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Your child's heart rate normally will vary to some degree. Fever, crying, exercise, or other vigorous activity makes any heart beat faster. And the younger the child, the faster the normal heart rate will be. As your child gets older, her heart rate will slow down. A resting heart rate of 130 to 150 beats per minute is normal for a newborn infant, but it is too fast for a six-year-old child at rest. In a very athletic teenager, a resting heart rate of 50 to 60 beats per minute may be normal.
The heart's regular rhythm or beat is maintained by a small electrical circuit that runs through nerves in the walls of the heart. When the circuit is working properly, the heartbeat is quite regular; but when there's a problem in the circuit, an irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia, can occur. Some children are born with abnormalities in this heart circuitry, but arrhythmias also can be caused by infections or chemical imbalances in the blood. Even in healthy children, there can be other variations in the rhythm of the heartbeat, including changes that occur just as a result of breathing. Such a fluctuation is called sinus arrhythmia, and requires no special evaluation or treatment because it is normal.
So-called premature heartbeats are another form of irregular rhythm that requires no treatment. If these occur in your child, she might say that her heart "skipped a beat" or did a "flip-flop." Usually these symptoms do not indicate the presence of significant heart disease.
If your pediatrician says that your child has a true arrhythmia, it could mean that her heart beats faster than normal (tachycardia), very fast (flutter), fast and with no regularity (fibrillation), slower than normal (bradycardia), or that it has isolated early beats (premature beats). While true arrhythmias are not very common, when they do occur they can be serious. On rare occasions they can cause fainting or even heart failure. Fortunately, they can be treated successfully so it's important to detect arrhythmias as early as possible.
If your child has a true arrhythmia, your pediatrician probably will discover it during a routine visit. But should you notice any of the following warning signs between pediatric visits, notify your doctor immediately.
It's unlikely that your child will ever experience any of these symptoms, but if she does, your pediatrician will perform additional tests and perhaps consult with a pediatric cardiologist. In the process the doctors may do an electrocardiogram (ECG), to better distinguish a normal sinus arrhythmia from a true arrhythmia. An ECG is a tape recording of the electrical impulses that make the heart beat, and it will allow the doctor to observe any irregularities more closely.
Sometimes your child's unusual heartbeats may occur at unpredictable times, often not when the ECG is being taken. In that case the cardiologist may suggest that your child carry a small portable tape recorder that continuously records her heartbeat over a one- to two-day period. During this time you'll be asked to keep a log of your child's activities and symptoms. Correlating the ECG with your observations will permit a diagnosis to be made. For example, if your child feels her heart "flutter" and becomes dizzy at 2:15 P.M. and the ECG shows her heart suddenly beating faster at the same time, the diagnosis of tachycardia will probably be established.
Occasionally irregular heartbeats will occur only during exercise. If that's the case with your child, the cardiologist may have your youngster ride a stationary bicycle or run on a treadmill while her heartbeat is being recorded. When your child is old enough to participate in sports, ask your pediatrician if any special tests or restrictions are necessary.


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Gunning for Cheats
David Paredes put himself through law school by playing online poker. After landing a plum job in the financial sector, he continued to play, and profited nicely. Despite viewing Texas Hold'em as an avocation, Paredes soon dominated some of the highest games on the poker site UltimateBet.com.
During a good month, he'd win $100,000. If things went horribly wrong, he'd drop $30,000—nothing too earth-shattering. But after blowing $150,000 in August 2007, he understandably felt a little stung. To make matters worse, Paredes lost to an opponent who played like a stone-cold fish and seemed eager to blow off his chips as efficiently as possible. Logged in under the name NioNio, he played a weak style of poker: way too loose, way too aggressive. It was a recipe for disaster. Long-term, it seemed virtually impossible for NioNio to win. Paredes figured that the guy had gotten obscenely lucky against him.
Chatting online with another high-stakes internet poker wizard, a player who goes by the name trambopoline, Paredes bemoaned his recent spate of losses. Trambopoline had similar experiences—and similar results—against NioNio on UltimateBet. Joining forces, the two players decided to delve deeper into NioNio's play. "I'm a big proponent of using statistical analysis to get better," says Paredes. "So I suggested that we go to the software."
Employing a program called PokerTracker, he and trambopoline were able to see 3,000 hands that they had played against NioNio (too small a sample to prove anything definitively, but big enough to provide some answers as to what was happening). On one level, it promised to be an intellectual exercise; on another level, there was a small chance that NioNio was doing something special, something that the high-stakes players could learn from.
As they scrutinized the hands and took apart NioNio's strategy, unusual patterns emerged. "He was playing 65 percent of his hands and raising 35 percent of the time," explains Paredes. "Most good players play 25 percent of their hands and raise 18 percent of the time. It may be impossible to win by playing as loosely as he was. He was winning 75 big blinds per hour. Most good players would be happy to win five."
Clearly, more scrutiny was warranted. So the players analyzed specific hand histories and individual pots. Here's where it got really creepy. "Every time trambopoline had a good hand, NioNio folded," recounts Paredes. "Often when trambopoline bluffed or was on a draw, NioNio re-raised. He check-called on [his own] draws." NioNio was either uncannily skilled at reading online opponents, incredibly lucky or doing something more sinister.
The more sinister scenario seemed glaringly possible in light of an incident that had taken place months earlier on a site called AbsolutePoker.com, which is owned and managed by the same entity as UltimateBet. A tournament player seemed to be operating with an extraordinary degree of luck, cleaning up in the events and doing it so aggressively that he called a lot of attention to himself. It became clear that he had some kind of backdoor entry into AbsolutePoker, and was able to see his opponent's cards. That player's run lasted six weeks. Absolute refunded money to people who were cheated (the company paid out $1.6 million, awarding the victims twice the amount of their losses) and the perpetrator, at the time a consultant of Absolute with some managerial responsibilities, was neither prosecuted nor exposed. In exchange for anonymity, he explained to Absolute executives how he did what he did, and he assisted in finding players who had been victimized.
The perpetrator of that scam was clumsy and greedy. NioNio, on the other hand, if he was cheating, did it in a cagey way. "Sometimes he would call with the worst hand," says Paredes, who believed early on that something was amiss. "The Absolute guy always raised or folded on the river."
Paredes and trambopoline posted their findings on twoplustwo.com, a bulletin board frequented by online players. (It's the Internet entity of the respected book publisher 2 + 2, co-owned by renowned poker theoretician David Sklansky.) Both Paredes and trambopoline are frequent posters to the site, and they have high credibility among online poker players.
On January 8, 2008, when their suspicions went up on the site, they expected at least a show of curiosity from fellow players. Instead, as Paredes puts it, "We got ripped by the community. They thought we were crying over spilled milk. People pointed out that NioNio lost some hands. I now think he had to call sometimes with [inferior holdings] so it wouldn't look like he was folding [good hands that happened to be second best]."
Very quickly, however, the tone on the site changed. Players began posting their experiences against NioNio and others who exhibited similar patterns. As evidence built, it became increasingly difficult to attribute NioNio's success to luck or superior poker skills. "You know someone's cheating when you miss your flush draw and bet with, say, Queen-high on the river and a guy calls you with King-high," says Nat Arem, vice president of information technology at a company that runs Web sites, who did some of the later detective work. "That can happen once or twice for a lot of different reasons. But if it happens 10 times, something is most definitely wrong."
