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Trask-Industries.com has a whole bunch of goodies.
That site is pretty cool. I'm wondering if all of the stuff in the timeline is from after things have been changed, or if this stuff had all happened in the original movies' universe and we just never saw any of it's effects in them.
That's actually an excellent question. I have been going over the material on the site (so awesome) and have been considering that myself. It's very possible it could be a combination of both things.
At the very least I think it's safe to say that the end credits scene in The Wolverine takes place in the same timeline as Origins, X1-3, and The Wolverine itself.
I agree...the website has Trask Industries founded in the year 1967. I think this will have been stuff we've just not seen before. There are some really cool things on that site.
Just stumbled on this:
So in addition to most people apparently not knowing the post-credits scene in The Last Stand even exists, and the cable channel FX refusing to show it, now the director of DOFP thinks Xavier's consciousness was in Moira.
I found it interesting that they might havebpretty much narrowed down when exactly the first 3 X-Men movies take place.
Considering the Last Stand, post credits scene was never explained, Xavier's mind being transferred and temporary possessed by Moria is about as good as explanation as any. Plus it ties-in to what we've read previously with regards to how they're going to handle the time travel aspect in the film. I have no problem with that.
Didn't Xavier explain it earlier in the movie though? I seem to remember him (or maybe it was someone else) talking about the possibility of transferring his consciousness into someone in a coma.
That's right. That conversation did happen. It's been a long time since I've seen the film all the through so I totally forgot that lol.
It might be a slip of the tongue if the body in the hospital was meant to be Xavier's twin, then in the comic's, Xavier's twin was Cassandra Nova I think. And Xavier can always use telepathy to change other people's perceptions of him I guess. What makes less sense is why he's still in a wheelchair.
At least time travel might explain how Moira turned from a a thirty year old American woman in the 60s to a forty year old Scottish woman 40 years later.
I just think of First Class's Moira as the mother of the Moria from X3. It's amazing how easy it is to hand wave it away!
Umm maybe Singer was just misqouted??? Not the first time that has happened to someone. Also its not an easy scene to explain, it was so vague. I had no idea until I read it that was Patrick Stewart laying in the bed.
I suspect we are not going to get a lot of details in the movie. It will be 10 years since events of The Last Stand. A lot would have happened sense than.
Yeah, the end credits scene pays that off, and it's clearly not supposed to indicate that Xavier's consciousness is in Moira. Moira is reacting to the voice coming from the man in the bed. I guess you could write in that Xavier "jumped" into Moira offscreen later on, but to what purpose? And would he even consider such a thing allowable on ethical grounds? What made it work in the case of the guy in the bed was that he had no consciousness of his own to speak of, it was basically just a set of organs being kept alive. Also, the guy in the bed was supposed to be one "P.Xavier", but that was left out of the film, so Singer & Co. appear to have addressed the question of where the new Xavier body comes from by "mutants did it". Star Trek III might even serve as inspiration here. What I don't get is the idea that it's to be explained by the time travel mechanics of the plot. Despite the fact that it can't be Kitty anymore, if the time travel thing is anything like Kitty's role in the DOFP comic it doesn't seem like it would explain Xavier's survival.
What about the Sentinel holoprogram in X3? If apparently at that point the Sentinels hadn't been created yet. Just a coincidence?
The Sentinels probably do exist in the timeline proper. We just haven't really seen them in the capacity they're designed for yet. Project Widewake was mentioned in the database that Lady Deathstrike stole in "X2". We know the US Government in the films have been attempting to have some kind of relations with the mutant community as Hank was the Secretary of Mutant Affairs in "The Last Stand". I assume that they will be unleashed in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" after some kind of present day attack. There was something mentioned about an incident in Paris...perhaps that triggers it. It seems certain now that Singer isn't totally ignoring "The Last Stand" so also perhaps the events in San Francisco will have changed the governments mind to take a more aggressive stance against mutants.
I say Jean turned the body Charles was transferring to into Charles as a last minute attempt to save Charles from Phoenix. I'd imagine Phoenix made him paralyzed again.
Exactly. His consciousness isn't transferred to Moira, it goes to the brain dead man in a coma. Not sure how anyone would arrive at another explanation!!
I love it that the Sentinel program is being treated as something that had be developing for years. Its not just sprung out of nowhere.
The of the smart things the first film did was having the existence of mutants known for many years. Which allows them to now fill in this alternate history. There have been minor inconsistency on some characters backstories. But nothing was said of the history of the whole world before First Class to limit them.
I think its more reasonable to assume the Trask website is based on events from the X-Men: First Class film rather than the original trilogy. It makes much more sense since they're proudly declaring that the Sentinels have been online and battling mutants for 50 years (which makes sense based upon the events in that film). They've also been actively eradicating the "X-gene" for nearly as long, which doesn't match up with the last film at all. It's kind of hard to reconcile all of that with the original trilogy.
Which pretty much means the First Class universe is more akin to Star Trek's mirror universe than anything. Or at least it lead to that darker fate until the time travel hijinks take place to correct it.
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JUPITER, Fla. -- One day after the Mets named Jon Niese their Opening Day starter, manager Terry Collins acknowledged that Johan Santana will not be ready to break camp with the team.
"He's not where he needs to be in his long-toss program," Collins said Friday. "Even if it's next week, he's not going to open with us. He's going to have to get himself ready. And that's going to certainly determine on a daily basis where he's at. But we'll be gone. I'll have to monitor it by the phone."
Santana, who has been battling shoulder weakness since the early days of camp, has not thrown a bullpen session since early March. Despite throwing regularly off flat ground in Port St. Lucie, Fla., he has not stepped on a mound in over two weeks.
Not long after Santana first backed off his throwing program in February, he and general manager Sandy Alderson sparred publicly regarding the health of his shoulder. Santana then threw a surprise bullpen session in early March, which Collins classified as an attempt to prove that his shoulder was healthy. Several days later, Santana threw two pitches off a mound; he has not stepped atop one since.
"At that particular time, that was his way of making sure everybody knew his shoulder was fine and that he wasn't hurt," Collins said. "He wasn't ready to pitch, and now we've got to get ready to pitch. As I told him, I don't care about yesterday. I care about what you're going to do now. We've got to move forward here. What happened six weeks ago has absolutely no bearing on what we need to do going forward. Let's do it right."
Santana is now more than 30 months removed from surgery to repair a torn capsule in his left shoulder. He missed the entire 2011 season, but seemed back to normal last year before throwing 134 pitches in his June 1 no-hitter.
Struggling from that point forward, Santana began battling back, ankle and shoulder issues and finished the regular season on the disabled list. He did not throw off a mound at all this winter in an attempt to rest as much as possible. But when he reported to camp in February, Santana discovered his shoulder lacked the strength necessary to begin a normal spring progression.
"It's hard to say it was a setback," Collins said. "I just think he wanted to prove that his arm was OK, that his arm was healthy, instead of trying to make sure and not let all this other stuff bother him. He got angry about it. So we needed to go back to Step 1 again."
With Santana now unavailable to start the season, Jeremy Hefner will slide into the fifth spot of the rotation. Shaun Marcum is expected to pitch Game 2 for the Mets, with Matt Harvey and Dillon Gee following in that order.
Collins said he will keep in close touch with Santana to continue gauging his progress once camp breaks. Due to weather considerations, it makes far more sense for Santana to remain in Florida than to join his teammates at Citi Field.
Regardless of location, the Mets will have no accurate timetable for Santana's return until he begins throwing off a mound. At this point, the odds of Santana pitching anytime in the first half of April seem slim.
Worth noting
• Second baseman Daniel Murphy (strained right intercostal) approached Terry Collins on Friday to say he will be ready for Opening Day. The manager's response? "I said, 'Let's talk about that next Wednesday and Thursday,'" Collins said. Murphy played defense in a Minor League game last weekend, but has not played since. Due to disabled list backdating rules, it would not make sense for the Mets to use Murphy in a Grapefruit League game unless they are sure he will be ready on April 1.
