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The Buckeyes are now No. 2 in the BCS, but none of it will matter unless Urban Meyer can win his 25th game in a row as OSU's head coach. For the first time, Ohio State will play in the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday night in Indianapolis. The Buckeyes would have to beat No. 10 Michigan State to stay in the national title argument.
As Ohio State's caravan of buses rolled out of Michigan Stadium just before 5 p.m. Saturday, it left Ann Arbor to a symphony of congratulatory horns.
By the time the team pulled into home in Columbus three hours later, its world had changed.
Suddenly the Buckeyes no longer were on the outside looking in at the national championship game. Ohio State players broke out in loud celebration when Auburn returned a missed field goal 109 yards to knock off No. 1 Alabama.
That loss, combined with Ohio State's thrilling 42-41 win over unranked Michigan, moved the Buckeyes to No. 2 in all the polls and, most importantly, the BCS rankings.
Florida State moved up to No. 1 in Sunday's BCS rankings, followed by Ohio State and then Auburn. Alabama is fourth and Missouri is fifth.
None of it will matter unless Urban Meyer can win his 25th game in a row as OSU's head coach. For the first time, Ohio State will play in the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday night in Indianapolis. The Buckeyes would have to beat No. 10 Michigan State to stay in the national title argument.
And Meyer isn't chiming in.
"Our focus is on this game, and that's it," Meyer said. "It would be a disservice to our players if I went about worried about it. We have to move the ball against a great defense. That's our focus."
Whether he intended to or not, Meyer used the same words as Auburn Athletic Director Jay Jacobs, who said it would be a "disservice to college football" if a one-loss Auburn was left out of the national title game in favor of an unbeaten Ohio State. He later said it would be "un-American."
Meyer kept his head down and seemed intent on grinding away on Michigan State.
"I have not seen enough teams to give my opinion," said Meyer, who casts a vote in the coaches' poll. "I feel very strongly about my team. I would take this team anywhere with me. A team that knows how to win and refuses to lose is a special team, and this is a very special team."
To remain special, though, Meyer and his coaching staff will have to fix some problems. Ohio State is facing a Michigan State team with the country's top-ranked defense. Spartans head coach Mark Dantonio, who was OSU's defensive coordinator when Ohio State won its last national title in 2002, plays a unique, gambling style press coverage that rattles quarterbacks with blitz pressure.
Buckeye quarterback Braxton Miller had thrown for more than 200 yards in his previous three games. But he completed just 6 of 15 passes for 133 yards, two touchdowns and an interception in the Michigan win.
"He's a very capable quarterback," Meyer said. "I do think we have to get back to it. In the second half (against Michigan), we were moving the ball on the ground. It wasn't his inability to throw, but we were dominant in the running game."
In that respect, the Big Ten has a prefect matchup on its hands. Ohio State is the conference's best offense.
Michigan State could get to the Rose Bowl even if it lost to Ohio State, which would end up in the national title game with a win most likely.
"I don't know," Dantonio said. "I'm not thinking about losing. We have to play to win. We're going to look at things we can control."
This is the first time in school history Ohio State is playing a game the week after an emotional win against Michigan. Meyer, along with the highest paid coaching staff in the conference, have to get the players focused on playing a better team than was Michigan in a game with much more on the line.
"That's what we get paid to do," Meyer said. "I have a lot of confidence in our coaches. We have to be the ringleaders for that. ... The coaches and our team leaders have to make sure there is no letdown."
Making matters tougher is Ohio State's defense gave up more than 600 yards to the Wolverines. Michigan State's offense struggled earlier this season, but it has found a quiet confidence.
This isn't Meyer's first conference championship game. He coached in the SEC title games when he was at Florida.
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Paul Monette's Becoming a Man; Half a Life Story won the National Book Award for biography. This Phillips Academy graduate lived in Andover, Lawrence, and California.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) � The U.S. Attorney's Office in Maine says it collected nearly $2 million in connection with criminal and civil cases it handled in the past fiscal year.
U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty II says about $1.1 million was collected in criminal actions and close to $603,000 in civil actions during fiscal year 2012. There was more than $200,000 in criminal and civil forfeitures.
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Love birds who have been married for years are here to recommit and celebrate their marriage by renewing their vows right on the sand.
"You continue to love and cherish him through sickness and in health," voice of the pastor.
There were 50 couples who gathered to say these sacred words that were once said before.
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Some couples who have been married for nearly 50 years gave words of wisdom.
"You just have to hang in there for the good and the bad," said Linda Diedrich who has been married for 47 years.
"And constantly love each other," said husband Larry Diedrich.
