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Good news for all Céline's fan out there, Phoebe Philo has done it again and created a new bag for SS16, the Sailor Bag. Famous for creating bags that are minimalist by design and perfect for everyday use, the Sailor Bag is a timeless tote bag that slings over our shoulders without being too bulky.
Measuring 30cm by 21.5cm in high, it's a trapeze shaped bag with studded details and a slouchy look. The Sailor Bag comes with its own cord handles that you can use like a top handle or worn over your shoulders. Made from soft calfskin in warm earthly tones like tan, the Sailor Bag represents the simplicity and elegance the French house stands for. Functional yet fashionable, the size of the bag is has room to hold your phones, recipients, keys and beauty necessities.


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Hello! As always, I never really write back here.... Life, so far so good; with a bit of school project that takes 85% of my times. It's the last project before I have to face my exam and final presentation and got my oh-so-deserved-holiday.
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Not much happening after my winter holiday, but good vibes. Sure, the projects are killing me deep inside, but the praises got me hang in the cliff. Seriously. Before my winter break, I felt like I made a mistake by coming to Tokyo, and what not, all my school scores are not that good; just your usual B and B- there and there.. Forgive me not, if I stayed at Jakarta, I would be graduated already and had my own brand. But scratch that, I'm stuck with the school still.....
I really hated my life 2 months ago, and was thinking what should I do to actually be free.... I was able to hang on until the last moment before I actually broke down that I have to talk to my teacher about this shitty problem of mine. Her encouragement was really helpful and made me feel better. She pointed out my improvement in those 9 months and trying to convince me to talk on her if something happening or I have problems. Thanks to her (and my lovely translator and friends), I were able to go through my crisis.
Seriously, kids! If you're thinking to go to fashion school and thinking like it's only drawing and sewing, with a lot of free time to go shopping, or the chances to attend fashion show and be a blogger, better think twice, no, hundreds time before you actually enrolled to one (and if someone actually say it in front of me, then I'll make sure to punch them in the face).
The real fashion school is hell. Believe me! Unless it's your true passion, don't even try to dip your feet there. Sure, the main subjects are design and pattern-making class that consist of drawing, coloring, and sewing; but it doesn't stop there........
In design class:
You have to do research,
have yourself inspired and full of imagination while there's no time to find inspiration because you're stuck inside the classroom or your room doing your project,
keep up with the trend,
be as creative as f*ck when trying to figure what kind of original fabric and print without being accused as copy-cat;
and in the same time still have to connect with your project theme and concept,
have to discover your preference and style in design,
have to come up with around 30 design every project,
have an illustrator skill and able to do more than one technique to draw and color your design,
have a photoshop and illustrator skill,
have to come up with new silhouette and details for your collection.
In pattern-making class:
have your logic running in pattern class,
able to do basic math,
have to analyze your design and come up with the measurement,
able to imagine how the lines will form the silhouette and work from there,
have to be super careful when tracing,
have to keep redoing your pattern to be able to make the right silhouette based on your design,
able to do CAD for pattern (computer based pattern-making) that's confusing as hell,
have to remember all the step when sewing,
make sure it's sewn right on the seam line or you have to redo it,
have to remember to iron your fabric before cutting, after some sewing step, and after finish sewing,
and there're other classes as well.....
history, croquis, 3D class, computer class, and some might have fashion marketing class......
Some of us might not have time to shower before go to school, have to put make-up on our way to school or just give up on putting make-up, and pull all-nighter every now and then....
All you see on instagram is just the tiny bit of our school life....... that glamorous life, it's just the 1%....
But then, when you're finished with the sewing process and can actually wear your own creation, all your all-nighter, your tears, your hard work are paid off.... and it's totally worth it! :)
So, are you still up for fashion school? Kindly tell me below~
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text: Benjamin Bratt let his on-line fans know on his website, CongenialityGuy.com that the Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales won an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Audio Award. The wonderful collection of tales is told by an all star cast including Mr. Bratt, Whoopi Goldberg, and Hugh Jackman. Click here to read our review.


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Do you have your copy of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Vol. 7 yet? If not, maybe this cute block will entice you to pick up a copy. It's called "Bus Stop" and is the next vehicle in my fleet (click here to see my Rescue No. 1 block from Volume 6). It's made using scraps and sews together very quickly.
When I design a block like this, I use Google images to search for examples. It helps me with colors, proportions and details. I did the same thing for Rescue No. 1 in Vol. 6 and when we design our Patch Pals.
I'll be doing a new image search very soon as I get ready to design my block for Volume 8 – coming in mid-November. Be sure to stay tuned.
As we continue to celebrate this issue of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks,
let's give away a copy of Volume 7! Leave one comment below telling me what inspires your quilting by midnight MST, Friday May 17 for a chance to win.
The winner is Connie German (comment #43)! Thank you for participating!
And if you can't wait to get your own copy of Volume 7, click here to purchase a print copy or click here to purchase and download a digital PDF.


text: Amazon to sell set-top box to challenge Apple TV: report Amazon.com Inc will release a set-top TV box later this year that will stream video over the Internet, challenging Apple Inc's Apple TV device and a similar gadget sold by start-up Roku, BloombergBusinessweek reported on Wednesday. india Updated: Apr 25, 2013 15:25 IST Reuters Amazon.com Inc will release a set-top TV box later this year that will stream video over the Internet, challenging Apple Inc's Apple TV device and a similar gadget sold by start-up Roku, BloombergBusinessweek reported on Wednesday.The box will plug into TVs and give viewers access to Amazon's digital video content, which the company has been expanding, BloombergBusinessweek said, citing three unidentified people familiar with the project.An Amazon spokeswoman declined to comment.Amazon's video content is already available on other devices, including Roku, Microsoft Corp's Xbox and Sony Corp's PlayStation 3. However, it is not available on Apple TV.Having its own gadget will help Amazon put its content more directly in front of consumers and give developers another reason to create apps for Amazon's digital platform, BloombergBusinessweek said."Amazon has a good content distribution strategy but not a great one," said Ron Josey, an analyst at JMP Securities. "Doing their own box may be them admitting that it's a little bit harder to get embedded in all these different devices and platforms."Amazon has been investing heavily in licensing, distributing and even creating its own digital content such as video, music, apps and games. The company has focused on getting that content on as many devices as possible, rather than building a lot of its own hardware.However, the company has designed its own gadgets in situations where it believes it can bring a different approach to a market. When it launched its Kindle Fire tablet computer in 2011, for instance, the device's screen was 7 inches which at that time was not a popular size.JMP's Josey, who said he was not privy to any Amazon plans in this area, speculated on Wednesday that any Amazon set-box device could include the ability to stream music, play games, access other apps and even shop through TVs, rather than just watch videos.The set-top box is being developed by Amazon's Lab126 division, based in Cupertino, California, near Apple's headquarters. It's being run by Malachy Moynihan, a former vice president of emerging video products at Cisco Systems Inc, BloombergBusinessweek added.BloombergBusinessweek also said that while Netflix Inc's video streaming service will likely be available on Amazon's TV box, Amazon's own video and music services will be more prominently integrated.A Netflix spokesman declined to comment. First Published: Apr 25, 2013 15:23 IST


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I will work on the blanket and post that as well, but I'm curious to see what kind of box I can find to put the gift set in. There really aren't a lot of choices that I've found for a baby boy gift box. Anyone know of where I might find something suitable?
I am also going to put a different design on this blanket instead of the one I used for the baby girl blankie. New pictures to follow soon!


