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What is a Fat Quarter?
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Pati @ A Crafty EscapeJuly 22, 2010 at 6:09 am
I am taking my first quilting class next week and was looking over the supplies list wondering about this just yesterday! Thanks 🙂
Denise :)July 22, 2010 at 6:11 am
Great job, taking on this alarming question! (And you're right — we all wondered at one point or another!) 🙂
Quilt HollowJuly 22, 2010 at 7:42 am
…and here I thought it was a body part! Hee!!
Just-DoJuly 23, 2010 at 3:48 am
Thanks. Over here in Holland we use different measures, so all talking about yards and inches is abacadabra for me anyway.
patchworkdelightsJuly 23, 2010 at 8:24 am
Thanks for clearing that up, I know the term "fat quarter" and have bought "fat quarters" but your explanation has lifted the clouds!

Very helpful and useful, thanks again.

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AnneMarieJuly 23, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Nice! Sometimes the basics are so refreshing.
GinaJuly 23, 2010 at 1:38 pm
My husband can't ever remember the right name and always calls them "fat chubs." It's funny the first few times. 🙂
elizabethJuly 26, 2010 at 12:20 pm
As a newbie, THANK YOU! All I know about quilting material terminology is that it makes me hungry! Jelly rolls! Honey buns! :o)
Gmama JaneNovember 25, 2010 at 5:45 pm
You have finally SHOWN me the difference in the two. Seeing both side by side allowed me to see the difference and which one to choose for different projects.
Thanks
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cristina mariaJanuary 26, 2014 at 11:17 am
Olá Amy!
Demorei um pouco para entender como usar as medidas americanas. aqui no Brasil usamos o metro ao comprarmos tecidos. E para entender tenho uma régua com a qual posso seguir as medidas dos tutorias.
Obrigada pela explicação!
mbkMarch 4, 2014 at 5:06 am
Amy.
How many jelly rolls make a quilt? When you buy a fat quarter how many make a quilt?

