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Citing information that "sheds doubt" on the University of Texas regents' compliance with the Texas open records law, Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, wants the House committee investigating regent Wallace Hall to conduct "a forensic examination of the personal or professional electronic communications" of board members.
Martinez Fischer asked Houston attorney Rusty Hardin, who is serving as special counsel to the Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations, to invite an expert witness to testify about the possibility of conducting the examination into Hall's and other regents' "personal computers, iPads, smart phones or other relevant devices for electronic communications."
The committee recently heard testimony that regents do not use UT emails for conduct business. Martinez Fischer also wrote Hardin that the board's general counsel told him that regents were "on their honor" to comply with open records requests. "She also stated that the UT System staff does not perform searches on the regents' personal emails system to ensure compliance with the law," he wrote Hardin.
He concluded that the Committee should conduct its own examination to determine whether regents have turned over all records it has requested.
Lawmakers are investigating Hall for possible impeachment for abusing his office in a personal witch hunt against UT-Austin president Bill Powers. Hall has complained that Powers hasn't been truthful about the activities of the law school foundation, and inflated his fund-raising accounting. His attorney also suggested that Powers acquiesces when lawmakers seek favors for the admission of certain students.
Hall has inundated UT-Austin with massive open records requests — ironically, his attorneys say he is investigating whether the campus is complying with the open records law.


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Death Of Compact Disc By 2013
I've heard several people talking about this recently and apparently the rumors are true that, just like the death of the cassette tape, the compact disc may be dead within two years according to industry insiders.
Side Line Music Magazine reports that the CD format will be a thing of the past by 2013. The magazine reports that most major labels are planning to stop producing the CD's that took the world by storm back in the 1980's.
So what's to replace CD's? Digitally downloaded music directly to iPods and flash drives are expected to be the format of choice. Many new cars already come equipped with flash drive slots in their factory car stereo systems.
The magazine attempted to get an official statement from some of the major record labels like EMI, Universal and Sony, but they all declined to comment. However, soon after the initial report the magazine was approached by some employees and associates of those labels who confirmed plans to nix any CD's that do exist before 2013. Only major music acts would have anything available in CD format after that date and any remaining music available on CD would probably be only available on Amazon - which is the worldwide leader in CD sales.
The CD format's popularity has decreased drastically since the rise of digital retailers such as iTunes and Amazon. Another factor in the discontinuation being the drop in overall music sales due to the exponential increase of online piracy over the last decade. This move doesn't really come as a surprise, but it sure is sad for those of us who grew up with and still utilize the format.
The first CD I ever purchased was the Beverly Hills Cop Soundtrack - what was yours?
What is your thought on the death of the CD?

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Friday, October 14, 2011
Just a few things.....
Well, here she is with herself:
Too bad she got a haircut yesterday and doesn't look like herself anymore. LOL Oh well, too bad!!
Then, the mailman has been good to me this week. First, I got pretty coasters from Tiffany (love2quilt7) for the Potholder swap. How clever to use ribbon and rick rack to embellish, huh? I gotta remember that one! You can' beat that neato black and white binding either. (My favorite binding colors, in case you didn't know!)
Then, I got my mini quilt from the June/July QT swap from Pam (uberstitch). Pam was a bit late, but I was in no hurry anyway, besides she sent some additional minis which really knocked my socks off! First the mini:
And then the awesome surprise additions:
That last one is my favorite! How cool to get my Toby on a quilt, huh? I know this is possible, but not from me. My hubby would have my head if I told him I wanted to put fabric through the printer! Eikes, I can hear it already! "You what?????" "Are you out of your mind??" I think I'll pass, thank you!
So, that's mainly been my week. I've been working on binding my Halloween quilt that I got back from the quilter yesterday and making ornaments for the Trim a Tree Homemade Ornament swap. Next time, I'll show you both! Until then, have a great weekend and enjoy the fall weather (unless you're from "down under" where you lucky people are having spring!!) I'm jealous! I LOVE spring!
8 comments:
- Annie said...
Hello Susie, and fun swap goodies! Just don't tell hubby that the "special paper" is fabric on one side. They don't gotta know everything!
- October 14, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- Poppyprint said...
Oh my, what a haul. The coasters are so nice - Tiffany does such lovely work. And the Toby quilts, well, those are simply amazing!!
- October 14, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- Alicia said...
I asked my husband about printing fabric and I got the reaction your husband would give you! He thought I was crazy and said absolutely not. I have been on the hunt for an inexpensive printer that prints amazing pictures. I have come to the conclusion they do not exist! So no printing on fabric for me. I have tried iron on transfers but they are not the same.
- October 14, 2011 at 4:34 PM
- Sewconsult said...
I know the feeling about the change in Susie's hair style. After I spent months on a needlepoint version of my childhood home, my dad had a new roof put on the house before I could give them the picture. The roof went from a multi-colored speckled look to a solid black one.
Love all of Tiffany's rick rack adorned project.
- October 14, 2011 at 6:57 PM
- Nancy B said...
I use an Inkjet Printable Fabric Sew-on in my printer. Check in your craft store, but be sure to have a coupon because it is a little pricey. After the ink dries, just peel the backing off and you have a sewable piece of fabric. Hope this helps.
- October 14, 2011 at 8:15 PM
- Snoodles said...
You got quite a haul! Love your portraits, and enjoy stopping by your blog.
- October 15, 2011 at 6:37 PM
- Tonje said...
I just had to leave a comment for you after browsing through your blog. You are probably the most talented sewer I have seen! The peacock in the peartree just blew me away! It's a big joy to walk around in your blog and so I have added myself as a follower so I can come back!
love from Norway
- October 16, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- Cindy said...
Your work brings out the best in your partners.
- October 17, 2011 at 3:50 PM


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Car News
2015 Ford Mustang Renderings Look Very Realistic
- Renderings from TopSpeed.com depict a taut, muscular coupe
- Inspiration is drawn from the legendary 1969-70 Mustang Mach 1
- 2015 Mustang is set to debut early next year
What will the new 2015 Mustang will look like? That question seems to be on a lot of people's minds. Like you, we're anxious to see the new car. Given the history and popularity of the Ford Mustang, we can't help but be intrigued about the 2015 model's new look.
There's always a lot of online speculation when a new car comes out, but the 2015 Ford Mustang must be about to set some kind of record. Everyone wants to put in their two cents about Ford's latest pony car, and some of the chatter we've seen has been downright absurd. (No, the Mustang GT will not be giving up its V8!) But there are also some voices of reason out there, and the artist behind these renderings from TopSpeed.com seems to be one of them.
Take a peek. We think this could be the closest anyone's come to capturing the streamlined look of the upcoming 2015 Mustang.
50 Years of Mustang
Noting that Ford recently applied to trademark the iconic Mach 1 name, TopSpeed decided to render the 2015 Mustang in Mach 1 trim. It's not too far-fetched that Ford might commemorate the Mustang's 50th anniversary next year with a limited-edition Mach 1 model, and after seeing these renderings, we certainly hope they will.
The matte-black hood with its prominent scoop is straight off the original 1969 Mach 1, except TopSpeed moved the scoop forward and down for a mean, modern look. And while we could do without the contrasting black rear spoiler -- it reminds us too much of something from Nissan, and the original didn't have one anyway -- we have no doubt that this special-edition Mustang would fly off dealer lots. It's hot.
Realistic Speculation
But the basic shape and features would apply to every 2015 Ford Mustang, and we like what we see. One aspect of the current Mustang that's never looked quite right is its prominent rear overhang, but that's replaced in these renderings by a clipped rear end that's more sports car than muscle car.
Also, the formerly prominent B-pillar has been replaced by a simple black strip that makes the car appear almost pillarless. It's classy touches like these that could bring a more diverse group of driving enthusiasts into the Mustang fold. The same goes for the streamlined front end, which draws inspiration from both the Ford Evos concept car and various coupes from the former Ford subsidiary Aston Martin. We think the TopSpeed renderings strike a realistic balance between the sophistication the new Mustang needs and the power it must continue to project.
What it means to you: Redesigning the Mustang is a serious undertaking, and there's always a chance that Ford will mess it up (see, for example, the infamous 1970s Mustang II). Here's hoping that TopSpeed has the right idea.


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Not long ago, Browns receiver Josh Cribbs said he was weary of more changes in Cleveland. Now, he may welcome them.
After touching the ball on offense only eight times in nine games, Cribbs tells Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "I feel caged."
He said more.
"I've talked to the head coach but there's no point," Cribbs said. "Obviously they feel like everybody that's in front of me is a better athlete. I disagree. I feel a different way than the coach feels about me. They must feel I can't produce. W e have a difference of opinion. . . . There's something wrong when one of your best athletes doesn't get the ball. I'm tired of people that don't know how to use me. Get creative. Find ways."
If Cribbs wants out of Cleveland, why not just drive around the parking lot with the Super Bowl trophies tied to his bumper? (Oh.)
Either way, he's on his way out. With a contract that expires after the season and the Browns surely unwilling to use the receiver franchise tag to keep a kick returner in place, Cribbs will hit the open market.
And that's one of the sources of Cribbs' frustration. "I can't even showcase myself," Cribbs said. "I'm more than a special teams player. I've proven that. I belong on the field more than this, more than what they're allowing me to do. I've tried not to say much, but it's upsetting. We're nine games into the season and I haven't gotten a chance."
The lack of chances has Cribbs questioning his skills.
"Me going from being able to run the Wildcat, to playing receiver last season and catching 41 passes and four touchdowns to nothing," Cribbs said. "I can't believe it. It's like by me not playing, I feel like they think I'm not good, that I've lost it. But I haven't. I feel when I'm out there I can contribute, but I'm not able to."
A cynic would suggest that the outgoing Holmgren regime is getting a little revenge on Cribbs for the contract mess he created in early 2010, after Mike Holmgren arrived as the team president. That said, the current coaching staff simply wants to win football games, and they apparently believe that other players give the Browns the best to chance to, well, not win football games.


