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Mary Augusta Fullah: (MPH, SRN, SCM)
Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer
Matron Mary Fullah is a UK trained Public Health Specialist. She is a registered nurse and a midwife who has worked in various hospitals, across the country, as Nursing Officer and as Matron.
She has worked as District Health Sister in five different districts including Western Area Urban and Rural. She has also worked in various directorates and programmes within the Ministry of Health and Sanitation including working in the Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program where she was until after the Ebola epidemic.
Prior to being the head of Directorate of Nursing and Midwifery Services, she had served as Deputy Chief of the same Directorate from 2016 to 2018.
In addition to the Diploma in Community Medicine and Health, she also holds a degree in Hospital Management from Italy, before being awarded a Master's degree in Public Health and Health Promotion from Leeds University Medical School.
She has led a number of reforms in the Nursing and Midwifery fields including spearheading the expansion of the Mattru Jong Nursing School which would soon start teaching SRN courses. This is the first time ever Bonthe District has had an institution and accreditation to train registered nurses.
In addition to her academic qualifications, Matron Fullah has gone through several short-term professional training programmes and Seminars in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria and Gambia, among others
Directorate of Nursing and Midwifery
Update on Thematic Areas
- Policy and Leadership
- Regulation
- Education
- Service Delivery
- Association and Partnership
The Directorate
The Directorate of Nursing and Midwifery Services functions as an overarching Directorate responsible for policy formulation and Strategic Plan development for nursing and midwifery services, facilitate education, regulation and partnership for the furtherance of nursing and midwifery services in order to improve health outcomes. The directorate operates within five thematic areas
Update on Thematic Areas
Policy and Leadership: The Directorate has the mandate to lead policy formulation in the management of nurses and midwives. Under the thematic area, the Directorate has developed the Nursing and Midwifery Policy and Strategy to provide adequate policy framework and strategy for the operations of the directorate as well as the nursing and midwifery cadres. The Directorate has finalised discussions with SIGMA and they have acquiesced to support the establishment and training of a research unit for Nurses within the directorate.
Regulation: The Directorate has worked closely with the Nurses and Midwives Board to develop the Act that awaits the Minister to table it in Parliament. This Act stipulates up-to-date sanctions that befit specific conducts. The directorate also has the mandate to establish appropriate infrastructures for examinations, licences and administration
Education: The Directorate has the mandate to accredit nursing and midwifery schools across the country, and to introduce new courses and expand existing nursing and midwifery institutions, where required. As an achievement, the Directorate has almost finalised the expansion of the Mattru Nursing School to now introduce the State Registered Nursing course—first ever in the district. The Directorate has also collaborated with the university to introduce postgraduate qualifications including Masters and PhDs.
Service Delivery: Given that nurses and midwives form more than half of the health workforce, the directorate is responsible for ensuring there is efficiency and quality in service delivery to help improve health outcomes.
Association and Partnership: Here, the Directorate is required to work closely with the Nurses and Midwives Associations and to ensure discipline is maintained in the professions and that practitioners conduct themselves appropriately. In this regard, a Grievance Redress Mechanism has been introduced in all districts. Matrons have been trained in all districts to serve as focal points. With Partnerships, the Directorate is required to create new partnerships and maintain existing ones to enhance service delivery. Already, some very productive partnerships, including those with UNICEF supporting the establishment and management of the Special Care Baby Units at hospitals, JICA supporting the development of the MCH Handbook, ICAP supporting Skills Labs and leadership trainings, UNFPA supporting the training of midwives, Seed Global Health with the preceptorship trainings, and WHO to support the development and rolling out of the relevant policies, have been maintained.


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WWE Reportedly Interested In Former ROH Champion Dalton Castle
WWE reportedly has interest in former ROH Champion Dalton Castle, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
WWE has been interested in signing Castle since 2017. There were rumors of a possible deal in the summer of 2017 but it was reported that Castle chose to re-sign with ROH as his deal was to expire in June 2017. There's no word yet on how long the deal was for.
Castle is set to face Matt Taven at tonight's ROH Final Battle pay-per-view.
It will be interesting to see if WWE has tried to negotiate with Castle while he's under contract to ROH. We recently reported on how WWE is interested in signing IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion KUSHIDA, despite him being under contract to New Japan Pro Wrestling. It was noted in The Observer that WWE's interest in KUSHIDA could be a sign that WWE is getting even more aggressive with signing talents and not caring about contracts. However, it was also noted that no one would likely take action against WWE for contract tampering except for MLW and ROH.