mbk
amy smartMarch 4, 2014 at 3:14 pm
Depends on the pattern, how many seams, if you're adding additional yardage, etc. I would say you could make a throw/twin using two jelly rolls probably. As for Fat Quarters, there is a pattern called Turning Twenty (http://www.amazon.com/Turning-Twenty-Tricia-Cribbs/dp/B000GQQYFIa0) that is a large throw/small twin made from Twenty FQ's. Most larger quilts probably require around 25 FQ&
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When beautiful-but-vapid model wannabe Deb (D'Orsay) has a fatal car accident, she suddenly finds herself in front of Heaven's gatekeeper, Fred (Feldman), who declares her a self-centered "zero." Outraged, she attempts to persuade Fred to return her to her shallow existence but is accidentally relegated to the body of the recently deceased Jane Bingum (Elliott). A brilliant, thoughtful and plus-size attorney with a loyal assistant, Teri (Cho), Jane has always lived in the shadow of her more comely colleagues whereas Deb has always relied on her external beauty. Now, by a twist of fate and a bolt of divine intervention, Deb must come to terms with inhabiting Jane's curvier frame in the ultimate showdown between brains and beauty.
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- Main mirror diameter: 39 metres
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With its main mirror as large as 39 metres in diameter, this will be the largest telescope to observe in visible-light. It will be four to five times larger than the present-day state-of-the-art facilities of this kind, and will collect about 15 times more light. It will also be much larger than the two other extremely large telescopes in planning, the Thirty-Meter Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope.
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Mustard Seed Wrap Bracelet - Coral
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Rescue crews operating under sunny skies Tuesday in Boulder County had what might be classified as an easy day, considering the mammoth efforts of the past week to evacuate people stranded by the deadly, devastating flooding.
Teams rescued 10 more people Tuesday. Eight were evacuated by search and rescue teams on the ground, and two were airlifted out by an infantry division based in Fort Carson, officials said.
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Carrie Haverfield, of the Boulder Office of Emergency Management, said emergency crews have cleared 736 cases of "unaccounted for" people to date, including 74 on Tuesday.
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Three people are confirmed dead as a result of last week's flooding. One man was killed in his Jamestown home, and two teens died after being swept away in floodwaters on Linden Drive just outside of Boulder.
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University of Colorado police spokesman Ryan Huff said the university saw "pretty good" participation after it re-opened the school Monday.
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Von Karman Auditorium at JPL was the setting May 14 when the La Cañada Flintridge Coordinating Council held this year's Les Tupper Community Service Awards ceremony.
Those presented the awards were Barbara Weber and Randy Strapazon for their individual, broad-based volunteer activities; La Cañada High students Kathryn Battaglia and Alex Keledjian; Jack Johnson, representing the La Cañada Baseball-Softball Assn. and Susan Azad, representing the Flintridge Riding Club.
The evening also included the installation of officers. Stepping off the board this year is Brian Hummel, while new to the board is Nick Berkuta. Others serving with President Sheree Butts as board members for the coming year are Joyce Ruygrok, Martha Burns, Lynda Gordon, Becky Gelhaar, Carl Christiansen, Jeb Long, Irene Mendon, Joe Thompson, Chuck Sambar and Clyde Hemphill.
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Mike Munzing, a tea party organizer, will address the La Crescenta Valley Republican Women Federated during the organization's luncheon meeting planned for 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, June 14. The event will be held at the La Cañada Flintridge Country Club, 5500 Godbey Drive.
Cost to attend is $25 and reservations are due by June 8. To reserve a seat, call Ellen Hedrick at (818) 248-0924 or Molly Powers at (818) 248-4825.
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Move a Child Higher, known as MACH 1, will be holding its 15th annual Musical Horse Show and Benefit Dinner, "Don't Fence Me In," on Saturday, June 9 at the Flintridge Riding Club, 4625 Oak Grove Drive.
MACH 1 is a therapeutic horseback-riding program for disabled young riders. It is based in Hahamongna Watershed Park and relies on private contributions and the work of volunteers. Joy Rittenhouse, director of MACH 1, says that her students look forward to riding in this show, where blue ribbons will be awarded.
The horse show will take place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and is free and open to the public. A silent auction will begin at 2 p.m. Dinner by Captain BBQ will be served following the horse show. Dinner tickets are $35 for adults and $15 for children. To purchase a ticket or to make a donation, call (818) 484-7373. To learn more about MACH 1, call (626) 798-1222.
11 are honored as 'Terrific Kids'
The Kiwanis Club of La Cañada last week honored 11 sixth-graders as "Terrific Kids." The recommendations for the recognition came from teachers at La Cañada and Palm Crest elementary schools. Those named for the honor were Thomas Huh, Haig Manoukian, Madeline Reilly, Nicole Alexander, Saira Singh, Alan Kim, Jaden Efting, Karina Myszkowski, Anthony Crahan, Reagan Meyers, Leah Nagle and Cheyeene Garcia.
The students and their parents attended a special luncheon held at Van de Kamp Hall in Descanso Gardens. Following their awards ceremony, there was a special presentation by Tyler Wright, president of the Crescenta-Cañada Family YMCA.
Hospital golf tourney set to tee off
Verdugo Hills Hospital will hold its 21st Annual Golf Classic Tournament on Monday, June 4, at Valencia Country Club. Funds raised will be earmarked for the purchase of capital equipment.
Dr. Ron Woodard is chairing the tournament with help from co-chairs Sue Wilder and Betty Hurn. Also involved are Paul Celuch, Yulanda Davis-Quarrie, Dave Elliott, John Genovese, Judy Hurst, Kate Kaneko, Len LaBella, Marian McCann, Dr. John Osterkamp, Dr. Terre Osterkamp, Kevin Tsujihara, Steve White and Steve Wilder.
Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. Tee-off time is 10 a.m.
Reservations to play can be made by calling the Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation office at (818) 952-2226.
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Darwinism and academic culture: Mathematician Jeffrey Shallit weighs in
You can tell that Darwinism is failing when it attracts completely ridiculous attacks like
this one, on Signature in the Cell (Harper One, 2009). The gist of Shallit's complaint is that Nagel thought Meyer's book a prize.* But Shallit says,
Meyer claims, over and over again, that information can only come from a mind -- and that claim is an absolutely essential part of his argument. Nagel, the brilliant philosopher, should see why that is false. Consider making a weather forecast. Meteorologists gather information about the environment to do so: wind speed, direction, temperature, cloud cover, etc. It is only on the basis of this information that they can make predictions. What mind does this information come from?What mind indeed? If we experience either snow or dull, freezing rain here tomorrow, why should I be surprised? This is the season officially known as winter.
So, maybe Nagel, the brilliant philosopher, knows more than Shallit, the University of Waterloo prof.
I thought Thomas Nagel's discussion of animal mind, in "What is it like to be a bat?" was the best of its type, in elucidating the difficulties of a materialist explanation of mind. I would commend it to all.
For example, the information that explains how the butterfly emerges from the mess of the pupa, after the caterpillar has done its bit by constantly eating leaves, is vastly more complex than the information that explains why rain falls or snow blankets. We seek an explanation for metamorphosis, not for why rain or snow falls.
Here is an example:
So how is the trick done inside the "magic box" of the pupa? As one biologist told me, "The entire caterpillar dissolves, and is reconstructed as a butterfly." The stored energy from the caterpillar's voracious eating habits creates that? ... ridiculous. Let's hear more explanations, and subject them to tests, based on the life of the universe.
*Signature in the Cell (Harper One, 2009) was indeed literally a prize at Uncommon Descent recently. I hope for more copies soon, for more contests and more prizes.
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Fifteen years ago, Jane Becker and her late husband, Dick, wanted to keep working with children. They had recently retired from their jobs as teachers in the Philadelphia school district. Active volunteers in Chestnut Hill, the pair decided that working with teenagers would fill a need for the community and keep them with working with the youngsters they loved.
The couple knew there once was an active teen group in the area. They researched the Chestnut Hill Local archives and discovered this was true. When they reestablished Teenagers Inc. in 1996, they added new elements to the group. Instead of just providing recreational activities, teens could now participate in community service, leadership and receive tutoring.
With a grant from the Chestnut Hill Community Association and funds from private donors, Teenagers Inc. hired Marianne Dwyer as their part-time executive director and began offering social, recreational, leadership training and service activities for teens.
They hosted hot dog roasts, Earth Day cleanups and teen tutoring in the Women's Exchange building. As they offered more programming, they needed more funds. In 2004, Jane Becker came up with the idea of hosting "A Taste of Chestnut Hill" as a fundraiser featuring foods from area restaurants, bakeries and farmers' markets.
This year, "A Taste of Chestnut Hill" is on Sunday, Nov. 20, at Chestnut Hill Springside Academy on Cherokee Street from 5:30 to 8 p.m. NBC reporter Deanna Durante will host the event, which includes a special 15th anniversary celebration and tribute to Jane and Dick Becker.
Organized and presented by teenagers, in cooperation with their young adult and adult board members, the event includes an array of delicious appetizers, main entrees, desserts, a silent auction, and a 50/50 raffle. Its highlight will be the slideshow, created by teens and the young adult board, chronicling 15 years of Teenagers Inc. events and activities.
On Sunday, teens will serve as hosts and servers at "A Taste of Chestnut Hill," where guests can sample items from more than 40 local eateries. Menu favorites include veggie lasagna from Cafette, Chicken Milanese from Roller's Flying Fish, spring rolls and dumplings from Cin Cin, spreads and cheese from Jonathan's Best, ribs from Darcy's in the Flourtown Farm Market, pies and rolls from Poppy's Seed Bakery, pulled pork from J & M Meats, stir-fried rice from King's Garden and much more.
New participants this year include Chestnut 7, Mica, and The Cedars House. Other new donors are Strada Pasta (donating seasonal lasagna) and Thai Kuu, bringing Kanum Jeep-steamed shrimp dumplings, Thai crispy gold bags and Satay chicken on bamboo skewers.
Throughout the evening, guests are encouraged to bid on an interesting variety of silent auction specialty items, including gift certificates from area businesses and homemade presents. Premier items are four VIP Club box tickets to a Flyers game (with food and parking) and a pair of tickets for two different Villanova men's basketball games at the Wells Fargo Center. Services for auction donated by teen and alum members of Teenagers Inc. include private yoga sessions, handcrafted jewelry, children's T-shirts and artwork.
"We are thrilled to have a donor matching our auction bids this year," Dwyer said. "We hope the attendees will up their bids so we can maximize this opportunity."
As she describes the event, Dwyer can't stop talking about the Beckers.
"They have dedicated so much to the kids for so many years," she said. "Both Jane and Dick always had so much enthusiasm and energy."
Dwyer laughs as she recalls the numerous dances, rock fests, hot dog roasts and night walks the couple hosted in their 70s.
"I think they just amazing," she added. "I hope I'm like them in my 70s."
Dwyer attributes the Teen Center (on Bethlehem Pike) to the Beckers. They worked closely with Richard Snowden from Bowman Properties to secure a location for teenagers to enjoy social and recreational events and tutoring. Since 2000, the Teen Center has been a rent-free haven for hundreds of young people in junior and high school.
Teenagers Inc. fosters a community spirit with area teens and provides opportunities for students to socialize in safe and enjoyable environments. The nonprofit also coordinates volunteer opportunities for teens to donate their time and energy both in Chestnut Hill and beyond.
Teenagers Inc. volunteers will be providing free babysitting for the duration of the event. Children will enjoy pizza, craft activities, movies and even an appearance by Sesame Street characters.
The cost is $30 for persons 12 years and older, and $8 for children ($35/$10 at the door). Reservations can be made at Town Hall, 8434 Germantown Ave., or by contacting Marianne Dwyer at 215-242-4976 . Learn more about Teenagers Inc. at www.teensincphilly.org or on Facebook.