One day later, a poster by the name of Michael Josem ran the numbers and came up with the probability of NioNio winning at his extraordinary rate. Josem pointed out that NioNio operated at nine standard deviations above the mean. This would be the equivalent of winning three consecutive one-in-a-million lotteries. Within three days, it became clear that at least $600,000 had been heisted from the stacks of UltimateBet's legitimate no-limit Hold'em players. What nobody realized was that the six-figure amount was just the tip of the iceberg. It has recently been estimated that UltimateBet's high-limit players have been scammed out of a sum that exceeds $6.1 million.
Paul Leggett, chief operating officer of UltimateBet, says he found out about the cheating on January 12, after receiving "a complaint from a customer." A couple of months after the original discovery, he issued a press release, acknowledging his awareness of the scam.
"I've been told that it was [built around] a dormant auditing tool," he says, speaking to me via telephone from a hotel room in Vancouver. The tool in question was a piece of software that creates a so-called super-user account, which allows the user to see players' hole cards in real time. "The super-user account viewed hole cards and another account sat at the table and played." When you can see your opponent's cards, the biggest challenge is to not get greedy and to not arouse suspicion. Winning money is a given.
For all the success that the cheaters had, their execution is not technologically outré or inventive. It's simply a modernized version of the old-fashioned peeps that served the exact same purpose. Somebody would drill a hole in a hotel room ceiling, outfit it with a lens, signal a confederate in the game and fleece unsuspecting victims. Leggett says that the primary perpetrator—who, according to an investigation headed up by Catania Gaming Consultants, has proven to be 1994 World Series of Poker champion Russ Hamilton—was involved with UltimateBet at a high level when it was under previous ownership. (The current owners, who hired Leggett, purchased the site in October 2006.)
Leggett says that the scam was perpetrated with 19 accounts and 88 user names—such as Sleepless, NoPaddles and nymobser. "Because [these people who pulled off the scam] used to work for the company, they knew how to move money around. There was a complex web of money movement." Complicating things further is a $75 million lawsuit, related to the cheating scandal, that came to light as this issue was going to press. According to MSNBC, Blast-Off Ltd., a Malta-based company that has an ownership stake in UltimateBet, is suing Canada's Excapsa Software Inc., which formerly owned and licensed UltimateBet's poker software. For Annie Duke, a poker pro who's had consulting deals with UltimateBet almost from its inception, the fact that large sums of money changed hands on the site without arousing suspicion was symptomatic of a systemic problem. "People would break rules on the site"—often relatively small rules, like letting loose with offensive chat—"and if they were big players, the site would let it go," she says. "Rules applied differently to some people than they did to others." Duke says she argued for everybody to follow the same rules, and she says that if equality had been part of UltimateBet's DNA, cheating would have been much more difficult to pull off. "Huge sums of money were transferred, and they should have been investigated. But because the person doing the transfers was a friend of the site, they did not get looked at. That should have raised red flags." And the red flags, in turn, would have led to a closer look at how those large sums were generated. But because Hamilton had a longstanding affiliation with site management, scrutiny was dispensed with.
The flouting of rules allowed the scam to run smoothly for almost three years. And if not for a chance conversation between two disgruntled players, none of this would have even come to light. How does Leggett feel about the customers who policed his site in this manner? "It was impressive," he allows. "The people who uncovered this are some of the smartest people I've ever met."
Nat Arem resides among that brainy contingent. As news of the cheating spread, Arem used contacts in the industry to find real identities behind the screen identities. Long before the recently completed investigation that placed Hamilton at the center of the scam, Arem began naming names and going public. Hamilton (who declined to be interviewed for this story), at the time, denied it vociferously. Leggett vows that Hamilton will be prosecuted to whatever degree possible. That ambition may prove to be a little tricky since online poker remains unregulated in the United States. Considering that Arem had long-ago uncovered damning evidence that pointed toward Hamilton, few in the poker world are now surprised that Hamilton is the primary culprit. More unexpected is that he has been publicly named. Prior to the revelation, players speculated that a fall guy would be paid to take the rap. Others believed that Hamilton's identity would never be officially exposed for reasons best understood by Leggett. Why UltimateBet would have super-user accounts, which allow access to hands in real time, is not exactly clear. "Some people say it was designed to monitor what is going on while hands are being played," says Arem. "Some people say it was designed for cheating in the first place. Some people say that it was designed for development."
Whatever the original purpose, it evolved into a serious liability for the new owners of UltimateBet. Once it became clear what had been perpetrated and the damage that it could inflict on the company's reputation, Leggett took action. His first step was an attempt to resolve the problem. "We went on a three- to four-week rampage to find the code that allowed this to happen," he says. "We eventually found code on the server for a specific user account that was getting information."
The code was dismantled. But it still left UltimateBet with a number of damaged, angry players. Hanging in the balance was the site's credibility. The scandal ran so deep, and was so destructive, that it jeopardized the very existence of the company. If UltimateBet was a rogue site, why would anybody play on it? In an effort to rebuild the site's reputation, Leggett vowed to make players whole. "We are refunding everything that players on our site lost to the cheaters," says Leggett. "But if you won a pot, you don't get to keep the cheater's money. We are refunding net loss."
It's a complex, arduous process, but players have found funds added to their online accounts. David Paredes and trambopoline received six figures between them. Daniel Alahi, who's best known as a live-game cash player, logged many an hour on UltimateBet. He says that during 2005 and 2006 he played virtually every day. He knows that he has been cheated. More specifically, he remembers a particular hand, against one of the cheaters playing under the name Blueberry101. On the turn, Alahi over-bet the pot, pushing all in for $25,000 while on a straight draw with a raggedy board. The idea was to induce Blueberry101 to fold. But when the cheater called with deuces (because he was able to see Alahi's cards and knew he had the best hand), Alahi remembers telling himself, "Wow, this game is really good." He now knows that it was really crooked.
Despite coming up against the cheaters, Alahi says, there were enough inferior players in the games that he managed to clear a profit. While he's waiting on money, Alahi points out that what transpired with cheating on UB has repercussions that extend beyond cash lost. "When you lose, you question why you're losing and you make adjustments in your game," says Alahi, explaining that players do that because they think their approach to poker has ceased working. So, under those circumstances, you not only lose money in the short run, but your style of play can deteriorate in the long run. Citing the psychological impact, which, for a poker player, can easily lead to a financial impact, Alahi adds, "It affects you as a person and really messes with your head. Your poker-playing abilities can be damaged, and it can change your life completely. I know of people who lost everything [to the cheaters] and had to quit playing poker. That's just wrong."
