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Emily Ford over at In the Library with the Lead Pipe has written what I think is a fascinating article on anonymous professional librarian discourse. She takes the position of being against the practice for a lot of sensible reasons: one cannot judge the credentials of the author, no professional ramifications for their words, and the vitriol that can sometimes spew forth from such anonymous prose. These are pretty sound evaluation criterions for judging the work as it is presented and its context. Where I differ from Mrs. Ford is with her conclusion that undisclosed publication being the "last resort" of professional librarian discourse.
If you have this well established reasoning basis in place, then to me it doesn't matter what the circumstances are surrounding the undisclosed authorship. I think that of all people librarians should have a finely tuned (for lack of a better phrase) bullshit detector. Information appraisal is one of our our bread and butter skills and the rationale that we give to when asked what the profession contributes to society. Under this concept, I don't think it matters whether the author is known or not when it comes to evaluating their writing; it will either stand up for what is written on the page or not. The missing data regarding author background is just another variable in the equation of the weight you give the piece, not a fatal error that prevents it from being taken as serious discourse.
With the rise of the reputation economy, what matters is the establishment of the identity. If they are a consistent writer of meaningful content, then it builds towards that of a contributor. If they are loaded with divisive and invective terms or attacks on one's person (as opposed to ideas), then it shifts towards a detractor. Of course, nothing is that simple: the presence of both qualities puts people in the position of judging whether they are building or taking away from the topics. It is left to the reader to judge whether they are a credible commentator on the subject matter. Personally, I would like to give people greater credit in their ability to make decisions regarding the value of content, especially in this profession.
In the end, the reputation created matters more than whether or not they disclose their name. I'm not unmoved by the desire to make people accountable for their words; it's an undeniable social justice urge to attach the negative connotations of their content with their person. Likewise, there is desire to be able to display support for those whose words move you, make you think, and otherwise affect you. But that should not be an eliminating factor in determining the value of professional discourse.
I find it odd that a profession so hell bent on freedom of expression that it has an entire week devoted to it has such issues with anonymous authorship. Is it not simply another form of expression? If one was to remove the names of the authors from some of the books that are held in such high esteem that week, would that make them less worthy of defending? Should libraries only defend the controversial works in which the author is known? (Go Ask Alice, a book attributed to an anonymous author, is on the Banned Books list.) Is there a compelling reason not to extend this courtesy to professional discourse when the content is well written, well reasoned, and within the scope of professional literature?
I should note that I'm not saying that the Lead Pipe people should accept undisclosed articles for consideration. They have defined their editorial controls to include that authors need to be known; that is their well justified prerogative. In my gradually increasing collection of library and librarian blogs, I have found some anonymous or pseudonymous blogs out there that would pass muster for professional writing in my estimation. (In the efforts of full disclosure, there is also a share of blogs that write pure drivel.) To treat their lack of identifying authorship as a slight is the equivalent of judging the book by its cover. Let the words speak for themselves and then determine its worth.
Identity should not be a barrier to contribution. It's a luxury that has been afforded to us by the creation of an online world, but it is not simply a last resort.


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My old Amigo Tom Liacas, on Dialogue! " ...let's not forget to acknowledge the early kicks in the butt that made it all possible!"
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Contacts : the little mean sexy book that gives you what Facebook friends never can
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Our festival 2014 theme Radical Intimacies: Dialogue in our Times has been also inspired by the work of Eva Illouz.
In our festival outlines http://www.memefest.org/en/competition/intro/ we also talk about Israel and Palestine. The war in Gaza sadly started two weeks after we published our outliens. Here a shorter interview with Eva Illouz about the conflict and lack of dialogue:
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when we created this online platform with our social network, it was designed as an alternative to Facebook.
No data mining, no commercial advertising, no fake likes, no fake profiles, no surveliance. It is still fascinating for me how many of the people that agree on the argument that FB is very problematic still post on FB- very regularly. When I talk to my friends, usually the argument goes like this: "You are right, FB is very problematic, BUT it is very convenient and because everyone is there I can reach all of my friends easily."
Well, you thought so..
fake likes, global click farms and enforced scarsity of visibility... facebook's twisted like machine
I am more and more happy that I never had facebook and honestly hope that more people will realize these facts.I just got back from "DIY" festival in Moscow and every and none of those "anarchists" could believe that Idont have my account...sad
We are right now starting to work on redesigning the web site and we are discussing how to improve the social network infra/structure/culture that we built here on memefest.org. Wanna get involved?
I think our main challenge is to revert fb back to what it is: An online social network that doesn't necessarily has anything to do with real life. Stripped of any content we're basically looking at an empty frame that we can tweak and bend through our content and interaction and playful subversion. Fb's popularity makes it a centerstage for this kind of negotiation. The slow shift we see with dropping popularity among youth in Western countries is countered with growth among the elderly and expansion across development countries etc. Whereas it seems tempting to flee the ship, I hope that critical users will not only go elsewhere but also stay and obfuscate the ultimate "value" of fb: its useful, digestible, rational, exploitable, marketable content.
the playfull appropriation and subversion of FB is something i like, but so far - at least among my FB freinds, I havent seen much of it and there is many critically minded persons in my FB network data mining is only as good as the data you said- this is wondrful. But the problem is that very very few people have the awarenes of the business models of FB and similar technologies and how this relates to their data and their privacy, freedom, social relations and and much more... The lastest revelations of FB' manipulation are fascinating, but still, I cant see much of a change in peoples behaviour. Having said all this- I agree very much with what you wrote and I think there is posibilities to intervene in FB, but they will be difficult to put in to practice on a larger scale.
What I also really like is this: (Sidenote: I believe anyone should try designing a social network. No matter how small or simple, the process confronts you with fundamental choices that "matured" popular networks such as FB have succesfully bypassed to a degree that we have difficulties imagining any successful alternatives).
I have been folowing Diaspora for a while but have not been checking it for a while.
Is there any other alternative networks you know off? I dont know of them- at least not in the sense of being open for people to join and without intentional data mining and commercial advertising...
I was strongly interested for a while in the financial interests of possibly unethical Facebook investors, one being Goldman Sachs and then independent business people worth millions and billions of money buying into the next greatest cash cow. I wrote about this in an article for university last year in 2014.
The problem and situation is this kind of information about ethics and investors is not widespread; this information is mostly located on professional business and investment websites and magazines. So this information stays within the business and money systems where regular people usually do not go to seek info/entertaining info, thus never find it to help with awareness, because people usually do not question the safety and ethics of brands. Even when this information and awareness is brought into the mainstream news for 5 minutes, our culture and technology seems to be making people gain more short term thinking and short term minds. People may care and change their habits and thinking when they are given this new awareness about Facebook but many people forget within a short time frame and just continue doing what they are used to doing, and to fit in with everyone else.
I was active on Facebook for two years but then quit, deleted my Facebook account. I managed to pretty much avoid using Facebook for 30 months. (And without joining any other social networks where my friends were located on, because they were all usually on Facebook) With the exception of a small period where I needed to use Facebook for a university group assignment for one semester. By the 30th month, I understood I was committing social suicide so I needed to rejoin the Facebook community. In a way I felt as though I was being forgotten by many people and friends that I knew because I was disconnected from Facebook. I am happy I rejoined Facebook because I can talk to people in different communities and friends now, who have moved to different cities, or are hard to reach by phone. I managed to find some meditation community pages on Facebook which has truly helped me a lot. I now encourage anyone to experiment with practicing meditation at some point in your life and make it work for you.
And I agree that it is a great idea for anyone to try and design a social network, great possibilities!
