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I have a wonderful problem. I have too many students who want to volunteer their time to work in the library...I know! My heart swells every time I think of it!
With only two check-out computers, I have more demand for volunteers than I can reasonably staff. Here is how I make this possible:
· All volunteers need to apply. I have a short permission slip that they need to get signed by their parents and homeroom teacher. I just want to be sure that homeroom time isn't essential for the student to get their homework done. Showing initiative that they can get their application back to me is step one.
· Step two is a short interview with me or our other librarian. They should be able to articulate why they want to work in the library (and they should not answer "because I want to see what everyone else is reading!").
· Students who are "hired" are given a day of the week to report for their shift. Often they will stop in other days too just to see if I might need extra help…how can I say no?? I've become very imaginative with these lesser though equally necessary tasks: make new posters for signage, walk around the school looking for missing books, etc.
- They need to progress their way up to the circulation desk...with a smile! If I need them to shelve, they shelve. If I need them to work crowd control, they roam the stacks. If I need them to pull books for a teacher collection, they take a cart and hop to it. Running the circulation desk means they have proven that they are willing and able to do it all. We also discuss the concept of privacy and our pages prove themselves remarkably trustworthy in this regard.
- Students need to know that they can get fired. While I "hire" them and pay with "good kid points," I need them to take their shift seriously and be accountable. A few no shows without any communication and they will lose their library benefits: their bonafide library badge with lots of bling, full behind the scenes access to their wonderful library and the opportunity to spend the end of the day in a different environment than the classroom.
Let's be clear. This can make for a hectic and busy end to my day but knowing how important this is to the students makes it well worth it. And sometimes it is absolutely wonderful to step away from the desk and watch my pages shine!
a library page working the desk
Students come into the library and see their fellow classmates manning the circulation desk or shelving books and they are in awe – you work here? Can I work here too? And our pages are so excited and proud about their role that they spread the word. It creates a great library buzz that costs us nothing but means everything in terms of promoting the library as a vibrant and essential place in our school.
Suzanne Dix, Middle and Upper School Librarian | The Seven Hills School, Cincinnati, OH | email@example.com


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Sacred Ground
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Sacred Ground describes two journeys: a journey outward to specific pilgrimage places in eastern Tibet, and a journey inward to the sacred world of tantra, accessible through contemplation and meditation. It sheds light on Himalayan Buddhists' concepts of sacred land, places of pilgrimage in tantric Buddhism, and how pilgrimage is undertaken. It enhances our appreciation of the world and its sacred aspect everywhere—first and foremost, where we sit now. On the basis of this judicious choice of rare Tibetan texts, translated here for the first time, correlating inner and outer pilgrimage, this book is of considerable value to the Buddhist practitioner.
"Sacred Ground is a revelation! Here for the first time in any Western language are several key ideas: the exact way outer sacred lands relate to points in the tantric body, and the parallel terminology between the types of sacred ground and the stages of attainment. Ngawang is precise and to the point." —Hubert Decleer, Director of the Tibetan Studies Program of the School for International Training and author of Lightning Terror
"In his continuing investigation of the mind and world of one of the most significant figures in the development of Tibetan Buddhism, Ngawang Zangpo has again given us a well-researched and richly informative setting to another jewel from Jamgön Kongtrül's writings. Anyone who is a pilgrim in any sense of the term will find this book fascinating." —Richard Barron (Chökyi Nyima), translator of Buddhahood without Meditation
"Ngawang Zangpo has done a remarkable job translating and commenting upon the profound and pertinent subject of sacred ground. The reader can gain a welcome appreciation for the various levels of comprehension that accompany this important subject. For many devoted Buddhists, reading this book will be like making a pilgrimage to Do-Kham, and most especially to the sacred land of Tsadra. In addition, this book gives us a basis for further understanding many of the passages and references found in our tantric sadhanas. It is a pleasure to be led through this journey by the mind of a sublime master, the likes of Jamgön Kongtrül, with the additional authoritative clarity of Ngawang's lively commentary, full of present-day idioms and anecdotes. Sacred Ground is like a rich mineral spring bubbling over with important information that will help Buddhists better appreciate the tremendous talent and profound spiritual realization of these great lineage holders and their lineages, which through their kindness have passed into our hands." —Sangye Khandro, translator of Perfect Conduct and The Life of Mandarava

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Forever Florida will take you ziplining, horseback riding, camping, and adventuring through the wild on a beautiful nature conservancy in St. Cloud.SEE FOREVER FLORIDA
But it's not just the weather. The 500 miles between Northwest Florida and the Florida Keys encompasses a diverse assortment of landscapes and environments, ranging from the Okefenokee Swamp that seeps into Baker County to the Ocala National Forest in north central Florida to the famed "River of Grass" that creates Everglades National Park.
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Whether fresh, salt or brackish, Florida waters are meant for fishing, but there's far more beneath the surface. Off Florida's Miami coast divers from around the world explore coral reefs at Biscayne National Park and, further down the Keys, slip into turquoise waters at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, America's only underwater state park. Off the northern Gulf Coast, the Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail marks dive sites for a dozen of wrecks-turned-artificial reefs including the massive USS Oriskany, a WWII-era aircraft carrier. Off the beaten path, ferries offer a shortcut across the water and a glimpse at Florida's past, like the Fort Gates ferry that first set sail in 1843, the Mayport ferry that crosses the St. Johns near Jacksonville and a ferry that carries passengers to Dog Island, the training ground for troops preparing for D-Day. Add recreational trails created atop historic railroad beds, bicycle trails that will soon connect the Gulf to the Atlantic, back roads that offer a great escape whether in a car or on a motorcycle and ever-changing vistas that making photography a snap… and it all adds up to something wild and wonderful.
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ATB: Can Anyone Stop Carolina?Posted by rtmsf on December 4th, 2008
ACC Wins Again. Well, it was closer this year than it has been since 2005, but the ACC won the event for the tenth year in a row, 6-5. The league of atlantic coast schools are now 62-35 (.639) against its midwestern counterparts in this challenge – can we go back to the ACC/Big East version now? Oh, and we really couldn't have made worse picks today if we had tried – we went 1-4, and Wake was our only winner – picking that game correctly was akin to picking the sun to come up tomorrow. Maybe we'll stay out of this prediction business for a while. What we found really interesting was that home court in the two leagues with the most advantageous home environments didn't seem to matter much – home teams were 5-6 in the Challenge (see below).
