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You're on notice, BMW M4. The 2015 Lexus RC F is here to put some fear into you, both with its potent V8 engine and that terrifying spindle grille.
Our pals at Road & Track just dropped the first photos and initial details of Lexus' new M-fighting coupe, and unlike Lexi of the past, it comes with some visuals that won't put you to sleep. It's a very butched-up version of the new 2015 Lexus RC, complete with boxed out fender flares, stacked quad exhaust pipes, and a much more aggressive front end.
So it's got some show. But can it go? R&T says yes, thanks to a 5.0-liter V8 that's likely a reworked version of the motor in the old Lexus IS-F now retuned to sport about 500 horsepower, although we've also heard 460 horsepower is the real number. Exact specs haven't been released yet. Power will be sent to the rear wheels via the very good 8-speed paddle shift automatic transmission.
Expect to see much more of the RC F at the Detroit Auto Show next week.
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In a new study, the amount of calories selected by parents for their child's hypothetical meal at McDonald's restaurants were reduced by an average of 102 calories when the menus clearly showed the calories for each item.
This is the first study to suggest that labeled menus may lead to significantly reduced calorie intake in fast food restaurant meals purchased for children.
Led by researcher Pooja S. Tandon, MD, from Seattle Children's Research Institute, these findings support nutritional menu labeling and show that when parents have access to this information they may make smarter meal choices for their children. "Nutrition Menu Labeling May Lead to Lower-Energy Restaurant Meal Choices for Children" published online January 25 in Pediatrics.
At a pediatric practice in Seattle, 99 parents of 3- to 6-year-olds who sometimes eat in fast food restaurants with their children were surveyed about their fast food dining habits. They were presented with sample McDonald's restaurant menus which included current prices and pictures of items, and asked what they would select for themselves and also for their children as a typical meal. Half of the parents were given menus that also clearly showed calorie information for each item. Choices included most of the items sold at McDonald's, including a variety of burgers, sandwiches, salads, dressings, side items, beverages, desserts and children's "Happy Meals." Parents who were given the calorie information chose 102 fewer calories on average for their children, compared with the group who did not have access to calorie information on their menus. This reflects a calorie reduction of approximately 20%. Notably, there was no difference in calories between the two groups for items the parents would have chosen for themselves.
"Even modest calorie adjustments on a regular basis can avert weight gain and lead to better health over time," said Dr. Tandon, research fellow at Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Washington School of Medicine. "Just an extra 100 calories per day may equate to about ten pounds of weight gain per year. Our national childhood obesity epidemic has grown right alongside our fast food consumption. Anything we can do to help families make more positive choices could make a difference. Interestingly, by simply providing parents the caloric information they chose lower calorie items. This is encouraging, and suggests that parents do want to make wise food decisions for their children, but they need help. Now that some areas are requiring nutritional information in chain restaurants, we have opportunities to further study what happens when we put this knowledge in the hands of parents."
There was no correlation between the families' typical frequency of fast food dining and calories selected, for either parents or children.
A growing number of jurisdictions across the country have begun mandating that nutritional information be readily available at point-of-ordering in chain restaurants. Currently more than 30 localities or states are considering policies that would require calories and other nutrition information to be clearly visible-four have already implemented policies. Federal menu labeling standards have also been discussed as part of health care reform legislation.
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Tuesday, 13Sept11
Tabata Tuesday
We're going with six rounds at each station.
Stay at the station and complet 6 rounds of 20 seconds work/10 seconds rest.
- Jumping pull ups
- Dumbell push press
- Kettlebell swings
- Ball slams
- Air Squats
- Burpees
1 minute rest between rounds
Emotional Fitness
10 Instant Emotional Fitness Tools
1. Wash your hands and face and brush your teeth. It cools and cleans the parts of your body that you use most frequently, which is relaxing, and gives you that "fresh start" feeling.
2. Put on clean socks and some shoes that you haven't worn in a few days. Shoes take a day or two to release any moisture they have absorbed, and this is a very easy way to put a little pep back into your step.
3. Give yourself a good shave (face or legs). This is another instant refresher. Especially if you have sensitive skin or the weather is dry. Plus, when we know we are looking our best, we naturally feel better.
4. Look at any trophy, diploma, or certificate of achievement that you have earned. And if it isn't framed and on the wall, frame it now. These are reminders of your accomplishments, and taking in your success is important to maintaining your self-esteem.
5. Remember your last (or greatest) success and think about it for sixty seconds. Taking in your success as often as possible will help you reach another and another. Quite simply, it reminds you that if you've done it before, you can do it again.
6. Know you are the person your loved ones think you are. And yes, that goes for your dog too. Knowing that you are unconditionally loved can't help but make you feel good about yourself. It's so easy to beat yourself up, I recommend pulling yourself up instead.
7. Wash your car, inside and out. Hey, when our wheels are shiny, we feel better. If you don't think this applies to you, just remember how you felt the last time you got a ride in someone's very funky car. Race you to the car wash.
8. Organize your closet and get rid of anything that no longer fits. Old clothes may come back into style, but you really don't want them on hangers for the next twenty years. Throwing out the old makes room for the new. For some, the feeling they get from putting on a new "power suit" fills them with pride.
9. Cook a lovely meal. Even if you are by yourself, preparing a tasty dinner, setting the table, and treating yourself to a wonderful culinary experience will lift your spirits. Sharing it with someone you love and/or respect will make it even more nurturing.
10. Look around you, remember that you started with nothing, and know that everything you see, you created. We can all lose our feelings of self-worth, especially when something goes wrong in our world. The truth is that if you have done it before, you can do it again-no matter what.
None of these tasks has to be uncomfortable or take you much time. Finding ways to give yourself a little boost when you're not feeling like you're at the top of your game is a trick that truly happy people use on a regular basis.


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Terminology is something that is important to get correct when working with technology. When reading about the Enlightenment desktop I've found that many people often confuse the difference between Enlightenment, DR17 and EFLs. So - what is the difference between the three?
Enlightenment - This is the original name of the project. Today when it is referenced it should refer to the project as a whole - not just one particular part.
DR17 - Also often called E17. This refers to the next major revision of the Enlightenment desktop/window manager. It is under heavy development (and has been for some time). The current stable revision of the desktop is DR16.
EFLs - Stands for "Enlightenment Foundation Libraries". These are the core of the Enlightenment desktop, but not the desktop itself. In simplest terms the EFLs are to the Enlightenment desktop as GTK is to Gnome and QT is to KDE.
Hopefully I have shed some light onto some Enlightening terminology for everyone :)
~Jeff Hoogland


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A team of volunteers ate half a kilo of strawberries a day for a month to see whether it altered their blood parameters in any way. At the end of this unusual treatment, their levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides reduced significantly, according to the analyses conducted by Italian and Spanish scientists.
Un equipo de voluntarios ha comido medio kilo de fresas al día durante un mes para ver si se producía alguna variación en sus parámetros sanguíneos. Tras finalizar este peculiar tratamiento, sus niveles de colesterol malo y triglicéridos se redujeron de forma significativa, según los análisis efectuados por científicos italianos y españoles.
Several studies had already demonstrated the antioxidant capacity of strawberries, but now researchers from the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM, Italy), together with colleagues from the Universities of Salamanca, Granada and Seville (Spain), conducted an analysis that revealed that these fruits also help to reduce cholesterol.
The team set up an experiment in which they added 500 g of strawberries to the daily diets of 23 healthy volunteers over a month. They took blood samples before and after this period to compare data.
The results, which are published in the 'Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry', show that the total amount of cholesterol, the levels of low-density lipoproteins (LDL or bad cholesterol) and the quantity of triglycerides fell by 8.78%, 13.72% and 20.8% respectively. The high-density lipoprotein (HDL or good cholesterol) remained unchanged.
