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IBC, formerly International Business College, first began conducting business education classes in the Coles Building in downtown El Paso in June of 1898. The prosperity of the school allowed the founder, Mr. J.P. Mullin, to make several moves to larger facilities until the school was purchased by J.E. Gilkey and moved to the Raynolds Building in 1922. IBC was first accredited by the National Association of Commercial Schools in 1924. Mr. E. L. Schnadig, Jr., purchased the school in January 1966 and moved it to the Mills Building. LTV Educational System, a Dallas, Texas Corporation, purchased the college in 1970, and moved to the Central Campus location on Montana Avenue in December 1972. In January 1973, IBC, Inc., an El Paso, Texas Corporation, assumed ownership and management of IBC. Jerry D. Foster purchased the stock of the corporation on September 30, 1996; insuring continued local ownership of the school. In 2005, ownership of the school was transferred to the Foster Family Limited Partnership. In August 2011, International Business College changed its name to Franklin College. The School was sold to Innovative Education Solutions, LLC. Franklin College's name was changed back to International Business College to identify its rich history in 2013.
IBC was nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) where it has been recognized as an Honor Roll school and is currently accredited by the Council on Occupational Education (COE).
IBC expanded greatly in the 1980's opening branches in Las Cruces, Alamogordo, and Albuquerque, New Mexico as well as Lubbock, Texas. The IBC Auxiliary Campus was relocated to the El Paso Lower Valley in 1982 and the auxiliary campus in Northeast El Paso opened in 1985. In March 1985, with approval of the Computer Accounting and Computer Secretary programs by the Texas Education Agency, IBC moved further into the high technology area of education. Effective April, 1987, branch campuses were designated as "free standing" campuses.
In 1989, the Board of Directors of IBC elected to concentrate on its schools in El Paso, Texas, and to divest its holdings in other locations. From 1989 to 1993, the campuses in Lubbock, Texas, Las Cruces, Alamogordo and Albuquerque, New Mexico were sold or closed.
In June 1999 the Zaragosa Campus was moved to a new facility at 1155 N. Zaragosa, and in April 2003, the Montana Campus was moved to 5700 Cromo Drive, on El Paso's west side.
In December 2003 the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools and the Texas Workforce Commission approved IBC's first Associate of Applied Science in Business Management, which were offered at the Zaragosa campus. The Cromo campus was later approved to offer the Associate of Applied Science in Business Management program in August of 2007. In 2011 the School began offering the Associate degrees in Criminal Justice, Paralegal and Business Administration and Management. In February, 2015, IBC was approved as an accredited institution with the Council on Occupational Education. On June 29, 2016, IBC voluntarily withdrew its grant of accreditation from the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools.


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BOCHUM AND JENA, GERMANY & PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLA., – Cross Match Technologies, Inc., a leading global provider of high-quality interoperable biometric identity applications and solutions, today announced that Casino Esplanade, Spielbank Hamburg's new casino in Hamburg, Germany, has deployed Cross Match's FaceSnap/FaceCheck facial recognition system to ensure the safety and control of casino visitors.
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Why I Will Never, Ever, EVER Get a Tattoo
Would I have to start planning outfits around the tattoo like I plan for weather?
How many of you hesitated before clicking on this post? How many of you uttered an audible, "Noooooo!" before deciding to read this week's Creepy Corner anyway?
Clowns, especially in recent years, seem to be many a Creepy Cornerista's kryptonite. Something about what's hiding beneath that everlasting, garish grin is entirely unsettling. Is it their historical connection to foolish, bawdy behavior unsuitable for "civilized" society? Is it that so many professional clowns have worn a smile for audiences but have had deeply disturbed personal lives like the great Joseph "I'm Grim-all-day so you can laugh all night" Grimaldi?
Or is it that there seems to be an inherent darkness in the "mischief" of clowns? Aside from the John Wayne Gacys, the Pagliaccis, and the Jokers that feed the seed of Coulrophobia (fear of clowns), could it be that a clown's "wacky" or "comedic" behavior is just too close to crossing the line into homicidal behavior?
According to Smithsonian.com, Dr. Brenda Wiederhold, "a veteran psychologist who runs a phobia and anxiety treatment center in San Diego that uses virtual reality to treat clients" (virtual reality CLOWNS???) explains:
Most people, she says, grow out of the fear, but not everyone—perhaps as much as 2 percent of the adult population will have a fear of clowns. Adult clown phobics are unsettled by the clown's face-paint and the inability to read genuine emotion on a clown's face, as well as the perception that clowns are able to engage in manic behavior, often without consequences.
We don't know what a clown is up to, and to me that's the worst part. It's that "unhinged" quality in the stereotypical clown persona that chills me. Maybe I'm just a cranky old Creepy Corner dweller, but with all that glassy-eyed merriment, I'm never sure if a clown is going to make me die with laughter, or laugh at me while I'm dying... because he stabbed me.
When I was a kid, I was POSITIVE that my mom's beloved clown doll — she called him "Swagman" — was going to murder me in my sleep at night while crying out, "There can be only one!" Clowns were not a cheery part of my childhood. But really, what freaky kid really LOVED clowns?
And to those professional clowns out there (yes, I do know a few), I know you're not all stabby maniacs. But you have to admit that many of your predecessors (and some peers) are the stuff of nightmares.
So to fuel those nightmares, Creepy Corneristas, I offer you a few of my "favorite" bizarre clown stories and incidents. This is one of those Creepy Corners that makes me want to sleep with the lights on. Otherwise I'm pretty sure the clown under my bed will come out and stare at me while I pretend to sleep.
The Clown in the Corner
Alright, I know everybody probably knows this urban legend, but it still gets me every time, so for the handful of you out there who haven't had the pleasure, here it is:
A teenage girl was hired to babysit for a wealthy couple. After the kids had gone to bed, she went to watch TV in the den of the couple's large home.
Turning on the light in the room, she noticed an intricate, life-sized clown statue in the corner. She tried to ignore it as she watched TV, but couldn't help but find it distractingly creepy. Unable to ignore it any longer, the girl called the couple to ask if she could cover up what she believed was an expensive clown statue.
The couple immediately told her to get the kids, leave the house, and call the police — they did not own a clown statue.
When the police arrived, they arrested an intruder dressed as a clown hiding in the den.
The Ronald McDonald Dolls
In September of 2004, police officer Eric Dau and his wife Sherrise were driving to their home in Camanche, Iowa around 12:30am, when they saw an unexpected familiar face ahead of them.
A few hundred familiar faces.
Driving into their mobile home court, Eric and Sherrise were horrified to see approximately 500 Ronald McDonald dolls lined up in the middle of the six roads of the court.
Spaced equally, about two or three feet apart, nobody knew where the hundreds of clown dolls had come from. Volunteer firefighter Dan Vosatka had been on the roads at 10pm that night and had not seen any dolls at that time.
"It could have been a scheme. Some criminal would expect that a woman might stop to pick up a doll and assault her," said Eric. Uh Eric, woman or not, I think a lot of people might stop to investigate if they saw 500 Ronald McDonald dolls neatly placed in the road. (For the record though, I would be GONE.)
Things got even weirder when a grey van showed up and started picking up the dolls. Still in uniform, Eric went over to question the van occupants, a man and a woman, about the dolls. They claimed that they lived in the mobile court too and "'...had spotted all those dolls in the road and were picking them up before something happened to them.' Rain was expected during the night."