Some couples who are saying their vows again weren't able to do it in paradise during the first time, so they are thrilled to be able to do that now.
"We eloped, and we were never able to have that honeymoon and go to any exotic place and here we find ourselves 27 years later and we are in Hawaii," said BJ Heck who was standing next to her husband Jim of 27 years.
Some lovers brought their children to witness the ceremony.
"I liked Mommy's dress, she looks beautiful, " said Shelby Manning of New Jersey.
"As she always says, why wasn't I at your wedding and here we are almost ten years later and here she is," said Bill Manning, who has been married to his wife for 9.5 years. Their young daughter Shelby was visiting Hawaii from New Jersey for the first time.
Some sweethearts traveled far to savor the Aloha spirit.
"I know some people on the east coast may think it is corny but I try to explain to them what the feeling of ohana and true aloha is," said Mary Rudder who has been married to her husband John for 35 years.
And now it is time to seal the deal, once again.
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onions wrote:photoshop fail?
The Brain wrote:onions wrote:photoshop fail?
My thoughts exactly. But who knows, it may just be filler images? Though why they would be promoting series four without any sort of images is beyond me, so photoshop fail is more likely.
that guy wrote:(...) as well as the logical next color really should be red and not orange but I guess you never know.
Daz Hoo wrote:that guy wrote:(...) as well as the logical next color really should be red and not orange but I guess you never know.
Why OH why would it be red??? Is there a LEGO logical color line-up we should know about?
The Brain wrote:Well, your own theory was debunked by series three and the green color of the packaging. Last time I checked, the primary colors are blue, yellow, and red, and green is a component of the secondary colors.
Daz Hoo wrote:Mister Ed gets the point for pointing out the obvious explanation that we all never thought of.
infallible wrote:...and the elf will be the Spartan of S3, for sure.
that guy wrote:...right off the bat.
Mister Ed wrote:that guy wrote:...right off the bat.
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^ I guess it is a difference in interpretation of the translation. When I saw that she said the letter had 7 years with of rent in it, I thought it meant that he included the payment with the letter. However, I do believe that your interpretation is probably the more correct one.
Oh well, no more money for Lucy.
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I believe it included the 7 years' worth of payment, though idk how in the world Jude would have known. Maybe he knew he was dying and decided to do so or something.
The landlady said "i guess this is what they call foolish parents''.
Assuming Jude sent presents and letters every year the landlady can't possibly have read all of them so yeah ... Letter + 7years of rent in it.
i guess its up to our own interpretation.
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I think this episode helps illustrate how much sound adds to the story for me. I read it in the manga and it was sad and all, but it was much more powerful emotionally when i could hear it acted and the music went behind the scenes.
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WTB Kina arc please.
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As to which of those it'll be, various information about character's likely to appear in the filler have been surfacing in anime news for months, though sadly raw providers and scanlators rarely scan the anime news that often comes with manga chapters. Anyways, pretty much all of what's been mentioned appears to be represented in the new opening, and the official anime website has updated to reflect the current arc as being a filler arc, so we will be getting at least one actual multi-episode arc of unknown length.
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I watched the latest Episode, Im definitely liking the new Ending theme also as a filler episode i thought it was excellent! much better than the crap Naruto tries to pass off as interesting...
I also like how they brought back the original commercial transition sequence when Happy shows up with a full belly surrounded by fish bones, but so far im actually looking forwards to a new filler Arc, light hearted humor was originally what got me into watching fairy tail in the beginning.
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Wow, this filler arc might be quality:
- the enemies are the Earthland versions of the Edolar royal forces
- Kisara episodes?
- the jiggly butt gang from Rave Master
- Romeo + Natsu combo
- Gajeel is 100% tsundere
So far, so good.
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Well, the OP is probably still spoilerish, since it deals with things that haven't happened yet in the anime series. Obviously, this is non-manga stuff, though, so it's anyone's guess as to what might happen. Anyway, rather than comment on the episode itself (which was decent and amusing at points), I kinda want to comment on the OP and ED. Although I will say that at first I thought it was Evergreen who had snuck into the ball and was the girl who had approached Elfman. Was that an intentional misleading?
Both of them show Lucy holding something, and at one point, she looks to see an image of her father. In the ED, it looks like some kind of huge key, and there are clock imagery. Could this up-coming filler arc have something to do with Lucy and what her Father left behind? There is also some imagery in the ED that makes me think back to a couple of things that has happened in the current manga arc, which makes me wonder if this filler arc will provide some clues as to what the current manga arc is.