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NEW YORK, US: Global consumer confidence increased one index point last quarter to 89, while Europe led confidence declines in 24 of the region's 27 measured markets, according to fourth quarter 2011 global consumer confidence findings from Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy.
8 Feb 2012
NEW YORK, US: Global online consumer confidence fell for the seventh consecutive quarter as confidence in 31 of 56 global markets measured declined, according to from Nielsen, a leading global provider of insights and analytics into what consumers watch and buy.
9 Nov 2011
NUREMBERG, GERMANY: The overall market for Technical Consumer Goods (TCG) in Western Europe recorded a sales volume of €41.8 billion* in the second quarter of 2011. This is a decrease of 5.1% compared to last year's figures.
5 Sep 2011
NEW YORK, US: media control GfK International, a leader in international media and entertainment tracking servicing the global entertainment industry, has announced the release of its 2010 Year End Home Video Retail Sales Report.
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NUREMBERG, GERMANY: At a press conference held this week in Nuremberg, GfK presented a review of private consumption in 2010 and an outlook for 2011. As forecast by GfK, private consumption rose last year by 0.5%. For 2011, the market researchers are expecting private household expenditure to increase by a significant 1.5% and therefore make a strong contribution to the economic upturn.
11 Feb 2011
NEW YORK, US: Consumer confidence fell in 25 out of 52 countries in Q4 2010 as hope for a global economic recovery evaporated at the end of last year, according to the latest edition of the Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence Index, which tracks consumer confidence, major concerns and spending intentions among online consumers.
27 Jan 2011
BELGRADE, SERBIA: GfK GeoMarketing has released new purchasing power data for Serbia. With a per capita purchasing power of €3022 (about R29 000), the Serbians have slightly more than a fifth of the average purchasing power available to an EU citizen in 2010.
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By John Goralski
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Laurel Dean captured two victories and qualified for the postseason in both races. Aly Baribault won twice and qualified in one event even though the meet had already gone to exhibition.
On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the Lady Knight swim team opened their season with an easy 98-77 win in Plainville, but Lady Knight coach Evan Tuttle was even more impressed with the effort.
"Going into the first meet, there are always a lot of question marks," said the coach. "Wins and losses are just one. It's about how the kids are going to perform, how our kids are going to hold up in the distance events, and how their endurance is doing this early in the season. Everything that I saw today was positive."
With his returning swimmers Tuttle was looking for a strong start, and that's what he got. Dean captured wins in the 200 freestyle (2:08.53) and the 100 freestyle (58.33). Tia Jones raised the bar with a victory in diving (135.2), and Baribault captured a victory in the 500 freestyle (5:56.35) that challenges a state qualifying time with a win in an exhibition race that claimed a state berth in the 100 breaststroke (1:15.39).
But it was the strength throughout his lineup that really impressed the coach.
"We had some strong swims, and it was up and down the roster," he said. "We had a lot of first and second finishes. Sometimes, we had 1-2-3. Other times, we were 1-2-4. There was only one event where we didn't take first. To win 11 out of 12 in our first meet is a great start. I can only predict that we'll improve from here."
If it's any indication, the Knights are ahead of expectations. In recent years, Plainville has posed a good measuring stick for the Knights with a competition that was usually decided on the final race. This year, Southington clinched the contest with three races remaining. Until last season, Plainville usually won the deciding race.
"We turned the corner, and we're starting to take on those teams and beat those teams that we never used to," said Tuttle. "And we're getting on top of them early."
In addition, the Knights showcased a strong group of newcomers.
Melissa Matthews was a double winner, clinching a postseason berth in the 50 freestyle (26.64) at her first varsity meet with another first place finish in the 100 butterfly (1:12). Allie Schroeder captured wins in the 200 IM (2:34.69) and placed second in the 100 backstroke (110.47).
Southington relays captured the fastest time in every relay.
"To pick one person that jumped off the page? I really don't think I could do it because everybody performed so well today," said Tuttle. "Now, we continue to improve. I asked them, 'Are we satisfied?' The answer is, 'No.' We're not done yet. We've just started."
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Wow, and I thought I was harsh on Obama. Isn't it interesting that there are people on the Left who think Obama is just another Bush, while there are others on the Right who absolutely abhor him because they think he's a "secret Muslim" (laugh) or the, ahem, "anti-Christ"? I wouldn't go as far as saying that Obama is exactly like Bush, but I'm not overly enthusiastic about him either. Yes, his speech was brilliant and beautiful, but let's see how he follows up on his words before we start leaping for joy, shall we?
Anyway, I found this clip almost immediately after I watched Obama's speech in Cairo. Before you watch it, just be warned that it contains excessive profanity, offensive racial slurs, and homophobic remarks. It's also very important to keep in mind that these individuals do not represent the opinions of all Jews. The people in this clip are obviously ignorant, childish, and poorly educated, so it would be foolish and counter-productive to associate them with Judaism.
At the same time, this video is important to share because it shows the kind of tension and animosity that exists concerning diplomacy with Muslim nations. Remember when the mainstream western media showed video clips of Palestinians dancing in the streets after the 9/11 attacks? It created the perception that all Muslims and Arabs rejoice whenever Americans and/or Jews suffer. It told us that non-Muslim Americans and Jews were innocent and morally superior to Muslims. Why do we only see Palestinians doing horrible things in the news? Why don't we see things like this video clip of American Jews and Israelis making racist comments? Will that hurt the "good guy/bad guy" image it's been trying to promote for the past 8 years?
Don't count on seeing this clip on CNN.