Carolina Looks Unstoppable. UNC 98, Michigan St. 63. We hesitate to move into the realm of hyperbole in early December, preferring to leave that to the likes of Vitale with his offerings of UNC "competing with" the Clippers, T-Wolves and Grizzlies (which is patently absurd, btw). But at least at this point in the 2007-08 season, UNC is well ahead of everyone else in college basketball. What the Heels did to Michigan St. tonight in its home state could appropriately be described as an absolute dismantling. Frankly, we're not sure how the Spartans show their faces in E. Lansing tomorrow, considering the Heels only defeated UCSB by 15 in Santa Barbara and Kentucky by 19 in Chapel Hill. As good as Carolina was, MSU was utterly moribund. UNC held the Spartans to 35% shooting from the field, 24% from three, and forced 21 turnovers, many of which directly led to Carolina layups or threes. Speaking of which, if Ty Lawson is going to play as well as he did tonight – ripping balls out of passing lanes (7 steals) and dropping 25-footers with consistency (twice), then we really can go ahead and pass the championship trophy over to Roy Williams. And the question of whether Tyler Hansbrough is healthy was put to rest with another workmanlike 25/11 where he was pretty much able to do whatever he wanted inside the lane. Danny Green was his typical stat-stuffer self (6/5/5 assts), and Ed Davis continues to impress off the bench (10/7 in 17 mins). As for MSU, the only player that seemed ready to play was Chris Allen, who singlehandedly kept MSU in the game with his long-range shooting in the first half. The others – Kalin Lucas, Delvon Roe, Marquise Gray – all horrible. Looking at the schedule, the next even remote possibility of a team staying within 15 pts of Carolina will be at Wake on January 11th. As for MSU, this supposed top ten team hasn't looked anywhere near it thus far this season – can Izzo get it together?
Other ACC/Big 10 Games.
- Wake Forest 83, Indiana 58. We're not going to pile on the Hoosiers here, as we've done plenty of that before. It's clear they just don't have the personnel to compete with teams like Wake. But we'd like to point out one thing echoed by Jimmy Dykes during the broadcast of this game. Wake has the talent to compete at the top of the ACC (and by proxy, the country), but do they have the maturity, focus and resolve to play hard on every possession of every game? As of now, a +3 rebounding margin against a vastly inferior team on the frontline, and 22 turnovers (many unforced) indicates no. The question is whether that will change over the course of the next three months? Well, dunks are always fun, right?
- Penn St. 85, Georgia Tech 83. We were admittedly surprised with the result of this one, but we weren't at all shocked that Penn St. missed three front ends of 1-and-1s in the last two minutes and two more FTs with 5 seconds left that would have salted this game away. Instead, Georgia Tech came back behind Gani Lawal's 35/10 and had a halfcourt shot in the air to win the game. Two other Tech players had double-doubles in the loss (Alade Aminu 12/10; Iman Shumpert 14/12 assts), while PSU was led by Stanley Pringle's 22 pts. This will be a huge resume builder for Penn St. later in the season if they can simply figure a way to go .500 in the Big 10.
- Maryland 75, Michigan 70. Michigan really has to be kicking itself over this loss. For quite a bit of this game, the Wolverines appeared to be the better team. But Maryland's Greivis Vasquez put up 23/12/6 assts/3 stls in a timely fashion, and Michigan's Manny Harris was cold (5-15), so the Terps were able to ride its home crowd to a necessary victory. We have a feeling this will be another one of those important bubble-busting games next March for one of these teams.
- Northwestern 73, Florida St. 59. Northwestern used a 20-2 run – yes, you read that right – NORTHWESTERN used a 20-2 run to break open a close game and capitalize on FSU's sloppiness (21 turnovers). We're shocked to hear that FSU was sloppy with the ball, shocked we tell you. We expect this will look very bad for FSU come February when NW is sitting at 2-10 in the Big 10 and FSU is arguing for its annual placement on the NCAA bubble.
Upset of the Night. Illinois-Chicago 74, Vanderbilt 55. We should just start calling this the SEC Upset of the Night, because it seems like one of their teams is always the victim. Is this a three-bid conference this year? Two bids? Vandy didn't just get beat at home; they got assaulted. Shan Foster must have been a lot better than everyone thought. For UIC, Josh Mayo dropped eight threes on the Dores, setting a new Memorial Gym record for an opponent; and Robo Kreps contributed 23/7. Whew.
Other Games of Minute Interest.
- Kentucky 103, Lamar 61. DeAndre Liggins – two games ago he was refusing to play; now he's coming off the bench for 16/7/4 assts on 6-6 from the field. PP also had 31.
- Syracuse 88, Cornell 78. Cornell outplayed the Cuse for 3/4 of this game. Unfortunately for them, there were ten minutes remaining. Ryan Wittman had 33 in a losing effort, and Flynn/Harris combined for 45.
- Kansas 100, New Mexico St. 79. KU rode a 46-20 rebounding advantage to this blowout win, its 29th in a row at Allen Field House.
- Texas Tech 72, Wichita St. 69. The nation's #2 scoring team was held 20 below its average tonight but still managed to hold on for a solid win against a mid-major.
- Pittsburgh 78, Duquesne 51. Dejuan Blair with 14/17 and Sam Young with 23/5 in a Panther crushing of crosstown Duquesne.
- Tennessee 87, UNC-Asheville 69. Tyler Smith with the school's first every trip-dub (12/10/10). How much more fun would these games have been if Kenny George was still playing?
- Miami (OH) 68, Temple 52. Strong road win for the Redhawks at Temple.
- Xavier 81, Auburn 74. Well, at least it wasn't another upset loss, SEC fans. BJ Raymond had 32/6 for XU.
- West Virginia 80, Ole Miss 78. This sounded like a great game, but WVU's Alex Ruoff hit two FTs (of their five total) in the last few seconds to secure this road win for WVU.
- California 77, Depaul 67. Patrick Christopher scored 23 and Jerome Randle 24 in a game that Cal would have lost last season.
On Tap Thursday (all times EST):
- Oklahoma (-9) v. USC (ESPN2 & 360) – 7pm
- Connecticut (-14.5) @ Buffalo (ESPN FC & 360) – 7pm
- St. Mary's (-2) @ Kent St. – 7pm
- Cleveland St. (-3.5) v. Butler (ESPNU) – 8pm
- Texas (-6) v. UCLA (ESPN2 & 360) – 9pm
- Washington (-4.5) v. Oklahoma St. – 11pm


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In Greek myth, one glance at Medusa's snake-coifed head could turn a man to stone. But the villain in a rare inherited disease that relentlessly converts the body's soft connective tissues into bone-transforming its sufferers into living statues-has proved to be much more elusive. Indeed, it lurks within the victims' own immune systems, scientists in Philadelphia have discovered.
Bony prison. FOP fused the spine, shoulders, ribs, and elbows of this man, who died of pneumonia at age 39.
In children with the disease, called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), the slightest injury to ligaments, tendons, or muscles can cause severe inflammation, followed by the appearance of cartilage, and then ordinary bone, at the site of the injury. As the disease progresses, sufferers' spines, limbs, rib cages, and jawbones fuse in place, leading to complete immobilization.
In the 22 August New England Joumal of Medicine, a team led by orthopedic surgeon Frederick Kaplan of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine now reports that this abnormal bone buildup occurs because the lymphocytes, or white blood cells, of people with FOP erroneously manufacture bone morphogenic protein-4 (BMP-4), a powerful signaling protein known to help build the skeleton of the developing embryo. "You should be able to repair and remodel bone later in life, but you shouldn't be able to make a new bone," Kaplan says. "That's what's happening here."
