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When you hear the word "advocacy," do images of marching on Washington, DC, flash through your mind? While that is certainly one way of capturing attention from federal policymakers (and the local DC police!), there are other steps you can take toward making policy shifts or drawing attention within your state. Preeclampsia Awareness Month (May) has provoked volunteers all across the country to secure proclamations or resolutions in 16 states and cities.
In Georgia, veteran Promise Walk coordinator Lori Harrison was fortunate to have some face time with Governor Nathan Deal as he handed her his state's proclamation declaring May Preeclampsia Awareness Month. "It was a surprisingly simple process," Harrison recounted. "I called Governor Deal's office, asked whom I should speak to for my request, faxed in the request and followed up a few weeks later when I was told it was approved." The photo opportunity gave her a chance to personalize the cause for the Governor. "He expressed concern when he found out somebody we knew in common had to deliver early as a result of preeclampsia, not having known that was the cause."
In Virginia, the General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution to declare every May Preeclampsia Awareness Month. Volunteer Julie Dime worked with legislator Timothy Hugo to sponsor the bill. On February 28, it passed the Senate and is now in front of Governor Bob McDonnell where he is expected to sign it by mid-April.
In New York, first time Promise Walk Coordinator Lucy Perez and her family took a unique opportunity to promote the NYC Promise Walk at the State Department of Health. They were there to celebrate the passage of legislation that 27 states have embraced: issuing special birth certificates for stillborn babies. Stillbirth is defined as an unintended uterine death after 20 weeks gestation; anything before that is classified as a miscarriage. In New York state, this multi-year process culminated when the bill, signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo on September 23, 2011 went into effect on March 21, 2012. Now all preeclampsia babies that are stillborn (along with other causes of death) in New York state will be granted an official Certificate of Still Birth to acknowledge the birth of that baby, not just a death certificate. According to recent data, in 2009 the state had 1,711 stillbirths; nationwide there are 24,000 stillbirths per year.
While this Certificate might seem a trivial matter to some, those who have experienced such as loss often explain that it brings enormous meaning and dignity to that baby's existence. Perez, whose grandson Scottie died several months ago, shared her feelings about this need through the "voice" of her grandson: "Please don't let them say I was never born - I was! I made a great impact in my short life; I taught everyone that tomorrows are not promised, and that we should all cherish every moment we are given with one another."


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Senior co-captain Jaren LaGreca and the Crimson will close out the season at Penn Nov. 13 (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Harvard men's soccer team fell in its final home game of the season, losing to Columbia by a score of 1-0 Saturday afternoon at Ohiri Field. Goalkeeper Austin Harms made three saves for the Crimson, which sees its record drop to 4-7-5 overall and 1-3-2 in Ancient Eight action.
The Crimson fell behind the Lions at the 32:39 mark of the first half, as David Najem gave Columbia (6-8-2, 2-3-1) a 1-0 lead. Will Stamatis dribbled the ball near the top of the box and sent a pass to his left, finding Najem, who struck the ball over Harms and into the back of the right side of the cage.
In the second half, Harvard managed one shot on target, but Kyle Henderson's try from 30 yards out was grabbed just below the crossbar by Columbia netminder Alexander Aurrichio for his third save of the afternoon.
Harvard fired nine shots for the game, while the Lions had 12 shots and earned two of the games three corner kick opportunities.
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Many years ago, my father took care of his mother while she was dying from metastasized lung cancer. It was in 1991 and he was blindsided by her diagnosis. Her lingering cough turned into death within 6 months. He loved his mother deeply, and I could see how it made him both physically and emotionally sick to watch her in pain.
A year or two later, my father also had a lingering cough. It never occurred to him that he would follow in his mother's footsteps — he was healthy, ate well, exercised, and had quit smoking 25 years before. They gave him 3 to 6 months to live, but he survived for another 3 years. And those years were mostly painful, full of fear and misery with a few funny, joyous moments and loving expressions of emotion. I was in my late 20s when my father died, and looking back, I can see how unequipped I was for death. I was concerned that he would get addicted to pain medication, but his doctor almost laughed in my face when he told me that wasn't my father's biggest problem. When I visited, my father would share "news" of his day. "I only had to take one morphine tablet, and I walked 18 laps around the house," he would boast.
Caring for him took a deep toll on me as well. It is truly horrible to watch someone suffer. When I spent the night, I would lay there, listening to him gasp for air, coughing, choking, as the tumors grew to fill his airways.
When I was 36 and feeling fine, I received my first breast cancer diagnosis. I was terrified. I remember asking the doctor if I was going to die right away. "I don't know," he answered honestly. But my chemo courses and treatment were nothing like the horrible memories I have of my father's ordeal.
How can it be worse to watch someone you love fight cancer than to have it yourself?
Well, for starters, I am still alive and well, so that helps. But there is also a feeling when you chart your treatment course that you are fighting back — you are taking your first step towards eradicating cancer from your body. I realized how empowering that can be, and I also realized how hard it is to know what your loved one needs. Through my own journey, I came to understand how many times during my dad's illness I did what I thought he would want, rather than listening to what he really wanted or needed. When I was sick, I had similar difficulties with friends and family, including one who said she visited me to see me before I died! That was not the vote of confidence I needed.
Love alone does not teach you how to take care of someone. Of course, you can be a good caregiver for a loved one, but it does complicate things. My own mother has been forever changed by my cancer experience. She is more fragile and more protective (if that is possible), sometimes treating me as though I were a child again. I also think she still believes she has some control over what happens. I don't share that belief. The best I can do is enjoy my life, take the best care of myself I can, and surround myself with the love of family and friends.
I am always touched by the comments that caregivers leave on my blog. They are driving to appointments and missing their own self-care rituals, because cancer trumps a manicure, exercising, or shopping any day. I dedicate this blog entry to someone who cared for me during my treatment. He was like a breath of fresh air, laughing with me and caring for me exactly how I wished to be cared for when I didn't even know what I wanted. I am forever grateful for his humor, love, and compassion, and I wonder — how did he know precisely what I needed at every possible minute?
I would like to ask anyone who is either going through treatment or caring for someone with cancer to open up a dialogue with your loved ones. Especially if you are the person with cancer, think about what you need and want. Show gratitude even when your caregiver misses the mark, and encourage him to listen more closely. Give her a break — a day or a week off, a night out or in. Do something to show how much you appreciate his love and support. If you are the caregiver, do what your patient wants, not what you think they want.
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Spending the day with the campers reminds me why I wanted to start Daisy Rock in the beginning—it's all about inspiring girls to play guitar and enjoy music
Los Angeles, CA (Vocus) August 17, 2010
Daisy Rock Girl Guitars, the original girl-guitar company, presented a girl guitar day on August 4 to Girl Scouts, grades 2-6, during the week-long Musicpalooza camp held at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA.
The girl guitar day began in the Daisy Rock Girl Guitar museum exhibit with Daisy Rock Founder and President, Tish Ciravolo, showing the Girl Scouts her signature Daisy electric guitar that was inducted in 2006 as a landmark, culture-changing music product innovation. The campers learned about what makes the guitar a "girl guitar"—the "Slim & Narrow" neck that fits girls hands and is easier to play, the lightweight design that makes the guitar easier for girls to hold and play, and colorful inspiring designs. Campers then gathered around tables to draw their very own girl guitars. "Spending the day with the campers reminds me why I wanted to start Daisy Rock in the beginning—it's all about inspiring girls to play guitar and enjoy music," commented Ciravolo. "They were so inquisitive as to the different parts of a guitar, and the excitement on their faces as they created their own guitar on paper was just incredible."
