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And Many Happy Returns
My mother wanted to give me my birthday present early this year because, as she told me with tears in her eyes and a small crack in her voice, "I might not be around anymore by the time it gets here."
Mom is only sixty-two years old. She's not battling a fatal illness. She's not even sick. She's just a little dramatic— always has been. So after she turned her back and began digging in the closet for my gift, I laughed.
"My birthday's in less than three months, Mom," I said to the back of her head, now hidden in the dark behind a row of jackets and sweaters. "Do you think you can hold try to hold on for that long?"
She ignored my sarcasm. "I just think people should say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done," her voice softened again, "before it's too late."Read More
The Knoxville Film Festival and the Gift of Stories
Last weekend, the Knoxville Film Festival lit the screens of Regal Downtown West. Festivalgoers enjoyed four days of independent cinema including local, regional, and national filmmakers. From five-minute shorts to feature-length productions, the screens came alive with stories. At the same time, fans, filmmakers, and aspiring artists swapped stories in the lobby, sharing insights, networking, and extending the impact beyond the screen to the world outside.
Earlier in the year, Executive Director of the Festival Keith McDaniel and his team narrowed down three hundred submissions to around forty films. The festival also featured a range of student films and films competing in the 7 Day Shootout. This year marks the third annual Knoxville Film Festival, and it grows in participation, scope, and quality every time.Read More
A Memory in White, Pt. 2
Vivien rose and closed the curtains around the room.
"Do you mind if I use your restroom, Miss Wallace?" Lucas asked.
"Down the hall and to the left," said Vivien, pulling curtain ties and shaking out wrinkles.
Lucas followed her directions. The floorboards were dark and the hallway papered with an embossed white octagonal pattern. More photographs hung on the walls, showing a brooding Georgian building being raised from the ground and more people in period clothes. Amongst these were bold, simplistic charcoal sketches that looked to have come from asylum patients.
Past an open bedroom, Lucas saw a pitcher and basin on an ebony table by a door to the left. He tried the glass doorknob, but it didn't budge. It didn't even rattle against its casing. It stuck fast, as if it was only for show. Lucas went back to the living room. Vivien was mixing tea in the kitchen again. Rooster looked doubtfully at the wall beyond which Marley sat on the porch.
"I didn't quite find the restroom, Miss Wallace," said Lucas. "Is it the locked door?"
She stopped mixing tea.
"Oh, Lord," she said.Read More
A Memory in White, Pt. 1
She had a headdress made of oak leaves, and she was irate.
"What a lot of nonsense!" she scolded the boys at her door.
Lucas Jernigan and Rooster Sutts each took a small step backward on the stoop. They were college seniors, the vanguard of an amateur ghost hunting troop waiting at the filling station two miles down the road. Lucas was a broad-shouldered photography major who kept a dashing crop of blond stubble on his face to hide his rough skin. His dark blue rosary hung from his belt loop. He had searched long and hard for it that morning.
Rooster Sutts was a third baseman, a wildlife studies major, and nobody's fool. He rolled his own cigarettes and habitually stalked his bowstring frame into the local wetland to muck about for this turtle or that snail. He was short with a face like a tobacco plug and was missing a bicuspid, though he would never say why.
The leaf-headed lady upon whose porch they stood glared at them through the wide open door with fierce blue eyes. She might have been all of forty or forty-five, as far as Lucas could tell, though she looked younger. She had curly dishwater hair and ivory skin with a faint birthmark along her collarbone. She wore a white cotton dressing gown that hung about her like a flag at rest. Lucas caught himself gaping. Rooster stared with acute interest at the door jamb.
"You young reprobates come out here looking for Satanic tales and hoopla!" said the lady. "All you're bound to find is poor folks who can barely look after themselves. Haunted asylum indeed! I've a mind to call the police."Read More