Rain. That was the concern.
When Eric checked the roads the next morning all of the dolls were gone without a trace. Did the people in the van pick up all 500 of the Ronald McDonald dolls? Or did the dolls just toddle back from where they came?
At the time, McDonald's had not sold the doll for four years.
Vincent Hitchcock
Robert the Doll and Annabelle might have a new playmate. Meet Vincent Hitchcock, the haunted clown doll.
A real estate agent in Oregon, Renee (who prefers not to use her last name), always had an interest in the paranormal. So when she found a supposedly haunted clown doll on eBay, his $500 price tag did not deter her from buying him.
Soon after the doll arrived strange things started happening. The doll, whom she named Vincent Hitchcock (after Vincent Price and Alfred Hitchcock), would disappear then reappear in entirely different locations (the previous owner had warned her that "he moves"), and most notably she once found him with his arms raised straight up in the air.
Even eerier is that when Renee left a voice recorder next to Vincent Hitchcock, she heard the "gravelly voice of a man" yell, "Wake up!" When Renee played the recording for her daughter, the girl claimed that the voice on the tape was the very one that had woken her up in the night.
Whether truly haunted or just the product of an imagination bent on having a haunted doll, there is no way that I would pay $500 for that spooky little clown man to come live with me.
All Those Internet Clowns
Of all the clowns, these are the ones that freak me out most.
I know, I know most of them can be explained away as hoaxes or pranks, but COME ON, if you saw one of those guys waving at you from the side of a dimly lit road, or just STANDING there under a street lamp, YOU'D BE SCARED TOO. (How are you doing late night, dark porch, Creepy Corner readers? See anything out there?)
The clowns have been spotted over the past few years in cities like Northampton in the UK, Staten Island (later revealed to be part of a horror movie publicity stunt), and Wasco in California. Earlier this year a clown was seen in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. Julia Graham and her husband say that the clown ran at them, climbed the cemetery gate, then slowly waved at them — all around 10pm at night.
In October of 2014, the town of Wasco was in something of a "clown panic." Several clowns began showing up around town with balloons, posing in public places for photos that ended up all over social media. One such Twitter account, @RealWascoClown posted, "I am the creepy, evil-looking clown that is roaming the streets of Wasco, California at night. Come Find Me I will give you a balloon." (The account has since been deleted.)
And though the original Wasco clowns were harmless enough, part of a photography project a husband and wife were doing, more "imposter" clowns soon joined their ranks and reports of clowns armed with bats, knives, even a machete, began coming in. The neighboring town of Bakersfield adopted more of a zero tolerance attitude towards the clowns, even arresting a 14-year-old boy who dressed up as a clown to scare smaller children.
Here's a ridiculous Tomo News US segment about the Wasco and Bakersfield clowns. Click for the creepy clown pictures, stay for the weird computer animated reenactments (spoiler: fictional CGI old lady on Rascal whips out her MACHINE GUN and shoots a marauding clown).
Though fortunately the majority of recent creepy clown appearances occurred without any real violence, I'm still not ready to adopt my mom's darling "Swagman", despite her attempts to gift him to me.
She might be trying to pass on a family heirloom, but really I suspect the clown wants blood.
Are you afraid of clowns? What clowns scare the shit out of you? Did you love clowns as a kid? Do you love clowns now? Seriously, no judgement, I really want to know why you love them.
Tell us all the clown stories.


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DC to bring back its war comics as one-shots in September
DC Comics announced this morning that some of its most famous war titles will return in September with a series of one-shots.
The comics include: Weird War Tales, by Ivan Brandon and Darwyn Cooke; Our Fighting Forces, by B. Clay Moore and Chad Hardin; Star-Spangled War Stories, by William Tucci and Justiniano; G.I. Combat, by Matt Sturges and Phil Winslade; and Our Army at War, whose creative team apparently hasn't been named.
The one-shots feature covers by Cooke, Mark Schultz, Geof Darrow, Joe Kubert and Brian Bolland.
There's no word on which characters will be spotlighted, but it seems likely that G.I. Combat will feature the Haunted Tank — Darrow's cover verifies as much — Weird War Tales the Creature Commandos or maybe G.I. Robot, Our Army at War Sgt. Rock or Enemy Ace, and, fingers crossed, Star-Spangled War Stories "The War That Time Forgot."
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I can see pros and cons in private and public garbage collection. If there are greater negatives in municipal collection, why has almost every city optioned and then continued to have city controlled collection?
There must be very good reasons. Has Maple Ridge contacted other municipalities to obtain their reasoning?
And no-one has ever mentioned the huge carbon footprint and noise created by having six different companies driving all over, back and forth, through Maple Ridge picking up from here and there on any given day.
Our cul-de-sac has five different firms on different days backing in (alarms ringing) to pick up garbage. The inefficiency is mind-boggling.
Perhaps if the city continues with private collection, the city could impose neighbourhoods for specific companies, reducing the cross-city pollution caused by all private contractors running about all areas.
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Re: No to single, city-wide garbage pickup.
Myself and so many in our strata complex are so strongly against municipal garbage collection.
Our current collector is doing a great job and we are so happy. If, in the event things changed for the worst, we have options to go to other contractors.
If city does a lacklustre job, we are stuck with them – no options.
Let these little people keep their jobs, they treat us just fine.
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Fr. Stephen Powley serves as the Executive Director for Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry (OCPM). He is the Priest at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Pueblo, CO. Fr. Stephen resides in Colorado with his loving wife of 37 plus years, Presvytera Ashley. They have four wonderful children and two wonderful sons-in-law.
Fr. Stephen began serving as a Prison Chaplain in January of 1985 with the state of Arizona. In 1990, he was asked to become a Federal Prison Chaplain. He had the honor of being the first Orthodox Federal Prison Chaplain. He has ministered in every prison security level from minimum to super-max. He eventually retired from Prison Chaplaincy in August of 2010. Over those years, Fr. Stephen had the great privilege of being a spectator of many incredible things that God did inside the prisons. He began serving on the OCPM Board of Directors in 2005 and he began working with OCPM following his retirement.
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CaseBank Technologies Inc., the leading provider of software solutions for equipment fault isolation and defect trend analysis, has announced that it will be exhibiting in partnership with the International Trade Commission, Government of Canada, at The 5th International Exhibition & Conference on Civil Aviation - India Aviation 2016, March 16-20, at the Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad, India.
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CaseBank's technology has been selected by Gulfstream for the G550, G650 aircraft. Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce have also selected CaseBank technology to support their families of engines.
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BreakingNews 21/12/17 - NEMSA Commissions Test Equipment
[ Masterweb Reports: Press Release For Immediate Release ] - The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA) on 19th of December 2017 commissioned Test equipment for inspection, testing and certification of all electrical installations across the country.
The commissioning was done by the MD/CEO & Chief Electrical Inspector of the Federation, Engr. Peter O. Ewesor, at the headquarters of the agency in Abuja.
In his opening remarks, he pointed out that the importance of equipping the Area Inspecting Engineers is to ensure that all relevant standards and specifications in electrical installation are maintained. When the Area Inspecting Engineers are ill equipped, they cannot perform, thus, the function of enforcement of standards would not be achieved without equipment.
He further urged the Area Inspectorate Engineers to ensure that the equipment are used optimally in their field inspections to ensure the safety of lives and property.