The day concluded with a 2-hour class on how to play the guitar, conducted by professional guitar teacher and Daisy Rock endorsed artist, Nikki O'Neill. Each girl received their own Daisy Rock guitar to play during the class and learned to play songs such as "Happy Birthday" and even the classic riff to "Smoke on the Water." "I was really impressed with the girls' progress with just one class," stated O'Neill. "Helping girls to play music on the guitar at such a young age is an amazing thing. There was nothing like this when I was learning, and I really wish there was. It builds such a sense of accomplishment and camaraderie, which is important when taking on a new instrument."
Daisy Rock Girl Guitars offers a complete line of quality girl guitars designed to look and sound great, and to fit the female form. For more info, visit daisyrock.com now!
Daisy Rock Girl Guitars is the original girl guitar company dedicated to successfully supplying and marketing professional quality guitars for females of all ages. All Daisy Rock guitars are designed specifically for the female form and feature lightweight bodies, "Slim & Narrow" neck profiles to better fit smaller hands, and are available in inspiring finishes. Daisy Rock Girl Guitars is comprised of two extensive product catalogs. "DEBUTANTE by Daisy Rock" is a line of guitars that consists of Daisy, Butterfly, Heartbreaker, Star, and other models—geared specifically for beginning guitarists. "DAISY ROCK" is a line of professional guitars and basses consisting of full-scale models like the Rock Candy, Stardust, and Siren series. Daisy Rock Girl Guitars' ongoing mission is to do whatever it takes to help girls play guitar and enjoy music.
Daisy Rock Girl Guitars is led by its Founder and President, Tish Ciravolo. Ciravolo is a highly acclaimed expert on female empowerment and females in music. Tish's expertise has been immortalized by her induction into the Museum of Making Music, the world's premier museum showcasing the history of the music products industry, and she is widely regarded as a visionary in the industry. Ciravolo's deep insight into the subject of girl guitars and female empowerment has made her a sought after and frequent contributor on national and international television, newspapers, magazines, websites, and radio programs including USA TODAY, People, Time, Newsweek, CNN, ABC, NBC, FOX, VH1, the Premier Radio Network, BBC Radio, and the Associated Press. Daisy Rock Girl Guitars is in over 25 countries worldwide, and is co-owned and distributed by Alfred Music Publishing.


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In short Munzee is similar to Geocaching. That is you go to a website http://www.munzee.com and make an account. Once registered you can then make Munzee Cards. Each Munzee Card has a QR code on it. The QR code has all the information about that particular Munzee Hide. You activate the actual Munzee Hide by using your smartphone and the Munzee app by scanning the QR code at the place you want to hide the Munzee card.
To find a Munzee card you simply use the same app on your smart phone and look at the local map. You can zoom in enough to get a pretty good bead on where it is at. When found scan the QR code to earn your points.
That's pretty much all that is to it. The nice thing is you can either choose to hide your Munzee card in a container like a geocacher or place it on or behind a magnet. There will be tons of ways invented I am sure.
Now for the reason of this post. One of the ways that I saw a Munzee card hidden was with a lamintation similar to the photo above. The hider used a hole punch and a tie to attach it to a tree branch. The second I saw this I wondered how waterproof the hole now made the Munzee card?
To The Dunk Test!
The first of a series of tests was to see exactly how water resistant a hot lamintation would be. To test it I used a plastic container filled with some water and a business card of mine. The size of it is about the same as a standard Munzee card.
I sunk the card which was no problem and let it sit for an hour. I figured that would be pretty consistent of a couple of rainy days in the wild.
Hot Lamination Dunk Test - No Hole
Time - One Hour
Result - Stayed perfectly dry!
No surprise here. The biggest problem in the wild would be heat and the edges finally splitting but the initial test shows a Munzee card will stand up if not tampered with.
Sir You Have A Hole In Your Munzee...
The next dunk test was to duplicate what I had seen in the wild. I took the same card and punched a whole into it. You can see it here right next to my face. I let it sit submerged for another hour. Guess what happened?
We Have Found Leakage!
Not too much of a surprise when I looked at the card after being under water for an hour. On one side enough water seeped in to discolor half of my face and down into the text making it smear. Imagine all the things that would start happening after a few showers and then mold and anything else that made it inside over time. I would suspect this would not last very long before becoming unreadable.
So if you are going to put Munzee cards out do not put a whole directly into the paper area of the lamination. Try this. Before printing, shrink down the size of the Munzee in the print options to 70% instead of 100%. Then put the card towards the bottom of the sleeve when doing the lamination. This will leave enough of clear plastic to plastic which will bond together. Punch your hole through that area and no leaks! Hope you found this useful and also whetted your appetite for playing Munzee.
Have fun out there.
|Printed 83% to fit room for a sealed hole
Here is what it looks like when you print the Munzee Card at 83% instead of 100%. This leaves more than enough room for your sealed hole to be made.
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All of my friends are already sick of me talking about this, so bear with me - I have an appointment at the hairdresser's this Thursday and I'm getting bangs! I've been thinking about this for ages now and I've finally made the decision to go ahead and do it. I've grown tired of my long, classic hair and I want to change things up a bit, have more of a "look". I'm aiming for a Jeanne Damas type of wispy/outrgrown curtain bang situation, slightly 60s inspired with a dash of boho. Totally my type of look, and I think I'm going to love the result. Either way, if I don't it'll grow out faster than those super thick or straight across bangs, so I don't have a lot to lose here. I've been pinning inspiration pics like crazy so check out my bangs board if you like!
pictures from pinterest, google and myself - I cut a piece of clip in hair extensions to get realistic fake bangs :'D
I'm still slightly stressed out though. I used to get my hair cut or coloured on a whim without regrets even if the result wasn't perfect (I've had multiple pixie cuts and short bobs so you know I ain't squeamish), but since my last big haircut (the unfortunately layered lob of 2013) I have been having a really ridiculous hair related case of PTSD. I liked my haircut when I left the salon, but after things settled it became apparent that the cut was shorter than what I had asked for, and had shitty, bad layers that only "worked" when I curled or straightened my hair into oblivion - or when I wore a hat. I wore lots of beanies.
What I asked for - what I got. Close but no cigar.
To add insult to injury, my hair was looking glorious just before I cut it. I had cut off two years of hairgrowth to get a cut I didn't even like, and it totally set off some sort of anxiety. I was so angry with myself for making such a stupid, impulsive decision that left me with bad hair for half a year, and I kept wishing I could just go back in time and take back my cut. I mean, I know it's ridiculous, but it still made a big impact on me to the point where I still have nightmares about getting an unwanted haircut! I want to get over that trauma and do something more with my hair than getting the ends trimmed, so cross your fingers for me and help me get past my ridiculous hangups this Thursday.
So, conclusion! I'm getting wispy, long curtain bangs, and it's going to be awesome. Has to be. Feel free to share hair related trauma here.


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WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department released
its acreage report on Wednesday. Following are highlights from the report.
Corn Planted Acreage Up 2 Percent from 2009
Soybean Acreage Up 2 Percent
All Wheat Acreage Down 8 Percent
All Cotton Acreage Up 19 Percent
Corn planted area for all purposes in 2010 is estimated at 87.9 million acres,
up 2 percent from last year. The largest increases in planted acreage compared
to last year are reported in Illinois and Kansas, both up 600,000 acres from
2009. Other notable increases were shown in Indiana, up 400,000 acres;
Missouri, up 300,000 acres; and Ohio, up 250,000 acres. The largest decrease in
planted acreage is reported in Iowa, down 400,000 acres, while both Nebraska
and South Dakota are down 350,000 acres from the previous year.
Soybean planted area for 2010 is estimated at a record high 78.9 million acres,
up 2 percent from last year. Area for harvest, at 78.0 million acres, is also
up 2 percent from 2009, and will be the largest harvested area on record, if
realized. Compared with last year, planted acreage increased by 300,000 acres
or more in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, and Nebraska. The States with the largest
declines compared with last year are Arkansas, down 270,000 acres, and North
Carolina, down 250,000 acres. Record high planted acreage is estimated in
Kansas, Nebraska, New York, and Pennsylvania, and planted area will tie the
previous record high in Minnesota and Oklahoma.