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New 2020 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Base near Castle Rock, CO
- $46,390
- Price
- $45,640
Vehicle Details
|Stock #
|Exterior Color
|Alfa Rosso
|Interior Color
|Gas Mileage
|City:22 Hwy:28
|8-Speed Automatic
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Alfa Rosso 2020 Alfa Romeo Stelvio AWD 8-Speed Automatic I4
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- Features
- Specs
- Warranty
- Comfort
- Technology
- Safety
- Mechanical
- Exterior
- Interior
Convenience Features
|bin, in dash, front seatback, cargo tie-down anchors and hooks, cargo net, door pockets, accessory hook
|Memorized settings
|liftgate, 3 driver, driver seat, side mirrors
|Center console
|organizer tray, front console with armrest and storage
|front, illuminated, rear
|Steering wheel
|tilt and telescopic
|One-touch windows
|Cargo cover
|Reading lights
|front, rear
|Power steering
|Multi-function remote
|illuminated entry, panic alarm, proximity entry system, trunk release
|Cargo area light
|Cruise control
|Retained accessory power
|Power windows
|lockout button
|Courtesy lights
|Footwell lights
|Overhead console
|Steering wheel mounted controls
|audio, cruise control, phone, multi-function, voice control
|Universal remote transmitter
|garage door opener
|Power outlet(s)
|center console, 12V front
|Additional key
|removable valet
|Push-button start
|Vanity mirrors
|dual illuminating
|Assist handle
|rear, front
|Remote engine start
|Illuminated power window switches
|Rearview mirror
|Ambient lighting
Comfort Features
|Steering wheel trim
|alloy, leather
|Shift knob trim
|Center console trim
|Door trim
|Interior accents
|rear folding, rear center with cupholders
|Floor mats
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|Floor material
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|premium carpet
Air Conditioning
|Front air conditioning
|automatic climate control
|Front air conditioning zones
|Rear vents
|second row
|Humidity/dewpoint sensors
|Air filtration
|Warnings and reminders
|low battery, lamp failure, low fuel, engine oil, coolant, low washer fluid, maintenance due, tire fill alert
|Instrument cluster screen size
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|Trip computer
|Driver information system
|Digital odometer
|External temperature display
|Multi-function display
|Fuel economy display
|MPG, range
|Trip odometer
Audio System
|voice operated, touch screen display, AM/FM
|Auxiliary audio input
|Bluetooth, jack, USB, memory card slot, iPod/iPhone
|Antenna type
|diversity, mast
|Total speakers
|Radio data system
|Speed sensitive volume control
|Satellite radio
|Electronic messaging assistance
|with read function, voice operated
|Wireless data link
|voice operated
In Car Entertainment
|Connected in-car apps
|Google POIs, Google search
|Apple CarPlay ready, Android Auto ready
|Infotainment screen size
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|Rearview monitor
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|Pre-collision warning system
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|front pedestrian, front
|Child safety door locks
|Child seat anchors
|LATCH system
|Energy absorbing steering column
|Body side reinforcements
|side impact door beams
|Camera system
|Automatic hazard warning lights
|Impact sensor
|fuel cut-off
|Parking sensors
|Crumple zones
|front, rear
|Airbag deactivation
|occupant sensing passenger
|Side airbags
|Knee airbags
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|Front airbags
|Side curtain airbags
|front, rear
|Power door locks
|anti-lockout, auto-locking
|Anti-theft system
|engine immobilizer, alarm with remote
|2-stage unlocking doors
|Side mirrors
|integrated turn signals, heated
|Side mirror adjustments
|power, power folding
|Drive mode selector
|4WD type
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|Center differential
|Axle ratio
|Auto start/stop
|Battery saver
|180 amps
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Stability and Traction
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|Braking assist
|Electronic brakeforce distribution
|Power brakes
|Electronic parking brake
|auto off
|Premium brakes
|Daytime running lights
|Rear fog lights
|cornering, HID/Xenon, auto delay off, auto on/off, self-leveling
|Exterior entry lights
|security approach lamps
|Roof rails color
|Roof rails
|Rear door type
|sensor-activated, power liftgate
|Liftgate window
Tires and Rims
|Tire type
|all season
|Tire Pressure Monitoring System
|Wheel spokes
|Run flat tires
|Rear wiper
|Window defogger
|Front wipers
|speed sensitive, variable intermittent, rain sensing
|Power windows
|safety reverse
|Rear privacy glass
|Solar-tinted glass
|Laminated glass
Exterior Features
|Front bumper color
|Mirror color
|Door handle color
|Rear spoiler
|Rear spoiler color
|Exhaust tip color
|Grille color
|chrome surround, black
|Rear bumper color
|dual tip
|Window trim
|Passenger seat power adjustments
|4-way power lumbar, height, 10, reclining
|Driver seat power adjustments
|height, 10, 4-way power lumbar, reclining
|Rear headrests
|3, adjustable
|Rear seat folding
|Front headrests
|2, adjustable
|Front seat type
|Rear seat type
|40-20-40 split bench
|Steering ratio
|Seatbelt pretensioners
|front, rear
|Seatbelt force limiters
|front, rear
|Emergency locking retractors
|rear, front
|Seatbelt warning sensor
|Rear seatbelts
|Front seatbelts
Drive Type
|Drive Type
|Standard Seating
|Max Seating
|Head Room (front)
|40.2 in
|Head Room (rear)
|38.9 in
|Shoulder Room (front)
|57.5 in
|Shoulder Room (rear)
|56 in
|Leg Room (front)
|36.6 in
|Leg Room (rear)
|31.9 in
|Seating Rows
Measurements of Size & Shape
|184.6 in
|74.9 in
|Width (without mirrors)
|74.9 in
|66 in
|111 in
|Ground Clearance
|8.1 in
|Track Width (front)
|63.5 in
|Track Width (rear)
|65 in
Measurements of Weight
|Gross Vehicle Weight Rating
|5247 lbs
|Gross Vehicle Weight Range
|5001-6000 lbs
|Curb Weight
|4044 lbs
|Max Towing Capacity
|3000 lbs
Truck Specifications
|Max Payload
|1203 lbs
Interior Dimensions
|Cargo Volume
|18.5 cu ft
|Interior Volume
|134.6 cu ft
|Passenger Volume
|116.1 cu ft
|Cargo Volume (rear seats down)
|56.5 cu ft
Performance Specifications
|Aerodynamic Drag
|0.32 Cd
|Acceleration (0-60MPH)
|5.4 seconds
Fuel Tanks
|Fuel Capacity
|16.9 Gallons
Wheels and Tires
|Front Tire Type
|Front Wheel Diameter
|18.0 x 8.0 in
|Rear Tire Type
|Rear Wheel Diameter
|18.0 x 8.0 in
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EPA Green Score
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This score reflects fuel emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases.
Smartway ?
SmartWay is a designation earned by those vehicles that have combined Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Scores that place them in the top tier (approximately the top 20%) of environmental performers. SmartWay Elite is reserved for the best of the best.
EPA Green Score
( Federal Tier 3 Bin 125
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|Fuel Type
Air Pollution Score ?
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Greenhouse Gas Score ?
This score reflects fuel emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases.
Smartway ?
SmartWay is a designation earned by those vehicles that have combined Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Scores that place them in the top tier (approximately the top 20%) of environmental performers. SmartWay Elite is reserved for the best of the best.
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" We purchased a 2019 Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio and we couldn't be happier. What a refreshing experience! Our salesman Matt was great to work with from the test drive to working through the final paperwork with Luke. Matt spent the time with me going through the car set up, answering my questions while never making me feel rushed. I never felt pressure to purchase but rather was given all the information so that I could make an informed decision and time to think it through prior to committing to the sale. The staff at Mike Ward from sales through service are exceptional! "
" Noah and the rest of the service department have been great! When I had an issue with my car, they drive down to downtown Denver in a snowstorm to make sure that I got a loaner vehicle. They took great care of my Stelvio and I couldn't be happier! Thank you! "
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" Exceptional service. Ryan Stedeford and Brett Suder were great. Beginning to end fantastic. Mike Ward Infiniti could really take some notes from this dealership. "
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" Our experience that we had here was nothing short of exceptional. Both Ryan and Brett were professional from start to finish and made this a very smooth and seamless car buying process. We have unfortunately had to deal with a lot of stress and frustration in our most recent quest for two vehicles, due to other dealerships' unprofessionalism and unwillingness to connect with the customer, all while obviously wanting to earn a quick sale without having to try. Two of the negative dealership experiences we had were actually right across the street at Mike Ward Infinti, which obviously caused us to be very hesitant to reach out to another Mike Ward brand. However, from the moment we inquired about a vehicle at Mike Ward Alfa Romeo, both men were knowledgeable and committed to customer satisfaction, while exuding nothing but professionalism and positivity. Highly recommend working with them! "
" Fantastic customer service, an amazing selection of some of the most beautiful and exhilarating cars, and a a wonderful atmosphere to buy a car. "
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" Perfect easy and fast. A++++ "
" Very helpful "
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" I had the best auto buying experience. I found my dream car and we were introduced to Bret Bissey the finance manager, he provided us with valuable data so we could feel confident when we placed our custom order. We called him multiple times to get status updates, and the conversations were always friendly. The day we got the phone call from Bret that our car was ready, he had everything lined up so we could have the best experience all the way through. Luke was wonderful helping us decide what extras we wanted to add, all the costs, and even broke out multiple rate options to finalize our purchase. He was very friendly, didnt mind all our questions, which I usually shy away from. All of this was going on while Nate waited patiently to show us our cars features. He synced our phones to the car, explained all the features and what each one did, answered all our questions. Very informative. The whole experience went really well. What a great team Mike Ward Alfa Romeo has. Very well represented. I feel like we not only got a new vehicle, but also made some new friends. Thank you for the all around great experience, Greg and Karyn M. "
" I bought a vehicle from here with the amazing help of Steven Pattee. Steven was intrumental in helping me find my vehicle as well as giving me an incredible offer on my trade-in. His expertise regarding my vehicle of choice as well as his irreplaceable attitude and work ethic surrounding my entire experience was incredible. I will be recommending Steven to all my friends and family and I highly recommend him to anyone looking to buy from Mike Ward Alfa Romeo, Maserati, or Mclaren. "
" They were not expecting me the day I went to see the car but were more than happy to help and let me do a test drive. Polite "
" Excellent follow up "
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" Steven Pattee completely turned around my experience at this dealership. I came in to test drive a Jeep they had on their lot, and my initial salesman was not willing to consider negotiating or talking about other options. I knew what I wanted and was ready to give him an easy sale that day, but felt like this sale wasn't of importance and thought maybe it was due to the fact we were out of place at a high end car dealership looking for a normal vehicle. Then Steven came into the picture. From our first encounter over the phone, texts, and in person visit, he was incredibly genuine and down to earth and willing to make the sale even if he wasn't getting much out of it. He completely changed my opinion of the dealership as a whole and each encounter was a pleasant one. If you're visiting this dealership, there's no better person to trust with getting you what you want and leaving happy. I would highly recommend talking with Steven if you have the chance! "
" My wife and I were in the market for a new SUV and decided to explore the options at Mike Ward Alfa Romeo. We had never shopped with the Mike Ward family of dealerships. We were greeted with nothing but friendliness and professionalism from Aaron Buniger (GM), Bret Bissey (Sales Manager) and Steven Pattee (Senior Sales). Steven even took the time to knock 18" of snow off the vehicles we were interested in just for us to begin our test drives. From test drive to purchase, the process we experienced was nothing short of spectacular. Their expertise in their industry was evident from the start and thus created a satisfied customer. Because of our experience we have since referred friends, family and colleagues to the Mike Ward car family. We will definitely be back to buy more vehicles. One last compliment, when we initially arrived to the dealership Mike Ward was personally plowing the snow that accumulated in the dealership lot. I actually said to my wife, "If the owner of the dealership is plowing his own dealership lot, then this is where we want to buy a car" "
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" Responded very quick with good information "
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Lead, Risk Communication and Community Engagement
Julia Smith-Easley is the Lead for Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) at CDC's Emergency Response and Recovery Branch (ERRB). She is also an adjunct instructor with Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. In this role, she developed and teaches Communicating during Global Public Health Emergencies as part of the Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (CHE) program. In addition to providing trainings as part of the CHE program, Julia has also provided trainings and technical assistance in emergency risk communication and community engagement for Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama), Eastern Caribbean, India, Jordan, South Africa, and Turkey. Within ERRB, Julia leads communications efforts for CDC's Global Rapid Response Team, Global Response Preparedness, Global WASH, Global Disease Detection Operations Center, and Humanitarian Health activities. Julia has been with CDC since 1997. She began her CDC career in the former National Center for Infectious Diseases where she developed and coordinated partnerships and activities to support CDC health education programs and campaigns. In 2007, she joined CDC's Division of Partnerships and Strategic Alliances (DPSA) as the Corporate Partnerships Coordinator. In 2009, she led the Engaging Leaders lane for CDC's Healthiest Nation Initiative where she coordinated internal collaborative activities across CDC and facilitated partnerships with external organizations in the business, healthcare, government, education, sports/entertainment, faith-based, and community sectors. Julia joined CDC's Center for Global Health (CGH) in 2010.


