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The men were charged with conspiring to commit an act of international terrorism through a group tied to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, NJ.com reported, citing unidentified officials. NJ.com is the website for the Newark Star-Ledger and affiliated newspapers.
Jose Lozano, a spokesman for the state Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, confirmed two arrests at JFK but would not provide details.
NJ.com reported that the two men had been under investigation since 2006 and that an undercover New York City police officer had infiltrated their circle of friends.
The two were identified as Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, of Elmwood Park, who were arrested waiting to board separate flights to Egypt. Both are believed to be American citizens, NJ.com reported.
They are scheduled to appear Monday in U.S. District Court in Newark.
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Eep, it's been a while since we've done a freebie around here! How would you like a new desktop for your phone? :)
I thought some bright and pretty designs could be fun as we head into the holiday season, I hope you like them too! I've done them in two formats (for iPhone 4, and iPhone 5) – So choose your favourite and get downloading! :)
The easiest way to make these your own is to navigate to this page on your phone, click the link you're after, then hold your finger on the image and select 'Save Image'. Then head over to your camera roll, find the image and select 'Set as Wallpaper'. That's it!
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80s nostalgia with Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon
- 18 April, 2013 13:17
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon is the most refreshing and oddball game to come out in recent memory. The game can be best described as a fusion of 2003's Tron 2.0 game by Monolith Productions with the design aesthetics of games such as 1989's Zerowing, famous for the "All your base are belong to us" Internet meme. Throw in a story and characters that would not be out of place in a Chuck Norris movie and then you will have Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon.
Ubisoft creative director, Dean Evans, explains why the game turned out the way it did..
What is Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon?
Ubisoft creative director, Dean Evans (DE): Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon is an all-out honest cyber shooter that doesn't take itself too seriously. In a genre saturated with super serious narrative and realistic settings, we felt it was time to inject some good old fashioned robofun into it. Think of it as the third movie in an action franchise, where it's got a bit tired and long in the tooth. It's that moment when the producers decide to go all in. Robocop 3 and Rambo 3 are great examples of movies that just went crazy to explode or implode the franchise. Toys, cartoons, cereal, that kind of stuff came flooding in. The philosophy with Blood Dragon was to create something that's so bad it's good. Many shooters are just 80s action movies in disguise, so we just embraced it and ran with it.
Can you tell us about the vision behind the game?
DE: Blood Dragon is the product on growing up in the 80s and 90s, late nights watching action movies and playing first and second gen consoles, and a single light from the TV illuminating the room while burning your retina. It's a time when browsing the video store was the highlight of your week. VHS forever, baby. I miss the aesthetic of those times. Chrome, lasers, cyborgs, neon and smoke. And when I talked about it with the team, I realised I was not alone and they happily joined the cyber-ranks. It's a timeless aesthetic that unfortunately has almost disappeared from gaming. There was a time when it ruled the world and I say bring it back. It was the birth of our industry and deserves to be celebrated.
How did you write the script?
DE: We sometimes used pens but mainly a BBC Acorn computer using word processing software.
What can you tell us of the scope of the game?
DE: The game has about eight hours of content and infinite open world filled with cyber murder.
Can you tell us more about the group behind the soundtrack?
DE: It's Power Glove from Melbourne. These guys are the bomb and they deserve huge success. This is their first videogame project and they have delivered beyond all expectations. Available soon, by the way, so keep an eye on our channels.
What's the takeaway when the game ends?
DE: "That was stupid, terrible, amazing fun. I want more."
Why a standalone experience instead of DLC?
DE: We wanted to experiment with different forms of expansion and a standalone was our choice for this project.
What platforms will the game be released for?
DE: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and Turbo MegaSystem.
Have you planned any of the leaks on purpose?
DE: The creative director has a Welsh lineage and the national vegetable is?
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They sleep in our beds, they eat our food, they sometimes wear our clothes, or eat our socks anyway. Dogs will be joining the human race a little bit more it seems, with a NZ vitamin water being developed especially for them to be served in cafes, restaurants and hotels.
Deborah Chester, Auckland inventor of the RimPro-Tec wheel protection system, is launching a range of vitamin water for dogs called K9H20, following the success of vitamin water for the human population.
"Its a New Zealand spring vitamin water, great for the restaurant owners and the retail market," said Chester, who has worked with Massey University's Canine and Feline Foods and Nutrition Dept to produce the drink.
Dog owners will be able to choose from four flavours; NZ beef, free range chicken, fresh mint and peanut butter.
"What better way to end the hard working day than enjoying a summer drink with their owners in the local pub, restaurant or even the five star hotel as they do in the United States?" said Chester. "Why shouldn't New Zealand follow the world wide trends?"
"We've got a very good response from the dogs on trial at Massey," said Chester, the owner of three dogs herself. Set to launch in three months, a 500 ml bottle will retail for around $4.45, selling in convenience stores, pet shops. veterinary practices and potentially supermarkets. The entrepreneur has also designed a travel bowl, the Portabowl, which retails for $1.99 to pour the drink into when out and about.
K9H20 has caught the interest of a number of vets who can see a need for such a product, especially when an animal is recovering from an illness or an operation and is not up to eating solids. Chester has also had interest from high end doggy day care centres in Auckland.
Chester is launching a number of pet food and drink under her latest business, BestMate PetCare, a division of BestMate Group based in Glenfield.
"Our mission is to provide only natural New Zealand-made food and beverage products within the pet industry," says Chester, who is also developing a drink for cats with the help of Massey University.
"New Zealand has one of the highest levels of pet ownership per person, well ahead of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia," she says. A 2007 survey revealed that 52 per cent of New Zealand households had a cat, and nearly 30 per cent had a dog, she said.
"Really people are looking at their animals as part of the family. They are becoming like people's children."
K9H20 will be global from day one. Chester says she already has interest from Japan, Dubai and the US market.
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Bad news for geezers
Flu shot only 9 percent effective in protecting seniors
ATLANTA — Health officials say this season's flu shot is only 9 percent effective in protecting seniors against the most common and dangerous flu bug.
Flu vaccine tends to protect younger people better than older ones and is never 100 percent effective. But experts say the preliminary results released Thursday are disappointing and highlight the need for a better vaccine.
For all age groups, the vaccine's effectiveness was a moderate 56 percent.
But it did a particularly poor job of protecting those 65 and older against a harsh flu strain that is causing most of the illnesses this year. Health officials emphasize that some protection though is better than none at all.
The flu season started early this year but the worst of it is over.
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Amaryllis, a native South African plant, Latin amarysso meaning "to sparkle. What a perfect meaning for this time of year. I love these plants, every year I search for a new, variety to bloom in my house.
Over the years I have collected 19th century botanicals of these amazing plants, the detail in the drawings is what I love the most about them. In the day with no cameras, the fine detail all done with the naked eye.
I have put some of the prints on Tissue Boxes and Matches, they make a wonderful presents, with absolutely no care they will bloom for years.


