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The following volunteers make up our Executive Board of Directors
Kevin O'Connor, BSc., BEd. - Science Teacher at Delphi Secondary Alternative School
Kevin received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto where he majored in Biology. When he became involved in a study focusing on Duffins Creek, he started to become very interested in the environment. He worked for Pollution Probe for a little while before he started teaching science at Woburn Collegiate Institute. When he left Woburn, Kevin continued his interest in nature by going to Temagami during the hectic 1980s. He also planted trees with the Taskforce to Bring Back the Don. In the meantime, he began teaching at Alternative Scarborough Education 2 where he took students into nature on various excursions. Of course, living in Scarborough, it was inevitable that he heard about Save the Rouge Valley System. The members of SRVS helped to save Pearse House and were a significant factor in getting Rouge Park started. Eventually, this crew created the Friends of the Rouge Watershed, with Cathy Gregorio giving the initiative and Jim Robb providing the energy and knowledge. In Kevins own words,
The focus of Friends of the Rouge Watershed is on educating the next generation to look after the environment, to help nature heal from the onslaught of heedless human activities and to continue to speak for the trees.
Gloria Boxen B.Sc. and M.Sc. - Community Volunteer
Gloria received her Bachelor and Masters of Science degrees from the University of Toronto. Glorias broad environmental interests and activities include: working for a clear separation between built-up urban centres and rural areas; land use planning that develops people-friendly and green urban environments; protection of agricultural land and wildlife habitats; development of economies based on sustainable natural resource stewardship; and education that develops appreciation of the natural world, compassion for all creatures including humans, creativity, and logical and critical thinking.
Ex-officio Director and Founding FRW Member
Cathy Gregorio, Hon. BSc. and B. Ed. - TDSB Secondary School Teacher
Cathy has volunteered and worked for social and environmental causes for much of her life. Cathy was a big sister with Youth Assisting Youth and she later served on the Board of Directors. In the late 1980s, Cathy worked with World University Services Canada (WUSC) to monitor Canadian aid and Adopt-a-Village projects in Ethiopia's Ogaden desert during a terrible famine. In 1987, Cathy joined SRVS and eventually became the group's Executive Director. Cathy's tremendous communications, planning and volunteer coordination skills were vital components of the successful effort to create the Rouge Park. Cathy also helped to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to restore Pearse House as a Rouge Valley Conservation Centre. Cathy's work has been recognized by awards from Outdoor Canada, the federal government and the Rouge Park.
Since 1997, Cathy has worked for the Toronto District School Board teaching science and physical education. Cathy continues to provide strategic planning and communications advice to FRW.
FRW Staff
General Manager
Jim Robb, Hons. B.Sc., B.Sc. Forestry
Jim has a successful record of conservation work within the Rouge Watershed. Between 1986 and 1990, Jim was Vice Chair and then Chair of Save the Rouge Valley System. In this volunteer role, Jim helped develop the Rouge Park vision and the public and government support which led to the 1990 creation of the Rouge Park.
Between 1990 and 1996, Jim was a Vice Chair with the Ontario Environmental Assessment Board and a Niagara Escarpment Hearings Officer. In 1996, Jim left the EA Board and began building FRW into a group which could involve thousands of volunteers in the implementation of the Rouge Park vision. Between 1997 and 2003, Jim helped FRW to raise over $2.5 million to involve 15,000 volunteers in the planting of 200,000 trees, shrubs and wildflowers on 120 hectares (1.2 square kilometre) of priority Rouge Park sites. This work is helping the Rouge Park to expand and reconnect Environmental Sensitive Areas. Jim continues to volunteer many hours to strategic watershed planning initiatives and efforts to protect a large Rouge Duffins Greenbelt Link between Lake Ontario and the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Restoration Projects Coordinator
Andrew Farnsworth, B.Sc.
Andrew was born and raised in Huntsville, ON. He came to FRW in February of 2011 from Trent University, where he obtained his B.Sc. in Physical Geography, specializing in hydrology and soils science. When he can tear himself away from the Rouge, he is working towards a Masters degree in forest hydrology. He conducts his research in the Ganaraska Forest on the Oak Ridges Moraine, observing the effects of forest stand species and age on evapotranspiration and groundwater recharge. Andrews favourite activities in the Rouge are community tree plantings (big surprise!), as they are an immediate and personal connection between himself and the community, the biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere. His favourite tree is the American sycamore and his favourite food is meat (but only that which is raised on his parents Burks Falls farm). Contact Andrew freely with any media, granting or general inquiries email@example.com
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Farmington Hills-based Aco Hardware is joining the Ace Hardware cooperative to position it for growth.
Aco closed 14 of its Michigan stores at the end of August. It plans to transition its remaining 52 stores to Great Lakes Ace stores over the next six months.
Founded in 1946 in Dearborn as Traskos Brothers Hardware Depot, Aco employs about 850 people.
While hardware products are its core business, its brand and product offerings have evolved to include home decorating items and seasonal products.
Aco said in a news release that it hopes to capitalize on Ace's world-class brand and distribution network, merchandise opportunities and wholesale buying power.
"Last year, we committed to our customers that we would invest and grow our business," CFO Mark VandenBerg said.
"After months of research and due diligence, we are confident we have selected the best organization with which to align and grow."
Aco will hold storewide sales to clear its stores of their current inventory beginning today at 26 locations. The remaining Aco locations will be part of a second transition cycle, the company said.

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" "I cannot thank you enough for all your help. HBO was thrilled with the way things were run and how great all of your staff was to work with on the event. We truly appreciate your willingness to accommodate our needs and make our ballpark vision for this event come alive. You have a great space and we will definitely refer people to you guys." " - Kate Youngkin
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Mobile apps and Chrome extensions.
Helvetica restyling.
hnvue / Remix HN - framesets version.
Ajax-y Real-time version.
Hacker News Twitter Feeds with Hashtag Metadata
Dave Winer's firehose approach.
Hacker News, automagically organized.
Hacker Newsers, a way to connect with other readers of the site locally.
Hacker Slide. Hacker News with a slider, showing the leaderboard's change over time.
Hacker Follow. It's like Twitter for Hacker News.
Alternative UI. Similar goal to Hacker Newspaper, but I believe with less background in typography.
Print version.
E-mail newsletter version.
Droid app.
iPad version.
iPhone app
Hacker Polls turns polls on Hacker News into graphs.
I don't even get what this one does, but it looks cool.
SearchYC adds search to Hacker News.
HN Summary summarizes links from HN (apparently only some, not sure what the selection criteria are).
Reddit users discussing the Hacker News Headline Generator
Reddit-like Collapsible Threads for Hacker News (bookmarklet)
Ruby library for accessing HN
HN Trends, data stored and charted
I used a hack to make arbitrary domains invisible on Hacker News for a while.
Simpler Hacker News for Greasemonkey/Greasekit
HN Books, a blatant affiliate marketing play. Maybe useful though.
Personalized version with Summify (not actually a hack per se).
hnsh - Hacker News Shell
HN Toolkit provides the same functionality as well as several other features.
Update: I should mention, Hacker Newspaper actually runs on a combination of Ruby and Python, and the Python component is a cool Hacker News mashup in its own right: HNRSS.
Original Post:
In April I built a Hacker News mashup called Hacker Newspaper. I did it because I was reading Hacker News every day and wanted a superior interface. Since that time, two things have happened: one is that I read Hacker News much less than I used to, including Hacker Newspaper; the other is that I have a much clearer idea what stories do well on Hacker News.
The Hacker Newspaper interface adds a visual hierarchy, in a newspaper style, to the Hacker News feed.
It uses this visual hierarchy to emphasize the popularity of stories.
Hacker Hacker News keeps the same essentially flat information hierarchy of Hacker News, but re-sorts the headlines (and prunes them) based on a Bayesian classifier tuned to exclude TechCrunch-y stories, and emphasize stories with technical content. I planned to create something similar, but never got around to it.