Spoiler for Spoilers for thoughts/speculation about how filler arc relates to current manga arc:
That said, I could just be trying to draw connections where there are none, heh.
Up next, Wendy joins the Jiggly Butt Gang? Looks to be another amusing one-off, and I suppose we'll get a few of those before going into an arc. I kinda want the next arc to start, because I want to see Kinana's story. Since she's featured in the OP, it looks like the arc might be partially hers as well.
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Interesting episode
I think it's the first time I've looked forward to a filler saga (especially what was hinted at the OP and ED about Lucy and her family)
Not too fond on the opening (they were the same group which sang the Fiesta opening, which I also didn't like too much) but I loved the ending
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But Wendy/Warren!? .... -_-;
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Since we are in the middle of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of May 68, the subjects will be the slogans from this period (" Élections, piège à cons !", "Faites l'amour, pas la guerre !", "Il est interdit d'interdire !", "Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible !", "L'imagination au pouvoir !", etc.).
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Mar 2008 20:39 UTC, submitted by irbis
"An Apple Mac was the first victim in a hacker shoot-out to determine which operating system is the most secure. A former US National Security Agency employee has trousered USD 10000 for breaking into a MacBook Air at CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest. The MacBook was lined up against Linux and Vista PCs - which have so far remained uncracked. Nobody was able to hack into the systems on the first day of the contest when contestants were only allowed to attack the computers over the network, but yesterday the rules were relaxed so that attackers could direct contest organisers using the computers to do things like visit websites or open email messages. The MacBook was the only system to be hacked by Thursday. Miller didn't need much time. He quickly directed the contest's organisers to visit a website that contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer, as about 20 onlookers cheered him on. He was the first contestant to attempt an attack on any of the systems." There is more bad news for Apple: "If you have Apple and compare it to Microsoft, the number of unpatched vulnerabilities are higher at Apple." Update: The contest is over. Vista got hacked using Adobe's Flash, Ubuntu was left standing.
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The product box was sealed with a sticker that was also in the German language, so I couldn't read what the seal said. I was relatively certain it just said something like "if you break this seal, you can't return the product." That is usually what a sealed software product says.
Fortunately the CD itself was multi-lingual. It even defaulted to US English during the install. The installation is fully graphical, and is extremely simple. I would even go so far to say it was the easiest OS installation I have ever seen in my life. I'm not going to say much about the installation process because I feel most articles spend way too much time talking about it. But I do have two quick things I want to mention.
1. As is usual, one of the first things you see during the install is the end user license agreement. I actually read the entire EULA. It's well written and easily understood. Being a huge open source advocate, I cringed when I read the part that said (paraphrasing) "you do not own the copy of the product you bought. You are only licensing the right to use it." That was to be expected though. The product is proprietary/commercial.
For the most part, the EULA was all common sense stuff. The only part of the EULA that I thought was strange was where it said that if you want to terminate your license agreement, you are required to destroy your copy of Zeta, and any backup copies that you might have made. That isn't the strange part. The strange part was the next sentence where it then says that you also agree to return the product to the company if you wish to terminate your license agreement. I thought it was odd that you had to destroy the product, and return it. Moving on...
2. The only complaint I had with the installer was that the partitioning tool was too basic. I decided to install Zeta to a hard-drive that previously had Linux installed on it. The partitioner would not delete my old Linux partitions. That was not a big deal (for me). I booted my Damn Small Linux mini-CD, deleted the partitions, and then restarted the Zeta install. I had no further issues with the installer.
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The first time I installed Zeta, I did a normal install (the path of least resistance. Fewest questions anyway). The vast majority of programs that were installed with the normal install were pretty terrible, to say the least, and made the menu system appear very cluttered (during a subsequent re-install, I chose the custom option and eliminated almost all of the programs).


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The REAL Story of the 47% "Moochers"
Editor's note: Teresa Ghilarducci and Rick McGahey are professors of economics at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis and The New School in New York City.
(CNN) -- Americans are not a nation of moochers and helpless dependents. Those who are not paying federal income tax would gladly do so, because it would mean they have a decent-paying job.
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is right that 47% of Americans don't pay federal income tax. But he is wrong to suggest almost half of Americans pay no tax at all and feel entitled to live off government handouts.
Romney said: "There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. But that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax."
It's true that some Americans don't pay federal income tax. But virtually all Americans pay some form of tax, whether it's sales, payroll, state income, or property tax.
Over 60% of those who don't pay income tax are working; they pay payroll tax, which goes to support Social Security and Medicare. Another 22% of those who don't pay income tax are the elderly; most of them don't work.
