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Here are fixes to the most common download issues:
Q. When I try to open the jpegs in photoshop, I keep getting a message that says "invalid jpeg marker".
A. On some Windows machines, using certain types of uncompression software, a duplicate "reference file" of each texture is created. These files are not textures, just text files your computer has made to document the download. The textures themselves are labeled with .jpg and the tutorial ends with .pdf.
Often, these "reference files" are at the top of the folder and you may need to scroll down to find the texture .jpg files.
JD Illumination Textures contains fifty .jpg files and one tutorial .pdf file.
JD Texture packs have a minimum of twenty-five .jpg files and one tutorial .pdf file.
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A. If the issue directly above isn't the problem, it's probably due to the fact that the file corrupted during the download process. It can happen depending on how busy ejunkie is on a certain day or how efficient your Internet provider's bandwidth is at the time of download. If you're locked out of downloads, simply contact me and I'll re-activate your link.
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Volunteers of America of Eastern Washington hosts a variety of unique events each year to raise awareness and funds to help our most vulnerable neighbors. Use the links below to get involved!
Speakers are available to make presentations about our programs and issues related to our work.
If you are interested in planning and hosting a fundraising event to support Volunteers of America or one of our programs, please review and complete our third-party events agreement:
Volunteers of America, Spokane's Annual Events
March 5, 2019
Mardi Bras!
Mardi Bras is a collaborative fundraiser between Hope House, a program of Volunteers of America, and Transitions' Women's Hearth.
Meeting the basic needs of the women and children we serve can be the start of a life-changing relationship. One of the most basic needs is a little embarrassing, undergarments. Getting access to bras and underwear that fit can be a challenge for women experiencing poverty or homelessness. Women living on the streets get their periods too. However, not only do they go through this uncomfortable experience they struggle just to meet their basic needs. Finding pads and tampons can be almost as impossible as finding bras and underwear.
But all of that changes Fat Tuesday, March 5, 2019 as we celebrate Mardi Bras!
September 12, 2019
Eye Contact
Fall event
Be a part of humanizing homelessness in Spokane. Attend a one-night-only art exhibit, Eye Contact, featuring art by homeless women and children in our community, hosted at the Washington Cracker Company Event Center in the Terrain art space. This art exhibit fundraiser directly supports Hope House Women's Shelter and Crosswalk Youth Shelter.
May 8, 2016
I Remember Mama
Make Mother's Day Special
This special Mother's Day luncheon makes a wonderful Mother's Day gift for your loved one when you send an elderly low-income or disabled woman to an unforgettable afternoon complete with fine dining, entertainment, flowers, gifts and companionship.
March 6, 2016
Jam for Bread
Jam for Bread is a benefit concert for Crosswalk, the Volunteers of America youth shelter.
Jam for Bread is a benefit concert for Crosswalk teen shelter's GED program featuring performances by local musicians in a coffee-house style setting at Westminster United Church of Christ.
December 14, 2015
Christmas Bureau
offering help and hope to thousands of needy families since 1945
Donations to the Spokesman-Review Christmas Bureau fund buy high-quality toys and books for needy families who can come to the bureau to pick out a toy and a book for each of their children for Christmas Day. In addition, each household receives a grocery-store voucher to stock the cupboards for the holidays.
November 14, 2015
National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week
Promoting the national endeavor to end hunger and homelessness
National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week is held each year the week before Thanksgiving. This is a time for us all to start to think about what we are thankful for, and a perfect time to share our compassion with our neighbors who are experiencing homelessness.

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This stylish square refrigerator magnet is decorated with a hand painted single stem Texas Bluebonnet wildflower & red ribbon bow. This single stem bluebonnet is from my Texana Collection. Each square magnet front is made of slip cast ceramics using a plaster mold for uniformity. The Texana bluebonnet bloom is hand painted and the surface of the magnet is finished in a non-toxic glaze. This hand crafted magnet is ready for use on refrigerators, bulletin boards with metal backs or any magnet friendly surface.
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1. Memberships are non-transferable and for the exclusive use of those individuals designated on the card. NOTE: Cards presented by non-members are subject to confiscation.
2. You membership is only to be used by the NAMED members. An adult member must provide proof of identity such as a valid driver's licence or other photo ID at the point of admission. The name on the ID must match the name indicated on the membership. You will be asked for proof of identity. If a visitor fails to produce ID the Management reserves the right to refuse entry - please help EVERYONE to avoid embarrassment by not lending your card to anyone else.
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7. Imaginosity, Dublin Children's Museum reserves the right to prevent or suspend visitation on days other than those announced for any reason, including, but not limited to, reasons of urgent repair or maintenance and acts of nature, without liability of any kind. We reserve the right to close the building to host private functions or for other events.
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The Myth: The PC Brigade have deemed Christmas to be offensive, so have replaced it with 'Winterval'.
The Truth: In 1997 and 1998 (only), Birmingham Council (only) used the term 'Winterval' as a marketing name for 3 months of seasonal festivities at their newly regenerated town centre, including Chinese New Year, Diwali (The Festival of Lights) and of course, Christmas.
This picture says more than an entire essay could:
That's 'Winterval' there in the bottom right hand corner.
THIS is what spawned off quotes such as:
"Now it seems, the secular world, which expresses
respect for all, is actually embarrassed by faith. Or perhaps it is Christianity
which is censored." –
Rev Mark Santer, Birmingham bishop
…which was followed by this:
"The pressure on Christians, however, is merely part of a far wider onslaught on Western culture through the hijacking or censorship of language.
Thus Christmas has been renamed in various places 'Winterval'".-
Melanie Phillips, Daily Mail
..and inevitably:
[sic] "Christmas is what it his, leave it alone England has to may PC mad people if you don't like it you can always leave!! move to another country end of the debate!!"
– A member of the Facebook group 'WE'RE NOT GOING TO CALL CHRISTMAS 'WINTERVAL'.
In November 2011, the Daily Mail retracted the lies after 13 years of stubbornly peddling them:
"A previous version of this article stated that Christmas has been renamed in various places Winterval. Winterval was the collective name for a season of public events, both religious and secular, which took place in Birmingham in 1997 and 1998. We are happy to make clear that Winterval did not rename or replace Christmas".
Fascinatingly, pigswithwings.org.uk managed to catch up with the man who coined the term 'Winterval' in the first place. Read on to hear his side of the story.
In conversation with Polly Toynbee of The Guardian re the long running Winterval Saga, she suggested that, as the originator of Winterval, I should stand up and put my name to it. So here I am.
I am Mike Chubb, as Head of Events for Birmingham at the time I invented the term Winterval (41 days and nights of festive fun!), fully supported by The Council and the cultural and business community. I am continually fascinated that the term Winterval, ever caused (and still does) such a furore.
Quite simply, as Head of events at that time, we needed a vehicle which could cover the marketing of a whole season of events…Diwali (festival of Lights), Christmas lights switch on, BBC Children in Need, Aston Hall by Candlelight, Chinese New year, New Years eve etc. Also a season that included theatre shows and open air ice rink, Frankfurt open air Christmas market and the Christmas seasonal retail offer. Christmas, called Christmas! and its celebration, lay at the heart of Winterval.
Political correctness was never the reasoning behind Winterval, but yes it was intended to be inclusive (which is no bad thing to my mind) and a brand to which other initiatives could be developed as part of The Winterval offer in order to sell the City at a time when all cities are competing against each other for the seasonal trade.
Each part of Winterval had its own marketing plan… the same as ,for instance the marketing of a brand whose sub brands (ie chocolate)have their own niche marketing.
I do believe that those who took umbrage did it for their own reasons, to sell their own message and of course, everybody got on to their own hobby horses in the process.
I am amazed that no-one could see the simplicity of The Winterval brand, but read into it what they wanted; to further and give voice to their own aspirations/prejudices. It is time for Birmingham to be proud of Winterval and stand up for an innovative initiative that befits an outward looking city.
However on the plus side thank you for keeping the Winterval campaign going and keeping Birmingham in the World's eye… what fantastic publicity.
To read more about the myth of Winterval, check out these links:
Kevin Arscott's extensive research into the myth's origins and its effect.


