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I love my Olfa Ergonomic Rotary Cutters. Yes, I have two. One upstairs in my studio and one downstairs in "the store".
My favorite feature is the fact that I don't have to remember to retract the blade. I'm bad with that kind of thing. I also have an iron that switches off automatically and a tea kettle with a non-removable whistle. What can I say? I'm easily distracted.
I'm getting ready to order a whole bunch of new tools for the store. To make room for the new stock, I'm trying to get the shelves cleaned out a little, so I marked down the existing cutters big time - to $13.95.
I wanted you to know first because I only have
three two one left and I think they're going to go quickly at this price.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
My Olfas
I love my Olfa Ergonomic Rotary Cutters. Yes, I have two. One upstairs in my studio and one downstairs in "the store".
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Oh my gosh.... last night I bought one for Euro 27,- ... Arggggggg!ReplyDelete
I guess yours would be cheaper, even with shippingcosts...
I finally decided to buy this Orfa after using it at the quiltstore during Summersale and I love that it has a safety, because I always cut myself using other cutters...
BTW... lovely 9-patches!!
That particular Olfa is my favorite cutter. I had the Omnigrid retractable cutter and the blades dulled very quickly. This one is awesome!ReplyDelete
I urge anyone out there to definitely use this cutter. It is my favorite too! Used to use a fiskars, but have switched. Love it!ReplyDelete
I have the same Olfa! I still have to remember to lock it in case the girls mistakenly get a hold of it!ReplyDelete


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What do you need to bring to campus? The following is a list that may help you with what to bring, and what you can leave home. It's a list of items the college supplies, and suggestions for what you'll need to bring from home.
Each room in the residence halls is furnished for each student with a bed/mattress, a four-or five-drawer dresser (closet space is also available), desk, and chair. There is a kitchen and a TV in the lounge area of each residence hall. Cable outlets are provided in each bedroom.
Here's what you need to put on your list:
Microwave ovens and refrigerators are provided in the College Court kitchens. If you are residing in the upper class areas of the Garden Apartments, College Courts, or Elmwood 35 and are interested in ordering a micro-fridge, you can do so by contacting the Micro Fridge company, at their website, www.mymicrofridge.com
Main Phone: 845-569-3111
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kgmiller necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 94 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
I need a logo for my web/software development company. I'm looking for that perfect logo - simple, clean, organic, timeless. If you are a great designer who understands balance, I'm hoping you will submit a design to this contest. I'm looking forward to your work!
KGMD - K.G. Miller Development (kgmdevelopment.com)
I am looking for a clean logo for KGMD that can be used anywhere. K.G. Miller Development is my personal development company. I own a few other software companies - but this is the one I will keep forever, serving as a platform for new development ideas, projects, and frameworks. I've not done much with the site as of yet (too busy!!) but I will soon put up a blog and links to download some projects I'm planning on releaseing as open source. I'm currently running a few custom software development projects through this company, so a tight logo is in order. I've come up with about 10 versions myself - but the whole thing is driving me nuts and I can't decide what of my own work I like. So, I've decided to see what the design community can offer me. The right designer could land a significant amount of business with me if I'm impressed by their work on this little project. Also - I'm a big fan of modern design: Dwell (http://www.dwell.com/) is one of my favorite magazines and I often draw inspiration from architecture. The art hanging in my house and office are primarily peices from Dali, Kandinsky, and Rothko - if that helps at all :).
- I'm looking for an organic logo with clean lines. Minimalist but not subdued. Architectural inspiration.
- KGMD should be the primary logo. It would be excellent if K.G. Miller Development in small text could somehow work with the logo when needed.
- A logo "icon" would be nice, but I can also see some interesting things being done with just the letters themselves - is there a way they can flow into eachother perhaps?
- I'm open to use of gradients, but the logo should have enough of a bold shape to look good in a solid black or white.
- If it is possible to make something structural and organic at the same time - that is what I am looking for.
- Logo should be delivered in Vector format, compatible with Adobe Illustrator CS2
- Cheese. No cheese please :)
- Rainbows colors? - not real big on those for this project.
- Pastels - no thank you.
- Cheap designs. Please don't waste your time
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- Inspiration for my palette:
- On a whim I stuck a paint chip on my preteen's wall. She hated it. The chip stayed up and a few weeks later she asked me when I was going to paint her room that cool new color. After a couple of gallons of paint and a ruthless editing of knickknacks, the purple princess palace was transformed into a cool teenage hangout.
- Colors used in my room:
- Behr Spring Leaf
Behr Beauty Queen
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Recently I decided to set out on building a non-profit site designed for spreading GNOME desktops throughout the world (and even GNU/Linux in general for that matter) -- similar to what has been done with SpreadFirefox.com. Anyways, the domain registered was http://www.spreadgnome.org/
When I had initially started working on the site, David Nielsen had expressed interest in working on the site as well. A few others have also shown support for such a community site. However, the site has yet to turn into a reality. The content on the site currently is minimal (and is currently not even maintained), and the site itself is certainly in need of an entire overhaul. The site as you see it today was simply the result of a few hours of work.
It would be ideal if we could get something up and running on SpreadGNOME.org by the launch of GNOME 2.16.0 -- September 6, 2006. If anyone would be interested in helping with this community site in anyway, please contact me or simply post a message with your thoughts or ideas. Thanks.


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The Ultimate Fighter Fridays
Season Two - Episode Descriptions
Episode 9 - "Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson - Betrayal" (Airs November 9, 10:00 pm e/p) - James Chaney owns up to his unsportsmanlike conduct. One fighter turns against his friend. Team Carwin's Mike Ricci takes on Nelson number one pick Dom Waters in the final preliminary fight. Dana White announces the Quarterfinal match-ups.


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I am writing a descriptive/narration paper on Ghosts of St. Augustine, Florida. However, I seem to keep having trouble with thesis sentences. I can write them but I just want to make sure I'm on the right track here. I'd be very much obliged if you could help me out. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
This is my introductory paragraph:
Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles, an admiral working for King Phillip II of Spain, arrived in the Timucuan Indian village of Seloy, Florida on the Feast Day of St. Augustine in 1565. The name the town later received was ironically suited since it saw more supernatural history than Gettysburg. My adventure began late last year when I decided to go visit this hidden gem. St. Augustines history grasps the criteria needed for a haunted architectural locations, particularly old inns and hotels.
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The Big-Bong Theory
He doesn't smoke pot, but if Michel Gondry's movies—Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, and this month's Be Kind Rewind—seem like the product of an inspired, trippy mind operating in some kind of altered state, that's because they are
I meet Michel Gondry for the first time in the East Village, in New York City, in this little coffee shop. He rides up on his bike and chains it to a light pole outside. He's coming from the bookstore, where he bought a volume of philosophy written in French that he has in a paper bag. He says the name of it but I can't understand it with his accent. You can mostly understand what Gondry says. But sometimes he'll say, for instance, "all cool anonyms" (I'll decode this later), and you can only say "What" so many times before you start to feel like an asshole.
