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Sunday, November 6, 2011
First Monday!
1. Check out my Scoreboard Die Caddy project. There's a Giveaway and if you haven't already entered you can do so until midnight tonight, Nov 7th. The winner will be announced tomorrow, Nov 8th.
2. Designer Crafts Connection now has a Facebook Page @ https://www.facebook.com/DesignerCraftsConnection LIKE our NEW Designer Crafts Connection Page on Facebook so you'll learn about our challenges, giveaways, and announcements. Don't forget to share with your Facebook friends so they can join in the fun.
Now here are my Holiday projects:
book, but I think you can see how they're made by looking at these photos. There may be a couple of things about the tree that aren't quite obvious. I used a spool of green thread for the base and glued a dowel into the hole. The cones were made using three sizes (sm, med & large) of Nestabilities® Scalloped Circles. To make the cone, cut from the outer edge to the center then overlap the edges to form the cone shape. Before placing the large cone over the dowel, place a 2" piece of a clear drinking straw over the dowel first. This will stop the cone from falling to the bottom of the dowel. Separate the medium and small circles in the same manner with cut pieces of the drinking straw. I used glitter card stock for the die cut circles. Nothing says "Holidays" like lots of "bling".
Since it is the beginning of the holiday season, I also have another giveaway for you:
A Sizzix Sidekick and two sets of Alphabet Sizzlets, "Girls are Weird" and "Script". To enter to win, check each project in the DCC webring as you hop around and note how many designers used a die cut shape on their project. It can be any die cut shape. Write your answer here, in the comments section, then check back November 16th to see if you're a winner! And, guess what, there'll be another giveaway!!! Like I said, it's the holiday season, so there are 3 giveaways this month and, of course, there'll be one in December. So, don't forget to "like" our FB page so you'll hear all the latest news and tell your friends! BTW: Some designer blogs have the DCC Logo near the top of their sidebar, but some of them place it waaaay down, so keep looking.... if you get stuck hopping forward, go back to the blog where you started, then simply hop backwards. BTW - I can only ship to a US address. Good Luck! Enjoy!
Yours truly,
Julie :)
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Hi Julie, love your Holiday projects. They really shines perfect decor. The tree is so gorgeous. Lovely projects from everyone.ReplyDelete
Hopping thru the webring, these are the sites for the designers who used a die cut shape on their projects.
In any case I get a chance and won your giveaway can I send here my address? Your giveaway ends Nov16 and I'm on a vacation by that time in HK and be back by 22 so here it is :) heheheReplyDelete
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- Anonymous11/08/2011
Cute projects! I especially love the blinged out puppy ornament.It would make a great gift for a new dog owner. Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
-Suzann Sladcik Wilson
please cancel my comment here. Not from US.ReplyDelete
Love that tree and I just picked up a set of Spellbinders that would work beautifully to do that. Yay! :) Well, I have to say after the overload of counting blog hop stops last week, I almost think I did something wrong this time. I came up with all of "1" this time. Lots of great stuff but only 1 site (other than this... so 2 I guess) that used a die: http://www.madelinesthoughts.blogspot.com/. Thanks for the chance.ReplyDelete


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Marissa Webb Clothing Collection Spring 2013
Marissa Webb Dishes on Her Debut Spring '13 Collection
Marissa Webb Dishes on Her Debut Spring '13 Collection
As the former J.Crew VP of womenswear design, it's safe to say Marissa Webb has a black belt in creating irresistibly chic and effortlessly cool pieces for the everyday woman. Last year, the designer branched out on her own to create her very own namesake line launching in Spring '13. Her debut collection features modern, streamlined silhouettes highlighting tailored blazers, fun sequined tops, zipper-embellished trousers, and a lot of leather. The latter features a range of refreshing silhouettes like Bermuda shorts and a leather skirt and tulle that's nothing short of channeling Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City. Meanwhile, a smattering of silk bow blouses and peplum details add a ladylike tilt to her cool-cum-classic collection. We spoke to Marissa about the inspiration behind her debut namesake collection, who she wants to see wearing it, and her favorite piece(s). Read below to see what she has to say, then click on to see her Spring '13 lookbook.
On which celebrity she would like to see wearing her new collection: "I have to admit I have a serious girl crush on Cate Blanchett. I honestly think she could pull off a burlap sac. I would be beyond thrilled to see her in a Marissa Webb item."
On the kind of woman she envisioned while designing her collection: "The woman I have in mind is confident, unique, and has a really great sense of her own personal style. I admire a strong, independent woman that also has a sense of humor about herself."
On the one piece from her collection she thinks every woman should own: "I think there's an item for everyone in this first collection. There are a number of leather styles that I personally love, like the Murphy leather tutu skirt. This item embodies both the soft and hard, the contrast that the Marissa Webb label is about. There are also many items that feel a bit more 'classic' that I think works well into any wardrobe."
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Final Fall Softball Doubleheader Moved to Wednesday
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons final fall softball doubleheader against Tennessee State, originally scheduled for Thursday at 6 and 8 p.m., has been moved to Wednesday night, October 26, at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. due to impending inclement weather.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Comic 662: Do Not Care
In any case, take this opportunity to write your own brilliant critiques in the comments, and a promise that maybe in the future i will not be so damn lazy, and I leave you with this video that has been making me laugh all week:
oh and: needless to say, any of the fellows with postin' power can feel free to blog today, and those of you without postin' power can feel free to chant the name of your favorite guest blogger in the comments, in the hopes that it inspires them to write something.