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Movie still looking for a home, but the tv part is going to HBO. Great News!
Gazer first mentioned HBO's involvement in a recent interview with MTV. "We're going to do [The Dark Tower] with HBO," he said. "We'll do the TV with HBO, and we'll do the movie with… to be determined. We'll do it right." The premium cable channel seems about as ideal a home as I can imagine for the series, given that HBO has few restrictions on violent or sexual imagery. There's also the fact that ratings matter much less for HBO than they do for other networks, which gives them more freedom to make sure both seasons will play out as planned.


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This is a bit of an Assassin's Creed III secret spoiler, so proceed with caution.
Have we proceeded with caution? Good. Now watch the video above to find out how to turn a lowly turkey into a...*drum roll please*...assassin turkey! DUN DUN DUN. ATTACK OF THE ASSASSIN TURKEY.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like assassin turkey actually does anything assassiny. But he does have an adorable little assassin's hood on, so I'm pretty much sold.
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Hot off the press and on the heels of my post yesterday, Steve Morse and Joel Weintraub announce an update on the 1940 census:
The National Archives (NARA) has recently uploaded the 1940 Enumeration District (ED) maps to their website. These ED maps will be very useful for searching rural and small urban areas.
The maps can be located using NARA's Archival Research Catalog (ARC) at http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/BasicSearchForm . The ARC search form isn't the easiest to use, so Steve Morse has produced a simpler search form for rapidly getting to these maps. The new utility entitled: "Viewing 1940 ED Maps in One Step" is at http://www.stevemorse.org/census/arc1940edmaps.html
We have revised our tutorial/quiz at http://stevemorse.org/census/quiz.php to reflect this new locational resource for the upcoming 1940 census.


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The Chicago Bears were already planning on moving on from defensive back D.J. Moore, but they may have to find a replacement for Kelvin Hayden as well.
According to Jeff Dickerson of ESPNChicago.com, Hayden is expected to explore his options when free agency begins next Tuesday.
Hayden passed Moore on the depth chart and became the Bears primary nickel cornerback in addition to serving as backup to Tim Jennings and Charles Tillman last season. He started two games and made 37 tackles with an interception and five passes defensed last season for the Bears.
With Zach Bowman also scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent, the Bears could end up seeing many new faces in their secondary next season behind Jennings and Tillman.


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What We Do at Fylingdales Moor
The Hawk and Owl Trust aims to create a nationally important moorland conservation area devoted to:
- enhancing wildlife
- preserving archaeological remains
- demonstrating the environmental benefit and sustainability of traditional moorland management techniques – especially when these are closely linked with coordinated conservation action.
Understanding Birds of Prey Conservation
Video of Dr John Edwards explaining the issues
Dr. John Edwards of the Hawk and Owl Trust gave a 30 minute presentation Raptor conservation: a biologist's perspective at the Northern England Raptor Forum Conference on 20 November 2010.
Here is an abridged version. Whilst a 7 minute YouTube clip can only scrape the surface of this subject, hopefully it will open up channels for discussion and enlighten those for whom the term predator is synonymous with that out-dated Victorian term – vermin.


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Smith, Cullen push Predators past Maple Leafsby Joe Yerdon
TORONTO -- Craig Smith scored two goals and Matt Cullen had four points Thursday to give the Nashville Predators a 4-2 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Air Canada Centre.
Smith's power-play goal, the Predators' second of the night, at 16:25 of the second period gave them a 3-1 lead. His goal early in the third period, his sixth of the season, made it 4-1.
"We wanted to make sure every shot counts, make sure the right play is going to be made," Smith said. "We tracked the defensemen hard tonight and we created some turnovers on the wall which we were able to convert into some offensive chances."
The Maple Leafs scored first when Peter Holland skated into the offensive zone and fired a wrist shot past goalie Marek Mazanec at 5:48 of the first period. It was Holland's second goal of the season, his first for the Maple Leafs after arriving in a trade from the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday.
Holland had room to gain the zone when Predators captain Shea Weber laid a big hit on Nikolai Kulemin in the neutral zone. With Holland only having Roman Josi defending him, he let his shot go from the faceoff dot and past Mazanec.
"Obviously it feels good to get your first one as a Leaf," Holland said. "[Morgan] Rielly made a great play to head-man the puck, and [Kulemin] made a great play on the wall. I came in, I was originally looking pass and kind of saw that far side open up so I tried to put it on net and it went in for me. But obviously it would feel a lot better if we had two points tonight."
After Maple Leafs forward Mason Raymond picked up a high-sticking double-minor 1:25 into the second period, the Predators tied the game when Seth Jones scored his third of the season at 2:01. Jones' shot was deflected by a defender on the way to net and the redirection helped get the puck past goalie Jonathan Bernier.
"He's been great for us this year," Weber said of Jones, the fourth player taken in the 2013 NHL Draft. "Obviously a little bit of fortune on that one getting it through and hitting a stick, but sometimes you need those bounces and sometimes they go against you. It was a big goal for us, and our power play did a great job for us tonight."
The goal was the first the Predators scored on Bernier this season after he shut them out Oct. 10 in a 4-0 win in Nashville. Bernier stopped 24 shots and lost for the second time in 10 career starts against the Predators (8-2-0).
"He's owned us in the last couple years here when he was [with the Los Angeles Kings] and obviously the last game back," Predators coach Barry Trotz said. "It was good to finally get that. He was starting to get in our heads, so hopefully it'll be good for another year at least."
The Predators took a 2-1 lead at 11:14 of the second period when Cullen scored his fourth goal of the season. He received a quick pass from the half-boards from Gabriel Bourque and snapped a wrist shot by Bernier through his five-hole. Cullen assisted on the other three Predators goals.
A boarding call to James van Riemsdyk led to Smith's power-play goal in the second. Nashville went 2-for-4 with the man-advantage.
"I thought their power play was pretty good tonight," Bernier said. "They obviously scored some big goals on it."
The Maple Leafs cut the lead to 4-2 when Nazem Kadri scored his sixth goal of the season. He was playing his first game after a three-game suspension for hitting Minnesota Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom.
"We just didn't play well enough," Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf said. "I don't think you can say much more than that. We didn't do enough of the little things against a team that always comes hard. They play very disciplined to their system, they have for a long time, and we just weren't good enough."
The Maple Leafs had limited chances after the first period; they managed 15 shots in the second and third periods combined after having 11 in the first. Mazanec made 24 saves.
"It was a group effort tonight, a whole team effort," Jones said. "It started back there with [Mazanec], he made big saves for us and it kind of worked its way up. I thought everyone played a great game tonight."
The win was the third in a row for the Predators.
"We had a tough stint there coming off a long road trip," Smith said. "We wanted to turn the ship around a little bit and I think we stayed on a few things we've been doing since the beginning of the year. If we stay the path, good things are going to happen."
The Predators return home to play the New York Rangers on Saturday. The Maple Leafs will host the Washington Capitals.