Alahi, like most pros, has not stopped playing online poker. But he's moved to FullTilt, a site he considers to be more secure than UltimateBet. He recognizes that in online poker, as in every financial arena, nothing is 100 percent fail-safe, but he'll live with what he views to be minimal risks. Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, the computer scientist turned poker player who helped develop the software used on FullTilt, agrees that a perfectly safe poker site is too much to hope for. But he says FullTilt has gone to great lengths to avoid a situation like the one plaguing UltimateBet. "We do not have super-user accounts, and that was very intentional; anything you can do in real time, you can do two minutes later," says Ferguson. "At FullTilt there is a very thick wall between player knowledge and people who play on the site. We use the same encryption that banks have." As for UltimateBet's super-user account, Ferguson adds, "To me, whether it was well intentioned or not, it's a design flaw."
That said, as can be seen from UltimateBet's efforts to pay back every- one who's been scammed, online poker, by its nature, has transparency and a way to backtrack through history. "If you had been cheated in the stock market or in a brick-and-mortar casino," says Annie Duke, "it would be very difficult for you to be made whole. UltimateBet is behaving as if it were regulated, and its management is doing the right thing—not only for UB but for online poker in general."
Not wanting to see his company completely disintegrate, which could happen if this situation repeats itself, Leggett says he is doing everything he can to prevent nefarious deeds from transpiring again. He acknowledges that the site had been lax in the past, and maintains that he has since "built layers of security" into his system. "We've had gaming mathematicians help us design a solution that will catch people and flag abnormal winning statistics. If you go on a big run, you now get flagged and we look at the hands. We built a sophisticated program that is probably leading the industry, and we are sharing specifications of what we built." Leggett hesitates for a beat, then dryly adds, "Not that any site will want to claim that they are working with us on security."
Alahi says the vulnerability of UltimateBet was further exacerbated by the site's unusual policy of allowing customers to play under multiple names and to change those names frequently. At most sites, limit- ing participants to a single name helps ensure that players know whom they are going up against. Had the cheaters been unable to alter their names, and appear to be untested players without patterns, the scam would have been much harder to maintain. That weakness, according to UltimateBet, has been resolved.
Regardless of what UltimateBet does to make its site more secure and to compensate those who've been cheated, it's hard for some players to get beyond what's happened. Alahi points out that people who've lost money over the years are using the cheating scandal as a way to explain inferior play. "I know really bad players who now think they got cheated, and that's ridiculous," he says. "For everyone who was break-even or slightly losing, and figured that online was a waste of time anyway, this is the perfect excuse for them to quit. It makes the games tougher for me."
Even winning players are thinking twice about what they're getting involved with. Alahi acknowledges that he is "now more aware of what is going on." Paredes, a big winner online who is not a pro, finds himself cutting back. He says he hasn't played on UB since the scandal broke. He says, "I keep less money in the sites than I used to. I worry that these companies may one day run off with the deposits. You never know what can happen. One day Neteller [the money transfer service that players commonly use] shuts down. You need to be careful." When it comes to online poker, he says, "You need to anticipate scenarios that you can't anticipate."
Michael Kaplan is a Cigar Aficionado contributing editor.


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Arthur St. John, 94, has worked at Market Basket for 22 years as a part-time employee — but his future is uncertain after his hours were cut by corporate amid the still-unfurling drama between the supermarket chain's employees and management.
"I'm out for a while until they've settled the strike," St. John said.
St. John worked at the Stratham, New Hampshire, location but has been home since his hours were chopped.
Barbara South, another Market Basket employee, calls St. John amazing.
"He gave many hugs, and many customers would see him walking his two dogs," she said.
St. John works three four-hour shifts each week to supplement his Social Security checks.
"I get $125 a week, and everything is taken out. What can you do?" he said.
Although he's out of work, St. John says he's thinking beyond himself and worrying about his coworkers who have to support their families.
"They've got kids, and wife and kids, and out of work. How are they going to support their family? I don't feel right for that," he said.
St. John's attitude about this being more than just a paycheck is the reason behind his coworkers' respect for him.
"This is a man who comes in here — this is his social life, you know, we are his family," South said.
And while it is family drama within the Demoulas clan that sparked the protests, the push for ousted Arthur T. to return to his post as CEO has remained.
"I want him back, because everything was running good then," St. John said.
Workers all say Demoulas was a great boss who helped make Market Basket a great place to work, offering employees profit sharing, good wages and benefits.
They feel he's an irreplaceable leader and refuse to work for anyone else. Demoulas was pushed out of the company by his cousin's allies in June.
Until then, St. John says he'll "sweat it out."
A GoFundMe page was created Thursday to raise $5,000 for St. John.


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Victoria in Wonderland
"It got more bizarre as we went down the road." "It got crazier and crazier and crazier." "Pretty bizarre car—it's a crazy thing." Those were builder Steve Moal's words—his confessions, really—made in the first few moments of our discussion of Eric Zausner's 1933 Ford Vicky. Moal is a coachbuilder in Oakland, California, and has created a gang of hot rods over the decades. He knows when something is going to catch people off guard—and this car is certainly one of those things. "When you look at [this car]," explained Moal, "you're thinking, What were these guys thinking?"
Here's what they were thinking: "It's based on the Blue Train Bentley—this car has a chop just like that car—where the back is chopped more than the front," Moal says. "The concept was to be very Blue Train-ish—but on a Vicky."
For those not familiar with French endurance racing of the '20s and '30s, the Bentley Blue Train is a famous car based on a '28–'30 Speed Six chassis. It was created for the Blue Train Race: an early competition that pits automobiles against a locomotive on a 700-mile, overnight run. Since the Bentley Blue Train was used as inspiration, Moal and Zausner decided to keep a lot of the modifications from that era, taking elements from '30s Grand Prix cars, with a little steampunk thrown in.
Mechanical Masterpiece
We're kinda like a jellybean store ,and the customer comes along and stops in and says he'd like a different flavor, and so we make it for him.
"We sprinkled in steampunk-ish elements and all kinds of crazy contraptions," Moal says. Like the folding top. The whole top opens hydraulically from the back to let air out of the cabin. Zausner wanted the top to open for ventilation, so the hinges are on the leading edge of the top, and it picks up from the back just a couple of inches. "He wanted levers and linkage and hydraulic lines—that was the idea," Moal says. "You could open it with a stick if you wanted, but it wouldn't have all of the copper lines, brass fittings, and linkage. The headlights crank out like an old coffin-nose Cord. We engineered the linkage, cables, universal joints, rods and all kinds of stuff—but it's all of that stuff that makes it interesting to look at, and interesting for us to build."
But don't get the impression that just Moal conjures this stuff. Alberto Hernandez gets called in to sketch out and design a lot of the hand-waving that Zausner uses to express what he would like. Moal says you have to have some sort of concept to shoot for. Sometimes they land it the first time, and sometimes things evolve. Says Moal, "We sometimes discover what it becomes as we go along—that's how we've done some other jobs with Eric. We're pretty flexible, and if there are changes as we go along, we just roll with them."
The hood ornament was one of those evolutionary pieces. "We did a couple of versions of a falcon cast in bronze, but they were too refined. Eric wanted something more "mechanical," so Alberto did this Nazca Plains–looking bird—more like a Voisin would have. It's not like a lost-wax casting, it's got angles and rivets and all," says Moal.