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Another one in the series of latest warnings of how FaceBook and Google are actually killing the Internet and serious independent publishing through page rankings and advertising revenue control.
The Internet as we know it is dying
How Facebook and Google are killing the classic Internet and reinventing it in their image
"Editorial decisions are at the mercy of algorithms that determine how and where traffic flows, and, consequently, the lifeblood of advertising revenue. A tweak in the algorithm and boom: You're out of business. There's nothing organic about building success online; there's only the live-or-die question of whether you've properly cracked the code."
But now the advertising giants have gotten there way and I am pretty sure firefox Adblock plus does not block any ads on the internet now, since 2013!!! The advertising companies complaints and efforts to stop adblock plus seems to have won now. It's tragic that everything has to be controlled so that money and power can continue to do business as usual.
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You might have come across this in the last days:
Facebook tinkered with users' feeds for a massive psychology experiment
Good for a start of our discussion Lisa, Scott, Vida, Roko, Alana!?
Will send an email soon.
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My exchange partner had asked for something futuristic and something either goofy or scary, so of course I went with ludicrous. What do you give the giant demonic poisonous spider that has it all? high tech lasers and missile launchers! I have been building and painting some of my eldar pieces and decided that they could use a mascot.
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Previously, from 1984 to 1993, she worked at Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe and later at her own law firm as a land use attorney. From 1982 to 1984, she served as a legal officer for the international peacekeeping force, Multinational Force and Observers, headquartered in Rome, which oversees the security arrangements of the 1978 Camp David Peace Accords. Prior to that, Pepys worked in Washington, D.C., as the Special Assistant to Ambassador Daniel J. Terra at the Department of State from 1981 to 1982, and for Congressman Henry S. Reuss, Chairman of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, from 1980 to 1981. She served as a law clerk to Justice Thomas A. Caldecott, Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, from 1978 to 1979. Pepys earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University.


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(CNN) — Rescue boats and helicopters scrambled Wednesday to find almost 300 passengers, including scores of high school students, missing after a ferry sank off the southwest coast of South Korea.
Of the 459 people on board, 164 have been rescued, the security ministry said.
Many jumped from the listing ship to the freezing waters of the Yellow Sea.
The bodies of at least four people — a female and three males– were confirmed dead. About 292 remain unaccounted for, the ministry said.
The rescue operation was still underway Wednesday evening, hours after the ferry first sent out a distress signal.
Authorities could not immediately say what caused the ship to sink. The weather at the time of the incident was clear.
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The ferry, Sewol, was carrying 325 students; 15 teachers; 30 crew members; and 89 other passengers.
The students were from Seoul's Ansan Danwon High School. They left from the port city of Incheon, just west of Seoul, for a four-day trip to Jeju. The resort island is considered the Hawaii of Korea.
Around 9 a.m. local time, the ferry sent out its first distress call. It had started to list.
A rescued student, Lim Hyung Min, told CNN affiliate YTN that he heard a loud bump. Several off his classmates were flung off their feet. Everyone was ordered to don life jackets and jump, he said.
Lim said he jumped into the sea before swimming to a rescue vessel.
"I had to swim a bit to get to the boat to be rescued," he said. "The water was so cold and I wanted to live."
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With the clock ticking, rescue crews dashed desperately to get to passengers.
At least 178 people are involved in the rescue work, including 118 marines, 42 navy personnel and 18 police officers, Kang said.
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The problem was the Windows new device recognition. Basically, whenever I tried to transfer my new settings to the keyboard, it would start doing it, then Windows came up asking me to insert the driver disk. I kept dismissing that window (cancel) thinking that it didn't need a disk, and besides, I didn't have the disk. Finally, today I just let it do the "automatic" driver find, instead of canceling, and the utilities finished just like they should. So that's good!
I do have a funny side effect, though. After transferring the settings to my keyboard, I immediately got onto this forum to type up my success. Well, before I could finish the first sentence I discovered that the Y and Z keys were reversed in my Dvorak layout. I have had this trouble before, so I wasn't put off too much when it happened. I just went to the surface key editor and reversed the designations of Y and Z. Now everything's working fine.
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We are a company that is being formed to create low cost alternatives in the LED lighting market. Right now LED lighting is much more efficient than other alternatives (less power consumed, less carbon in the atmosphere) but it is also more expensive. We source products from around the world with the aim of keeping costs as low as possible in an effort to get as many people as possible to convert to LED lighting in order to drastically reduce carbon emissions!
Target audience is contractors, distributors, and end users of lighting products. Typically they're an older, more conservative crowd. That doesn't mean we want a totally dry design but the typical buyer would be 35 and older. At the same time, we are distributing directly through this site and so we would also be seeking to capture the young, environmentally conscious population as well. Target market is the US and Canada.
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For years, NBA 2K only featured a few pair of authentic Air Jordans in its equipment lineup. That changes with NBA 2K11, featuring His Airness in the game. Twenty-five models are available, and they carry attribute boosts.
Speaking to ESPN.com, producer Erick Boenisch says there will be 40 Nike varieties in the game, 25 of them Jordans, and players will earn them at random. Every couple of hours of gametime, or so, you'll get a new pair at random. "Your timer is always running and shoes are always unlocking."
Rarer varieties will carry bigger attribute boosts. They may be used in any game mode, but they'll be especially useful in the singleplayer career mode and the MJ: Creating A Legend career variant that gives you control of Jordan in today's league.
2K Sports released several screenshots today showing Jordan and his kicks in action, as well as current stars with their shoe models. The screens also showcase new shot varieties that branch out of the game's new animations, such as running across the lane and transitioning into a shot.
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Fifteen vehicles using the Roush liquid propane autogas fuel system may develop a propane leak. This condition is a result of a mis-machined valve in the propane system. A propane leak increases the risk of a fire. Roush will replace the defective valve with a correctly machined one. No notification schedule is available at this time.
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Fifteen vehicles modified by Roush Performance Products may develop a propane fuel leak. A propane leak increases the risk of a fire.
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After the boat was finished with all of the base paint prep work, it went into the paint booth for the final application of the paint to make the final design come to life. Take a peek as we have watched this transformation to the current status. What an amazing piece of eye-candy. In the water, this beauty is going to stun!!
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Tahoe to Utah to Mammoth :: Tom Whitman's 'Elevation' Triple Play
When you look up the word elevation the definitions are: 1. The action or fact of elevating or being elevated or; 2. Height above a given level, especially sea level. Both fitting descriptions for the trio of mountain experiences Tom Whitman and his team have created, when you think about them.
It's all about being high in the sky, whether literally, as on a mountain with a pair of skis or a snowboard, or the emotional high one gets when connecting with friends and having a euphoric blast.
The concept began with Elevation Mammoth 11 years ago. It was a "Why not try it" idea of Whitman's after a stretch of super-popular LGBT events throughout Los Angeles. A long line of successful parties, of which I would wager most of us have attended at one time or another. You know the routine - dancing all night to great music, played by amazing DJs, with beautiful men and having a ball!
He didn't start there. His "first" career was as a television producer for MTV and Nickelodeon, filled with live music events and award shows that many would recognize, all dappled with illustrious performers. I asked him to give a little rundown on the events. "My resume reads like a bubble-gum pop checklist: Britney Spears, N'SYNC, Whitney Houston, Backstreet Boys. I did a lot of live music and concert event television stuff. Awards and concert shows were about 60 percent of my career, I worked with a ton of people, it was a good time. I did a bunch of TV and film stuff as well, but that was most of it."