Hacker Top also keeps the flat information hierarchy, but gives you a command-line interface in the style of
top. It has a default refresh rate of every three minutes, which I think would wreck my productivity, and a nice little syntax for specifying alternate values.
As I said, after switching to Hacker Newspaper, I started reading Hacker News less often, and I became more aware of which stories were most popular. Very often, the few stories I cared about never made it to the top "headline" in the interface, and it just drew my attention to how much the interests of the Hacker News community differ from my own interests. Also, the much greater ease of scanning headlines on Hacker Newspaper made me realize how low on content the average "issue" of Hacker Newspaper is for me.
I'm very curious what changes I might have experienced if I had switched to Hacker Hacker News or Hacker Top instead. I don't have time to run this experiment, but I'd be interested in the results if anybody ran it. It could be there's a strong argument here for building your own tools for consuming media.


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Flour in Canada !!
The last Canadian miller, Robin Hood, has been sold to Americans, and I can't find decent white bread flour any more. All of it that I can find now has miserable gluten content, and all the mass market ones now have ascorbic acid added to try to make up for it.
Has anyone found a Canadian source of good white bread flour (4g per 30 g 'serving' minimum) that doesn't have junk added (other than the legally required B vitamins, of course)?


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Alex Pettyfer Takes the Blame for Channing Tatum Feud
Dec 1, 2015 9:36 AM EST
Alex Pettyfer has finally copped to feuding with his Magic Mike co-star Channing Tatum. And in a moment of surprising maturity, Pettyfer admitted he's to blame for earning the wrath of Hollywood's favorite bro. "It's true," Pettyfer admitted on Bret… Read more


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When nature calls and your dog answers—this leash bag will hold four or five grocerystore-size plastic pick-up bags (and even more of the smaller versions) for quick access. Never fumble through your pockets again!
• Fabric
• Elastic (3/8" wide)
• Plastic Snap Hook
• Thread
Cut two rectangles of fabric: one 11 1/2" by 9" for the bag itself and another 3" by 4 1/2" for the loop that attaches the plastic hook. Cut a length of elastic 5 1/2" long.
Take smaller rectangle and fold over 1" (making the rectangle 4 1/2" by 2" inches) and iron. Fold other side in to meet side one and iron in place. Fold side two over creating a crease where the two sides meet, and iron. Stitch down center of rectangle. Fold in half and thread on plastic hook. Fold large rectangle in half, with right sides together. Place small rectangle with plastic hook 2 1/4" in from the fold with 1/2" of the fabric sticking out the top. Sew top and side only with a 3/4" seam. Trim corners and seams. Turn right side out. Turn raw edge under 1/2" and iron. Turn edge under again 1" to create pocket for elastic to be run through. Sew bottom edge with a 1/4" seam from the top and leave a 1 1/2" opening to allow for insertion of elastic.
Attach a safety pin to one end of the elastic and run it through pocket in bag, leaving both ends out. Overlap ends of elastic about 1" and sew them together (make sure that they are sewn securely). Put your fingers in the opening of the bag and pull gently to make elastic disappear into the pocket. Sew the small opening in pocket closed.
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New Website a Resource for Specialty Coatings and More
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Visit the newly developed website of Daubert Chemical to learn all there is to know about the firm's corrosion-preventive chemicals, adhesives, sealants and specialty coatings. A new industry-tab feature allows users to explore specific products and learn how they might fit into their manufacturing processes. Website: www.daubertchemical.com.
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Sleep deprivation may speed up development of Alzheimer's disease.
An invisible cloak called the circumgalactic medium controls a galaxy's life and death.
Call to Action
Editor's Note
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the scientific process and the often contradictory research about Alzheimer's disease.
An invisible cloak called the circumgalactic medium controls a galaxy's life and death.
Sleep deprivation may speed up development of Alzheimer's disease.
The seafloor cables that ferry internet traffic across oceans may soon find another use: detecting underwater earthquakes.
Scientists have made the most precise test of Einstein's theory of gravity at great distances.
Coffee's heart-healthy effects rely on boosting cells' energy production, a study in mice suggests.
The Parker Solar Probe is about to make a historic voyage to touch the sun.
Long-term use of opioids such as heroin is linked to having more brain cells that release a chemical that regulates wakefulness and arousal.
The closest look yet at Zika virus may reveal some vulnerabilities.
A genetically modified poliovirus appears to help fight brain cancer, a small, early-stage clinical study suggests.
The Martian crust had solidified within 20 million years of the solar system's formation.
Researchers have discovered a new gibbon species in an ancient royal Chinese tomb. It's already extinct.
Giving robots instructions via brain waves and hand gestures could help the machines operate more safely and efficiently.
Scientists made a map of the magnetic field within the Pillars of Creation, a star-forming area depicted in an iconic Hubble Space Telescope image.
About 40 percent of high school students are having sex, the lowest amount in the last three decades.
Researchers saw higher levels of herpesvirus in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, which may contribute to plaque formation.
Clusters of proteins transiently work together to turn on genes, new microscopy studies of live cells suggest.
Painted ladies migrate the farthest of any butterfly.
Some plants have compounds that, after exposure to sunlight, produce streaky or spotty burns.
Old boring clam research is upended after 82 years.
In the last half-century, neutrino detectors have spotted particles cast out by the sun, supernova 1987A and a supermassive black hole.
Reviews & Previews
Thor Hanson, the author of Buzz, explains the vital role bees play in our world.
A new book examines how lead ended up in Flint's water and resulted in a prolonged public health disaster.
Letters to the Editor
Readers had questions about the pressure inside a proton, wearable tech safety and the effects of global warming on insects.
Science Visualized
Chemists used a synchrotron to peek beneath 150 years of grime on damaged daguerreotype images, revealing hidden portraits.


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Now, I have to say, I am probably the worlds biggest chocolate fan. As a kid my two favorite deserts were chocolate mousse and flourless chocolate cake. I've spent my life searching out a chocolate creation that was too rich for me, but at the same time creating ultimate bliss in my mouth. Well folks, today was the day! We DID IT. This is the most ridiculous concoction I've ever made, and this is coming from a lady who puts bacon on a cupcake!
Watch as megan assembles the first ever Triple Chocolate Threat at Kumquat Cupcakery......
These will be featured THIS WEEKEND at the Brooklyn Flea!!!!
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Workers' compensation fraud occurs when someone knowingly makes a false representation of a material fact to obtain or to deny workers' compensation benefits or to avoid responsibility under the law.
Fraud can also occur when an employer misrepresents the amount of payroll or classification of its employees. Medical providers can be charged with workers' compensation fraud if they intentionally receive payments to which they were not entitled.
Workers' compensation fraud increases premiums for employers, which reduces the money employers can invest in their employees, community and future growth. However, the lists below provide common "red flags" that can indicate workers' compensation fraud is occurring.
If you suspect someone is committing workers' compensation fraud, you can report it here.
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PhilC wrote:Hi everyone and a happy new year!
This year, I promised myself to finish the current projects (but not to start new ones before the old ones are completed ), so I began to paint heavy cavalrymen for my Late Roman army: the Equites Constantiani feroces (as proposed by Chariobaude).
Their shield pattern is this one:
Here you are the riders:
Minis by Hät - I like them a lot, in spite of the soft plastic - not easy to remove the mold lines, but it proved very easy to paint.
Some historical explanations and more pictures on my blog: http://philotepsfigures.blogspot.com/20 ... uites.html
Other riders coming soon !


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Marion E. Rogers, 90, died unexpectedly, Monday, December 10, 2012, in Fletcher Allen Hospital, due to complications resulting from hip surgery. Her extended family surrounded her during her struggle, with her daughter, Patty and granddaughter, Nichole, holding her close at the very end.
She grew up in Barre and Waitsfield and was a 1940 graduate of Waitsfield High School. She was the eldest of nine children and played a key role in helping to raise her younger siblings.