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I know, I can't believe it!
Sometimes it seems like it was just yesterday!
Other times it feels like TEN l-l-l-l-o-o-o-o-n-n-n-n-g-g-g-g years!
We did the church thing
We did the picture thing even if we felt like goofballs
We did the family thing
We did the wedding party thing
...and then we did the celebrating!
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|A Peacock- Danny's Love towards Nature
Tshering Pintso Bhutia popularly known as Danny Denzongpa is a famous name in the Bollywood. We have seen him in many Indian movies as a deleterious villain and also have listened to many songs sung by him in Indian and Nepali films. I still can remember a Nepali song of my childhood days "Agi Agi Topaiko Gola...Pachi pachi machine gun Bha ra ra...Cigarette nadeu ma bedi khanelai Maya nadeu ma hedi janelai" sung by him with Asha Bhosle, a gigantic name in the Hindi music world. His journey from the remote village of Yoksam to Mumbai is possibly the best example for all those who aspire to be a noted figure in Bollywood. Danny started his schooling from Gyalshing, the District Headquarters of West Sikkim. After getting stipend from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Government of India, he went to Birla Vidhya Mandir Nainital.
|The original name of Danny is visible in this sketch
I have met one of his juniors of Birla Vidhya Mandir Mr. B. B. Rai of Namchi Kazitar, from whom I have been able to secure an old school magazine Vatayan. It was a monthly magazine of Tilak House of the said school, published in July 1963. The said magazine was published on the 107th birth anniversary of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak by the Tilak House of Birla Vidhya Mandir Nainital. It is to be mentioned here that most of the Sikkimese students used to be in this House of the School. The Sikkimese students studying at Birla Vidhya Mandir were of great talents. Apart from their studies, our boys had astonishing calibre of writing, painting and singing. After accomplishing their education they all have served Sikkim through their distinct services. Mr. B.B Rai, alumni of Birla Vidhya Mandir has served in many Departments under Government of Sikkim before getting Voluntary Retirement as a Joint Director Planning and Development Department. He is an artist of a great reputation.
|Sketch of a porter by Danny Denzongpa
In this monthly magazine, I have been able to stumble on few sketches made by our own Danny during his school days. The sketches of Danny speak more than thousand words. In one of his sketches he has portrayed about a student's life in a hostel during a rainy night. In another drawing, he has featured the toil of a porter carrying a sack of potato towards his hostel. The practice of carrying loads on the back of a manual labour is still prevalent in Nainital. Mr. B.B Rai informed me that, frequently they had to have potato in their hostel as sabji and the potato sacks were brought to the school hostel by the porters. In his sketch Danny has featured the efforts of such meagre. His third painting shows his love towards nature. This is a sketch of a peacock. His extraordinary talent is visible in every sketches made by Danny in his schooldays. In his arts his image of deleterious villain of Bollywood is silent rather; a great and a pious Buddhist soul is visible which could understand the pricks and pains of the meagre and nature. Apart from a gigantic figure of Bollywood and a sketcher, Danny is also a good flute player.


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I'm trying to do some graphics, with the command "ScreenRes". I know how to do with "SCREEN", but since "ScreenRes" provides better possibilities, I was trying to familiarize myself with it.
At this program, I'm printing the "hello world" at graphics screen:
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ScreenRes 320, 200
Print "Hello world!!"
So far , so good. Then I tried to do the same thing, going full-screen:
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#if __FB_LANG__ = "fb"
Using FB '' Screen mode flags are in the FB namespace in lang FB
ScreenRes 320, 200, (GFX_FULLSCREEN)
Print "Hello world!!"
Apparently, didn't work!
What I'm doing wrong? :-)
I tried also with bigger resolutions (that SCREENLIST says that are supported. eg.1024X768). Nothing changes.
I'm suspecting that it's related, although I'm not sure.
The manual says that GfxLib defaults to OpenGL, but can alternatively used X11 or XBDev (on Linux).
Supposedly with ScreenControl, but I don't quite understand the procedure! :-)
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For over 30 years, the biggest and brightest voices in the recording industry have generously lent their time and talents to Special Olympics to create the holiday album series—A Very Special Christmas—the single most successful benefit recording in musical history.
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Since then, ten more A Very Special Christmas albums have been released. In 1997, the Christmas Records Trust was established to manage and distribute assets generated by A Very Special Christmas sales. The Trust, overseen by Chairman Joseph Hakim and Trustees Vicki Iovine, Ossie Kilkenny, Brian Philips, and Bobby Shriver, generated over 3 million dollars in direct support Special Olympics Programs and athletes in 2013.


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Are re-blogged links the blogger's version of the sitcom flashback episode? Uh, maybe, but in any case, here's a partial and purely subjective roundup of the past week in art, culture, etc. in Chicago and beyond, via a whole mess o' handy links, of course….
*Artists selected for the 53rd Annual Venice Biennale have been announced; find the list here.
*New City art editor Jason Foumberg has a nice recap along with some thoughtful analysis of last week's "The Invisible Artist: Creators from Chicago's Southside" panel discussion at the School of the Art Institute. UPDATE 4/4: There is some very interesting, enlightening, and pretty damn sharp back-and-forth going on in the comments section of this article by panel participants and others who strongly disagree with (or have misunderstood) Foumberg's assessment of the panel and the issues it addressed.
*The mass firings of adjunct fine art faculty at Parsons The New School for Design: blogger Hrag Vartanian's coverage has been some of the most thorough thus far. Check out his posts here, here and here as a start.
*Time Out Chicago writer Lauren Weinberg has a piece this week on the ways in which Musuems in Chicago and elsewhere are using social media.
*Big yawn: on the Twitter front, an update on @platea's Twitter happening I blogged about a few weeks ago. UPDATE 4/4: NewCity reported on what happened during the Twitter Island project discussed in that same blog post, here.
*A huge Pose slideshow available on The World's Best Ever.
*Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes provides an excellent, two-part summary of a rare Robert Frank public talk this week with National Gallery of Art curator Sarah Greenough; part one and two.
*Via C-Monster: The Architecture of the Drug Trade. A fascinating look at the landscape of weed and the architecture of the grow house. Especially loved the comparison of the latter to Max's bedroom in Where the Wild Things Are.
*Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City writes for The L Magazine on why Jenny Holzer is not the patron saint of Twitter in her review of Holzer's Protect Protect Project, which originated at the MCA and is now at The Whitney.
*Via ArchitectureChicago: iTunes offering free download of the first movement of John Cage's 4'33".
* Get your art on at Chicago Artist's Resource (CAR)'s Creative Chicago Expo tomorrow (Saturday) from 10-4. Workshops and Consult-a-thons galore for individuals and arts organizations.
*And finally, the hermeneutics of "pin diplomacy": via Artnet Magazine, Madeleine Albright's pin collection to be shown at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York. Pins weren't mere jewelry for Albright, they added a subtle layer to her diplomatic efforts. She wore a bee pin when talks were getting pointed, a balloon pin when she felt hopeful, and a snake pin after Sadaam Hussein's people called her a serpent. I'm so there!
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Be bold with your choice of honey. Go for something dark, interesting, and flavorful like a single variety honey such as blueberry or, one of my favorites, chestnut, where the nutty notes just make good sense. A good robust wildflower honey will also do you right; just stay away from really dark varieties like buckwheat, which have an almost molasses-like flavor that would overpower the peanut butter.
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(Pocket-lint) - There are some who can be forgiven for thinking that the Black & Decker Gyro Driver (BDCS36G) is just another powered screwdriver, and a fat-handled one at that. However, they would be wrong. Yes, it's a screwdriver. Yes, it's powered. And yes, it does have a fat handle. But it's in no way "just another" device. There's plenty of tech in them thar hills.
The clue is in the Gyro part of the name. Many powered screwdrivers feature a switch that turns them on or off and a gear to determine which way to rotate. The Gyro Driver has all of that fuctionality on board, but drives it using something borrowed from smartphone or joypad technology.
It basically uses tilt-like gyroscopic tech that works much like the accelerometer in a smartphone. When you press the massive button on the base and twist your wrist the Gyro Driver spins the screwbit in the same direction. And the more you twist it round, the faster the bit goes.
For example, turn your hand left and the bit will rotate anti-clockwise; right, clockwise.
There's also an LED light just above the bit to allow you to peer at screws in dark or depressed places. And you get a collection of different heads to choose from - some long some short - so the Gyro Driver should come in handy for all manner of household chores. We would have liked a greater variety of heads, including some specific to computer maintenance, but doubt we'd need any more for whatever DIY shenanigans we might get up to.
The Black & Decker Gyro Driver comes with a 3.6v lithium ion rechargeable battery and power adapter. It's capable of running up to 18 hours on one charge and the grip of the device is nicely finished in rubber to avoid slipping in the palm.
We could see a fair few of these appearing in dads' stockings for Christmas. And a few mums' too.
It is available now for £39.99 in B&Q stores nationwide.