The equipment includes:
· 18 pieces of 2.5/2kv Thermocool petrol generating sets with engine oil;
· 6 pieces of ground resistance testers and hybrid battery packs;
· 15 pieces of cable height detectors;
· 15 pieces of professional electrical tool boxes of 82 tools;
· 6 pieces of 1kv insulation& continuity testers;
· 4 pieces of 2.5kv insulation& continuity testers.
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*Photo Caption - NEMSA MD/CEO & Chief Electrical Inspector, Engr Peter O. Ewesor, some NEMSA Management Staff and other stakeholders at the commissioning of the test equipment at the NEMSA Headquarters on 19th Dec 2017.


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Antiques and Collectibles
Dealer's Program
Utica First Insurance Company is pleased to offer insurance coverage for the owners of a retail antique and collectibles business. This program is designed to meet the property and liability insurance needs of the owner/operator as they relate to ownership of the retail store as well as for operations off-premises such as shows, fairs, consignments and property in transit.
We know the small business owner as an "entrepreneur with a dream" and we want to help further that dream by protecting it from the common hazards usual to this business.
We also know that protecting your hard-earned assets is smart. You work too hard to lose everything, due to a quirk of nature, an accident or an unforeseen event. Fortunately, Utica First can protect you for these types of occurrences.
This policy was designed to cover the small business owner, operating a retail sales establishment and who occasionally travels with inventory, to shows and fairs.
More Than Traditional Insurance
The Business Owner's Policy, either on a Standard or Special form, is the basis of coverage. It provides all the normal insurance protection that a small business owner would require. Other coverage's are also included to recognize the special hazards faced by an owner of a retail antique and collectibles business.
Some Special Benefits For Our Clients
Coverage is provided for off-premise shows and fairs, and goods out for framing, mounting or appraisal, up to 25% of the inventory value.
- Reasonable valuation in the event of a loss
- Unsold items: equal to your cost plus up to 30% for additional acquisition expenses
- Sold items: equal to selling price less discounts and non-incurred expenses
- Property of others: equal to the value in the consignment agreement
- Ability to schedule items of higher value
- Coverage is available for breakage, marring or scratching of fragile articles.
Note: Coverage highlights for information only. Consult actual policy for precise coverage applicable.


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Why Us
As a ministry of Christ Lutheran Church, our Preschool strives to teach the importance of God's love and impart Christian values to the children we serve within a safe and caring environment. We seek to nurture the whole child and focus on the social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and spiritual development of each child using a curriculum that is engaging and stimulating. Our teachers are committed to providing a high quality education in a loving environment where learning is fun!
About Us
Our program is open Monday through Friday from 7 am to 6 pm, year-round. We serve children 2 months through 5 years of age in seven different age-appropriate classrooms. Our developmentally appropriate curriculum is aligned with the Texas Pre-K Standards, and includes spiritual development as well. Prayer and weekly Chapel times are especially important to us. We offer several opportunities for enrichment activities, which include weekly health and fitness classes with Spark PE, Spanish, and Music.
Find Out More
Families interested in learning more about our school are invited to visit us by scheduling a tour. We offer tours on Thursday mornings at half-hour intervals, from 9-11 am. You will receive an overview of our program, and walk through the school to visit each classroom, as well as our indoor gym area and playground. After touring, you may choose to put your child on our waiting list.
For more specific information, please view our Parent Resources page to view our Parent Handbook. If you would like to schedule a tour, please call us at 214-363-2242.


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We hereby quote our most competitive rates for the supply of Home Appliances like Air Conditioners, Desert Coolers, Deep Freezers, Electric Water Coolers, Electric Water Heaters, Gas Room Heaters, Gas Water Heaters, Refrigerators, Gas Cooking Ranges, Gas Stoves, Microwave Oven, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing Machines, Water Dispensers, Instant Gas Water Heaters etc to a name of few with high quality assurance. Our quality conscious, varieties and commitment will give you pleasant surprise for always. We would like to inform in your goodself that we are different competitors in the field of Home Appliances in whole Pakistan as compare to other competitors, we assure that you will find us aloof rather then others, so we give suggestion you to purchase such Home Appliances with high quality assurance. We hope you will feel free to contact us in the matter of Home Appliances.
By the blessing of GOD we Delite Group, believe in quality and our commitment to excellence is reflected in our pursuit for achieving the highest standards. We share these sentiments with people working with Delite Group at every level and aim to provide high quality Delite Home Appliances to our buyers. This is the cause our buyers consider Delite Group is a reliable source of Home Appliances.
We hereby supply and Export our products in domestic and International levels at most competitive rates with high quality assurance.
Our quality conscious, varieties and commitment will give you pleasant surprise for always. Hence we say with 100% confidentially, if you will buy our products, you will feel more satisfaction as comparing to other suppliers of such products.
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International Standard Bible EncyclopediaRiver of Egypt
See BROOK OF EGYPT.
Smith's Bible DictionaryRiver of Egypt
Strong's Hebrew2975. yeor -- stream (of the Nile), stream, canal
... Of Egyptian origin; a channel, eg A fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile,
as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris ...
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The River of Egypt and Its Dragon, Contrasted with the Jordan.
The River of Egypt, Rhinocorura. The Lake of Sirbon.
Of the Meaning of the Sacrifice Abraham was Commanded to Offer ...
A Great Part of South Judea Cut Off under the Second Temple. ...
Ecdippa. Achzib. Joshua 19:29; Judges 1:31 Climax of the Tyrians.
The Plagues of Egypt
A Description of the Sea-Coast, Out of Pliny and Strabo.
The Story of Moses, the Child who was Found in the River
Joseph, a Servant, a Prisoner, and a Saint.
Select Readings: The River of Life
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Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr., known professionally as Slim Whitman, was an American country music and western music singer, songwriter and instrumentalist known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth high three octave range falsetto. Enjoy Slim Whitman's best quotes below.
"I'd like my son to remember me as a good dad."
"Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice."
"I don't think you've ever heard anything bad about me, and I'd like to keep it that way."
"I can still sing. If you are dead, you can't sing."
"I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe."
"I'd like the people to remember me as having a good voice and a clean suit."
"It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling."
"The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut."


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开发者: Epic
支持平台: PC, Mac, Xbox 360, PS3
浏览器支持: No
价格: Available on request
开发的游戏: Mass Effect (Bioware), The Last Remnant (Square Enix), Lost Odyssey (Mistwalker), The Wheelman (Midway)
正在开发的游戏: Alpha Protocol (Obsidian), DC Universe Online (SOE), Alien Breed (Team 17)
与中间件的整合: Fonix, SpeedTree, GameSpy, Scaleform GFx, PhysX, Illuminate Labs, Umbra, morpheme, nFringe, HumanIK, Kynapse, Bink, ProFX, AI.implant, Quazal, DigiMask, Game-Link, Wwise, Enlighten
To be honest, Epic's monster behemoth doesn't really need any introduction at all. Now almost an industry standard in its third incarnation, Unreal Engine 3's domination of the full-engine middleware sector is hard to argue against.
Still, the main criticism levelled against it – usually by its competitors, we should say – is that the engine is geared towards first- (or third-) person shooters. Nevertheless, customers have managed to extend and rip apart the engine to power everything from Japanese-style RPGs to open-world action-racing games like The Wheelman.
