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This handy case is not only great for travel, it's also dandy for everyday storage of your make up brushes. We used one of the four pretty laminates from Anna Maria's Loulouthi collection as our inside fabric choice so if any traces of make up rub off your brushes and onto the case, it can be quickly wiped clean.
Laminates are traditionally made in the wider 54-55" width. So, you'll definitely have some pieces left over from this project. In fact, you may have enough to make our stylish insulated lunch bag. Finished (and flat), the case measures approximately 18" x 9".
Our Travel Accessories series is sponsored by Free Spirit Fabrics, as part of our Artist Trio Series introducing Anna Maria Horner's amazing Loulouthi fabric collection. You can find Loulouthi at Fat Quarter Shop, CityCraft, Fashionable Fabrics, and Fabric.com.
Sewing Tools You Need
- Any Sewing Machine (we recommend the Janome 2160 Decor Computer)
Fabric and Other Supplies
- ⅓ yard of 44-45" wide print fabric for the outside of the case: we used Loulouthi Buoyancy in AH40-Butterberry
- ⅓ yard of 44-45" wide print fabric for the inside pocket of the case: we used Loulouthi Hugs and Kisses in AH45-Pink Lime
- ⅓ yard of 54-55" wide laminate for the inside of the case: we used Loulouthi Framed in OCAH07-Citron
- ⅓ yard of lightweight batting (regular batting not fusible)
NOTE: If you cut carefully, you can get away with just ¼ yard for each of the above four layers. As you'll see below, the cut dimensions are 9" in depth, which is exactly ¼ yard. I like to always get a little bit more to allow a fussy cut.
- ½ yard of 44-45" wide print fabric for the bias binding: we used Loulouthi Hugs and Kisses in AH45-Wine
- All purpose thread to match the binding
- See-through ruler
- Seam gauge
- Fabric marker, pen, or tailor's chalk for marking fabric
- Iron and ironing board
- Scissors or rotary cutter and mat
- Straight pins
- Roll of wax paper
Getting Started
- Download the Case Corner Template pattern, which will help you get a precise rounded corner.
IMPORTANT: This template is one 8½" x 11" pattern sheet. You must print the PDF file at 100%. DO NOT SCALE to fit the page.
- Cut out the template along the solid line. Set aside.
- Cut ONE 18" wide x 9" high rectangle of each of the following: the fabric for the outside of the case, the inside of the case, and the inside pocket (Loulouthi Butterberry, Citron laminate and Pink Lime respectively), as well as from the lightweight batting.
- From the leftover inside pocket fabric (Loulouthi Pink Lime in our sample), cut TWO 1" x 20" strips for the ties.
- Our finished binding will be ½" double fold bias binding, so we need to start with 2" wide strips of fabric on the true bias (45˚ angle) for the binding. Cut enough strips from your binding fabric (Loulouthi Wine in our sample) to create a continuous length of bias tape that is at least 58-60". If you are new to making bias tape, read our tutorial Bias Tape: How to Make It & Attach It.
NOTE: You can substitute pre-packaged bias tape in a coordinating solid if you prefer.
At Your Sewing Machine & Ironing Board
- Press all your pieces flat. If you use a polyester batting do not press it; it shouldn't need pressing and the heat could damage it. Also, the laminate should be pressed from the back on low heat.
- Find the piece that will be your inside pocket (Loutlouthi Pink Lime in our sample). Press this piece in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, so it is now 4½" x 18".
- Assemble your layers in the following pattern: place the outside fabric right side down on your work surface, place the batting on top, place the inside fabric right side up on the batting layer, and finally, place the folded pocket piece on the very top, aligning its raw edges with the bottom and side raw edges of the other layers.
- Pin all the layers together across the center.
- Find the corner template. Pin the template to each corner and round, cutting through all the layers with your scissors.
NOTE: Doing all the layers at once like this insures that your edges are flush and will be easier and smoother to bind.
- Here's what it looks like with all the corners rounded.
- Take the pins out and remove and set aside the outside fabric layer (Loulouthi Butterberry in our sample).
- Pin the remaining layers back together.
- Fold these layers in half and mark the exact center with pins top and bottom. You could also use your see through ruler to find and mark the center.
Creating the brush pockets
- From your roll of wax paper, cut one 18" x 9" piece. Tape together pieces if need be to end up with a full 18" x 9" piece. Fold the paper in half to create a center crease. Unfold and lay the paper flat on your work surface.
- Measure and mark 1" to the left and 1" to the right of the center crease and draw two parallel lines.
NOTE: You can also draw along the center crease if it makes it easier for you to follow.
- Measure and mark 2" to the left from the left line and 2" to the right from the right line, and draw two additional lines.
- Working towards the left from your left-most drawn line, measure and mark 4 more vertical lines, each 1" away from the last.
- Working towards the right from your right-most drawn line, measure and mark 6 more vertical lines, each ¾" away from the last.
- The remaining sections on either end are just whatever they end up to be. In our case, 2¼" on the left and 1-5/8" on the right.
- You can also use your own brush set if you would like to totally customize your case.
- Pin the marked wax paper securely over the top of layered fabrics (the batting/laminate/pocket layers... remember, you set the back piece off to the side). Match the center crease of the wax paper with the center pin marks on the fabric layers.
- To sew the pocket divisions, you can use matching or contrasting thread. We chose contrasting.