You know how famous people, or people who have been coddled and think they're famous, act like everyone's looking at them even when they're not Michel Gondry doesn't do that. Most people in his position would act that way. Gondry has been told since basically the first frame he ever shot how amazing he is. He has the kind of manifest talent that means he didn't even have to be ambitious. First he made a music video for this band he was in, in France; Björk saw it and was like, I want that guy to direct my video; then all these other people—Daft Punk, the Chemical Brothers, the White Stripes—asked him to make their videos; then he directed a movie that Charlie Kaufman wrote that no one really liked (Human Nature), and then another Charlie Kaufman movie that everyone loved and that he shared a screenwriting Oscar for _(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), _and then the concert movie Dave Chappelle's Block Party, and then a movie he wrote and directed himself, The Science of Sleep, that lots of people were annoyed by but that almost everyone would agree was made by a man of special talents. But sitting in this coffee shop, he just looks like some guy who went to Hampshire College in the '80s and now makes collages at his place on Avenue B. Which is where he actually lives. He is seen around here often, and in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where, someone told me, he is known for meeting and dating arty girls.
"I like it very much, this neighborhood," he says. "But it change in a way I don't like. It becomes gentrified."
"Well," I say, "you're kind of the guy gentrifying it."
Gondry stops moving. A bit of his cookie plunks into his tea. He has never considered that. He sees himself firmly in the camp of people who get gentrified, not the consumatrons who do the gentrifying.
"Would you ever live in L.A." I ask.
"I did live in L.A. for four years," he says. "But you get really detached from the rest of the world. I think this show up in Hollywood movies. They reflect a way of life that's disengaged from the rest of the world. And maybe that's why Hollywood movies kind of adapt everywhere all over the world. Because there's nothing specific about them."
The previous day, I had seen his new movie, Be Kind Rewind, which is very specifically about Passaic, New Jersey. The people who follow Gondry's career are wondering what this movie's going to be like, since _The Science of Sleep _was such a boxoffice (and also, relatively speaking, critical) failure. Will he ever make another _Eternal Sunshine _is the essential question about him. With Be Kind, he went small; it simply doesn't have the scope to be a quoteunquote great film. The beginning is a little hokey. It's super "Let's put on a show and save the town!" Like, it's literally about people putting on a show to save the town. The setup is really just an excuse to do these inspired Gondrystyle lofi remakes of movies like _Ghostbusters _and Driving Miss Daisy and a little home movie at the end that has this weird strain of joy and humanity that made me cry. The same way I cried when I saw Block Party, but a different way than I cried at Eternal Sunshine, because _Sunshine _is his one film about being an adult. I don't get into this essential Gondrian conflict yet—the hokey versus the inspired—because we are going to see each other again in a week, in Tokyo, where he's making a short film. Instead, I ask what kind of cinematic sleight of hand (he's known for lofi, clever effects) he's been thinking about lately.
"I think about time travel lately," he says. "I have an idea to make a time machine on YouTube with a blue screen." His sleights require very little in the way of budget or production, which make them perfect for YouTube. There's a YouTube video where he does a Rubik's Cube with his feet—the trick is that he messed it up with his feet and then ran the film backward. The tossedoff quality of the video is part of the reason it tricks you. But about the time travel: "I've always been into physics, astronomy. I read a lot about this astrophysician [sic, Gondryism] who is coming from Vietnam and teaching at the University of Virginia. Trang…Trang I'm going to give you his name tomorrow because I can never remember it. I got in touch with him through email, and I ask him question about the big bong [sic, Gondryism] and stuff."
I say, That's funny, the big bong. Because his movies kind of do what getting high does: heighten small, ordinary human emotions (rejection, loneliness, the crush) and stretch reality to the breaking point. Hee hee. He bridles. This is something about him: He bridles, especially when you're trying to interpret him to him. He finds almost any interpretation of him to be diminutive.
"Oh. I don't do drug," he says. "So I can't say. I drink occasionally, but I would never be drunk to watch a movie."
I talked to Steve Golin, a producer on _Eternal Sunshine, _and he said, "Michel is unbelievably sensitive. And also can be insensitive to other people. He's like a 12yearold boy! When he gets upset because he doesn't get what he wants, he stomps his feet and says, 'Why why why!' It's hysterical. I love Michel. He's a complicated guy, and he's not like a normal guy. But he's supergifted and he's got a really good heart, an extraordinary heart."
Gondry and I talk more. He thinks it'd be terrible to be famous the way an actor is. He's really into graphic novels. He loves the director Paul Verhoeven, especially his film Starship Troopers because it shows war to be the fascist act that it fundamentally is. He is upset that the _Crash _that recently won best picture borrowed its title from a movie by David Cronenberg that he very much loved. He was kind of amazed when he watched the DVD extras on Life Aquatic and the director, Wes Anderson, makes Bill Murray repeat a single line, like, forty times for one take; Gondry wants his movies to have an improvised feel, not an enforced perfection. Over time, an impression coalesces: He sits with his legs crossed the way women, Europeans, and Democrats cross their legs. He's pale. None of his clothes are the right color. His sweatshirt is a weird tint of green, and his suede shoes are a weird blue. I don't think he would ever wear clothes that were the right color. That would violate his principles. He has facial hair that grows only over the middle part of his face, and it's pale like his hair and his eyes. He might be close to albino. People say he looks like a wood sprite or, if you put the pointy ears on him, an elf. I would say maybe a sad posthuman creature from our future. Or wait: the Petit Prince. He looks almost exactly like the Petit Prince, from either the book or the movie or just from your imagination. He's the Petit Prince all grown up and moved to Alphabet City, rummaging around usedbook stores for philosophy books in French and dating arty girls from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and drawing cartoons with his 16yearold son. Which is pretty much what the Petit Prince would do if he were alive and 40 years old.
The next time I see Michel Gondry, he's sitting in front of a video monitor on a soundstage outside of Tokyo waiting for the crew to light something. They've built a model of a tiny apartment on the soundstage, and a static image of its interior flickers on the screen. His girlfriend is next to him, a cartoonist named Gabrielle Bell. This movie—a short that's part of a threefilm, threedirector project about Tokyo—is about a girl who turns into a chair, and it's based on a comic that Gabrielle drew. She also cowrote the screenplay, with Gondry, which someone translated into Japanese. Gabrielle, in red cords and a pilly knit cap, is long, with long limbs like stretched taffy. She sits next to Michel, quietly drawing in her journal.
"Come on!" Michel shouts to no one in particular. "It should have been done already! It's very simple."
Some Japanese people laugh shyly at him and continue to do obscure things with rolls of tape and sheets of plastic.
"Okay, let's roll! Let's roll! What's wrong"
He exhales and bends over and Gabrielle starts karatechopping his back and he says, "Ohohohohoh" and "ahahahahah."
The shoot is going to last twentyone days, and for most of those days, Michel and Gabrielle will take the train out here from central Tokyo—fortyfive minutes, three trains, rocking along through the antiseptic chaos of Tokyo with sleeping salarymen that Gabrielle will draw in her book. I can't imagine Brett Ratner taking the train out to suburban Tokyo to shoot a small movie with an entirely Japanese crew who mostly don't speak English for very little money. It's part of the reason, Gondry explains, that he decided to do this project.
"It's fun to get out of your element," he says. "I like the train because a little bit I can do thing like everyone else, like a normal person. It make me stimulated. To keep connected to the real world."