All wheat planted area is estimated at 54.3 million acres, down 8 percent from
2009. This is the lowest United States total since 1971. The 2010 winter wheat
planted area, at 37.7 million acres, is 13 percent below last year. Of this
total, about 28.5 million acres are Hard Red Winter, 5.8 million acres are Soft
Red Winter, and 3.4 million acres are White Winter. Area planted to other
spring wheat for 2010 is estimated at 13.9 million acres, up 5 percent from
2009. Of this total, about 13.3 million acres are Hard Red Spring wheat. Durum
planted area for 2010 is estimated at 2.68 million acres, up 5 percent from the
previous year. Growers in North Dakota planted more wheat than Kansas for only
the fourth time on record.
All Cotton plantings for 2010 are estimated at 10.9 million acres, 19 percent
above last year. Upland planted area is estimated at 10.7 million acres, up 19
percent from 2009. Increased planted acres are expected in all States except
Louisiana, where acres are unchanged from last year's record low. In Alabama,
California, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, planted
acreage increased over 30 percent with California experiencing the largest
percentage gain with a 76 percent increase. American-Pima cotton growers
planted 209,000 acres, up 48 percent from 2009.


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If you've got a cool post apocalyptic style, like drawing weird and twisted stories, can't seem to commit to a full 24 page comic then the new A4 full colour comic book 'Gloom Machine' is for you.
Gloom Machine is a 2000AD style comic magazine printed in full colour, with 4 separate short stories of approx 6 pages each written by one of our talented guest writers. All stories are based on the world of the Gloom Machine, part Mad Max, part Resident Evil Apocalypse, part Silent Hill. So think, plenty of action, violence, zombies, and guys and girls with big guns.
We are looking for artists to contribute art to 6 page stories. It can be mono, inked, not inked or full colour (as long as the non inked pencils are tight enough to print).
If you want to be part of the first issue, get your interest in quick as it goes to print in March 2011
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According to TMZ, the Fulton County medical examiner's report, Shawty Lo's female passengers asked responding officers if they could take the cash from Shawty Lo's pockets. The officers allowed them to do and they left behind $16.
The report also says Lo emitted a strong odor of alcohol when his body bag was opened and that a prescription pill bottle labeled Promethazine, but actually contained Percocet and Vicodin, was found on his person, according to TMZ.
Shawty Lo leaves behind 11 children and 10 baby mamas.
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Remembering Greatness: The Celebrity Deaths Of 2016
1. Rapper Shawty Lo died in a fiery Atlanta car crash on the morning of Sept. 21.Source: 1 of 14
2. Sportscaster John Saunders passed away suddenly at the age of 61 on Aug. 10. The details surrounding his passing are still unclear.Source: 2 of 14
3. Actor Gene Wilder, best known for his role in 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' died on Aug. 29 from Alzheimer's disease.Source: 3 of 14
4. Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali passed away on June 3 after a 32-year battle with Parkinson's.Source: 4 of 14
5. Actor Anton Yelchin, best known for his role as Chekov in 'Star Wars,' passed away minutes after a June 19 car accident.Source: 5 of 14
6. Actor Ron Lester died on Aug. 4 of kidney failure. He was best known for his role in 'Not Another Teen Movie.'Source: 6 of 14
7. 'The Voice' star Christina Grimmie was shot dead at 22 years old by a man who opened fire on her while she signed autographs.Source: 7 of 14
8. Legendary singer Prince tragically died from an accidental prescription drug overdose on April 21. He was 57-years-old.Source: 8 of 14
9. WWF wrestler and actress Chyna died from an accidental overdose of Valium and Ambien on April 20. She was 45 years old.Source: 9 of 14
10. 'Blood, Sweat, & Heels' reality star Daisy Lewellyn died from a rare form of liver cancer on April 8.Source: 10 of 14
11. Singer Denise Matthews, aka Vanity, died from kidney failure at the age of 57 on Feb. 15. She was Prince's protegée and ex-girlfriend.Source: 11 of 14
12. Singer Maurice White passed away on Feb. 3 after battling Parkinson's disease. He was the founder of R&B group Earth, Wind, & Fire.Source: 12 of 14
13. Rock star David Bowie died on Jan. 10 after battling cancer for 18 months. He was 69.Source: 13 of 14
14. A Tribe Called Quest rapper Phife Dawg passed away on March 22 due to complications from diabetes. He was 45 years old.Source: 14 of 14
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Cambridge, Mass.- UMBC senior guard Brian Neller (Red Bank, N.J./Christian Brothers Acad.) has been named America East Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week for games ending Feb. 3, 2013.
Neller netted a heavily-contested 25-footer with 0.5 seconds to play to propel the Retrievers to a thrilling 68-67 victory over Maine at the RAC Arena on Sat., Feb. 2.
He shook off a difficult first half and hit 3-of-6 from behind the arc in the second half to finish with 12 points. On Wednesday, Neller scored a season-high 18 points, hitting 6-of-13 from behind the arc in the Retrievers' 61-58 victory at Binghamton on Wed., Jan. 30.
Neller, who moved into fifth place on UMBC's all-time 3-point field goal list (now 228) with six at Binghamton on Wednesday, has 25 treys in his last six outings. He needs four more treys to move past Skip Saunders (1990-94) and into fourth place.
He leads America East in treys per game (now 3.6) in league play and is fifth in 3-point percentage at 39.5.


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Dear Parent(s):
Greetings! On behalf of the Division of Student Affairs, I am delighted that your student has chosen the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) for their educational needs. By doing so, they have become part of our community of scholars and Hawk Nation. I understand sending a student off to college is not always easy; however, you should know the academic success and holistic development of your student are our primary goals. The Division of Student Affairs exists to serve your student's needs from orientation to graduation. Within our community, your student will find many new experiences and challenges that will not only foster their growth and development, but also test their intellectual and creative limits, both within and beyond the boundaries of the classroom.
As Vice President, I believe it is a fundamental purpose of higher education to help young men and women mature and develop into sound independent thinkers; therefore, over the coming years I hope we can establish a relationship that facilitates your student achieving this goal. However, it is important to note that there may come a time, due to a federal law - Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), when I may be prohibited from discussing with you certain educational issues regarding your student, without their written permission. It is during this time that I will encourage a dialogue between you and your student. Despite this limitation, I am here to help you and your student get the most out of their experience at UMES. My team serves as advocates and primary points of contact when either you or your student has questions or concerns.
Our richly diverse student body and faculty contribute to a community of scholars that will prepare your student to live, work, and succeed in a global society. In addition, we offer a broad range of co-curricular programs and educational opportunities that integrate instruction with field-based learning, research and service.
As an engaged parent, I invite you to join our Parent Association at "parents.html" and learn more about the role you can play in helping us shape your student's education. As member of the Parent Association, you will discover what is so exciting and dynamic about our university. Again, welcome to the UMES community. We are grateful for the privilege of being a part of your student's developmental experience.
Best regards,
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Gerard has been added to the guest schedule for Good Morning America on Thursday, July 23. GMA airs on ABC from 7am-9am. Check your local listings for the channel in your area.
Below is a list of appearances for the upcoming week (all the below are on our calendar):
20 July 2009 – Hollywood Comedy Film Showcase advance screening and cast Q&A of THE UGLY TRUTH
21 July 2009 – The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
23 July 2009 – Good Morning America
24 July 2009 – Live with Regis & Kelly
We have updated our favorites on YouTube covering the many clips from The Ugly Truth and its world premiere. Visit this page for all the latest! The first one from Eligible.tv is especially entertaining!