text: Colorectal Conditions & Treatment Anal Cancer Diagnosis Anal cancer is usually diagnosed when patients experience pain, bleeding, or notice a nodule or mass near the anus. The colorectal surgeon will usually help with diagnosis and post-treatment follow-up. They also help coordinate care with the D'Amour Center for Cancer Care. Treatment The first-line treatment is usually with chemotherapy and radiation. If the cancer cannot be cured this way, surgical removal of the anus is required and this is performed by a colorectal surgeon. Most patients will never require surgery for anal cancer if it is cured by the chemo-radiation treatment. Anorectal Disorders Includes: hemorrhoids, fistula, fissures, rectal prolapse Diagnosis Many people think that hemorrhoids are the only problem that can affect the anal area. There are other disorders, and they can often be uncomfortable and painful. These disorders can include infections such as abscess, fistula, and condyloma (genital infections) as well as hemorrhoids, fissures, skin problems, and rectal prolapse. Treatment The team at Baystate understands the sensitive and difficult nature of these ailments and assists patients in the treatment process. Many times, treatment for some of these disorders does not involve surgery. When surgery is required, it can often be done as an outpatient procedure and no hospitalization is needed. Colon and Rectal Cancer Diagnosis Colon and Rectal cancers affect up to one in twelve patients in their lifetimes. These cancers become more common with age and can be detected by colonoscopy. Most people should have their first colonoscopy at the age of 50. Some people require colonoscopy earlier if they have increased risk factors for colorectal cancer. Treatment Colon and Rectal cancers are often treated with surgery alone or in combination with chemotherapy and/or radiation depending on the type, extent, and location of the tumor. Usually part of the colon or rectum is removed and reconnected. In some situations, a stoma/ostomy may be required. Surgery can be done with open, laparoscopic or robotic techniques. Laparoscopic and robotic techniques minimize incision size and hospital stay, and improve recovery. Baystate Colorectal surgeons routinely use laparoscopic and robotic techniques to treat colon and rectal cancer when appropriate. Diverticulitis Diagnosis Diverticulitis is an inflammation of diverticula, which represent pouches in the colon wall. Sometimes the inflammation and infection can become recurrent. Treatment Patients who have only one mild attack usually do not need surgery. Surgery is only performed when diverticulitis is severe or recurrent, and/or when infection is so severe that it spreads throughout the abdomen. Surgery is sometimes done as an emergency, but can often be done often on a minimally invasive elective basis. Fecal Incontinence Diagnosis Fecal incontinence is the inability to control your bowel movements, causing stool (feces) to leak unexpectedly from your rectum. Also called bowel incontinence, fecal incontinence ranges from an occasional leakage of stool while passing gas to a complete loss of bowel control. Common causes of fecal incontinence include constipation, diarrhea, and muscle or nerve damage. Fecal incontinence may be due to a weakened anal sphincter associated with aging or to damage to the nerves and muscles of the rectum and anus from giving birth. Treatment Treatments, such as biofeedback, sphincter surgery and InterStim Therapy, are available that can improve fecal incontinence. For more information about InterStim, please click on the InterStim link above. Infammatory Bowel Disease Includes: Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis Diagnosis Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are often first treated by a gastroenterologist with prescription medications. If these diseases become progressive and require surgery, the expertise of a colorectal surgeon can be very helpful in managing complicated surgical decisions and challenging operations. Patients may have a fear of what will happen with surgery, or have a fear of needing an ostomy bag. The colorectal surgery team understands these worries and guides patients through this difficult decision-making process Treatment Surgery for ulcerative colitis is curative and is often performed when patients stop responding to medication, or develop precancerous changes in the colon. Patients undergo complete removal of the colon and rectum with sparing of the anal sphincter. A pouch is made out of small intestine and is attached to the anus to create a place for stool to gather before bowel movements. This complex reconstructive surgery is done routinely at Baystate using minimally invasive/laparoscopic and robotic techniques. Crohn's Disease can present challenges because it can affect patient's digestive tracts anywhere from the mouth to the anus. Surgeons try to minimize operative procedures on Crohn's patients, but the reality is that over half of Crohn's patients may require surgery and repeat surgery through their lifetimes. Careful decision-making and surgical approach is a must. The colorectal surgeons at Baystate have extensive experience with complicated Crohn's disease. At times, surgery can even be performed laparoscopically/robotically. Ostomies/Stoma Bags Ostomies, or stomas, are created for many reasons ranging from cancer to incontinence. People often fear life with a bag, but the truth is people can live very full lives with them. The decision to give a patient an ostomy bag is taken seriously and are only made when absolutely necessary. If a patient needs to have a bag, the team does its very best to prepare and educate the patient before the operation, during hospitalization, and in the follow-up period after the operation. Pelvic floor disorders Includes Incontinence, Constipation, Pelvic Pain Diagnosis These disorders are very personal to patients, and can include, pain, incontinence, constipation, and other urologic or gynecologic issues. Physiology testing is performed on site in the colorectal practice to better assess these problems. Treatment Patients may need surgery for some of these issues, but also receive support and treatment with therapies such a biofeedback. The team is committed to supporting patients with these very personal and difficult issues. Polypsosis Syndromes Diagnosis These are rare disorders that result in polyps in the colon at an early age. They can run in families or can be spontaneous. Patients often have hundreds or thousands of polyps and have a very high risk of developing colorectal cancer. These diseases include Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, Lynch Syndrome (HNPCC), Peutz Jeghers Syndrome, Juvenile Polyposis and other rare syndromes. You can discuss genetic counseling at Baystate Medical Center with your surgeon. Treatment The treatment of these diseases usually centers around removal of all or part of the colorectum. These procedures can be performed laparoscopically and robotically and often involve reconstruction with a pouch. The colorectal team understand that this disease affects the whole family and the team works with families to guide them through the surgical process and the lifestyle adjustments that have to be made when polyposis syndromes occur in families.


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In southwest Alaska, officials are counting votes on a controversial initiative to stop an open-pit copper and gold mine. If passed, the initiative could stop the developers from getting permits they need to start digging at Pebble Mine. The mine's location, near the spawning grounds for the largest sockeye salmon runs in the world, worries conservation groups, commercial fishermen and sport fishers. Daysha Eaton of member station KDLG reports.
Pebble Mine Development Polarizes Alaska
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Dammit! The Boon has us surrounded and we are powerless to resist. Our favorite keicar is headed to Europe to be sold as a Subaru. Of course, this opens up potential for an STi version of the fully-awesome Boon X4. It's enough for us to consider closing up our Pedro office and founding a Jalopnik Paris bureau. The as-yet-unnamed Subaru variant could see showroom floors on the Continent as soon as later this year. No word on whether the R5-shrinky-dink Esse will follow.
Subaru to Sell Re-Badged Daihatsus in Europe [Autoblog]
No Prize, Just Cred: Why Would Johnson Drive This Car?; Who You Tryin' to Get Crazy Wit, Esse? [Internal]


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|First day of Kindergarten dress! Little Lizard King Blue Ribbon Winner
|Added flutter sleeves to this one plus some ruffle pants and the LLK Elise doll version dress!
And the super popular in this house Little Lizard King Homegrown Tank Dress...
The drawstring backpack...so cute! The girls used these for preschool last year!
Does everyone else love knot dresses as much as we do?!?! I layered these for fall/winter with some ruffle sleeve tees and ruffle leggings.
And the bodice of this one...sigh. Love it so much. The Sweet Caroline Dress, also by Little Lizard King (sense a theme here?)
So that's a little bit of what I've been up to! How about all of you?


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Our favorite "camping" spot is twenty minutes away, has electricity, running water and the cleanest bathroom/showers you've ever seen. Unfortunately for us, they were full so we had to head to a more primitive spot a little further away. No showers, no electricity and no running water.
My kids have seen me puke so many times with this pregnancy that they don't even flinch. They all yelled, "Daaaad. Mom's throwing up," and then they were off to the park like it was no biggie.
Needless to say, it will be a good while before I plan another overnighter…unless it's in the backyard…and doesn't include me.