Eating strawberries also improved other parameters such as the general plasma lipid profile, antioxidant biomarkers (such as vitamin C or oxygen radical absorbance capacity), antihemolytic defences and platelet function. All parameters returned to their initial values 15 days after abandoning 'treatment' with strawberries.
As Maurizio Battino, researcher at UNIVPM and Director of the study, tells SINC: "This is the first time a study has been published that supports the protective role of the bioactive compounds in strawberries in tackling recognised markers and risk factors for cardiovascular diseases."
The researcher admits that there is still no direct evidence about which compounds of this fruit are behind their beneficial effects, "but all the signs and epidemiological studies point towards anthocyanins, the vegetable pigments that afford them their red colour."
The research team confirmed in other studies that eating strawberries also protects against ultraviolet radiation, reduces the damage that alcohol can have on the gastric mucosa, strengthens erythrocytes, or red blood cells, and improves the antioxidant capacity of the blood.
In fact, this year they will publish another study in the journal 'Food Chemistry' in which they will demonstrate that consuming strawberries increases the antioxidant function of blood flow, erythrocytes and mononuclear cells.
José M. Alvarez-Suarez, Francesca Giampieri, Sara Tulipani, Tiziana Casoli, Giuseppina Di Stefano, Ana M. González-Paramás, Celestino Santos-Buelga, Franco Busco, Josè L. Quiles, Mario D. Cordero, Stefano Bompadre, Bruno Mezzetti, Maurizio Battino. "One-month strawberry-rich anthocyanin supplementation ameliorates cardiovascular risk, oxidative stress markers and platelet activation in humans". Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 25 (3): 289–294, March 2014.
Sara Tulipani, Tatiana Armeni, Francesca Giampieri, José M. Alvarez-Suarez, Ana M. Gonzalez-Paramás, Celestino Santos-Buelga, Franco Busco, Giovanni Principato, Stefano Bompadre, José L. Quiles, Bruno Mezzetti, Maurizio Battino. "Strawberry intake increases blood fluid, erythrocyte and mononuclear cell defenses against oxidative challenge". Food Chemistry 156: 87–93, August 2014.
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Has it been an entire year already? A year ago many major Internet service providers and online resources put IPv6 through a test run. Now–In just a couple days—most of those same IPv6 pioneers will turn on IPv6 for good. Are you ready for IPv6?
The short answer is probably "yes." Actually, for most people the answer is more like "probably, but it shouldn't really matter."
The good news is that you don't really have to be "ready" because the IPv4 protocol that makes up the backbone of the Internet is not going to suddenly shut off. IPv4 is running out of addresses, and it's definitely showing its age, but it's not going away completely any time soon.
The powers that be have been sounding the alarm bell about the "quickly" diminishing pool of IPv4 IP addresses for years. It's gotten to the point that it almost has the ring of "sky is falling" hyperbole. But, it is true that there is a limited supply of IPv4 addresses, and that the explosion of IP-enabled devices–smartphones, tablets, game consoles, streaming-enabled TVs or TV devices like Apple TV, and more–is going to suck the pool dry quickly.
Now IPv6 is finally here. Instead of the "mere" 4.3 billion IP addresses possible with IPv4, we will now have a seemingly unfathomable 340 undecillion (340 times 10 to the 36th power) addresses. 4.3 billion isn't even enough for every person on Earth to have a connected device, and there are about 30 IP addresses being used just in my home, so we have a problem. The new Internet protocol will have plenty of room for growth…and then some.
IPv6 is about more than just expanding the available pool of IP addresses, though. IPv6 also incorporates security in ways that IPv4 does not. When IPv4 was developed, security was not a primary consideration, so things like IPSec were included as optional elements. In IPv6 IPSec is mandatory, so each individual data packet is encrypted and authenticated.
Most of the PCs, IP-enabled devices, and network hardware sold over the past few years has included IPv6 technology–at least as an option. Unless you're still using hardware and software from 5 years ago or more, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect that you're already set to take advantage of IPv6.
If your hardware and software isn't compatible with IPv6, though, don't fret. IPv6 is backwards compatible with IPv4, and the Internet will continue running both in parallel for some time. You don't need to run out and get IPv6 equipment this week, but you should definitely make sure any future purchases are ready to work with IPv6.


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ZTE, one of China's largest network and phone suppliers, is making a bigger push in the tablet PC market by releasing five to six new devices next year.
The company revealed its tablet strategy when Wang Yong, the deputy general manager for mobile broadband products for the company, made comments to the Chinese press on Monday. A ZTE spokeswoman later confirmed his statements.
ZTE unveiled its newest tablet device called the ZTE Light during a technology exhibition in Beijing last week. The device, which features a 7-inch touchscreen and can make phone calls, is already planned to be sold with carriers in Europe. The company is also aiming to sell the device in Latin America and the Asia Pacific region.
As for China's domestic market, ZTE plans to start selling a tablet at the end of the year or in January 2011. The company is also working on a tablet device that can operate with the TD-SCDMA 3G standard used by China Mobile, the country's largest mobile provider.
ZTE's newest tablet was estimated by a company rep to be priced at around 3,000 yuan ($US449), but the final price will be determined by the device's carriers.
The company's Chinese rival Huawei has also launched its own tablet device. Called the S7, the tablet also features a 7-inch touchscreen and can also make phone calls. The S7 is already available in overseas markets in the United Kingdom, Australia and in the United States.


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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Mommy hurt her arm.
I seem to have had a small surge in readership lately, which is lovely, really - don't get me wrong. But whenever that happens, it is generally because someone somewhere had the notion to link to one of my posts, and it is often one of the more...innocuous ones, and it doesn't take long before I post something more...typical of me and my unrepentant depravity. And that's when I get the email that says, "I do NOT enjoy reading blogs where someone uses the f-word, mentions unpleasant bodily functions, and insults the royal family of Micronesia." To which I always reply, "Then you need to go back and read some more, lady, because I have written FAR worse than that. I have all kinds of things here for you to get a bug up your butt about, and you could have picked something WAY better."
But I hate getting those emails. Even though I truly do not intend to ever make this blog all sugar and lollipops for the delicate sensibilities crowd, I still feel all iggy when someone feels so violated by my naughty talk that they have to take the time to send me a scolding email over it. It makes me feel like maybe I wasn't up front enough about the way I tend to write, like there should have been a bigger tip-off alerting potential readers to the poison contained herein.
So, just in case we have some sweet Aunt Tillies out there who are going to faint when I suggest that perhaps the quilt I just made looks like FUCKING ROADKILL, here is a helpful guide to The Bitchy Stitcher Blog:
1. I curse. Frequently. Though not as frequently as I do in real life. Just ask my kids. In fact, the first time my firstborn was old enough to note the fact that I had just said something unusual and possibly fun to repeat, I had just whacked my elbow on the corner of a table, and my husband explained the stream of FCC-forbidden language coming from my mouth by saying, "Mommy hurt her arm." This was apparently a satisfactory explanation for Harper, and thereafter, anytime I erupted with a "Crap!" or "Holy shit!" or "You cocksucking douchebag!", David would just blithely say, "Mommy hurt her arm." Now they all say it. Frequently.
2. I am a self-taught quilter. Which means that I don't really know how to do anything properly and though you are welcome to ask me for advice, the advice will probably consist of several smart remarks and a link to something involving penises.
3. I am self-taught because I am an anti-social loner, and even though I am forty-one years old, I am still convinced that no matter what the situation, I will always be the dorky outcast that no one talks to and is fatter than anyone else in the room. So I deal with my social anxieties by coming here and making self-deprecating jokes about my lousy quilting and my other faults, and because I don't tend to also write about how wonderful my life is in other ways (and it is), it can appear as though I am nothing but a sack of insecurity and neuroses. I'm not, though. I'm actually a raving egomaniac. Seriously. When I'm done writing this, I'm going to spend at least an hour checking out my enormous booty in the mirror because it is Just. So. Awesome.
