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Winners announced of SNOW FILM FEST NYC 2010 AWARDS
Filmmakers, Athletes, Industry and NYC ski and snowboarders pack 2 days of screenings at Tribeca Cinemas
See Lauren Traub Teton's Live Report about attending the Snowboard Film Festival here.
Videos with filmmakers and stars of the Snow Film Festival here.
New York, NY, November 22, 2010 – With two days of sold out screenings, over 2,500 people in attendance and numerous premieres and parties, the first annual Snow Film Fest NYC presented by Skullcandy (SFFNYC) wrapped up in the late hours of Sunday morning at Tribeca Cinemas and Lounge. The 2010 SFFNYC, held November 19th and 20th, featured an unprecedented arrangement of 24 ski and snowboarding films from around the world, intimate Q&A sessions with the filmmakers and athletes and lively parties with libations courtesy of Omni Wines Mille and the Skullcandy DJ crew.
The votes are in from our official 2010 screening panel and we are proud to announce the winners:
Best 2010 Ski Film:
THE WAY I SEE IT. Matchstick Productions brings the audience a work of epic proportions, catching the best athletes doing what the do best- skiing faster, spinning while flipping and grabbing and stalking the deepest stashes of snow, while still reminding the audience what makes this sport so special: adventure, passion, camaraderie and fun.
Best 2010 Snowboard Film:
NOWHERE. The Absinthe crew put on film the answer to a common question: What is the difference between exploring and being lost? Where you are lost or exactly where you want to be, it all depends on how you look at it. And this year we are looking at some pretty heavy shredding.
Best Documentary 2010:
SWIFT. SILENT. DEEP. Troy Beauchamp tells the compelling story of the most infamous secret ski fraternity, the Jackson Hole Air Force and the evolution of 50 years of extreme skiing.
Sean Pettit, Cody Townsend and Herik Windstedt take home the Best 2010 Ski Segment with their tricks in Matchstick's THE WAY I SEE IT and Lucas Debari and Blair Habenicht steal the top prize for Best 2010 Snowboarding Segment for their combo part in Absinthe's NOWHERE
NOWHERE rounds out their huge weekend wins with Best Cinematography 2010 award to Absinthe.
Swiss Artist Cali P takes home the Best Musical Score for Inspired media Concepts, Like a Lion soundtrack.
No surprise here that Viewer's choice for Best 2010 Ski flick went to East Coast based Meathead Films' WORK IT OUT. The SATURDAY NIGHT RIDE was unquestionably voted Viewer's Choice 2010 Snowboard flick, entertaining the crowd with their creative fusing of shredding and pro wrestling in an all new sport.
Thanks to our distinguished 2010 SFFNYC screening panel for spending hours volunteering their time to watch these films: Senior Editor ESPN Action Sports Micah Abrams, UX Entertainment Group's founder and producer Jason Burgh, CEO of Armada Skis Erik Snyder, David Reddick of Powder Magazine, art + music buff Pedro Mena, Shredder and athlete manager Yulin Oliver, Photog Craig Wetherby, Nikki Scoggins of Vans, and Mascha Van Tongeren of Shredunion.com.
Throughout the weekend, seven photographs curated by SFFNYC's official media partners, Powder and Snowboarder Magazines and two snowboard setups courtesy of Salomon, were up for grabs via a silent auction which raised $5,000 for Stoked Mentoring. SFFNYC also raffled off tons of prizes from our partners at Eastern Mountain Sports, Skullcandy, Killington, Surefoot, Baldface, The Northface and Nike 6.0 to raise money for the charity.
For a taste of true NYC, festival attendees were treated to old fashioned Egg creams courtesy of the Brooklyn Farmacy and Ice Cream Soda Fountain Shop. Popchips and Vitacoco also kept attendees hydrated and snacked in between screenings.
SFFNYC would like to thank our filmmakers for their continued dedication to bringing snow enthusiasts awesome eye candy and amping us up for the winter ahead: Swift Silent Deep Productions, Forum, Riley Poor, Travis Limoge/Pirate Productions, Gregory Stump, Chris James and Meathead Films, Jeremy Mills, Stan Evans, Rene Eckert, Eric Iberg, Shayne Nelson and Matt Koskenin/Inspired Media Concepts, Gerald Salmina, Steve Jones/Teton Gravity Research, Waide Hoyt and Joseph Fraioli/Standard Films, Erik Lavoie, Meredith Danluck and Jake Burghart, VBS TV, Quiksilver, and Vice Magazine, Level 1, Alterna Films, Absinthe, Poorboyz, Joe Carlino/Transworld, Flow and Andrew Mutty, Kurt Johnson/ WildCard, Think Thank, Poorboyz, and Matchstick.
SFFNYC could not have been made possible without the support of our partners: Joshua Berg, Rob Layer, Dennis Bruce and the entire Skullcandy crew, Tom Horrocks and Jillian from Killington, Alan Ando from Eastern Mountain Sports Soho, Jeff Penceiro from Baldface, Keith Torres of OmniWines, Ashley Otte of Powder Magazine, Chris Engleman of Snowboarder Magazine, Chris Cooper and Adam of Spraying Gravy, Jordan Harris and Justin McManus of SNAP, Sarah Ratcliffe of Surefoot, Thomas Sullivan of Bar13, Peter Freeman of Brooklyn Farmacy, Laurence Chandler of Undergrind + Proof7, VitaCoco, PopChips, Visine, Salomon, Bonfire, The Northface, Nike 6.0, Oakley, and our communities: NY Snowboarding Group, Ski Bums, Hoboken Ski Club, and New York Metropolitan Ski Council.
The inaugural SNOW FILM FEST NYC brought together avid ski and snowboarders, legendary photographers, film buffs and New York City audiences fascinated by the winter sports. It was a celebration of both the East Coast ski and snowboarding communities and the larger snow industry, but also the artistic integrity of the action sports film genre. Be sure to continue to check in at www.snowfilmfesnyc.com for images of the festival and updates on the 2011 installation.
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Como Zoo Opens $11 Million Home for 7 Gorillas
ST. PAUL (AP) - The Como Park Zoo is opening a new $11 million home for its seven gorillas.
The new outdoor primate yard is almost three times the size of the old enclosure once occupied by just a pair of gorillas at the St. Paul zoo.
Zoo officials hope it's an ideal place to raise a gorilla family. One of their males is now living with three females, so they hope to have some little gorillas running around in a couple years.
The Gorilla Forest is the newest of a series of high-profile expansions for a zoo that started as a fenced pasture with three deer in 1897. Since 2006, Como Zoo has added a Tropical Encounters exhibit and a $5 million Polar Bear Odyssey.