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The Nigeria Airways branch of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) at the weekend decried the delay of payment of N45 billion pension arrears owed them by the federal government.
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Kaduna state governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has delivered his polling unit to President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Governor Ayade excited over conduct of elections, voter turnout
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State yesterday in Obudu LGA(his home town) said he is satisfied with conduct of the just concluded Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections, describing the exercise and turnout as both peaceful and massive.
Violence: INEC to reschedule elections in Rivers, Lagos, Anambra
The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Saturday, said that it would reschedule elections in some parts of Rivers, Anambra and Lagos States where there were cases of violence and ballot box snatching.
PDP agent disappears as President Buhari wins polling unit with 523 votes
The agent of the Peoples Democratic Party assigned to President Muhammadu Buhari's polling unit 003, Kofar Baru III (A and B) Daura, Katsina State, disappeared from the unit shortly before the commencement of the counting of votes.
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns resigned from office on Sept. 20, reportedly to seek an open U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska.
In announcing the resignation, President George Bush said Johanns "brought focus and energy to the department," but was "serious about going home and possibly serving the nation in a different capacity."
Bush announced Johanns' resignation at a Rose Garden ceremony. He said Deputy Agriculture Secretary Charles Conner would assume the duties as acting secretary.
Several state officials said that Johanns is expected to seek the Senate seat being vacated at the end of next year by Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE).
Several officials criticized the departure of Johanns prior to Congress' completion of the new farm bill, a goal he said he wanted to reach by the end of the year. The current version expires Sept. 30.


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ISWiB is a meeting platform for young people with different cultural backgrounds; it is a place to get to know each other, establish new friendships and discuss various topics, from various points of view. Through close communication and cooperation, interactive lectures and workshops, students will be able to gain new knowledge and exchange ideas in the fields of PR & marketing, environmental protection, green economy, online media, youth activism, debate, theatre, NLP, graffiti, photography and filmmaking. Students will also have an opportunity to establish professional contacts with eminent professors and professionals from different fields and develop and create new projects by themselves.
Our goal is to establish international cooperation and contacts by creating a healthy working environment and enabling stronger bonds among domestic and foreign students. By promoting the idea of the "citizen of Europe" and "citizen of the World", we insist on embracing intercultural and European values and bringing them to a global level of mutual respect and understanding.
This year, the participants of ISWiB 011 can simbolically choose from the following 11 workshops:
- Debate
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- Youth Activism
Apart from these 11 workshops led by partner organizations, the educational program will include a panel discussion and open lectures dealing with the communication issues in modern society. As the goal of ISWiB is promoting idea of "Citizen of the World", not only through the exchange of knowledge, opinions and ideas, but also by making friendships, ISWiB 011 will be an opportunity for lots of cultural manifestations, day trips, and parties. Again, Country Fair and MTV concert will be central events of cultural program.
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Being an account of my wargaming activities, a few sailing
stories, some beer related anecdotes, what music I'm listening to....
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Being an account of my wargaming activities, a few sailing
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Blimey - I won something...!
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I love this poem. It's from a yogurt commercial!
From deeply depth in the sea of same,
Plain broke free from the same old same.
Plain will never be the same.
"With nothing to lose and the world to gain,
Plain arched its back and did proclaim.
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The Garra Rufa (doctor fish) is a species of fish that has historically been used for the treatment of psoriasis; ie the eating of dead skin off a human patient.
In Thailand, it is popular for streetside massage parlors to set up tanks of these tiny fish to give tourists 'pedicures'. Last night, the Khalerias, along with our friend Chris, checked out a spa for a fish treatment.
Click the link here to see us being eaten alive by the garra.
Verdict: I hated it. Gross. Disgusting. Ew.
(Thanks to Chris for letting me link to his website for pictures. Im currently having technical difficulties with my photos, but will be back up and running in a day or two…)


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"His soulmate was a little warrior woman; a valkyrie, even. Nick wasn't ashamed to admit he watched with pride and a small amount of sick satisfaction as she sent men twice or even three times her size flying into walls, furniture, floor or ceiling with ease. Those that were still alive when she moved on he easily moved his gun to and put the poor, stupid bastards out of their misery."
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As per the customary convictions of the Native American Innu individuals, spirits address the living. Some discussion through drums. Others come to us in dreams. Also, one of them, Matshishkapeu, addresses us through farts. Matshishkapeu, the Innu stated, addressed them "with awesome recurrence"— particularly when men were distant from everyone else without ladies. (more…)
America's Independence and Foreign Soldiers
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The last clash of the American Revolution wasn't on American soil. It was in India. In the eighteenth century, correspondence was a long way from moment, thus the men battling on the opposite side of the world had no clue it was over.India had been a battleground for the American Revolution throughout the previous five years of the war. (more…)


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I try to make you laugh – circling you with tales, like some jester.
You are waiting patiently for me to settle, secure.
It takes a while…you pour and sit me outside, I do me better there.
The air is still warm, summer's sun hangs on long this far south.
My stories slow and enter valley places.
Your eyes never leave mine in doubt or distraction.
My voice breaks during a tiny scene of redemption in a drama of debt and death.
You ask me questions, eager to know more, this is a CSI case, not my confession of ineptitude and disgrace.
And suddenly, it seems to me, mine is story in search of a telling…a yarn of wonder, not a noose.


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Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Spoiler alert: the best part of this episode is when Fed says "I'm sure he's fine." That won't make any sense to you until you hear it, but trust me, it's just great. Other highlights: Brian talks about the time he was nearly murdered by mice, and Dan admits that he doesn't know how to pronounce "bruschetta," and also that he nearly burned down his hometown as a young man. Please enjoy the finale of Episode Twenty-Three of Dan Wakes Of Screaming.
Music Credits:
"Many Happy Returns" by Guillaume Tucker
"Octopussy" by Juanitos
"Ride My Tempo" by Fhernando
"On Fire" by Jasmine Golan
"Popcorn House" by The Immaculates
"Comme un Popcorn dans une Marmite [Like Popcorn in a Pot]" by Miss Emma
"Flags" by The Spits
"Future Fetish" by Onyx System
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I have a new nephew! Tyler Jackson was born last week! Chris & I will be going to NY this weekend for a good friends wedding. So we will also get to meet our new nephew. My sister-in-law asked me to make Thank You stationery for Tyler. She choose the owl design. I just wanted to share with you a few stationery designs I have for Babies.
You can see more of Cut the Cake Design's Baby Stationery here.