On August 30, 1947, she married Randall L. Rogers in Barre. Randall and Marion initially made their home in Granville and Hancock, where they both worked in local mills during World War II. In 1959, they moved to Jericho.
Marion was a homemaker and Randall a dairy farmer. Marion will be remembered by her family for her wonderful baking and cooking. The farmhouse was always filled with the smells of fresh baked bread, rolls, cinnamon buns and homemade donuts. The grandchildren fondly remember her chocolate surprise cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies, especially the ones where she forgot to put in the chocolate chips, and her "melt in your mouth" fudge at Christmastime. The spread she put out for the family Christmas Eve celebration could compete with any of today's best caterers!
She was also an avid reader, an enthusiastic shopper and loved experiencing new dining adventures, while enjoying her favorite cocktail. Marion and Randall enjoyed many summers at their camp on Porters Point overlooking our beautiful Lake Champlain. On June 1, 2012, Marion enjoyed a 90th birthday celebration, attended by family and friends. She was so radiant that evening and truly was the "belle of the ball."
Upon the death of her husband, Randall, on June 1, 1998, Marion came to live with her daughter, Patty and son-in-law, Greg, in their home in Essex Junction. Patty and Greg had the joy of Marion's company for 14 years, where her beautiful smile, life experiences and caring ways enriched their lives. Even as she began to experience health issues in the later years, she demonstrated incredible strength, courage and an uncompromising will that helped her be independent for as long as possible.
A fall in April 2012 required Marion to need more care and she moved to Starr Farm Nursing Center. During her nine-month residency at Starr Farm, she never complained and always greeted everyone with a smile. The staff always complimented Marion for her positive attitude, constant smile and gentle spirit. Randall and Marion raised four children: Ronald Comes, Kathie Davis (Tom), Daniel Rogers (Connie) and Patricia Walsh (Gregory).
In addition to her four children, she leaves her grandchildren, Deborah Provost (Jeffrey), David Comes (Laurie), Jeffrey Bishop, Sarah McSweeney, Lee Knowles, Niki Pyke, Stephen Rogers (Tammy), Travis Rogers, Adam Rogers, and Nichole LaForce. She also leaves 13 great-grandchildren, with Randall Bishop and Michael Provost holding a very special place in her heart. Marion is survived by her siblings, Polly Brochu, Terry Rushford, Lloyd Rivers (Donna), and Richard Rivers (Nancy). She also leaves many nieces and nephews, as well as a very dear friend and hair stylist, Shelly Chapin, whose weekly visits to Starr Farm Nursing Center enabled Marion to continue to enjoy one of her favorite things – having her hair washed and styled. Marion was predeceased by her parents; her husband; her brothers Earl, Archie and Kenny Rivers; her sister, Irene Comes; sisters-in-law, Eunice Rivers and Jennie Rivers; brothers-in-law, Leon Brochu, Jasper Comes and Ralph Rushford; and son-in-law, Danny Knowles. Respecting Marion's wishes, there will be no calling hours and services will be private. Arrangements are being made by Gifford Funeral Home, 99 Depot Road, Richmond. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a memorial donation to the Vermont Respite House, 99 Allen Brook Road, Williston, VT 05495.


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JA Global Marketplace®
JA Global Marketplace is designed to provide practical information about the key aspects of the global economy, what makes world trade work, and how trade affects students' daily lives.
JA Global Marketplace is a series of six activities recommended for students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. The average time for each activity is 45 minutes. Extended learning opportunities were developed to enhance and extend the learning of these core activities. JA Global Marketplace contains an optional CD designed as an interactive, take-home piece for students. Materials are packaged in a self-contained kit that includes detailed activity plans for the volunteer and materials for 32 students.
All JA programs are designed to support the skills and competencies identified by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. JA programs also correlate to stat standards in social studies, English, and mathematics, and to Common Core State Standards. JA Global Marketplace was purposefully developed to align with academic content areas, specifically world history, geography, and social studies.
|Pillars of Student Success
|Program Implementation
|Program Grade-Level
|Middle School
|Program Concepts
|Program Skills
|Trade, Market, Domestic trade, International trade, Exports, Trade barrier, Quota, Subsidy, Embargo, Tariff, Standard, Business practices, Culture, Franchise, Global trade, Immigrate, Emigrate, Entrepreneurship, Human resources, Productivity, Technology, Exchange rates, Currency
|Interpreting maps, charts, and globes, Oral and written communication, Working in groups, Gathering and organizing information, Critical reading, Persuasion, compromise, and bargaining, Analyzing points of view, Brainstorming, Critical thinking, Math calculations
Program Sessions
Activity One: "X" Marks the Spot
Working in groups to identify imported items found throughout the classroom, students begin to recognize that trade with other countries affects their daily lives. Students understand that international trade occurs when nations want or need resources or services from other countries because they themselves cannot satisfy those needs and wants at reasonable costs.
Activity Two: You Be The Judge
Students learn that nations use several methods to increase their trade benefits. Agreements with one or more countries often are made to facilitate trade and avoid conflict.
Activity Three: Let's Make a Deal
Students work in groups to identify and understand the business practices used in other countries. Students discover that business practices vary from country to country and that understanding these practices can have a positive impact on trade.
Activity Four: People Power
Students discover how the movement of people facilitates international trade. They discuss examples of immigration and gain insight into the lives of immigrants through creative activities. They learn that economic opportunity often is the driving force behind immigration and global trade.
Activity Five: World of Words
Students discover how advances in communication and transportation have improved productivity and facilitated world trade. From moveable type to the Internet, students trace the international flow of information and its impact on world economies.
Activity Six: World of Money
To participate in international trade, businesses and individuals must be able to purchase goods and services from each other. Students will learn that countries have different currencies with different values. To purchase goods from another country, it usually is necessary to use that country's currency. Some European countries have facilitated the exchange process by adopting the euro as a common currency.


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Re: Re: some music (01/02/18 02:55:03)
Life is quite short, don't put anything off if you can help it.
I can hear so much of the next 20 years in Soft Machine's tunes...
I might have posted a warning about the cinematic orchestra song, it is quite powerful, apologies
here's another that's not quite so somber
The eurovision performance is great, but sound is not.
I've been quite taken with instrumentals in the last few years, listening to the mantovani orchestra, ferrante & teicher, paul mauriat et alia
I'm a sucker for melody, it's quite an experience.
there is millions of years of evolution at work in our listenings and tastings, co-evolution of plants and foods and animals sounds and smells and such
oh and the speed of light is apparently not the limit, the frequency is:
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'Hair is important spiritually, culturally and integral to our self esteem.'
Good Hair
Official trailer:
The Plot:
Chris Rock, a man with two daughters, asks about good hair, as defined by Black Americans, mostly Black women. He visits Bronner Brothers' annual hair convention in Atlanta. He tells us about sodium hydroxide, a toxin used to relax hair. He looks at weaves, and he travels to India where tonsure ceremonies produce much of the hair sold in America. A weave is expensive: he asks who makes the money. We visit salons and barber shops, central to the Black community. Rock asks men if they can touch their mates' hair – no, its decoration. Various talking heads (many of them women with good hair) comment. It's about self-image. Maya Angelou and Tracie Thoms provide perspective.
Click the title below for listening and reading comprehension questions about the trailer and the plot:
Good Hair worksheet 1
How much does it cost?
Click on the title below for a student worksheet on the above clip and also some extra questions.
Good Hair worksheet 2
Bad hair day
Below is a clip from an article featured in the 'Wall Street Journal.
Click here for the full article.
'When A Bad Hair Day Brings You Down'
Scientists at P & G, with help from a Yale psychology professor, surveyed women, before and after using Pantene products, using a questionnaire that psychology researchers use to measure mood. They found women felt less "hostile," "ashamed," "nervous," "guilty" or "jittery," depending on the hair products they used, while at other times they said they felt more "excited," "proud" and "interested."