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From the "Inevitability of Stupidity" department, we have the story of one Jeffrey Spanierman, FORMER English teacher, Ansonia, Connecticut. Mr. Spanierman, AKA "Mr. Spiderman," maintained a MySpace page where he indulged in casual conversation with current students, and posted bad poetry about the war in Iraq.
And naked pictures of men.
Upon receiving complaints from students, the district pressured Spanierman to take down his MySpace profile. Which he did… and shortly thereafter RE-posted it under the user name Apollo68.
The district did NOT opt to renew Mr. Spanierman's contract, and now he's suing for wrongful termination (or somesuch B.S. …) Here's a link to the court papers (click).
Commentary: Folks, teachers have to walk a narrow line when it comes to relationships with students. It is impossible to be an effective educator if a student doesn't feel like you care about them as a person. It is also very easy to let a relationship devolve into casual banter, or (real or imagined) inappropriately intimate behavior.
As teachers, we can NEVER let our guard down and forget that first and foremost we are to act as professional, authoritative, ADULT, representatives of our schools, communities, churches, and families. To stray too far from that model is to invite disaster. When you try to be "buddy-buddy" with a student, you lose an essential element of respect.
Don't give any appearance of possible impropriety. Your reputation is one irreparable thing that you will carry with you far beyond any teaching assignment. Once it is soiled, there's no going back. The public trusts us too much to risk second chances, and rightly so.
Also, avoid MySpace like the Ebola virus.


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Oops! The rare Enzo Ferrari just got a little more rare. In this video actor Eddie Griffin has some technical difficulties making a turn and powders a million dollar car into a Jersey barrier.
If you look closely you can see that the wheels are actually turned, but for some reason just not gripping. I can only guess there may have been something on the track. Poor Enzo.


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Isn't It Beautiful? Isn't It Marvelous?
I'm speaking only to you, my dearest sisters in Christ! As some of the song lyrics go, isn't it beautiful and marvelous the way that our holy God looks at us through our faith in Jesus, as shared in Isaiah 61:10a, "I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of His righteousness . . . ."
In Ephesians 1:4 He has also promised, "For God chose (place your name here) in Christ before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight." I would ask you, what does that do to your heart? You should be leaping with joy and sheer gratitude! But if you just casually read through these words of God, and don't actually stop and bathe and bask in them, you will not experience the thrill of realizing them . . . personally! It should bring a humble-like thrill to know that this is how our holy God views you. That is exactly what Jesus Christ did for you and me in dying in our place and God placing our past, present, and future sins on Him.
With that shared, my grave concern are for those sisters in Christ who are living with a devastating and debilitating low self-esteem/self-worth. The Lord Jesus wants you to know that this is an out-and-out attack and lie of Satan himself! As you know so well, it is thwarting your spiritual growth, which is certainly giving great pleasure to the evil one. I know you would agree with me that living with this lie is a daily torment. But I would implore you, this very moment to . . . STOP and . . . THINK . . . how actually beautiful and marvelous it is of God, who actually sees you as holy, perfect, blameless and complete in Christ!
And now, sisters, despite our exalted position in God's sight, our practice often falls far too short of His holy standard. Therefore, our moment-by-moment challenge is to increasingly match our practice to our position, realizing that sinless perfection won't come until we are fully glorified in Heaven (Romans 8:23).
Aneta Young is married, with three adult children, seven grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. She has been involved in ministry to women for many years. Aneta enjoys being with her family and playing with all the grands—and she is quite the party hostess!
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Important notice for first-time or new sewers: Iron fabrics with a pile or a nappe (pile is the velvet fibers that stick out like a crew-cut and nappe is the way the fabric has a different look from different angles) on the wrong side of the fabric. Ironing on the wrong side ensures that you won't crush the pile or leave a permanent mark on the fabric that looks just like your iron plate.
- Stretch velvet looks just like velvet. It has the same plush pile and is deep in color and contrast.
- Panne looks very much like velvet, but it's cotton-based. It has a fabulous crush to the nappe of the fabric that gives the short pile more depth.
Advantage: Both are good. I like the look of either fabric. For a practice outfit, I'd use panne. For a program outfit, I'd use stretch velvet.
- Many bolts of stretch velvet say Dry Clean Only; however, some say handwash and line dry. I chose the latter route and had good results.
- Panne is machine washable and dryable.
Advantage: Panne. Who wants to visit the dry cleaner? Dry Cleaner Todd: don't get me wrong, I love you man. But I don't want to see very much of you.
- Stretch velvet is fabulous to sew. The cut edges don't curl up as you stretch it to insert elastic around the leg openings.
- Panne feels like cotton when you sew it, with the exception of stretching the leg openings. The fabric curls maddeningly and I want to throw it in the garbage.
Advantage: Stretch velvet. I want sewing to be fun and curling fabric is not fun.
- I've found stretch velvet for $9.99 - $19.99/yard. Ouch.
- Panne is generally $5/yard.
Advantage: Panne. Yeah. $5/yard for 60"-wide fabric is a deal.
Selection (at local fabric shops).
- Stretch velvet has maybe five bolts to choose from. Not a great selection.
- A rainbow of color exists for panne and fabric shops stock the rainbow.
Advantage: Panne. All those pretty colors. Oooh.
Overall pick: stretch velvet, if you can afford it. I know. That came from nowhere, right? Well, I'm of the opinion that how the material behaves in the machine affects my happiness, the look of the garment, the chances of my family having dinner that night, and the possibility of me ever sewing another stupid skating outfit again. I'd scour every fabric store, order online, and cut newspaper coupons to find and afford stretch velvet. Then I'd stick it in my washer on gentle and throw it on the drying rack. Which, of course, is what I have done.
Secondary pick: panne. No surprise here because I'm only reviewing two fabrics! Cost and selection make this fabric great for practice skirts where no one can see the leg opening elastic and you can just toss the buggers in the washer and dryer. :)


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Who will win Australia's federal election on Oct. 9? With polls showing the rivals neck and neck, the coalition led by Prime Minister John Howard hopes voters will shy away from the untested Mark Latham, leader of the Labor party, and extend Howard's eight-year record at the helm during a period of prolonged economic prosperity. "Australian families want security, and the greatest security that we can give them is the assurance that their interest rates will be kept as low as possible," Howard, 65, told supporters at a speech in Brisbane last week. But despite the primary focus on issues...


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Direct-to-consumer press release release distribution had its genesis in 1997. From a small ranch in Hamilton, Texas, a frustrated entrepreneur decided to use the traditional press release format as a way to reach customers directly through online channels.
Direct-to-consumer (D2C) PR has its genesis in 1997 when David McInnis used a wire service to get attention for his online business. Frustrated by the lack of interest by journalists, he built his own press release platform, PRWeb. His big idea? Allow companies to post their press releases free of charge. While PRWeb did offer distribution to journalists, that was not the primary focus. McInnis became hyper-focused on a new strategy to bypass journalists with his D2C news distribution model.
By 2000, search engine optimization was gaining steam. Newcomer Google was solving search relevance problems with advanced indexing algorithms. Search engine optimization (SEO) was born. In 2002, Google News launched, providing more opportunities for search engine optimization. At the forefront of SEO, PRWeb was able to drive millions of press release page views for its clients. D2C news marketing became a reality.
By late 2004, McInnis became concerned about PRWeb's over-reliance on SEO to drive traffic. Despite the favorable traffic numbers, the ever-present concern of changing search algorithms threatened the viability of the business model. McInnis needed to find new ways to drive targeted traffic. By 2005, PRWeb found these new opportunities in blogging, and the company adopted social technologies at lightning speed. Within a year, PRWeb had essentially become a highly-interactive press release blog using all the features one would associate with a blogging platform, including trackbacks and social bookmarking. PRWeb set the standard for social marketing by early 2006 by embracing virtually every new social technology to boost both visibility and engagement.
By late 2005, McInnis found himself in the midst of acquisition talks with four organizations, including two larger wire services, one private equity group, and lastly, Vocus, a SaaS provider in the public relations space. McInnis ultimately agreed to sell PRWeb in December of 2005. By August of 2006, PRWeb had a new owner.
It wasn't until late 2011 that things began to change for D2C news distribution. Google began a series of search engine algorithm changes with two important updates, Penguin and Panda. These updates affected the way press releases ranked in search engine results. Many long-established techniques for optimizing press release content became less effective. In 2012, press release visibility took a big hit when a press release service distributed a false release on its network. The incident was not the first time in press release history this had happened, but it was a turning point. One of the victims of the false release was Google itself, a fact that caused the original distributor of the false release to go dark for a brief period of time. This created a ripple through all wire services; new editorial guidelines made it nearly impossible to use press releases for news marketing purposes.
We think so. By 2013, search engine optimization was providing very little search engine visibility for press releases. With his non-compete agreement behind him, McInnis started Cranberry as an agency to provide news marketing services. Over the next two years, McInnis experimented with various content marketing strategies to recover from the loss of search engine visibility. The resulting methodologies have been packaged into a single platform which features a new format for news distribution, The News Gist.
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There are various table manners that Players should consider adopting if they would like to become Blackjack players. It's recommended for the game to be played correctly, so that players don't upset the dealer, the other players, or even discredit themselves.
The first thing to remember if you would like to play Blackjack appropriately is to keep your hand as far away from the chips after you have placed your bet. This is important because if you touch your chips by accident, it could look as though you're trying to pinch a few extra chips. Always make sure you're movements over the Blackjack table are nippy and precise so that there is no confusion.
In any circumstance where you decide to Double Down, always remember that you should never place the extra chips on top of your previous bet, as this will confuse the dealer and other players. Instead, place the extra chips you are using to Double Down, next to your previous bet so that a distinction can be made between the two.
Time is money. Pay careful attention to everything that is going on at the table and make sure you know when it is your turn to place a bet and/or make a move. There is nothing worse than a player who is idly tagging along. The dealer will deal and take whatever you've put on the table as a sign that that's your next bet to keep the game flowing, so don't get distracted by goings-on around you and make sure you pay attention to what's happening at the Blackjack table at all times.
There are also various hand signals that players should learn that indicate what your next move is to the dealer. The two most important hand signals are:
- Hit me: When you would like another card, say "Hit me" and sweeping or brushing movement with your hands behind your cards.
- Stay/Stand: Wave your hand over your cards as if you're saying no thanks – your hand will wave horizontally from right to left or left to right.