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Creative Warehouse – we have a fully equipped pre production division which is one of the best in research & designing new innovative concepts, scripting, story boarding, dialogues and all the pre planning essentials for any and every project.we call it creative warehouse because we work continuously towards hatching new ideas by nurturing and maturing the same which makes us readily available with variety of concepts and ideas with ready projects. LSCA Stands For light Sound camera and action – an activity which are the most essential ingredients of every project at its production stage
A team headed by specialist and stalwarts from their own field who have the sound technical background. Perhaps one and the only production company which is having every thing of its own be it's creative men, equipments, technicians,studio or all sort of resources required during execution.
For this division innovation comes out of experimentation and one can get the liberty to do so when fear of loosing is gone, people can and always go an extra mile while delivering their best.
DCFC :- This is our post production division which is better known as digital canvas fabrication centre. Here we have the best of talent who help us in colouring our digital canvas with different hues and shades, to have the best and latest edit studio, equipped with the latest technology and equipments, which include a speciised DI setup, we won't hesitate in boasting that we have one of the most latest and beat setup in brother India. One thing is instant and that is we upgrade and update our this DCFC regularly sine this is what help us in fabricating every single project by constantly bettering our best.
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Presidente Oscar and the Flu
While President Oscar Arias seems to be recovering from the swine flu, us other mortals that did not yet get the originally deadly disease wonder: when will it come at us? And possibly kill us? Because if I re-read those original warnings by the World Health Organization and so, hmmm, I should be dead by now.
Well, despite of his asthma, it seems that Mr. President will survive the influencia he caught. Somewhere. This shows us that even neoliberals can catch the same diseases as any average mortal. Then again, Oscar Arias is not just your average neoliberal guy. He's a neoliberal guy with a nobel price in his pocket. One might say that Arias being nobel prize laureate in 1987 is controversial, but still, he definitely did contribute to Central American peace efforts in the 80's. And he also promoted Costa Rica as a haven of peace… in a way… having no army and all. But then it turns out he's just another neoliberal striving to secure the domain of multinational companies who are filling each other's pocket with silver and gold. Oh, and didn't that sort of overturn the Costa Rican constitution, that a former president can be reelected? That wasn't in the book.
To make a long story short. Oscar will live! And he's not just another neocon. He's a neocon with a nobel prize. In peace. Goddamn!


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Card Name: Archfiend of Depravity
Card Color: B
Mana Cost: 3BB
Type & Class: Creature – Demon
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Flying At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures he or she controls, then sacrifices the rest.
Flavor Text: Why would I kill you all? Who then would be left to worship me?
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ICGN London Conference
7 December 2016, 7:30AM - 6:00PM, GMT
The Value of Audit conversation continues at the International Corporate Governance Network's (ICGN) London Conference on 7 December 2016. This conference is a joint event with the International Integrated Reporting Council with a focus on long-term value creation. More details to follow on the KPMG hosted sessions.
More details to follow.
For more information, visit the ICGN London Conference website.


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Find out everything you need about keeping your caravan safe and secure. Plus, check out the handy guides on caravan maintenance, safe towing and driving tips to make your caravan journey the safest possible.
Towing guide
Towing is the process of coupling one object to another, so that one object is pulled, drawn or dragged by the other. This guide covers everything you need to know about towing safely and improving your towing skills.
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Tyres guide
Tyres are an important safety component on any caravan. Refresh with this must-have guide to caravan tyres.
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Whether you're driving on dirt, sand or the open road, this guide has some helpful advice on improving your drive on the road.
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Reduce the chances of a drama on a caravan trip by taking some basic safety and maintenance precautions.
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A snowboarding documentary following a group of riders as they explore the state they grew up in, Wyoming. Close to Home is about the people they meet and the hills that surround them.
"It's blues music, it's country, it's punk rock. Anybody can pick up a guitar and go do it. Anybody can hit up their friends and be like, 'lets go just a couple hundred miles away'. You know? We don't have to go overseas or anything, but lets just use our snowboards as an excuse to go see some shit and to go have an experience, and keep it simple. And that's kinda like what this whole trip was about for me."
-Willie McMillon


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Phill Jenkins wrote: > > > My point here is that there are some immediate bugs in screen reader > behavior that could be fixed. Simple examples like: > Accessibility > should not be pronounced as though it were written: Acc e ssibility > (ie, as three distinct words). > But there are also some missing specifications from the WCAG, UAAG, > and HTML & CSS specifications, and more importantly, a missing > specification that describes the way for the author to specify how to > pronounce words that have all this nonstructural markup in the middle. > Geoff wrote: > If SPAN element is empty of attributes ignore > else apply rules appropriately. > What rules? If  element has some visual styling, should it be > ignored? How should it be ignored? Should bold's be ignored, but > underlined's be spoken after wards? Where is that a rule - or best > practice written? > Logic; If SPAN element is empty of attributes ignore applying any formatting, as it carries no structural meaning in itself. If the attributes LANG or DIR are applied in this instance I can't see a valid case for their use, and in this case the developer is going to throw up an unexpected exception for the user agent to handle. Such a case should never be implemented by the web developer IMHO. If the attributes CLASS or ID are applied they should still not effect the screen reading of the text, unless there is some audio.css instructions, also something I can't see why it would be implemented by the web developer. What I don't know is that even if the screen reader didn't have a problem with reading a word with an inline SPAN element, how it would communicate via the screen reader the presence of the accesskey. That could be a problem. I'll have to test it. Still, IMHO, this is a bug in screen readers. I don't think anyone should be using  as they are deprecated. ---------------- Geoff DeeringReceived on Monday, 9 January 2006 20:08:19 UTC
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May This Year Of The Fire Pig
Bring You Insight, Awareness,Prosperity And LoveMay You Find Fulfillment And Inspiration.
February 18th, 2007 is celebrated amongst Tibetans as the beginningof the Fire Pig Year.
As in most cultures this represents a time to pacify and remove left-over negativity
and to look to the future rejoicing in the universal quality of giving life a fresh start.
Tibetans believe that if you want good circumstances,
you need to establish good conditions yourself
so they engage in rituals concerned with inspiring a creative attitude,
to establish a basis for a good new year.
Hla Gya Lo
Hla Gya Lo
Hla Gya Lo
(Victory to Enlightened Mind)
"May I become at all times, both now and forever,
A protector for those without protection.
A guide for those who have lost their way…
A ship for those with oceans to cross;
A bridge for those with rivers to cross;
A sanctuary for those in danger,
A lamp for those without light.
A place of refuge for those who lack shelter,
And a servant to all in need."
Prayer of His Holiness the Dalai Lama


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In just two weeks it will go to print. A new kind of newspaper created in cooperation with high school students in Sundsvall, Sweden. A newspaper, not the way we might do it, not the way our editors might do it and not the way our designers might do it.
Well – it´s so far just a prototype. But who knows, it can be out on the streets faster than our students have dreamed of.
Read about the background at my earlier posting "Newsprint for young readers".
It has been a interesting project, running for about six month. And September 17 it will go to print, on the most modern printing plant in Sweden, MittMedia Print outside Sundsvall.
What will it look like?
What will the content be?
I´ll write more about that later, but first I have promised my friends in SND to present this prototype at the SND congress in Cleveland October 12.