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MLS Wrap: Rapids win at home fortress
Dillon Powers' smart finish in the area and a penalty from Vicente Sanchez saw Colorado defeat Vancouver Whitecaps 2-0 in Denver and, after Real Salt Lake lost 1-0 at Chivas USA, the Rapids secured second spot in the West's standings.
Colorado (25 points) lead Real on games won, although they remain well behind leaders Seattle Sounders (35), who triumphed 1-0 at DC United on Saturday thanks to Chad Barrett's first-half goal.
At Dick's Sporting Goods Park, the Rapids deservedly took the lead in the 20th minute when Powers produced a clever turn in the box, after controlling Marvell Wynne's deflected cross, and the 23-year-old forward smashed his left-footed shot past Vancouver goalkeeper David Ousted.
With nine minutes remaining in the first half, Whitecaps defender Nigel Reo-Coker conceded a penalty when he blocked Deshorn Brown's run and Sanchez made no mistake from the spot.
Colorado almost led 3-0 at the break but Ousted made a good save to stop Sanchez's bicycle kick.
The second half rarely got going, which suited Rapids coach Pablo Mastroeni, although Colorado goalkeeper Clint Irwin was forced into two smart saves to ensure a clean sheet.
The victory made it three wins and a draw in Colorado's past four MLS games at home, although they did lose to the Atlanta Silverbacks in Denver on Tuesday in the US Open Cup.
In California, Real's terrible form continued as they missed an opportunity to regain second position in the Western Conference.
The Utah-based club had midfielder Luke Mulholland sent off after just eight minutes at the Stubhub Center for a raising a boot as he slid in on Martin Rivero right in front of the referee.
Chivas dominated the match from then on and Erick Torres struck the only goal of the game 10 minutes before half-time, thrashing a volley into the net from Tony Lochhead's cross-field pass.
The result extended Real's winless streak in all competitions to six games.
In the California Clasico, Gyasi Zardes scored just after the hour mark to give Los Angeles Galaxy a 1-0 triumph over San Jose Earthquakes, while in the other MLS game, Philadelphia Union defeated New England Revolution 3-1.
Columbus Crew versus FC Dallas was called off after a fan of the former club was reportedly struck by lightning outside the stadium in Ohio.


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The EUROSPIN project was established to help understanding the basis of aberrant synaptic transmission at the genetic, molecular and network level with a view to restoring normal synaptic function, that is: developing novel therapies for synaptopathies (neurodegenerative diseases, schizophrenia, autism, depression etc.).
Our project will receive a maximum EC-contribution of 11.9 Mio. EUR over a period of four years.
This website already provides information about the EUROSPIN groups and our research concept. It will continuously be updated and extended to present the outcome and use of our research by scientific publications, interactive databases and much more.
Everybody, especially journalists are cordially invited to contact the project manager.
The EUROSPIN project is funded by the European Commission
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Dustin Lynch, 'Wild in Your Smile' – Song Review
'Wild in Your Smile,' Dustin Lynch's third single from his self-titled debut album, is another vocal showcase for the 28-year-old Tennessee native. The song is a fan favorite, one many liked for the followup to 'She Cranks My Tractor.' As Lynch hashes out a familiar story, his confidence is both reliable and charming.
A lesser singer may have turned this into a droll, cliche experience, but 'Wild in Your Smile' pops with the help of some country-rock production. The story is aimed at the meaty center of the country music audience, and it's likely few will complain about yet another love song that begins in a truck steering down a quiet country road.
"Hey girl what's up, looks like you're good to go / Hop in, lets ride, take it down this road / You couldn't look any hotter, reach on back and grab a bottle / Girl, lets get this party started," Lynch sings to open the song.
The two followup efforts to 'Cowboys and Angels' haven't packed the same lyrical punch. He's Richard Petty forced to drive a lumbering conversion van.
The chorus goes: "You look just like a little angel baby / But I know you love a little danger, baby / Everything about you girl is just my style / You got some wild in your smile."
'Wild in Your Smile' is built to be Lynch's second Top 10 record, and the singer has no trouble making the most out of the recording. It sounds so easy for him to sing with strength and conviction, and he's showing the capability to navigate the subtleties that separate a good song from a great song. The foundation has been laid for a strong future.
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Post by Stefan of Tokyo Whisky Hub.
It's a truism that a picture is worth a thousand words but that doesn't make it any less true. So, as a follow-up to our lengthy post about the Karuizawa 1964 for Poland, here are a few snapshots from the launch in Warsaw last Wednesday.