• Third baseman David Wright (strained left intercostal) took ground balls Friday and played catch, but did not swing a bat. The Mets still hope that Wright will be ready for Opening Day.
• Outfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis (bone bruise, left knee) and infielder Justin Turner (sprained right ankle) both played in a Minor League game Friday at Port St. Lucie, Fla. Both came out of it healthy, though Nieuwenhuis no longer projects to break camp with the big league team. Turner, who will make the team, is a leading candidate to sub for Murphy if the latter is not ready by Opening Day.
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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I'd like to know who Hermione's favourite professor is. I have a feeling it's McGonagall, but I'm not sure at all. Thanks for any help.
I'd like to know who Hermione's favourite professor is. I have a feeling it's McGonagall, but I'm not sure at all. Thanks for any help.
The Ancient Runes professor is always a good guess, since she says that it's her favorite subject.
But McGonagall is very possible as well.
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I agree with either of those guesses, but I tend to think that Flitwick would be her favorite. Any of those would probably work.
Actually, in the books her favorite subject is Arithmancy (Ancient Runes is her favorite in PoA movie), so my guess is Professor Vector, closely followed by Professor McGonagall.
I actually disagree with Professor Vector. In the books, Hermione doesn't base how much she enjoys a subject on the professor. She just has a knack for all of them. Even though Arithmancy is her favorite, she might just like the subject, not the professor.
My guess would be McGonagall. After all, she loves the subject, and is good at it. She thought that Mcgonagall was right in PoA about Harry's firebolt, and she is also her HoH.
Might I be a complete spoilsport and discount the theory of Hermione having a favourite teacher at all?
Firstly, it's worth thinking about who Harry's - or more crucially perhaps Ron's - favourite teacher is. One of the great aspects of Hogwarts, as rightly pointed out to me by the friend who got me into the books in the first place, is that almost all of the teachers are very cool and likeable. Flitwick, Sprout and McGonagall for example are all very cool in their own ways. If we look to Harry's favourite teacher, the only two who would appear to rise above the rest are Lupin - who by Lupin's friendship with James and Harry's Dementor circumstances is naturally closer than the other teachers would be - and Barty Crouch Jnr, who we can rather safely rule out. Even when they are protesting to Umbridge about Lupin's brilliance, he is referred to as being the best DAtDA teacher they ever had, not teacher generally (I believe, from memory, it is Dean who says this, but it doesn't really matter to the wider point). The question of favourite teacher is never directly raised in the books because the overall quality of the teachers was very high - excepting only Snape, Trelawney, Hagrid perhaps, Binns and the DAtDA maniacs. This, of course, does not resemble education generally at schools (or at least at mine), which have long since been filled with all kinds of morons - some seemingly from birth, some who have evidently had the joy of teaching slowly crushed out of them - with a few gems. Naming my favourite teacher at high school is a great deal easier than naming Harry's, because while he might have been just as good as the Hogwart's lot, his competition was decidedly less fierce.
Then, of course, we have the fact that Hermione is a gifted and hard working student who takes extremely well to the practice of self-study. For her more than anyone, the attraction of a subject will have little to do with the teacher in question. Arithmancy may be her favourite, but she spends a great deal more time studying her subjects out of lessons than within them - as the library appears to be her natural habitat. I think that Hermione respects all her teachers, and barring Umbridge and occasionally Snape, probably likes them all too. Worthy of note is her natural reaction to the Grubbly-Plank led lesson in OotP, where she very much enjoys the lesson even though it insinuates that she prefers anyone to Hagrid, a close friend.
So, in conclusion, I don't think she has one. Sorry about that.
Thanks for all of your help, guys! I think AurorKeefy has a really good point there.
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Clarkson University President Tony Collins has announced that Mary E. Graham has been promoted from associate professor to full professor of consumer and organizational studies in the School of Business. Promotion to professor is considered to be virtually the highest honor that a university can bestow upon its faculty.
Graham has been a member of the Organizational Studies faculty since 2000. From 2000-2007, she was the Edgar A. Newell II Scholar of Management. She was promoted to associate professor in 2003. Graham was the first woman to be tenured and is first to be promoted to full professor in the Clarkson University School of Business.
Graham teaches courses on human resource management (HRM) and organizational behavior to undergraduate, MBA, master of science and executive-level students, in traditional, hybrid and distance formats. She has chaired the committees of seven master of science in management graduates and she has served on two Ph.D. committees.
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ABOUT 7am on Sunday, Sydney time, the Wallabies run on to the Stade de France to play the hosts. The Test is one of 10 to be played during the weekend, starting with a double-header in Wales, where Russia meet the USA and Samoa take on Canada. In Montevideo, Uruguay host Portugal, while the usual suspects are also doing their stuff - England play Fiji, Wales face Argentina, Italy meet Tonga, Ireland do battle with South Africa, Romania take on Japan and Scotland host New Zealand at Murrayfield.
This festival of rugby ends on December 1, after more than 30 Tests, when the Wallabies play Wales at the Millennium Stadium at Cardiff. There is a serious side to the thrills and spills. On December 3, the IRB announces the rankings for the 2015 Rugby World Cup tournament to be played in England. These rankings will take into account the results of November-December Tests. The cup rankings are often crucial to the outcome of the tournament.
Australia are ranked No.2 in the world, with New Zealand (1) leading South Africa (3) and England (4). If the Wallabies hold this ranking or slip down only one place, they will end up in the half of the draw for the 2015 cup that does not include the All Blacks. A win against France, ranked No.5, will help this cause significantly. France are 0.06 ranking points behind England. Wales are 0.77 points behind France. As the Wallabies and the All Blacks are playing England and Wales during the festival, it can be asserted that the first shots of the 2015 cup are going to be fired in this month.
The dominance of the cup tournament in the organisation of the game is sometimes (but not by me) put up as the ugly side of the professionalising of the code. The fact is, however, as the 30-Test festival indicates, professionalism has not destroyed the best features of the amateur game. It has, in fact, enhanced them. There is more touring at all levels of the game now than ever there was in the past. This is something that lovers of rugby must applaud. The concept of the tour remains as much an essential ingredient in the DNA of the rugby union games (as opposed to the other football codes) as it did in 1888 when a New Zealand Native side toured Britain, Australia (playing VFL football in Victoria) and New Zealand playing 107 matches: and a British side toured Australia (again playing VFL football in Victoria) and New Zealand. Running with the ball is no longer the distinctive feature of the rugby union game. But the imperative of the touring ethic, an instinct encouraged by Dr Arnold, who was an inveterate traveller, remains at the heart of the game.
After 17 years as a professional code, rugby union still remains a game for all sizes and all degrees of fitness. This is another welcome carry-over from the amateur era. When the Wallabies and the French line up for the anthems there will the tall second-rowers, the front-row fatties (now six of them in the 23-man squad), the whippy outside backs and the small, wiry halves. This physical democracy of the game, which has been an IRB priority in its approach to drafting the laws of the game, is an important part of rugby's tremendous recent spread through Africa, the Americas and into Asia.
Now back to the din and sweat of the Stade de France. This will be Robbie Deans's 68th Test as Wallabies coach, breaking Bob Dwyer's record of 67 Tests. Matthew Alvarez, the ARU's expert statistician, says when you exclude Tests against the All Blacks from his record, Deans's winning percentage increases from 58 per cent to 73.5 per cent.
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text: I think oro needs to seal madara. While sasuke and naruto fight madara and juubi. Obito will die soon enough. Maybe by sasuke for lying to him about the uchih massacre. Either madara must be sealed in order to be defeated. And I think only oro or naruto with help would be able to do that. Oro with help too but he has more knowledge. Kishi has a lot og explaining left to do.