In fact, only about 8% of Americans pay neither federal income tax nor payroll tax, because they are unemployed, are students, or are disabled. What is missing from all this talk about tax is the fact that although the rich pay higher taxes than the poor, middle-class people actually pay a higher percentage of their income in total taxes. True, federal income tax rates are progressive, with rates going to 35% for the top earners. But deductions and special treatment of capital gains reduce actual tax rates for the top earners. So what we end up with is upper-middle-class taxpayers paying the highest actual percentage of their income, over 31%, according to a 2010 study by the group Citizens for Tax Justice.
The payroll tax for Social Security is 12.4% (split between employer and employee). It's highly regressive, because only the first $110,100 of income is taxed. CEOs earning over $35 million per year have paid their entire annual Social Security tax bill before the end of their workday on January 2, while regular workers see this tax deducted from every check throughout the year.
Billionaire Warren Buffett points out that he pays a tax rate of only 17.8%, compared with his secretary's rate of 35.8%. Why? Because payroll taxes are capped and he gets a lower rate on his capital gains.
President Obama pushed to pass the "Buffett Rule" to help reduce this disparity, but Romney's vice-presidential running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, opposed the rule, calling support for it "class warfare." As the Republicans use the term "class warfare," they also bring forth, pointedly, details on the wide gap in income and wealth distribution in our country.
Digging deeper into why 47% don't pay federal income tax, what we find are many former taxpayers: Twenty-two percent are the elderly, living mostly on Social Security, a benefit they got by working and paying payroll taxes. Others are unemployed or are paid close to the minimum wage, so they don't have enough income to file any taxes.
What about Romney's claim that these people believe they have a right to government assistance? Our research shows that over 50% of older people looking for work (but who are too young to collect Social Security) do not receive unemployment insurance or any other government assistance. They are living close to the poverty line with no help other than family.
Far fewer poor Americans get government assistance for low incomes. For the last 30 years, less than 4% of the U.S. population has received a full year's worth of payments, like food stamps, which are based on level of income.
Romney can choose whom he cares about, but he can't be allowed to choose his own facts and distort reality in service of divisive politics. Focusing exclusively on federal income taxes hides the fact that most Americans pay plenty of other taxes.
Finally, Romney says that the 47% can't be convinced to take "personal responsibility." Tell that to the single mother working the night shift to put her kids through school, or the 78-year-old widow living on Social Security, or the handicapped Iraqi war veteran who relies on government health care for his service to his country. Along with millions of working Americans, they are paragons of personal responsibility, not Romney's caricature of self-pitying victims seeking to live off government benefits.
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human909 wrote:I thought the more sensible answer was to claim the lane earlier. If the bike lane is ending then unfortunately it is usually up to you to merge appropriately.
Consider it from the motorist's point of view. I was driving along in my own lane when a cyclist merged into my lane next to me without even looking. He then had the nerve to bang like a lunatic on my window and insist it was my fault. I did nothing wrong, I was travelling at a constant speed in the centre of my lane.
(I'm not defending the motorist for a close shave. A good road user would have seen an up coming conflict and ensured that it did not occur, this applies equally to cyclists and motorists. The description given earlier suggests the rider did not check for oncoming traffic nor take action to ensure no conflict.)
What is he supped to do, disappear? The driver was jerk, plain and simple.


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2012 is coming to a close and I can't help but reflect on all that has happened this past year. It's really shown me all that I am capable of and it's truly allowed me to go after my dreams more than ever before. It's also made me realize that no matter what, I always find a way to make things work. I feel very blessed and thankful to be doing something that I love. I am appreciative every single day for all that I have, especially my guardian angel who continues to light my path. I am looking forward to all of the things that 2013 will bring. My only resolution is to continue to evolve and make all my dreams a reality. Thank you all for continuing to follow me on this journey. Your love and support means the world to me and I wish every single one of you the best in the new year!
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These Days formed in mid 2011 from a collective of various Salisbury bands (Dance karate, Drowned By Oceans and I Met Nature) and intend to see through 2011 with a bang. The band has already made great strides, putting out a well received two track release, a 6 track mini album and 3 music videos which accumulated over 20,000 views on YouTube. They're currently record their first full length album which is due for release in spring 2012.
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From the quiet restraint of the Regency buildings that line Edinburgh's George Street, you would never guess that a century and a half ago, this was the scene of a knitting revolution. Here the ladies of the city gathered to exchange "receipts," compare their successes with the latest stitch patterns, admire vibrant new shades of yarn, and purchase pins, embellishments, and notions. Fashionable and wealthy knitters beat a path to a shop at the street's West end, where their every knitterly want might be supplied. At number 63, they found Mrs. Jane Gaugain, author, designer and knitting entrepreneur, whose shop was the epicentre of the Victorian knitting revolution.