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Athens In the posh hotel they occupy, far from the bleak, sun-baked desert that is the main Olympic complex, there must have been a whole bunch of champagne corks popping last night.
The members of the International Olympic Committee knew they had dodged a bullet, perhaps more literally than anyone dare imagine. They awarded the gargantuan Summer Games to a small, poor country, hoping to play off the romantic notion of returning to the origins both of the Ancient Olympics and of their modern revival, while polishing their own tarnished image.
In every practical sense, it was a lousy idea. Athens became a perpetual headache, with construction delays, with political inertia and with the growing sense that the country simply lacked the will and resources to get things done. Up until two weeks before the opening ceremony, there were doubts about half-constructed venues, transportation snafus, climate, pollution and security.
Somehow, it came off pretty much without a hitch (though the pre-Games foul-ups clearly drove away thousands of spectators, both foreign and domestic). The traffic moved. The air was breathable. The sports venues were adequate. The people were friendly. And the terrorists, scared off or simply holidaying, didn't blow anything up.
If that was the product of massive, last-minute cash infusions or dumb luck, or if, as the local residents insist, it was just the Greek way of doing things, no one is sweating the fine points now.
The IOC can pack up and return to Lausanne, leaving the Greek people, their children and probably their grandchildren to savour the memories, to celebrate their triumph, to wallow in national pride and to pay bills that no one dares calculate yet.
Not that the keepers of the Games are entirely carefree today. The doping issue remains a huge threat to the Olympic product, which requires a veneer of wholesomeness to go with a collection of sports that aren't easily marketable unadorned by the rings. But the IOC proved here that it could push the issue, that it could endure the embarrassment of high-profile, cheating athletes, and that the Games wouldn't necessarily sink under the cynicism that positive tests naturally produce.
Meanwhile, there's apparently trouble on the horizon. While watching an event the other day, a highly ranked Canadian Olympic official mentioned that the next Games, the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, could well be a mess because of sponsorship shortfalls and precarious funding. With the travails of Athens understandably having been the focus, no one has been paying much attention to what comes next.
Still, as other outposts of the sports and business colossus are entering an inevitable period of decline, the Olympic franchise seems more than capable of surviving another organizational blip. Even if the returns from Athens in terms of television viewership are disappointing in some quarters, even if Turin is a struggle (and would be without National Hockey League players, as seems a real possibility), the Games look rock-solid into the next decade, if for no other reason than location, location and location.
Even while the Athens Olympics were taking place, it was difficult not to think of Beijing in 2008, as China pushed to second place in the medal standings, winning in sports where traditionally the Earth's most populous country hadn't been a factor. They had a hurdler match a long-standing world record, they won a gold medal on the tennis court and they got a first-ever medal in boxing, a sport banned for 30 years after the revolution because even its amateur incarnation was considered decadent and bourgeois.
When the Olympics arrive in China, there will be no organizational issues. There will be no construction issues. In fact, the IOC has already suggested they slow down a little so that the venues aren't ready too far in advance. You won't hear anything about cost, there will be little talk of security and the trains will run on time. It will be big, perhaps bigger than any Summer Games in history, and be sure that the home team plans to come out on top.
Games in distant time zones can be tricky for North American television viewing. But the possibilities of the Chinese market will more than compensate the IOC for any loss of interest.
Two years later, the much smaller Winter Games will arrive in Vancouver, where it is hard to imagine empty seats, or incomplete venues or any real hassles, outside of the drive to Whistler. It is assumed that the NHL, however its labour war is finally resolved, will want to be part of the mix in North America. And Canada, primarily a winter sports country, should be able to bask in the success of its curlers, skaters, skiers and hockey players without undergoing a national crisis of confidence.
The big prize, though, will be awarded next summer, and this is where the IOC has bought itself a hefty insurance policy against whatever economic or political pitfalls lie ahead. They could go out on a limb, as they did with Athens, and award the Olympics of 2012 to Africa (though the F�d�ration Internationale de Football Association, soccer's world governing body, beat them to the symbolic punch by putting the 2010 World Cup in South Africa). Instead, the candidate cities for 2012 are big, rich and glamorous: Paris (the odds-on favourite), London, New York and Madrid. Even the potential chaos in New York, a long-shot candidate now, would be balanced with the glamour and excitement of the place. There isn't a losing proposition in the bunch.
In the meantime, the IOC may do some fine-tuning, reducing the number of events in the Summer Games, demanding that some of the judged sports clean up their act.
They can do so, though, understanding that the foundation is strong, secure in the knowledge that they survived the great sentimental roll of the dice.


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Avoiding Denervation of Rectus Abdominis in DIEP Flap Harvest II: An Intraoperative Assessment of the Nerves to Rectus
by Rozen W, Ashton M, Kiil B, et al.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery:Volume 122(5) November 2008 pp 1321-1325.
Background: The deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap aims to reduce donor-site morbidity by minimizing rectus muscle damage; however, damage to motor nerves during perforator dissection may denervate rectus muscle. Although cadaveric research has demonstrated that individual nerves do not arise from single spinal cord segments and are not distributed segmentally, the functional distribution of individual nerves remains unknown. Using intraoperative nerve stimulation, the current study describes the motor distribution of individual nerves supplying the rectus abdominis, providing a guide to nerve dissection during DIEP flap harvest.
Methods: Twenty rectus abdominis muscles in 17 patients undergoing reconstructive surgery involving rectus abdominis (DIEP, transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous, or vertical rectus abdominis musculocutaneous flaps) underwent intraoperative stimulation of nerves innervating the infraumbilical segment of the rectus. Nerve course and extent of rectus muscle contraction were recorded.
Results: In each case, three to seven nerves entered the infraumbilical segment of the rectus abdominis. Small nerves (type 1) innervated small longitudinal strips of rectus muscle, rather than transverse strips as previously described. There was significant overlap between adjacent type 1 nerves. In 18 of 20 cases, a single large nerve (type 2) at the level of the arcuate line supplied the entire width and length of rectus muscle.
Conclusions: Nerves innervating the rectus abdominis are at risk during DIEP flap harvest. Small, type 1 nerves have overlapping innervation from adjacent nerves and may be sacrificed without functional detriment. However, large type 2 nerves at the level of the arcuate line innervate the entire width of rectus muscle without adjacent overlap and may contribute to donor-site morbidity if sacrificed.
Here's my take....
The long and the short of it is that for DIEP flap surgery to be considered successful several things need to happen (in my opinion):
1) the tissue (flap) transferred to the chest to create the new breast must survive. ie the new breast must live. Obvious.
2) the patient must not suffer any ill-effects from removal of the tissue ("flap") from the abdomen. This is what we call in the trade "donor-site morbidity". Abdominal bulging, hernia and significant loss of muscle strength fall in this category.
3) the patient must be happy.
Number 1 is obvious.
This article addresses number 2. Ideally, other than the scar, the patient's abdomen must recover completely from the surgery and suffer no long-term problems for the surgery to be deemed a full success.
Preserving all the patient's muscle is not enough if the nerves supplying it have all been cut. A muscle without a healthy nerve supply will lose it's tone, strength and function. If the DIEP surgeon does not take great care to identify and preserve the muscle's nerve supply, the risk of abdominal bulging will increase significantly and the muscle-preserving benefits of the procedure will essentially be lost.
The importance of choosing an experienced DIEP flap surgeon cannot be understated. I have heard of some patients (indeed some of mine too) entering the consultation with their DIEP flap surgeon having already decided they will be getting a DIEP flap and nothing else.
This can be a dangerous game to play. Here's why: in rare instances, patients may not have the appropriate anatomy for a DIEP flap. The most likely reason for this in our experience is prior abdominal surgery. Though this happens rarely in experienced hands, we do see it on occasion. Trying to "force" a DIEP flap out of a patient who does not have favorable anatomy requires more muscle dissection and can actually increase the risk of nerve damage. This can increase the risk of abdominal complications: loss of muscle tone, decreased muscle strength long term and abdominal bulging. In these situations, some patients may be better served by a muscle-sparing type 2 free TRAM flap which removes a very small, postage-stamp sized piece of muscle but still preserves overall muscle function.
As long as you have chosen an experienced microsurgeon specializing in these procedures, chances are extremely high you will indeed get a DIEP flap. However, your anatomy and previous history are the deciding factors. Your surgeon didn't give that to you, he just has to work with it.
Dr C
Dr Chrysopoulo is a board certified breast reconstruction surgeon specializing in DIEP flap breast reconstruction surgery. He and his partners perform over 350 DIEP flap procedures each year with a success rate of over 99%. PRMA Plastic Surgery, San Antonio, Texas. Toll Free: (800) 692-5565.