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I've been having an evening of baking…I wanted to enjoy this and then I ended up getting started on my mint cheesecake/brownie pie for Christmas. I still got to drink it although I just wasn't paying too much attention to it.
When I opened the bag, my guess was lemonade. I hadn't tried this one before so that was exciting, I hadn't thought much of it when it first came out.
It was really good, very lemony, with just a hint of sweet spice. Still very much like lemonade but with a twist.
I may have it again tomorrow and then decide if I want a pouch, I enjoyed it a lot.


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Trombonist Darin Cash is a native of Texas and performs on tenor and bass trombone in a variety of musical settings throughout the Southwest. He is the bass trombonist for the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, second trombonist with the Midland-Odessa Symphony and Chorale, and previously held the position of second/assistant principal trombone with the Austin Opera Orchestra. Dr. Cash serves as the professor of low brass at South Plains College in Levelland, TX and holds Doctorate of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Trombone Performance from The University of Texas at Austin, as well as a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from The University of Texas at Arlington. He resides in Lubbock, TX where he has lived and worked since 2007.
Award-winning performance artist and Juilliard trained trombonist Abbie Conant is somewhat of a legend in the international orchestral brass world.
Ms. Conant played principal trombone at the Royal Opera House in Turin, Italy and then played 13 years as principal in the Munich Philharmonic. She is professor of trombone at the University of Music in Trossingen, Germany.
To read Ms Conant's full bio, please visit the website www.osborne-conant.org
Dr. Michael Davidson, Associate Professor of Trombone at the University of Kansas, is also principal trombonist of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and trombonist with the Kansas Brass Quintet, the Kansas City Brass Works, the I-49 Brass, and the Drei Bones trombone trio. He has performed with the Kansas City Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, the Tulsa Philharmonic, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra USA, the Sunflower Music Festival, the Fountain City Brass Band, and in local performances with the Four Tops, Ray Charles, Johnny Mathis, Kathy Mattea, Emmylou Harris, Mel Tormé, Sandi Patty, the Indigo Girls, John Tesh, Byron Stripling, and many others.
Prior to his appointment to the KU music faculty in 2007, Mike taught at Benedictine College, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Centenary College of Louisiana, and in the Louisiana public schools, where he was the band director at Airline High School, Bossier City, LA. Mike was twice selected for inclusion in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, named the 1991 Caddo Association of Educators Music Teacher of the Year, and elected to membership in the American School Band Directors Association in 1996. Mike's teachers include Donald Yaxley, Roy Pickering, Raymond Turner, Andrew Russell, Tony Chipurn, David Vining, and Richard W. Bowles.
New York-based trombonist Richard Harris has crafted an eclectic musical career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral performer, educator and advocate. He has appeared as a soloist and given master-classes in North & South America, Europe and Asia. Spring 2019 sees the release of a new recording of the Eric Richards Trombone Quartet Concerto with Mr. Harris as soloist and the UTEP Wind Symphony.
Richard was the acting Assistant Principal Trombone of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for two seasons and is a regular guest with many of the US's top symphony orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, The Metropolitan Opera, & Buffalo Philharmonic. He is also a member of the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra in New York City, and he performs with many other Broadway productions. Richard recorded with pop-star Sting on his first studio album in a decade and has performed and toured alongside a diverse range of musicians, such as Puff Daddy, Snoop Dogg, Esperanza Spalding, Natalie Cole, Seth McFarlane, Boyz II Men, Megan Hilty, Roseanne Cash, Bryce Dessner, Chris Botti and classical music stars Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli.
He is a member of 'Decoda' a New York City based chamber music collective which is the first ever Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall. As a chamber musician he has been a guest artist at Chamber Music North West and has performed with The Canadian Brass, The Empire Brass, The Metropolitan Opera Brass Ensemble, The Lincoln Center Trombone Ensemble, the Boston based string ensemble, A Far Cry and this season he will appear with the Knights Chamber Orchestra in "The Head & The Load" directed by William Kentridge. You learn more about Richard by visiting his website www.richardtrombone.com
Bob Kastner has been the 2nd trombonist with the Naples Philharmonic since 2001. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree and Performer's Certificate at the Eastman School of Music, as a student of John Marcellus and Mark Kellogg. In 2004, Robert was the winner of the International Trombone Association's Lewis Van Haney Philharmonic Prize Tenor Trombone competition. He has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Sarasota Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Florida Orchestra.
James McNair's experience as a musician and music educator over the past 25 years is as vast as it is varied ranging from military musician to middle school band director to elementary music teacher to private lesson teacher to college professor. Mr. McNair served as Assistant Professor of Music, Associate Director of Bands and Coordinator of Instrumental Music Education at Texas Christian University from 2005-2008. Previous to this appointment at TCU, Mr. McNair taught for ten years in some of the country's finest band programs including Lake Highlands High School, The Colony High School and Cross Timbers Middle School. Mr. McNair has been a brass specialist and consultant for the Marcus High School Band program since 2003. He also served on the brass staff of the 2001 DCI World Champion Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. Mr. McNair is an active clinician, consultant, and adjudicator throughout the state and has been a clinician for the Texas Music Educators Convention and Texas Bandmasters Conventions in San Antonio.
Mr. McNair is a proud former member of "The President's Own" United States Marine Band in Washington, D.C. where he performed regularly at the White House for the President of the United States, on many Marine Band recordings, and on national tours. Mr. McNair is also in high demand as one of the most versatile freelance trombonists in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. He performs regularly with the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, the Lewisville Lake Symphony Orchestra, the Plano Symphony Orchestra, the Garland/Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Opera, the Dallas Winds, Imperial Brass, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, he has performed with the Dallas Winds and twice at the prestigious Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. Mr. McNair is a two-time winner of the Eastern Trombone Workshop National Classical Solo Competition in Washington, D.C.
Mr. McNair earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from East Texas State University where his primary teachers were Dr. Neill Humfeld, Jim Clark, and Ed Jones. He also earned a Master of Music in trombone performance from Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Alan Morell is a North Carolina native and is the Principal Bass Trombonist of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. He holds a BA from the LSU School of Music and has performed on stage with the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon, Bonerama, and Diane Reeves, among others. Alan is a board member and founding member of the Emerald Coast Music Alliance; the vision of world-renowned pianist Alon Goldstein, who serves as the festival's Artistic Director. As a freelance artist, Alan has been a member of two of Louisiana's premier event bands, Rewind and After 8, touring Texas, Florida and Mississippi in addition to their home state. Alan has participated in the commission of several new works, including Thomas Schipper's new duet for trombone "Hang the Code". Even further, he has worked as an arranger for New Orleans' famous St. Joseph's Cathedral, as well as Baton Rouge Music Studios and local Baton Rouge band Catbamboo. Alan has attended the Aspen Summer Music Festival and the Alessi, Pokorny, and Third Coast Seminars; and, as a result, has studied closely with many of the world's leading brass artists, including Peter Ellefson, Toby Oft and members of the American Brass Quintet. In his free time, he enjoys doubling on tenor trombone, electric, and upright bass. Alan is currently pursuing an MFA from The Mannes Conservatory - where he studies under members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Ballet. Alan is proud to be a member of the M&W family.
Principal Bass Trombone, New York City Ballet Bass Trombone Faculty: Juilliard School Pre-College, Mannes School of Music, and Bard College Co-Founder of Third Coast Trombone Retreat
Bass trombonist Max Seigel enjoys a diverse career performing in a wide range of musical settings. He performs frequently with groups such as the Roy Hargrove Big Band, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Max makes regular appearances on Broadway, having played for the pit orchestras of West Side Story, Porgy and Bess, On the Town, Cats, King Kong and The Lion King. Max is a founding member of Weather Vest, a mixed-wind quartet creatively exploring commonality between classical chamber music and small group jazz. An active composer and arranger, his album "Siphonophore" showcases a wild ensemble comprised of 6 bass trombonists and 6 baritone saxophonists. Max is currently touring with the Michael Bublè big band.
Dr. Jason Sulliman is the Assistant Professor of Trombone at Troy University in Troy, Alabama. Previous teaching positions include the University of North Alabama, Vincennes University, and the North American Brass Band Summer School as part of the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jason earned his doctorate in brass pedagogy from Indiana University and is finishing up his Master's in kinesiology- motor learning/motor control from the same school. Jason has also earned Masters' degrees in conducting and trombone performance from the University of New Mexico and a Bachelor's degree in trombone performance from the University of Massachusetts. Jason was the music manager and conductor for the Broadway show, "Blast!", and performed multiple roles over several national and international tours including tenor trombone, bass trombone, euphonium, and tuba. Jason has performed with several orchestras all over the United States including the Alabama Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the New Mexico Symphony, and currently holds the bass trombone position with the Meridian Symphony in Meridian, MS. With a passion for motor learning and performing arts wellness, Jason has given hundreds of talks and presentations at music conferences and universities, maintains an active Youtube channel, and promotes 21st-century practice techniques through his website, www.jasonsulliman.com. Jason Sulliman is a proud to play on M & W Custom Trombones.
A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Dr. Jeriad Wood is currently a trombonist with the United States Air Force bands. Jeriad earned his doctorate and masters from the University of Texas at Austin, and his undergraduate degree from West Texas A&M University. While attending university Jeriad won the Eastern Trombone Workshop solo bass trombone competition, was a finalist for the Big 12 national bass trombone competition, and finalist for the Steven Zellmer Orchestral Excerpt Competition.
Prior to his appointment with the U.S. Air Force, Jeriad was a freelance trombonist and teacher throughout Texas. He has performed with well-known groups such as the Dallas Wind Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Brazos Valley Symphony, and the Round Rock Symphony. An active teacher and clinician, Jeriad has served as trombone professor at Texas Woman's University and Blinn College. He has also been a guest clinician for the Beijing National Conservatory of Music, and the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. Jeriad maintains an active performance schedule throughout the United States, as well as a low brass studio in the San Antonio area.
Trombonist and music educator Benjamin Yates is Assistant Professor of Trombone and Low Brass at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. At UL Lafayette, Dr. Yates teaches lessons; coaches brass chamber music; conducts the trombone and tubaeuph ensembles; and performs with the Louisiana Brass Quintet. Previously, he taught applied low brass at Luther College (IA), Marian University (WI), and Silver Lake College (WI).
As a trombone clinician, Yates presented master classes throughout the U.S., Austria, Brazil and Japan. Students of Benjamin Yates become successful professional musicians and music educators throughout the United States and the world.
Yates performs regularly with Louisiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin area symphonies, bands and chamber ensembles including the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra (LA), Acadian Wind Symphony (LA), Chorale Acadienne (LA), La Crosse Symphony Orchestra (WI), and the Waterloo- Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra (IA). He has performed with the Grammy Award winning Lost Bayou Ramblers and the Grammy nominated Bonsoir, Catin. As an active soloist, Yates performs and presents master classes and recitals at high schools, colleges and universities around the United States.
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Great finish to the year yesterday with Monsters. Here's my complete list of cinema ratings (from IMDB) for 2010 this year.
On reflection I think The Social Network may indeed justify film of the year on the basis of this perfect ten rating.Burke and Hare was certainly the year's donkey.


