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Springtime Frock
Added May 9, 2011
By burdastyle
New York, New Yo...
There's something so harmonious + fun about wearing a girly frock in the Springtime— and we sure had fun shooting this dress under an exploding cherry blossom tree. The length of this pattern hits about mid calf and we shortened the length to make this retro look a bit more modern. The pattern also includes a petticoat-like underskirt! So charming…
Our gorgeous printed fabric is Kaffe Fassett for Liberty Art Fabrics, which was given to us to make beautiful clothing with! Thank you!
Material Notes
Dress: 140 cm (55 in) wide cotton fabric: 3.10 m (3 1/2 yds) for all sizes. 140 cm (55 in) wide lining: 0.50 m (5/8 in). 1 metal zip, 60 cm (24 ins) long.
Underskirt: 150 cm (59 in) wide tulle: 4.10 m (4 1/2 yds).
- Season
- Spring, Summer, Fall
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Dress
- Style
- Bohemian, Bridal, Classic, Romantic, Vintage
- Material
- Cotton, Blends
- Model
- Photos
Alison Kelly + Dane Risch
- Fabric for Dress
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May 10, 2012, 03.08 PMby Mette Hommel Østerlund
I absolutely love this dress, and I think you did a wonderful job! It looks very professional, like you bought it at a tailor or something! I really want a dress like that, I think it's marvelous! I also think the shoots are perfect! I looooove cherry trees, and those pictures make me want to fly away to Wonderland! And by the way, the model is so beautiful, and I like the shoes as well. Everything is so thorough!
May 11, 2011, 07.20 PMby CoastSeagull
The dress is very pretty – love the neckline but the fabric is absolutely fabulous! Love, Love, Love Kaffe Fasset!
May 11, 2011, 07.14 PMby calatrava92
yeahy, just what I was looking for perfect for hour glass figures, I was getting frustrated the eighties dresses make me look like a sausage but this style looks great on me.
May 11, 2011, 02.45 PMby subroadhurst
Love it, what a pity I'm far too old and 'well built' to wear a dress like that.
May 11, 2011, 06.28 AMby Cecily Hamshaw-Jones
I absolutely love this and think I may have to hunt down the perfect fabric for my own beautiful spring dress! :) I'm also wondering where the model's shoes are from, I want a pair tooo (of course to complete the look ;) )
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May 17, 2011, 04.53 PMby alisondahl
They're mine, from Coclico!
May 11, 2011, 05.42 AMby paintedlady89
A beautiful pattern. I love the way the skirt is gathered, makes it very flattering.
May 11, 2011, 04.48 AMby nouvellegamine
this is gorgeous! i was struggling to figure out how to make this dress. it seemed too extravagant for my life, but the fabric is amazing & makes it completely workable! thank you :D
ps- what a pretty model. she looks like cate blanchett.
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May 11, 2011, 06.30 AMby Cecily Hamshaw-Jones
May 11, 2011, 02.00 AMby sew4esty
I could wear this everyday! It's beautiful.
May 11, 2011, 01.29 AMby Teresa Higgins
Like the bodice and the neckline in particular.
May 10, 2011, 08.28 PMby Desrosiers
Stunning! The shoes accent it so perfectly! Where are the shoes from?
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May 11, 2011, 01.54 AMby alisondahl
They're mine! I bought them last season from Coclico and I popped into the shop to see what they had the other day, and they've brought them back! The hue is so fun to mix with neutrals and black.
May 10, 2011, 02.39 PMby Alexis Mizrahi
I love the neckline! Can't wait to try it out :)
May 10, 2011, 01.47 PMby clioscolors
That dress was already on my to-do list, but after seeing this one, i am even more convinced. Great dress and photos!
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May 10, 2011, 02.39 PMby burda style magazine
You're not the first one to say that! I can't wait to see all of these dresses, it's such a great pattern.
May 10, 2011, 06.44 AMby ThomasLeeDesigns
This is soo pretty!!! I am in love with the fabric!
May 10, 2011, 05.20 AMby Shenal Dené Nicole
Love it! Awesome fabric great job!
May 10, 2011, 05.03 AMby Andrea Beresova
Hi Alison,
I´ve seen your photos and your sewing with a fabulous patern and colours look amazing. Your creativity remindes me a piece of perfection. Also I like the surrounding around model on the photos. The fens and gate are in color contrast to your dress. Well done, Alison.
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May 10, 2011, 02.36 PMby alisondahl
Thank you so much, that's very kind of you! I've always dabbled in photography and it seems to make sense, as an artist, to not just create a piece of clothing, but to create a complete vision around it. I love fairy tales and this tree + gate looked like a place you could only dream up, and it was right down the street from my house in Brooklyn!
May 10, 2011, 04.57 AMby Ralf Schmitz
this is such a fab comination of colors and the dress is just "singing" to us!
May 10, 2011, 12.07 AMby wzrdreams
LOOOOOOOVE it! This pattern has been on the top of my to-make pile for too long. I have the fabric and everything. I can't wait to give it a go!
May 9, 2011, 11.36 PMby ceding
May 9, 2011, 11.22 PMby designerroya
O-O It's amazing! I think I'm in love!
May 9, 2011, 11.14 PMby noelm91
Love it!
May 9, 2011, 09.17 PMby Natasha Venzke
The colours are amazing, I just want to jump into it
May 9, 2011, 08.44 PMby junaluska
The colours on the dress are so vivid and beautiful! I love the hairstyle as well.
May 9, 2011, 08.24 PMby daughterfish
Beautiful! I love it in this fabric!
May 9, 2011, 07.50 PMby sew4my3
I have to say this is probably my new favorite. This dress has a elegant look of yesteryear!
May 9, 2011, 07.46 PMby baka-pepica
wow great… i have pattern to , so now i will mus try :)
May 9, 2011, 07.41 PMby postmodest
the top is amazing! I love the cut. I wonder how it would look on a little bigger bust… Maybe I'll try it myself? I see it in black and with pecil skirt, mmmm :)
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May 9, 2011, 08.42 PMby alisondahl
I love the top too! I would try the top in muslin first, as I know from constructing this dress, there is not ample room in the chest area. Black with a pencil skirt would be tre chic!
May 9, 2011, 07.31 PMby marcy harriell | oonaballoona
i want to jump into this photo!
May 9, 2011, 07.09 PMby Jodi Wade
I love this dress made in a print! The fabric is gorgeous, so are the photos.
May 9, 2011, 06.48 PMby pearlview
very lovely
May 9, 2011, 06.26 PMby FabricUiPhoneApp
Kaffe Fasset does it again..and I daresay since it's a Liberty print…your dress is bound to become a collectible. Be sure to put a label inside your dress so that one day some lucky girl can trace the history of this fabulous garment.
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The Lady Spartans varsity girls golf team was one of 11 schools that competed Thursday at the Chillicothe Invitational, and Moberly tied Lawson's squad turning in identical 397 scores. However, the tiebreaker being used put the Lady Spartans in fourth place.
Richmond High School carded the lowest team score, a 375 while Kirksville finished second with a 391. Fifth place went to Pembroke Hill having a 405 score.
Individual medalist on the par-72 course was Maddie Probst of Lawson with a 75. Serena Berrey and Emily Van Rie, both of Kirksville, followed with scores of 82 and 83 respectively.
Meanwhile, Moberly junior Nichole Marquis finished with an 86 to place fourth overall among 55 golfers, and senior Becca Burkart was 8th with a 94.
Other Moberly scores were; Callie Robinson 19th (106), Harley Backe 23rd (111) and Morgan Cordeman 30th (114).

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Under the modern evangelical paradigm there are three main components to the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. First, the Spirit is understood to be the third person of the Trinity. Secondly, the Spirit is the agent of personal renewal, the source of new life, the transformative power of the new covenant. Thirdly, as the "body of Christ" the church is endowed with varieties of "gifts of the Spirit" or "charismata", such as prophecy, healing, and flower-arranging.