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It's been 10 years since maybe the most shocking game in NFL history.
One word causes a combination of nostalgia, frustration, bewilderment and laughter between the 2008 Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots: Wildcat.
The Patriots, riding a 21-game regular-season winning streak, were 12.5-point favorites against the lowly 0-2 Dolphins, who were 1-15 the season before. But Miami had a trick just waiting to be unleashed.
Dolphins running backs Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams, sharing a backfield, ran a college offense to perfection and made a respected Patriots defense look silly in a 38-13 victory in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Sept. 21, 2008.
"We didn't have any idea that was coming," former Patriots linebacker and ESPN analyst Tedy Bruschi said. "I laugh at it now. But we were so pissed that day. I was hopping around. I didn't know what I was doing. It was a shock to the system."
With Brown in the shotgun at quarterback and Williams coming in motion toward him, it took just six plays to gain 118 yards and four touchdowns, and for the Wildcat craze to successfully move from the college game to the pros.
"That was probably my No. 1 or No. 2 favorite season ever. It felt like we revolutionized the NFL," Williams said. "There is an invisible wall between college football and the NFL. There may be some good reasons, but it seems like a lot of it is just tradition and habit. We exploited that."
Miami's Wildcat, which lasted for one wildly successful 2008 season before receding in 2009, was a new twist on the old-school, single-wing offense. It became the basis for several current NFL offensive trends, such as RPOs (run-pass options) and the read-option running attack.
ESPN spoke with several former Dolphins and Patriots from that game to relive the improbable day when it was released, and all that transpired before and after it.
The installation
The Dolphins hired Tony Sparano as head coach in 2008 following the disastrous 2007 campaign. Bill Parcells, the Dolphins' executive vice president of football operations, made an underrated hire to bring on former Arkansas offensive coordinator David Lee as quarterbacks coach. Lee ran the Wildcat at Arkansas with running backs Darren McFadden and Felix Jones.
The Dolphins, stuck in quarterback purgatory, signed Chad Pennington that offseason. But they hoped to build their offense around their two best offensive players: Brown and Williams.
Williams: "In training camp one day, Lee put it on the board. Most of us looked at each other and said, 'We're not doing this high school s---.'"
Brown: "When we put it in practice, it didn't work. It looked bad. Our defense was ragging us for the longest, like y'all need to throw this out, what is this?"
Former Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder: "It was gimmicky. We were like, 'Oh, this is cute.' We used to talk a lot of s--- when we stopped it in practice. Defensively, we were surprised that s--- worked as long as it did."
Former Dolphins defensive coordinator and current Jets head coach Todd Bowles: "Boy, we had some coaches who came up with some things. I was like, 'What is this?' at first. But we weren't putting the ball down the field very much, so it was a good gimmick for us to use at the time."
Brown: "We had it fully installed for a few weeks before they called it for the New England game. We were 0-2 going into New England coming off a 1-15 season; we didn't have anything to lose. What better time to pull out all the stops? My first thought is, 'I can't mess this up, because we're not going to get another opportunity.'"
The details and responsibilities
After an ugly 31-10 Week 2 loss at the Arizona Cardinals, Sparano called up Lee on the team plane home to discuss a plan to somehow beat the Patriots. They decided to put the Wildcat in that week.
Brown had a baseball background, so he volunteered to be the quarterback in the Wildcat after it was introduced. Williams was put in as the wing back. Pennington and another running back, Patrick Cobbs, played receiver. The offensive line was unbalanced and relied on strong zone-blocking to make it hard for defenders to figure out what was going on.
Former Patriots safety and current NBC analyst Rodney Harrison: "When you see a surprise element, we tend to overthink things instead of simplifying things. We got to panicking and fussing amongst each other and arguing and overthinking things. We were a good, attacking defense that dictated what offenses gave us. This offense had us on our heels and dictated what we did."
Williams: "We only had about five or six plays. We had a power, a counter, the sweep to me, a reverse, a reverse pass and Ronnie had a fake rollout counter pass. We practiced them every day for a half hour, even the trick plays. We got really good at it."