V12 Inspiration
So did the engine come first, or did the concept need an engine? "The Falconer V12 was always in the mix from the get-go—we were always thinking a big, killer motor," says Michael Moal, Steve's son and ramrod for the project. Michael goes on to add, "It's almost too radical for the street with more than 800 hp. The trimmed flywheel comes up on the revs real quick—it's driveable, but we would roll it back some if we did another car with a Falconer."
The wheelbase was extended 5 inches to accommodate the V12, but the frame was made entirely from scratch. Moal opted to create a new frame to better accommodate the torsion bars up front. Besides just needing space for the massive V12, consideration also had to be made for the handbuilt dry-sump tanks, return lines, radiator, airboxes for the fuel injection, and the retractable headlights and their assorted mechanisms. So in addition to fabrication and engineering, Moal also needed to wear the packaging hat from time to time for a complicated build like this.
Attached to the V12 is a Tremec five-speed spinning a 9-inch Ford rearend, suspended on coilovers. The front runs an I-beam on torsion bars sourced from Schroeder Racing Products in Burbank, California. The dual rear wheels harken back to '30s Grand Prix cars, which needed more traction than their skinny tires could provide. Racers doubled up on rear tires to compensate for the lack of available wide rubber in the day. The one-off wheels were handled by E-T Wheels, as were the pin drive knock-offs. The whole thing rolls on a 116-inch wheelbase, an increase of 4 inches from a stock '33 Ford.
Some may ask why all of the body changes were necessary when you're dealing with, for Ford standards, a relatively rare body style. The '33 Victorias were one of the rarest of Fords in 1933 with a little more than 4,000 manufactured. They're pretty cool on their own. But this particular Vicky didn't start out as a Vicky, which helps explain Zausner and Moal's zeal in cutting it up. Says Steve, "Somebody made a Tudor into a Vicky, and that's what Eric started with. We did the chop and turned it into what it became. A lot of the panel work and stuff like that we did. We changed it into what it is, and it's a crazy thing!" Steve said it, not us.
Thousands of Man Hours
The interior is an overload of gauges, vents, copper lines, levers, and stuff. "We made everything function so things work—and there's a lot of time with the leverages and detents and all of that. To make this car, it took a lot of engineering and screwing around," says Steve.
Which brings up the consideration of time and cost. You could say that an average Deuce highboy roadster takes about 1,000 hours to make—whether it's real steel or fiberglass. How much time does Steve figure he has in Zausner's Vicky? "We worked on it a couple of years. There's probably more hours than what it seems—I wouldn't be surprised if there are 2,000 hours in the car—but I try to avoid even thinking about that stuff. There are a lot of handmade parts in that car, and getting all of those things designed and functioning takes a lot of time. You're making things that never were."
There is a lot more you don't see in the images, such as the interior handles. Steve says, "All of the handles inside are illuminated at night, and one of the handles is used to open and close the exhaust. All of that stuff functions and works." Some of the sheetmetal work and styling are elegant, while other parts of the project are not. "Some things wanted to be more brutal—like the straight-bar bumper with the clamped-on brackets," he says.
Not everything was done at Moal Coachbuilders. The top and webbed upholstery were done by Ken Neminac in Walnut Creek, California, with all of the chrome handled by Sherm's Plating in Sacramento, California.
This isn't the first unique Moal and Zausner collaboration, but you can see the brain trust getting evermore daring and intricate with each new project. "We're kinda like a jellybean store, and the customer comes along and stops in and says he'd like a different flavor, and so we make it for him," Steve explains.
Overwrought or inspired, this is how builders break out of the cookie-cutter mode, by combining their clients' dreams, tastes, and needs to their ability to create virtually anything in metal. We applaud Moal Coachbuilders and Eric Zausner for taking an iconic Henry Ford design and twisting it to their liking. It may not be to your liking, but then it was built to please only one person, the guy who owns it.
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Who Should Win the 2014 MTV VMA for Best Female Video? – Readers Pollby Mandi Salerno | PopCrush
There were so many great music videos released this year by female pop stars, and MTV managed to narrow the list down to just five for the upcoming 2014 Video Music Awards. Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Iggy Azalea, Katy Perry and Lorde are all facing off for the coveted Moonman award, but only one can walk away with the prize! So whose video do you think is most deserving? Vote below!
'Problem,' Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea
Ariana Grande went for a retro vibe for her jazzy tune 'Problem.' Her and Iggy Azalea strut around in their mod dresses and hairstyles, singing and rapping in front of rotating whirligigs that'll have your mind spinning while you dance along to the radio hit.
'Partition,' Beyonce
If there were an award for sexiest release of the year, Beyonce would definitely take it. 'Partition' has the singer showing off every curve of her incredible body in sexy outfits, as she seduces both Jay Z and the camera with her provocative moves.
'Fancy,' Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
What isn't there to love about Iggy Azalea's 'Fancy'? It's a direct homage to the classic '90s movie 'Clueless,' and for that alone it's worthy of a nom! Iggy and her pal Charli XCX rock their preppy clothes as the hallway queens of their preppy high school.
'Dark Horse,' Katy Perry ft. Juicy J
'Dark Horse' by Katy Perry is like a mini movie experience, crammed full of bright colors, Egyptian imagery and straight-up weirdness. There's no doubt it's creative — who else would have Twinkie pyramids and men disintegrating into sand? — and it kicked off the singer's Egyptian-themed era.
'Royals,' Lorde
There's something dark and dreary about Lorde's 'Royals' video, a pretty sharp contrast to the glitzy metaphors and symbolism in the lyrics of the song. The juxtaposition and simplicity of the vid make it interesting, even if you're left scratching your head in confusion at the end.
Watch the videos above for a refresher then cast your vote in the poll below for who you think deserves to win the 2014 MTV VMA for Best Female Video!


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Robop is designed around the look, behaviour and sound of a hunting Peregrine Falcon, combining nature and robotics to convince pest birds such as seagulls and pigeons to search for new territory.
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Ref shocker wrecked a thriller
John Taylor
August 4, 2010
Drew Mitchell is shown his second yellow in Melbourne © Getty Images
Poor old Cobus Wessels. IRB referees' manager, Paddy O'Brien, said, "we're not going to hang him out to dry" but that is exactly what he has done after the farcical refereeing of the Australia v New Zealand Test in Melbourne last weekend.
The South African official has been publicly dropped as assistant referee for the return match in Christchurch on Saturday, his yellow card call against Drew Mitchell, which later resulted in the player being sent-off, deemed so bad that he has been replaced by a New Zealander, Keith Brown.
The IRB therefore consider him so incompetent they are prepared for a one-off abandonment of their long-established policy of having neutral officials for all international matches.
I am not defending Wessels' decision - it was obviously a complete over-reaction because we never even saw a television replay of the alleged offence and the player himself was heard to comment, "they said 'no arms', I don't even remember it" - but it was just one of many poor calls by the three South African officials.
Referee, Craig Joubert, had a complete shocker and if anybody was going to carry the can it should have been him. He is one of the most honest referees in the game but the occasion - it should have been the defining game of this year's Tri-Nations - obviously got to him because he was twitchy right from the start.
We shall never know what was said in the pre-match briefing but he refereed as if he was expecting trouble. He and his assistants appeared so preoccupied with what might happen off the ball they completely failed to referee the basics.I think New Zealand would probably have won in any case but we shall never know because the first major mistake came just when Australia had made the dream start.