Gondry doesn't have a largerthanlife personality, doesn't preside over the set in a beret with a bullhorn and give rousing speeches and make coarse jokes. He's not all kinetic energy and bluster and charisma. The fact that he is who he is, _that _is his charisma. That, and generally being sweet with people. Though if you study him for a minute, you can see fatigue below the sweetness, like they didn't fully inflate his face this morning. He almost never sleeps very well, though he is a notorious dreamer. That's what _The Science of Sleep _was all about,
Michel Gondry and his weird dreams.
"When I couldn't sleep last night, I respond to every email," he says to some of the crew. "Especially spam. Dear SoandSo. I would not like a longer penis. I think I am fine. But please keep me aware of any other product that I could be interest in!"
The assistant director laughs, and Michel says to Gabrielle, "See, look how much he appreciate my sense of humor."
"I didn't know we were competing to see who can appreciate your sense of humor better," she says. She laughs and then looks worried, like she started out making a joke but wonders whether it was totally a joke. She goes back to her sketchbook. She draws everything longer and sadder than it appears in real life, like she's making the world over in her image.
They begin shooting, and you can start to see where the Gondry part of the movie comes in. That is, aside from this tiny apartment that he's had constructed on the soundstage, choked with old clothes, a ceramic dog, pots and pans, the people living in the embryonic sac of their own mundane crap. Gondry makes movies about people with lives and apartments that normal people might have: haphazard, not stylized. Even his elaborate, surreal special effects are connected to the real world. He's the anti–Nancy Meyers. Anyway, the Gondry part is introduced when a Japanese guy with a cigarette behind his ear brings out this prosthetic torso that has, where the solar plexus should be, some bloody wooden slats. Like everything Gondry does—his music videos, his movies, his lifestyle decisions—this film has a central metaphor. It's about a girl who feels useless and, as she is transformed into a chair, feels some relief. Kafka by way of Brooklyn set in Tokyo.
"We use mostly prosthetic," he says. "I don't like to use too much CGI for this. If you do it just in postproduction, I don't think you're going to feel anything when you see it. This is more visceral. A little bit like David Cronenberg. His effect are very visceral, because they are really there. He's the master of this type of metamorphosis—I hope I'm up to his level. It's a terrible transformation that come from a mundane thing."
The metaphorical fantasy of the mundane: That's what you need for a Gondry movie. And of course it has to be in the service of a theory. Gondry is extremely French in his belief in theories, which seems pretty antiquated by now. The twentieth century was about the big idea; people seem mostly postideological now, especially in the movie business. "There is too much CGI used in movie," he says. "There are so many things to do that are more striking and affecting than to manipulate pil by pil with computer. They do it to be lazy. When they use the computer to avoid the actor being in a real car, in a real landscape, when you see the actor didn't bother going to such and such a location to do their job, I feel cheated. I feel disengage. It disengage me."
Gondry's movies are as much about how they're made as they are about the pain of loss (Sunshine and Sleep, the two Gondryest movies). The dream sequences in Sleep are astonishingly laborintensive and minute, but they're also accomplished almost wholly using materials anyone could buy and methods anyone could use if only he'd thought of it. And that's what he's about.
"My movies are a little bit closer to the same feeling—you watch it and you feel like you're making it at the same time. And people joke about that. They say I am Mr. Cardboard, and I have a lot of people making fun. But that is my goal."
In the morning, location shooting starts. First in a building of micro apartments stacked like rusty clothes dryers twelve stories high. Then in another apartment complex, abandoned, where there are mahjongg tiles and mosquito coils littered on the grounds, like someone blew up Hong Kong. While the crew takes forever lighting something, Gondry and I sit in this room with dwarf ceilings and tatami mats and talk about the possibility that he has a tragic flaw as a director. It starts like this.
"Did you see in New York magazine that they did a review of your Be Kind Rewind trailer They said, Michel Gondry discovers YouTube."
"I'm not too bad in YouTube," he says. "I get quite a lot of hit in general. But there is a lot of guy who get really immense hit. Like this Norwegian guy who does this drum thing. I did that ten years ago. The whole medium of quirky animation, all—or a very large amount of people—who are producing stuff in this medium really are derivative of me." Then he laughs. "I have to be careful because I hear this type of comment, and I get very defensive and say, Oh, I did this before! I try to make fun of myself when I feel this way strongly. It make you look petty when you can't refrain but to say, Oh, it's not fair this guy is given much more recognition than me."
I paraphrase what Steve Golin said about this trait: "He's got a huge ego and he's hugely competitive. So I mean he's a very complicated guy, because on the one hand he is generous and great. And on the other he's judgmental and competitive, and he can be petty." Gondry more or less agrees. You have to write the truth, he says.
In the spirit of truth, I tell him something else Golin talked about: the fact that _Eternal Sunshine _was the product of great compromise. I didn't quote him fully, but this is what Golin said: "When I worked on _Eternal _with him, Charlie Kaufman and the producers spent a lot of time trying to rein in some of Michel's creativity. Michel has so many ideas, _all _the time. He has literally hundreds of brilliant ideas in a day. And the trick as a producer with Michel is to keep the ideas reined in, so they work in the context of what the narrative is. And when you are working with a director who's coming off a movie that's not that successful—because at the end of the day, Human Nature, his first film, was not all that successful—it's easier to deal with them. And everybody said, Listen, your last movie wasn't a success, so stop being so confident that you're always right." You could say that Sleep is what happens when these impulses are unimpeded.
Gondry agrees that there was a struggle. He says the whole movie was a compromise, but in the end there was nothing in Sunshine that he (and Charlie Kaufman and Steve Golin) didn't want in there.
But what if what he really needs is a counterweight The Charlie Kaufman (adult) for the Michel Gondry (child)
"I think if Charlie would call me and want to collaborate, I would," Gondry says. "But he's directing his movie. And there are not so many writer who can compare to Charlie Kaufman, to be honest. I don't want to be dismissive, but it's very hard to find something that doesn't feel completely controlled by a bunch of ecutive who think they know exactly what is good for the audience. So I'm like, Well, I better try to write my own."
I don't think Gondry can pull back enough to consider whether this is a flaw, tragic or not. A new impression of Gondry asserts itself. A man of great talents and powerful ideas, no longer the wunderkind with limitless potential, 44 years old, living in the East Village with his son, Paul—a bilingual 16yearold who paints and draws and has parties in the apartment when Michel is gone—and in complete thrall to his own creativity, a force too big for him to wrestle. I don't think it occurs to him to try.
The plot of _Be Kind _is that these two video clerks in Passaic, New Jersey, accidentally erase all the videos in their store. It happens—Michel, come on, seriously—because Jack Black gets magnetized. But Gondry's just trying to get to the part where he can bring into play the film's concept (there is always a concept with Gondry, whether it's dating a beautiful shy cartoonist or making a music video like the Daft Punk one where he breaks down the music into visual components—each sound is a different fantastical character—and sets them in repeating choreographed motion, trying to literally translate electronica into the visual). The concept is that these guys decide to remake the movies that people want to rent, and those become even more popular than the original movies, and eventually the whole town makes a movie together about the life of Fats Waller (don't worry if all the dots aren't connecting for you) that is not only supposed to earn enough money to save the video store and the community fabric of the town of Passaic, but also snatch the life of the truly independent film from the clutches of Hollywood and Blockbuster.