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Skyfox is a 1984 action computer game developed by Ray Tobey and published by Electronic Arts. Ariolasoft published the game in Europe. Originally developed for the Apple II, it was ported to the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and Macintosh in 1985 and to the Amiga and Atari ST in 1986. The game was produced by Stewart Bonn, and Richard Hilleman also supported Ray Tobey's work; both would later become high-ranking EA product development executives.
In this game, the player pilots the Skyfox, the most advanced attack fighter plane available to the fictional government, the Federation. The plane's armaments consist of radar guided missiles, deflection shields, laser cannons, heat-seeking missiles and a top speed of Mach 4. The gameplay consists of fighting tanks, enemy planes and the enemy motherships. The game has a total of 15 scenarios and 5 skill levels.
Featuring a view from the cockpit of the jet, this game is recognized as popularizing this view. The cockpit featured radar which showed incoming missiles and other threats. Flying above the clouds, the player fights hordes of enemy planes. Flying below them, the player is attacked by enemy tanks. Hailed upon its release, most criticisms of the game cited repetitive gameplay as the only drawback.
The game was followed by a sequel, Skyfox II: The Cygnus Conflict, set in space.
Tobey thought a player could get bored flying an advanced fighter plane, and might want to play a game. Consequently, he incorporated a Space Invaders game into Skyfox as a hidden Easter egg. Pressing Ctrl-G while flying activated the Space Invaders game.
Source: Wikipedia, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfox," available under the CC-BY-SA License.


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Bio-Hacker's Liquid Spray Can Erase Your DNA
"Don't be tracked, analyzed, or cloned."
A new liquid spray can erase anyone's genetic trace. Brooklyn artist and bio-hacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg created this product, which consists of a cleaning agent and a mixture of foreign genes, in order to prevent discrimination based on genetic conditions.
Dewey-Hagborg is a self-proclaimed "bio-hacker," a group of amateur scientists who perform biological experiments without the use of a standard lab. She worked out of Genspace, a community biology lab in Brooklyn, New York. Bio-hackers have received attention for performing extremely advanced experiments; last year, a team created a glow-in-the-dark plant by splicing the plant's genetic material with that of bioluminescent bacteria. Another bio-hacker is working towards creating a plant species that could survive extremely high doses of radiation that could possibly contribute to our colonization of another planet.
When Dewey-Hagborg began her own bio-hacker project, she was able to replicate the faces of complete strangers by examining pieces of gum or cigarette butts that she picked up off of the sidewalk. Although these replicas were not identical, they had what she called "a family resemblance." Shocked by the amount of information that she could learn from a small amount of trace DNA, she was inspired to create the Erase spray. She imagines that people who suffer from genetic conditions will buy this product in order to spray it around their workplace.
"I became really fascinated with this idea of genetic privacy... When anyone anywhere can do this kind of work and look at your DNA, this becomes a necessary part of life."
Multiple studies have indicated that we should, in fact, worry about our genetic privacy. In 2013, a genetics lab at MIT identified individuals who had been anonymous DNA donors by cross-referencing their genetic profiles with information from genealogy databases that is available to the public. In 2009, Israeli scientists published research asserting that modern technology not only allows almost anyone to sequence a person's DNA and discover all kinds of personal information, but also allows for the average biology major Joe to produce DNA: "It turns out that standard molecular biology techniques... enable anyone with basic equipment and know-how to produce practically unlimited amounts of in vitro synthesized (artificial) DNA with any desired genetic profile." Considering our legal system's dependence on DNA evidence, this has a frightening amount of potential for framing suspects of crimes such as rape and murder.
In 2006, a master's candidate at the Centre for Forensic Science in the University of Western Australia demonstrated that evidence at crime scenes could be manipulated by spraying it with foreign DNA. While this study reinforces the notion that individuals should be concerned about issues of genetic privacy, it also reminds us that this new liquid spray could easily be abused. Dewey-Hagborg's intentions seem to be benevolent, but her invention could allow criminals to erase their trace DNA from crime scenes, which would be just as damaging to our legal system as DNA manipulation.


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Arsenal are well known for producing quality talent in their academy and judging by this video, they've got another star in the making.
Under-12's player Omari Hutchinson is a real prospect and genuinely looks as skilful as many Premier League players.
The video, produced by The F2 Freestylers, shows Hutchinson demonstrating his raw quality in game situations as well as up close.
It's unfair to put any pressure on the young lad, but Arsenal fans will struggle to not get excited by him on this evidence.
Here's the full video:
MORE: Watch: Arsenal star expertly trolls Spurs


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Let's plug a new event and support all people and bikers of Louisiana.
The streets of downtown Baton Rouge will rumble with the sounds of motorcycles as the first ever Red Stick Rally takes place along the Mississippi River, Halloween weekend, October 28-30, 2011. On the not so scary activities list: on-stop live music, great Louisiana food and drink as well as dozens of vendors, hundreds of great looking bikes, a strongman competition, Halloween costume contest, pokers runs and guided rides. Front Street from the river center to Florida Street will be blocked off to provide VIP motorcycle parking and access to the event. Every rally goer has a chance to win a 2012 Harley-Davidson Dyna provider by Baton Rouge Harley and Hollywood Casino. And of course a big bike show with fellow Louisina Custom Builder Ivy Trosclair as main judge to award $1000 in cash plus a nice trophy to the Best Of Show.
Brett Kellerman who has been actively involved in Las Vegas Bike Week for a number of years and a Louisiana native says, "It is time to bring a world class motorcycle event to Louisiana and there could be no better venue than along the Mississippi River in downtown Baton Rouge." "Mayor Holden and Paul Arrigo and his staff have been working with us for months to see that this event provides a pleasant and positive experience for the riders who come to enjoy the Baton Rouge Riverfront and all that the city of Baton Rouge has to offer and the local citizens as well." For vendors, The Red Stick Rally is also an excellent opportunity to make some money on the way back from Daytona Biketoberfest and on the way to the Texas Lone Star Rally. For more information contact: Reyn Mansson at: 210.259.9916 or visit Red Stick Rally.