No sooner had Mitchell charged down Dan Carter's kick to score in the corner than Carter did the same at the other end - except his charge down failed and the ball cannoned off Ma'a Nonu, who was a couple of metres behind him, so Carter was way offside when he was allowed to re-gather and score. The only possible explanation for all three officials missing it is that they were not following the action.
The yellow card for Owen Franks soon after showed their mindset. He made a bit of a mess of a tackle, collided with his opponent and found himself in the sin-bin for not using his arms - utter nonsense. It was not a deliberate shoulder charge and when big guys change direction at the point of contact there will be occasions when they bounce off each other. Next came Wessels' mistake. "Report says late and no arms - similar to them," said Joubert as he binned Mitchell.
A warning to the captains for not allowing the opposition to get the ball back into play quickly proved the death sentence for the Waratahs wing. Ten minutes into the second-half he just slapped the ball away as the All Blacks tried to take a quick throw and that was enough for Joubert.
"It's not my responsibility what effect this decision may have on the game," he said as he showed Mitchell a second yellow, which showed that he was totally aware he was effectively ruining the game as a contest.
Of course it was his responsibility. He can claim the moral high ground because he had warned the captains he was not going to tolerate any more time-wasting, and this was a stupid little professional foul, but it was certainly not a yellow card offence in normal circumstances.
A penalty, and a warning that he would have been within his rights to issue another yellow card, would have sufficed but he chose the draconian option. It was obviously weighing on his mind because the longer the match went on the twitchier he became.
There was another incident where McCaw and Sam Whitelock made a double tackle that lifted the player off the ground. Joubert was right on the spot and saw nothing wrong until Jonathan Kaplan intervened.
Suddenly, he changed his tune. "Clearly that sort of tackle's not allowed," he told McCaw before penalising New Zealand but, fortunately, Kaplan could not be sure who was involved or we would have had another player in the bin. Replays confirmed there was absolutely nothing wrong with the tackle - if there had been we would definitely have had a citing.
All this might have been understandable if the match had been overly physical in the early stages but that was never the case. It was all such a pity because, with the Wallabies getting off to a flier, this could have been an epic battle. The hope now is that assistant referees will be instructed to follow the game and concentrate on offside instead of trying to make their presence felt by seeing imaginary skulduggery where none exists.
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ABVP Storms Campus, Threatens Students of MSU Baroda
Yesterday, the 17th of February, at noon, students of the Faculty held an open forum, where among other things we discussed the institutional murder of Rohith Vermula at HCU and the recents events at JNU. A few posters discussing some of the issues around these cases, along with a poem by an Iranian poet were put up. At 8 pm last night, ABVP goons barged into the Faculty, shut down the studios and harassed a student taking prints in the Graphics department, because he happened to be carrying a sheaf of papers, accusing him of writing the posters, which they then ripped up.
This morning, Special Security forces and members of the ABVP and the VHP were prowling inside the premises; the normal number of University guards were also doubled, some of them following specific groups of students around. A few of them, came up to students, brandishing an article in a Gujarati newspaper, which ran a photograph of the posters, with the words 'JNU' circled, and interrogated students obscenely about who had put them up. Just after 3 in the afternoon, a crowd of about 20-30 men, and one woman,(none of whom were from the Faculty of Fine Arts) had gathered in front of the banyan tree in the center of our campus, with saffron ABVP flags, shouting slogans like "Hum anti-nationals ko dekh lenge! Hum Baampanthi ko dekh lenge! Haar Afzal-ke ghar me ghus ke, usko nikaal ke usko marengey!" ("We'll see to the anti-nationals! We'll see to the Left-wingers! We'll drag every Afzal from their house and kill them!") and began to march around our campus.
Having done a round, they began to demonstrate in front of the media, who had gathered by then, shouting "Jo nehi bolta hai 'Jai Hind, Jai Krishna, Jai Raam!', usko hum desh se nikaal denge!" (Those who do not say take "Hail to the country, hail to Krishna and Ram" will be kicked out of the country!). They then went on to tell the media that this was merely a small demonstration of their might, and that they would be back on Saturday, at the Faculty, which would be the starting point of their rally.
We are a college of about 300 people, part of a University of nearly 40,000, where neither the administration, nor the students will side with us (in fact, the security staff of the University actively assisted the ABVP) in the BJP heartland of Gujarat. We have been threatened, and we are afraid. But we will not be silenced.
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More than a month ago, on my Caliente trips, while driving up the washboarded dirt road toward the Ella Mountain Lookout, I came around a corner and spied these unusual rock formations in tuff, formations I had forgotten all about since last seeing them in 1978.
These are the Tepee Rocks, located about 6 miles east-southeast of Caliente. They are a type of rock formation called tent rocks, teepee rocks, or hoodoos, and they have formed here in the tuff of Tepee Rocks (sometimes spelled "tuff of Teepee Rocks"). The tuff of Tepee Rocks is "crystal-poor, poorly welded, low-silica rhyolite ash-flow tuff" with an Ar-Ar age of 17.8 Ma (Rowley et al, 1995). It's about 100 m thick in the Tepee Rocks area.
To get to the Tepee Rocks, you drive east out of Caliente on a mostly dirt and sand road that follows the railroad along Clover Creek (Clover Creek Road). You may not need 4WD, but be prepared for soft sandy areas that appear suddenly and wide creek crossing. Before the Eccles siding, you turn south on the dirt road that goes to Ella Mountain and Fife Flat, among other places.
It can be a bit difficult to get the timing right for best sun-angle on these hoodoos; I made two stabs at it. Morning and afternoon, not too early and not too late, are best.
In this close-up, you can see some holes weathering out in the tuff, forming a small version of what is known as cavernous weathering. Hoodoo formation in general is explained here.
At the Tepee Rocks, the teepees or hoodoos are forming in massive, cavernous-weathering, very light gray to whitish tan tuff below layered, tan to light orange tuff, which may be part of the tuff of Tepee Rocks or may belong to an overlying formation. The layered tuff can be seen in the previous two photos.
A slope just south of the Tepee Rocks shows the massive tuff capped by the upper layered tuff and by overlying talus. Little hoodoos are starting to form as the whitish tan to light gray tuff weathers out from beneath the talus and capping tuff layer.
A few small teepees stick out on the lower part of this slope across the road from the Teepee Rocks. The cliffy formation capping this butte is probably not part of the tuff of Tepee Rocks, based on the description given by Rowley et al (1995).
Some References:
Page, W.R., Dixon, G.L., Rowley, P.D., and Brickey, D.W., 2005, Geologic map of parts of the Colorado, White River, and Death Valley groundwater flow systems, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona: NBMG Map 150, map and text.
Rowley, P.D., Nealey, L.D., Unruh, D.M., Snee, L.W., Mehnert, H.H., Anderson, R.E., and Gromme, C.S., 1995, Stratigraphy of Miocene ash-flow tuffs in and near the Caliente caldera complex, southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah: in Scott, R.B. and Swadley, WC, eds., Geologic Studies in the Basin and Range - Colorado Plateau transition in southeastern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northwestern Arizona, 1992, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 2056-B, p. 43-88.