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Sincerest appreciation to all who helped make the New York event for Hong Kong On Air at BookCulture on May 6 a success.
Special thanks to all who attended. Literary figures in the crowd included Leonard Levitt, author of police blog NYPDConfidential.com and NYPD Confidential, the book; Tracy Quan, author of Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl and Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl; and In the Third Decade blogger Silver Erieann.
See photos of the event on the Muhammad Cohen Facebook page.
Special thanks to BookCulture and its staff for graciously hosting the event. BookCulture is a fabulous independent bookstore that caters to Columbia University and the surrounding community's varied needs. (A chamber music group followed Hong Kong On Air.) Perhaps the good news in the Borders bankruptcy is that there's room for independent bookstores in the marketplace.
BookCulture also carries media significance: it's down the block from Tom's Restaurant, used as the exterior shot for Monk's Diner in Seinfeld. However, Tom's was first made famous by my friend Jami Bernard for its bent – not grilled – cheese sandwiches. We chose Mel's Burger Bar for the after-party.
Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, financial crisis, and cheap lingerie.


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Having walked up and down a rather non-descript street on the outskirts of central Barcelona, looking and looking again for the address I'd been given, I sat down on what had once been a small loading dock of a nineteenth-century warehouse – now apparently subdivided into sparse offices, artist studios, and loft apartments – and pulled my phone from my pocket.
It was mid-afternoon, siesta-time, and every one of the surrounding shop-fronts had their corrugated steel shutters firmly pulled down; the neighborhood felt temporarily abandoned, as if all activity had been peacefully swept away by the sweltering Spanish sun. Yet for me, the heat and virtual silence were only exacerbating my frustration. I was now late for my appointment.
I carefully re-read the email that I was sent earlier in the week, describing a thin black-iron gate with a small grey buzzer to the left. Squinting, I panned up and down the opposite side of the street, scrutinizing every threshold and doorway, when suddenly the faint squeak of metal hinges sang out about half a block to my right. A thin gate – presumably once black, but now entirely covered in illegible white graffiti – opened up, and a friendly, bearded face peered out. I'd finally found him (or rather, he'd found me): Joan Fontcuberta.
He waved me over, and as I approached, I noticed that he was wearing what appeared to be a pair of steampunk-like goggles, made out of two large, brass, Victorian photographic lenses. He quickly explained that they worked a bit like Google Glass, but rather than feeding him current information derived from the internet, they instead transformed everything he saw into a sepia-toned simulation of how it would have looked one hundred and fifty years ago; the streets around us were bustling with factory workers, horse-drawn carriages, and scruffy working-class children running to and fro, at least to his eyes.
He turned, and as I followed him through a small courtyard, he quickly pointed out a bulbous Honduran cactus growing in one corner, of which he seemed immensely proud, telling me that it was a specimen of Parodia magnifica – a gift from a friend, the horticultural geneticist Horacio Méndez – and that it was a minor miracle that it had managed to survive in Barcelona's rather dry climate, thanks to his tender care. After climbing several narrow flights of stairs, we then came to a bright white room that appeared to be a photographic studio.
But Fontcuberta explained, it was in fact, in photographic terms, quite literally a "dark room"; several years back when the Iron Curtain fell, he had managed to secure several barrels of paint (through a contact who had worked for one of the Soviet space programme's top-secret research labs) that, despite its brilliant white appearance to the naked eye, actually absorbed any light that passed through a glass lens – so that any photograph taken in this room would appear entirely unexposed.
Immediately, I pulled my phone from my pocket again, clicked on the camera app, and attempted to take a picture of Fontcuberta as he removed his goggles; but sure enough, all that was recorded was a rectangle of pure, pitch-black darkness. With a mischievous I-told-you-so smile, he finally led me into an office - lined with dusty leather-bound books, botanical illustrations, a collection of high-powered telescopes, and display cases filled with the fossilized remnants of what he claimed were "monsters and mermaids" – and invited me to begin the interview.
"I do not believe in documentary approaches," Fontcuberta recently stated in the film made by the Hasselblad Foundation, which accompanied the announcement that he was the recipient of their 2013 International Award in Photography. "Reality does not exist by itself. It's an intellectual construction; and photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality." For more than thirty years, Fontcuberta has been challenging the veracity of the photographic medium – as well as what Lewis Hine once called society's "unbounded faith in the integrity of the photograph" – by constructing elaborate documentary-like dossiers that on their surface appear convincing, but upon closer inspection reveal themselves to be satirical and at times rather absurdist fabrications, which cleverly pastiche many of ways in which photography is used to evidence or substantiate a particular reality.
"It's of note that I was born under Franco's dictatorship, and thus grew up in a totalitarian regime that manipulated the media to benefit its own legitimacy," he remarks, "Later, I worked in both journalism and advertising, which also familiarized me with illusion and simulation."
Although he is often defined as a conceptualist, Fontcuberta is as much a contextualist, whose projects adopt and borrow from the authoritative tones, languages, contexts and constructions that are used to legitimize photographic materials (and vice versa) – archival materials, scientific jargon, journalistic articles, academic texts, and so on – in order to subvert them.
In conjunction with the Hasselblad Award, the most iconic of these projects, including Herbarium (1984), Fauna (1987), Constellations (1993), Sputnik (1997), Sirens (2000) and Orogenesis (2002), have recently been collected together and republished as The Photography of Nature & The Nature of Photography, a luxuriously printed and beautifully designed monograph published by MACK late last year. "The question is: which is the right room for photography?", Foncuberta asks. "Photography can live different lives according different homes….[T]he important thing today is no longer the fabrication of the image, but the capacity to project meaning onto it."
In the same 1909 speech quoted above, Lewis Hine warned, "[W]hile photographs may not lie, liars may photograph." Paradoxically, by wholeheartedly embracing the role of the "liar" and undermining the role of photography as form of objective fact, Foncuberta reveals that the medium is actually capable of revealing truths much deeper than simple facts, specifically in relation to how we define, interpret, negotiate, and understand reality today.
"We can consider the history of photography to be a dialectic process between the image as description and the image as invention – that is to say, between documentation and fiction," he argues, "But today we cannot accept these poles as mutually exclusive concepts, because one impregnates the other…Reality is nourished by fiction in the way that fiction is a narrative essentialized out of an inherent need to understand reality. Thus the first and more important truth photography conveys, is its own ambiguity: the fact that we need to interpret it."
Although his images are ultimately as fantastical as the story of our meeting told earlier (in truth, our interview was conducted entirely via email; I've never visited Fontcuberta's studio, or even met him face-to-face) they serve as an important lesson in how this ambiguous territory, between fact and fiction, is incredibly ripe with both potential and meaning. "The problem of photography is not that it embodies truth," the eccentric, polymathic scholar proposes across from the dreamed-up desk of my imaginings, "but too much truth; it's a question of excess."
Joan Fontcuberta is a Catalan photographer, artist, writer and educator.
Aaron Schuman is a photographer, writer, curator and the editor of SeeSaw Magazine.