One of the emerging usage groups is for MMO development. In order to give the engine a better standing against dedicated MMO solutions like HeroEngine and BigWorld, and emerging threats like CryENGINE, Epic has tasked its China office with the development of Atlas, its persistent world server technology and MMO creation and management toolset.
Another new feature is Unreal Lightmass, a new global illumination solver that can produce lightmaps with smooth bounced lighting without the need to use any third-party technology. Generation of the lightmaps can also be farmed out by the new Swarm distributed processing solution to use idle CPUs locally and across networks.
The new Unreal Master Control Program is a new service-orientated architecture based on the Gears of War 2 persistent stat tracking system. It allows developers to track online populations and even domain-specific data mining such as level-based heat maps to quickly identify chokepoints and problem areas in multiplayer maps.
Finally, Epic has enhanced asset management by introducing the new Content Browser, which allows users to tag assets and then find them easily with search filters, allowing users to locate, preview and manage assets regardless of whether they're loaded or not.
联系方式: 620 Crossroads Blvd, Cary, NC 27518, United States
邮箱: firstname.lastname@example.com
网站: www.epicgames.com
开发者: Emergent Game Technologies
支持平台: Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PC
浏览器支持: No
价格: Available on request
开发的游戏: Fallout 3 (Bethesda), Civilization Revolution (Firaxis), Warhammer Online (EA Mythic)
正在开发的游戏: Unannounced titles from Square Enix, Disney, Tencent, Sidhe and Tose
与中间件整合: Nvidia PhysX and APEX, Scaleform GFx, Wwise, Speedtree, Illuminate Labs, NaturalMotion, Lightsprint, Aristen, Umbra, xaitment, memoraze, Allegorithmic, RAD
Although the new name might fool you into thinking it a new entry in Emergent's middleware line-up, the company is clear on one thing: Gamebryo Lightspeed is very much the future for the global firm.
Having succeeded on its previous aims – to bring enterprise-level engineering to game middleware and to simplify multi-core development with Floodgate – Emergent is now pushing firmly into designer territory. "It's the first offering from Emergent that is focused not only on engineers but also the needs of game designers," says CEO Geoffrey Selzer. "It's an all-in-one system that offers rapid prototyping, rapid iteration, and real-time, on-target updates."
As such, Lightspeed adds a data-driven framework to the existing Gamebryo tech base, enabling designers to iterate mechanics and ideas within hours rather than weeks. In fact, given that it features the entire Gamebryo feature set under the hood – the same feature set that's powered genre-diverse games as big as Fallout 3 and Warhammer Online – it's being placed as a solution that not only gets you rapidly prototyping, but can then follow with the development cycle all the way up to mastering up.
The new toolset includes an Entity Modelling Tool to control the new entity and behaviour system; a brand-new World Builder that ties into the entity system; an Asset Controller that automatically monitors for changes in assets, hotloading them into the tools and onto target platforms in real-time without recompliation; and a script integration system that allows you to use the scripting language of your choice.
Add to that the work it is doing in supporting small start-up developers – the number of small studios it hosted on its GDC stand was impressive – and Emergent's market share is only set to grow.
联系: 5016 N. Parkway Calabasas, Suite 210, Calabasas, CA 91302, United?States
电话: (818) 222-5355
邮箱: firstname.lastname@example.com
网站: www.emergent.net
开发者: Crytek
支持平台: Xbox 360, PS3, PC, 'MMO and next-gen ready'
浏览器支持: No
价格: Available on request
开发的游戏: Crysis (CryTek), Crysis Warhead (Crytek), Aion (NCsoft)
开发中的游戏: Not disclosed
整合的中间件: Scaleform GFx, CRI, FMOD
Those expecting Crytek to mirror Epic in terms of version numbering might have been surprised to see CryENGINE hit version three so quickly, but maybe it's important to be on an even playing field with your punchiest competitor.
The main addition to v3 is the long sought after console support – the formerly PC-only engine is now fully supported on Xbox 360 and PS3, with the developer at pains to point out that it's worked the graphics, physics, AI, networking and sound subsystems to make them ready for the massively many-core architectures likely to find themselves in the next generation of consoles.
Of course, this is CryENGINE, so what you really care about is the visuals. Crytek has seen fit to add a huge number of high-end graphical features to the engine, including a real-time dynamic global illumination solution fully optimsed for current-generation machines. There's also a new real-time soft particle system, which can be affected by object collisions, forces such as wind and gravity, and lighting and shadows; volumetric light beams; screen-space ambient occlusion support, a unique deferred shading solution and a high-level platform-agnostic shader scripting technology.
The 'What You See is What You Play' Sandbox editor – which now deploys live to target consoles, giving instant feedback to scene changes – has also had its functionality bolstered, with a new automatic vegetation placement ruleset that'll plant your foliage based on slope, surface altitude and desired density. There's also dedicated road and river builders, a specialised vehicle editor, a facial animation tool, plus automatic navmesh generation unified for inside and outside spaces coupled with the engine's dynamic pathfinding system. And, as if that wasn't enough, there's a fully featured audio offering, AI and game scripting by Lua or the graphical Flow-Graph system, an integrated physics engine and a full suite of performance analysis tools.
联系地址: Hanauer Landstr. 523, 60386 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
邮箱: email@example.com
网站: www.crytek.com
开发者: Unity Technologies
支持平台: PC, Mac, iPhone, Wii
浏览器支持: Yes
价格: $199 (Indie), $1499 (Pro), $399+ (iPhone), $15,000 (WiiWare, per title), $30,000 (Wii, per title)
已开发的游戏: FusionFall (Cartoon Network), Zombieville USA (mikamobile)
开发中的游戏: Secret MMO by Funcom, other unannounced products
整合的中间件: PhysX, Mono, more to come
We first covered Unity in these pages about a year ago, as it started to make more of an impact in the indie/low-end development market. For all its virtues, though, it was hampered by being Mac-only.
Unity 2.5, launched at GDC, finally brings the Unity toolset to Windows and all those developers unwilling to switch to Macs for the sake of a nice engine. The editor differs from many in being entirely visual-lead – assets can be imported into projects by a simple drag-and-drop (that actually opens the host application in the background to export with optimal settings) and scripts are linked visually.
The editor is also now completely scriptable, meaning that new workflows and interfaces can quickly be made up. Several members of the community have made new editors freely available, including a pathfinding module with automatic (and manual) nagivation mesh generation and behavioural tree editors.
The community is something that Unity Technologies considers a big selling point of the engine: the low entry point means that many hobbyist and indie developers are ardent supporters. As they rationalise it, when big triple-As like Funcom and EA embark on development, they've got a wide (and educated) support base and also a pool of ready-trained talent to recruit from. Parts of Cartoon Network's MMO FusionFall were developed by community members, for example.
It's also got arguably the best iPhone support, with the actual device acting as an input method to the editor to fine-tune accelerometer controls. According to the company, a new Unity-powered iPhone game is added to the App Store almost every day.
Other console support is currently limited to Wii, but support for Xbox 360 and PS3 is firmly within the company's roadmap, as are the MMO functionality updates spun out from the success of FusionFall.