More Photos of Hoodoos:
Hoodoo, New Mexico at About.com Geology
Time Almost Beyond Imagining: Who Do the Magic that Hoodoo? at Geotripper
Hoodoos Redux: What I'm Reading at Geotripper
Limestone Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park at Rosetta Stones
Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday Field Photos: Tepee Rocks
Posted by Silver Fox at 10:39 AM
Labels: caliente, friday, geology, geomorphology, in the field, nevada, roadside, volcanic rocks
2 comments:
- Garry Hayes said...
Looks a lot like the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks in New Mexico. Thanks for the info! I've got to try and find them next time I am in the region.
- Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 10:44:00 AM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
The area could be a stop on a trip to Zion NP, for example either through Tonopah on Hwys 95, 6, and 93, or through Fallon and Ely on Highway 50 and then 93 to Caliente. From Caliente, it's a short hop over to Cedar City, UT through Panaca.
- Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 7:53:00 AM PDT
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Happy Trails to Dave Wattenberg, a member of Colorado's Cowboy Caucus
For the third time in less than a month, Colorado's Capitol is mourning one of its own, this time former Sen. Dave Wattenberg, a member of the Cowboy Caucus who was known for his pranks and his ability to work across the aisle.
Wattenberg, who had been in failing health, died Monday with his wife, Mary Sharon Wells, at his side. He was 73.
For weeks now, friends — from politicians to ranchers — have stopped by to say their good-byes to the ailing lawmaker known for his sense of humor.
He once showed up at the state insectary in Mesa County with a can of Raid Yard Guard. He successfully passed himself off as an elderly woman named Mildred, who was upset with another state senator.
"I think one of the things I remember most isn't one of the really funny stories — although there were so many — but the image of Dave and his friends and neighbors at the funeral of his first wife at the school in Walden" in 1986, lobbyist Dianna Orf said.
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To reference bell hooks yet again, care isn't the same as love, but it can be an important part of love. I feel like self-care might be like daily weight-lifting for your self-love muscles. I wanted to write about self-care in this post, but it's become such a prevalent concept that it probably deserves its own. I was going to write in detail about the theory and definition of self-care...about its relation to activism and how the concept is gendered in out culture, but maybe I should take my own medicine and jump to the part that amuses me most: Lists. Yes, self-care seems to have manifested largely in list form, and some people's lists are indeed large. (Here's an example of a long list of one person's self-care ideas.) Usually when I read about self-care though, I am overwhelmed by activities that don't appeal to me in the slightest. Such as bubble baths. I literally have not taken a bath in 15 years (although yes, I do attempt to shower regularly). Just thinking about having pruney hands...shudder!
We all know that I love making lists, so of course I wanted to make one of self-care activities. Although if I'm at the point where I have to pull out a list to figure out how to take care of myself, shit must be getting real. At those times, I am likely to get overwhelmed by a list of any great length. So I decided to cap my list at ten items, but only the most powerful strategies would make it on there. They had to be easy and accessible. So here's my list so far, with explanations of why I chose the things I did. It's definitely one of those documents that's going to change over time, based on what does and doesn't end up working.
- Dance to music, especially vaguely depressing music. (You don't have to be Martha Graham here; any movement really is sufficient, but I find that just listening isn't enough to lift my mood. This is really the best strategy I know.)
- Make a list of 10 good things about yourself. (If you're feeling down on yourself, it might take you a really long time to think of 10 things...it's normal, don't get discouraged. I've always found this exercise to be worthwhile.)
- Go near water or somewhere in nature. If that's too much work, just step outside. (When I'm in nature, it's the time when I don't worry about being "productive", and when I feel like I'm doing exactly what I should be doing without second-guessing myself. But just being outside the house can be a substitute for "real" nature. Sun helps.)
- Cook a balanced meal with plenty of veggies. (For me, the best self-care activities are those that absorb most of my focus, which cooking does, and challenge me a little bit, but not enough to be truly frustrating. I find that when I'm feeling anxious, I sometimes put off eating for too long, or eat mostly carbs.)
- Ride my bicycle. (Whenever I get on my bike, I think, "Why don't I do this more often?" Riding at night is especially soothing to me.)
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Comfort rather than environmental concerns was the main reason Canberrans chose to purchase insulation, according to an analysis released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.
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Bob Beauprez schmoozes — with Republican governors
Bob Beauprez's campaign on Tuesday made a big deal of how the GOP nominee for Colorado governor is working "to create a coalition of like-minded governors — in particular Rocky Mountain West governors — to push back against federal encroachment on issues that are properly state concerns."
The governors Beauprez mentioned in his news release — Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, Texas' Rick Perry and Wyoming's Matt Mead, to name a few — all happen to be Republican governors. No mention is made of the fact that the Democrat Beauprez is trying to unseat, Gov. John Hickenlooper, is chairman of the National Governors Association and has a relationship with many of the nation's governors, Democrat and Republican.
Beauprez's campaign noted that the candidate met with Gov. Mead over the weekend — the news release includes a picture of Beauprez and Mead and their spouses at the Denver Post's Cheyenne Frontier Days BBQ. FYI: Hickenlooper was there, too, and has a good relationship with Mead, as evidenced by a 2011 story about the Frontier Days gathering, when the two governors yukked it up.
"I think John Hickenlooper has a lot of great ideas," Mead said then. "Plus, I just like the guy."
Here's Beauprez's full press release — and the link to a video from the Colorado Democratic Party "welcoming" New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to Colorado today, where the governor will campaign with Beauprez:


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A worldwide analysis of spatiotemporal changes in water balance-based evapotranspiration from 1982 to 2009. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 119(3):1186-1202.. 2014.
Seasonally different response of photosynthetic activity to daytime and night-time warming in the Northern Hemisphere. Global Change Biology. 21(1):377-387.. 2014.
Seasonal responses of terrestrial ecosystem water-use efficiency to climate change. Global Change Biology. 22(6):2165-2177.. 2016.
Greening of the Earth and its drivers. Nature Climate Change.. 2016.
Global patterns and climate drivers of water-use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems deduced from satellite-based datasets and carbon cycle models. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(3):311-323.. 2016.
Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity. Nature Communications. 5:5018.. 2014.
Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends. Environmental Research Letters. 10(9):094008.. 2015.
Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years. Global Change Biology. 21(4):1601-1609.. 2015.
Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades. Nature Climate Change. 73546(6):432-436.. 2017.
Change in terrestrial ecosystem water-use efficiency over the last three decades. Global Change Biology. 21(6):2366-2378.. 2015.


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@abecedarius interesting to think of stoicism, Buddhist meditation etc. as technologies for gaming the mind
Why catastrophizing is a rational strategy http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-rationality-of-catastrophizing.html …
@SolviegM hey I emailed you back, thanks for the question!
Fear of death is not love of life.
@Ian_HT completely my own fault of course
@Ian_HT mostly really nice - just funny to be reminded that I live in the "suicide" slot in people's brains haha
Every time someone famous commits suicide I get a lot of letters.