This provides the basic structure of our "pneumatology"—our theory of the Holy Spirit. Evangelical study and teaching will generally proceed by sifting what is said in the New Testament about the person and work of the Holy Spirit (that is already a very evangelical formula) into one of these three containers: theology, soteriology and sanctification, and ecclesiology. But what if we begin not with the theory but with the texts? How do the person and work of the Holy Spirit appear in the light of a narrative-historical reading of the New Testament? I plan to take a few posts to consider how things might look from this new perspective, beginning with the conception of Jesus by the Holy Spirit in Matthew and Luke:
But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. (Matt. 1:20)
And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. (Lk. 1:35)
The main point to be made regarding these texts is that they have have nothing to do with the metaphysics of incarnation. It is often assumed that the conception of Jesus by the Holy Spirit was the means by which he became both God and man, with Mary providing the human component and the Spirit providing the divine component. That is not how Matthew and Luke understand it. Both the conception by the Holy Spirit and the reinterpretation of Mary's "virginity" in the light of Isaiah 7:14 point to the fact that Jesus was the one who, in the words of the angel to Joseph, would "save his people from their sins" (Matt. 1:21). The event is to be interpreted according to the terms of Israel's story not according to later theological developments.
This is also true for Luke 1:35. Isaiah tells the complacent women of Jerusalem to mourn, for the city will be a desolation "until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest" (Is. 32:15). In the Septuagint the Spirit "comes upon" the unrighteous women as for Luke it "will come upon" the righteous woman Mary. The parallel statement that the "power of the Most High will overshadow you" recalls Exodus 40:35:
And Moses was unable to enter into the tent of witness, because the cloud was overshadowing it, and the tent was filled with the glory of the Lord.
The image is not of God entering the sphere of humanity but of God dwelling in the midst of his people. Whereas Ezekiel had seen the glory of the Lord depart from the temple at the time of the exile (Ezekiel 10), Luke suggests that the glory of the Lord will return as a result of the birth of this child.
The references to the conception of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit are spare, but it does not take a lot of digging around to find that they were intended to evoke the beginning of a narrative about the salvation of Israel. This does not take away from the miraculous nature of the event—that is a different matter. But it does call into question certain later christological assumptions.
The critical point to grasp here is that, as far as scripture goes, "Son of God" does not mean "God the Son" or "God incarnate". The "Son of God", in this context, is Israel's king (it can also denote other individuals and the community of Israel itself which stand in close relationship with YHWH). The popular idea that as "Son of Man" Jesus is human and as "Son of God" divine is simply wrong. Both refer to human figures, who may be exalted, for different reasons, but who are not confused with God himself.
In this respect, the conception of Jesus by the Holy Spirit is the precursor to his baptism, where he is publicly acknowledged as God's son, and several other statements in the New Testament, including Romans 1:1-4:
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord….
Submitted by peter wilkinson on 16 February, 2012 - 17:40 Permalink
Doesn't Matthew 1:18 "before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit" suggest that the birth account does have to with the metaphysics of incarnation?
Doesn't Matthew 1:20 also suggest that the pregnancy was not from Joseph, nor from any other person, but the Holy Spirit? - "an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit."
It's highly likely that similar uses of words and phrases in different contexts provide pointers to the meaning of words in the Matthew and Luke accounts, but context is king. In Matthew and Luke I can't see much room for doubt: they are describing a virgin birth in which the agent of conception was the Holy Spirit.
Any narrative reading of the passages will have to take account of this won't it?
Submitted by Andrew on 16 February, 2012 - 19:32 Permalink
I agree that Matthew and Luke describe a supernatural conception. My point is that they do not interpret that supernatural conception as the means by which God becomes flesh—at least, not in the sense that we normally understand that idea. They interpret Jesus' supernatural birth as a sign that this is the child through whom God would restore Israel—or even, in Matthew's case, as a sign that God would judge Israel. We could perhaps argue that "through whom" points to an instrumental basis for understanding the incarnation, but "instrumental" is not "metaphysical".
Submitted by Nathanael on 16 February, 2012 - 21:31 Permalink
Maybe I'm a bit daft, but I feel like I'm missing something. I follow what you're saying about how "… the glory of the Lord will return as a result of the birth of this child."
Where I'm a bit foggy is why the incarnation through the Holy Spirit, as the majority of Christendom understands it, is incorrect.
Are they mutually exclusive? Can they be both?
Submitted by Andrew on 17 February, 2012 - 12:36 Permalink
Thanks for pushing for clarity. I'll have another go at it….
Whatever Jesus' conception by the Holy Spirit might mean apart from the texts, my argument is that Matthew and Luke do not take it to mean that his supernatural conception was the basis for his being both God and man. It's all about how they tell the story—and, in particular, how they use the Old Testament in order to bring out the significance of the event.
Matthew interprets it in the light of or as a fulfilment of Isaiah 7:14, which has nothing to do with God becoming man; it tells the story of how God will be present as Immanuel in the midst of his people when they face destruction.
Luke takes a different approach, but the effect is the same. Jesus' miraculous conception is understood as a sign that God is about to restore his people through this "Son of God" who is to be born.
The critical point to grasp here is that, as far as scripture goes, "Son of God" does not mean "God the Son" or "God incarnate". The "Son of God", in this context, is Israel's king (it can also denote other individuals and the community of Israel itself which stand in close relationship with YHWH). The popular idea that as "Son of Man" Jesus is human and as "Son of God" divine is simply wrong. Both refer to human figures, who may be exalted, for different reasons, but who are not confused with God himself.
In this respect, the conception of Jesus by the Holy Spirit is the precursor to his baptism, where he is publicly acknowledged as God's son, and several other statements in the New Testament, including Romans 1:1-4:
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord….
I have added these last paragraphs to the post above—I was in too much of a hurry when I wrote it.
Submitted by Nathanael on 17 February, 2012 - 12:41 Permalink
We were typing at the same time. Thanks again for the clarification.
Submitted by peter wilkinson on 17 February, 2012 - 17:48 Permalink
I suppose it all comes down to the question of which narrative Jesus was fulfilling, how he was fulfilling it, and the rather larger question provoked by the birth accounts (and much else in Matthew and Luke) of what kind of person Jesus actually was. The more I consider that question, the more laughable it seems that Jesus could simply be described as acting in the role and model of Old Testament prophet alone.
The first part of the narrative of Isaiah, in 7-8, fulfilled in the invasion of Assyria, bears similarities with the invasion of Israel by Rome in AD 67-70, but with the very different outcome that in the former Jerusalem was spared but in the latter it spectacularly wasn't. "Immanuel" as used by Matthew already means something very different from what it meant in Isaiah 7.
The narrative of Isaiah 7 continues to Isaiah 9, in which "the son" (verse 6) reflects the fulfilment (verse 7) of the promises made by God to David (2 Samuel 7:12-16). In Matthew and Luke, the sense in which these promises are being fulfilled becomes a matter of extraordinary interest not only as to how those extraordinary promises would be fulfilled but as to who this person was, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb without the aid of male insemination.
The interest is heightened by the development of Jesus's unique relationship with God. No other Old Testament figure was affirmed as a "son" as Jesus was at his baptism. The link with Nathan's unique prophecy to David - "I will be his father and he shall be my son" (2 Samuel 7:14) stimulates enquiry as to what kind of son he was. The extraordinary relationship which Jesus enjoyed with God as 'Father' is unique. Nowhere else had this relationship been seen before as it was seen in Jesus.
So we have "Immanuel" being given augmented meaning in Matthew. We also have a very different kind of person in Jesus from anyone seen before, relating uniquely to God as "Father" in a highly augmented kind of "son" relationship to God, which can be described as new because it had not been seen before.
"Son of God" when used to describe Jesus means something very different from its previous application to kings, angels or Israel, and did not turn out to be anything like the expectations that had been formed about "Son of God" as messiah. All these developments are brought to bear on the phrase as it is used to describe Jesus. The birth narratives confirm that Jesus was a very different person from anyone with whom he could be compared in Israel's history, and far more than a messiah figure who came to deal with Israel's historic enemies in the way that Israel had expected and had seen in her previous history.
