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'Glee' Recap: McKinley High Explores Gender Roles, Holds a 'Sadie Hawkins' Dance
Returning after a winter-break hiatus, 'Glee' is back on FOX with an episode that's all about taking gender roles and flipping them on their head: with a Sadie Hawkins' dance. You know, the dance where the girls ask the guys to the event that's never held in real life but seems to be in every high-school age sitcom at least once? That thing.
Sam (Chord Overstreet) and Blaine (Darren Criss) head to their first ever Student Council meeting while Sam spouts out his conspiracy theories about how the Warblers cheated to beat the New Directions at Sectionals.
At the meeting, Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) suggests they hold a Sadie Hawkin's dance so all the ladies finally have first choice in partners. She also suggests it would be empowering for the women to ask the guys for once. This was previously discussed (insert flashback) by the "Too Young to Be Bitter" club the day before at one of the eight thousand club meetings at McKinley. Tina pushes the motion through without Blaine's permission.
Kurt (Chris Colfer) is exploring the cliques on his first day at NYADA since Rachel (Lea Michele) is too busy spending time with Brody (Dean Geyer) and he decides to make his own friends by joining a school club. His eyes fall on a flyer for the NYADA show choir: Adam's Apples.
In the hallways, the boys of McKinley ponder the Sadie Hawkin's dance and question if their current situation is what it feels like to be a powerless girl.
Coach Beiste (Dot Jones) reminds Finn (Cory Monteith) that Sue (Jane Lynch) took over the choir room while Finn admits it's hard to keep the Glee club motivated without any competitions. She tells an anecdote about how her own Sadie Hawkins dance gave her the wherewithal to join the football team, and she suggests he use the dance as his upcoming lesson.
Finn announces that the assignment for the week is lady's choice, with the girls singing a song to the guy they want to ask to the dance. This of course limits them to only people from the Glee club.
We learn from Rachel that Brody stayed over and she tells Kurt not to join Adam's Apples unless he wants to be the underdog all over again. She warns that it could ruin his entire career.
Inside the locker room which they're borrowing, Tina sings 'I Don't Know How to Love Him' from 'Jesus Christ Superstar' to Blaine, complete with a montage about her falling for him. At the end of the song, she asks him to the dance and he declines as politely as possible. Awkward.
Kurt once again contemplates the choir poster when Adam of Adam's Apples approaches. He already knows who Kurt is -- having headhunted him of sorts -- and invites Kurt to join the group. He is reluctant at first, so Adam invites Kurt to watch the club perform. They sing a cover version of a cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot's 'Baby Got Back'.
Brittany (Heather Morris) talks to Marley (Melissa Benoist) about Jake (Jacob Artist) and how she's obviously interested in him. Brittany gives Marley some advice about her boy problems through song and the ladies perform 'Tell Him' by the Exciters. At the end of the song, Marley invites Jake to the dance and Brittany invites Sam. Both boys say yes.
Out in the hallway, Kitty (Becca Tobin) tells Jake to take her to the dance instead. In return, she'll have sex with him, a job she doesn't consider Marley to be up for if you get her thinly veiled reference.
Later on, Tina apologizes to Blaine and then asks for an apology for embarrassing her in front of their friends. He does, admitting that he turned her down because he has a crush on someone and he has no interest in being in a romantic setting. After some prodding, he admits its Sam. Cue another lovey dovey montage of Blaine falling for Sam. Tina and Blaine agree to go to the dance together and keep each other company.
Jake goes to his half-brother Puck (Mark Salling) for advice about Kitty. Surprisingly, Puckerman tells him not to make a move on Kitty if he really likes Marley. Puck promises to take care of Kitty personally.
Kurt admits to Rachel that he has a crush on Adam (cue flirting montage) and she suggests he take a risk and ask him out.
Inside McKinley, Puck tells Kitty to leave Jake alone and Kitty admits she doesn't like Jake, she just wants him and she's used to getting what she wants. Apparently, it's what b----es do. In a possible statutory turn of events, Kitty invites Puck to go to the dance with her. He agrees once its confirmed that she will be paying for everything.
At the dance, the men of New Directions perform 'No Scrubs' by TLC in dedication of all the strong women out there.
Marley and Jake discuss what's happening between them. She admits that she wants them to be exclusive but only if they take things slow.
Beiste sees some girls sitting by themselves and gives them a pep-talk about not waiting to be asked and instead taking what's theirs. As she reminds them, the worst thing that could happen is the other person says no.
In New York, Kurt approaches Adam while the girls agree to ask their intended guys to dance. Insert another montage with Kurt asking Adam out and the girls asking their respective gentlemen to dance. Everyone says yes, smiles and happiness all around. Adam gives Kurt his phone number and they agree to meet for coffee or drinks.
Tina and Blaine have a moment out on the dance floor, but just when it looks like Tina is about to kiss him, Sam interrupts them, saying he got a break in his Warbler's cheating case. A dejected Tina watches them leave as the ladies of New Directions perform Bruno Mars' 'Locked Out of Heaven'.
Puck and Kitty are doing much better at the dance. She says she read his screenplay and thinks he could actually be a screenwriter. To celebrate their new-found whatever it is, they head out to her car to fool around.
In the locker room, Sam and Blaine show Finn before and after pictures of the Warblers, trying to make it apparent that they bulked up inexplicably fast. They also show him a cell phone video of a Warbler hulking out on a barista in the local coffee shop, claiming it could be 'roid rage. Finn tells them it's not enough evidence to make the Warblers forfeit the title. Enter Trent (Dominic Barnes) a former Warbler, who refused to take the testosterone enhancing drugs like the rest of the Warblers and was promptly kicked out. Finn asks him if he's willing to testify against his former show choir.
Brody is 45 minutes late to dinner at Rachel's loft and she angrily starts throwing out their dinner and yelling at him. He apologizes, saying he waited out in the cold for a train, and would gladly do so for as long as necessary if the train was bringing him to her. She forgives him and they dance together.