"Eventually, at the end of Be Kind," he says, "they make their own movie. That's really what it's about. To make your own what you want to watch. For yourself. Not to be part of a commercial system."
We are back in New York now. Gondry is drinking tea in his walkup apartment. Old furniture, stacks of DVDs, paintings by his kid. There's a dirty sofa and a Formica table in the kitchen—again, more the habitat of the Hampshire grad selfpublishing his zine than of a famous movie director. He explains that the day before the film opens, he will unveil an exhibit at the Deitch gallery in New York that will actually be a doityourself studio where people will be invited to come and make their own films. Like in the movie.****
"The main room would sort of be a mini back lot. Like you have the interior of a car and you have the street moving behind it, and with the gas pedal you can make it faster or slower. And you have an office and a street, a bathroom, all the generic thing you need to make a story possible. And there's going to be a big light switch in the room that will be 'Night' or 'Day,' because in a screenplay you always start with Day or Night."
This is not supposed to be art so much as a metaphorical machine.
"I write a protocol for people to start their own film club like this. Ultimately, you would have film club in a lot of different places, even different countries. Then they can start to exchange between cities. And basically it would be like having a system like all cool anonyms [eventually I understand this as "Alcoholics Anonymous"], a very powerful system that's completely unadvertised. It can't be bought by anything. It's completely utopistic. How you say, utopist. It will probably never work. So I do it in the gallery for now."
Gondry's career is a kind of oneman version of the film club, whether here or in Tokyo (why else would you do this project but to have a purer creative experience, away from Hollywood, etc.) or at Spike Jonze's house, where he and Spike used to shoot "exquisite corpse" films. (Spike shoots thirty seconds and shows Michel only the last frame, and then Michel shoots thirty seconds and shows Spike only the last frame. Again: Imagine Brett Ratner doing that if he weren't also getting teabagged.)
It's a struggle to get him to think about anything beyond the creative experience. I ask Raffi Adlan, Gondry's associate producer, about a story I heard: Gondry's former assistant used to make him sign the todo list every day because Gondry would habitually forget what he'd asked for. Not that he knew of, Adlan says, but there are systems in place now to help Gondry remember what he's asked for and of whom.
"Not only does he not want to be part of the Hollywood power structure," Steve Golin says, "he doesn't even understand it. He's not interested in any of that shit. He goes on vacation to the South of France and does art projects with his kid."
This—besides that talent and creativity—is what's remarkable about Gondry. Sure, he's competitive and ambitious and yearns for ever greater helpings of recognition. But almost everyone like him ends up getting hypnotized into believing in Hollywood's version of ambition: They end up making arty versions of Hollywood boilerplate. Especially people like Gondry, because it's those with that kind of singular visual aptitude who are used to dress up and shellac an artistic patina onto bigbudget genre movies. Tim Burton makes Batman Returns. Alfonso Cuarón makes Harry Potter movies. Michel Gondry makes…Be Kind Rewind. He has not, as yet, had the selfdeluding monologue that creative people in Hollywood have that goes: "I really shouldn't be so snobby; I should have fun. Movies are fun, and I want people to see my movies, right So I'll make Charlie's Angels 3." This isn't about whether you like the movies or not, or whether he has a tragic flaw as a director; it's about this man being both alarmingly talented and alarmingly ideological, almost reflexively so, and having the balls to put his money where his ideology is, be that in the East Village or in Tokyo.
Part of the Gondry ideology is to call attention to the fact that we mostly define ourselves through consumption. I am this shirt but not that fucking shirt; I am totally _The Office _but I ain't Two and a Half Men, and wait, _The Office _only used to be good. It doesn't matter whether it's high art or Fred Claus, we're committing the same act: consumption.
"I think there are two ways to see art and music," he says. "One way is to find contagious element to encourage people to make something. And one way is to really hypnotize people, assert your power. And I've always been on the side of the first."
Devin Friedman is GQ's senior correspondent.


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By Don Reid
COLDWATER � White Pigeon Police Sgt. Bill Burgoyne�will serve�30 days in the Branch County Jail after pleading guilty to driving�while impaired in a roll over accident�April 12 on M-60-66 in Sherwood Township.
With tears in his eyes Burgoyne told Branch County District Judge Brent Weigle, "This was so much more than a mistake�or a bad decision. I know better. It has really, really affected my life and won�t happen again."
The 25-year-plus veteran officer said he let down his family, community and the law enforcement community.
"I feel terrible about it," he said.
Defense attorney T.J. Reed presented several letters from law enforcement and White Pigeon city leaders citing�Burgoyne's community work and mentoring.
"Nobody is going to punish Mr. Burgoyne more than he has already punished himself," one of the letters said.
Burgoyne underwent counseling "for the psychological impact and for just dealing with the fallout for the decision he made," Reed said.
The defense attorney asked for not more than a week in jail and probation with community service in Branch County for Burgoyne. Reed also asked for work release if his client was sentenced to the recommended 30 days.
St. Joseph County Sheriff Brad Balk told Weigle Burgoyne had donated hundreds of hours to the county and White Pigeon school system, communicating with kids and using his K-9 dog.
Balk said, "Bill has already beat himself up pretty badly about (driving impaired). I would hate to see it go much farther. He is a professional and a tremendous person."
Balk�asked for leniency as�Burgoyne was a�first-time offender.
Other first-offense impaired driving�sentences handed down in District Court Monday were for 7 to 10 days � but Weigle noted that none of those cases involved accidents.
"If I give you less than 30 days I would be treating you differently," Weigle told Burgoyne before adding, "I have respect for what you�ve done as a person."
Weigle said police officers, judges and prosecutors are held to higher standards. The judge said there would be too much pressure to have a police officer on probation or to allow work release.
As a former defense attorney and prosecutor, Weigle said he�felt �having a police�officer on probation or work release "would give defense attorneys a field day" in court cases.
"It�s not appropriate and would make a mockery of the court system," he said.
On the night of the accident in which Burgoyne was involved, White Pigeon Police Chief Lynn "Dutch" Baker and Burgoyne were on their way back from a meeting in Lansing when Burgoyne rolled his wife�s 2008 Cadillac CTS on Mendon Road near Oliverda Road around 6:10 p.m.
When Michigan State Police troopers arrived at the accident scene,�both men were out of the car, which had damage to the top and right side. When questioned about the accident both officers invoked their Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer.
An open container of an intoxicant was in the vehicle, along with an ice chest.
Branch County Prosecutor Ralph Kimble was brought to the scene. MSP officers then sought warrants and subpoenas for evidence. Seat� belt marks on�Burgoyne's chest proved he had been the driver of the vehicle.
Burgoyne was suspended by the White Pigeon City Council for five days and�was held in abeyance another�seven days.
Weigle said he thought White Pigeon officials had not thought through the letters they wrote in support of Burgoyne and that they wrote them�out of loyalty. The judge suspended 63 days in jail for Burgoyne on the condition he not have an�alcohol-related arrest within one year.