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- AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 7:21 PM
furst LOLReplyDelete
David Lynch is a pretty cool guy.ReplyDelete
I miss posts like thisReplyDelete
Crandall, your laziness knows no bounds.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Apparently the joke of this comic is there are a lot of apps for the iPhone and Droid.ReplyDelete
...Uh huh.
Perhaps crandall, you wrote this terrible sagan comic so that your carl ego can attempt to rebound, and post with double the energy!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Anon 8:12ReplyDelete
While this comic wasn't actually funny, you did miss the point pretty throughly. It was a play on Apple's annoying "There's an App for that" commercials and the fact that their app approval process is abysmal and arbitrary. It doesn't actually have anything to do with the number of available apps.
- PostACommentSubscribeToNovember 15, 2009 at 9:57 PM
If this one is mediocre, and it is, don't even look at the new one (663). The shittiest, laziest XKCD I've seen in a long timeReplyDelete
It's funny, because Carl Sagan said interesting things!ReplyDelete
Honestly, what an abysmally lazy joke. "Superpowers that are actually useless hurr durr" is a super old, lazy joke. I mean, come on, Dilbert did it like twenty years ago when Dilbert got bitten by a radioactive dung beetle--the side effects were nothing but a wicked urge to go into politics.
And then he takes this ancient creaker of a joke and spices it up--by relying on the interesting things someone else has done. Congratu-fucking-lations, Randall, you've recognized that Carl Sagan is a phenomenally interesting person.
You know who's infinitely, INFINITELY better at taking amazing historical (or, in Sagan's case, even contemporary) figures and writing great, funny comics about them? Kate Beaton.
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 10:22 PM
wiillllliaaam moooontttyyy huuuughesReplyDelete
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it's time to write a post
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2009 at 10:28 PM
this blog is now about angry old directors.ReplyDelete
Comic 662:ReplyDelete
Here we have yet another prime example of 'xkcd should be a picto-blog.' Clearly, Randall is musing on which smart-phone he should get. Worse yet, this would make (and will, when he makes a blog post about which one he did get) a terrible blog post. No one besides your fan{boy,girl}s cares about your fucking telephone, Randall.
Next, of course, is his existential crisis about following trends blah blah sheeple consumer whore. I think George Thorogood has a good answer for that: Get a Haircut (and Get a Real Job). Next.
But wait, there's more! We get the ever classic 'there's an app for that', but get this: it's a question. Oh, my, what a shake up to the established norm. Good old old-memes, eh Randall.
After that, we get to the punchline, or lack thereof: the iPhone app was rejected. Another bit of old news tops of this one. Sure, the DROID just came out, but the real point of this comic would have been better served up at least a month ago. Or, better yet, never.
Last, but certainly not least, it the artwork. Sure all the heads are attached, and he did put some effort into the arm-on-the-back-of-the-chair-leaning-back-with-legs-crossed pose in the first panel, but what the fuck is up is up with the lopsided head in the same panel? I don't know for sure, but I would guess that it would have taken about 3 seconds to redraw it. Also the head in panel 2 IS attached, but it looks fucking terrible.
In the end, file this under 'common jokes of the internet' and picto-blog. Thank you and goodnight.
Post, Monty, post!ReplyDelete
Wait, there was a joke in Monday's xkcd strip? I must have missed it somehow.ReplyDelete
Also these days it's not radioactivity that gives superheroes their powers. Nowadays it's all genetic engineering. It should have been a genetically-engineered Carl Sagan (not that it would have helped it be funnier).
About the video...people watch movies on their phones now? Great, now I understand how my parents felt when I was a kid and they didn't understand why I played that damned Nintendo so much. I just...wow. Watching a movie on your phone. I don't get it.
...says the guy who watched Kamen Rider Hibiki on his PSP. But the PSP is meant to do that! It isn't a phone. Phones are for calling people.
I know I'm not really old but I wish my opinions didn't make me feel old.
Kids! xkcd is fun! It's like a safari to find the humour of x!ReplyDelete
Right Approach:ReplyDelete
If you are a webcomic artist, you only need 10% of your readers to find your joke funny. The other 90% will either take their word or "not be your target audience". You don't have set hours, everyone on the internet respects you, and you work one hour three times a week. If you go to a convention and tell a woman that you make your living writing a webcomic, she will probably sleep with you.
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2009 at 1:22 AM
Wrong Approach: It's like a safari to find MEGMAN!ReplyDelete
the biggest problem with monday's strip: the "joke", such as it is, is spelled out in excruciating detail in a box above the comic.ReplyDelete
- BLANDCorporatioNovember 16, 2009 at 4:12 AM
I thought today's comic, Carl Sagan-man, was for lack of a better term sweet. A sweet tribute, mildly funny but not as good as the Gary Gigax game with death.ReplyDelete
That said, there may be a bias going on here. I was reading the comic with the intention of going to xkcdsucks immediately afterwards and for some reason humour, such as it is, tends to evaporate when you think like that.
I have no idea who Carl Sagan is (is he anything like our Carl?) so I am obviously not in the target audience for this comic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2009 at 6:23 AM
Come one, come all, and witness the birth of Carl Wheeler's Random-Vid-O-Blog!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousNovember 16, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2009 at 12:59 PM
That is such a Ruperty thing to do, RupertReplyDelete
I don't think Randall could maintain a picto-blog. All he seems to know how to draw is mountains, stick figures, stick figures with lines coming out their head which tells us they're female (or maybe they're long-haired men, how would you know?), swivel office chair, a computer, and a desk.ReplyDelete
Nowadays, the art is just an afterthought. Which is odd, because so is the joke. I honestly believe Randall sits at home Sunday night, 11 o'clock and says... "Fuck, tomorrow is Monday. I should write a comic soon." And he just draws some crap and puts some random words in and who the fuck cares the fanboys eat this shit up no matter what and Randall knows it.