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"Youngblood Hawke is a tremendous novel, rich and meaty, full of wisdom and pain
. It's the veritable Big Balzacthe elusive challenge that American writers from Dreiser to today's Tom Wolfe have risen to with varying degrees of success. As searing and accurate a picture of New York in the late 1940s and 1950s as The Bonfire of the Vanities was of its period, Youngblood Hawke has the added bonus of a born novelist's heart beating beneath the surface. And icing the cake are some marvelous Hollywood sections, including the best agent-in-action-on-two-telephones scene ever captured in print. My guess is that Youngblood Hawke will be around as long as people are interested in sex, money, the creation of art, and characters who continue to blaze in a reader's memory long after the last page is turned."LATimes


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One Saturday morning, a beautiful day,
With nothing much better to do,
I thought I'd examine a question I had,
So I went off to visit the zoo.
The monkeys were swinging on bars in their cage—
I watched, the entire day long—
But not one of the monkeys evolved to a man;
That's how I know Darwin was wrong.
Empirical study (like mine) has disclosed
That a theory is never a fact;
Since we never see monkeys evolve into men,
It's time "evolution" was sacked.
With Darwin defeated, it's time to explore
What they claim is the age of the earth;
"Tectonics" makes mountains and continents move
If the theory retains any worth.
So I hopped in the car, and I drove to the shore
With the cliffs overlooking the sea;
I watched the day long, while they moved not an inch—
The question is settled, for me!
When scientists tell me their method is best,
I agree—cos I've used it myself!
And I'll take what I see with my very own eyes
Over dusty old books on the shelf.
And since monkeys are monkeys, and people are people,
And mountains are solid as stone
I've falsified science, and better than that,
I figured it out on my own!


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i have a table that i want to format but for the very last line, debugging in msvc++ it says character 12 and i looked it up and its a form feed.
how can i look for this throughout my document?
i'm using getline and all my lines are then strings.
then i want to do something like....if(line.formfeedfound()) then line.erase();


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PINE BLUFF The Arkansas Tech Golden Suns volleyball team collected its third win of the week Friday night to improve to 13-7 overall on the season as the Suns stepped out of Gulf South Conference play with a 3-0 (30-25, 30-24, 30-19) victory over NCAA Division I-A member Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
"This was a long week with two GSC matches," Tech head coach Kristy Bayer said after the road match. "The intensity wasn't as high today, but we are happy to finish the week with three 3-0 wins."
As a team, the Golden Suns out-hit UAPB .305 to .078. For the second straight night, Tech was able to hold their opponent to under a .100 hitting percentage. On Thursday, Tech held Southern Arkansas to a mark of .067 in Tucker Coliseum.
Offensively, the Golden Suns were led by junior outside hitter Racheal Urquhart who posted a team-high 10 kills while hitting a very convincing .471. Freshman Sarah Von Lienen hit .533 in the midst of tallying nine kills and two block assists. Junior setter Kayla Allison recorded 11 assists with five kills and no attack errors while hitting .714. The junior setter also added two block assists for Tech. Freshman setter Kera Dukic also notched 10 assists for Tech.
Defensively, freshman Ashley Camp led the way with 11 digs and senior defensive specialist Courtney Collins posted eight digs in the victory.
UAPB, fell to 0-4 on the year but was led by Krystalea Phillips who finished with a match-high 16 kills while hitting .407 against the Golden Suns defense.
Tech will travel to Searcy and get back into GSC play 7 p.m. Tuesday against the Harding Lady Bisons.
"We need to take our momentum we gained from our three wins this week, into the Harding match," Bayer said. "Thus far, it is the most important match of the season."


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Escondido's forced move to by-district city council elections could have ramifications for every other city in North County, especially Vista and Oceanside. In agreeing to give up its traditional citywide council elections, Escondido settled a voting rights lawsuit that easily could have been aimed at any of those two cities, which also have significant (and growing) populations of Latinos. Unlike the other cities, though, Escondido (49 percent Latino) has had a dearth of Latinos elected to the council – two in the city's history. In contrast, Oceanside (36 percent Latino) and Vista (48 percent Latino) have had two Latino council members at the same time. To their credit, both Escondido and Oceanside attempted (but failed) to get voter approval for proposals that would have moved the two cities closer to a more equitable council election system.
The reasons for those failures are many and have been addressed in this space and by others in the past. In both cases, though, there were issues of how the proposals were packaged and a suspicion of the motives of the two respective council majorities. I have long opposed by-district elections for cities the size of those in North County, believing it fosters divisiveness. Nonetheless, the current election system used throughout North County is wrought with problems. All candidates run on a single ballot with the top voter getters "winning" council seats, despite the fact they may have only a small sliver of the total votes cast. Thus the advantage goes to the better-funded candidates with the most devoted cadre of supporters. A better option would be requiring candidates to be from a certain district, but having winners picked by a majority of all city voters, even if that meant conducting runoff elections. Developing those proposals and selling them to voters takes time. And in the face of a potential multimillion-dollar civil rights lawsuit, time was the one thing Escondido didn't have.
At this point, neither Oceanside nor Vista is facing a lawsuit concerning council elections. They have to put together some sort of reform that could alleviate the possibility of a future lawsuit. Both cities should put together their own bipartisan panels to conduct community workshops on council election reforms. Unlike Oceanside's experience of a year ago, these panels should be given ample time to get citizens' input. Once this "citizens' proposal" gets the required vetting of the council, then and only then should it be placed on a ballot.
Regardless of how, though, something needs to be done about electoral reform to ensure broader participation by all. Civil rights advocates are not going to rest with the Escondido settlement, nor should they; they could easily be planning the next city to target with a similar lawsuit. And the best way to deter potential legal headaches in the future is to go on the offense in the present.