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November 28, 2011 § 2 Comments
Come lie beside me
for now and be my
Let your song
bathe my soul
and kiss my pain.
Let your eyes
stare deeply into mine
and make me lose me.
Let that smile
reassure me of
brighter morrows.
Let your words
give me the much
needed perspective.
Let your silence
make me feel i am
home, again.
Come lie beside me
as before. And be
my friend.
November 27, 2011 § 4 Comments
You ask, my love, what the matter is.
Why do i sound so distant and cold
and harsh and tired.
I am as i sound, i want to speak. But
i can't. For reasons that are obvious.
Or you are perhaps oblivious of.
I gave you the best part of myself.
And i thought i took some of your's
too. Until i woke up to reality, that
tore my dreams apart. Dreams of 'us'.
You know how i'd surrendered to you.
This part of me will never know the
exaltation and the exhilaration of
the love i bear for you.
And yet i am confused, and caught up.
I do not want to walk away, and
i can't stay any longer. It hurts.
It is MY problem, i always claim. Hoping
you'd understand what i actually mean.
You ask my love what the matter is.
And i can only say, everything is the matter.
November 26, 2011 § 6 Comments
Say it with Daisies.
Say it with that smile that gets her swooning.
Say it when it rains.
Say it when the time's right.
Say it looking into her eyes.
Say it while the wind blows into her hair.
Say it with Cummings.
Say it when you're in love.
Say it, so she doesn't die guessing.
Conversations with myself-II.
November 24, 2011 § 2 Comments
Nov 15, 6:18 pm.
Sitting at this Monastery, lost.
The observer: Hello AK! What does freedom taste like?
The observed: Huh! I'm physically, mentally, emotionally incapacitated to feel, or perhaps taste it.
The Buddhist: What makes you think i was bound by anything, ever?
The observer: So what happens now?
The observed: I don't know, the usual perhaps. Going out with friends, chilling, shopping, reading the stock i bought lately.
The Buddhist: Transformation is the word. If the Self does not transform even after looking at real faces, what's the whole point of living?
The observer: So this phase made you learn a lot it seems wrt people, life and the masks that everyone wears.
The observed: Including the ones that i use as a shield, so i don't get hurt. Everything makes sense now.
The Buddhist: Some of 'em wear a different one for each person they meet. And by the end of it, they forget who they were altogether. Masked, they avoid their own Selves.
The observer: Uh! Heavy stuff!! Have you been drinking acid lately?
The observed: It's just another layer. Which gets deeper each time sorrow comes knocking.
The Buddhist: There is always more to a person, than what meets the eye. Either you go on living your shallow life, ignoring it. Or you observe, and pick up from the smallest and the most insignificant things.
The observer: Hmph! What keeps it alive? This side of you, i mean.
The observed: People. Who else?
The Buddhist: I'd be more specific here. It's only someone close, who can bring out the worst in you, hurting you beyond your own resistance levels. The best, anyone can.
The observer: You're soo dead!
The observed: Tell me about it. Couldn't you 'observe' it coming, love?
The Buddhist: And i've never felt so alive. It's all transparent and infinite now. Like blue.
P.S. Strangely, 'the doer' vanished sometime in this last one month.
More of that, in another post sometime!
November 22, 2011 § 14 Comments
I cannot be
what you have lost
and you may not be
what i never had.
But still i long
to hold your hand
to walk beside you
on the path less taken.
Because walking beside you
i feel that i am in my place
because dancing beside you
i can truly dance.
Despite and because
of your depth and carefree-ness
despite and because
of your heartbreak face.