Like any great entrepreneur, he looked beyond what he was doing, beginning with the L.A. club scene. "My first events were in 2000 when I was still working at MTV and Nickelodeon in New York. My boyfriend at the time and I were also working together on an animated film, doing the festival circuit and had put together a great promotional event at a gay venue called Felt in L.A. After that, the owners [of Felt] asked me if I would consider producing a regular event and at the time I said, 'No, I have a career already!' "
Whitman didn't move on right away; he was committed to his television production career. But Felt's owners were pretty relentless: "They pursued me for about six months and I finally thought, 'I'll just do it for fun.' That event was called Smack and it was pretty successful. Pretty soon after that Here Lounge opened and they had me produce there. After about six months of doing events and continuing in my regular career, I realized that I had to make a choice: Pursue television full time, or go off on my own. I was ready to work for myself, I had been at MTV network for a long time, and knew that if I stayed there too much longer it was going to be something that I would never leave. So I left, opened an office, hired some staff and the rest is what I call 'gay nightlife history!' "
Curious to hear about his career highlights during the myriad of parties, I figured he must have had great stories because he's been at it for quite a while. "God, there are so many. I had really interesting times working with Whitney Houston, back when she still had it together. I spent an entire day with her and her 'Kevin Kostner Bodyguard character' in real life, her actual bodyguard. We were searching out sniper points at Universal's backlot, places where someone could potentially kill her - it was totally crazy. Trying to figure out where someone might hide who was trying to knock off Whitney Houston (laughs)."
I pressed him for any moments when he realized that he had done something remarkable in his career or if he had any defining moments with one famous person in particular. This was the story... and a great one at that: "Lady Gaga was one of the highlights as far as my LGBT production stuff. I had her perform three times, the first time was at Here Lounge, it was very small on a tiny four-by-eight stage, she had just three dancers - it was great. I had booked her because I thought she was so amazing, her single "Just Dance" was out and really interesting.
"I booked her six months later for Wonderland on the backlot of Paramount studios and everyone there was like, 'What's the deal with this Lady Gaga?' Because I usually book really well-known, big-name performers for that event. I told them, 'Just wait,' and, boom, she exploded. Then I booked her for a third time for Cherry Pop at Ultra Suede after she had broken, and it was completely crazy -- you couldn't move in that place! All the naysayers were like, 'Okay, we get it!' "
You could tell he loved working with Lady Gaga - a lot. "She pulled me aside after the Cherry Pop performance and said to me, 'Hey, I just wanted to tell you thank you. You helped to break me in L.A. because you supported me and believed in what I was doing!' She is just a genuinely sweet, talented, fun woman to work with. There are so many other great stories, I have worked with so many amazing people in New York, L.A. and all over the country - I could fill a book someday!"
From Peak to Peaks
That was a bit of Whitman's backstory; now on to the highlight of this article: Elevation Ski Events - all three of them, Mammoth, Utah and the latest, Lake Tahoe.
I asked how he began and why he chose Mammoth Mountain as the starting point. "Mammoth was my home mountain when I was skiing and racing for UCLA; I would go up there to spend the weekends regularly. Even after I graduated I spent a great deal of time up there. A friend and I talked about doing a ski weekend, he was from Whistler, BC, home of the largest LGBT ski week in America and we thought, 'What about Mammoth?'
Starting out it was very much a test case. We sent out emails to see what would happen. With very little effort, 300-400 guys came out, and I realized that it could actually become something very real.
We built it up the next year, doubling in size for each of the next few years, going from a few events over the course of two days, to what it is now, nine big events over the course of five days!"
After a time, Whitman realized that there was more potential. There were many more resorts out there, so he started looking for another location to host. That was four years ago, and Park City, Utah was the place he chose.
We talked about why he wanted to grow the series. "My goal is to build these events into big, national/international LGBT events. Mammoth had grown to be so large; it had become the third largest LGBT ski week in North America, just after Whistler's in Canada. So I decided that it would be a great thing to do it again somewhere else."
About why he chose Park City, Utah: "There are so many great resorts that would be perfect for a great ski week, so when I did my due diligence, searching for another spot in the U.S., Park City was an obvious choice. It's such a good resort, is so easy to get to, and has so many great options and a ton of large venues. Park City is everything that a ski resort should be; it's rustic, has cute stores and great shopping and yet it's not totally glammed up like Vail or Aspen. It's not Rodeo Drive, but it's lovely and quaint, just big enough so that there are wonderful restaurants, with plenty of things to do."
After four years of success there, the bug (or should I say snow-bunny?) to grow continued, hence the latest in the Elevation series beginning in 2014 - Lake Tahoe.
"Tahoe literally came about very last minute. North Lake Tahoe actually reached out to me. They said they had heard stories for years about my other events and asked if I would consider doing one up there."
He wasn't sure about doing it because it was so late in the game to start planning such an event. "Having learned my lessons throughout the years, I understand that there is a lot that goes into putting these together successfully, including community support, things like that."
Squaw Valley and Northstar were the two options and both resorts made the experience easy for him, flying him up, setting up all the necessary meetings and, as he said, "made it pretty much impossible for me to say no."
Whitman continued, "They were really into it and convinced me because of their commitment to the idea. Both are amazing venues and would have been great, but Squaw Valley seemed to be just a little more gung-ho about it. I also had a little bit of personal history with Squaw and knew the mountain so I think that might have helped the decision along."
He and his team decided, "Let's do it," and, as he said, "we've been running ever since then!"
I was curious about the similarities, so I asked him to draw some comparisons around each event. "Squaw Valley is very much like Mammoth in that it's a contained village, you can have all your events within walking distance to the mountain. It makes for a much more fun, localized experience because you end up seeing the same people."
He predicts that they'll have about 500-600 people to start, but like the others it will grow. "Mammoth started small but has grown way beyond that now."
Continuing with the comparison, he had this to say: "Mammoth is largely a local event, it's probably about 65 percent Californian and the rest are from out of state. Utah is completely different in that people are from all over the place; there really is no specific feeder market for it. Sure, there are locals who come, but it's not the majority. It's filled with people from the South, the East and West Coast and international visitors. It's a much more diverse crowd geographically. We had a bunch from Australia last year, some from Argentina, all over the world really."
Regarding the demographics of the newest of his mountain escapes, Lake Tahoe, "Tahoe I think is going to be a combination of both Northern and Southern Californians, since Los Angeles and San Francisco are the feeder markets. It's easier to get to than Mammoth because of the Reno airport, because of that there will be a broader range of visitors."
There was a fondness in his voice when he talked about what it was like to start these events. "It's really kind of fun in the beginning when it's a bit intermittent to start. Those people who start coming early on kind of claim some ownership to the event because they start out with the first year. I say this all the time, 'The people who come back every year come back because they make such great friends they keep after the ski week.' "
As usual at his events, Whitman has great DJs set up and, as of press time, he was working on finalizing performers. But like the other Elevation events, Lake Tahoe's schedule will be very full - Après Ski party in the afternoon, meet ups and then of course the legendary nighttime events.
Squaw Valley is a huge mountain with a beautiful resort, so like at Mammoth, white bandanas are given out to identify festivalgoers. Whitman chuckled and said, "Look for them, people tie them around their arms, on their heads, or legs so you can tell how many LGBTs are up there."
You can tell he really enjoys the process and is looking forward to what people have to say. "I'm so excited to see how people respond to Lake Tahoe, to see how they compare it to the other two events. I've really committed to the mountain, we're not going to do just a one-year deal, we're looking at it long-term."
Lucky for those of us who love this particular winter sport. It's time to dust off that snowboard and those skis, whichever you prefer, and "hit the slopes."