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Oklahoma is projected by the media to win the Big 12 title.
The preseason poll has the Sooners claiming the championship with 32 of 41 first-place votes.
West Virginia was picked to finish second, followed by Texas.
The Big 12 media preseason poll:
1. Oklahoma
2. West Virginia
3. Texas
4. Oklahoma State
6. Kansas State
7. Baylor
8. Iowa State
9. Texas Tech
10. Kansas
The media chose West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith as the Big 12 Preseason Offensive Player of the Year over Oklahoma's Landry Jones. Texas defensive end Alex Okafor was named preseason Defensive Player of the Year and Oklahoma receiver Trey Metoyer, whom many predict will be an even bigger hit than Missouri's Dorial Green-Beckham, as the Newcomer of the Year.
Smith is coached by former Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen. Under Holgorsen last year at West Virginia, Smith threw for 4,385 yards and ripped Clemson to shreds in the Orange Bowl.
Okafor was a first-team player last year for the Longhorns after posting 58 tackles, 14 tackles for loss, seven sacks, 17 pass pressures and a host of other jaw-dropping stats.


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Kelly Calabrese was recently catapulted into the national spotlight by accident via Keith Hernandez's on-air remarks, and Renel Brooks-Moon is well-known in the Bay Area as the stadium voice for the San Francisco Giants.
But there are several other women playing key roles with major league teams. According to the 2005 Racial Gender Report Card for Major League Baseball, two women were in CEO/president roles, and 31 women held vice-president positions with major league teams.
In a year when the first woman (Effa Manley) will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, here are five other women with visible roles in Major League Baseball:
Jean Afterman
Afterman, the Yankees' vice president and assistant general manager, succeeded Kim Ng in 2001 to become only the third woman to hold such a role in Major League Baseball. Afterman was instrumental in signing Hideki Matsui and continues to be an integral part of the Yankees' presence in Asia.
Pam Gardner
Gardner, the Astros' president of business operations, is one of only two women to hold a CEO/president role in baseball. Now in her 18th season with the Astros, Gardner oversees revenue areas, customer service, sponsorship and ticket sales, as well as community and marketing outreach programs.
Jamie McCourt
As the Dodgers' vice chairman and president, McCourt is the highest-ranking female executive in Major League Baseball. The wife of owner and chairman Frank McCourt, who bought the Dodgers on Jan. 29, 2004, Jamie oversees strategic planning and development for the franchise.
Kim Ng
Ng is now in her fifth season as the Dodgers' vice president and assistant general manager, one of only two women to hold such a position in baseball (Jean Afterman is the other). Ng became the first woman in major league history to interview for a GM position when she was a candidate for the Dodgers' job, which went to Ned Colletti.
Suzyn Waldman
Waldman joined John Sterling in the radio booth as the Yankees' color commentator in 2005 to become the first woman to hold a full-time position as a major league broadcaster. Waldman was also the first woman to work on a nationally televised baseball broadcast and the first to provide play-by-play coverage for a MLB team.


text: Hey, I'm caroline and i love love love Hp, mugglenet, and mnff. i dont have any stories because i prefer reading to writing, and my grammar/spelling isnt too great. ive had this username for a long time and i dont really like it. but i dont want to loose all my reviews and favorites and stuff so i keep it. besides hp, i also love animals, sports, reading, and acting. i also like writing, but only for myself, not for thers because i am bery self concious (or however u spell it) and, once again, dont have very good grammar skills. so anywho, ill be on MNFF reading and maybe writing in the near or distant future. whatever. hp has always been there for me and its not going to judge me if i dont decide to write right now. stay tuned!


text: AirAsia X shatters another load factor record with 87% in 1st quarter, 2012 Sepang, 30 April 2012 AirAsia X, the long haul, low fare affiliate of AirAsia today announced another load factor record in its first quarter of 2012. AirAsia X carried 0.69 million passengers, a growth of 7.5% over the same quarter in 2011. This exceeded a capacity increase of 5.5% to 4.5 billion Available-Seat-Kms (ASKs), which was achieved with the same aircraft fleet of 9 Airbus A330s and 2 Airbus A340s, and tempered by the suspension of flights to Mumbai in February, and Delhi, Paris and London at the end of May. In terms of passenger traffic, AirAsia X grew by 12.4% to 3.9 billion Revenue-Passenger-Kms (RPKs) for Q1-2012, resulting in a record-breaking quarterly load factor of 87%. This is an increase of 6 percentage-points from the same quarter last year, where it registered a load factor of 81%. AirAsia X's core markets in Australia, Greater China, and North Asia continues to deliver strong passenger growth, with continued positive increases in load factor, validating the airline's strategy of rebalancing its network from Europe and India towards Australia and North Asia. Azran Osman-Rani, CEO of AirAsia X, said, "Our continued growth points to a clear positive demand trajectory for 2012 compared to 2011, despite the continuous higher and more volatile fuel prices and uncertain global economies and competition. The airline's strategy is to establish an optimal network where there is scale, focusing on its core markets where AirAsia X is in a position of strength." "We are confident we will keep growing into the second half of 2012, where we have new enhanced innovation and ancillary offerings. AirAsia X has improved its Fly-Thru connecting transfer service to more attractive destinations with better flight connectivity options across South East Asia and beyond. The airline recently increased flight frequencies from Kuala Lumpur to popular holiday destinations such as Ho Chi Minh (4X Daily), Bandung (4 X Daily) and Singapore (13 X Daily)." Cargo operations on the other hand were affected by the discontinued India routes, with AirAsia X carrying 7,407 tonnes of freight for its current quarter, registering a 11% decrease from a year ago. However, due to strong improvement in yields, cargo revenue increased by a double –digit in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the first quarter in 2011. AirAsia X is the long-haul, low-cost affiliate of AirAsia Bhd, Malaysia's largest airline by market capitalization and passengers.


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You may start a business with a friend and end up not remaining friends after all, because money and prosperity are powerful forces that may pull friendships apart. You mustn't take starting a business with a friend lightly, and you mustn't allow the bond of friendship to blind you to certain things you ought to take care of from the outset. (Daugiau ...)