- Following the drawn lines on the wax paper sewing directly through the paper and all the fabric layers from bottom raw edge to top raw edge. Remember to lock your stitch at the start and the end.
- Simply tear away the wax paper from the sewn seams when you're all finished.
- This is a great way to measure and mark all these little pockets and the wax paper allows a regular presser foot to slide over the laminate. Without the paper, you'd need a Teflon® or Ultraglide foot to move across the sticky laminate finish.
Make and attach the narrow ties
- On one 20" x 1" strip, fold in each end ¼".
- Next, fold each side in ¼" so the raw edges meet in the middle similar to a piece of double fold bias binding. We also clipped the end piece we pressed down at the beginning at an angle on both ends so it wasn't so bulky.
- Fold the strip in half again, encasing the raw edges and aligning the folded edges.
- Pin together and stitch one seam the length of the strip, starting and ending as close to each end as possible.
- Repeat to create the second tie.
- Pin the ties side by side, overlapping just slightly, to the outside fabric piece. The should be aligned at the center of the right side. Make sure your alighn the raw edges so the ties lay back across the fabric. In other words, with both the ties and the fabric piece laying in front of you, the right ends of the ties should align with the center of the right side of the fabric piece.
- Machine baste the ties in place close to the raw edges.
- Collect your 2" bias strips and stitch them together at an angle to create one continuous length.
- Fold the strip in half lengthwise, wrong sides together, and press.
- Open up the strip, wrong side towards you.
- Fold each side towards the center crease and press. Fold one side nearly all the way to the center fold mark - so it is almost touching the fold; fold the other side just a little over half way to the fold line - so there is a bit of space between the raw edge and the fold.
- Fold again along your first crease, right sides together, so your two folded edges are together. You now have your very own double fold bias tape. It should finish at 1". You can also automate this step by using the Simplicity Bias Tape Maker.
- Starting at the middle of one side (we chose to start at the point where the ties are basted in place), attach the binding around the entire perimeter.
- As mentioned above, if you are new to making and working with bias tape, read through our tutorial on the fascinating world of bias tape creation.
- We attached our Sew4Home label to the outside.
- The case naturally wants to fold into easy quarters. Simply fold, fold, fold, wrap the ties around twice and make a pretty bow.
Project Design: Alicia Thommas
Sample Creation: Debbie Guild


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Rachael Cook gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
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Am not ashamed to say I loved She's All That. Totally just a teen movie and still… somehow subversively funny. And of course there's Rachael Leigh Cook – remember she played "Joey" in the film adaptation of Dawson's Creek…ON Dawson's Creek? Sigh. Full Story

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text: The National Aquarium is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and preserving the ocean and all of its inhabitants. We live our mission every day through animal rescue, conservation and education programs. The National Aquarium's EIN number is 52-1121163. Donate Now $25 Purchases 30 wetland grasses that will be planted in habitat restoration events. $50 Enables two Aquarium on Wheels high school students to perform scientific research and conservation work in the field. $100 Supplies four days' worth of fresh produce to feed Calypso the green sea turtle and her fellow Blacktip Reef residents. Back to the Top


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Preview of Beijing's opening ceremonies
Workers finish an Olympic decoration at Qianmen Avenue, a traditional commercial street to be reopened in August after renovation in Beijing. (Getty Images)
John Henderson: Yangshuo, China — If you're not planning on watching the Olympics' Opening Ceremonies Aug. 8, you'd better. I saw a preview of the co-director's work down here and even if you don't like musicals, which I don't, you will be blown away.
I discovered this while kicking back down here in Yangshuo, the prettiest town I've ever been to in Asia. It's tucked between two lazy rivers, surrounded by these towering, tree-covered limestone cliffs called "karsts." In the southern part of Guangxi Province, it's just northwest of Hong Kong, far enough from Beijing where you can actually breathe. It's so hot you can't breathe very long — it's about 95 degrees with 90 percent humidity every day — but the beauty makes it worth it.
Zhang Yimou, the Opening Ceremonies' co-director and famed Chinese film director, has even made it more beautiful. For the past four years, he has put on this awe-inspiring, shockingly beautiful light show/musical drama on the Li River. No, not on the river banks.
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In 1974, as the United States was reeling from the oil embargo imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Congress took the first of many legislative steps to promote ethanol made from corn as an alternative fuel. On April 18, 1977, amid mounting calls for energy independence, President Jimmy Carter donned his cardigan sweater and appeared on television to tell Americans that balancing energy demands with available domestic resources would be an effort the "moral equivalent of war." The gradual phaseout of lead in the 1970s and 1980s provided an additional boost to the fledgling ethanol industry. (Lead, a toxic substance, is a performance enhancer when added to gasoline, and it was partly replaced by ethanol.) A series of tax breaks and subsidies also helped. In spite of these measures, with each passing year the United States became more dependent on imported petroleum, and ethanol remained marginal at best.
Now, thanks to a combination of high oil prices and even more generous government subsidies, corn-based ethanol has become the rage. There were 110 ethanol refineries in operation in the United States at the end of 2006, according to the Renewable Fuels Association. Many were being expanded, and another 73 were under construction. When these projects are completed, by the end of 2008, the United States' ethanol production capacity will reach an estimated 11.4 billion gallons per year. In his latest State of the Union address, President George W. Bush called on the country to produce 35 billion gallons of renewable fuel a year by 2017, nearly five times the level currently mandated.