联系: Duevej 94 a, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
邮箱: email@example.com
网站: www.unity3d.com
开发者: Blitz Games Studios
支持的平台: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP, PC
浏览器支持: No
价格: Available on request
已开发的游戏: House of the Dead: Overkill (Headstrong), Power Up Forever (Blitz Arcade), Karaoke Revolution Presents American Idol Encore 2 (Blitz Games)
开发中的游戏: Dead to Rights Retribution (Volatile Games), Invincible Tiger (Blitz Arcade), many more TBA
整合的中间件: FMOD, Kynapse, Bink
Given the Oliver brothers' frequent comments about the horrors of middleware, it was quite a surprise to see Blitz move into the technology licensing arena. But all due credit to them – if you've got a platform- and genre-agnostic offering that's been fine-tuned over the past 10 years, why not let other people use it?
Although the internal uses of the tech are diverse – from the next-gen Dead to Rights to almost all of Blitz Arcade's digital-distribution titles – the company is keen to market BlitzTech to triple-A developers only. It's built for large-scale development, with in-built asset management that supports remote working and in-built version control.
The focus is therefore very much on tools and the asset pipeline to support big teams, with the editor allowing designers and artists to work on multiple SKUs – including technologically disparate ones – through one interface. The editor can also be deployed on the target console to give immediate feedback and allow users to move objects, change properties and update assets in real-time.
The engine is also certainly leading in graphical aspects too, as anyone who's seen the amazing-looking Dead to Rights in person will attest. One particular highlight is that it runs entirely on dynamic lights – there are no pre-baked lightmaps whatsoever – on both the Xbox 360 and PS3,
which gives better lighting and immediate feedback for artists. Of course, if you do want to do any complicated offline baking, the engine's built-in distributed network processing system will help make it a much quicker process.
Finally, one of the real distinguishing features is BlitzTech's support for true stereoscopic 3D on current-generation consoles. Blitz is firm in its belief that 3D is the future, but is happily licensing out that technology now, including compatibility for the numerous standards that currently exist.
联系地址: Regent Square House, The Parade, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 4NL, UK
邮箱: firstname.lastname@example.com
网站: www.blitztech.com
开发者: Terminal Reality
支持的平台: Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii, PS2, PSP
浏览器支持: No
价格: Available on request
已开发的游戏: Ghostbusters (Terminal Reality), Mushroom Men: Spore Wars (Red Fly)
开发中的游戏: The Strike and The Hunt (Piranha Games), Cook or be Cooked (Red Fly), plus unannounced titles from Wideload and more
整合的中间件: Scaleform GFx, FMOD, Wwise, Bink, Fonix, Quazal
If there was ever a good time for Terminal Reality to launch its own games engine, the run-up to the release of the hotly-anticipated Ghostbusters game would definitely be it.
Good-looking screenshots aside, the Infernal Engine is built from the developer's 15 year history in the industry, during which time it's shipped more than 30 titles. As such, much of the focus is on streamlining production. Take, for example, the integrated editor: not a major distinguishing feature on it's own, but it enables collaborative level design, farms out lightmapping and other intensive processes to servers, has an integrated performance monitoring and memory tracking system, and even optimises the packaging of game assets to minimise disk seeks on physical media (a whole separate middleware area in its own right).
The areas the engine touches are far wider than just productivity, though: it has its own physics system called VELOCITY that can simulate thousands of objects at once, as well as dynamic destruction and cloth simulation. The developer has also recently added the dynamic collision avoidance AI used in Ghostbusters to cope with massively dynamic environments, and is close to rolling out 'dramatic improvements' in its animation system.
Audio is also catered for, with a data-driven engine with support for streaming on all platforms, real-time remote connection to tweak sound cues during playback, integrated positioning, spatialisation and Doppler shift for 3D audio.
The engine's C++-like scripting language Dante offers all of the benefits of a compiled language – quick execution, small memory footprint – but, curiously, features immediate feedback of script changes without recompilation.
Given its wide platform support and future-proofed multi-threaded architecture, the Infernal Engine could easily be a big player in the market.
联系地址: 2274 Rockbrook Drive, Lewisville, TX 75067, United States
电话: (972) 315-8089
邮箱: firstname.lastname@example.com
网站: www.infernalengine.com
开发者: Trinigy
支持的平台: PC (DX9 & 10), Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii
浏览器支持: No
价格: Available upon request
已开发的游戏: Desperados 2 (Atari), Emergency 3 & 4 (Take 2), Warlord (Neowiz)
开发中的游戏: Dungeon Hero (Firefly), Arcania – A Gothic Tale (JoWood), plus unannounced Ubisoft and Neowiz projects
整合的中间件: Bullet physics, Digital Molecular Matter, FMOD Ex, Kynapse, morpheme, NetDog, OpenAL, PhysX, ProFX 2, Quazal Net-Z, Scaleform GFx, SpeedTree, xaitEngine
简介:Trinigy's Vision Engine continues to pick up pace in the international market, and is actually leading in some respects (it's the first engine to integrate Pixelux's Digital Molecular Matter, as used in LucasArts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, for example).
Although it might not be a name with the same clout of Unreal, its strongly genre-agnostic structure is clearly finding more and more fans across the industry. Version 7.5 – released earlier this year – adds a complete DirectX 10 engine that makes 'full use' of the DX10 feature set, as well as an enhanced PhysX integration that allows visual editing of physical properties and joints. The engine's event and trigger system have also been fully integrated into the editor, and Wii support has also been overhauled.
"The feedback we get from our 100-plus licensees is that Vision is simply the best overall package," says Dag Frommhold, managing parter at Trinigy. "The engine is completely genre-agnostic and is flexible enough to adapt to almost any project's needs, whether it's a casual game or triple-A title."
Much effort has also been placed into Vision Engine's multi-platform capabilities, with extensive optimisations provided for each platform. Scenes and models can be examined live on the actual machine for instant on-target viewing, while console-specific features – such as SPU balancing on PS3 and direct GPU to memory export on Xbox 360 – ensure that performance is equal on comparable targets.
Finally, extensive documentation is available, including over 60 sample applications – ranging from concepts as simple as Hello World to efficient use of multi-threading. A number of sample scenes are also provided to demonstrate powerful features to artists, and video tutorials can also be downloaded from the Trinigy website.
联系地址: Trinigy GmbH, INKA-Businesspark, Arbachtalstr. 6, 72800 Eningen, Germany
电话: +49 (0)7121 986 993
邮箱: firstname.lastname@example.com
网站: www.trinigy.net
开发者: BigWorld
支持的平台: PC, Xbox 360, PS3, iPhone, PSP, DS, mobile devices
浏览器支持: No
价格: Available on request
已开发的游戏: Hokuto no Ken Online (GungHo), Tian Xia 2 (Netease)
开发中的游戏: Unannounced titles from Gazillion and 38 Studios
整合的中间件: BitRaider, Exigent, FMOD, Gni, Hypernia, Scaleform UI, Speedtree, Vivox, Umbra Software
简介:BigWorld's Technology Suite has proved pretty popular in China and Japan – admittedly the main MMO market – but with version 2.0, out towards the later end of this year, the company is integrating a raft of features that could see it stake out a bigger claim in the face of rivals like HeroEngine and the Monumental Technology Suite.
Version 2.0 offers performance increases due to improved multi-threading support on the client side, various special and post-effects that enable a wide range of real-time filters to be applied to the graphics engine, including sophisticated motion blur, depth of field and colour correction and distortions. On the server side, the architecture has been rolled over onto 64-bit, enabling much greater memory addressability – and therefore larger, more complex worlds – and further revisions to server scalability, reliability and general performance.