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Upper Paleolithic(redirected from 40th millenium BC)
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Pa•le•o•lith•ic(ˌpeɪ li əˈlɪθ ɪk; esp. Brit. ˌpæl i-)
(sometimes l.c.) of, designating, or characteristic of the early phase of the Stone Age: usu. divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic, c2,000,000–c200,000 b.c., Middle Paleolithic, c150,000–c40,000 b.c., Upper Paleolithic, c40,000–c10,000 b.c.).
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|Upper Paleolithic - the time period during which only modern Homo sapiens was known to have existed; ended about 10,000 years BC
Palaeolithic, Paleolithic, Paleolithic Age - second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC


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December 17th, 2012
Novus Light Technologies Today provides first-hand insight into what drives the leading companies in the industries that make up our market. Andreas Breyer, Senior Editor Germany had an opportunity to interview Dr. Joost van Kuijk, VP Marketing & Technology at Adimec, a leading high-end camera manufacturer serving the machine vision, medical imaging and outdoor imaging markets.
Novus Light Technologies Today:
How did your business develop in the first three quarters 2012?
The first two quarters 2012 were still down in machine vision, like the last two quarters of 2011, but in the third quarter things are picking up again. We have a few customers who are indicators for us regarding business development, and as they kicked off in the first quarter we could see that the machine vision industry would pick up again soon. Now it's almost back to the level of 2010, which was a very good year for Adimec.
NLTT: Regionally, where are your customers located and has that changed in recent years?
We primarily sell in the US, in the major countries in Europe, but also to Korea and Japan. The rest of Asia Pacific has been rather slow in the past but is picking up now. China is becoming less and less interesting as a market, as the only thing that counts in China is low price. Customers there tend to compromise price for quality, this is one thing we don't do. From our point of view, low price cameras will dominate the Chinese market in future, and this is not the Adimec attitude. China is picking up by volume, but not by profit and margin.
From our point of view, low price cameras will dominate the Chinese market in future, and this is not the Adimec attitude.
NLTT: What does Adimec differentiate from other camera manufacturers?
We do not participate in the price battle. At the moment there are a lot of inexpensive cameras coming on the market; with the same sensors that we use. Of course, our machine vision customers who are in very high-end applications do negotiate price, as well. However, the low price cameras are no alternative to them, because of the quality of our products and the support they get. Our customers cannot afford for the cameras they use will fail, therefore they tend to choose a high-end product that they can rely on. Also, our customers get a tremendous support about designing the camera into the inspection system. In other industries we serve, such as outdoor security, we benefit from the fact that we offer robust cameras that can pass the rigorous Mil Spec tests.
Our customers cannot afford for the cameras they use will fail, therefore they tend to choose a high-end product that they can rely on.
NLTT: Are there any new products coming up?
CoaXPress has matured as an interface. Five years after the interface had been invented with the support of Adimec, customers are now specifically asking us which frame grabber to choose using CoaXPress with an Adimec camera. Also, we have recently shown at Vision 2012 a series of new cameras with the latest sensor technology from all high-end sensor manufacturers, including ON Semi, Sony, CMOSIS, and Truesense Imaging. Here, we keep innovation inside the camera to get the best performance out of the best image sensors available and to put on the right interface for the customer.
NLTT: What do you see as the main challenges in the industry and how are you trying to overcome them?
Adimec S-25A30 25 MegaPixel CMOS global shutter camera
One thing we clearly see is that the main challenge is no longer throughput in terms of megapixel per second. We are now able to handle very high data rates. Thus, what we concentrate on now is how to get the right, or better say the relevant information out of the available data at the right place, vision is about the image. This will further ensure that the camera, or more precise the imaging chain process is no longer the bottleneck within an inspection system. What is key in our business is customer support, small series production, and we see that many of our customers stay with us for a long time because of the reliability of our products and services they receive from us. This is also part of the Adimec strategy. Other companies will need to sell 200,000 cameras, when we will sell 20,000 cameras and still be more profitable.
NLTT: What industry trends do you see in the coming years?
Everybody is under price pressure. The machine vision market is driven by the availability of products at a low price, which is triggered by low price end-markets such as the BRIC countries. Technology-wise, getting more out of the image sensor is something that the industry will focus on. In that respect, the main challenge we see is how to deal with the great variety of new image sensors, and CMOS in particular, which are introduced to the market each year. So, after the megapixel per second era, how to cope with all these different image sensor offerings in ever faster design cycles and be able to react quickly enough to make good cameras with them is a challenge.
NLTT: We have seen and heard a lot about standards at Vision 2012. How do customers benefit from the standards discussion in the industry and the results coming out of it?
Standards are a sign of a maturing market. Nobody in our industry is big enough to force an industry standard, which is also why we chose to share CoaXPress with the industry. With standards in place, a customer can buy all the products in the imaging chain, e.g., a camera and a frame grabber that can communicate with each other without much effort. Customers want plug and play products, and standards are prerequisite for this.
NLTT: What is your business forecast 2013 for Adimec?
We expect a good growth next year. All three sectors we are in, namely machine vision, medical and defense, are all picking up at the moment.
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A trickle of curious spectators turned into a torrent of cycling fans in and around Windsor and northern Colorado on Saturday morning as folks turned out in droves to watch Stage 6 of the USA Pro Challenge race through the region.
Anticipation culminated around 11:45 a.m. on Main Street in Windsor as hundreds of race watchers made a deafening roar of cowbells, noisemakers and cheers in the minutes leading up to the sprint race at the intersection of 5th and Main streets. As police escorts and support crews whizzed by, the crowd knew the peloton would soon follow. And it did in a big – and fast – way.
Within 30 seconds, more than 120 of the world's top cyclists came and went, continuing their ride to Estes Park and Fort Collins. Many walked away astonished at how quickly the group moved through. Some knew what to expect and had the rest of their day already planned. Others were just taking the late-summer day in stride.
"Everyone feels like they're a part of it," said Tom Workman, a Windsor resident and casual outdoorsman. He said that even though he and his wife, Deirdre, aren't avid cyclists, having the sport come through their own back yard was just too good to be true and created an appeal everyone could relate to, whether they followed the sport or not.
"Everyone's allowed total accessibility," he said, referring to how close people can get to the world's most elite riders, including Tour de France victors and local superstars. "It's unlike any other sport."
The couple started their day at the kickoff festivities at The Ranch in Loveland before coming to downtown Windsor. They planned to mill around town for a while before heading to the finishing festivities in Fort Collins.
"Windsor did a great job getting this," he said.
A big part of how Windsor got the bid came from the town's special events coordinator, Amy Porter. In working with the Local Organizing Committee – a group of dignitaries from the northern Colorado communities that hosted the stage – and numerous other groups, the town put together a joint package with Fort Collins, Loveland and Estes Park to have a part in what has been considered the most logistically challenging stage of the race.
"All of the planning and all of the hard work that went into it definitely paid off," said Porter, who likened the event to planning a wedding – months of buildup for a short spectacle. "There were a lot of people who came down who were really getting into it. It seems like everyone had a really good time."
Windsor Severance Fire Rescue spokesman Todd Vess said the event came together well and all groups involved seemed to be working together smoothly.
By 9 a.m., cyclists were riding over from Fort Collins to claim a spot along Colo. 392 near Fairgrounds Avenue, but the real festivities got going about 10 a.m. at The Ranch in Loveland – the official start of the race stage. Teams began arriving about that time with support vehicles loaded with fast bikes and tour buses loaded with elite riders. Music blared as the 11:35 a.m. race time neared, and spectators who weren't perusing local vendors jumped at the chance to see some of the world's best up close and personal.
Authorities closed major roadways such as Colo. 392 and U.S. 34 while the race was underway, but traffic began flowing smoothly again shortly after the riders passed.
Scott Keller was one of hundreds of fans who crowded around BMC Racing Team's support cars as they lined up ahead of the start.
Keller's son is beginning classes at Colorado State University, and when the family found out the race would be happening when they were in town for move-in day from McKinney, Texas, Keller was ecstatic.
"It just happened to be the same weekend we were here," he said. His goal before going over to see the finish festivities was to sneak a peak at Tejay van Garderen, the current USA Pro Challenge leader. He's also been a longtime Jens Voigt fan. "Both of my kids grew up on bikes. I'm kind of a fanatic."
As for whether the race will make a return in 2014, Porter said that's still up in the air. Event organizers begin that consideration process in the winter, and numerous other planning and organizing entities have a series of meetings lined up in the coming weeks to evaluate how successful the race was.
"It's certainly an event I think people will remember," she said.