Lets talk about hair:
Celebrity hair styles
Ask the students if they can think of any celebrity hair icons.
Show students the following icons and ask them if they have ever had a similar hair cut or would like a hair cut like these celebrities.
Crazy hair styles
Ask students if they think a hair style can reflect your personality.
Show students the following photos and ask what they think the models personalities are.
Click below for the accompanying worksheet :
Good Hair worksheet 3
Selling a style
Ask students if they are influenced by hair advertising.
Show students the following hair adverts.
'Because we're worth it':
'Hair comes alive':
Discuss the adverts:
Students are put into groups and have to discuss the questions on the worksheet.
After discussing the questions they have to come up with a slogan to sell a hair product.
Each group presents their slogan and the class vote on the best slogan.
Please click on the title below for the accompanying worksheet:
Good Hair worksheet 4
Hair Styles
Ask students if they know the names of different hair styles e.x. short/long etc.
Wordle time– Do you recognise any of the styles? can you match them with the pictures below?
Click for the accompanied worksheet: Good Hair worksheet 5
Male styles
Female Styles
Role play:
After completing the worksheet the students make pairs and pretend they are going to get their hair cut. One student will play the role of the hair dresser and the other as the customer.
Monitor and give advice to the students. Ask the best pairs to demonstrate their role play to the class. Students vote on the best role play.
Some final words
For more media on this subject you should check out this excellent documentary by pop star, Jamile and this episode from the Tyra Banks chat show.
After all this talk about hair I just realised it's time to go for a haircut. So I will leave you with this:
Any suggestions or comments are welcomed below & for more activities from the imaginarium please sign up. Cheers and happy hair cuts.


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An Example: Wideband PCM and Narrowband codec
In this scenario the data would be downsampled before it passes through the PCM inbound pipeline and transmitted in Narrowband format.
Another benefit of this design is that a software block can easily be replaced with a hardware accelerator. Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is an example of this. AEC is CPU-intensive and in most solutions it is implemented in hardware. However, IA is powerful enough, in most cases, to allow AEC to be implemented in software. With AEC implemented as a modular block, reference solutions without AEC hardware acceleration can use the software block while those solutions that have AEC acceleration can simply remove the AEC block from the list of blocks that the data is passed through. One major benefit of having a software AEC solution is that the AEC code can be easily tweaked to meet the needs of individual platforms. See "Performance Results" for performance figures of a software AEC solution employing IA. In this scenario AEC would be hosted on an endpoint for handsfree operation so the CPU cycle requirements are manageable. AEC would not be implemented on an IP PBX as latency issues would impact performance.
Voice Quality
For good-quality audio in IP voice telecoms, the packet processing must occur in real time. If packets arrive or are processed too late, the audio quality is adversely affected. As Linux is not a real-time operating system, it is possible that the audio processing, which is a real time task, may be adversely affected if the thread that the audio processing is running on gets starved of CPU cycles. This may occur if some higher-priority thread gets executed or if some kernel space code is executed. It also may occur if the system is sized such that the headroom of CPU cycle availability is compromised. It is possible to maximize the thread priorities of the real-time processing (audio processing) threads, so that no other user space threads should pre-empt them. However, it is not as straightforward to prevent kernel space code from interfering with audio real-time processing.
Running a pre-emptible kernel should improve performance. Also, disabling any processes that may periodically run in the background, and are not needed for the IP phone application, should reduce the possibilities of interference with audio processing (for example, yum updates, any daemons). Some Linux applications (for example, secure copy (scp)) can cause problems if being executed while audio processing is occurring. Use of these applications should be avoided when IP phone is in use.
Also, if running a large IP PBX-type application, as the number of channels increase, the interrupts from the NIC card need to be evenly distributed between all CPU cores to not adversely affect one CPU core. If all NIC interrupts are sent to one CPU core, as the number of channels increases, the number of interrupts increases; therefore, the interrupt handling would start to starve any user space real-time threads of CPU cycles, leading to degradation in voice quality.
One solution to this problem would be to use one CPU core to handle the NIC interrupts, and to ensure than no real-time data processing threads are running on this core.
Intel Performance Primitives
Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives (IPPs) is a software library optimized for use on IA CPUs. There are many different speech, audio, and video codecs implemented as sample code (source available), packaged with the IPPs. These codecs have been optimized, unlike the standard ITU-T sample implementations of the codecs. Both narrowband and wideband codecs are available, such as: G.711, G.726, G.729ab, G.722, G.729.1, AMR-WB, etc.Video codecs are also available. There are versions available for IA-32, Intel Atom processor (low-power IA-32), andIA-64.


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This Project is a SIG of Professional Information Security Association (PISA).
Major infrastructer is hosting at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).
Our interested research area including: malware, botnet, client-side attack and webapp attack etc.
Current chapter members and their activities.
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Anthony Lai (new member)
Frankie Li (new member)
4+ dionaea deployed in HK SAR, collecting data for trend analyst.
5 HonEeeBox device (3 are active, 2 are pending for hosting).
[Daniel Luo]
1.Daniel's team are developing a tool for assessing the security of Android Apps.
The tool under development employs both static analysis and dynamic analysis to detect potential vulnerabilities in an Android Apps.
This project is a joint work with researchers in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
2.Daniel's team are investigating private information leakage through encrypted channel.
They developed a client side tool named HTTPOS that can change the features of incoming and outgoing traffic to prevent an attacker from inferring sensitive information from encrypted traffic.
This project is a joint work with researchers in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Georgia Tech.
[Alan Lam]
Running Kippo ssh honeypots on two vm hosts since November, 2011.
1.Deployed 1 honeebox and submit the data to HPFeeds.
2.Used Splunk to present the collected data visually.
3.Applied 2 HoneyCloud servers for honeynet tools testing platform.
4.Use Cuckoo Sandbox for daily malware analysis tools.
Daniel's team identified some vulnerabilities in some popular Apps, which will lead to private information leakage.
Details could be found in: http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~appsec/
[Alan Lam]
Two ssh honeypots, 991 intruder keystroke logs are captured. 98 files have been downloaded by these intruders after they login the honeypots.
Xiapu Luo, Peng Zhou, Edmond W.W. Chan, Wenke Lee, Rocky K.C. Chang, and Roberto Perdisci, HTTPOS: Sealing Information Leaks with Browser-side Obfuscation of Encrypted Flows, Proceedings of the 18th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, USA, February 2011
Xiapu Luo, Peng Zhou, Junjie Zhang, Roberto Perdisci, Wenke Lee, and Rocky K.C. Chang, Exposing Invisible Timing-based Tra ffic Watermarks with BACKLIT, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security
Applications Conference (ACSAC), Orlando, USA, December 2011.
Presentation "Security Incident Investigation" to a local university on May-2012 by using the Windows Honeypot case study.
1.Future goal to deploy a OSSIM to collect sensor data, analyse the data and use visualization for information mining.
2.Plan to check the defined group of website (e.g. Top 100 .org.hk website returned by Google search result) in daily and submit the data to HPFeed.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Audra McDonald and Will Swenson have tied the knot, cementing a relationship between two of Broadway's best looking and talented stars.
According to a publicist for the bride, the couple married Saturday at their home in Croton-on-Hudson in New York. The bride's wedding dress was designed by Esosa.
McDonald is mother to daughter, Zoe Madeline, 11, and Swenson is father to two sons, Bridger, 11, and Sawyer, 8. The couple looks forward to their new life together as husband, wife and "wee posse of three," according to a statement.
McDonald recently won a record-tying fifth Tony Award in a revival of "Porgy and Bess" and Swenson was Tick in the "Priscilla Queen of the Desert."
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48th Annual Member Celebration
On Thursday, January 24, Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens held its 48th Annual Member Celebration at the Garden Center. More than 150 members and staff gathered in Strange Auditorium for drinks and hors d'oeuvres catered by Savoie Catering. The festivities moved to the Linn-Henley Lecture Hall for the evening's featured speaker, Kerry Smith. Smith, the State Master Gardener Coordinator for Alabama Cooperative Extension System (A.C.E.S.) led a talk titled "Your A.C.E.S. in the Hole," a discussion about the unique relationship between Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Alabama Cooperative Extension System, which houses a satellite office at the Garden Center.
