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Novell® iFolder® is a simple and secure storage solution that increases your productivity by enabling you to back up, access, and manage your personal files from anywhere, at any time. Novell iFolder has clients on Linux*, Macintosh*, and Windows* platforms.
You can share files in multiple iFolders, each with a different group of users. You control who can participate in an iFolder and the access level for each member. You can also participate in iFolders that others share with you. iFolder provides higher security for your confidential iFolder files, to protect them from intentional or unintentional access by unauthorized people.
This Readme provides a brief overview of new features, and installation and configuration instructions for Novell iFolder 3.8. It also lists the known issues and limitations with this release.
The new features for iFolder are as follows:
The new features for iFolder clients are as follows:
Revert iFolder, from shell extension, uses the same Dialog that is used by the iFolder main window
The password change feature enables you to change the password of your iFolder account using the web access console or any of the iFolder clients on Linux, Windows, and Mac.
The passphrase recovery wizard enables you to reset the passphrase and recover an encrypted iFolder. This wizard is available with iFolder clients on Linux, Windows, and Mac.
The user interface of iFolder thick clients, web admin console, and web access console is enhanced to improve the usability of iFolder.
The iFolder enterprise server for 3.8 supports iFolder clients for both openSUSE 11.1 and SLED11.
The 64 bit version of iFolder client is available for Vista and Windows 7. This includes:
New 64 bit install
New 64 bit Flaim database
New iFolder binaries in 64 bit
Revert iFolder, from shell extension, now uses the same Dialog that is used by the iFolder main window. This has the Delete from server option.
The iFolder client startup performance is enhanced.
The new features for iFolder server are as follows:
Mono build and runtime environment for iFolder is upgraded to mono 2.4. As part of OES, now iFolder bundles its own mono 2.4 runtime (novell-ifolder-mono) and iFolder will explicitly use this environment for running iFolder. This change in mono runtime addresses several issues related to thread synchronization and daily crashes. With novell-ifolder-mono, iFolder will not use system installed mono (SLES) and updates to latest mono runtime package will be available from regular OES 2 channel.
Multi-level administration feature enables you to create primary as well as secondary administrators.
The iFolder server is integrated with active directory so that the process of admin and proxy user creation is automated.
Novell iFolder 3.8 for OES 2 SP2 supports a system built with the following components of Novell Open Enterprise Server:
Your server must satisfy the following system requirements.
Novell eDirectory™ 8.8 or Active Directory
Novell iManager 2.7
Apache 2 Web Server (worker mode) with SSL configured
Mono 2.4 (novell-ifolder-mono-2.4)
The iFolder client supports the following operating systems:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 SP1 and above
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 11
openSUSE 11.1
The iFolder Linux client requires the Mono framework for Linux and a GNOME* desktop foriFolder Nautilus plug-in support.
Windows XP SP2 and above
Windows Vista SP1 and above
Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Macintosh OS X (Intel architecture) v10.4.11 and later (requires Mono 1.2.5 ). PowerPc architecture is not supported.
Novell iFolder supports the following Web browsers:
Internet Explorer*
Mozilla* Firefox* 2.x and later
Safari* 3.0
The iFolder client is available for download on the OES 2 SP2 Welcome page of your iFolder enterprise server. For more information, see
Installing the iFolder Client in the Novell iFolder 3.8 Cross-Platform User Guide.
This section describes known issues for the iFolder enterprise server, Web Access server, and Web Admin server.
Section 5.2, Upgrading iFolder setup from OES2 SP1 to OES2 SP2 fails to restore the configuration files
Section 5.3, The iFolder setup throws an exception if LDAP proxy user already exists in Active Directory
Section 5.4, Re provisioning users from one server to another results in creation of duplicate entries of iFolders for the reprovisioned user
Section 5.5, iFolder deletion leaves an empty directory on the server
Section 5.6, Upload of files is possible only if secondary administrator sets disk quota
Section 5.7, The iFolder configuration through Yast hangs when Active Directory on windows 2003 is configured as an ldap source
Section 5.8, iFolder Does Not Support Spaces or Dots in the Admin DN (Distinguished Name) and User container DN
Section 5.9, Delta Sync Is Not Supported for Encrypted iFolders
Section 5.10, iFolder Does Not Support Multibyte Characters in Username
Renaming of large-sized files (size above 10 GB) may cause sync issues and the file rename will not be synced.
When you upgrade iFolder setup from OES2 SP1 to OES2 SP2, the Web Admin, Web Access, and Simias configuration files are not restored. This behavior is seen only in 64-bit systems. As a workaround, you must do the following:
Login as root and run /opt/novell/ifolder3/bin/ifolder_mono_setup.
Stop and start the apache server.
The iFolder setup will throw an exception when you specify LDAP proxy user DN in Yast if LDAP proxy user already exists in Active Directory. As a workaround, you must either use a new user's DN or delete the existing user for AD and then use the same DN again.
If you re-provision users from one server to another, then sometimes, duplicate entries of iFolders are displayed for the re-provisioned user in the Web console and iFolder clients. As a workaround, after you re-provison the users, you must login to the Web Admin console to verify if duplicate entries of iFolders are displayed for re-provisioned users. If duplicate entries are getting displayed, you must restart the iFolder server to resolve the issue.
For every iFolder, a directory with iFolder's unique ID as name is created on the server. All the iFolder data is stored under this directory. On deleting an iFolder, the contents of the directory where iFolder data is stored is deleted. However, the directory itself not deleted.
After you create a secondary administrator and assign a group to the secondary administrator, the secondary administrator must assign some disk quota to the users of the group. Otherwise, the users will not be able to upload any files using the Web Access console or the iFolder client. This is applicable only if the Administrator console option is selected for managing group quota while creating the secondary administrator. However, users can create empty iFolders even if the secondary administrator has not set any disk quota for users.
On configuring iFolder through Yast, if active directory is given as the ldap source, the iFolder configuration hangs indefinitely. This occurs only for Active Directory configured on Windows 2003. As a workaround for this issue, follow the steps given below:
First, you must export the AD server certificate on Windows 2003 using the steps given below:
Clickto launch the application.
Select a certification authority, then right-click and select.
In thewindow, click the button.
In thewindow, click the tab and click the button.
Clickin the window.
Selectencoded and click .
Specify the path and file name of the certificate and click.
Clickto export the certificate.
Finally, copy the exported certificate file to Linux server, and run the following command from the command terminal:
certmgr -add -c -m Trust win2k3-vin.ifolder.ad_win2k3-vin.crt
NOTE: If iFolder is configured in a cluster environment, then this step must be executed for all the nodes.
iFolder does not support spaces or dots in the admin DN and user container DN. If the Admin DN or user container DN has a space or dot in it, iFolder configuration fails. This is applicable in case of all directory services.
Modifying any file in an encrypted iFolder performs a full sync to the iFolder server, instead of synchronizing only the changes.
The iFolder user account cannot have multibyte characters in the username. Authentication fails if the user name contains multibyte characters.
This section describes known issues for iFolder client for Linux.
Section 6.2, No Auto Upgrade Support On Older iFolder Clients
Section 6.3, Confirmation dialog is not displayed on removing an iFolder account
Section 6.4, The iFolder client on Linux might hang while setting the passphrase
Section 6.5, When iFolders are added or deleted, the changes do not get reflected on Linux clients immediately
Section 6.6, The iFolder client on Linux might freeze sometimes
Section 6.7, On SLED 11 and openSUSE 11.1, any modifications to files or folders beyond the second level is not getting synchronized
Section 6.8, While configuring an account using iFolder client, an error is received on specifying the passphrase on the Encryption page
Section 6.9, No notification of name conflicts on uploading multiple files with the same name using two different clients
Section 6.10, Option to start iFolder during system login does not work in iFolder client for SLED 11 and openSUSE 11.1
Section 6.11, The first synchronization cycle after downloading a shared iFolder generates an error
Section 6.12, iFolder emblem does not get updated automatically on openSUSE 11.1 and SLE 11
If you install iFolder linux client 188.8.131.52 and then upgrade your iFolder server to 22.214.171.124, the iFolder client does not automatically prompt for an upgrade. You can download the client from the Welcome page (http://<OES 2 SP2 server ip> ) and install the clients manually.
iFolder clients 3.2 and 3.4 will not be able to connect to iFolder server 220.127.116.11. After upgrading OES 1 server to OES 2 SP2 server, you can download the client from the Welcome page (http://<OES 2 SP2 server ip> ) and install the clients manually.
If you remove an account from thetab of the iFolder Preferences Window of the iFolder client, the account might get removed without displaying a confirmation dialog. This is a rare occurrence.
While setting the passphrase, the iFolder client on Linux might hang. This is a rare occurrence and as a workaround, if the client hangs for a long time, you must kill the client and restart it.
For iFolder clients on Linux, when iFolders are added or deleted, the changes do not get reflected instantly. It takes some time for the changes to come into effect.
The iFolder client on Linux client might freeze sometimes. This is a rare occurrence. If this occurs, then as a workaround, you must kill the client and restart it.
For iFolder clients on SLED 11 and openSUSE 11.1, if you make any modifications to a file or folder that is beyond the second level in the directory structure, then the corresponding changes are not getting reflected on the iFolder server. However, modifications to files or folders in the first or the second level of the directory structure will lead to synchronization of changes on the server for files or folders beyond second level also.
If encryption is enabled and you are configuring an account using the iFolder client, then you may receive an Operation timeout error when you are prompted to enter the passphrase on the Encryption page of the iFolder Account Assistant. This may occur when the server is busy serving iFolder client sync requests and LDAP sync and if the number of users in the system is high.
This is a rare occurrence and you will not be able to set the passphrase when this issue occurs. As a workaround, you must click Cancel in the Encryption page of the iFolder Account Assistant to continue with the account creation. After an account is created, when you attempt to create an encrypted iFolder, you will be prompted to specify the passphrase. You must then specify the passphrase to create an encrypted iFolder.
When you upload multiple files with the same name to the same iFolder using two different clients, the synchronization is successful. However, in such a scenario a name conflict must occur which enables you to resolve the name conflict.
For iFolder clients on SLED 11 and openSUSE 11.1, if you leave iFolder running and log out of the system, iFolder does not start as expected during system reboot.
As a workaround, you must add iFolder to the list of startup programs. To do this, follow the steps given below:
Click the.
In thedialog box, click the tab.
NOTE:You can also open the Sessions dialog box from the command terminal by typing the command gnome-session-properties.
To add iFolder to the list of startup programs, clickand browse to the location where the iFolder executable is available.
IMPORTANT:The iFolder client executable is present at the location /opt/novell/ifolder3/bin .
Clickand then click to close the dialog box.
When you download a shared iFolder, the first synchronization cycle fails with an error message "1 item not synchronized". However, during subsequent synchronization cycles, the synchronization is successful.
For iFolder clients on openSUSE 11.1 and SLE 11, if you convert a folder to an iFolder or revert an iFolder to a regular folder, the emblem on the iFolder does not get updated automatically.
As a workaround for this issue, you must do a manual refresh. For instance, you can manually refresh by pressing the F5 button.
This section describes known issues for the iFolder client for Windows.
If you have installed the 3.8 version of the Windows 64 bit iFolder client, then any attempt to autoupgrade to a new version of the client will fail. You must manually install the new version of the client. After you install the client manually and replace the 3.8 version of the client, autoupgrade feature will work for subsequent client versions.
When you connect an iFolder 3.6 client to an iFolder 3.8 server, the system throws a System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException error instead of prompting the user to log in to the new client.
This is because the iFolder 3.6 Windows client cannot communicate with an SSL-mandated 3.8 server. During the connection attempt, the server responds that the preferred communication is HTTPS; however, the 3.6 client does not support HTTPS. When the client attempts to connect via HTTPS, the connection fails because the certificate validation and acceptance fail.
The workaround for this issue is to perform a manual upgrade or set the iFolder 3.8 server to communicate via only HTTP.
This section describes known issues for the iFolder client for Macintosh.
There is an inconsistency in menus for clients on Mac in comparison to the clients on Windows and Linux. For instance, for the iFolder client in Mac, bothand options get enabled for both local and remote ifolders.
iFolder client for Macintosh doesn't provide the auto-upgrade feature. When a new version of the client is available for upgrade, iFolder prompts you about the availability of the client for download, and when you click, it downloads the client to a location on your workstation. You need to go to that location and manually install the new client.
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Former cybersecurity chief says department is still growing into its role
As the lead agency for securing dot-gov resources, the Homeland Security Department has a mandate to stop malware from getting into government networks and keep bad things from happening, a job it has not yet sorted out how to do, said Greg Garcia, former DHS cybersecurity chief.
A key element of this task will be the third phase of the Einstein network monitoring system, an intrusion prevention system that faces multiple challenges. "They are still working through it," he said recently. "It is a complicated technical question with an overlay of political and privacy issues that delays the development of the architecture."
Despite the challenges and false steps made by DHS in its cybersecurity initiatives, Garcia said he is confident the department can grow into its mission.
Progress on Einstein 3 will depend partly on how well the second phase of the program works as it is implemented during the next few months. Developers need to create protocols for dealing with apparently malicious traffic, and there still is tension between the demands of privacy and need to share information that the system gathers.
But the success of Einstein — and DHS in general — also will depend on the ability of the young department to wriggle free from the political squabbling between the administration and congressional overseers that has hampered its development during its early years, Garcia said.
Garcia was assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications from September 2006 to December 2008, when he resigned to establish a private consulting firm. Established in 2003, DHS is a large and still young department, and its formative years were blighted partly by bad luck and partly by politics, the former official said.
"There is a different dynamic at work now than during my tenure," he said.
During that time, the department was caught between a Republican president and a Democratic Congress that came into power shortly after the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, which gave the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the entire DHS a black eye. The fumbled response to the devastating Gulf Coast hurricane provoked aggressive congressional oversight of the department, he said.
"You had a number of members of Congress who used DHS as a whipping boy," Garcia said. The department was on the defensive and too many decisions were being made by political types rather than line managers. "It creates an atmosphere of distrust."
At the same time, DHS has been burdened with the challenge of developing an effective business infrastructure to support a department quickly cobbled together from a broad range of existing agencies. Even under good conditions, it can take a department that size 10 years to gain traction and begin operating at full efficiency, he said.
Garcia said legitimate oversight of the department is needed, including the overlapping jurisdictions of different committees that oversee different aspects of the DHS mission. And things have become better under a Congress that is no longer openly at odds with the executive branch. That bodes well for the department's development, he said.
"DHS has to mature," he said. "I have faith that it will. I have confidence in it."
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How to Read Crochet Symbols
Crochet instructions use symbols, such as parentheses, brackets, and bullets, to represent certain actions. After you decipher these crochet symbols, you'll be able to read a crochet pattern like a pro.
Parentheses: Instruction writers use parentheses to designate a repeated set of actions and stitches or to sum up a row. Here's a list of the different reasons instruction writers use these handy little arcs:
To isolate a set of 2 or more stitches that you work all in 1 stitch.
To enclose a set of stitches that you repeat a number of times in succession.
To sum up a completed row or round.
To distinguish different sizes in a garment pattern.
If a garment pattern is written for three sizes, it includes separate instructions for the two larger sizes in parentheses.
Brackets: Crochet instructions use brackets in the following ways:
Some patterns use brackets interchangeably with parentheses to isolate repeated phrases of stitches. They may also appear as a set or phrase within another.
Patterns use brackets within parentheses to sum up the number of stitches for different sizes.
Bullets and other special symbols: Patterns use symbols such as bullets (), asterisks (*), plus signs (+), and crosses (†) in instructions to show the repetition of a series of crochet stitches:
Some patterns use only one symbol at the beginning of a phrase and then direct you to repeat from that symbol a designated number of times.
You may also see bullet symbols marking both the beginning and end of a repeated phrase.
The instructions may reference this repeat again if the phrase within the bullets is used at a different section of the row or round.