4. I am a writer for Quilter's Home magazine, where I have a regular humor column. If you are not a current reader of QH (and why the hell aren't you?), and you happen to pick up a copy out of curiosity, here's a helpful tip: mine is the article that says "By Megan Dougherty" at the top and contains a bunch of quilt-related insanity that may or may not strike you as funny, depending upon several factors such as your mood, the phase of the moon, and how far that stick up your butt goes.
There. I think that just about covers it. Let's all take bets now to see how soon that 311 over there starts dropping!
In quilting news:
After several days of intense deliberation (read: wishy-washy indecision), I finally cut and sewed the borders for the mermaid quilt:
And whaddya know - I don't hate it! I do think the peachy tone of the circles is a bit incongruous with all the hot pink and magenta, but the smaller inner border, which has much of the same tone, helps balance it. The niece for whom it is intended has a sister who will be getting a quilt in the same pattern with a horse theme and different colors.
So you see, this is how it works here. First, you have to wade through all my self-indulgent crap (Mommy hurt her arm) and then, if you make it through all that without hemorrhaging, you get rewarded with something quilty! (Though if I'm lazy, like I was today, it will be something quilty that has been poorly photographed with my phone instead of a real camera. See, I was too busy checking out my sweet, sweet booty in the mirror to bother with f-speeds and shutter stops.
And if you want to know the technique I used to make the circle blocks, just click here!
Oh, did you just hurt your arm?
65 comments:
- Zazzu said...
Love that quilt. The colors work wonderfully together.
A HUGE peeve of mine is people who tell bloggers what they should and shouldn't write on their own blogs. Talk about a God complex.
Yeah, yeah, people are entitled to their opinions. They're also entitled to stomp off in a huff and quit reading, which is preferable to a lecture on the evils of profanity.
- January 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM
- Nancy said...
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah....yea ah... loved the circle tute...might have to try that...
- January 13, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
I'm a new follower, but after reading this post I'm certain I'll be here to stay!! You could be describing me. Can't wait to see more :)
- January 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- Carolyn aka Silkquilter said...
I must be doing something wrong. I have been a fan and a reader since you started blogging (I think) and I am not listed as a follower. Hmmmmm! I'll push some buttons and see if I can make your number go up!
- January 13, 2011 at 1:26 PM
- marilynmckinnon said...
You aren't getting rid of me. I LOVE the honesty and life is not sugar coated so why are so many blogs. No one's life can be that wonderful all the time.To all you complain. I say use the OFF switch.
- January 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM
- Cherie said...
You make me laugh all the time :) I've been following for a while, and KarrieLyne (http://www.freckledwhimsy.com/)referenced your blog yesterday for a tip on how to get blood out of a quilt. I always wonder, too, where blog surges come from, but usually someone has an answer. I know you won't change a thing about how you write, and I LOVE that!
- January 13, 2011 at 1:34 PM
- Kelly said...
Love YOU! Here and in QH!
- January 13, 2011 at 1:34 PM
- Beth said...
Best. Post. Ever.
And I also enjoyed the penis link (as did one of my grad students)!
- January 13, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- Kris said...
I am a new follower and I have to tell you that I did come in from a link to a mellow post. Then when I added you to Google Reader I read through your last 10 posts and loved your writing style and humor. Your blog has the wit and humor of Dooce with quilting mixed in - the best of both worlds!!! Keep it up and don't let anyone change you in one bit - we love you just the way you are.
- January 13, 2011 at 1:41 PM
- LittleBook said...
This post is why your readers love you!
- January 13, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- Leah said...
Hey Megan - Make sure to link this post up to your sidebar with a big "THE RULES OF THE BITCHY STITCHER BLOG" No one will be able to say they were not forewarned!
I've also included my useful troll email response below. It's the perfect email to send those who are not fucking enlightened enough to understand why we enjoy your profanity, humorous depravity, or pornographic links so much.
Troll response:
"Due to the large amount of unsolicited email I receive on a daily basis, I have had to set filters within my email system. Your email message has been flagged as particularly unimportant and / or hostile.
Please note that your email has been deleted without being read and all further email communication from your address will be blocked."
- January 13, 2011 at 1:48 PM
- Ann Marie @ 16 Muddy Feet said...
I would tell the nasty emailers, you clicked the follow button to follow my blog, so if you don't like it, click that same button and unfollow me. If the title The Bitchy Stitcher doesn't tell you something about what your going to find here, well I don't know what else will. So long!
I mean it is YOUR blog, you can write whatever the hell you want in it!
Oh by the way, your numbers went up too! :D
- January 13, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- Cherie in St Louis said...
LOL, I just love your irreverent posts! I've been reading your blog for awhile but just clicked the follower button so you have more readership than would be apparent ;)
And, yeah, that is a crappy photo but as long as you don't click to make it bigger (ouch) you can tell the borders really helped pull it together.
- January 13, 2011 at 2:13 PM
- BillieBee (billiemick) said...
Cracking up!
#3 is most like me....at least the loner and fat part and making fun of myself.
I'm so excited now that I can look at my booty in the mirror with new pride.
- January 13, 2011 at 2:20 PM
- Joyce said...
I've never hit the follower button, but I do have you on my blog list. All I can say is I love reading your blog, no matter what you have to say. I've been around long enough to know that clicking on your hyper link was iffy at best. Loved the circle tut! If you can't be yourself on your own blog, then why bother blogging!!
- January 13, 2011 at 2:27 PM
- Unknown said...
That tutorial was very enlightening! Thank you ever so much. I will bookmark it and return to it often. Right now, I must find a way to get my eyes to go back into my head.
- January 13, 2011 at 2:29 PM
- Unknown said...
it's your potty mouth and your er... irreverent spirit that I enjoy so much about your blog.
Don't let the "quilting ladies" get you down. Go forth and be you.
- January 13, 2011 at 3:02 PM
- Anita said...
I love your shoot-from-the-hip, don't-give-a-damn style. I, like you, curse on a regular basis because I have raised teenagers and bare the scars to prove it. I too am a semi-self taught crafter.
On rare occasions I write a rant about being a biker/crafter/quilter/beer drinker & lover of rally mayhem! I thought about blogging but then I ran across yours and now am undecided.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKS! Always entertaining and inspiring!
- January 13, 2011 at 3:07 PM
You only wrote this to see how many of us wacko women really like your blog. Count me in!!
LOVE the links today.
- January 13, 2011 at 3:20 PM
- Yuki said...
LOL! You crack me up. Your arm must be a fright!
I went to the Vatican to see the Pope. Of course, I had to visit the gift shop and bring some trinkets home. The prices were insane and I just blurted out, 'Holy Shit!'. That about summed it up. My companion laughed his ass off.
ttfn :) Yuki
- January 13, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- Paulette said...
Laughing out loud! I should have known better than to click on that last link, but holy cow, what variety!
- January 13, 2011 at 3:26 PM
- quiltzyx said...
Having worked with automotive technicians (read "mechanics") pretty much my whole life, cussing barely registers with me any more.
If something like that bothers me, I just skip to the next part. Sheesh, I'm a big girl, I can control where my eyes go & where my mouse clicks!!!
That said, I'm still a follower, here & at QH.
And I love Leah's Troll letter!!
- January 13, 2011 at 3:26 PM
- Frog Quilter said...
Your posts crack me up. LMAO...
- January 13, 2011 at 3:39 PM
Oh good Lord Megan - I'm gonna have to load a Poise Pad in my undies before I read your blog. I would love to quilt w/you. The shop I go to is nice but very prim & proper - i.e. boring.