While developmental biologists have been studying BMPs and related proteins in organisms from fruit flies to humans since the 1960s, this is the first time a member of the BMP family has been implicated in a human genetic disease. "It's an amazing story," says developmental geneticist William Gelbart of Harvard University, who discovered the first BMP family member, the protein Decapentaplegic (DPP), which helps establish body and limb axes in the developing fruit fly, among other functions. "It's incredibly gratifying to see how central these molecules are in a whole host of developmental processes- and now in a human disease with heartbreaking effects." The discovery could eventually lead to a therapy to block either the production of BMP-4 or its effects.
The idea that a gene defect might underlie FOP originated about 7 years ago, Kaplan says, after he and geneticist Michael Zasloff, also at the University of Pennsylvania, found a small family in which both a parent and children were affected, indicating that the disorder is hereditary. In 1990, after learning that DPP's relatives, the newly discovered human proteins BMP-2 and BMP-4, help build limbs in the mammalian embryo by triggering bone-cell formation, Kaplan and Zasloff proposed that FOP might be caused by a genetic mutation affecting the production of one of the BMPs.
A test of the hypothesis had to wait until 1993, when Kaplan and Zasloff first obtained blood and tissue samples from patients with FOP. Penn medical student Adam Shafritz, now a resident physician at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery, examined the samples, looking for messenger RNAs that would indicate that the BMP genes were active. He found one-corresponding to the BMP-4 gene-in the lymphocytes of 26 of 32 FOP patients studied, but in only one of 12 normal subjects.
That finding posed a puzzle, however, because if the lymphocytes were releasing BMP-4 into the bloodstream, it would be so diluted and short lived that it couldn't account for new bone growth in discrete locations around the body. Then, Kaplan recalls, the team found "the Rosetta stone for this whole condition": a biopsy sample taken 25 years earlier from a 4-year-old boy with FOP.
Under the microscope, the researchers saw masses of lymphocytes surrounding and choking off muscle cells. While a normal response to injury, in FOP patients, the researchers realized, this clumping must create high local concentrations of BMP-4, triggering bone growth. The lymphocytes of people with FOP, Kaplan and Zasloff conclude, probably carry a genetic error that improperly switches on production of BMP-4.
The researchers have now set out to locate this error, which may be in the regulatory regions of the BMP-4 gene itself or in some other gene whose product controls BMP-4 production. Already, however, the findings have heightened hopes for an eventual cure for FOP. "With so much being discovered about how the BMPs act," says Brigid Hogan, a developmental geneticist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, "it might be possible to develop drugs that would block some part of the BMP-4 pathway - and therefore prevent the progression of what is a horrible, nightmare disease."
-Wade Roush
SCIENCE VOL. 273. 30 AUGUST 1996 pg. 1170
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Lindsay Lohan is looking for love
Troubled actress LINDSAY LOHAN is looking for a partner to share her life with as she is still seeking her "true love".
The Mean Girls star has previously dated DJ Samantha Ronson, singer Aaron Carter and socialite Calum Best, and she is now rumoured to be involved with fitness trainer Josh Chunn.
However, Lohan is adamant she is yet to experience real love and is hoping to find someone special soon.
In an interview published in the Daily Mirror newspaper, she says, "Love is scary and I'm yet to find that one person... I love being in love. There's nothing better than that first feeling of being in love, so I look forward to having that at some point... I've been in love with people - maybe one or two - but I haven't really had a true love yet."


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by MIKE TODD
"You're going to drop the baby. Stop multitasking," my wife Kara gently suggested last week.
I glanced up from Facebook to notice that, indeed, there was a baby in my lap. I had a vague recollection of stumbling into his room a few minutes earlier, prompted by his near-hourly hunger shrieks, but then my brain went into standby mode so that it could properly navigate the Internet.
It's just as well that Kara prompted me to start paying more attention to giving our son a bottle and less to Facebook, since half of all Facebook posts these days talk about races that people are running for some reason, even though nobody is chasing them. There's also a Nike app that keeps me abreast of the athletic activities of people I kind of knew in high school, saying, "I just finished my run! Distance: 3.17 miles. Pace: 9'16"/mi."
I know these posts are meant to elicit supportive comments and keep people enthused about being healthy, but I think attacking the problem from the shame end of the spectrum might be more effective. What about a Krispy Kreme app that would announce to all your friends and acquaintances: "Mike just ingested 2,400 calories and 144 grams of fat. Dude, he ate the entire box!"
Giving my old tormentors from high school the chance to comment "Boom-babba! Boom-babba!" on my Facebook status would be a fantastic motivator, and I wouldn't even need to buy running shoes.
"Sorry, I'll pay more attention," I said to Kara, putting my iPod back in my pocket and taking a swig of water. The great thing about having a newborn baby is that you can drink a gallon of water right before bed and there's a zero-percent chance that the urge to urinate will be the thing that wakes you up. Parenthood means you can hydrate with impunity.
The three of us sat in Zack's room at 3:30 a.m. with the sound of Kara's breast pump pulsating in the background: WHACK-o. WHACK-o. WHACK-o. You may have visited the Grand Canyon or gone snorkeling off the Great Barrier Reef, but if you have never seen your wife hooked up to a breast pump, then you have NOT seen it all.
After a glorious week in which I could sleep through Zack's middle-of-the-night feedings, I've been drafted back into service. He wasn't gaining enough weight through breastfeeding, so we're giving him bottles in the hopes that he'll be strong enough to breastfeed on his own soon. The danger of giving him bottles is that Zack might never take up breastfeeding again, due to something called nipple confusion, which sounds like a condition your Congressman might suffer from while visiting a gentlemen's club.
"I'm so sorry, I thought you were someone else. Must be the nipple confusion. I hope I haven't lost your vote!"
The regular reader(s) of this column might have noticed that I haven't been dispensing much breastfeeding advice lately, instead devoting space to topics I'm more qualified to discuss, like nuclear proliferation, string theory and various manifestations of household vomit. If you know anyone who might be more of an expert on that last topic, please offer them my sincere condolences. Something I've learned over the past several years is that, of all the adjectives that pop into mind when you think of your dog, perhaps the least desirable is "queasy."
Until our first child was born, I thought a lactation consultant was the guy at Ben and Jerry's who helps you decide whether to order Chunky Monkey or Chubby Hubby. But after watching Kara go through tough times with both of our children, and hearing from family and friends who have had similar or worse experiences, we've both learned more about breastfeeding than we thought possible. Hopefully, Zack will get the hang of it soon. If not, I look forward to much nocturnal reading about everyone's jogging exploits for the next several months.


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April 14, 2006
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale rolled over Columbia today, 6-1, as the Bulldogs took all six singles matches. After dropping a tough No. 1 doubles match, the Elis (9-7, 2-1) recovered to win their second straight league contest.