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Our goal is to provide first responders and their families tools to reduce personal and family stress, encourage appropriate career decisions and reduce the effects of traumatic incident stress on an individual's life. The key components of FRSN are the 6-day residential treatment for first responders, also known as the West Coast Post-trauma Retreat (WCPR), and the 6-day program for significant others & spouses (SOS).
FRSN is a collaboration of first responder peers (included but not limited to police, fire, dispatch, and emergency medical services), SOS peers, culturally competent mental health clinicians, and chaplains; all of these individuals volunteer their time. We encourage you to contact us if you or someone you know is in need of assistance.Learn More
The West Coast Post trauma Retreat (WCPR) is for First Responders whose lives have been impacted by their work experience. This 6-day residential program provides education, support and healing designed to help active, former, and retired First Responders recognize the signs and symptoms of work-related stress, including Post Traumatic Stress Injury (aka: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD) in themselves and in others.
The Significant Others and Spouses (SOS) program is for the spouses or partners of First Responders who have been affected by critical incidents (resulting in secondary or vicarious traumatization) experienced by their loved ones, but may also be experiencing their own depression or anxiety symptoms, and need to address their needs. In addition, these individuals may have their own trauma history, which is re-activated when his/her partner experiences a traumatic event.
The FRSN staff members are frequently called upon to teach and or present on critical incident stress, peer team development, inoculation training, etc. Staff members are available to speak with anyone concerned about a First Responder or Significant Other or Spouse. There is no charge for the outreach. The call is confidential (unless someone is in danger). Call 415-721-9789 or submit an inquiry via the Contact link.
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FUKUSHIMA (Reuters) - Japan's prime minister ordered workers to remain at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant last March as fears mounted of a "devil's chain reaction" that would force tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo, a new investigative report shows.
Then-premier Naoto Kan and his staff began referring to a worst case scenario that could threaten Japan's existence as a nation around three days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, according to the report by a panel set up by a private think-tank.
That was when fears mounted that thousands of spent fuel rods stored at a damaged reactor would melt and spew radiation after a hydrogen explosion at an adjacent reactor building, according to the panel report.
Yukio Edano, then Japan's top government spokesman, told the panel that at the height of tension he feared a "devil's chain reaction" in which the Fukushima Daiichi plant and the nearby Fukushima Daini facility, as well as the Tokai nuclear plant, spiraled out of control, putting the capital at risk.
Kan, who stepped down last September, came under fire for his handling of the crisis, including flying over the plant by helicopter the morning after the disasters hit — a move some critics said contributed to a delay in the operator's response.
In an interview with Reuters this month, the 65-year-old Kan said he was haunted by the specter of a crisis spiraling out of control and forcing the evacuation of the Tokyo greater metropolitan area, 240 km (150 miles) away and home to some 35 million people.
After the quake and tsunami struck, three reactors melted down and radiation spewed widely through eastern Japan, forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate from near the plant.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, known as Tepco, managed to avert the worst scenario by pumping water, much of it from the sea, into Daiichi's damaged reactors and spent fuel pools. The reactors were stabilized by December.
A year after the disaster, however, Fukushima Daiichi still resembles a vast wasteland. High radiation levels hamper a cleanup that is expected to take decades.
The damaged 40-metre-high (125-foot) No.2 reactor building stands like a bird's nest of twisted steel beams. A Tepco official who accompanied foreign media to the plant on Tuesday said metal debris was being painstakingly removed by giant cranes and pincers as radiation doses were too high for workers.
Another challenge is keeping a new cooling system, built from a myriad of technologies and prone to breaking down, running without major glitches.
"An earthquake or tsunami like the ones seen a year ago could be a source of trouble for these (cooling) systems. But we are currently reinforcing the spent fuel pool and making the sea walls higher against tsunamis," Takeshi Takahashi, the Daiichi plant's manager, told reporters. "A series of backup systems is also being put in place in case one fails."
Confused media reports at the time of the accident said Tepco had threatened to withdraw workers from the plant, but that Kan ordered them to keep staff on-site.
"Now Tepco is saying there was no request for a complete pullout, that it only asked for a partial withdrawal. The truth may never come out, but as a result, 50 Tepco staff stayed behind and ... the worst case scenario was averted," panel chief Koichi Kitazawa told Reuters before the report's release.
How many of those who stayed were volunteers is a mystery.
"An order was likely given for full-time employees to stay behind. We may eventually find out who volunteered to stay, but the impression from our investigation is that they are under strict orders to remain silent."
The six-member panel is one of several probing the disaster caused by the quake and tsunami that knocked out cooling systems at Fukushima Daiichi and triggered meltdowns of nuclear fuel in the worst radiation crisis since Chernobyl. Since September, it has interviewed more than 300 people, including Kan and Edano, but no Tepco executives.
Kan's administration, Tepco and nuclear regulators have all faced criticism, both for a confused response and for failing to come clean on the extent of the crisis in the early days, undermining public trust in Japan's leaders and bureaucracy.
The panel lauded Kan for keeping the workers on site, but added that the premier, who had tangled with bureaucrats in the past and did not trust those around him, was too hands on in dealing with the crisis.
"Overall, he failed to pass the test," Kitazawa told a news conference after the report was issued.
Edano on Tuesday acknowledged he had feared the worst around March 14-15. "I was working with a strong sense of crisis that under various circumstances, such a thing may be possible," he told a news conference in Tokyo.
But he defended his silence as government spokesman.
"I shared all information. Back then, I was not in a position where I, as someone who is not an expert, could irresponsibly speak about my own personal impressions and my sense of crisis," he told a news conference.
"I conveyed assessments and decisions of the government, government agencies and experts," he added.
The panel report said some of Kan's seemingly inexplicable behavior stemmed from his belief that Tepco was going to abandon the plant and the accident would spiral out of control.
An irate Kan blasted Tepco on March 15, yelling: "What the hell is going on" in an outburst overheard by a Kyodo news reporter and quickly reported around the globe. "I want you all to be determined," he was quoted as telling utility executives.
The utility ultimately left a corps of workers who were dubbed the "Fukushima Fifty" by media and won admiration at home and abroad as they risked their lives to contain the crisis, although their names were never made public.
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Two residents of an elderly care center are dead and four people are in the hospital after a caregiver allegedly served soup made from poisonous wild mushrooms.
The deceased victims are 86-year-old Barbara Lopes and 73-year-old Teresa Olesniewicz, who lived at the Gold Age Villa in Loomis, Calif., according to the Sacramento Bee. A caregiver reportedly foraged mushrooms on the grounds of the senior living center before using them in a meal.
The poisonings are believed to be accidental, and the caregiver who allegedly prepared the soup is one of the people hospitalized, Sheriff's Lt. Mark Reed told the Associated Press. The three others hospitalized were elderly residents of the Gold Age Villa.
The variety of poisonous mushrooms that were used in the soup is yet unknown, but Dr. Todd Mitchell, a Santa Cruz, Calif., doctor who is reportedly consulting on treatment of one of the patients, told NBC News that the patient is suffering from amatoxin poisoning. [10 Most Common Poisonous Plants]
Multiple mushroom species in California contain the poison, which accounts for 90 percent of mushroom-related fatalities and leads to liver failure if untreated, according to a 2010 paper on amatoxin in the journal Toxicon. But the mushroom responsible for the most deaths, in California and worldwide, is Amanita phalloides, or the death cap. The non-native species bears a treacherous resemblance to a few edible varieties, but it packs a potentially fatal dose of amatoxin in as little as 1.1 ounces (30 grams), or roughly half a mushroom cap.
The patient whose treatment Mitchell is consulting on is reportedly being treated with intravenous silibin, an experimental drug derived from milk thistle seeds that hasn't yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Last month, the drug, which is approved for use in Europe, apparently saved the life of a Connecticut woman who had consumed the destroying angel mushroom (Amanita bisporigera), a close cousin of the death cap (destroying angels are a native species in California).
When other treatments didn't seem to be working, the hospital board approved emergency administering of the experimental drug, and the woman showed signs of improvement soon after, reported the Hartford Courant.
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Last week I had the absolute pleasure of attending the first-ever Common Threads event hosted by Baby Lock. Baby Lock invited a group of educators, designers, bloggers, writers and editors from the sewing and quilting community to spend three days at their headquarters near St. Louis to sew, connect, brainstorm and learn.
Baby Lock is famous for its motto "For the Love of Sewing," and that sentiment ruled the event. To say that I came away inspired would be a huge understatement, as it was a truly amazing experience to be in the presence of such an enthusiastic and creative group of people who all really share that love of sewing.
Here's a little photo recap of Common Threads since I wish you all could have joined us there!
One of the coolest parts was the great goodie bag that we received as soon as we arrived. Each attendee provided something that they work on for the bag, including patterns, fabric lines, magazines, books and much more. It was awesome to get to see an example of what everyone does and how each person contributes to the sewing and quilting world. I couldn't wait to see old sewing friends, many of whom have contributed to Sew News and Sew it All, and make new ones!
To kick off the event, we all made our way to the Tacony Achievement Center, which is where Baby Lock dealers from around the country come to learn about Baby Lock's new machines and products. I was excited to get to meet Amber Eden, editor of our sister publications Stitch magazine and SewDaily.com:
We started by getting a great introduction to the history of Tacony Corporation (parent company of Baby Lock) from Ken Tacony, whose dad started the company in 1946.
Baby Lock president Steve Jeffery also gave us an overview of Baby Lock, from the very first Baby Lock sergers up through the innovative sewing and embroidery machines and sergers of today. We also heard about the great outreach that Baby Lock does to encourage designers and young sewers, including the awesome elementary school program that our friend Connie Tkach heads up in Puyallup, WA.
Mr. Tacony also gave us a behind-the-scenes tour through Tacony Headquarters, including the offices and warehouse. It was really fun to check out the inner workings of the company and see where Baby Lock sewing machines come from!
After the tour, Baby Lock had a super-fun activity where everyone got to be creative and mix and mingle: a cookie quilt created by St. Louis Sweets for us to decorate!
We all got hard to work decorating our individual cookie "blocks" to combine into one big, beautiful quilt. After seeing so many awesome machines, I decided to pay homage on my cookie block:
It was so much fun seeing everyone's personality and style reflected in such a sweet way! A cookie quilt would actually be a great get-to-know you activity for a sewing or quilt guild. Our completed quilt turned out gorgeous and ALMOST too pretty to eat.
What a fun evening! I couldn't wait to get started sewing with everyone the next day. We started by getting to take the 8-thread Baby Lock Ovation serger for a spin. We tried different specialty settings on the Ovation and made pages for a lovely sample book that the Baby Lock staff had prepared for us.
As you can see, the Ovation is extremely versatile and has many very smart features and lots of room to serge. You can find out more and see it in action here.
In the afternoon, we got to play on the Baby Lock Unity to try out its sewing, quilting and embroidery features. I got to be machine buddies with the lovely Joi Mahon (Dress Forms Design), who has appeared in both Sew News and Sew it All. It's always a pleasure to see her and even more fun to sew with her. Plus, we shared a sewing station with the delightful Amy Ellis of Amy's Creative Side!
The Unity has a lot of excellent tools and features, including a guidebeam that you can follow instead of having to mark straight lines on your fabric. We stitched cute little snowball blocks, and then embroidered them with a pretty birdcage design. Fun!
Next up, I made sure to get my photo taken in front of this gorgeous wall of words. Baby Lock asked all of the attendees to send in their favorite words of wisdom, which they combined into a super advice wall! The result is funny, touching and hilarious. And you gotta love the fabulous vintage fainting couch!
We also got to see a very heartwarming video about Enchanted Makeovers, a community service project that Baby Lock has partnered with this year to make over and outfit women's shelters with brand new sewing rooms. Stay tuned for my blog post about that to find out how you can help!
The next morning we also got to try out the Baby Lock Sashiko 2. If you haven't gotten to try this machine, I definitely recommend it! It's really fun and inspiring to be able to produce the look of hand stitching so quickly and easily. I wrote a guide to Sashiko in Sew it All, Vol. 7, so it's one of my current sewing passions. It was also quite a treat because Evy Hawkins, Baby Lock's Sashiko educator, was on hand to help and inspire us with all the fun things the Sashiko can do, like adding trim or decorative thread or beads. I was able to stitch up this design in less than 10 minutes!
The Sashiko machine also works great for applique:
Last but not least, we played a very funny Rob-Your-Neighbor game with all of the awesome sewing supplies and notions that you can find on Nancy's Notions and Sewing & Craft Club from Creative Notions, Madeira Thread and more. It worked kind of like a white elephant exchange, where everyone picked a bag and then you could "rob" people if you liked what they received. This would be a fun game for a sewing group too! Of any sewing tool, I LOVE scissors the most, so I was thrilled to wind up with these Gingher Shears!
After such a whirlwind, it was suddenly time to say goodbye! There were so many wonderful things I learned and so much to take away from the event, but more than anything, I was overwhelmed with the very real sense of sharing, friendship and love that exists in the sewing community. Common Threads really was the perfect name for the event.
Here are two of the lovely and talented sewing bloggers I got to meet (check out See Kate Sew and Melly Sews):
And I just couldn't leave without a photo with the one and only Nancy Zieman!
Getting to make things together and share that with others is such a gift. I'm sure you've experienced this feeling in your sewing and quilting groups or when you've taught a new sewer, or when you've been able to make someone a special gift. I love sharing that with you, too! Stay tuned for a blog roll of all of the Common Threads attendees, as well as a post next week about Enchanted Makeovers!


