheduling your social media
- Interview with Holly from Top Knot Girl
- History of Tweed
- The pintuck foot
- Instagram analytics - a walk through
As always, the layout and design of this digital magazine is beautiful! So, so appealing. And the photos are amazing. You really have to see the first pages: the inspiration look book for this issue's patterns is outstanding! It looks like out of a high quality fashion magazine. I just want to copy every.single.outfit in there for my kids!
Here are a few of my favorite articles on this issue:
"The Mental Health Benefits of Sewing"
I really loved reading a professional perspective on the benefits of sewing by an experienced clinical psychologist. I know how important sewing is my life, as a SAHM/WAHM. It's my creative outlet, a way of stretching my brain and of relaxing. It has played an important role in several stressful times of my life and I know for a fact that it has the same effect on many other people.
"Understanding vintage patterns"
I love vintage sewing patterns. I have a Pinterest board to collect all the beautiful ones I find around the internet. I have used a couple of them before and I had to ignore most of the instructions and just "do my thing" because they use a vintage sewing terminology that doesn't match to some of the terms we use nowadays. I which this article would have come out earlier!! It offers a quick guide with lots of tips and help on how to approach and use vintage sewing patterns. Loved it and I'm so happy to be able to use my (small) vintage pattern collection more often from now on!
"Storing your Digital Patterns"
I just checked the "Digital Pattern Library" on my laptop and I have (hides face in shame!...) 13 GB of PDF files. It's 6.279 PDF files... I have lost count no how many PDF patterns I have... Not 6.279 for sure, since most patterns come with several files, but even if we consider an average of 3 files per pattern... you do the math... For people like me who collects patterns (I am sure it is a hoarding disorder) we face several problems: Where to store them all so we won't loose them if something goes wrong with the PC? (one of my biggest fears!) How to organize them? (by designer? by type?) Well, this article offers some useful info on the first!
Here is the line up for this tour!
5/11/2017 | Pattern Revolution | Marvelous Auntie M | Call Ajaire
5/12/2017 | Beri Bee Designs | Max California | Pear Berry Lane
5/13/2017 | Idle Sunshine | Made by Sara | That's-Sew-Kari
5/14/17 | Tales of a Tester | Candice Ayala | Once Upon a Sewing Machine
5/15/17 | Stitches by Laura | Sprouting Jube Jube | House of Estrela
5/16/17 | SewSophieLynn | Gaafmachine
5/17/2017 | Crazy, Craft Haute Mama | Adventures with Bubba and Bug | Lulu and Celeste
5/12/2017 | Beri Bee Designs | Max California | Pear Berry Lane
5/13/2017 | Idle Sunshine | Made by Sara | That's-Sew-Kari
5/14/17 | Tales of a Tester | Candice Ayala | Once Upon a Sewing Machine
5/15/17 | Stitches by Laura | Sprouting Jube Jube | House of Estrela
5/16/17 | SewSophieLynn | Gaafmachine
5/17/2017 | Crazy, Craft Haute Mama | Adventures with Bubba and Bug | Lulu and Celeste
And... Come back later today to read all the details about two other patterns from this issue of One Thimble: the #115 Pom Pom Beret and the Hipster Teddy Bear.
Check all about issue 15 of One Thimble and get it HERE! (not affiliate)
Happy sewing!


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"There's a global problem in central practice today when it comes to [surgical education]," says Jean Nehme, the CEO and one of the co-founders of Touch Surgery. "The way you learn surgery is: you see one, you do one, and then you teach one. But that's risky and [medical students] need a way to increase competency during their training." Touch Surgery was developed to solve precisely this issue at hand: how can we increase a surgeon's familiarity with a particular surgical procedure prior to the actual procedure itself? The solution: a free mobile and tablet app available for the iOS and Android that simulates surgical operations in graphic 3D detail.
"How can you see or know what you're doing if you don't do it? We felt like there had to be a tool we could create to allow surgeons to exercise their cognitive task analysis…to better familiarize [themselves] with a procedure," said Nehme.
According to Nehme, Touch Surgery was created on the principle that surgical performance is 75 percent reliant on cognitive skills – such as visual and pattern recognition – that will enable surgeons to make the right decisions; the other 25 percent involves the technical ability to perform the surgery. So, in order for a surgeon to perform at a higher level of competency, he or she needs to become better acclimated to the given surgery they're about to undertake.
"There are a lot of things like videos, animations, and big-screen simulators that try to [improve surgical education]…but nothing that is presented or functions similarly [to Touch Surgery]. Our mobile approach gives [surgeons] a more engaging and beneficial experience."
Touch Surgery is able to accomplish this by providing surgeons with a step-by-step guide on how to perform any given surgery (say you want to perform a "simple trochanteric wiring" – one of the surgical operations currently available on the app). The app fully engages the user by providing them with decision points during simulation, as well as giving them the ability to fully interact on-screen with each procedure. You can also track your progress and see where you can make improvements as you go through the operations.
It's an impressive platform for improving surgical education; however, what's even more impressive is that all four co-founders of Touch Surgery are practicing surgeons. They all have firsthand experience with the issues they're attempting to solve and are all knowledgeable about health and medicine overall (between the four of them, they have 50 publications). "We really believe that this can be a gamechanger in healthcare. It can improve skills and knowledge, and provide better patient care." In addition to the benefits that Touch Surgery can provide surgeons, they believe that it can have major effects on increasing patient knowledge on procedures and easing pre-surgery tensions.
And the value of Touch Surgery as a surgical education platform has certainly spread throughout the medical community. Since winning the health category at the Challenge Cup London, the app recently surpassed 180,000 downloads. This accomplishment is in addition to being able to work with specialists at NYU, Harvard, Duke, and Stanford to create new content on Touch Surgery, as well as improving the graphics on their current product. It will be exciting to see what updates they have come May, when they arrive in DC for the Challenge Cup Global Finals.
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Last night a crowd of 538 gathered in Kirk Hall at the Central Library to hear the entrepreneurial story of Boulevard Brewing Co. founder John McDonald and drink his beer – 20 cases of Wheat, Pale Ale, and Pilsner, to be exact. In the words of Public Affairs Director Henry Fortunato, we effectively "put the pub in 'public library.'"
But we also learned a thing or two about the beer business.
The August 3, 2011, event was part of the Kansas City Public Library's Cradle of Entrepreneurs program, a series of public conversations with prominent members of the Kansas City business community.
The inaugural edition featured Spin! Pizza's Gail Lozoff on June 14, and the next installments will bring Mary Carol Garrity of Nell Hill's on Tuesday, October 11, at the Central Library 6:30 p.m.; Danny O'Neill of the The Roasterie on Tuesday morning, November 15, at the Plaza Branch at 7:30 a.m.; and Ollie Gates of Gates Bar-B-Q, on Wednesday, November 16, at 6:30 p.m. at Central. (Sign up for our e-newsletter to stay in the loop.)
As Crosby Kemper III led the discussion before a buzzing room of beer fans and business aspirants, McDonald revealed interesting details from his journey as an enterpreneur, as well as his perspectives on bigger issues such as sustainability and regionalism.
Growing up in the north-central Kansas town of Osborne, McDonald began home brewing – and drinking beer – at a young age: like, 12. He and a friend would brew up batches in the basement and sell the beer to teenagers at the local drive-in. Despite this wayward-seeming youth, McDonald later attended the University of Kansas, where he majored in art and did not pledge a fraternity.
After college, he moved to Kansas City to work as a carpenter, but brewing was never far from his mind. When he and his wife won raffle tickets for a trip to Europe, they visited the beer-drinking countries of England, Belgium, France, and Germany, and McDonald began hatching plans to bring good, import-style beer to the people of the Midwest.
He had his work cut out for him.
The American beer market has been perpetually dominated by watery pilsner-lagers sold by giant corporations, most notably Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis (which is now owned by a Belgian multinational). The idea of making and selling small-batch, handcrafted ales and selling them locally is even now, in 2011, a relatively connoisseurish enterprise. As McDonald himself pointed out last night, even in the Pacific Northwest, which has the highest concentration of breweries, craft beers still only hold about 35 percent of the market share. In the Midwest, McDonald, it's around 8 to 10 percent.