The work BigWorld has also done supporting teams releasing games has also forced the company to work with other partners to fill in the gaps, meaning that established relationships are available for billing and community management.
联系地址: Canberra Technology Park, Phillip Avenue Watson ACT 2602, Australia
邮箱: +61-2 6162 5120
网站: www.bigworldtech.com
开发者: Vicious Cycle Software
支持的平台: PC, Xbox 360, PS3 (VE2); PSP, PS2, Wii (VE)
浏览器支持: No
价格: Available on request
已开发的游戏: Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (Vicious Cycle), Dead Head Fred (Vicious Cycle), Hilton serious game (Virtual Heroes)
开发中的游戏: Unannounced
简介:Ambitious independent developer turned engine provider Vicious Cycle is more than aware that it can't compete with Epic in the super high-end AAA stakes. The niche it's looking to fill are the smaller developers who have to move quick in order to survive; not those that can take three years on a project.
Version one of the Vicious Engine – which is geared to lower-end platforms such as the PSP, PS2 and Wii – is still available, but what the company is really crowing about is the new version, Ve2, launched at GDC 2009. Teased for a number of years, the engine takes the Vicious Engine's philosophy – of enabling teams to rapidly prototype and shorten the development process – and brings it kicking and screaming into the PS3 and Xbox 360 territory.
The engine provides a fully-rounded toolset, including navmesh-based pathfinding, an easy editor for creating re-usable hierarchical state machines, and contextual point-and-click scripting for those who don't want to get their hands dirty with code.
Also, according to the developer, the engine will convert your game to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC 'simultaneously at the push of a button', which is quite the claim. It's also got an in-built asset manager with a version control system to make sure that all assets are checked out when working on them and to ensure that assets remain frozen as milestones approach.
Ve2 also features a robust physics system that includes ragdolls, inverse kinematics, surface friction, hinge constraints and object buoyancy. A new lighting system also means that placement, colour and intensity of lights can be quickly prototyped in the editor without the need to bake lightmaps, but ambient occlusion maps can still be baked to improve real-time performance.
地址: 3005 Carrington Mill Blvd, Suite 500, Morrisville, NC 27560, United States
电话: 919-370-3000
邮箱: email@example.com
网站: www.viciousengine.com
开发公司: GarageGames
支持的平台:PC, Mac, Xbox 360, Wii, iPhone, PS3, PSP
浏览器支持: Yes
价格: PC/Mac/Web: $1,000 (indie, unlimited projects); $4k+ (studio licence, unlimited projects). iPhone: $500+ per seat. Console: undisclosed.
已开发的游戏: Penny Arcade Adventures, Fallen Empire: Legions, Buccaneer, Dreamlords, Marble
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开发中的游戏: Unannounced titles from EA, Bioware, Ubisoft and more
整合的中间件:FMOD, PhysX, ODE, Pixomatic, pureLIGHT
简介:The latest generation of GarageGames' Torque engine, the slightly anachronistically-named Torque 3D, is gearing up to take back some of the market share that the firm – admittedly one of the very first companies to dual-target the indie/hobbyist and professional markets – has lost to competitors of late.
With a proven tech backbone that's already available on multiple consoles – with PSP and PS3 set to join the crowd later this year – the focus for Torque 3D is the toolset. "It's been completely overhauled, and we've focused particularly on the content pipeline for ease-of-use and iteration," says the company's Brett Seyler.
As such, as well as a robust COLLADA import pipeline, all assets are updated live in-engine from external tools, allowing for zero-second asset iteration. The world editor has also been completely rewritten, offering advanced editors for materials, decals and, most interestingly, rivers and roads.
That doesn't mean that high-end graphical effects have been overlooked, though. The lighting model has been upgraded to a hybrid lighting model which it calls 'light pre-pass rendering' that the firm says is 'similar to CryEngine's', supporting advanced effects such as screen-space ambient occlusion and light rays, soft particles and advanced wetness and precipitation shaders.
Although high-end features are a focal point for Torque 3D, the company is still putting as much focus as ever on low-end hardware, specifically netbooks, citing good performance on Intel 950 chipsets. The mass-market penetration is also targeted with the engine's new Web Publishing features, based on technology GarageGames developed for its InstantAction web portal, which offers native performance through browsers.
联系地址: 245 West 5th Ave. Eugene, OR 97401, United States
电话: 541-345-3040
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text: SkyDrive: An office file needs your attention Posted on 4/5/2013 @ 9:01 PM in #SharePoint by Sahil Malik | Feedback | 77814 views Really? I thought I was the attention hog here. I found it seriously annoying how awful Office2013 + SkyDrive integration was. Anytime I'd edit a file in Word or Excel, I'd get a popup in my system tray saying "An office file needs your attention". I'd click on that balloon, and it basically said "open it in office" – I'd open it in office, no fix, no dice, no help. WTF! Not only that, randomly some file that I hadn't even touched in months, would just fail to sync and I'd get this notification. It wasn't just distracting, it's a big confidence reducer, especially when the documents are real bits of work and information that I'd rather not loose. Anyway, here is the fix. Do the exact opposite of what this article suggests -http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/skydrive/office-2013 Right-click the SkyDrive icon () in the notification area, at the far right of the taskbar. (You might need to click Show hidden icons first to see the icon.) Then click Settings. On the Settings tab, under General, UNSELECT Use Office to sync files faster and work on files with other people at the same time, and then click OK. Cool, now back to work!


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Expunging Shame, Embracing Compassion
"I felt sick because I looked at this young woman's face and there was no anger. There was shock, shame and sorrow. The fact that this young lady's father is a convicted pedophile will be with her for the rest of her life."At the Elgin Street courthouse in Ottawa on Saturday, Michael Slater, 73, was found guilty of indecent assault, gross indecency and buggery involving two men, 45 years ago when the men who were victimized by this teacher were 13 years of age. As one of the victims, now 58, was leaving the courtroom, he suffered the anguish of regret when he realized how the trial and the revelations had impacted on the family of the man who had victimized him.
"If I had known I was going to hurt his family, I would have taken it to the grave. I've caused incalculable damage to his family, and none of them hurt me."
"It's like an indexed tumour, and if you don't excise it, it will consume you. And it damn near did."
Victim unnamed; identity publication ban
He spoke to the young woman, believing her to be his assailant's daughter, and apologized to her. Essentially apologizing for revealing her father to have been a violent pedophile who had almost succeeding in ruining his life, from age 13 to his present 58 years of maturity, and coming to grips with the trauma he suffered. In relieving himself of the haunting secret, making it public, shaming the man who had been a predator, not a trusted teacher, he burdened an innocent, and he acknowledged that tragedy.
He had been raped on three occasions by this teacher, between September 1968 and June 1970; in a classroom for children of military personnel and at a house in Alta Vista. At the time the school, Elizabeth Park, had been operated by the Department of National Defence at Canadian Forces Base Uplands. He testified, among other things, that he had contracted two sexually transmitted diseases resulting from the rapes, which required hospital treatment.
He had also testified that his teacher had warned him to say nothing. Convincing him that his father who was a military warrant officer, would disown him, throwing him out of the family home ... or that he would lose his job if he reported the sexual assault. Fearing that he would be called a "homo or a queer", he divulged his dreadful secret to no one, not even his school friends. He had always confronted bullies as a matter of principle at school, but had no way to counter his teacher.