My husband usually just turns the TV up louder so he can't hear me. My dog reacts to my cussing out the fucking sewing machine by leaving the room - wuss. I have a "word-stream" that my husband knows by heart now - GDSOBMFCSAWB -which I use regularly in conversation, emails or VM msgs to him all the time.
Deb H
- January 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM
- autumnesf said...
Thank, thank, thank goodness for number 3.
- January 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM
- SewHappyGeek said...
I never understood some people's compulsion to share uninvited, unwelcome criticism with all and sundry. Wtf? I don't go to their house and tell them how shit their decor is, why come tell me how bad my blog is?
I love your blog. And I'm not goin anywhere. in the words of my know it all tween, it's brill! (brilliant - do Americans say brill?)
- January 13, 2011 at 4:16 PM
- Wilma Lee said...
- January 13, 2011 at 4:30 PM
- Opiesgirl said...
I like your blogs just the way they are - thats why I read them!
And QH gained a new subscription from me BECAUSE you write for them,, and its a pretty good magazine once I checked it out.
- January 13, 2011 at 4:39 PM
Blogland can be almost overwhelmingly saccharine sometimes. Your acerbity gives the required balance!
- January 13, 2011 at 4:39 PM
- Opiesgirl said...
Great blog just the way it is!
If you changed to boring boring boring... who would read it? I feel like I'm hanging out with a friend when I read your blogs~
Love it
And QH gained a new subscriber (me)because YOU write awesome articles for them~
Just sayin.
- January 13, 2011 at 4:42 PM
- helen-mary said...
Oh dear, Megan (sp? cannot remember, sorry, and don't want to back-page) I love your post on so many levels. sigh. I always WANT to use the F work but cannot bring myself to do so in print. Out loud is another story. The 'penis' link I'm afraid to try. Must be my age (older than you by a decade or two). However, I DO love your blog and have become a faithful reader. I think people are confused that a quilter can really say FUCK and mean it. (woo hoo for me - in print now!).
Luv ya, darlin'.
- January 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- Monica at Buttoncounter said...
I have to tell you that I ''hurt my arm'' so many times, I cannot even wipe my own butt (ass) anymore. Keep doing what you're doing, because there are still many of us readers and listeners that need our daily projection of coffee through the nose...and more penis links please. (which are different from sausage links, btw.)
- January 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM
- DianeY said...
I didn't hurt my arm but my tummy is aching from laughing. Keep it coming, Megan!
Oh-and I love the quilt!
- January 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM
- Becks said...
Fucking beautiful essay! :o) LOVED reading this! #2 & #3 relate to me more than you could ever imagine.
- January 13, 2011 at 5:24 PM
- Barbara said...
Love how you put it all into perspective here-
l would really like to have lunch with you someday
Thanks for the laughs
- January 13, 2011 at 5:27 PM
- Deb said...
I just started to read your blog and love it. You tell it like it is and that's real life. We can't sugar coat everything in life, well I wish we could, but then what we have to complain about...
- January 13, 2011 at 5:48 PM
- lesthook said...
I love your blog,LOL! I am not much of a cusser but it doesn't bother me when others do. Showed my 30 something daughter your link just to shock her!!!
- January 13, 2011 at 5:54 PM
- Glen QuiltSwissy said...
I think we need to start a Filthy Mouthed Quilters Guild.
If you can't curse out the seam you just re-sewed incorrectly for the 14th time, what good is it?
Loved that circle tutorial. Might have to bookmark that one, myself. I am going to check it out a couple more times tonight.....circles ARE important, you know.nxx
- January 13, 2011 at 6:45 PM
- Vicky said...
Great post, enjoyed reading it with my morning coffee :)
- January 13, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- Jacque said...
Well, hot-damn. Finally, a woman comfortable enough in her own skin to tell the rest of the world to take a flying-fuck if they don't like her just the way she is. I feel a kindred spirit and can't wait to read more. I, too, am new, though not one of the 311 because I just added you to my reader, but I am here to stay!
- January 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- Dana Gaffney said...
Thanks for the bouquet.
- January 13, 2011 at 8:47 PM
- Sarah Craig said...
Oh dear God, Megan! Where do you come up with this stuff! Once again my husband thinks I have lost my mind because I am laughing my ass off at your blogpost!! I couldn't resist clicking that last link, even though I knew what must be coming....... ;-)
- January 13, 2011 at 9:29 PM
- Erica said...
@Quilt Sissy - where do I sign up to join that guild?
Seriously, Megan, yours is one of my favourite blogs - when I see an update from you in my dashboard, I get ridiculously happy. Keep it up ^_^
- January 13, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- Patty said...
I would think that most people would get a hint by the name of your blog that it might contain certain language! I enjoyed the bouquet you posted. LMAO
- January 13, 2011 at 10:28 PM
- Katherine said...
Thank god you don't feel the need to dial down your personality until it's plain blah beige like so many others in blog land. I love your writing both here and in QH! I vote for Leah's cut and paste approach to uptight prunes giving you grief for making the rest of us pee ourselves/ snort coffee through our noses/ fall off our chairs laughing...
I am sending all my friends over to view your circle tut - best I've seen lately!
- January 13, 2011 at 11:04 PM
- Ginny said...
OMG, I LOVE YOU! Yep I clicked the link too!
As to the old biddies, well they are just no fun. This is after all your blog there for your world, if they don't get the hint from the title then they have no business complaining.
We old, fat, self taught, potty mouthed women need to stick together. Oh and for Christmas my dear friend make me a sign for my sewing room that says "This is NOT a no swearing zone" Maybe you should post this at the top of your blog....
- January 14, 2011 at 1:23 AM
- Sarcastic Quilter said...
Hehe, good post today. I find that if the stick is up my butt pretty high that day (meaning no one in the world can possibly do or say anything better than I and nothing would convince me otherwise) then I just wait and read your post the enxt day when I'm a normal person (whatever that is) again. :)
- January 14, 2011 at 7:46 AM
- roberta said...
I realized that list is a list of reasons is why I read your blog. I'm also glad that I am not the only one who (accidentally) taught her kids to swear. I am also self taught for the same reasons with a little bit of extreme cheapness stirred in. Again, today your blog made me laugh out loud. That is the main reason I read. You are awesome.
- January 14, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- Rick said...
You know, I am reminded of a famous French lady, and I quote "let them eat cake". Anyone who doesn't like you blog doesn't have to read it. To them, and I quote, "EAT SHIT"!
- January 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm one of the new followers, and really -- your blog is called "The Bitchy Stitcher", I think I got that you swore! Actually, that's one of the reasons why I followed you, it's refreshing to see someone really *be* themselves!
And, I'm not a mommy, but can I use that line about hurting my arm all the same?? :)
- January 14, 2011 at 8:38 PM
- Wendy said...
Thank you for deigning to entertain the masses, oh great one, by tearing yourself away from your blessed mirror! I cannot imagine the agony you must feel, but your suffering is greatly appreciated!! Take care of that arm!
- January 14, 2011 at 9:46 PM
- Jan Quigley said...
Roflol, well said!!!! I read it out to dh & ds (14) & they roared laughing. I first got the idea of being able to say what I think from watching Sophia on the Golden Girls.
I will never understand the gall of people who feel they have to right to judge how other people act.
I love your blog, it cracks me up, as opposed to a blog I visited earlier with paragraph after paragraph of sickly sentimental crap. Closed that window before I hurled. :-)
- January 15, 2011 at 5:42 AM
- Annie said...
Love it!! I'm strange, weird, dorky and nerdy... and I love it! and I so enjoy people who are completely themselves - like you! I'm a new follower for all the reason you listed here. I love someone who has a great sense of humor and I also love your quilting.
- January 15, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- Unknown said...