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We told you this one would be tough. Sure enough, only 17 of you knew that the patch above belonged to the Southwest Georgia Council, which is now known as the Chehaw Council. The council's headquarters is in Albany, Ga.
We took either answer as correct, but several readers responded with both of the acceptable answers anyway. One of those was Michael Lightfoot of Bay Area Council Pack 442. Michael's guess was randomly selected from all of the correct entries.
For being our winner, Michael will receive the patch shown above. Look for it in your mailbox within a week or so, Michael. Congratulations!
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NASA 'Ambassadors' Spread the Scientific Word
Ambassadors are everyday citizens with an interest in space science and the solar system. With 459 ambassadors coming from all 50 states and Puerto Rico, the program has a wide variety.
"The diversity in this year's applicants is particularly striking," said Kay Ferrari, coordinator of the program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "While the Solar System Ambassador program has long been the haven for space enthusiasts from all walks of life, it is particularly inspiring to see the range of fields represented: firefighter, high school senior, retired Wall Street analyst, Navy medic and attorney."
The Solar System Ambassador program was created in 1997. The ambassadors' main objective is to spread knowledge of the solar system by organizing community events and visiting schools.
To prepare, ambassadors participate in a series of online training courses provided by JPL. Educational materials are supplied by the space missions.
Ambassador Susan Cabello of Laredo Texas, a mother of two boys, has a special interest in educating the young and a passion for space.
"I want to reach all children," said Cabello, who has an associate's degree in criminology and plans to hold her next event for Earth-Sun Day at Laredo Community College. "Middle school is a place to attempt to reach children first. I believe that if you can give kids at that age a dream to work for, they can achieve it. I also want to visit high schools and tell kids to study the tough classes for their career and personal satisfaction."
Navy medic Oteasha Leonard, who is stationed in San Diego, has similar aspirations. Her first event is the Military Kids Space Day in San Diego.
"No child should be left out when it comes to education," said Leonard, who once attended a school for Aerospace Medicine Technology. "Maybe one of the children I reach out to will become an astronaut, astronomer or scientist. I want to give them a head start at the opportunity."
Lisa Olsen, a developmental training supervisor from Amboy, Ill., says space captured her attention at a young age, and she now has the ability to put that interest to good use.
"I would like to reach the people who have always had an interest in astronomy and space exploration, but have been too busy, insecure, or just have not had the opportunity to explore the amazing events. I would also hope to get more people, women in particular, excited about the field of science and technology."
For more information on JPL's Solar System Ambassador program, visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/front.html , or contact Kay Ferrari at email@example.com or (818) 354-7581. A calendar of events hosted by ambassadors is available at http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/events.html.
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Roger Goodell said sorry. Few bought it.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the media Friday for the first time since his CBS News interview in which he tried to explain the league's decision and process in suspending Ray Rice indefinitely.
Since then, a handful of other cases have come up — Adrian Peterson, Greg Hardy, Jonathan Dwyer, Ray MacDonald — and a number of fumbled news conference by owners and missteps by the league have followed.
The NFL has perhaps never faced a more embarrassing and alarming few weeks than it has now, leading to even its biggest sponsors, including Anheuser-Busch and Nike, to start raising red flags and even suspending their deals with the league.
On Friday, Goodell must have felt that he could no longer hide. He, again, said that he made a mistake. That he "got it wrong." That he "is sorry." That he is "trying to get it right." That the league "needs outside help."
But the general public has heard those lines many times throughout these past few months, from him and his owners.
(The commissioner also said he has not considered resigning — "We have a lot of work to do. That's my focus." — and that he believes he has the full support of the league's owners — "That has been clear to me.")
But while Goodell may have been very sincere in his words, that he was indeed very sorry for how the NFL has handled the Ray Rice incident and the other cases that have come up since, he didn't offer a concrete plan for how the league would change its ways.
He said the league would strive to get a new personal conduct policy in place by the Super Bowl, but he didn't say what changes he would like to see made to the policy.
He said the league has partnered with two outside organizations for domestic violence awareness, but he didn't say how that would change things within the league.
He said he there have been inconsistencies in how the NFL has handled the varied cases over the last few weeks, but he didn't explain why.
He said "everything is on the table" when asked if he would consider giving up some of his power to allow for more checks and balances in the league.
When asked about Robert Mueller conflict of interests in investigating a league his firm has represented in past contract negotiations, Goodell asked why anyone would question Mueller's credibility.
When probed by reporters, Goodell failed to answer succinctly how things will change and why things have happened as they have. In short, he said he has been in numerous meetings, that there are many things that the league "needs to consider," that they "need to get it right." But offered no answers and no plans with real changes.
But it wasn't just the media who appeared baffled by Goodell's lack of reasoning Friday. Players, fans and countless others expressed their views on his address: Read more…