Imagine, then, McDonald toting a keg of Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer into KC's Twin City Tavern, circa 1989. Three old men sit at the bar, their glasses filled to the brim with some form of bubbly gold American beer – no foam whatsoever, so as not to cheat the men out of an ounce of their treasured, tasteless swill. The bar's owner, Mike Devine, a fan of McDonald's newly minted, pours three pints for the men.
"One of them wouldn't even taste it – he absolutely refused," McDonald recounted. "The other two took sips and pushed their glasses away. As I was leaving, one of them turned to me and said, 'Young man, that is the worst beer I've ever had.'"
The crowd at the Library joined McDonald in laughing at this story. After all, the joke's on the old codgers' – Boulevard is now the largest craft brewery in the Midwest, producing more than 600,000 barrels a year, with distribution in nearly 20 states, and a portfolio of around 28 beers.
More significant to McDonald than his brewery's size, though, is the reputation he's build for Boulevard as a brewer of high-quality beer that is Midwestern in spirit and environmentally sustainable in the way it is produced.
Boulevard's own green facility on Southwest Boulevard embodies the latter. Also drawing much applause last night was any mention Boulevard's new glass-recycling program, Ripple Glass, which has, in the past year, filled an important void in Kansas City's traditionally behind-the-curve recycling efforts. In addition to placing upwards of 80 containers around town, Ripple has built a high-tech processing facility. When McDonald announced the news that soon Ripple would begin collecting glass from restaurants and bars, the crowd at the Library all but stood up and cheered.
In conclusion, in his 22 years of business, McDonald has shown that, with personal ingenuity and the support of trusted friends, an entrepreneur can sell good, handmade, local, and sustainable beer to middle Americans.
And as the crowd last night at the Library showed, they'll definitely drink to that.
The Kansas City Public Library is currently seeking your suggestions for other local business owners to participate in the Cradle of Entrepreneurs series. If you know of a Kansas City business owner who has an inspiring story to tell, drop us a comment below, or post your suggestion on our Facebook Wall. CEOs, moms and pops, we'll consider them all. This is your Library – tell us what you want.
About the Author
Jason Harper is the Web Content Developer at the Kansas City Public Library. He and his fellow librarians are waiting to hear from you online: Facebook.com/kclibrary / Twitter: @kclibrary.


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Approximately a month after I returned from Glasgow I was back at London City Airport, this time off to spend the weekend in Edinburgh and in the Scottish Borders with the guys from Scotch Beef & Scotch Lamb. I'm glad I got to see both of Scotland's two main cities within the same span of a few weeks, as it really gave me a feel for a part of England I'd never really discovered before. While Glasgow is all about the new, Edinburgh smacks more of Scotland's rich history and I think makes the perfect place for a food and exploration filled city break.
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Monday, 28 September 2015
Places To Eat In Edinburgh: Timberyard
On our first evening in Edinburgh we all got dressed up and headed for dinner in the beautifully appointed private room at Timberyard, somewhere I'd wholeheartedly recommend if you're in the city for a special occasion. The restaurant is a beautiful space with lots of hidden corners, a wonderful herb garden and a wonderful atmosphere once the lights are dimmed and the candles are lit to flicker against the walls.
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Labels: edinburgh, food, places to eat in edinburgh, restaurant, scotland
Friday, 25 September 2015
Places To Eat In London: John Doe, Westbourne Park [Now Closed]
The other weekend over a sunny Saturday lunchtime my friend Edward and I were invited along to have lunch at John Doe in Westbourne Park. Not a part of town either of us know very well, we wandered around the weekend market for a bit before sitting down for a lovely bottle of Portuguese white wine and a three course meal cooked without gas; the chefs at John Doe cook everything using the heat from either wood or charcoal, going back to traditional cooking techniques, but taking inspiration from world cuisine.
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Labels: food, london, places to eat in london, restaurant, westbourne park
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Cocktail Hour: Wine Glass Moscow Mules
One of the greater impediments to perfectly replicating my favourite bar and restaurant cocktails at home is my lack of proper glassware. We have many different types of wine glasses (yes, we are one of those households who have different glasses for red wine and for white wine), sherry glasses, champagne flutes and martini glasses. Then a load of functional, but not really photographically inspiring tumblers. Up on my props shelf I have two more prettier champagne flutes, two small tumblers and two larger blue tinted glasses. And thats it. No coupes and most definitely no pretty copper mule mugs.
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Labels: cocktail, cocktail hour, recipe
Sunday, 20 September 2015
Creating A Portable Desk Space with Kinder Bueno (Ad)
In case you had not caught it when I mentioned it in passing here on the blog, or on social media I'm not actually blogging full time anymore. I made the decision for a variety of different reasons, but I'm really happy with what I'm doing now. I'm still running my blog as a business and freelancing, but I'm now also working for an MP. I was probably kidding myself when I kept on saying I was not going to seek a political job after university, because I'm loving every minute of it. On that vein, I thought this would be a great opportunity to take stock and share with you a few of my work essentials you'll usually find around my desk space.
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Friday, 18 September 2015
Weekly Love: Week 157
Does anyone know how exactly we're supposed to dress for this weather? I leave the house in a coat in the pouring rain, and by lunchtime I'm walking into town for a bite to eat having discarded the jacket and donning my sunglasses. I'm wearing jumpers to the office, and sometimes I'm too warm, and other times I'm wrapping myself in my scarf because I'm chilly. If any of you have any foolproof transitional dressing tips, I'm all ears!
1. Divine Orange & Poppyseed Gelato at Mary's Milk Bar in Edinburgh. | 2. Kate Doran's Homemade Memories and Lindt's new Orange Lindor Truffles. | 3. Saturday afternoons in Edinburgh. | 4. Scotch beef charcuterie on a farm in the Scottish Borders. | 5. Aberdeen Angus in the fields in the Scottish Borders. | 6. Simply divine gluten free vegetable quiche from the Pop Up Cafe on Deal High Street.
- Lucy's photos make me think I need to go back to my teenage haunt of Camden Locks.
- Rose takes a turn around Castries Market in St. Lucia. Also, she went exploring the Lot Valley in France with her family, reminding me that I need to try and make it out to the French house sometime this year - I have not visited yet in 2015!
- Kristabel shares her Instagram secrets: this is the blog post that taught me how to use Snapseed.
- Into The Gloss sits down with Amber Venz-Box, the founder of rewardStyle about her career progression, which serves as a great history behind the company (this is basically a summary of a really great speech I heard her give at a conference a few years ago!)
- Men's Journal goes on location with Anthony Bourdain while he films Parts Unknown.
- America? The Kitchn has tried and tested 7 different hummus brands so that you don't have to.
- I'm curious about this salad where you drink the dressing, rather than drizzle it.
- If you're visiting Stockholm any time soon, Story hotel looks like a lovely and elegant option.
- You know those lace up ballet flats everyone is wearing? This is how you DIY them.
- Learn how to use cocktail ratios, which will help you mix any drink off the top of your head.
- Anne-Sophie takes us on a tour of Portmeirion in Wales. I had no idea anywhere in Britain looked like this - one to visit for a bit of a stay-cation, I think.
- This is why Paris is so beautiful.
- Also in Paris, David Lebovitz has found a fantastic Southern style barbecue joint, and his review also highlights some of the challenges of making authentic barbecue in Paris.
7. Pretty blue doorways in Edinburgh. | 8. Country walks to the postbox in my little corner of East Kent. | 9. Brunching on homemade baked beans baked with eggs and orange juice with the Sunday papers. | 10. Walking along the sea at Sandwich Bay. | 11. A simply divine Saturday lunchtime at The Compasses Inn at Crundale, near Canterbury. | 12. Making a pilgrimage to The Elephant House, the cafe in Edinburgh where J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.
- Kate's bathroom makeover is more than just a little bit impressive.
- A Couple Cooks has some great tips for cooking without a recipe.
- Downton Abbey fans? Jacintha visits Highclere Castle.
- 'My Mother, the Child Bride' is a fascinating read.
- Design Love Fest now sell a load of iPhone cases by different illustrators, and they are amazing. Can they please start making laptop cases too?
- Important need to know for all iPhone users: what is new in iOS 9.
- Nutritionist Mikaela Reuben schools us on what we're supposed to eat to not get sick.
- Joy explores what makes a great cookbook.
- Amy has a great quick and easy pasta dish for one that is basically a love letter to yourself.