Bruschi: "You see that type of formation, I thought I had to attack it. But when I attacked the line of scrimmage, the offensive linemen were getting angles on me. It really did play mind games on me in terms of what parts of the formation were my responsibility. Any type of delay from a defense, you'll get beat every time."
Former Patriots defensive lineman Jarvis Green: "My job was to hit the RB as hard as I can. The biggest thing was not to be a hero. I had to make sure they didn't get outside the defensive ends because that makes the play more dangerous."
Williams: "It wasn't a matter of play design as much as it was different. The key to beating the Patriots is to confuse them. Their strong suit is their preparation. They scout so well. They have such a good idea of what the other team is going to do. I remember them being frustrated on the sidelines because they didn't know what to do."
The first Wildcat play came on second-and-goal late in the first quarter of a scoreless game. Brown took the shotgun snap, faked the sweep handoff to Williams and ran a power play directly into the end zone for an easy six points. The Patriots defenders all looked around at each other. Coach Bill Belichick was yelling into his headset. What was that?
Crowder: "As soon as they put it in against the Patriots, the whole defense jumped up and walked to the sideline. We knew how it looked against us and thought, 'These m-----f------ about to embarrass themselves.'"
Brown: "I remember their adjustments. When we first got into the formation, we saw the D-line sliding one way and the linebackers trying to realign them. It was unbalanced set, so you hear guys yelling, 'No, over here.' They kept changing up, but none of it worked. They couldn't make the right adjustment. We caught them off-guard. It was special because it was the Patriots, Bill Belichick, the rivalry and the masters of preparation."
Harrison: "It was one of those nights where I couldn't sleep. I was always haunted by Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams."
And he can pass ...
Harrison realized what was going on halfway through the game and wanted the defense to calm down. He reminded his New England teammates that they had a defensive check to revert to when chaos happened.
But everything went out of the window midway through the third quarter when Brown took a Wildcat snap and Patriots were there to stop him -- until he lifted his left arm to throw a touchdown to streaking tight end Anthony Fasano to put Miami ahead 28-6.
Bruschi: "Once we got down that it's Ronnie Brown back there at QB, we thought we may have it. Then all of a sudden he's throwing the ball. Then he's left-handed. We didn't know what was going on. I remember Fasano punching the ball after the TD in celebration. And that's when I knew they got us from everywhere. Our heads were spinning that day."
Brown: "For me, it was a great opportunity to play QB. I was pumped. I had never played QB on any real level. It was pretty cool. Me being left-handed, I think, caught people off guard. I still remember rolling out the left and trying to make sure I didn't miss Fasano."
'The utmost frustration'
The final dagger came at the start of the fourth quarter, with the Patriots attempting a comeback -- if they could just get a stop. Pennington (17-of-20, 226 yards in the game) was dicing the defense up with his arm. Brown and Williams (finished with 211 combined rushing yards) were going wild on the ground.
Brown had one more big play left, a 62-yard touchdown right up the middle out of the Wildcat to put the Dolphins ahead 35-13. He broke a couple of tackles and took it to the house.
Green: "Ronnie Brown was a monster. He was such a strong runner. He was so good at the read-option. He was the most dangerous man. Strong legs, strong instincts and as we found out, he could throw."
Harrison: "That was the utmost frustration. We prided ourselves on being very prepared and being able to adapt to anything in the game. We were so surprised. We were confused. You saw the frustration on the sidelines. We were bumping and running into each other."
Dolphins radio analyst Joe Rose: "Bill Belichick has never been so fooled before. Belichick had never been so unprepared before. He couldn't make adjustments even at halftime. He couldn't stop all the options, especially with the motion guy added. Ronnie and Ricky were the two perfect guys to run it. I kept thinking, 'Oh my God, they're doing this to the best in the business.'"
Williams: "[Patriots defensive end Mike] Vrabel and Bruschi were pissed. On Ronnie's TD, I was running almost right next to him. Vrabel was coming at him, and I just threw at him low -- it was kind of a cheap shot, but it was legal -- I wanted any shot I could get at the Patriots. He got mad and he jumped on me or punched me. Later in the game, we were in our four-minute offense running the clock out. They tackled me after a couple-yard gain and a couple of the players stomped on me. And I remember having a big bruise on my shin from their frustration."
After the game, the Dolphins were the talk of the sports world. Nobody had made the Patriots look so unprepared for a game before. But nobody could have expected what the Dolphins had coming.