As I read the birth narratives of Jesus, they are not proof-texts for a divine incarnation, but signposts to the nature and status of Jesus within the narrative, for which I can find no other adequate category than divine Son of God, as well as fulfilled finite man within his unique prophet, messiah, servant, king, priest figure in Israel's narrative. But then the question of which narrative we are reading, and how that is written into gospels and letters, is another topic of overriding interest.
Submitted by Nathanael on 17 February, 2012 - 12:36 Permalink
Sorry, Andrew, the comments were not loading on my computer yesterday for some reason. You answered my question in your reply to Peter.
Submitted by Andrew on 17 February, 2012 - 12:42 Permalink
I have been making some changes to the site, and not everything is working quite right yet. That may well explain the problem you had.
Submitted by NorrinRadd on 28 February, 2012 - 11:31 Permalink
I appreciate the goal of allowing each Gospel to speak for itself, trying to understand it the way its original audience would have, rather than filtered through centuries of theology and tradition.
I do think there are at least a couple of things you need to address:
— The observable likelihood that NT writers did not always use OT citations strictly according to their original context.
— The fact that Luke is likely "Volume 1" of the two-volume "Luke-Acts" set. While Matt may safely be considered on its own, I don't know that Luke should be taken in isolation from Acts.
Submitted by MK @ Teach Sund... on 5 March, 2012 - 15:52 Permalink
For whatever reason, the Holy Spirit is always something that I have a difficult time discussing with my older ministry students. Therefore, you can imagine how excited I am that you've decided to write a series of posts focusing on the topic. Thank you so much for giving me some great ideas about how to approach the Holy Spirit!
Submitted by Lace on 9 January, 2019 - 19:55 Permalink
Are you aware that Mary was not of the seed of David but of the seed of Nathan his brother?
Joseph was of the seed of David, as said when he went to be taxed.
Christ also confirms in scripture saying HE is the root and offspring of David.
Therefore it has to come from David's lineage!
No woman on this earth ever conceived a child without a man including Mary! Read the scriptures!
Christ says it in scripture but who is listening?
Was the Holy Spirit present yes She was!
She was also present when John was conceived by his parents and that wasn't called immaculate!


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Got flood fatigue yet? Too bad, because the wet weather and the high water keeps coming. Here is a quick round up of the notable flood-related news of the week.
Mississippi River
- My post, 'Levees and the illusion of flood control', has been nominated for the 2011 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Science.
Right now, 20 semi-finalists are being chosen by a round of public voting that ends tomorrow (June 11). If you haven't voted yet, please take a moment to vote for me. (It's easy; no registration required.) If my flood post didn't float your boat, there is also a bevy of other good Earth Science blogging in the running, as summarized by Lab Lemming. Please head over to vote:
- Columbia's Earth Institute has a must-read piece on alternative to levees as a river- and flood-management tool – highlighting the Dutch approach to "making room for the rivers" and how that might be applied in the US.
- The US Army Corps of Engineers is slowly closing the gates at the Morganza Floodway in Louisiana. Only one gate is still open, but you can still see the inundation on today's NASA Earth Observatory image.
- Floodwaters have retreated from most of the Bird's Point Floodway, as shown by this fantastic pair of images from NASA. Nonetheless, land owners in the floodway are suing the Corps of Engineers for damages.
- This spring's floods have prompted some public musing about alternative ways to manage the Mississippi. America's Waterway has been active on Twitter during the floods, asking for a basin-wide approach to river management.
- Worth a watch. Reeks with hubris but a good overview of this year's Mississippi flood: USACE video
(via @WaterWired)
Update: I got voted into the semi-finals and picked by the editors for inclusion in the final round of the contest. Thanks for your support.
Missouri River
Heavy snowpacks in the Missouri River watershed (an areally large, but volumetrically smaller contributor to the Mississippi) have led to near-record flooding that is on-going along its whole length from Montana to Missouri. It's not getting as much media attention as the Mississippi River, but water levels may stay above flood stage for months. Right now there are heavy rains occurring in parts of the basin, with more rain in the forecast, which will only add to flood problems.
Like the Mississippi, the Missouri is heavily managed by the Corps of Engineers, which is taking some criticism for residents in affected cities. There have also been evacuations because of seepage under levees and concerns about the possibility of failure. Like all big river/developed world flood stories, this one is a complicated mix of huge volumes of water, complicated multi-purpose river management plans, and unwise historical floodplain development.
- Lots of aerial photos of Missouri River Flooding near Pierre, SD
http://www.disasterrecovery.sd.gov/photogal/Pierre/gallery_Jun6.aspx(Check out the whirlpool!)
(via @TheGeoEngineer)
For months, China has been stricken by its most intense drought in 60 years, but right now it's too much, not too little, water that is the problem. Flooding since the 1st of the month has affected East China's Jiangxi Province and 12 provinces in central and southern China, and more rain is in the forecast for many areas. Intense rains over the last few days have caused the evacuation of more than 100,000 people and killed at least 54.
The Flood Observatory is also reporting on-going flooding in Colombia, the Philippines, Algeria, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Canada, India, and Upstate New York/Vermont's Lake Champlain area. In every one of these places, people are losing their homes and lives. While volcanoes and earthquakes shake things up spectacularly now and again, every single day, somewhere in the world, there's a devastating flood going on.


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OMAK Pacific Crest Trail hikers will be streaming through the Okanogan Valley this week after being chased out of the Cascade Mountains by government officials and snow.
Kellie Bolger of Oceanside, Calif., and Noleen Read of Cape Town, South Africa, met last spring on the Mojave portion of the trail in California.
Numerous hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail keep in touch via text or postings on Facebook. Those reports included hikers being turned away by government officials posted at trailheads to government land.
The hikers were told if they entered government land they would be arrested for trespassing, Bolger and Read said.
Read, 37, started the trail April 28. Bolger, 43, started in May. They soon joined on the Mojave portion of the trail near the Sierra Crest.
The area includes the highest portion of the trail, Forester Pass in the Sierra Nevada at 13,153 feet (4,009 meters).
The women were in Omak on Oct. 7, with a vanguard of more trail hikers to come.
The Pacific Crest Trail runs 2,663 miles (4,286 kilometers) through Washington, Oregon and California. The trail's southern terminus is on the U.S. border with Mexico, and its northern terminus is on the U.S./Canada border.
The route passes through 25 national forests, seven national parks and at least one wilderness, the Pasayten within Okanogan County.
Pacific Crest Trail hikers in Chelan on Monday were reportedly heading through the county sometime this week while protesting the government's ending their attempts to finish their hikes on the actual trail.
Bolger, whose trail name is Hippie Long Stockings, and Read, whose trail name is New Orleans, said they dropped off the trail around Stevens Pass. They had since worked their way to Wenatchee and then to Omak.
"We encountered heavy snows on Stevens Pass," said Bolger, who said neither of them had snowshoes so could not continue.
A day before the women hiked out, a man on snowshoes had continued.
"He said it was unrealistic to continue on the trail," said Read.
But with warmer weather, the trail might have been clear enough for a fast trek to Canada — except for reports that hikers were threatened with arrest.
The plan for hikers is to head up U.S. Highway 97 to Canada and then west to E.C. Manning Provincial Park for final photo taking and completion of their treks.
Manning Park marks the northernmost end of the trail, which opened in 1968 and was completed in 1993.
"We will still reach the border, just not in our traditional ways," Bolger said.
Both said hiking along the highway has proved much more difficult than traversing mountain trails.
"It's scarier than being in the middle of nowhere with animals," Bolger said. "These long flat roads are getting to us."
"I had no physical problems on the trail," Read said. "One day along the highway and I am hobbling. This is an adventure on the road."