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School Webcams and Strange Gaps in Surveillance Law
Last week, I noted the strange story of a lawsuit filed by parents who allege that their son was spied on by school officials who used security software capable of remotely activating the webcams in laptops distributed to students. A bit more information on that case has since come out. The school district has issued a statement which doesn't get into the details of the case, but avers that the remote camera capability has only ever been used in an effort to locate laptops believed to have been lost or stolen. (That apparently includes a temporary "loaner computer that, against regulations, might be taken off campus.") They do, however, acknowledge that they erred in failing to notify parents about this capability. The lawyer for the student plaintiff is now telling reporters that school officials called his client in to the vice principal's office when they mistook his Mike and Ike candies for illegal drugs.
Perhaps most intriguingly, a security blogger has done some probing into the technical capabilities of the surveillance software used by the school district. The blogger also rounds up comments from self-identified students of the high school, many of whom claim that they noticed the webcam light on their school-issued laptops flickering on and off—behavior they were told was a "glitch"—which may provide some reason to question the school's assertion that this capability was only activated in a handful of cases to locate lost laptops. The FBI, meanwhile, has reportedly opened an investigation to see whether any federal wiretap laws may have been violated.
It's this last item I want to call attention to. The complaint against the school district states a number of causes of action. The most obvious one—which sounds to me like a slam dunk—is a Fourth Amendment claim. But there are also a handful of claims under federal wiretapping statutes, specifically the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Stored Communications Act. These are more dubious, and rest on the premise that the webcam image was an "electronic communication" that school officials "intercepted" (as those terms are used in the statute), or alternatively that the activation of the security software involved "unauthorized" access by the school to its own laptop. The trouble is that courts considering similar claims in the past have held that federal electronic surveillance law does not cover silent video surveillance—or rather, the criminal wiretap statutes don't.
That leads to a strange asymmetry in a couple of different ways. First, intelligence surveillance covered by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does include silent video monitoring. Second, it seems to provide less protection for a type of monitoring that is arguably still more intrusive. If officials had turned on the laptop's microphone, that would fall under ECPA's prohibition on intercepts of "oral communications." And if the student had been engaged in a video chat using software like Skype, that would clearly constitute an "electronic communication," even if the audio were not intercepted. But at least in the cases I'm familiar with, the courts have declined to apply that label to surreptitiously recorded silent video—which one might think would be the most invasive of all, given that the target is completely unaware of being observed by anybody.
One final note: The coverage I'm seeing is talking about this as though it involves one school doing something highly unusual. It's not remotely clear to me that this is the case. We know that at least one other school district employs similar monitoring software, and a growing number of districts are experimenting with issuing laptops to students. I'd like to see reporters start calling around and find out just how many schools are supplying kids with potential telescreens.