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Steelers notebook: Roethlisberger says no rift developing with Haley
Ben Roethlisberger insists there's no rift with offensive coordinator Todd Haley, even though he adopted some of Bruce Arians' terminology to call no-huddle plays Sunday in Oakland.
Roethlisberger said Tuesday he imported signals that were in Arians' playbook but not in Haley's, although they have since been added. Some interpreted Roethlisberger's postgame comments about the improvisational play-calling as favoring Arians' offense to Haley's.
"I really didn't think it would get blown up as much as it did, and I know some people are saying that I've been resistant to Todd," Roethlisberger said. "But it's one of those things that we went to Todd, and it's in the playbook now. It was simply a signal that I used with our receivers on two different occasions. One was on the fourth-and-1, we got the ball to Mike (Wallace). The other one was later on third down to Emmanuel (Sanders). We converted both plays. It worked out."
Wide receiver Antonio Brown said Roethlisberger merely simplified things to save time.
"He's really good at that stuff, (when) he gets an opportunity to see a defense and communicate with us, and communicate with us in verbiage that he's comfortable with," Brown said. "Same plays, same concepts, just a different way of saying it and (we) come out in a different formation."
Still, asked about his close relationship with Arians, who is now the Colts' offensive coordinator, Roethlisberger said, "We talk every week."
• Steelers linebacker James Harrison went through his first full practice Tuesday since having arthroscopic knee surgery Aug. 15, although he also took part in most of the Labor Day practice. Harrison's knee problem kept him out of training camp, and he hadn't practiced the past two weeks. Harrison posted a Twitter message reading: "Just finished my first day of full practice; hopefully, everything goes well (Wednesday)." The Steelers also hope to get back safety Troy Polamalu (calf) and running back Rashard Mendenhall (knee) when they play the Eagles on Oct. 7. Polamalu also said he practiced Tuesday.
• Raiders players were given baseball bats with the message "Steelers vs. Raiders, Bring the wood" before the Steelers game, according to the Sacramento Bee. Defensive end Richard Seymour said, "(The coaches) gave us the bats early in the week and told us to keep swinging."
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Where Can I Serve?
Jesus told us, his disciples, to make disciples of all nations. One of the great privileges of being a Christian is being able to work alongside God in the "work of the ministry" (Ephesians 4:12)
"Ministry" is one of the core reasons Fellowship Bible Church exists. Plesae click the links to the various ongoing ministries to learn more about the many ways FBC ministers to those in our community.
And please make sure to visit the "Get Involved" section at the top to see other ways to be involved in learning from God's Word!


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KilianG necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 59 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
We are ramping up a simple satellite site to increase sales leads for our home security solution. Goal of this site is to get the user to fill out the form.
We need a site in addition to our (pretty boring) homepage http://www.patron.ag . Don't look at it too long, we look for a complete different design and color scheme. The only thing you can relate to is the company logo.
We are selling home security products namely wireless alarm systems for rent. The system is linked to our call center who takes action in case of any emergencies or burglary.
The users looking for such systems are family fathers upwards. So the site should be not too Web 2.0ish but should have a simple, user-friendly, don't-make-me-think design, which demonstrates security and trust, e.g. by using family pictures or something similar. The user is not looking for tech stuff but for a "security solution". Therefore please use emotional graphical elements which suggest "security" and "trust".
This satellite page will have 3 pages only. We need a design for the homepage, which includes the following:
- A very simple navigation having the items "Startseite", "Mehr informationen", and "Kontakt"
- A prominent contact form to the right above the fold with the fiels "Name", "E-Mail", and "Telefonnummer" and of course a submit button (it will become a German site)
- A part which lists the 5 highlights of the whole security system (please use checkmarks as bullets)
- A price tag saying something like "Schon ab 88€ im Monat" (which means "Starting at 88€ per month")
- A link below this part to page no. 2 where we list some more detailed information (mainly text)
- A footer navigation having the same items as the main navigation
- Please add elements which you think are necessary
Page 2 has basically the same design and the same contact form to the right but more space to the left for more detailed information.
This satellite will become optimized for search engines, so please use text headlines and so on.
I hope, I could describe what we are looking for. Do not stop thinking - if you think you would like to deviate from the above - do it! You as a designer knows best what works and what not.
If you have any questions at any time, do not hesitate to contact me. I will give honest and direct feedback to every submission in time. Please help us to make this place a safer world! This is not just another design contest - your work will be an important contribution to something bigger.
- A design for the homepage
- A design for page 2 (with more detailed information)
- Something similar to our current homepage
- Somethin which seems to be too complex
- Something which does not look trustworthy


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Iraqis to Obama: Send more help
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials Friday welcomed help from the United States but say they need more than just a few hundred advisers to counter the insurgents taking over huge swathes of Iraq.
"We welcome U.S. assistance but we need more help from the U.S. Air Force — ours is still very fragile and underdeveloped," said Ali Al Musaw, an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. "The danger is serious and the whole world must stand to face up to the terrorists."
On Thursday, President Obama said he was planning to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help train local security forces and target insurgents who have taken over provincial capitals and are on the move toward Baghdad.
CRISIS IN IRAQ: Obama to send 300 military advisers to Iraq
Obama stressed he would not send combat troops back to Iraq. Instead, he announced a series of measures intended to improve intelligence-sharing, and surveillance and reconnaissance of the the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as ISIL or ISIS. He did not rule out U.S. airstrikes.
"We will be prepared to take targeted and precise military action, if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires it," Obama told reporters at the White House, adding that he will consult Congress and Iraqi leaders on the issue.
Iraqi leaders have been pleading for U.S. help since the cities of Mosul and Tikrit fell to the insurgents earlier this month. Prime Minister al-Maliki has formally requested U.S. airstrikes.
However, analysts say the U.S., which pulled its troops out of Iraq in 2011, is in a tricky situation with limited options.
Iraq requests U.S. air power to try to reverse rapid territorial gains by Sunni Muslim insurgents. Natalie Thomas reports. Video provided by Reuters Newslook
"There are enormous limitations to air power," said Firas Abi Ali, a Middle East expert at IHS, a consultancy, in London. "It can be used to prevent Sunni militias from massing and attacking Baghdad, but anything beyond that risks significant civilian casualties and damage to civilian property."
DIPLOMACY: Top Shiite cleric deals blow to Nouri al-Maliki leadership
He added: "The Iraq army has faced a pretty significant collapse — it still exists as a military and there are a lot of units that haven't collapsed — but it is now heavily dependent on Shiite militias. So what happens if, for example, the U.S. provides air cover for the capture of a place like Tikrit and Shiite militias step in and commit atrocities?"
Still, locals expressed frustration that the U.S. hasn't taken more decisive action to prevent insurgents from taking over large parts of the country.
"We eagerly listened to Obama's speech," said Yousif Mohammed, 56, a teacher in Baghdad. "I thought he had already made a decision to help Iraqis to face the deteriorating situation in the country — but sending only advisers, it means more violence."
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Countries involved in the Arab Spring have not changed, according to Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako I.
"Where are democracy and freedom?" Sako asked. "Change does not come suddenly or by force."
The patriarch stressed that it was unfortunate to lose the citizenship program in which all citizens are involved in the formation of their nations. This phenomenon began in the beginning of the last century and resulted in the growth of political Islam.
The remarks were delivered in Sako's speech on Friday at the International Ecumenical Conference. The conference is organized by the Middle East Council of Churches in cooperation with the World Council of Churches.
"We suffered several wars in Iraq such as the war with Iran, the occupation of Kuwait and the fall of the regime. Everyone suffered, but the Christian victims numbered more than a thousand and about 60 churches were attacked. At the same time, there are hundreds of Sunnis and Shiites who have been targeted," Sako added.
