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ScholasticFilms necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 259 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
Scholastic Films
Scholastic Films is a creative video production company tailored for the educational market. Our vision has been to produce quality educational videos to educate, motivate and entertain students and educators of all ages. We work with grade schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges and learning centers.
This logo will be seen by thousands of educators and school faculty looking to design or redesign their academic & vocational program logos. We would like to find a talented artist through this experience that we can outsource all of our college logo design jobs to. There are many!
We are targeting educators and students of all types and ages. However, primary market is colleges.
1. Must be vector.
2. Must have an icon. This is important to us. We want something simple and not to obvious that we will be remembered by. An example of a great icon is the dreamworks icon.
3. Must have registered logo ®
3. Must be symmetrical and marketable.
4. Education should be the predominant theme (over film)
4. Must be all one color, but with different shades. Follow link for example: http://99designs.com/contests/23216
I think I'm leaning towards blues (such as logo #103 and #105 in my contest).
6. Try logo with and without the tagline: Educational Video Production
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To show our support, we at Sears Holdings have focused our community engagement efforts on supporting our heroes and our community heroes - the individuals who face adversity and display the courage to overcome challenges, and communities - comprised of the many neighborhoods served by our thousands of stores. Through volunteerism, monetary donations and merchandise donations, we hope to further improve the lives of our heroes and continue to strengthen the communities we serve.
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YOU ARE WATCHING: Black Widow: Season 1
Have a nice day! All The Best
Black Widow: Season 1
After her husband is assassinated, housewife Carmen reluctantly has to take charge of the criminal business of her family.
Genres: Crime, Drama
Actor: Monic Hendrickx, Sigrid ten Napel, Stijn Taverne, Niels Gomperts
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Country: Netherlands
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In the world of hot rods, there are two kinds of enthusiasts: professional builders and hobbyists. Even though these two subsets share very different professions, they are separated by very little when it comes to their passion. And along with numerous similarities, they also share difficulties. For instance, one of the most common problems amongst all builders is what to build next. In the custom classic truck world, this is the equivalent of writer's block. Picking the next project is possibly the most difficult choice a builder can make, largely in part because of the enormous physical, emotional, and financial commitment required. For Paul Kirkland of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, it was no different, and he quickly found himself in this all too familiar scenario once again.
Over the years Paul has been the proud owner of several classic hot rods. His rsum includes a '55 Chevy, a '73 Oldsmobile, and a '68 Chevelle. For his next project, Paul wanted to take a leap in a completely different direction and do something different from anything he had done before. The only question was what. Paul turned toward his friend Joe for inspiration. Joe quickly pointed out that all of Paul's previous creations shared a common theme: they were all classic musclecars and cruisers. He introduced Paul to the idea of building a pickup truck, such as the '71 he himself owned, and Paul quickly agreed. He set his sights on a similar shortbed Chevy; however, there was one major stipulation: whatever the truck may be, it had to have a big-block. After a few weeks of looking, Paul found his gem in the form of an '85 Chevrolet Scottsdale, complete with a 454 big-block. After a little hardball with the owner, Paul quickly began putting his own imprint on the truck.
The first step was to ditch the mundane wheels that floated between the wheelwells and the asphalt. Paul immediately fitted his pickup with a set of 20-inch Boyd Coddington Smoothie II wheels and Goodyear Eagle 2 tires. Next, he needed a transmission that could complement his big-block and his lead foot. He replaced the TH350 with a TH400 Turbo. After beefing up his transmission, Paul couldn't resist putting his own touch on his 454 big-block. He quickly added a new carburetor and air cleaner from Edelbrock. To achieve that throaty big-block sound, he threw in a set of Doug Thorley headers and a Flowmaster exhaust kit. To carry his newly acquired horsepower to the asphalt, he replaced the stock limited slip rearend with an Eaton posi unit with a set of 3.73 Yukon gears.
Even with all these modifications completed, Paul's Chevy remains a work in progress. The future still holds countless upgrades that will eventually create the truck he aspires to own. Paul has already purchased Edelbrock aluminum heads, new rockers and lifters, and polished dual Edelbrock four-barrels. He also plans on shortening the rear axle to free up space for tires capable of some serious main street fun. As for the rest of the modifications, Paul has to face his next problem, also common to many builders: that thin line between the kids' college money and dad's recreational allowance.
With the basic mechanics installed, Paul went to work on the truck's overall appearance. To gain the stance he wanted, he added two-inch drop spindles and two-inch-lower coil springs in the front. In the rear, he complemented the front by installing a leaf-spring flip kit that brought the rear two inches closer to the pavement. Paul also made a few exterior modifications. He replaced the stock taillights with LEDs, and swapped out the rear sliding window with a solid one-piece window.
He then continued on by bringing in his love for musclecars. What better way is there to mix a musclecar with a big-block Chevy pickup than a cowl induction hood? Exactly! From there he smoothed out the truck's look by ditching the bumpers and installing roll pans in both the front and back. Other refining touches include a billet grille. On the inside, Paul merely touched up things by installing wood grain on the dash and doors. The last step was paint, and he chose to spray his Chevy with a traditional black finish. Not wanting to leave the truck in the hands of just anyone, he turned to the brother of the man who inspired his project, Ron Rick, to lay down the glasslike paintjob. For a finishing touch, a faint red pinstripe graces the truck's beltline.


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I began this cake flush with the success of my recent Tardis cake. I received a bit of a comeuppance.
The occasion for the cake was my friend Isaac's third birthday party. (You may remember Isaac from his second birthday cake and his first birthday cake.)
My goal in this design was to evoke the classic B-movie spaceships from the 50's and 60's (the title of the party's evite was "Plan 3 from Outer Space".) As I had so recently completed the Tardis cake, I was still interested in cakes with mirrors, LEDs, and visible interiors. I also wanted to personalize the cake, by including Isaac (in alien form), abducting his parents (in human form). So I designed a classic silver flying saucer with round portholes around the sides that would look into the lighted interior rooms of the ship, where alien Isaacs would be doing things that human Isaac loves to do – eating pretzels, climbing on unsafe things, splashing in a pool, and playing with trains. The entire ship would be mounted on a turntable, so it could slowly rotate. The turntable in turn would sit on a clear acrylic tube, representing the ship's tractor beam, within which I would enclose gum paste figures of Isaac's parents, in the process of being sucked up into the ship.
To make the rooms inside the ship, I started with two pieces of foam core – a 14″ diameter circle for the bottom and a 14″ diameter 2″ ring for the top, so that I would later be able to put the cake inside. I split the space into eight equal slices with gum paste dividers, each with a row of white LEDs on top and bottom. I backed every other space with mirror, so that when their corresponding portholes were backed with mirrored window film and the LEDs were lit, they'd be mirrored ad infinitum within the ship, creating a spacey infinite corridor. For one of these spaces I used red LEDs instead of white, as that was where the conical thrusters would connect to the ship, thereby evoking a combustible power source.
The remaining four spaces became the rooms for the alien-Isaacs. Because I was going for a little-boy's-birthday vibe combined with my 60's B-movie vibe I painted one room aqua, one lime green, one orange, and one yellow. These are all also colors that Isaac's mother has used to decorate their house. Then I appliqued each room with various gum paste squares and circles, painted silver.
I made the aliens out of gum paste, serpentine with green skin and one big eye. To make them reminiscent of Isaac, I gave them puffy cheeks and little shocks of blond hair.
For the portholes, I used a template to cut out gum paste rectangles with windows in them, and draped them over custom forms to dry. The thrusters were also gum paste, wrapped around cones to dry, and then coated with royal icing for a sort of corrugated steel texture. Once the portholes dried, I used royal icing to stick sheet gelatin window panes to the back and, in the case of the portholes in front of the mirrored room, a layer of mirrored window film.
My sister kindly baked the cakes for me. There was space inside the perimeter defined by the rooms to put a 3″ tall 10″ diameter cake.