You don't have permission to access /files/2d/2d078f7052d799f29eb0b2d5fcffbfeb99ec11d7.gif on this server.ReplyDelete


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Saguenay to Host Top Cyclists at Nations Cup U23 Race
Courtesy Roger Filion, Coupe des Nations Ville de Saguenay
19 teams of cyclists from 24 countries will be present at the Nations Cup U23 race in the city of Saguenay, from June 5th to 8th. This is the only event of the series that will take place outside of Europe. There will be five stages, including one individual time trial.
The cyclists, aged 19 to 22, are the top riders in their respective countries. Among the competitors participating in the Nations Cup U23 race, there will surely be future champions of professional cycling and potential future Tour de France winners.
Two Canadian teams will participate, as well as the Portuguese team, which is currently first place in the des Nations Cup U23 series. Other teams will come from France, Italy, USA, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Luxembourg, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Brazil, South Africa, Belarus and several mixed teams - Algeria/Moldavia/El Salvador/Costa Rica, Argentina/Uruguay and Switzerland/Panama.
Two local cyclists from the Saguenay region - Éric Boily and Guillaume Boivin - will ride on the Canadian teams.
The organizers of the Nations Cup U23 in the city of Saguenay is proud to host these future stars of cycling, and invites cycling fans to come out and encourage the competitors. More information on the races and the schedules can be found at the event's website: www.coupedesnationssaguenay.com
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This 3 Day - Reef, Kuranda Train & Skyrail and Cape Trib and Daintree Rainforest Packageensures you will visit the best attractions in the region. It provides excellent value for money and is a very popular touring package option.
The tours in this package do not need to be taken on consecutive days, please advise if you have preferred dates of travel. All tours depart daily.
- Brand new Evolution luxury Reef vessel
- Excellent Value for money
- Visit 2 Outer Reef locations
- Kuranda Scenic Rail & Skyrail
- 1 Hour Daintree River Crocodile Cruise
- Explore the World Heritage Rainforest
- Visit Cape Tribulation
DAY ONE: Outer Barrier Reef Cruise - Evolution
Evolution offers the ultimate passenger experience with the class and style of a motor yacht.
This ultra-spacious and comfortable vessel features seating and decks over 3 levels. Large well glazed interior spaces on the main and upper deck include a mix of booth configuration seating. The upper deck also has a VIP room for 10. Enjoy oversized outdoor decks in the sunshine with sunlounges. A choice of outdoor seating areas fitted with comfortable lounges and well protected from the sun.
Fold-down platforms encircle the aft end of the vessel providing ample comfortable and safe access to the water.
Evolution is quick, taking only 80 minutes to get to the Outer Reef. With less travel time, you'll spend more time at the Reef!
Evolution travels to two different reef destinations. Norman & Saxon in the morning and Hastings Reef in the afternoon. There are no islands and no pontoons. The Outer Reef is spectacular!
Reef sites are chosen on the day to ensure the best protection and underwater visibility according to weather conditions. Expect to see spectacular coral formations and masses of brilliantly coloured fish.
DAY TWO: Kuranda Scenic Train & Skyrail
Includes return Hotel Transfers from Cairns and Northern Beaches. Pickups commence around 7:45am and return back to your accommodation 5pm approx.
Inclusions & Highlights:
7:15am - 8am approx - Hotel pick-up
8.45am - Kuranda Scenic Rail from Freshwater Station
Free time in Kuranda
2.15pm - Return by Skyrail from Kuranda
Barron Falls & Red Peak Boardwalks
4pm - Transfer to hotel
Kuranda Scenic Rail: At Freshwater Station, board the famous Kuranda Scenic Rail for your journey to Kuranda. The Journey takes 1 1/2 hours from Freshwater station.
Kuranda Village: There is plenty of free time in Kuranda for you to explore the village. The markets are open 7 days a week, giving you the chance to see the local arts and crafts and pick up a souvenir!
The attractions are many and varied including Birdworld, The Butterfly Sanctuary and the Koala Gardens. You could also enjoy a river cruise or enjoy lunch in one of the many cafes or restaurants in the village (extra charges). You can pre-book and save with the Kuranda Wildlife Experience package.
Skyrail Rainforest Cableway: At your scheduled time, board Skyrail for your journey to Smithfield. There are 2 stops en-route to explore Barron Falls and Red Peak Rainforest Boardwalks. The Journey takes 1hr.15mins
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- Includes return hotel transfers
- From Cairns and Northern Beaches (Trinity Beach, Palm Cove) at 7:00am returning at 6:30pm approximately
Inclusions & Highlights:
Coastal Drive – Travel to Port Douglas on one of the most renowned scenic coastal roads in Australia. Have your camera ready for breath taking views.
Wildlife Habitat – 1 hour to visit the award winning Rainforest Wildlife Habitat where you will venture through purpose built native habitats of some of Australia's rare, endangered and beautiful native animals. You have a chance to have morning tea with the birds (optional extra), hand feed a Kangaroo and see a Koala doing what they do best…..sleeping! If you visit Rainforest Habitat you will not have 1 hour free time in Port Douglas.
Mossman Gorge - Enjoy a guided walk through this magnificent rainforest area taking in the boardwalk and waterholes.
Alexandra Lookout – The perfect location to view where the Daintree Rainforest, Daintree River and the Coral Sea merge into one spectacular panoramic reflection. Ideal spot for those post card photo opportunities.