Onstage at McKinley, Ryder (Blake Jenner) sings 'I Only Have Eyes for You' by the Flamingos while Jake tells Marley he wants to be with her and only her. Blaine apologizes to Tina and they slow dance while he sadly watches Sam dance with Brittany.
Back in New York, Brody tells Rachel he'll get an apartment closer to her and she invites him to move in with her.
The next day, the girls disband the "Too Young to Be Bitter" club after admitting that it was an amazing Sadie Hawkin's dance. They all praise Tina, who tells them she found the love of her life: Blaine.


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Halo 4 Action Figures
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- 6" action figures, each with at least two dozen points moving parts
- Choose from Master Chief, Didact, Elite Ranger, Spartan C.I.O., Spartan Scout, or Storm Jackal
- Each contains an exclusive in-game content token inside
It'd be enough considering McFarlane Toys has pumped in at least two dozen points of articulation into these Halo 4 action figures. But in addition each figure comes with its own exclusive in-game content token for new armor and weapon skins, which are available only with these action figures.
Choose from:
- Master Chief - 6" tall, 27 moving parts, equipped with ARC-920 Railgun and Micro Ops Cortana figure, includes code for Riptide Assault Rifle Weapon Skin
- Didact - 9" tall, 33 moving parts, equipped with removable helmet, includes code for Refractive Venator Armor Skin and Refractive Suppressor Weapon Skin
- Elite Ranger - 6" tall, 28 moving parts, equipped with Beam Rifle, includes code for Chill Storm Rifle Weapon Skin
- Spartan C.I.O. (violet) - 6" tall, 27 moving parts, equipped with Designated Marksman Rifle, includes code for Ruin C.I.O Armor Skin
- Spartan Scout (rust) - 6" tall, 27 moving parts, equipped with Sticky Detonator weapon, includes code for Toxic Scout Armor Skin
- Storm Jackal - 6" tall, 24 moving parts, equipped with Covenant Carbine weapon, includes code for Engage Carbine Weapon Skin
Product Specifications
- Halo 4 Action Figures
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ESSEX — At the Essex Invitational track and field meeting Tuesday, a Vergennes Union High School hurdler, Middlebury Union High School javelin thrower and two MUHS relay teams qualified for the New England Championships. The major meet, which draws top performers from around northern Vermont, had been delayed from Saturday because of bad weather.
MUHS senior James Pecsok's third-place toss of 144 feet, 2 inches in the javelin earned third place and qualified him for the New England Championships, which will be held at New Britain, Conn., on June 8.


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An Introduction to Theories of Personality
Prentice-Hall, 1990 - Personality - 557 pages
This introduction to the theories of personality introduces readers not only to the rich history of psychology but to practical information that helps them understand their own lives and their relationships with other people. Using a theorist-by-theorist approach, the book summarizes the major theories of personality and emphasizes that the best understanding of personality derives from a variety of viewpoints. Thus, theories representing the psychoanalytic, sociocultural, trait, learning, sociological, and existential-humanistic paradigms are offered as differentyet equally validways of approaching the study of personality. Includes a series of experiential exercises. What Is Personality? Sigmund Freud. Carl Jung. Alfred Adler. Karen Horney. Erik H. Erikson. Gordon Allport. Raymond B. Cattell and Hans J. Eysenck. B. F. Skinner. John Dollard and Neal Miller. Albert Bandura and Walter Mischel. Edward O. Wilson. George Kelly. Carl Rogers. Abraham Maslow. Rollo Reese May. For anyone wanting a comprehensive understanding of personality and individual differences.
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Billie Whitelaw stars in Samuel Beckett's one-woman play Rockaby, which was written in 1980 at the request of Daniel Labeille, to tie-in with a festival and symposium celebrating Beckett's 75th birthday.
The play focuses on a woman (W),who contemplates her life, and the loss of the things she had been unable to do, leaving her gently, slowly, to her own lonely demise.
""went and sat/at her window/facing other windows/so in the end/close of a long day/in the end went and sat/went back in and sat/at her window"
The play uses repetition, in a similar way a lullaby uses it to comfort a child, but here its purpose is to underscore Beckett's view of the terrible loneliness and emptiness of the human condition. W searches for some positive affirmation of her life - "a little like." The chair rocks in time with the words, as if its movement comforts and maintains her life. A dark, and many layered play, that rewards with a second viewing.
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All of the crankshafts feature a contoured wing and are fully detailed to reduce windage and regain horsepower from parasitic losses. The cranks are nitrided and utilize micropolished journals to improve lubricity and strength for extreme performance applications. The 0.125-inch radii journals increase strength and power capability. These cranks are gun-drilled to reduce overall weight and angled rod lightening holes reduce rotating inertia for maximum horsepower potential and weight savings.
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A winner was selected from 61 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
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I am trying to design a new line of women's jeans, specifically, women with a waist smaller than 30", and a hips and butt measurement over 40". They are going to be premium designer jeans with a price point of $100-150 retail. These jeans are for going to the club, bar, or night on the town.
This is for a niche market. Mostly Black and Latina. Age 21-32, with ultra, dangerous curves. For the prototype woman, look at the women in Smooth magazine- smoothmag.com.
-the logo must be simple because I want to incorporate it onto the jeans without looking gaudy.
-im thinking about a she-devil lower body, with the devil's tail, similar to the artist Coop's drawings. Check out:
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A while back I mentioned in a post that if someone suggesting a recipe for me to make, I'd probably do it. The only person to put something out there was Marce of Pip in the City. She blogs from
Where on earth did it go? I got down on my hands and knees to search for the escapee and found him hiding under the stove. Not only was he under the stove, but he'd gotten himself far enough back that I couldn't reach him without some help. A wooden spoon was perfect for the job. As I lay flat out on the kitchen floor, trying to scoot a grape out from under the stove with my spoon, I suddenly heard an unfortunately familiar sound: The sound of milk bubbling up over the top of the pot and scorching on the stovetop. This sound is quickly followed by the smell of scorched milk. Blech. With a flick of my wrist I hit the grape with the back end of the spoon, jumped to my feet and tried to salvage my bubbling cauldron of death. Er, dulce de leche. And where did that grape go again? As I mopped the milk off the stove I quickly discovered the answer to that question. Squish. Under my foot. Well isn't that just fantastic? One more thing to clean up. With that mess out of the way I continued with the dulce de leche recipe. It was supposed to stay on the stove for a total of 3 ½ hours, after 2 ½ hours the sauce was really dark, quite flavourful and rapidly disappearing. I felt that if I left it any longer there would be nothing left. So I poured it into a jar and began to make the cookies.