To make the tapered upper section of the ship, I started with a 10″ diameter cake on top of a 14″ diameter cake. I carved these into a truncated cone, 3″ high, tapering from 14″ diameter at the bottom to 6″ diameter at the top. To get the appropriate architectural feel, I covered the cake with a layer of fondant and then the fondant with 16 pre-made gum paste trapezoids. Then I dropped this whole section on top of the cylinder with the rooms.
For the very top of the ship, I carved some 6″ round cakes into a hemisphere and covered that with fondant. I mounted this cake onto a foam core circle in which I had embedded a ring of LEDs and mounted it on top of the other cakes.
With the main body of the cake assembled, I needed to get the base together. I embedded a ring of green LEDs into the plywood base to illuminate the tractor beam and then set about creating the people being abducted. I started with a wire armature and built up the figures in gum paste around that.
Once the figures were complete I installed the acrylic tube around them and then glued a turntable to the top of the tube. I had considered mounting the turntable at an angle, but I decided that might make it too hard for the turntable to rotate, so I kept the turntable level. As it turned out, I needn't have worried because the moment that I transferred my cake to the turntable it became clear that the turntable was nowhere near powerful enough to turn such a heavy cake. And thus my cake became stationary. Actually the turntable wasn't a total waste, as it still allowed me to turn the cake manually. This was convenient, since the cake was designed to be viewed from all angles, but it certainly lacked pizzazz.
With the cake mounted on the base my flying saucer still needed to taper at the bottom. Unfortunately, it proved to be far too difficult to attach the gum paste pieces that I had created for the bottom of the flying saucer and by this time it was so late that the royal icing would never have had time to dry. So I was forced to hot glue my Bristol board mockup to the bottom of the turntable. I don't like using non-edible materials any more than necessary, but in this case I felt that it was just too late to do anything else.
In fact, by this time it was about 5:00 am the morning of the party and it was too late for a lot of things. I had planned to finish all the edges very cleanly and wind up with a very polished final product that would live up to the standard that I set for myself with the Tardis Cake. Sadly, at 5:00 am, this was not meant to be. The best I could do was to whip up a few fondant ropes to cover the most egregious seams, slap a coat of silver luster dust on everything and go to bed. I was not thrilled with the results. I'd like to claim that it was some sort of homage to the shoddy special effects that we all love so much in our B-movies, but the sad truth is that it was just poor time management.
The next morning I just had time to cover the plywood base with a layer of pressed sugar and make it to the party in time to help hang up the decorations. The cake did make the car trip with no untoward effects, but there evidently was a lot of moisture trapped in the acrylic tube because the figures' gum paste limbs softened and wilted, so where their arms had meant to be pulled upwards by the inexorable force of the tractor beam, instead their arms curved despondently towards the earth.
I actually don't mind an occasional failure. When you're pushing the boundaries of a medium you have to expect a few unsuccessful trials. This failure irked me however, because in this instance my failure was not due to excessive ambition but to deficient planning. I view the first type of failure as an inevitable result of man's eternal striving to better himself, but the second is merely the inevitable result of opting to watch America's Next Top Model instead of working on the project at hand.


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Released simultaneously with Gruesome California, this laughably-named second volume of Great Crimes And Trials Of The 20th Century condenses five more of the era's most notorious subjects into bite-sized video nuggets.
As a whole, this short-lived but memorable A&E documentary series remains consistent in tone and style, serving up a no-frills presentation with efficient narration by English actor Robert Powell and journalist Bill Kurtis. This time, we learn about some of America's most infamous gangsters including John Dillinger, Lucky Luciano and Al Capone...not Ice-T, Body Count or Johnny Cash, as the title implies. Though shorter than Volume 1 by about 30 minutes, The Original Gangstas still contains a solid amount of historical footage that all but the most seasoned history buffs will be seeing for the first time.
The first two episodes (presented under the "American Justice" banner) are narrated by Great Crimes and Trials regular Robert Powell; during "Rise of the Mafia", we're given a condensed history of the Mob from the Prohibition Era through the late 1980s. It also details some of the profiled usual suspects along the way, so the segue into "John Dillinger" feels pretty seamless. This second episode details the bank robber's short life, from his troubled childhood to the incident at Chicago's Biograph Theater, while also entertaining author Jay Robert Nash's theory that the man killed by police was not, in fact, John Dillinger. Both "Al Capone" and "Lucky Luciano" are narrated by American news anchor and journalist Bill Kurtis, likewise offering a condensed version of their lives and infamous events along the way, from the 1929 "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre" to the 1946 Havana Conference. Finally, "Mystery of Jimmy Hoffa" summarizes the life of the infamous Teamster's Union leader, from his early leadership skills to his Mafia involvement and, of course, Hoffa's 1975 disappearance and the fruitless search that followed.
Overall, The Original Gangstas is a decent primer that, at the very least, has merely survived the dated production of these five episodes. 80% are condensed biographies and, with the possible exception of the Hoffa episode, are closed cases with no significant developments during the past 20-odd years. One complaint regarding Gruesome California was that much of the subjects were still somewhat fresh in the early 1990s and, as such, don't feel quite as timeless or definitive at this point. Either way, the strengths (lesser-seen footage, solid narration) and weaknesses (limited visual flair, VHS-grade source material) of Great Crimes and Trials are on display from start to finish, but at least we're used to them by now.
Great Crimes And Trials Of The 20th Century was originally released years ago as an all-inclusive (and long out of print) four-disc collection by Lionsgate; more recently, a similar four-disc collection was made available for those who can play Region 2 discs. While none of these three versions is impressive from a technical standpoint, one thing's for certain: the content is strong enough to warrant a closer look.
Since most of this footage is from vintage newsreels and television broadcasts, The Original Gangstas isn't exactly a feast for the eyes. In fact, it's downright ugly most of the time. But again, Sony should be given the benefit of the doubt here: all of its problems are likely due to source material issues, although I'm positive that a modest amount of edge enhancement was added during portions of extremely soft footage. Presented in its original 1.33:1 aspect ratio, the only genuine compliment that I can offer The Original Gangstas is that its gritty, abrasive appearance is strangely appropriate to the subject matter. Like Gruesome California, it's basically a passable presentation of material that will never look pretty.
Presented in a basic Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo mix, The Original Gangstas' audio is a half-step above the video in quality, but still suffers from plenty of source material limitations. The standout here is Robert Powell's authoritative narration, crisply recorded and perfectly clear from start to finish. Most other audio elements, aside from the majority of music cues, are much thinner and less dynamic in direct comparison. Vintage newsreel clips are a little problematic at times, but there's nothing here that can't be understood if you're listening closely. Unfortunately, no optional subtitles or Closed Caption support are offered.
Although Sony's burn-on-demand Choice Collection is rightfully considered a half-step down from "official" DVD releases, the continued strength of Great Crimes And Trials Of The 20th Century makes The Original Gangstas worth a second look. Even so, the plain A/V presentation, short running time and lack of bonus features are all severe handicaps, which makes existing (and more complete) versions like the Region 2 DVD collection a more satisfying and practical option. Still, this dated but informative assortment of short documentaries should interest those unfamiliar with the source material. Cautiously Recommended.
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Anatomy for Children: 6 Smart Products
Recently my son has become fascinated with parts of the body. It started with simple parts, like "this is your hair follicle Mommy", and "Your nails are actually bones you know Mommy!?". Now he's getting even more curious and asking about specific bones, muscles and organs, and where they are in the body.
Since I really have no in-depth knowledge about anatomy, I figured I needed help.
We luckily live in a very good time as far as educational products are concerned.
I wanted to start with a list of products that seem to be appropriate for his current inquiry, and I'll move on to the activities we did in another post.