The beginning of the match began inauspiciously for the Elis, as they lost a heartbreaking doubles point. The Bulldogs and Lions had split the No. 2 and No. 3 contests, with No. 2 Brandon Wai and Michael Caldwell dropping their match to Scott Robbin and Paul Ratchford, 8-3, and No. 3 Milosz Gudzowski and Chris Lawler beating Jared Drucker and Dan Urban, 8-2. No. 1 Rowan Reynolds and Rory Green were up 5-2 against Jimmy and Marty Moore, but eventually lost, 8-6.
"We thought we were going to get the doubles point," said Cary Leeds Head Coach Alex Dorato. "[Rowan and Rory] just got a little tired, and made a few uncharacteristic errors. That's all it took--[Columbia] is one of the top teams in the league."
The Bulldogs came back with a vengeance in singles, however, as every player scored a two-set victory. Wai continued his impressive play at No. 1, defeating Jimmy Moore 6-2, 6-2, and No. 4 Caldwell won the closest match of the day, a 6-4, 7-6 decision over Ratchford.
"Everyone played really well--I think this match will definitely add to the players' confidence," Dorato said.
Yale will face off against Cornell tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. before traveling to Harvard on Fri., Apr. 21.
No. 1 Brandon Wai (Y) def. Jimmy Moore (C), 6-2, 6-2
No. 2 Milosz Gudzowski (Y) def. Mark Clemente (C), 6-1, 6-4
No. 3 Jeff Dawson (Y) def. Marty Moore (C), 7-5, 6-4
No. 4 Michael Caldwell (Y) def. Paul Ratchford (C), 6-4, 7-6
No. 5 Rory Green (Y) def. Jared Drucker (C), 6-2, 6-2
No. 6 Rowan Reynolds (Y) def. Jonathan Chan (C), 6-3, 6-4
No. 1 Jimmy Moore and Marty Moore (C) def. Reynolds and Green (Y), 8-6
No. 2 Scott Robbin and Ratchford (C) def. Wai and Caldwell (Y), 8-3
No. 3 Gudzowski and Chris Lawler (Y) def. Drucker and Dan Urban (Y), 8-2
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Expresso takes a simple musical expression (literally "X") and mutates it.
In each generation, transformations are applied to
components of the expression. This is a fractal technique known as an
The more generations there are, the larger and
more complex the expression gets (and the longer it can take
to compute).
The output varies wildly, from boring to fascinating.
Press "Mutate" a few times
till you get something that looks interesting, then click
on the image to play it. See Composer's Quarry for examples of output.
Something went wrong - your music was not generatedThe output from KeyKit, possibly showing the error, is:
key: Can't open midifile for reading - /htdocs/music/expresso.bachinv2.mid (No such file or directory) while executing near line 77 in file /usr/local/key/key66b/lib/../lib/read1.k Function traceback: midifile("/htdocs/music/expresso.bachinv2...), readmf("/htdocs/music/expresso.bachinv2...,
The algorithm for Expresso is written in
KeyKit, and
here's the source code.


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Would The Mighty approve?
Gabourey Sidibe was nominated for, like, every award during award season. Oprah saluted her on stage at the Oscars. And she gets invited everywhere now. She hosted SNL. She attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Which totally means she's allowed to be an asshole, a proper card-carrying member of the Hollywood Stupid Generation, right?
Well... maybe not yet. Maybe The Mighty Oprah will call Gabby up on the phone, tell her to sit the f-ck DOWN. Because someone needs to.
It's a story that was published last week not by Life & Style, not Star Magazine, not by a tabloid or a UK newspaper but by a writer for the Washington Post online, related to Sidibe's behaviour at the White House dinner when she was rude on multiple occasions to those who approached to admire her. Click here and click here for the specifics.
Naturally, because she's famous, there are those who'll find excuses for her sh-tty attitude. She was interrupted. She deserves privacy. She shouldn't have to be gracious to people who intrude on her time. Sure. Because the White House Correspondents' Dinner is a low key, low press event? Please. Why else would she have been invited? Sidibe is an intelligent, interesting woman. But she wasn't there to participate in discussions on foreign policy. She was there, along with a hundred other celebrities, to add flavour to a media party. And as such, in agreeing to attend, there is a song and dance that's expected. It's not a family gathering at some hideaway restaurant. So there has to be a better way to rebuff a fan than telling him to come back in 5 minutes. There's another option to sounding terribly ungrateful when someone tells you your performance was "incandescent". There's an alternative to straight up saying no when asked for a photo. Because if you can't stand to be in public, maybe don't show up at one of the most public events at the most public venue presided over by the most public civil servant in the nation. Will they know Gabourey Sidibe in 12 months?
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One of the newer engine/game projects I have been following closely is Octaforge. It is basically a fork of Tesseract, which in turn is an graphic improvement project by the makers of the well known Cube2 engine.
The main difference with Octaforge is that aims to become a game SDK and platform for easy creation of mods; And one of its prime new features for this is full scriptability with Lua.
Read about their progress on the latest beta here, which also includes this nice video showcasing the new player model and an test map:
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Progress on Octaforge
One of the newer engine/game projects I have been following closely is Octaforge. It is basically a fork of Tesseract, which in turn is an graphic improvement project by the makers of the well known Cube2 engine.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Zelda can now be free as in freedom
Not only from the clutches of Ganondorf, but also from the dominion of proprietary software. All thanks to the magnificent Solarus Engine, a GPLed, SDL-based, 2D action RPG engine. This amazing project aims to provide a stable and easily customizable platform for users to create their own Zelda-like games, and so far, I must say, I am darn impressed by what I've seen. The engine already has two incredible launching titles, named The Legend of Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX, and a parody of the former, Mystery of Solarus XD. Both are true love letters to the classic SNES RPG, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and amazing and enjoyable games on their own.
|Mystery of Solarus DX
But hark, the mere words of a mortal make no justice to the grandiosity of this undertaking. Sheathe thy sword, get thy green cap and ready yourself to adventure! You can start by marching straight to the Solarus download section, or, if your intentions are more creative, you can check the various sources here, and the quest editor here.
Code License: GPLv3
Mystery of Solarus DX Artwork License: Mixed (original Solarus assets under CC-BY-SA, but the game also uses spritework taken directly the A Link to the Past rom)
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Linux Game Awards voting open now!
Quietly in the background a group of open-source and Linux enthusiast websites (full disclosure: including FreeGamer ;) ) has developed a new platform for promoting open-source games: http://www.linuxgameawards.org/
One of its regular features will be a monthly award and a related promotion drive for the winner on all affiliated sites.
As a start, our community came up with the first 10 nominees for the January 2014 award and you can now vote for your favorite game of those here.
P.S.: One of the nominated projects, SuperTuxKart, had a new release today also. Don't forget to check it out and vote for them if you like it.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Holiday Racer 2.2 released (aka Stunt Rally)
Obviously someone is having a hard time with the winter in the northern hemisphere right now:
awesome screenshots of Stunt Rally 2.2 here, and don't miss the details of the new version in the full change log.