- The Glitter Guide has some great tips on keeping your skin clear in a big, polluted city. I could have done with this when I was living in Los Angeles!
- This Food 52 article will help out if you've always been confused why Americans call some apple juice cider, cider hard cider, and the difference between real cider. (Confused yet?)
- Also on Food 52, Sarah asks if there is still a place for a microwave in a modern kitchen.
- This is how you make No-Knead Challah. I've not even tried it yet and I'm already on board.
- I will never tire of reading blog posts about peoples trips to Borough Market. (via Harriet)
- While I do think my friend Izy has gone mad, this is what happens when a dessert blogger and cookbook author gives up added sugar for two months.
What have you been enjoying this week, and what do you have planned for the weekend? I'm up to London tomorrow to do a restaurant review for you all and to swing by the LFW The Apartment (be sure to come and say hi if you see me there!), and then a quiet day at home on Sunday getting everything ready for the week.
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Labels: weekly love
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Places To Eat In Edinburgh: The Scran and Scallie
Aside from getting to learn all sorts of things about Scotch meat I did not know before, and getting to discover a new city, one of the things I enjoyed the most about my recent trip to Edinburgh with Scotch Beef and Lamb was the opportunity to try a couple of restaurants that are Edinburgh institutions. Stay tuned for a review of Timberyard and a full post from the trip with lots of pictures of the city and Aberdeen Angus cows. But first, let me take you to dinner at The Scran and Scallie, the more relaxed sibling to Tom Kitchin's famous Kitchin.
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Labels: edinburgh, food, places to eat in edinburgh, restaurant, scotland
Monday, 14 September 2015
Cookbook Corner: A Change Of Appetite by Diana Henry + Boozy Gin & Tonic Jellies with Fresh Blueberries
Something we always like to have after supper each night, but never seem to put enough thought into is dessert. Yes, there is the occasional crumble if there is a particular glut of home grown raspberries, rhubarb or plums, but aside from that more often than not it is homemade ice cream or a Magnum from the freezer. But really, there are desserts that look impressive, but don't actually require that much effort with some forward planning. Today I wanted to share with you a dessert we've been enjoying here after supper a couple of times over the past few weeks (but would be equally suited to a dinner party), and a cookbook I received for Christmas and I've been rather enjoying over the past 8 months.
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Labels: book, book review, books, cookbook, cookbook corner, cookbook review, food, recipe
Friday, 11 September 2015
Places To Eat In London: Wright Brothers, Borough Market
Last week I stretched my Bank Holiday out a little by heading up to London for a totally work free day on the Tuesday. I'd had tickets to see the Oresteia at The Globe Theatre since the box office opened, so to make our little Mummy/ daughter theatre trip complete, I decided to book us in for lunch at Wright Brothers Oyster & Porter House just by Borough Market after a turn around some of the stalls. As it is only a 10 minute walk from the market to the theatre, it is the perfect spot of pre or post-theatre eats.
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Labels: borough market, food, london, places to eat in london, restaurant
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Cookbook Corner: River Cottage Light & Easy and One Pot Roast Chicken Thighs with Lentils and Rosemary
The first 'Autumnal' recipe I made for dinner this year was this simply fantastic recipe for chicken thighs, roasted in a big casserole dish with red lentils and onions until the lentils became crispy around the edges and soft like mashed potato in the middle which I became obsessed with making from the River Cottage Light & Easy book last Autumn. While the dish is still from a 'light' cookbook (we have so many of those these days) you still get the crisp chicken skins where they have been exposed during cooking, and that comforting feeling you want on a wet and stormy evening without that heavy feeling afterwards.
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Labels: book, book review, cookbook, cookbook corner, cookbook review, food, healthy, recipe, river cottage
Friday, 4 September 2015
Weekly Love: Week 156
Hello September! I know this seems funny to hear this from a sun-chaser such as myself, but I've actually been quite looking forward to Autumn this year, for all the cozy cooking, Winter boots and cashmere jumpers. So, what have I been up to? Flying the flag for my little corner of the world, over at Buzzfeed I've written another local food guide: 31 Things You Must Eat In East Kent. As you'll probably see from the post my new favourite places for food are Deal and Walmer, as they're within walking distance from my office, so you should probably expect some blog posts from there popping up over the next few months. Also, I'm off to Edinburgh this weekend, so be sure to follow me on Instagram for foodie updates!
1. Walking home along Southbank after a performance of the Oresteia at the Globe Theatre. It was a pretty great performance, and they still have some tickets left if you have a free afternoon or evening you're looking to fill. | 2. Sunday night bubble baths with rose petals, my newest scented candle (Freesia from Diptyque) and my favourite new (super great value) lavender and lily cream baths from M&S. | 3. French patisserie on display at Borough Market. | 4. Walking past one of my favourite houses I discovered during the election in Walmer, which is always beautifully in bloom. | 5. English rhubarb, Victoria plums, courgettes, tomatoes, green beans and spring onions from the vegetable plot. | 6. Plump Kent strawberries for sale on Deal High Street.
- I wrote about my encounter with urban bees in Glasgow for Great British Chefs.
- Also, over at The Debrief, I've reviewed 5 packs of supermarket sushi, so you don't have to (no, really. I don't think I can look at a piece of sushi the same way ever again!)
- I know it needs no introduction, but Giulia's brunch photos from Granger & Co. in Clerkenwell are still required viewing. I apologise in advance for how hungry they'll make you.
- Kate has found a great new product if you have come back from your holiday with a tan, but you don't want to have to buy a totally new shade of makeup. Also, Kate's pictures from Croatia highlight why you need to follow her on Instagram, stat.
- Izy shows us how to make homemade chocolate hobnob biscuits at home.
- How to get lipstick stains out of practically any item of clothing.
- Lea has some great tips on how to be a good house guest.
- Am I the only one who has really wanting to make some sort of roast chicken with grapes recently since the weather has started to get colder?
- PUNCH schools us on the history (and future) of sangria.
- Also from PUNCH, their fascinating essay on the decline of 'singles bars' in America also doubles as an interesting history of T.G.I Friday's and how air hostesses influenced bar culture.
- What you need to know about the beauty product grey market.
- 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Making Brownies.
- How To Write A Condolence Note.
7. A lunch of the creamiest buffalo milk mozzarella, home grown tomatoes, pea shoots and lots of extra virgin olive oil, fleur de sel and freshly ground black pepper. | 8. Kent Victoria plums, again for sale outside the greengrocers on Deal High Street. | 9. Setting up to shoot my recipe for Korean Barbecue-style Steak Tacos. | 10. Griddling home grown tomatoes and spring onions to use in a barbecue steak sauce - it adds such a wonderful smokey flavour. | 11. French pate and bread from No Name Shop in Sandwich, paired with French olives, home grown tomatoes and French wine for weekend lunch on the patio. | 12. Lemon, Poppyseed and Olive Oil muffins from James Morton's How Baking Works - recipe and book review coming soon!
- South East London? There is a new food market you need to check out: Druid Street Market.
- Mojito Margaritas. Just think about that for a moment.
- Molly went to Israel, and I'm hungry already. (part 2)
- Ana has some great tips on how to tell if the makeup you've purchased online is fake.
- You know that new YSL compact I'm excited about? Into The Gloss have already reviewed it.
- Does Putting Cheap Vodka Through a Water Filter Make it Better?
- Stephanie has posted 10 things you need to know when working with brands as a food blog.
- A Beautiful Mess schools us on how to make your own rose water face mist.
- America? Here is a comprehensive list of where you can actually return opened beauty products if they're the wrong shade, or give you an allergic reaction etc.
- Spotlighting another part of Kent I don't spend much time in, Kristabel has put together a great guide how to spend a day in Margate.
- I now want to make a Basil Mascarpone Buttercream Frosted Chocolate Cake.
- New York? David Lebovitz has found your new favourite ice cream parlour.
- Refinery 29 schools us on the history of the burrito.
- Rose experiences a St Lucia Friday Fish Fry.
- What To Cook Tonight hosted a whiskey and marshmallow toasting party.
- Jacintha has hunted down all the best Swedish cafes in London for us.
What have you been enjoying this week, and what do you have planned for the weekend? I'm heading North of the border with a whole group of other blogger girls, so as well as following me on Instagram, be sure to follow Kristabel, Lucy, Kim, Lucie, Lisette, Sarah-Louise and Kate to stay updated with our trip.