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Elongation factor EF2 (EF-G) is a G-protein. It brings about the translocation of peptidyl-tRNA and mRNA through a ratchet-like mechanism: the binding of GTP-EF2 to the ribosome causes a counter-clockwise rotation in the small ribosomal subunit; the hydrolysis of GTP to GDP by EF2 and the subsequent release of EF2 causes a clockwise rotation of the small subunit back to the starting position [(PUBMED:12762009), (PUBMED:12762047)]. This twisting action destabilises tRNA-ribosome interactions, freeing the tRNA to translocate along the ribosome upon GTP-hydrolysis by EF2. EF2 binding also affects the entry and exit channel openings for the mRNA, widening it when bound to enable the mRNA to translocate along the ribosome.
EF2 is folded into five domains, with domains I and II forming the N-terminal block, domains IV and V forming the C-terminal block, and domain III providing the covalently-linked flexible connection between the two [(PUBMED:11054294)]. This entry represents the domain V of EF2 of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes (also known as eEF2). This domain is also found in some tetracycline-resistance proteins. It adopts a ferredoxin-like fold consisting of an alpha/beta sandwich with anti-parallel beta-sheets. It resembles the topology of domain III found in these elongation factors, but these two domains cannot be superimposed [(PUBMED:12471894)].
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Melges 32s Take It Down To The Wire On Day Three Of The 2008 Rolex Big Boat Series
13 September 2008
San Francisco, Calif. - If you thought the first three days of racing at the 2008 Rolex Big Boat Series in San Francisco, Calif. were intense, well just wait until tomorrow — overall leader Michael Illbruck (Munich, Germany) on GER-401 Pinta and John Porter (Lake Geneva, Wisc.) on USA-32 Full Throttle are seated first and second with 17 points a piece. All eyes will be on the Melges 32 fleet, as only one race will be held, only one winner will be determined.
The excitement of the third day of racing was apparent as all the teams enjoyed a light 5-8 knots of breeze, sunshine and flat seas for the first start. The teams headed upwind favoring the left early on, then looking a bit scattered with the breeze filling in fast. Philippe Kahn (Santa Cruz, Calif.) on USA-166 Pegasus 32 put local knowledge to good use rounding the top mark first, followed by a strong Illbruck in second. Kahn with a clean set found himself several boat lengths ahead of the fleet. As Illbruck rounded, he fumbled on the set helping Kahn's cause. Porter was a close third. The three took it to the bottom mark with Illbruck constantly looking for a passing lane, but his patience served him well. Kahn maintained the lead upwind, bringing the fleet a tight four wide into the mark, Kahn still holding his own, Illbruck right on his transom then Giovanni Maspero (Como, Italy) on ITA-999 Joe Fly. Porter and Joe Woods (Torbay, UK) GBR-700 Red stirred the pot and made things even more interesting as the two charged in on port, tacking to starboard just in front of the oncoming back pack for a fourth and fifth place rounding respectively. Downwind Illbruck turned on the speed ultimately taking the lead from Kahn. Kahn stayed close but unable to regain the lead, settling for second. Woods nailed a solid third.
Going into race two Illbruck had a firm grip on the lead some five points ahead of Porter for the start. The wind was on the up-and-up and a healthy 18-20 knots of wind pumping for the start. Don Jesberg (Belvedere, Calif.) on USA-162 Viva slid off the pin end paving a great lane on the outside. Illbruck, Porter and Woods looked up the middle for momentum. Kahn very aggressive on the left. Further upwind the entire fleet periodically, when the opportunity presented itself bullied Illbruck, pinning him to the corners. The level of intimidation delivered by the entire fleet, in particular Kahn, Porter and Woods was engineered specifically to wear on Illbruck's very confident Pinta Melges 32 team. Around the top was Pieter Taselaar (New York, N.Y) on USA-169 Bliksem and Kahn almost together. Jesberg and Porter fought for position jetting to the right, while Kahn hugged the shore for inside pressure. One of the most impressive views was Woods' downwind run on the city front screaming at 16 knots +. On the right, Porter blasted downwind spoiling Woods' attempt to take over the lead by winning the gate. Back upwind it was all Porter and Woods in now what was a race of pure speed and endurance. It was a battle that just would not give until the finish line. Porter and Woods took it to the line with Porter ultimately taking the win.
Looking to Sunday's one and only race, six points separate first through fifth on the scoreboard. In other classes of boats and at this late date in the regatta, the regatta could be predicted but the strength, talent and ability to amaze and surprise is a key characteristic of the International Melges 32 Class.
FULL RESULTS (Preliminary after six races)
1.) Michael Illbruck, Pinta; 3-4-2-1-1-6 = 17
2.) John Porter, Full Throttle; 1-3-3-4-5-1 = 17
3.) Joe Woods, Red; 4-7-1-2-3-2 = 19
4.) Pieter Taselaar, Bliksem; 2-2-4-3-6-3 = 20
5.) Philippe Kahn, Pegasus 32; 5-1-5-6-2-4 = 23
6.) Giovanni Maspero, Joe Fly; 7-5-6-8-4-8 = 38
7.) Don Jesberg, Viva; 6-8-7-10/RAF-7-5 = 43
8.) Stephen Pugh, Taboo; 9-6-8-5-8-7 = 43
9.) Caleb Everett/Andy Costello, Stewball; 8-9-9-7-9-10/DNF =52
Italy's own Sailrev.tv is offering a variety of competitor interviews at the 2008 Melges 32 Rolex Big Boat Series including Pieter Taselaar, John Porter, Michael Illbruck and Joe Woods! Visit Sailrev.tv today!
Photo Gallery, Day 01
Photo Gallery, Day 02
Photo Gallery, Day 03
Full Crew Lists
Visit the official event website of 2008 Rolex Big Boat Series. Also, see the official website of the International Melges 32 Class Association.
For media photos and additional information about the Melges 32 at the 2008 Rolex Big Boat Series please contact Joy Dunigan, International Melges 32 Class Press Officer on e-mail, or via phone at +1 (912) 398 5776.


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5 Centimeters Per Second
I just watched it for the first time thanks to CR's Global Shinkai Day 2013 and
I guess I just wanted to talk about it...someone hold me please, I can't control these tears.
OK, I might be exaggerating a bit with my reaction but this movie did leave me with a pretty heavy feeling.
After having so far watched The Place Promised In Our Early Days, Voices of a Distant Star, and now this, I can say that 5 Centimeters is the best of that bunch (yes I know the first two were his earlier works, I'm also going to watch Children Who Chase Lost Voices soon).
Anyway, the music, the animation and set pieces, the dialogue, the characters, it all just came together so well in my opinion.
This might just be me but I get the feeling that 5 Centimeters is also just an altered yet more fleshed out Voices of a Distant Star.
Some other things I just want to quickly say:
That ending song sequence, all I can say is wow...well done. And
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I really felt for Sumida, the second act that she was in just made really me sad
So what did every one else think of the movie?
What even
It was, uh...sad.
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Realistic. The most mature of his works by far.
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Enjoyment, I don't care about deeper meaning but sometimes some animes have both and that's always a nice surprise.
What I mean by that is I didn't enjoy 5cm per second in the slightest bit whether or not it has a "deeper" meaning. Other than it's visuals and maybe score it was a waste of time to watch for me.
it's definitely on my watch list, along with voices on a distant star and I guess children who chase lost voices now. I saw a place promised in our early days quite some time ago, but I remember loving it.