Last but not least, discuss it on our forums :)
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Lips of Suna 0.8.0 released
And another great new release :)
Our favorite work in progress & not quite serious anime RPG Lips of Suna bumps its release number to 0.8 (change-log).
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- New player model and animations contributed by gruntunbur.
- Lots of sound effects contributed by qubodup.
- More powerful animation blending.
- Performance improvements.
- Better eye, face and hair color customization.
- Fixed the AI not being able to use many kind of weapons correctly.
- Procedural map area placement and planning system.
- Procedural dungeon generation with corridors, rooms, treasures and monsters.
- Balanced the movement speed and physics behavior of player characters.
- Terrain chunks close to the player character load much faster.
Addition (2013-11-21): Now there are also windows binaries available.
Monday, November 18, 2013
MegaGlest 3.9.0 released
Since I am having internet troubles as of late, I'll keep it short and hope it will actually come through:
Megaglest 3.9.0 was released today, see changelog:
- we hopefully now really solved the last out of sync problems for cross platform games.
- animated tileset object support. ( like trees moving in the wind )
- new tileset texturing possibilities
- new tilesets birchforest, desert4 and updated mediterran using animated objects and new texture system
- greatly improved textures and animations for the roman faction
- new maps
- better network game performance / management to handle slower clients.
- easier ability to download game content from host and masterserver( if available there ).
- new arranged options menu with several sub menus
- menu gui improvements
- attack hotkey toggles through all attack types
- single player games can be sped up incrementally in steps.
- color picking is greatly improved and the default selection mode now for better compatibility
- greater ability to translate game content into your native language. (including techtrees)
- Added Hebrew, Arabic, Vietnamese (and others).
- screenshots for savegames without annoying menu in screenshot.
- addition of google-breakpad to better track down bugs.
- many new lua functions for scenario modders.
- cell coordinates are shown in the mapeditor
- tilesets can set default air unit heights
- added ability for stand alone mod's to customize more of the engine like about screen.
- performance improvements.
- and as always many bugs were fixed
- improved textures for tech faction


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First, and foremost you want a well-attended function. Set your appointments, confirm the dates and reconfirm the day before. The more people you have, the more excitement will be generated. A lot depends on how well you run these initial meetings, so take the time and effort to do them right!
It can begin with the food you are serving. If Mary makes the best chili in town, then give her the delightful opportunity to show off by letting her bring chili to the meeting. The idea is to get your prospects as involved as possible. Let them feel a part of what you're doing, even before they arrive! Maybe you can delegate someone to reconfirm appointments, especially if they know the guests better than you do. Building confidence within your distribution group is an important part of leadership. Most of us just love the feeling of knowing we are helping a friend. You let them know how grateful you are. Generating a team spirit makes the meeting move smoothly. It allows you to cover all the important items on your agenda smoothly.
Set aside one part of your home where you can display your company products and brochures. Set aside a meeting area where the business discussions are taking place. This does not mean the fun suddenly stops. Far from it. This is where the fun really begins!
This is a business meeting, so both men and women should dress accordingly. You know your neighbors better than we do so we will give you a degree of latitude here. Proper dress sets a proper tone.
The selection of the room for business should be a comfortable meeting area. Well lit, products displayed, sufficient glasses, sweetener, lemon, ice cubes, spoons, visible erasable board, and comfortable room temperature.
Do not rearrange your furniture if you can possibly help it. You want the room to look normal. Have enough chairs handy for everyone.
Smoking and drinking
Let your smokers know ahead of time you would please appreciate it if they would not smoke during the presentation. No alcohol. In fact, no eating or drinking of any kind during the actual presentation.
TV & the phones
TV off. Let the answering machine get the calls. You do not want any outside disturbances during the meeting, demonstration and presentation.
Be sure you introduce everyone to your sponsor and up-line. Stick to business. Do not talk about those who did not show up; focus instead on the ones who did. If you are scheduled to attend a meeting at another location and find yourself unable to make it, be sure you make the necessary arrangements with your sponsor or someone in your up-line to host your affiliate and his or her prospects.
Children & pets
They do not belong anywhere near your meeting. Get a sitter!
Getting the show on the road
Be punctual! An absolute must. You are a professional conducting a very important business meeting. You do not wait for Joe, or Susie, or anyone. If your meeting is to begin at eight, then make sure you start at that time. It sets a very good example for everyone to follow and shows that you conduct yourself as a true professional.
As you introduce the guest speaker, give your visitors some background information about this individual. This is especially important for your initial meetings since your visitors will meet that guest speaker for the first time. It is important to your guest speaker for you to begin warming up the visitors, about the nature of the business and what it could mean to those who get involved but, keep your remarks brief.
Length of meeting
The initial meeting should not be longer than one hour. Use this time wisely and share as much information with your prospects as time will allow. Here are some guidelines for the speaker that will help stay within that time limit:
1. The speaker acknowledges his introduction, lays out the meeting format, which is:
A. Product presentation
B. Product sampling
C. Marketing program
2. The speaker then begins your company products presentation, describing them and their benefits.
3. The speaker now presents the business portion of the meeting, which covers your company marketing program and its compensation program. Plan to use the erasable board to highlight as much information as possible.
The marketing program
There are four marketing methods:
1. Retail
2. Catalog
3. Direct sales
4. Network marketing
The speaker will, of course, focus on network marketing and MathiPay Exchange business opportunity specifically as follows:
1. The speaker explains the basic formula of mlm, which is the establishment of multiple outlets through independent affiliates, some of who are in the room right now. The speaker might give a classic example of the independent outlet by referring to a group soft drink vending machines as a single outlet. The individual income generated by each machine may not be very impressive, but when you factor in hundreds of thousands of machines spread across the country, well, ask Coke or Pepsi about that.
2. Using the board, the speaker draws an "mlm tree," showing the branches, explaining the meanings of the basic terminology.
3. The speaker explains the unique advantages of network marketing offered by MathiPay Exchange. They are:
A. Excellent products
B. Small cost of start-up
C. Excellent income potential
D. National and international markets
E. You are the boss
F. Flexible hours
G. Full training & support
H. Compulsively consumable products
I. Significant business tax advantages
4. The speaker then explains your company philosophy and product line. This portion of the program will clearly position your company as having a unique position and marketing strategy, both of which set it far apart from other network marketing companies.
5. The income and bonus plans are reviewed. They are really exciting and should inspire everyone in the room.
6. The speaker then shares his/her own success story.
7. The speaker then opens the floor to questions.
8. The speaker will conclude the meeting by sharing with the guests how each of them can build their own businesses and thus become a key part of this exciting new world.
By this time, at least some of your guests have already decided to become affiliates, but they are not sure how to continue, which is exactly what the speaker will now explain. On the board they will write, how to get started – commitment and tell them what that means. Next they write, why? Reasons, telling them network marketing will benefit their family and suggestions they may consider as well as how they would go about building their own business.