The push for ethanol and other biofuels has spawned an industry that depends on billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies, and not only in the United States. In 2005, global ethanol production was 9.66 billion gallons, of which Brazil produced 45.2 percent (from sugar cane) and the United States 44.5 percent (from corn). Global production of biodiesel (most of it in Europe), made from oilseeds, was almost one billion gallons.
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Sophomore • 2012-13
Named to the All-ECAC third team ... Set a career high in points at Princeton Oct. 27 with four, including a career high three assists, during the 9-1 rout ... Tied her career high with three more assists in a 4-0 win at Yale Nov. 3 ... Tallied a goal in Harvard's 4-1 win over Colgate Nov. 23 ... Contributed an assist to help No. 7 Harvard upset No. 2 Cornell, 3-1, Nov. 24 ... Helped Canada's Development team to gold at the 2013 Meco Cup ... Picked up assists in three straight games Jan. 15-19.
Freshman • 2011-12
Named to the ECAC Hockey All-Rookie team ... Garnered All-Ivy second-team accolades ... Collected first career goal at No. 2 Cornell Nov. 12 … Added a power-play tally in a 6-1 win over St. Lawrence Nov. 19 that proved to be the game-winner … Scored her third goal Nov. 27 against No. 2 Minnesota … Picked up an assist in three straight games against Dartmouth (Nov. 30), Providence (Dec. 8) and New Hampshire (Dec. 9) … Dished out a pair of assists in a 5-3 comeback win over Rensselaer Jan. 14 … Notched a goal and an assist in a 3-0 blanking of Brown Jan. 28 … Netted a pair of goals and finished +3 for the game in 5-1 win over Brown Feb. 17 ... Had assists in both games of ECAC quarterfinal sweep of Princeton Feb. 24-25.
Before Harvard
Three-year member of varsity hockey team at Our Lady of Mount Carmel and also played varsity flag football, softball and track and field … Served as assistant captain of the hockey team as a junior … Captained Team Canada Under-18 squad in 2011 and led team to silver medal at Women's World U18 Championship … Team Ontario U18 team captain in 2011 and helped squad to silver medal at Canada Games … Also captain of club team, Mississauga Junior Chiefs, and led team to gold and silver medals in provincial championships … Named Mississauga Female High School Athlete of the Year in 2010-11 … Named junior and senior Student Athlete of the Year and hockey team MVP in 2010 … Enjoys running, swimming, triathlons and playing the piano.


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13 Tips on How to Save Money in the New Year
Spending less and saving more money are among the top goals on typical New Year's resolution lists. Heavy holiday spending coupled with potential tax hikes from the fiscal cliff make these goals even more important in 2013. To help, here are 13 easy ways to save money in 2013.
1. Dine Out Less
Have you ever calculated how much eating out eats into your budget? In 2011, the average family dished out $2,620 for dining out. Year-end bank and credit card statement summaries should quickly show you how much you spent at restaurants this year. You'll likely be surprised to learn how much you can save by staying home.
2. Adjust Your Tax Withholding
Though the impact of the fiscal cliff makes this one tricky, the first of the year is the best time to review and adjust your withholdings. Withhold too much and you're offering an interest-free loan to the U.S. government; withhold too little and you'll have a very bad day come April 15.
3. Sell Your Gift Cards
They say it's the thought that counts, and that's certainly the case when you receive a gift card to an establishment you don't like or isn't offered locally. Turn that card into cash by selling it on sites like GiftCardGranny.com, where you can receive up to 92-percent of the card's value or trade it for a gift card to Amazon.
4. DIY and Learn Something New
Learning something new is already part of your list of resolutions, so why not make it something that will save you money? Whether it's discovering how to change the oil in your car, fixing a leaky faucet or whipping up a killer stir fry, you'll cut costs and add to your list of skills.
5. Sell or Swap Your Stuff
Organize a clothes swap with friends or sell them online or at a consignment shop. A clothing swap is an especially good idea for parents who constantly need new items for growing kids. Sites like thredUp.com are great online resources if friends aren't yet ready to trade.
6. Use Coupons
Extreme couponers have given the practice a bad name, but using coupons for everyday purchases is a tried-and-true method of saving money. Avoid a purse full of coupons with Coupon Sherpa mobile app, or take advantage of supermarket apps to organize all your grocery savings onto your loyalty card.
7. Get Cheap Exercise
Gym memberships are tempting this time of year, but you can forego the annual contract for at-home DVDs and inexpensive equipment like dumbbells and running shoes. Even online video tutorials from sites like BodyRock and Fitness Magazine will help you perfect movies that you can do in your living room for free.
8. Stop Paying for Free Services
Are you still paying for books, texting, anti-virus software, video calls and ATM use? Then it's time to stop! There's a host of everyday necessities and luxuries you can get for free with a little research. Get started with this list of over 20 things you should stop paying for.
9. Review Your Cable Plan
A quick call to your cable provider may uncover a new promotion that will save you big bucks. Some may provide a discount for going paperless or setting up autopay, so ask what's available. Sometimes, mentioning that you are switching providers can get a reaction. Don't forget, you can save up to $50 per month by eliminating movie channels streaming them for free on Hulu, or visiting your local library for free rentals.