Jane Alison was born a tailor's daughter at the turn of the nineteenth century. She married a merchant with property on the edge of Edinburgh's Old Town who capitalized on the relaxation of trade after the Napoleonic wars by importing "Berlin wool, French blond lace," and "materials for ladies fancy work" to Scotland from the continent. Jane transformed her husband's shop into a thriving haberdashery. Business boomed, and by the mid 1830s, the couple was able to move to elegant commercial premises on Frederick Street, and later to George Street, at the heart of Edinburgh's New Town.
Jane was not merely a vendor of goods to the city's fashionable elite. She was a woman of shrewd business sense and literary ambition. During the decades of the mid-nineteenth century, the culture of knitting underwent a profound change, and Jane Gaugain turned this transformation to profitable advantage. While poorly paid rural workers in the English North and Scottish Borders still turned out stockings for necessity, a new generation of wealthy urban needlewomen had begun to emerge for whom knitting was about luxury and leisure rather than utility or labour. "They have borrowed this fashionable employment," remarked one Victorian magazine, "from the ladies of Germany," and indeed, the new Saxe-Coburg monarchy's fondness for Berlin wool meant that continental knitting was very much a la mode. Edinburgh's well-to-do knitters were less interested in warm durable stockings than they were in lacy tippets and elegant muffatees, so when they came to buy a few ounces of soft, fingering-weight Shetland or Merino from the stylish shop at 63 George Street, they also needed pattern instructions for the delicate shawl for which the yarn was intended. Jane Gaugain was there to provide all of this for them.
Jane had been writing and circulating patterns on request throughout the 1830s and in 1840, published the first volume of her Lady's Assistant in Knitting, Netting, and Crochet to immediate acclaim. The book was conveniently pocket-sized and the patterns were written using her own unique system of pattern notation—the first to be devised and widely used in Anglo-American knitting. "My method of explaining the receipts, though novel, has been found to answer the purpose completely," Gaugain wrote, "giving a simple and clear explanation by means of letters and figures, which are easily reduced to practice." Her Lady's Assistant included patterns for shawls, caps, purses, counterpanes, and a wide range of coloured and open-work designs. The style was crisp, easy to follow, and proved wildly popular. In its first year of publication, the book's list of eminent subscribers and patrons swelled to several hundred, and was headed by the dowager Queen Adelaide. "It affords me much pleasure," Gaugain wrote with no small degree of pride in the preface to her fourth edition, "that the reception [the book] has met with has exceeded my most sanguine expectations."
But not everyone in Edinburgh was excited by the fashionable knitting revolution. The same year that Jane Gaugain's Lady's Assistant was published, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine declared itself entirely scornful of new books that were:
written solely to instruct ladies in the pretty make believe industry, or elaborate idleness, of knitting all sorts of things in all sorts of crinkum-crankum ways. . . We deny any woman engaged in these knitting processes which must require constant counting of stitches and un-distracted attention, to enjoy her own quiet thoughts. The honeycomb stitch, the ladder stitch, the diamond knitting, the porcupine boa, and the double eyelet knitting are surely enough to drive any woman mad.
But despite Tait's predictable Victorian suspicion of the effects of complicated knitting on women's minds, the "madness" for Gaugain's patterns appeared to be endemic. Throughout the 1840s and 50s, she published numerous additional volumes, updated her shawls to accommodate the "Maltese" and "Swiss" patterns then in vogue, and produced several beautifully illustrated appendices to her Lady's Assistant. By request, she began to include charted paper and instructions for enterprising knitters to work out their own designs and added a mail-order service to her Edinburgh shop to meet demand. "The materials requisite for the various receipts in Mrs G's works can be forwarded by post to any part of the Kingdom," one advertisement announced. In Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Cranford(1851-53) , the village ladies (all keen knitters) take advantage of such offers, and are encouraged to buy Shetland wool by post from Edinburgh. Cranford's Miss Matty and Miss Pole might well have been buying Gaugain's yarn, and they would almost certainly have seen her Lady's Assistant It was the best-selling knitting book of the era, reaching a huge audience on both sides of the Atlantic, finally running to an impressive twenty-two editions.