KTLA (Los Angeles) – "The Ugly Truth" Stars Dish to Ross King
Visit the latest news for new interviews, reviews and more from The Ugly Truth press junket and new info on Gamer.
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The included 16-50mm Retractable Zoom Lens has an electrically-driven zoom mechanism. With a 35mm equivalent focal length of 24-75mm, it has a normal zoom range allowing you to capture wide-angle shots, portraits, and everything in between. The lens has a maximum aperture of f/3.5 - 5.6, with a minimum aperture of f/22 - 36 for greater depth of field. ED glass and aspherical lens elements correct for curvature of field on the wide-angle end and spherical and chromatic aberration on the telephoto end, improving the accuracy and quality of the entire image. Built-in Optical SteadyShot image stabilization enables clear, blur-free images and video. The lens measures 2.6 x 1.8" / 6.60 x 4.57 cm (maximum diameter x length), but its retracting mechanism allows it to collapse to only 0.19" (0.48 cm) long for easy storage and transport. The lens has an angle of view of 83-32°, with a maximum magnification of 0.215x.
The camera is equipped with a large 3" (7.6 cm) 921K-pixel TFT LCD monitor. The screen's angle can be adjusted. The LCD also features peaking. The XGA OLED Tru-Finder EVF is an electronic, eye-level through-the-lens viewfinder with a 2359K-pixel resolution and a high contrast ratio.
The NEX-6 has Fast Hybrid Autofocus, a feature commonly found only in DSLRs. It combines phase detection AF for quick response when tracking fast-moving subjects (vital when shooting at up to 10 fps), and contrast-detection for more precision. A further refinement in focusing is Peaking AF display, which makes manual focusing more precise by highlighting the edges that are in focus using a color of your choice (white, red, or yellow).
Wi-Fi capability is built into the NEX-6, and it's also compatible with Sony's PlayMemories camera apps. Using these two features, you'll be able to do things like tether your camera to your smartphone with the ability to see the image on your phone and use your phone to trigger your NEX-6. You can also do time-lapse photography, or transfer photos directly from your NEX-6 to your smartphone (allowing you to share them directly with friends) or immediately upload photos to social media sites like Facebook.
Quick Navi control puts Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual functions at your fingertips, along with many other creative options, giving the NEX-6 a DSLR feeling without the DSLR bulk. A Photo Creativity interface has settings like Background Defocus, Color, Vividness, as well as most Picture Effects that can be easily changed and seen in real time, using the control dial.
The NEX-6 features a six-image layering technology, which quickly takes six photos in low light and combines them into one photo for a sharper picture in Hand-held Twilight mode, and to control blur in Anti-Motion Blur mode. Auto HDR (High Dynamic Range) is also built-in. It automatically takes multiple images of high-contrast scenes and combines them for a picture with improved contrast control. The built-in flash is also useful as a fill light in low-light situations.
The Multi-Interface Shoe on the top of the camera not only allows you to use Sony flashes, it's compatible with Handycam accessories such as microphones for recording high-quality sound, opening up further possibilities for shooting video.
16.1 MP APS-C Size CMOS Image Sensor
The same sensor format that Sony builds into the full-sized α DSLRs. With 13 times the area of the typical point-and-shoot image sensor, APS-C makes the difference between "snapshots" and "photographs," delivering an exceptional combination of high resolution, high sensitivity and pleasingly blurred backgrounds.
E-Mount Lens Compatibility with A-Mount Lens Option
The camera accepts Alpha NEX E-mount lenses, including normal-range, wide-angle, wide-to-telephoto and portrait-to-long telephoto zooms; mid-range, wide-angle and macro primes; and wide-angle and fisheye converters. With optional Alpha NEX Camera Mount Adapters, you can also use Alpha A-mount lenses on the camera
16-50mm Zoom Lens Included
Lens features electrically-driven zoom mechanism, as well as dual-function control ring for both zooming and manual focus. With 35mm equivalent focal length of 24-75mm, lens has normal zoom range allowing you to capture wide-angle shots, portraits, and everything in between. Lens has maximum aperture of f/3.5 - 5.6, with minimum aperture of f/22 - 36 for greater depth of field. It contains 9 total elements in 8 groups, including 1 ED (extra-low dispersion) glass and 4 aspherical lens elements that correct for curvature of field at wide-angle focal lengths and spherical / chromatic aberration at telephoto end. The lens features 7 circular aperture blades, as well. Built-in Optical SteadyShot image stabilization results in clear, blur-free photos and videos. The lens measures 2.6 x 1.8" / 6.60 x 4.57 cm (maximum diameter x length), but its retracting mechanism allows it to collapse to only 0.19" (0.48 cm) long for easy storage and transport. The lens has an angle of view of 83-32° and a maximum magnification 0.215x. It contains an internal stepping motor, as well as a distance encoder
Fast Hybrid AF
Sony's advanced Fast Hybrid AF combines two technologies for improved performance: Phase detection AF for quick response that is ideal when tracking fast-moving subjects and contrast-detection AF for added precision. An appropriate match that delivers optimal Auto Focus for fast, precise focusing in any scene. Phase-detection AF has 99 points, while contrast-detection AF has 25 points. AF Illuminator: Built-in, LED type, with a range of approx. 1-9.8' / 0.3-3.0 m (with E PZ16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS attached). AF micro adjustment with LA-EA2 (sold separately)
3" 921K-Dot TFT LCD
Angle Adjustment: Up - Approx. 90 degrees, Down - Approx. 45 degrees. Brightness Control: Manual (5 steps between -2 and +2), Sunny Weather mode. Real-time image adjustment display: On/Off. Peaking: Yes (Level setting: High/Mid/Low/Off, Color: White/Red/Yellow). Customization: Graphic display/Display all info/Big font size display/No display info/Levels/Histogram/Viewfinder
XGA Tru-Finder OLED Viewfinder
This eye-level, through-the-lens viewfinder begins with 2359K dots for improved resolution and a high contrast ratio for incredible depth. OLED reduces motion blur to a bare minimum. You can also see the results of camera adjustments in real time with striking color and detail. Brightness control: Auto, Manual (3 steps between -1 and +1). Display: Basic info; Levels; Histogram
Wi-Fi Sharing
Wi-Fi capability lets users transfer photos directly to smartphones and tablets with the PlayMemories mobile app. Wi-Fi capability allows for sharing, viewing and saving photos for expanded photo-shooting enjoyment. Photos can be easily transferred to smartphones and tablets, viewed on large screen TVs, or saved to PCs.
Advanced Control Dial
Mode control dial and Quick Navi assure quick and intuitive operation comparable to a DSLR's. Control dial and Fn (function) button combine to facilitate speed in getting the shot.
Full HD Movies at 60p/60i/24p
Capture HD movies in your choice of smooth 60p, standard 60i or cinematic 24p, all at full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution. AVCHD codec delivers exceptional picture quality. MP4 codec offers smaller files for easier upload to the web.
Multi-Interface Shoe
Unlike conventional cameras, the NEX-6 features a newly developed Multi-Interface Shoe that expands compatibility with Handycam accessories, thus raising the potential for photo/movie shooting.
Built-in GN6 Pop-up Flash
A built-in Guide Number 6 flash is located on top of the camera. It is ideal for shooting in dimly lit settings and can be used as a fill flash when shooting in bright sunshine or to produce catch lights in portraits. The flash combines with high ISO 3200 (extendable up to 25600) and a large APS-C HD CMOS sensor for beautiful low-light photos. Max angle of coverage equivalent to 16mm focal length
Electronic Shutter
Vertical-traverse, focal-plane type. Speeds: Still images: 1/4000 to 30s (Bulb); Movies: 1/4000 to 1/4 (1/3 steps), up to 1/60 in AUTO mode (up to 1/30 in Auto slow shutter)
Fast 10fps Burst Shooting
Continuous shooting: Max. 3fps; Speed Priority: Max.10 fps. Maximum number of frames: Up to 15 in Fine mode, 16 in Standard, 11 in RAW, 10 in RAW+JPEG
Picture Effect Mode
There are 11 picture effects modes to choose from: Posterization (Color, B/W), Pop Color, Retro Photo, Partial Color (Red, Green, Blue, Yellow), Soft High-key, High Contrast Monochrome, Toy Camera (Normal, Cool, Warm, Green, Magenta), Soft Focus, HDR Painting, Rich-tone Monochrome, and Miniature. Each is unique and each gives you a way to make your images and videos pop.