10. Use Generic Drugs
If you take prescription medication, you're intimately familiar with the rising cost of healthcare. Make sure you ask your doctor about generic versions of a new medication or a lesser-priced drug that offers similar treatment. He or she may even be able to provide a few free samples to help reduce the overall prescription cost.
11. Pay Yourself First
It's a good idea to pay down holiday debt as soon as possible, but it's even better idea to continue putting money away. An emergency fund is essential to avoiding financial devastation should an unexpected, pricey life occurrence strike you this year. Aim to stash away six to nine months of living expenses.
12. Use Credit Card Rewards
Though $48 billion rewards are issued from credit card companies annually, some $16 billion go unused each year. Don't become part of that statistic. Redeem those rewards collected by swiping your plastic for discretionary spending — instead of adding more to your balance. Consider redeeming for gift cards to apply to various daily spending needs.
13. Get a Side Job
Do you enjoy writing? Taking photos? Designing websites? Turn your passion into a side job. You can post your professional skills at eLance.com. If nothing comes to mind, check out TaskRabbit.com where you can run other people's errands during your spare time for a small fee.
Andrea Woroch is a nationally-recognized consumer and money-saving expert who helps consumers live on less without radically changing their lifestyles. From smart spending tips to personal finance advice, Andrea transforms everyday consumers into savvy shoppers. She has been featured among top news outlets such as Good Morning America, NBC's Today, MSNBC, New York Times, Kiplinger Personal Finance, CNNMoney and many more. You can follow her on Twitter for daily savings advice and tips.
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July 06, 2009
Got 5 Minutes?
I think that a major part of this journey for me is trying to raise awareness about what is going on in Congo. The Congo is one of the only places in the world that has the minerals that are needed to manufacture all of the gadgets that we can't seem to live without. Our cell phones, computers, iPods, digital cameras, etc. all use tantalem and tungsten to make them work. These minerals are mined in Congo. A major source of fighting here is over who controls the mines. Warring groups are committing atrocities beyond belief to gain control of the mineral mines. Controlling groups stand to make about $144 million off of the trade of these minerals. With the average person in Congo only earning $300 US dollars per year, you can see the importance. Women are raped and children are macheted just to get control of these precious minerals. The minerals then make their way to the US where companies use them to make our electronics. So indirectly, our texting and facebook obsessions are fueling the largest humanitarian crisis of the last 60 years. "That's horrible," you might be saying to yourself, "I wish there was something I could do!" Well...there is. Take a minute to shoot an email to the major electronics producers and ask them to be responsible and transparent about the minerals they are using. Urge them to use conflict free minerals. They will listen and actually write you back. Then the next time you drop your phone in the potty and need to get a new one, remeber which companies are working toward a conflict resolution and give them your business. A pre-filled letter to these companies is available by clicking HERE. All you have to do is put in your email address and the rest is taken care of. Remember- lots of small deeds all add up to big CHANGE!
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State of Decay is an indie game with big ambitions, chief of which is to deliver the ultimate zombie apocalypse simulator. Dropped into a huge sandbox world overrun with the undead, a handful of other survivors and limited resources, you and your (hopefully) growing group of battlers must strive to survive – and even thrive – through a series of story and randomly generated missions.
Survive and thrive
State of Decay melds GTA-style open world roaming and story-progressing missions with survival horror. So while you can simply play the missions to advance towards the endgame, you're going to struggle to keep enough members of your group alive if you don't take care of the requirements for day-to-day survival. You need to go out into the world to scavenge for various supplies (or trade with other groups for them), clear out infested buildings and rescue team members who've encountered trouble, or morale will drop and people will begin leaving your group.
You also need to establish a home base, which can be improved with new types of building (a gym, for instance, allows team members to train and improve their RPG-style stats more quickly) – and ensure that it can survive the occasional attack by a zombie horde.
Dispatching zeds
Zombies. Thousands of 'em. State of Decay depicts a world where uninfected humans are a very small minority, and instead the world is populated by shambling, half-rotten corpses with a hankering for the brains of the living. The "regular" zombies are pitched just right: come across one or two and there's little reason to be scared, but get caught in the middle of a horde and things can quickly escalate into a breathless life or death struggle – or force you to leg it in an effort to keep your intestines intact.
There are other, more deadly varieties roaming around too: armoured, bullet-proof SWAT zombies, hulking zeds that can take a lot more punishment and worst of all the fast-moving ferals, which should never be faced alone if you can avoid it.
One thing zombie apocalypse films and TV shows have taught us is that humans are even more dangerous than the undead – but sadly that doesn't translate into State of Decay. Despite some threatening behaviour from the army and other survivors, they never actually end up attacking you.
Apocalyptic sandbox
The game takes place in the confines of a remote valley in what looks to be the southwest USA, and the landscape consists mainly of rocky deserts, prairie, farmland and forests – with three towns and a number of isolated buildings and points of interest thrown in. Almost all buildings, and some outdoor areas, can be looted for supplies by your group members, and a small selection of buildings can be built up into your home base.
It's not as huge or as beautifully made a world as we've seen in the likes of Skyrim or Red Dead Redemption, but for an XBLA game under 2GB in size…? Well, let's say we're impressed with what Undead Labs has achieved. There's a real sense, too, that this is a world that has just experienced a zombie outbreak; little touches like burnt-out cars and the eerie abandoned houses help pull that off.