After that your meeting attendees write list of names so others can start thinking about whom they can put on their lists of prospects.
The next item will be tools, this includes:
- Executive sales kits;
- The products;
- Information packets;
- Brochures;
- Product information;
The speaker will next tell your guests that those who have interest should start preparing a schedule for their first two home meetings. Their sponsor will help them conduct those initial sessions, just as they are doing tonight. To make that point, the speaker then writes
"2 Home Meetings" On The Board. Write all the key factors on the board. These tell your interested prospects exactly what they should do to get started. It also makes it clear that you, as their sponsor, will be right there to support them as they get started. Show them that it is as simple as ABC.
This is the time to develop as many sharing opportunities as possible. You help them, and someday soon, they will be doing the same for the people they bring aboard. Synergy... Team work! Everybody is working together so that the result of the completed effort is greater than the sum of the individual parts.
The speaker will close by thanking everyone for attending. Then, you arrange the date and time of the next meeting and extend invitations. Require that additional guests come to future meetings. Finally, stay and answer questions your guests may have. This is the time for you to get busy and start working your prospects on an individual basis. Give them each an "information packet" and suggest that once they have a chance to go over it they can feel free to give you a call and ask questions.
Take out your appointment book and ask them what days they'd like to make a formal appointment to review everything or discuss anything they want to talk about. The book does two things: it makes you look professional. It sets the date and time down in writing, which will make an impression on your prospect. You are already showing them steps they will follow when it is their turn to do this.
Variations on the theme:
1. Prospect gets kit, signs an application at the meeting.
A. Schedule follow-up meeting.
2. Same as above but you do not have an extra kit.
A. Give them an information packet.
B. Schedule meeting, within two days, so you can bring the kit, answer questions.
3. Prospect does not sign up after the meeting.
A. Give them the information packet.
B. Schedule a meeting within two days to come by and pick it up.
C. Feel free to discuss anything they would like to talk about.
D. Be prepared to sign them at this follow-up session.
4. If your prospect was unable to attend the meeting:
A. Get an information packet to them.
B. Follow-up in 2 days and ask if they can attend the next meeting.
Do not come across as pushy. You should have a very good idea of who will, by their actions and comments, show an interest in becoming an affiliate. Focus your time and energies on the ones you feel display positive attitudes. Give them all the information they want and answer all of their questions, then let them decide.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara golf team will travel to Orange County on Monday and Tuesday for the 2011 Big West Championship Tournament. This year's tourney will be held at the Mission Viejo Country Club in Mission Viejo, Calif.
The nine Big West teams will play two rounds on Monday with the first round teeing off at 8:15 a.m. The final 18 holes will be played on Tuesday morning with a 9:00 a.m. tee-off time.
The Gauchos, coached by Steve Lass, are led by a pair of seniors and a sophomore. Seniors Andrew Gunson and Tyler Weir, and sophomore Glen Scher, have all played well this year. Scher actually leads the team with a 73.46 stroke average. On Mar. 25, he became the first UCSB player in nearly a decade to win a spring tournament when he shot a 7-under par 209 at the Barona Collegiate Cup.
Gunson has a stroke average of 73.68. In his last two completed tournaments, the OGIO-Santa Barbara Invitational at Sandpiper Golf Club in Santa Barbara and the Wyoming Cowboy Classic, he recorded fifth-place finishes. On April 11 at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic, he shot an outstanding 69 in the second round, but on the last hole of the round he injured his hand and was unable to play the final 18. The injury has heeled and he could be a key factor at the league championship.
Weir was up-and-down during the fall season but has found his stride in the spring. In fact, he has had top-five finishes in two of his last three outings. He finished fifth at the OGIO-Santa Barbara Invitational and fourth at the regular season's final tournament, the Braveheart Classic. Weir completed the regular campaign with a 74.00 stroke average, but the average was under 73.00 over the last three tournaments.
Paul Otte and Scott Lewis will complete UCSB's lineup at the tournament. Otte has played in nine tournaments in 2010-11 and averaged 75.37 shots per round. his highest finish was a 21st-place at the Folino Invitational in March. Lewis has played in just three tournaments this year, is averaging 75.87 shots per round, and has best finish of 20th at the OGIO-Santa Barbara Invitational.


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xset provides a choice of 8 colors for xterm, but no shading. For instance, you can have a deep yellow, but not a pale one; a dark green but not a light one. How can one get around this restriction?
A related X configuration question (maybe): with firefox added to my new Arch, on many web pages I get hard to read serif-type fonts that I am not used to seeing on those pages. On the other hand some pages, for example Yahoo finance, retain their usual fonts. Is there a simple explanation?
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no they arent related problems you need to be more specific with your Problems and take them one at a time and provide more info
the simple answer about firefox is to go to Mozilla and search for your problems there with firefox you need to tweak it
about xset ....are you going to use a DE or DM? there are many things you can do most of it is posted in the wiki
ya gotta read...there's ncurses there's this and that you can download it but youll have to read and make choices
......if you have a specific problem we're here but confine it to one problem to get results please...
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'the machine is not the end to the means., we are. In history, in board rooms and politic the greatest decision and effort
evolves from passion, lust for life, and a common sense of humanity. Never forget what you are and why'. -me
For xterm, see the man page. The Arch package is compiled with 256 color support, so there is a section about color classes on the man page. Using an .Xresources or .Xdefaults you should be able to set up the colors to your liking.
As for Firefox, that is an unrelated issue, but as a non-firefox user, I would imagine that you could set the font preferences somewhere (probably the preferences ). Slightly unrelated, but if you want better all around font configuration, see the thread about the infinality-bundle by bohoomil. He provides a repo with customized infinality setups that really make fonts look pretty amazing. I had a couple instances where I thought I needed different font families in dwb, but it turned out, I just had really really shitty font configuration.
@rufus, you should really learn to use punctuation and proper sentence structure. Your posts are really a PITA to read.
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Whatever! WonderWoofy.
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evolves from passion, lust for life, and a common sense of humanity. Never forget what you are and why'. -me
Thanks for your replies. It seems to me that I have presented two specific questions. On xterm colors, one would think that people have configured them thousands of times and that one would not have to "reinvent the wheel". Yet hours of reading up on this has provided no straightforward answer. I read that using .Xdefaults is no longer recommended because it is succeeded by .Xresources. I read that .Xresources is normally found in /etc/X11/ but I don't find it there.
You are reading the wrong thing, clearly: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xresources
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Thanks, jasonwryan, for pointing me in the right direction. Putting
xrdb -load ~/.Xresources &
into .xinitrc allowed xterm to be "permamently" configured in .Xresources.
However it does not establish the forground and background colors
xterm*foreground: steelblue4
xterm*background: grey88
although the similar commands in xterm itself (-fg and -bg) do bring up an
xterm (non-permanent) with those colors.