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Announcer: It's July 26, 2007 and you're watching ARCast TV.
Ron Jacobs: Hey, welcome back to ARCast TV. This is your host Ron Jacobs and I was holding up a card that makes a claim about me. The claim is that I am a Microsoft employee. You can see there's a blue surrounding my picture there - that's what we call the "blue badge" and it has my employee number and the Microsoft logo. It's a credential, and this badge can get me inside the Microsoft buildings, and at any campus around the world I show this and they let me in.
This badge is pretty cool, and it also has a little chip in the back that lets me into the corporate network. Now why am I talking about cards? Because today we're going to talk about this interesting technology for authenticating and authorizing individuals.
It's called Card Space, and it's a way that you can identify someone perhaps in a new, better and much more secure way than with the old user name and password thing. We're going to learn all about that and how it's used in DinnerNow.
Announcer: You're post on the MSDN Architecture Forum has been selected for an ARCast Rapid Response.
Ron: Welcome back to ARcast Rapid Response, this is your host Ron Jacobs and I am joined today by Scott Hanselman and, Scott...
Scott Hanselman: Yes, sir.
Ron: I am reading on the MSDN Architecture Forum a question about a guy who has a large dataset problem.
Scott: OK.
Ron: Very quickly, what he's doing is, he's got this service that's running in the background and checking a table. Every now and then it sees a table, and when it does it wakes up and goes off and loads, he says, three to four million records in a dataset. Which is hard to imagine, but he loads it all into a dataset, then he does some kind of processing and updates trial tables based on what he found, and then the program goes to sleep again.
He says the problem is that this takes a very long time and the server CPU utilization goes to a hundred percent. What kind of advice would you have for this guy?
Scott: Well so he's got a problem, and he's decided to use datasets to solve that problem, so now he has two problems. He's trying to use the dataset as a database. He sees something going on in the database, and he tries to pull that processing out of the SQL Server, which is good at doing its work. SQL Servers are great at chewing on data, they're good at holding onto data and they're good at querying data. He's pulled into a dataset, and he's using that dataset as an in-memory database and then trying to do data processing work.
What he's doing sounds more like something that a DTS job should be doing, or else a stored procedure in SQL Server. It seems completely inappropriate to pull anything of any particular size into a dataset.
I suspect he's probably doing it because the tools around datasets -- the tooling and the code -- is comfortable. If he's using VB or C# and feels comfortable working with datasets in that way and wants to take the logic, I would probably suggest that he put that into a managed storage procedure in SQL Server 2005. That way he'd get the best of both worlds. It would be the SQL Server that's doing the work, and he would be able to write most of the code in a managed code way.
Ron: Yes, and you could schedule that job with SQL Server to happen every now and then the same kind of way you were doing with the service, right?
Scott: Exactly.
Ron: OK, I think that would be an optimal choice, but if for some reason the DBA says, "Hey look, you're not doing that in our stored database, you can't run it here, " the second best choice would be to maybe use a data reader.
Scott: Yes, well, it depends on what kind of work he's doing. If it's work that requires multiple passes over three million rows, he might want to avoid that. But, yeah, if it's one-pass type stuff where he's going to run over something and do some calculations, then a data reader seems reasonable.
But, you'd want to understand why is this something that's being done over a job size of millions of rows, and not on a row-by-row basis as those things happen. I think I would probably step back and look at the whole thing holistically and ask myself if this is something that can be done on a row as the data arrives, or if there's a particular reason this has to be thought of as a batch job.
Ron: Good point.
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Ron: Hey, this is Ron Jacobs, coming to you today from Redmond, where I am talking to the guys who are part of the DinnerNow team about the various technologies and things that we've highlighted in DinnerNow. And today I'm joined by Nigel Watling. Nigel, welcome to ARCast.
Nigel Watling: Hi, Ron. Pleased to be here.
Ron: Tell me about yourself, what do you do?
Nigel: Along with the other guys, I'm a technical evangelist in developer and platform evangelism, and I focus on CardSpace. If you want to find out more, then you can see my presentations on Channel Nine and also on our community site, which is www.netfx3.com.
Ron: OK.
Nigel: There's a section on CardSpace up there as well.
Ron: And where are you from originally?
Nigel: You're not going to accept Seattle, are you?
Ron: [laughs]
Nigel: No. I'm English originally, via France. My wife's French, so I spent some time there.
Ron: Oh, wow.
Nigel: And I've been in Redmond... gosh, two and a half years now.
Ron: Excellent.
Nigel: I haven't quite mastered the American accent.
Ron: [laughs] I think it would take a lifetime to wash away your British.
Nigel: Yeah, probably true. And then some more.
Ron: Yeah, OK. So what I want to do is -- I know a lot of people have maybe heard about CardSpace and that sort of thing. I found that I didn't really get it until I saw it. So let's begin with seeing it, and then we'll go back and kind of talk about what we saw.
Nigel: So we go to the website. That's the home page, and you can see there the "Sign In" button. You click "Sign In," you go to the login page, as you'd normally go into; and you can see that there's actually two options, A or B. We can either use a username and password, or we can sign in using an information card. This is just a button here, and if I click on the button, this sexy UI launches.
I actually only have one card there, and you can see that it says "Cards I've Sent to This Site" because I've already registered and logged on to the site with this card. So if I want to log on to the site, I make sure that card is selected, and I hit "Send" and I'm logged on.
Ron: [laughs] And that's it?
Nigel: That's it.
Ron: [laughs]
Nigel: That is the wonderful CardSpace experience. And, of course, the main thing here that's immediately obvious is I no longer have to remember those darn usernames and passwords. Basically, that card represents my identity.
And when I click on that card, what actually happens is that a XML token gets sent to the site that represents my identity. And I log in when the site basically cracks open that XML token, extracts the identity information, looks it up at a SQL Server database, finds my record -- "Yeah, it's Nigel. Welcome. You're logged on." So as a user I just need to click on that card, and I'm logged on.
Ron: OK.
Nigel: It's not really much of an experience, but that's the point.
Ron: And this is your whole job, to explain this?
Nigel: This is my job, yeah!
Nigel: I have it easy, right?
Ron: All right. Well, it's really -- of course, it has to be simple, for the general public to get this, to work with it, and for this thing to be a success. So let's roll back a little bit and talk about from the site owner's perspective.
Nigel: Right.
Ron: You know, you're coming to me, I'm the guy that owns a site, and I go, "Why on Earth would I want to do CardSpace? We've already got a username and password thing, isn't that good enough?"
Nigel: Right. You're right in saying it has to be simple for end users. My granny has to be able to understand it. But also, in order for it to be adopted readily, it has to be very simple for websites to adopt as well.
The way that it actually works, for a website owner, is that they need to do, basically, three things. So, as you saw on the login page, we have the username and password, and we have this image. That actually corresponds to a special object tag that corresponds to CardSpace or... CardSpace is what we call an identity selector. You could have another identity selector by Novell or some other company, but the Microsoft one is called Windows CardSpace.
And basically, in that login page, or your registration page, you have an object tag which has a particular MIME type, which is "application/x-informationcard." Now, when the browser sees that particular MIME type, it knows, or an add-in in the browser knows, to launch the CardSpace UI that you saw come up.
And when it does that, basically, what it does is it launches the UI and it passes in the requirements, the policy, of the website. And if you were to look at this website, you will see a set of claims. And it basically specifies the information it wants to receive from the user; so this might be your first name, your last name, your email address, your physical address, or whatever.
And the thing that actually identifies the user is a particular claim called a private personal identifier. So what the website developer needs to do is to modify their login and registration page so they have this little HTML snippet of policy within an object tag. It's just, basically, four or five lines of HTML--it's not rocket science--where you specify the type of token you want to receive. So that will typically be a SAML1 or a SAML1.1 token. It could be some other format, but those are the most readily available and generally accepted token formats.
You might specify the issuer. So I could have a card that's been given to me by my employer; I could have a Microsoft card. Or it could be provided by my government; I could have a US government card, or maybe a UK government card, that I can use to identify myself to a particular website. I might want to prove that I'm over 21, for example. I might want to prove that I AM British. Or I could have a card from my bank that I could use in online transactions.
Basically, many different entities can provide you with cards that provide different forms of identity. The relying party just needs to specify the information, the claims, that it wants, just in very simple HTML.
And when the user clicks on that button to use a card, the browser takes those requirements and gives it to CardSpace, and then CardSpace, the application, uses that information to show the cards to the user. And essentially, the cards that represent providers of identity that can satisfy those requirements at the site that can provide a SAML1.1 token that has my age or my email address in it, all of those cards will be highlighted, and the cards that can't provide that information will be grayed out.
So then the user clicks on one of those cards that can fulfill the website's requirements. And when I click on that card, what happens is that a SAML token is generated by the identity provider, by my government, by my employer, by my bank--or indeed, the user themselves can be an identity provider; that's what we're doing here. We call that a self-issued card, or a self-issued token, when the user themselves is providing their identity.
Which sounds kind of weird. You think, "Well, which sites would accept an identity that's been created by the user themselves?
Ron: Anybody who takes a user and password is doing a self-issued identity. [laughs]
Nigel: Precisely. When I register on Amazon, when I register on eBay, when I register on Netflix...
Ron: Sure.
Nigel: Who provides that information? Who provides the name, the address, the credit card information? It's me. So we have that self-asserted identity.
So in this demo, which is normally the case for a website, the identity is provided by the user. I can show you the UI. You can just type "card."
So when you install.NET Framework 3.0 on XP or 2003, or in Vista by default, you can find a Windows CardSpace control panel applet. So you go into the control panel, and you find this. You can see the logo there. And you can just type "card" in the search dialog, and the UI comes up.
And I can add a card in here. So if I double-click here, you can see there's two different types of card...
Ron: OK. Let me ask you a question, first, off the bat.
Nigel: Sure.
Ron: Some people have said, "Hey, wait a minute. This whole thing, what if I've got a virus or a rootkit on my machine, and they trick me into launching a thing that looks like CardSpace. How do I know that's not happening?"
Nigel: Right. There is a thing called the "ten laws of security," which essentially says that if you have a rootkit installed on your machine, or if I walked out of the room now and left you alone with my machine, you could do whatever you want, right? If I was logged on as an administrator, you go in here and essentially you could do whatever you need, you could hack my machine. Likewise, if I have a rootkit installed on my machine and has administrator privileges; it could do pretty much whatever it wants to.
Ron: OK.
Nigel: So there is a point at which, although you can make a software as secure as you possibly can, there are certain limitations. One of those limitations is giving the hacker or the bad guy physical access to your machine, and the other one is if you install some bad software from somebody. Then that software, if it is sophisticated enough, can do whatever it likes. So what Cardspace gives you, it it prevents you or helps you to avoid being fished, it helps you being attacked over the web. So it is one of the key things that it gives you, one piece of security.
Ron: Well, just imagine that, you know, somebody is doing a fishing attack on the DinnerNow site. They send me a link, an email. It looks exactly like a DinnerNow log-in page, nice little button, click on this. What is to prevent them from doing that and obtaining my card?