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Little Big Town's Kimberly Schlapman Returns With 'Kimberly's Simply Southern' Cooking Show
Crank up the oven and get out your pots and pans -- Little Big Town's Kimberly Schlapman is returning to television for her cooking show, 'Kimberly's Simply Southern.'
Great American Country recently announced that the scrumptious show has been renewed for a third season with 13 new episodes that will begin airing in 2014.
This news couldn't be more exciting for the talented LBT songstress who has honed her culinary skills. She says, "This series is a childhood dream of mine and I'm so excited to have the opportunity to get to share all the fun things I learn out there in my travels."
Adds Schlapman, "I love sharing my passion for cooking and hunting down treasures across the country with Great American Country's viewers."
During the new season, viewers will get a front-row seat for her quest to find the best local foods while on tour and then trying to re-create them while at home in Music City, giving then some down-home southern flair. The show has received positive feedback, and following her second season, Schlapman was nominated for a Taste Award for Best Home Chef in a Series.
Singing, cooking, and starring in her own television show -- is there anything the LBT singer can't do?


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CZW 12/9 "Cage of Death"! Page-Strickland-Gacy; Jacobs-Havoc Dec 04 - 07:26 pm EST
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CZW 12/9 "Cage of Death"! Page-Strickland-Gacy; Jacobs-Havoc!
CZWrestling.com - This Saturday, December 9 is Combat Zone Wrestling's largest event of the year, "Cage of Death" at Rastelli's Complex, 1855 Hurffville RD in Sewell, NJ at 8 pm, with a special 7:30 pm kick-off!
- Inside the Cage of Death, it will be new CZW champion Rickey Shane Page vs. Shane Strickland vs. Joe Gacy!
- CZW Wired TV champion Joey Janela defends against MJF...but whose side is Penelope Ford on?
- CZW World Tag Team champions Scarlet 'N Graves (Zachary Wentz/Dezmond Xavier) vs. The Rep (Nate Carter, Dave McCall) vs. Alex Reynolds and Matt Palmer vs. Impact Wrestling Tag Team champions oVe (Dave and Jake Crist)!
- Tournament of Death winner Jimmy Havoc returns to face Jimmy Jacobs!
- In a Thumbtack Massacre: CZW 50% owner "The Bulldozer" Matt Tremont vs. Jimmy Lloyd!
- Can Ace Romero overcome Greg Excellent and Chrissy Rivera?
- In a Grudge Match: Alex Colon vs. Mr. Claxton!
- Ethan Page vs. David Starr
- TONIGHT on CZW social media and CZWrestling.com, we announce the first entrant for the Open Invite for the CZW Ultimate Opportunity Coin during the COD Kick-Off at 7:30 pm!
- NWA Worlds Heavyweight champion Tim Storm will be on-hand and more!
Bring a NEW, UNOPENED, UNWRAPPED toy for Toys For Tots! We donate truckloads of toys every year! Help us continue the tradition!
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20 Definitely true facts that are for sure, actually true…seriously.
In my 27 years on this spinning blue and green ball I've learned very few things. Here they are.
*This is a work of fiction, only most of these facts are definitely true*
1. The death of Paul Newman signalled the end of the "Cool white guy". He was the last one. White people will be lame from now on.
2. You can fit 9 baby Hippos in a 1978 VW microbus (10 if the back seats have been replaced with a waterbed). Anything more is just plain greedy.
Drama you can't script Part 2: Frankie Edgar is a Terminator/possibly Yul Brynner
When Gray Maynard clipped Frankie Edgar in round one of their UFC 136 bout, I had a feeling of déjà vu wash over me. No it wasn't just the feeling of an overstuffed stomach engorged with ham and turkey from the thanksgiving feast I enjoyed earlier, this was a movie I had seen before. The second bout of their trilogy had started the same way, with Maynard clubbing Edgar in round one and the champion having to hold on for dear life in hopes of clearing the cobwebs between rounds. In the first fight Maynard had gassed himself out going for the finish and Edgar got on his bike and used precise footwork to hit and run his way to a draw (a fight I thought Edgar won). Edgar had shown great heart, gutting out that first round and leaving Las Vegas with his title.
I Just Blue Myself
One of the greatest injustices of the past millennia was the mishandling and subsequent cancellation of Arrested Development. That statement is ridiculously hyperbolic, but as a (stupid) man of principle, I'm just going to go ahead and stand by it. Fox played musical chairs with the show's timeslot—including at one point putting it up against Monday Night Football—and AD was never able to gain a foothold and find an audience. Well Arrested Development fans, your prayers have been answered! Assuming your daily prayer routine involved doing the chicken dance and screaming "There's money in the banana stand" to the heavens, all while clutching Arrested Development and Teen Wolf Too DVDs (Jason Bateman's true Magnum Opus).
Drama that you can't script
It has taken a day and a half to recover from the swan song of Major League Baseball's regular season, and I pity those of you who dared watch anything else on Wednesday night. Real life drama will always trump scripted drama, and that night provided more twists than an M. Night Shyamalan movie marathon. Also these twists didn't suck entirely like every Shyamalan flick post Sixth Sense (I guess they sucked if you were from "Bahston").
Despite my rugged handsomeness, I don't have many loves in my life. Maybe my manliness intimidates women, or maybe they're mistaking my "rugged handsomeness" for "misshapen ugliness". The point is– other than my immediate family and some close friends– the only constant love I've had in my life is The Simpsons. I'm strangely comfortable with this. 78% of my language is cobbled together using Simpsons references (the other 22% is recreating the Sanford & Son theme using mouth noises and under-seen Mr. Show sketches). My lifelong dream will always involve writing for The Simpsons. I would even settle for sitting in the writers room in quiet awe while they dictate their lunch orders to me. So you would have to believe the front of my pants would tighten when a friend sent me a link to the most beautiful story ever written. Was it the Bible? Everybody poops? Breakfast of Champions? Carrot Top's Junk in the Trunk? Katherine Hepburn's Me?
Community is Back! Suicide now deemed unnecessary!
Community is essentially the only reason Channel 4 exists on my television. I guess this is also true for 714, Channel 4's beautiful, (albeit a little slutty) high definition sister. It is the only show I make a point of watching during its intended timeslot. The reason is simple, it makes me happy. Pathetic? Maybe, but it's the most well rounded show on TV today. It carries the torch lit by early seasons of The Simpsons. It is a show that can be both zany and grounded in the same scene, with three dimensional characters, not just joke machines spewing set-ups and punch lines at an alarming rate. Unafraid to take risks and try new ways to tell stories (covering un-treaded ground, who knew that an episode where the characters sit in a room and play dungeons and dragons could be so epic?), Community avoids spiralling into the formulaic, something that bogs down essentially every other show on network television.
Real Weekend at Bernie's less hilarious than expected
There are very few movies more implausible than Weekend at Bernie's. Only movies where Nick Nolte is sober or Sharon Stone isn't a prostitute seem more far fetched. Well it turns out that Weekend at Bernie's is very real, and a lot less hilarious than I've been led to believe. Robert Young and Mark Rubinson of Denver decided that their buddy wasn't too dead to party with, or at least not too dead to pay their tab (this is your fault Andrew McCarthy, you made "violating a corpse" seem delightfully zany).
Via The Associated Press
Young arrived at Jarrett's home and found him unresponsive.
But rather than call the authorities, police say, Young went to find Rubinson.
The duo returned to Jarrett's home and put his lifeless body into Rubinson's SUV and headed to a nightspot where they spent more than an hour drinking — leaving Jarrett's body in the vehicle, according to police documents. Police say the two men used Jarrett's card to pay for the drinks on Aug. 27, noting "they did not have Jarrett's consent."
Rubinson and Young then drove to another restaurant to hang out, Jarrett's body slumped in the back along for the ride, police say.
They then returned to Jarrett's home, carried him in and put him in bed, according to court papers.
From there, police say, Rubinson and Young went to get gas and made a stop at a burrito joint, again using Jarrett's card. The two men then went to a strip club, where authorities say they used Jarrett's card to take out $400 from an ATM and flagged down a police officer to tell him they thought their friend was dead. Police went to Jarrett's home and found the body.
The Muppets continue to be awesome
The newest trailer for the Muppet movie is an awesome parody of the trailer for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Not only do they acknowledge this, they do it in the greatest way imaginable…with a pun! This movie has more creativity in its trailer than Brett Ratner has in his entire catalogue (we get it dude, Asian people and Black people are different…but the same). The fact that Jim Henson is dead, but the Kardashian sisters continue to roam the earth, proves that there is no God. And if there is, he is either greedy (he forces Jim to perform personal puppet shows while Belushi does schtick in the background) or he feels nothing but disdain for the human race. Either way here's the trailer, unless God decides to take that too. DON'T TAKE THIS FROM ME!!!! TAKE THE TRAILER FOR THE FOOTLOOSE REMAKE INSTEAD (I apologize for all of the yelling, but this message has to make it up to cloud city. Or to another plane of existence. Or wherever the hell heaven is supposed to be).
More Muppet trailers after the jump.
Van Damme and Norris sign on for Expendables 2! Viagra to be dispensed at the craft services table!
The washed up Muscles from Brussels and the bearded, walking internet meme have signed on to join the cast of Expendables 2. That previous sentence may have sounded snarky, but I love this news. Van Damme showed surprising depth and self awareness in JCVD and Chuck Norris…well, he's Chuck Norris. Neither of these guys will need depth nor character development; as long as they can shoot down planes with rocket launchers and throat kick dirty immigrants (that's who the Expendables fight right?), then they will fit right in.
IGN has the casting details.
Seriously? Why?
Rebooting/remaking a movie franchise is rarely ever ok. Sometimes it's necessary. Sometimes when you need to air out the stench of Joel Schumacher's bat nipples, its best just to blow it up and start from scratch.
One movie that isn't ripe for remake is Sam Peckinpah's uber-visceral Straw Dogs. The story of a timid American man pushed too far (they raped his wife) by the locals of a small town in England. By pushed too far, I mean kills the shit out of everyone who deemed it necessary to pick on the quiet guy with glasses (who probably enjoys puzzles).
Well they decided to remake it anyway, with James Marsden taking on the David Sumner role originated by Dustin Hoffman, quite the step down the pedigree ladder. Don't get me wrong, I dig Marsden as an actor, but those are some Shaquille O'Neal sized shoes to fill. It would take two of his feet just to fill one of those shoes, or two of his feet and half a hand. What were we talking about? Oh right, shoes…I mean the unnecessary reimagining of Straw Dogs. I haven't seen the flick yet, but I'd imagine it's a beat for beat remake with better picture quality and a band of more handsome rapists.