Low-budget looks
The independent XBLA nature of this game also means that, visually, it's a long way from AAA titles when it comes to graphics, audio and general polish. The visuals are functional rather than inspiring, and the game often suffers from frame rate drops, slowdown, tearing, glitches and other irritations – but it's never enough to spoil the experience. The writing and voice acting is also somewhat subpar, but again, not to the degree that it'll put you off playing.
Telling tales
The beauty of a game like State of Decay is that, essentially, you're writing your own story. The characters (you can control most of the members of your group, but only one at a time) aren't particularly interesting and the story progression missions are fairly bland, but it's the things that happen outside of that – a random encounter with a zombie horde when you're low on ammo and health and miles from home that you barely escape from alive, for instance – that linger longest in the memory. You will become attached to characters – and it will hurt when you lose them.
State of Decay delivers the most compelling experience of living through a zombie apocalypse we've ever encountered in a video game. It's not the most polished, and the random missions can occasionally feel repetitive, but the core gameplay of struggling to survive, keep your group together and improve your home base is strongly addictive. A fantastic indie game at a great price.


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Last semester, Emmanuel College Senior Sydnah Swails submitted one of her video class projects to the Georgia Communication Association's Annual Film Festival, a statewide competition among public and private college and university students.
She recently learned she won first place. Her movie was shown during convocation recently, and she was presented with a plaque by Jennifer Lester Benson, Communication Department Chair at Emmanuel as well as executive board member of GCA.
"Not only were the judges impressed with the quality of her video but with her positive message," Benson says. "She was awarded their highest honor, first place. Her movie was exhibited at the GCA Annual Conference in February."
Swails graduates in May with her Bachelor of Science in Multimedia Communication. She is a valued member of Emmanuel's communication program as a model student, video assistant, and yearbook editor.
"My video, "Snowball Effect," is a redemptive movie about how one decision can affect your life in a negative or positive way, inducing a series of negative effects or helping one avoid those effects," Swails explains. "This particular video is about how the loss of innocence before the right time can create a series of unfortunate circumstances, but it also offers redemption in the sense that the leading character had the opportunity to change her past by the end of the movie."
Benson says the motto of the Communication Department at Emmanuel is to impact the world for Christ through media. "It always our hope that our graduates will do just that, and we are so proud that one of our current students is doing that now," she adds.
To view Sydnah's movie "Snowball Effect," click here.


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This webinar explores the clinical aspects of oral health care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). The presenters describe common oral health diseases among HIV-infected people, as well as best practices for the prevention, detection, and treatment of these diseases. The presenters include:
- Dr. David Reznik of Grady Health System in Atlanta, GA and HIVdent
- Ms. Helene Bednarsh, MPH, of Boston Public Health Commission in Boston, MA and HIVdent
The goal of Integrating HIV Innovative Practices (IHIP) is to enable health care providers to implement proven innovations in HIV care and services within their own practices. This Webinar is the third in a three-part series exploring innovative approaches to delivering oral health care and services to people living with HIV/AIDS, featuring grantees of the Health Resources and Services Administration's Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Innovations in Oral Health Care Initiative (Oral Health Initiative).


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If Karl Rove is to be believed (eh hem), the popular caricature of President Bush as a near-illiterate rube is actually the opposite of the truth. Supposedly, the two have been competing against each other to see who could read the most books. Rove has won each year, but not for lack of effort on the President's part: In 2006, Bush finished 95 books, in 2007, he finished 51, and in 2008 he finished 40 books, mostly history, biography and current events (from the Wall Street Journal, HT Between Two Worlds):
Well, there goes my last excuse not to read more! Then again, I'm sure my job as manager of a self-storage facility is much more time consuming than being President of the United States...
His reading this year included a heavy dose of history -- including David Halberstam's "The Coldest Winter," Rick Atkinson's "Day of Battle," Hugh Thomas's "Spanish Civil War," Stephen W. Sears's "Gettysburg" and David King's "Vienna 1814." There's also plenty of biography -- including U.S. Grant's "Personal Memoirs"; Jon Meacham's "American Lion"; James M. McPherson's "Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief" and Jacobo Timerman's "Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number."
Each year, the president also read the Bible from cover to cover, along with a daily devotional.
The reading competition reveals Mr. Bush's focus on goals. It's not about winning. A good-natured competition helps keep him centered and makes possible a clear mind and a high level of energy. He reads instead of watching TV. He reads on Air Force One and to relax and because he's curious. He reads about the tasks at hand, often picking volumes because of the relevance to his challenges. And he's right: I've won because he has a real job with enormous responsibilities.


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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Some Flack from my Family
I have been so lax with my blog for a long time now after posting quite regularly for quite a few years! My family has let me know that they don't think that is right! Also, I have actually had e-mails from people who read my blog wondering where I have been. It makes me feel guilty (in a good way) and the only reason I can think of for straying from the blogging is that I have done it for so long. However, I am going to give it another try and see if I can actually keep it up by posting at least once a week! I won't try to get everything is the first post. Will wait until next time to post some pictures of the four adorable little great-grandchildren I now have. Henry and Lauren are Norah's little ones and Annie and Turner call Molly mommy. Hannah has her news, also! She and Ian became engaged this summer and are planning a wedding in August of 2016! What a fun rime to look forward to. They will be married in Madison, Wisconsin, which is Ian's home town. A fun time to look forward to next summer! Ian will now be my third grandson-in-law--and all three of them are great guys. I turned 87 lat week. One of the older oldies now for sure. Goodness, where did all that time go and so quickly. I have been so blessed healthwise in my lifetime and in so many other ways, also. Will post this now with the intention of doing another post in a few days. Let's see if I can follow through!!