The patriarch said that religious extremism leads citizens to disregard others, whether they be Muslims, non-Muslims or of other beliefs.
"Iraqi Muslims, in my belief, are more open than other Muslims. Lebanon is an exception, but even here political conflict and many politicized bombings occur," he added.
Sako suggested that churches should work as a team rather than in isolation. Churches should form a team of specialists to help secularists analyze the situation and provide various suggestions and solutions.
"We need a very strong media and information office that can facilitate all of these activities," the patriarch added. "We have a responsibility towards our fellow Muslims; we love them as God, the Father of all, loves them."
Patriarch Sako called for a new understanding of the Christian teachings and explained that "our preaching and speeches are still archaic and delivered in an incomprehensible language to this day, not only for Christians but to anyone else."
Archbishop Avak Asaduryan, representative of the Armenian Orthodox community in Iraq, delivered a speech saying: "We came as citizens and are always ready to carry out the duties citizenship to our country, our land, our history and our common heritage."
"In the modern nation state, it is not acceptable to use of the term 'minority' to describe citizens with national, religious or sectarian characteristics. This violates the principle of equal citizenship," Archbishop Asaduryan added.
Read more at http://global.christianpost.com/news/arab-spring-nations-still-lack-freedom-and-democracy-says-iraqi-christian-leader-96628/#eAbyu8wK5hQEDIB8.99


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Curry lifts Warriors over Pelicans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Stephen Curry buried his typical share of momentum-swinging shots from deep and blew by defenders for some driving layups as well.
He also made a point of crediting Andrew Bogut and David Lee for helping the Warriors make their sixth straight triumphant exit from New Orleans Arena.
Curry scored 28 points, Lee added 22 and Golden State sent the Pelicans to their eighth straight loss, 97-87 on Saturday night.
Bogut had 10 points, 15 rebounds and five blocked shots for Golden State, which had 11 blocks in all, including two by Lee.
"We forced them into tough jump shots and even when they got into the paint, you've got your rim protectors — plural," Curry said, glancing sideways at Lee in the locker to his right. "When you get a couple blocks, they think about it the next time they come into the paint."
Anthony Davis had 31 points and 17 rebounds in his seventh straight game with more than 20 points, but that was only enough to keep the short-handed Pelicans competitive into the final minutes.
Jordan Crawford, playing in his second game since being acquired from Boston, added 10 points as the Warriors, playing one night after losing in Oklahoma City, overcame an 11-point, first-half deficit and snapped a two-game skid.
"On back-to-backs, you've got to get your blood flowing and find that second wind," Curry said. "They came out firing on all cylinders. There was no momentum on our side early, so we really had to fight and find out where we could get an edge to get over the hump."
Tyreke Evans scored 14 points in his return to the Pelicans after missing three games with a left ankle sprain. Al-Farouq Aminu added 12 points, but the Pelicans were doomed by 13-of-39 shooting in the second half, during which they scored only 33 points.
"We fought tonight and played hard and I'm proud of the guys," Davis said. "It's adversity. We have to learn how to deal with it."
New Orleans shot 38.6 percent (32 of 83), including 2 of 11 from 3-point range, marking the 16th time this season Golden State had held a team under 40 percent shooting.
The Warriors shot 44 percent (37 of 84) and turned the ball over only eight times, one short of a season low.
Curry gave Golden State its first lead since early in the first quarter with a reverse layup in the middle of the third that made it 60-58. One possession earlier, Curry had head-faked Brian Roberts into the air to set up an explosive driving layup to tie it.
Later in the quarter, Curry hit a 26-foot 3-pointer and driving layup in succession to push the Warriors' lead to 78-66.
After that, New Orleans scored 10 straight points, capped by Davis' turnaround jumper, but Crawford responded with a turnaround jumper and 3-pointer, and Golden State went back up by nine on Andre Iguodala's reverse layup with 4:47 to go.
Crawford's clutch play caught his teammates' attention.
"He's a scorer, he's a playmaker," Curry said. "He'll get more comfortable as we go along, but he's shown why that was such a good trade for us. So I'm excited that he's here."
The closest New Orleans got down the stretch was 89-84 on Roberts' 3 as he was fouled for a four-point play, but Bogut responded with a putback, Lee added a clutch 9-foot turnaround and Curry sealed it with four free throws.
Pelicans coach Monty Williams said his team's slide is "on me."
"I've got to do a better job of knowing when to call a timeout or get the right rotation in," Williams said. "Our guys are battling. They compete every night. They fight. They're not looking for excuses and that's all you can ask for."
As in recent games, the Pelicans started fast, trailing for only 16 seconds in the first half.
Davis scored 24 points before halftime, hitting mid-range jumpers, making seven foul shots and even converting an off-balance, alley-oop on a fast-break feed from Roberts before crashing over the baseline.
But Curry buried a 3 from 26 feet, sparking a 9-0 spurt that he capped with a driving layup to cut New Orleans' lead to 50-48, and the Pelicans took only a tenuous 54-52 lead into halftime.
NOTES: The Warriors have played 25 road games, most of any team going 14-11 in those games. Golden State returns home for five games, starting Monday against Indiana. … With C Jason Smith sidelined indefinitely by cartilage damage in his right knee, rookie Jeff Withey played 14 minutes. He had 3 points, 2 rebounds and a block. … This was the third and final meeting between the teams, with Golden State winning all three.


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Somali militants claim to execute Kenyan soldier
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia claimed Friday that they have executed a Kenyan soldier after the Nairobi government failed to meet their demands.
The Islamic extremist rebels of al-Shabab said in a statement Friday that they executed an army private after deadline expired Thursday. The militants want the release of all "Muslim prisoners being held on so-called terrorism charges in Kenya."
Al-Shabab threatened to execute the five remaining Kenyan hostages in 72 hours if the Muslim prisoners are not released.
"While the Mujahideen have executed the serving KDF (Kenya Defense Forces) soldier, there is still a chance of securing the release of the remaining 5 prisoners. As a response to the growing pleas of the prisoners' families who have contacted us, HSM (al-Shabab) is adding a grace period of 72 hours," the statement said.
Al-Shabab said the Kenyan government does not value the lives of Kenyan citizens because it had not taken the opportunity to negotiate for the lives of the hostages.
Kenya has said it will not negotiate with terrorists.
"We cannot negotiate with terrorists ... we want to rescue the hostages or have al-Shabab surrender them unconditionally," said military spokesman Col. Cyrus Oguna.
Oguna said the Kenyan army cannot confirm al-Shabab's claim that the rebels executed the soldier in their custody.
Kenya has suffered a spate of gun and explosive attacks since it deployed troops to Somalia to fight the militants in October 2011. This move came after cross-border attacks blamed on the militants.
Twitter on Jan 25 suspended the account used by al-Shabab after the insurgents used the micro-blogging site to announce a death threat against Kenyan hostages. Twitter's terms of service says it does not allow specific threats of violence against others in its posts.
Al-Shabab uses Twitter mainly to make claims of enemy kills and to spread its view of events in Somalia and East Africa. Terrorism analysts believe the account is run by a Western-educated person; al-Shabab claims several dozen American and Britons among its ranks.
Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.


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I have a warm fuzzy feeling inside. In comments recently regarding Apple's lawsuit against HTC John Gruber closes with:
I can't speak to the hardware and "architecture" issues, but I despise the idea of "user interface" patents.
I've often lamented how sad it is to see everyone trying to copyright their "look and feel". I've clearly pointed out that you'd really have to patent such things to have any type of legal protection. Not that I'm suggesting these companies start patenting their app's "look and feel". I agree with Gruber that you should not be able to protect such things. It stifles innovation.