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Fort Sumter
Other Names: Charleston Harbor, Morris Island
Location: City of Charleston
Campaign: Operations against Defenses of Charleston (1863)
Date(s): August 17-December 31, 1863
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Quincy Gillmore [US]; Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard [CS]
Forces Engaged: Morris Island Batteries [US]; Fort Sumter Garrison
Estimated Casualties: Unknown
Description: Federal batteries erected on Morris Island opened fire on August 17 and continued their bombardment of Fort Sumter and the Charleston defenses until August 23. Despite a severe pounding, Fort Sumter's garrison held out. Siege operations continued against Fort Wagner on Morris Island.
Result(s): Inconclusive
CWSAC Reference #: III.2 (Class B)
Preservation Priority: IV.2 (Class D)
National Park Unit: Fort Sumter NM
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Catching up with the brilliance otherwise known as Viola Davis ...
The Academy Award-nominated actress discusses the Barbara Jordan biopic project in an extensive new interview with EBONY. The late and iconic politician rose from poverty to become the first Black woman elected to Congress from the South. Jordan was also lesbian.
Is your [production] company going to be behind the Barbra Jordan biopic? Yes it is! We're perfecting the script right now and working with some fabulous producers, Shelly Glasser, Diane Nabatoff, and a great director, Paris Barclay, to perfect the story, because 80 percent of work is the narrative. ... And then you you just enhance it. So we're just trying to perfect that now, but it's coming.
It seems like a common thread of characters you've been playing the last four years —the ones that have been earning your Oscar nominations—is they're heroines. Is that something you look for? I think that those are the projects that just find me. I think that that's maybe a quality people feel like I emanate. That they feel that I am larger than life. I'm the reluctant hero.
The award-winning director Paris Barclay is also Black and gay.
Davis offers more insight on the biopic in a new interview with the Houston Chronicle while promoting "Won't Back Down," which opens on Friday.
Davis' influence now extends to producing: Her nascent company has a number of projects in gestation, including a biopic on Houston's Barbara Jordan - civil rights leader, congresswoman, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and flag-planter of many significant firsts in American politics.
"It's a chance for me to transform, to create someone who was such a public, heroic figure, who at the end of the day, had a lot of secrets and was very human. To present a character on a really large scale, to use my craft. We're just in the process of making all that happen. But it will happen, as well as other stories I've always wanted to see," she says.
Barbara Jordan represented her hometown of Houston in the Texas Senate from 1967-1973. Jordan became the first Black state senator since 1883 and the first Black woman to serve in that body. She was elected to Congress in 1972 and later became the first Black woman to keynote the Democratic National Convention.
The biopic is partially based on Mary Beth Rogers' biography Barbara Jordan: American Hero ... which never addressed Jordan's sexuality. Viola Davis is a terrific LGBT ally. Can't wait for this project to hit the big screen. I looove Viola Davis and am confident that she and Paris Barclay treat Jordan's legacy with respect and honesty.
You May Enjoy:
Viola Davis Stunning on "The Tonight Show"
Viola Davis to Star in Barbara Jordan Biopic
Big Night for Viola Davis, "The Help" at SAG Awards
List of Golden Globe Nominations
Denzel, Viola Davis Make History in "Fences"
Viola Davis: Gay Men are "Demonized"


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Buccaneers running back Doug Martin has been hard to miss lately.
But the guys in front of him are hard to keep track of.
For all the success their rookie running back has had, the ability to replace injured stars reflects well on the Tampa Bay offensive line, and coach Bob Bostad. The Bucs have lost both starting guards (Carl Nicks and Davin Joseph), and have had to mix and match all year.
"Everyone has done a great job filling in, but we don't want to get too comfortable," left tackle Donald Penn said, via Ira Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune. "It's been a lot of fun, and you can see that by the way we're playing, but we have to keep building. I'm proud of our guys up front. … I'm probably their No. 1 fan."
Penn's the only Bucs offensive line starter in the same spot as in the opener.
But for all the changes, they're averaging 28 points per game, and an NFL-high 6.2 yards per snap. They've also allowed just six sacks the last five games.
"It's a credit to how good these guys are to replace Pro Bowlers, not just ordinary guys, and get the job done," right tackle Demar Dotson said. "We're going to keep it up. We're nowhere near where we're going to be. It's only Week 9. By Week 12 or 13, we're going to be unstoppable."
They shouldn't get carried away, because they've stretched their depth to the limit. But they've already exceeded expectations, so anything beyond the current pace is a gift.


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Did you check your Twitter background lately? Do you like it? Have you been thinking how to change it, but you didn't want to use one of the pre-designed themes offered by Twitter.
There are some options:
- you can use adobe photoshop or other application and design it — the problem is the price of those applications and whether you know how to use it
- freetwitterdesigner — web-based application which helps you to create your own Twitter background. Application created byan interactive advertising and marketing agency Zugara
- theme selection – you can chose one of those presented online or start with a black slate
- you can add image – one of your own pictures, etc.
- add shape — there is few shapes you can chose from and add to your background
- add text — (I love that feature) you can add text, chose the type of font (there are 10 types of fonts)
- resolution | background color | links color | text color | sidebar border color – all of that you can change
- Create a Twitter background using powerpoint — it's not an application but simply powerpoint sample
- images — if you don't have good image you will like to use as your background check istock or custombackgroundsfortwitter.com
- TwitBacks –another application you can use to create free twitter background