I wasn't too sure about them either after reading the recipe, it had more cornstarch in it than any other recipe I've ever made. They also sounded suspiciously like a shortbread cookie and I'm not a huge fan of shortbread cookies. However, as I read further into the recipe, one of the ingredients piqued my interest:
Once the cookies were cool, I went to the fridge to retrieve the dulce de leche. I open the jar only to find that it had not thickened at all and was very much a syrup. I then returned to Marce's blog where she informed me that if I was making alfajores it was better to use store bought dulce de leche because the homemade stuff would be too thin. Hmph. My homemade version was delicious, but thin. Perfect over ice cream, but thin. And so, despite the fact that Marce herself had told me that the dulce de leche would be thin, I was convinced that it would thicken up if I just gave it some time. I put it in the fridge and left it there overnight. Come morning it was still a syrup. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I poured the contents of the jar back into a sauce pan and set it over low heat for FIVE hours. Take that dulce de leche! I then scraped the measly contents back into the jar. This time around it only filled the jar half way, where did it all go? After all of my efforts, I have a ridiculous number of cookies and only enough dulce de leche to sandwich a few of them. Once again, although the dulce de leche thickened up a little bit, I didn't let it cool completely so it still wasn't as thick as I would have liked. At this point my patience had completely run out so I spooned the dulce de leche over my cookies and tried to ignore the fact that it immediately dribbled out the side.
If I had of listened to Marce, I wouldn't have this problem. But I'm stubborn and I didn't listen to Marce. I'm glad I made the alfajores though, I love trying new things. I don't think I'll be making dulce de leche again anytime soon, but it was worth a shot. Thanks for the recipes Marce! If anyone else is feeling adventurous you can see the recipe for alfajores here, and dulce de leche here.
** Edited to add: The alfajores really are delicious! The ones I ate with my dulce de leche were amazing. I just wasn't able to produce enough of it!
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Pickled Mushroom Recipes
If you read my post on 12/1/09, you'll see a recipe for preparing pickled mushrooms to hold in your fridge. I recently made a batch and here is what I've been making with them.
But first, a refresher on quick pickled mushrooms. Combine a variety of mushrooms: feathery brown maitake (hen of the woods) which are cultivated now, royal trumpets, oysters, the upper halves of white enoki, and sliced shitake, which are all cultivated, and then the wild ones if your market carries them. Right now we are getting hedgehogs (one of my top five mushrooms) and black trumpets from California. Saute the mushrooms in cocoa nut or olive oil, throw them into a bowl with a marinade of olive oil, white wine vinegar, minced garlic, fresh thyme, rosemary, and a bay leaf, salt and pepper. Cover with plastic and refrigerate overnight. They will hold, covered in oil, for about ten days. (These mushrooms are not to be canned–they don't have enough acid to safely water bath process, and are too tender to be pressure canned.)
Pickled Mushroom and Scallop Appetizer
Remove the abductor muscles of large sea scallops-1 to 2 per person. Sauté the scallops in a small amount of oil until the bottoms are golden brown. Add a drop of pomegranate molasses to each scallop, flip them over and continue cooking until they are golden brown on both sides—about 5 minutes. (Pomegranate molasses is acidic with a slight sweetness. It brightens the taste of everything you cook with it.) Drop a scallop on top of the pickled mushrooms and serve with a piece of bruschetta. To make hors d'oeuvres, place a mouthful of pickled mushrooms in a Chinese soup spoon, and prepare bay scallops instead of large sea scallops, placing one cooked bay scallop on top of each mouthful of mushrooms.
Folded Omelets with Pickled Mushrooms
Ryan Hardy, chef at the Little Nell in Aspen, made this elegant dish at a sunny country brunch he threw at his ranch in western Colorado. Combine 2 eggs, one quarter cup milk, salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Heat a crepe pan or small non-stick skillet. Rub the pan with a little butter and add one quarter cup of the egg mixture. Cook over a medium low heat, until the eggs set. You don't need to flip the omelet over—it's very soft and tender. Slide onto a warm platter, fold in quarters and continue with the remaining egg mixture. Dress with butter. Serve with pickled mushrooms. Makes 3 omelets.
Ricotta and Pickled Mushroom Pie
1 nine-inch pie
Adapted from Well-Preserved. I've also done this recipe with imported Italian marinated mushrooms, and it works great. When buying ricotta try to get hand packed rather than a supermarket brand. Commercial ricotta, including organic brands like Horizon, have a lot of water in them and make a boggy pie. If you have to buy one of the supermarket brands, then dump the ricotta in a colander and let it sit over the sink for a while, to drain some of the water off. Or you can squeeze the ricotta in a piece of cheese cloth. The very best ricotta is sheep's milk ricotta–it's the lightest. There is one commercial brand, from Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, that I've used with success.
2 cups flour
2 large eggs
1/2 cup cold unsalted butter (1 stick)
1 teaspoon warm water
1/2 teaspoon yeast
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 lbs ricotta (2 15 oz containers)
1/4 b boiled ham, cubed (about 1 cup)
1 cup marinated mushrooms, drained
2 egg whites
3 tablespoons fresh flat-leafed parsley, chopped
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 350˚F. Butter a deep 9-inch pie plate.
Make the crust. Place the flour and eggs in a food processor. Cut the butter into little pieces and add. Combine the yeast and water in a small cup and add it to the flour mixture. Add the salt. Process the dough for about 45 seconds, until it forms a ball or many small balls.