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There's a place the man always say Come in here, child No cause you should weep Wolf never catch such a rabbit Golden hair never turn white with grief Come in here, child No cause you should moan Brother never hurt his brother Nobody here ever wander without a home There must be some such place somewhere But
Kenneth Patchen
On December 13, 1911, Kenneth Patchen was born in Niles. A poor boy throughout his childhood, he spent his time playing football and working in a factory. He enjoyed publishing in his school newspaper, kept a diary from the age of twelve, and began reading Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Herman Melville.
After high school, he moved to Wisconsin and attended Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College for one year and then the University of Wisconsin. Around this time, Patchen published a sonnet, "Permanence," in the New York Times. He continued his education in Arkansas and then spent years traveling. He was employed as a migrant worker in a variety of jobs in the United States and Canada.
In 1933, he fell in love with Miriam Oikemus, who he married the following year. The couple lived in Greenwich Village for a few years while Patchen finished and later published his first book of verse, Before the Brave, in 1936.
Over the course of his career, he wrote more than forty books of poetry, prose and drama, including Bury Them in God and First Will and Testament (both in 1939), The Journal of Albion Moonlight (1941), The Dark Kingdom (published in a limited edition of seventy-five copies with individually painted covers) and The Teeth of the Lion (both in 1942), Sleepers Awake (1946), To Say if You Love Someone (1948), Poemscapes (1958), and But Even So: Picture Poems (1968).
Patchen was also interested in collaboration and multi-media experimentation. With the composer John Cage, he created the radio play The City Wears A Slouch Hat (broadcast in 1942), and in 1957 he performed with the Chamber Jazz Sextet, helping to further Jazz Poetry. Perhaps most notably, Patchen engaged in the visual arts, creating painted poems throughout his career.
"It happens that very often my writing with pen is interrupted by my writing with brush, but I think of both as writing," said Patchen. "In other words, I don't consider myself a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend."
For more than thirty years, Patchen lived with a severe spinal ailment that caused him almost constant physical pain. An operation in the early 1950s, thanks to a fund set up by his fellow poets, including T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and E. E. Cummings, allowed him to regain his mobility, but the relief was short-lived: a mistake during a follow-up surgery in 1959 left him almost completely bedridden for the remaining thirteen years of his life, during which he created his most visually remarkable works.
The weight of this personal battle was compounded by his sensitivity to greater issues of humanity, and his poetry paid special attention to the horrors of war. With his work, he tried to create a kind of sanctuary for the reader, apart from reality, where larger-than-life characters were motivated by their loving and benevolent natures.
In 1967, the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities presented Patchen with an award for a "life-long contribution to American letters." He died while living in California in 1972.
A Selected Bibliography
Before the Brave (1936)
First Will and Testament (1939)
The Dark Kingdom (1942)
The Teeth of the Lion (1942)
Cloth of the Tempest (1943)
Pictures of Life and Death (1946)
Selected Poems (1946)
Panels for the Walls of Heaven (1947)
First Will and Testament (1948)
Red Wine and Yellow Hair (1949)
Hurrah for Anything (1957)
When We Were Here Together (1957)
Because It Is: Poems and Drawings (1960)
The Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen (1960)
Double Header, includes Poemscapes and Hurrah for Anything (1966)
Hallelujah Anyway: Picture Poems (1966)
But Even So: Picture-Poems (1968)
Love and War Poems (1968)
Collected Poems (1969)
Wonderings: Picture Poems (1971)
In Quest of Candlelighters (1972)
Patchen's Lost Plays (1977)
Journal of Albion Moonlight (1941)
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer (1945)
Sleepers Awake (1946)
They Keep Riding Down All the Time (1946)
See You in the Morning (1947)


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1. Re: Text Along A CircleWade_Zimmerman Apr 25, 2012 9:10 AM (in response to mhossey)
You really need to read the help files about text on path how to move the center handle and select text.
If you get the direct sect tool click trhe text to select the path type and you see the handles one in the center of the tex the other two tothe left and right of the text.
To move the garb one of those handles and draag left or right
to select the text for editing select the text tool and select the text by dragging over the text with the text tool to highlight the text you wish to edit to asd text use the text tool and click on the text path to insert the insertion marker.
2. Re: Text Along A Circlemhossey Apr 25, 2012 10:07 AM (in response to Wade_Zimmerman)
Ok I'll read the help files, are they in the illustrator forum?
I know I can move the text back and forth with the handles, but the handles should be right up against the text in the tutorial I watched. My handles are spaced away from the text, so when I drag my text it will only go a certain length (I used the scissor tool to cut the middle path into 2, becuase I will be using the bottom half for another piece of text).
Any thought on when I click on a certain area of the path, the text starts at a different area?
3. Re: Text Along A CircleWade_Zimmerman Apr 25, 2012 10:24 AM (in response to mhossey)
You do not nave a cricle you half a circcle.
Can you see that you have an open path?
look in the layers panel and you will see tha you have two half circle paths.
what you have to do is join the two halves or draw a new circle.
You apparently cut this path in two that is why it is behaving ddifferently.
4. Re: Text Along A Circlemhossey Apr 25, 2012 10:44 AM (in response to Wade_Zimmerman)
Here is the video I am following, I just need my Illustrator to act like his. I just reset my preferences, and that helped some of the issues. When I click on the path now, that is where my text starts.
Is there a way to manually move the handles that slide the text around the circle? I want to have the left handle at the end of the half circle (like it already is) and half the right handle at the other end, so I can hit command+shift+c and center this thing. I want it to work like it should, I know I can drag the text to the middle until it aligns with the snap guide, but I feel like their might be a problem in my settings as to why its acting a little funny
5. Re: Text Along A Circlemhossey Apr 25, 2012 10:47 AM (in response to mhossey)
Dont worry, I got now thanks!
6. Re: Text Along A CircleSteve Fairbairn Apr 25, 2012 1:11 PM (in response to mhossey)
To save you having to centre the type manually you might try Align Center in the Paragraph panel


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VintageModern Design Challenge: Rickrock Tunic
Added Feb 19, 2012
by marybee1
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In this project and challenge entry some fun touches were added to Indygo Junction's IJ823, Over the Top Tunic. While still remaining very much in the present I also reached back to a simple, happy time by dipping into my vintage collection to contribute to my entry.
The tunic has a fun scalloped hemline and an overhand knotted belt on tunic back. Red, orange, yellow rickrack and yellow loop braid trim are included on the tunic sleeves, inset and waistline. Parts of a vintage hand-embroidered linen table runner appear as the front tunic inset and as the appliques on the tunic back.
Many thanks for this fun contest and for your great contributions to the art of sewing to Indygo Junction, Coats & Clark and BurdaStyle!
Material Notes
The overall tunic fabric nods to modern as the fabric is a fun print in a a great red, yellow and orange. The fabric is a cotton piece by Brandon Mably for Rowan Westminster Fibers, #MB17 Burlesque Brocade.
- Indygo Junction, Over the Top Tunic--IJ823
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Mar 8, 2012, 06.12 AMby marthahaskins
Yes, love the fabric and scalloped hem!
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For this bread I took 300 grams of whole wheat flour and mixed it with 300 grams of water and 1/8 tsp of instant yeast.
That was at midnight. Next morning I added 280 grams of flour, 1 tsp salt, some pumpkinseeds and some flax seeds. Also enough water to make the hydration 75%. Gave it a stir and then kneaded with mixer. Let rise for 1,5 hours. Then shaped into boule. Proofed for 2 hours in banneton. Baked for 50 minutes at 190 celsius with steam.