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Report by Lou Stoppard on 12 January 2014.
While the suits of armour that lined the runway and the iron chandeliers that hung above us may have suggested that we were heading back to Tudor times there was, ironically, a definite modernity to this collection. The opening shapes, oversized tunic-style tops with gaudy fur cuffs, smacked more of the kind of sportswear favoured by rappers than the dress of ancient kings.
finale Dolce&Gabbana winter 2015 @Noah_live @TeamNmills @Erwaaaan @Ed_Chavez17 @sere_7 @kiara_db @KarimaNouh http://t.co/Lbj7L6imxU
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of degrees
& programs
Fall: August 1
[December 15 for international applicants]
Spring: December 15
[August 1 for international applicants]
Applications are processed throughout the year with no specific deadline. However, the entire application packet must be received by the QA/RA Graduate Studies Office before it is reviewed by the Admissions Committee. Students are responsible for making sure that all materials have been received.
Number Required: 2
From Whom: One letter should be obtained from the candidate's direct supervisor, indicating that the supervisor is aware of and supports the candidate's involvement in Temple's QA/RA graduate program.
No specific coursework is required.
A B.S. degree in Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry, Physics or a health-related discipline is required.
Students should describe their experience in the pharmaceutical or related industries, indicating how the QA/RA program will help them achieve their career objectives.
The GRE/GMAT is required. A combined minimum score of 1160 is expected on the quantitative and verbal sections of the GRE. GMAT scores will be considered in lieu of the GRE, but the candidate must write to the QA/RA Graduate Studies Office for specific requirements.
Scores must be from within the past five years.
Minimum TOEFL score or range of scores needed to be accepted:
600 paper-based, 250 computer-based, or 100 internet-based. The TOEFL must have been taken within the past two years.
A resume is required.
Students may transfer a maximum of 6 credits (two courses) into the M.S. program. These credits must be similar or identical to courses offered in Temple's QA/RA program. In addition, the student must request the transfer credits at the time of application to the M.S. program, providing copies of course syllabi. The maximum number of credits a student may transfer is 6.
Number of Didactic Credits Required Beyond the Baccalaureate: 36
Required Courses:
Drug Development
Food and Drug Law I
Good Practices (either GCPs, GLPs or GMPs)
Quality Audit or IND/NDA Submissions
The remaining 8 courses are electives.
After the four required courses, students may either concentrate in QA or RA electives, or students may select courses from both disciplines to broaden their portfolio.
Internship: No internship is required.
Language Examination: No language examination is required.
This program has no culminating events.
QA/RA Graduate Program
425 Commerce Drive,
Suite 175
Fort Washington, PA 19034-2713
Wendy Lebing, MALD, M.S.
Program Coordinator:
Richard Kaplan, Ph.D.
Graduate Chairperson:
Daniel Canney, Ph.D.
Wendy Lebing, MALD, M.S.
Since 1968, Temple's QA/RA program has played a significant role in training pharmaceutical company personnel in regulations and quality principles and practices. Its courses meet the career requirements of professionals in the pharmaceutical and related industries. The program provides students with a broad knowledge of the industry, fostering their professional development and preparing them for supervisory and managerial positions.
Time Limit for Degree Completion: 5 years
Fort Washington
The M.S. is offered in its entirety on evenings and weekends at Fort Washington.
Students are able to complete the degree program through classes offered after 4:30 p.m. Students are also able to complete the degree program on a part-time basis (8 credit hours or less per semester).
Because the QA/RA student is typically a working professional, continuous enrollment in the program is not required. Thus, students do not need to be enrolled each semester (Fall and Spring) to maintain current status and are exempt from filing a Leave of Absence form when opting to take a semester off.
QA/RA Graduate Program
425 Commerce Drive, Suite 175
Fort Washington, PA 19034-2713
The program fosters interdisciplinary study with the pharmaceutical sciences and technology.
Each year the program sponsors a major conference with the pharmaceutical industry and the U.S. FDA, focusing on current regulatory and quality issues.
Established in 1968, Temple's QA/RA master's degree is widely recognized as the oldest, most comprehensive, and most respected academic program of its type in the world.
Not applicable.
This is a non-thesis M.S. program. Faculty members are specialists in many areas, such as Quality Assurance; Regulatory Affairs; manufacturing; validation; auditing; pharmaceutical, food, and device law; pharmaceutical labeling and advertising; IND/NDA submissions; global regulation; and clinical trial management and operations.
Students find positions in all areas of the pharmaceutical industry, including big PhRMA and generic companies, clinical research organizations, medical devices and packaging, and biotechnology. Government agencies (including the FDA) and healthcare providers are also represented.
Students may complete a maximum of 9
s.h. before they must formally apply for
admission. Before taking any electives, new students are strongly encouraged to
take Pharmaceutics 459: Drug Development and then Pharmaceutics 592: Food and Drug Law.
Students in the QA/RA program are generally working professionals. Therefore, funding for assistantships and academic internships is limited.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Employment Opportunities for Fashion Illustrators
Merele told me, "Much of my success was as a result of talent and luck. Fortunately the competition for work back then was not as ferocious as it is today. I do recall being received well at most art director's offices... many were aware of the illustrations I had done at Neiman Marcus. My name had been in several Art Directors Annuals and the ads had won awards...that publicity helped."
"I did fine on my own... I worked regularly [for the magazines] and the ad agencies were keeping me busy as well."
Merle's experience seems born out by my research in various mid-20th century publications. The Famous Artists School magazine regularly featured a "Showcase" about successful graduates. Every issue I have contains at least on example of an FAS graduate who found steady work doing fashion illustration for their local newspaper or as a staff artist at their hometown department store.
It struck me that this is yet another example of how times have changed for the illustration business. Back in the mid-20th century, every major town and city would have had a local independent newspaper and at least one major independent department store.
In the days before national chains and comglomerates absorbed the independents (or drove them into bankruptcy) all those businesses - and many others I'm probably overlooking - would have needed someone locally who could draw fashion illustrations for them on a regular basis.
That's how someone like Carolyn Jagotis of South Bend, Indiana (below) was able to go from being a secretary to "a busy career built around a drawing board instead of a typewriter ... [drawing] newspaper merchandise and fashion illustration" - and not have to move to New York or L.A. to achieve her career ambitions.
Of course compensation in South Bend, Indiana or any other small centre would have been substantially lower than what Merle Bassett was earning in New York City (Merle recalled once receiving $2,000 for a double page advertising spread). A 1954 American Artist article comparing the merits of various types of commercial art markets suggested that department store fashion illustrators should expect low pay and rushed working conditions.
Still, as one person commented the other day on my Flickr page, "No matter how bad the prices are they can't be as bad as 99designs!" Many of today's graphic artists would probably be more than thrilled to trade places with the low paid and rushed illustrators of the 1950s!
Speaking of which, here are a couple of Butterick clothing pattern envelopes sent to me by a TI list member. Another example of how illustrators were employed by the fashion industry.
How many thousands upon thousands of these envelopes have needed to be illustrated over the years? Take a look at the Vintage Pattern group on Flickr. It boggles the mind...
Finally, here are two gorgeous newspaper fashion ads from the Globe and Mail, from 1962 and '63 - for Eaton's department store. Beautifully designed and illustrated, and intended to be seen for one day - and then discarded.
Just imagine the volume of artwork that must have been produced over the decades for just this one store - then extrapolate that number over the entire continent!
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has an extensive collection of original fashion illustrations by KPB, Fred Greenhill, Richard Ely, Jack Potter, Morton Kaish, John Woods, Dorothy Hood, Antonio, Jackie Doyle, Mia Carpenter, Phil French and many others. For those who do not live in the Boston area, the museum has more than 200 pages of fashion artwork available for viewing online.
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Wait - Famous Artists School had a MAGAZINE??? Holy cow, where do you pick up something like that? I have some of the big books they published for the course back in the 50's, and they're magnificient ... would love to know what that mag looked like.ReplyDelete
As for being willing to trade places with some of those illustrators back in the day ... people think we don't exist here in the age of the magic techno box, but we do ...
Yes, the FAS published a quarterly magazine for its students and alumni. I lucked into a small stack of them on ebay a few years ago. Just checked and there are a couple of issues available right now on ebay - but the sellers are asking way too much imo. I only purchase old magazines by the lot to keep the cost reasonable.
The magazines are very slim - about 30/40 pages - and feature some great interviews with FAS founding faculty, tips about how to get work in the commercial art business, articles on successful graduates, contests for current students to participate in and photos of and artwork by the FAS founding faculty you might otherwise normally not be able to find.
They've been a great resource for some of my posts here on TI over the last couple of years - and I've even used them as a resource for my lessons at the college.
Very nice, thanks.ReplyDelete
What an interesting article! Thank you so much for sharing.ReplyDelete
This was such a great read! Though I am so critical about illustrating in my own country: there's usually no demand nor traditions so it's pretty much complicated. And if there is a job landed from time to time, illustrators are forced to cut the mininum price rate (that would be considered in USA or Western Europe) three times. Because it's just ink and paper, you know.ReplyDelete
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Kelsey Hallowell
Class of 2012
Major/Minor: Environmental Studies, Anthropology
Kelsey Hallowell '12 worked with the Center for Environment & Society during all four years of her time at Washington College. An Environmental Studies major with a minor in Anthropology and a concentration in Chesapeake Bay Regional Studies, she began working with CES as a recycling assistant.
During her sophomore year, she created "Give 'n Go," a collection program during move out for items students no longer want, need, or have room to fit in their car for the ride home. The program collected electronics, bedding, school supplies, clothing, kitchen items, and food to donate to Women In Need, Nearly New, Empty Hangers, and the local food pantry in Chestertown. Kelsey was dedicated to this program because "I believe it is important to keep working, useable items out of dumpsters and landfills and rather redistributed to people who will "re-use" them."
During Kelsey's sophomore year, she took part in the first Chesapeake Semester. "Alongside eight other students, I was given the opportunity to travel and learn about the Chesapeake Bay. We met with historians, large and small-scale farmers, policymakers, developers, watermen, artists, and foraged for our own food while camping. During this semester, I developed a passion of local foods. It was an important semester for us all, to get out of the classroom and really experience the instability of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed."
Kelsey also interned at Colchester Farm: Community Supported Agriculture as the education intern. At Colchester she assisted with harvesting and preparations for the weekly pick-ups. In addition she coordinated adult cooking classes with local chefs, utilizing as many local products as possible. She co-directed a children's camp that was based on the farm, which included trips out to the field, cooking activities, art activities, and other recreational games. She also assisted with coordinating 'Tribute to Local Taste," a dinner that showcased various chefs dishes that utilized local ingredients.
Campus Garden Founding
During the summer of 2010, Kelsey created a proposal for a Community Garden and College Farm. Her dream is for Washington College to continue to move in an environmentally-friendly direction, by decreasing their dependence on non-environmentally-friendly food producers. Working with the Student Environmental Alliance, she helped to establish a garden run by students to grow healthy, fresh produce for the dining hall. She envisions the ongoing construction of small garden plots for members of the Chestertown community, so that they too can also have access to affordable, fresh produce.