He suffered traumatizing flashbacks as he aged. The memories gradually took their toll. He had finally informed his wife of 37 years in 2009 of what had occurred to him; the only person he had ever divulged that secret to. When his parents both died in 2009 he decided he would no longer live the past in shamed secrecy. "It would have destroyed my mother. To the day my father died, I'm sure he would have tried to kill Mike Slater", he said.
He had a burning desire to see his tormentor face the results of his predation once he knew his parents could no longer be harmed by knowing what had occurred. Before he took the initiative to confront the man and report those assaults he informed his own children to spare them the emotional turmoil that court revelations might afflict them with. But nothing quite prepared him for the prospect of another man's children being harmed, much less the children of the man he accused.
Over 45 years after the sexual assaults tore his childhood from him, catapulting him into a life of miserably painful recollection, when the guilty verdict was delivered he felt immense relief. Earlier in the year had had gone through a week in court before a mistrial was declared because one of the jurors knew the other victim. "I had to relive those rapes in front of 24 of my peers. It was not nearly as bad as the initial rapes, but it was extremely painful", he said.
Labels: Child Abuse, Crime, Human Relations, Justice, Ottawa


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Hi, the video says "private". :(ReplyDelete
Love watching you work. :) Thanks for the giveaway.ReplyDelete
All fixed!! Thanks, Linh!ReplyDelete
Ok so my sound isn't working on my end but that's my computer....here's my lil entry! I LOVE mixed media!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 17, 2012 at 11:38 PM
Love your videos!! SO SO TALENTED!ReplyDelete
Love the tag you made !! Your giveaway looks like fun...thanks for the opportunity.ReplyDelete
your tag is lovely. i love all the textures on it!ReplyDelete
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I am intrigued by the pink thing that goes on your finger. I am not familiar with it...is it a heat resister?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2012 at 9:08 AM
I just LOVE your work, so girly, and happy! Can't wait to see what you come up with next..ReplyDelete
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thanks for the chance to win! I loved your video on Design Memory Craft blog!ReplyDelete
You are too cute!!! Stuff like that happens to me all the time, LOL. Just following some links I found on Faber Castell blog. I recently received a box of these wonderful products (pens, gelatos, watercolor pencils...), just a tiny sampling. Even before that I started collecting things for a mixed media project...I need more things to do :) Anyway, love the video and the inspiration. Looking forward to learning some cool, new things.ReplyDelete
Can I just say that I LOVED hearing you on the video?!! I always enjoy your posts, but it so much fun to hear you speak as you create, and I felt like I was with a friend! I am loving what you did here and on the Design Memory Craft blog as well.ReplyDelete
I would LOVE to win some Faber Castell goodies. . . Do you have any info on the new White Stampers Brush Pen and when it will be available and where?
Thanks for all the great info and the video, please keep em coming!
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Thanks for the additional entry, this looks like lots of cool stuff for my mixed media and art journal pieces!
I also posted about the giveaway on Facebook as Maureen Hayes! Thanks for another chance to enter. . .ReplyDelete
I am now following your blog as well. I can't wait to see what else you create and am looking forward to part 2 of the video on Design Memory Craft tomorrow. . . What is Project Life? I keep hearing people talk about it, but I am clueless and feel stupid. . .ReplyDelete
Wonderful tag! Really enjoy your videos :) Thanks for the giveaway opportunity !ReplyDelete
I understand about the snail pace internet. Thank you for offering such a generous giveaway. I am currently working on a great project that you too may enjoy being a part of called The Butterfly Project. http://www.hmh.org/ed_butterfly1.shtml Here is the website for it. Thanks againReplyDelete
New to your blog, thoroughly enjoyed the video and watching you create so many beautiful layers! Great giveaway as well!ReplyDelete
After a litle bit of blog hopping i came across your blog Britt,looooved the video..how i wish it was not so late here in Scotland so i could head out to my shed and craft...thanks for the inspiration tonight my brain is working ten to the dozen,lol..great tag and adore the sentiment!ReplyDelete
Watched your tutorial over on Faber Castell and loved what you created.
Just started to dip my toes into mixed media on an old book i bought at a car boot sale recently and looove getting painty,inky fingers.
Thanks for the chance to win your goodies.
pssssst..the board i work on is all cut up too!
Oh my goodness! I haven't even watched the second video yet (over at the Faber Castell blog), but I am having a delightful time. I love your project, and most of all your sense of humor! So glad to have found this!ReplyDelete
I have never visited your blog before, but I will definately be back. Your tag looks such fun.ReplyDelete
Hi Britt!! So happy to see you around more often! Love this giveaway! Wanted to drop by and leave a little entry and try my luck :) I've been taking a little blog hiatus, and spending more time over at my facebook team but I still pop in here and there and always LOVE seeing what you have been up to! :)ReplyDelete
Very eclectic collection. I have been curious about those Crafter's Workshop templates. But what is Inka-Gold? Thanks for the videos and the giveaway!ReplyDelete
Love your style Britt!Thanks for the chance to win!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 29, 2012 at 10:32 PM
You are super talented Girlie!! You are so generous in your giveaways, thanks so much for sharing with us. Love, love, love the tag! Great job :)ReplyDelete
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Adoptive Mom Refresh Retreats
Our retreats are designed to promote opportunities for prayer ministry, quiet times for reflection, creative activities and nurturing friendships. You can expect to worship together and listen to testimonies of grace.
Every retreat is a unique experience as we do not have a set curriculum. We pray for each and every retreat for the current themes God would have us receive. We invite and involve everyone to their comfort according to their current needs. Come as you are!
What NOT to expect: This is not "conference style." We will not have all the answers. We won't be formal and you can expect leaders in t-shirts and shorts.
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Once registered you will be contacted with details pertaining to your particular retreat.
Austin, TX at Lake Bastrop
Friday, April 13 - Sunday, April 15
Cost: $175 (food and lodging)
Check in Friday at 4pm/Check out Sunday at 11am.
Located at a large home on Lake Travis, this retreat is open to 15 moms. Come as you are and kick your feet up. We have lots of grace to share together. Meet other moms walking the adoption journey and join us as we fellowship and encourage each other in prayer.
Retreat Testimonies
"As always this weekend has been very special to me. Even though I have found myself in two different places, Jesus has shown up. He can do that only if He is truly invited by our group and expected. Thank you for your love and care for me personally. It means so much to me." - adoptive mom
"I have taken two things away from this retreat. I am not alone and brokenness is a beautiful place to be if we can just see it. Thank you for creating such an amazing and special weekend." -adoptive mom
"Having live worship, and smaller groups have helped me feel safe to share from the heart. The creative projects calm me and help lead me to reflection. Please always include a message from you Tina. You always point me back to Christ!" - adoptive mom


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Poison Season
Nicholas Friesen @Nicholastronaut January 18, 2016
Is this the new Bruce Springsteen? Wait, why is the Boss so nasally? Oh good, it's Dan Bejar! I was worried for a second. Yeah, "Dream Lover" is a far cry from the meandering saxophone that all the damn kids fell in love with on 2011's Kaputt, but "Girl in a Sling" takes us back there quick. Though Bejar is never one to repeat himself, he kind of takes a stab at a greatest hits-style collection here, with epic soundscapes ("Archer on the Beach") and the piano-laden trysts of "Bangkok" and "Sun in the Sky." No matter the instrumentation, it's always his one-of-a-kind voice and delivery of those self-deprecating lyrics that gets you. Going as far back as 1996's ultra lo-fi We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge to his work with the New Pornographers, Swan Lake and his partner Sydney Hermant in Hello, Blue Roses, you'll find that voice, the one your old girlfriend/boyfriend hated (but your secret crush was totally into) delivering such lines as "Forces from above deny you the right to be free in your own way" over strings and electronic blips. Yeah, it's weird, but it's about as challenging as pop music gets, and that's alright.