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ESX reaches $1m milestone
So I got this news from ESA and CSAA the other day. Apparently ESX, which touts itself as the only trade show owned by the industry and existing for the benefit of the industry, has raised north of $1 million for the associations since the show's inception in 2008. That's pretty cool news, given the state of the economy over the last several years.
ESA and CSAA have funneled all that money back into the industry in the form of funding for more education and more legislative initiatives, and public relations to benefit integration and monitoring companies.
ESA president Dom D'Ascoli was clearly pleased with the milestone. From the relase:
In addition to providing invaluable education, networking and vendor contact for our member companies, ESX is an important source of funding for ESA. The event has generated substantial funds for ESA during a time of general economic headwinds and has helped the association expand and improve its services.
CSAA prez Ed Bonifas also chimed in on the accomplishment.
CSAA is thrilled to be an owner and sponsor of ESX, and is proud of all that it does for the industry. Its profitability for the associations in every year since its launch is a testament to the event's quality and structure.
I spoke with Ed just the other day about the current state of the ASAP-to-the-PSAP program and how the automated data transfer protocol faired during the natural disasters--the rare East Coast earthquake and Hurricane Irene.
John Galante, president of AE Ventures, producer of the ESX show was also excited by the news and hopeful of what it meant for the future.
AE Ventures is proud to produce an event that helps fuel industry growth through the programs of CSAA and ESA. All parties are committed to producing a growing, high quality event and making sure the industry is the principal beneficiary of its success.
ESX will be return to its roots in Nashville, Tenn for the next two installments.
It's gratifying to see the impact ESX is having for ESA and CSAA. Bringing together all the companies that sell, install, service and monitor electronic security systems makes sense for every company in the industry, including manufacturers, who can touch base with a huge portion of their client base in one setting. I hope to see the sessions progress in the years ahead to embrace the direction of the electronic security industry.
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chuckylefrek necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web codificada y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 20 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
Coded site design required for Debt Management Company Website. Design should be professional but non-intimidating, informal and friendly. As it is such a grim subject for the debtors themselves the design needs to giv e them a bit of a lift.
Your debt solutions start here
Desired Color Scheme:
Based on logo
Desired Style:
Open to design styles but site should be professional but non-intimidating, informal and friendly
Accepted File Formats:
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Coded site design required for Debt Management Company Website. Design should be professional but non-intimidating, informal and friendly. As it is such a grim subject for the debtors themselves the design needs to giv e them a bit of a lift. Client has suggested pictures of happy attractive women (and men too if we have to!)
Site address http://www.debtsolutionssouthwest.co.uk
Client has given an example of a site that he thinks works well as
http://www.spectrum-financial-servi…/index.htm however I think you guys can produce a lot better a design than this:)
Another site he has pointed me to is http://www.idealcs.co.uk/
The home page needs to have an enquiry form on. Basically this form will have the exact same fields as the one on the home page of http://www.spectrum-financial-servi…/index.htm
This enquiry form will also be on the contact page.
The logo for the company is here
The colours from the logo can be incorporated into the site design.
A consistent navigation menu should be used throughout the site.
I would like to include in the header the following
"Call our experts free on 0800 970 7724"
You can see an example of this here
The main sections of the site are as follows: I have included links to the copy for each section.
Home http://www.mediakitchen.co.uk/1HomePage.doc
About http://www.mediakitchen.co.uk/2AboutUs.doc
Individuals http://www.mediakitchen.co.uk/3Individuals.doc
Companies http://www.mediakitchen.co.uk/4Companies.doc
FAQ http://www.mediakitchen.co.uk/5FAQs.doc
Contact Us http://www.mediakitchen.co.uk/6ContactUs.doc
CSS should be used for layout and not tables.
I am prepared to accept uncoded designs too. The prize money will be only $250 though.
If you have any further questions please let me know.
Perhaps someone can try something with a more modern feel - perhaps with gradient backgrounds. I quite like the look and feel of this one. Obviously I am not saying copy this:)
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A few designs have used photos of switchboard operator people. The company this site is for is a small consultancy company so the idea of having a team of people waiting to answer the telephone is not really appropriate.
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ESPN the Mag's extremely productive blogger, Lil' Wayne — the Bob Dylan of our generation — went off in his usual Weezy fashion this week about all things sports related. One Lil' Wayne opinion of note is the rapper's stance on Cowboys' trouble-making defensive back Pacman Jones. Always unpredictable, Wayne says that Jones is just a bad dude, completely incapable of staying out of trouble and the NFL should just accept it:
I don't think the Pacman Jones situation is sad at all. I do not think Pacman Jones should be in the NFL. If I was the commissioner, I'd kick him out. They keep giving him chances and he keeps messing up. You got guys like Hines Ward out there getting fined for making plays on the field on one hand, and then on the other hand you got guys in situations where people are getting shot. Come on. You have to be smart about the company you keep. I should know. But sometimes it's not just friends—it's family members who are into bad stuff who bring you down. And how can you get rid of family? You can't. That's why I think, in his situation, there is no way he's turning it around. I mean, come on. He's a grown man. They don't give these huge contracts to kids. His main job is to stay out of trouble and he can't do that, so I'd kick him out of the league.
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Universal Pictures has released the new poster for Les Misérables, opening on Christmas Day. Directed by Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), the adaptation of the musical stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemptiona timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. Jackman plays ex-prisoner Jean Valjean, hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe) after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantines (Hathaway) young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever.
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UNC's P.J. Hairston facing drug charge
School aware of incident, working "to gather facts"
Durham police have charged North Carolina leading scorer P.J. Hairston with marijuana possession following a traffic stop.