Photo Creativity Interface
The Photo Creativity interface enables you to easily enjoy the creative expression of SLR-quality digital imaging without the complicated settings. Changes can be made using the control dial with results seen in real time on the LCD. Settings include: Background Defocus, Brightness, Color, Vividness and most Picture Effects.
Auto Portrait Framing
Simply photograph a person and Auto Portrait Framing will save an additional, optimally framed image in portrait or landscape orientation. Combining Face Detection and By Pixel Super Resolution technologies with rule of thirds, Auto Portrait Framing provides composed and appealingly balanced full resolution portraits.
Clear Image Zoom
Utilizing Sony's exclusive By Pixel Super Resolution Technology, Clear Image Zoom increases the effective focal length of your lens up to 2x by digitally magnifying the center of your image with minimal degradation. It virtually doubles the effective focal length of whatever lens you're using providing greater shooting flexibility.
Digital Zoom
Approx. 4x (still images and movies)
Convenient USB Charging
Easily recharge the camera via USB charging. Simply connect the bundled USB cable and recharge the battery without removing it from the camera, either via AC outlet or PC connection.
Auto HDR Built Into Camera
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography captures more scene contrast than a single exposure can handle by combining the best highlight detail from one shot and the best shadow detail from another for one incredible shot. Until recently, you needed a computer and editing software. Sony builds HDR in. Handles severe backlighting and other high-contrast scenes. (Recommended for still subjects.). Auto Exposure Difference, Exposure difference Level (1.0-6.0 EV at 1.0 EV step), off
6-Image Layering
The camera leverages the large, APS-C image sensor and captures six images in a fraction of a second. The camera then combines the data from the 6 different images up to ISO 25600 to create a single image. This method is used to control blur in Anti-Motion Blur mode or to get cleaner, sharper nighttime pictures in Hand-held Twilight mode.
Sweep Panorama Technology
Capture expansive landscapes automatically. Press the shutter, sweep vertically or horizontally. The camera does the rest, continuously shooting images and stitching them together for up to a 23MP image size. The camera is capable of up to a 202° sweep angle (16mm focal length).
Anti-Motion Blur Mode
Corrects for subject movement to capture clean, sharp images in low light. The camera leverages the large, APS-C image sensor and captures six images in a fraction of a second. Combining the data from all six creates a single image that minimizes subject blur.
Intelligent Auto Focus
Pre-focuses as you compose the shot, further reducing focusing time to a bare minimum.
Peaking AF Display
The Peaking AF display makes precise manual focusing much easier by highlighting the edges that are in focus in your choice of three colors (white, red, or yellow). This is especially helpful during macro or portrait photography where your focal plane can make or break your shot.
Manual Focus Assist
Greatly magnifies the viewfinder image (4.8x, 9.6x) when you touch the focus ring, making it easy to get razor-sharp images. Works with E-mount lenses only.
Enhanced Tracking Focus
Tracking Focus continuously tracks a user-designated subject and is now more effective at tracking people. If the subject turns away from the camera, face-detection tracking automatically switches to subject tracking and continues tracking.
Face Detection Technology
The camera can automatically detect up to eight individual faces and adjust focus, exposure, white balance and flash to help deliver crisp, properly lit images of family and friends. It can prioritize children or adults.
Smile Shutter Technology
Captures a smile the moment it happens. Simply select the Smile Shutter mode and the camera takes the picture automatically. You can prioritize children or adults and adjust the smile sensitivity.
D-Range Optimizer (DRO)
Improves results with backlit subjects and recovers details hidden in shadows. Settings include Auto Level with a choice of five operating levels and Off.
Exposure Compensation
Still images: +/- 3 EV in 1/3EV steps; Movies: +/- 2 EV in 1/3EV steps
Exposure Bracketing
With 1/3, 2/3, 1, 2, 3EV increments; 3 frames
Noise Reduction
Long Exposure NR: (On/Off, available at shutter speeds longer than 1 second). High ISO NR: (High/Normal/Low)
Creative Styles (6 Modes)
Control how the camera processes your images with six finishing styles: Standard, Vivid, Portrait, Landscape, Sunset and B&W (Contrast (-3 to +3 steps)). You can even fine-tune contrast, saturation (-3 to +3 steps), and sharpness (-3 to +3 steps) to your personal taste.
PhotoTV HD Compatibility
Optimizes compatible BRAVIA televisions for flattering display of digital pictures.
MS Duo/ SD Slot
For cost-effective, convenient storage and sharing of your images, the camera accepts Memory Stick PRO Duo/Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo and SD/SDHC/SDXC media (Class 4 or higher recommended). Memory card is required (sold separately).
Anti-Dust Sensor
Anti-Dust Technology helps keep the CMOS sensor clean, resulting in consistently clear pictures. First a static-free coating on the sensor's low-pass filter helps repel dust. Then vibration automatically dislodges dust from the sensor.
Still Image Playback Options : Single, 6/12-frame index view, Enlarged display mode, Panorama (Standard), Panorama (Wide): 34x), Auto Review, Image orientation, Slideshow, Panorama scrolling, Folder selection, Delete, Protect. Video Playback Options: Forward/Rewind
Exif Print, Print Image Matching III, DPOF setting
Additional Features
Shooting Tips, Help guide, Area Setting, Clock Function / Setting, Eye-Fi ready, Shop Front Mode


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• Available to the public, hopefully.Originally posted by walkanotherday:
I have a few questions regarding your FAQ
When you say something will be available in 8 years do you mean available to the public or available for clinincal trials on humans?
• No, I don't believe that the success of treatments is proportional to the time after injury. This is not the case, for example, for Dr. Huang's patients, so far. One of the reasons why I have been advising people to be patient is because I think that a better therapy in two years is preferable to a not-as-good therapy today.Is it true that the success rate of a treatment or surgery that can restore function or improve quality of life is inversely porportional to the patient's post-injury time? 1 year is better than 10 years? If that's the case, one would have to decide between waiting for a safer and better procedure in the future or taking advantage of the window of opportunity now, right?
• It is true that FES does not work as well with lower thoracic injuries that may have damaged some of the gray matter (containing neurons) that innervate the muscles of the legs. That is because the spinal cord ends at vertebral level L1. A T8-10 injury may have damaged some of the upper lumbar spinal cord segments. However, you should still be able to stimulate the lower muscles of your legs. Are you taking any baclofen and do you have any spasticity in your legs?FES does not seem to work below injury (T-8 to t-10 lesion & 2 years post). When I use FES I don't see my muscles move. Does that mean it's not working? Why is that?
There is some preliminary data suggesting that if standing is started early after injury, it may prevent osteoporosis. Apparently, according to some studies, standing an hour a day alone is not sufficient to reverse osteoporosis. On the other hand, standing an hour a day plus taking biphosphonates and/or parathyroid hormone may reverse osteoporosis.Is 1 hour a day on the standing frame enought to prevent Osteoporosis?