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- The Squishy Human Body ($25.95 Fat Brain Toys)
- Human Anatomy Toy, Science Educational Flannel Toy ($25 Etsy)
- Rolling Bones, a board game that teaches the correct anatomical terms ($32 Simply Fun)
- See Inside Your Body, a book about anatomy made for kids ($10.07 Barnes and Nobles)
- Human X-Rays on Film ($24.95 Learning Materials)
- Beleduc Wooden Puzzle ($25 Amazon)
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There are a few things I have come across during my research that might come under the heading Brick Walls, but are more of a mystery as they make me ask "Why"?
Take a look at the few "Mysteries" I have added under this heading and see what you think!!


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Sylvia Park School - Outdoor Classroom Inquiry from Sylvia Park School on Vimeo.
KidsLink is an online resource available to parents to find a range of services that specialise in working with children, teenagers and their families with issues that affect their learning, development and well-being.
Term 1, 2019
Tuesday 29th January - Friday 12th April.
Term 2, 2019
Monday 29th April - Friday 5th July
Term 3, 2019
Monday 22nd July - Friday 27th September
Term 4, 2019
Monday 14th October - Thursday 12th December.
8.30am - Class opens for students/parents
8.55am - School starts
10.15am - 10.35am - Morning tea
12.30pm - 1.15pm - Lunch
2.45pm - School finishes. Students must be picked up immediately. Please contact the office if you are not able to pick your child up on time.
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Check out some of the great work we did last year -
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Te Puna Waiora
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Don't forget that uniforms will be sold at the Warehouse from 16th January 2017 onwards! The below attachment contains a price and item list.
A reminder that hats are compulsory in Term 1 & 4. School hats only unless you are in Year 8. If students do not have a hat they will need to spend lunchtime and morning tea times in the shaded areas.
The first stage of The Hub is open! The Hub is a place for all of us - students, teachers and whānau - to learn together and we invite you to come and check it out. Students are now able to borrow books, take them home, enjoy them with their whānau and then bring them back to borrow some more. Please come in and spend some time with your kids to read, to relax and to learn together. We are open between 8.30am and 3.30pm on Mondays and Wednesdays and you will find us in Room 19.
We have just completed our fourth year of HIPPY and are thrilled to see the children who have now enrolled at school. These children are significantly well prepared for school. We encourage our parents to keep the programme up at home!
Parents who want their preschool children enrolled in HIPPY can contact the school or Ana Manu on 021 163 773 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
We continue to encourage all parents to park up by the alleyway between Bean and Keate Place. This will help reduce traffic on Longford Street and help make it safe for our students. Check out our Travelwise page for more info.
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CLEVELAND — The Alpha Group of Delaware, Inc., a non-profit Ohio corporation located in Delaware, Ohio, will pay $160,000 to settle a sex-based harassment and retaliation lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), announced today. The EEOC had charged that Alpha Group of Delaware, which provides employment, rehabilitation and adult day support services, subjected female workers to a hostile work environment and then retaliated against a high-ranking female executive who had complained about the harassment against women.
The EEOC says in the suit that a former controller and human resources manager of The Alpha Group received complaints of sex-based harassment from female employees concerning a newly hired CEO. Rather than address the hostile workplace, the company let her go after she reported the complaints to the board of directors.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit, No. 2:07cv913, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement.
The five-year consent decree settling the suit provides for a monetary settlement to four women. In addition to monetary relief, the decree provides for significant remedial relief, including ensuring supervisor responsibility and accountability by requiring yearly training regarding an employee's rights and the employer's obligations under Title VII – with an emphasis on sex discrimination.
EEOC Acting Regional Attorney Debra Lawrence said, "Employers must act swiftly to address and correct discrimination when they become aware of it – which did not happen in this case. If the employer instead does the wrong thing and terminates an employee who complains about harassment, then the EEOC will take action."
According to its web site, The Alpha Group of Delaware, Inc. is a not-for profit 501-C (3) organization that has provided gainful employment and quality rehabilitation and adult day support services to consumers in the Delaware and surrounding counties in Ohio since 1970.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Catching Up with The Legend Donnacha "The Don" O'Dea
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Hannity again denounces Obama for comments later echoed by Defense Secretary Gates
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On the October 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity suggested Sen. Barack Obama does not "sound like someone that understands our military" because in August 2007, Obama said that the military mission in Afghanistan "requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." Fox News contributor John Bolton said: "I think he's very naïve. I don't think he understands how to represent or defend American interests. And I think we're going to learn at our -- to great pain, if he's elected, how much at risk we really are." Neither noted that in a September 17 statement, Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged and apologized for Afghan civilian deaths caused by coalition airstrikes, saying: "I offer all Afghans my sincere condolences and personal regrets for the recent loss of innocent life as a result of coalition airstrikes. While no military has ever done more to prevent civilian casualties, it is clear that we have to work even harder. I have asked for a detailed briefing this afternoon about our close air support as well as our intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations."
Moreover, U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan and accounts of resulting civilian casualties have been widely reported in the media and have reportedly provoked criticism from Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a British commander stationed there. Additionally, the Associated Press reported in a "Fact Check" the day after Obama's remark: "Western forces have been killing [Afghan] civilians at a faster rate than the insurgents."
Media Matters for America has noted several instances of Hannity attacking Obama for his August 2007 comments, including instances in which Hannity mischaracterized those comments.
From the October 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY: Iran is a tiny country and not a serious threat. Those are Barack Obama's words. He said would you meet in your first year with people like Hugo Chavez and Ahmadinejad without preconditions? Yes, his answer was. He hasn't been held accountable, really, for a lot of these statements. And then he accused our troops of air-raiding -- this is Obama's words -- he accused our brave men and women of air-raiding villages and killing civilians. Does that sound like somebody that understands our military?
BOLTON: I don't think they do at all. I think he's very naïve. I don't think he understands how to represent or defend American interests. And I think we're going to learn at our -- to great pain, if he's elected, how much at risk we really are.
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The official Pokémon Youtube channel has updated with announcement video for a Pokémon movie marathon on Disney XD. The announcement video features a montage of most of the Pokémon films that have aired or released so far. The montage was first shown before the international theatrical airings of Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!. The Pokémon movie marathon will start on 10 A.M. on January 1, 2018 with the first three Pokémon films. The films will continuing airing on January 2 at 6 P.M. and air daily until January 19. On those days Disney XD will be airing several episodes of the anime before kicking off with the films. Those who missedRead More


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The Particulars
24th-ranked Harvard opens its 139th season of football at The Stadium against a new foe Saturday in the University of San Diego Toreros. Kickoff is at 12:30 p.m.
The game will be shown live on GoCrimson.com with Bernie Corbett and Mike Giardi '94 on the call. The game is part of the football season pass and can also be purchased as a one-time event. Streaming is offered on computers, iPads and iPhones. For those unable to watch the game live, it will also be available as an archived event immediately following the completion.
The game can be heard on the radio (WBNW 1120 AM, WPLM 1390 and WESO 790) with Corbett and Giardi '94 on the call as well as WHRB-FM 95.3 with student Charlie Hobbs.
Home Openers
Harvard has won its last 11 home openers.
The Numbers
San Diego enters play at 1-1 after a come-from-behind 34-27 victory over Division II-member Western New Mexico at home last week. Mason Mills threw for 303 yards and four touchdowns, the last was a 29-yarder to Reggie Bell with a minute remaining as the Toreros scored two touchdowns in the last 5:19. Mills hit Brandon White with a 12-yard scoring pass to tie it at 27-all, and after a Western New Mexico punt, San Diego drove 84 yards in nine plays to the winning TD. Mills completed 27 of 37 passes with no interceptions. White had eight catches for 96 yards and two touchdowns.
Harvard of course, opens its season while much of the country is already in its third week of play. The Crimson, which averaged 37.4 points per game in 2011, finished the season at 9-1 overall, undefeated in the Ivy League (7-0) and ranked 16th by TSN and 14th in the Coaches Poll, is a heavy favorite to repeat as Ivy League champions. Harvard returns 17 starters and 47 letterwinners with an offensive line featuring four preseason All-Ivy selections.