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Friday, December 18, 2009
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I feel the need to borrow a term from my friend Ruth Handel and let you know about some "Stan-tastic" news. Apartment Therapy named Stan's book, The Find, the No. 1 Design Book of 2009.
As one of his biggest, honkin'-est, Texan-est fan girls, I went immediately to post a "gush or two" about how great the book is and I would encourage the rest of his fans to do the same if you felt moved to be supportive and junk! You can do that here. He has a dear post about yours truly here, today.
Thanks to all of you for loving Stan's book The Find as much I do!
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4 comments:
- lisa golightly said...
Thank you Leann for posting on this --- Looks like an amazzzzing book.
Congrats on the writeup !
merry merry,
- December 18, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- The Elegant Thrifter said...
Ok...so when are we going to run away and go terrorize the world!?!....oh...in 10 days!!!!
I can't wait to see you. xoxoxo Stan
- December 18, 2009 at 7:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
Vintage Laundress, I love the shout out! Looking forward to more fabulousness from you and Stan in 2010. In fact.... I expect the next year to be...
- December 18, 2009 at 10:08 PM
- trash talk said...
What fun...I've already added a link to the book on my sidebar! I messed around at the blog party this past fall and didn't make it home with one...but maybe I'll get lucky!
I loved his gift and the post on it! Girl...only you...a boob box!
BTW...Hozsh the zshtomach thing? Zshure hope you're getting over it!
- December 19, 2009 at 8:00 AM


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BOSTON -- Commercial health club financial performance improved for second quarter 2008, relative to the same period last year, according to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) Q2 Index, which was released last week. Results for the third and fourth quarters won't be available for several months. The survey of U.S. health club companies, conducted by Industry Insights Inc., demonstrates the financial performance of health clubs during the second quarter, according to IHRSA. The survey was of 17 small- to mid-size clubs, representing 194 facilities, or an average of 11 clubs per company.
The IHRSA index shows that a health club company grew its total revenue by an average of 14 percent from $16.8 million in the second quarter of 2007 to $19.1 million in the second quarter of 2008. Average membership dues also increased for a company by an average of 12.6 percent from $11.6 million to $13.1 million.
"The steady performance demonstrated by leading health clubs reflects the industry's potential to maintain growth during challenging economic times," says Katie Rollauer, IHRSA's senior manager of research.
Index companies have also demonstrated the capacity to tap into alternate offerings to membership as clubs reported a median increase of 13.3 percent in non-dues revenue over the same period in 2007. Club companies who continue to improve on non-dues revenue are better positioned to withstand the current economic climate.
On a per club basis, index companies have remained steady in financial performance, with individual clubs reporting revenue numbers similar to the second quarter of 2007. Total median revenue for the period increased by a statistically insignificant 1 percent from $1.67 million to $1.69 million. Clubs reported total membership revenue of $1.07 million, a figure comparable to earnings in the second quarter of 2007 at $1.06 million.
IHRSA notes that the data is intended to provide a snapshot of U.S. health club industry performance. However, the results are based on a small sample of companies, and care should be taken when making comparisons of these findings to the overall industry-at-large.