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Lamar City Council, 6:30 p.m., Lamar City Hall. (885-3865)
Dardanelle City Council, 7 p.m., Dardanelle City Hall. (229-4500)
Pope County Quorum Court Budget Committee, 5:30 p.m., first floor of Pope County Courthouse. (968-6064)
Dover City Council, 6 p.m., Dover City Hall. (331-3270)
Atkins Planning Commission, 7 p.m., Atkins City Hall.
Pope County Election Commission, 1:30 p.m., Election Headquarters, 1509 E. Main St., Ste. 7.
Pope County Quorum Court, 5:30 p.m., first floor of Pope County Courthouse. (968-6064)
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President Obama has signed a bill that allows the North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) to resume pumping water from Lake Texoma when a new $300 million pipeline is completed in the fall of 2013.
NTMWD, which supplies water to Richardson, currently cannot utilize water from Lake Texoma, which represents 28 percent of its water supply, because of the invasive zebra mussel.
The change gives the NTMWD an exemption from the Lacey Act, which had prohibited use of water from Lake Texoma due to the presence of zebra mussels. Now use of water from the lake will be allowed as soon as a 46-mile pipeline to transfer water from the Texoma pump station directly to the water treatment plant in Wylie is completed. The closed pipeline and the water treatment process will prevent any invasive species, including the zebra mussels, from being released into the environment while restoring a major portion of the NTMWD's water supply.
Despite the legislative action that will restore the Lake Texoma water supply late next year, the NTMWD remains under Stage 2 water management measures in response to the current drought conditions. An unseasonably dry summer and fall has resulted in Lavon Lake, the district's primary reservoir, to drop almost 10 feet below the normal water level.
Water efficient practices are necessary to extend the current available supplies until Lavon Lake receives much needed rain inflows and the Texoma supply is restored.
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Broadcom's Firepath combines RISC, DSP elements
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SAN JOSE, Calif. The Firepath processor described by Broadcom Corp. at this week's Embedded Processor Forum exemplifies the variety of architectures now being employed to attack different communications applications.
Firepath combines elements of DSP and RISC processors together with long instruction word (LIW) and single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) parallel processing. The combination of techniques is expected to excel at finite impulse response (FIR) and fast fourier transform (FFT), as found in xDSL applications and elsewhere, according to presenter Sophie Wilson, chief architect at Broadcom's DSL business unit in Cambridge, England.
Wilson described Firepath as a scalable architecture and said that Broadcom is working on a number of implementations. The first is expected to be a system-chip code-named Santorini, which will be paired with a complementary analog front-end chip code-named Opala.
Firepath has two 64-bit RISC datapaths running in parallel, Wilson said. Each datapath includes one-, two-, four-, or eight-way SIMD arithmetic capabilities. Therefore, either a single 64-bit math operation, two 32-bit word operations, four 16-bit or eight 8-bit math operations can be performed in a single cycle on each side of the machine.
With the two pipelines running in lock-step, but not necessarily performing the same operations, Firepath can perform up to sixteen 8-bit data operations in a given cycle.
In a question and answer session after her presentation, Wilson said of math-intensive applications, "SIMD should be a fact of life as soon as you move above 32 bits."
Firepath is targeted at bulk data processing, where large volumes of data are acted upon by the same algorithms repeatedly. The two-slot LIW approach is reflected in the fact that each instruction is constructed in two halves, with the halves referring to the left and right datapaths. Each half is completely independent, and all combinations of elemental half-instructions is allowed.
Specific support is provided for DSP and control code, though Wilson adamantly denied that Firepath is either a DSP or a RISC controller architecture, citing its lack of DSP addressing modes and zero-overhead branches and its unified data memory structure. It does have additional support for Galois field arithmetic.
The use of a simple two-way LIW approach is a boon to compiler writers, as is Firepath's large number of 64-bit width registers, Wilson said.
In fact, a complete C language compiler has been available from Greenhills Software Inc. for some time, Wilson said.
While Firepath is not a DSP architecture, according to Wilson, it has been designed to do DSP-like tasks. Eight 16-bit MACs per cycle provide 7.2 taps per cycle for FIR, and a 256-point complex FFT using the radix-4 algorithm can be performed in 1,290 cycles.
No implementation details were given, and the cycle performance is based on the assumption of large on-chip memory.
Santorini and Opala are expected as the first manifestations of Firepath aimed at a central office DSL application such as a 12-channel DSL modem.
Wilson argued that the SIMD capability is applicable in control functions as well as in datapath processing, and that the two-way LIW approach makes it easy for the compiler to schedule work. "If you can handle two-way superscalarity you can handle this," she said.
No details were presented of target process technologies for Santorini, but Wilson said there was little difference between the clock frequency of Firepath and other processors in a given process technology.


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Kristina G. Lu, VMD, Dipl. ACT
Kristina G. Lu, VMD, Dipl. ACT, practices with Hagyard Equine Medical Institute, Lexington, Ky.
Articles by Kristina Lu
Problem Breeding Mare Table Topic (AAEP 2012)
December 30, 2012
Attendees discussed anovulatory follicles, ovulation induction agents, oviductal dysfunction, and more. Read More
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I have a stallion that "saucers" (exhibits glans penis enlargement) prior to mounting. Any suggestions? Read More


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Fast food restaurants add healthier options, but still do not address high-calorie foods
With pressure from media, legislation, and a health conscious society, fast food companies have been coming up with new recipes and ideas for healthier menu options. From salads to oatmeal, fruit cups and apple slices, you might think fast food has become healthier. However, according to a new study, calorie counts remain the same for existing menu items, and while there are new healthy options, little is being done to address the high-calorie food items.
Led by Katherine W. Bauer, assistant professor in Temple University's Department of Public Health and Center for Obesity Research and Education, the study found that the average calorie content of foods offered by major fast food restaurants changed very little.
In the study, researchers analyzed menu offerings and nutrient composition information from eight leading fast food restaurant chains in the U.S.
Spanning 1997–1998 and 2009–2010, the number of lunch/dinner menu items offered by these restaurants increased by 53% from 679 to 1036 items. Across all menu items, the median energy content remained relatively stable over the study period.
Examining specific food categories, the median energy content of desserts and condiments increased, the energy content of side items decreased from 264 to 219 (this may be due to the addition of lower-calorie side salads and smaller portion sizes of French fries), and the energy content of entrées and drinks remained level.
Cities like Philadelphia and New York City already require menu labeling as mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and in the future, all consumers will be able to see calories for all food items posted at restaurants and food vendors with more than 20 locations. As these calorie count menus start to pop up nationally, more pressure will be placed on these companies to adjust their products.
On one hand, we have the right to order whatever we want and having options gives people the choice to make their own decisions on how many calories they are consuming. And some people like their fast food burgers and nuggets the way they are. However, what can be deceiving is ordering a salad, which you would assume, is a healthy entrée option, but if it includes fried chicken and ranch dressing, there may be more calories than you think!
Read more at Temple University.
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Still enjoying the interface, but this tablet is so much slower than my iPad 2. C'mon, HP. Another update soon, please.
Anecdotal but it seems a lot of iPad 2 owners are trying other tablets out. It's as if Apple hasn't completely won them over or they're just looking for a reason to switch.
Maybe it's Flash, maybe it's the UI, maybe it's "freedom" from the walled garden.
And model after model, people find that these alternatives are just not as polished as iPad 2 or have a lot of shortcomings -- and some people will put up with these just so they can say they don't have Apple product.