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the names of the games, part 1: board games
Most of you will know that (BrE) draughts is (AmE) checkers. Or checkers is draughts -- I can't figure out whether I think the earlier term should go first or last in that equation, I can see the connotations going either way. You may also know that Americans spell draught as draft, reflecting the fact that the 'gh' is pronounced 'f', but while I have seen the board game sold as Checkers/Draughts in the US, I've never seen the BrE name of the game translated into AmE spelling. (I'm not going to get into the pronunciation of the vowel...suffice it to say that it too is different in different places.) Where do these names come from? It's a tricky question, since the OED, amazingly enough, includes neither draughts nor checkers. (No, what's amazing enough is my poor dictionary search skills in this instance--see the comments.) The Online Etymology Dictionary tells us that draughts is related to dragon and goes back to about 1400. Checkers, alluding to the appearance of the board, arose in America in the 18th century. That "OED" (shall I call it OnEtyD?) also notes that "British prefers [the spelling] chequer, but the U.S. form is more authentic." Another case (cf. -ise) of British spelling being influenced by French. So, (AmE) Chinese checkers is known (though not very widely, it seems) in BrE as Chinese chequers. (Chinese draughts seems much less common, and seems mostly to be used by non-native speakers).
BrE Ludo (left, from Wikipedia), from the Latin for 'I play', is the game that Americans call Parcheesi (right, from Robby Findler's software construction course), though as you can see their boards are slightly different. It derives from an Indian game, and the AmE name is based on the Hindi name--which has been spelled in many ways in English, with pachisi sometimes regarded as 'most authenthic'. Parcheesi is the most familiar spelling in the US, as that's how the game was marketed by Selchow & Righter, 'the house that Parcheesi built'.
Once you know about Ludo, it makes more sense that the game that is called Clue in AmE is called Cluedo in BrE. Cluedo came first, as it was named by its inventor, A.E. Pratt of Birmingham, in the 1940s. Since the pun wouldn't be appreciated in the US, it was marketed there as Clue. The game is the same, except for the names of some of the characters, weapons and rooms. There's a nice table of this at Cluedofan.com (click 'International'). The Hollywood film based on the game, incidentally, was called Clue internationally and used the American character names.
I've got other board games to cover under part 2--children's games. There may be a part 3 on card games, if I can find more to mention. E-mail me if you have any suggestions.
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- Anonymous21 January, 2007 23:35
The Ludo/Cluedo/Clue story is a helpful one, but I must addd several (im)pertinent remarks.ReplyDelete
One: I cannot see Cluedo without thinking it contains a gratuitous spelling mistake. The e should go missing unless the word is to be pronounced clew-way-dough, somewhat homophonic with suede. Or suedo. Or... have I been mispronouncing Blue Suedo Shoes all this time? (* What's a pseudophone?)
Two: the pronunciation of BrE words containing gh. Slough, anyone? As it pertains to watercourses the AmE pronunciation tends to be similar to the word describing what St. George did to the dragon. But BrE being what it is, more than one pronunciation is on the books. What about other -gh- words?
Three: UK products (including Commonwealth countries perhaps) whose names are similar to, but inexplicably distinct from their US counterparts: TK Maxx, anyone? Oil of Ulay?
Maybe these are linguistic impertinences, but is that not a staple of this column?
- Anonymous22 January, 2007 08:11
Thank you for finally educating me (clueing me in?) on what parcheesi is! I always rather vaguely assumed it was a card game, maybe similar to bridge. Not that I've ever played bridge, but the two seemed to fit together. My hubby, on the other hand, thought it was similar to boulle/petanc.ReplyDelete
Re: card games. I'm guessing that you've already looked at 'snap'. I've had to explain what I mean to so many americans when they've said something similar to me at the same time, and I've said 'Snap!' to their utter bemusement.
As a matter of interest, is the letter 'u' worth the same number of points in US scrabble, since it's not used as often as in Commonwealth English?
- Anonymous22 January, 2007 08:14
Two: the pronunciation of BrE words containing gh. Slough, anyone? As it pertains to watercourses the AmE pronunciation tends to be similar to the word describing what St. George did to the dragon. But BrE being what it is, more than one pronunciation is on the books. What about other -gh- words?ReplyDelete
Enough, thought, through, thorough, though, cough...
No wonder foreigners find English tricky.
OED does have "draughts", but under the listing for the singular noun:ReplyDelete
"22. a. pl. A game played by two persons on a board of the same kind as that used in chess, which game it somewhat resembles, though of much simpler character, all the pieces or 'men' being of equal value and moving alike diagonally. (In U.S. called checkers, in Scotl. dambrod.) {dag}({beta}) rarely drafts.
c1400 Destr. Troy 1622 The draghtes, the dyse, and o{th}er dregh gaumes. a1602 W. PERKINS Cases Consc. (1619) 346 The games of chesse, and draughts. 1791 BOSWELL Johnson an. 1756, The game of draughts..is peculiarly calculated to fix the attention without straining it. 1870 HARDY & WARE Mod. Hoyle 105 Draughts is entirely a game of mathematical calculation. 1875 JOWETT Plato (ed. 2) V. 391 These pastimes are not so very unlike a game of draughts.
{beta} 1726 FRANKLIN Jrnl. Wks. 1887 I. 116, I tire myself with playing at drafts. 1796 OWEN Trav. Europe II. 405 The evening was passed in a variety of amusements. Some were occupied at drafts. 1816 KEATINGE Trav. (1817) I. 308 They play at what we call Polish drafts."
The etymology would seem to come from the previous meaning for the singular:
"21. A 'move' at chess or any similar game. [F. trait:{em}L. tractus.] Obs.
c1369 CHAUCER Dethe Blaunche 653 At the chesse with me she gan to pley, With hir fals draughtes dyvers She staale on me. ?1370 Robt. Cicyle (Halliw.) 54 With a draght he was chekmate. 1412 HOCCLEVE De Reg. Princ. (Roxb.) 76. 1474 CAXTON Chesse 133 The progressyon and draughtes of the forsayd playe of the chesse. 1594 CAREW Huarte's Exam. Wits viii. (1596) 112 He..makes ten or twelve faire draughts one after another on the Chesse-boord. 1656 BEALE Chess 3 The draught of a Pawne is only one house at a time."
Similarly for checkers. Here's the etymology, which dates at least as far back as C14:
[ME. cheker, aphetic f. ME. and AF. escheker, a. OF. eschekier (= ONF. eskekier, Pr. escaquier, It. scacchiere):{em}late L. scacc{amac}rium orig. a chess-board, f. scacci, sc{amac}chi (pl.) chess, checkers. Cf. CHECK, CHESS, EXCHEQUER.
David: TJ Maxx was named TK Maxx in the UK to avoid confusion with TJ Hughes.ReplyDelete
Oil of Olay, according to Wik, started in South Africa as Oil of Olay and then "As the company began to market the product internationally, it was decided to modify the name of the product in each country so it would sound pleasing and realistic to consumers. This led to the introduction of oil of Ulay (UK), oil of Ulan (Australia) and oil of Olaz (Netherlands)."
Not sure what the thinking behind the different names for Olay was, but maybe there was something phonological in it?
Snap has indeed been covered here previously. Hit on the 'games' tag at the end of the entry to see other games that have already been covered.ReplyDelete
GY--thanks for being better with the dictionary than me. I searched for 'draughts' both in the on-line dict and within the entry and it came up empty for me. But look what a little reading can do for a person... Thanks.
Even though Americans call it "Parcheesi," its spelling indicates that it was devised by a non-rhotic speaker, probably a Briton.ReplyDelete
(Just as the 80s band "Sade" is not really pronounced the same way a rhotic American would say "Shar-day.")
- Anonymous22 January, 2007 19:33
As an American Scrabble player who also plays internationally, I have been exposed to two different sets of jargon. They don't differ so much, but it has sometimes seemed odd to me that the American versions of the terms are actually the sillier ones.ReplyDelete
For example, using all of the tiles at once for an extra fifty points is a (AmE) bingo/(BrE) bonus. "Bingo" is unfortunately the name of a game which isn't as interesting as Scrabble, though it can be made into a verb more naturally than "bonus".