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101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides
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This is a special collector's edition of Enrique Metinides's 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides. It features a specially designed fold-out cover and is limited to a print run of 500 copies.
101 Tragedies is Enrique Metinides's choice of the 101 key images from his life photographing crime scenes and accidents in Mexico for local newspapers and the nota roja (or "red pages," for their bloody content) crime press. Alongside each image, extended captions give his account of the situation depicted, describing the characters and life of the streets, the sadness of families, the criminals, and the heroism of emergency workers—revealing much about himself in the process. Selected photographs are also paired with their original newsprint tearsheets, collected by Metinides. The photographs have been compiled by Trisha Ziff, a filmmaker and curator who knows Metinides well, and who also contributes an essay about his life, work, and personality. Since all of Metinides's previous books are out of print, or strictly for art audiences, this will be the only book in print about his life and work. It is also the only Metinides book comprised of images chosen by the photographer himself, and which offers his own account of his life's work. An accompanying exhibition, which launched at Rencontres d'Arles in July 2011, is being toured to venues in Europe and the Americas.
Enrique Metinides (born in Mexico City, 1934) worked as a crime photographer for over fifty years, capturing murders, car crashes, and catastrophes for the nota rojas, Mexico's infamous crime magazines. He has won numerous prizes and received recognition from the Presidency of the Republic, journalists' associations, rescue and judicial corps, and Kodak of Mexico. In 1997 he received Mexico's Espejo de Luz Prize (Mirror of Light), awarded to the country's most outstanding photographer. His work as been shown internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art and Anton Kern Gallery, New York; and Photographers' Gallery, London.
Trisha Ziff is a curator of contemporary photography, a filmmaker, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She has produced and directed several award-winning documentary films that deal with photographic subjects, including The Mexican Suitcase (2010) and Chevolution (2008).
"Like Weegee, Metinides has an eye for cinematic detail and a kind of point-blank lyricism. His photos have a beginning, a middle, and an end; to look at one is to experience anew a tragedy that is eternally in media res." — Jeremy Lybarger, Mother Jones
"With 101 Tragedies [Metinides] has now to his credit an indisputably impressive monograph from the prince of photographic publishers, one that reviews a long career with care and intelligence." – Jesse Lerner, Los Angeles Review of Books
"[The images] push the viewer into the uncomfortable position of feeling awe at the capturing of a moment, admiration of the beauty of it, and horror at the human misery it depicts." — Joshua David Stein, Blackbook
"Enrique Metinides: photographing the dead for Mexico's 'bloody news,' Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian.
"Portfolio: Enrique Metinides," Robert Epstein, The Independent.
"Snapshot: 'Mexico City, 1988'," The Financial Times.
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Inside the visitor's center at Temple Square in Salt Lake City there stands an impressive 11-foot-tall statue of Jesus Christ. It ain't Mohammed, Buddha or Vishnu, but, for some people, the statue is no proof that Mormons are Christians.
Recently, Dr. Robert Jeffress, a prominent evangelical pastor who supports Texas Gov. Rick Perry's candidacy for the presidency, called Mormonism a cult and Republican front runner Mitt Romney something other than a Christian.
Speaking to NBC News, Jeffress said, "Well, Rick Perry's a Christian. He's an evangelical Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ. Mitt Romney's a good moral person but he's not a Christian. Mormonism is not Christianity. It has always been considered a cult by the mainstream of Christianity. So it's the difference between a Christian and a non-Christian."
Well, yes, Mormonism adds a whole extra holy book on top of the Bible and claims it is a record of Christ's post-resurrection ministry in the Americas. That is way too unorthodox for conservative Christians. They also think the interpretations of Biblical principles in Mary Baker Eddy's book, "Science and Health," make Christian Scientists cultists, too. (Not that evangelicals lack vast libraries of books claiming to explain the real truth about how Jesus wants us to live – Jeffress himself has written 17 of them.)
And all that mumbo-jumbo Roman Catholics have assembled over the centuries is essentially heresy for many evangelicals, although they don't talk about it as openly as they did back when John F. Kennedy was seeking to become president. Now that a big majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are Catholics and are upholding most of the positions of social conservatives, few evangelicals seem to be worrying that the Catholic grip on the court might threaten to place America under the sway of the Pope.
But a Mormon president is just too much for Jeffress and many Christian conservatives. Even though your average Utah Mormon seems a lot more clean-cut and morally upright than any number of backsliding born-agains in the tiny back-roads churches of the South, morality is not the point. It's belief.
Mormons, after all, claim God's truth was inscribed on golden plates and that an angel revealed those plates to a young man in New York State in the 1820s. Evangelicals think that's crazy. They believe a burning bush revealed God's truth to a Semitic nomad three thousand years ago and caused those truths to be imprinted on stone tablets. Some also believe Adam and Eve hung out with dinosaurs a mere three thousand years before that.
I cannot say exactly what Mitt Romney believes about Moses, Adam and Eve or dinosaurs, but I do know that his political beliefs have proven malleable over the years. Where he was once soft on homosexuality, abortion and state-managed healthcare, he is now in lockstep with the hard right. The only thing that makes him any kind of moderate Republican is that his flip-flops may indicate a willingness to consider an idea or two outside the rigid right wing dogma that currently sets narrow limits on policy debates within the Republican Party.
Romney's Mormon faith should not concern anyone. (Is anybody worried that the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is a Mormon convert?) Thomas Jefferson's ideas about Jesus would be more upsetting to today's evangelicals and, somehow, the American republic survived our third president.
What we should be scared of is any candidate who clings to religion a little too strongly, who believes that his or her policies are the revealed intent of the Almighty. Give me a flip-flopper like Romney any day over a president who believes his political ideas arrived from Heaven on plates of gold.


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The story of Gov. LePage holding a meeting at his official residence with unemployment hearing officers just keeps going.
This week, the governor asserted that David Webbert, a lawyer who is asking for a federal investigation created the issue out of whole cloth. According to a reporter:
LePage told reporters in Auburn on Tuesday that he didn't pressure or intimidate the hearing officers during the lunch meeting. He also dismissed Webbert's claims.
"Attorney Webbert, he's pulling the wool over Maine people's eyes," LePage told the Sun Journal. "I think Webbert made it up."
LePage also dared Webbert to name witnesses.
Thing is, there is a paper trail.
Right after the meeting, LePage's allies at a conservative organization released a memo prepared for the governor which the administration leaked to them. This memo outlined a variety of issues, with most focusing on those affecting employers.
But more relevant to the governor's claim, news outlets requested documents and received over 200 pages.
As part of the request, they received emails from some of the hearings officers.
These demonstrate what the hearing officers thought of the governor asking for a meeting and how they felt after the meeting.
Here's some of what they said:
One wrote, "In the decades I've been doing this work, I've never seen anything like it, from either end of the political spectrum. For purposes (of) keeping political pressure/bias out of (a) quasi-judicial process within the Maine Department of Labor, these are dark times."
Another wrote, "Despite the pressures that are being placed upon us, we still just have to do our jobs, self-insulating from the politics, doing what we think is right and doing that as expeditiously as possible . . . I know that in this climate it is hard not to second guess ourselves." [Source]
The emails, like all emails, have the names of the senders and recipients. They are not anonymous.
There were not made up by an attorney external to the Department of Labor. Someone in state government, responding to a standard request for documents, turned them over.
If Gov. LePage doesn't know these emails exist, surely an aide to the governor could let him know.