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Enjoyment, I don't care about deeper meaning but sometimes some animes have both and that's always a nice surprise.
What I mean by that is I didn't enjoy 5cm per second in the slightest bit whether or not it has a "deeper" meaning. Other than it's visuals and maybe score it was a waste of time to watch for me.
So what you're saying is that 5 Centimeters Per Second wasn't you cup of tea and that having enjoyment and a deeper meaning in a story is a nice surprise?
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That's what I wrote is it not?
lemme check ...
It appears so.
aidenraine wrote:
it's definitely on my watch list, along with voices on a distant star and I guess children who chase lost voices now. I saw a place promised in our early days quite some time ago, but I remember loving it.
I say watch Voices first and then 5 Centimeters whenever you can but that's just me
It just seems like a story evolution and expansion from one to the next
What even
I watched this back in the day like 08 09 when I was doing the "romance" phase of my anime career, and I was really sad to be hit with the realization that real life can be like this. Childhood friends and true love doesn't always come true.
I was like 17, 18 this one hit me pretty hard back then, that's why I have never re-watched this anime, cause the whole story has such a big impact.
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That's what I wrote is it not?
lemme check ...
It appears so.
It's the way you worded it is all, meant nothing by it.
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I love all the movies by Makoto Shinkai, until today I watched "Voices of a distant star", "Place promised in our early days", and "5 centimeters per second". I got to say I love all of them but "5 Centimeters per second" is definitely my favorite. Well Until I watched "Children who chase lost voices" today, that totally is now my favorite. But All of the movies is great and of course beautiful. The Music, storyline, and art is truly beautiful. But all of them is sad >..< But I love them all nonetheless ^ - ^
I saw it awhile ago and enjoyed it although it's not my favorite Makoto film that I've watched yet. I hope the upcoming Garden of Words this year will be good.
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I loved Voices of a Distant Star, Place Promised in our Early Days and 5 Centimeters Per Second. All were in a similar theme, love separated by space and time.
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I felt that Voices actually kept the theme the best as it seems they would never meet again and she just kept getting further and further away, thus it was the most tragic. In Place Promised she was OK in the end so it was the happier of the three though it was sad in the middle when she disappeared, having gotten trapped in relation to the tower. In some ways 5 Centimeters was the most tragic as it didn't have to end that way, there was no scientific reason why they couldn't be together. He either could have gotten together with Sumida who would have loved him deeply or he could have told Akari to wait for him or he could even have run away with her and stayed in Tokyo in the first place, living in a cardboard box or tube hotel if necessary; so in some ways it was the saddest of the three as the unrequited love was avoidable. I agree it did sort of feel like Voices without the spaceships to really keep them apart with the light jumps.
You can say those romances aren't deep but they were very well done and I was moved deeply by them anyways. The simplicity allows the emotions to come through clearly.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices, just seeing it today, was the most recent so visually it was the best but it didn't have nearly the emotional impact for me. The ending didn't really work for me. Surprisingly it is my least favorite of the four. It felt like it was trying to be more of a broad mass appeal movie and yet it was too scary for me to show my kids I thought and yet missed being really an adult romance story like the others at the same time. Still good just missing something for me and the story kind of fell apart at the end. Ah well...
finished voices on a distant star, re-watching place promised in our early days right now. these things just beg for an update, I think. voices on a distant star, while being great, the animation is so dated and could be done a lot better. it also felt too short. places promised in our early days though, I think they could just remaster it and it'd be fit for an HD release. even by today's standards, it's visually stunning even in 480P.
glass, once broken, can never be restored perfectly
5cm was by far my favorite of the bunch. I normally don't dwell on the past very much but at the stage I'm at in my life it hit home very hard and brought a lot of regret to the surface.
Probably the most personal movie I've ever watched.
I'm glad you started the topic, I wanted to talk about it too
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¿Cómo se dice "gene" en español? The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) today released an updated online Spanish Talking Glossary of Genetics to provide a resource to the Spanish-speaking community seeking a better understanding of genetics and genomics.
New features of the glossary - originally launched in 2003 - include an alphabetically organized navigational tool and lists of related terms.
The glossary, announced at the 2011 annual meeting of the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), gives students, teachers and the Spanish-speaking public a reliable online resource for more than 200 terms and basic concepts behind today's breakthroughs in genetics and genomics. A key added feature to the glossary is the ability to switch from English to Spanish in an instant.
"The Spanish Talking Glossary is the result of volunteer efforts of more than100 Spanish-speaking genetics professionals," said Jeff Witherly, Ph.D., senior advisor in NHGRI's Education and Community Involvement Branch. "Volunteers from NIH and reviewers from colleges and high schools in the United States contributed to this project over the last year."
Just like the English version of the glossary, many of the terms and definitions come from current textbooks used in middle and high school science classes around the nation. Users can actually hear each term and definition described by scientists who provide context and other supplementary information. Scientists biographies and photographs accompany the glossary terms.
"The updated version of NHGRI's Spanish Talking Glossary is a major milestone to help Spanish speakers understand common genetic terms like "gene" and "chromosome," said Amalia Dutra, Ph.D., the Spanish Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms scientific advisor.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The European Tour has no problem producing star players. Keeping them is the challenge.
Seven players from Europe's Ryder Cup team are PGA Tour members. Five have made the United States their main residence, and the list is only growing.
Martin Kaymer, a former world No. 1 and past PGA Championship winner, announced this week that he's joining the PGA Tour. Lee Westwood is moving from England to Florida. And big-hitting Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium told The Associated Press that he will cut his European Tour events to the minimum 13 next year so he can play a full schedule in America.
"It's a stronger tour and you have the best players in America,'' Colsaerts said Wednesday. "This is perfect timing for me. I've had a pretty good year over here and it's maybe time to have a taste of somewhere else, see if I like it and see if it it's the tour I will be playing for the next couple of years.''
Luke Donald, Ian Poulter, Justin Rose, Graeme McDowell and Peter Hanson already were based in Florida, with Donald splitting time between Florida and Chicago. Hanson finally earned enough money this year to take up PGA Tour membership, though he had been living at Lake Nona in Orlando, Fla.
European Tour chief executive George O'Grady said the departure of so many stars was a testament to the quality of players in Europe and the increasing openness of the U.S. tour to take them.
But he agreed that keeping the top talent requires larger amounts of prize money, an increasingly difficult prospect at a time when the financial crisis led this year to the loss of four European Tour events in Spain and one in Czech Republic.
"We are concerned, but not panicking,'' O'Grady said. "We have to improve our game back here in heartland Europe, make our tournaments better and that also means richer. We don't seem to have any problem on the structure in the game in Europe developing the talent. But you want to see more of your talent as much as you can.''
Kaymer, Colsaerts and Hanson will be full PGA Tour members for the first time next year, meaning the U.S. tour will have 28 of the top 30 players in the world ranking. Also joining is Ryo Ishikawa of Japan and David Lynn of England, the PGA Championship runner-up by eight shots to Rory McIlroy.