Send you a nasty e-mail or comment about your swearing? Honey, I'm sticking around BECAUSE of it! Love the blog. (And didn't they think the title was a good indicator of posts to come?)
- January 16, 2011 at 12:49 AM
Deborah says:
Ah, Megan. Another classic post.
Well done!
I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I think there's a blog you should tune into. The woman who writes (and illustrates) it is a genius (or maybe just really messed up, but since I like what she writes and it makes me laugh like you do....well, I prefer to think that I have good taste and so...she's a genius).
Anyway, the blog is hyperboleandahalf.com. Check it out.
For some odd reason, I feel like your children might have similar stories to tell one day.
- January 16, 2011 at 2:49 PM
- Megan said...
I love Hyperbole and a Half! Her last post about the Kenny Loggins Christmas was classic!
- January 16, 2011 at 2:50 PM
- Dianne said...
Wouldn't change a thing, your blog is perfectly perfect and refreshingly refreshing just the way it is. Thanks too for the link to hyperbole - I laughed my ass off!!!
- January 16, 2011 at 9:13 PM
Deborah says:
Glad you liked the blog suggestion. I have only 3 blogs on "speed dial". Yours, H&1/2, and another stitchy blogger (who is also very funny).
H&1/2: The God of Cake is even better than Kenny Loggins!
My security word today is: Captor. Hmmm.....
- January 17, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- Julie said...
You crack me up.
If people don't like what you write why do they keep reading and then even bother commenting. Move on people.
- January 18, 2011 at 5:12 AM
Love your writing. First came to it because I just had to see what someone titled "The Bitchy Stitcher" had to say. The rewards have far outweighed what I had imagined.
I've been swearing for years as well as the rest of my household. Funny how I knew what GDSOBMFCSAWB was. I may be a little off on the last three words, but I got something that fits!
- January 19, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Megan said...
Do you know that if you Google "GDSOBMFCSAWB" the only hit that comes up is this post?
- January 19, 2011 at 2:27 PM
Love your posts...and "F" them if they can't take a joke. I was originally attracted to your blog name...knew you had to have it going on. My mother had a huge penis bagel made for my bridal shower...luckily the 5 yo flower girl was clueless.
Have to say..the last link picture gave me a little bit of throw-up in my mouth....glad I have never run into some of those nasties!
You keep it real for all of us.
- January 21, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- Kyra said...
I'm a new follower, and I'd like to say "you. rock."
- January 21, 2011 at 3:53 PM
- Unknown said...
OMG - I just found your site and have laughed my ass off for the better part of an hour reading your blog. They say everyone has a twin and I believe you must be mine. I have actually done that thing with the keys in the hand cursing like a sailor..........
- February 2, 2011 at 11:10 PM
- Unknown said...
OMG - you are too funny and must be my long lost twin. I have done that keys in the hand cussing like a sailor thing - and my kids also look at me like I am an alien. Marking your spot as a fav-o-rite!
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On Monday, Justin Ross Harris, 35, was found guilty on all counts in the murder of his 22-month-old son Cooper Harris. The toddler died after he was left in a hot car in a suburban Atlanta office park in June, 2014.
Count 1 Malice Murder (Mandatory life sentence) - GUILTY
Count 2 Felony Murder (Mandatory life sentence) - GUILTY
Count 3 Felony Murder (Mandatory life sentence) - GUILTY
Count 4 Cruelty to Children in the First Degree (5-to-20 year sentence) - GUILTY
Count 5 Cruelty to Children in the Second Degree (1-to-10 year sentence) - GUILTY
Count 6 Criminal Attempt to Commit a Felony (10 year sentence) - GUILTY
Count 7 Dissemination of Pornography to Minors (12 month sentence; $5,000 fine) - GUILTY
Count 8 Dissemination of Pornography to Minors (12 month sentence; $5,000 fine) - GUILTY
After a change of venue from Marietta to downstate Brunswick, the trial proceeded through more than 20 days of witnesses from the prosecution and defense, and was followed by four days of jury deliberation before ending in the verdict that was handed down.
Harris and his defense team continued to maintain that Cooper's death was a tragic accident, and that nothing in the state's evidence proved otherwise.
Friends and family members testified that Harris was a devoted and loving father. The jury saw video clips of Harris trying to teach Cooper to say 'banana' and letting the boy strum his guitar.
Harris' ex-wife, Leanna Taylor also came to his defense, though during her testimony she told the jury he 'destroyed my life.' Taylor divorced Harris last March. During her testimony, she said he was a loving father, who loved his son deeply, and would have never intentionally harmed him in any way.
The prosecution said that Harris deliberately left Cooper in the car, and told others that he wanted to live a child-free life. Their evidence included videos, photographs, cellphone records, emails, texts, and other data that point toward that end.
Prosecutors argued Harris must have known Cooper was in the rear seat of his SUV. He drove less two minutes from a Vinings Chick-fil-A restaurant to his office less than a half-mile away.
Parking lot surveillance video images showed Harris also went to his car after lunch and tossed in some light bullbs he had purchased, though he never got inside the car.
In addition, Harris, who was married at the time, was carrying on what prosecutors called a "double life," exchanging sexually provocative texts and images with other women, some underaged -- and that may have contributed to his desire to live a child-free life.
Harris was also found guilty of exchanging text messages and images with an underaged girl, which included images of his genitalia. Evidence showed he asked for photos of the girl's genitals.
"Today is not a victory, nor is it a day we celebrate. In fact, today is a monumentally sad day," Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds said in a statement. "This has been a 29-month journey culminating in this guilty verdict. I want to thank the community of Glynn County for their hospitality and the Cobb Police Department for their hard work. And I certainly want to thank all the members of DA's Office who worked on this case. It was a true team effort, and I believe justice was served today on behalf of young Cooper Harris."
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In Exodus 31:14-17, the Torah once again reminds the Jewish people to keep Shabbat. In this section, however, Shabbat is referred to as Shabbat Shabbaton, which is translated as a complete rest. According to the great Biblical commentator Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki – France, 1040 – 1105) as understood by the Sfat Emet (Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter – Poland, 1847–1905), this means that "rest" on Shabbat is not supposed to be a rest because one has nothing else to do, but a deliberate rest during which one refrains from even thinking about the mundane activities of the week.
Hey, great! A deliberate period of "chilling out." In truth, however, the state of rest described by the Sfat Emet is not easy to attain. After all, a person's professional life is often intricately tied up with a person's self–and talking business is second nature.
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C) Choose a special book to read or study on Shabbat that has nothing to do with your weekday life.
D) Play a game with friends, but keep it light and keep out the competitive edge. Play for the sake of playing.
E) And of course, one can always enjoy a Shabbat nap.
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Another interesting piece from Flow that I wanted to bring to everyone's attention is an essay by Craig Jacobsen from Mesa Community College. Jacobsen, in an essay entitled "The Simultaneous Dawning and Twilight of Broadcast Network Narrative", builds on his previous piece on "How TV Met Narrative Sophistication."
Throughout the fall, we have been documenting the debate about the future of complex television. I have written in response to Jeremy Dauber's column in the Christian Science Monitor depicting the ways in which culture has shifted with the rise of DVD viewings and how the broadcast system is not as good at supporting many complex narratives in primetime simultaneously. I wrote about the cancellation of Smith and how "the middle ground gets you cancelled," as well, concluding that:
In this case, what is said about Hollywood makes sense for television as well, and one has to wonder, as show after show falls off network lineups this fall, which of them could have gone on to be major successes in the long-term. But, until there is a monetized way to value the shows that take the middle ground, and until there is more economic incentive on the network's part to care about the success of shows long-term, then would-be fans of Smith and many other shows will have to just keep guessing what might have been.