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- sugars23g
- fibre1g
- protein5g
- salt0.49g
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The Ultimate Fighting Championship will hold its next event, UFC 141, this Friday, December 30th, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The main event is a heavyweight fight, with the winner expected to face current UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior Dos Santos for the UFC Heavyweight title. Here is a review of the main event, and other fights on the main card that Dana White and the UFC have scheduled for UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem.
The main event – Heavyweight bout: Brock Lesnar (5-2-0) vs Alistair "The Reem" Overeem (35-11-1)
Brock Lesnar was an NCAA Division I champion wrestler. After college, he became a pro wrestler in the WWE, and also tried out for the NFL before becoming a professional MMA fighter. He has had only 7 MMA fights, but is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion, after winning the championship in only his fourth professional fight. In his 5 wins, 2 were by knockout and two have been by submission. Lesnar has had to put his career on hold twice due to separate bouts of life threatening diverticulitis. Now he is completely healthy and ready to continue his path towards regaining the UFC heavyweight title.
Lesnar is a tremendous athlete and has quickness for his size. He is an excellent wrestler, and has excellent takedown technique. He likes to take his opponents to the ground and will not look to stand and throw punches. Once on the ground, he will use his strength to hold them there and throw some heavy fists to secure a KO/TKO. Lesnar has gotten better with his submissions, but his strength is in his wrestling and his hands. His weakness is that he does not like getting hit, and will turtle up if he gets knocked to the ground. Lesnar does not have good striking defense, and his takedown defense is decent just because he is typically much larger than his opponents.
After fighting for 9 years at lighter weights Alistair Overeem stopped trying to cut weight and started gaining muscle. He became a heavyweight champion in Strikeforce, Dream, and also won the K-1 World Grand Prix in 2010. With 3 titles to his name, Overeem wants the UFC Heavyweight Title next. This is his first fight in the Octagon, and is his stepping stone to a UFC title shot. He is skilled in kickboxing, Muay Thai, and submission grappling. Of his 35 wins, 19 have been by submission, and 14 have been by KO/TKO. He has won 10 MMA fights in a row, with his last loss in September of 2007. Out of his 11 losses, 6 have been by KO.
Overeem is a stand-up striker, as well as a good submission grappler. He is very strong, and although he has knockout power, he is not one-dimensional. He is an excellent kickboxer, and also has good submission skills, along with a fierce ground and pound. He is a dangerous fighter who can win in a variety of ways, but will most likely like to stand and out-punch Lesnar. He will be looking for a knockout in this fight.
Lightweight bout: Nate Diaz (14-7-0) vs Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone (17-3-0, 1NC)
Nate Diaz started fighting when his older brother asked him to train with him. He won season five of The Ultimate Fighter series, and has been a competitive fighter in the UFC ever since. He is still young at only 26, and has been fighting in the UFC since age 22. He is a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and is a good boxer and kickboxer. He also competes in triathlons and mountain biking as part of his training. Diaz is not the strongest lightweight around, but is a tough competitor and a submission expert. Ten of his 14 wins have come by submission, and six of his losses have been by decision. You don't really have to respect his knockout power, but he can be an effective boxer. He has good striking defense, but can be taken down by his opponents. He has struggled with the upper echelon of fighters in the lightweight class, but has won three of his last five fights. Diaz is a scrapper and always puts up a good fight. Four of his last 11 fights have won fight of the night, and three have won submission of the night. Look for Diaz to try and submit his opponent throughout this fight.
Donald Cerrone had his first professional fight just before his 23rd birthday. Prior to fighting MMA professionally, Cerrone was a bull rider. After bull riding, Cerrone amassed a 13-0 record as an amateur kickboxer, and went 28-0 after turning pro, with 18 first round knockouts. He uses his length well with his boxing, Muay Thai, and submissions. Cerrone has excellent stamina, and has won 13 of his 17 fights by way of submission. He is a successful boxer and likes to throw the straight right, but has won just one fight by KO/TKO. He started his MMA career by winning his first 9 fights, and has won his last 6, including all four of his UFC fights. Cerrone is successful at defending strikes, but needs to improve his takedown defense to take his talent to the next level. All 3 of his career losses were fights for the WEC Lightweight Championship, and two of the three were losses by decision. Look for Cerrone to wear his opponent out with punches and leg kicks until he can get them on the ground and submit them. Since the WEC merged with the UFC, Cerrone has wanted his chance to fight for the UFC Lightweight Championship. This will be a giant step towards that opportunity.
Welterweight bout: Jon Fitch (26-3-1, 1NC) vs Johny "Bigg Rigg" Hendricks (11-1-0)
Jon Fitch is a wrestler, and was a very successful college wrestler at Purdue University. He is coming off a draw against BJ Penn, after winning 5 consecutive fights by decision. He has won 21 out of his last 23 fights, and has 13 total wins by decision. Fitch has basically dedicated his entire life to MMA fighting, and it has served him well. Fitch is an accomplished wrestler and a black belt in Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu. Because of his amazing work ethic, he typically outlasts his opponents over the course of 3 rounds, and will grind you down physically and mentally. Fitch doesn't necessarily possess striking power, and has not had a lot of wins by submission. He is decent at avoiding strikes and takedowns, but is susceptible. Although Fitch is taller and will have a reach advantage, he will try to break down his opponent and get them to the ground. This fight may come down to whoever gets the most takedowns.
Johny Hendricks is also an accomplished wrestler, winning the NCAA Division I National Championship twice at Oklahoma State University. Hendricks began training for a professional MMA career right out of college. He not only is a wrestler, but also a good (dirty) boxer, and a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He also has heavy hands, with six of his 11 wins coming by KO/TKO. Like his opponent, he is not a submission expert. He has only one loss in his career, and that was by decision in a very close fight. Hendricks likes to strike, and also likes to take down his opponents. He is not that good at defending against the strike, and has only decent takedown defense. Both fighters have similar skills and fighting technique, with Hendricks having more power. Look for Hendricks to try and capitalize early to catch his opponent off guard, and secure a KO/TKO. If not, this fight will be a battle of wills. It may come down to who will be able to outlast their opponent.
Light Heavyweight bout: Vladimir "The Janitor" Matyushenko (26-5-0) vs Alexander "The Mauler" Gustafsson (12-1-0)
Vladimir Matyushenko is resurrecting his career at the age of 40. He fought in UFC 32 back in 2001, and didn't fight in the UFC again until 2009, at age 38. He has won 5 out of his last 6 bouts, with his only loss coming to current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon "Bones" Jones. He has always struggled to defeat the top-tiered contenders in his weight class. His background is in wrestling, and he was the Soviet National Wrestling Champion when he was younger. He possesses enormous strength, with nine wins by KO/TKO, and has 15 years of MMA experience to draw upon. He would love to take the fight to the ground and either submit his opponent, or ground and pound his opponent into a TKO. As an older athlete, he may tend to gas if the fight goes all three rounds, although he has won 10 of his fights by way of decision. Matyushenko could improve defensively by avoiding more strikes, although his wrestling experience makes his takedown defense pretty solid. Matyushenko has never been submitted in 31 MMA fights.
Alexander Gustafsson began his pro MMA career at age 20, and is a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. As a youngster Gustafsson trained in boxing, and it has served him well. At only 24 years old, eight of his 12 wins have come by knockout. Standing 6'5″ tall, he typically has the height advantage over his opponents, and Gustafsson uses that to his advantage with his standup. He is an aggressive fighter that pressures his opponents, and he has finished seven fights in the first round. He is not great at defending strikes, but is very good at defending takedowns. Only one of his fights has gone the distance, so look for Gustafsson to try and finish the fight early with an aggressive approach and some heavy hands. If he hurts his opponent and the fight goes to the ground, also look for some ground and pound, and possibly a submission to end the fight.
Featherweight bout: Nam Phan (17-10-0) vs Jimy "The Kid" Hettes (9-0-0)
Nam Phan is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Karate, and a 2nd degree black belt in Quyen Dao. He is very well-rounded, as his style also includes boxing, in which he has a 3-1 professional career. He is very accurate with his standup striking, and is decent at avoiding strikes. He has only attempted one takedown in all of his MMA fights, and he has good takedown defense. Phan has 7 wins by knockout, 5 by submission, and 5 by decision. He has six losses by decision and three by knockout. He is 1-1 in the UFC, and needs another win if he wants to continue to advance his career. Look for Phan to use his experience and excellent boxing skills to finish off his opponent, but it may be by way of a decision.
Jimy Hettes started boxing at age 14, and training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at age 16. After amassing a 4-0 amateur MMA record, Hettes turned pro in 2009 at age 22. In two years, he has garnered a 9-0 record, including winning his first UFC fight this past August. Hettes is a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and also a brown belt in Judo, but his expertise is as a submission tactician. He has won all nine of his fights by submission, with his first six wins coming in the first round. This is a step up for Hettes, and a challenge he looks forward to in becoming a contender in the featherweight class. Hettes is not the best at defending the strike, but has not been taken down because he has been first to attack his opponent. He is not a striker, so look for Hettes to try and take down his opponent early and often. If he cannot get a takedown and a submission, it will be difficult for Hettes to win the fight.
Below is the list of the remaining UFC fights on the card for UFC 141 Lesnar vs Overeem:
Preliminary card (Facebook)
- Featherweight bout: Manvel Gamburyan vs. Diego Nunes
- Welterweight bout: Matt Riddle vs. Luis Ramos
- Lightweight bout: Jacob Volkmann vs. Efrain Escudero
- Welterweight bout: Dong Hyun Kim vs. Sean Pierson
Preliminary card (televised)
- Lightweight bout: Anthony Njokuani vs. Danny Castillo
- Featherweight bout: Ross Pearson vs. Junior Assunção