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'Cirkopolis,' a work co-commisssioned by Penn State, wins Drama Desk Award
'Cirkopolis,' a work co-commisssioned by Penn State, wins Drama Desk Award
"Cirkopolis," a Cirque Éloize production co-commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, has won a 2014 Drama Desk Award for best Unique Theatrical Experience in New York City. The show made its Penn State debut in a September performance at Eisenhower Auditorium.
"Cirkopolis" unfolds in the heart of an imposing city in which giant gears and dark portals symbolize the crushing lack of individuality. Bathed in the music of an original score and surrounded by projected video, the performers rage against monotony, reinvent themselves and dare the limits of the factory city in which they're bound.
The show, which began touring in September 2012, qualified for the award by being presented last December at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
"There aren't more beautiful (shows than 'Cirkopolis')," wrote a New York Times critic. "Extraordinary. There's the circus, and then there's Cirque Éloize," asserted a New York Post reviewer. "These guys are on a whole other level."
In the coming months, "Cirkopolis" is scheduled to tour to Latin America, Australia, France and elsewhere.
Jeannot Painchaud co-founded Cirque Éloize in 1993. A native of Québec, he has worked in the circus arts for more than a quarter century. His Montreal company has performed four times at the Center for the Performing Arts.
Since its founding, Cirque Éloize has been at the heart of the renewal of circus arts with more than 4,000 performances in almost 450 cities around the world. Cirque Éloize expresses its innovative nature through theatricality and humanity, and combines circus arts with music, dance and theater in a path-breaking and original manner.
Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York City. The organization, which began presenting its awards in 1955, is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, off Broadway and off-off Broadway productions in the same categories.
Learn more about the Center for the Performing Arts.
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the bald eagle`s chick
This shot was an unexpected bonus. I was playing around, taking shots of family at yet another reserve we went to today. It was not until we got home that B.E. realized that it contained a reflection of the scenery. it was taken with a canon 300d ,iso 800 ,18x55efs lens,aw,p, no tripod.