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Bella Heathcote of 'Dark Shadows' — Crush of the Day
Isabella "Bella" Heathcote is an Australian actress best known for playing Amanda Fowler on the Australian television soap opera 'Neighbours.' American audience will be introduced to Bella this weekend after the opening on Tim Burton's 'Dark Shadows' featuring Johnny Depp. We knew about Bella long ago, but just got around to making her the 'Crush of the Day.'
Heathcote began her acting career in 2008, and in 2010, she was a recipient of a Heath Ledger Scholarship. We aren't sure if that scholarship is for acting or for people most likely to…eh, better not make that joke.
Heathcote is currently filming 'Killing Them Softly' with Brad Pitt in which Brad plays a handsome man doing some very handsome things (we're guessing). So, the girl has been in a handful of movies, and already starred opposite Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt? Look, we're not into Brad and Johnny in that way, but even we are a little jealous of Ms. Heathcote.
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Thuong Tran necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 23 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
My company – Bythuongtran – provides premium wedding services for couples who want to have their weddings (especially destination weddings) in Vietnam or Singapore. My services include:
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- Home page: the home page should include:
o Top: name of the company (left), names of the sub-pages (right)
o Middle: A window for a photo slide show with the following elements put at the bottom of the window: thumbnails of the photos, navigation buttons, Full screen icon, Subscribe (to my new pictures) icon. This window will be on the left. On the right will be the text: "The certified wedding specialist in Vietnam and Singapore" – in bigger font, and "Providing premium wedding and destination wedding services in planning and consulting" – in smaller font
o Bottom: Icons link to my Blog, Facebook, Twitter. Icons to share my website, and other standard elements like: Copyright, Terms of Use.
o An Icon to switch to the second language should be put somewhere visible to the visitors.
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The theatre of Dionysos. A great crowd is just leaving the amphitheatre and as the attendants roll back the heavy awnings and unleash the tent-poles, the moon, which has been excluded for the performance, begins to filter in, and presently the stone begin s to throw o§ faint shimmers, and dark shadows fall across the stage. The builded temple, which has been screened, is now revealed, and its colours glow again, albeit in shades not known to the light of day. The porticos of temples look down upon the thea tre, and olive trees stand dark and beautiful on the hills. From afar the bustle of the town dies away, and, perhaps, in a moment of unutterable stillness, the murmur of the many-sounding sea can be heard.
The spectators of the strange entertainment have at last departed, and the long e's, ungrateful to the ear of the Attic scholar, are heard no more. In the far centre of the theatre a man IS taking apart a mechanism--that from which the deus sprang in this evening's play. Two other men remain. One walks musing and absorbed, looking toward that entrance whereby Orestes was wont to make his way to the stage. The other walks slowly round about the theatre, marking its aspects, and thinking of practical things . Presently they meet at the spot where once the choragus stood. They salute each other.
I am sorry that you should have been here tonight. To you, I suppose, this has been only a sac rilege. I am sorry that you should feel that I am gloating over my success. But perhaps I am mistaken. Are you, or are you not, Walter Pritchard Eaton!
I am. And you are David Wark Griffith, are you not? [D. G. nods.] We are well met, then--if I may make use of a phrase which the drama, and not your metier has made famous. By the way, ought I to "register" pleasure in any conventional way!
Score one for you. I have sinned. But since you say we are well met, can't we chat for a moment about things! You see, I am not altogether unaffected by this scene-the light, and the ancient theatre, and the memories of it all.
They would all do admirably for a picture-for one of those extraordinary scenic effects which you create as no other man can create them. But the memories-those at least are mine. Surely you are not thinking of--
No. Not just now. I am humble at times. But let us say that you are the great antagonist of the movies, and I the protagonist. I want very much to understand what you mean when you attack them. I remember you said that my spectacle, The Birth of a Nation, was violently unfair because it was wordless. Am I not right?
I said some such thing.
And you are a defender of the theatre. May I assume that The Clansman, which was a spoken drama, was more fair than my spectacle?
At least, in the play, there was a reply in kind to every attack. The dumb-show for which you are responsible showed only one side.
Then you are attacking the movie for being a propaganda, and are displeased with the propaganda because it is one-sided. May I say that possibly the movie was made as an artistic spectacle, and had no such object? And do 1 not recall the
surprise with which such a play as Strife was received because it did show two sides? After all, I did not make it impossible for you to put on Uncle Tom's Cabin as a reply to me.
It would be fruitless to continue the discussion on this point. I spoke of your movie in passing, because I am always hearing about it. For the most part let us admit that it was not cheap. Can you say as much for the others ?
No. The movie is a vulgar art--it is the vulgar art. And certainly I do not purpose to rob that statement of its effectiveness by saying that the word must be taken in its best, or even in its original, meaning. It must be taken in its worst meaning. The m ovie is vulgar, but it is art. The best of it is none too good-yet. But the worst of it is not so bad as you think.
I am willing to grant you that in the representation of spectacle, in the realm of trick photography and in the preservation of the events of the moment, the movie has its place. I question it only when it invades the drama. There you must pardon me. I ha ve the drama close to my heart.
You have been warming the viper quite a long time. It is about to sting. I am willing to t you that in musical comedy, in purely intellectual engagements, and in the exploitation of sound, the drama has its place. But 1 have noticed in your own complaints that in the things that touch the heart, in the grand manner, in the projection of high emotion, you find the drama of to-day a pretty sad affair.
Who is to blame for it?
Who killed Cock Robin? Not 1. 1 had not heard that the Comedie-Francaise was seriously affected by the activities of Pathe Freres. I have yet to learn that music has been driven into hiding by the movies, although I have heard that the ride of the Valkyri es is more familiarly known to-day as the "Klan-theme" from The Birth. Didn't your theatre die-if it has died-because it stifled itself ? Hadn't you noticed the decline ten years ago?
I am not blaming the movie. I am deploring it. 1 do not think that it is good for people to
be eternally fed on whatever is cheapest, nearest, easiest of comprehension. I object to it all the more when something high and fine is butchered to make a movie holiday.
I deplore that as much as you. I do not think that Cabiria was cheap, or easy of comprehension. There was enough on the surface to make it popular. But there was also enough in the depths to make it grand.
The movie is still two-dimensional, Mr Griffith. Can we speak of depths?
Ah, you say "still"! Then we have a future. In the theatre there was a long succession of little known men, and then came the men whose plays made these stones sacred to you. There were many Elizabethans before Shakespeare. Will you call me the Marlowe of the movies? I believe in them enough to hope for a Shakespeare. But don't you see that we are young; we are without conventions--
Pardon me. You are with far too many. 1 remember that in the early days, when you went about
on tiptoe for fear of waking up the revengeful Muses, you employed actors without any technique. There was an uncouth, a delightful freshness, about your work. I had hopes then that you would con tribute to the stage. Instead you have taken from it. You have borrowed all its worst conventions. And you have added some of your own. There is the dreadful convention of registering.
Isn't that from the stage ?
Your actors and actresses register.
Not as yours do. The long training in the ex pression of emotions has developed a suitable medium, the slightest variation on which becomes inestimably precious. In the moving picture the variation is unknown. And, although I am the last person to want to advantage the movie, let me tell you why. I can hear the voice of the director, just as the misguided husband leaves his wife-a favorite situation in the movies and very novel-I can hear
him crying out, "Register grief!" If he does not cry out, the inner voice of the actress cries out. Not "feel," not "express the feeling," but express the semblance of grief. It is an art of superficies. Perhaps your actresses-and why, dear sir, do you ch oose such impossibly blond, pretty and stupid actresses? -have worked out a new expression, a new registration. At the terrible moment they forget. They register as they, or another actress as well paid and as hotly advertised, registered six months befor e. I am as tired of heaving breasts and eyes turned to heaven as I am tired of Charlie Chaplin's walk when he does not walk it. Conventions? There is no end to them. What your art, as you call it, lacks, is limitations.
You mean there are no limits to it? That is a strange remark for you to make.
No. I do not mean that. I mean that every art, until recent times, has proposed certain limitations, under which it had to work. Goethe-a poet whom you have yet to introduce to your spectators--once wrote, "In der Beschrankung zeigt sich erst der Meister!" And these limitations must be more than physical. There is no reason why a poem
should rhyme abbaabbacdcdcd, but the sonnet must rhyme in some such manner, or it will not be perfect. There may be greater poems than these sonnets--that is a matter of taste-but the art of the sonnet has its own perfection because those limitations have been accepted joyously by those who chose to write. You have proposed no limitations to yourself. Your art is chaos.
Didn't I confess as much when I said it was vulgar? It must have its appeal to the very lowest. But because our roots are in the dung and the mire, do you think there shall be no lovely blossoms on the trees in spring and no fruit? If I make a fortune in raw melodrama, shall I not spend it on Helen of Troy?
Helen of Troy!
Why not? The moving picture is always elemental, but it can be grand. What are the essentials of a story: love, beauty, pursuit, coincidence, rescue-
Tell me, Mr Griffith, is it true that you recite "The Relief at Lucknow" each night before you go to bed?
Not now. I am reciting the Iliad now. Cant you see the battlements of Troy with Helen looking down from her tower-the ruinous face-
Again a hit! But 1 shall overcome it. I shall show you Scamander rising from his bed, and the gods on high Olympus-
With a close-up of the beard of Zeus?
And Patroclus leaping on the Ilian shore, and Achilles sulking in his tent. I shall make Homer live again.
Dear me. Is he dead? Why wasn't I informed?
Love and battle, heroism and beauty, action and emotion, pity and terror-what more can you ask? All the great sum of Hellenic life, its morning glow
and its great noon of enviable beauty, shall be in my picture. It shall mingle humanity with the gods again.
Through the exquisite agency of cutbacks?
As surely as Marlowe's topless towers-the captions are written for me-rose in the backdrops of your theatres. I shall glorify the mechanics of my art. 1 shall make them invisible and divine. I shall speak in words of white fire-
Perhaps. But you will never speak with the tongues of angels-and of men. I will admit the dulness of the theatre if you will grant the absurdity of the mechanics you employ. 1 will ask you only if the moving picture will ever become human?
I do not know. I am not sure that humanity is very translatable. But we have ecstasy. In the projector lies all wonderful adventure, and I go into a dingy, stuffy, moving-picture house with the foreknowledge that something strange and won derful, though it be at times cheap and vulgar, will be shown me. In a drab world the movie is an in
strument of miracles. The gross caricatures are perhaps truer than the realism of the theatre. I see a Rabelaisian madness in the millions of broken plates. In a thousand flying custard pies I recognize an eternal impulse of humankind. In the mad comings and goings of impossible characters I still see some persuasion that life is "wanton and wondrous and forever well." Here, in this theatre, life was once glorified. But the grandeur has died out and we must restore it as we can.
Not in my time, I fear. For me the past is not dead, so you cannot restore it. And here, in the end, you have my last objection to the moving picture. You are destroying the imagination of mankind. There are no more mysteries since your work has come into being. Everything is visible. Everything is explained.
Except the soul, my dear sir.'
1 Seven years ago, when this imaginary conversation was published, I wanted to be fair to Mr Eaton and to persuade Mr Griffith to do Helen of Troy. I succeeded in neither, and the document has only historical interest. I do not know Mr Eaton's present st and on the movies, and I apologize to him for retaining his name here. What I do know is Mr Griffith's position. It will be entertaining to compare it with the imaginary future outlined for him above. See page 323. G. S.