I also wrote in response to Bill Carter's New York Times piece, in which he made the point that viewers are becoming commitment-phobic in fear that they would devote significant time to a complex narrative, only to see it cancelled. I wrote:
If people aren't willing to devote themselves to a series while it's on the air because they are afraid the cancel-happy networks are just going to pull the rug out from under them, does this mean that the need for a new model is developing for these types of shows? It seems that this current system, where networks want to push shows that are more involved and have a longer shelf-life, is contradicting with the older form of throwing on self-contained shows at the beginning of a season and quickly canceling many of the series.
C3 affiliated faculty member Jason Mittell has joined in this conversation as well, criticizing some shows for what he calls unmotivated complexity.
In response, I pointed out an observation from Dr. David Thorburn here at MIT, who has said many times one of the problems with recent scholarship is that the term "complexity" has been defined too narrowly. I wrote, "It considers complexity only in terms of narrative structure, and he contends that such narrative twists and turns is only complexity in a very shallow sense. That may be the case with the viewer apathy toward some of these shows, in that there is no sense of real commitment but rather only complex storytelling for the sake of being purposefully difficult, with no real or organic reason to withhold information other than to toy with the audience and to be able to claim complexity."
This more recent piece by Jacobsen points out that, while television seems to finally get the power of seriality in its most recent drive for complex television, the problems of broadcast are becoming apparent, in that it is hard to remember details over the course of a season, making primetime television not as agreeable to complex television as some originally thought, as opposed to DVD collections of TV shows.
Jacobsen writes, "Watching a season of a sophisticated high seriality program on DVD makes broadcast's deficiencies even more apparent. When one can exercise an almost novelistic control over narrative delivery (watching multiple episodes in a row, watching when one wants, freeze frame, slow motion, etc.), the experience is notably richer. One is able to appreciate the intricacies and subtleties of genuinely sophisticated narrative, and to engage more deeply with characters' emotional lives."
He concludes, "Such programming requires investments of audience time and energy that seem increasingly unlikely to occur on any schedule other than the audience's own. If that is indeed the case, then networks may be constrained to offering low sophistication/low seriality programming. It isn't hard to imagine a future in which broadcasting serves the role of advertising and secondary revenue stream for the primary medium: complete seasons of episodes packed for sale on DVD or for download."
I think his argument is an important one and one that we've been making for some time. It's the point I've been making about the cancellation of so many shows so early in the season and the point that several of the authors I have reacted to have made. If a show may go on in the long tail to make continued money in DVD boxed sets, how should that factor into decisions made about the initial broadcast of these shows? When you cancel a show for tepid ratings after two episodes, you might kill off a franchise that could have made substantial money in the long-term, perhaps because that show was better served for a DVD release.
Of course, my biggest gripe is that--with the exception of Jason Mittell--no one has brought daytime television into this argument that I have read in recent months. Shows that regularly maintain casts of 30 to 40 characters and might have 10 intertwining storylines happening simultaneously, and Jacobsen is writing about how television can't handle narrative complexity?
The problem is that, despite still having many million viewers, daytime television is considered on the periphery and almost seems like it doesn't even warrant discussion. How has daytime managed to thrive for more than 50 years with complexity as central to its development? Does the low production values and the stereotypes, the sheer volume of content and the fact that these shows often jump the shark and back several times, cause people to dismiss them? How important should these shows weigh in on arguments like Jacobsen's?
Soaps sidestep the problem of only airing once a week for 22 episodes a year and have continuous complexity by constructing a vast cast of characters over time and a narrative universe that fans visit five days a week, without an off-season.
I agree that DVD sets will revolutionize the way television series are maintained, but proclaiming that broadcast, by its very nature, may not be able to allow complexity, needs some caveats. It is the 22-episode structure of primetime runs that causes this problem. There is a whole other history of complex television that has been ignored by many of the critics who are fascinated with the rise of complex television, even though it has existed for decades in daytime.
However, his points in particular about the ability to have a recorded copy of the text to analyze and rewatch is key, as soaps have not traditionally provided this type of activity and are texts that are much too large to archive as a whole or to manage even if you did archive the whole. DVD watching does transform the way these shows are understood.
So, how much should the daytime history of complexity and the long tail success of DVD sales be taken into account when green lighting series and trying to decide what to keep on the air?


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BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi officials say several parked cars packed with explosives have detonated in mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad, killing at least 33 and wounding dozens.
The blasts are the latest violence in an unusually intense wave of bloodshed roiling Iraq.
Police and hospital officials reported deadly explosions in the largely Shiite neighbourhoods of Sabi al-Boor, Bayaa, Kazimiyah, Sadria and al-Maalif. Another bombing struck the busy commercial Sadoun Street in central Baghdad.
The officials providing the casualty figures spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorised to release the information.
Iraq has been hit by a wave of bloodshed that has killed more than 300 people in the past two weeks alone.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the attacks bore the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda's Iraqi arm.


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Science Buddies Recognizes "Volunteer of the Year"
Exceptional Science Buddies Volunteer Expert from Bio-Rad Laboratories assists hundreds of students with science projects. Her dedication to helping students exemplifies the volunteer spirit—and makes a difference in how students view and experience science.
Congratulations to Donna Hardy of Bio-Rad Laboratories!
Donna Hardy (pictured above) has been named Science Buddies Volunteer of the Year in recognition, especially, for her service in the Ask an Expert forums.
The Science Buddies Ask an Expert forums offer personalized help to K-12 students, teachers, and parents with questions about science fair projects. From fielding questions about formulating hypotheses to helping with the identification of variables to troubleshooting an experimental procedure, our volunteer Experts help make science projects less frustrating and more rewarding. With each student we help at Ask an Expert, we foster enthusiasm for science and increase science literacy. If you are interested in learning more about volunteering with Science Buddies, visit sciencebuddies.org/volunteer.
Science Buddies works closely with its corporate sponsors to encourage and facilitate volunteerism, and our volunteer program makes it easy for employees to contribute in meaningful ways. Each year, volunteers join us in our mission to encourage, increase, and support science literacy. Many of these volunteers, professionals in a diverse range of scientific fields, join our My Science Buddies community and assist with tasks that help us maintain the high quality students, teachers, and parents expect from our resources. Other volunteers help in our Ask an Expert forums, assisting with science questions throughout the year. Others join our cause by volunteering as science fair judges in their local communities, spreading the word about Science Buddies, testing science Project Ideas with their colleagues or families, or assisting with the development of new resources. We are thankful for the time all of our volunteers give to Science Buddies.
An Outstanding Volunteer
Today, we are proud to recognize Donna Hardy of Bio-Rad Laboratories as our 2012 Volunteer of the Year. Donna has been volunteering as an Expert in the Ask an Expert forums since 2005. In that time, she has helped hundreds of students and parents with science project questions. Every year, we hear from students who have gone on to succeed with science projects at school or at a local fair. Many of these stories include mention of assistance they received from Donna in the forums.
Whether a student needs help choosing a project, is having trouble formulating a hypothesis, needs guidance in analyzing her data, or is looking for advice on presenting results, Donna offers thorough, supportive, and encouraging advice. Some students ask a question, receive an answer, and then move on to complete their projects. But many students return for ongoing support, and Donna works with them throughout the process, often doing additional research, helping them procure access to background materials, and working well beyond the typical weekly time commitment for volunteers in the Ask an Expert.
Students struggling with their science projects, or unsure how to get started, receive invaluable advice from Donna. At the same time, Donna has assisted numerous students with advanced science projects, mentoring the students through high-caliber explorations that have gone on to be presented at fairs like the Contra Costa Science & Engineering Fair (CCCSEF) and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF).