This was Read's first attempt on the Pacific Crest Trail. A potter by trade, she's completed other hikes including the Camino Santiago in Spain.
Her favorite parts of the Pacific Crest Trail were side treks up Mount Adams and Mount Whitney.
"Mount Adams is absolutely awesome," she said.
Bolger, who bartends in Bonzall, Calif., is a veteran hiker.
"I like to say I have more than 300,000 miles on my car and 17,000 on my feet," said Bolger, who has done the Pacific Crest Trail once and the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail three times.
"This is the most exciting ending," she said of her hiking.
Small adventures for the pair including finding an Oroville woman's wallet near Omak and deciding not to pick an apple off a roadside tree.
"We've been given so many apples since then," Bolger said with the sound of surprise.
Not every hiker was wise enough to get out of the mountains when snow arrived.
A 23-year-old Oregon woman was reported missing on the trail in southwest Washington. She was located Sunday. She hunkered down sheltered by trees with a fire until she was able to hike out Sunday, reports said.
Snow also apparently caused a problem for a 31-year-old Portland, Ore., man. A search was suspended on the weekend after he was not located in the Big Lava Beds area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
Two other hikers were rescued last week from the snow-laden Pacific Crest Trail.
The recent snow allowed Crystal Mountain and Stevens Pass to open for the ski season last weekend.
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Coy Gibbs knows that building a motocross team from the ground up is no easy task, and having the right people will make all the difference in the success of the effort. Understanding that success in NASCAR will not directly translate into success in motocross, Coy has hired a team with extensive backgrounds in the sport. Jeremy Albrecht manages the team, with Dean Baker handling the engine development. Jonny Oler takes care of suspension, and Spencer Bloomer heads up the testing and settings refinement duties. Patrick Barker provides the tuning duties for Justin Brayton, while Ben Schiermeyer wrenches for Josh Grant. The team is based in Huntersville, North Carolina.
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Adobe introduced its Creative Suite 5 print, Web and video content creation bundles on Monday. The latest versions of the design applications for Mac OS X offer 64-bit support and offer more tools for creating cross-media content.
Photoshop CS5
The new versions of Photoshop and Photoshop Extended add Content Aware Fill to remove objects from images and automatically rebuild the area behind the cut area, Puppet Warp to articulation points to objects in images and intelligently move and reshape them, and an in-application Adobe Bridge media management panel. The noise and luminance reduction tools have been improved, too, offering substantially better detail preservation, and the HDR image editing tools offer an improved interface, user configurable presets, and the ability to remove ghosting effects from images.
Masking has been improved in Photoshop CS5 as well, offering better and more sophisticated edge detection and editing. Vector objects can now be converted into 3D objects, and several object presets are included. CS5 also added a new Mixer brush that lets users turn their photos into digital paintings.
Illustrator CS5
One of Illustrator CS5's most noticeable improvements is its new Perspective Grid tool. Perspective Grid lets users build a framework for three dimensional perspective in their layouts that automatically apply the appropriate perspective to objects that are drawn on or added to the frame. When the perspective grid is moved or changed, the perspective of the objects on the framework automatically adjust to match the new grid shape.
The update also added support for variable stroke widths, improved the shape builder tool, added resolution independent effects, and offers an artboard management panel.
InDesign CS5
InDesign CS5's new features lean more towards cross-media support. The new version offers improved support for adding Flash content and audio files to layouts, lets users create layouts that offer complex interactivity, and includes individual page resizing tools. The update also improved ePub file support, and makes it easier to export content to the SWF format.
Dreamweaver CS5
The new version of Dreamweaver offers improved tools for working with WordPress and PHP-based content management platforms. Users can now more easily import, design and test WordPress designs, and the application includes to make site management easier. Dreamweaver's Live View feature lets users preview their sites with real content and dynamic interactivity, too.
The Creative Suite applications all offer tighter integration with Flash CS5 and the Flash authoring applications including Flash Builder, Flash Professional and Flash Catalyst.
Adobe Flash Builder 4, formerly known as Adobe Flex Builder, is Adobe's IDE to help developers create Rich Internet Applications (RIA) based on the Flash platform. It is based on the open source Flex framework, adds new data-focused development tools, drag-and-drop support for linking processes to interface elements, and more.
Adobe Flash Catalyst lets designers use the artwork they create in Illustrator, InDesign or Photoshop to build Flash application interfaces and then hand them off to developers. Designers can also use the tool to publish SWF files that can be viewed in a Web browser.
The Creative Suite applications are still available in several different bundles.
- Design Standard Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat 9 for US$1,299. Upgrades are priced at $499.
- Design Premium Photoshop Extended, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat 9 Pro, Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, Fireworks for US$1,899. Upgrades are priced at $599.
- Web Premium Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Acrobat 9 Pro, Dreamweaver, Flash Builder 4 Standard, Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, Fireworks, Contribute for US$1,799. Upgrades are priced at $599.
- Production Premium Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Soundbooth, OnLocation, Encore for $1,699. Upgrades cost $599.
- Master Collection All Creative Suite 5 applications with Photoshop Extended instead of the standard version of Photoshop for $2,599. Upgrades are priced at $899.
Adobe plans to ship the Creative Suite 5 collections in about a month.


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Angelina Jolie Visits Rescue Camp for Women
Angelina Jolie pays a visit to a rescue camp for women on Monday (March 25) in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The 37-year-old actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador, who was joined at the site by the British Minister for Foreign Affairs William Hague, went to raise awareness for war zone rape in the area.
Sexual violence is used frequently as a weapon by rebel groups in the area.
The next day, Angelina and William payed their respects at the Gisozi genocide memorial during a wreath laying ceremony.
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Just six miles apart on Route 6, Hall Red Devil Bret Fanning and neighboring St. Bede Bruin Brad Groleau come together once gain as the 2013 BCR Baseball Players of the year. They are the first duo to repeat as Player of the Year since the BCR first handed out that distinction in 1996.
The only other Player of the Year repeats were Princeton's Reid Clary (2009, 2010) and Tony McCombs (2004, 2005) and St. Bede's Billy Terry (1999, 2000).
Both are multi-talented, leading their teams both at the plate and on the mound. Groleau helped lead the Bruins to a regional championship; Fanning was the leading charge to the Red Devils' 18-6 record.
Fanning on Groleau: "Brad is a great hitter and a tough competitor. I know he puts just as much work into the game as I do. I learned no matter how hard you throw, you can't give him a fastball, because he'll catch up to it and drill it."
Groleau on Fanning: "I always enjoy playing against the best and he was one of the best pitchers in the area. he has always been a great competitor and really understands the game of baseball."
Ace in the hole
Fanning was dominant on the mound in 47.3 innings pitched, striking out an area-high 84 batters while walking only 15.
"That's not a bad ratio," Hall coach Tom Keegan said.
With a 7-2 record, Fanning's wins were topped in the area only by St. Bede's Damin Smith (8-1). He also posted a 1.92 ERA, tarnished by a tough early-season outing against Ottawa Marquette. He gave up only seven earned runs the rest of the way.
At the plate, is where Fanning really raised his game this year. He batted .430, raising his average 84 points from last year. He was determined not to let that happen again, making a daily routine of early-season batting practice with his friend and former Red Devil Phil Scott.
"We were up there hitting two hours, two and half hours, just hitting and shagging the balls and going up there again. We kept going back and forth really getting my work in," Fanning said.
The Hall senior also led the Red Devils in hits (34), runs scored (26), RBIs (28), doubles (9), stolen bases (11) and home runs (2).
"Bret led us in several offensive categories and was our number one in our pitching rotation. When he wasn't pitching for us, he played a very steady shortstop. He will be hard to replace," Keegan said.
Fanning was disappointed the Red Devils (18-6) didn't get a chance to break the school record for wins set last year (22), having so many games rained out. He also was disappointed how their season ended prematurely with an 8-1 regional semifinal loss to Ottawa Marquette.