Despite the immense popularity of Jane's books, her life was not particularly rosy. Her marriage was evidently unhappy, and by 1851 she and her husband lived apart. Only one of her six children (a daughter) survived to adulthood and Jane suffered for many years from tuberculosis, from which she finally died in 1860. Coloured by deep private suffering and sad deaths, her story perhaps seems a familiar nineteenth-century one. But far less familiar is the tale of a girl from humble beginnings who built a successful business in Scotland's first city, who popularised knitting for Edinburgh's fashionable classes, and whose innovative method of pattern writing secured her an international renown. Her books remain important documents of Scottish textile history, and continue to inspire contemporary designs—from intricate lace shawls to fabulous knitted pineapples. She is buried in Edinburgh's Dean Cemetery near the picturesque waters of Leith, whose steady flow once turned the wheels of the woollen mills that stood beside the river.
Gaugain's city remains a thriving centre of fashionable knitting today and Edinburgh is home to several successful young designers including Rachel Henderson, Jeanette Trotman, and Ysolda Teague. For Ysolda, Scotland's knitting heritage is a vital source of inspiration. "But the future of Scottish wool is just as important," she says. "It's crucial for designers to support independent producers, and to encourage knitters to care about the source of their materials, as well as the meaning and history of what they are doing when they knit." Ysolda's designs combine a respect for traditional Scottish techniques, with a very contemporary sense of process and connectedness, from the production of the yarn right through to the creation of the finished garment. In such thoughtful approaches to Scottish design and entrepreneurship, the spirit of Jane Gaugain survives.
Kate Davies would like to thank Ruth Churchman of the National Museum of Scotland, and textile scholar Naomi Tarrant, for generously sharing their work on Jane Gaugain.
Contributor Notes:
Kate Davies is senior lecturer in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century Literature at the University of Newcastle, UK. She loves writing, knitting, and walking, and (best of all) to combine all three. She blogs at http://needled.wordpress.com.


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So I've been trying to hold out until we sell our house and move to celebrate with a new start. But, I've been absolutely dying to start this one!
It's Salamander by Ian Daniels (you can google for a picture) and I broke the chart up to fit into this gorgeous black box I purchased. It's roughly 10x14 and 4.5 inches deep; so a nice size. It has a glass insert and cutouts for photos only I'm stitching my Salamander chart on a solid piece of fabric to match the cutouts. I took a permanent maker and with the glass in place, just traced around the inside of the cutouts (onto the glass)..... see the next picture.
Here's my Salamander by Ian Daniels piece. What you're seeing is the start of her fingers and arm. On top of this is her other hand/arm with all the sparklie stuff falling from her finger tips. I can't wait to get to the top of this box and start on the bottom of the butterfly! I just started this last Saturday (a week ago, 7/24).
This is the bottom left insert of the box top. Notice the glass piece with the pen tracing of the cutout shapes? These are easy to do and once I'm finished it can be removed from the glass with nail polish remover. If anyone wants to try a piece like this, just remember to start at the top and work your way down (if your starting at the top of your chart) LOL - that doesn't make much sense does it? What I mean is I was starting at line 1, column 1 of my chart so even though I had counted down and over and thought I knew exactly where to start on the bottom left, if I had made a mistake in my calculations then once I had started stitching and worked my way up to the top - I would have been stuck with no where to go and no chart to stitch to make up the difference. So, once I realize this, I started with the top box, line 1, column 1 of my chart and stitched down towards the bottom of that box then moved to where the box underneath started and that's where I resumed stitching from my chart until I got to the bottom of THAT box....then I started working my way over and up. It's a perfect match for the cutouts.
Monday, August 02, 2010
New start........
So I've been trying to hold out until we sell our house and move to celebrate with a new start. But, I've been absolutely dying to start this one!
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BOSTON -- Clinicians should pay attention when their older patients say their mental faculties have eroded, especially if they express concern about it, researchers said here.
Subjective reports of cognitive decline in patients with normal results on standardized tests appeared to be a risk factor for later development of clinically confirmed impairment, according to several studies reported at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference.
Among the specific findings:
- Participants in a longitudinal study of seniors with subjective memory complaints were 2.8 times as likely to progress from cognitively normal to either mild cognitive impairment or overt dementia, compared with otherwise similar individuals without such complaints, reported Richard Kryscio, PhD, of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.
- Among women in the Nurses' Health Study, those self-reporting declines in one or more types of memory function were at increased risk to show declines in performance on objective tests, particularly in carriers of the epsilon-4 APOE allele, whose rates of decline over time were similar to those of other cohort members who were 10 years older, said Cecilia Samieri, PhD, of INSERM in Bordeaux, France.
- An 8-year observational study in Germany found that, in participants with subjective memory complaints, scores on a word recall test declined faster than in those without them, with even sharper declines in those who said they worried about their cognitive function, according to Alexander Koppara, a PhD student at Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn.