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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary(v. t.) To weaken or lessen; to destroy the authority of; to render useless; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.
Greek208. akuroo -- to revoke
... Word Origin from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and kuros (authority) Definition to revoke
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Galatians 3:17 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
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How Healthy is Your Body?
By Michelle Coleman
Your peak body that is. For Victorians, this is the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV).
Is it really 'the voice of Victorian Jewry'? Does it truly represent 60 organisations and 65,000 Jews? Is it doing enough for our community? These are important questions to debate if we are committed to having a strong and engaged community whose needs are effectively championed within a wider multicultural Victoria.
Perhaps a good starting point is to define the role of a peak body. According to a comprehensive Industry Commission, a peak body must not only represent its members but provide much more:
"A peak body is a representative organisation that provides information dissemination services, membership support, coordination, advocacy and representation, and research and policy development services for members and other interested parties. ….. the peak council role does not involve direct service provision."
Industry Commission (1995), Charitable Organisations in Australia. AGPS, Melbourne, p 181.
How does the JCCV measure up against these functional criteria?
Information dissemination services: Health check = 3 (on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being poor and 5 being excellent)
The JCCV offers two main communication services via email. What's Nu is a weekly service filled with information and tips relevant to member organisations, while Jewish Community in Action goes out several times per year to approximately 10,000 individuals, keeping them informed about what's happening in the Jewish community.
The JCCV plenum (the 'parliament' of the organisation) eight times per year is an opportunity not only for us to disseminate information to our members but also to listen to and debate the views of those in our community.
Given that the community numbers more than 60,000, the reach of the JCCV's communications could be improved. We need to develop strategies to encourage more members of the community to subscribe. Let's start now: if you're not already receiving our e-bulletin click here.
Membership support: Health check = 4
Many peak bodies focus on representation at the expense of supporting their membership. While the JCCV may have been guilty of this in the past, this is not so today. The current executive and staff are focussing heavily on initiatives to support and provide development opportunities to our membership, including professional networking and development events, workshops for lay and professional leadership, and discussion groups for executive directors and CEOs.
The JCCV is also in the process of putting together a youth summit and a project to assist university students in combatting extremism on campus. The youth are our future and providing them with the support to grow into our next leaders is essential.
We are now providing good support services to our members. If we continue to grow and improve these, hopefully we will score a 5 in the not-too-distant future.
Coordination: Health check = 4
The JCCV coordinates the Community Calendar of Events, organises community events such as the Yom Hashoah commemoration and the annual volunteer awards night, coordinates with council for the special operation of traffic lights on Sabbaths and festivals, works with Victoria police to ensure the accurate collection of statistics on anti-Semitic incidents, and assists members in finding partners for collaboration on various initiatives.
Two Jews will always equal three opinions, but it's reasonable to say that as a whole our community functions fairly smoothly. Little wonder then that other ethnic groups regularly tell us that the Victorian Multicultural Commission has advised them to model their community leadership on that of the JCCV.
Advocacy and representation: Health check = 4
The Victorian and Federal Governments, their agencies, the media and ethnic and religious groups have long recognised the JCCV as the representative body of the Victorian Jewish community.
The channels of communication between the JCCV and government, and the JCCV and various NGOs, are wide and open, with traffic flowing both ways.
Moreover, the JCCV's advocacy is effective. For example, over the last 12 months we have successfully lobbied government against the BDS campaign and to preserve kosher slaughter.
While the JCCV's member organisations are diverse, there are a number of significant organisations that for various reasons have chosen not to affiliate with the community's roof body. We cannot claim to be fully representative while sectors of the community remain outside our umbrella. To them we say that we would be able to better represent you if you would come to the table. We believe that the security and welfare of our community is the responsibility of all.
Research and policy development services: Health check = 2
The JCCV does not provide comprehensive research services for our community. Research into various issues is being admirably led by Professor Andrew Markus of the Monash University Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation. The JCCV sits as an advisor on this project's steering committee.
Nevertheless, with research in hand, the JCCV plenum has developed an extensive policy platform over the years.
The JCCV would be a more comprehensive and effective roof body if it were to provide research services for our community. Unfortunately, a lack of resources means this is not possible.
So to go back to our original questions, is the JCCV really the voice of Victorian Jewry? Does it truly represent 60 organisations and 65,000 Jews? We believe it does. Via our affiliates, we speak for the majority of our community and are recognised outside the community as the body to turn to for issues regarding our community. Our advocacy has been proven to achieve results and we are committed to continuing and indeed increasing our efforts on the community's behalf into the future. We welcome your constructive feedback.
Is the JCCV doing enough for the community? Definitely not! There is so much more that we would like to do and could do if we were better resourced. To remain relevant, viable and effective, and to increase our efforts on the community's behalf, we need the support of our community.
The JCCV is currently in the midst of our annual appeal. Your generous donation will ensure that all we do for you, for the organisations you value, and for our community can continue.
Michelle Coleman is the Executive Director of the JCCV.
Click here if you would like to donate to the JCCV. All donations over $2 to the JCCV Cultural Fund are tax deductible.


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Vinyl record releases, 45s & LPS, local to Kansas and the surrounding Kansas City Area Metro area. Archived and discussed.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Mates of State Our Constant Concern Polyvinyl 2002
So much cuteness, just so much love, and melody, and cuteness...and yelling. Mates of State liked to yell a lot.
I'm a sucker it, guy-girl back and forth lyrical conversations, unpredictable bursts of keyboards, and the screamed chorus'. In fact, I was just recently discussing the attributes of an Illinois band called Wolfie with a friend. Wolfie was this out of tune, chaotic, twee-pop band that employed boy-girl vocals. As much as we both liked Wolfie for the amateur charm, we agreed, if there's a group that perfected the short lived late-90's twee-pop sound, it was Mates of State.
This album proves the theory, even though I consider it on the bottom rung of the groups total output, it's still charming and worth a few spins. At the time, Mates of State was touring heavily with the likes of locals, the Anniversary. The album was constructed on the road to follow up their debut, My Solo Project. The nervous energy of a debut record is gone and the you can tell the two were trying to concentrate on being less abrasive with their chaotic bursts. That said, there's still plenty of highlights. And, their exploration into straight pop is pleasant. They'd perfect their blend of chaotic twee-pop and guitar-less radio pop on later albums, but this is a good in between.
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For those of you interested and in the mood to spend sometime cheering on your fellow lions to victory, Click on the link below for the full Catholic League Varsity Tournament Brackets including times, dates, and locations.
Zoom in after opening the link for details.
Leo's first game of the tournament is this Friday, February
12th at 7PM. This is an Away game for the Lions against the
Loyola Academy Ramblers in Wilmette. Their subsequent games
depend on the outcome of Friday's game. Reference
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to see your support at the games.
Thank you,
Leo Alumni Association