Police spokeswoman Kammie Michael says in an email that officers stopped Hairston at a license checkpoint Wednesday night. Police also charged passengers Miykael Faulcon and Carlos Sanford with marijuana possession. All three were released on $1,000 unsecured bonds.
Michael says Hairston was also charged with driving without a license.
UNC athletic spokesman Steve Kirschner says coach Roy Williams and athletic director Bubba Cunningham are aware of the incident. He says the school is working "to gather the facts" before issuing a statement.
The 20-year-old Hairston averaged 14.6 points, though he averaged 18 points and shot 40 percent on 3-pointers over the final 13 games after becoming a sophomore starter in a four-guard lineup. Hairston is a Greensboro native.


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Currently fermenting an American Wheat ale (extract) only using primary. 1) When should I start to check OG? 2) OK to use auto syphon to get the beer out to check (turkey baster won't fit into the carboy)? 3) OK to drink my sample? 4) once it has hit the target OG is there any point in keeping in the fermentor any longer?
Sadly I didn't check OG, but the recipe did include that number (1.043). So how would I know which FG to look for? The instructions mention 2 weeks primary, 2 weeks bottle. *also mentions the "foam" will fall back into the beer once ferm is complete.
Assuming normal pitching rate (one pack/vial in 5 gal doesn't count)
So whether or not I see duplicate readings this weekend (will be one week Sunday) just wait 2 weeks anyways?
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You know it's a new day in the Giants-Dodgers rivalry when the major topics include scooters, medieval helmets and Yasiel Puig's maturity. It's safe to say this time-honored theater has seldom been more compelling.
Looking back, it's always been about contrasts. From the moment the Giants arrived in San Francisco, they crafted an image of fearsome power hitting against the Dodgers' superlative arms. The flamboyant Tommy Lasorda managed against stern Frank Robinson, Humm Baby Roger Craig and an ex-Dodger with a grudge, Dusty Baker. Barry Bonds did a pirouette out of the batter's box (1997) and left an L.A. franchise in ruins.
There's a hint of the mismatch in this season's dynamic, and the Dodgers know it. While the Giants cavort, savoring the beauty of an all-for-one clubhouse, the Dodgers have been pouting, complaining and putting forth only sporadic bursts of energy. Manager Don Mattingly has admitted being concerned about their absent "sense of urgency," and when Adrian Gonzalez was asked recently about an apparent lack of motivation among his teammates, he responded with a terse "no comment."
Still, don't you get the feeling this is leading to something monumental? Scanning the anticipated threats around the National League - Washington, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati, while casting serious doubts about Milwaukee's hot start - it's easy to imagine the Giants and Dodgers meeting in the postseason.
Make no mistake, attitude can be a very misleading barometer of a team's ability. Through time, a whole bunch of fussin', feudin' teams have been spectacularly good on the field, all the way to a World Series title. So this isn't about predictions, but rather a healthy respect for the Dodgers' potential and the anticipation of things to come.
It's common to see a fun-loving atmosphere surrounding a dominant team, but the Giants have taken it to a glorious extreme. I can't remember being around a more humble, genuine, self-effacing bunch of ballplayers, and most of these guys know what it takes to win it all. It's a fabulous combination. So here comes Hunter Pence, his stolen scooter a national story. There's Pablo Sandoval, clinging to a pair of Madison Bumgarner's cowboy boots for good luck. Check out the immensely likable Michael Morse, right at the center of things as teammates collect classic war helmets from centuries past.
(Let's hope that one stays in the clubhouse, by the way. It's one thing for fans to wear hats styled after pandas and giraffes. A fully helmeted crowd would be downright weird, not to mention annoying for fans having their views blocked by a scene from "Gladiator.")
The Giants have a bunch of guys you'd love to get to know off the field, from the ever-so-country Bumgarner to the gentlemanly Javier Lopez. I thought Tim Hudson did a great thing Sunday in St. Louis, reacting with horror when he inadvertently fired a fastball off Allen Craig's helmet. The standard pitcher's response is simply to stand there, stoically, essentially telling the fallen victim to get over it. Hudson jogged toward the scene to make sure Craig was OK, then made a point of approaching him in the infield when the inning was over.
That's pure class - not a term often associated with the Dodgers. They have their own group of stellar individuals, notably Clayton Kershaw (who tossed a gem against the White Sox on Monday), second baseman Dee Gordon and the currently injured A.J. Ellis and Juan Uribe. But they have become known for strife, blatant cockiness and maddening inconsistency, not to mention a distinct lack of clear leadership.
Their crowded outfield situation is a powder keg laced with suspicion. Matt Kemp, so recently an excellent center fielder and one of the game's top five talents, was benched (for five games) and then put out to pasture (left field) for erratic play in every phase. Whenever he's not playing, there's a simmering fire in the clubhouse - and it could get ugly once Carl Crawford comes off the disabled list.
Andre Ethier is the team's best center fielder, but Mattingly likes Scott Van Slyke out there as well. Ethier and Mattingly have long been at odds, to the point where they had a public shouting match in the dugout Saturday. To compound matters, the Dodgers have a fast-rising minor-leaguer out of Palo Alto, Joc Pederson, who has the organization torn between a jolt of energy (call him up, sooner than later) and the future (trade him while his stock his high).
All over the diamond, the Dodgers represent defiance, from Hanley Ramirez's gaudy follow-through to Kemp's damaged pride to Brian Wilson's comically dreadful beard. All of which leads, naturally, to Puig - absolutely the least of the Dodgers' worries.