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When you boil it down, the question of the Verizon Wireless version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is this: despite its myriad cool, useful features, with only 16GB of storage, is it worth $600?
If pressed on that question, my answer would have to be no. That is, if you're simply looking for a simple tablet to do simple, tablet-y things with. If that describes you, know that there are plenty of cheaper tablets that will meet your needs.
If you're looking for something more robust, something different, something that can possibly scratch that artistic itch inside you, there is a strong argument that can be made in favor of the Note 10.1. Just know that there is a huge caveat about value. The Verizon Wireless version costs about $100 more than the Wi-Fi version that was released in 2012. It also includes many (but not quite all, yet) of the UI and software updates Samsung pushed to Note 10.1 Wi-Fi owners in early 2013. These changes are smart, useful, and logical, and integrate the S Pen in ways users should have been experiencing from the get-go.
Also, Verizon offers quite a bit of 4G plan flexibility with no mandatory contracts, thankfully. Six hundred dollars for an admittedly feature-packed tablet will still be too much for most, however, and unless you literally have need of a cellular tablet on the road, the cheaper Wi-Fi version that offers more feature flexibility and, likely, timelier updates is the way to go.
The Verizon Note, same as the Samsung Note
The original Wi-Fi version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 was released in the summer of 2012. Verizon is now offering the 4G tablet for $599 with 16GB of storage. That's a lot of money for a tablet, 4G or not. The original Note 10.1 started at $499 with 16GB of storage, and as of yet the price hasn't come down, despite a few specs getting a bit long in the tooth. The Note 10.1 has always been an expensive prospect, and with a 4G option, it's even more so.
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The basic physical design of the Verizon version hasn't changed at all; however, Verizon and Samsung have taken this opportunity to jazz things up a bit. The dull silver edges of the original are now brighter and shinier. The bezel and back are now a dark but somewhat bluish gray color. Also, there are now large "Verizon" and "4GLTE" logos on the back.
Speakers grace the right and left bezel, and the top bezel houses a 1.9-megapixel camera that sits right next to an ambient light sensor. Directly opposite, on the back, is a 5-megapixel, LED-flash-supported camera. The top edge holds a power button, a volume rocker, a microSD slot (supporting cards of up to 64GB), an IR blaster, a headphone jack, and a SIM card slot. On the bottom edge are the dock connector and a microphone pinhole. The tablet is fairly light and comfortable to hold, but compared with the Nexus 10's grippier build, the Note 10.1 feels plasticky and less durable.
There's a 4-inch-long, poorly placed holding space in the tablet's bottom-right corner for the S Pen stylus. The problems with this placement are: 1) the S Pen can easily fall out if you're removing it while holding the tablet up; and 2) when the tablet sits in the docking station, the holding space is too close to the desktop for the S Pen to be removed, unless you undock it first. Not a huge design faux pas, but it's just a strange decision not to place the holding space on the top.
The S Pen has its sides squared off to keep it from unexpectedly rolling away. The pen button is grooved to make it easy to find with your fingertips, and while at first I found myself consistently pressing the button by mistake, I kicked that habit after a few hours of getting accustomed to using the pen.
Samsung also built some useful shortcut gestures into the pen, making tasks like screen capture, calling up an app's menu, and going back to the previous screen a simple act of holding down the pen button and swiping or tapping the screen in the appropriate way.
(New) software features
The Verizon version of the Note 10.1 ships with Android 4.1.2, aka Jelly Bean, which includes a number of legit and tangible Samsung-developed UI improvements. A Verizon rep told me the company will support the tablet with future upgrades but was mum on details.
If you're familiar with Samsung tablets, the inclusion of the company's custom UI, TouchWiz, on the Note 10.1 will probably not shock you. Thankfully, Samsung has slowly toned down the oppressively Fisher-Price-ian look, now providing a more natural, quieter aesthetic. The mini apps tray now includes only those apps compatible with the Note 10.1's multiwindow feature, which makes it possible to run 2 simultaneous apps on the screen. You can also now horizontally resize each app to your heart's content. The compatible apps are limited to a scant 13, and although the Wi-Fi version of the tablet includes multiscreen versions of apps like Twitter and Facebook, Verizon has yet to implement this feature. One of my favorite and most useful mini app-tray apps, the Task Manager, can now be accessed only after tapping the recent apps button or going directly through settings.
The unofficial poster child for the Note 10.1's interface innovation, S Note gets some notable improvements as well, and the veil of inhospitableness that greeted me in the first version of the tablet has largely dissipated. S Note now includes a brief text and video tutorial to make jumping into the app a bit less confusing, and the interface has been tweaked slightly -- you can now easily load a completely blank sheet of "paper" -- toward the same purpose. Icons now present their functionality much more clearly when tapped and can be further clarified by the new Air View feature that displays text bubbles describing each menu option's functionality when you hover the point of the S Pen over it.
Typing in a Web site URL, composing an e-mail, searching for an app in Google Play, or doing pretty much any action that would normally cause a software keyboard to pop up at the bottom on the screen now triggers a notepad to appear. And instead of pecking away at each letter with the pen, you can now simply write your entry directly in the text field. It's an incredibly useful change that dramatically improves the flow of the entire user experience. Also, the pen-to-text translation software is now much more accurate and even when an error occurs, it's much more likely to be the fault of the user now.