Series History
The two teams have never met before on the gridiron.
Opposite Coasts, Similar Results
The teams have both had considerable success over the past 11 seasons with each ranking among the Football Championship Subdivision's top 10 in winning percentage.
FCS 2001-11.............. W-L. Pct.
1. Montana.............. 137-30 . 820
2. Harvard............. . 87-22 .798
3. Dayton ................. 80-26 .755
4. Appalachian State 109-36 .752
5. Grambling State... 93-36 .721
6. Northern Iowa ..... 99-40 .712
7. Penn ..................... 77-32 .706
San Diego ............ 84-35 .706
9. North Dakota State 68-28 .689
10. Georgia Southern 89-47 .674
Over the past 14 years, Harvard has won six Ivy League championships (five outright) and had two undefeated seasons while posting the sixth-highest winning percentage in all of Division I football.
Div. I 2001-11........... W-L. Pct.
1. Boise State.......... 126-17 .881
2. Oklahoma....... ... 119-29 .818
Montana.............. 124-28 .818
4. Texas................... 117-28 .807
6. Harvard............. . 87-22 .798
9. Ohio State........... 100-28 .781
10. Dayton ................. 80-26 .755
Non-Conference Call
Harvard has won 20 of its last 27 non-league games dating back to 2003.
The Preseason Hype
Harvard was oft-mentioned in the preseason national rankings, earning mentions as high as 19th. Harvard has been tabbed 22nd by the Beyond Sports College Network, 25th by The Sports Network FCS, 19th in the preseason by Lindy's, 22nd by Athlon Sports and 23rd by both Phil Steele's College Football Preview and College Sports Madness.
The Stadium
Harvard's record at Harvard Stadium since 2001 is 48-9 while winning 28 of its last 32 there. The team has five undefeated home marks in that stretch (6-0 in 2001, 5-0 in 2004, 5-0 in 2007, 5-0 in 2008, 5-0 in 2011).
Where We Are Now
Saturday's game will be Harvard's 1,2523rd varsity football game. The Crimson has an all-time record of 821-381-50 (.672).
Harvard has had at least one All-American in each of the last 13 years.
Harvard Coach Tim Murphy
In his 19th season as Harvard's all-time winningest head coach, Tim Murphy enters Saturday's game with a 120-59 record with the Crimson and a 152-104-1 overall head coaching record, which includes five years at Cincinnati and two years at Maine. Murphy is one of just five coaches to win 100 games since the formation of the Ivy League in 1954. Murphy has led Harvard to six Ivy League championships (1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011). Murphy serves as president for the American Football Coaches Association this season. He is 0-0 all-time against San Diego.
Champions Abound
Every four-year player recruited by Crimson head coach Tim Murphy has both graduated and been part of at least one Ivy League championship team. Murphy has led Harvard to Ivy League championships in 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2011.
Undefeated Seniors
Harvard gained its fifth-straight win over Yale in 2011, matching the school's best run in the series and providing a rare undefeated career for Harvard's seniors against the Bulldogs. In the series, six Harvard graduating classes have gone unbeaten against the Bulldogs with the latest coming from 2008-12. Yale has also had six such occurrences but none since a six-year undefeated streak from 1902-07 provided three graduating classes with perfect HY records.
Pomp And Circumstance
Three Harvard players — senior defensive end John Lyon (Durham, N.C.), senior linebacker Joshua Boyd (Hyde Park, Mass.), senior offensive lineman Jim Deng (Old Saybrook, Conn.) — were valedictorians of their high school classes.
Ivy Era Coaches
Since the formation of the Ivy League in 1956, just five coaches have reached the 100-win plateau with two of them being Harvard men.
Carm Cozza, Yale: 179
Edward Robinson, Brown: 140**
Al Bagnoli, Penn: 136
Bob Blackman, Dartmouth: 127
George Woodruff, Penn: 124**
Tuss McLaughry, Brown & Dartmouth: 120**
Tim Murphy, Harvard: 120
Joe Restic, Harvard: 117
** - pre Ivy League formation
San Diego Coach Ron Caragher
Ron Caragher enters his sixth season at USD. He enters play with a 37-20 record. His 2011 team finished with a 9-2 record, tied for the Pioneer Football League Championship, and was ranked in the FCS Coaches Poll Top 25 following the conclusion of the regular season. Caragher spent four seasons (2003-2006) at the University of Kentucky as an assistant coach and nine seasons (1994-2002) on UCLA's staff as a GA and assistant coach.


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Name: Addie, 3
Location: Bay Area, CA
Due to a last minute change in party dates, I had no time to order pretty party supplies from my favorite places. I was able to order some swirly lollipops and miniature horses as favors (thank you Amazon Prime), but ultimately the local Party City and I had to kiss and make up after several years of avoiding one another. I purchased tons of crepe streamers, a little bit of gold foil wrapping paper, and a few honeycomb balls and called it good.
I recently bought a fun book by illustrator Heather Ross (I mentioned her in my inspiration post) that included a disc full of her whimsical prints to use for the projects in the book. I ended up printing my favorite ones and making party hats out of them. I saved the leftover scraps to make something out of because I couldn't bear to throw those pretty designs away (dorky, I know)!
I couldn't find a pinata I liked (surprised?), so I ended up making one of my own. I free handed a horse head on to an old moving box and cut it out. I traced the shape on to more cardboard and cut that out too. I then taped three inch strips of cardboard from leftover cereal boxes (about 1.5) to both sides, creating a three dimensional effect and connecting the whole thing together. I used crepe streamers, double sided tape, and pipe cleaners (for the eye and hook at top) to decorate the pony. I have to admit, I was a little mad at that thing by the time I was done...
I also made a big prize ribbon out of the gold wrapping paper and some small blank ones for guests to color. The crepe streamers got all fringed up and hung and Addie's horse collection was on display with tiny party hats added here and there. There was also a pony tattoo station and a tiny tall cake (the layers were baked in custard ramekins).
Jeremy made an awesome spread of food and appetizers including potato and bacon bites, pea and mint pesto, pizza, ham and pickle bites, and much more. My children are so lucky to have a Dad who makes everything from scratch, including bread and butter cream frosting!
All in all, it was a great party, even though the almost-three year old had a few meltdowns (see last photo for a visual). Luckily, she rallied and the party ended on a high-note with some winter-coat wearing, starry night pinata bashing! Thank you to everyone who helped and who came to celebrate our sweet Addie!
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The Big Vanilla Athletic Club • Arnold, MD
For the second year in a row, the 90-Day Challenge program at The Big Vanilla Athletic Club, Arnold, MD, is a Best of the Best winner. Last year, it won in the Best New Member Integration category, and this year it took the Best Nonmember Program title.
The 90-Day Challenge started in 2005 as a way for the club to create member camaraderie, accountability and motivation. It was so well received by members, however, that club management decided in 2008 to offer the program to nonmembers to increase sales and help them get better acquainted with the club's services.
"Two seasons ago, we decided that if we could get nonmembers to try the program, we would be offering an incredibly comprehensive introduction," says Julie Lincoln, director of fitness. "What we experienced was that members so liked the accountability and social aspects that even when they obtained the original goal of the program, they continued to repeat it for structure and for fun."
Lincoln says the first challenge they opened to the public attracted 30 nonmembers, 22 of which joined after completing the program. Some 40 nonmembers signed up for the fall session, and many participants are repeats, she says.
"The really amazing part for us is the high number of repeaters — not just one season or two, but as many as eight times in a row," says Lincoln. "They bring their success, knowledge and enthusiasm to each new group and are a valuable resource to the participants and the club."
Members pay $150 for the challenge, while nonmembers pay $235, and repeat participants pay $100. Lincoln says the club's revenue from the program has doubled since its inception.
"This program went from producing $8,000 to $19,600, and I project the winter 2010 program will top $25,000," she says. "The resulting memberships are valued at $24,000 annually, and that does not include possible non-dues revenue generated from the memberships."