And, yes, I intend to keep harping on this periodically until said companies (they know who they are) get their heads out of their asses about copyright. They're welcome to read my lengthy article on the subject in their quest for understanding. :-)
Want to learn more?
If you're interested in learning more on the subject you can read my entire Design Piracy Series (start at the bottom) where I tear this silly "my web app look and feel is copyright me" argument to pieces.


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When it comes to fashion shows, we're pretty used to the hectic backstage atmosphere. Endless legs everywhere, shimmering makeup powders flying through the air, edgy hairstyles taking shape left and right. But, backstage before the annual TV phenom that is the annual (televised!) Victoria's Secret Fashion Show? Well, that's a whole different ball game. These aren't just models, these are full-blown celebrities, and even the most jaded writer can get a little dizzy with excitement seeing Miranda Kerr (and her abs) up close and personal.
We tried to calm our nerves before chatting with a few Angels and Victoria's Secret execs... and, once we got to talking, we could hardly stop! We grabbed the deets on what makes this show unlike any other in the biz, plus juicy interviews with the heavenly creatures themselves! Hit the slideshow for supermodel beauty tips, what Doutzen Kroes' take on Kate Upton, and true-life stories of the amazing race to slim down post-baby.
Can't get enough? Don't forget to watch the televised version on CBS on December 4.
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If we need a timestamp, we can add it back later. We don't need aframe_id...
Removed bom.cpp, bom.h, get_bom_reading.srv, and query_sonar.srv
Removed them for real this time; not pretend :D
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Also, removed bom.cpp and bom.h since there won't be a bom node runningon the Gumstix.
Updated the licensing information in many files.
This is a broken commit because I decided to do this at a bad time. Sorry! The build will be working after next commit, I promise (and I won't push till then). This commit reflects the licensing in the files after I used my auto-add/remove script.
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San Francisco Business Times Names the DataSift Platform 'Best Service or Application' of 2014
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 22, 2014) - DataSift, the leading social data platform, announced today it has been named the winner of the 2014 San Francisco Business Times Tech and Innovations Awards' Business Service or Application category. The DataSift platform allows businesses to easily aggregate, filter and extract meaning from social data and other enterprise data sources and put it to work -- gathering market insight, understanding customers more deeply, measuring results, optimizing campaigns and more.
The DataSift platform processes two billion social interactions from thousands of sources in real-time every day, including Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Sina Weibo, and business data from sources such as LexisNexis, going beyond simple keyword searches, allowing precision filtering that speeds time-to-value while reducing costs.
"From the early days of social media, we foresaw the potential of social data to fundamentally transform how businesses plan and make decisions," said Nick Halstead, DataSift founder and CTO. "We founded DataSift with the goal of creating a platform that could process massive volumes of data in real time, thereby helping organizations tap into social data's full potential. The DataSift team is honored to receive recognition for our innovation in social data from the San Francisco Business Times."
In 2013, DataSift secured $42 million in Series C funding, which was used to continue its global expansion through partnerships with Sina Weibo and WordPress and to further expand into new data types, including enterprise data through partnerships with Informatica, Splunk and Tableau Software. Today, more than 1,000 customers in 40 countries rely on DataSift to harness and derive value from social data.
DataSift is among 30 recipients, including AdRoll, Airbnb, Dropbox, Evernote, Lyft, RichRelevance and SoundCloud, recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as the region's most innovative and promising companies. DataSift accepted the award at the San Francisco Business Times Tech and Innovation Awards reception on May 21.
About DataSift
DataSift Inc. is the leading social data platform with more than 1,000 customers in 40+ countries. DataSift is driving a revolution in corporate decision-making by making it easy for applications to incorporate the use of real time and historical social data intelligently and easily into data analysis. The DataSift platform enables companies to easily aggregate, filter and extract useful data from the billions of public social conversations on Twitter, other leading social networks and millions of other sources. DataSift powers hundreds of applications across a wide variety of industries including retail, telco, high tech, consumer packaged goods and agencies. DataSift has offices in San Francisco, New York, Canada, and Reading, U.K. For more information, visit www.datasift.com and follow us on Twitter @datasift.
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In the house Hodak we dispose of 8 double-bed rooms, each room includes its own bathroom and balcony.
In the backyard there is a swing for children and a bench for a pleasant and recreative stay.
The house is located at a favorable location. You need only couple of minutes to some of the tourist destinations such as the National Park Plitvice Lakes, village Korana, caves of Baraceve or Dreznik Grad.
If you like to visit us and spend some time visiting our sights, we recommend you to visit these places.
Nevitable, Plitvice Lakes are the Croatian and world's pearl for visitation. For a basic sightseeing you need one day, for a deeper visitation you need at least 2 days. You can visit the Plitvice Lakes at any time of the year because each season offers a distinct and unique view of the natural beauty. A travel by boat and train is included in the ticket price.
In the winter season, skiing is possible at the skiing-centre Mukinje
The caves of Baraceve in Nova Krslja are also worth for visitation. After 112 years of the first opeining, the caves have been restored and opened for visitation. We recommend you to visit this beautiful creation of the nature.


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Daniel Sturridge and Jordan Henderson spared Liverpool's blushes with extra-time goals in a Capital One Cup second-round win over Notts County on Tuesday.
In-form striker Sturridge netted his second of the game in the 105th minute before his midfield team-mate sealed the Premier League outfit's progress to round three five minutes later by making it 4-2 with a cool finish.
Those goals came after second-half strikes from Yoann Arquin and Adam Coombes had brought their spirited League One visitors level, following Raheem Sterling's early opener and Sturridge's first before the break.
Brendan Rodgers named a strong team despite the prospect of a Premier League fixture against Manchester United on Sunday, with captain Steven Gerrard and Sturridge both starting along with the likes of Glen Johnson and Kolo Toure.
Meanwhile, Notts County boss Chris Kiwomya made two changes to the team that lost to Stevenage on Saturday, with Jamal Campbell-Ryce and Aston Villa loanee Enda Stevens coming into the side.
Liverpool unsurprisingly dominated the early stages and were ahead after just four minutes through Sterling. The 18-year-old winger collected a pass from Johnson 30 yards from goal and jinked past two defenders before firing low past Bartosz Bialkowski.
Rodgers's men continued to control proceedings and substitute Daniel Agger – who had replaced the injured Aly Cissokho early on – hit the inside of the post after glancing Gerrard's set-piece delivery goalwards on 19 minutes.
Sturridge's movement was causing all sorts of problems for the Notts County back line and the 23-year-old was rewarded with his third goal of the season and his ninth in his last eight appearances after 29 minutes with a clinical finish. Gerrard was again the architect as he guided a perfect pass to the striker, who took one touch before firing past the helpless Bialkowski into the top corner.
The Liverpool skipper himself then almost added a third four minutes before the interval, lashing a left-footed shot off the post after Sterling had found him with a well-weighted pass.
However, Kiwomya's side responded admirably after the interval and their spell of pressure paid dividends around the hour mark when Arquin pulled one back. Manny Smith rose unmarked to head a free kick back across goal and the Martinique international beat Toure and Andre Wisdom to power a header home.
Liverpool then hit the woodwork for a third time as Toure met another Gerrard delivery but he could only strike the post when it looked easier to score and the home side were made to pay for their profligacy when Coombes equalised – netting his first senior goal – after good work from Arquin to force extra time.
County began the additional 30 minutes the brighter of the two sides and their chances were boosted further when Toure was carried off with a groin injury, leaving Liverpool with 10 men as Rodgers had already made all three substitutions.