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I have always wanted a Gallery Gun, but not that interested in .22 Shorts only, so Henry solved my Problem. I have a Henry Octagon Barreled Pump Gallery Gun coming. Since I have a few regular .22 RFs and a .17 HMR, but no .22 Magnum, that is what I ordered it in. Looking forward to playing.
On the more accurate side, I am awaiting a Cooper 57M TRP .22 LR Bench Rest gun to play with while Gordon Eck is building my new one on a Stiller 2500X Action. My first rifle with a tuner.


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August 17, 2009 in appetizers, breakfast / brunch, salad, vegan, vegetarian • 4 comments
what to do with fresh blueberries
I have a confession to make.
I cannot bring myself to bake or cook with fresh berries.
Why not? Their season is so short, it seems such a waste to transform them with heat, when frozen berries will do the job just as well. And you can whip out frozen blueberries in the dead of winter, anytime.
But fresh berries in the dead of winter? You know they're out of season, so they're being shipped thousands of miles, and hey! *snaps fingers* we're trying to eat more local here. In that process of being shipped across continents, they're losing freshness and flavor, and won't be worth much fresh anyway, in my opinion.
Why not practice a more seasonally-aware cuisine? Gorge on fresh when it's available, and freeze or preserve once you've gotten sick on fresh blueberries. (Tomorrow I'll be freezing blueberries, and show you how, which is hardly necessary, as it's so damn easy you'll wonder why you haven't done it before.)
In the spirit of practicing a more seasonally-aware cuisine, we're now eating 99% blueberries and sweet corn. Ha ha.
13 ways of looking at a blueberry
Simple, as usual, is better. There are approximately 3 general ways to go with fresh blueberries. First is sweet, and mixed with dairy and/or grains. Second and third are savory, in salads or salsa.
We'll get the obvious out of the way first. Read more on what to do with fresh blueberries…


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Dear Colleagues,
I recently visited Carrickfergus Train Station and got to meet some of our bus and train colleagues to hear about their day to day tasks and get their thoughts on how things are going for the business. Once again, the pride of local employees in their jobs and their role in making sure our customers get a high quality service was very clear.
This positive attitude is helping to drive the success of rail services on the Larne Line. Growth was over 12% last year and customer feedback is very positive. The popularity of the Park and Ride facilities was also very evident - what started with only six cars now holds over 450 on a daily basis. While there I also took the opportunity to get 'trackside' with our permanent way infrastructure engineers – which was a very interesting experience for me. I got a better understanding about the complexities of the work and the significant safety implications of what they do. This planning and maintenance work is 'round the clock', and our engineers work through the night and in bad weather to keep rail services running on time for our customers. In Carrickfergus, as well as the local town and school bus services, there are bus routes to Belfast, carrying many East Antrim commuters. Chatting to the bus drivers based at the station, the extensive road works in the area have clearly brought many challenges for them but they have coped well with the congestion and services are still running relatively smoothly – well done to all. It was great to meet all the staff at Carrickfergus – there is lots to be proud of in terms of passenger growth and feedback. It has always been an important bus and train market for us; this wouldn't be possible without all the staff working together. Many thanks to all those I met for a very informative visit.
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Here's the video that uber-silly Dylan made for our Kickstarter project--
It's actually the second video. He had one all done, but he got on a creative streak and totally re-did it in a day! I like it way better, it's so much nerdier and Dylan-er now. I'm camera shy (a total understatement). Him, not so much. Can you tell?
Hooray, as of today we're 20% funded!


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A Shaft of Sunlight
by TRACY WAN
Take This Waltz
dir. Sarah Polley
116 minutes
There is always a prospective age, nominated arbitrarily and instinctively, at which we firmly believe we'll have made it as adults. This number is fluid — it grows with us — but always tucked into a mental pocket. At first, we look forward to it sleeplessly (sixteen, eighteen, twenty-one). Eventually (twenty-five for some, thirty for others, add a decade from that point on), it becomes a threat, a threshold that our failures should not dare to cross. Of course, a fluid number never makes an indelible mark: you never know when you've crossed into this realm. We wonder for most of our twenties; somewhere down the line, we get too busy to wonder.
In Sarah Polley's new film, Take This Waltz, Margot (Michelle Williams) straddles this delimitation, painfully pulled in both directions. Twenty-eight and married for five of those years, she's an adult by many definitions: employed, settled, committed. She lives in a colorful, tailored-for-two house in Toronto's Parkdale, with her husband, Lou (a subtle performance by the often burlesque Seth Rogen). He is a cookbook author. He specializes in chicken. Their marriage, at first anyway, seems enviable; they wake up together, eat together, host parties for their loved ones — all evidence of a consonant life. "I love you"s are exchanged, sincerely and frequently, never to fill a conversational void.
But those who grow into adulthood together can also regress into childlike behaviour together. Their rapport, which seems to have congealed in pre-adolescence, reveals itself through playfights, baby talk and repetitive funny voices. It is colored all the more infantile when Margot's neighbour, Daniel (Luke Kirby), comes into the picture. To say that they develop a relationship that conflicts with her marriage isn't a spoiler — that decision opens the film. But it is a delight to observe the minute but visible pains of someone caught in between these dimensions of life, projected by a facial palette as nuanced as Michelle Williams's.
To much relief, Polley never succumbs to polarities. Daniel does not possess what Lou lacks; the deprivation that Margot experiences in her marriage is not in love or attention. Lou, for all intents and purposes, is a perfect husband — but sometimes perfection is not what one is seeking, merely the change.
Daniel's attractiveness lies within his otherness. From the moment they meet, he undermines Margot, confronts her, calls her out on her lies. He is acute and frank, aggressive but tender; most importantly, his dynamic with her never allows for childishness. Together, they are unreserved, combative, and it is something that we want Margot to have, if only to see her behave with the sobriety of her age. With Lou, Margot exchanges pet names; with Daniel, an unwavering description of exactly how he'd fuck her (harder than he wanted to). When she tells him that she's married, he replies: "That's too bad." It had only been hours.
One of the many things that Margot confesses to Daniel is her fear of connections: she can't stand "being in between things." This film is marked by these liminal spaces, both theoretical and physical, in which decisions are made. On the sidewalks that separate Daniel's house from Lou's, Margot and Daniel run into, then plan for, each other. In two instances, Margot sits inside her house, and Lou watches her from their porch — on the first occasion, they make up and kiss through the windowpane; on the second, he tells her to leave, and she does.
"Sometimes I'm walking along the street, and a shaft of sunlight falls in a certain way across the pavement and I just wanna cry. And a second later it's over. And I decide, because I am an adult, to not succumb to the momentary melancholy." Sadness can be chosen or it can be denied. In this moment and in many other ways, Margot's character resonates with me, and with so many of the women that I know. The difference between herself and her niece, she tells Daniel, is that the toddler chooses the melancholy. He isn't so sure — what if Margot just can't figure it out? And in the grander scheme of things, she doesn't. She's in between, and hates it there.
More than a story about new love and old love's loss, Take This Waltz explores our ability to make that decision — to not crave a different shade of happiness when life casts its bluer shadows. When Margot leaves Lou for Daniel (again, not a surprise), the film goes through a montage of utopian adult scenarios: they make love in different positions, then with different people. When Margot says "I wuv you," Daniel does not reciprocate in the same language. She finally cooks for herself. It would be easy to think that she's crossed the threshold, armed with this new adulthood that her previous life lacked. The new gets old, too.
As it turns out, the most adult realization that we can have is that we will never have it — this idea that happiness is hidden somewhere, in someone, for us to pick from our lives' branches and call our own. With each new person, we can only learn to love the imperfect yearnings in our old selves. This film's biggest feat is that it doesn't start or end anywhere conclusive. It ends in a gap. It decided upon it.
Tracy Wan is the senior contributor to This Recording. She is a writer living in Montreal. She last wrote in these pages about Steve McQueen's Shame. She twitters here. You can find her website here. You can find an archive of her writing on This Recording here.
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The Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Blog is having a birthday-7 years! And to celebrate they were offering 7 gift certificates to their online store this week. Did you know they offer a GC every week? Wow! So this is my entry for their birthday theme even though I was unfortunately too late to enter. I also used this sketch challenge from Freshly Made Sketches:
For my friends at T Stands For Tuesday:
I met up with my three best friends of well over 40 years for lunch. We met at a diner that is known for its good food and it was that and more. The portions were very generous and the prices good. The menu was extensive and the service excellent! (yes, doggie bags provided:) I'm surprised we managed to eat in between all the laughter and chatter! We then went to the nearby shopping center for a walk thru Hobby Lobby. One of the girls was never there and oh was she like a kid in a candy shoppe:):) (We all do some sort of art and or crafts, sewing, knitting , crocheting...). I didn't have a problem not purchasing after my stamp convention finds:)
At Art Journal Journey we are playing with the theme "For the Record" and I am having a great time seeing what songs everyone is choosing to make a journal page for! Here is another from me:
How I am longing to be by the sea again...
Busy, busy week for me and so this may be the only post I get to this week. If it is, I'm also linking to Paint Party Friday so I can see what everyone is doing there at the end of the week. Have a wonderful week ahead everyone!
" Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand." Stevie Wonder