The program is offered twice a year. It consists of five teams with both nonmembers and members competing together to earn points and a chance at individual and team prizes, which include club services such as massage and personal training. Teams are capped at 22 participants each.
Individuals earn points by working out at the club a minimum of three times per week and by attending weekly team events, such as educational lectures and team challenges. The team challenges include aquatics, spinning, boot camp classes and more.
And although the program may seem like a takeoff of TV's "The Biggest Loser," it's really much more, says Lincoln.
"We stress that 12 weeks is a kickoff to healthy changes that you will want to maintain for a lifetime. We hear over and over that 'The Biggest Loser' was not what [participants] are comfortable with," Lincoln says. "This program has become a lifestyle for a number of our members. They want to make lifestyle changes and improve their health."
Lincoln says she and her club staff make every effort not to attach weight-loss numbers to success, but instead count success by how well members feel and the ability to meet their personal goals. In addition, participants develop a sense of community for which The Big V is known. Teams form dinner groups, Web groups, workout partnerships and more, she says.
One couple who signed up for the challenge decided to forego their memberships at another club because of the bonds they formed during the challenge.
"We chose The Big Vanilla because of all the people and relationships we had formed with them through the 90-Day Challenge," Alex and Lisa McKeague said. "We not only know the trainers, instructors and our teammates, but even the young people at the front desk recognize us when we come in."


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Life Science: Session 3
What is cloning?
Cloning is a type of reproduction where the offspring is genetically identical to the parent. Cloning has become a topic that periodically receives attention in the news, with most people correctly understanding it to be a type of reproductive technology. However, cloning occurs all the time in nature. Not all organisms reproduce sexually. In fact, most single celled organisms reproduce asexually and many plants and animals can reproduce asexually as well. How does this occur? In these organisms, clones are formed in the same way that body cells are formed: The entire genome in a parent cell is duplicated and passed to two daughter cells, resulting in two identical individuals. In this way, body cells are actually clones of one another. While this can be advantageous in terms of not having to spend energy producing sex cells or locating a mate, the offspring lack the genetic variation observed in sexually reproducing organisms.
How are clones formed through reproductive technology?
In 1998, the world learned of
the first successful example of a mammal cloned from an adult
cell. This was Dolly, undoubtedly
world's most famous sheep. Dolly was formed by extracting a donor
cell from an adult sheep and implanting it into an unfertilized
sheep egg that had its DNA removed. The donor cell, with its DNA-containing
nucleus, was stimulated by pulses of electricity to induce it
to fuse
with the egg cell. The result was an egg that contained the entire
genome of the adult donor — without ever involving the process
of sex cell production and fertilization. Under specific conditions,
this cell began to divide, and the resulting embryo was implanted
into the uterus of a surrogate mother sheep. Dolly was the result.
is essentially the same process used for other cloning endeavors.
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Poorer people passing up cancer screenings
As long ago as the early 1980s the health ministry made it a priority to get more people to undergo cancer screenings in order to detect the disease at its earliest and easiest-to-treat stages. By 2009, the goal was to have 50 percent of the targeted adult population receive annual tests for five types of cancer — colon, stomach, breast, uterus, lung — by 2012. That goal was not reached, so they moved it back another five years, but since the overall screening rate at present is still somewhere between 20 and 30 percent, it doesn't appear the ministry is going to achieve that goal either.
According to an article in Asahi Shimbun, the main obstacle is income. A center for adult diseases in Osaka analyzed surveys carried out by the health ministry and found that the higher a person's income is, the more likely he or she is to undergo cancer screenings. In fact, screening rates have a direct correlation to the public health insurance program a person is enrolled in. For instance, 48 percent of males enrolled in the Kyosai Kumiai insurance program receive colon cancer screenings. The rate drops to 38 percent for a man in the Kumiai Kenpo program, 27 percent for one in the Kyokai Kenpo program, 19 percent for those who use regular kokumin hoken (national insurance), and only 13 percent for people on public assistance, who get their insurance free.
Kyosai Kumiai members are national and local civil servants, including public school teachers, whose average income in 2009 was ¥2.36 million. Kumiai Kenpo is insurance for companies with 100 or more companies, of which the average member makes ¥1.95 million. Kyokai Kenpo is for companies with less than 100 employees. Their average salary is ¥1.39 million. Regular kokumin hoken is for part-timers, pensioners and the self-employed, who average ¥910,000 a year. People on welfare, of course, don't have income.
Cancer checks are managed by local governments, who set up screenings at public facilities or cooperating hospitals and clinics, usually for limited periods at specific times of the year. The Osaka center found that part-timers, the self-employed and workers at smaller companies usually cannot take time off whenever they want to, and thus are less likely to be able to go to the facility when the screenings are being conducted, usually on weekdays. Moreover, they may not have the money to pay the nominal fees for the screenings, which can cost anywhere from a few hundred yen to ¥2,000 or more. Even though welfare recipients get free insurance, they have to pay these fees as well. And there's a fee for each screening, so if you are a woman and undergo all five of the tests recommended it could cost as much as ¥10,000. And there are lots of tests for other types of cancer, each of which requires a fee.


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For sale is one Motorola ASTRO Spectra VHF 100 watt radio drawer. I powered it up 10min ago and took out my old programming and just put in some test channels. Speaks analog and P25 to my APX7000 and speaks/displays the correct ID's in P25 and MDC1200 both ways.
What you are going to get:
Motorola ASTRO Spectra VHF 100 watt radio, setup for a W7 control head.
Missing mounting tray (Can be found on ebay or else where if you were going to use the internal mounting holes)
Nothing else
I do have some encryption modules that I can dig up (DES-XL, DES-OFB, DVP-XL) for an additional cost if I can find them. I'll program the first 16 channels if needed. Any more or something complicated we can talk about. Not going to program any trunking channels, so don't ask.
Host 8.15.xDSP 6.04.09
Flashcode information:
Decoding Flashcode: 599108-145E00-0Platform: Astro Spectra
G806: ASTRO IMBE Digital OperationG114: Enhanced Digital ID DisplayG101: Repeater AccessG298: Hardware Multikey Encryption w/ OTARG170: Trunked Remote Monitor/Radio TraceG683: Trunked One Touch Status MessageG51: SmartZone Systems OperationG352: User Definable Soft IDW947: Packet Data InterfaceG387: Conventional Voting ScanG173: SmartZone Omnilink MultiZone OperationG182: Radio Control Protocol
I don't believe this is a 2.5k radio, but with that being said.. the radio takes the 2.5k programming and tx/rx audio sounds fine talking to an APX7000 in analog and digital...so take that for what its worth.
Shipping will be your choice as your going to pay for it from 82001. I think this will fit in a USPS flat rate box.
PM me with offers, Paypal accepted.


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Study: Breast cancer not one disease, but 10 distinct diseases
(CBS News) "Breast cancer" may be an inaccurate blanket term for ten separate diseases, according to a new study in Nature.
Researchers looked at breast cancers in 2,000 women from the U.K. and Canada and realized that the cancers, while under one unifying kind of disease, have distinct subtypes. Because hospitals often cast a wide net of tests and don't break down the kind of breast cancer further from their broad categorizations, treatments might not be as specialized as they could be, the researchers said.
"Based on our results we've reclassified breast cancer into 10 types - making breast cancer an umbrella term for an even greater number of diseases," study co-leader Carlos Caldas, senior group leader at Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Research Institute and the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge, said in the press release. "Essentially we've moved from knowing what a breast tumor looks like under a microscope to pinpointing its molecular anatomy - and eventually we'll know which drugs it will respond to."
Breast cancer is normally classified by "markers" on tumors and treatment varies depending on this information. For example, those diseases with estrogen receptors should respond to hormone therapies such as tamoxifen; those with a so-called "Her2 recepto" can be treated with Herceptin, BBC News reported.