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James Patrick Myers, 76, Liberty Mills, died at 5:45 p.m., Friday, Dec. 13, at his home. He was born May 1, 1937 in Whitley County, to Montgomery and Lela (Bush) Myers.
He was a 1956 graduate of Chester High School in North Manchester. He married Verlindia Clevenger in Servia, on Aug. 25, 1956; she died Feb. 3, 2010. He was a retired truck driver and a journeyman brick mason. Jim was a member of the Deming Masonic Lodge #88 in North Manchester, the Fort Wayne Scottish Rite and Mizpah Shrine, and the Eel River Shrine Club in North Manchester. He was also a member of the North Manchester Moose Lodge #1518 and was a charter member of the Eagles Lodge, and was a member of the Teamsters Local 135. Jim enjoyed hunting and fishing.
He is survived by three children; Lela Myers, Wabash, Rhonda (Mariano Sanchez) Shea, North Manchester, and Patrick J. (Judy) Myers, Laketon; brother, Robert (Delores) Myers, and sister Shirley (Jack) Burson, both of Little Rock, Ark.; nine grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, his son Michael Myers, daughter, Deborah Dials, great grandson, Jameson Wright, three brothers William, Lawrence, and Jack Myers, and two sisters Bonnie Gage and Betty Myers.
As per Jim's request there will be no services. Burial will be at a later date in Fairview Cemetery in Servia. Arrangements by Grandstaff-Hentgen Bender Chapel, North Manchester.
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"The Big Year" is a completely disposable comedy.
Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson are A-list actors all known for potentially outrageous humor. But their talents are totally wasted here. They act out a screenplay so tepid it may be a new cure for insomnia.
The three men come from different walks of life. But they all share a passion for competitive bird watching. (Is there really such a thing?) They all decide to enter a contest to see who can spot the greatest number of different bird species in a single year. The task involves lots of travel to exotic locations on short notice.
This 365-day effort requires major adjustments in their relationships and jobs. But the consequences to them are skipped over so lightly they hardly register in the plot.
Even the beautiful birds and stunning scenery take a back seat to the ultra bland storyline. This is a lackluster road buddy movie that will disappear from theaters very quickly. "The Big Year" is a big yawn.
'The Thing' is, this movie is bad
The thing with "The Thing" is, I don't get directors who remake a movie classic, yet say they don't want to mess with the original. So what's the point, other than to make a buck?
The same goes for "Footloose." If it ain't broke, don't remake it.
This version of John Carpenter's 1982 gross-out classic (itself a remake) gives us nothing new or improved. An Antarctic research station again finds a giant alien and a spaceship buried in the ice. Guess no one thought to bring a video of the original 1951 Howard Hawks movie, or they would have known what was coming.
They lug Thing inside like a giant block of party ice. No sooner do the guys start singing like a beer commercial than bam! The beast has defrosted. Its function is to terrorize everyone and adopt their human form, complete with beards and chunky knitwear.
Even the dialogue is unoriginal: "What is it?" "I have a bad feeling about this," and "What do we do now?"
The special effects aren't scarier, there's just more Things. For the price of your movie tickets, get a bag of frozen crab claws and sauce and watch 'em thaw. That might even be more fun than this movie.
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Miss Cindy's Cheeseburger Pie!
This recipe is one of my family's favorites! Who doesn't love a good cheeseburger?? Not only does it taste like a cheeseburger from a local drive through, but it's MUCH cheaper--about $1.20 a person. So if the holidays left your wallet a little empty, you might want to try this one out! It's SOO easy. Don't be intimidated by the crust-- I use canned crescent rolls! Serve it with a side salad and you have a quick easy meal your family will love!
- 1 can crescent rolls
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion, OR 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/3 cup chopped dill pickle slices
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 1 teaspoon prepared mustard
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons dill pickle juice
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 cups shredded American cheese, divided
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Unroll crescent rolls and press into the bottom and up the sides of an 8 inch pie pan.
- Cook ground beef in a skillet until browned. Drain well.
- Stir in onion, chopped pickle, ketchup and mustard.
- Sprinkle with flour and add pickle juice and milk. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly.
- Remove from heat and add 1 cup of shredded cheese.
- Pour into the prepared crust and bake for 15 minutes, or until edges of crust are golden brown.
- Remove from oven and top with remaining cup of cheese. Let stand until cheese melts.
- Garnish with extra ketchup, mustard and pickle slices.
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Thursday, July 23
Fried Capers
29 comments:
- Soma said...
Wow I have never heard of fring capers! Trying to imagine how they are going to be like ....
- July 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM
- Karine said...
Frying capers! Interesting.. I have never thought about. Thanks for sharing!
- July 23, 2009 at 11:54 PM
- doggybloggy said...
cool....you are right - the possibilities are endless
- July 23, 2009 at 11:57 PM
- Kerstin said...
How cool - looks like something you'd get in a fancy restaurant :)
- July 24, 2009 at 12:01 AM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Those must taste wonderful!
- July 24, 2009 at 12:58 AM
- katie said...
OMG... I made these tonight! I am making my own "tonno", poached tuna packed in oil, mario batali style. They went swimmingly.
- July 24, 2009 at 2:15 AM
- ♥peachkins♥ said...
First time I heard of fried capers...These sounds wonderful..
- July 24, 2009 at 4:19 AM
- Grace said...
what a nifty phenomenon! yep, they'd be a great garnish or accent to a main dish, but i'll bet they'd be a great snack too—-great find!
- July 24, 2009 at 9:23 AM
- Finsmom said...
I LOVE capers! This looks so tasty!
- July 24, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- Kerry Maffeo said...
Frying capers? I'd never have thought of that...sounds awesome though. Your site is fantabulous! Great job...it's making me very hungry :-)
- July 24, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- Lisa said...
I love fried capers and I love your blog! Just found you via Pink of Perfection.
- July 24, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- Pam said...
I did not know that! I am excited to try frying capers - thanks for the great tip.
- July 24, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- Reginald said...
I have just 5 words
I will def give this a try.
- July 24, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- Faith said...
Wow, I never knew capers opened into flowers when fried (it makes perfect sense, though!)...great tip! I've got to try this!
- July 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM
- Karyn - (French Charming) said...
Hi Sweet Zoe!
Do you know that I had capers for the fist time the other night? Crazy right? I loved them...I have to try this!
Hug to you,
- July 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM
- maybelles mom said...
we put them on a salad that had roasted winter squash last year after eating them in a restaurant. delicious, no?
- July 24, 2009 at 7:01 PM
- ~~louise~~ said...
Oh my goodness! I picked some nasturtium buds (sometimes called poor man's capers:) just this morning. I was going to pickle them but now that has all changed. I'm going to "fry them up" as you have so kindly shared and add them to the Tabbouleh Salad I'm bringing to my sister's tomorrow! Thanks, Zoe:)
- July 24, 2009 at 7:21 PM
- Chef Fresco said...
Whoever thought of frying capers?! We have lots of those guys that would be perfect for this recipe!
- July 24, 2009 at 8:33 PM
- My comfort food network said...
What fun with capers! I immediately thought of some pan fried fish, with some cheesy sauce and some fried capers to garnish...hmm yummm!
- July 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM
- Tim said...
I think it was a Thomas Keller recipe that I first made these for — they're great aren't they?
- July 25, 2009 at 6:34 AM
- Joanne said...
I have a serious caper addiction. They add such great flavor to everything. I will have to try this!
- July 25, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- nora@ffr said...
gerat tip. this is awesome!! a must try soon.
- July 25, 2009 at 2:18 PM
- Ingrid said...
I hadn't seen these. They look good and so cute! AND guess what I just bought a new bottle of capers! Can't wait to give 'em a try!
- July 25, 2009 at 2:46 PM
- LK- Healthy Delicious said...
I love fried capers!!! In pasta tossed with goat cheese and lemon zest... YUM.
- July 26, 2009 at 12:09 AM
- Kevin said...
Fried capers as a garnish is a great idea!
- July 26, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Nutmeg Nanny said...
I have never been a fan of capers but fried might be a different story...
- July 27, 2009 at 11:04 PM
- Deseree said...
What a great idea! I just recently discovered how much I love capers. I particularly love them with salmon, but I have never thought of them fried. I will definitely be trying this. Thank you!
- August 13, 2009 at 8:11 PM
- mlosier said...
I had these on a caesar salad in a high end resturant and came home to look up how the chef made them... they were crispy and fun. thanks for the recipe!
Michael, Victoria BC Canada
- March 30, 2010 at 3:46 PM
- Tami Falus said...
Hi, thx for the recipe! I tasted these for the first time this summer (don't usually like capers as I find them tooo salty) and they were sooo good!!!
I am curious how long after you make these can you keep them? I would like to use them for a cocktail party but would like to do as much ahead of time as possible....
Thx :)
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text: Patrick Kane is a professional hockey forward and right winger who plays for the Chicago Blackhawks. Kane was born on Nov. 19, 1988, in Buffalo, N.Y. Drafted by the Blackhawks with the first overall pick in the 2007 draft, Kane went on to win the Calder Trophy as the league's best rookie in 2008. He has won two Stanley Cup championships with the Blackhawks, scoring the winning goal in overtime of Game 6 of the final in 2010, and winning the Conn Smythe trophy for playoff MVP in 2013. He also won a silver medal playing hockey for the U.S. in the 2010 Winter Olympics. In his first seven seasons with the Blackhawks, Kane has 178 goals and 315 assists in 515 regular-season games. In 2014, Kane and teammate Jonathan Toews signed matching 8-year contract extensions with the Blackhawks, with each contract reportedly worth $10.5 million a year.