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The most recent Robin Hood-related news stories breaking in the global media!
Over the centuries, the telling and re-telling of the traditional Robin Hood tales has resulted in endless interpretations being created, embracing a diverse miscellany of comic books, fashion, pantomime, movies, television, computer games and popular sayings etc. With a distinct lack of undisputed historical evidence being available, each "storyteller" has revelled in the opportunity to use their unbridled imagination to add their own twists and embellishments to the much-loved legend. As a result, fiction has triumphed over fact and created a Robin Hood "brand" that has become a million times richer as an icon of popular culture than as a genuine historical figure!
There are many types of recognisable headgear that instantly identify the group the wearer belongs to - including the cowboy's stetson, the knight's armoured helmet, the pirate's bandana, the fireman's hard-hat and the American Indian's head-dress etc. - but the one item of headwear that immediately establishes an association with a single person's name is the traditional Robin Hood Hat!
Across the centuries, artists and illustrators have produced millions of images of Robin Hood, based on the picture they conjured up of him in their mind's eye! Although the mystery and speculation surrounding the outlaw's actual existence left artists with no "real" person to refer to - it also uniquely presented them with the gift of a "blank canvas" on which the freedom of their imagination could create and interpret the key characters and locations in their own personal, artistic style.
There have been several varied graphic novels that have focussed on the tales of the English folk hero, Robin Hood and in this latest version, writer Peter Dabbene and artist Lee Milewski have teamed up to deliver a fast-moving take on the globally famous traditional stories.
Bob White, chairman of the World Wide Robin Hood Society, takes a look at how much the Robin Hood "brand" is really worth!


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Tennessee Williams: The Holy Trinity of Acting
|Marlon Brando
Tenn in Conversation
New Orleans
We can talk and talk about talent: There is plenty of talent. I have seen many wonderful performances; brilliant performances. But genius in acting? Very rare. What I am talking about is the artist who approaches the art and the craft of acting and entirely transforms and subverts it, turns it upside down, takes it and forces it to twist and meld and gel within his or her own lineaments: Someone who forces an art, a force, greater than all of us to do as they wish. Very rare.
There was a clever, sweet, and insane man who once avowed that there should be a Nobel Prize for Acting--or at least for the performing arts. Now, I don't believe that every writer who has received that generous purse of dynamite deserved it, or even transformed the art of literature, but it is really impossible to imagine being able to pull the name of someone who has redefined the performing art in which they work, particularly acting.
I'm not here to criticize actors, and the reason so few can truly expand and alter the art has to do with the many maddening aspects of the theatre that keep the talent from reaching a hungry audience. So much of fate and beauty and quirky appointments made at the last minute determine who gets to dance or act or sing or shine.
You keep asking, so I'll tell you: In my lifetime, and both within my own plays and those of others, I have seen only three actors who have entirely redefined the art in which they work. Actors who force you to reconsider everything you thought you knew about plays and people and time and life.
Marlon Brando.
Kim Stanley.
Geraldine Page.
|Kim Stanley in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), supported by Richard Attenborough.
These are three diabolically gifted and mercurial human beings who have the capacity to infuse their souls and their skins with the characters they have subsumed and to convey--to an almost embarrassing degree--the reality of another, imaginary person, while also revealing to you, stunned in your seat, your own biography. They are seers and magicians, and all a bit satanic, cruel even, in their pursuit of another person's reality, hormones, means and ends.
I don't know how they do it.
They have done it with my own work, and with work that was far beneath them, and work that was even, for a moment, beyond their grasp. But they worked toward it, and they conquered. All of them walked a tightrope of nerves across an open space that was, I think, the human heart.
I don't know how else to put it. I don't know what else to say.
Yes, there are many wonderful actors, and there are actors who have moments of this sort of genius--Jessica Tandy, Alan Webb, Julie Harris, Elizabeth Ashley, Irene Worth, George C. Scott, Alec Guinness, Zoe Caldwell, Gerry Jedd--but never on a consistent basis, and never in an exhilarating triumph over mediocre material.
These three artists were always working at a dangerously high altitude.
There's your trinity.
|Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962).


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text: I work in the emergency management industry, but my first love has always been gaming. I write this blog to let people know that it takes all kinds to really get the job done and girl nerds are just as welcome at the table as anyone else. I find ways to incorporate my video game habits into my work and my work into my video games, mostly through the case of using tactics or imaging the most awful post apocalyptic world possible and planning for it. I love playing Magic the Gathering for the social aspect as well as just about any video game you throw in my lap!