Fanning capped his Hall career with unanimous first team selection in the Tri-County Conference. He is playing this summer with the Illinois Bobcats 19U team before departing this fall to play for the Peacocks of Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa where he will focus solely on pitching.
Left out
Brad Groleau's first love in baseball was pitching. He was an overpowering pitcher, a left-hander at that, which made him all the more difficult to hit for youth batters.
And while he maintained his pitching prowess over the years, hitting the horsehide became his passion.
"Definitely in Little League, I think pitching was my favorite because I started all the time. Now as I get older, I love playing the field and hitting the ball," he said.
The sweet-swinging lefty has flirted with the .500 mark the past two seasons, hitting .485 his junior season and then .465 this season as a senior, tailing ever so slightly at the end of the year.
He was always a tough out in the No. 3 hole, one such that the Beecker coach unintentionally, intentionally walking him with the sectional semifinal contest on the line.
His batting average was second to teammate Brandon Pietrowski's .478 among area batsmen, both collecting 33 hits, topped only by Fanning's 34. Groleau also led the Bruins with 34 runs scored and drove in 22 runs, second to teammate Logan Bima's 29.
"I love hitting in that 3 hole, just trying to carry the team as much as I can and get a bunch of guys on and try to get them as best as I can," Groleau said.
Groleau relished the Bruins' regional championship, capping his Academy career in style.
"We couldn't get it in basketball and it was our last shot. We had nine of our plays were seniors so it was good to get that regional, definitely," he said. "It was great to be on such a winning team."
Groleau will undergo the knife in July after tearing an ACL in his knee for the second time in two years in recent summer ball action. This fall he will be attending McKendree University where he will take a redshirt and have four years to play.
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This is something, I'd wished "Discover Music" or "Album Tips" would offer, when I saw the menu-entries for the first time...
There are plenty of good webpages* on the internet, which talk/report about good music or interesting albums, or recently re-born/died/hyped/mentioned artists or featured music or everything you can imagine.
Say, we could get some of the artists or album names mentioned on those websites and display the matching artists/album/music on a special madsonic page?
This page sits on the left navigation frame and could be named "WEB discovered Music" or something more remarkable, which I can't think of, atm... :-)
*Useful Pages, I refer too
Section: "On this day..." and "In the news"
(of course, also wikipedia in other languages should be scraped)
Section: "In the news"
Section: "Music News", "Today's Birthdays"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Mu ... iversaries
Section: "Spiking Artists", "Most Loved", "Discovery of the week"
some other ideas:
https://indiepulsemusic.com/category/fe ... sts-bands/
If you like, you can add your favorite interesting page or special music blog here too....


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That's the legacy senior foursome Dominic Gareri, Avery Cramer, Kasey Dring and Forrest Young will leave behind to motivate their returning teammates.
The Pointer boys' tennis team wrapped up its league season with a perfect 12-0 record (15-1 overall).
Years of domination created some awkward moments during the league's singles championship match when two Pointer teammates faced each other in the finals after eliminating other challengers. Gareri and Cramer, the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds, battled for honors, with Gareri victorious by scores of 7-5 and 6-3. In the third-place match, No. 3 seed Kasey Dring of PLHS lost to No. 4 seed Santiago Pinon of San Diego High.
In Eastern League doubles, Pointer seniors Trenton Saunders and John Paul DeFreitas took fifth place with a 6-4 and 7-6 victory over their Serra High opponents.
In CIF team play, the Pointers drew a No. 4 seed in Div. II.
They defeated first-round opponent Olympian High 13-5. In the second round, the Pointers played to a 9-9 tie with Ramona High, the Pointers advancing by way of a 74-58 edge in games won.
In the third round, the Pointers traveled to La Jolla to face the No. 1 seed Vikings, who handed the Pointers a 15-3 defeat. La Jolla is chasing its state-record 44th CIF team championship.
Gareri, Cramer and Dring, along with the Saunders-DeFreitas doubles team, qualified for the CIF individual tournament, which begins Monday, May 20 at the Barnes Tennis Center, 4490 West Point Loma Blvd.
• Gareri's nickname is "Dom," as in "domination." This was the senior's third consecutive Eastern League singles title.
• Tennis coach Mark Truver loses eight of his team's 12 players to graduation this year.


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CHICAGO (AP) — The consumer advocacy group Citizens Utility Board says scams that add charges to customers' cell phone bills have almost doubled in Illinois the past year.
The board said in a news release Tuesday that scammers appear to be targeting cell phone users as wireless communication increases and new laws outlaw so-called cramming on land lines. Cramming refers to third-party charges added to cell phone bills for services customers never ordered.
The board says crammers get access to phone bills through text messages promising prizes or through ringtone downloads and then hope phone owners don't notice the relatively small charges on their bills.
The board says phone owners should scan bills closely for charges they don't recognize.
The Federal Communications Commission is considering tougher laws to protect cell phone owners.


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Newspaper Claims Satirical Blogger Mentioning Its Name Is Trademark Infringement
from the get-better-lawyers dept
We wish to advise you that the name, "The Observer Dispatch," that you are using is the property of GateHouse Media, protected by trademark and past usage rights. Your use of such name constitutes infringement of GateHouse's rights under federal, state and common law. Our proprietary rights in such name include the right to restrict the use of the name. It is important that we exercise our right to protect our name. Its serves as an important and distinctive representation of the origin of our products as well as the goodwill of GateHouse Media.The blogger, Ray Jadwick, definitely makes fun of the Utica Observer Dispatch on his site, but it certainly doesn't appear to be trademark infringement. Making fun of your paper isn't likely to confuse even a moron in a hurry.


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Today: Reports signal some of Silicon Valley's most prominent private companies will follow Twitter to Wall Street. Also: Wall Street breaks more records, but Tesla continues to struggle.
The Lead: Twitter falls as other companies look to jump into IPO market
After a boisterous first day of trading on Wall Street, Twitter stock sunk back to a less exciting reality Friday while other Silicon Valley companies looked to jump into the IPO waters while they're still warm.
Twitter shot more than 70 percent higher than its IPO price Thursday, but dropped 7.2 percent Friday to close at $41.65, as analysts decried the sudden run-up in Twitter's valuation that came with investors' excitement for the San Francisco company.
"The valuation at these price levels is disconnected from any logical calculation and reflects a huge downside risk for investors if Twitter does not meet expectations at every quarterly earnings release from now on," Peter Garnry, head of equity strategy at Saxo Bank, wrote.
"I anticipated a very strong open, but when you start to approach these levels this is absolute froth," Jeffrey Sica, president and chief investment officer of Sica Wealth Management, told Bloomberg News. "There is nothing supporting this range. I think this is just way, way above what realistically we should be considering a stable open."
Still, some analysts believe Twitter's elevated price to be "credible," and it is likely to spur a wave of IPOs from other tech companies. Even as Twitter was still contemplating its final IPO price, reports suggested that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was planning a public debut for his newer venture, Square. The Wall Street Journal reported Dorsey, who is CEO of the payments company, had met with investment banks and was looking at a 2014 IPO.
Dorsey could be joined in a 2014 IPO by another high-profile Silicon Valley executive with a widely followed Twitter account, Aaron Levie. Reuters reported Friday that the Los Altos startup Box, which offers online cloud storage, has selected bankers to lead its IPO, expected in early 2014. In a September interview with the Mercury News, Levie called a Box IPO "the natural step on the path."
The IPO market was hot even before Twitter's big first day pop: As Silicon Valley Business Journal pointed out, three Bay Area tech companies — RocketFuel, FireEye and Marketo — had bigger first day increases in their debuts than Twitter. Those performances had already spurred a rash of filings during the summer, and those companies continue to come to market, with three scheduled for next week.
Silicon Valley's only purely tech IPO next week will be interesting to watch: Santa Clara-based Chegg, which started as a textbook rental business and has expanded to focus on more educational aspirations, expects to sell 15 million shares at a price ranging from $9.50 to $11.50. Also going public next week will be another consumer Web company, Seattle's Zulilly, giving Wall Street two chances to test the theory that Facebook's recent rebound and Twitter's successful IPO have swung the doors for consumer Web companies back open.