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We have to admit, Verizon's latest, Xmas-themed iPhone and AT&T attack ads bring the funny. Continuing the savvy "map for that" (rather than silly DroidDoes), the first shows the land of misfit toys where an iPhone-looking device is condemned for its poor AT&T 3G coverage.
After the break, we have elves giving Verizon devices, with robust 3G coverage, to nice children and an iPhone with poor AT&T coverage to the naughty. And, lastly, a father has a blue Xmas when his iPhone can't reach his family (though a Verizon present awaits him when he finally gets home).
Attacking the iPhone on it's major front-facing weakness, much-hyped consumer dissatisfaction with AT&T's network is the kind of smart that is -- and, given Verizon's recent comments, may even be an attempt to show Apple the iPhone would be better off on a better network?
Of course, AT&T likely isn't laughing, given they're already suing Vewill likely take further issue with claims of 5x more 3G coverage, but they're already suing, right?


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Through the Galva Public Library
Want to look up an obituary for someone who once lived in the Galva area? Or find a child's birth announcement, or sports accomplishment at Galva High School. Maybe even who visited who on a Sunday afternoon — when "a good time was had by all" — in social news from Galva News pages of long ago?
Now you can, from the comfort of your own home. Or wherever you have Internet access.
All free of charge.
Thanks to a new service of the Galva Public Library, all issues of Galva newspapers of the past 132 years are now visible over the Internet, on the library's website, www.library.org.
That includes the Galva News and three former newspapers here — Galva Weekly News, The Galva Standard and the Galva Semi-Weekly News.
"I'm very excited to say the Galva News online is completely ready and rolled out on our web page," library directory Melody Heck said, announcing the new offering. "We have our entire collection of microfilm digitized from 1879 to 2011."
It's indexed, too. That means you can search for specific names, events or other words.
To access the data base, go to www.library.org and click on "Galva News Online."
Once there, you can choose the newspaper issue you wish to see, even specifiying months and years. Narrow your search by using the index. Type in a name — even your own — or any word you choose. In milliseconds, pages with those names or words on them will pop onto your screen.
"The convenience to our patrons is the biggest plus for this new format," library director Melody Heck said. "The clunky microfilm reader is replaced by accessing the newspaper online, by more than one user at a time. You may now search via our website any time, day or night.
"We felt it was time for a more user-friendly, convenient interface."