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Frank Lloyd Hall
March 7, 1938 - June 15, 2012
Frank Hall was born in Los Angeles, CA to Leon and Mary (Maizie) Hall. He lived his early years in Eagle Rock and on a ranch near Moorpark, CA.
In 1945 he came to Balboa with his brother, Howard and lived with his mother and grandmother (Eleanor Vallely). He was in the class of 1956 at Newport Harbor High School. He graduated from Orange Coast College with additional studies at Pacific States University and Riverside Community College.
During these years, he worked for his uncle, Roland Vallely, renting boats. When it became time for him to do military service, he chose the U.S. Navy air wing out of Los Alamitos Naval Air station. He was employed by the County of Orange from 1959 to 1995.
He moved to Norco, CA from Newport Beach in 1975 when he married his wife Sharon and adopted her three boys, Steve, Bill and Bob.
Frank was always interested in horses, and belonged to several equestrian organizations. He was National President of Equestrian Trails, Inc. from 1967 to 1970 where he established the first office of the organization in Toluca Lake. He was also State President of the California State Horsemen's Association from 1973 to 1974, after servings as First Vice President in 1972. What is unusual is that these were rival equestrian associations, yet at different times they both put their trust in Frank.
After retiring from the County of Orange, he became involved in Norco city government and served as a City Councilman for three four-year terms from 1997 through 2009 also serving as Mayor three times (2000, 2004 and 2008).
As Councilman, he held several appointed positions including Riverside Transit Agency (RTA) where he was Chairman in 2007; Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) Commission; Western Riverside Council of Governments (WRCOG) as Chairman 2001-02; Western Riverside County Regional Wastewater Authority (WRCRWA), Chairman in 2001 and 2002; Member of the Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority (RCA); Member of the League of California Cities Board of Directors 2008 through 2009 and President, Riverside County Division in 2007; Four Corners Policy Committee and Four Corners Transportation Coalition represent RCTC studying future transportation connections between the four counties of Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange and Los Angeles and was Committee Chairman in 2006; Member of the City of Norco Economic Development Advisory Council; Member of the Military Affairs Committee (MAC) for the Norco-Corona Area Committee which was successful in retaining the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Norco.
At the time of his death, he had been appointed by Supervisor Tavaglione as an additional alternate to the Riverside Transit Agency (RTA) and the RTA Transportation-NOW coalition, as well as a member of the Riverside County Trails Committee for district II and the RDA Oversight Board for Norco.
Frank was active with many regional and local organizations. He was a life member of Equestrian Trails, Inc., the California State Horsemen's Association, and part of the Death Valley 49er's. Frank was a founding member and Trailblazer of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. He also belonged to the Pacific Crest Trail Association and the California State Parks Foundation.
Local organizations included being a founding member of the Norco Horsemen's Association, formed in 1989, where he served as President in 1991 and Treasurer from 1992 to 2012, as well as parliamentarian and chairman of the scholarship committee. He was active in the Corona-Norco Family YMCA and was President at the time of his death. He was a member of the Citizens Advisory Group at Norco College, serving on the Board of Directors and as Chairman of the Finance Committee for the Riverside College District foundation. He was on the Norco High School Agricultural Advisory Committee. Local clubs he belonged to were Norco Lions Club, RURAL (Residents of Norco Urging Protection of Rural and Animal Keeping Lifestyle), American Legion Post 328, Norco Historical Society, Norco Regional Conservancy, Saddle Sore Riders, Riverside Recreational Trails, and Norco Senior Citizens and Pet Relief Fund.
Frank passed away on June 15, 2012 after battling leukemia for a number of years. Surviving family members are his wife, Sharon of 37 years, son Steve (Brenda) Hall, son William (Kate) Hall and son Robert (Robin) Hall, six granddaughters, Kristin Hicks, Ashley Hall, Heather Hall, Holly Hall, Vanessa Hall and Lauren Hall, as well as two great-granddaughters Joie Lynn and Abbylynn. Frank is also survived by his brother, Howard (Kathleen) Hall.
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I just joined a few more online billboards.
This means, besides my blog and website, I'm maintaining 12 other hubs on the Internet. If you're curious, here are all the links:
Joe's Amazon blog: http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/A1EF5ODLYYMZIU/ref=cm_blog_dp_artist_blog
Joe on Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/JA_Konrath/679343992
Joe on CrimeSpace: http://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Konrath
Joe on Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/137270.J_A_Konrath
Joe on ITW: http://www.thrillerwriters.org/connect/JA%20Konrath/
Joe on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/JoeKonrath
Joe on MySpace: www.myspace.com/jakonrath
Joe on RedRoom: http://www.redroom.com/author/ja-konrath
Joe on Shelfari: http://www.shelfari.com/jakonrath
Joe on Squidoo: http://www.squidoo.com/jakonrath
Joe on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jakonrath
Joe on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._A._Konrath
Some require more maintenance than others. MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter lead the pack, needing to be updated almost daily. Others, such as Goodreads, Shelfari, RedRoom, and Crimespace, are fine to check up on once a week. The resy are mostly sites I can visit once a month. Squidoo and Lijit can be set up to practically run themselves.
Of course, the more time you spend on each of these, the more effective it becomes as a billboard.
At this point, I'm fine with having a toehold in each of these communities. People join them looking for books, or friends, or just something to entertain or inform, and I've made it easy for them to find something that fits the bill: Me.
That's the first step. But to truly take advantage of Internet relationships, the next step involves time. Time to seek out people on these sites. Time to announce yourself on them. Time to respond to those who have contacted you.
But is it worthwhile?
As the world continues its race into a digital future, it is becoming more and more common to have relationships with people you never actually meet in real life. And unlike real life, these relationships often have less baggage and more leeway. You aren't required to do as much, give as much, or be as responsible with online friends as with real life friends.
And yet, your online friends can vastly outnumber your real life friends, and they can also be a gigantic feather in your self-promotion cap. They can help spread the word. They can buy your books.
I've mentioned many times that people are searching for two things on the Internet: Information and Entertainment. While a visual medium, the net is still all about words. You enter words into Google. You read words in response.
Who better to blaze a trail in this frontier than people skilled to use words?
Your words, in the form of communication and correspondence, are a very effective way to garner supporters online. Your words, when advising and entertaining, will help to keep these relationships going, and are also helping to build relationships with people who you don't even know exist.
The majority of folks who visit my blog and website and billboards are lurkers. They stop by. They read. And if they like what the read, they often buy my books. All without ever letting me know.
It's great to have cheerleaders, linking to you, mentioning you, corresponding with you. But it's also great to have a silent audience who doesn't ask for more than the time you've already given creating a blog or homepage or billboard.
So I don't mind maintaining these billboards. And as more social networking sites spring up and gain popularity, I'll go there as well. I want to be where the people are. I have information and entertainment to give them, but it is only useful to them if they know it exists.
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EEB BS/MS graduates
This page provides information on the positions that students from the BS/MS program have taken after finishing their degrees. The list in not exhaustive and some people may have moved on to other things, but it is designed to give current and prospective students a taste of where they could end up.
- 1 Lauren Barbieri: Environmental Education, Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware
- 2 Brian Branciforte: State Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
- 3 Dan Britton: Photovoltaic Systems Designer, Sunlight Solar Energy
- 4 Chris Field: Important Bird Areas Coordinator, Audubon Connecticut
- 5 Brad Goupil: Pursuing Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota
- 6 Erin King: Biological Science Technician, USFWS
- 7 Kathryn Levasseur: Field co-director for the Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project
- 8 Tanner Steeves: Research Associate, Yale University
Lauren Barbieri: Environmental Education, Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware
I'm currently working at Cape Henlopen State Park in Lewes, Delaware. The park is a little over 5,000 acres of pinelands, dunes, coastal wetlands, and beaches. I teach the park's educational programs to public and private (schools, scouts, churches, etc.) groups. Our programs include guided hikes, kayak tours, live animal demonstrations, and seining in Delaware Bay. When I started here I cleaned and maintained our small aquarium (five 1000 gallon saltwater tanks, a touch tank, and a smaller tank for seahorses) and reptile exhibits (two snakes and three turtles). Now, my duties also include organizing and scheduling programs. [Updated fall 2012]
Brian Branciforte: State Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
At the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, I've had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects in my career. One of my responsibilities was to develop and oversee the implementation of a statewide, comprehensive conservation strategy for Florida. This involved reaching out to thousands of individuals in the business, outdoor, and environmental sectors, as well as other stakeholders, and successfully navigating their competing interests and complicated relationships while keeping the focus on achieving the best possible conservation outcome. The result was a joint plan that had wide buy-in from the affected parties, and thus it has been a key instrument to coordinate and accomplish conservation in the state.
I currently lead the development of the 'Cooperative Conservation Blueprint' for the agency. The Blueprint is a people-intensive endeavor that strives to reach agreement among diverse perspectives to set priorities for conservation. In this project, I have been a liaison between the agency and various officials, businesses, and non-traditional stakeholders to identify common ground. I am also heavily involved in an agency endeavor to develop management plans for all of Florida's state listed species. Because of the enormity of this task (60+ species), it has taken careful and strategic planning to create a successful multi-year process that will involve science, stakeholders, and adaptive management. [Updated fall 2012]
Dan Britton: Photovoltaic Systems Designer, Sunlight Solar Energy
My current job title is Photovoltaic Systems Designer at Sunlight Solar Energy (http://www.sunlightsolar.com). In a nutshell, I visit potential sites for solar electricity and determine if the site is viable for solar, and if so, design a system that meets the energy needs and physical constraints of the building. I also spend a lot of time educating people, explaining how grid-tied solar system work, the various government incentives, and outlining the economics of solar. [This text is from 2009. Spring 2012 update: Dan now runs CT operations for Sunlight Solar Energy.]
Chris Field: Important Bird Areas Coordinator, Audubon Connecticut
My first full-time job after graduation was coordinating research for an epidemiology lab at Yale. Subsequently, I worked as Audubon Connecticut's Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program Coordinator. My main responsibility was coordinating state-wide and site-based conservation planning for Connecticut's IBAs. For more information see: http://ct.audubon.org/IBAs.html. In 2011, I returned to graduate school for a PhD. [Updated fall 2012.]
Brad Goupil: Pursuing Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota
I am currently in my third year in the College of Veterinary Medicine. My main area of interest is in Infectious Diseases. While in school, I have helped develop and performed a study on Salmonella in a captive population of reptiles, which we hope to publish soon. During my final year of Veterinary School I will be doing several externships in the areas of pathology and laboratory animal medicine. My goal is to combine my background in Conservation Biology with veterinary medicine to work in emerging infectious diseases. [Updated spring 2009.]
Erin King: Biological Science Technician, USFWS
Since graduating from the BS/MS program in 2004, I have worked for several organizations including UCONN, the CT Department of Environmental Protection, and the US Department of Agriculture. My job responsibilities have ranged from writing a conservation plan for one of Audubon Connecticut's Important Bird Areas, to radiotracking American Woodcock, to testing birds for Avian Influenza and West Nile Virus. I currently work as a wildlife biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife in Rhode Island. My job involves overseeing the threatened and endangered species program at the Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex focusing on the piping plover, New England cottontail, saltmarsh sparrow, and rare plants. I also assists the refuge biologist and invasive plant biologist on habitat restoration projects and adaptive shrub management project. For more information on USFWS please see our website: http://www.fws.gov/. [Updated fall 2012.]
Kathryn Levasseur: Field co-director for the Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project
The Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project seeks to better understand the life history of the hawksbill, a critically endangered sea turtle, in order to serve as a foundation for wise management and policy making. The project is a collaboration between WIDECAST (The Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network, a partner organization to the United Nations Caribbean Environment Programme) and the Jumby Bay Island Company (an association of homeowners on Long Island, Antigua).
The importance of a research project such as the JBHP lies with its intensive monitoring and documentation of nesting activity through saturation tagging. Hourly beach patrols are done every night for six months (June-November) to ensure every nesting hawksbill is identified and documented. This rigorous data collection has continued since the project's inception in 1987. As an endangered species with a long generation time, hawksbills require long-term, consistent data to understand their population dynamics. Two decades of monitoring on Jumby Bay have now begun to shown a clear increase in the population (Richardson et al. 2006). The project also promotes public awareness of sea turtles regionally and internationally through local school visits and educational turtle watches for local residents, tourists, and members of the environmental division in Antigua. As field co-director, I am in charge of community outreach in addition to hourly beach patrols and data collection: tagging, measuring, photographing, egg counts, carapace mapping, nest excavations, etc. [Updated fall 2010.]
Richardson, J. I., D. B. Hall, P. A. Mason, K. M. Andrews, R. Bjorkland, Y. Cai & R. Bell (2006) Eighteen years of saturation tagging data reveal a significant increase in nesting hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) on Long Island, Antigua. Animal Conservation 9: 302-307.
Tanner Steeves: Research Associate, Yale University
I am currently a research associate at Yale University in the Vector Ecology Lab investigating the role of birds, small mammals, and ticks in the natural cycling of human pathogens. After graduating from the BS/MS program I spent time working for the CT DEEP-Wildlife Division where I participated in a variety of projects related to research, monitoring, and habitat management. In addition to my current position, I continue to collaborate with the CT DEEP, UConn, and other non-profit organizations on conservation issues in Connecticut. [Updated fall 2012.]