Other things such as size and font have changed. The X Resources article has
so many facets that a lot of experimenting will probably be needed to get it right.
Frustrated newbie! Creating the .Xresources file definitely changed xedit, but I can't make the entries effective. Error on foreground and background color: "color name is not defined". Other hitches: bad font, xterm takes up most of the screen, pages won't Shift-PgUp or PgDown. Is my .Xresources faulty? (It is partly copied from elsewhere.)
! Use a nice truetype font and size by default...
xterm*faceName: Lucida
xterm*faceSize: 11
xterm*vt100*geometry: 80x50
! Every shell is a login shell by default (for inclusion of all necessary environment variables)
xterm*loginshell: true
! I like a LOT of scrollback.. 1024 is default.
xterm*savelines: 1024
! double-click to select whole URLs :D
! xterm*charClass: 33:48,36-47:48,58-59:48,61:48,63-64:48,95:48,126:48
! Recommended in Arch Xterm
xterm*termName: xterm-256color
xterm*locale: true
! DOS-box colours...
xterm*foreground: rgb:a8a8a8
xterm*background: rgb:36648B
xterm*color0: rgb:00/00/00
xterm*color1: rgb:a8/00/00
xterm*color2: rgb:00/a8/00
xterm*color3: rgb:a8/54/00
xterm*color4: rgb:00/00/a8
xterm*color5: rgb:a8/00/a8
xterm*color6: rgb:00/a8/a8
xterm*color7: rgb:a8/a8/a8
xterm*color8: rgb:54/54/54
xterm*color9: rgb:fc/54/54
xterm*color10: rgb:54/fc/54
xterm*color11: rgb:fc/fc/54
xterm*color12: rgb:54/54/fc
xterm*color13: rgb:fc/54/fc
xterm*color14: rgb:54/fc/fc
xterm*color15: rgb:fc/fc/fc
! right hand side scrollbar...not shown by default
! xterm*rightScrollBar: true
! xterm*ScrollBar: true
! stop output to terminal from jumping down to bottom of scroll again
!xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false
(Had to fall back to Debian to copy it)
not sure about the 'rgb:' and '/' in the hex codes. mine has (for example) '#ffffff'.
@dgz, You are using an older format to specify colors. Possible X color name formats are shown under 'man 7 X' in the section "COLOR NAMES".
@hilltownboy, You must be using a very old guide to Linux. There are many better guides available rather than what you are currently using.
To correct your colors, change your background and foreground lines to these:
xterm*foreground: rgb:a8/a8/a8
xterm*background: rgb:36/64/8B
The size of the xterm window will depend on the font and font size and the number of rows and columns displayed. Font size is controlled by the 'faceSize' resource. Try reducing faceSize from 11 to 10 or 9 or 8. Also, Lucida isn't a popular choice for the font. Here are the lines that will make xterm use DejaVu Sans Mono at size 9:
xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
xterm*faceSize: 9
! To turn antialiasing off use this:
! xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book:antialias=false
Xedit is a very old text editor. There are many other more modern choices, including nano, vim, gedit, kate, leafpad or mousepad.
I'm not sure why the Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown aren't working for you. Does scrolling with the mouse work?
thisoldman, thanks, you have provided the final solution to my color problem. Putting those "/"s in did it.
Reducing the xterm:faceSize: to 8 or 9 restored the Shift-PgUp and PgDn as well as Control-D to get out, but it still left xterm the full width of the screen, though foreshortened to 1/2 or 2/3 vertically. Since you say that fonts determine size, this may be because whatever font is being used seems to be stretched horizontally.
The DejaVu Sans Mono had no effect. I had tried Lucida because it is listed in some file as being installed, if I understood correctly. This is a first installation; perhaps I have to install the fonts?
I also commented out the geometry and the login shell lines, which may or may not have helped.
As to editors, xterm seems very simple for a newbie, and I also use leafpad and nano. For a beginner, vim takes some getting used to. As my limited setup is functioning from openbox, I am trying to avoid Gnome and KDE applications.
I really like xterm too.
I would recommend installing the DejaVu fonts and the Liberation fonts. They have good Western language glyph coverage and reasonable glyph sizing, Both are good "vanilla" fonts. The packages are 'ttf-dejavu' and 'ttf-liberation'. If you need better UTF-8 coverage, urxvt is probably better. I have both emulators installed but xterm is used 99 percent of the time.
In case anyone beginning an Arch installation is suffering from my same problem, the final objective (replacing a typical xterm terminal with one of different colors) has been achieved by commenting out these two lines in .Xresources:
! xterm*faceName: LucindaSans:antialias+false
! xterm*faceSize: 9
and inserting:
xterm:Font: 6x10.pcf.gz
This works because 6x10.pcf.gz is one of many Xorg built-in fonts provided in /usr/share/fonts/misc/, which is where Xorg looks for its fonts. If you want fancier fonts you can use the commented-out way, but I gather that you have to set it up differently after learning about X, .Xresources, xorg.configure, etc., installing the fonts and connecting them with a path.
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Atlanta, GA – Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for
Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., today decried the
WayoutTV.com video, "Abortion Man," now being broadcast on the
internet. The video, an apparent attempt at dark humor,
portrays a caped, flying "Abortion Man" who attacks a young pregnant
woman until she loses her child, all at the behest of the baby's
"Abortion Man just comes off as horrifying in its treatment of the
innocent and degrading in its treatment of blacks," said Dr. King.
"As callous and unconcerned as Abortion Man is for women and babies,
though, I found him little different from the abortion industry
itself. If any man wants his pregnant girlfriend to abort, an
abortion business will be there to help him get rid of his child.
Basically, the abortion industry is Abortion Man without the cape
and with less overtly offensive methods."
"I understand that there's a fine line between dark comedy and
plain old offensive material," added Dr. King, "but wherever that
line is, it's somewhere way in the distance of Abortion Man's rear
view mirror. I'm convinced, though, that if the makers of this
video had heard the stories I've heard of women coerced into
abortions, they never would have tried to find humor in such
gruesome situations. If the Abortion Man producers ever want
to stimulate dialogue and find solutions for the horrors of abortion
against the human race, I would welcome the opportunity to speak
with them."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life
organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more
information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.
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While you've all been patiently waiting for the final installment of my series on home letterpress systems, I've been rather impatiently waiting for today's featured product to become available! I had Spellbinders' new Grand Impressabilities impression plates in my hands almost as soon as they were available from the manufacturer, and I immediately set to work with the same inks and watercolor paper that I've used for the other articles in this series to see exactly what these tools could do.
Spellbinders' Grand Impressabilities plates are larger versions of the existing Impressabilities line. Each Grand Impressabilities plate measures 8″ x 11″, meaning that crafters can emboss and letterpress on nearly a full 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper!
Unlike other tools that have been reviewed so far (such as Papertrey Ink's Impression Plates) that have letterpress as an unadvertised "hidden talent" that sometimes carries some quirks, Grand Impressabilities were designed from the beginning with letterpress in mind – it's even advertised right on the product packaging!