Seventy percent of breast cancers respond to hormone therapies, but reactions can vary. That's why, Caldas told BBC, being able to break down specifically what kind of disease is affecting the patient could be crucial, calling it a "completely new way of looking at breast cancer."
"This will change the way we look at breast cancer, it will have an enormous impact in the years to come in diagnosing and treating breast cancer," Dr. Harpal Kumar, chief executive for the non-profit Cancer Research UK, said to BBC. The organization partially funded the study. "We think this is a landmark study"
The information is supposed to impact how breast cancer is treated in future generations.
"This research won't affect women diagnosed with breast cancer today," Caldas told Reuters. "But in the future, .. patients will receive treatment targeted to the genetic fingerprint of their tumor."
Breast cancer will affect 229,060 Americans and cause about 39,920 deaths in 2012, according to the National Cancer Institute.


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Diamond ring shape formed by dead and living stars
Unusually round, planetary nebula Abell 33 aligns with foreground star
A chance alignment of stars has created a diamond ring–like image.
Abell 33 is the ghostly remnant of a dead star, a planetary nebula about 3 light-years across and 2,500 light-years from Earth in the Hydra constellation. Like other old stars, Abell 33 inflated to many times its original size. As powerful stellar winds overtook gravity's inward pull, the bulk of the star blew gently into space and formed the nebula. The star's core stayed behind to become a white dwarf, a hot, compact ball about the size of Earth.
In a new image from the Very Large Telescope in Chile, Abell 33 appears as an expanding blue bubble. Ultraviolet radiation from the white dwarf, the point of light near the nebula's center, causes ionized oxygen to glow blue. Abell 33's nearly perfect symmetry is rare for planetary nebulae: Usually, something distorts the gas. The brilliant star perched on the edge of the nebula is a lucky accident, a chance alignment with a star sitting roughly one-third of the way between Earth and Abell 33.
Chance Meeting Creates Celestial Diamond Ring. Press release from ESO published online April 9, 2014.
A. Yeager. Radio telescope images reveal nebula's heart of carbon. Science News Online, September 5, 2013.
M. Rosen. Dying star goes out in style. Science News Online, April 15, 2013.
N. Drake. White dwarfs gobble Earthlike treats. Science News. Vol. 180, September 24, 2011, p. 10.


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This beautiful Celtic Birthstone pendant is made from 925 Sterling Silver, it has a traditional Irish Celtic Trinity Knot design set with clear cubic zirconia stones and incorporating a central Cubic Zirconia Sapphire stone. Made to order in Dublin, Ireland with a hallmark from Dublin Castle Assay Office, delivery usually takes 5-7 working days.
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Attendees: Please PM to confirm someone's been built, and I will move them to the "constructed" list.
Who needs to be built:
Who is constructed:
blueandwhite (with cheerleaders)
Rick Ricks
Siercon and Coral
Hello, Classic-Castle!
With all the whispers of the upcoming BrickCon 2011, it's now time to put the all call out for your sigfigs.
For newcomers to the community, your sigifig is your plastic representation of yourself. This does not have to be castle-y for our purposes; not everyone has a castle oriented sigfig. While preferred, it's certainly not required.
The ultimate goal is to get as many sigfigs from CC as possible, line em all up, and take a picture. Pretty simple, right? Here's a look at Past Years.
And BrickCon 2010:
There are ALL sorts of figs there. It's a ton of fun. Don't worry, though: sigfigs will be treated with the utmost respect, and will not be placed in compromising situations. Mostly. Probably. Then again, Josh is in charge of Castle (with help from his minions) and I'm coordinating the photoshoot, so who knows?
I try as hard as I possibly can to make sure that every fig posted in this thread is present in the photo. I'm not perfect, and conventions are chaotic. I guarantee you ever single figure is built, but it can be awfully difficult to get them all in focus. Sometimes it's hard to see your figure since there are so many figs, but I can assure you, everyone will be represented. (Keep in mind that LEGO is not an easy medium to photograph under the best conditions, and this is taken at a convention. With lots of bad lighting.)
FOR ATTENDEES: Please be sure to bring your sigfig with you! The photo is typically taken Friday night, though I have been known to procrastinate. Just let me or Josh know and we'll watch over your figure until the photo.
FOR NON ATTENDEES: You have a choice! You can either A) Post in this thread or send me a PM detailing what your fig looks like, or B) if you have a custom fig, you can send it to me and I'll be sure it gets returned to you.
For Option A: You MUST provide picture reference for your fig. For example:
It's a clear photo, and it's easy to reference the torso, face, hair, and legs. If you don't have a photo and aren't able to take one, please browse either Peeron or Bricklink and give us the references. This makes it easier on us, the attendees, to construct your figs. If you have a particularly rare piece for any of it, please also consider alternatives: If your sigfig uses the forestwoman torso, for example, or the white ninja, please give us a cheaper, easier-to-find alternative. With the massive collections between the attendees, we should be able to construct your fig, but we'd like a back-up plan.
For Option B: Please send me a PM, and I will let you know what snail-mail address to send your fig to. If at all possible, Option A would be best, because it has less room for the USPS to err and lose your fig. But if you really want YOUR fig to be there, we'll do what we can. Just shoot me a PM.
After BrickCon, photos will be posted in a myriad of sites. I'll have mine in my flickr account, and I'm sure plenty will be on various image hosting sites that are used by the community. You'll find most pictures from BrickCon in the Flickr Group.
Pleas post photos of your fig prior to SEPTEMBER 16, 2011. This is earlier than before; it will give us more time to construct them all. If you are sending me your fig, PM me no later than September 15. I must receive the fig prior to September 20.
(Attendees: shoot me a PM to let me know if you would be able to help construct SigFigs. I'd like to avoid duplicates, but I'd rather have those then not at all. Thanks!)
If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Just post em' here.


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Re: Stop making random useless topics
Valthonin wrote:Thylacine wrote:
Well, asking random questions in the Fan section, which is basically like a Chit-Chat section, isn't bad. I mean, look at the RP section. They have stuff like "Trees vs. Bushes" What does that have to do with Star Wars? Absolutly nothing.
So, all in all, unless your Spamming up the boards with rapid fire posts, I see no harm in random questions in the Fan section.
I'm gonna have to completely disagree with you there. Random rapid fire topics are just as bad as rapid fire posts...if not worse.
Yeah...that can also fall under what I said. Posts...Topics...what have you.
I see your point, however when one person makes a string of extremely specific topics, relating to a very specific genre of something it tends to clutter it up. They could just make a more general topic. that means theres less stuff to dig thought to find what you want
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He apparently wasn't carrying it concealed.
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I'm far more sympathetic to the armadillo than the other two participants.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota coach Jerry Kill has been released from the hospital one day after he had a seizure in the locker room after a loss to Northwestern.
University physician Dr. Pat Smith issued a statement on Sunday saying Kill has been treated and is "in excellent health." Kill has struggled with seizures for years, including several times last season in his first year with Minnesota.
School officials did not provide a status for next weekend's game at Wisconsin. But Kill has never missed a game because of seizures and Smith says the coach plans to be back in the office on Monday.
Smith says Kill's "only concern is his team and staff, and he is excited to resume his normal coaching duties as Minnesota prepares for Wisconsin this week."
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Overcome with guilt, Christopher spends the first scene of tonight's episode reflecting on last week's tense runway exchange with Andrea. "I didn't know what to say up there," he says, "so I just pushed her in front of a bus." And that right there sums up why season 10 of Project Runway has so far been a refreshing change of pace from season nine. The show feels like everyone involved is trying just a bit harder. Parsons has been spruced up. The casting team invested a little more effort to find designers who are not utterly boring, so that the 90 minutes might feel like something less than a death march.
With this spirit of mild creative renewal restoring a pulse to the show, even the catchphrases are getting a facelift. Is "I pushed her in front of a bus" that much better than the classic "threw her under the bus"? It is not. Well, okay, it's a little funnier, if you picture Christopher playing the Bugs Bunny role and Andrea as Elmer Fudd. In any case, this 15-percent-new zinger is just another indication that everybody is trying to keep the show fresh, and season 10 has shown us that the appearance of effort can make a bigger difference than you might imagine.