Form the dough into two separate patties, one a little larger than the other. Wrap the dough patties in wax paper and let them rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
In a large bowl, combine the ricotta, ham, mushrooms, egg whites, parsley, nutmeg, salt and pepper.
On a lightly floured surface roll out the larger dough ball by pressing in the center with your rolling pin and slowly rolling outward in all directions. Place the dough in a deep-dish pie plate.
Place the ricotta and mushroom mixture into the pie pan.
On a lightly floured surface roll out the remaining dough ball by pressing in the center with your rolling pin and slowly rolling outward in all directions. Place this crust on top of the pie. Crimp the edges to seal and cut a few slashes in the top crust. Brush the top of the crust with a little water or beaten egg and bake for 1 hour, until the crust is golden brown.
Serve immediately or in a few hours. Wrapped carefully, it holds up well in the fridge over night.


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ASU researchers demonstrate new nanotech effect
- moving water molecules by light
Ariz. – A team of researchers at Arizona State University
has demonstrated the ability to move water molecules
by light -- a phenomenon they believe could have widespread
use in analytical chemistry and possibly pharmaceutical
research. The discovery could have an important effect
on the fledgling field of microfluidics, said Tony
Garcia, an associate professor in the Harrington Department
of Bioengineering.
The use of an ordinary beam of light to move water
around without the need for potentially damaging electric
fields, air bubbles (which can denature proteins),
or moving microscopic mechanical pump parts (which
are expensive to make and difficult to repair) could
significantly aid development of microfluidic devices,
which are themselves tiny, sophisticated devices that
can analyze samples.
"This discovery can speed the development of
microfluidic devices," Garcia said. "These
devices could require only one drop of blood for a
battery of 20 to 30 tests, with results provided in
the time spent waiting to consult with the physician,"
Garcia explained. "They also could help pharmaceutical
companies screen for a new drug by allowing for tests
to be run on an extremely small scale and in simultaneous
The ASU researchers discovered an amplification effect
of the surface change in water contact angles through
nanotechnology. Details of their work will appear
in a paper titled "Lotus Effect Amplifies Light-Induced
Contact Angle Switching," in the Journal of Physical
Chemistry. It is now available from the Journal's
online ASAP service (go to http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jpcbfk/
and click on articles ASAP).
In addition to Garcia, the team includes Devens Gust,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Tom Picraux,
professor of chemical and materials engineering; Mark
Hayes, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry;
Rohit Rosario, a postdoctoral researcher in the Harrington
Department of Bioengineering; Jennifer Taraci, a postdoctoral
researcher in chemical and materials engineering;
and graduate students Teresa Clement and Jeff Dailey
working in Picraux's group.
In nanotechnology, devices are designed from the molecular
level up. As the overall size of these devices shrink,
the nature of the surface plays an increasingly important
role because a greater percentage of the molecules
in a nanotech device reside on the surface. The ability
to manipulate surface molecules using everyday means,
such as shining a light or connecting to a battery,
becomes very important because ordinary tools like
pumps and valves are hard to make on a nano scale.
The ASU team theorized and then proved that a change
in water wettability – the ability of the water molecules
to easily move across a surface – when induced by
light can be significantly amplified through a combination
of very high nanoscale roughness and chemically coating
the surface with molecules.
"What we found was the 'sweet spot' in surface
roughness where the amplification effect was the greatest,"
Garcia said. "Our theory showed where the sweet
spot would be, meaning the optimal roughness of the
surface, and then we proved it."
"We have been working on the problem of using
light to move microscopic amounts of water around
for drug delivery and microanalysis applications,"
said Tom Picraux. "However, we were stymied by
the vexing problem of the combined small effect created
and the high degree of attraction that water retains
on even a very waxy, or hydrophobic, flat surface.
"Our advance came when we realized that if the
surface was roughened at the nanoscale, not only would
we obtain the 'lotus leaf effect,' but we could also
magnify the small change in water repelling controlled
by light to a level that can overcome the hysteresis,
or the attraction, that causes water to stick even
when a drop is pushed along, " Picraux said.
"Rohit Rosario mathematically derived the theory
for surface change amplification and proved it in
the laboratory."
The lotus leaf effect is a fairly well known phenomenon
that combines the microscopically rough surface of
the plant's leaves with a waxy chemical coating and
leads to high water repellency and self-cleaning of
the surface. It is already employed commercially in
stain repelling pants.
What appears to aid this effect is tiny 'nanowires'
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The Zohar says that each day has its particular function (Zohar, part III, 94b)
In Hebrew, Sunday is called Yom Rishon, "the first day". Each Sunday is literally a first day, the first of a new time cycle which repeats, from the beginning. {source}
We are moms. We have SO much on our plates. We need to make breakfast, lunch and dinner for our families. We need to keep track of family appointments. We need to prepare our childrens school work and teach them. We need to plan outings and run errands.
After reading Rivka Carolines book From Frazzeled to Focused (about 50 times by now) one of her many many brilliant points that she makes is that running a home is a lot like running a business.
We are the CEO's of our homes and to ensure a home that runs smoothly we need to make the necessary plans. My very wise father in law always says, "Proper Planning Prevents Poor Perfomance."
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-Make a menu plan for the week and a shopping list to go with it
-Make sure any appointments are up on the calendar for you to see and make any necessary babysitting arrangements
-Plan your kids activities for the week, both Homeschool activities as well as outings.
Put all this information up on the wall for you to see. Try it once, it will give your week an entirely new meaning even if you don't religiously stick to the plans.
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In the period during which Darwin developed the theory of evolution, the question of how living things transmitted their characteristics to later generations was unknown. Therefore, primitive conjectures such as traits being transmitted by way of the blood were widely accepted. This uncertainty about the mechanisms of heredity led Darwin to predicate his theory on a range of completely erroneous assumptions.