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Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Places To Eat In Canterbury: Côte Brasserie
Opening up in that bit Jack Wills sold next to Cafe Rouge, Côte has just opened up a branch on Canterbury High Street. Now, when they invited me along to review their new branch I almost said no, on the basis that I don't really review chains. If it were London, I think I would have declined, but in Canterbury where we have less choice and a smaller area (and therefore are more lightly to repeat restaurants too) I think we actually quite like a good chain, which is why I chose to review the new Byron that opened up this Summer.
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Sean Bean Doesn't Know How to Survive a Role
Sean Bean has a reputation for acting himself out of a job. In other words, his characters tend to die. What am I saying? They all die! Bean is now starring in the new TV show Legends, and he's finding it hard to break out of his old habits. -via Digg
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Lincoln Square Presbyterian's Youth Ministry exists to provide spiritual care, learning and growth of students 10+ years old. Our youth programs build on the work of our children's ministry, and they are the tangible means by which our community participates in the development of our student's love for Christ.
The ministry is lead by Rob Globke, the Youth Ministry Coordinator. Rob and many faithful volunteers from our church body work with the youth ministry. Contact Rob with questions.
Sunday Mornings
Our Sunday morning youth class meets at Waters School (in the north hallway) on the second, fourth, and fifth Sundays of each month. Students participate in a study using the series The Most Important Thing You'll Ever Study (Starr Meade). Also, the youth also take part in a memory program that includes the Apostles Creed, Books of the Bible, and other selected passages.
On the first and third Sundays of the month, these students are encouraged to attend the worship service with their families.
Bible Discussion Groups
LSPC's youth ministry offers two Bible study discussion groups: one for girls and one for boys.
These groups meet bi-weekly in the Lincoln Square neighborhood, and they are lead by volunteers from the church community. The groups are a time for friendship, mentoring, questions, and growth in spiritual knowledge.
Youth Events
On a regular basis (about every other month) the LSPC youth group gathers in a church family's home or goes on an outing. These fun events foster community and connection for the students.


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Datatypes translation is one of the most important things you need to consider when migrate your application from one database to the other. This is an article in the series that we talking about translate SQL query among different databases.
This article will focused on conversion of those datatypes: character, binary strings between Oracle and SQL Server. We will talk about conversion of other datatypes such as nunber, float, date and etc in other articles later.
When you convert character datatypes from Oracle to SQL Server or vice verse, you not only need to find corresponding datatype name but also need to find out how string was stored in database. Is this string stored in character or byte? and you must be aware of the maximum length of datatype in source and target databases.
In SQL Server, char [ ( n ) ] is fixed-length, non-Unicode character data with a length of n bytes. n must be a value from 1 through 8,000. You can easily find corresponding datatype name "char" in Oracle, but char in oracle with a maximum length of 2000 bytes. So you can't migrate char(2048) in your SQL Server script to Oracle without any changes, you should use clob instead if n > 2000.
In Oracle database, char[(size)] can be also be used in fixed-length character data of length size in characters. When you use char qualifier, for example char(10 char), then you supply the column length in characters. A character is technically a code point of the database character set. Its size can range from 1 byte to 4 bytes, depending on the database character set. When translate this datatype to SQL Server, target datatype can be char(10) or char(40) depends on the database character set in source database(Oracle).
Detailed information about Oracle datatypes and SQL Server datatypes: including datatype name, description and what's the corresponding datatype in other databases.
Below are summary tables show how Character and binary string datatypes translated from Oracle to SQL Server and vice verse.
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ANKARA, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday after meeting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran that the two countries should prevent Iraq's Kurdistan region from declaring independence, state TV reported.
"Turkey and Iran must take necessary measures against the vote," Khamenei was quoted as saying.
He also said the United States and foreign powers planned to create a new Israel in the Middle East by supporting the vote in Kurdistan, according to state TV.
"America and Israel benefit from the vote ... They want to create a new Israel in the region ... The Iraqi Kurdish secession vote is an act of betrayal toward the entire region," Khamenei said.
Israel has denied being involved in the vote, but it has welcomed the Kurds' vote for independence.
The United States opposed the referendum as a destabilizing move at a time when all sides in the region are still fighting Islamic State. (Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Hugh Lawson)


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Ornithorhynchus anatinus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799)
Common Name(s):
Platypus anatinus Shaw, 1799
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Woinarski, J. & Burbidge, A.A.
|Hawkins, C.
|Menkhorst, P., Grant, T., Dickman, C., Lunney, D., Serena, M., Gust, N. & Copley, P.
The Platypus has an extensive range and a large population size that precludes eligibility under criteria B, C and D. However, an overall decline can be inferred and projected from information from a small set of monitoring programs and suspected from threats directly affecting this species and its habitat. This decline is inconsistent across its range, and the overall rate of decline is poorly defined, but is likely to approach but not exceed >30% over a 27-36 year (=three generation) period.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The Platypus is endemic to Australia, where it is dependent on rivers, streams, and bodies of freshwater. It is present in eastern Queensland and New South Wales, in eastern, central, and south-western Victoria, throughout Tasmania, and on King Island. An introduced population is established at the western end of Kangaroo Island (Carrick et al. 2008). Its occurrence is reasonably continuous within some catchments, but discontinuous in others (e.g., the Bega River catchment in New South Wales; Lunney et al. 2008), and in many catchments its actual distribution is poorly known. In Victoria, fewer than 200 individuals occupy the Wimmera-Avon River basin (distributed over an area of >2,400,000 ha), and the species appears to have recently become extinct in the neighbouring Avoca River basin (Australian Platypus Conservancy, unpublished data) (T. Grant, S. Munks, F. Carrick, and M. Serena pers. comm. 2014). The species now appears to be extinct also from its former range in the Adelaide Hills and Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria)
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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Difficulties in reliably quantifying platypus abundance compromise estimation of population size and its trends (Gust and Griffiths 2009). There has been no robust assessment of the population size of the Platypus either nationwide or for the key states in the species' geographic range. Lunney et al. (2008) stated that 'It is a common species', but noted that 'in general there is a surprising lack of knowledge about its abundance'. Carrick et al. (2008) considered it 'common (though rarely abundant)' but regarded it as 'potentially vulnerable due to its specialised dependence on established water bodies for food and shelter'. Grant and Temple-Smith (2003) noted that the current and future conservation status of the Platypus is not easily predicted since their abundance is not readily measured. Since abundance is difficult to determine, population trends are generally poorly defined and the impacts of particular threats have been suggested and inferred, but rarely rigorously demonstrated (Gust and Griffiths 2009).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The Platypus is restricted to streams and suitable freshwater bodies, including some shallow water storage lakes and ponds (Carrick et al. 2008). Its food is almost exclusively benthic macroinvertebrates and so the species is water-dependent. Platypuses are largely solitary, and when not foraging in water they normally occupy a resting or nesting burrow in earth banks, although some individuals have been found resting in accumulated stream debris or in low dense vegetation. The species is seldom observed moving on land in mainland Australia, but is frequently seen out of the water in Tasmania, where its predator, the fox (Vulpes vulpes), has been introduced only relatively recently (T. Grant, S. Munks, F. Carrick, and M. Serena pers. comm. 2014). The breeding season varies widely depending on location. Females produce one to three eggs annually, but usually two (Carrick et al. 2008). Platypuses are long-lived animals (up to 20 years in the wild).