Bumper sticker: "Beauty is Fit, Read Christopher Alexander" http://carcinisation.com/2014/08/11/beauty-is-fit/ …
@madison_ponders @VinceSkolny @JesseBering (a good TL;DR being a completely worthy and helpful exercise, in my view)
@madison_ponders @VinceSkolny @JesseBering Baumeister is my hero, I love the book he's TL;DRing here
.@bswud @TheViewFromHell Someone should look at the g-loading of "emotional intelligence".
Crabs Are A Process: "I would love to see [an analog of Alexander's] _A Pattern Language_ for religions" http://carcinisation.com/2014/07/22/toward-the-synthesis-of-flourishy-forms/ …
@bswud thanks!
@realmattforney you're too real the rest of the time
@AnarchoPapist @Outsideness @AuerbachKeller he's a smart guy, I bet you'd like him https://nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/ … insight dorks invade mass media!
@Outsideness @AnarchoPapist yeah @AuerbachKeller we are all wondering this - why now that LessWrong has been in decline for years?
@St_Rev I'm glad you gave me the image of unvis.it as epistemic condom though
@St_Rev seriously if I were treating it as evidence I wouldn't have put it in a protective unvis.it condom, it's just lol
@St_Rev oh murray's "coming apart" terminology - belmont v. fishtown, belmont (elite/educated white) marriages supposedly are doing great
how are those belmont "marriages" going lol http://unvis.it/www.salon.com/2011/01/06/wish_i_hadnt_opted_out/ …
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Co-op Funeralcare clients are supported by Co-op Legal Services, who can help deal with legal matters after a loved one has died. Leaving you to focus on what matters most at such a difficult time.
For free initial advice and guidance call Co-op Legal Services on 0330 041 7713 or request a call for assistance.
Pay Funeral Costs from the Estate
At the Co-op we're in a unique position where we can pay all the costs of a Co-op funeral and pay back any deposit paid if you instruct our legal team in Co-op Legal Services to carry out probate, providing that the estate has sufficient assets that can be sold in due course.
This could include:
• A house to be sold
• Money in bank accounts
• Stocks, shares and ISA's
In this case, the disbursements (Minister fees, cremation fees etc.) would still need to be paid upfront but will be paid back to you within 21 days of instructing Co-op Legal Services to act.
A free, in-home visit is available in England or Wales with one of the Co-op's Probate Consultants who can answer your questions, discuss what needs to be done, and provide you with a Fixed Fee Probate quotation in writing.
When Co-op Legal Services has provided you with a written quote for the agreed work to be done, that price will not change, unless the original information provided is shown to be incorrect or circumstances change. For more information see Probate Complete Service.
Read the Will
Before you finalise funeral arrangements we recommend that you search for a copy of the deceased's Will to find out if the deceased had specified any particular wishes. If you don't know where the Will is, or whether one was made, Co-op Legal Services can help you.
Executors and Administrators of the Estate
If you are an Executor appointed in the deceased's Will, or a family member who wants the responsibility where a Will wasn't written, it pays to know what is expected of you.
Before you can transfer, sell or distribute any of the deceased's assets, you may need to apply for Probate but this isn't the full picture. The Court application for Probate is only one step to take and there are many other legal, financial and tax considerations that are your responsibility to handle. Here are just a few:
· Interpreting the Will correctly (if there is a Will)
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· Collecting and valuing all the Estate assets (i.e. everything the deceased owns)
· Calculating all taxes due and filing all necessary tax forms with HM Revenue & Customs
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· Creating detailed accounts of all Estate assets and liabilities
· Distributing the residue of the Estate to the beneficiaries.
Co-op Legal Services can take all the responsibilities off your shoulders and carry out all the work necessary to complete matters as quickly and effectively as possible.
Our legal team offer fixed fees with no upfront costs to pay and are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. With 20 specialist Probate Solicitors and over 150 Probate specialists who only deal with Probate, Co-op Legal Services are one of the largest providers of Probate and Estate Administration services across England and Wales.
As part of the Co-op Group our values of openness, honesty, social responsibility and caring for others are core to the service we provide.
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When ordering your cap and gown, please be sure you choose the correct degree (Associate, Bachelor's, or Master's). Wearing the cap and gown is required for participation. It is your responsibility to bring your cap and gown with you for the ceremony. If you do not have the proper cap and gown, you will not be able to participate in the graduation ceremony. Once your order has been placed, you will receive a confirmation email to notify you that it was successfully placed.
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We celebrate our inner dudes every year with Lebowskifest. You've never heard of Lebowskifest? Let me fill you in. To attend you must be fan of The Big Lebowski. You must dress in a Lebowski theme. You must be prepared to party and then then watch the film whilst drinking white russians. Camping is optional but thoroughly encouraged.
So, it's a pretty big event in our calendar. Claire Mullan of the best t-shirt company in the world Tee and Toast, suggested collaborating on adult and kiddie tees and these are results.
I created a set of three monsters, intent on world domination in response to the brief "Finish." These guys are taking over Belfast, Barcelona and New Zealand (this is where holiday snaps come in handy).
These eventually became our Atto mascots. The one that represents me is zapping the Queenstown steam boat on Lake Whakatipu with her laser vision.
I'm a huge fan 826 Valencia in San Francisco - an amazingly creative tutoring spot set up by Dave Eggers. Watch this TED talk and weep with joy that things like this exist.
When I was approached to do the wall illustrations for the London version I jumped at the chance. The Ministry of Stories is a creative writing and mentoring centre for young people in Hoxton. It masquerades as a Monster Supply Store from the front with amazing monster friendly products designed by Alistair Hall.
(photos by Alistair Hall)
I created a microblog project called Exciting Foxes to experiment with hand lettering and sharing my inspirations.
I've always been fascinated with folklore and myths and the strange creatures that cultures create. This was a poster I made with a few of my favourites.
I came across a beautiful poem by Raul Gutierrez and with his permission I began to illustrate his words. One day I might even finish it.
With a new tiny person recently added to our family, we have found ourselves hunting for child -friendly days out (preferably with tiny animals to pat / tractors / guaranteed ice cream). By working on Fred's Days Out we got to scratch our own itch.
As part of the overall design and development of the site by Atto Partners, I got to create an illustrative brand with lots of colour and character.
I was commissioned for a lovely job to create some custom hand lettering for cookie packaging for a big supermarket chain.
Street Feast is a brilliant concept. It's one day in the year where neighbourhoods across Ireland host a lunch in their streets, local parks or front gardens. It's a great excuse to share good food and meet interesting people who live nearby.
Samuel and the Street Feast team asked us to help them get the word out so I developed a friendly, illustrative look and feel, a custom typeface and a downloadable guide to running your own feast. If you're in Ireland hop along to streetfeast.ie and join the party this summer.
Meet the Good Little Company. We worked with the lovely bunch at Finnebrogue to create a new brand of super-sausages for families and I got to create a family of characters to represent the brand.
I could waffle all day about this but to cut a long story short, they're the best sausages you could buy (85% outdoor bred pork, no artificial nasty chemicals, gluten-free, the list goes on) AND Atto Partners worked out a great plan with Christian Aid so that every time you buy one pack of Good Little Sausages, someone in a country like Malawi gets a meal every day for a week.