He pointed to natural selection as the basis of the evolutionary mechanism. Yet if beneficial attributes were chosen by means of natural selection (the survival of the fittest"), how could they be transmitted from one generation to another? At this point, Darwin embraced the thesis, which Lamarck had proposed, of "the transmission of acquired characteristics."
However, Lamarck's thesis was refuted when the laws of inheritance discovered by the Austrian botanist and also a priest Gregor Mendel. This meant that beneficial traits could not be passed along. Genetic laws demonstrated that acquired features were not handed on, and that inheritance took place according to immutable rules-which by implication supported the idea of the immutability of species.
The laws of inheritance, determined by Gregor Mendel after lengthy experiments and observations, were published in 1865. However, these laws attracted the interest of the scientific world only towards the end of the century. Scientists accepted the validity of these laws in the early 20th century. This represented a serious impasse for Darwin's theory, which he had based on Lamarck's "beneficial traits."
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Do Snails Need To Be Acclimated When Being Added To My Pond?
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Like fish, snails also need to be acclimated to a pond. It may seem strange since the anatomy of a fish and snail are so different, but snails like the Japanese Trapdoor are also susceptible to shock from early-season chilly waters if they are not acclimated. However, these snails are best for pond life because they are live bearing and don't reproduce as quickly.
Acclimating snails is the same process as acclimating fish to new pond water. Upon arrival, leave the snails in the bag and float it in the pond for 10 to 15 minutes. Once you have floated the bag you will want to remove the snails from the most newspaper and place them in the pond. By then they should be acclimated to the temperature and be fine.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
LC statement on RDA
What got me thinking about these issues again was a recent letter from Deanna Marcum at LC explaining why LC was issuing a joint statement with the National Library of Medicine and the National Agricultural Library outlining a testing and decision-making plan for determining whether or not to fully implement RDA. The letter and statement essentially say that wide participation in RDA development is a Good Thing (tm), yet so is substantive evaluation of it. Not much to argue with there. (Well, we always do find something to argue about, don't we?)
The stated goals of RDA, as well as its scope and underlying principles, speak to me strongly. I like the idea of a content standard written with FRBR principles in mind. The goal of making library description interoperate better in the current information environment outside of libraries is of course a laudable one. In this way, just by clearly stating these and a handful of others as the rationale behind the work being done, we've made a significant step forward. We're responding to the world as it exists around us today.
The world is changing, though. The environment today won't be the environment tomorrow. There's no indication, and perhaps even no real hope, that what we decide today will be right in a year, three years, ten. That's a reality we have to face, and I've decided I'm in the camp that says we have to move forward anyways, analyzing the risk but not being afraid of it. Looking at RDA through this lens, will it meet the goals it has outlined? Probably not. I see much in the current drafts that don't demonstrate the overall goals well. But we've never done this before, at least not in this way. We're learning. We're going to make mistakes. The stakes are admittedly high, but they're also high if we don't act. RDA has already evolved from community input, and I suspect it will continue to do so. Maybe it doesn't even stick around that long - maybe we learn enough from writing and trying to implement it that another round is warranted with some key needed improvements. We've investing many resources in this, but that's part of life as well. Many things don't pan out, and that's certainly not unique to the library world. I realize our resources are scarce, but they're going to be zero soon if we don't think creatively. I think RDA is an attempt to do that.
I'm still concerned that RDA as a content standard is stepping too far in the direction of a structure standard for my taste. It's explicitly defining "elements" whereas for content standards I like to think of "classes of elements" to help us remember that instructions in a content standard aren't necessarily a 1:1 match with fields in a data record - this is what enables us to mix and match content and structure standards as we see fit. But I'm the first to admit that the distinction between a structure and a content standard is an artificial one, and that any given standard can blur the line a bit. My concern still lingers, however - the RDA Scope & Structure document uses "elements" and "properties" interchangeably, but I believe these terms, even in the context given here, have very different connotations. We'll see, I suppose, whether my concerns are valid. Maybe I'm just being pedantic about terminology. Or maybe there's a fundamental conceptual problem here. I'm a pragmatist - I realize the only way we're going to find out is to try it.
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I want RDA to work but I've decided I'm going to wait for the full final draft before I try to read any more of it. I become too frustrated and confused. I can't afford to lose any more hair! I find myself wondering: why on Earth did they write that rule that way?
My main problem is that RDA up to now lacks a single, clear, consistent conceptual model. Instead, it has multiple personality disorder: the International Cat. principles, AACR2, FRBR, DCAM, indecs, ONIX, etc. all in the mix and getting in each others way.
The showstopper for me is the term 'resource'. How does it relate to the FRBR entities in the RDA universe? Is it 'manifestation', 'manifestation/item', any of the four, all four? Call me pedantic, but I just can't read the drafts until I know the answer. The latest draft of the Int Cat Principles sticks its neck out and says 'manifestation/item'. Yes!
And 'access'? 'Access' presumes access to something, but what? 'The bibliographic and authority records!', we cataloguers cry. But RDA doesn't want to talk about records and so 'access point' is left out there, embarrassed and looking silly.
- Jonathan Rochkind said...
I agree in general, but I also agree with Irvin that I find RDA rather unreadable at present.
I'm curious though, can you expand on your comment that properties and data elements are different things? This is something that I don't understand either (to me they are the same thing), but I'm interested in understanding your alternate perspective here. Any readings to reccommend?
- Jenn Riley said...
That's a great point about RDA being a bit all over the place with regards to its conceptual model. As FRBR is a specific interest of mine, I tend to pay attention to that one and mostly ignore the rest. But of course that's not a very good approach and you've raised an interesting issue, which makes me wonder how many of those things do you need to understand in order to understand RDA? I'm still struggling to some degree with the terminology in the DCAM - can I really "get" RDA until I sort that out? I dunno.
- Jenn Riley said...