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Generation Length (years):
|Movement patterns:
|Not a Migrant
|Use and Trade:
|Formerly (mostly before the 20th century) hunted for pelts; and this trade may have affected the status of some subpopulations (Burrell 1927; Grant and Denny 1991)
|Major Threat(s):
|Currently, the predominant threat to the species on the mainland is reduction in stream and river flows due to recent successive droughts, stream regulation, and extraction of water for agricultural, domestic, and industrial supplies. It is also at risk from the opposite extremes associated with climate change – extensive flooding both in space and time associated with recent tropical cyclones that have resulted in increased mortality and all but eliminated recruitment in 2006 over a substantial part of the species' northern range. Habitat modification due to bank erosion and stream sedimentation (as a result of poor land management practices in agriculture, forestry, and urbanization) are also of great concern. In the case of urban streams, Platypus populations may be adversely affected by poor water quality (in the form of suspended solids and nutrient enrichment), contamination of sediment by heavy metals (Serena and Pettigrove 2005) and entanglement in or ingestion of plastic, rubber and metal litter. Accidental drowning in nets and traps set for fish and crustaceans has the potential to impact Platypus distribution and abundance in all parts of its range, especially in small streams where populations may be critically small. Populations in Tasmania are affected by mucormycosis (associated with the fungal pathogen Mucor amphibiorum) (Obendorf et al. 1993). Across its range, the Platypus is also subject to predation by the introduced Red Fox, dogs and cats.
|Conservation Actions:
Conservation of the Platypus is limited to its listing as a legally protected species in all states in which it occurs and its incidental inclusion in some national parks and reserves. Legislation prohibiting or controlling problematic fishing activities has been enacted in New South Wales and Victoria, but regulations concerning illegal netting and trapping are often poorly enforced. The most widespread field monitoring program for the species is in Victoria (Australian Platypus Conservancy). There are also a few system-specific studies in other states and community-based reporting of anecdotal occurrences of the species to a variety of institutional and private databases. Still more information about population numbers and monitoring are crucial, especially for a long-lived species such as the Platypus where a lack of recruitment can be masked until a dramatic population crash occurs as adults reach the end of their lifespan.
Population studies of fragmented populations should be a research priority, together with studies to help verify the current distribution and baseline population parameters in areas where the species has declined (Grant and Temple-Smith 2003). Once the Platypus becomes extinct in a river system, the likelihood of its re-colonising that system without human intervention is minimal (T. Grant, S. Munks, F. Carrick, and M. Serena pers. comm. 2014). One reintroduction program is underway in a single fire-affected stream in Victoria (Australian Platypus Conservancy).
Some populations of Platypuses have exhibited antibodies to Leptospirosis, probably transmitted via cattle, but no clinical symptoms have been observed. Mortality from an ulcerative dermatitis caused by Mucor fungus, however, has been recorded across many river systems in Tasmania. There is currently limited investigation of this disease, which should be a research priority both in that state and on the mainland where the fungus is also found (T. Grant, S. Munks, F. Carrick, and M. Serena pers. comm. 2014).
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Send a pop-up message to a user. The 'Home' editions of Windows don't include MSG.
Syntax MSG username [options] [message] MSG sessionname [options] [message] MSG sessionid [options] [message] MSG @filename [options] [message] MSG * [options] [message] Options /SERVER:servername The server to contact (default is current).
/TIME:seconds Time delay to wait for receiver to acknowledge msg.
/V Verbose, display extra information.
/W Wait for response from user, useful with /V.
If no message text to send is specified, MSG will prompt for it (also reads from stdin) @filename identifies a file containing a list of usernames,
sessionnames or sessionids to send the message to.
* will send the message to all sessions on the server. e.g. use this for Terminal Server/Citrix shutdown messages.
# And these children that you spit on, As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations, they're quite aware of what they're going through # - David Bowie
ECHO - Display message on screen
TYPE - Display the contents of a text file
PS C:> [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
PS C:> [Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::show("Hello World", "My PopUp Message Box")
Equivalent bash command (Linux): echo - Display message on screen


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David Houghton has published a very interesting interview at GamesRadar UK with Jens Peter Kurup, who was the director of Kane & Lynch at IO Interactive. It's a very revealing interview in terms of emphasizing how difficult game design is when facing an often viciously demanding public and press, as well as illustrating how the acts of a publisher in that hostile world can doom a game and unfairly demonize the developer in the community's eyes.{ad}
The fiasco between Gamespot and Eidos over the Kane & Lynch review is, in the sense that it is the biggest scandal in the history of our community, the Watergate of the gaming world. It also speaks to the credibility of the profession of game reviewing as well as illustrating the modern obsession of publishers for high metascores.
To see this viewpoint on the story is interesting, and shows the heartbreak of a developer putting years of work and emotion into a product only to watch it burn in the jaded and merciless gaming blogosphere. It is well worth the read and raises some thought provoking questions about the relationship between publishers and reviewers, the dynamics of the gaming media as well as the online gaming community.
Read the interview at GamesRadar UK


text: Bomb Threat at UCLA Prompts Evacuation of Thousands --Several UCLA residence halls are under evacuation while police investigate a report of a bomb:| 13 July 2017 | (Westwood, CA) Thousands of students at UCLA are under evacuation due to a bomb threat affecting the dorms. A threat targeting the Sunset Recreation Center was reported shortly after 10:10 p.m. Wednesday, according to an official UCLA twitter account. Campus areas that aren't under evacuation are on lockdown. Thousands of evacuated students from three dorms are being ushered into Drake Stadium, KTLA reported. Several of the evacuees are tearful children who were staying on campus for summer camp programs.


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Albritton thought Peaceful Paths could help her with her ex-boyfriend Alvin "Ace" Thomas, who she said was stalking her and breaking into her house. They had broken up in late April, and since then he constantly threatened to kill her or take their daughter
Caitlin Albritton's mother was cleaning out her daughter's purse on Wednesday when she found the pamphlets.
Among the junk food Albritton liked to keep in her bag, Enez Rosario-Brown found pamphlets from Peaceful Paths and an appointment card for Thursday.
Albritton thought Peaceful Paths could help her with her ex-boyfriend Alvin "Ace" Thomas, who she said was stalking her and breaking into her house. They had broken up in late April, and since then he constantly threatened to kill her or take their daughter, 9-month-old Avyana Thomas, said Rosario-Brown, 48.
But Albritton had another appointment she was excited about. She was five months pregnant, and this week, she would find out the gender of the baby at UF Health Shands Hospital.
Albritton never made it to either appointment.
Last Saturday, the 22-year-old was killed at her home at Village Green Apartments around 4:30 p.m., Gainesville police said. Albritton had just arrived at her apartment from picking up her oldest daughter, 2-year-old Kamya Sheppard, at her mother's house.
She heard a knock on the door, and when she opened it, police said Thomas, 31, fired a single shot into her head with a handgun.
Kamya, along with Albritton's cousin, Vanesa Albritton, apparently witnessed the shooting and the two were with Albritton in her final moments, police said. Vanesa called to neighbors for help while she held Albritton's hand, Albritton's sister Kia Townsend said.
"She told her 'I love you, cousin, I'm here with you,' " Townsend, 28, said. "That's the one thing that comforts me about this whole thing. That when she died she had someone there who loved her."
After Albritton was shot, neighbors told police they saw Thomas running from the scene with a handgun. He was picked up by a person driving a silver F-150 king cab pickup, police said.
Albritton was taken to UF Health Shands, where she was pronounced dead. Gainesville police found Thomas on Sunday evening at the Budget Inn on 13th Street, where he was arrested without incident.
He is being held at the Alachua County jail on charges of first-degree murder, burglary and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Today, Albritton's funeral will be held at 2 p.m. at Springhill Missionary Baptist Church on Williston Road.
After the shooting, Thomas' family reached out to Albritton's family, Rosario-Brown said.
"His family expressed their sadness and they were very apologetic," she said. "But nobody can bring my baby back."
One time, Kia Townsend remembers she and her sister were sitting in Albritton's last apartment when they started hearing small scuffles in the house. It's probably the air-conditioning, they thought.
Albritton had just ended her relationship with Thomas in late April and kicked him out of the apartment, but was worried he would retaliate, so she asked her sister to stay the night, Townsend recalled.
"Come sit next to me," Albritton would tell her sister. "Please don't leave me alone."
Throughout the night, the noises continued until ex-boyfriend Alvin Thomas finally burst through the door to Albritton's room. He had broken into the apartment and was hiding in her closet, Townsend said.
"He would break in constantly," Townsend said. "Sometimes we would call the police three or four times a night. They always said he hadn't committed a crime because he had to be evicted before it could be considered breaking in."
But even before Albritton broke up with him, something had always been off about Thomas, Townsend said.
Albritton met him through a friend at Eastside High School, and they dated for a little over a year when Albritton gave birth to her youngest daughter Avyana in January. After the baby, Thomas became possessive of Albritton, threatening to kill her if she ever left him or took the baby, Townsend said.
Albritton finally had had enough and kicked Thomas out of the apartment they shared. But in the following months, Thomas made Albritton's life miserable, Townsend said.
Albritton, who worked as a human services worker at the Tacachale Center, told her coworkers that Thomas was stalking her, Townsend said.