"The U.S. tour is an attractive tour. You play in one place and it's quite an easy tour to travel around,'' said Donald, who won an NCAA title at Northwestern. "Europe is becoming increasingly difficult. There are a fewer events in Europe and more in Asia. They have done well to create a schedule with lots of events in Asia, but it has its disadvantages through travel. You can't blame any player for wanting to go play on the U.S. tour.''
Poulter, who has called Florida home for the past four years, said high-profile sponsors are needed to ensure the European Tour remains relevant.
"It's a tough situation for the tour to be in, and I really hope there's a plan to help the tour get more big sponsors,'' Poulter said. "Obviously, Europe in general as a continent is struggling. There's not much money and it's very hard to convince sponsors to put big tournaments on. I don't think that trend is going to change just yet.''
Not every big name is ready to give up on the European Tour. McIlroy, the No. 1 player in the world, still plans to make it a central part of his season.
"I think with the way golf has gone, you can be a global player and you can play all over the world,'' said McIlroy, who won the European and PGA Tour money titles this season. "I don't think anyone is going to neglect the European Tour.
"The European Tour gave me a lot of opportunities coming through, and it's something that I'll never forget and something that I'll always hold onto.''


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Valley splitting in strained silicon quantum wells modeled with 2 degree miscuts, step disorder, and alloy disorder
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Valley splitting (VS) in strained SiGe/Si/SiGe quantum wells grown on (001) and 2° miscut substrates is computed in a magnetic field. Calculations of flat structures significantly overestimate, while calculations of perfectly ordered structures underestimate experimentally observed VS. Step disorder and confinement alloy disorder raise the VS to the experimentally observed levels. Atomistic alloy disorder is identified as the critical physics, which cannot be modeled with analytical effective mass theory. NEMO-3D is used to simulate up to 1,000,000 atoms, where strain is computed in the valence-force field and electronic structure in the sp3d5s* model.
"Valley-splitting in strained Silicon quantum wells modeled with 2 degree miscuts, step disorder, and alloy disorder", Applied Phys. Lett. Vol. 90, 092109 (2007). The published document resides at Applied Physics Letters.
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Caillou "Caillou The Sports Star" Everyone's Best - When Clementine shows up with a swimming ribbon on her chest, Caillou really wants to have one too. Grandma comes up with some very silly games with ribbons for prizes. Winning isn't that easy, Caillou soon finds out, but he imagines he's an Olympic Athlete and has a lot fun trying his best. D
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Barney & Friends "Movement/Separation" Movement - When some children in the park invite Barney to join them for a race, BJ and Baby Bop decide he'll need their help. They show him several ways to get ready for the big race by warming up and stretching. By the end of the day, everyone finds out that there are many fun ways to exercise. D
1:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Help with Kelp/Treetop Tom" Help With Kelp - It's Fish's birthday and Nick and Sally want to get him a special present, but who can they ask for ideas? Cat's friend Gary the Garibaldi fish might have an idea! Off to the Briny Blue Sea where they meet a variety of creatures in a kelp forest who use the kelp for both food and protection. Back at home they make a picture of the kelp forest for Fish. It's the best present he could ever hope for! Treetop Tom - Nick and Sally are playing when their ball gets caught up high in the branches of a tree. D
1:30 pm
Thomas & Friends "Playing with Friends" Thomas and the Scruff - Whiff is excited for Thomas to bring Scruff to help him at the Waste Dump. Thomas meets Scruff at Brendham Docks and sees that he is really quite scruffy and dirty. Thomas thinks it would be best to give Scruff a clean before he starts his new job. D
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Curious George "Water to Ducks/Animal Magnetism" George tries to keep a puddle from evaporating so the ducks will stay & learns a lot about magnets.G
2:30 pm
Martha Speaks "Oh, Noooo!/Bye, Martha" Oh, Noooo! - Granny Flo's Alphabet Soup is taking a licking from the competition, Oodles of Os. If Granny Flo goes out of business, how will Martha communicate? Bye, Martha - Nefarious con artist Weaselgraft hatches a scheme to kidnap Martha by pretending to be Martha's long-lost owner . . . from Poland.G
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The Electric Company "Lost and Spaced" At the school science fair, Lisa and her Skeleckian friend Dax get shrunk down and trapped inside their project - a perfect model of the solar system!. D
3:30 pm
WordGirl "Meat-Life Crisis/Mobot Knows Best" Meat-Life Crisis - When the Butcher can't summon the meat to defeat WordGirl he decides to go live at home with his dad, Kid Potato. He convinces his son to join him at the ballpark to work a as food vendor. Will this be the end of the Butcher's villainous ways? Mobot Knows Best - It's parent-teacher conference day at Woodview Elementary School. D
4:00 pm
Wild Kratts "The Food Chain Game" Aviva wants to build a food web for the African savannah, so she devises a game and Martin and Chris accept her challenge! They will each start as a blade of grass and climb to the top of the food web in a game of "Power Suit Creature Tag." As they play, the brothers boost their knowledge of the complex relationships between predators and prey as well as the differences between herbivores and carnivores. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "Model Behavior" The kids use models to stop Hacker from cracking open the glass Skywall using a Witch's voice.G
5:00 pm
Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Birds Are Handy!" Ruff's rockstar cousin Ruf Rufman wants to record songbirds on his next album. So Ruff sends Emmie and Rubye to meet with field biologists from the Teton Science Schools in Wyoming to work with songbirds in the field. He also sends Marc and Shreya to meet with a hand model due to a misunderstanding between the word "Hands" and the name "Hans. D
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Joanna Lumley: Greek Odyssey "Greece's Borderlands" In the northernmost regions of Greece, Joanna travels from the western Ionian island of Corfu to the turbulent eastern border shared with Turkey and Bulgaria. Then she retraces Lord Byron's journey through the western highlands by horseback, and explores the port city of Kavala. Part 2 of 4G
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History Detectives "Body in the Basement/Newport U-Boat/Shippen Golf Club" While on a dig, "The Lost Towns of Anne Arundel County" Project unearthed a rather surprising discovery. Two Boston brothers have heard a rumor that two large propellers on the grounds of a hotel in Newport originally came from a German submarine that sank off the coast of Rhode Island at the end of WWII. A children's golf foundation recently received a surprising donation, an antique golf club.G
9:00 pm
Seisen! The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1905-1945 Dreams of leading the whole of Asia out from the shadow of European and American dominance causes Japan to flex its muscles in 1895, first installing a puppet government in Korea and forcing China to concede territory. What follows are the defeat of Russia in 1905, complete control in Korea, and war with China. Part 1 of 2G
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Frontline "Flying Cheap" FRONTLINE investigates the safety of regional airlines, now handling more than half of all scheduled domestic flights in the United States and responsible for the last six fatal commercial airline accidents. Although a ticket may be through a major airline, the flight might be outsourced to a relatively obscure regional carrier, where pilot rules can be less rigid, pay minimal and training lax.G
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trying to get in better shape? Maybe it's time you asked for help from a personal trainer.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trying to get in better shape? Maybe it's time you asked for help from a personal trainer.
"If you're in need of a personal trainer, it's probably because permanent changes are overdue and need to start happening immediately," says Taylor Carpenter, with TaylorCarpenter Personal Training in Charlotte, N.C.