But all the researchers emphasized that self-perceived declines in memory skills do not, by themselves, justify a diagnosis of cognitive impairment or initiation of treatment.
At a press briefing previewing their formal presentations, they agreed that such complaints should instead lead physicians to question patients more closely to determine whether the problems are unusually severe or progressive for the patients' age and situation.
"It is important that we do not give the impression that elderly subjects with a subjective complaint are on their way to Alzheimer's disease," said Frank Jessen, PhD, of the University of Bonn, who had outlined a framework for incorporating self-reported memory problems into clinical trial designs.
In light of these and other studies, Jessen said, physicians "should know now that subjective cognitive decline actually means something, there is a minor risk increase. Some years ago, these people were sent home saying there is nothing there, they are the worried well, or it was attributed to depression, which is not true."
Physicians could recommend lifestyle interventions to reduce further declines, he added, but more intensive diagnostic exams would not be appropriate, Jessen said.
Press briefing moderator Ron Petersen, MD, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said a patient report of subjective memory problems "would trigger a line of questioning: 'What do you mean, your memory is not quite what it used to be?' If this is a change for the person, a change in pattern, what types of things are they forgetting? If it's glasses, car keys, it's probably normal."
Rebecca Amariglio, PhD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, another investigator in Samieri's study, outlined the differences now generally accepted between normal forgetfulness in older people versus cognitive declines suggestive of neurodegeneration.
For example, difficulty remembering names of distant acquaintances is normal, Amariglio said. On the other hand, getting lost in familiar surroundings, forgetting important details of recent events, and having trouble following TV show plots would be considered abnormal.
The BrAINS Study
Kryscio's study involved the first 531 members of an observational cohort in the Biologically Resilient Adults in Neurological Studies (mean baseline age 73, SD 7), considered cognitively normal or not seriously impaired at baseline, who were followed for a mean of 10 years with annual cognitive evaluations. Participants were asked at each interview whether they had noticed changes in their mental function since the last visit.
A total of 296 indicated such changes at some point during the study. Of these, 42 progressed directly to dementia and 72 to mild cognitive impairment according to later evaluations. In contrast, of the 235 not reporting subjective declines, only 10 progressed to dementia and 33 to mild impairment.
Overall, about 73% of participants who developed mild cognitive impairment or dementia in the study had previously reported subjective changes in memory.
APOE4 genotype increased the risk of progression from subjective complaint to diagnosed impairment by odds ratios of 2.2 (95% CI 1.2-41 for mild impairment, 1.1-4.8 for dementia) compared with noncarriers.
Nurses' Health Study
Samieri and colleagues examined data from 3,861 participants in the Nurses' Health Study whose APOE genotype status had been determined. These women, mean age 74 (SD 2) at baseline, were telephoned and asked if they had noticed declines in performance in seven specific areas, ranging from their ability to remember short lists to trouble finding their way home or following group conversations.
Irrespective of APOE status, roughly 25% of participants reported no subjective complaints, 30% reported one, 25% reported two, and 20% had three or more.
Among APOE4 noncarriers, those endorsing problems in three or more of the seven categories showed significantly steeper declines in scores on recall of a 10-word list and on the East Boston Memory Test, both of which measure verbal memory, compared with those without any subjective complaints (P=0.009).
APOE4 noncarriers with three or more complaints showed rates of declines similar to those seen in participants without complaints who were 3 years older, Samieri said.
Objective test scores in APOE4-positive participants who had just one subjective complaint declined significantly more rapidly than those with no complaints (P=0.011), she said. In these participants, the rate of decline was similar to those seen in women 10 years older with no subjective complaints.
AgeCoDe Study
Koppara and colleagues (including Jessen) had followed a cohort of 2,230 participants in a study called AgeCoDe in which they were examined every 18 months for 8 years. At baseline, cohort members were cognitively normal according to standard tests (mean Mini-Mental State Examination score 28, mean age 80).
The baseline exam included a question translated to English as, "Do you feel like your memory is becoming worse?" Importantly, Jessen said, participants answering affirmatively were then asked if it worried them.
In this cohort, 989 did not report a subjective memory problem, 961 said they did believe their memory had worsened but were not concerned by it, and the remaining 369 reported the complaint and said it bothered them.
Sharp differences between the three groups were seen during follow-up in scores on the so-called CERAD tests of delayed and immediate recall, Koppara said.
For delayed recall, mean scores in the three groups were bunched between about 5.5 and 6. At year 8, the mean in those without the subjective complaint had declined by about 0.5 points, versus about 0.8 points in those with the complaint but no concern and about 1.4 points in those with the complaint plus concern about it (both P<0.01).