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The fourth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit that concluded last week wasn't all talk and no action -- a joint development bank on the lines of the World Bank and several initiatives to boost intra-BRICS trades were some of the highlights.
Rapidly growing markets look poised to overcome global tensions such as the eurozone crisis that's still helping to bog down the world economy. In the past 10 years, 25 countries defined as "rapid growth markets" grew at three times the rate of advanced economies, a pace that's likely to continue in the next decade. Here's a quick look at where five of those nations in particular -- the BRICS -- are headed in the next few years.
Brazil emerged as the sixth-largest economy in the world last year, displacing the U.K. to seventh place. Although economic growth cooled down a bit last year, Nomura Securities raised this year's GDP growth forecast for the country a few weeks ago. The World Bank expects Russia's inflation rate, meanwhile, to remain low this year. If oil prices remain firm in 2012 and 2013, the nation's fiscal budget could well go into surplus. In India, the expected growth rate of around 7% for 2012 might seem modest, but Ernst & Young predicts the growth to go as high as 9.5% in 2013. Economists believe India and Russia could grow exponentially over the next decade and push the U.K.'s position even lower on the list.
China's rapid growth in the past few years has been phenomenal. Although fears of a slowdown are looming large, China's manufacturing data for March beat forecasts to hit an 11-month high.
How to profit from all this
With the BRICS nations accounting for one-third of the world's population and nearly a fifth of the world's total GDP, finding investment opportunities focused on these nations seems worthwhile.
One way to do so is by picking stocks of companies based in these nations. But for those who want to diversify their emerging-market exposure, a better and easier way may be to look into BRICS exchange-traded funds. Since South Africa became a part of this group only last year, most ETFs focus on the "BRIC" part of the BRICS only. I've found three such ETFs for you.
The iShares MSCI BRIC Index Fund
- Russia's largest company and the world's biggest gas company, Gazprom.
- The world's largest mobile-phone company by subscriber base, China Mobile. Its stock has emerged as the best performer so far this year among all China-based telecom companies listed in the United States.
- Brazil's oil and gas company, Petroleo Brasileiro
, better known as Petrobras. The oil giant is aggressively ramping up production to make the most of high crude-oil prices. (NYSE: PBR)
Then there's the Guggenheim BRIC ETF
- The world's second biggest mining company and Brazil's largest exporter, Vale
- Petrobras.
- China Mobile.
Another ETF is SPDR S&P BRIC 40
- Gazprom,
- Russia's largest lender, Sberbank, which is gearing up for a secondary public offering next month.
- China Mobile.
The Foolish bottom line
You must have noticed how these rapidly growing nations boast of some of the world's biggest companies. I think getting a piece of these heavyweights is a great idea, especially when you can have so many of them at one go.
The BRICS could well be on their way to greater power and say in the world. I'll follow up with deeper insight into the individual ETFs, as well as other country-specific ETFs. Stay updated on all the analysis by adding these ETFs to My Watchlist, our free, personalized stock-tracking service.
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After reading Gretchen Rubin's wonderful book, The Happiness Project a couple of years ago, I started my "never" and "always" lists. And after I went to the Reagan Library over Spring Break last year to dig up some research on Corazon Aquino for a new book project on women world leaders, I promptly added to my "always" list that every spring break I would go somewhere warmer.
Well, this spring break I honored my commitment to head to the warmth, really only marginally when I headed back to the eastern part of the state to present my research to two groups over spring break, the AAUW in Easton and the Commission for Women at Penn State Great Valley. I think my car thermostat said 20 as I drove toward the Lehigh Valley on Friday and as I drive back to State College today the temps will be in the 50s. But the real warmth came not from the temperatures over spring break but from the chance to connect with good friends, hang out with my freshman daughter who was home and gear up for spring, which is right around the corner. And I could hardly resist the invitations to speak, which always lights a fire inside me.
Working with the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence on trying to identify a keynote speaker for next year's conference with the theme Transformative Teaching and Learning, I am struck by how important it is for researchers to also be effective presenters. When we come across the name of a top-notch academic, my first instinct is to search YouTube to see if he/she has given a presentation that is on the Internet. It is the same commitment to "speaking up and speaking well" that in part inspired the ROAR (Recording of Academic Research) contest co-sponsored by University Libraries and the Office of Undergraduate Education at Penn State. We invited undergraduates at Penn State to speak on camera about their research for 1-2 minutes. The entries are incredible. Our students are truly inspiring. Top entries will win modest cash prizes, but the real reward will be their own improved speaking skills. You'll likely see some of the wonderful entries online or on campus soon. They will be shown in the morning Shaping the Future Summit at 8 a.m. on April 1 at the Nittany Lion Inn. The keynote address is 8 p.m. at Eisenhower at features Peter H. Diamandis. You can find *his* speaking videos all over the internet! The ROAR recordings will also be shown at the Undergraduate Research Exhibition on April 9 so keep your eyes open.
So, go warmer (even if it is the fire inside you) and speak up and speak well!


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Taylor Swift thinks that writing break-up songs based on her own experience is what connects her with her millions of fans around the world. The singer, who recently ended her relationship to Harry Styles, is covering next month's issue of InStyle, and saying that she had a lot to talk about is an understatement – she didn't hold back whatsoever.
First, she made sure she let people know that being so open about her life when she writes her songs can be very rewarding but it can also have a downside to it; of course her fans are going to be over the moon to hear about Taylor's heartache, but the people who tend to criticize her will do the complete opposite and question themselves why she's putting her business out to the world.
Swift told told InStyle: "No. I don't see the point. Choosing to let your fans into your life is a good thing because it connects you to your fans forever. Unfortunately, when you let your fans into your life through your lyrics, you're also letting everyone else into your life."
The 23-year old country starlet added that if any of her ex-boyfriends were to write songs about her in one of their songs, she'd be absolutely fine with it, due to the fact that she's doing the exact same thing to them. It's only fair that both of them get in on the fun, right? Ha. Could you imagine One Direction writing a song about Taylor and what she was like during the time she dated Harry? Oh God – that could get ugly.
"I can take it," she said. "If I'm gonna write songs about my exes they can write songs about me. That's how it works. I'm not gonna complain about it. I'm not gonna sit there and say, 'I'm the only one who can write songs about this relationship'. It's fair game."
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iPhone 5S vs iPhone 5C head to head review
Apple's high-end model beats its cheaper sibling in terms of performance and battery life
Apple's iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C handsets have been on the market since last September, and have - according to Apple's first quarter 2014 earnings - been pretty popular, with the firm having shifted 51 million iPhones in three months.
Now that several months have elapsed since launch, we've managed to spend plenty of time with both of the devices to find out whether the costlier model really is better.
The iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C are worlds apart in design. The iPhone 5S carries over the iPhone 5's two-tone aluminium design, while the iPhone 5C does away with this in favour of an entirely plastic chassis.
Although we immediately warmed to the design of the iPhone 5C because the design was something new and different from Apple, the iPhone 5S is undoubtedly the more premium device. It's also the smaller of the two, measuring just 7.6mm thick. As with the iPhone 5, this means that the iPhone 5S sits comfortably in your hand despite its angular shape.
One downside of the iPhone 5S design, however, is that Apple's aluminium casing is prone to scratches and chips.
Some have argued that the plastic casing of the iPhone 5C makes it look cheap. As we pointed out in our iPhone 5C review, however, the handset feels surprisingly tough, with the smooth plastic exuding more of a quality feeling than seeming cheap. That said, we did find it hard to grip at times due to the slick plastic, although the handset's chunkier 8.9mm casing didn't make it feel bulky.
The iPhone 5C is available in blue, green, pink, yellow and white, while the iPhone 5S is available in white, gold and space grey.
While some will prefer the plastic casing of the iPhone 5C to aluminium, the iPhone 5S has an additional design feature which we think puts it ahead in this category - its Touch ID sensor.
This is a reworked Home key, and allows users to unlock the device using their fingerprint. Although it's temperamental at times, we think that this feature nudges the iPhone 5S to victory in design.
Winner: iPhone 5S
While they are worlds apart in design, the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C both have the same 4in 640x1136 resolution display with a pixel density of 326ppi.
Of course, while it's impossible to pick a winner in this category, it's worth noting that the screen on both the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C remains one of the best smartphone displays on the market, producing crystal-clear images and sharply defined text.
Winner: Draw
Next: Performance, software