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I have read that on desktop OpenGL + SDL is a great way to learn. In looking at WebGL I couldn't find a Web version of SDL. On their site I see bindings for all sorts of languages, but no JavaScript. It seems obvious that this gives an answer of 'no' to my question, but I also came upon code snips while googling around that seemed to be doing it. Whatever the missing piece is I'm not getting it...
2\$\begingroup\$ you can use it native client developers.google.com/native-client/community/porting/SDLgames \$\endgroup\$ – SRN Feb 8 '13 at 12:25
When used with OpenGL SDL is responsible for opening a window, creating an opengl context, handling events, etc. The drawing part is OpenGL responsibility.
In a browser, you already have a window, ways to handle events and a way to get a context, SDL would not be very helpful in this scenario.
Although, mimicking the SDL API in javascript might be helpful for those familiar with it, I couldn't find anything for a webgl game. If you are interested in using javascript for developing SDL apllications, there is node-sdl, though.
I think it's highly unlikely that SDL + WebGL is a useful combination.
Also the level of abstraction is fundamentally different: SDL was originally conceived as a small layer to allow native C programs to gain access to Framebuffers in an OS independent and convenient way. This allows games which use software rendering to be written more easily.
You're probably better off using something like Three.js if you are targetting a web browser (NB: do not consider this a recommendation)


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WINNIPEG - There's no doubt in rookie head coach Mike O'Shea's mind who the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' starting quarterback is.
The Bombers unveiled newcomer Drew Willy on Friday, a day after acquiring the young quarterback from the Saskatchewan Roughriders. And O'Shea immediately named Willy as his starter.
"You see a guy who has been tutored by some good coaches," said O'Shea. "He's ready for this."
Winnipeg has two other quarterbacks on its roster — Max Hall and Justin Goltz. And although Willy has made just four career CFL starts, O'Shea believes his time has come.
"It's important to this franchise to have a quarterback and a guy that everybody can believe in.," O'Shea said.
Willy, 27, played two seasons behind Darian Durant with the Roughriders. He said he prides himself on his passing accuracy and feels comfortable in all situations but also expects to learn by doing.
"Being behind a guy like Darian Durant you learn a lot," he said. "I've learned from George Cortez, you learn a ton. Obviously I've had Khari Jones in my ear the last two years as well."
Cortez is Saskatchewan's offensive co-ordinator. Jones was the club's quarterback coach in 2012 and 2013, before becoming the B.C. Lions offensive co-ordinator.
"It's something for the fans and for the coaching staff, the management, to be excited about," O'Shea said of Willy's signing.
The Bombers are in dire need of a starter who can win games and fill seats at their new stadium. The club posted a 3-15 record last season that tied a modern franchise record for futility.
The Bombers approached free agents Zach Collaros and Henry Burris. But Collaros signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats while Burris joined the expansion Ottawa Redblacks.
Winnipeg GM Kyle Walters denied Willy was necessarily third on the Bombers list but also didn't rule out adding another quarterback to the roster.
"We're always looking to improve our team, free agency trades . . . we'll explore all options all the time to improve our team and promote competition at every position," he said.
But Walters had nothing but praise for the young quarterback they're hanging their hopes on right now.
"Pocket awareness, toughness, what drew put on film showed that he's ready to be a starting quarterback in this league," he said.
Willy started two games in 2013, going 1-1. He earned his first career CFL win as a rookie, a come-from behind win at Winnipeg in the Banjo Bowl. He finished 17-of-23 passing for 188 yards and a touchdown while also running for another.
Willy played at the University of Buffalo where he was the most prolific passer in school history, setting records for completions (849), attempts (1,322), passing yards (8,748), touchdowns (52), total offence (8,639), and completion percentage (64.2).
He also spent some time in the NFL on practice squads in Indianapolis, Baltimore, San Diego, and New York and played in the UFL with Las Vegas in 2010.


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TRUCKEE, Calif. – After being recruited to Duke University for the Women's Crew Team my senior year of high school, I felt that it was not only my job to take care of my body for my athletic duties, but I also felt that with this great privilege came great responsibility.
It was after watching a documentary called "Forks Over Knives" by Lee Fulkerson about the factory farming industry that I found my passion as well as my responsibility to society. Realizing that my food choices were imposing great suffering on thousands of animals annually, I found it hard to justify my eating habits as acceptable.
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"This job must be taken seriously," is how one of the attendees of Monday night's WHYY sponsored voter forum summed up the Eighth District Councilmanic election in six words or less.
The meeting, which was held at Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church, 8855 Germantown Ave. was one of a series of public forums designed to give Eighth district residents an opportunity to identify the key issues in this election. Moderators from the Penn Project for Civic Engagement led the program . The Eighth District race has attracted a number of candidates interested in replacing Donna Reed Miller, who announced her retirement from the seat after 15 years in office.