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Released in 2012. Features the popular single "Your Christmas Balls" featuring Erika F. and Big Cheese. Includes "Bow Jingles the Christmas Cat", "Christmas is Cancelled" and "Bipolar Express".
The extended mixed version of the single "Your Christmas Balls" featuring more rapping by Big Cheese.
Damage Control's first ever album. Includes many holiday classics. "Santa's Crack", "Santa vs Frosty", "A Nude Christmas Carol" and "The Job Interview."
Our Halloween release. Join us as we trash the season in style. Tracks include "Jack The Ripper", "Sideshow Freaks", "Gay Bride of Frankenstein" and "Big Ass Pumpkin."
Released in 2013. Includes the popular Irish drinking song "Shittin' Shamrocks" and "Legend of the Rainbow."
The third album by Damage Control. Features our most popular song "The Horny Old Pirate" as well as "Sue Somebody" and "My Mama Mia is Moving Out."
Our second release. Join WSUK radio host "The Reaper" for more craziness. Includes "DaVinci Commode". "The Dookie Ball Song", "Homeless History Month" and "Famous Anus."


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Here is a little tutorial I have written up in hopes that it will help those making a Karostep underquilt.
Here is the video I made that dosent go into as much detail.
Thanks to all those who have seen it and sent me messages askign form something more in depth.
If any thing is unclear please feel free to message me and ill try to clarify as best I can.


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Soraya Chemaly has a post at Reproductive Health Reality Check about the pope's sudden retirement. The announced reason for this is that his age and lack of strength prevents him from carrying out his duties. Chemaly relates this to one of the most appalling actions the Catholic Church has taken in recent years.
The Pope's rationale is that his "age means he lacks strength to do job." You could use the exact words to describe the nine-year old girl whose family the Pope excommunicated for having a life-saving abortion after being raped and impregnated, with twins. It seems to me that her age meant she lacked strength to do the job, too. Actually, the job would have killed her. These things happen. She and 16 million other pregnant adolescent girls a year, two million of whom are under age 15, strike me as 16 million good #reasonstorise.
Perhaps my memory is fading, but I don't even recall hearing about this incident with the nine year old girl. It happened in Brazil in 2009:
The case of the pregnant 9-year-old was shocking enough. But it was the response of the Catholic Church that infuriated many Brazilians. Archibishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of the coastal city of Recife announced that the Vatican was excommunicating the family of a local girl who had been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather, because they had chosen to have the girl undergo an abortion. The Church excommunicated the doctors who performed the procedure as well. "God's laws," said the archbishop, dictate that abortion is a sin and that transgressors are no longer welcome in the Roman Catholic Church. "They took the life of an innocent," Sobrinho told TIME in a telephone interview. "Abortion is much more serious than killing an adult. An adult may or may not be an innocent, but an unborn child is most definitely innocent. Taking that life cannot be ignored."
The case has caused a furor. Abortion is illegal in Brazil except in cases of rape or when the mother's life is in danger, both of which apply in this case. (The girl's immature hips would have made labor dangerous; the Catholic opinion was that she could have had a cesarean section.) When the incident came to light in local newspapers, the Church first asked a judge to halt the process and then condemned those involved, including the 9-year-old's distraught mother. Even Catholic Brazilians were shocked at the harshness of the archbishop's actions. "In this case, most people support the doctors and the family. Everything they did was legal and correct," says Beatriz Galli, the policy associate for Ipas Brasil, an NGO that fights to give women more say over their health and reproductive rights.
If 1700 years or so of barbarism and corruption haven't already proven it, this incident certainly shows that the Catholic Church is pretty much the last institution that should be viewed as a sound moral guide.


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Question: What's the result when you team a storied fashion brand (Prada), a controversial and acclaimed film director Roman Polanski and actors Helena Bonham Carter and Ben Kingsley?
Answer: "A Therapy." The quirky new short film that made its debut during the Cannes Film Festival.
At around three and a half minutes long, the film follows Bonham Carter's character (a wealthy, yet lonely woman) as she pays a visit to her therapist played by Ben Kinsgley. Beautifully styled, of course, the film manages to convey the Prada sensibility (timeless with an offbeat edge) while managing to stand alone as a slice-of-life vignette.
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"It's very refreshing to know that there are still places open to irony and wit and, for sure, Prada is one of them," said Polanski In a statement about the making the film. "When I was asked to shoot a short movie for Prada, I did not think that I could really be myself, but the reality is that in the total freedom I was given, I had the opportunity to reunite my favorite group of people on set and just have fun. The chance to dwell on what the fashion world represents nowadays and the fact that it is accompanied by so many stereotypes is fascinating and the same time a bit upsetting, but you definitely cannot ignore it."
"A Therapy" marks Prada's second foray into the film world in as many weeks. Those attending the "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art can view a Baz Luhrmann-directed short featuring fashion designer Miuccia Prada (playing herself) and actress Judy Davis (playing deceased designer Elsa Schiaparelli). The exhibit opened to the public on May 10 and will continue through August 19, 2012.