A move using two double- or triple-word squares is a (AmE) double-double (triple-triple)/(BrE) 4-timer (9-timer). I have found only one citation from a non-tournament player of "treble-treble".
The tiles left on a player's rack when the game has ended are (BrE) countback. This is never used in North America, and there is no equivalent term that I am aware of. When I wrote my Scrabble program and needed a name for the variable, I chose gin rummy's "deadwood".
A game or tournament in the UK is played "to" a dictionary, or "to" a set of rules. In the US I've heard about playing to a standard, but we play "with"/"using" a dictionary/set of rules, or more often we just "play [TWL, Sowpods]".
What do Americans call British Bulldog?ReplyDelete
Americans don't generally play British Bulldog. And the British don't seem to play Dodgeball. But these aren't board games.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous22 January, 2007 23:49
Bulldog is called Bullrush in New Zealand. It generally ends up being banned in most schools due to it being too rough.ReplyDelete
We tended to play piggy in the middle rather than dodgeball. I think it helped with netball skills.
- Anonymous23 January, 2007 01:50
How interesting - I'd seen "Cluedo" once before in the past - either in the credits of the movie "Clue" or in a review of the movie, and wondered what that was all about.ReplyDelete
Also, I've heard fellow Americans say "snap!" before. Not really common, and I associate it more with black dialects for whatever reason.
- Anonymous23 January, 2007 01:54
P.S. - in your post about "snap," the game you call slapjack was introduced to me by my nephews, who called it "Egyptian Rescuer." They've lived their whole lives in Florida, and had no idea why it was called that.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous23 January, 2007 04:27
Parcheesi or Sorry in the US? See link above. Cheers, Nic
Sorry is the tradename of a pachisi-based game--there are many of these, e.g. Trouble and Aggravation. We considered them to be different games when I was growing up, but they're pretty much the same thing.ReplyDelete
Snap in African-American culture is related to ritual insulting (The Dozens) (here's a blogger on the matter). It's very different from the BrE use of the term, and, as far as I know, unrelated. The Dozens is wordplay consisting of ever-increasing insults, and 'snapping' is dealing out one of those insults--which seems to have led to the use of snap! just to mean 'I got you--you're hereby insulted'. The BrE term is based on the card game (see link above) and means something more like 'Hey, we're the same!' As people commented back at that post, it feels lucky/friendly to 'snap' someone in BrE, not competitive.
- Anonymous23 January, 2007 17:21
40 odd years ago at Junior School (aged about 10) We used to play a game called 'Kingy'. One person was the 'King' the other had to hit him with a thrown ball. The 'King' had to try and dodge the ball, alternately he was allowed to punch the ball away with a closed fist. Whoever managed to hit the 'king' with the ball promptly became 'King' himself and was then the target.ReplyDelete
Which seems to match up (in concept at least) to some variants of Dodge Ball as described on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgeball
Allie posted a comment that might lead you to another game worth noting -- petanc/petanque/bocce ball -- which I believe are approximately the same thing. I had never heard of petanque until we honeymooned in England. It looked like a fun game. It took us a few years to find it, but we found a nice stainless steel petanque set at Pier One (and that's how it was spelled on the card).ReplyDelete
Also, to answer Allie's Scrabble question, all vowels are worth only one point in American Scrabble. But, along the same line of thinking, maybe the British version of Scrabble contains more U tiles? My (American) version comes with 4.
Definitely in the same family as Dodgeball, but certainly not as widespread. The worst thing about dodgeball is that one typically plays it in gym/PE class. It was school-sanctioned bullying violence. I'm guessing they're probably not forcing it on children quite so much these days...ReplyDelete
Andyman and Allie--the Scrabble sets for English are the same around the world. There aren't that many more 'U's in BrE. Besides, both the u-ful and u-less variations of colo(u)r, favo(u)r, vigo(u)r (etc.) are allowed in all pfficial English Scrabble dictionaries.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous25 January, 2007 02:21
Even far into high school, we used to play a game called 'knuckles'. The idea was to hit your opponents knuckles with yours, and the rules were pretty simple:ReplyDelete
You and your opponent make a fist and press them up against each other, knuckles together.
If you swing and miss, it's your opponent's turn.
If you 'dummy' (false start, intended to result in a flinch) three times without your opponent flinching, then it's your opponent's turn.
If your opponent flinches three times after you dummy, you get a free swing.
Needless to say, this game usually resulted in the letting of blood. But it was a great was for juveniles to pass the time.
jangari - we called it "bloody knuckles", and you only got one flinch, not three, before a free hit.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 February, 2007 19:19
P.S. - in your post about "snap," the game you call slapjack was introduced to me by my nephews, who called it "Egyptian Rescuer." They've lived their whole lives in Florida, and had no idea why it was called that.ReplyDelete
I learned it in college (in Pittsburgh PA) and we called it "Egyptian Rat-Screw". Which is probably phonological confusion from "Rescue", but that's all I know.
(At least, assuming this is the game where you occasionally whack other players' knuckles and there are special rules for doing things simultaneously.)
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- Anonymous08 May, 2008 05:35
Evidentally you never wrote the one on card games, but John McLeod's pages on "national and regional games" http://www.pagat.com/national/ are a good source for that sort of thing. Some of the information on card games in Australia I submitted myself.ReplyDelete
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Me and my brother always loved the film Clue as kids and watched it over and over many times. But we always used to refer to the film as "Cluedo" until fairly recently. In fact, I think we assumed it was called Cluedo at first. We obviously knew that it was different to the British game because the Reverend Green was changed to Mr Green.ReplyDelete


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The former chief executive of bankrupt Nortel Networks and two former senior executives were found not guilty on Monday of falsifying financial reports in what prosecutors said was a scheme to report profits and gain bonuses.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Frank Marrocco dismissed all charges against former chief executive Frank Dunn, chief financial officer Douglas Beatty and corporate controller Michael Gollogly. The verdicts come four years to the day after Nortel sought bankruptcy protection and began liquidating.
Each former executive faced two counts of fraud after being accused of participating in a book-cooking scheme from 2002 to 2003 designed to trigger US$12.8 million in bonuses and stocks for themselves. They were fired in 2004 and pleaded not guilty when the case went to trial last year.
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ōIt is rare to find, in the same artist, the very highest levels of musical talent living alongside the deepest genuine humility. None has that rare combination in higher degree than Vladimir Ashkenazy.ö
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Among the foremost musical figures of our time, Vladimir Ashkenazy was born in Gorky in 1937. He began playing the piano at the age of six and was accepted at the Central Music School at the age of eight. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, having studied with Lev Oborin. He won second prize in the International Frķdķric Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1955, first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels in 1956, and joint first prize with John Ogdon in the 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Since then, he has built an extraordinary career, not only as one of the most renowned and revered pianists of our times, but as an artist whose creative life encompasses a vast range of activities and continues to offer inspiration to music-lovers across the world.
Conducting has formed the largest part of his activities for the past 20 years. Formerly Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic (1998¢2003) and Music Director of NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo (2004¢7), from 2009 to 2013 he has served as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, collaborating on a number of exciting projects including composer festivals, major recording projects and international touring activities. His final concerts, in November 2013, featured BrittenÆs War Requiem.
Alongside these positions, Ashkenazy has continued his longstanding relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra of which he was appointed Conductor Laureate in 2000. In addition to his performances with the orchestra in London and around the UK each season, he appears with them worldwide ¢ including a number of tours scheduled for 2014 ¢ and has developed landmark projects such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich under Stalin in 2003 (a project which he also took to Cologne, New York, Vienna and Moscow) and Rachmaninov Revisited in 2002 at Lincoln Center, New York.