"There's more confidence in the consumer Internet industry, in the ability of these companies to become really valuable long-term franchises," Nirav Tolia, a veteran entrepreneur and CEO of Nextdoor, told The Mercury News this week.
Joining Chegg will be two biotechnology firms, which have been numerous and successful on the IPO market this year: Palo Alto-based CardioDX and Redwood City's Relypsa.
SV150 market report: Nvidia gains, Tesla falls amid overall growth
For the second consecutive day, Wall Street headed in the opposite direction of its newest star stock, with the Dow Jones setting another record high after the October jobs report showed stronger hiring than expected, adding to Thursday's GDP measurement as signs of a better U.S. economy. Silicon Valley tech stocks were some of the strongest in Friday's rebound, as the SV150 gained 1.4 percent thanks to strong gains from Nvidia and Google (GOOG).
Nvidia moved 7 percent higher to $15.56 after releasing its quarterly earnings report after the bell Thursday. The Santa Clara chipmaker reported earnings and revenues in line with expectations, but analysts were excited about the prospects for the company's new gaming device, Shield, in China. "That has potential to take Shield units to higher levels," B. Riley analyst Craig Ellis told Bloomberg News. "It could actually get some traction."
Google gained 0.8 percent to $1,016.03 after documents revealed its plans for the mysterious barges that have captured the media's attention recently. Documents filed with the San Francisco Port Authority detail plans to build the barges into floating showrooms for Google technology that will have more than 13,000 square feet of exhibition space and "a roof-deck (that) will offer new sightlines of the spectacular San Francisco skyline and waterfront."
Joining Friday's parade of end-of-week gains were Apple (AAPL) (up 1.6 percent to $520.56), Yahoo (YHOO) (up 3.2 percent to $33.12), Cisco (CSCO) (up 1.7 percent to $23.51) and Silicon Valley's solar companies, SunPower (SPWRA) (up 5.3 percent to $31.87) and SolarCity (up 1 percent to $50.18).
Tesla Motors (TSLA) could not complete a cleantech sweep with the solar companies, however, as the Palo Alto electric car maker continued to struggle after a third Model S fire in less than two months. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into the latest fire, and Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, told Bloomberg News that the federal agency "absolutely has to investigate" the fire. Tesla declined 1.3 percent to $137.95, its lowest closing price since Aug. 1.
Up: Nvidia, SunPower, Juniper, Yahoo, Adobe (ADBE), Gilead, Yelp, Netflix (NFLX), Applied Materials, Salesforce, Pandora, LinkedIn, Cisco, SanDisk, Apple, EA, Symantec, NetApp, Intuit (INTU), Oracle (ORCL), SolarCity, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), eBay (EBAY), Google
Down: Twitter, VMware, Workday, Tesla, Advanced Micro Devices, Facebook
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 19, or 1.38 percent, to 1,400.59
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 61.9, or 1.6 percent, to 3,919.23
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 167.8, or 1.08 percent, to 15,761.78
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 23.46, or 1.34 percent, to 1,770.61
Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, a summary of news from Mercury News staff writers, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and other wire services. Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/jowens510.


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- Reviewing business plans, priorities and opportunities to determine logistics projects and support reqs
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- Participating in strategic supply chain assessments, regarding distribution, transportation, logistics and procurement
- Staying up-to-date with relevant technologies and industry best practices, evaluating the effectiveness of current or future logistics processes
- Developing logistics metrics, internal analysis tools, and performance indicators for internal teams
- Analyzing and interpreting logistics data for forecasting, demand planning, procurement, transportation, etc.
- Identifying ways to reduce costs and improve distribution processes
- At least 7 years of experience in logistics
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Cattle Raisers Urge Texans to Approve Prop. 6 in Constitutional Election
Fort Worth, Texas – The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) urges ranchers and landowners to vote in favor of Proposition 6 during the Nov. 5 Constitutional Election. Texans can participate in early voting, which begins Oct. 21 and runs through Nov. 1.
Proposition 6 is a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas and the State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for Texas. The funds will help finance priority water projects, including rural water projects, to ensure Texas has adequate water resources for the future.
"Texas is still coping with a historic drought that has left many ranchers and areas in rural Texas struggling to find adequate water supplies," said Pete Bonds, rancher and TSCRA president. "At the same time that our water supplies are decreasing, our population is increasing. We need to ensure we preserve and conserve the water we do have so there is enough for all Texans, those in rural and urban areas."
Bonds adds that Proposition 6 sets aside $2 billion already in the Rainy Day Fund for priority water projects, 30 percent of which are specifically rural water projects.
"Now is the time to ensure Texas continues to thrive well into the future," said Bonds. "It's crucial we pass Proposition 6."
Early voting is Oct. 21 – Nov. 1. Election Day is Nov. 5. For more information visit http://www.watertexas.com/. For information on polling locations visit http://votetexas.gov/voting/where.
TSCRA is a 136-year-old trade association and is the largest and oldest livestock organization based in Texas. TSCRA has more than 16,000 beef cattle operations, ranching families and businesses as members. These members represent approximately 50,000 individuals directly involved in ranching and beef production who manage 4 million head of cattle on 76 million acres of range and pasture land primarily in Texas and Oklahoma, but throughout the Southwest.


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Eulogios (Kourilas) of Korca
His Grace Eulogios (Kourilas) of Korca, Eulogios Kourilas Lauriotis of Korca, or Evlogji Kurila[1] was the bishop of Korca (Korytsa) of the Autocephalous Church of Albania from 1937 to 1939, and a professor of philosophy and author on religious matters.
In 1880, Eulogios was born in the Albanian village of Ziçisht (in Greek: Zititsa) in the then Ottoman empire. Attracted during his youth by ascetic and monastic ideals he joined the monastic community of Mount Athos. In 1901, he graduated from the Athonite School at Mt. Athos and then from the Phanar Greek Orthodox College in Constantinople before continuing his studies at the University of Athens, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Humanities. He, then, continued his education in Germany.
Eulogios also participated in the Greek struggle with the Bulgarians for Macedonia during the first decade of the twentieth centuryw: Macedonian_Struggle. During the Balkan Wars of 1912/1913, he was in charge of 100 armed men, among them many priests, that fought for Greece in the area of Chalkidiki, the peninsula in northern Greece that includes Mt. Athos. In 1912, Albania gained independence and recognition by the major powers of Europe.
On April 17,1937, the Church of Albania was recognized as autocephalous by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and, after an agreement with the Albanian government, selected a number of well educated religious personalities for key positions in the Church of Albania. Among them were Panteleimon Kotokos as Bishop of Gjirokastër and Eulogios Kourilas as Bishop of Korca (Corcia).[2]
After the Italian and German occupations forces were forced out of Albania at the end of World War II, a communist regime under Enver Hoxha came to power in 1945 and officially proclaimed Albania an atheist state on November 22, 1967. Bp. Eulogios was declared an "enemy of the state" and was deprived of his Albanian citizenship. [3] Bp. Eulogios, then, fled Albania and settled in Greece.
In Greece, he became a professor at School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and of the University of Athens. He reposed in 1961 in Stratonike, Chalkidiki.
- ↑ His family name is cited either in its Greek form "Kourilas" or "Kurilas" or in its Albanian form "Kurila". His first name can be found spelled "Eulogios" or "Evlogios" in Greek, "Evlogji" in Albanian, or sometimes "Eulogio" in English.
- ↑ Kondis, Basil (1990). The Greeks of Northern Epirus and Greek-Albanian relations: historical review from the Greek edition: V. 3. 1922-1929-v.4 1930-1940. 41.
- ↑ Fahlbusch, Erwin Bromiley, Geoffrey William (in 1999). The encyclopedia of Christianity. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 9788889345047.