Nigel: Right. So there is a number thing, it can get little bit complicated, but I will try to keep it as simple as possible. So essentially what happens is that the way that we authenticate ourselves to a site today is to use a username and password. So if I give you my username and password and you go to a site, you can pretend to be me. And that is how fishing works, right!
Ron: Yes.
Nigel: I am deceived into giving some bad guy my username and password, then they pretend to be me and they get access to my credit card details, my bank account, whatever. So the fundamental thing behind CardSpace is that rather using a shared secret, well I just create this username and password and then I share that between me and the site that I am authenticating to. Instead of doing that, why not use asymmetric cryptography?
So instead of having a shared secret, have a private-public key pair, and prove my identity to a website by signing something with my private key and having them check that using the public key. That way, the thing that identifies me stays on my machine and is only accessible to me or my machine and is only potentially accessible to any software running on my machine. Simplifying it, that's essentially what it boils down to. It boils down to the use of asymmetric cryptography. So you are no longer using shared secrets, you are using signatures to authenticate yourself.
So when somebody fishes me, when somebody pretends to be DinnerNow and I go to that site, the way I authenticate to that site is by signing a piece of information on my machine and the private key stays on my machine, the thing that proves who I say I am, stays on my machine. All that goes to that site is a signature, in a token, and if they try and repurpose that token, they can't because they don't have access to the original private key.
The only way that they can impersonate me, the only way they can pretend to be me is to, in some way persuade me to release that private key to them, and that is not a normal interchange.
Ron: What's even better is that there is no way for the user to get their private key to give it away.
Nigel: No, they have no... I mean, my granny has no idea that she even has a private key. She just uses a card.
Ron: Even if they call you up and say, we need your private key and they trick you, you couldn't give it to them even if you wanted to.
Nigel: Yes, yes. I mean, the realty is that the cards that you have, if a fisher could ask you -- explore your cards and send me your cards -- but that is not the normal way you use CardSpace. When you want to authenticate to a site, you just use your card, and log on. You learn to -- Oh, please send me all your cards. That's like, if you ask me, "Nigel, can I please have all your credit cards?" I am like, "Hang on a minute, Ron. I don't really want to do that." [laughter]
You see the analogy. I am not going to give you my drivers license, my passport, or my credit cards, because those are the things that identify me.
Ron: Sure. OK. all right, so this is going to through the process though, of how would add a card to your site. OK.
Nigel: Yes. So essentially there are two different types of cards. There are the cards that I create and then there are cards that my employer, government, bank or club provide to me. And those are really useful. Say, for instance, I wanted to provide to a site my social security number. Then I might use a card that my government had given me. Suppose Microsoft has a 10 percent discount at Compaq or Dell and I want to prove that I'm a Microsoft employee. Obviously, I could use my Microsoft card.
Rather than that SML token coming from me, it would come from Microsoft and it would be signed using their private key. And then Dell on receiving that token will see that the token comes from Microsoft, there's a claim that says that Nigel is an employee of Microsoft, and he gets his 10 percent.
Ron: For a lot of the sites that offer these kinds of deals like employee discounts, it's a big pain right now. We have to log on to CorpNet, go through a special site that does some kind of funky redirect that passes something to them.
Nigel: Yeah.
Ron: And then it gets you into where you have a discount, but this would be a heck of a lot better.
Nigel: Yeah, and the user experience is blissfully simple. My bank or whoever, sends me an email with a card in it or directs me to a website. I double-click on it. It installs into the CardSpace system, and then whenever I go to a website, and the claims that are required match the card, then I just choose the card and away I go. I must stress that when you do that, the CardSpace system allows you to see the information that is being passed across, so you can make a decision whether you want to send this information to a particular website. And we tie in with extended validation certificates. We have a nice UI showing whether a particular site is trusted.
The first law of the 'Laws of Identity' -- and I think you talked to Kim about that in a previous podcast -- is that the user should give their consent and they should be in control of the release of information. CardSpace enables you to do that.
Ron: From an architecture business perspective, why does this make sense to a business? Many times, my credit card company will send me something in the mail that says I get a discount from this or that retailer. And there are working promotions and cross promotions all the time because they're trying to promote their brand, work with retailers.
So at a web-level, it would enable this kind of thing. Login to my site with an identity card provided by this credit card company and you get a 15 percent discount.
Nigel: Yeah. This is just a way to get certain pieces of information or identity from the user or a third-party to a recipient, a website or a web service. And that can span any number of different things. The banks and the credit card companies that we're working with are getting very excited. Again shared secrets, how do we buy things on the web? We give our credit card number, our expiry date and that funny three-digit number that's either on the back of normal cards, and on the front of an American Express card.
Ron: Yeah.
Nigel: You get all of those and you can pretend to me and buy things.
Ron: Exactly.
Nigel: But why do we do that? Because we can send almost any information in this token rather than sending the credit card number, the expiry date and the three-digit number. We just send a one-time authorization to make a payment for a precise amount. So when I'm buying my tennis racket, I authorize the $50.50 and it just goes across. None of the information about my credit card account goes across. It's just a one-time payment authorization. So there's some really interesting scenarios that CardSpace and the use of tokens enables.
But the simplest thing is just logging onto a site where I prove who I am to that site by using some kind of key. We can send all kinds of information across to a site that enables some really new, rich and powerful scenarios, where you can federate with different companies, or have our web services federated. We can have a free SharePoint. We can have banks that enable you to log into their websites using second-factor authentication. You can use SmartCards. You can use Dongles.
We can tie in mobile phones so that you can use an identity selector like this on a phone and choose a card. When you're on holiday in Mexico, you don't have to log onto a compromised Internet cafe machine. You just use your phone, choose your identity from there and it goes through that compromised machine really securely. There are tons of different things you could do.
People start by saying, "CardSpace? Don't know anything about that." And then when they get into the technology, you see their eyes light up. It's just incredibly powerful and compelling, and there are lots of different things you can do with it. Identity and privacy is the key issue on the Internet today. The reason that we're interacting very strongly with the banks is because they're all terrified about phishing, and the FDIC regulations here in the US around your identity and being phished.
Around the world, you have governments who want to do EID and have individual identity. How can you do that and have the user in control of their identity and do it in the correct way? We're providing an infrastructure, the identity metric system, and a client application like CardSpace that enables you to do that. You're very popular.
Ron: Yeah, I am. So let's walk through more of this here.
Nigel: Yeah, I got a bit distracted. So you can have an installer-managed card, and there essentially, you pluck out an.sld file. You can see that a manage-information card is an.sld file. It's just a file that's an assigned XML file. Or we can go back and create a personal card. So in here, you give it a name and various information. This is self-asserted information.
Ron: Yeah. So you don't have to provide anything you don't want to. A site might say that they need to have your phone number.
Nigel: Yes.
Ron: And they won't accept a card that doesn't have your phone number.
Nigel: So a site can specify mandatory claims and optional claims, and the user can put in whatever information they like. Again, it's under the user's control. Clearly, if you have to prove that you're over 21 -- perhaps I'm going to wine.com to buy alcohol -- then they might not accept the self-asserted claim that I'm over 21. They're not going to just trust me because any spotty teenager can go and pretend that they're 21, right? So they might say that they'll accept a card if it's issued from a particular issuer, in particular, the state or the government.
So in that case, in the policy for their site, they'll say that they're not accepting self-issued tokens, but only tokens from the government or the state.
Ron: Right.
Nigel: In other words, the spotty teenager cannot create their own card or token that would fulfill that policy, they'd have to use their government one.
Ron: I have a teenager and his friends routinely assert that they're 25. Not that my son would ever do that.
Nigel: No, of course not. So this is self-asserted information, which it has that level of trust or fidelity.
Ron: But like you said, most sites today operate on self-asserted information.
Nigel: Exactly. So I can then choose one of these standard Vista images. Or if I had a mug shot of you, Ron, I could put that.
Ron: Sure, sure.
Nigel: And then save that information and use that card to log on.
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Ron: I hate it when they do that. But we had to. There's just no choice. We are out of time for this episode. Sometimes if it's a little bit, I'll go a little longer, but this was way longer. We had so much more to talk about and you could tell that I was just getting into all the different possibilities of a technology like this. It's very, very exciting.
It's a shame that more sites haven't taken advantage of this yet. But they will because it's a very, very good idea, and I think these good ideas will persist.
If you want to check it out, you can go to netfx3.com, and they have a little Windows CardSpace sandbox where you can setup your own card, log in with it, and see how it works. It's really cool. And just try it out because, I'm telling you, this kind of thing is going to save us from all those phishing attacks.
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Met Office forecasters are monitoring Hurricane Joaquin as the remnants of which head across the Atlantic towards the UK as wet and windy weather returns and temperatures plunge this week.
Dean Hall, from the Met Office said: "All changes this week with low pressure weather, showers, thunder and breezy in parts.
"Certainly a contrast to what we have been used to in the last few weeks.
The wet weather will clear later Wednesday leaving some fine, dry conditions for Thursday although there is the risk of mist, fog and perhaps a bit of frost.
Hurricane Joaquin, now a Category 1 storm, is currently moving northeastwards away from Bermuda and will continue to weaken as it transitions into a mid-latitude depression and travels across the Atlantic.
Towards the weekend, this low pressure centre will approach the west of the UK but there is some uncertainty as to what impacts, if any, this system will have on the UK as it is still some way off.
A ridge of high pressure will bring fine conditions for many on Thursday and Friday and as high pressure builds from Scandinavia over the weekend this looks like holding back any weather systems approaching from the Atlantic. In fact many places will see fine weather and this means that any impacts from ex-Hurricane Joaquin are likely to be limited to the far west of the UK.
Deputy Chief Meteorologist Laura Paterson said "the forecast is for ex-Hurricane Joaquin to stay away from mainland UK. There is some uncertainty, but the depression is likely to either come to a halt to the southwest of Ireland and weaken, or track to the south of the country and into the Continent.
British adventurer Sarah Outen was forced to abandon her attempt to row the Atlantic solo at the weekend after warnings of being hit by potentially life threatening weather conditions caused by the approaching hurricane.
Hurricane Joaquin has hit America, Barbados and Bermuda, destroying homes and residences.
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It's a little over a month now until the return of the cult sitcom "Arrested Development"! The show, which was canceled by Fox in 2006, makes its return to the small screen, this time on Netflix, on May 26. As a run up to the show's premiere, the producers have released new promotional posters of all the characters. Take a look at the funny pix, and check out an exclusive clip from the show on EW.com. Are you looking forward to the show's return?