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Happy Monday!!
Why do sports enthusiasts feel the need to cover themselves with paint? Seriously? I'll never understand that. ~smh~
Happy Monday!!
Based on your blog opening you qualify for the "Lori" award ...
see it on the top right of my web.
Dedicated to recognizing...
"Not So Super Person"
Need Help? Admit It? You Qualify for a 'Lori' - It's based on Ph 4:13 - we do what we do through the one who gives strength
You can copy the "award" logo off my web if you like... it's not so super but the best i could do on short notice... if you don't mind link it back over to Lori just the same as it is linked off my website.
that's where the inspiration came from.
And you can recommend and award others the "Not So Super Person" award, as you feel they deserve it.
Bless and Be Blessed
Well this fit into both my "What the heck?!" and my "Well now" catagories today! Thanks LarryG for both the nomination and the chuckle. I am certainly a "Not So Super Person"...just ask Mr. P.
maybe add to your caption...
'Lori' Award winner- Ph 4:13 - we do what we do through the one who gives strength
if you don't mind... :)
Hey there. Thanks for thinking of me (us)--and for playing along. I love reading your replies...especially #2 (AMEN!) and #4.


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Monster Lab!
How to Make Halloween
We have been releasing Monster Labs for free on Youtube since 2016 and really enjoy helping people make their own Halloween masks and props. If you have not aleady seen it, Monster Lab is an instructional video series that shows you how to sculpt, mold, paint, and create your very own masks and props the "Distortions way." Ed Edmunds has taught most of the tutorials but we have also featured sculptors Mikey Rotella and Tom Cassidy. We have received a lot of comments and support and Ed is often compared to a Bob Ross.
"If bob ross was superman, this guy would probably be a mix of batman and bizarro" Youtuber comment
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Here are a few of our favorite and most popular Monster Lab episodes. If you enjoy the content please share and subscribe as this helps and encourages us to make more!
In Monster Lab #13 Ed takes you through the making of the Greeley Gremlin and in the process teaches how to 3D characters out of Latex, taking you through the sculpting, making of a two piece mold, and the painting of the character. We always encourage people to comment and let us know what they want to learn!!


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- The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1 Mar 1955, p. 379 - 379
Explored Areas of Arthropod-borne Viral Infections
(Yellow Fever and Dengue Excepted)
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We are indebted to the American Geographical Society for another map in their series on the world distribution of various diseases or infections. The latest map represents a very important contribution since, for the first time, it is possible to see at a glance the areas in which arthropod-borne viral infections occur. The extent to which arthropod-borne viruses are encountered over the world comes as a surprise even to those familiar with the literature, for here in the map we have brought together for the first time the findings and observations recorded in a rather comprehensive and scattered literature; the selected bibliography, which is quite extensive, contains a number of review papers and thus obviates the necessity of going back to many original papers.
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This article centers on Season 3, Episode 12 of Outlander, "The Bakra." If you're not yet caught up with the show, be warned: Spoilers abound.
I am simply going to tell you, up front, that this week's episode of Outlander is even more absurd than last week's, which is saying something. A lot of the Frasers' old friends and frenemies just happen to be lurking about in Jamaica, and it borders on hilarity because it's not like air travel was a thing back in Ye Olden Days.
Young Ian resurfaces and is being kept alive by the Portuguese pirates because someone called The Bakra likes young boys. When the Bruja gets to Jamaica, Young Ian is thrown into a cave cell where he meets a couple other young men being held. There is some ominous talk about how the boys thrown in the cell keep being taken away, though to where, no one knows. Before long Ian is taken to a lovely estate, a colonial fever dream, where a woman is bathing in goat's blood because "the protein and iron keep my skin young." She is The Bakra, but we know her as Geillis Duncan. Yes. You just read that correctly. The same Geillis Duncan who was burned as a witch in Season 1—but not before Claire discovered she was also a time traveler. (And the same Geillis Duncan that we last saw passing through the stones in 1968 in Season 2.) As Young Ian watches, kind of dumbfounded, Geillis rinses the goat's blood off, posing seductively, then dons a robe like this is all fine, nothing to see here. A manservant brings in some treats and tea, which after a brief pause, Young Ian takes to eagerly. He is a growing boy, after all.
Long story short, Geillis is looking for three sapphires, of which she has two. She asks Ian about what happened on Selkie Island while he was going for her treasure. Before long, he is spilling his guts. Turns out, there was some kind of truth serum in the tea and Geillis learns that Young Ian's uncle might have taken the sapphire. She marvels at what a small world it is when she learns the identity of Ian's uncle. Geillis also waxes poetically about how sex with virgins keeps her young, as it does for all of us. Ian defiantly shares that he isn't a virgin. There was that one time, in his uncle's print shop, and Geillis is fine with that because, she says, he'll know what to do. (As if.) She reclines in bed and Ian crawls toward her, but they mercifully don't show the sex scene. Young Ian is very young, after all.
The Frasers arrive in Jamaica and immediately start searching for Young Ian. As they are strolling through the streets, they see that slavery is alive in well in 18th-century Jamaica. Claire is appalled and rightfully so, but it highlights one of the realities of the Outlander premise. The show only works because Claire is white. A black woman would never want to return to the 18th century, no matter how dashing and handsome Jamie Fraser might be. It's interesting that it takes until the third season for the show to try to grapple with this, but I suppose it's hard to be an adventure romance and politically engaged with historical realities.
At the slave market, a young black man being sold by slavers captures Claire's attention. She causes a scene and demands that Jamie do something to help the young man. Jamie ends up buying the young man. That's right. The Frasers become slave owners, but the good kind so it's fine I guess. Apparently it is easy to buy a slave but far more difficult to set one free. They'll set the poor guy free, "when it means he truly can be," Jamie says after detailing, for Claire, the difficulties of just giving a man his freedom. The Frasers then ask the young man, Temeraire, for his help. While they are mingling at the governor's ball—to which they have been conveniently invited—he will go to the slave quarters and ask if anyone has seen Young Ian. He agrees to do so because, well, he is a slave! He has to! The show is just trying to make his slavery seem more palatable to our modern sensibilities.
Everything on Outlander always comes full circle in one way or another. Remember Margaret and Archiband Campbell, whom we last saw in Episode 7? They're also hanging out in Jamaica, at Geillis's invitation. Their presence is all part of an elaborate but nonsensical plot wherein Geillis is determined to find the third sapphire from her box of treasure because, apparently, if a seer holds all three sapphires, that seer will be able to predict when a Scotsman will finally sit on the throne. (Geillis is as dedicated to her people as ever.)
When the Frasers arrive at the ball, Archibald Campbell is the very first person Claire sees, and she greets him, somewhat stunned, as anyone would be. What are the chances that this random guy you met in Edinburgh would also be at the same party you're attending in Jamaica, in the 18th century? There is no way this could ever possibly happen, so of course it happens. Willoughby, Fergus, and Marsali are also at the ball, and Willoughby is quite the hit with the local white women who have never seen a Chinese man before. Then Margaret Campbell catches Willoughby's eye. Later they have a quiet moment on the grounds, away from it all, where Willoughby tells Margaret she deserves better than how her brother treats her and whispers sweet nothings to her. A love connection is made!
While Jamie is mingling, looking very dashing in his colonial garb, he sees a ghost from his past. You will never guess who the governor of Jamaica is. NEVER!
It's Lord John Grey.
I guffawed audibly at this point, and then gave in and was simply delighted. Once Jamie gets over his surprise, he introduces Claire to John and John is equally stunned—both to see Jamie, and also and to learn Claire is alive. With Claire alive, John has less than no shot at his OTP. Claire quickly realizes John has feelings for Jamie and gets real territorial about her man. And of course Geillis is skulking about the party twirling her invisible lady-villain moustache, just in case you craved a bit more wild coincidence.
John Grey pulls Jamie and Claire into his study where they catch up on Jamie's son, Willy, who is doing well. (Of course he's doing well. He's a rich white man with a title and a fortune to his name.) They chit and chat, then Jamie realizes John is still wearing the sapphire he gave him after escaping from prison that one time. It's a tender little moment between the not quite lovers. Poor John Grey. He reminds Claire of how they met, when they have a chance to talk alone, and she makes a point of commenting on the sapphire. "Jamie gave that to you?" she asks, and pointedly makes it clear she has come back to Jamie, which is to say, that she is giving serious "back the hell off, Lord John Grey" vibes. I really wished they had scored this scene with Monica and Brandy's classic hit "The Boy Is Mine." What a missed opportunity.
Before they can continue their tense conversation, Claire spies Geillis Duncan, and the two women two catch up on what happened since Geillis was, you know, supposedly to be burned at the stake. She was kept alive until she had her baby, apparently, and then Dougal helped her escape. Geillis married a plantation owner and is now Mistress Abernathy of Rose Hall. I will give the show this: Everything is absurd, but there is always an explanation that makes you think, "Well, it could have happened that way!" Also, time travelers always land on their feet.
Geillis offers to help Claire find Young Ian even though she knows exactly where Young Ian is. "What are friends for?" she says, because Geillis always has a little venom on her tongue. That's what makes her interesting.
The frenemies head inside to find Jamie, who is having a tender little moment with John Grey, and Geillis spies her sapphire. She is quick on her feet and orders Archibald and Margaret to start telling fortunes to the party guests. Then she ropes a reluctant John Grey into her shenanigans, has him hand Margaret the sapphire…you see where this is going. As I said, everything in this episode is so absurd that it becomes absolutely numbing. It is far less fun to watch a show like this when everything is overly convenient. A character needs something? Somehow, that something falls into their lap. Sure, there's struggle, but always over the things we wish were easy—like Jamie and Claire's being together.
Margaret doesn't want to read Grey's fortune, but she is forced to nonetheless. She mutters some things and finishes, "When the issue is cut down, then will a Scotsman wear a crown." John Grey laughs it off and the ball continues. Geillis pulls Archibald outside and demands that he explain Margaret's words. He tries his best, but it's clear they have not yet made sense of Margaret's meaning. Geillis is undeterred, though, which doesn't bode well for Young Ian, or anyone in her path.
The young newlyweds, Fergus and Marsali, are being sweet and romantic to each other when they spy Captain Leonard riding up. They warn Jamie, and soon the Frasers and their compatriots are fleeing. They rendezvous with Temeraire, who spoke with some escaped slaves from The Bruja (of course he did) and learned that Young Ian is with Mistress Abernathy at Rose Hall. Temeraire, understandably, wants to be sure the Frasers are going to hold up their end of the bargain. Jamie assures him that once he can, he will set the young man free. Temeraire isn't keen on waiting and tells Jamie that escaped slaves live in the mountains near Rose Hall, which is a plot convenience I am fine with because I really want this young man to be black and free as he should be. On their way to Rose Hall, they find a marked tree—the beginning of the Jamaican freedom train, if you will—and Temeraire is off, to hopefully live the rest of his life in peaceful freedom.
The Frasers decide to continue on to Rose Hall, but Captain Leonard rides up and takes Jamie into custody. Jamie hands Claire the pictures of his children to hold for him. Claire, for her part, calls Leonard a bloody bastard. "I am the only reason any of you survived," she says, which is of course true. Captain Leonard is thoroughly unmoved. Ambition trumps gratitude, obviously. As he's taken away, Jamie implores Claire to find Young Ian, and she is left, once again, to watch her husband being unfairly arrested. This is like the 10th time, though, so she should be used to it at this point. Lord knows I am. We all are!
Roxane Gay is the author of Bad Feminist, Difficult Women and, most recently, Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
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Animations allow you to display a series of images one after another, creating the illusion of change. Generally these images will come from a SpriteSheet source.
Create a Texture that contains the frames of your animation. Once the texture is loaded, you can then generate an Animation by creating a SpriteSheet and using SpriteSheet.getAnimationForAll.
var game = new ex.Engine();
var txAnimPlayerIdle = new ex.Texture("/assets/tx/anim-player-idle.png");
// load assets
var loader = new ex.Loader(txAnimPlayerIdle);
// start game
game.start(loader).then(function () {
var player = new ex.Actor();
// create sprite sheet with 5 columns, 1 row, 80x80 frames
var playerIdleSheet = new ex.SpriteSheet(txAnimPlayerIdle, 5, 1, 80, 80);
// create animation (125ms frame speed)
var playerIdleAnimation = playerIdleSheet.getAnimationForAll(game, 125);
// add drawing to player as "idle"
player.addDrawing("idle", playerIdleAnimation);
// add player to game
You can add [[SpriteEffect|sprite effects]] to an animation through methods like Animation.invert or Animation.lighten. Keep in mind, since this manipulates the raw pixel values of a Sprite, it can have a performance impact.
Typically you will use a SpriteSheet to generate an Animation.
Reference to the current game engine
An array of sprites to create the frames for the animation
The number in milliseconds to display each frame in the animation
Indicates whether the animation should loop after it is completed
Current frame index being shown
Flip each frame horizontally. Sets Sprite.flipHorizontal.
Flip each frame vertically. Sets Sprite.flipVertical.
Indicates the frame index the animation should freeze on for a non-looping animation. By default it is the last frame.
Indicates whether the animation should loop after it is completed
Duration to show each frame (in milliseconds)
The sprite frames to play, in order. See SpriteSheet.getAnimationForAll to quickly generate an Animation.
Add a ISpriteEffect manually
Clear all sprite effects
Applies the colorize effect to a sprite, changing the color channels of all pixels to be the average of the original color and the provided color.
Applies the darken effect to a sprite, changes the darkness of the color according to hsl
Applies the desaturate effect to a sprite, desaturates the color according to hsl
Applies the fill effect to a sprite, changing the color channels of all non-transparent pixels to match a given color
Applies the grayscale effect to a sprite, removing color information.
Applies the invert effect to a sprite, inverting the pixel colors.
Indicates whether the animation is complete, animations that loop are never complete.
Applies the lighten effect to a sprite, changes the lightness of the color according to hsl
Applies the opacity effect to a sprite, setting the alpha of all pixels to a given value
Plays an animation at an arbitrary location in the game.
The x position in the game to play
The y position in the game to play
Removes an ISpriteEffect from this animation.
Effect to remove from this animation
Removes an effect given the index from this animation.
Index of the effect to remove from this animation
Resets the animation to first frame.
Applies the saturate effect to a sprite, saturates the color according to hsl
Skips ahead a specified number of frames in the animation
Frames to skip ahead
Not meant to be called by game developers. Ticks the animation forward internally and calculates whether to change to the frame.