It has been one year, exactly, since he made his big-league debut. Vin Scully dubbed him "The Wild Horse," and overly sensitive critics took it the wrong way, as if the mercurial Cuban outfielder was really just an animal in essence, impossible to tame. In fact, none of the wise heads in the Dodgers' organization wanted him tamed - merely refined a bit. They reveled in his ability to create excitement, entice fans, torment the opposition and make plays out of an ordinary man's dream. "Special" doesn't begin to describe his talent.
"I sure hope he never changes," Scully said on the air this week, knowing that Puig is rapidly gaining a handle on his emotions and his game. His play in right field could not be more spectacular. He's hitting for average and power, drawing walks, swinging at far fewer pitches out of the strike zone than he did last year. "The enthusiasm remains," wrote Tim Brown on Yahoo.com, "and sometimes that finds him hopelessly trapped between bases, or clearing 300 feet worth of cutoff men, or heroic in the conclusion, but the drama seems to suit him, and L.A. has fallen for him."
Never forget that the Dodgers rode Puig's magnificence to a 42-8 run last summer, and they're easily capable of an encore (probably not to that extent, but enough to catch the Giants). So what's the next move for Brian Sabean?
History suggests he'll do something by the trading deadline, if only to strengthen the bench or second base. Some have suggested there's a larger move at hand: a trade for a starting pitcher, perhaps the Cubs' Jeff Samardzija, who doesn't carry the burden of becoming a free agent after the 2015 season.
At least a half-dozen contenders will push hard for Samardzija, and it's questionable whether the Giants have enough glowing prospects - led by Kyle Crick, the best pitcher in their organization - to make it happen. There's also the matter of Tim Lincecum, who probably would be moved to the bullpen. Really, though: Why not? Wouldn't another first-rate starter put the Giants straight into the World Series? And along those lines, what if the Dodgers traded for Samardzija, David Price or James Shields?
By any measure, baseball summers don't get more intriguing than the one ahead.
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jp-i necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 171 diseños de 49 diseñadores freelance.
A very simple logo required for a Yacht Rental Agency.
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At the top of Pioneer's AVIC line of navigation receivers, and indeed its entire line of car audio receivers, sits the AVIC-Z110BT. This grandest of car stereos features just about every bell, whistle, and whizbang that Pioneer has to throw at mobile audio and video. From GPS navigation that can be upgraded to receive traffic data to iPod integration with fully indexed voice command, if it's available in the world of car audio, it's available in some capacity on the Z110BT.
The AVIC-Z110BT's design is quite conventional as far as double-DIN navigation receivers go. The 7-inch color touch screen occupies the overwhelming majority of the nonremovable, motorized faceplate. The screen features a resolution of 800×480 pixels and a wide-screen 16:9 aspect ratio. Below the screen is an illuminated ribbon of buttons for (left to right) voice command, volume down and up, home, mode, skip back and forward, and eject/open. The illumination color of these buttons can be customized with one of eight default colors, a custom RGB value, or a scan mode that fades among the colors of the spectrum.
Tapping the eject button causes the motorized faceplate to slide and rotate downward, revealing the DVD/CD slot and an SD card slot. Touch-screen controls that appear when the unit is open allow for ejecting optical media, ejecting the SD card, adjusting the screen tilt, and closing the faceplate.
On its back are the connections for the standard wiring harness, an additional AV input/output wiring harness, the external GPS antenna, the external microphone, the AM/FM antenna input, and the USB/aux input harness. Other less commonly used inputs include an IP Bus input for connecting external accessories, a power connection for the ND-MDT10 MSN Direct antenna accessory (sold separately), and a port for a steering wheel control adapter (also sold separately).
Perhaps the best way to describe the Z110BT is "feature packed." However, the bulk of its functions can be organized into three categories: navigation, audio/video playback, and hands-free calling.
Starting with the GPS navigation, the Z110BT delivers turn-by-turn directions featuring text-to-speech, which enables proper street names to be read aloud. When approaching a turn on a major road, the map is replaced with a visual representation of the turn. If that road is a major interstate or highway, the visual representation also includes lane data, which further helps to avoid confusion. Multiple destinations and waypoints can be added to the same trip. Custom points-of-interest can be added using Pioneer's AVIC Feeds software.
Pioneer's voice command functions work well with the navigation portion of the feature set, allowing for POI search and address entry using natural speech.
If paired with the optional ND-MDT10 MSN Direct receiver, traffic and incident data can be shown on the map and can be avoided when calculating a route. Local POI search and fuel price search are also added to the Z110BT's capabilities with the receiver.
Pairing a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone opens up the options for hands-free calling and Bluetooth audio streaming. Once paired, the AVIC-Z110BT will automatically download and index your phone's address book, creating a voice tag for each contact that can be accessed using the voice command system. Calls can also be initiated by speaking a phone number or with a virtual 10-key pad when the vehicle is stopped.
The last bit of the puzzle is multimedia playback. The AVIC-Z110BT is able to handle DVD video, DivX-video-encoded DVDs, MP3-encoded and Red Book audio CDs, and can read digital audio files from an SD card. Additionally, USB and analog auxiliary inputs allow the connection of portable storage devices, MP3 players, and iPods/iPhones. The deck supports MP3, WMA, and AAC audio files and WMV, MP4, and H.264 video files on USB devices or SD cards. iPod video playback is not supported out of the box, but an additional CD-IU50V iPod connectivity cable joins the USB and aux inputs with a 30-pin dock connector, enabling video playback and faster data transfer.