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The CDC is warning physicians and consumers that the first cases(www.cdc.gov) of influenza A variant (H3N2v) virus infection for 2013 were reported during the week of June 24. According to the agency, the reported cases were associated with exposure to swine at an agricultural fair in Indiana(www.in.gov).
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"Reportedly, pigs at the fair also tested positive for H3N2 infection," the CDC said in a June 28 news update. "This outbreak may foreshadow a number of such outbreaks this summer based on what happened last summer when multi-state outbreaks resulted in 309 reported H3N2v cases, including 16 hospitalizations and one death. Genetic sequencing by the CDC on one of the Indiana samples has confirmed that the H3N2v virus in Indiana is 99 percent similar to the H3N2v viruses detected last summer."
More recently, the CDC issued an advisory via its Health Alert Network(emergency.cdc.gov). The July 5 communication updates clinicians on H3N2v activity and summarizes the agency's revised H3N2v case definitions and recommendations for H3N2v surveillance for the summer and fall of 2013. It also links physicians to information on 2013 testing recommendations, as well as to guidance for local and state public health officials regarding surveillance for and investigation of human infections with H3N2v.
In 2012, most individuals with H3N2v reported exposure to pigs, particularly at agricultural fairs. Although most illness was mild, serious illness also was observed. None of the recent Indiana cases required hospitalization, and no deaths have been reported.
Symptoms of H3N2v infection generally are consistent with those of seasonal influenza and may include fever, cough, pharyngitis, myalgia and headache. No sustained human-to-human spread of the virus has been detected, although sporadic limited spread of H3N2v has occurred in the past.
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I mean, it's the leather, the color and the hardware, they are perfect and heavenly. Previously, we featured the new Hermes Cherche Midi Bag for the Spring Summer 2015 Collection. It was a beautiful mini shoulder bag embellished with the classic 'Chaine D'Ancre' Jewelry.
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MONTEREY, Calif. – Beginning in March of this year, students studying Modern Standard Arabic at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center were given the opportunity to spend four weeks in Morocco, DLIFLC's newest immersion destination.
One of the first classes to go was a group of three Marines and five Soldiers who spent their time living with host families and attending a language institute during the month of June in the capital, Rabat.
"It was immensely beneficial, because it was kind of a gut check … Even if you went home there really wasn't any escape from using the language," recalled Spc. John Dixon, one of the students who participated in the immersion, when asked about living with a host family.
The students received four to five hours of language instruction at the institute five days a week and would often have some type of activity later in the afternoon such as a lecture, debate, or a cultural activity. On the weekends the students would go on excursions to one of the prominent Moroccan cities such as Marrakesh, Fes, or Casablanca.
"I was just astounded by our trip to Fes because we had an amazing tour guide who seemed to know every single person in the city. He knew every single nook and cranny of the old city that we should see and experience and because of him we did … he knew exactly where to go … and talking with workshop owners and introducing us to them to learn what they do and talking about the history of the city, it was just amazing," said Dixon.
The group was headed by their Military Language Instructor, Staff Sgt. Jennifer Tweedy, who kept a watchful eye on her students and ensured they spoke Arabic at all times. When faced with an unfamiliar dialect, or even French, she encouraged them to span the gap and continue to attempt communication.
"The biggest thing that I saw in the students was their willingness just to speak in Arabic and to speak about anything. For some of them, their speaking level wasn't as high as the others but even those students seemed to gain more confidence and they seemed more willing to speak as time went on," said Tweedy.
The students spent much of their evenings out in the city exploring and taking in as much of the culture as possible by either interacting with locals in the marketplace or visiting different locations with their host families, such as the Turkish bath houses.
"Once they realized that you spoke their language there were no barriers," shared Spc. Alison Ramsey. She added, "I loved bargaining in the market place because you don't really do that here, maybe at yard sales or garage sales, but it is a purely cultural experience."
The students faced many issues beyond just language differences. The culture in the Arab world is something that many Americans aren't used to and most people never have a chance to experience. However, through the use of their language skills the students were not only able to overcome these obstacles, they thrived in the environment.
"There is a wall as a tourist, immediately, in any place and being able to use the language with someone, it bridges that [gap] and opens up that wall and creates a closer connection," explained Dixon.
Overall, these overseas immersions are meant to give DLIFLC students the opportunity to exceed military expectations by increasing their language skills and making them more aware of cultural differences.
"That is why I think the immersion program is so important. There is no way you can learn about [Arab] society by just reading about it, you have to actually go out and experience it yourself and go and interact with the people," said Ramsey.
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Story by: SN Jeffrey Leader, Strategic Communications Photo 1: The Islamic madrassa (school) attached to the Mosque of King Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco. (Courtesy photo)
Photo 2: Spc. Alison Ramsey in front of the Royal Palace in Fes, Morocco, in June 2012. (Courtesy photo)
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Will HP Provide Guidance Above Expectations Next Week?
Yen devaluation should more than offset weakness elsewhere in HP's businesses.
Shares of struggling technology giant Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) have recovered somewhat from their poor 2012 performance in the past three months, but have still lost roughly 40% of their value in the past twelve months.
HP has disappointed analysts and investors repeatedly in recent years. The company desperately needs to show the investment community that performance has bottomed out and that HP can soon return to EPS growth (however modest that may be at first). A good first step for HP would be providing guidance above analyst estimates when it reports earnings next week. Fortunately, the recent slide in the yen's value against the dollar could help HP achieve that goal.
Yen devaluation could provide a boost
The recent governmental change in Japan has led to looser fiscal and monetary policy. As a result, the yen-dollar exchange rate has moved by 20% since the beginning of October, from around 78 yen per dollar to 93 yen per dollar. HP's printing division (responsible for about 30% of the company's profit recently) relies heavily on components built in Japan, primarily by Canon (NYSE:CAJ). At several points in the past two years, HP's management has blamed the strong yen for declines in HP's printing segment operating margin. The recent weakening of the yen could increase the printing segment's operating margin by 300 basis points, based on historical margins.
Ultimately, improvement on that scale could boost HP's annual profit by $0.30 a share. Theoretically, HP's recent reorganization and cost-cutting moves could allow even greater margin expansion. Most notably, CEO Meg Whitman decided to combine the PC and printer divisions last year. The reorganization is expected to generate savings through supply chain coordination, along with some headcount reductions. According to Whitman, HP already began to see cost benefits in the quarter that ended last October. These cost reductions should be even more significant in fiscal year 2013.
While the weakened yen is providing HP an unexpected margin benefit, in the near term HP could be hit with offsetting losses from its yen currency hedges. Investors should pay close attention to any information HP provides next week on the scale of cost improvements in the printing business versus offsetting hedging losses.
PC weakness still a headwind
On the other side of the ledger, HP will continue to see headwinds from the weak PC market. Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 8 has seen weak demand since its launch in late October. While the new release boosted Windows sales by 24% in Q4, that initial jump was much smaller than the increases seen with previous Windows releases. Many PC makers have been introducing Chromebooks based on Google's (NASDAQ:GOOGL) free cloud-based Chrome OS to offset weakness in traditional Windows PCs. Hewlett-Packard recently joined this trend, releasing the HP Pavilion Chromebook.
While HP's entry into the Chromebook market could help HP maintain its PC market share, Chromebooks are low cost-devices and will not do much for the bottom line. HP's Chromebook has a starting price of $329.99, well below the average selling price of the company's Windows PCs. On the other hand, HP does not have much to lose. The PC division produced just $1.7 billion in earnings before taxes last year, less than 14% of the company total. Moreover, the PC business has very low fixed costs, so HP can generally maintain its operating margin even when revenue declines. As a result, even a 15% annual revenue decline in PCs this year would have a relatively modest $0.10 impact on HP's 2013 fiscal year EPS.