Nevertheless, Sturridge then found the net against the run of play, latching on to substitute Philippe Coutinho's pass as a poor effort from Bialkowski failed to prevent his shot from dribbling over the line.
Shortly after half-time in extra time, Henderson – who had come on for the injured Joe Allen – burst through from midfield before nutmegging Gary Liddle and side-footing home to round the scoring out.
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Back in March of 2011, we wrote about Penny Chic, the project of L.A.-based blogger Shauna Miller, and her controversial decision to dedicate her blog to parsing and celebrating Wal-Mart fashion. As she stated then, "Do I prefer Walmart to Neiman Marcus? Of course not…but looking stylish and effortless is not hard when you're wearing a $5K outfit. What's more intriguing to me is the challenge of looking chic at a time when this season's must-have Little Black Dress is no longer an option." Of course, the moral issues of Walmart's labor, economic, and business practices complicate the issue (of which we dissect in the aforementioned article), but Miller is making sure that this season's must-have little black dress can be available at Walmart, too.
Launching this February 15, Miller is debuting a four-piece collection of LBDs at Walmart.com, under the moniker, "Penny Chic by Shauna Miller." Featuring on-trend design elements and flattering shapes, these dresses cost $20 a pop, are made in the U.S.A. (and outside of Walmart production), and are available in sizes XS to XL, as well as sizes 16-22.
Says Miller, "It's been quite a ride the past couple of months, as I'm sure you can imagine. As a blogger, I am one of the first to come out with my own major product line, let alone a collection of clothes at one of the largest retailers in the world, although to be clear, my collection is not exclusive to just Walmart.com and may be sold at other retailers as well."
As a recurring collection, expect to see other basic capsule collections produced by Miller with just as budget-friendly a price tag.
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Imagining a question that works like a Rorschach test is the secret of success for stories like this week's feature, Mothers at Work. You know you've got it when you and your test subjects spill out answers the way Maryland gamblers are hoping slot machines spit out quarters.
We hit the jackpot this time.
Here's how it happened.
Mothering choices have been topics in more than one presidential campaign. This time around, a Democratic consultant said Ann Romney had never worked a day in her life. The consultant, who later apologized, meant something different than raising children.
Like the Hundred Years War, the Mommy Wars are pretty much continuous. Should mothers stay home with their kids, or should they work in the world and the home front? What's best for the kids? The family? Society? Mother?
Grandmothers fret the subject, psychologists study it and pontificators swear by one way — or another.
The question is fascinating. We all have mothers, and many of us are mothers. So we can all relate.
We all have our stories.
That's what we wanted for Bay Weekly's 2012 Mother's Day issue.
So we had to have the right question, a stimulus to evoke a unique personal response. In theory, the randomly amorphous inkblot starts you free-associating into the recesses of your subconscious. The right question gives you an irresistible invitation to tell your story.
Husband Bill Lambrecht and I, both people who make our living making words, tried questions on each other.
The trick, we found, was avoiding the Ann Romney trap. We couldn't ask if your mother worked when you were a kid, because of course she worked. Mothers have always worked, as I write to introduce the story. What's changed is where, when and how they work.
Finally, we got to this:
When you were growing up, did your mother stay at home? Or did she leave home to go to work the way you did to go to school?
Bill paid out. Promptly and neatly, he told the story of his mother's jobs including, during his most precious years, devoting herself to this pretty, precocious boy, born 14 years after his only sister and just at the same time his aunt, Ada's youngest sister, gave birth to her only child.
Ask the right question, and you hear the truth.
Ask a lot of people and you see patterns that reveal bigger truths about the complexity of motherhood and family life.
Ask people of many ages, and you see the evolution of women's roles.
Read our stories, and you'll likely refine and redefine your understanding of the job description homemaker.
It's a beautiful word, isn't it, and one almost all of us want in our lives.
Appearing before Bay Weekly's many readers is exciting. Will you join us?
To illustrate this year's Summer Guide, we want photos of the fun you and your family have shared in Chesapeake Country. Bay Weekly's Indispensable Guide to Summer comes out on May 24. So you've got a week to share your photos. Send now!
Email to [email protected]. Write Summer Guide Photos in the subject line. Size to about five by seven inches and resolution of 300dpi; attach no more than four per email. Include your name, address and phone number.
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Risk Factors and Causes of Childhood Cancer
A risk factor is anything that affects the chance of getting a disease such as cancer. Different cancers have different risk factors.
In adults, lifestyle-related risk factors, such as being overweight, eating an unhealthy diet, not getting enough exercise, and habits like smoking and drinking alcohol play a major role in many types of cancer. But lifestyle factors usually take many years to influence cancer risk, and they are not thought to play much of a role in childhood cancers.
A few environmental factors, such as radiation exposure, have been linked with some types of childhood cancers. Some studies have also suggested that some parental exposures (such as smoking) might increase a child's risk of certain cancers, but more studies are needed to explore these possible links. So far, most childhood cancers have not been shown to have environmental causes.
In recent years, scientists have begun to understand how certain changes in the DNA inside our cells can cause them to become cancer cells. DNA is the chemical that makes up our genes, which control nearly everything our cells do. We usually look like our parents because they are the source of our DNA. But DNA affects more than just how we look. It also influences our risks for developing certain diseases, including some kinds of cancer.
Some genes control when our cells grow, divide into new cells, and die.
- Genes that help cells grow, divide, or stay alive are called oncogenes.
- Genes that slow down cell division or cause cells to die at the right time are called tumor suppressor genes.
Cancers can be caused by DNA changes that turn on oncogenes or turn off tumor suppressor genes.
Inherited versus acquired gene mutations
Some children inherit DNA changes (mutations) from a parent that increase their risk of certain types of cancer. These changes are present in every cell of the child's body, and can often be tested for in the DNA of blood cells or other body cells. Some of these DNA changes are linked only with an increased risk of cancer, while others can cause syndromes that also include other health or developmental problems.
But most childhood cancers are not caused by inherited DNA changes. They are the result of DNA changes that happen early in the child's life, sometimes even before birth. Every time a cell divides into 2 new cells, it must copy its DNA. This process isn't perfect, and errors sometimes occur, especially when the cells are growing quickly. This kind of gene mutation can happen at any time in life and is called an acquired mutation.
Acquired mutations start in one cell. That cell then passes the mutation on to all the cells that come from it. These acquired DNA changes are only in the person's cancer cells and will not be passed on to his or her children.
Sometimes the causes of gene changes in certain adult cancers are known (such as cancer-causing chemicals in cigarette smoke), but the reasons for DNA changes that cause most childhood cancers are not known. Some may have outside causes like radiation exposure, and others may have causes that have not yet been found. But many are likely to be caused by random events that sometimes happen inside a cell, without having an outside cause.
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- Finding Cancer in Children
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What's sweeter than a long weekend? How about Cakespy's Monthly Cake Poll and Giveaway?
This month, you're in for a treat: the kind folks at Yummr have donated a great book for our giveaway, Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours (c/o Houghton-Mifflin Books). This tome of sweetness has recipes ranging from pinkies-out desserts like Coconut- Roasted Pineapple Dacquoise to simpler but no less delicious Brownie Buttons or mouthwatering pecan biscuits. Can we say delicious?
But wait, there's more: the lucky winner will also win a 2-pack of Cakespy Buttons and a jumbo magnet featuring the sweetest scene, like, in the world--a robot giving a cupcake a flower!
*Also, readers who don't win the cookbook also have other chances to win by visiting Yummr's "Cookbook a Day in the Month of May" Giveaway.