"I would tell her to call the police, to always get it documented," Townsend said.
Thomas also harassed Chance Chandler, Albritton's new boyfriend and father of the child she was carrying, Townsend said.
Albritton moved to the new apartment in Village Greens to stop Thomas from breaking in, Townsend said.
Chandler would ask Albritton to come to his house with the girls so they would be safer, Townsend said. Sometimes, friends stayed with her, too.
In August, Albritton petitioned for an injunction for protection against domestic violence from Thomas, but he could not be located by authorities. An injunction is a type of restraining order that gives domestic violence victims an extra layer of protection.
Although Albritton's death is still under investigation, GPD public information officer Ben Tobias said there were at least two police reports in their records that show physical contact between Thomas and Albritton.
So far this year, there have been 610 domestic battery cases in Gainesville, which include battery, aggravated battery, stalking and aggravated stalking, according to GPD Capt. Lynne Benck. In 2012, there were 645 cases total, Benck said.
Whenever law enforcement responds to a domestic violence case, they ask the victim a series of questions called the Lethality Assessment Program that gauges if the victim is in high risk of danger, Benck said.
"Not every suspect acts the same or follows the same domestic violence pattern," she said. "Some incidents escalate faster than others."
But Rosario-Brown and her family believe that Albritton's slaying was preventable. The girls could still have their mother and she would still have a daughter if someone, anyone had listened.
Rosario-Brown always told her two girls that any man they brought to meet her had to first meet three conditions — he needed to have a car, a job, and place to live that wasn't with his mother. If he doesn't have those things, don't bring him, she remembers telling her daughters.
Last month, Albritton had finally introduced her mother to Chandler.
When Albritton spoke to Townsend on Thursday, Nov. 14 — two days before the shooting — Albritton said she was planning to buy a truck and a house with Chandler, Townsend said.
"I'm getting my life right," she told her sister. "I want to get married."
The sisters imagined themselves older, rocking on the porch while they talked about all the places they had traveled to and the dreams they had accomplished, Townsend said.
"She wasn't just my sister. She was my best friend," Townsend said. "She was loving and always laughing and calling herself a diva."
The last time Townsend heard her sister was when she called her mother on Nov. 16, the day Albritton was shot. Albritton was laughing in the background, playing with Kamya.
"The babies were crazy about her," Rosario-Brown said. "She swore she wasn't going to have kids because she didn't have the time, but when they came, she was an amazing mother."
Rosario-Brown remembers Albritton and the girls watching "iCarly" or "Jessie" on TV and singing theme songs loudly throughout the house. And when they got tired, Albritton would hold both girls against her cheeks and all three would fall asleep together.
"(Wednesday) morning, my sister and me were out in the cold, freezing and crying and thinking about her," Rosario-Brown said. "I just feel numb now."
Kamya can't sleep since the shooting, Rosario-Brown said.
She goes into shock when a door slams or there's a loud bang. It reminds her of that night, of that single shot, Rosario-Brown said.
And anytime a phone in the house rings, she hands it quickly to an adult and pleads for them to answer, pointing at it and yelling, "Momma, momma!"


text: Promoting musical events in Manchester and UK allowed us to develop several bespoke printed materials. For example we created posters and flyers to advertise new albums and performances by Ninja Tune signing Spokes, and live events organised by Faktion. The aim of the printed materials was to blend with the mood, and catch the 'vibe' of the particular event.


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USA Swimming announced today that Gráinne Murphy has been selected to represent Europe in the 2011 'Mutual of Omaha' sponsored Duel in the Pool competition (Europe vs. USA) which takes place in Atlanta, Georgia from 16th – 17th December.
Murphy will form part of the 22—member women's team from Europe and this is a huge honour for the Ballinaboola, Wexford teenager.
This is the first time Ireland has ever had a swimmer as part of the European Duel in the Pool team. To date, there are athletes from 14 countries within Europe taking part in this competition
A decision as to which events she will compete in will be taken at a later date.
The European All-Star team will be comprised of up to 22 men and 22 women,and in addition to Grainne Murphy, will include World Championship swimmers from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, Belarus, Denmark, Austria and Lithuania.
"Mutual of Omaha is proud to bring the world's best swimmers together in a head-to-head competition as Team USA takes on the European All-Stars," said Mutual of Omaha Senior Vice President John Hildenbiddle. "With its thrilling competition and great coverage on NBC TV, the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool builds excitement and enthusiasm for swimming leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games."


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Maturing as a major-league ballplayer involved more than learning how to pitch, experience has told Ben McDonald.
It also entailed knowing when not to pitch.
"Something you learn with experience is how to distinguish between pain and soreness," McDonald said. " 'OK, this is
soreness, that's all right.' Or 'wait a minute, this is pain.' You always want to pitch, so it's a tough situation to be in."
McDonald found himself in that bind at the beginning of 1991; teammate Mike Mussina in the middle of 1993.
"It's a very fine line," McDonald said. "The first time you go through it is the toughest. Mike went through it last year, and I went through it three years ago. You always want to pitch with it. Then again, you want to be smart, too. You have to be smart enough to say, 'This is pain.' "


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Landscape heritage boost for beautiful Binevenagh
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THE Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced initial support for a £3.4 million project to the Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust (CCGHT) for the Binevenagh and Coastal Lowlands Landscape Partnership Scheme. HLF has awarded an 18 month development grant of £204,200 to enable CCGHT to develop the five-year project which will be assessed for final approval for the full project amount of £3.4 million through HLF's Landscape Partnership Scheme (LPS).
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As I pondered this list of the 10 most powerful people in college sports, I sent a batch of names to colleague Stewart Mandel to make sure I didn't have any glaring omissions. He added a few suggestions and also sent along
Only one name remains the same, but the entries fall into similar categories. Television, because of its outsize influence on the entire enterprise, is heavily represented. So are conference commissioners, who exert influence on university presidents. You won't find any coaches on this list, because while they are the wealthiest, most famous group, they don't have a lot of real power. Take Alabama football coach Nick Saban, for example. Saban is probably the most powerful coach in America, but when other SEC schools wanted to make rules to curb Saban's roster management practices, Saban got steamrolled. The people on this list tend to get what they want almost every time.
1. Mike Slive, SEC commissioner
The 72-year-old former judge barely edges Big Ten counterpart Jim Delany. Why? Both hold in their hands the power to destroy other conferences. If either the SEC or the Big Ten decides to expand again, another league could crumble. Slive and Delany each either have created or will create huge revenue streams with a cable network. Delany's Big Ten Network -- a partnership with Fox -- has been up and running since 2007. Slive's SEC Network -- which must be a partnership with ESPN because that network already owns most of the SEC's broadcast rights -- will debut in 2014. Both have helped snatch control of the bowls away from bowl directors and put it squarely in the hands of the conferences. The Big Ten has long had a hand in the Rose Bowl, and Slive partnered with the Big 12 during the past year so the vast majority of the money from the Sugar Bowl went to the conferences. In the next few years, Slive and his league will grab control of the SEC's other bowl partners, too. "This is a very good time to take a hard look at how we do our bowl relationships," Slive said in January, "and see if there's a better way." Translation: Our teams are what people tune in to see. So now you work for us.
So why, when they seem relatively equal, does Slive get the nod over Delany? Seven consecutive national championships in football, and Slive got everything he wanted in the negotiations for the format of the four-team playoff. Remember, Slive proposed this very idea in 2008. Delany opposed it until he saw no other option. Had we made this list two years ago, Slive would not have finished so high. A TV deal that looked like a Whopper in the post-crash world of 2009 looked like a junior cheeseburger in 2011. So Slive changed the game. The most important move so far in this round of realignment has been Texas A&M's switch from the Big 12 to the SEC. No matter what Slive actually said about fit and culture when the Aggies joined, the move was always a land grab to enlarge the SEC's footprint. Adding the nation's second-largest state made a cable channel feasible and will allow the SEC to significantly increase its revenues. No other move in realignment has had such a profound impact on one league.