Eulogios Kourilas wrote extensively including several historical, philosophical and theological books. His main works are (titles translated from Greek):
- History of Ascetism (1929)
- Catalogue of Kausokalyvia codices (1930)
- Albanian studies (1933)
- Gregorios Argyrokastritis (1935)
- Moschopolis and its New Academy (1935)
- Heraclea Sacra (1942) (title in latin)
- Hellenism and Christianism (1944)
- Patriarchic History (1951).
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SHIPPENSBURG — Shippensburg had a game-changing 12-0 run early in the second half and held off No. 9-ranked East Stroudsburg University 87-77, handing the Warriors their first loss in almost two months and ending a school record-tying 14-game winning streak Saturday.
SHIPPENSBURG — Shippensburg had a game-changing 12-0 run early in the second half and held off No. 9-ranked East Stroudsburg University 87-77, handing the Warriors their first loss in almost two months and ending a school record-tying 14-game winning streak Saturday.
Senior forward Duane Johnson tied his career-high with 29 points (22 in second half) for ESU (20-3, 17-2), which also saw a nine-game road winning streak come to an end one game from tying a school record set from 1926-28.
The Warriors' last loss came to Lock Haven, 68-58, on Dec. 18 at Koehler Fieldhouse. Since then, they won 14 straight, including victories over PSAC contenders IUP, Slippery Rock, Edinboro, West Chester and Millersville, but couldn't overcome 31 points and nine assists from Shippensburg's Reggie Charles.
The Warriors also had one of the five longest active winning streaks in Division II as they rose to the highest national ranking in school history, surpassing a No. 12 ranking during the 2009-10 season. The 14-game winning streak matched a record set by the 1940-41 Warriors.
ESU, the defending PSAC champion, holds a two-game lead over West Chester (17-6, 15-4) for the PSAC East regular season title with three games remaining. The Warriors are at Millersville (15-9, 11-7) next Wednesday and host West Chester on Saturday, before finishing the regular season against Bloomsburg (7-16, 5-14) on Wednesday, Feb. 27. Millersville has yet to play this weekend, as its game at Kutztown was postponed to Monday.
Shippensburg (7-16, 5-14) closed the first half on a 17-4 run over the final 5:30 to take a 37-27 lead into the locker room, the first time the Warriors trailed at the half since an 84-72 win at Slippery Rock on Jan. 11 in the fourth game of the 14-game winning streak.
Dylan Edgar (14 points, 11 rebounds) scored the first bucket of the half for Shippensburg before a 7-0 ESU run in just 1:30 got the Warriors within 39-34.
Shippensburg answered with a 12-0 run — including consecutive 3s by Charles — to make it 51-34 with 15 minutes left and leaving the Warriors with an uphill battle.
They closed an 18-point deficit to 11 (57-46) with just under 10 minutes left and were on the verge of cutting it to single digits on several occasions, but Ship continued to answer. Johnson scored seven straight points for the Warriors to get within 65-55 with 5:57 left, but they didn't get it under 10 until a 3-pointer by Johnson with 25.4 seconds left.
Charles hit arguably the game's biggest shot, a 3-pointer off a broken play with the shot clock running down with 1:21 to play. The shot gave Shippensburg an 80-67 lead and regained control after a 6-2 ESU run.
Sophomore guard Matt Tobin scored 12 points and senior forward Terrance King had 10 points, eight rebounds and three blocks for ESU. Senior guard Blair Ramsey (eight) and sophomore forward Lamont Tillery (seven points) contributed to the bench scoring. ESU was without sophomore guard Whis Grant, the PSAC's sixth-leading scorer with 17.5 points per game.
Johnson's 29 points tied his career-high which he set in a double-overtime win at Kutztown last year. He was 9-for-15 from the field, 2-for-3 from the 3-point line and 9-for-13 at the foul line and added five rebounds (four offensive).
Charles was 9-for-14 from the field, 3-for-3 from long distance and 10-for-11 at the line for Shippensburg, which shot 57.1 percent (28-for-49) from the field and 87.1 percent (27-for-31) at the line to overcome 27 turnovers. Edgar and Akil Anderson both scored 14 points and Tyheim Perrin had 10.
Charles had nine assists and 10 turnovers as ESU held a +11 turnover margin (27-16) after entering at +5.2, one of the top 10 rates in Division II.
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Ingredients For the Chicken: 3 tablespoons olive oil 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breast diced into 3-inch strips 4 teaspoons chili powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups thinly sliced onions 1 tablespoon minced garlic 2 cups chicken stock 4 teaspoons fresh squeezed lime juice
Directions Set a wide-mouthed 3-quart saucepan with lid over medium-high heat and add the oil to the pan. Season the chicken pieces with the chili powder and salt and toss the evenly coat. Add the chicken to the pan and sear for 3 minutes per side. Add the onions to the pan and saute for another 3 minutes. Add the garlic to the pan and saute for 1 minute. Pour the chicken stock over the chicken and bring to a boil. Reduce to a low heat and cover. Continue to cook the chicken until very tender, about 1 hour, stir the chicken to shred it and continue to cook, covered, for another 30 minutes. Once the chicken is cooked, stir and mash to shred the chicken meat and add the lime juice to the chicken. Set aside as you prepare the nachos.
For the Nachos: 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 cups milk 1 small can chopped green chiles, drained 2 cups grated sharp yellow Cheddar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper 8 to 10 cups corn tortillas 4 cups shredded chicken 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese 1/4 cup green onions finely sliced 3/4 cup sour cream, for garnishing 1/2 cup sliced pickled jalapenos, for garnishing 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro leaves, for garnishing Pico de Gallo, for serving, recipe follows
In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium-high heat and whisk in the flour. Cook, stirring constantly, for 2 to 3 minutes. Do not allow the flour to color. While whisking constantly, add the milk in a steady stream. Add the green chiles and bring the sauce to a boil. Cook, stirring frequently, for about 5 minutes, or until the sauce is thickened and bubbly. Add the Cheddar, salt, and cayenne pepper and stir until the cheese is melted and the sauce is smooth. Cover and remove from the heat.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
In a large, ovenproof shallow casserole or on a large baking sheet, spread half of the tortilla chips in an even layer. Top with half of the chicken, and half of the Monterey Jack cheese. Top with the remaining tortilla chips and chicken. Pour the hot cheese sauce over the chicken, then evenly spread the remaining grated Monterey Jack over the top. Bake until the cheese is melted and bubbly and the nachos are heated through, 8 to 10 minutes. Garnish with the sliced green onions, sour cream, pickled jalapenos and cilantro. Serve with the Pico de Gallo alongside.
Yield: 6 servings
For the Pico de Gallo: 1 (14-ounce) can whole tomatoes, drained 1/4 cup chopped yellow onions 2 tablespoons minced cilantro leaves 1 jalapeno pepper, stem and seeds removed, finely chopped 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice 1 clove garlic, minced 1/2 teaspoon Emeril's Red Hot Pepper Sauce 1/4 teaspoon salt In the bowl of a food processor, combine all the ingredients and pulse until the salsa is of uniform consistency but still slightly chunky, about 7 pulses. Transfer to a bowl and set aside until ready to serve the nachos.
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Runner beans
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Pharmacokinetic Evaluation of Changes in Nevirapine AUC Due to Differences in Weight (NAWS)
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[ORX] Cover Art & Layout Help Req.
November 25, 2006, 04:31:46 AM »
I've stayed up far too late having far too much fun doing this, and I'm going to pay for it when I have to leave for work in just a few hours, but I've put together a series of four possible covers for ORX. Just a couple variations on a basic theme.
You can view the covers
on this page
. Just a heads-up, they are sized close to 800x600 each (but are optimized for the web). The covers are wrap-arounds for a 6x9. Once I decide on a cover, I will drop the final text in and we're good to go (yes, I had a little fun with the placeholder text).