"I could not have completed the project if it weren't for all the support I received from Ask an Expert and Donna, and the project would not have received the awards that it did," said Matthew, a student recently profiled at Science Buddies for his investigation of acne treatments. Similarly, Naima, a student in Canada, cites her long-term mentorship with Donna in the forums as critical to her project's success. "I do not live in a university town, and I did not have the opportunity to work in a laboratory or interact with professors," explains Naima. Through the Ask an Expert forums, Donna helped guide Naima through a sophisticated exploration of biofuel and renewable energy. "Although I was confined to my basement as my lab, Donna was incredible in helping me understand the background concepts behind my project, helping me develop the advanced chemistry procedure, helping me analyze odd results, suggesting improvements on my scientific report, and overall helping me complete the project within my location and budget constraints." Naima went on to present her work at the Canada Wide Science Fair.
When a second-grade student put Squanto's advice on using fish as a fertilizer to the test on his family farm, he and his family turned to Ask an Expert for help defining the procedure and then presenting the results. And when a high school student in Danville, CA was working on her advanced project, "The Effect of Deer Antler on the Proliferation of Endothelial Cells in vitro," she, too, got input from Donna and went on to present at the 2012 Intel ISEF. These are just a few of the many students Donna has assisted.
"Donna is an extraordinary volunteer in the Ask an Expert forums," says Amy Cowen, Science Buddies Online Community Manager and Volunteer Coordinator. "If I could clone a volunteer to help at Ask an Expert, I would clone Donna," she continues. "Donna always goes above and beyond the call of duty, providing complete, helpful, and encouraging responses to questions at both ends of the spectrum. When it comes to helping field student questions, Donna seems to have perfect pitch. In addition to Ask an Expert, I know Donna volunteers in her own community as a judge at local science fairs, and she has helped with various other volunteer projects at Science Buddies, including helping us evaluate our top student mentors and reviewing submissions for last year's chemistry contest. She's a wonderful example of our volunteer team, and I am very happy to see her contributions recognized."
Vice President Courtney Corda added, "Donna is, and always has been, an outstanding mentor. I feel very lucky that Donna has given Science Buddies and all the students we serve the gift of her time. I'm sure that having talented, caring volunteers like Donna is one of the factors that helped Science Buddies earn the SPORE prize from the journal Science and that helped Scientific American and NOVA choose Science Buddies for outreach partnerships. Donna is a great role model. We really can't thank her enough. We are honored to present her with our Volunteer of the Year award."
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New: Tucker and Bevvy: picnic food
With its white wood siding, blackboard menu and inviting food displays, Tucker and Bevvy looks like a cute little cafe plucked from an Australian beach town.
It sort of is. Owners Tony and Cecily Ho Sargent spent the last 17 years in a beachside suburb of Sydney running three food businesses: With the Grain Sandwiches, a takeaway sandwich spot, Malibu Grill and Honolulu Grill. They returned home (Cecily is originally from Honolulu) and found a perfect place for their picnic food concept, on the edge of Waikiki, facing the zoo, which makes it accessible to both tourists and locals.
Indeed, we bumped into friends there, who had stopped by for a quick lunch after a gallery visit at the Chanel Waikiki boutique. They took the last pastrami reuben, which they deemed excellent.
Smoked ahi wrap, veggie stack panini, kale salad, potato salad, quinoa tabbouleh
Tucker and Bevvy, Aussie slang for food and drink, offers food for an instant picnic: more than a dozen sandwiches, from grab-and-go ones such as turkey cranberry and a smoked ahi wrap to hot ones such as ham and gruyere or a veggie stack panini with eggplant, sweet potato, peppers and provolone. The menu has a healthy bent: salads like sesame chicken with beets and almonds, quinoa tabbouleh, kale salad mixed with kombu and tahini (if you've ever thought kale more like seaweed than a vegetable, this salad will confirm that). A juicer on site means fresh juices and fruit smoothies, too.
"Our focus is on fresh and healthy food, which is really the trend in your average Aussie cafe," Cecily says.
Dessert, though, is irresistible. In addition to OnoPops and individual servings of La Gelateria gelato, Tucker and Bevvy offers fresh-baked toffee cookies and cornbread that's crumbly but sweet and tastes almost of fresh corn.
The couple plans to expand the Tucker and Bevvy picnic food concept in Waikiki, and open up a brunch concept as well.
Sandwiches $6 to $8.50
Tucker and Bevvy, 2586 Kalakaua, 922-0099


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Hard on the heels of a report that a USB drive was used to compromise U.S. military networks in 2008, a security company today claimed that 25% of all new worms are designed to spread through the portable storage devices.
"Much of the malware in circulation has been designed to distribute through these devices," said Luis Corrons, the technical director of PandaLabs, the research arm of Panda Security, in a statement Thursday. "Not only does it copy itself to these gadgets, but it also runs automatically when a USB device is connected to a computer, infecting the system practically transparently to the user."
While a quarter of all 2010's worms rely on USB devices to spread to other PCs, a recent Panda survey of more than 10,000 small- and medium-sized firms found that 27% of those victimized by a malware infection in the last year reported that the attack had originated with infected USB hardware, primarily flash drives.
Other devices that connect to PCs via USB, including smartphones, cameras and music players, also are a threat, added Corrons. "All these devices have memory cards or internal memories and therefore it is very easy for your cell phone, say, to be carrying a virus without your knowledge," he said.
The Stuxnet worm was one of the year's high-profile threats that relied on USB drives. In July, Stuxnet targeted PCs running software that managed large-scale industrial control systems in major manufacturing and utility companies by exploiting a then-unpatched vulnerability in Windows's shortcut files.
When users viewed the contents of an infected USB drive with a file manager like Windows Explorer, Stuxnet loaded itself onto the PC.
Microsoft issued an emergency "out-of-band" security update on Aug. 2 to plug the shortcut hole.
The USB infection vector isn't new. Two years ago, the Conficker worm made headlines worldwide after it spread using flash drives, among other avenues.
Earlier this week, U.S Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn revealed that the U.S. Central Command's (CENTCOM) network was compromised after an infected USB drive was plugged into one of the network's PCs. CENTCOM is the military's joint regional command responsible for the Middle East, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
After Conficker's appearance, Microsoft patched Windows to fix a bug that prevented users from disabling "AutoRun," the mechanism that hackers used to automatically infect PCs when USB drives were plugged in. The company also changed AutoRun's behavior in Windows 7 to stymie such attacks.
Today, Corrons touted "USB Vaccine," a utility he said completely disables AutoRun. The tool can be downloaded from Panda's Web site; although USB Vaccine is free, users must provide their name, phone number and e-mail address before downloading.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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We just wanted to let you know that Steven appeared on the excellent HGTV (Homes and Gardens TV Network) show "Celebrity Homes" yesterday evening.
Steven played host to the shows presenter Nancy O'Dell giving us a fascinating insight into his beautiful Arizona home.
You can watch a preview courtesy of the Reelz Channel "Click Here"
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ubuntu-package-changelog can be used to get a changelog for a given Ubuntu source package.
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BLACKBURN, VICTORIA GRACE, journalist and author; b. 17 April 1865 at Quebec, fifth daughter of Josiah Blackburn* and Emma Jane Delamere; d. unmarried 4 March 1928 in London, Ont.
Grace Blackburn was born in Quebec City, possibly when her father, the publisher of the London Free Press, was there on political or newspaper business. After schooling in Hellmuth Ladies' College in London, she taught in the United States in the 1890s. She had begun writing in 1894 for the Free Press, then under the direction of her brother Walter Josiah, and in 1900 she became its literary and drama critic. She spent some time in New York studying criticism and in 1906-10 was in Europe with her sisters, immersing herself in cultural affairs. In 1918 she assumed the position of assistant managing editor, which she would hold until 1928. For three decades she was a leading figure in the cultural life of London. Her manner of commentary ranged from imperiousness, which she could turn on London (a city that "has not believed sufficiently in herself"), to firm appreciation, of such masterworks as Romney's paintings of Emma Hart, Wordsworth's poetry, and Venice's ducal palace.