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With Linux Kernel 2.6.32 around the corners I see some gurus suggesting users to recompile their own kernels for a dozen of reasons: performance, fast booting, support of some esoteric drivers, bla... bla... What's more, the way some persuade for kernel recompilation seems the job is as easy as any point-n-click installation.
Dear users, kernel recompilation is not easy like that. Plus, you won't get that perceivable performance boost. May be after hours of toil you can cut down 2 secs from your boot time and some unnoticeable system responsiveness.
Except for some really weird situations, modern Linux distributions don't really need kernel recompilation. Here are the reasons:
- Rise of Hardware: Gone are those days of Mega Hertz processors. Now when Quad Core processors have reached the shelves you won't find much performance difference between one of your custom (recompiled) kernels and the one that came with your favorite distribution. Of course, you will still see some point differences in actual benchmarks, but that's minismal enough to be ignored. The point here is modern hardware is really fast. For more speed you can just make some manual changes in your runlevels, services and desktop environment settings.
- Intelligent Kernel: A modern linux kernel though multiple times heavier than its predecessors is also far more intelligent than them. It loads just the required stuff and cuts the clutter from beginning. So, no need to be panic looking at those hundreds of modules.
- Can you Bell the Cat well: Recompiling a kernel is not just a make menuconfig >> make >> make modules, and a couple of such commands away. Even if you do it, you as a normal user (sorry, if you are a geek) can't do the job that good compared to hundreds of developers rolling kernel for your favorite distribution.
- Most often you don't need to: Do you know that the upcoming linux kernel 2.6.32 has support for USB 3.0 drives? Just imagine when the hardware is not yet shipped to the vendors the device drivers are ready in linux kernel. The same thing may not be true for all your ultramodern devices. But, it's matter of time. Just wait for some time and next kernel will most probably have it. Else browse through linux forums you will certainly get a fix or workaround.
- Does it Pay: Though recompiling a kernel really helped couple of years back. Today it doesn't really help you that much. You might take all the pains to roll your own kernel. But at the end just get unnoticeable performance boost.
So, is kernel recompilation all that futile? No! The only benefit lies in enhancing your knowledge. If you are intelligent/keen enough to know the system internals kernel recompilation is a great session. Never mind, if you break you system you can pop up a distro cd and go for clean install, always.


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Posted on March 19, 2012
I wanted to discuss boxes with you again. No, no, don't fret. Your Uncle Blogsy is not going to whine again. He's had only one banana box so far this month, and only two boxes that were starting to rot away on the bottom. And about twenty that were folded together instead of taped and six with sides that split and one with a curling iron underneath the books and….
That was just a little whine. It doesn't count. I can quit any time I like. Honest.
Anyway, I've been reading your boxes lately and sometimes they're even more interesting than the books. (I don't count that motivational management book with the scratch-n-sniff panels, nor that theological tome wherein 90 major spiritual leaders give their opinions on the religious sincerity of Bill Clinton. These are destined to be classics.)
There are two kinds of labels, basically, on your boxes. First we have the ones which have some reference to what is in the boxes NOW. These range from the simple—"Out", "Donate", or "Newberry"—to the complex—"First Edition Books on Russia", "32 PB, 8 HB, 6 BOT, 1 CD", and "Not To be Thrown Away; To Be Picked Up By the Newberry, 2-4 P.M. Thursday." There are variations, some of which are worthy of comment. "Books 2 Don 8" tells me something about you, as does "Nuberry", "Newbarry", "Newbery", and even "Newberry Liberry".
More fun, though, are the labels which were affixed to the box in a previous job. U-Haul likes to advertise how many uses or how many years you can get out of one box, and some of these boxes have gone beyond those limits. On occasion, I will get a box where the entire lid has been filled with notes about the pieces of china wrapped inside. On other occasions, it has been more terse: "Lamps", "Josh's Toys", "Towels" and "Junk". I'm usually a little disappointed to find only books in these, but there was "Teapots", where books had been packed on top of the teapots, smashing the lot of them, and "Books and Shorts Too Small to Wear", which did include books and a pair of shorts that, true to advertising, I could not put on.
But some donors, as Uncle Blogsy's donors so often do, find ways to confuse the issue, bringing boxes with labels that may or may not refer to the current contents. Just this week I had a box marked "Some contents may be outdated". I haven't read the books in that box yet, so it may be an accurate description and it may not. The same goes for the box marked "Stuff to Throw Away". Maybe they did mean the books, because otherwise I can't understand labeling such a box. Why not just throw the stuff away? Since just about any book makes a great gift, I couldn't argue with "Boxed Xmas".
On to our award winners, though: those boxes with labels that stand above the rest. Until a couple of days ago, my favorite of the winter was a box labeled "Old, Collectable Children". I do state rather clearly in my voicemail message that we do not accept teenagers as donations, but I do think the label is endearing. Which of us–when you get right down to it, tuna bagel–is not an old, collectable child?
But two days ago I received a box clearly marked "Angels: Plain and Christmas". I'm going to worry about that all week.


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civic engagement
Wellness Warriors Walk for Women
Numbers mean a lot to Patti Fennessy Novy '89. She has 0 tolerance for breast cancer, which claimed the life of 1 sister-in-law and struck 3 close friends. She would do anything so her 2 daughters don't have to face the disease.
But the numbers she is proudest of add up to one huge accomplishment — 320 miles walked by Patti and 500 miles by Noreen Moloney '90 and more than $500,000 raised for breast cancer research.


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Detail of Quilt by Nan Green, circa 1930
One thing about quilts that definitely hasn't changed over the years is that a large percentage of them are made from blocks.
Planetarium Quilt by Elizabeth Hartman, 2010
Block-based quilts break down the work of creating a larger project into more achievable parts. They provide an opportunity to play with geometric shapes, and to create secondary designs where blocks intersect.
Detail of Log Cabin Quilt by Nan Green, 1926
Making a quilt with multiple versions of the same block can also be an excellent way to play with color and print, creating an array of miniature compositions that work together to make something even more wonderful – a finished quilt!
Detail of Canasta Quilt by Elizabeth Hartman, 2010
Quilters today are lucky to be able to draw from both the rich history of quiltmaking and the aesthetics of the present day and, when modern quilters recreate or reimagine traditional blocks, the results can be fabulous.
This week we'll be featuring block-based quilts and quilt block tutorials and we hope you'll stick around for the fun. Welcome to the Week of Blocks!