Expectations are low
Expectations for HP's other businesses are modest enough that downside should be fairly limited. For example, while the services business is expected to generate an operating margin in the high single digits over the long term, for 2013 HP expects operating margin of just 0%-3%, with revenue down 11%-13% due to expiring contracts that will not be renewed. Furthermore, HP expects revenue decreases in the Business Critical Systems line of Itanium-based servers, which will be a drag on profit in HP's enterprise group.
Tune in next week
To summarize, the upside from better printing margins should have a bigger impact on HP's FY13 results than downside in PCs. Assuming HP's other businesses perform up to HP's very modest internal expectations, the company should be able to report full-year EPS at the top of or above its $3.40-$3.60 guidance range.
Since we are only one quarter into HP's 2013 fiscal year, the company will probably be conservative in terms of updating its full-year guidance. Nevertheless, there is a good chance that HP will raise the bottom of its guidance range to $3.50 or so. Even that small gesture could have a positive effect on HP shares, insofar as analysts currently expect full year earnings below the guidance range at $3.32. With HP trading at just five times expected 2013 earnings, the company should see significant multiple expansion if it can convince investors that EPS is stabilizing. Improved guidance would be a big help there.


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Note: MC joins the others for a Fan Meetup event, his first one yet. He's nervous, but he's got support. Featuring cute Toru, Ryotaro's natural charm, Hikaru's "helpful" advice. I really don't know what this is, my hands just moved on their own. I'm sorry. m(_ _;;m Enjoy!(?)
The walls of the venue reverberated with high-spirited squealing and jubilant banter. Cameras were flashing, security guards were terse. I, myself, couldn't help but absorb all this energy that was being packed into such a tiny event hall. Probably more energy than I knew how to deal with. To be honest, I was feeling very nervous.
Meeting fans face-to-face is nothing like interacting with them through social media. Oh yeah, Twitter and Niconico, that was familiar territory for me. Fun, even! I could reply to praising fans in my underwear, we could discuss anime together, and the Internet memes. It was awesome. Having such a supportive community was great, more than I ever bargained for. But this...
I don't do too well with crowds, I guess... Or I'm just not used to it, yet.
Tocchan insisted I get in touch with my growing fanbase through more prolific means. The agency and studio had set up a little lottery of sorts. Tickets to this autograph session was meant to be a rare treat. Exclusive to lucky fans. Anyway.
It was my first time ever being to one of these fan meetups. I really didn't know what to expect. At first, I didn't really think it was that big a deal, but...now that I'm here...
On the plus side, I wasn't alone--well, of course I wasn't. There had to have been dozens and dozens of fans, all lined up. But I mean...Tocchan was never faraway. Whenever I caught his eye, he was just giving me an encouraging smile. He was standing off to the side with the other agents and assistants.
Two large tables. Two voice actors at each. I did feel a lot more comfortable, sitting with these guys.
My seat was right next to Toru, my fellow newbie! I was kinda relieved to see that he was also feeling nervous, no matter how much he was trying to hide it. He shrugged it off when I asked him about it, and appeared to be very calm and indifferent about the whole thing--except, when I looked under the table...I could see that his hands were constantly moving and fidgeting, as if being controlled by an invisible string. Aw, Toru! Hang in there! And don't you dare leave me all by myself, I won't forgive you! Or so I'll say, for like, half a day.
As a way to soothe both our nervousness, I tried to chat with him about trivial things, but the most articulate response I got out of him was a noncommittal 'Hmm' or 'Ahh'. No sentences, no syllables. He hardly kept eye contact, preferring to stare into space. It seemed like he was trying to avoid looking at the horde of people, as well.
I sighed for no particular reason, feeling bemused; I didn't need to keep the conversation going.
Looking over at the other table to my right, I saw two people who looked as habituated as a fisherman at sea. The experienced duo looked completely in their element, killing time by making polite jokes and conversation.
I really wanted to soak up their positive, confident vibes.
I casually mentioned to Hikaru, "This must be old hat to you, huh. I betcha most of these fans are here for you."
"Awww, no way. You flatter me. That simply isn't true..." He pauses, voice filled with sarcastic modesty and mirth. "They're also here for Ryo!"
Shiba Inu chuckled good-naturedly, winking.
"Hah, I'm honored that you'd swallow your pride just to acknowledge my presence. That's actually a really huge achievement for you~." Ryotaro said teasingly.
"Well, what can I say, I have don't have a gag reflex..."
At that, Ryotaro nearly stumbled out of his chair, covering his mouth to assuage the onslaught of flustered laughter.
These two like to poke fun at each other, it seems...
"Oi, newbie." Hikaru called my attention back at once. "Here's a little piece of advice for you. Listen well."
He gestured for me to come closer, so I leaned over and offered my ear for him to whisper into. It tickled the back of my neck, guh.
"If a fan offers you homemade food, like cookies or chocolate, don't carelessly eat it. There's no telling what kinds of--ahem, natural ingredients they've put inside."
I pouted in confusion.
"You mean...organic?"
At the clueless expression on my face, Hikaru promptly huffed in agitation.
"Do I really need to spell it out for you? Let's just say...some people really like to put their whole beings into their gifts. We're talking hair...bodily fluids...Need I go on?"
He most certainly did not need to go on. But Hikaru liked hearing himself talk. I guess that's pretty important in a career of singing and voice acting, huh?
"And there's always the possibility that some maniac wants to poison you! ♪"
I had the sinking suspicion Hikaru was reading way too many creepy mystery novels, because underneath that carefree, self-assured smile, he's pretty paranoid.
The most unnerving part was that Hikaru was able to talk about all this, all while he was sparkling cutely and waving cheerfully to the waiting fans. Oh, man...
"In front of them, accept the gift graciously." He muttered under his breath. "But throw it out the next chance you get, got it?"
I couldn't help but cringe as I felt a little pang in my chest; he was saying some pretty harsh things. Still, I know he is only looking out for me, in his own brutally honest way. It was slightly better than Shuu's cryptic advice, anyway...
"Uh, thanks. I appreciate your words of wisdom...but I doubt I'll get any fan gifts, I mean. I'm not that popular yet!"
"Hm. Very true." Hikaru smirked. "I guess that means you're safe~."
After a few announcements and a word from sponsors, the autograph session commenced. We, needlessly, introduced ourselves.
Ryotaro was beaming at his fans, greeting them all with ease, as if they were all just friends visiting.
"Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Seiyuu Danshi Fan Meet event. Thank you all for coming! Wow. I'm happy I made it here on time, because uhhh...Well, I actually got lost on the way..."
The fans all started cooing sympathetically and chuckling in amusement.
Hikaru just gave him this look like he was silently judging him, laughing incredulously. "Seriously? Again?"
"Hey, so I took the long way! No big deal. I was able to enjoy the passing sights. I saw a dog! He was cute."
Next, Hikaru introduced himself--which was very, very pointless. The fans were incredibly enthused to see him, all chanting his name. Some of them were even crying! Oh, man...
Somehow, he was able to get a word in edgewise, cutting through the cacophony of excitement.
"Hell~ooo! Hikaru, here.☆ Nice seeing you all again! Let's have fun today, hm? Thanks so much for your support! Oh, and please consider buying a copy of my new album. Out on sale now!☆"
Toru's turn, now...
The mic crackled with static as he hesitantly brought it closer to his lips.
"Um. I'm Kazunori Toru. Thank you for having me."
His introduction was crisp and rushed. Right to the point. In yet, I could tell he was desperately making an effort to enunciate each word clearly. He was unsmiling, but still bowed his head to the fans to show he was grateful, making eye contact with as many as possible. And to his surprise and mine, there were many people who seemed especially excited to meet him.
Oh, and...I'm the only one left, huh? Okay, well...Here goes nothing.