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After decades at its South Voss location, Randalls will soon be shutting its doors for good.
The Safeway-owned grocer said the closing is due to "an expired lease and an unsuccessful effort to reach landlord agreement on a new store." The 1407 S. Voss location is across from a new Trader Joe's.
Employees will be offered positions at nearby stores, president Paul McTavish said in an email, directing customers to its "remerchandised Premium store" two miles away at 5161 San Felipe or the Westheimer at Gessner location.
Randalls Food Markets, he said, is remodeling a number of stores and has plans to open new ones in Texas.


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Officers were voted on during P.E.O.'s meeting April 21 at Eastmoor United Methodist Church.
A president's gavel was presented to Belinda Skiles, who was elected chapter president.
Pam Bowers was elected vice president; Debbi Barrow, day recording secretary; Diane Richmond, night recording secretary; Margaret Pickering, corresponding secretary; Lois Smith, treasurer; Arlene Bowers, chaplain; Mary Almaguer, guard; Belinda Skiles, delegate to state convention; and Patty McLinden, alternate delegate.
Diane Richmond and Lois Smith served as co-hostesses and served desserts to 19 members.
Pam Bowers reported that four members attended McPherson's reciprocity meeting at McPherson Opera House on April 12. The Lindsborg chapter will host reciprocity in 2015.
A 50 year pin was presented to Mary Costello.
Members of Marion High School fine arts department provided musical entertainment and forensics performances.
The next meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. May 19 at the home of Ginger Becker. Hostesses are Becker, Belinda Skiles, and Michele Lundy.


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Key Components for Maximizing Video Conferencing Investments: Technology (Part 3 of 4)
In our previous posts on "Key Components for Maximizing Video Conferencing Investments," we addressed the importance of having people and processes in place to accelerate usage and adoption. In this segment, we'll discuss the significant role that technology plays in the successful deployment of any video solution and how asking a few basic questions from the start can make a significant difference.
The key to ensuring maximum adoption of a new video solution is to quickly and seamlessly integrate it into your existing business practices. Having your network infrastructure optimized to support your video strategy is imperative, that means asking some important questions from the beginning of the process:
- What are my immediate, mid-range and long term objectives with video communications? Should I start with a small deployment and grow, or would it be more effective to enable every desktop with video on Day 1?
- Does my network have the capacity and quality of service to support video calls? Should I increase network capacity? How many concurrent calls should I plan for?
- Is it scalable to support future growth? If I want to grow my network, how will I add new locations, new endpoints and new capabilities? Will I have to replace infrastructure?
- Will my video network require internal and external calls? How well does the infrastructure traverse firewalls? Will it be easy to connect to customers, partners and vendors outside my firewall?
- Is the technology interoperable with other platforms like Microsoft, IBM, Avaya and others? How well, if at all, does the video network integrate with my unified communications (UC) platform? Will it compliment my UC strategy or operate independently?
Each one of these questions raises important considerations that – if not addressed early on – can significantly impact the roll-out of your video network and ultimately be the difference between a successful and a less then successful implementation. Fortunately you do not have to go it alone when addressing these questions. There are a range of services that are available from manufacturers, integrators and consultants that will help you architect a solution that fits your goals. Investing the time and effort up front will pay big dividends when it comes to getting the most from your video network.
Be sure to check back next week to learn about education programs that will help ensure a successful video deployment.
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Anyone have the 8500?? I just got mine home from the estate sale, but there are a couple of problems. #1 we were unable to find any cards or software to go with it, so I'm going to have to buy those, and we couldn't find any thread to go with it. I can't imagine buying a machine for $3000 and not having those things...perhaps they are still buried among all the other things. If it wasn't going to be used for embroidery I would think a better machine could be purchased for that price and use.
#2 I know NOTHING about the different weights of thread and needles! Does anyone know a good tutorial? I called my local distributor and they would be happy to give me 'lessions' at $75 an hour! I can't afford that at the moment lol
#3 Where to get threads...I looked on eBay and there seems to be a wide selection that all say they work with Brother machines...I guess I need to deal with #2 and #3 will solve it'self lol
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Actress Anne Hathaway sent Claire Danes a bouquet of flowers as a peace offering after she poked fun at the "Homeland" star during a skit on the comedy sketch show "Saturday Night Live."
The "Les Miserables" actress was hosting the program on November 10, when she donned a blonde wig and feigned a tearful meltdown as bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison in a parody of the popular TV drama, which earned Danes a Golden Globe Award on Sunday.
The new mom has yet to see Hathaway's portrayal, but she jokes it must have painted her in a unfavorable light – because the Hathaway apologized just days later by sending her a beautiful floral arrangement.
She tells Elle magazine, "I'm friends with Anne, and she sent me a lot of texts beforehand that say, 'Oh God, I hope we'll be friends afterwards.' And then she sent me a very large bouquet of flowers, so I'm assuming it was not the most flattering description."