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GSN Files FCC Carriage Complaint Against Cablevision
The Game Show Network has filed a program carriage complaint against Cablevision, saying it had used its market power to favor its own affiliated network at GSN's expense in violation of Federal Communications Commission rules.
It wants the agency to force Cablevision to carry the network on what it says are "nondiscriminatory terms and conditions" and pay a fine. FCC rules prevent an MVPD from discriminating against unaffiliated nets in favor of ones in which it has a financial interest.
GSN says Cablevision's migration of the channel last February from the basic tier to a male-targeted sports tier estranged GSN from its primarily female audience.
GSN maintains that move was inconsistent with other operators who carry the network on basic, rather than specialty tiers, and that the move favored its similarly situated affiliated networks, We TV and spin-off Wedding Central, which it did not also reposition. Wedding Channel, which launched in August 2009, was shut down on July 1 aspart of AMC Networks' spinoff from Cablevision, as part of the programming company's plan to better allocate its resources.
Moreover, GSN says the move caused its ratings to "crater" in the New York DMA, the largest TV market in the country.
The network also claims that when a member of its management committee, who is also a DirecTV executive, sought to help "undo" Cablevision's move of the channel. GSN claims that Cablevision suggested a resolution that would include DirecTV's distribution of Wedding Central, which that company had already decided not to carry and rejected. GSN says that Cablevision's tying of the "fair distribution" of an unaffiliated network with the "unearned benefits" of an affiliated network constituted a second, separate, violation of FCC program carriage rules.
Cablevision was dismissive of the complaint. "The programming comparisons made by GSN -- We TV's programming for all women vs. old game shows -- make a mockery of the FCC's program carriage rules. We believe the FCC will see through this self-serving ploy and reject GSN's claim."
"Our filing speaks for itself," said GSN in a statement. "Our dealings with Cablevision have been utterly inconsistent with the way in which all of our other clients value and distribute GSN."