When connecting an iPod, MP3 player, USB storage device, or SD card, the Z110BT will scan the files and metadata to create voice tags similarly to the way that it does for your phone's contacts. Once the scan is complete, you will be able to use voice commands to play any artist, album, or song. The system had issues recognizing some of the more complex names that we tested; but the majority of the time, the AVIC-Z110BT had no problem understanding what music we were asking for.
We'd say that the Z110BT does a good job of recreating the easy-to-use voice control that we've come to love in Ford and Microsoft's Sync system, but there's a weakness. The AVIC-Z110BT's indexing takes forever to complete, and devices must be reindexed if disconnected and reconnected. For a small 2GB SD card or USB key, this isn't much of an issue, but there were times when indexing a 16GB first-generation iPod Touch took well over half an hour, during which time the voice command cannot be used and access to the device is limited. That's far too long. Voice command is of limited use if it's only accessible for the last 10 minutes of your commute.
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FREMONT — A longtime Fremont elementary schoolteacher accused of slapping a student who got a math problem wrong was set to return to the classroom Friday but will remain on leave after police reopened an investigation into the matter, officials said.
The planned return of the third-grade teacher drew outrage and protests by students and parents before class at Patterson Elementary School on Friday. Parents said the 58-year-old teacher has no place in the classroom.
"I think there's no way he should be able to come back," said Danny Rivera, father of 9-year-old Julian, the alleged victim.
The Rivera family has close ties to the school: the boy's grandmother and father attended Patterson Elementary. Standing outside the campus Friday, Julian told reporters the teacher confronted him after he incorrectly answered a math problem. The third-grader grabbed his own mouth to demonstrate how the teacher allegedly grabbed him.
"I said, 'can you help me figure it out?' He dropped my test on my desk and grabbed my face like this and slapped me two times in the face," Julian said. "I was just scared that he was gonna hit me again or do something bad. He walked away. I was crying; three or four other kids came up to me and said, 'Are you OK?' He just walked away and didn't do anything."
Dionne Choyce, a lawyer for the Rivera family, has said the teacher reacted physically after believing the boy answered a decimal question wrong on purpose in an attempt to mock him. The lawyer and the family has said the teacher admitted to "patting" the boy on the face. All parties met with district officials on Thursday morning to discuss the incident, a school district official said.
Attempts to reach the teacher were not successful Friday and Fremont teacher union leaders did not return a call for comment.
The male teacher has taught at Patterson Elementary since 1997, and has no prior incidents with students, said Robert Lee, assistant superintendent of human resources. This newspaper is not identifying the teacher because he has not been arrested or charged. District officials placed the teacher on paid administrative leave on April 29 after a police report was filed. He remains on leave while police investigate. Julian, meanwhile, has been moved to another teacher's class, Choyce said.
Last week, the family and Choyce told police they would seek no further action, Fremont police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques said. After media attention on Thursday, however, police contacted the family and their attorney and ¿said they wanted to pursue the matter, according to Bosques.
"I think (the district) made a rush to judgment without speaking with some of the witnesses," Choyce said. "Hopefully we'll have a better look into what took place in that classroom. I think when all the facts come out, they'll find he was wrong for putting his hands on a kid."
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Up-cycling, recycling, repurposing - all such great ways to save "things" from entering the landfill and really help show the next generation just how savvy you are :)
We recently started making a village using the plastic containers that grapes come in. We can decorate them, cut out door spots and continually build the village. You can keep scrap paper/cuttings to help with the decoration as well. Keep a small box or bag of scrap paper to keep the organization alive.
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Pictured: Bridget McGillivray made her first collegiate start, alongside older sister Georgia (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Bucknell scored twice in the first half and once in the second to defeat the Harvard field hockey team, 3-0, Sunday afternoon at Jordan Field.
Bucknell held a 13-8 shots advantage and a 7-4 edge in penalty corners while getting goals from three different players. Sarah Zararpour made one save to notch her fourth shutout.
The game's first goal came off a Bucknell penalty corner nearly 20 minutes into the contest. Waiting in the middle of the circle, Rachel Misko got a stick on the corner strike, sending the ball toward the left post. Morgan Kauffman was there to bang the ball into the goal.
Corinne Raczek made it 2-0 about three minutes later. She brought the ball into the circle on the right side and shot across the goal into the left side.
Harvard's best chance of the half came just inside the final four minutes, when Chloe Keating won a battle with a Bison defender and played the ball ahead to Emma Keller on the right side. Keller dribbled the ball in close but could not get a shot past Zararpour. Bucknell held a 4-3 edge in first-half shots, and each team earned two corners.
The lone goal of the second half came off the stick of Kelly Bruvik with less than eight minutes left to play. Her attempted pass at the edge of the circle was deflected, but she recovered the ball, carried it to the middle of the circle and shot across her body and into the left side of the cage.
Harvard had a strong period of pressure in the middle of the half, generating two corners and four shots, but the Bison defense blocked three of those attempts to keep the Crimson off the board.