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September 4, 2012
Weeks of Welcome (WOW) continue!
Week Two of Weeks of Welcome (WOW) continue on both the Columbus and Delaware campuses with a Student "Club Carnival" today, and Welcome Back Day tomorrow from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 4:00-5:30 p.m. The Office of Student Engagement and Leadership will also offer a Cultural Heritage event that celebrates diversity, Thursday, September 6 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Library. And on Friday, Cougar Athletics will host a Wellness Fair from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the courtyard area! Welcome Back Day and the Wellness Fair will also be held on the Delaware Campus on Thursday and Friday in Moeller Hall. Week Three begins September 10 with a host of student workshops on both campuses. Go online for a full schedule of WOW events.
Construction program presents BIM Certificates
Construction Management Program co-coordinator Dean M. Bortz presented the inaugural group of Building Information Modeling (BIM) Certificates Thursday, August 16 to four students. Columbus State is the only higher education institution in Ohio offering this four-course certificate program, which crosses Architecture (ARCH 2274), Construction Management (CMGT 2215 and CMGT 2216), and Civil Engineering/Surveying (SURV 1460). Margaret E. Owens, Ph.D., assistant professor of Construction Management coordinates the BIM Certificate Program.
In the program, students learn about BIM and how it is used in construction projects, how the design professional, constructor and owner work together, and how to use this methodology to minimize or eliminate contract modifications and shorten construction schedules.
From left are Dean M. Bortz, students Kevin Smith, Barry Tullos, Joseph Malekela, Jonathan Telfer and Dr. Margaret Owens.
BLUEprint workshops can help your students
Advising Services will offer a wide variety of BLUEprint Success Workshops to students this Autumn Semester. The free workshops help students build skills necessary to be successful in their personal, academic, and career-related pursuits. This Fall, there will be more than thirty available workshops including topics on basic computer skills, stress management, campus resources, test-taking strategies, transfer planning, degree planning, professionalism, money management, and more. Please encourage your students to attend, and the presenters will be happy to verify their attendance if you would like to offer credit for participation. Please have students arrive early, as sessions may fill quickly. A full calendar of the Autumn Semester workshops is available at: http://www.cscc.edu/services/advising/blueprint.shtml. If you would like a printable flyer to hand out in class or to post on Blackboard, or if you have any other questions, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Several upcoming workshops are:
Basic Computer Introduction:
Learn basic computer terms and get hands-on practice. Thursday, September 6, at 11:00 a.m. in Madison Hall 225.
Stress Management:
Monday, September 10, at 3:00 p.m. in Madison Hall 225.
Preferred Pathway to OSU - Study Abroad:
Learn about OSU's 100+ study abroad programs, how it can fit into a degree and career plan, and resources for funding. Wednesday, September 12, at 4:30 p.m., Aquinas Hall 317.
More Crossroads construction closings
Due to the continued work on the Columbus Crossroads interstate project, there will be three closings Thursday night, September 6, which could impact evening students and staff:
At 7:00 p.m., Cleveland Avenue will be reduced to one lane.
At 8:00 p.m., the exit from I-670 east to Cleveland Avenue will be closed.
At 8:00 p.m., the ramp from I-670 west to I-71 south will be closed.
By 5:00 a.m. Friday, all work will be completed for that night and everything will reopen.
Go car free for a day!
Last year, the Trek Bike Store offered free tune-ups in its car free spot!
The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) and partners have announced this year's Central Ohio Car Free Day festivities on Friday, September 21. Car Free Day encourages central Ohioans to ditch their cars for a day and explore other transportation options.
As part of Car Free Day you will see metered parking spots transformed into temporary parks, exhibits, and other creative concepts to demonstrate what our community could look like with fewer cars on the road. The visual provided by this event is a message of alternative modes of transportation.
A Car Free Spot could be a metered City of Columbus parking spot, a non-metered City of Columbus spot, or a spot in the Columbus State parking lot. If you are requesting a metered City of Columbus spot, MORPC will coordinate with the City to have a meter of your choice bagged for free near campus. No matter what kind of parking spot you'll be reclaiming, be sure to register it here: Car Free Spot registration. All you need to do is fill the spot with your creative concept between the hours of 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
You can see photos of previous Car Free Spots at the MORPC website or the Central Ohio Car Free Day Facebook Page. The deadline for Car Free Spot registration is September 14.