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Sahara snow- first in 37 years.
Temperatures at the North Pole could be upto 20 degrees higher than average this Christmas Eve, in what scientists say is a record-breaking heatwave. Climate scientists say these unseasonably warm weather patterns in the Arctic region are directly linked to man-made climate change.It follows a summer during which Arctic sea ice reached the second-lowest extent ever recorded by satellites.Dr Friederike Otto, a senior researcher at Oxford's Environmental Change Institute toldBBC News that in pre-industrial times "a heatwave like this would have been extremely rare - we would expect it to occur about every 1,000 years". Dr Otto added that scientists are "very confident" that the weather patterns were linked to anthropogenic climate change. "We have used several different climate modelling approaches and observations," she told BBC News."And in all our methods, we find the same thing; we cannot model a heatwave like this without the anthropogenic signal."
Asked if the conditions on Christmas Eve were likely to affect Santa's all-important journey, Dr Markus said he was confident that his sled would cope with the conditions.He added: "Santa is most likely overdressed though. Maybe in the future we'll see him in a light jacket or plastic mac."
Seems legit.
I'm really surprised you hadn't picked up on this: Arctic heatwave could break records - www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38417198Still; what would she know?
Arctic Sea Ice The Same Thickness As 1940http://realclimatescience.com/2017/01/arctic-sea-ice-the-same-thickness-as-1940/
One sneak preview of the new article that is HIGHLY significant is it is POURING rain in California right now. We are experiencing something they are calling an Atmospheric River, and are in the second of what will probably be four waves.Mainstream media sources are already saying that the drought will be greatly reduced, if not eliminated by this one series of events.This may have been the result of benevolent weather manipulation. The polar vortex that descended over all of America may well have created an energetic low-pressure zone that allowed the users of this technology to laser in this atmospheric river to just where it was desired.I am not speaking in technical terms as no officially-recognized terms yet exist for torsion / scalar technology, which is what they are using to mess with the weather. I go into this science extensively in The Source Field Investigations, which is highly recommended.I have watched California drying and dying every year since about 2010, definitely by 2011. The meterologists even called the weather system a Ridiculously Resilient Ridge, since every single time a storm tried to come in it was blocked by the same zone off the coast of California.Every time there was a possibility of how the temperatures could go, the most pessimistic and horrible estimate was correct. We had vastly more heat than we should and it even was spiking into the high 80s in February, which was totally wrong and bizarre.This was an attack against all of America. The hope was to depopulate the planet and punish America in particular for its work to rebel against the Cabal. No water means no crops, which means no food, which means mass starvation.
Pravda: Scientists Now Warn Of A New Ice Age As Temperature Plummets to 80°F In Russia!By P Gosselin on 10. January 2017Some impressive winter events have been taking place all across the northern hemisphere lately. Especially eastern and southeastern Europe have been pounded by massive snowfalls and tremendously cold temperatures. Turkey has been buried by heavy snows and extreme temperatures have gripped the entire USA and vast areas of Russia.The global warming climate appears to have been hacked by natural factors.In Russia Moscow celebrated the coldest orthodox Christmas in 125 years.Snowfall paralyzed the city of Istanbul, Turkey.Massive snow falls across the Balkans, Italy and Greece.Dozens of Europeans have since frozen to death.Northern Albania villages have been cut off by 120 cm of snow.A temperature of -62°C (-80°F) was recorded in Chanty-Mansijsk (Russia).Arctic conditions spread deep into the MediterraneanThese are all odd events when considering the consensus forecasts made 15 years ago, which warned that snow and ice would become rare.In fact many scientists warned that Mediterranean conditions would spread into northern Europe. Lately, however, just the opposite has happened: Arctic conditions have plunged down into the Mediterranean!So in the face of all the earlier global warming predictions, it is now only ironic that yesterday the German-language Pravda TV site here published an article warning of an impending ice age. The article cites Yale scientist Wei Liu and a recent paper he published on the overlooked possibility of a collapsed Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Should the ocean heat conveyor collapse, then there would be a prominent cooling over the northern North Atlantic and neighboring areas, sea ice increases over the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian seas and to the south of Greenland.Note: Pravda is a rebel-type German site, and so could be viewed to be in the same category as climate alarmist sites. It offers an opposite view.- See more at: http://notrickszone.com/2017/01/10/pravda-scientists-now-warn-of-a-new-ice-age-as-temperature-plummets-to-80f-in-russia/#sthash.K1JUryKZ.l0T4PQKp.dpuf
Nobody can really control the weather. Its no accident that every major storm segment includes this psychological reinforcement of the false-reality. Ensuring that people believe that this endless stream of destructive flood events, bizarre snow events, etc., are acts of Gods and that no one or nothing other than Mother Nature is (or could possibly be) responsible, is as critical to the perpetuation of a half a century of manufactured weather, as the manufactured weather is. In fact the Today led with same clip of this weather expert, that Ive been seeing all weekend.Is it really so hard for people to believe that in 2017, industry can boil water? Is it really so hard to believe that in 2017, industry can boil water in sequence, from one structure, to the next? Is it really so hard for people to understand that doing this on a national scale, with buildings and equipment that exist for everyone to see (and that everyone can see in action), visibly adds massive amounts of water to storm systems that visibly falls in flash floods and bizarre snow storms, in parts of the South that have hardly ever even seen snow before?Which is harder to believe?
In January!
almost 80F degree day with mist and humidity and now are under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch
It's coming right for me. Bush and Obama's fault.
The chem trails are used as a doping agent to turn air (which is a semiconductor) into what is effectively a giant transistor, which when biased by converging radio transmissions (which when they cancel due to correct phasing) drop an electric charge into the chem trail doped atmosphere, and this causes a several orders of magnitude greater electrical flow to be tapped out of the ionosphere and cause atmospheric heating. That is what weather mod is based around. There is a detailed explanation of this in my several years old HAARP report To witness converging radio waves being visibly converted into electricity all you need to do is put aluminum foil in your microwave. The sparks are the re-conversion of the radio waves back into electricity when they reflect off the aluminum foil and collide with incoming waves. Good way to wreck a microwave oven. The ground based transmitters do exactly the same thing but at energy levels diffuse enough to not be observed as sparks, and this provides the "bias path" for a much greater electrical cascade from the ionosphere.To understand this, you have to know how transistors work, what the silicon is doped with to make it into a transistor, the bias path, the power supply path, etc. It is fairly simple, but quite a lot to understand if you don't have an electronics background.


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Phnom Penh, October 26, 2009
Ref : A telephone call and email from the Vice President of CAMKAA on Monday, October 26, 2009
Sub : "Inviting Excellencies, sirs and madams to the 2009 Fourth Meeting of the Cambodia Korea Alumni Association, CAMKAA on Saturday, November 7, 2009″
Dear Excellencies, sirs and madams,
As state above Subject and Reference, I have the great honor to inform Excellencies, sirs and madams that the Cambodia Korea Alumni Association, CAMKAA is planning to arrange 2009 Fourth Meeting with the following Agenda: "Discuss on Organizing Annual Reception on Friday, December 11, 2009".
The meeting will be held on Saturday, November 7, 2009 (9:00 ~ 11:00AM) at KOICA Cambodia Office, located at house # 38, St. 322, Sangkat Boeung Keng Kang I, Khan Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh.
In this connection, I am pleased to invite Excellencies, sirs and madams to this meeting.
I would like to solicit kind responses from Excellencies, sirs and madams on this matter. For further information, please kindly contact to me, Mr. HORT Sroeu (HP: 011-77 40 85, Email:firstname.lastname@example.com).
Please accept, Excellencies, sirs and madams, the assurance of my highest consideration.
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Last week I took l took the week off from most of my habit improvement work. Oh no failure!!! This was for me a concusions decision. I was spending family time on a vacation. We tended to a lot of learning and walking as well as spending time together and I simply chose to not record my days or worry about the skills I haven't improved.
Maybe it would have been ok to still record stuff. Maybe I would have kept improving a couple habits along the way. To me it was ok to skip a week. Maybe next vacation I will try to do it a little and see what happens.
Most importantly the return leg of the trip provided some solid relaxation and I am back at work today. To me that is pretty important. Often doing this sort of thing I will miss a bit and not get back to the tasked at all. Probably because I was annoyed about 'failing' for a week. So consider that if you miss some time for one reason or another.


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- What can a mother earn in Guatemala?
- Is she able to care for her children and home and still earn money to help?
- How can a single mother feed her children?
- Can a family buy school supplies and send their children to school?
So what do these questions have to do with a neck scarf?
What is a neck scarf worth to these women? How does a neck scarf help them…………
Every time someone buys a neck scarf from Education And More it gives the weaver —- that mother — an income. What does she earn for her weaving? Our artisans earn approximately 200% above the Guatemalan poverty line for each hour they work on products.
But that is not all —
- they receive business training to develop their weaving / handcraft businesses
- advance payment if needed
- new sewing centers
- learning new skills such as sewing
- they receive help for their children to attend school
- interest free micro-credit loans
These are just a small portion of the extra benefits our artisans have received. This is all possible because you have bought one of their handcrafts in our online store or hosted a bazaar of their handcrafts at your church.
So how does a neck scarf help? Let me count the ways…………………………
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