I think the way RDA is defining element and property (the latter from the DCAM as I recall) they are the same thing. But in metadata conversations for years we've been talking about metadata "element sets" - where elements mean fields in a data record. The conventional wisdom on content standards (if there is such a thing) says that they don't define elements, they tell you how to structure a *type* of element whenever it appears, e.g., titles or names look like this whenever you need to record them, regardless of what the specific field/element is. I think we're just facing some growing pains here, and terminology is getting in our way a bit.
This is how I'd put it, using the terms of the DC Singapore Framework [1]: RDA has moved from just specifying 'usage guidelines' (ie a content standard) to also specifying a 'metadata vocabulary' (ie an element set) and a 'description set profile' (eg specifying core elements).
Is this a good thing or not? I think the JSC was almost forced into this because a content standard on its own is not much use to a cataloguer when s/he sits down to catalogue. If cataloguing is going to be truly made anew, it needs more than just a new content standard, it needs a rigorous domain (ie conceptual) model (FRBR is filling this role), a new metadata vocabulary/element set and a new syntax to eventually replace MARC.
However, I don't think this was the original intention: at first it was going to just be a updated content standard, a new AACR. With every new draft, however, there are two trends I can see: i) an increasing reliance on FRBR as the domain model and ii) a widening of RDA's scope to include the development of a metadata vocabulary. This vocabulary is important because it forms the basis of the DC/RDA work, which will produce a machine-readable syntax to succeed MARC.
That is why the success of RDA is critical (IMHO) to the future of cataloguing. The stakes have quietly and steadily been raised with every new RDA draft.
[1] http://dublincore.org/architecturewiki/SingaporeFramework/
- Irvin
- Laura said...
The difficulties in getting old-school catalogers to grasp the concept of separating content standard from display standard was one of the many frustrating things about discussing RDA at CC:DA. I also seem to recall some sort of elements/properties discussion when the Scope statement came out.
I think the folks at CC:DA do recognize the problems inherent in RDA as currently drafted and keep calling on the JSC to tweak. You're right in that we have no choice but to accept RDA as a transitional thing as we learn to sort it all out.
I have reached RDA burnout though. I've resigned from CC:DA due to the volume of work and frustration level with the slowness of change. I've got other life priorities at the moment.
Laura said...
The difficulties in getting old-school catalogers to grasp the concept of separating content standard from display standard was one of the many frustrating things about discussing RDA at CC:DA.
How are you referring to "old -school catalogers" above ?
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never heard that term in quite a while... just wondering
and don't usually even read this blog.
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Less than one percent of all American nurses have a doctoral degree. But if the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has its way, that will soon change. Last year, the IOM, in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released The Future of Nursing, a summary of its two-year study of nursing and healthcare. The report says nurses need to take on greater responsibility in healthcare – and recommends doubling the number of doctorally-prepared nurses by 2020. One way to do that? Ensure that 10 percent of all new BSN grads move into a MSN, PhD or DNP program within five years of graduation.
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It has often said that the true enjoyment of a trip lies in meeting the locals. These encounters - often far too brief - allow us to absorb a foreign culture in its purest form, unyoked from the rituals of mass tourism.
Nowhere is this more true than in the northern provinces of Argentina, where mules and scooters share broken roads, where substance living is the accepted norm and where locals will open their hearts and homes.
Argentina's northern provinces are a unique amalgam of cultural infusion.
With Chile to the west, Bolivia to the north, and Paraguay to the east, the region is rich in history, geography and personality. Last March, I experienced Argentina's allure while perched from the seat of a well ridden, but reliable, mountain bike.
Cycling with 11 others from Canada and the U.S., initially strangers to one another, we joined together in an effort to raise funds for the Calgary-based charity Two Wheel View. Rick McFerrin, the founder of Two Wheel View, promised us a trip we wouldn't forget. He was right.
Whether travelling by bike, or navigating the winding roads of the region by car, the spellbinding effects of northern Argentina are the same.
In just a few hundred kilometres the landscape and weather of the region morphs dramatically.
We began our trip in Salta, a mid-size city dotted with magnificent churches, as is common in most of South America.
Here, on our first night, we were treated to staples of the traditional Argentine diet, including locro - a hearty beef and corn broth with a smattering of chopped-up tripe and intestine. Putting preconceived notions about how something "might taste" behind us, we soon grew to appreciate the local fare, jokingly predicated on the simple question, "where's the beef ?"
The biggest challenge of our first few days was learning how best to avoid the dogs, who are everywhere.
Habitually friendly, the stray canines of Argentina serve as a kind of frontline "welcome wagon" for the even warmer reception you'll receive from polite restaurant owners, eager merchants and uniformed schoolchildren.
For the first few days of the trip we ride south from Salta through a series of valleys and straightaways.
Taking refuge from the midday heat we watch as young and old alike celebrate the annual Vendemina wine festival in small town squares.
Days are marked by long stretches of peddling on uneven pavement, frequent stops to photograph what seemed to be an era long passed, and waving to the constant throng of supportive car-honking passersby. Evenings are marked by roadside camping, laughter and sleep of the dead.
The locals we stay with along the way have a relationship with McFerrin that he forged on previous trips to the region. But they treat us all as family, immediately inviting us into their homes and their lives.
One day we meet Maximilliano and his adorable family. Part farmer, part construction worker, and part-time vineyard owner, Maximilliano stands proud and tall.
Sporting a long ponytail, his pants tucked into calf-hugging knee-high leather boots, and a 12-inch knife tucked into his traditional Argentine white belt, he looks every bit the Malborough Man of Latin America.
The days spent here, enjoying Malbec and eating lamb, served as the perfect preclude to a stay in the world capital of Buenos Aires.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb Lady Bisons tennis team started the spring season off right with an exciting, competitive match win over Tennessee-Martin.
The Lady Bisons lost the doubles point, but won four singles matches for the 4-3 win Friday night at the Whitworth indoor tennis facility in front of a record crowd.
"We saw in the team tonight what we have been trying to define through the fall, and that is simply the mentality to `finish'," Lipscomb coach Jamie Aid said. "We tell our girls to `finish' every day in practice or in the classroom. Whatever it might be, that is our outlook."