*Also, readers who don't win the cookbook also have other chances to win by visiting Yummr's "Cookbook a Day in the Month of May" Giveaway.
Of course, if you're bummed that you missed out on the buttons, they're for sale at jessieoleson.etsy.com!
How can you put your name in the running? It's easy! All you need to do is this:
- To satisfy our nosy tendencies (we are spies, after all), fill out the below Cake Poll! You can leave your responses in the comment section, or send your responses via email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
- At 5pm PST on Monday, May 26, the Cake Poll will be closed. The winner will be chosen at random, not based on their responses. The prize(s) will then be shipped to the lucky winner within 48 hours, via the most economical method.
- As for our fine print: The results of this poll will be used for entertainment and Cake Gumshoeing purposes only; we may summarize the results of this poll in upcoming posts. Your private information will not be shared with any outside parties. Also, we've elected to leave the cake poll open to all US Territories, Canada and abroad--so even overseas cake enthusiasts can take part!
Cake Poll: Preferences and Regional Specialties!
- Where are you originally from?
- Where do you live now?
- *If* the Cakespy crew were taking a road trip across the nation, what baked goods or bakeries would be a must-try in your area (either the area you live now, or the area you're originally from)?
- What was your favorite baked good or dessert item when you were little?
- What is your favorite baked good or dessert item now?
- What was the last dessert item or baked good that really "wowed" you?
- Are there any desserts or baked goods that you just can't stand?


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An alarming rise in summer violence continued Thursday, as the past week's death toll rose to 12 in Baltimore and politicians began sniping over blame.
City police announced arrests — including men charged in previous violence — even as detectives found themselves with new killings to investigate. Two men were fatally shot and one wounded early Thursday in West Baltimore, and three women were taken to hospitals after a shooting in Northeast Baltimore Thursday night. In all, 35 people have been shot since last Friday.
A city councilman blamed police corruption for worsening the violence, then quickly apologized to the union that represents police officers. A challenger in the nascent race for state's attorney criticized incumbent Gregg. L. Bernstein for not being more visible amid the chaos. Bernstein's office said he is doing all he can.
The comments came a day after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts sought to reassure the City Council and the public that they are using all available resources to stop the gunfire.
Councilman Carl Stokes took to the radio Thursday to offer his thoughts on what's ailing the city, telling WBAL that he places part of the blame on "too many corrupt police officers who are running drugs with drug runners."
The statements were quickly condemned by police union president Robert F. Cherry Jr., who called them "outrageous, inflammatory and untrue." Stokes soon backed away from some of his statements and personally apologized to Cherry.
Stokes said he shouldn't have used the words "too many" and called most officers "heroes." He said he based his comments on constituent complaints. Stokes stood by other remarks in which he criticized police for initially referring to the wave of shootings as a "a little bit of a spike" that's to be expected.
Sgt. Eric Kowalczyk, a Baltimore police spokesman, declined to address Stokes' comments, noting the councilman's apology.
Kowalczyk said Thursday that police had arrested four suspects in recent shootings and that more arrests are expected. "Our focus is going to continue to be on the people that are taking lives of our young people," he said.
Police charged Lamonte Sherman, 17, of Parkville, and Devin Baker, 23, of the 2700 block of Ashland Drive, with attempted first-degree murder and other counts. They are accused of shooting into a car Wednesday and wounding a man in the rear alley of the 2000 block of Northbourne Road in Northeast Baltimore. No attorney was listed in court records for either man.
Cush Ajely Wright-El, 24, of the 5200 block of Elmer Ave., was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and 15 other counts in the nonfatal shooting of three men early Sunday in the 5100 block of Arbutus Ave. in Northwest Baltimore.
In 2010, Maryland court records show that Wright-El was acquitted on charges of first- and second-degree attempted murder, assault and handgun violations in a February 2010 shooting.
Wright-El also faces a prior charge of possession or receiving a weapon while confined or detained. He was scheduled to be tried on that charge July 15. A call to the public defender representing him in that case was not returned Thursday.
Tavon Terrel Hammond, 28, of the 100 block of Denison St., was charged this week with first- and second-degree murder in the shooting of Blake Harris, 24, in the 4500 block of Marble Hall Road in Northeast Baltimore. Police found Harris slumped in the driver's seat of a 2002 gray Dodge Caravan about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Witnesses identified Hammond, according to a statement of charges. No attorney was listed for him in court records.
Previously, Hammond was charged with first- and second-degree attempted murder in the shooting of Kaiya Parker, 24, in the 4200 block of Loch Raven Blvd. in August 2010. A year later, police found witnesses who identified Hammond as the shooter, according to a statement of charges.
But Louis Curran, the assistant public defender who represented him, said the prosecution's case was torpedoed by discrepancies between witness accounts and state evidence. He called it "one of those cases where there were too many holes to plug."
Prosecutors had also charged Hammond with trying to kill the mother of his son in November 2010. According to court documents, he threw the woman through the window of a carryout restaurant after an argument, causing a cut to her neck that required 34 stitches.
That case was not prosecuted either because the victim recanted her statement, according to the Baltimore state's attorney's office.
Marilyn J. Mosby, who announced this week that she plans to challenge Bernstein for the state's attorney post, said too many violent offenders with lengthy criminal records are rearrested when they should be locked up.
"All I can tell you is that the police are doing their jobs and making their arrests of these violent offenders and doing their investigations. Judges are doing their jobs, keeping these offenders locked up," said Mosby, a former assistant state's attorney in Baltimore and the wife of City Councilman Nick Mosby. "The state's attorney's office needs to seal the deal."
Mark Cheshire, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, said Bernstein has taken steps to keep criminals off the street, including creating a "special victims unit" that he says engages in "evidence-based prosecution" when victims recant.
"The state's attorney's No. 1 priority is combating violent crime, particularly repeat violent offenders," he said. "The results are showing that we are making progress. We have a lot to do, as this most recent weekend demonstrates, but we're making progress."
Mosby also wondered why Bernstein hasn't been more vocal during the recent crime wave.
"At the end of the day, it's absolutely ridiculous you have the mayor under pressure, you have the police commissioner and no one's asking where the state's attorney is," she said. "He's nowhere to be found."
Cheshire said Bernstein "has routinely shared our efforts to combat violent crime and make Baltimore safer by participating in community meetings, talking to residents one-on-one and speaking to the press."
He noted that Bernstein had met with East Baltimore residents and done two media interviews amid the recent spate of shootings.
Also Thursday, police identified another victim of the recent violence. Terrell Mack Eddie McLaurin, 33, was killed Tuesday in the 2900 block of Gywnns Falls Parkway.
The shootings early Thursday took place just blocks away from the site of that incident, further distressing the people who work and live nearby.
Sunin Im works behind a plexiglass-protected counter in a windowless red-brick building in West Baltimore called Kims Liquor store. Despite the protection, she said, she doesn't feel safe.
Littered around the nearby parking lot of an EZ Mart convenience store at Poplar Grove Street and North Avenue in Walbrook were more than 10 Baltimore police field interview form cards that were folded into little tents to serve as makeshift shell markers.
Blood drops stained part of the drive-through lot between two of the markers in mid-morning as two homicide detectives in suits canvassed the sidewalks for clues and people to interview.
"Of course I'm worried," she said. "I'm scared."
On Thursday night, three women were taken to area hospitals after being shot in the 3300 block of Elmora Ave., police said.
Maj. Richard Worley of the Northeast District said there were 50 to 100 people outside who likely saw the shooting and encouraged them to come forward.
"We can't accept this," he said. "We need the citizens' help."
Baltimore Sun reporters Justin Fenton and Carrie Wells contributed to this article.
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