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Who's Laughin' Now?
For those who read my last blog about Grossman (Redskins Start With Grossman) you'll note I kind of predicted this last weekend's performance.
For the game, Grossman was 21 of 34 (62% completion) for 305 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions (though one was close) and one fumble. While Antrel Rolle may whine about how the Giants would beat the Redskins "95 out of 100 times" Rolle has failed to recognize that we didn't beat New York because our offense was better; we beat them because our defense was.
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Nov. 1, 2006
Three members of the Lipscomb University men's soccer team have earned postseason honors from the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Junior forward Ben Page, from Woodstock, Ga., was named to the All A-Sun second team. He started in all 18 games and led the Bisons with seven goals and 15 points. He also had one assist. He also led the team in shots (61), and three game-winning goals. He also was perfect 4-for-4 on penalty kicks.
Page was named Atlantic Sun Offensive Player of the Week. He tied for first in the conference in game-winning goals. He was second in both goals and shots and fourth in shots per game (3.39). He tied for seventh in the conference in points and was ninth in points per game (.83). He tied for sixth in goals per game with .39.
Goalkeeper Danny Prichard, from Tacoma, Wash,, and midfielder Kezi Lara, from Palo Seco, Trinidad and Tobago; were named to the A-Sun All-Freshman Team.
Prichard played and started in 16 games. He was two-time Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Week. He allowed 31 goals, an average of 1.97 per game. He made 76 saves, posting a 4-10-2 record with three shutouts.
In the conference Prichard was second in both saves and saves per game (4.75). He tied for third in shutouts and was seventh with a 1.97 goals against average per game.
Lara played in 15 games and started 10. He was second on the team in goals with three. He also had one assists, giving him seven points, which was also second highest on the team. He made 16 shots and scored one game-winning goal in a 4-3 overtime win at Centenary Sept. 8.
Atlantic Sun Conference
2006 Postseason Honors and Awards
Player of the Year: Tommy Krizanovic, Jacksonville
Defensive Player of the Year: Jay Ayres, Belmont
Freshman of the Year: Boris Gatzky, Gardner-Webb
Coach of the Year: Tony Setzer, Gardner-Webb
First Team All-Atlantic Sun
Pos. Name School CL Hometown Academic Major
GK Aaron Johnson Campbell So. St. Charles, Mo. Gov./Pre-Law
D Jay Ayres Belmont Jr. Valrico, Fla. Accounting
D Dirk Dittrich Gardner-Webb So. Moessingen, Germany Sports Management
D Devin Sheppard Campbell Sr. Roxborough, Tobago Pharmacy
MF Boris Gatzky Gardner-Webb Fr. Reutlingen, Germany Undecided
MF Richard Jata Campbell So. Port Richey, Fla. Mass Communication
MF Ian Schinelli Belmont Jr. Naperville, Ill. Accounting
F Richard Godfrey Gardner-Webb Jr. Montego Bay, Jamaica Accounting
F Willy Guadarrama Campbell Jr. Cedar Park, Texas Sport Management
F Tommy Krizanovic Jacksonville Sr. Slavonski Brod, Croatia International Business
F Tanner Wolfe Stetson Jr. Hudson, Fla. Biology
Second Team All-Atlantic Sun
GK Tyler Kettering Gardner-Webb Sr. Xenia, Ohio Health & Wellness
D Ben Dyon Stetson Sr. Barrington, Ill. Business
D Eric Susewind Belmont Jr. Houston, Texas Business Admin.
D Patrik Werner Jacksonville So. Gothenborg, Sweden Undecided
MF Kirk Labusch Stetson So. Brandon, Fla. Information Technology
MF Omar Liendo Mercer Sr. La Paz, Bolivia Business
MF Stephen Oyuga Campbell So. Nairobi, Kenya Computer Science
F Vicente Arze Mercer Jr. Santa Cruz, Bolivia Business
F Anton Axelsson Jacksonville Jr. Vaxjo, Sweden Marketing
F Josh Elliott Campbell Jr. Salisbury, Md. Athletic Training
F Kevin Munz Stetson Fr. Jupiter, Fla. International Business
F Ben Page Lipscomb Jr. Woodstock, Ga. History-Teaching
***Tie in the voting resulted in 12 members selected to the Second Team
Atlantic Sun All-Freshmen Team
MF Boris Gatzky Gardner-Webb Reutlingen, Germany Undecided
D Robert Hodge Stetson Devon, England Undecided
F Kevin Munz Stetson Jupiter, Fla. International Business
MF Set Carpintero Stetson Orlando, Fla. Pre-Medicine
GK Danny Prichard Lipscomb Tacoma, Wash. Pre-Physical Therapy
D Scott Gordon Mercer Boca Raton, Fla. Undecided
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Hi everyone, I'm here because I'm looking for some insight, advice and hopefully answers to my particular situation.
I'm a 32 year old married father of 2, I became a Christian back 2004 after a supposed 'word from God' but perhaps largely because my wife and all her family are members of the Anglican/Charasmatic movement and maybe felt some sort of affinity to them. I even went so far as to join the worship team of an extremely large and popular charasmatic church in Oxford which have been involved with since 2005.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I've recently started to seriously question my belief structure. I've never felt entirely 'comfortable' with being a Christian in the way I always thought I should be, I never really prayed in public, I couldn't quote you specific scripture like a pro and always thought that the Church I am a part of uses emotional manipulation through 'sad and songs' and the pastors alter call to invoke a sense of vulnerability, surely not something I should be thinking if I truly 'get it'
In the last few years she has become more and more extreme in her views, dare I say fundamentalist. Don't get me wrong, she is a very kind, polite and caring woman, but I can no longer stomach some of the things she passionately believes and I'm seriously considering de conversion. She has been a Christian since she was born lived, breathed and evangelised the Christian doctrine and for the longest time we were very happy, having two gorgeous sons
However I've recently had cause to come clean to my wife of 7 years, who is what I would call a 'born' Christian of a string of indiscrections since before we were married, this understandably has caused her great pain for which I am truly sorry, however she has now told me that the ONLY way of saving our marriage is through Christian channels/the grace and love of God or not at all.
Now fair enough, hands up I should take what is coming, but I love my boys and would be prepared to do anything to stay with them, I feel a great affection for my wife as my best friend and indeed all the friends I have made through the Church, but knowing that I feel the way I do about my (lack of) faith I am torn as to weather I should take the step and tell her I can't pursue Christian channels with a clear conscience for the sake of staying in our marriage.
Thank you for taking the time to read this, I appreciate your comments
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SQLPASS needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 87 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
PASS Summit
The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) is an independent, not-for-profit association, dedicated to supporting, educating, and promoting the Microsoft SQL Server community. Run by an elected, volunteer Board of Directors, PASS serves a community of passionate SQL Server users around the world.
PASS' mandate is to help fellow SQL Server users to connect, share and learn. Central to this goal are PASS-run conferences, ranging from free PASS SQLSaturday one-day training events to the new PASS SQLRally 2-day low cost training conference to the annual 3+ day PASS Summit, the largest gathering of SQL Server professionals in the world.
Building on the successes of the PASS Summit 2008 "SQL Server Heroes Unite", PASS Summit 2009 "Unite" and PASS Summit 2010 "On Fire" conferences, we need to create a bold new logo for PASS Summit 2011.
The brand character for PASS Summit is:
Leading-edge, super-smart but very approachable, friendly, welcoming and helpful. Geek cool. Passionate about technology and about sharing information with others in the community. Both fun and professional. Extremely community-focused, friends helping friends.
Primary target market: IT Professionals who use Microsoft SQL Server Database and/or Business Intelligence products & services. Job titles include database administrators, database developers, data and data warehouse architects, system administrators, business intelligence specialists, IT Managers, IT Directors, CTO/CIO (Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Officers) and consultants.
65/35 male/female, typically early 30s-mid/late 50s. Passionate about SQL Server and technology in general. Proud geeks. Analytical, problem-solvers, committed to their community.
Many but not all of our target audience will have heard of PASS or may already be PASS members. Attendees come from all over the world to attend this flagship conference.
Please see the attached creative brief for more info and examples of past logos.
• Name: PASS Summit
• Logo to be used on website, banner ads, print ads, email signatures, conference name badges, onsite signage, onsite collateral
• Must be flexible from a sizing perspective. For example, we do experience some difficulty using our current/past logo in all executions as it is quite large/complex/layered.
• Require both one color (B&W) and color versions.
• Required formats include but are not necessarily exclusive to: .eps, .gif, .jpg, .png
• Immediate follow-on requirements include website design. Preference will be given to the logo designer to bid on future design extensions.
• The new 2011 creative look and feel must continue to be bold, eye-catching and edgy.
• While not mandatory, designers could consider design options with word variations on "PASS Summit", "PASS Summit 2011", "PASS Summit Unite", "PASS Summit Unite 2011" or "PASS Summit 2011 Unite".
• While ideally we could connote the concepts of sharing and networking, we do not want any cliché images such as shaking hands. Also, our core audience does not connect with the blue-suit executive – we are the ones that get the job done.
• Prefer to stay away from a "crest" visual as we've done this for the past 3 years – but open if your crest design is stupendous.
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When the Smart car began wooing the world with its cute looks and limitless color pallet, the car was missing one important element. Sex Appeal. They are after all, "cute". And considering the Worlds Cutest Car Chase that took place recently in Texas, even attempting to flee in one is comical.
Today Smart has released images of their concept car dubbed Forstars, which will leap onto the Paris Motor Show stage later this month. The concept car takes cues from the Smart for-us concept debuted earlier this year at the Detroit Motor Show.
It's wider and longer than the traditional Smart ForTwo we are used to seeing. The car looks like a lean parkouring bullfrog waiting to leap at any moment. Short overhangs, tires pushed to the outer corners and 21" wheels add drama to the cars energetic proportions. The 60kW magneto-electirc motor (pulled from the smart BRABUS electric drive) achieves no-lag acceleration and a zero-emissions with 100 lb.ft. of torque for plenty of tarmac thrashing enjoyment. Top speed is around 80mph with the fully charged 17.6 kWh lithium-ion battery pack.
"Alubeam rouge" paint has a wet look that provides an exciting and very modern contrast to the matte and distinctly metallic appearance of the titanium-colored tridion cell. Where rally cars have an air scoop on the bonnet, on the Smart Forstars a video projector is integrated here as an ironic highlight. This can then be controlled remotely via Bluetooth from your iPhone. Turning almost any location into a drive-in theater.
Inside, the Forstar is stylish, uncomplicated and sleek. Taut surfaces in mother-of-pearl white are combined with CNC-like functional elements finished in brushed aluminum. The exterior color "alubeam rouge" is used as an accent color in the interior that creates a link to the exterior.
The seat shells, which are open in the middle, are covered with a soft fabric throw giving them a hammock-like seating feel. The graphic elements and different red tones of the covers promote a trendy aspect of the vehicle. Storage compartments to the left and right of the high-quality cargo area fitted with aluminum rails offer additional storage space.
The control and display elements are oriented to the driver. Just as the cockpit module divides the instrument panel, the two-spoke steering wheel is open at the top. In place of a conventional rear-view mirror the Smart Forstars features a smartphone accommodated in a holder at the top of the windscreen.
While this is the best looking Smart car we have seen in sometime, we are skeptical as to weather or not it will reach production. If there is anything to take away from this concept study, it's the aggressive and animated design language that could help push the Smart car brand into the next dimension. With any luck we could see the Forstars in the states with a turbocharged 3-cylinder, but Smart hasn't confirmed this. For now Europeans can look forward to a fun new Smart car dashing through their alley ways.