I also produced an animation to explain the meal for a meal concept. It's not often you get to make a bit of a difference in the actual real world.
Go look and join the Facebook group or follow the Twitter and the Good Little Company will donate a meal on your behalf. Even better – go buy the sausages in Tescos (they're great with mash and onion gravy).
When Kabosh Theatre Company approached us to create an identity for their new site-specific play, This Is What We Sang, we said yes immediately.
I read the play and created an illustration that included a few key scenes. As a Jewish play I chose to create a paper cut (paper cuts are a traditional Jewish art). It was also set in Belfast so of course the famous Jaffe Memorial Fountain was included to nod to the crossover of cultures.
We photographed it and designed the typography. I also made a vinyl version of the illustration and we applied it to the John Hewitt window. It stayed up long after the play had finished.


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Leave it to Brett Favre to find a way to turn his yearly "Will he play?" melodrama into a weekly series. After an MRI revealed two fractures in his ankle after the Green Bay game (a doctor said it was more of a glorified sprain), Favre immediately used the opportunity to draw attention to his ailment and play up the mystery of whether or not he'd continue his streak.
Look at some of the more ridiculous quotes he gave yesterday to the Star Tribune:
"It'd be easy to just go, 'Ah, I can't do it.' But once again, all the things that I've accomplished, so many great things that I've accomplished after injuries, and not necessarily the next week, but the whole year, it's basically to be willing to take it on…"
I don't think anyone disagrees that Favre is tough and rugged and GRRRR MANLY LUMBERJACK MAN for playing through his assorted injuries for two decades. But what I resent is that he never passes up an opportunity to REMIND you just how tough of a son of a gun he is. There's something so artificial and annoying about it. Then there's this:
Favre remains uncertain how this decision will be made. "[I'm] not real sure," he said. "I do know, as I tell you guys, 'No one knows your body like you know it. No one knows how much it will hinder you.' Again, this is a little different injury. I don't know how much it would affect me."
Total lie.
Favre knows EXACTLY how this injury would affect his ability to play. He was rotten in the second half against Green Bay with the injury, and there's little doubt in my mind that he'll be compromised against New England on Sunday.
And does anyone buy that he isn't sure if he can play? Of course not. He clearly wants to play the entire game, no matter how much the ankle affects him.
This is what Favre has done for years now. He cries indecisiveness to the media, when he knows precisely what his intentions are. JEEZ GUYS, I JUST DUNNO IF I CAN GUT IT OUT THIS TIME! STAY TUNED! It's his way of trying to get people to love him. He needs to be needed. He needs the team to beg him to play to save their season. He needs to be the savior. God forbid he's ever the PROBLEM.
"I know it is worth considering to play. I will be honest with myself as well as with Brad when that time comes. ... He's the head coach, he makes those decisions. I would think that it would be an open-dialogue deal, 'How do you feel? What do you think?' You weigh the options."
Again, lies. Favre will do everything in his power to bully Childress into playing, and what choice will Childress have? Chilly was the one who went begging for Favre to come back. He was the one who let Favre completely emasculate him. So Favre knows, push comes to shove, Childress isn't gonna stop him from playing.
"I'm willing to give it a try…"
Completely self-serving. Practice is the time for you to give it a try. You don't experiment with your injury against a 5-1 team with the season on the line.
"I want to play, and I want to help this team win. I owe that to the guys. I owe that to myself."
Again, you see how Favre twists all this to make it sound like he's doing you a favor by continuing his streak. You didn't see anything from him about how he needs to NOT turn the ball over, and how he needs to not throw the ball directly to opposing linebackers. It's strictly about spinning it so he's somehow the most charitable person in the world for trying to play (poorly) through this injury, despite the fact that he's being paid, and that every other NFL player in the universe tries to play through injury.
Expect Favre to play the whole game come Sunday. Expect him to play every game this year, and expect the Vikings to suffer for his glories.


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Will they never learn? The first yellow shirted Kirk was a con exclusive, and now they're doing it again.And they wonder why nobody buys Star Trek figures.
Yeah but Kirk with his chair is an SDCC exclusive
If that wasn't enough there is also going to be versions of both Captain Kirk and Captain Pike released with their own unique Captain's chairs, (Look for a version of Captain Kirk w/chair from the second pilot episode to be released as a SDCC exclusive this coming summer).
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Hotel Funchal Design
Funchal, Portugal
The Funchal Design Hotel is situated in the centre of Funchal near the Municipal theatre, the Municipal Garden, the Sé Cathedral, the Cruzes Museum, the Arte Sacra museum, the Funchal Marina, the Delegation of Tourism and various stores of Traditional Commerce. It?s a Hotel with a perfect and harmonious design in a context of modernity giving origin to welfare of quality in the rooms. The equilibrium in the interior of rooms, with the equilibrated decoration of the spaces associated with the luminosity of the interior, is a reality that will give perfect moments of pleasure and regenerating sleep. The Funchal Design Hotel rooms are equipped with air-conditioning, cable connection to the Internet, sound system and cable LCD television. Other facilities include the restaurant ?560? with a familiar ambient that bets in the quality and above of all maintaining it self loyal to the Italian taste. Ideal place top take a excellence meal and appreciating a great wine. The 560 restaurant has a varied menu. The qualities of ours products are our company image.
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Angara (äng´gərä´, Rus. ŭn´gərä´), river, c.1,150 mi (1,850 km) long, SE Siberian Russia, the outlet of Lake Baykal. After leaving the southwestern end of Lake Baykal, it flows north past Irkutsk and Bratsk, then turns west after receiving the Ilim River and flows into the Yenisei River near Strelka. Below its junction with the Ilim River the Angara is known also as the Upper Tunguska (Rus. Verkhnyaya Tunguska).
The Angara is navigable between Irkutsk and Bratsk; below Bratsk there are many rapids. At Bratsk is a large dam with one of the world's largest hydroelectric power plants (c.4.5 million kW); a smaller hydroelectric station is at Irkutsk. Two other dams span the river, making it one of the world's greatest sources of hydroelectric power. Iron, coal, and gold deposits are found in the Angara basin, and aluminum and pulp are processed.
The Upper Angara River (Rus. Verkhnyaya Angara), c.200 mi (320 km) long, rises NE of Lake Baykal and flows SW through the Buryat Republic into the lake; it is partly navigable.


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama had a full day of sports Sunday, first playing a round of golf, then attending a college basketball game with his family.
The president played a round at the Joint Base Andrews course with trip director Marvin Nicholson, his brother Walt Nicholson and Joe Paulsen of the advance office.
Afterward, it was on to Comcast Center with his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia for the Maryland-Oregon State game. The first lady's older brother, Craig Robinson, is the Beavers' coach.
The first family, who had first-row seats behind the OSU bench, drew cheers and applause upon arriving courtside.
During a first-half timeout, a group of students held up letters that spelled out, "OBAMAS, WILL YOU COME TO TERPTHON?" Terpthon is a 12-hour dance marathon benefiting Children's National Health System scheduled for March 8.
The president, dressed casually in a black jacket, reportedly was mostly reserved, though he exhibited some enthusiasm, including at least one fist pump, late in the game, which Oregon State won 90-83.


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