2. Jim Delany, Big Ten commissioner
After I just spent all those words explaining why Slive beat Delany by a nose, Delany probably could flex and put himself atop this list. While the SEC could expand if it wanted to, Slive's position has been that any expansion beyond 14 members would be a defensive move. The Big Ten has been more proactive, and if Delany decides he wants to push to take Virginia, North Carolina or Georgia Tech from the ACC, he probably can do it. Most likely, he'll wait until dueling lawsuits in North Carolina and Maryland over the ACC's $52 million exit fee play themselves out. If the exit fee holds up, it might not be financially wise to take any more ACC schools given the huge up-front cost -- something those schools probably would ask the Big Ten to help pay. If the exit fee gets tossed or negotiated down, game on. Because of the Big Ten's established network and its coalition of mostly academically elite schools, it would be the first choice among the presidents of the ACC's old guard.
Meanwhile, Delany also plans to exert more control over the bowls. Like Slive, he has said the conferences need to examine their relationships with postseason games. Delany's wish is flexibility that would allow leagues to create attractive matchups instead of sending the same eight teams to the same eight places every year. (Except Pasadena. Everyone in the Big Ten always wants to go to Pasadena.)
3. Mark Emmert, NCAA president
Emmert checks in this high on the list because of a decree from upper management that our lists jive with the master list in this week's magazine. But his power is eroding so quickly that had the list been formulated today, he would have fallen below the next few entries. Still, Emmert is a fascinating study. He inherited a position that had been largely administrative since Walter Byers left office and tried to turn it back into a powerful executive branch. He used a handpicked group of presidents to ram through reforms that, while needed at the big-money level of college sports, weren't wanted below that level. Emmert has continued to fight for reforms -- such as the recently passed and soon-to-be-overturned deregulation of recruiting -- that attempt to reconcile a bloated, antiquated organization with the real world. Ahead of an escalation in the Ed O'Bannon case (more on that later), Emmert tried to give athletes more money by offering schools the option to give fixed stipends. The schools fought back because the least wealthy athletic departments labor under the delusion that if they gin up enough new NCAA rules, North Texas and Alabama will someday become peers on the football field. In another age, Emmert would be lauded as a progressive, pragmatic leader.
Unfortunately for Emmert, a few missteps combined with circumstances beyond his control have made him toxic and eroded the confidence of the leaders of the schools for which he works. First, Emmert licked his finger, stuck it in the air and decided to circumvent his own organization's democratically created judicial process to punish Penn State's football program after the Jerry Sandusky scandal in spite of the fact that the program didn't actually violate any of the NCAA's rules. It wasn't the act of punishing Penn State -- plenty of people were in favor of that. It was the way Emmert went about it. He used underhanded, back-channel negotiations of his own design. The schools had already set up a system of underhanded, back-channel negotiations to mete out NCAA discipline (the Enforcement department and the Committee on Infractions), and many in college athletics would have preferred Emmert stick to the system the schools voted to put in place. Meanwhile, Emmert was in office when a member of the NCAA's Enforcement team hired convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro's attorney to hijack a federal bankruptcy deposition and gather dirt on Miami's athletic program for the NCAA. The NCAA's admission of its own malfeasance in the case may have been the tipping point in which public perception of the organization turned from borderline mistrust to universal hatred. This was going to happen eventually no matter who was in charge. The people in charge of major college sports can't keep signing ever-larger TV contracts and making coaches millionaires -- all while not giving the work force a raise -- and expect the public to be dumb enough to buy that football and men's basketball at the highest level are still amateur sports. Fair or not, the blame for all of this will fall on Emmert, whose power grows more faint by the day.
4. Ed O'Bannon
As I wrote above, this entry should be above Emmert. Come June, it might also need to be moved above Delany and Slive. By himself, O'Bannon, the former UCLA forward who has spent the past few years working at a Las Vegas Toyota dealership, isn't that powerful. But as the named party in a lawsuit that could change the way the business of college sports operates, the mere mention of O'Bannon's name makes administrators around the country quake. Either because they don't want to divulge their legal strategy or because they don't actually have one, the NCAA's leaders have dodged athletic directors' questions about what might happen as a result of
When federal judge Claudia Wilken ruled in January that the O'Bannon plaintiffs could proceed with the class certification process, the panic level among the people who actually run college sports on a daily basis -- the athletic directors and commissioners -- rose to DEFCON 2. The plaintiffs have altered their legal strategy so that this case isn't just about the use of former athletes' likenesses in video games and DVDs. Now, it's about whether the NCAA and its schools have the right to market the likenesses of former and current athletes for big money. If the class is certified in June, the NCAA would be fighting for its life in an antitrust trial that, if won by the plaintiffs, could bankrupt the NCAA. The other option is to settle, but that would also require a paradigm shift. To get the plaintiffs to drop the suit, the NCAA would have to allow athletes to get a chunk of the massive television money now flowing into college sports. That probably would require the big-money conferences -- at the moment, the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC -- to at least form their own division within the NCAA and could force them to break away and form their own organization. Even at the top of the food chain, schools would have to change the way they budget. Instead of building a new weight room, a school might need to hold back on capital improvements to meet payroll. Such a settlement would get messy, but it would finally stick a knife in the NCAA's sham notion of amateurism in major college sports.
5. Burke Magnus, ESPN senior vice president for college sports programming
Did ESPN really need to outbid NBC for the League-Soon-To-Formerly-Be-Known-As-The-Big-East's football and basketball rights? Of course not. ESPN already has plenty of college content, and broadcasting the games played by Conference USA 2.0 won't move the meter much. But given the network's massive wealth, why not try to choke off a competitor for the low, low price of $20 million a year? Magnus, who began his career as an unpaid intern at CBS Sports when that network was first waking up to the drawing power of college sports, understands that in today's media universe, the rights to broadcast games are the most important properties an entity can own. NBC wants to mount a challenge to ESPN? Good luck doing that with no games. Games drive everything.
I'm not one of those black helicopter people who believes ESPN employees drove realignment. Why? Because realignment will ultimately cost ESPN a fortune in new rights fees and shrink its profit margin. That said, ESPN remains an incredibly powerful force in college sports. Even as the landscape shifted and other bidders entered the marketplace, Magnus managed to keep a hold on most of the prime rights to ensure his network remains the one people turn to when they think of college football and basketball. Whether he remains this high on this list will likely depend on whether the Big Ten decides to remain in business at all with ESPN when its first-tier rights come available in three years.
6. Eric Shanks, co-president and COO of Fox Sports
NBC tried to challenge ESPN's Goliath in the college sports sphere, but Fox might actually have a chance to succeed. The network owns rights to quality football games in the Big 12 and Pac-12, and its 51 percent stake in the Big Ten Network should give it leverage when Delany begins negotiating that league's next big deal in a few years. If Shanks could land that whale, Fox would be a major player in college sports.
Fox announced plans Tuesday to transition existing channels into 24-hour sports networks, and given the fact that the network owns rights to quality college football and basketball as well as the NFL, NASCAR, Major League Baseball, the UFC and the World Cup, it might draw enough viewers to challenge ESPN if its programming is good enough. At the very least, it would give viewers a viable second option and provide ESPN with some much needed, creativity-boosting competition. College sports are a huge part of that equation. Fox has helped drive up television revenue for schools in the latest round of rights negotiations, and its significant investment in college sports suggests it will be around a while.
7. Larry Scott, Pac-12 commissioner
Scott's original vision of the Pac-16 didn't come to fruition, and it probably won't happen in the near future. While Delany, Slive and the Big 12's Bob Bowlsby still have their fingers on the expansion trigger, Scott is geographically boxed in and probably stuck at 12 members. Still, Scott's Pac-12 Networks -- which the league owns outright -- launched last year with decent carriage and should provide a healthy chunk of revenue for the Pac-12's schools going forward. By making a deal with ESPN and Fox in 2011 for fewer games at a seemingly exorbitant price, the former WTA boss set the market for future deals and woke up some of his colleagues to the money being left on the table. Scott also hasn't been shy about exploring the possibility of
Unlike some of the presidents he serves, Scott understands that major college sports are a business and must be run like one. Going forward, he could become an even more influential voice as NCAA leaders, commissioners, presidents and athletic directors try to reconcile the business with the missions of the universities in which that business is based.