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SEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc said on Thursday pre-orders for its 55-inch next-generation televisions costing over $10,000 have topped 100, and the firm will start selling the TVs on Monday in South Korea as it tries to steal a march on rivals.
Aiming to outdo competitor Samsung Electronics Co and burnish its reputation for TV technology, the world's No.2 TV manufacturer started taking pre-orders for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs some six weeks ago.
Tipped as the technology most likely to replace liquid-crystal display (LCD) TVs, LG's OLED model costs up to five times more than LCD equivalents due to flat-screen production challenges.
Samsung has yet to announce when it will start production of OLED TVs.
Given the high price, the new technology is unlikely to sharply boost profit margins, but LG hopes an early move to OLED will help it revive its sinking profitability at a time when Japanese rivals are benefiting from a weakening yen.
December-quarter profits in LG's TV division tumbled to around one tenth of year-earlier levels, as it bumped up promotional spending in the year-end holiday season.
LG said it was aiming to raise flat-panel TV shipments by 15 percent this year.
OLED technology is more energy-efficient and offers higher contrast images than LCD, and is so thin that future mobile devices will be foldable like paper.
OLED displays are already used on Samsung's popular Galaxy S and Note smartphones, but panel makers have yet to address manufacturing challenges to lower costs to compete against LCD panels, particularly for large screens for televisions and computer monitors.
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A common ingredient in many cough and cold remedies has become a popular substance to abuse by teenagers searching for a cheap, easy high.
Dextromethorphan (DXM), a cough suppressant, is found in at least 70 over-the-counter (OTC) products, including Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Cough Medicine, Coricidin Cough and Cold Tablets, Dimetapp DM, Robitussin cough products, Triaminic cough syrups, Tylenol Cold products, and Vicks NyQuil LiquiCaps.
Used as directed on the label, DXM products are effective at suppressing cough and are safe to use. DXM was approved by the FDA in 1958 and has no serious side effects when used in small doses — typically, 10 mg to 20 mg doses every 4 to 6 hours, or 30 mg every 6 to 8 hours.
When taken in vastly larger quantities, however, DXM produces a distorted awareness, altered time perception and hallucinations. And if taken along with other drugs — even other OTC medications like acetaminophen — the combination can cause liver damage, heart attack, stroke or death.
Cough syrup abuse has been a problem for decades, but the concern in the past had been about the alcohol and codeine in cough and cold products. Because of that, the alcohol has been removed from most OTC cough and cold remedies, and the sale of products that contain codeine are restricted by state law.
DXM seemed a good alternative to codeine and alcohol. It had few, if any side effects, when used as directed. And a larger quantity of DXM — downing several bottles of cough syrup at 1 time, for instance — would cause vomiting.
Today, teens have alternatives to drinking the syrup, however. DXM is available in powder, capsule and pill forms, particularly over the Internet. These forms can be swallowed or snorted. Some websites even tell users how to extract DXM from cough syrup and advise users how much DXM to take to get high. Illicit users may take 240 mg to 1,500 mg of DXM at a time.
It is estimated that 1 in 11 teens has abused cough medicine or other OTC products.
Slang terms for DXM include Black Beauties, Brownies, Dexies, Dextro, Drix, Gel, Groove, Mega-perls, Poor Man's Ecstasy, Red Devils, Robo, Rojo, Rome, Sky, Triple C, Tussin, and Velvet.
The effects of DXM have been compared to PCP (phencyclidine) and the anesthetic ketamine. All 3 are called dissociative substances: At high doses, they give the abuser a feeling of not being in one's own body. DXM also produces hallucinations. The effects can last up to 6 hours, but that can vary, depending on how much DXM is taken and what other drugs or chemicals are taken along with DXM.
People who regularly abuse large amounts of DXM may also be taking toxic amounts of other drugs, such as acetaminophen, found in the OTC cough and cold medications they are abusing.
Other effects of DXM include:
Hot flashes
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Panic attack or seizures
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Lethargy or drowsiness — or hyperactivity
Slurred speech
High blood pressure
Rapid eye movement
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Paranoia and hallucinations
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Regular abuse of DXM at high doses can lead to a chemical psychosis, a mental condition in which the person loses contact with reality. The condition may require hospitalization and treatment with medications to keep the person and others around the person safe.
As a parent, you should warn your children about the dangers of abusing OTC drugs. Some teens believe that OTC drugs are safer to abuse because they are legal.
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Monitor the OTC drugs in your home. Keep track of how much medicine is in each bottle.
Don't buy extra OTC drugs to "stock up."
Don't allow your children to keep OTC drugs in the bedroom, backpack or school locker.
Monitor your children's Internet use, keeping an eye out for websites visited that discuss OTC or other drug abuse.
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In business, we hear things like: "Change is inevitable." And "The only constant is change.". We hear it all the time and most of us have come to understand the fact that change is a part of our lives and will always be a part of business.
Although we have understood the presence of change, I'm not sure that everyone has truly accepted the fact that they need to change in order to keep moving in the desired direction. In business, it is simple: you have a path that you want to your business to go down. As you move down this path, challenges come your way that require you and your team to adjust in order to keep going down that path. If you don't adjust, you won't be able to continue. It is like a road block for your business. If something is in your way, you have to change course in order to get around that obstacle.
What if we don't change?
What happens if we choose not to adjust our course? That's simple. If you are on a road driving and there is a fallen tree blocking the way, you have to make a choice. You can change and go another way, or you can sit and wait for someone to move the fallen tree. You still have two choices, but one is far more reasonable than the other. I don't know too many people that would sit and wait for someone to move the tree.
Let's think about it from a business perspective. If your company is running into a product issue and there seems to be no way to get a product completed without added costs or defects to the product, you have a simple choice to make. You can adjust your process and change how you handle the manufacturing of this product, our you can keep doing it the same way and hope it magically gets better. This sounds a lot like the fallen tree, doesn't it? If your business is waiting for something to magically happen that will change the results, you will be waiting around for a long time and may never see a solution.
How do we change?
Change is a scary word to many people. In fact, many businesses fear change so much that they are still doing things the same way after 3o years or more. Many businesses have proven systems that have worked for them all this time, but other systems in business are not working, but there is either no alternative or no one wants to change the way they do things.


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