Let's not kid ourselves, though: No Project Runway season can shine without a few stretches of glorious, unbridled whackadoo, and on the scale of Runway madness, the first 20 minutes of tonight's episode clock in at the "Michael Kors Injects A Speedball Into His Eye" level. A mystery is afoot. Andrea disappeared during the night, and her whereabouts are unknown.
Over at Michael Kors' flagship store on Madison Ave., Tim Gunn plays Hercule Poirot with gusto. "Andrea—she left the Atlas apartments in the middle of the night, unbeknownst to any of us," Tim says. He pauses to let this set in, carefully gauging the reaction of each suspect—I mean designer. Tim continues, "We have not been able to contact her, but we have every reason to believe she is safe and sound." Okay, based on what, exactly? Maybe they checked her horoscope.
When it dawns on everyone that they could all be implicated in Andrea's disappearance, designers and mentors alike quickly improvise a cover story: The pressures of the fashion industry got to her. Yeah, that's the ticket, it was the industry, and not the harrowing, soul-sucking, identity-deconstructing experience of appearing on a television reality show. Curse you, heartless fashion! Why can't you be more like the warm embrace of TV?
Losing control of a segment that was supposed to be all about him, Kors reasserts himself as the sage voice of experience. He says, "I've been at this now for 30 years. It is tough." That's true. In 1982, Kors was a 6'6" triathlete. Just look what fashion has done to him. (He was always that color, though.) Advancing the same narrative, Elena says, "The fashion industry is a shark. If you can't handle it, then maybe you shouldn't be in it." Good advice to remember the next time you find yourself inside a shark.
On to the challenge. The contestants must design something for a "woman on the go," which briefly raises the hope that Andrea is simply taking a Method approach to this week's design. Tim and Kors both emphasize that textiles are important. "Think about wrinkles. You don't want them," Tim says. Clearly someone never read The Secret.
While the designers are told to sketch, they're more interested in conducting an investigation and gathering evidence among themselves. Nervous suspicion hangs in the air. What did Melissa see? She saw Andrea get up during the night, but that's all, she swears! Come on, people, think! Every detail is important. Fabio says that he heard Andrea mention that she would be "sleeping in" today—he just didn't realize she was talking about her departure from a basic-cable television program, THE LONGEST SLEEP OF ALL!
Later, Gunnar says some catty bullshit about Andrea, but his efforts to be the season's villain are so blatant that I can't get upset over his remarks. His petty ambitions only make me dislike him even more—so maybe he's actually really good at being the villain. Anyway, he is sketching a skirt that has "an ombre effect, but with panels instead," which is like making a ham sandwich, but with turkey instead.
Over at Mood, Buffi is trying hard to avoid pink. Then she stumbles on some pink fabric and decides to purchase it. She just can't think of any colors other than pink. Try it for yourself. Let me see, ummm, fuchsia? Oh, goddamn—see, it's harder than you think.
We head back to Parsons, where Christopher is feeling the heat. He is, after all, the prime suspect in whatever the hell happened to Andrea, and he demands a full accounting of the night's events. Melissa again protests, perhaps too much, that she woke up this morning and Andrea was gone. Christopher solemnly replies, "Andrea giving up—something had to bring her to that point. And I really think I was partially the cause of it." Is he copping a plea? Who is he protecting?! We don't get to find out, because Kooan interrupts to make an announcement.
Looking around the room, Kooan first acknowledges the role he was supposed to play in this farce. "I know I'm the funky and weird person," he says, thinking back to the index cards he so diligently memorized in the Bunim/Murray casting office. "But I thought about it for three days, and…[commercial break]…I think I should go." Project Runway season 10 is now turning into one of those terrible improv comedy scenes where none of the performers knows what to say, so they all just kill themselves.
Once Kooan has made it clear that his decision is final, there's more crying, but the tears are just as much "what the hell is going on, I don't know where I am" panic tears as they are "I'm sad that Kooan is leaving" tears. AND THEN Nathan looks all shaky, and he says, "I want to leave."
What the…? Luckily for Bunim/Murray, this is the moment of peak insanity. Sure, the producers like drama. They like combustible personalities. But you play with matches long enough, sooner or later the whole house is going to go up in flames, and for an instant, the Runway team must feel like their number is up. A second later, Nathan finishes his thought. "I want to leave…I'm not going to, but I want to leave," he says. Ah, so he was just milking the moment. Listen, Nathan, I can understand why you're desperate for camera time—I had to look up your name on the Project Runway website—but still, have some dignity.
Lifetime avoids disaster as the situation settles down. Tim Gunn appears behind Kooan, and he's so stealthy about it that it looks like a camera trick, or that old vampire-movie effect where Dracula slides into view without moving his legs. Where the hell did he come from? Was he there all along, blending into the walls? Perhaps Tim prefers his charges to be caught off-guard. As he instructs the designers to gather together in a line, it becomes clear that this is his climactic Poirot-in-the-parlor-room moment—the exciting scene in which he reveals the culprit in The Affair Of The Mediocre Designer Who Was About To Be Kicked Off Anyway. He probably has a speech all prepared: "At first I suspected the one you call Gunnar Deatherage, for obvious reasons…"
Only the trouble is, before Tim can really get started, Kooan steals the thunder and tells Tim that he's out. "YOU'VE made a decision to leave?" says Tim in reply, which is as close as Tim Gunn will ever come to saying, "WTF?" Having prepared to deal with just the one casualty, Tim improvises and pulls Kooan out of the room for a heart-to-heart (that we don't see, alas). As Kooan approaches the doors for his final exit, he impulsively turns around and half-screams a triumphant "Make it work!" It's like watching a flamboyant, Japanese, afro-wigged Richard Nixon prepare to board Marine One for the last time.
With a mere 24 minutes of airtime having been expended on this cavalcade of twists, "Women On The Go" cannot hope to sustain the pace for the remaining hour. There was more intrigue and excitement in the first few acts of tonight's episode than there was in the entirety of season nine, if you exclude that one part where Bert fell down and Heidi laughed at the fact that he might have died. Still, even if this challenge is the zillionth "woman on the go" task in Runway history, it provides plenty of amusing morsels.
Like the back-stories, for instance. The designers all attempt to construct little stories for their garments. Fabio explains during Tim's visit that his too-short, shabby-looking dress is designed for a woman who's "on a day off." Clever! Fashion for the woman who won't be seen. Gunnar's grand concept for his woman is, "She loves fashion, but she works in an OFFICE every day." He says the word "office" as if he's saying "rainbow fish tank on the moon."
On his way out, Tim remarks, "I have never been more excited"—here he catches himself, realizing that his hyperbole is about to range beyond the realm of plausibility—"…about what you are doing. As season 10 designers." He wants to be real sure everyone knows that he is describing his excitement level only in relation to the people in this room at this very moment. And in purely relative terms.
When Christopher returns to Parsons the next morning, he undertakes the quixotic enterprise of saving Buffi from herself. Perhaps having contributed to the implosion of one mediocrity, he feels the need to provide salvation for another. The back-story for Buffi's garment appears to be "a Little Debbie Zebra Cake got caught in pink crepe paper at a little girl's 7th birthday party," and Christopher offers to help by providing some of his black material in lieu of Buffi's pink. Insulted by his advances, Buffi heads to the sewing room for a loud bitch session. "My girl's not wearing that. Uh-uh. That shit ain't happening," she rants. Hearing every word, Chris pokes his head around the corner and says, "Buffi." Her head swivels up and her eyes bug out, and if you look closely, you can actually see the semi-transparent spirit Buffi starting to make its way out of her body as she practically dies of shock.