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Sister sees her daily and had contacted her Cancer Doc and requested a call with Nursing Home Doctor. Nursing Home Doc never returned call from Cancer Doc (it's been over a week) and we pressed Nursing Home to return calls. Nursing Home had said all Mom's labs were fine and they had no explanation for her not eating or vomiting. Sister asked if and when they would repeat labs to confirm the UTI was gone and they told her they would not do it for another 10 days.
During the past 10 days, Mom had three falls at the nursing home. In Fall #1, she slipped off the wheelchair, and Fall #2 and Fall #3 were falls out of bed. They said she did not get hurt and when I questioned my Mom, she said her hip hurt but overall she thought she was o.k.
Her confusion got worse this week. I visited on Monday and she was in the lunchroom so I said I would wait in her room. She forgot I was there or that I even spoke with her. Another family member visited later in the day and Sister came at night to see her. When Sister inquired about visitors that day, she said no one came to see her.
Last night Sister called me in a panic and said she didn't think Mom looked good and wanted to know what she should do. Sister thought she should be evaluated at a hospital but the Nursing Home begged her to wait until Nursing Home Doc arrived, which would be about an hour. Paramedics had been called and Nursing Home asked if they could "clean her up" before they took her to the hospital. When the staff turned Mom over to change her, she screamed out in pain. Sister asked how long that's been going on and they said this was the "first time" she complained of pain. They tried to talk Sister in leaving Mom there until Nursing Home Doc could see her and Sister called me in a panic asking what she should do.
I told Sister to get her to the hospital asap. If she was sick and Sister was that concerned, then she should be evaluated in the ER. Worse case scenario, if nothing was wrong, (remember Nursing Home said all labs were fine) then no harm would be done by having her go to the ER however on the flip side, I thought it would be good for the ER to document some of her isssues, determine the source of her pain, as well as run labs to see where she was at. That way, if she was injured in the falls or whatever, they would find that.
Sister was not able to stay at the Local Hospital so I called my nursing friend to come over and stay with Dear Son so I could go. I wanted to go to provide information and to see what was going on. When I arrived, Sister was there and the CT scan had been doing showing a perforation of some kind. While we were waiting for the results, I noticed my Mom's hands turning dark grey, almost black. I had never seen anything like this and I ran to get some help. The nurse wasn't concerned and thought she'd be o.k. and I told her to get the doctor in immediately. He came in and nearly turned white. He started tapping on her chest, trying to get her to come to and asked for the remaining monitors to be turned on. At that point, her oxygen was 92, which wasn't horrible however we were losing her and the ER Doc said he could not make any promises she would make it.
Tests results came back and the ER Doc said there appeared to be a perforation of some sort however they weren't sure where. He explained that they would most likely need to do exploratory surgery to find out however they wanted to know her Advance Directives first to see if we even wanted to do the surgery. My Mom had made it very clear that she wanted a Do Not Resusitate a few months back and Sister informed the ER Doc she was a DNR. He said once the Surgeon arrived and evaluated her, that we'd have to make a decision with regards to surgery. I said that if something was perforated, that I thought she should have surgery to fix it. I mean, even if a patient is a DNR, in my opinion, it wouldn't be humane to let sepsis set in and for the patient to die. I thought she should have surgery to fix the issue and then see how she was doing after that. Sister wasn't so sure although she was very stressed and does not have much experience in these situations.
The Surgeon arrived to review the CT scan and prepare for possible surgery. Prior to that, they put a cateter in and were astounded at the results. Instead of urine, the tube was filled with pus. There was so much in fact, that the Surgeon said he had never, ever seen that much. He was so astonished, that he needed to call in two other doctors.Photo of pus that drained in the first few minutes of putting in the catheter; this was in the ER.
The Surgeon reviewed the CT scan and then examined my Mom. He said there was no perforation in the GI tract and no perforation in her abdomen; in addition, there was no "free air". The good news was that her belly was reasonably soft (hard is bad). He said he thought her bladder was acting as an abscess and caused the pain. They diagnosed her with Acute Renal Failure, dehydration and admitted her to the Critical Care Unit.
They are treating her with Zosyn, a broad spectrum antibiotic as well as treating her for dehydration. At this point, the infection is quite serious and they can't make any guarantees on her recovery. The good news however is that despite the severity of the infection, her breathing and oxygen saturation were better than they would have expected. She is expected to remain in the CCU for four days or so.


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At the Illinois State Fair last week, I went into Conservation World expecting to learn about natural resources and Illinois parks.
Instead, I came upon an exhibit called JAKES Take Aim � a portable firing range set up for young people to shoot a few rounds without charge.
It is underwritten by philanthropists whose funding puts this traveling gun range in 48 states to introduce youth to shooting. This is a serious effort aimed clearly toward indoctrination and exceeds mere free expression or education.
According to its website, every kid who gets to spend time shooting at these events is one step closer to becoming a lifelong shooter and, �That�s good for all of us.�
I feel differently about this. It also asserts, for parents who might be concerned: �Did you know that (according to the National Safety Council Injury Facts) you are 100 times more likely to be injured in a swimming pool than by a gun?�
Is the message, then, that guns are not dangerous? This is a peculiar thing to say if the intent is to teach safe use of firearms.
I expected the usual stuffed-animal exhibits and information on hunting licenses in Illinois, but I did not anticipate a traveling operation with no other apparent purpose than to inculcate children on how to use guns.
I contacted the fair and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, questioning inclusion of this exhibitor. I do not think it is appropriate to try to persuade young people that guns are not inherently dangerous and pretend a firing range is an amusement.
There is a multitude of things we can teach children about nature. It disturbs me that we afford instead an opportunity for commercial concerns to corrupt a public event.
Charles Paidock
The writer is an environmentalist with the Chicago Greens.


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The phenomenal performance of a single superstar overshadowed an otherwise mixed year for Silicon Valley's 150 biggest companies in 2011, as Apple (AAPL) surged past Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) to become the valley's dominant financial powerhouse.
Apple's ascendance in the SV150 marked a sea change for the Silicon Valley tech industry: The company's popular iPhones and iPads are revolutionizing the way consumers and workers share information around the world, prompting analysts at Barclays Capital to call Apple "the most disruptive force in tech."
With nearly $128 billion in annual sales, Apple became the valley's biggest company by revenue for the first time in 2011. That distinction was previously held by HP in every year since this newspaper began ranking local companies in 1986.
Apple also ranked first for net income, racking up a mind-boggling profit of nearly $33 billion. Essentially, Apple accounted for $1 of every $5 in sales reported by the SV150 as a whole, and nearly $1 of every $3 in combined SV150 profit.
And as its stock price blew past $600 a share in March, Apple ended last month with a market capitalization of $558 billion. That was nearly a third of the market cap for the combined SV150. And although its stock dipped slightly this month, it is still the most valuable company in the world.
Longtime tech leader HP, meanwhile, saw its revenue, profit and stock value sink under the combined weight of internal upheaval and external pressures, including market shifts in the PC and printer business that Apple's sleek, handheld gadgets helped instigate.
The rest of Silicon Valley responded unevenly to those shifts and related trends — such as the explosive growth of social networking, cloud computing and "big data" — while coping with a sluggish economic recovery in the United States, financial turmoil in Europe and a double whammy of natural disasters in Asia.
"2011 really was a mixed bag, with some segments of the tech industry performing really well and others not so well, particularly in comparison to the year before," said Stephen Minton, who tracks tech spending for research firm IDC.
Silicon Valley's big winners last year included consumer technology and Internet businesses. Results varied for other sectors.
Consider: While combined sales for the valley's 150 biggest public companies rose 17.5 percent last year, one in four of those companies saw their revenue fall in 2011. By contrast, only one in eight companies reported sales declines in 2010, when tech spending came roaring back from the recent recession.
And while the SV150's combined profit rose 22 percent last year, almost half the companies on the list reported a profit decline. That's nearly three times the number reporting profit declines in 2010.
Apple's performance put a brighter shine on the SV150 numbers. Its sales rose 68 percent and profit grew by a stunning 98 percent. Without Apple's contribution, the remaining companies in the SV150 saw combined sales grow 9 percent in 2011, while combined profit grew just 3 percent.
Some valley giants — Intel (INTC), Google (GOOG) and eBay (EBAY) — managed to boost their sales by 24 percent or more in 2011. But Yahoo (YHOO) and Applied Materials saw sales decline, while Oracle (ORCL) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) had uncharacteristically small, single-digit percentage gains.
Forty-six companies, or nearly a third of the SV150, reported a net loss, up from 34 in 2010.
HP, which has a workforce nearly six times Apple's, has accounted for a similar or larger share of the SV150's sales in the past. Only once in recent years, however, has it also matched Apple's share of SV150 profit. That was in 2008.
Apple's 31 percent share of this year's SV150 total market capitalization has never been matched, even by HP, in the 26 years this newspaper has compiled statistics. While the combined SV150's market cap rose 16 percent, to $1.8 trillion, Apple's stock value rose 74 percent.
Aside from Apple, much of the valley struggled in 2011 with an on-again, off-again global economy. The year started strong, after a record-setting 2010, as tech spending bounced back from the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. But then the debt crisis worsened in Europe, and U.S. lawmakers seemed unable to resolve a deficit standoff.
"That had an impact on European tech buyers, and also on U.S. buyers," said analyst Andrew Bartels at the Forrester Research firm. "The feeling was, 'I'm not sure what's happening here, so I'm going to slow down.' "
Tech spending picked up eventually, but other factors took their toll. While the industry recovered from the Japanese tsunami in March, companies reeled from last fall's flooding in Thailand, where most disk drives are made. A shortage of those crucial components disrupted sales of PCs and servers, forcing chip giant Intel to lower its revenue projections by $1 billion.
Except for tablets and smartphones, analysts said, spending on computer hardware stayed relatively flat in 2011, after a post-recession spike in 2010 when buyers replaced long-outdated machines. Commercial software sales were stronger in 2011, as businesses began the more expensive process of replacing programs that run their operations.
Some companies benefited from increased adoption of new technologies like virtualization, analytics and cloud computing. Those trends boosted sales for software makers like VMware, whose virtualization programs increase hardware efficiency; Tibco, which makes products that help businesses find patterns in mountains of data; and Salesforce.com, whose software is delivered over the Internet rather than installed on customers' computers.
The boom in mobile computing was good for giants like Apple and Google, which makes Android mobile software, along with companies that produce GPS sensors and wireless technology.
Analysts say people are increasingly using Apple or Android devices instead of PCs and printers to store and view documents, photos and other digital material online. Apple's iPad, initially viewed as a consumer product, is turning up in businesses, too.
Although HP is still the world's biggest PC company, the Canalys research firm estimated Apple sold 20.5 million Macs and iPads in the last quarter of 2011, compared with 15.3 million PCs sold by HP.
Apple's gadgets contributed to slowing PC sales last year, Barclays analysts concluded in a recent report. They added: "Apple seems to be only increasing its role as a disruptive force in the tech sector."
Jack Davis analyzed data for this report. Contact Brandon Bailey at 408-920-5022; follow him at Twitter.com/brandonbailey.