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Samsung Galaxy Tab: How to Set Up a Google Account
Initial setup of the Galaxy Tab works best when you already have a Google, or Gmail, account on the Internet. If you need to create a Google account, follow these directions to complete the setup process.
To get the most from your Galaxy Tab, you must have a Google account. If you don't already have one, drop everything and follow these steps to obtain one:
Open your computer's web browser program.
Yes, it works best if you use your computer, not the Tab, to complete these steps.
Visit the main Google page.
Click the Sign In link.
Another page opens, and on it you can log in to your Google account, but you don't have a Google account, so:
Click the link to create a new account.
The link is typically found beneath the text boxes where you would log in to your Google account. The link is titled Sign Up for a New Google Account.
Continue heeding the directions until you've created your own Google account.
Eventually, your account is set up and configured.
To try things out, log off from Google and then log back in. That way, you ensure that you've done everything properly — and remembered your password. (Your web browser may even prompt you to let it remember the password for you.)
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Futures traded in a 96-cent range in New York, erasing gains from earlier in the session. In Nigeria, oil workers agreed to suspend their strike and reopen talks with management next month. Meanwhile, the owner of the Forties Pipelines System, one of the most important in the region, said the conduit's restart date hadn't changed, even as it worked to determine the best repair options for a crack that forced a halt to oil deliveries on Dec. 11.
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In the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Outlook 2019 (IEO2019), India has the fastest-growing rate of energy consumption globally through 2050. By 2050, EIA projects in the IEO2019 Reference case that India will consume more energy than the United States by the mid-2040s, and its consumption will remain second only to China through 2050. EIA explored three alternative outcomes for India's energy consumption in an Issue in Focus article released today and a corresponding webinar held at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Long-term energy consumption projections in India are uncertain because of its rapid rate of change magnified by the size of its economy. The Issue in Focus article explores two aspects of uncertainty regarding India's future energy consumption: economic composition by sector and industrial sector energy intensity. When these assumptions vary, it significantly increases estimates of future energy consumption.
In the IEO2019 Reference case, EIA projects the economy of India to surpass the economies of the European countries that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United States by the late 2030s to become the second-largest economy in the world, behind only China. In EIA's analysis, gross domestic product values for countries and regions are expressed in purchasing power parity terms.
The IEO2019 Reference case shows India's gross domestic product (GDP) growing from $9 trillion in 2018 to $49 trillion in 2050, an average growth rate of more than 5% per year, which is higher than the global average annual growth rate of 3% in the IEO2019 Reference case.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Outlook 2019
India's economic growth will continue to drive India's growing energy consumption. In the IEO2019 Reference case, India's total energy consumption increases from 35 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in 2018 to 120 quadrillion Btu in 2050, growing from a 6% share of the world total to 13%. However, annually, the level of GDP in India has a lower energy consumption than some other countries and regions.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Outlook 2019
In the Issue in Focus, three alternative cases explore different assumptions that affect India's projected energy consumption:
EIA's analysis shows that the country's industrial activity has a greater effect on India's energy consumption than technological improvements. In the IEO2019 Composition and Combination cases, where the assumption is that economic growth is more concentrated in manufacturing, energy use in India grows at a greater rate because those industries have higher energy intensities.
In the IEO2019 Combination case, India's industrial energy consumption grows to 38 quadrillion Btu more in 2050 than in the Reference case. This difference is equal to a more than 4% increase in 2050 global energy use.