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When Debra Brown made the decision to become a Troup County School System (TCSS) bus driver six years ago, she already had the training and knowledge due to her former employment in New Hampshire. She enjoyed taking her son to school with the other students she transported. For Brown, it was more than a job, it was an opportunity for her to make a difference while also enjoying a flexible schedule.
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PASADENA – A prosecutor filed charges Wednesday against one man and an alleged accomplice in the fatal Christmas Day shooting of a longtime community volunteer and sheriff's employee.
Reputed gang member Larry Darnell Bishop Jr., 20, of Chino and Gary Aurthur Davis, 20, of Pasadena were scheduled for a Wednesday arraignment at Pasadena Superior Court which was continued to Jan. 23 and moved to Los Angeles Superior Court.
Bishop was charged with murder in the Dec. 25 killing of 49-year-old Victor McClinton who was shot while walking a fellow coach to his car in the 1900 block of Newport Avenue, Los Angeles County District Attorney's officials said in a statement.
Davis was charged with being an accessory after the fact in the shooting.
McClinton, a father of two, worked as a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department law enforcement technician for 18 years. He also founded the nonprofit Brotherhood Community Youth Sports League in Pasadena.
Pasadena Police Lt. Tracey Ibarra said McClinton was an innocent bystander.
"He was saying goodbye to a friend and the shooting happened," she said.
Police believe the shooting was gang-related and that the intended target was 24-year-old Damion Taylor, described by Ibarra as a local gang member. Taylor was driving an SUV when he was shot on Newport Avenue.
Bishop was also charged with the attempted murder of Taylor, shooting at an inhabited dwelling and possession of a firearm by a felon.
The criminal complaint also alleges that Bishop shot a firearm from a motor vehicle and committed the killing for the benefit of a street gang.
Prosecutors will decide later whether they will seek the death penalty against Bishop, officials said.
"We are following the evidence of the case that might lead to the identification of other individuals involved," Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez said.
Detectives are still looking for other "persons of interest" in the case who could be witnesses or suspects, according to Ibarra.
She said the gray Captiva used in the shooting is in police custody. Ibarra added that officers are still trying to determine the number of people who were in the Captiva at the time of the shooting.
Police and the DA's Office said that the shooting of McClinton isn't related to a Dec. 25 high speed chase where a sport utility vehicle fleeing from Pasadena police and the FBI crashed into a minivan, killing Tracey Ong Tan, 25, of Glendale and her 11-year-old cousin, Kendrick Ng of Daly City.
The SUV's driver, Darrell Lee Williams, and one of the passengers, Brittany Washington, have been charged with the murders of Ong Tan and Ng.
Booking records show Bishop was arrested Friday and Davis was arrested Saturday. Police said both were transferred to a county jail facility. Bishop was being held without bail while Davis' bail is $1 million.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call Detective Keith Gomez at 626-744-4511 or Pasadena Police at 626-744-4241. Anonymous tipsters can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or go to http://lacrimestoppers.org (insert key word Pasadena)
Staff writer Brian Charles contributed to this report.


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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says he may be defeated by President Barack Obama in Tuesday's presidential contest, but it's doubtful.
Speaking at an Ohio rally Sunday afternoon, Romney said that it's possible, but not likely that Obama will win. He was responding to supporters who booed he when he speculated on the consequences of an Obama second term.
Polls suggest the race is very close. Both campaigns predict wins.
Romney is campaigning in four battleground states on Sunday, including Pennsylvania. Romney's visit follows the decision by his campaign and its Republican allies to put millions of dollars in television advertising in Pennsylvania during the race's final weeks to try to make it competitive.
No Republican presidential candidate has carried the state since 1988.
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Currently tracking around
unofficial and offical Disney podcasts!
Moola playing games online.
Welcome to the Disney Podcast Directory
Thanks for stopping by this site. I got into listening to podcasts in late (Nov/Dec) 2004 and was wishing there was a Disney themed podcast. I thought it would be cool to start one but at that time I didn't know how to record
good quality
audio on my computer. Then I found MousePod and
about it in Jan 2005. This started my Disney podcast listening and tracking.
I then learned OPML and put together an OPML file for inclusion into the indiepodder.org directory that listed the Disney podcasts I knew of. I do monthly (or so) checks for new ones and add them as I find them. If I am missing any please feel free to
them here and I will add them as I can.
My wife got me an iPod in Dec 2005, so then my podcast listening grew as I could listen to them at times when I was away from the computer. That's right, there is
no iPod required
to listen to podcasts. I used to download them to a USB memory stick at home and listen to them at work using WinAmp, but now when I am on the computer listening, I use iTunes just because of the Smart Playlists and the fact I have
add the downloaded files into iTunes for transfer to my iPod.
: Made a SMALL update, check out the
updates page
. I still have a bunch of new podcasts to add, but will be redesigning the site structure to enable MUCH faster updates.
: Made a another round of updates, check out the
updates page
. And I still have a bunch of new ones to add as well but am out of time for now.
: Made a another round of updates, check out the
updates page
. And I still have a bunch of new ones to add as well but am out of time for now.
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updates page
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updates page
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updates page
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updates page
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updates page
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updates page
: Added some links and a few new podcasts. Also added Zune 1-Click and player options to the subscribe pages.
: Added another podcast to the highlighted podcasts page. Mostly Trivial podcast has done two Disney themed shows.
: Did some updates on the site. One of them in response to a question I was asked several time so far this weekend at the Podcast and New Media Expo which I am currently attending. That question is "how many podcasts are listed?", now I can give a close guess. The number listed on the site is not completely accurate as it is an automated counted based on the OPML file I have, and soem podcasts have more than one feed type listed.
: I did some updates to the site's podcast listings and to the listed links. Check out the
Site Updates
page for details.
: Congratulations to Lou and his WDW Radio podcast. The Podcast Awards annouced the winners today, in all but the Best Produced and Fans Choice categories, and The WDW Radio Show was named the winner in the Travel category. We will have to wait for the actual awards ceremony in late September, which I will be attending, to see if Inside the Magic wins for Best Produced.
: The Podcast Awards Voting ended a couple days ago and the winners will be announced in two days on the 15th of August. Let's hope some of the Disney podcasts make an appearance in that list of winners.
Some facts posted on the PodcastAwards site:
1.3 Million Unique People Voted on the slate.
Most votes Submitted in one hour 22,109
Average person voted 3 times for a show over 15 days
: Congratulations to the several Disney fan podcasts making the slate for the 2007
Podcast Awards
. The voting begins on July 28th and goes through August 11th, and awards presentation will be at the
Podcast and New Media Expo
in September.
In the Travel Category the following podcasts are on the slate of nominated podcasts:
The DIS Unplugged
The Meandering Mouse
WDW Radio
In the Best Produced Category, Inside The Magic made the slate. And congratulations also are going to
, who although is not a Disney podcast, he has done several
shows with a Disney theme
and is a friend of The Disney Podcast Directory.
: I added a couple podcasts and a new link to the site this week. Check out the
Site Updates
to see what they were.
: The nomination process has closed for the 2007 Podcast Awards and the submissions are currently under review. Keep an eye out to see which, if any, Disney podcasts make it to the voting stage.
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Practical Issues > "To Do" Index > Activism
Project Dog House Before Winter
From: Emilia Hanley
Project "Dog House before Winter" aims to provide shelter before winter to
To avoid any ambiguity about money collection and credibility of the bank
account, this Cause's account belongs to and is fully administered by a
Polish Animal Association that is one of the most credible charities I have
dealt with in my four years' full-time daily experience with Polish dogs'
To friends who know and trust me and to those who joined the Cause as
friends of the friends I can certify that I take full responsibility and
liability for actions taken within this Project.
If you wish to donate to the Project, you can make a transfer to the
Association's account:
Receiver Name: Sandomierskie Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciol
Receiver Address: ul. Rynek 3, 27 - 600 Sandomierz
(some banks don't require this address)
Receiver IBAN: PL98942900042001001460010002
Receiver bank SWIFT address/BIC: POLUPLPR
Message for the receiver: dog house before winter project
Payment currency: your own currency, i.e. EUR
Payment type: standard (urgent type adds unnecessary fee)
Transaction fee type: SHARE (some banks have no
transaction fee but if they do, option SHARE splits the fee into two between
the sender and the receiver)
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Below are some commonly used words within animal welfare that you may come across while browsing the site.
Animal cruelty: Animal cruelty generally falls into two categories: neglect, or intentional cruelty. Neglect is the failure to provide adequate water, food, shelter, or necessary care. Examples of neglect include: starvation; dehydration; inadequate shelter; parasite infestations; failure to seek veterinary care when an animal is in need of medical attention; allowing a collar to grow into an animal's skin; confinement without adequate light, ventilation, space or in unsanitary conditions; and failure to trim hoofs or nails resulting in excessive growth (e.g. hoofs curling upwards). In some cases neglect is a result of the owner's ignorance, and can be rectified by law enforcement authorities, like the Ontario SPCA, educating the owner and issuing orders to improve the animal's living conditions.
Backyard breeder: An owner whose pet may have an unplanned litter by accident, or who breeds on purpose. Common reasons cited include: making extra money, mistakenly believing every dog should have a litter, letting the children witness "the miracle of birth," or because they think their dog would make cute puppies. The animals involved are generally not tested for health or genetic problems, and typically there is no thought to where the puppies will go. They are the single greatest cause of pet overpopulation. Many are sold locally through newspaper ads.
Puppy mill: The National Companion Animal Coalition defines puppy mills as a high-volume, sub-standard dog breeding operation, which sells purebred or mixed-breed dogs, to unsuspecting buyers. Characteristics common to puppy mills include: sub-standard health and/or environment issues; sub-standard animal care, treatment and/or socialization; sub-standard breeding practices which lead to genetic defects or hereditary disorders; and erroneous or falsified certificates of registration, pedigree, and/or genetic background. Note: These conditions may also exist in small volume or single-breed establishments.
Cock fighting: An illegal blood sport in which two roosters, trained to severely injure and/or kill one another, are placed beak to beak in a small ring and encouraged to fight to the death. Usually wagers are made on the outcome of the match with the surviving bird being declared the winner.
Dog fighting: An illegal blood sport that pits dogs against one another for spectator entertainment, and often betting. The sport was popular in England in the 1700s, and many modern breeds were developed from these fighting dogs' lines. Fighting dogs are trained, and genetically predisposed, to fight to the death, rather than to display normal submissive signals that would allow two dogs to resolve a disagreement quickly and safely.
Leghold trap: The steel-jaw leghold trap is most often used to trap wild animals who are killed for their fur, such as bobcat, lynx, wolf, coyote, fox, beaver, muskrat, mink and otter. Trapped animals usually do not die instantly, and are left to suffer intense pain, exposure to severe weather, predatation by other animals, psychological trauma, dehydration and starvation. Leghold traps are indiscriminate - capturing any animals that trigger them including threatened and endangered species, raptors (such as eagles and hawks), and domestic dogs and cats.
Live Trapping: http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/FW/2ColumnSubPage/STDPROD_085118.html.
Report Animal Cruelty now: 310-SPCA or firstname.lastname@example.com