"Uh, crap! I mean--uh. Excuse me, haha! I'm just. I'm last! So, the pressure should be off me, but still. Um. Hello! Thank you for coming out to meet us here today! This is my first time, so please be gentle with me!"
I swear, I pinky promise, the innuendo was an accident. However, the fans seemed to like it, gushing enthusiastically. I chuckled uneasily, allowing the laughs and cheering to die down a little. I was thankful for a short break, though.
Uhhh, what else was I supposed to say!? Ummm...Oh, how could I forget my name!? What...What is my name? That sort of thing is kinda pivotal to introductions...
I better remember fast, because knowing your name is also kinda necessary to sign autographs and stuff. Maybe I can just doodle on it and that'd be the end of it.
As fans were starting to approach our tables, it became easier and easier to smile and make small talk. Say hi, scribble your name, take selfie. Rinse and repeat. But it wasn't all just give and no take. I actually managed to score some lovely fan letters and fanart!! I could feel myself brimming with happiness from all this attention I wasn't used to getting. It was a bit overwhelming, but not so bad!
In-between fans, Ryotaro tapped me on the shoulder.
"Hey, you're doing great, rookie! Don't sweat it."
Easy for him to say, he was able to joke and babble with fans like old friends, but I felt my confidence and heart soar to the heavens.
Hikaru didn't give me any verbal reassurance--I don't blame him, he kinda had his hands full, swamped with fans--but every so often, he would spare me a glance to check on me. I actually saw a real smile from him, directed at me. Shocker, right? I think the fans noticed a few times and got all giddy, thinking the smile was for them. Oh, how delusional...
Right beside me, I occasionally checked on Toru. I felt a bit of protective camaraderie with him, since we were both fresh meat in the industry. He seemed to be doing fine, actually...
And at one point, I saw Toru make an expression I never thought I'd see.
A shy girl stepped up to the table, cradling something carefully in her arms. It had a ribbon around it. As if on auto-pilot, Toru just reached for his pen, perhaps thinking the girl wanted to have it signed--
"Uh, no, I...Kazunori-san, I don't need an autograph or anything. I just wanted to give you this..."
She handed him stuffed tiger doll, all stitched up and with button eyes.
"I remember in an interview, you said handicrafts were a hobby. I was inspired to start sewing as well! I made a tiger because your name 'Toru' made me think of 'Tora', tiger. So...Ahaha, sorry! I know he looks a bit silly--"
"No. No, your stitch-work is perfect...And it's got just enough plush, too. T-Thanks."
The girl nodded, looking very glad and relieved. She seemed really happy, practically skipping away to cloud nine.
Toru was in a similar state of bashful euphoria; he seemed blind-sighted, like he was not expecting getting something at all.
"Heheh. You happy?" I asked him, grinning.
"...Yeah." He admitted, embarrassed. "It's cute..."
The tiger never left his lap throughout the rest of the event.
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Cool. It is like a simple short story or it could be the prologue of someting more x3 Keep it up, I like reading fanfics.
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Awww the ending was so adorable.
I like your portrayal of Hikaru here too!
I like your portrayal of Hikaru here too!
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Nice idea of fan meetup~
Which is probably what will happen when MC gains enough fans in the game
Which is probably what will happen when MC gains enough fans in the game
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The Chanel 11.12 is essentially the Chanel Medium size bags that start with the style code 1112. The Chanel Chevron flap bag is almost as old as the Timeless Classic and Reissue 2.55. Kristen Stewart represents the Chevron style in the latest campaign to showcase the 11.12. The campaign also features Vanessa Paradis who will front the Girl Messenger Bag and Alice Dellal for the Boy series.
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The Four Freshmen wowed musical fans in the 1950s with their ability to harmonize.
Lady Bisons soccer coach Jon Ireland has added five freshmen this season that he is hopeful will add a "wow" factor to his team.
The Lady Bisons open the regular season Friday night at 7 at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex with a visit from IUPUI. It will be the collegiate debut for forward Kirsten Heikkinen, forward Jenna Forrest, defender April Horner, midfielder Danielle Bethke and midfielder Meghan McGuire.
Horner, 5-foot-3, has apparently earned a starting spot as an outside back.
"April has come in and done a great job," Ireland said. "She came in fit. She is very quick. She is very skilled and very smart with the ball. She is a good passer and a good defender. And she has something you can't teach and that's speed."
Based on formations the Lady Bisons will play either three or four in the midfield. Regardless of the formation, McGuire is expected to get a great deal of playing time.
"Meghan is really, really talented," Ireland said. "We are really excited about what she is going to bring to the team.
"She has tremendous creativity on the ball. She probably has the best vision on the team. She is very patient with the ball. She sees things develop. She is able to get the ball to people in the right spots, something we have struggled with in the past."
Bethke, who like McGuire is from Minnesota, is expected to be an offensive threat, another area where the Lady Bisons have been lacking in the past.
"Danielle came in very fit," Ireland said. "She has the potential to really score some goals. She is one of the best shooters we have on the team. She can hit it from 30 to 35 yards out.
"We are excited about getting her the ball and letting her create some stuff. She has the potential to score goals which is something we haven't really had from a midfield or forward position. We will put her in the midfield or up top based on our formation."
Heikkinen has proved to be the fastest player on the team. She is another versatile player who can play defense, midfield or forward.
"Kirsten may be the fastest player on our team," Ireland said. "She is a natural runner. We looking at her as a midfielder, but if we have a problem defensively we can put her back there.
"She has been impressive in preseason since her first touch on the ball. All of those freshmen are so smart with the ball. We have so many versatile players which gives us flexibility with injuries. We haven't had that in the past either."
Forrest has been pressed into service as a back-up goalkeeper. Her 5-9 height was one of the key reasons for the decision.
"We are trying to get her acclimated to that new position," Ireland. "Jenna hasn't played a whole lot of soccer.
"We like her height and athletic ability. In women's soccer there are so many goals that are scored on high balls over the goalie's head. She is also fairly quick. We have spent a lot of time with her in preseason. She has the tools and potential. She can become as good as she wants."
Another newcomer getting her first game experience in a Lipscomb uniform will be forward/midfielder Megan Blalock, a junior transfer from Belmont who sat out last season.
"Megan can play any position on the field," Ireland said. "She is extremely versatile. She will be one of our center backs.
"She is one of the smarter players on the team. She is one of the sharpest players in terms of reading the game. She has great decision-making skills. She has great vision. She will be in the back somewhere, probably in the center, but we can push her out wide if we need to do it. She will be a big boost for us."
The Lady Bisons are back in action Sunday night at 6 at Austin Peay.


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ITJB Sour Cream Cheesecake and Salt
hi all,
I just went back to Norm's original bulk formula and recalculated the quantities down to home-baker scale. In fact, the ingredients and quantities in the book match his formula, so if the quantity of salt is too high, it was too high in the bakeries where he worked also.
However, given that it's obviously a recipe spoiler, I recommend eliminating the salt entirely, and we'll make that change in the next printing.


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Imran slams Pakistan National Assembly
Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan has slammed the National Assembly standing committee on sports describing them as "stupid" people.
Imran Khan told reporters during a press meet in Lahore on Thursday that he was appalled at the way the National Assembly standing committee was interfering in sports particularly cricket affairs and causing so much problems.
Pak assembly summons PCB officials
"It is a joke really because nowhere in the world does a parliamentary committee get involved in sports or cricket. These committees are not supposed to look into things they hardly know anything about," the 1992 World Cup captain said.
Imran said the committee and its Chairman were wasting valuable public money by holding hearings and calling officials and players of the Pakistan cricket Board and other sports federations.
"Already they caused so much anguish to Younus Khan after he had won the World Cup for Pakistan that he took a break from cricket," he said.
Imran said the committee was lucky that he was no longer cricket captain.
" Draw line between the events"
"They are fortunate or I would have given them a real piece of my mind. They have no business involving themselves into sports and summoning officials and players," Imran added.