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Cutting calories through dietary changes seems to promote weight loss more effectively than does exercise and physical activity.
The key to weight loss is to consume fewer calories than you burn. For most people, it's possible to lower their calorie intake to a greater degree than it is to burn more calories through increased exercise.
That's why cutting calories through dieting is generally more effective for weight loss. But doing both — cutting calories through diet and burning calories through exercise — can help give you the weight-loss edge.
Exercise is also important because it can help you maintain your weight loss. Studies show that people who lose weight and keep it off over the long term get regular physical activity.
If you lose weight by crash dieting or by drastically restricting yourself to 400 to 800 calories a day, you're more likely to regain weight quickly, often within six months after you stop dieting. Getting regular exercise can also help prevent excess weight gain in the first place.
Donald Hensrud, M.D.
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Whether you're heading for an art-filled city or a wildlife-rich forest, you may not want to plan your entire green vacation yourself. To keep your trip eco-friendly, find a tour or travel business operator that's as concerned as you are about the ethics and sustainability of travel. This may require a little more research on your part, but it will be worth it when you arrive at your destination and feel good about the impact of your trip.
When you're looking for green travel operators or vacations, begin with organizations that have developed certification programs or earned recognition from them. Three great places to start include:
Green Globe offers a label based on the United Nation's Agenda 21 sustainability principles. Green Globe provides certification under four sustainability standards and includes all tourism, whether it's in cities or natural areas.
Sustainable Travel International is a Colorado-based organization that offers an Eco-Directory of businesses committed to sustainable travel. Many of these business also have qualified for certification programs.
The International Ecotourism Society offers a huge range of information about ecotourism, including a Travel Choice directory of members that have signed a code of conduct to follow responsible ecotourism guidelines.
The organizations in the preceding list can help you locate certified or recognized eco-friendly travel businesses. To feel confident that you've chosen ethical and sustainable travel operators (or perhaps to help you narrow down your list of possibilities), be prepared to ask a lot of questions, including the following:
Have you qualified under any kind of environmental certification program?
Do you have a written ethical policy for your business?
How are you reducing waste in your operation?
How are you conserving water and other natural resources, including power?
How are you minimizing damage to wildlife and marine environments?
Have your hotels or other accommodations been built in an environmentally friendly way?
What percentage of your staff is local, and do you use local guides? Are your wages fair?
Which local initiatives to protect or support culture or the environment do you support?
Make sure that you're happy with the answers you receive. The individual efforts of companies may differ depending on the part of the world that they're operating in, but you should feel comfortable that their ethical and sustainable initiatives are both genuine and effective.


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The Italian luxury label will be outfitting the tiny Republic of San Marino with uniforms for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
BY Olivia Lidbury | 20 July 2012
With a population of not much more than 30,000, the contestants from the Republic of San Marino really are having the last laugh in the Olympic 2012 style stakes.
While the enormous Teams GB and USA will step out in identikit Stella McCartney and Ralph Lauren-designed wares respectively, athletes from the microstate will be decked out in uniforms by the luxury fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo.
"Outfits for any occasion" have been conceived by the creative team, from blue, bias-cut linen blazers to be worn over crêpe de Chine shirts to a silk crêpe dress with an or draped organdie neckline.
Footwear - naturally for a fashion house which began by kitting out the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Eva Peron with shoes back in the day - takes centre stage with porcelain-hued, square toed-pumps in nappa leather topped off with Ferragamao's signature grosgrain Vara bow.
And that's not where it ends. The brand's iconic bag, the Sofia, comes in a small version in ecru calfskin. And how to carry all that crisp kit? In a large leather duffle bag or small shoulder bag, with a co-ordinating beauty case for all those toiletries - of course.
So, while they might not have numbers on their side, look out for a coterie of cool, collected and exquisitely turned-out San Marino natives during the Games - easily spotted a mile off.