Although nepotism can be reasonably inferred from Blackburn's career at the Free Press – her sister Susan May was also a staffer and a shareholder – a fair assessment of her output (often under the name Fanfan) would have to acknowledge her productivity and intellectualism. In addition to her criticism, she contributed essays, travelogues, editorials, and poems. The demands of daily journalism imposed some limits on her literary effort and gave occasion to such awkward items in the Free Press as her approving (but now embarrassing) description of Helen Keller in 1913 as the "High Priestess of the Blind" and her farewell in 1924 to Middlesex County writer Peter Gilchrist McArthur as "a son of the soil and a gentleman; such a gentleman as perhaps only a son of the soil can be. The immediate soil of which he was the son, is the soil of Canada." In a later account of Blackburn, Professor James Albert Spenceley of London credits her with stronger literary and lyrical sensibilities.
Blackburn produced, in addition to her work for the Free Press, dozens of poems, two known plays, and a novel. From her verse, some of it superficial, certain typical devices and themes emerge: sudden shifts from satire to tragedy, a gift for aphorisms, and a fondness for archaic language, exotic locales (Renaissance France for example), tortured aesthetes, and doomed love. Her two one-act plays, preserved in the University of Western Ontario Archives, are "Seal of confession," a drama set in a priest's home in France, and "The little gray," a farce set in a New York dress shop. The former explores Blackburn's motif of noble self-sacrifice; the latter shows her love of dialect, humour, and satire aimed at her own class; both are full of clumsy staging.
Blackburn's writing about World War I is superior to her other work. In "Christ in Flanders," one of the four poems by her included in John William Garvin*'s Canadian poems of the Great War (Toronto, 1918), the wounds of a female survivor resemble those of the crucified Christ. Her most successful endeavour, posthumously published, is The man child (Ottawa, 1930), which deserves renewed attention. Written about 1916, it begins in a fictionalized version of London and area during the 1890s and moves to the trenches of France, where the young Canadian hero, Jack Winchester, will be killed. Like many Canadian novels on the war, it explores the "right stuff" among volunteers and, resorting to popular symbolism, likens Canada to David fighting the Teutonic Goliath. The novel gathers force as the trials and triumphs of Jack's widowed mother give way to the imminence of conflict. Blackburn's love of drama is apparent in the way her characters articulate different points of view over the gathering storm. Striking too is the realization that her most intelligent characters appear, at first, appalled at the thought of England fighting its natural ally, Germany, and siding with dissolute France. Once the war begins, Jack and a friend leave medical school, whose dean plays a role in the story, to enlist. When the novel shifts to an epistolary mode, Jack's friend sends a letter home asking, "Do you remember that poem of Walt Whitman's the Dean is so fond of," and quoting from Whitman's "The compost." This may have been unusual content for a letter from the front but not for a novel set in London (where Richard Maurice Bucke*'s enthusiasm for Whitman was well known) and written by Blackburn (who gave a paper in 1916 comparing Whitman to Rodin). Following a scene with the two youths lost and under fire in No Man's Land, the closing line ("What rites! What obsequies!") sounds a Whitmanesque note. One of Blackburn's great friends, fellow Anglican and poet Robert Winkworth Norwood*, appears in the novel thinly disguised as the Reverend Norman Brooks. Like him, Norwood, the rector of Cronyn Memorial Church in London from 1912 to 1917, was a modern thinker and dynamic preacher who saw the war as an opportunity for everlasting peace.
Grace Blackburn's determination to honour Canada's war dead led her to support the proposed erection near London of a monument of perpetual light. Although her backing was not sufficient to raise the $10,000 it would have cost, she was involved in a more modest memorial completed in 1926. Tall, charming, and full of humour, she was active in London's theatre and many clubs and associations; she was a founder in 1910 of the local Women's Canadian Club and its president in 1918-19, and in 1921-23 she served as president of the London Women's Press Club. It is difficult from a modern viewpoint not to feel some scepticism about the grand claims made for Blackburn in her lifetime, but her intellect and commentary were much lauded. In 1916 J. W. Garvin praised her in an anthology as "a writer with a large brain and a big, warm heart: a twentieth century thinker, with the individuality of original thought and expression; a poet just beginning to realize her gift." In 1924 novelist Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer recognized her sharp critical sense. Such approval continued after her death. In December 1930 the London Advertiser (owned by the Blackburns from 1926) quoted the estimate of Canadian Homes and Gardens (Toronto) that The man child was "a very beautiful contribution to Canadian literature and perhaps to literature generally."
One of the few traces of Blackburn's contributions in London is the historical plaque outside the home at 652 Talbot Street where she lived for 16 years with three of her sisters. As a Canadian woman in the early 20th-century newspaper business who produced one good, interesting novel and had a strong command of vocabulary, Grace Blackburn may find new friends in this century.
Victoria Grace Blackburn is the author of Fanfan's poetry (the collected poetical works of Victoria Grace Blackburn), ed. E. H. Jones (London, Ont., 1967).
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Kristen Diane Parker, "Ms. Hepatitis C" appeared in federal court in Denver today for sentencing. She had a plea agreement for a 20 year sentence. The judge said no dice.
As part of her plea deal, she had to explain on video how she committed the crime.
Some new revelations came out in the video. One of the issues between the surgery patients at Rose Hospital and Rose is that Rose only has been willing to compensate patients who developed the disease if there is a 95% or greater chance their Hepatitis C came from Parker. Some of the patients who subsequently developed the disease appear to have a different strain. [More...]
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Kristen Parker, the hospital surgical tech infected with Hepatitis C, who stole syringes filled with Fentanyl intended for surgery patients, shot herself up, and then filled her dirty syringes with saline and replaced them on the rack in the OR, exposing thousands of patients to Hepatitis C and infecting at least 16, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Denver, agreeing to a 20 year sentence. Her trial was scheduled to begin Monday.
The plea agreement (which I just read but won't post in its entirety unless the MSM does) states the parties have agreed to a a 20 year sentence under Rule 11 ©(1)(c.) Her guidelines for the counts to which she pleaded guilty were 235 to 293 months. Had she gone to trial on just the counts she pleaded guilty to and lost, she wouldn't have received the 3 points for acceptance of responsibility and her guidelines would have been 324 - 405 months. [More...]
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Ms. Hepatitis C, Kristen Diane Parker, faces an additional 42 charges in the Indictment (pdf) against her that was returned today.
All of the new charges only cover Parker's alleged conduct at Rose and not her last employer, Audubon. Testing on patients continues, and more charges could come in later indictments.
Parker could spend the rest of her life in prison if she is convicted.
Background here.
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Ms. Hepatitis C, Kristen Parker, may face more charges. Turns out she worked at a hospital in New York before coming to Colorado. As a precaution, Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, NY is notifying 3,000 patients they should be tested.
No patient at Northern Westchester has been linked yet, but the health department is recommending that anyone who had surgery at the hospital between Oct. 8, 2007 and Feb. 28, 2008 to be tested for the disease.
Parker is being held without bond in Denver.
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CRS: Reconstruction Assistance in Afghanistan: Goals, Priorities, and Issues for Congress, February 26, 2003
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Title: Reconstruction Assistance in Afghanistan: Goals, Priorities, and Issues for Congress
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Author(s): Rhoda Margesson and Johanna Bockman, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Date: February 26, 2003
- Abstract
- Most observers agree on the need for substantial, long-term reconstruction and the need for international support for Afghanistan, but questions are raised about the funds required, the priorities, and the coordination necessary for this process. This report examines U.S. foreign aid to Afghanistan in the context of the international effort and explores the major issues for Congress.
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