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The nice thing about this site is that it lets you choose the type of problem you need to work on, and then it takes you through four steps....1) a first glance, or simple overview, 2) an in-depth explanation, 3) examples, and finally 4) a chance for you to practice on some real problems.
Algebra Equation Calculator
This is a pretty complete site - and there's something really cool - an automated equation calculator. The website says that the current release of this Equation Calculator has solved over six million equations!
This is one of the best sites. It's created by people who really love algebra (who ARE these people??). Don't click on any advertising links - just stick to the center area, find the type of problem you're working on, and you'll be able to see lessons, example problems, and more. It's great.


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Today's contributor is Jodene Pappas. This poster is a bit of a break from the usual natural science that we see here on the blog, for which I am grateful. Click to enlarge!
My computer was not able to import the font correctly for the makeover I am about to show you. So the text does not quite represent what the author intended. But I wasn't focused on the text, anyway. No, I want to talk about those arrows.
Arrows generally represent not only a failure of design, but a public admission of that failure. It says, "I know I screwed up, and that the order doesn't follow the normal reading rules."
The ethos of this blog, though, is to make things better. This means you work with what you have, and not always throw away the existing style.
My first concern is that the arrows are darker than almost everything else on the page. And the dark blue fill isn't represented anywhere else on the eposter. This makes them stand out optically more than almost everything else on the page. The first step was to make the arrows lighter and harmonized with the other colours in the poster. I pulled the colour from the blue down in the left hand side.
The next things I wanted to address was the placement of the arrows. The arrows weren't obviously aligned in any consistent pattern. I tried to center each arrow to something, but still had to give up in the top right most one, which pointed into white space.
Another little bit of colour harmonizing was in the text boxes. In the versions above, there is a thin light line, surrounded by a heavier, darker shadow. I make the two of them the same colour. I also wanted to make the shadows equally thick, but couldn't figure out how to do it.
Finally, the placement of the arrows was still bugging me. The arrowheads weren't consistently clearly past the outline of the box they were pointing to. I moved them so that the flat end of the arrow was flush with the text box it was emerging out of.
I turned the lines around the images from a black to the same light colour that surrounds the text boxes and outline the arrows.
Now, when you look at this poster, the emphasis is on the content, not how you navigate through the content.
Here, you can see the changes unfold:
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The Lipscomb University Lady Bisons exploded in their sweep of Middle Tennessee on Thursday afternoon. The Lady Bisons scored 16 runs and collected 22 hits in their 10-2,6-4 sweep of Middle Tennessee. Lipscomb improves to 9-7 on the season. The offensive day included 8 doubles and 3 homeruns.
In game one the Lady Bisons jumped on Middle Tennessee by scoring 4, two out, runs in the first inning. Sophomore Julia Davidson hit a solo shot in the 5 inning to the put the Lady Bisons up by a score of 5-0. The Lady Bisons would score 5 more in the top of the 5th to eventually take the game in 5 innings by a score of 10-2. The big hit for the Lady Bisons in the 5th was a 2 run homerun by Senior Jennifer Cannon. Senior Danielle Catalano picked up the win by pitching 5 innings and scattering 3 hits allowing 0 walks.
In game two the Lady Bisons once again jumped on the board early picking up 2 runs in the first inning. The big blast for the Lady Bisons in game two was another homerun by senior Jennifer Cannon, this time a 3 run blast. Freshman Allison Tyree picked up the win for the Lady Bisons. Catalano came in relief to throw 2 innings scattering 2 hits.
Offensively on the day, Sophomore Julia Davidson was 2-4 with 2 RBI's including the solo homerun in game 1, Freshman Heather Collins was 3-7 with 3 RBI's, Freshman Leigh Little was 3-7 with 2 doubles and 4 runs scored, Senior Jennifer Cannon was 4-6 with 6 RBI's including 2 homeruns, Sophomore Alysha Forsythe was 3-6 on the day and Freshman Shay Sullivan was 3-5 on the day.
Head Coach Andy Lane was proud of his team today.
"I was so happy for our team. They continue to play very good and we are hitting the ball well and having a lot of quality at bats. These are the kind of days that are fun and are good for our team as we try to get better each time out. We have a lot of our older players that are feeding off of the excitement of our younger players and they are all pushing themselves to get better each game. I can't say enough about this group and the team attitude they have displayed. Our bench has been into the game and doing the little things to help those on the field be successful. The attitude has been supportive of each other and a real desire to win games. Obviously we are proud of the way we have swung the bats lately, Coach Dillingham has worked hard with our players both from a mechanical standpoint and mental standpoint. When you look at Danielle and Allison's performance the thing that stands out is that they did not have any walks on the day, that is awesome. Our defense made a lot of great plays to have a solid day in the field. It was great to see Jennifer have a great day. She hit two more big homeruns for us and continues to be a leader both on and off the field. We have to keep working hard each day to try and improve and grow as a team as we get ready to begin conference play,"Lane said.
The Lady Bisons will next play on Tuesday, March 15 when they host Western Kentucky at Crockett Park in Brentwood.