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I said, "Evangelicals move toward social action when a James Dobson says something in the humanist/secular culture is a threat to Christian values – for instance, gay marriage. Our political involvement has been impulsive based on fear of a threat to our values. It is a political action based on fear: 'We must protect ourselves from this threat!' However, as a result of this protective social action, any injustice in the public sphere that is not seen as a threat to evangelicals is left unnoticed by them."
I just watched this past weekend's Ethics and Religion Newsweekly on PBS, and the evidence of what I wrote is there in the words of Focus on the Family's James Dobson and his lieutenant, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.
Watch this video, and listen carefully to their words. Do you hear a "transformative" social agenda, or do you hear a "protective" social agenda, one that mobilizes when there is a perceived threat?
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Halloween Treats
I needed some crafting therapy this weekend after a very long week at school so I decided to put together some treat bags for my team teachers. With this being Halloween and Red Ribbon week, the kids are extra hyper. We may need a couple bites of something sweet to help us "survive"!!!!!
I used the Stampin' Up! treat cups for the pumpkins and I filled them with the orange starburst candy corn. I used the Cricut cartridge Create a Critter to cut out the pumpkins and a Tim Holtz embossing folder for the texture.
I used the Stampin' Up! thin cello bags along with the candy corn M&M's (which by the way are really good!) For the candy corn image, I used an old Stampin' Up! set Tasty Sweet (retired).
I had so much left over candy corn and I decided that it wasn't a good idea to keep them in the house so I bagged them up in the Stampin' Up! small cello bags. *Not sure if they still sell these or not. I used an older set called Got Treats (retired) for the phrase and the candy image is also from the Tasty Sweet set.
And here they are all bagged up!! I haven't made teacher gifts in a while and I really enjoyed putting these together. If you have any questions, please let me know! Happy crafting!
**all paper from Stampin' Up!
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Monday, October 21, 2013
Superhero Gifts
We are invited to a birthday party for two brothers who are 4 and 2. They both love superheros. Their mom always does such great parties for boys so I love seeing everything that she comes up with each year. This year I decided to make their gifts using my new silhouette cameo machine.
I first found a .png image for each logo online by doing a google search. I then put it into my silhouette designer edition software and created a cut file by tracing the image. (This is probably my favorite part of the cameo. I could NEVER do this with my cricut!) I then make the file and cut it from black paper. I attached it to the yellow background and placed the red 'S' into the superman frame and viola! Framed names!!
I decided to make a matching birthday card for each boy using the same cut file just modified a little to fit on a standard A2 size card.
If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks for looking!!!
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
Summer Re-Cap
Oh WOW!!! It's been forever!! I won't bore you with all the details about what has been going on. A LOT has happened since this summer and I hope to be sharing some projects with you really soon! I have been crafting, just not as much as I would like. Here is a recap of my summer.....
In late May I got this in the mail!
June was the annual CKC Houston with my besties. Here is a pic of my goodies.
We had a great weekend (as usual!) and made lots of memories!!!
July was pretty quiet. I took lots of naps and organized my scrapbooks. I've been so busy of the last couple of years with showers and other projects that my scrapbooking was neglected. I purchased the above page protectors a couple of years ago (not sure if they are still available but I know several companies are now making similar ones). I decided that the pages didn't have to be perfectly pretty and done just so. I wanted to get the pictures out of the boxes and into albums so that I could share the memories. I placed the photos in the pockets by event and added a little journaling spot to note the date/location of the pictures. If I ever have time to go back I can make pretty pages with them. For now, I'm calling them done and officially saying that "I'm caught up!" I no longer feel overwhelmed and uninspired because I am "so far behind."
August was back to school time. I didn't make too much for my classroom other than a few teacher math manipulatives to use in the classroom. Poster sized ten frames to use with my students since my white board is not magnetic and a set of numbers and math symbols that have magnetic tape on the back that I use with a small hanging magnetic board over my math board. The "counters" have a red side and a yellow side and each side has a Velcro dot in the middle. (I store the numbers in the blue and red pockets below the ten frames and the counters in the alphabet pocket under the frames as well) Everything on my math board is attached to the flannel fabric behind it with Velcro.
Stay tuned for more news later. I'm trying to get back on track of posting projects.
Thanks for looking and happy scrapping!!!
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Labels: classroom decorations, manipulatives, math, silhouette, summer
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Project Life
So I purchased some Project Life goodies this weekend. I'm not quite sure what I am getting into because I haven't ever done anything Project Life, but since I have a new little one on the way I figured this would be the best way to document his first year. I've been searching for some inspiration and I've found a few blogs that have some inspiration. The price dropped on the kit and the binder over the weekend and I couldn't resist. I can't wait to get my goodies in the mail and get working!! If you have any suggestions or ideas, please let me know!!
Here are the blogs that I have found using this kit. If you know of any other good project life blogs, please let me know!!
Thanks for looking!
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Post date: July 18 2013
D.A. Gascón & A.G. Schneiderman Host Tech Test Of Smartphone Security Features
Security Experts To Test Apple iPhone 5 With Activation Lock & Samsung Galaxy s4 With LoJack For Android
Schneiderman & District Attorney Gascón: A Technological Solution That Eliminates The Value Of Stolen Smartphones Will End Spike In Violent Street Crimes
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that the Secure Our Smartphone (S.O.S) Initiative is bringing state and federal security experts together to test the new smartphone security features recently introduced by Apple and Samsung. During a meeting today in San Francisco, technical experts – including representatives from the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) – will be given an Apple iPhone 5 with a new anti-theft security feature known as "Activation Lock" enabled and a Samsung Galaxy s4 with a new anti-theft security feature known as "Lojack for Android" enabled. The smartphones will be treated as if they were stolen by thieves, and attempts will be made to circumvent the anti-theft features.
Attorney General Schneiderman and District Attorney Gascón today issued the following statement:
"Finding technical solutions that will remove the economic value of stolen smartphones is critical to ending the national epidemic of violent street crimes commonly known as 'Apple Picking.' With roughly 113 smartphones stolen or lost each minute in the United States, and too many of those thefts turning violent or deadly, the Secure our Smartphones Initiative is committed to ensuring the industry does everything it can to make their products and their customers safe. While we are appreciative of the efforts made by Apple and Samsung to improve security of the devices they sell, we are not going to take them at their word. Today we will assess the solutions they are proposing and see if they stand up to the tactics commonly employed by thieves. Together, we are working to ensure that the industry imbeds persistent technology that is effective, ubiquitous and free to consumers in every smartphone introduced to the market by next year."
Last month, Attorney General Schneiderman and District Attorney Gascón announced the creation of a groundbreaking national coalition of state Attorneys General, District Attorneys, major city Police Chiefs, state and city Comptrollers, public safety activists and consumer advocates from around the country. This new Secure Our Smartphone Initiative is working to encourage the industry to implement meaningful solutions that will end the national epidemic of violent thefts of mobile communications devices such as smartphones and tablets.
For more information on efforts by District Attorney Gascón and Attorney General Schneiderman to combat "Apple-Picking," visit the San Francisco District Attorney's website or the New York State Attorney General's website.
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Replay – Eternal Darkness
A few weeks ago, we asked the Overblood/Replay Facebook community what they'd like to see for a Replay. We let them organize the poll and vote among themselves, and the winner was the fondly-remembered Eternal Darkness for Gamecube.
Watch below to see Tim Turi, Andrew Reiner, Jeff Cork, and myself attempt to keep our sanity meters full while playing this spooky title.
Check out more episodes at our Replay hub.