Rose: "We haven't had anything like that before or since. It was unbelievable. New England's fans walked out of the stadium in disbelief. The Patriots looked in disarray. But it was as much fun as I've had doing games in 15 years. Ronnie and Ricky, man, it was just awesome."
Belichick that night in his postgame news conference: "Well, there is not too much to say here. I thought that Miami played a real good football game. They did everything a lot better than we did. They outplayed us. They outcoached us. They certainly dominated on offense and defense. ... We've got a lot of work to do. I know we are better than that."
Crowder: "I remember we were in Foxborough leaving the game headed to the buses. I walked past a TV, Belichick had his presser on, and I remember he said, 'They got us. They did everything better than us.' I remember him saying something of the effect that we've got a lot of work to do and it felt was in slow motion. I remember him admitting -- Bill Belichick, the greatest coach of all time, saying he got outcoached. That should be some flattering stuff for Tony Sparano and David Lee. But I remembered thinking next time we played them would be different."
The Patriots went down to Miami nine weeks later and shut down the Wildcat. New England held the Dolphins to just 66 rushing yards -- only 27 came via Wildcat -- by bringing pressure off the edges and inverting its defensive players. The Patriots forced Miami to convert back into a traditional offense and won 48-28.
But otherwise, Miami was successful with the Wildcat. The Dolphins went 11-5, winning the AFC East. It's the last time the Dolphins won the division or in Foxborough. In 2009, the Dolphins drafted Pat White in the second round to run the QB version of the Wildcat, but it was not nearly as successful. Pennington, Brown and White all suffered severe injuries. The Dolphins went 7-9 and eventually they all split up.
But the impact and memories of that season live on.
Harrison: "You still see people use that. I think the RPO thing came from that -- using a QB inside of a RB to do that. People weren't afraid to use it as a surprise element in the NFL anymore. It would never survive in the NFL as a full-time offense. The Ravens ran a straight option play in the red zone with Lamar Jackson."
Williams: "I remember the running back room most from that year. With the Wildcat, there was four RBs on the field. We took a lot of pride in that being ours. We loved it."
Crowder: "They made chicken salad out of chicken crap. Coaches utilized the hell out of our best two players -- Ricky Williams, Ronnie Brown. I remember Tony Sparano, you would see the cockiness come over him. They were 100 percent, flat-out out-coaching people. It brought a little swag out of Tony that he didn't naturally have. He wasn't a crap-talker or arrogant, but it would come out when he talked about the Wildcat."


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Exhibition dates: 31 August – 14 December 2016
Pua kumbu are magnificent, intricately dyed, hand-loomed cotton ikat textiles once woven as religious objects par excellence by the Iban and the related Dayak peoples who produced them in Southeast Asia. They were said to be full of powerful spirits and designed to be extraordinarily beautiful to attract the attention of the gods and invite them to draw near to human ceremonies. Over decades, emeritus Tufts University engineering professor John Kreifeldt amassed a comprehensive collection of pua kumbu, sungkit wraps and kain kebat skirts from Sarawak and West Kalimantan, with examples from the 1800s to 1940. Kreifeldt is the primary lender and a collaborator on this exhibition at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts; other than a few textiles, most have never been displayed before in any museum.
Fieldwork anthropological essays by curator Susan Rodgers will accompany the exhibition. 'Woven Power' is Rodgers' fifth exhibition of Southeast Asian textiles at Cantor Art Gallery.
For more information, visit the website of the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, USA.


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2/1/21 | Seattle Times |
The personal unemployment claims data of at least 1.4 million Washingtonians may have been stolen in a hack of software used by the state auditor's office, raising fears of identity theft and fraud amid an already bleak pandemic downturn.
State Auditor Pat McCarthy said Monday the records — including Social Security numbers and banking information — were exposed during a December breach of Accellion, a software provider the auditor's office uses to transfer large computer files.
In a head-slapping irony, the compromised data had been collected as part of the auditor's investigations into how the state Employment Security Department (ESD) lost $600 million to fraudulent unemployment claims. (READ MORE: Auditor Hack)


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Once there was a young wombat named Benson who lived in a warm, comfortable wombat hole with his mother and his two aunts, Lillibet and Moss.
Aunt Moss was in the kitchen, boiling up a big pot of onion skins.