The NA standing committee which is at loggerheads with the Chairman of the Pakistan cricket Board has summoned Ejaz Butt, chief operating officer Wasim Bari and national selector Muhammad Illyas on February 3 for a hearing.
Jamshed Dasti, the committee head, said the hearing would be held to find out the reasons for the Pakistan team's poor performance in New Zealand and Australia and to find out from the PCB what it had done to prevent the embarrassment caused to Pakistani players at the IPL players auction.
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Pursuant to the Power of Sale contained in a Security Deed given by Jimmy B. Courson to HomeSense Financial Corp of Savannah dated 8/13/1999 and recorded in Deed Book 328 Page 535, Appling County, Georgia records; as last transferred to LNV Corporation by Assignment filed for record in Appling County, Georgia records, conveying the after-described property to secure a Note in the original principal amount of $ 68,800.00, with interest at the rate specified therein, there will be sold by the undersigned at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash before the Courthouse door of Appling County, Georgia, within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in October, 2011 (October 4, 2011), the following described property:
All that certain lot, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Land Lot No. 145 of the Second Land District of Appling County, Georgia, consisting of 2.55 acres, more or less, and being designated as Tract II on a survey and plat thereof by Merlin J. Tomberlin, G.R.L.S. No. 2477, dated February 26, 1966, recorded in Plat Book 14, Page 45, of the records of the Clerk of Superior Court of Appling County, Georgia, which survey and plat are incorporated herein for a more full and complete description and all other legal purposes. Said parcel of land being bounded, now or formerly, as follows: On the North by lands of Ruby C. Goolsby; on the West by lands of Ruby C. Goolsby and Henry Grady Miles, III; on the South by lands of Henry Grady Miles, III; and on the East by the right of way of County Road No. 532.
More commonly known as 4450 Satilla Church Road, Baxley, Georgia. Map/Parcel No. 0038-017
The debt secured by said Security Deed has been and is hereby declared due because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in the manner provided in the Note and Security Deed. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of this sale, as provided in the Security Deed and by law, including attorney's fees (notice of intent to collect attorney's fees having been given).
Said property is commonly known as 4450 Satilla Church Road, Baxley, Georgia 31513 together with all fixtures and personal property attached to and constituting a part of said property, if any. To the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the party (or parties) in possession of the subject property is (are): Dorothy Ann Courson or tenant or tenants.
Said property will be sold subject to: (a) any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, but not yet due and payable), (b) the right of redemption of any taxing authority, (c) any matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, and (d) any assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above.
The sale will be conducted subject to (1) confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; and (2) final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the Security Deed. Pursuant to O.C.G.A. Section 9-13-172.1, which allows for certain procedures regarding the rescission of judicial and non-judicial sales in the State of Georgia, the Deed Under Power and other foreclosure documents may not be provided until final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan as provided immediately above.
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The majority of the Library of Virginia's holdings that pertain to white Confederate women's involvement in the Civil War are letters and diaries. These sources provide information on an individual woman's opinions on the war, involvement with the war effort, and description of the fates of family and friends. Although there are several larger collections of letters and lengthy diaries, researchers will also need to comb collections of family papers and collections that consist of only a few letters or pages from a diary for information on women during the Civil War.
Conduct a keyword or subject search heading in the catalog using the following examples of Library of Congress subject headings.
[Locality] History Civil War, 1861-1865 Women
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Participation, Female
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal Narratives
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Virginia Women
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Women
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Women and War Virginia Civil War, 1861-1865
Women Clerks Confederate States of America
Barber, E. Susan. "Sisters of the Capital": White Women in Richmond, Virginia, 1860–1880. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1997.
Blanton, DeAnne, and Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press: 2002.
Campbell, Edward D. C., Jr., and Kym S. Rice, ed. A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy. Richmond: Museum of the Confederacy; Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Cashin, Joan E. First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller. Mary Chesnut's Civil War. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
Thomson, Elizabeth Christina. "Beautiful Daughter of the Stars": Women of the Valley During the Civil War. Ph.D. diss., University of Guelph, 1999.
Varon, Elizabeth R. Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Adeline Egerton. Letters, 1856–1869 (bulk 1861–1865). Accession 38559.
Letters, 1856–1869 (bulk 1861–1865), sent to Adeline Egerton (Edgerton) (b. 1832) of Baltimore, Maryland, principally by Confederate prisoners of war held in various Union prisons. The large majority of prisoners write to obtain needed clothes, provisions, and money from Egerton, the wife of a Baltimore merchant. Their correspondence contains evidence that Egerton was an agent for a Baltimore women's group supplying destitute Confederate prisoners with needed goods. The bulk of the letters come from prisoners held captive at Fort Delaware (Maryland), Fort McHenry (Maryland), Point Lookout (Maryland), and Johnson's Island (Ohio). Also of note are letters written from members of the Immortal 600 while in Georgia and South Carolina and a letter from a prisoner held at Rock Island Prison (Illinois). Aside from the goods exchange, the letters also contain information concerning the prisoners' medical condition and care, rank and unit, point of capture, period of captivity, and family members.
Carmichael Family. Letters, 1862–1864, 1908. Accession 24459.
Letters, 1862–1864 and 1908, of the Carmichael family of Danville, Virginia, consisting of letters from Mary C. Carmichael (1810–1866) to her son Lieutenant Charles C. Carmichael (1839–1905) of Company C, 30th Virginia Infantry, Gorse's Brigade, Pickett's Division. Letters consist mainly of personal matters and news of events in Danville and of family and friends. Also includes a certificate to S. A. Tinsley for his purchase of Confederate bonds, and a letter, 24 July 1908, from Loring W. Muzzey of Lexington, Massachusetts, to Lucy Ashby Carmichael (1856–1936) of Fredericksburg and King George County, Virginia, regarding their friendship and containing a burial notice about Hannah Louisa Whitman (1823–1908), sister of the poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892).
Minnie Holmes. Letters, 1862. Accession 38470.
Letters, 31 March 1862–26 July 1862, to Minnie Holmes of Loudoun County, Virginia from a friend named Eliza and a cousin in Iowa, K. O. Holmes. Eliza writes about friends and that she is unconscious about the war except for the newspapers. K. O. Holmes discusses the settling of his father's affairs, the legal profession, the differences between Iowans and Virginians, Iowa's participation at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, the possibility of his joining the army, Minnie Holmes's support for the Union, and his hopes that the Union will be saved.
Margaret Muse Pennybacker. Reminiscences: War Memorial, 1860–1864. Accession 26252.
Reminiscences, 1860–1864, of Mount Jackson, Shenandoah County, Virginia, during the Civil War, by Margaret Muse Pennybacker (d. 1919). The town was occupied several times by the Union forces during the war.
Mary Cary Ambler Stribling. Diary, 1862. Accession 25390.
Diary, 1862, of Mary Cary Ambler Stribling (1835–1868) of Fauquier County, Virginia, recounting the experiences of herself and her family during the Civil War. Stribling comments extensively on relations with local blacks, slave and free; her impressions of Yankees, particularly those foraging in northern Virginia; her despair at the lack of reliable news from either side; and her confidence in the Confederate armies. She describes the news and rumors that they receive concerning the war, including the Peninsular campaign, Jackson's Valley campaign, the Battle of Shiloh, the fall of New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Battle of Malvern Hill. Includes a typescript copy of the diary.
Virginia. Auditor of Public Accounts. Applications of Ladies for Clerkships on Virginia Treasury Notes, 1861–1864. Accession APA 324.
Applications of ladies for clerkships, 1861–1864, relating to the act of the General Assembly passed on 31 March 1862 to provide for currency notes in denominations of less than five dollars. Local governments could issue notes in denominations less than one dollar. In 1862 the General Assembly authorized the state to issue notes in a one dollar denomination. An applicant's letter found in this series states that the work was to be done by women. Although the journal of the House of Delegates does not specifically refer to the employment of women, it must have been understood that women would fill these positions.