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You're not an overprotective parent, just...cautious—which is why your kids still write with safety pencils and circles of paper even though they're nearly in college. And how are you going to teach them to drive? Thos things are automotive deathtraps! The Humanix iSAVE-SC1 might be a good start.
The Humanix iSAVE-SC1 is a pillow-protected runabout resembling a three-wheeled golf cart. Its electric motor only outputs enough juice to get the cart up 30mph but for a vehicle built with—and only—safety in mind, that's plenty quick. Its exterior body panels have been replaced with inflatable bladders constructed from tent fabric so that, even if you do manage to catch a pedestrian unawares, the ensuing contact should do little damage (assuming you just hit him and don't run him over).
The iSAVE-SC1 hits the Japanese market in early December, retailing for roughly $10,000, with a US-bound model shipping as early as next year. [Humanix via DVice]
You can keep up with Andrew Tarantola, the author of this post, on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+.


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Wednesday October 11, 2006
HEAD WRITER LIZ LEMON (TINA FEY) FINDS HERSELF DEFENDING HER LIVE TV SHOW WHEN BRASH NEW NETWORK EXECUTIVE (ALEC BALDWIN) STARTS MEDDLING -- The premiere episode features single comedy writer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) living every comedy writer's dream - head writer on a demanding, live TV variety program in New York City, which stars one of her closest friends, the sweet, but self absorbed Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski). Her world is turned upside down when brash new network executive Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) interferes with her show and staff, and bullies Lemon into convincing Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) a wild and unpredictable movie star, to join the cast. Donaghy encourages Lemon to get to know Jordan before she rejects him outright, and in an attempt to spend quality time with him, she finds herself swept up with him and his entourage in some unlikely places and positions. "30 Rock" also features Scott Adsit ("Pete Hornberger") as the variety show's producer, Jack McBrayer ("Kenneth the Page") as the over-eager NBC 'Page' - a highly sought after entry level position with the network and Rachel Dratch ("Saturday Night Live") who will appear in multiple episodes, playing a wide array of characters on the series.


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You purchased a game (or expansion or DLC) on Android, iOS or Steam: why do you have to re-purchase it on other platforms too?
You need to re-purchase the game separately for each of the Google Play Store (for Android apps), Apple App Store (for iOS apps), Amazon Store (for Kindle apps), or Steam (for PC or Mac) store.
The Google Play Store, as well as the Apple App Store and the Amazon Store are "walled gardens". This means that their business terms specifically forbid us from granting an app or an expansion ("DLC", "IAP" items...) based on a purchase made on another store. By the same token, they forbid us from granting apps or services outside of their realms in exchange of purchases made on their platform.
Steam is the only exception, which is why we grant the Steam version to Ticket to Ride purchasers of the Web version and vice-versa. But we cannot grant an Android, iOS or Kindle version if you bought it on Steam. And we cannot give the Steam version if you bought it on Android or iOS or Kindle.
It's simply forbidden to us, both ways. Nothing can go in or out of the Google Play Store, the Apple App Store or the Amazon Store.
Thanks for your understanding.
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