But before that happens, I'm looking for feedback from you graphic design and marketing wizards; specifically:
Is there anything I'm missing that should be on the cover? (note: I do not have an ISBN for this book, so don't worry about it)
For those who have experience printing with Lulu, what cover would come out the best with their processes (if any)?
Also, I'm assuming bleed of about 1/8" inch all around, anything I need to know that's a bit wonky about how they trim (if anything)?
Marketing/aesthetics-wise, does any particular cover, or elements in a particular cover jump out as better designed than the rest?
Is there anything wrong with/that I should consider about the basic scheme, or moving around, etc.?
Also, credit where credit is due: the image used on the first cover is by the incredible Ed Heil.
(The other three are all me.)
BTW, I'm also sharing these for fun. Maybe it's the hour, maybe it's the lack of sleep, maybe it's me celebrating getting over a year-long artistic dry spell.
Now, I'm getting to bed. My wife is going to kill me.
Rev. Ravenscrye Grey Daegmorgan
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Re: [ORX] Cover Art & Layout Help Req.
Reply #1 on:
November 25, 2006, 10:14:14 AM »
In general - I like Cover #1 but the text needs to stand out from the illustration. I would suggest graying out the illo a bit - you still get the impact you want but it will be easier to read. I really think you should reconsider your logo. It is very hard to read even under the most ideal circumstances. Simple test - if I see people playing your game at a con I should be able to read the logo as I pass by.
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November 25, 2006, 01:47:10 PM »
I like the first cover the best also. Is that really the best positioning of that image on the cover? I"m not sure I'd let the nose bleed into the wraparound. The title needs to be further up your visual heirarchy, both in color and style of line from the illo. Perhaps the title could be more like the webpage title and in red or orange. Subduing the starkness of the illustration might help some too, that black and white punch is hard to counterbalance.
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November 27, 2006, 07:39:09 AM »
I'm not a layout or graphics wizard, but I personally prefer the second or fourth. The orc in the fourth is a bit too dark tho', and sort of fades into near-blackness. Also, that it looks like a 3D model is also a slight turn off for me; Fuzz the edges a bit, make it look a tad bit less computer-generated, perhaps.
Also, to counteract the issue that Alex mentions with the readability of the title, perhaps you could take the darker "Orx" behind the white, and move it in front, with the ornate calligraphy white "Orx" in the background? Just an idea.
Anyhow, some good initial offerings.
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November 28, 2006, 10:16:07 AM »
For some reason I like the first the most as well, but that's what is pleasing to the heart; and I'm not sure it'd go as well if I were to buy it off a stand.
The third looks wrong for some reason, and the fourth's background looks like something for 12 y'o who watch GI Joe(I actually like the series). You need to put your name in a more prominent spot on all covers.
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November 28, 2006, 11:31:27 AM »
I like the front cover of the second one and the back text of the third one best. Maybe drop the cover image down so that it is out of the orange stripe. The orange stripe with the superimposed Orx in two fonts is very eye catching.
I do not like the 4th one.
You will have readability problems with the first front cover. As it is now, "nasty" is difficult to read, "short" is near impossible, as well as the "the" and "us" in the bottom text. If you go with the first cover, I suggest making the front cover text orange or some other nice contrasty color so it can be easily read.
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Re: [ORX] Cover Art & Layout Help Req.
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November 28, 2006, 10:35:37 PM »
Many thanks for all the feedback, everyone!
What I'm finding is that while I, too, really like the visual impact of cover #1, trying to fix it for use as a cover ends up taking away everything I like about it. I tried a cover bth with the illo grayed out, and another with the illo's position altered so the wholeface fit on the front cover. Unfortunately, neither really flew.
I wanted to place the tweaked versions on the page, but I won't have time to do that until tomorrow. I'll update here when those are available.
I do have a second try at the same high-contrast idea, but once it is up, I think you'll see what I mean about it not being as "grabby". So, unless/until I have a sudden inspiration regarding a way to make #1 work with the high-contrast, all-part-of-one-line style cover, I'm going to take it out of the running.
Regarding the CG-look of the orc in #4: that's an intersting observation. I wonder if that's an effect of the heavy shading and high contrast on that cover, as it is the same orc as from #2 and #3, just blended with the background. So I am curious, do those two look computer generated as well?
I will try out the suggestion of swapping its position with the darker logo and see how that looks. I will also try moving the orc more towards the center.
More tomorrow. I need to spend some actual time with my wife tonight.
Thanks again!
Rev. Ravenscrye Grey Daegmorgan
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Re: [ORX] Cover Art & Layout Help Req.
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November 29, 2006, 07:27:23 AM »
Yes, I wasn't clear; All three of the latter, the orc looks CG. It's actually less prominent in #4 due to the much darker shading than in #2 and #3.
~Lance Allen
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Re: [ORX] Cover Art & Layout Help Req.
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December 02, 2006, 01:38:04 AM »
Sorry for the delay, I had to choose between sleep and putting up the images. Sleep won.
The redo of #1 -- 1a -- is up. Also, I've put two alternates of #4 up -- 4a & 4b. You'll note the altered title, and in B, the image's repositioning on the cover. Each has its strong points and weak points: A has a lot of light areas, which distracts the gaze from the title, while B is a bit minimalistic, but the title pops more.
Also, like Julie, I'm really liking cover #2's title banner; though the rest of the cover fails to catch the eye. Might play around with that next.
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December 02, 2006, 02:06:20 AM »
Make all of the back-cover image in 1a "greyed", not just the part covered by the blurb box, and I still dislike 4 and its versions intently, they just seem like CG from 97.
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December 02, 2006, 11:03:38 PM »
As much as I hate to say it.. I actually most like 4b. If the orc were a
bit more distinct from the background, and you were to brighten the ornate Orx script behind the dark up a bit (I didn't even see it on the first perusal) that would be really grabby.
I say I hate to say it because I didn't really like the original number 4 all that much. The high contrast of #1, with it's negative imaging is too jarring to look good, in my own opinion.
~Lance Allen
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Re: [ORX] Cover Art & Layout Help Req.
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December 04, 2006, 01:24:38 PM »
Thanks for the feedback, guys. I know whatever final decision I make isn't going to please everyone, but all your criticism and commentary
given consideration and has been very valuable to me in the design process. While I wait for the final proofread of the text, I will be finishing the cover based on the discussion of these drafts -- but if anyone has any further comments or insights on the existing covers, feel free to post them.
Thanks again for your honest opinions!
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Nintendo Thrilled To Have Game Copy Devices Found Illegal In France
from the why-adapt-when-you-can-litigate dept
While the ruling only deals with the importation and distribution of these devices, it has not stopped Nintendo from spreading FUD among game consumers regarding these devices. According to its anti-piracy faq on mod chips:
Are infringing devices such as game copiers for Nintendo Handheld systems or mod chips for Nintendo Wii console illegal in the U.S.?Sadly, this completely avoids the fact that such devices are capable and are used frequently to run software and games that are completely free and legal. This type of misdirection is abundant on that website. These devices do what Nintendo has failed to do -- open up the platform to a wider variety of software and games.
Yes. Game copiers that are used to copy video game software without authorization onto any type of memory device or the hard drive of a personal computer are illegal. They enable the user to make, play and distribute illegal copies of video game software, which violates Nintendo's copyrights and trademarks. Mod chips are also designed to circumvent the copy-protection security system and deem the detection process inoperable, enabling the console to play pirated or illegal copies of Nintendo games downloaded from the Internet. Based upon the functions of these devices, they are illegal.
As for Nintendo, it's continuing its efforts to fight these modding devices rather than recognize and adapt to what the consumers of its devices want. With the introduction of the iPhone and Google's Android, consumers and developers are getting accustomed to (fairly) open marketplaces for apps and games. Yet, Nintendo is still holding strong to the idea that its platforms need to be locked down and any effort to open them up to the greater development community should be stamped out. Nintendo almost fell when it refused to adapt to changes in the market before. If Nintendo isn't careful, it could end up falling once again. Who knows if it will survive that fall?


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