Winning matches for the Lady Bisons were Melissa Kromer (No. 2), Laura Kent (No. 3), Jenny Borck (No. 4) and Lorena Djuknic (No. 5).
"The team came out and lost the doubles point," Aid said. "But they were able to reset and move on to singles producing wins at numbers 2-through-5 to clinch the match.
"We kept with the process, aimed to improve, and controlled our preparation. As we have said before, our goal is to remain focused and to continue to raise the level."
Aid has praised the willingness of this team to work hard during the fall and offseason. She was happy to see those efforts quickly pay off.
"That focus starts in the weight room and on the practice courts," Aid said. "This group puts in a lot of work. We, as a coaching staff, are big believers that success comes to those who work and we do."
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We get lots of comments that place on the Funny and Insightful lists at the same time, but I'm not sure if this has ever happened before: both the first and second place comments are the same in both categories. Since that would make for a pretty short post this week, we'll throw in the third place comments to round out the numbers, which also means I'm going to switch up the order of things a little. Let's get started.
Up first, with the most Insightful votes and the most Funny votes, we've got a comment on our post about Hollywood's latest DRM scheme, which they are trying to boost by giving away free movies. An anonymous commenter summed the oddness of this move up nicely:
Come to our prison! We have free meals!
Up next, taking second place in both categories, we've got a comment on our post about the latest details on the "six strike" plans for ISPs and how they might interfere with free Wi-Fi networks. MrWilson highlighted the absurdity with an analogy:
I just got arrested yesterday because Ford reported to the cops that I drove my car to a neighborhood known for drug dealing. The cops didn't care that Ford had no proof that I was the one driving the car or that I actually did purchase and/or use drugs. They're not even bothering with a jury trial either. The fourth time I drove there, they made my car drive really slow, so now I'm always late for work. The next time they just suspended my license completely.
Taking third place on the Insightful side is a comment on our post about CBS blocking CNET from giving Dish an award. Ed C. took a closer look at the situation from an innovation perspective:
Aside from the appalling dissolution of journalistic integrity for the sake of corporate interest, I can't help but notice that the "features" Dish is being praised for--time and place shifting--are nothing but ridiculous kludges to transfer content from an archaic mode of distribution to what people expect of the modern era--digital storage and on-demand access. Of course, none of these kludges would be necessary if it weren't for companies like CBS burning money to shore up their legacy business model against the ever increasing demands of the market.
Meanwhile, over on the Funny side, the third place comment comes from our post about Sony's brazen use of copyright alchemy to extend its control over Bob Dylan's music, by releasing a "Copyright Extension Collection" (seriously). DannyB pointed out how amusing it is that the release is a limited edition:
You better hurry and download it before other downloaders or those hundred or so copies will be gone!
Now that we're past all the winners, let's move on to the Editor's Choice. On the Insightful side, we've got another comment from the same post, in which Donny serves up a detailed history of Dylan's own copying:
Goddamit, what really pisses me off about this is that this is Bob Dylan, copier extraordinaire, whose music is being locked up.
As it happens, this very night I was listening to The Times They Are A-Changin'. Small coincidence. But let's go through that album quickly so:
Track 1. 'The Times They Are a-Changin' - by Dylan's own admission, based off various Irish/Scottish ballads.
Track 2. 'Ballad of Hollis Brown' - based off an Appalachian tune called 'Pretty Polly'.
Track 3. 'With God on Our Side' - based off a song of Dominic Behan's called 'The Patriot Game'. (Interesting side-note: the melody is not Behan's own. Which just shows that such borrowing is an ordinary, even healthy, way to go about songwriting and none of this is meant on an attack on Dylan's character.) (Say that to Behan though: he considered Dylan a "plagiarist and a thief").
(To my ears, tracks 5 and 6, 'North Country Blues' and 'Only a Pawn in Their Game' sound like developed melodies Dylan came across somewhere, the former especially seems Irish/Scottish with its i->VII->i progression. No solid sources on them though, so I'll pass over.)
Track 7. 'Boots of Spanish Leather' - based off Dylan's own 'Girl From North Country' which in turn was based off the English song 'Scarborough Fair'.
Track 8. 'When the Ship Comes In' - based off a more contemporary (well, 1928) operatic song Pirate Jenny.
Track 9. 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll' - based off the Child Ballad Mary Hamilton (no. 173 in that collection).
Track 10. 'Restless Farewell' - little more than a personalised rewrite of a (still popular) Irish tune called The Parting Glass.
Now I don't mean to denigrate Dylan. I think he's one of the twentieth century's greatest songwriters, I've huge personal respect for him. But he depended heavily on other people's creativity to achieve what he did (let's not even get started on how derivative the b-sides and outtakes are).
So that he's locking up all these songs, all this culture, claiming it as his own, and demanding dues for its use...it's simply wrong of him. And not only for its inequality of sharing, but for culture to come: how can the twenty-first century's great songwriters hope to achieve even half what he did, if they can't lean on inspiration such as his but are expected to create all of their own songs whole cloth?
Up next, we've got a comment on our post about the latest police abuses when it comes to citizens recording them on duty. Michael wondered how it's ever possible for a cop to delete someone's recording:
How is this any different than the police walking onto a movie studio lot and removing the film from a camera? I cannot think of ANY instance in which the police would have the right to delete a recording made by someone else.
If the recording is itself illegal, it is evidence. If the recording is not illegal, IT IS NOT ILLEGAL.
It is so painful to see stories like this. How arrogant have some of the police officers in the US gotten? The police do not have the right to destroy anything unless they are ordered to by the courts.
I am sure it is very intimidating being on the receiving end of something like this, but I hope this guy brings a civil suit against them for their behavior. If nothing else, the citizens in this area should be up in arms over this and complaining very loudly to local government officials.