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I do have a bad habit with anthologies I've been published in. I tend to receive them then stick them on a shelf as eye-candy yet, of course, they probably contain lots of stories I would like to read. The other day I changed that habit by picking up The New Space Opera edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. It contains a story by me called Shell Game, and has been sitting on my shelf since 2009. I did enjoy this and out of the 19 stories enclosed there were only two I didn't finish and maybe only a couple more I finished with a 'meh'. Particular highlights for me were the stories by Robert Charles Wilson, Peter Watts, Kristine Kathryne Rusch, Jay Lake, Sean Williams, John Meaney, Elizabeth Moon and John Scalzi.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
The New Space Opera
Posted by Neal Asher at 12:39 pm
Labels: Books, Science Fiction, Short Stories
4 comments:
- robann said...
Not on Kindle!
- 7:29 pm
- vaudeviewgalor raandisisraisins said...
some great stuff in here from what i remember.
- 7:03 am
- Alpharius said...
I'll take this as a recommendation to pick it up then! (Of course since you're in it, well, that certainly helps!)
As my favorite SF author, I'll head towards where you point...
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This recent piece described the "disintermediation" of publishers as writers found ways to directly reach readers (e.g., this blog), but some people still put a lot of weight on "published" papers and books.
Academic Deans, for example, hire and promote professors based on the number and quality of publications. Putative professors know this, and they put a lot of effort (a year on average) into each paper that's published in journals.
The publish or perish system worked pretty well in the (perhaps imaginary) past, where deans and other professors would be able to judge a candidate's portfolio by reading the papers and noting the journals where they appeared, but this system broke down when more and more professors tried to get published: topics narrowed and journals multiplied to the point where nobody knew what was going on.
Deans and the like started to rely on shortcuts for assessing past progress and judging researchers' futures; they merely counted papers and multiplied them by the "impact factors" of the journals in which they appeared.*
That laziness provided an opening for so-called "predatory publishers" who promised to publish authors' work... for a fee. I discussed these Nigerian scammers in this post, which also led me to Jeffrey Beall's excellent blog on open access publishing and the scams associated with it.
All of these thoughts sprang to the front of my mind when I got this email:
The Journal of Sustainable Watershed Science and Management, JSWSM, is an open access medium for the dissemination of original research articles as well as review articles related to sustainable watershed science and management. We are planning to publish a special issue, March 2013, on Water Allocation and Water Rights. You are invited to submit an article related to your work on Water Rights and Human Rights: The Poor Will Not Need our Charity if We Need their Water.At first, I was excited, since the call matched my paper, and I'm always happy to move a "finished" paper to "published." But then I clicked on the link and looked around. I was worried by the overall "look" of the site [click around, you'll see too many 404s]. Strike two was the lack of any social scientists on the the Board of Advisers. Strike three was that I could get published in march if I submitted by 31 Jan, i.e., "instant acceptance." Strike four? Atlas Publishing, LP was on Beall's list of predatory publishers.
Journal of Sustainable Watershed Science and Management is a multi-disciplinary Scientific Journal which recognizes watershed as the management unit within which natural resources and environmental management issues are addressed in integrated approaches involving physical, biological, socio-economical, legal and policy prospective as they relate to sustainability. It also recognizes sustainability as a dynamic concept which accommodates all forms of change (e.g., climate, population, land use).
Published articles at JSWSM are ready accessed online without the need for a subscription.
Manuscripts should be submitted online here. I also would appreciate if you can recommend it to other colleagues.
So I emailed (asking "Please explain how Atlas is NOT a predatory publisher...") and got this reply from (Abdel)majid Kassem of Atlas:
First, thank you for your interest in publishing your work with Atlas Publishing. Second, most of the claims in the website below are not applicable to Atlas Publishing journals which are of high quality with high quality editorial boards. For each journal, the Editor-in-Chief is the one that takes decision about accepted manuscripts in the journal. All articles are peer-reviewed by experts in their fields.To this I replied:
We will look into the website [Beall's] and contact its owner/author. Authors including yourself are free to submit (or not to submit) their articles to Atlas journals. If you have any more specific question, please let us know.
(1) Is your journal open access? Is there a fee to publish, either way?Majid replied with:
(2) What's your acceptance rate % and impact rating?
(1) Yes, all our journals are Open Access. This is the way to go from now on. I just came from the Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXI in San Diego and there was a Plenary Session about the OA vs. the traditional way of publishing... It was outstanding. And as you know more and more Governmental Agencies are encouraging OA. The answer to the second part of your question is yes. Atlas journals charge authors or their institutions a small fee of $309.99 to cover the expenses of running the website, etc.Now I was convinced that the journal was not as scholarly as I'd like ($310 to maintain a website?), and told them that I'd pass on submitting for the special issue (literally "I'll pass"). Majid replied with:
(2) It depends on the journal. For JSWSM, I think it is around 60-65% but I have to dig in to get the exact number.
As you know, different people have different opinions about different things and this applies to Publishers and journals as well. I respect Dr. Beall's opinion a bout Atlas Publishing; however, I disagree with his assessment.I replied:
We are one of many publishers in the OA world and we will remain committed to our mission. Again, authors can make their own choices about where to publish their work and that is fine.
Yes, opinions vary, but I am interested in clear expectations and results.To this email, Majid gave me the eight emails, and I send this to them:
Can you tell me how many authors have submitted a second paper to your journal(s). Any how many of them are published two or more times?
I'd like to get their opinion -- as authors -- of Atlas, so any email contacts would be welcomed.
Subject: Is the Journal of Sustainable Watershed Science and Management legitimate or a scam?One of them sent a long reply, which I include here with my replies in italics:
Dear colleagues,
The publisher and managing editor of JSWSM (cc'd) gave me your emails after I inquired for the names of authors who have multiple publication at this journal.
I am curious to know if you think that publication with JSWSM has been both legitimate and productive to your academic research. Or is the journal -- and Atlas Publishing -- more of a scam vehicle (Beall is also cc'd)?
I know that we face a lot of pressure to publish or perish these days, and I really don't care about the name of the journal as much as a good refereeing process and decent distribution mechanism, but there are a number of shady journals popping up that offer publication for a fee that's more about income than academic integrity.
Atlas charges $309.99 to "pay for the website," for example...
So, please do give me your opinions, experiences and thoughts on these matters.
And, yes, I know that you may have a favorable bias due to past publication, so tell me if you'd recommend this journal to a colleague (e.g., chair of your department) or submit there again.
Dear Dr. Zetland and Beall,I got nothing from them after that.
Following your email to me; I asked for your communications with/about Atlas Publishing to be forwarded to me and I am giving you here the answers you are looking for:
1. Unlike your claim of the Nigerian scam, we live in the US where every penny is to be reported to the IRS, therefore, try to keep some credibility by learning to compare Apple vs Apple and more important to be fair:
Atlas Publishing is registered in the US, NC, ATlas Tax return (public info) is that shows income and expenses is a public record (Ref: ATLAS PUBLISHING LP; EIN # 27-4313913).
You will discover that For 2011, Atlas's income was $3001, $2187; Net income $814) I do not think that Dr. Kassem will be rich from this business, knowing the amount of hours he is putting into this, he is better off mowing his neighbour grass 10 hours a year to make more than the $814.
I am glad to see that Dr. Kassem is not in this for the money, rather for scholarly inquiry, but those figures divided by the submission fee of $310 implies that Atlas published about 9 papers in 2011. Is that possible for one journal, let alone several? Or did some authors not pay? [Turns out Atlas published 4 in 2011 and 5 in 2012.]
By the way Dr. Beall:Dr. Kassem is an American citizen, he did not forget his Moroccan origins "Knowing that Moroccans who helped the allies first getting rid of the Nazi's in world word II, did help building most of western Europe after the War and are now suffering from xenophobia and racism in Dr. Zetland's wonderful country: Holland").
Dr. Kassem is proud of his heritage and is always looking forward to support minorities and under-represented groups; and I will give you now the motivations behind his dedication to open access publishing, and I fully support it)
I agree, of course, and there's nothing in my words, emails or thoughts about ANYONE's nationality. It's a pity that there are racists in the US, NL and Morocco, but I am not one of them. This is about SCHOLARSHIP.
2. Atlas was created to help and assist and connect labs and researchers in developing countries and poor laboratories in the world (believe me, you will find labs and scientist who can not afford paying access to publications also in the US and most Western Europe) with other scientists in the world, to publish, get connected and access to the world of research and science without having to pay the heavy fess/taxes/toll imposed by the big publishing companies.
Thats why Atlas prices were low to accommodate certain clientele that do not have that luxury. In fact, exemptions were given to lot of scientists who published with Atlas, and you are welcome to check into that.
Perhaps these exceptions explain the lack of revenue? It's difficult, I understand, to get a journal going, but perhaps it's better to have an editorial board and good reviews BEFORE accepting papers? Reputation, after all, is more important than revenues. The reason that I decided NOT to submit my paper is that I want a good vetting system. I can distribute the working paper, for free, if quality does not matter....
3. Atlas Publishing web site has been hacked frequently lately, I wonder why someone care about a small web publishing house to hack their web site frequently, if its not to try to destroy web publishing and open access from its root.
No idea. Change your password?
4. I understand that the big guys (the big publishing houses and of course some librarians) are loosing little share of this market to the online open access and of course with this, some people are worried about their job security, however, I subscribe to the philosophy that scientific publications should be accessible for free to help science to be accessible to everyone.
And I agree with you, and so does Jeffrey. Librarians are suffering the most from excessive subscription fees, as you know. See this.
5. If you are bothered by ATlas publishing's statement: APLP is committed to The Open Access Movement initiated by several corporations, publishers, and nonprofit organizations such as Biomed Central (BMC), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and many others. Dr. Kassem is not going to change it.
Nor should he. He only needs to attain PLoS levels of quality...
Now, I suggest that you take your intimidation's somewhere else, we live in a free country, where people from different origins could claim to the top, and could have dreams such as being President of the great Nation on earth. Again and its free country and so will be the future of accessing published work!
I am not sending any intimidation. I am a scholar and I ask questions. Atlas has to show its bona fides if it's going to claim legitimacy and get off Beall's list of predatory publishers (moved, perhaps, to a list of not quite professional publishers).
Yes, the US is a free country, but that doesn't include freedom to lie. I'm not saying that anyone here is; I am saying that freedom only works with trust and transparency.
Atlas Publishing is small, with few editors behind it, but, everything start small and grow with the time. Open Access is the way to go!!!.
I hope that this email clarify things Dr. Beall will remove ATlas Publishing from his famous web list, I wounder who is funding that web site?
I will let Beall decide who to keep and who to remove, but WordPress accounts cost less than $100 per year. I'm guessing that he, like me, pays his own costs...
Bottom Line: It's difficult to say who's a scammer and who isn't in this fast-developing area of institutional failure (and there have been lawsuits by those disinclined to show their bona fides), but I've learned two things: (1) BOTH readers and authors need beware academic journals that are not; (2) I'm glad that blogging is faster, more transparent and free :)
* I co-authored a paper describing these problems and proposing a solution (auctions) that would improve the quality of papers, the match between papers and journals, and valuing the importance of papers and authors' careers.
Addendum: Do not take this post as an attack on innovation in publishing or better options for authors; it's also not a defense of incumbents that have their own problems [see this and this]. I am just trying to point out the importance of craft in the academic world, i.e., doing it right.