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DEVIANT FUTURES: QUEER TEMPORALITY AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF SCIENCE FICTION by Alexis Lothian –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Alexis Lothian
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|Deviant futures: queer temporality and the cultural politics of science fiction
|Lothian, Alexis
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|Halberstam, Judith
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Tongson, Karen
Keeling, Kara
Gambrell, Alice
McPherson, Tara
|Speculations about the future shape our experiences of the present. From the romance and anxiety of technological revolution, to capitalism's crises, to the threat of climate change, the extrapolative logics of science fiction are part of the texture of modernity. But they have never been singular stories. This dissertation analyzes alternative futures dreamed up by feminists, queers, and people of color in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Britain and America in order to inquire into historical and political narratives that the seemingly transparent terminology of the future has obscured. Speculations about the future of humanity often presume that biological continuity requires a society organized around heterosexual procreation. Relatedly, access to technological capital defines whether cultures and subjects are advancing toward a progressive future or left behind in the past. Recent turns toward racialization and time in queer scholarship have brought attention to these discourses; I bring these together, drawing also on the history of feminist critiques of gender and reproduction. In the growing body of queer theory that focuses on time, scholars have traced productive deviations in the present and its erotic interplay with the past. My work explores marginal fictional futures' complex challenge to dominant narratives of history and futurity. ❧ The dissertation focuses primarily on two literary contexts where marginalized individuals developed critical discourses of deviant futures: British feminist speculations in the first half of the twentieth century and twentieth-century African American science fiction. I consider the work that imagining deviant futures has done both within the context of the historical moments that produce futurities and from the retrospective position of later readers who reframe the speculative practices of the past within their own present. An epilogue addresses the afterlife of these works' ideas in contemporary digital media. Queer temporal theory's challenge to traditional methodologies and periodizations gives me the tools to weave this archive of unfulfilled historical futures into an analysis of the gendered and racialized power structures embedded in the ways we think about time. In recent years, speculation has become a crucial theoretical framework within which philosophers and cultural critics have thought about the present and the possibilities of social change. My work offers necessary historical grounding to queer and ethnic studies' adoption of this speculative turn. ❧ The first chapter, "Women and Children First: Feminist Visions of Reproduction, Utopia, and Eugenics in the Early Twentieth Century" focuses on utopian futures imagined by British feminists early in the twentieth century and forgotten soon afterward: primarily Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's 1885 New Amazonia and Susan Ertz's ambiguous 1936 tale of the last woman on earth, Woman Alive, though I touch on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's more widely read Herland (1915). I explore the ways middle-class white feminists' utopias directly addressed the violence of the apparently desirable racial future through their engagement with figurations of women's independence as a danger to the future of the human race. Ambivalence coexists with unapologetic and unironic nationalist supremacy in many of these texts, making them difficult either to reclaim for feminism or to castigate as wholly complicit with racism and imperialism. I argue that this ambiguity tells us much about what it means to attempt to picture a different future with an imagination shaped by the problematic present. Returning to these texts brings the ambivalences of our present to light, as I show in this chapter's closing discussion of Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 film Children of Men. ❧ The second chapter, "Futureless Politics: Dystopian Renditions of Queer Sex, Gender and Reproduction in the Age of Fascism," analyzes dystopias by British women writers between the First and Second World Wars. I work with Katharine Burdekin's 1937 Swastika Night, cited by several recent critics of patriarchal and imperialist tendencies in queer studies, which merges a disturbing vision of nonsentient femininity with a homoerotic representation of fascism, and Charlotte Haldane's 1926 Man's World, which depicts patriarchal science as a form of totalitarianism. Closing with the afterlife of dystopian fascism in twenty-first-century popular film, this chapter considers feminist dystopia as a potential intervention into both historical and contemporary discussions of queerness and futurity. These unsettling fictions route modernity's futures through reproductive bodies in ways that trouble oppositions twenty-first century critical theory has tended to naturalize: between queer and straight time, futurity and negativity, deviant and normative pleasures. ❧ Drawing on black feminisms, queer of color critique, and the artistic movement of Afrofuturism, the third chapter, "A Now That Can Breed Futures: Afrofuturist Entanglements of Gender, Capital, and Queer Possibility," looks at the construction of black populations as threatening to the American future in the twentieth century. I trace figures of black female sexuality that emerge from the narrative foreclosures in W.E.B. Du Bois's 1920 "The Comet" and come to the fore in the queer radicalism of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories (1991) and Octavia Butler's last novel Fledgling (2006), which demand we think reproductive futures outside the logics of heteronormativity and white supremacy. The convergence of queer black feminism with science fiction emerges as a crucial national countergenealogy in the context of an alleged US postracialism and the unquestioned centrality of the nuclear family in the age of Obama. ❧ The fourth chapter, "It is not that I have no future: Gay Sex, Queer Worlds, and Samuel R. Delany's Science Fiction" extends my queer analysis of feminist and racialized futurities to queer theory's primal scene of gay male public sex and the cultural practices that form around it. Linking the discourse of "world making" developed in utopian theories of queer performance with the idea of "world building" common in Marxist science fiction theory through their mutual engagement with Ernst Bloch, I analyze gay African American novelist and theorist Samuel R. Delany's science fictions Dhalgren (1974) and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984). These novels imagine futures that center on queer sexual pleasure while paying close attention to racial and economic realities. I argue that they create queer worlds of theory and practice among readers in the process. ❧ I close with an epilogue, "How to Remix the Future," that argues for the relevance of my research on temporal deviations to the contemporary digital media landscape. Focusing on the critical temporalities of remix videos that challenge the heteronormative construction of reproductive time and drawing on the example of the television series Battlestar: Galactica (2003-2009), this epilogue connects my research on speculative fictions' histories with my related project on science fiction fans' grassroots cultures of critical media production. ❧ While avoiding simplistic analogies or utopian claims for the political significance of either discourse, I contend throughout my dissertation that science fiction is (and has been, can be, should be) queer theory, and that queer theory is (and has been, can be, should be) science fiction. From the multiple convergences of both diverse forms emerge new ways of critiquing, imagining, and creating the past, present, and future.
|queer; gender; race; utopia; dystopia; science fiction; speculation; time; future; media; remix
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|DEVIANT FUTURES: QUEER TEMPORALITY AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF SCIENCE FICTION by Alexis Lothian –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Alexis Lothian