For Editor's Choice over on the Funny side, we'll start with a comment on our post about the disturbing news that pantents are interfering with our health on a global scale by preventing us from defeating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. An anonymous commenter noted that the bacteria itself might be infringing:
The real problem is those bacteria who are mutating outside our patent system. They are stealing from the pharmaceutical companies trying hard to patent new drugs! We should create a national bacterial database and require they register all new mutations.
And finally, since we opened with two big crossover hits, we'll close with another—a comment that could easily make editor's choice (and placed high on the voting scales) on both sides. Going back to our post about Hollywood's "please take our DRM" scheme, an anonymous commenter asked a simple question:
So they're giving away free films so that they can use DRM to stop people getting free films?
That's all for this week—see you tomorrow!


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You can discuss a game, but you can't change the score
By George Shirk
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We're hoping for a brokered Republican National Convention in Tampa this coming August, and the signs for this happening are just about everywhere.
We take this stand not on principal, but on the pure basis of the fun of it all. Smoke-filled rooms. Political favors. Promises.
This year, could it really come down to Newt and Mitt and, or even The Donald in a brokered convention? All the signs say maybe.
Some people might forget that the Obama-Clinton race four years ago ended only in June, with a primary vote in Puerto Rico. The Dems were this close to having a brokered convention.
A brokered convention happens when no single candidate has enough delegates to win on the first ballot. Before the era of presidential primary elections, political party conventions were routinely brokered.
Adlai Stevenson (of the 1952 Democratic Party) and Thomas Dewey (of the 1948 Republican Party) were the most recent "brokered convention" presidential nominees. The last winning U.S. presidential nominee produced by a brokered convention was Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1932.
But boy oh boy there have been close calls.
I was a cub political reporter with the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1976 when Ronald Reagan went toe-to-toe with incumbent President Gerald Ford in Kansas City. I worked with the peerless (at least to me) political columnist Frank Nye—still the best convention political writer I ever saw.
Then, as now, writing about politics for the papers was divided between the policy wonks, who delved into issues, and the "horse race" reporters who practically never had a "stance," per se, on anything, but were entirely consumed with the race.
I was a horse race guy.
It was the last time a Republican presidential convention opened without the nominee having already been decided in the primaries.
I had a swell time, with an entirely unpredictable result, at least for me personally, and it had to do with baseball. More on that later.
Anyway, tracking the shift of delegates on the floor was part of my job, and I went at it enthusiastically.
When the whole thing was over, one of the exhausted political reporters suggested we all go over to Royals Stadium, where the home town heroes were engaged with the Cleveland Indians in a critical late-season game for the Royals (who went on, by the way, to win the American League West, only to fall to the Hated New York Yankees in the fall).
I recall a conversation with another reporter in mid-game. He was an older guy, on the staff of no less than the New York Times.
"I should have been a sportswriter," he said.
Naturally I asked why.
"Because in the paper, sports is as close as you can get to telling the unvarnished truth."
He was right. In the sports pages, if someone is an idiot, chump, jackass, boob or bozo, you just wrote it.
You can discuss a game, but you can't change the score. Ever.
In the near-brokered GOP political convention of 1976, we had all of that. We just couldn't write it. We might have it again this year with Mitt and Newt, with Santorum and Paul horsetrading their delegates from the floor.
Shortly after the 1976 fray, I began a new, 20-year career in sportswriting, inspired by the likes of Ronald Reagan, George Brett, Gerald Ford, Freddie Patek, Nelson Rockefeller, Paul Splittorf and Frank White.
Thanks to all.


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Iain_BingoBeez needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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BingoBeez is a relatively new player in the online bingo gaming scene, we launched in April 2009 and have enjoyed a very good year.
BingoBeez is about giving more to our players in the form of free gift and some excellent prices.
We have just launched a Flash version of our games and feel that our current mascot does not communicate fully our youthfulness and brand image.
BingoBeez offers 5 bingo halls: Party Hall, 90 Ball Hall, Blowout Hall, Classic Hall and even a Free Hall. There's also a whole range of over 30 other online games to play, including Slots, Casino Games and Instant Games
What is the project? To create a mascot for the Bingobeez brand which is a bumblebee for use across all branding, ad campaigns, videos, social media. A bee is required (she is called Bernadette) who will be provided in several positions, from several angles with several expressions in order to be able to utilize her in many ways.
Main target audience is predominantly female, over the age of 34 -70 and is seeking entertainment and social interaction online, they are playing bingo mainly to have fun as opposed to winning money and are probably seeking friendship/chat with other players.
Clothing, props, backgrounds? Props – bingo ball, coins. We will also need one queen bee version with a crown to convey VIP players, clothing we need her to look female but to definitely look like a bee. Background required are a) for the website so blue and b) white background and c) yellow honey colour for the flash gaming interface
•Positioning of characters or overall design: is there a specific pose desired for the character? As mentioned above we need several poses, flying bee, standing bee, bee presenting things to her right, bee presenting things to her left, bee above something, bee below something and we also need back, side etc views in order to be able to manipulate for flash animation
Look and feel -- the overall style, attitude or impression you're trying to convey: above all friendly, entertaining and fun.
We also like the bee from Bee movie and feel that this type of thing but female, smiling, friendly would be along right lines, but we'd also like the bee to look powerful maybe a bit magic, kind of like mighty mouse – but overall FRIENDLY is most important
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• What are you expecting this art or design to achieve for your business? We are expecting it to give Bingobeez a friendly fun image, to position the brand as entertaining and the bee to become representative for the brand and build awareness through recognition in social media & cute friendly videos.
• Who is going to see the finished product? All our bingo players, all those visiting the website, social media, YouTube videos, potential affiliates and all those on other bingo directory sites or gaming sites where there is advertising
• Where will the final art be utilized (print, web, apparel, etc.)? final art will be used predominantly on the web but in static banners, animated, flash video, as well as on the website extensively.
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• Colors: Are there any required or desired colors to be used in the illustration? We attach the new gaming interface and the new 'under development' website design which are close to launch which are the official colours to be used – as she is female might be nice to use a bit of the purple but as long as colours from this template are used then that is acceptable.
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