8. DeLoss Dodds, Texas athletic director
No other athletic director is this powerful because no other conference has a power balance as out of whack as the Big 12. In the SEC, Florida's Jeremy Foley has juice, but he can't steamroll LSU's Joe Alleva or Georgia's Greg McGarity. Even if Delany didn't do such a fine job of keeping the schools rowing in the same direction in the Big Ten, Ohio State's Gene Smith couldn't walk all over Michigan's Dave Brandon or Michigan State's Mark Hollis. But in the Big 12, Texas has outsize power. Oklahoma, run by the extremely capable Joe Castiglione, is the only other Big 12 program even near the same financial neighborhood as Texas. The rest simply serve at Bevo's leisure.
Texas president Bill Powers ultimately makes the decisions, but Dodds does the legwork and makes the recommendations that Powers follows. In 2010, Texas played the Big 12 against the Pac-12 to leverage a deal that paved the way for the Longhorn Network. (It may be the butt of jokes because of its lack of carriage, but it is a lucrative butt of jokes.) In 2011, Dodds and the Longhorns gave some back to the rest of the league by agreeing to equal revenue sharing among Big 12 schools. This was a shrewd move, because while it made Texas look magnanimous and helped solidify the conference, all the action in 2010 had eliminated any possibility of a potentially larger revenue share like the one the Big Ten will have after its next deal or the one the SEC will have after its network is up and running. Because Texas already partnered with ESPN for the Longhorn Network and then the league sold most of its rights to ESPN and Fox, the idea of a conference network was a non-starter. While its conference rivals will always be free to start their own networks -- and some already have -- the one at Texas will always be bigger, shinier and more lucrative.
9. Jimmy Sexton, agent to the coaching stars
Every offseason, the Memphis-based Sexton -- who is now part of CAA's sports division -- whips the coaching market into a frenzy. The result? His clients get paid, and then he gets paid. It helps that Sexton has some top-shelf coaches on his roster. He has both sides of the Iron Bowl (Alabama's Saban and Auburn's Gus Malzahn). He has Florida State's Jimbo Fisher. He has Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy. But Sexton isn't only a master at leveraging a coach's success into a raise. In fact, his ability to sell any coach is what truly makes him a master of the art.
Until the bitter end, Sexton always managed to make sure someone else had interest in Houston Nutt. And then there is the greatest trick Sexton played on the college football world. First, he helped Lane Kiffin get hired at Tennessee. Then, he helped Lane Kiffin get hired at USC. Truly miraculous.
10. Lee Fitting, Senior Coordinating Producer, ESPN's
Another TV person? Indeed. Television is the most powerful force in college sports, and Fitting runs the most influential show in college sports. Fitting deserves some of the credit every time Tom Rinaldi makes you cry or Samantha Ponder shows off an arm better than a lot of college quarterbacks. Fitting also deserves part of the blame every time Kenny Chesney shows up as a guest picker or
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Project ATLAS: Analyzing Themes to Learn America's Story
In this area of south central Kentucky, many high school students have been performing below state average in history on both the state accountability test and Advanced Placement exams, and many high school history teachers have said they want to improve their history content knowledge and instructional skills. Each year, Project ATLAS: Analyzing Themes to Learn America's Story historians, scholars and educators will offer teachers 75 hours of professional development, including a 3-day theme-focused summer institute, a 1-day midyear workshop and eight 2-hour after-school network meetings. In addition, specialists will provide 18 hours of observation and instructional coaching for each teacher. The project's 41 participants, all eleventh grade teachers of history as a stand-alone course, will form a cadre that will stay together for the duration of the grant. Project ATLAS aims to give teachers a roadmap for a rigorous, content-based U.S. history course. As teachers explore historical eras through themes (see topics, above), they will also learn and practice four specific pedagogical skills: (1) creating effective assessment items, (2) implementing document-based questions, (3) utilizing Socratic seminars, and (4) integrating technology. In addition, teachers will use the lesson-study process (plan-teach-observe-revise-report) to collaborate on building a set of lessons that can be shared with other teachers; it will have the additional benefit of helping project teachers build a professional learning community to sustain their improvement beyond the grant period.


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Robotic futures: The rise of the hospital Robot
The RP-Vita is a robot which can be manoeuvred around hospital wards from afar.
It can make a diagnosis by looking into a patient's eyes and monitor breathing with a digital stethoscope. It also projects the doctor's face and voice so that a patient can interact with them.
The robot is now installed in a handful of hospitals across North America. But can a $60,000 (£36,000) a year device ever replace a doctor's bedside manner?
The BBC's North America technology correspondent Richard Taylor was given a demonstration by Colin Angle, founder of the machine's manufacturer iRobot.
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Defending Drug Charges in Indianapolis
If I could do only one kind of criminal case, it would be cases involving guns and drugs. That's because these cases are never simple. There is always something to talk about. But they are also constitutionally important. By their very nature, gun and drugs cases often implicate our basic rights as citizens to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. These are your rights and mine, and they are worth protecting.
Most drug charges begin with the accusation that someone knowingly or intentionally "possessed" a drug. (Though, there are a few exceptions). It sounds like a simple idea, but in the criminal courts in Indianapolis and elsewhere, the question of who "possessed" an item is routinely debated by attorneys.
Actual vs. Constructive Possession
It breaks down like this. Under Indiana law, there are two ways to prove possession of something. Firstly, the State may seek to prove "actual possession" by showing that an accused person had direct physical control over a prohibited item. However, the State may also make it's case by proving that an accused person had "constructive possession" of something beyond a reasonable doubt. To make a case for constructive possession, the State must show that a defendant had both an intent as well as the capability to maintain dominion and control over the contraband item. This is obviously a much harder case for the government to make.
What if there are multiple people found near the guns or drugs? What if there's only one person found with the drugs but the State cannot show that the defendant knew the drugs or gun were there? What if someone is willing to admit that the drugs belonged to them and not you? Will the prosecutor dismiss the case? All of these are great questions, and I hope to touch on them in blog posts in the future. However, if you're facing a charge for drug dealing or possession of cocaine or marijuana or something else, please don't hesitate to call me. For a more information don't hesitate to CONTACT ME.
Suppress the Evidence
Be Aware that You Might Have a Valid Argument to Suppress Evidence
While arguments to suppress evidence are often quite complicated, all "motions to suppress" essentially claim that the rights of the accused person were violated in some fundamental way and, therefore, any evidence gained from the violation should be excluded from evidence or "suppressed."
It's a controversial technique, because it can take evidence that makes a defendant look "obviously guilty" and get it thrown right out of court. But, the idea here is to deter police misconduct. And, this is exactly what the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution demands in it's guarantee when it states that: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." What's more, under the Indiana Constitution, Article I, Section 11, citizens are protected by even stronger guarantees.
So, was there probable cause for the search warrant of your home? Did the officer have the right to search your vehicle? Did the officer have the right to stop you at all? These are the kinds of questions we ask in a suppression case. To learn more about a potential suppression in your case, CONTACT ME.
Drug Dealing Cases: Some Points to Consider
What is the quality of the State's evidence? Can the state prove drug dealing by showing an intent to deliver?
In drug dealing cases, the State often has to prove something in addition to simple possession (actual or constructive) of a drug. Frequently, the State is required to show that the defendant had an "intent to deliver" drugs in his possession (though, to be clear, there are other ways to make a drug dealing case, such as financing the manufacture or delivery of a drug). This is an interesting element because, to show an intent to deliver, the government must essentially prove what a defendant would have done with drugs at a future time.
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How can we know what someone would have done with something in the future? Well, we can't know anyone's future intent with 100% certainty. There's simply no way to measure someone's intent directly. At best, we can make good guesses about a person's intent based on the surrounding circumstances. This kind of indirect evidence is called circumstantial evidence.
For example, if you watch me walk to Starbucks and stand in line, you can make a pretty good guess that my intent is to buy coffee. Can you be certain? No. All of your evidence is indirect, circumstantial. Plus, you could be wrong. Maybe I know the cashier and just wanted to say hi. Maybe I was there to apply for a job.
This is what makes drug dealing cases so nuanced and interesting to analyze. They're frequently chock full of circumstantial evidence, just like in the Starbucks example. The amounts of drugs, the way they are packaged, whether the defendant had money on him and in what amount. The problem with this kind of evidence is that it's always subject to a different interpretation. Just because you saw me standing in line, does not mean I was going to buy coffee. Similarly, just because I had some quantity of cocaine does not mean I was going to sell it. That's the problem with circumstantial evidence.
If you've been charged with Drug Dealing, please contact me for help. I would be happy to sit down with you to discuss the matter.