Since Grand Impressabilities are so large, they require a larger die cutting machine than the standard 6 inch platforms (such as the Sizzix Big Kick/Big Shot and Lifestyle Crafts Epic 6) that I've used so far in this series. (Note, however, that the smaller Impressabilities plates will perform the exact same function as their larger counterparts and will work in those smaller machines.) For this review, I worked with Spellbinders' own Grand Calibur machine, but nearly any large-platform roll-through machine should be able to handle these plates.
Speaking of the plates, let's take a closer look at them. Each Grand Impressabilities plate is a large, intricately cut sheet of metal. As you can see in the photo below, instead of creating a relief with raised portions of a solid plate as the other options we've looked at in this series do, Grand Impressabilities create pattern by simply cutting away the non-relief portions of the design. This will be a very important feature when we get to ink application a bit later in the article.
Grand Impressabilities are available in a large variety of patterns and styles. For this article I worked with the Sea Flowers pattern (above) and Butterfly Garden (below). Butterfly Garden is an especially good pattern for showing off just how intricate the designs on these plates are. Note the tiny, delicate lines in the design, especially those in the butterfly antennae and the tiny bits connecting the foliage.
To letterpress with Grand Impressabilities you'll need an impression plate, a die cutting machine large enough to accommodate the plate, paper (either plain cardstock or watercolor paper will work with these plates) and ink. I tried several different types of ink including dye and chalk. I found that, as with the other letterpress options I've explored in this series, a pigment ink such as Tsukineko's VersaColor line worked best for this application.
I mentioned earlier that the cut-away designs would be an important feature when it came to applying ink to the templates, and here's why. As you can see in the photo below, all I had to do to ink the template was simply "stamp" my ink pad on it until it was covered. Unlike the Papertrey Ink Impression plates, I didn't have to be careful to not get ink in the non-relief areas since those areas simply don't exist in these plates. I placed a sheet of scrap paper under the plate as I inked to keep from getting the excess ink on my work surface.
The Grand Calibur machine comes with everything needed to both die cut and emboss right in the box, including extra large cutting plates and oversized embossing plates and mats. It even features a handy cutting and embossing sandwich guide right on the insertion tray!
Once the Grand Impressabilities plate was inked up, I placed it face-up (or, in this case, ink side up) on the Grand Calibur's base plate.
The media to be embossed is the next layer in the sandwich. For my first run with the plates I chose to use plain cardstock. I trimmed mine down to 8″ wide, but Spellbinders has directions on their website for removing some of the Grand Calibur's internal guides if you need to be able to run a full 8.5″ x 11″ sheet through it.
After the paper, I added the large tan embossing mat – this is the piece that really makes the letterpress magic happen!
And, finally, the last layer of the sandwich is the large embossing plate.
The sandwich is then rolled through the machine just like you would to make an ordinary die cut.
And here's the finished product! This was actually my very first run with the Grand Impressabilities plates, and I found that the learning curve was almost nonexistent. As long as you take care to apply the ink evenly and create the proper embossing sandwich, this system is incredibly easy to use!
Again, I want to point out the detail that you get from these plates. All those fine lines that were in the plate transferred beautifully to the paper!
Bold patterns work equally well- here's a look at the Sea Flowers plate inked with Black VersaColor.
I used some of the letterpressed sheets to make a few more pages for my Fall mini album that you've seen in the other articles in my letterpress series. These patterns would be just as lovely used on cards, too!
Spellbinders' Grand Impressabilities are another great, versatile tool that can allow you to add a touch of letterpress to your papercrafting products. Their ability to also emboss and be used as stencils means that they won't become one-hit-wonders in your crafting stash and should be useful on a wide variety of cards, scrapbook pages, and other projects.
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Yes, two political heavyweights are about to battle it our for a post in the State Senate: the man who currently holds the seat, Tony Avella, and former comptroller John Liu. Both are seasoned political professionals who know their way around a campaign, as well as a thing or two about getting elected to office.
You have Liu with the support of the Democratic Primary and a reputation for prodigious fundraising on the one hand, and then you have Avella who has a passionate and rabid support base who will no doubt be energized to keep him in office.
But before we get to what we really want to discuss, we think that, politically speaking, Liu has a lot more to lose here. After a disappointing run for mayor last year that culminated with the Campaign Finance Board withholding matching funds because of the issues surrounding his fundraising strategies, Liu finds himself out of elective office for the first time since 2001.
(Coincidentally, that is the same year Avella began his stint in public office, as both men were elected to the City Council the same year.)
Liu probably could have easily held onto his citywide post as comptroller had he chosen to, but he rolled the dice and launched a mayoral campaign. However, losing in the Democratic Primary for mayor wasn't that big of a deal politically, considering all of the negative attention surrounding his campaign and the fact that the Democratic field was crowded with experienced politicians.
On the other hand, losing a one-on-one showdown with Avella in this primary could put any future political aspirations Liu might have on ice for awhile, as it would be hard to mount another serious run for office after losing two in a row.
And if he were to run for office again, any post he could hope for would entail taking on a political candidate that hasn't fallen out of favor with the Queens Democratic Party the way Avella has. In fact, Liu might have seen this as his last viable and realistic shot to get back into elected office and still work within county politics.
But Avella is in a different position. If he loses this primary, supporters will generally view him as a victim of machine politics at its worst, with party bosses going after a popular candidate simply because he dared to defy them by joining the ranks of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of breakaway state senators that works with the Republicans in a power-sharing agreement in the legislature.
Avella won't be viewed as a man who lost a primary; he will be viewed as someone who had his seat taken from him by forces simply too powerful to challenge.
And at that point Avella's relationship with the Queens Democratic Party will be so completely shattered he will have nothing to lose by running against party-backed candidates for another office. Avella's strongest base of support is in Bayside, Flushing and Douglaston, or in other words, Paul Vallone's City Council district.
If Avella loses this primary and his State Senate seat, what's to stop him from trying to go after his old seat in the City Council, which he gave up after two terms in 2009 – even though the City Council voted for a one-time extension that would have allowed him to run a third time – to mount his own failed campaign for mayor?
Avella is so popular in those neighborhoods we think that he could overcome whatever political capital Vallone might have built up as an incumbent, and give him a serious run for his money. If Liu loses this primary, his political career might be over, at least for a while, but if Avella loses we wouldn't be surprised to see him back campaigning sooner rather than later.
But do we ever digress! All we wanted to mention was that in addition to the two political heavyweights who will be battling it out on the campaign trail, Liu brought another name into the picture during his announcement last week.
He said he expected Governor Andrew Cuomo to be very active in helping defeat IDC candidates to help the Democrats regain a true majority in the State Senate. And by "very active" we assume that Liu meant campaigning and fundraising for both Liu and Oliver Koppell, who is challenging State Senator Jeff Klein, the head of the IDC, in the Bronx.
We'll be interested to see if there is an big splashy formal endorsement forthcoming.


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