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Apparently it has once again been stated that young feminists don't exist. I know I talked about my frustration with this a little in response to Eve Ensler's new book of monologues, but given this recent article I think it bears repeating. In a conversation in the NY Times between Gail Collins and Stacy Schiff the subject of young feminists came up. Here is what they had to say:
Gail Collins: Every time I go on a speaking tour I get questions from sad middle-aged women who want to know why their daughters all insist they aren't feminists. They might be planning to devote their lives to healing fistula victims in Somalia, but they won't let anyone call them feminists because they think it means being anti-man, or wearing unattractive shoes.
Stacy Schiff: Partly the word has been deliberately sullied, like "liberal" and "progressive." It spells man-hating, militant, and, especially, no Manolos.
If it makes you feel better, I just texted my 17-year-old to ask if she considered herself a feminist. "If by feminism, you mean equality," she answers, "then yes." It's not a word that appeals, because her generation thinks the work has been done. They've been reading articles about the End of Men. Somehow the news that men who work full-time make on average 23 percent more than women do seems to have escaped them.
Well, I am aware of the inequalities between men and women, am 20 years old, and I call myself a feminist. Apparently Female Impersonator and the rest of the lively young femnist blogosphere escaped their attention. It is really annoying that myself and so many other young women are feminist activists online and outside cyberspace but have yet to be recognized by the 2nd wave feminists that we admire so much.
That being said, I acknowledge the frustration over some (but nearly as many as was implied by Gail and Stacy) young women my age who are feminists, do feminist work, but refuse the name. One of my friends once told me that she didn't want to identify as a feminist because she didn't want to associate with anything like a political party. So yes, misunderstandings about feminism exist in my generation. However, I don't think it is fair to point this out without acknowledging how many young women do identify as feminists and how many young feminists are working to end all those misunderstandings about it. The purpose of Jessica Valenti's book Full Frontal Feminism was to erase any bad connotations with the feminist movement that other young women might have.
So anyway, in response to this article, Shelly B has called for young women to post the link to their feminist blog in the comments section of her blog post and to include the above image on their blog. If nothing else, the comments on her post have given me a great list of new blogs to take a look at. We encourage you to include your feminist blog on her site, but also in the comments of this post. We want to know what you're writing!


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Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (1937 – 22 March 2004) (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل ياسين) was a founder of Hamas, a Palestinian paramilitary organization and political party. Yassin also served as the spiritual leader of the organization. Hamas gained popularity in Palestinian society by establishing hospitals, education systems, libraries and other services, but it has also claimed responsibility for a number of suicide attacks targeting Israeli civilians, leading to its being characterized by a number of western states as a terrorist organization.
Yassin, a paraplegic who was nearly blind, had been confined to a wheelchair since a sporting accident at the age of 12. He was assassinated by an Israeli pilot of an helicopter gunship in 2004. His killing, in an attack that claimed the lives of as many as nine bystanders, precipitated much criticism of Israel, and many observers suggested that the act would negatively impact the peace process. 200,000 Palestinians attended his funeral procession.
Ahmed Yassin was born in al-Jura, a small village near the city of Ashkelon, during the British Mandate of Palestine. His date of birth is not known for certain: according to his Palestinian passport, he was born on 1 January 1929, but he claimed to have actually been born in 1938. His father, Abdullah Yassin, died when he was three years old. Afterward, he became known in his neighborhood as Ahmad Sa'ada after his mother Sa'ada al-Habeel. This was to differentiate him from the children of his father's other three wives. Together, Yassin had four brothers and two sisters. He and his entire family fled to Gaza, settling in al-Shati Camp after his village was captured by the Israel Defence Forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.


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Ready for more teen mutant angst with a period setting? X-Men: First Class is prepping a sequel, although your guess is as good as ours as to when it might take place — we've got our paws crossed for the 80s.
According to SuperHeroHype, the box office for X-Men: First Class wound up being enough to justify another flick.
The script is being written by First Class producer Simon Kinberg — who also wrote X-Men: The Last Stand. But don't worry, when we talked to Kinberg, he seemed to have learned a lot from X3's mistakes. So fingers crossed!


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Diaspora And Diplomatic Communities Memorialize Conflict
A memorial plaque was dedicated in a park in Palisades Park, New Jersey in 2010 which reads
In Memory
of the more than 200,000
women and girls who were
abducted by the armed forces of
the government of Imperial Japan
known as "comfort women,"
they endured human rights
violations that no peoples should
leave unrecognized.
Let us never forget the horrors
of crimes against humanity.
Two things struck me about this article from the NY Times. The first is in the headline: "New Jersey Town's Korean Monument Irritates Japanese Officials." There have apparently been two official attempts to convince Palisades Park to remove the monument, presenting two very different approaches. The first emphasized Japan's past apologies and attempts to stage reparations as justification for de-emphasizing the sexual servitude issue:


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CHICAGO (AP) Gary Talton's layup with 2 seconds to play gave Illinois-Chicago a 61-59 victory over Loyola of Chicago Wednesday night.
Talton, who led the Flames (11-7, 2-3 Horizon) with 14 points, also hit a 3-pointer with 2:16 to play to tie the game at 57. Loyola's Ben Averkamp scored to restore the Ramblers' lead, but Josh Crittle's basket tied it again for UIC. After Talton's go-ahead basket, Averkamp's 3-point try bounced off the rim at the buzzer.
Crittle had 12 points and seven rebounds for Illinois-Chicago, which snapped a three-game losing streak.
Christian Thomas scored 16 points and Averkamp finished with 14 for the Ramblers (10-7, 1-4), who have lost four in a row - three by either one or two points.


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To the boys,
Looking forward to seeing you again in my (temp) hometown of Las Vegas in August, and may take some vacation time to follow you for other W. Coast events along the way.
My request, that I feel is not for me, but a needed song on this particular tour, and a needed song for America at this time, please reintroduce:
We Once Held Hands.
Several years ago, I lead the push for Facing the Wind, which your true fans appreciated greatly. I sense that the timing and situation is right, WOHH must be heard again.


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hi folks!
i'm off to denver later this month and need to finalize my travel plans. i've never been there, and am wondering if any of you are familiar with the place and might be able to recommend places to go. i'd like to add a day to my trip after i'm done with work for sightseeing - red rocks looks very cool!
i'm planning on packing in the aeronaut and either a messenger bag or a backpack.


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When I was invited to contribute to the Dreams and Desires vol 4 anthology, I was thrilled. I was even more ecstatic when I heard its proceeds go towards a worthy cause: donations towards A Windows Between Worlds, which provides art supplies and art training as therapy for battered women's shelters. It was the chance to do something positive for many women. Four million women per year, in fact.
I hope that you will consider purchasing either my short story in the volume, or the entire work in support, both of which have been released today. It will be out in print in a few weeks for those of you who prefer that format, but for now both releases are out in e-book:
Blurb for Catch the Touch of Blue:
Isobel, an artist, possesses the ability to see auras around others. This secret has kept her from sharing her gift, and herself, with others since childhood. She meets John, a quirky yet outgoing man who demonstrates not just interest in her paintings, but in her as well. With each encounter he draws her out of her shell, and she finds herself falling for him. But dare she trust him with her secret?
Love & Magic,