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June 15, 2009
Catherine Hardwicke Talks Twilight
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I love Catherine. I wish she had stayed on as director because she just seemed like she bonded with everyone. I love her carefree spirit.ReplyDelete
Ugh! Lady! Take a bow! Your time in the Twilight spotlight is done!ReplyDelete
I've been rereading Twilight and just finished the Meadow scene....I'm so angry at what Hardwicke did to it! It was a beautiful moment for Bella and Edward just filled with sexual tension and she turned it into a staring contest.
Can't wait for New Moon!
- AnonymousJune 15, 2009 at 9:09 PM
You know, I have to say that the one scene I was looking forward to was the part when Bella was in the hospital in Pheonix and Edward played with her and kisses her to make her monitor go crazy. I HATED how the scene came out in Twilight really ruined the ending of the movie for me.ReplyDelete
Yeah, not to hate on her, but I really just didn't care for the hospital scene either. I really thought if I was going to cry at any point in the movie it would be there...however..I ended up laughing at the poorly executed scene instead...Let's hope New Moon is better. :)ReplyDelete
I agree, Twicat. She needs to bow out gracefully. She keeps blabbing on as if she's created a masterpiece and not something that is merely tolerated(but loved) because of the excellent casting.ReplyDelete
- thparkleJune 15, 2009 at 10:29 PM
In all fairness, every where she goes she is probably asked about Twilight all day long. And I like Catherine's free spirit and think she was really into Twilight and cared about it. But I too felt cheated out of the hospital scene and especially the meadow scene.....it was a starring contest.....weird! I pray that NM will be better translated from book to screen.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2009 at 12:56 AM
She needs to go away now, there is a reason she isn't directing the second film.ReplyDelete
I'm sure she a nice person, but for as long as I have been commenting on this blog site. I still think the movie has MAJOR flaws, could have been portrayed with so much better vision and direction, just using the book (which was really detailed in the writing). Can't completely put all the fault on CH, the screenwriting is what sucked too!! I know they still have the same screen writer,so I hope she has grown in expierence along with the cast.ReplyDelete
I was like all of you a little dissapointed at how they change A LOT!!! They keep the dialogue but the scenes what a mess!!! I mean I loveeeee Twilight but there was sooo much they could do!! If you see in the book there's a lot of feelings involved between Bella and Edward and the movie is just like bleh...She did a great job buttt I still think Chris's job is better. For what I have seen here and other blogs he tried to stick with the book and a lot of things remain the same...let's hope New Moon gets the feelings that we didn't see in Twilight... She should move on!!!ReplyDelete


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Speed skater Alvarez signs with White Sox
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
CHICAGO -- There have been plenty of two-sport athletes who have dotted the White Sox landscape.
Josh Fields and Joe Borchard were accomplished collegiate quarterbacks, while Hall of Famer Frank Thomas spent time as a tight end with the Auburn football program to name a few. But in Eddy Alvarez, the White Sox might have their most unique combination of athletic ability.
Alvarez, 24, tweeted on Wednesday that he has signed with the White Sox. An accomplished collegiate shortstop at Salt Lake Community College, Alvarez is better known for winning a 2014 Olympic silver medal in the 5,000 meter relay of short track speed skating. Alvarez already is in Glendale, Ariz., working out, according to the ballclub.
Petricka having success in the strike zone
CHICAGO -- The secret to Jake Petricka's success seems very simple: throw strikes.
It's the same basic theory espoused by any confident pitcher. But when Petricka gets the ball over the plate this season, the opposition has found it tough to make solid contact.
Petricka has a 0.77 ERA and .158 opponents' average over his last 19 games, with 17 of those appearances being scoreless.
"I've been fortunate that balls hit hard are at people," Petricka said. "It's part of the game. But I need to throw it over the plate and stop putting myself in the jams."
As a pitcher with 60 of his 100 career Minor League efforts coming as a starter, Petricka admits to still having the mentality on trying to be perfect with every pitch. But as a reliever, he has less room to work with walks as he found out on June 3 against the Dodgers. The 26-year-old walked Yasiel Puig trying to be too careful and then walked Hanley Ramirez in a 10-pitch battle, ending his night after two batters.
"It's not a bad habit, but it is a bad habit," said Petricka of trying to be too perfect. "You have to attack the center of the plate. The other night [against the Dodgers], I walked two batters and my night is over. You don't get a chance to find that groove and keep going."
Rienzo using extra time to work on adjustments
CHICAGO -- Andre Rienzo was scheduled to start Wednesday's contest against the Tigers, but because of Tuesday's postponement, the right-hander was skipped and moved to Sunday, with John Danks staying on his regular turn.
"It just makes sense," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura of the rotation adjustment. "We had Chris [Sale] that was going [Thursday] anyway. Give [Rienzo] some time. He might be tired. I think it just makes sense to skip him and get him in over the weekend."
Rienzo started the season at Triple-A Charlotte and then won four of his first six starts with the White Sox and made three quality starts during that stretch. But Rienzo has struggled since, losing three straight and giving up 12 earned runs over his last 12 innings.
This down time has allowed Rienzo to put in extra work with pitching coach Don Cooper. He understands location down in the zone becomes crucial for a pitcher who doesn't have overpowering stuff, but he also is focusing on his release point.
"I made mistakes the last two games, and I paid for that," Rienzo said. "They are making me work a little bit with Cooper and [White Sox bullpen coach Bobby Thigpen], so we can make the mistakes not happen anymore.
"It's minimal, but I need to find it again. This timing is good to find it."
Despite the rough stretch, the White Sox stand behind Rienzo as a starter.
"I'm glad they're so confident in me," Rienzo said. "I had pretty good games the first four games, and now I have a little bit of shake. But I like the confidence shown in me, and I want to answer that with good games."
Nine of top 10 Draft picks among signings
CHICAGO -- The White Sox agreed to terms with 28 players from their 2014 First-Year Player Draft class, including nine of their Top 10 selections. Carlos Rodon, the third selection overall, is the only player not signed of that first 10.
This list of signees includes second-round pick Spencer Adams, third-round pick Jace Fry and fourth-round pick Brett Austin. Adams, a right-handed hurler from White County High School in Georgia, was at the ballpark Wednesday and signed at a full recommended slot value of $1,282,700, per MLB.com's Jim Callis. Callis also confirmed that Fry, a southpaw from Oregon State, came in at $760,000, which was above the recommended $726,000.
Adams produced a 0.72 ERA with 90 strikeouts as a senior at White County High School, while Fry finished 11-2 with a 1.80 ERA in 16 starts as a junior for Oregon State. Austin served as Rodon's catcher at North Carolina St. and will remain a catcher in the White Sox organization.
Third to first
• The White Sox acquired right-handed pitcher Shawn Hill from Toronto in exchange for cash and assigned him to Triple-A Charlotte. Hill, 33, who pitched for the Expos in '04, posted a 2-1 record with a 4.85 ERA in six games with Triple-A Buffalo.
• Tim Anderson, the club's top pick in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft and current shortstop for Class A Winston-Salem, was added to the Carolina League All-Star Team. Anderson and outfielder Courtney Hawkins, the team's top selection in the 2012 Draft, will represent the Dash in the Carolina-California League All-Star Game on June 17 in Wilmington, Del.
Anderson ranks among the Carolina League leaders in slugging percentage (third, .489), triples (third, seven), total bases (third, 109), hits (tied for third, 69), extra-base hits (fourth, 25) and average (fifth, .309). Anderson is hitting .443 (31-for-70) over his last 16 games.
• Freshmen outfielders Corey Ray (Louisville) and Ro Coleman (Vanderbilt), products of the White Sox Amateur City Elite (ACE) program, will compete at the College World Series in Omaha, Neb.
Ray and Coleman, who were teammates at Simeon Career Academy, are the first ACE members to play in the World Series. Louisville and Vanderbilt meet on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. CT.
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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For the second-straight week, Crew Captain Federico Higuaín is up for Goal of the Week honors. Like last week, this week's tally come via a second-half chip from outside the box to put the Black & Gold up 2-0. Higuaín faces stiffer competition this week in his attempt to retain the Goal of the Week crown, however, as New England's Juan Agudelo and LA's Robbie Keane each scored fantastic goals over the weekend.
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Joan Rivers' weekly show Fashion Police is going on hiatus in the wake of her hospitalisation.
E! network has announced the long-running program, which normally airs fresh episodes on Fridays, is on break this week and next, "as we await Joan and Melissa's return in front and behind the camera." Rivers' daughter, Melissa Rivers, is its executive producer.
In its place, the network plans to air two special programs focusing on New York Fashion Week.
Meanwhile, the New York state health department has announced it is investigating the circumstances surrounding Joan's cardiac arrest during an outpatient procedure.
Spokesman James O'Hare said that the department is looking into "the whole matter." He declined to discuss specifics.
Comedian Joan has been moved out of intensive care and is "being kept comfortable", her daughter has said in a statement.
The 81-year-old star was rushed to the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in a critical condition on Thursday (August 28) after having a heart attack in a doctor's office.
In a statement her daughter Melissa said: "My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you for your continued support."
Earlier in the week her daughter urged the public to pray for her mother's recovery.
She said: ''I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family.
''We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.''
US news sites reported that Rivers was undergoing a throat procedure in a clinic when she became unwell.
Leading figures from the world of acting have taken to Twitter to pass on messages of best wishes.
Heroes star Zachary Quinto tweeted: ''sending so much love and healing energy to @Joan_Rivers !!! no one is ready to go on without you lady!!!''
Modern Family actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson wrote: ''Sending all my love and prayers to my friend @Joan_Rivers right now.''