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"Politicians need to stop cutting funding for after school programs and other recreational programs," he said. "We need to give kids options besides alcohol, drugs and crime."
Three candidates were also present at the public forum — Treatman, Paulmier and Tasco. All praised the opportunity for dialogue and participation.
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"No Sign until the Burst of Fire: Understanding the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier"
"No Sign until the Burst of Fire: Understanding the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier"
Journal Article, International Security, volume 32, issue 4, pages 41-77
Spring 2008
Authors: Thomas H. Johnson, M. Chris Mason
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The Pakistan-Afghanistan border area has become the most dangerous frontier on earth, and the most challenging for the United States' national security interests. Critically, the portion of the border region that is home to extremist groups such the Taliban and al-Qaida coincides almost exactly with the area overwhelmingly dominated by the Pashtun tribes. The implications of this salient fact—that most of Pakistan's and Afghanistan's violent religious extremism, and with it much of the United States' counterterrorism challenge, are contained within a single ethnolinguistic group—have unfortunately not been fully grasped by a governmental policy community that has long downplayed cultural dynamics. The threat to long-term U.S. security interests in this area is neither an economic problem, nor a religious problem, nor a generic "tribal" problem. It is a unique cultural problem. In both southern Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan, rather than seeking to "extend the reach of the central government," which simply foments insurgency among a proto-insurgent people, the United States and the international community should be doing everything in their means to empower the tribal elders and restore balance to a tribal/cultural system that has been disintegrating since the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
By 1932, British troops had been waging war of varying intensity with a group of intractable tribes along and beyond the northwestern frontier of India for nearly a century. That year, in summarizing a typical skirmish, one British veteran noted laconically, "Probably no sign till the burst of fire, and then the swift rush with knives, the stripping of the dead, and the unhurried mutilation of the infidels." It was a savage, cruel, and peculiar kind of mountain warfare, frequently driven by religious zealotry on the tribal side, and it was singularly unforgiving of tactical error, momentary inattention, or cultural ignorance. It still is. The Pakistan-Afghanistan border region has experienced turbulence for centuries. Today a portion of it constitutes a significant threat to U.S. national security interests. The unique underlying factors that create this threat are little understood by most policymakers in Washington.
This region, which is almost certainly home to both Osama bin Laden and his lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has once again become a locus for a regenerating al-Qaida network. The July 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on terrorist threats to the United States — an intelligence product known to analysts as the mildest common denominator everyone can agree on — corroborates this assessment. The NIE states that al-Qaida, with uninterrupted funding from radical Saudi Arabian Wahabist sources, not only has rebuilt its command structure in the border region, but has continued to recruit and train operatives to infiltrate the United States and other Western countries.
The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is 1,640 miles long, much of it spanning terrain so remote and so mountainous that it is virtually inaccessible. For Pakistan, instability extends beyond both endpoints. To the east, the border with China along "the roof of the world" runs 325 miles and separates Pakistan from China's discontented Uighur Muslim minority in Sinkiang Province, a land once known as the independent Khanate of Kashgaria. Far to the west, Pakistan shares a 565-mile border with Iran, home on both sides to restless Baluchis and drug smugglers. Stretched on a map of the United States, the Pakistan-Afghanistan border would run from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Even in ancient times, the vast area that lies along this border served as both barrier and gateway and was a refuge for insurgents, smugglers, and bandits.
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October 08, 2013 at 08:22 AM
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MADELIA, Minn. (AP) — The south-central city that bills itself as the Pheasant Capital of Minnesota is gearing up for two events on back-to-back weekends.
Madelia hosts its 5th Annual Pheasant Phes(tival) this Saturday and the 2013 Minnesota Governor's Pheasant Hunting Opener next Friday and Saturday, Oct. 11-12.
The Madelia Pheasant Phest(ival) was started in 2009. This year's event is by far the largest yet and beings with a massive clay shooting course on the city's golf course. There will be a show Saturday by the exhibition shooting team of Aaron and Steve Gould.
The following weekend, Madelia hosts Gov. Mark Dayton and his third Minnesota Governor's Pheasant Hunting Opener. The season opens Saturday, Oct. 12.
Madelia has more than 8,600 acres of public hunting land within 20 miles of the city.
Madelia's pheasant page: http://www.mnpheasant.com
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"Finally, everyone's talking about Nielsen" is the witty title of an article by Andrew Mellor in the September issue of the Gramophone. It includes contributions from Daniel Grimley whose recent book, Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism, will certainly help nudge along any Nielsen revival. The BBC Proms included a Nielsen symphony alongside one from Sibelius and the Grieg Piano Concerto on August 8th, so perhaps the revival is already underway. Here, in a second extract from Daniel Grimley's superb study, is an evocative look at Nielsen's pastoral cantata, Springtime on Funen.
One of the recurring tropes in Nielsen reception, both at home and abroad, is his association with the Danish landscape. Repeatedly presented as a true and faithful son of the soil, Nielsen is held to have captured some elemental quality of the Danish landscape in sound, just as the landscape seems somehow to have determined the texture and grain of much of his musical work.