Little Debbie recovers nicely, though. After Chris apologizes, Buffi becomes the picture of good cheer! "No, babe! Don't be sorry! You really helped me. To have to defend myself like this is awesome!" I know it reads sarcastic when you see the words on the page, and frankly, "To have to defend myself like this is awesome" would indeed be a pretty great "Fuck you." But Buffi really sells it. She even reiterates the "it made me even stronger" B.S. in a testimonial, in an effort to convince the home audience of her earnestness. She may not be able to sew worth a damn, but she can at least think on her feet.
Only one designer in Project Runway has managed to make any waves after being brought back after elimination, and Raul, who was hastily retrieved in the wake of Andrea's resignation, is not likely to follow in Chris March's footsteps. (There was no indication of a replacement for Kooan, probably because if things kept up the way they've been going, they'd have to start dipping into losers of earlier seasons. The producers were on the verge of pulling the "that one guy who was really proud of wearing a hat" card out of their Rolodex.) At the last model fitting, we see that Raul has crafted pants with a waist that's four inches too short for his model. Given the proportions of your average Project Runway model, this means that Raul was apparently making clothes for a banister, or perhaps a light-duty flagpole. He "rescues" the garment by sewing sloppy "leather angles" into the pants. The saddest part is that these aren't even the most unattractive "leather angles" in Raul's design.
We finally arrive at the runway show. Heidi is absolutely smoking in a leopard print dress, her best look of the season. Will she ever age? The guest judges are Hayden Panettiere and Rachel Roy, both of whom comport themselves quite well. (Roy is downright excellent.)
Lots of decent work on tonight's runway, but not much of it is memorable. Nathan makes a serviceable mustard dress. "At least I can look at that garment and know I'm not going home this week," he says. Nathan's shooting for the "Participant" trophy. Aim high, my friend.
On the top of the heap are Sonjia, Christopher, and Dmitri. Bottom three: Raul, Buffi, and Fabio. That means Ven has to wait backstage with the other merely average designers, and he seems none too pleased about it, wallowing in self-pity from the moment Heidi calls his name for the "safe" group. In the lounge, Melissa frets over Buffi's plight, saying that it would be "so sad to lose another roommate!" Ven shifts his eyebrows and licks his lips. That's the right response to emulate sympathy, right? He reminds himself to study his human-facial-expression phrasebook tonight.
With little doubt over who's going home tonight, all the runway tension revolves around who will be declared the winner. Sonjia's gray dress has touches of drama—she gathers the fabric artfully near the shoulder and the waist without making it appear bunchy—but it's also down-to-earth. Rachel Roy notes that there's a cute little "peekaboo" hole near the model's upper arm that will show more clearly after the dress has been washed once or twice. It's an astute observation; she's really wrecking the curve for the other Runway guest judges.
Like Sonjia, Dmitri receives praise for a dress that succeeds in being gentle enough for daytime wear, but he gets a few demerits for being too timid. And yeah, the craftsmanship on Dmitri's gray dress, with its tasteful weaving across the chest, is impressive; the dress just lacks a spark. "I wish you took the idea and just went one step further, like with the shoulders," says Panettiere. So there's your note, Dmitri: shoulders. You can fill in the rest of the blanks. As for Christopher, the judges love his leather jacket and are fond of the black dress underneath. Flowing black garments are notoriously hard to judge on the TV screen—Michael Costello made a Project Runway career out of black clothes that looked like crap to the home viewer—and I think that phenomenon may apply to Christopher's dress here. I guess it's fine, but to me it looks like a slimmed-down version of that oil-slick monster that killed Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Of course, even a sentient pile of black goo is preferable to Buffi's pink crystalline entity. Buffi may have been able to deliver her "Your criticism really helped me!" lines with a straight face, but this outfit defies her powers of persuasion. "Throughout the day, you could kind of dress it up differently, um, to create a more glamorous look." Buffi claims this water-to-wine miracle could be achieved by adjusting the belt, but as Buffi fiddles with it, the belt's like, "Leave me out of this." Panettiere wishes that the garment were stronger around the shoulders, because she herself has broad shoulders and okay, Hayden, we get it with the shoulders already. Bodies have other parts, too, for pete's sake.
While most of the judges are content to simply pity Buffi, Nina goes in for the kill. "You rely on this shape"—she is charitably referring to the pink sneeze as a shape—"to cover up the fact that your technical skills are not there." Buffi says that a cover-up isn't what she intended. Nina slides in the dagger: "Well, then, that's even more tragic." Nice try, Buffi. You may be able to talk your way around meek, sad-eyed Christopher, but Nina's eyes are not even eyes at all, but rather tiny, bottomless furnaces where hope goes to die. There is no escape.
Loath to let Rachel Roy outshine her in the critique, Heidi has some sharp observations of her own. Fabio's final design actually seems not-awful to me until I hear Heidi say that "it looks like it shrunk on her body." She's right. It's bizarre, though, that Fabio comes under heavier fire than Raul, who has produced the leisure suit-pantsuit hybrid the world never knew it wanted, because it didn't. The lapels of his horrid jacket have enough leather to reupholster a Ford Explorer, yet Kors is convinced that Raul "saved it" by removing the belt from his garment during the critique. I have no idea what the ochre oracle of sportswear is looking at, but without the benefit of his divine vision, I can't see it.
Once the designers are backstage, a minor argument breaks out among the judges, who disagree over the winner. It's a pretty civil chat, though. The kibitzing segment is mostly entertaining for its ample Kors lunacy. On the topic of Fabio, he sputters, "You would never, ever even wake up for it, other than the fabric!" in a tone that goes beyond nasal. I think he's talking out of his forehead. He goes on to say that fashion is "like playing cards—you have to be able to say this isn't working." Which conjures the delightful picture of Michael Kors in a poker game at a Wild West saloon, laying down his cards and saying, "Fellas, this just isn't working for me."
Winner's honors go to Sonjia, quite rightly. Buffi is out. As she waits for Tim to come in and read her last rites, Buffi decides to hide behind the couch. "Did Buffi already leave?" Tim says. She pops out and surprises him. Oh, ha-ha, she played a trick. Tim forces a smile, but he has just about had it with everybody's tricks for one episode. He longs for the days when he was a teacher instead of the world's most stylish camp counselor. So ends a Project Runway episode for the ages.
Let's not forget, though, about this episode's lingering mysteries. WHO was responsible for Andrea's strange midnight departure? WHO prompted such a sudden change in Kooan's disposition? WHO would nurse such a grudge against Project Runway contestants? In fact, the answer is already before you, should you dare to see it. If you look first in these very paragraphs, the truth will reveal itself. Who, indeed.
Stray observations:
- Michael Kors provides the technical fashion name for the lapels on Raul's jacket: "Vampyra points."
- Kors: "This challenge was about how women have to deal with being dressed every day." Christopher: "All day!" So, wait, women remain dressed all day? That does sound awful. I don't know what I would do if I had to write these reviews while wearing pants.
- In the comments a couple weeks ago, someone compared Ven to the Elcor aliens from the Mass Effect, a race so affectless that they must precede every sentence with a statement of their emotion in order to be understood. I think of this pretty much every time Ven appears on screen now; it cracks me up. Watch this and tell me you don't see the resemblance. I'm too tired to look up the name of this heroic commenter, but sir or madam, I salute you. (Edit: It was Mattman Begins.)
- Christopher on Fabio's model and her very short dress: "I see her fish whistle from here." Is this actual slang?


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Borbay's Latest Exhibit Kicks Ass!
Photos by G. Art by Borbay.
NYC! Head over to the Wix Lounge (located at 10 West 18th Street in Manhattan to see Borbay's latest exhibit "Kick Ass Actors in Kick Ass Roles." There is so much detail in the paintings, photos don't do these works justice.
Borbay happily posed with my favorite work in the exhibit "Hunter S. Depp" at the opening reception, which was also kick ass!
If you don't see "Kick Ass," we may just have to come and kick your ass. Just kidding. But seriously folks, go see this exhibit!
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Love you G, thank you for coming out, and, as always, for your support!