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so prewashing
I have heard both, people do it and people don't
I learned to sew on my own, from reading books and some advise from my MIL, and everything I was told was prewash, so as soon as I get my fabrics (even precuts) I wash them.
Now I'm finding with quilting a lot of people don't pre wash....I know it's really a personal decision, but I was just wondering what everyone's thoughts were on this, what you did and what your experience has been.
If you don't pre wash a quilt.....is there a lot of distoration after the wash with shrinking? Thanks
thaks Kris ,I did not know that ...Barbara
This has been an interesting thread! I even took a few notes...;D Appreciate the batting information. I have never heard of that alternate starch either, and think I'll have to go looking for it (another excuse to visit the store!).
wow everyone, thank you all so much!!!!!! Ditto on taking notes, it's amazing how much you can learn from posts!
I didn't realize people prepped batting, along with some of these other ideas....thanks!
I prewash all my fabric, but don't hink I bneed to use soap - just warm water so I can make sure the colors don't run. This is sometimes a problem with darks, especially reds, navy, and black. I ruined a quilt I had worked on for days because I had black sashing that bled into the blocks. Never again will I make that mistake. After spinning it dry in the washer, I make a medium solution of liquid starch and water and soak the fabric in it, then spin dry again. This gives the fabric body and makes it easier to handle. I dry it in the dryer so if there is shrinkage, that will take care of it. Have you ever been in a fabric store and your eyes begin to burn? That could be because of the chemicals in the fabric. A friend told me that fabric has formaldahyde and other chemicals in it, so I feel better about washing that out rather than breathing it in my sewing room. I used to iron the fabric after washing/starching when I was putting it away, but another friend suggested waiting to iron it when you are ready to cut. Simply smooth the fabric as much as possible, fold it neatly, and stack it with the others in your stash until you are ready to use it. It will save you some time.
Almost all of my quilts are wall hangings and I tell people to "fluff" them in the dryer (on low) once a year. I don't pre-wash because I like to sew with the crispness of the fabric.
The fun bed quilts I made for my grandchildren didn't get pre-washed either and they are still hanging in there after five years.
I tend to prewash but have ended up with problems with flannel. It does get distorted and I have gotten very frustrated as a fairly new quilter. So I think I may skip the prewash at least with flannels. I have also had the flannel fade quite a bit which also was a lesson learned on where to go and buy the flannels!
I pre-wash when I am using polyester fiberfill but not when using cotton. I do it with poly fill because the poly fill won't shrink with the cotton fabric. With cotton fill, I like to let the fabric shrink with the batting for that old look.
I like the hand of fabric that hasn't been washed and I find that pieces don't distort as easily as they do after washing. If the colour is a dark red or dark blue I might test to see if it will run and if it does, then I'll prewash it. Just toss colour catchers into the washer and you don't have to worry about colours bleeding into surrounding fabrics. Janie
I just test a swatch to see if it's color fast or shrinks a lot. I only pre-wash if it runs on the test or shrinks a lot. I like the effect of the slight shrinkage that happens on the wash after the quilt is done. I think it makes the quilt look more like an old quilt. Of course I hand quilt, so I'm sure that could make some difference. Plus, I like the stability of new unwashed fabric for piecing. I do steam press before cutting, though. I think it makes the fabric "stick together" better for cutting.
I know, to some I must be lazy, but so be it. At least I'm honest about it :)
Linny T
Had quilt teacher who used to work in a fabric store tell us that fabrics are treated with chemicals to protect them from insects and rodents. She got quite sick working there. I pre-wash all mine in warm water and detergent and hate to even handle them alot before washing. I have had a couple of allergic reactions when fabric shopping and quilting alot and can't trace it to anything else. I wash on gentle cycle and can also check then if there is any bleeding before I use a fabric and ruin a project! A little spray or liquid starch can bring back the crispness you need for accurate piecing.
I will test a fabric to see if it runs and if it does I don;t use it. One of my friends washed all her fabrics then made a Mariners Compass king size quilt and the colors still ran. So now ifd I find a fabric runs a lot I don't use it. I do wash and dry flannel quite a few times and then toss it is the dryer again and again so I can be sure it won't shrink once the quilt is made
Other than that I just use it as it comes as I like the crispness of the fabric but we are all different and have to go with what suits us best.
Hampshire, England
As much as I hate to bother with pre washing...I know it's best to do it. For sure prewash fabric with any kind of red because red loves to fade all over your new quilt, especially loves to turn your whites a nice, faded pink!
I am just waiting for a quilt to dry in the dryer right now..burgundy, dark green and white..this is the first time the fabric has been washed and once again I have no problems with fabric...I guess I'm one of the fortunate ones as..never had a problem in 20+ years quilting
Ontario, Canada
I have never had any problems either. Haven't prewashed in years.
Vinton, Virginia
well, all i can say is nana and helly, you are skating on really thin ice or the fabric fairy loves you. helly, how are you, you've been busy? gini
gini in north idaho