The pastoral cantata, Fynsk Foraar ('Springtime on Funen'), is emblematic in this respect. It is here that Nielsen's evocation of the Danish countryside, and the island of Funen where he was born, appears most powerful and explicit. But Nielsen's response to the idea of landscape, and to the construction of Funen as specific place and sensibility in music, is more ambiguous than it first seems. In a brief, illuminating moment towards its closing bars, the whirling round dance with which Springtime on Funen concludes unexpectedly gives way to a hushed cadenza for tremolo violins, solo voices, horns, and bassoons. Marked molto adagio, the seven-bar passage is canonic: the soprano's ornamental melodic arabesque is imitated first by the tenor and then by the baritone (doubled by the woodwind), beneath a shimmering inverted pedal in the upper strings.
Texturally, dynamically, and harmonically, the cadenza is an exceptional and striking event: its Ab minor orientation is a sharp diversion from the round dance's final tonal goal, a radiant E major (the transition pivots on the enharmonic transformation Eb/D#), and the sudden drop in dynamic level and textural weight is in sharp contrast to the finale's prevailing fortissimo tutti. The cadenza marks an abrupt change of direction that seemingly brings the whole work momentarily to a stop at the line: 'Se, Æbleblomster drysser over vejen' ('Look, apple blossom scatters down upon the road'). The three soloists repeat the words hypnotically, as though held in rapt attention as they watch the white petals slowly falling to the ground, until the chorus re-enter in the final bar, whispering 'Natten er vor egen, Æbleblomster drysser' ('The night is ours, apple blossom scatters down'). As the words slip silently away, the round dance returns, swiftly cranking up speed and volume once again so that the poignant memory of the spring night, and its associations of vernal love, are breezily blown away as the cantata spirals towards its celebratory final cadence.
On closer inspection, the cadenza might be heard simply as a moment of modest reflection, the brief calm before the uplifting storm of the cantata's energetic final pages. It can also be understood generically as a closing curtain call for the three soloists who appear, partly in character, earlier in the work, alongside a children's choir and an adult chorus. Springtime on Funen opens with a gentle sunrise heralding the turning of the season. The soft contours of the landscape are feminised, the spring blossom flowering upon 'the gnarled apple tree/behind hills as rounded as young girl's knees' [det knortede Æbletræ/bag Bakker, der rundes som Pigeknæ]. The soprano solo enters as a spring goddess – Demeter or Persephone, or perhaps a local Nordic deity (Freya) – followed by the tenor, a young sap-filled hero, who greets 'the gentle day, so mild and long/and full of sun and birdsong' ('den milde Dag [så] lys og lang/og fuld af Sol og Fuglesang'). The baritone appears twice: first as the earthy voice of experience, an 'old bachelor' whose dark lower register grounds the passage in the rich tilth of the Funen fields, and then later as the melancholy blind musician, 'Blind Anders' in Nielsen's autobiographical account of his childhood, whose mournful clarinet solo provides the cantata's greatest moment of pathos: 'small hands seek my old hand/it is as if I touched the spirit of spring (små Hæder søger min gamle Hånd/ det er, som rørte jeg Vårens Ånd').
In contrast, the cadenza has the feeling of withdrawal and abstraction, a liquefaction or draining away of meaning, as though the characters who enter elsewhere in the work suddenly lose their individual identity and drift from view. The cadenza's haziness thus assumes the quality of a dream sequence, a hallucinatory episode that seems in some ways emblematic of the act of remembrance itself: the sudden unexpected lighting upon a forgotten image that is simultaneously familiar and strange. The shimmering string tremolo suggests the acute tingling of nerve endings, of a state of heightened awareness, the soprano arabesque appearing almost imperceptibly and then reproducing itself canonically as each stage in the process of recollection generates a further image in turn. The falling apple blossom hence becomes a Proustian key that momentarily unlocks a privileged domain of sensory experience and temporal projection backwards, or rather inwards, towards a hitherto inaccessible level of imagination. And, as swiftly as it emerged, the vision vanishes once more, swept aside by the inevitable return of the closing Dansevise.
Memory, the cadenza reveals, is as much about letting go as about recollection; landscape here is more concerned with erasure than with recording the permanent mark of dwelling and occupation. Nielsen's springtime is a festival of celebration and rebirth, but it is also merely a seasonal stage in a larger cycle of growth and decay, of flowering and dissolution – it is the trace of landscape's mutability and constant capacity for change and renewal.
Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism by Daniel Grimley is published by the Boydell Press and is available from all good booksellers, as is Grimley's earlier book on Grieg. Dan Grimley will be appearing at the Bard Music Festival which starts this weekend. Andrew Mellor's Gramophone blog post on Nielsen can be found here.


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CU's Solder to be honored on Folsom Field wall of fame
I wondered if Colorado's Nate Solder being named Tuesday as a first-team Associated Press All-American would be enough for the senior left tackle from Buena Vista to be included among the school's football legends on Folsom Field's west-side facade of the Fred Casotti Press Box. That's the school's equivalent of a "ring of fame," so to speak.
Sports information director David Plati told me that Solder had already satisfied the criteria by recently being named Big 12 Conference offensive lineman of the year.
The names honored at Folsom Field have been reserved for conference or national award winners. But Plati said the school is looking into including all CU players named first-team All-American.
By the way, Plati said the facade of names does not as yet have a name, such as "ring of fame."
Methinks thinking up an appropriate — and catchy — title should be one of his New Year's resolutions.


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