A personal trainer can fill several vital roles — tailoring a workout regimen to your needs, making sure your form and technique are good. Perhaps the biggest advantage: a personal trainer provides accountability.
Dennis McGarry of Charlotte succeeded with the business he started 32 years ago but could never duplicate that success with exercise and health. "Unfortunately, while I am extremely disciplined in my business endeavors I just couldn't do the same in a fitness and diet effort," he said.
Easing into retirement a year ago at age 67, overweight and out of shape, he enlisted the aid of Jonathan Avalos with Shape Up Fitness and Wellness Consulting.
"While I am still overweight, my fitness has improved dramatically," says McGarry. "I still have a ways to go, but I've come a long way in just one year."
Wouldn't mind sounding like McGarry a year from now? Here's some advice, from personal trainers and those who employ them, on how to hire a trainer of your own.
1. Qualifications.
A trainer with a four-year degree in a related field is preferable. "A person with an actual degree in exercise science or physiology carries a better understanding of how the body works, how muscles work," says Melanie Dean with Gateway to Health & Performance in Cary, N.C., who holds a master's of science. Look for personal training certifications; especially look for certifications that require continuing education, which helps keep a trainer current on trends and research.
2. Experience.
While formal education is important, experience with clients is vital as well. Ask to speak with a couple of clients for references.
3. Area of focus.
Some trainers focus on specific clients. If, for instance, a trainer specializes in helping high-performing athletes tweak their performance and you simply want to lose some weight and increase your mobility, maybe it's not a good fit.
4. Curiosity.
During your interview, the trainer should ask you more questions than you ask the trainer. "A big part of the process is listening to where they are right now, what limitations there are, what their goals are," says Dean.
Knee issues forced Pamela Bennett of Charlotte to abandon her long-standing martial arts practice. She'd fallen out of shape but wasn't a fitness novice. She was skeptical when she first met Michael Anders, a personal trainer and owner of Shape Up, because she wasn't sure he'd pay attention to her goals.
"I needed someone to listen to me and work with the goals I wanted to achieve, not try to define goals for me," says Bennett. That was seven years ago; she continues to work with Anders.
"You should feel a comfort level immediately," says Jessica Bottesch with Empower Personal Training in Durham. "Are they taking my goals seriously and not just prescribing a cookie-cutter program?"
5. Commitment.
Most trainers suggest working with a trainer two to three times a week, at least initially. This is especially true if one of your problems has been motivation. The frequent visits can help establish a routine. Once you fall into that routine, you can cut back your visits.
6. Team player?
Because healthy living isn't simply about working out in the gym, check to see if the trainer works with and will refer you to other health care professionals. If you're diabetic, for instance, the trainer should bring in a nutritionist or dietician to consult. If you have muscular dystrophy or fibromyalgia, you might want a masseuse. "A good trainer should have no problem crossing over lines," says Dean.
7. Cost.
The trainers we spoke with said to avoid anyone who requires a long-term commitment. "I work on a month-to-month basis with a 30-day money-back guarantee," says Anders. Most personal trainers charge by the session.
A one-hour session in a gym will run $45-$65. (Less experienced trainers may charge less.) A trainer with a related degree will run more, perhaps: $60-$65. And if the trainer comes to you, expect to pay $60-$100 or more.
8. Flexibility.
"Maybe you don't need three times a week," says Empower's Bottesch. "Maybe once a week or even once a month is good. The trainer should be willing to show you things you can do on your own." Another option: group fitness. "It's not quite the same tailored approach, but it is a much lower price point and you still have access to a trainer."


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A Very Burgundy Esther
Added Feb 22, 2010
by kitzler
Toronto, Canada
I've fallen in love with burdastyle's Esther cardigan and made two last week in a mad Esther-frenzy (I will post my second one shortly; a snow blizzard interrupted our photo shoot!). It's an incredibly satisfying (read: easy and fun) project — it only took me about 2 hours total and there it was, a lovely, cozy cardigan that I can't stop wearing. I mixed knit (the striped part) and woven (the collar) and was scared to do so having had bad experiences in the past, but it seems the experiment came off just fine and Esther is good for mixing it up.
Material Notes
Knit (striped cotton fabric and a felt-like fabric for the cuffs) and a wool-blend in burgundy/white.
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- Women
- Garment Type
- Cardigan
- Material
- Blends, Knits/Jersey
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Apr 23, 2012, 01.57 PMby prettysewinggirl
Your beautiful Esther inspired me to try this one now… its winter over here… how beautiful the little bit of snow in your pictures :)
Apr 8, 2012, 02.32 AMby thefreckle
Love it.
Feb 26, 2011, 05.44 PMby ladyshape
That is really cool. Great photo too.
Mar 4, 2010, 11.56 PMby passthepins
This is such a gorgeous photo. Now I really want to make that cardi :)
Feb 28, 2010, 07.01 AMby meegie-moo
this has inspired me to create on of my own :-) beautiful work
Feb 26, 2010, 06.31 AMby carolyn-s
I came to this one after admiring Nautical Esther, this is gorgeous! You've made this pattern look amazing, twice!!
Feb 24, 2010, 02.22 AMby lee3mika
How you have the smart sense! The combination of different cloths is very hot. I did not hit on such a method. It is lovely so much.
Thank you for the comment on my" Esther ".
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Feb 24, 2010, 08.51 PMby kitzler
Thanks!!! Your Esther inspired me to make one! it just looks so casual and cozy, a really nice item to throw on top of almost any outfit.
Feb 23, 2010, 07.27 PMby classicaljunk
so charming and cute. excellent choice of colors and fabric.
Feb 23, 2010, 10.14 AMby abbyzeeble
I love this! Especially the different fabrics all together.
Feb 23, 2010, 09.53 AMby janul
I love it, the colours and the shape! So beautiful, I want one :).
Feb 23, 2010, 06.10 AMby mo-mo-sew-sew
your photos are exquisite and the snow adds such a special touch!! bravo!!! oh, i've had esther on the list for a while!! i could make a billion of them. yours is inspiring me to get going on it again. i'm tempted to use a wool jersey fabric i have in the stash for teh main body and arms and then knit a woll rib out of chunky yarn to use as the trim/collar fabric. however, considering my skill level, i better get the muslin out and do a sample first.
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Feb 23, 2010, 02.34 PMby kitzler
Thanks so much for the compliments!! I do think a knitted trim/collar with wool jersey for the body would be incredible — it would make a very original and cozy cardigan!
Feb 23, 2010, 05.00 AMby 5294sandras
I purchased this pattern and forgot I had it. Now I know what my next project will be. I love the way you put your fabrics together. Unique and stylish!!
Feb 23, 2010, 04.56 AMby jeffrey
the style suits you well. Very cool.
Feb 23, 2010, 02.46 AMby greybaby
Nice! The woven/kint mash-up lends a really great sculptural quality to the sweater. I've been thinking of making one out of an old, oversized tee-shirt… but now I'm going to consider incorporating a sturdier fabric.
ps: That door is an awesome color green. <3
Feb 23, 2010, 01.24 AMby sewithought
I've never cared much for the esther pattern until now! You have made me a believer… Love it!
Feb 23, 2010, 12.39 AMby reneebeth
ohh awesome, this looks great! It's made me take note of the esther pattern :)
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