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Featuring an extensive repertoire that ranges from Bach to Bart¾k, Vladimir AshkenazyÆs Decca discography comprises a vast number of recordings, many of which have been crowned with prizes. He received Grammy« awards among others for BeethovenÆs Piano Concertos with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Sir Georg Solti (1973), for BeethovenÆs Sonatas for Violin and Piano with Itzhak Perlman (1978), a Ravel programme of solo works (1985) and ShostakovichÆs Preludes and Fugues (1999).
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I'm new to XFce and I'm having a few problems with Orage the fisrt is that when I click on New or View Selected Date->New then I fill in a Title, Location and Dates and then Save and then Close now if I view the selected date there are no entries under it.
Also something I have noticed since I looked at some screen shots of it, my version has a lot of the words in the buttons and tabs cut off, well actualy it seems to be the start of the word that's cut off.
I have tried rooting around in the settings but there doesn't appear to be anyhting that would obviously stop me saving there.
I'm running xubuntu with Orage/XFce version 22.214.171.124.
It could even be a permission thing but I'm just guessing.
From the terminal the output is:
** Message: Orage **: Too small icon size, using static icon
** Message: Orage **: Build alarm list: Processed 9 events.
Found 0 alarms of which 0 are active. (Searched 0 recurring alarms.)
** Message: Orage **: NEW appointment: 20070108
** Message: Orage **: Added: Orage-20070108T090531Z-1000@bush
** Message: Orage **: Modified: Orage-20070108T090531Z-1000@bush
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It looks to me like it's saving them but it's just not displaying them. That would fit in with the display being messed up.
Please click on the link for it in full size (it's just a link to ImageShack picture hosting thing. Sorry I don't have any web space).
It looks more like a corrupted translation file.
What is your LANG varable?
Does it help if (from a terminal) you do
LANG=C orage
Could be...
I had a problem with some strange language translations (it added "Button Lable |" infront of labels) in one of my menus (Settings Manager).
I'm using LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
I tried what you said and it didn't help.
Sorry, no idea then what is wrong.
If it's the language file can I manually change it? Does someone have an entry for it that I could copy in?
Yep the translation file was gubbed, I've replaced it with a fresh one and it's workin well now.
Well except for having the words "Button Label|" infront of the 1st 5 items in the settings menu. It was trying to fix this that I must have broken Orage in the first place.
Oh well....
Great to hear that it works now.
That button label text is actually error done by translator.
It will be fixed in the final 4.4 Xfce release, not before.
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The effects of a parent's bond with a child have been a popular topic in the news. But what does the science say? The Museum's upcoming four-week course The Parent-Child Bond: Behind the Science of Attachment, which begins on April 17, will explore the latest psychology and neuroscience on attachment through expert guest speakers, online resources, documentary footage, and in-class projects. Howard Steele, a professor of psychology at The New School and founder of the journal Attachment & Human Development, will be a guest lecturer for the course and also appears in the Museum's attachment-themed Science Bulletin, part of the Museum's innovative exhibition and online media program. Below, Steele answers a few questions about the psychological effects of parent-child relationships.
How do bonds from the first few years of a child's life affect later development?
Howard Steele: Babies come into the world biologically and behaviorally primed to relate to others who will provide care. Without such care, we would not survive. The quality of care provided is a core influence on brain development and sets up expectations that endure over time and context—for example, when all goes well, "I smile and the world smiles back." These expectations influence interactions and relationships with peers, teachers, and others beyond the initial, ongoing relationships to mother, father, siblings, or grandparents that comprise our families.
Your research also focuses on caregiver-child relationships in foster or adoption situations. Does this type of attachment differ from parent-child relationships?
Steele: The capacity to establish and maintain attachments is so deeply embedded in our nature that when we are removed from an unfavorable caregiving environment, we quickly learn to appreciate a different, higher quality of care such as can be provided by a foster or adoptive situation. Babies and children adapt quickly and positively to the new, more favorable environments both behaviorally and biologically. But the older a child is when adopted, the greater the challenge, especially if the pre-adoptive experiences have been harsh.
How do parent-child bonds affect family members or friends outside of the relationship?
Steele: Via the "expectations" I mentioned above. These expectations are a product of the mind. The mind is thought to include internal working models: "internal" since they are in mind; "working" since they are always monitoring the availability of attachment figures—people we would call on if we were in distress; and "modeling" since they use past experiences to evaluate how dependable others will be in a time of need, and how worthy one is of support.
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I loved transcribing the obituary. Melvin Dart is my husband's 1st cousin twice removed and I didn't have a lot of information on him. This certainly gives me some. Only deficiencies are no maiden name for his mother (I already have that though...Motquin) and doesn't mention anyone preceding him in death. Still, it's information that will need verifying, but it's information I hadn't inputted previously. Always nice.
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Melvin C. Dart, 62, 124 Larch St., Sturgeon Bay, died Wednesday in a Green Bay hospital. He was born July 29, 1911 in Brussels to the late Jule and Odile Dart and married the former Pearl Delwiche, Oct. 18, 1932 in Sturgeon Bay. Mr. Dart worked in the marine construction business and acted as a tug captain for Luedtke Engineering of Frankfort, Mich., until his retirement in 1971.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Reginald, Buna Park, Calif.; Cleyon, Sturgeon Bay; three grandchildren; two brothers, Louis, Green Bay; Julius, Rt. 4, Sturgeon Bay, two sisters, Mrs. William (Anna) Le Mense, Green Bay, and Mrs. Joe (Lillian) Claflin, Two Rivers.
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I am convinced at this stage that what we have is a Potassium Channel Disorder, and there isn't a person alive who will convince me otherwise.
dARR wrote:Some awesome tips here for reducing symptoms.
Just like to add that if these dont work for you dont worry... I have had this for three years and have tried everything and nothing has ever reduced or helped my twitching (i make a slight exception here for vitamin E)...nevertheless... Eating healthier and excercising will make you feel so much better so you have nothing to lose!
Actually for the celiac disease, ie. autoimmune reaction to gluten, has been proven recently to cause neurological disorderds, there is even a case of full-blown ALS mimic which turned out to be a celiac and the guy recovered completely. So I definitely agree that food could be the factor and I will try Gatorade finally
BFSBurger wrote:Hey Gary - should we move this to symptom management like the fellow suggested above? I don't want to double post. Sorry about the misplacement. Unforgivable for a fellow discussion forum owner !!
SecretAgentMan wrote:I LOVE the discussion going on here. This parallels the experience I had with my symptoms as well. I noticed that a strict diet of meats, veggies, potatoes, and fruits helped me greatly as well. Certain veggies, like nightshades (eggplant was one) seemed to act as triggers too, so I just listened to my body if I ate something that caused an uptick in symptoms. Coconut and coconut oils were bad too for some reason. The more I refined my diet, the better I felt for longer periods of time. The probiotics were an important thing for me too and greatly helped me build up my tolerance of foods that didn't agree with me. You guys are validating everything I experienced.
I went to an alternative medicine doctor who was experienced in digestive health issues who explained Leaky Gut Syndrome to me and treated me for it. It involved staying on the diet that BFS Burger is already describing AND it involved pro-biotics like Icanela is describing. So you guys are already doing what you need to do.
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Rules - Stainless Steel
Vice Versa Dual Read Pocket Tape 5m (Width 25mm) (Metric only)
Tapes - Pocket Tapes
Hard Lead Carpenter's Pencils
Carpenter's Pencils
Yellow Medium Lead Carpenter's Pencils Box of 72
Carpenter's Pencils
Carpenter's Pencils (Tub of 10 + Sharpener)
Carpenter's Pencils
2-In-1 Double Sided Gap Pocket Tape 5m/16ft (Width 25mm)
Tapes - Pocket Tapes
Master Precision Class 1 Tape 5m/16ft (Width 25mm)
Tapes - Pocket Tapes