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Video and photo gallery: Norwich's newest landmark is toppled to the ground
PUBLISHED: 00:23 11 May 2014 | UPDATED: 11:30 12 May 2014
copyright: Archant 2014
What goes up must come down - an army of volunteers spent today creating Norwich's newest landmark outside the Forum before it was spectacularly toppled to the ground.
About 1,000 boxes and eight miles of tape were used to make the 20-metre high cardboard replica of St Peter Mancroft Church - and everyone was invited to join in the fun.
Called The People's Tower, the project was the first of the free outdoor events for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
For about eight hours people of all ages worked to create the monument, and hundreds gathered to watch the grand finale when the giant tower was pulled to the ground and everyone rushed to jump up and down on the collapsed cardboard creation which aimed to inspire people of all ages to discover their inner child.
"Here today, gone tomorrow, the best art is here in the moment" said Norfolk and Norwich Festival director William Galinsky.
"It's all about shared experiences. It's all about people who were here remembering it for a long time to come.
"They will say to their grandchildren, 'I remember when we built a cardboard replica of that church,' and that is what it is all about."
He said it was a great start to the festival, and prior to the toppling over ceremony joked that the finished masterpiece was so good that it should be given a listed status.
"It's completely brilliant. We have had a lovely day, all days should be like this, and the National Trust or English Heritage should take on the People's Tower because it is such a masterpiece - it would be great with a garden all around it all made out of cardboard!
"It's a really good started to the festival, something different this year. We have had big shows to start the festival in previous years and we wanted to shake it up a bit this year and keep people guessing.
"It has been great fun and I hope people have enjoyed it as much as we have enjoyed working on it."
Building got under way at 10am this morning with work on the cardboard spire, and in good old fashioned British spirit the enthusiastic volunteers refused to let the rain get in the way of the construction process.
Luckily sunshine followed the morning rain, and by lunchtime the four pinnacles surrounding the spire were also in place as crowds of people of all ages gathered to take part in the project.
The cardboard church rose in height throughout the day in the shadow of its centuries old namesake, with claps and cheers each time a layer was completed and the tower was lifted up by volunteers to the next level.
Among those taking part was Andy Bodycombe, who lives in the south of Norwich, and his children Emma, one, and Louis, three.
"We were building boxes and helping to lift the tower. Louis also drew a picture of Emma on one of the boxes.
"I just love getting involved in the festival every year."
Jacqui and Phill Gray, from Wymondham, also took part in The People's Tower with their children Amelia, 10, and Thomas, eight.
Mrs Gray said: "The best thing is that it is bringing the community together. It is a fantastic idea and it just seemed like everybody wants to join in."
Sarah MacLeay, from Hethersett, her husband Murdo and children Anna, five, and Alex, four also worked on the tower.
Mrs MacLeay said: "It was brilliant. It's just so terrific to see something so ordinary like cardboard boxes being turned into a giant art project.
"We really enjoyed last year's festival and are looking forward to this year's events. It makes coming into the city a lovely event."
The cardboard creation has been designed by French artist Olivier Grossetête who has created similar towers in other parts of Europe.
Christophe Goddet, the head builder who was overseeing the construction, said the idea of the project is to help people discover their "inner child" and likened it to a child making a sand castle at the beach and then jumping on it.
The bells at St Peter Mancroft Church rang to announce the start of the construction process this morning and rang again this evening just before the cardboard church was pulled down.
More than 200 people were involved in creating the building blocks at the Forum all this week.
Age UK, Open Academy, Culture Works East, Fairstead Primary School and the RUGroom from City College Norwich are among the groups that have taken part.
The People's Tower is part of the festival's programme of free outdoor performances that are sponsored by Lafarge Tarmac.
• The festival runs until Sunday, May 25. For more about the festival visit www.nnfestival.org.uk


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All right everyone. As I sat down a the computer today I had every intention of telling you that I would not be updating my two stories currently out there...but then I read through all the reviews and it occured to me that it wouldn't be fair. So I will right moer chapters to A Power so Pure and I will also add on chapters to I'll be there for you. Give me some time and I think you'll like 'em!!!
So yeah slight problem now: I had the next chapters for both my current fics ready to go...and now I can't start up the laptop...and therefore I can't get those files off of it and on to this desktop to post...so I;m going to try and rewrite the next chapter to "A Power So Pure" on here, but "I'll Be Here For You" Will have to wait a while guys...I'm really sorry...but I wanted them to be as great as possible...and I guess I took just a little too long.


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LONG BEACH – One person was killed today when a white sedan went down an embankment at the Long Beach (710) Freeway in Long Beach, the California Highway Patrol said.
The CHP received a call at 7:24 a.m. of the sedan crashing on a freeway offramp, said CHP Officer Jennifer Cassidy.
A SigAlert was issued at 8:11 a.m. calling attention to the closure of the southbound 710's exit ramp to westbound Pacific Coast Highway, for an unknown duration.


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Standout running back Adam Taylor of Kay, Texas was more philosophical than distraught after having his junior season cut short because of injury.
"You never want that type stuff to happen, but everything happens for a reason," Taylor said rather matter-of-factly. "I really didn't get too sad about it because it's going to be better in the end. I got to see things a little differently being on the sideline instead of being on the field."
Nearly three quarters into the first game of Katy's 2011 season Taylor, who rushed for 1,553 yards as a sophomore, had already cracked the 100-yard barrier when on his 20th carry against North Shore, he took a hit to the side of his knee and wasn't able to get up.
Just like that, after 20 carries and 106 yards, Taylor was finished for the season with a torn ACL. He had surgery on Sept. 9 and was given a 5-6 month roadmap for recovery and is back to full speed, straight-ahead running again.
"I kept positive and talked to family and got closer to God," Taylor said. "Everything's coming along pretty fast. It's better than they expected and I should be ready to go full speed by the spring."
When he was at full speed Taylor was the second-leading rusher for Katy in 2010 when he averaged 9.77 yards per carry on 160 attempts to go along with 18 touchdowns. Taylor had nine games of 100 yards or more and two others of 94 or better with a career-best of 209 yards coming on 15 attempts in a 56-3 win over Cinco Ranch.
That was the season that made college recruiters stand up and take notice of Taylor - a strong, physical runner - and despite the injury of last season the 6-foot-2, 210-pounder has not fallen off of any recruiting radars.
LSU was among the first to offer a scholarship last summer and since then Taylor reports 16 offers from the likes of Arkansas, Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Illinois, Wisconsin and Northwestern.
"During this (recovery) process I wasn't really focusing on recruiting and just trying to get everything back right," Taylor said. "I was very happy about that (scholarship offers). That was one thing I was worried about. Your junior year's your recruiting year. I wished I could have played because my goal was to be in an All-American game."
Taylor, who is being recruited by special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey, said his offer from LSU took place during an unofficial visit to the campus last July. He said he always admired LSU's program from afar and wanted to gain a better perspective which the visit seemed to accomplish.
"It's great a program with a great tradition and I really wanted to visit," Taylor said. "I really liked the coaches. It was everything I'd hoped for and plenty more."
Click Here to view this Link.There were a couple of other factors that caught the attention of Taylor during LSU's recent run to a 13-1 record and Southeastern Conference championship: the Tigers power running game and the dynamic play of All-American Tyrann Mathieu.
"I was kind of sad they didn't come away with it," Taylor said. "I watched all of their games to see the Honey Badger."
Taylor, who has been timed at 4.5 in the 40, pictures himself as the prototypical runner for a run-oriented team such as LSU that thrives on between-the-tackles running, but has enough of a burst to be able to bounce it outside for additional yardage.
"I like a power, downhill running team," Taylor said.
During his unofficial visit last summer Taylor said LSU Head Coach Les Miles told him he had a place on his team for a back of his ability and mind-set.
Taylor is hopeful of a return visit to LSU, possibly as early as the spring to watch spring practice, with an eye toward an unofficial visit in the fall to see a home game and determine whether the Tigers could be a major player for his services.
"I want to come and see how things are structured," Taylor said. "Right now I want to keep all of my options open because you never know what great opportunity you may have until you look closely at it. I just want to see what's best for me and my family, especially look the type of offense they run."


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