Results were nearly identical for immediate memory, Koppara said. On the other hand, no significant differences were seen for working memory or the trajectory of MMSE scores.
Jessen said that it would be important in the future for clinical trials to collect data on subjective complaints and to do so in a standardized way.
Past studies have varied too much in their definitions of such complaints to allow meaningful comparisons of results or pooled analyses, he said.
He argued that it would be vital to get a better handle on subjective cognitive decline as biomarker and therapy studies increasingly target so-called preclinical Alzheimer's disease. A well-defined and valid definition of subjective declines could help enrich the samples in these studies with participants who are likely to show progression.
Jessen also stressed that studies and data on subjective cognitive decline should not be confined to memory, since cognition covers a broader array of mental functions.
None of the studies had commercial funding.
Study authors and commentators indicated they had no relevant financial interests.
- Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE Instructor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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Alzheimer's Association International ConferenceSource Reference: Kryscio R, et al "Self-reported memory decline predicts mild cognitive impairment and dementia" AAIC 2013; Abstract P4-178.
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Alzheimer's Association International ConferenceSource Reference: Samieri C, et al "Subjective memory symptoms, verbal memory decline and the ApoEε4 allele" AAIC 2013; Abstract P4-198.
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Alzheimer's Association International ConferenceSource Reference: Koppara A, et al "Subjective memory impairment in healthy elderly specifically predicts decline in episodic memory over eight years" AAIC 2013; Abstract P4-206.


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Psychotherapist Mark Pfeffer's 30-something clients share a common source for much of their anxiety: marriage. They fret about finding the perfect person, losing their independence, being the last of their friends to be paired off. They want kids, yet look at the 50 percent chance of misery and don't like the odds.
As people wait longer to marry, set higher standards for a spouse and become increasingly comfortable with the idea of staying unhitched, they also suffer more anxiety around the marriage decision, said Pfeffer, who runs a group at his Panic/Anxiety/Recovery Center (beyondanxiety.com) for people with what he calls "unwed anxiety."
Some signs include preoccupation with all things marriage or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, workaholism to avoid the issue.
Pfeffer, who appears occasionally as an expert on the A&E show "Hoarders," offers some tips for coping.
--Accept yourself. If you believe it's OK not to be married, for now or forever, others will too.
--Define the core values and beliefs that drive you in life and figure out what you need to do to achieve your vision.
--Accept invitations. Going to events solo can build self-confidence. Invite others to your home to build a network.
--Surrender control, and let your life unfold at its own pace.
--Begin checking off items on your bucket list. Don't wait to find a soul mate to have adventures.
--Laugh, sing and dance whenever possible. It changes your body chemistry to feeling-good mode.
--Do something scary every day to prove to yourself that you can do it. Let yourself feel your fears about marriage (or not being married), and then let them pass.
--Keep a schedule to keep yourself busy, because that's something you can control. But don't overschedule to distract yourself from dealing with hard life decisions.
--Declutter your environment and mind of unwanted, unneeded stuff and people.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 19th Feb 2012 12:02 UTC
"The federal government has been paying lip service to the idea that it wants to encourage new businesses and startups in the US. And this is truly important to the economy, as studies have shown that almost all of the net job growth in this country is coming from internet startups. Thankfully some politicians recognize this, but the federal government seems to be going in the other direction. With the JotForm situation unfolding, where the US government shut down an entire website with no notice or explanation, people are beginning to recognize that the US is not safe for internet startups." Not an issue today per se, but if the US government keeps this up, they do run a risk of lobotomising their technology sector.
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Pediatric glaucoma is a rare condition characterized by damage to the optic nerve and usually caused by elevated internal eye pressure (or "intraocular pressure"). The optic nerve is responsible for sending vision from the eye to the brain.
Infantile or congenital glaucoma may be present from birth and is caused by problems in the development of the eye's drainage system. The elevation in intraocular pressure that results can damage the optic nerve and cause severe vision loss. Juvenile glaucoma occurs in children older than age three and is caused by other problems that can lead to increased eye pressure.


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He's not like his sister.
Temper is short with this one when he's sick.
Tolerance low.
He holds a grudge. Even against his own interests.
When he's like this I know bedtime will be a bear.
He growls and snarls and retreats into his cave.
I step into his lair, he tells me to leave through tears and recriminations.
He wanted me to read him a story ...
"But that moment's over," he snipes.
"Ok," I shrug. "Suit yourself."
I turn to go.
"WAIT! ... that moment's over, too. Here's my book. I'm up to 'volcanos.'"


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