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Perth blogger gets death threats over blackface controversy
Popular Perth blogger Constance Hall says she is receiving death threats after she spoke out about the picture at the centre of a 'blackface' incident, which had been posted to her Facebook page.
Accompanied by a picture of Hall looking distraught, she explained that she did not think she had shamed the mother of the child who was photographed dressed up as his idol, Nic Natainui.
"I clearly stated that I don't believe she is racist at all, she has a beautiful son with a great hero. I just don't think we should paint our kids in blackface if it offends and hurts people," she said via Facebook.
The mother had posted directly onto Hall's Facebook page that her son wanted to dress up as his idol, Nic Naitanui of the West Coast Eagles and that despite being "a little worried" when deciding to paint his face, she "grew a set of balls and painted my boy brown".
Hall's page has more than 880,000 followers.
In her latest post, Hall said she was advised that once the blackface incident became national news, she "had to comment".
"I was asked for my comment from various media outlets and it couldn't have come at a worse time," she wrote after also saying that her and her family were facing difficulties unrelated to the controversy.
Was told by so many people not to do blackface but I'm SO GLAD SHE PUSHED THROUGH THAT PRESSURE. pic.twitter.com/yMw8dYkM8H— glitter princex (@ZedAyySeeKay) August 25, 2016
After first speaking out over the mother's decision to dress her son in blackface, Hall had said that she didn't believe that the mother actually intended to hurt anyone.
"You are clearly not a racist woman, your child has an amazing idol and that must be a reflection of being raised in a home with no racist intentions," she had said.
West Coast Eagles Nic Naitanui has said that education was key.
"Honestly, I've encouraged this mistake in the past but I'm now educated of its origins, let's grow together," he tweeted earlier on Friday.
Honestly I've encouraged this mistake in the past but I'm now educated of its origins.lets grow together #BookWeek pic.twitter.com/syvDibeWSS— Nic Naitanui (@RealNaitanui) August 25, 2016
In her most recent post, Hall says she has never received so much abuse in her life.
"… I am being called a c--- from [the mother's] family, I have received death threats. I ban them and they start new accounts, they are relentless," she said.
"I am so sorry that I have offended so many people, I never meant to. I was raised to be very culturally sensitive, taken to aboriginal rights protests and spending my holidays in the communities with family that were teachers, that is part of who I am."
"Please stop sending me these horrible messages and writing these things on my wall, I am feeling really broken and alone right now and I don't have the strength for this.
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Shares Award With Brown's Dixon; Graf Earns Spot On Ivy Weekly Honor Roll
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After leading the Yale University women's basketball team to its first season sweep of Harvard in 17 years, sophomore guard Megan Vasquez has earned recognition from the Ivy League for her efforts.
After scoring nine points with four assists and three rebounds in a dominating 70-45 win at Dartmouth on Friday, Vasquez (Merrick, N.Y./Sanford H. Calhoun) followed that effort with a clutch performance at Harvard on Saturday. She scored a game-high 23 points to lead Yale to a 78-64 win in Cambridge, Mass., leading Yale to its first win at Harvard since Feb. 17, 2001, and its first season sweep of the Crimson since the 1993-94 season.
The wins moved the Bulldogs past the Crimson and back into second place in the Ivy League standings with two games remaining in the regular season. The second-place finisher earns an automatic berth in the WNIT postseason tournament. Yale still has an outside chance to stake a claim on the Ivy League championship. The Bulldogs are a game and a half behind Princeton (21-4, 10-1). The Bulldogs would have to win both games in the final weekend against Columbia and Cornell, while the Tigers would have to lose two of their final three games in order for the two teams to meet in a playoff game to decide the Ivy League champion.
Thanks to her efforts in both games, the Ivy League announced on Monday that it named Vasquez the Ivy League Co-Player of the week. Vasquez shares the award with Brown sophomore guard Sheila Dixon, who averaged 16.5 points and 10.0 rebounds in the Bears' two games over the weekend.
In a loss to Harvard on Friday, Dixon had 11 points and six rebounds, but she followed that effort by powering Brown to a win over Dartmouth with 22 points and 14 rebounds, both career highs.
Against Harvard, Vasquez scored 15 of her 23 points in the second half. Yale led by as many as 17 points (27-10) in the first half, but Harvard rallied, outscoring Yale 33-20 over a 21:19 span to trim the deficit to 47-43 with 8:28 remaining. Vasquez put a stop to any hopes that Harvard had of completing the comeback when she regained control of the game for the Bulldogs when she drained a 3-pointer with 7:57 left and followed it with an old-fashioned three-point play 21 seconds later to put Yale back on top by double digits (53-43). Even as Harvard tried to stage another comeback, Vasquez helped keep the Bulldogs on top with a 7-of-8 performance at the free-throw line, all in the second half.
Yale freshman forward Janna Graf, a nominee for the Ivy League's Rookie of the Week honor, earned a spot on the Ivy League's Weekly Honor Roll for her efforts over the weekend. Graf scored all eight of her points in Yale's 13-3 game-opening run that set the stage for the dominant offensive effort on Friday in the win over Dartmouth. She followed that with 13 points against Harvard. She scored 11 of her points in the second half. Eight of those points came among Yale's first 12 points of the second half, which helped the Bulldogs stave off Harvard's first of three comeback attempts in the game. Graf's effort early in the second half helped Yale maintain control of the game and lifted the Bulldogs to a 44-32 lead with 14:06 to play.
It is the second Player of the Week honor for Vasquez in her career. Earlier this season, she was named the Ivy League Co-Player of the Week on Jan. 24 with Penn's Alyssa Baron. Vasquez also earned three Rookie of the Week honors last season.
It is also the fourth Player of the Week honor for the Bulldogs this season. Graf was named both the Player and Rookie of the Week on Jan. 17, while junior forward Michelle Cashen earned Player of the Week honors for the week of Dec. 23, following Yale's historic win over then-No.15/14 Florida State. Graf has also earned four Rookie of the Week honors this season. Combined, Yale has earned at least one Ivy League honor in six of the 15 weeks thus far this season.
Vasquez currently leads the Bulldogs in scoring at 14.1 points per game. She is also third in steals (1.5), fourth in assists (2.3), and fifth in rebounding (3.4 rpg.). Graf is third on the team in scoring (9.7 ppg.) and rebounding (4.3 rpg).
Yale is off until Friday, when it returns home to close out the 2010-11 regular-season schedule. The Bulldogs will play host to Columbia on Friday at 7 p.m. in the John J. Lee Amphitheater. On Saturday, the Bulldogs will honor seniors Yoyo Greenfield and Mady Gobrecht during pregame Senior Night festivities prior to taking on Cornell at 7 p.m.
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Me and my big mouth. Never should have said that I could paint these figures better as they were. These figures are from the well known Christmas towns you see everywhere around in the shops these days. The woman of my oldest son collects them to. And it is her I told that the figures were ugly painted. The result was I get these two as a test for a repaint.
So the following pictures are from before and after the paintjob. Size is about 54 mm, hard plastic and the sculpting could have been better.
Some more pictures on the BLOG!


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