"Are you making soup, Aunt Moss?" Benson asked. If she was, he was pretty sure he didn't want any.
"No, I'm dyeing this possum fur that Nella's mother gave me," Aunt Moss said. "It's always falling out or getting caught on things, and she collects it for me."
"Why are you killing the possum fur?" Benson asked.
"Not killing it, dyeing it," Aunt Moss said. "I'm making it a different colour." She strained the onion skins out of the water, and then she put a big pile of possum fur into the water in the pot and pushed it down carefully with a stick. In a little while she pulled it out again and it was a nice yellow colour.
"I'm dyeing some of it yellow with these onion skins, and then I'll dye some of it in different reds and some of it brown and green with these gum leaves and banksia cones," Aunt Moss said. "Then I'm going to take it my friend Shelley, and she's going to spin it on her spinning wheel and make it into yarn, and then we're going to weave a wonderful story."
Benson said, "Did you say you were going to weave a story?" He thought Aunt Moss must have gotten distracted and forgotten what she was talking about. She did that sometimes, like when she forgot she was washing up and started filling up the kitchen with giant bubbles, or when she started hula-dancing right in the middle of ukulele practice.
"Yes, that's right," she said, "we're going to weave a story."
"You tell stories, or you read them, you don't weave them," Benson said kindly. He knew Aunt Moss was getting very old. Sometimes she got her plate and Aunt Lillibet's plate mixed up and ate two desserts by mistake.
Aunt Moss said, "There are lots of ways of telling stories. Bees tells stories just by dancing in the air."
"Bees?" said Benson. "I thought they were just buzzing around."
"Oh no, they're telling each other about where they've been, which flowers they've visited and how delicious the nectar is," Aunt Moss said. "Magpies tell stories by singing."
"Singing?" said Benson.
Aunt Moss nodded while she was stirring. "They sing to each other all the time and tell each other about how many beetles they're going to catch, or if somebody's seen a fox. They talk about their visitors, and who's moving in and who's getting married, all sorts of things."
It was funny to think of birds telling each other things, when he thought it was just noise. Benson thought about it. He said, "Nanna told me that a tree can tell you about the droughts and the fires and the floods it's been through if you look at the rings inside its trunk."
"That's right," said Aunt Moss. She carefully lifted the fur out of the pot and put in a big bowl to cool down. It was a lovely bright golden yellow. "Shelley and I are going to weave a story about the bush near her place, with all the plants and trees in greens and browns, and the wild-flowers in all their beautiful colours, and the animals that live there."
Benson thought about the bush, and he remembered the stories about the bushfires that Pascoe, the story-teller, had told him. He thought of the bright red flames in jagged leaping lines, and the wavy grey smoke hanging over everything. He said to Aunt Moss, "Do you think drawing could be a kind of story-telling?"
"Of course," said Aunt Moss. "I think all the best drawings tell a story."
Benson went and got the biggest piece of paper he could find, and all his coloured pencils. He drew trees and fire and wombats hiding underground, and bushes and trees and even the ground on fire, and echidnas and wallabies and koalas trying to get away, and smoke everywhere. He drew and drew until there wasn't one space left on the paper.
His mother came and looked at what he was drawing. She said, "That's the story of the bushfire, isn't it?" She could see red flames, and the orange sky covered in brown and grey smoke.
Benson nodded. "But that's not all the story," he said. He went and got another piece of paper and drew blue skies and black trees with fuzzy green around the bottom, coming to life again. He drew green grass growing again and hungry animals coming out to eat the grass, and wombats peeping out of their holes looking for something to eat. He drew lost animals like Roly, and sad animals with no homes, like the koalas. He drew ants and beetles and grasshoppers, and he drew lots of birds sitting in the black branches of the trees, looking down at the beetles and grasshoppers and thinking how delicious they looked.
"This is the next part of the story," he said.
"And then what happens next?" asked his mother.
"I'm not sure yet," Benson said. "I think I'll just keep drawing and see what happens."


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Mercedes Camper Van Review: The Airstream Interstate
When the world leader in vehicle engineering collaborates with a company seen as the gold standard in recreational trailers, good things will happen. This is exactly what happened when Airstream utilized the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter class van chassis to form the the ultimate Mercedes Camper Van. As a Class B, 24 foot motor coach, the Interstate has combined luxury, utility, quality and beauty into the recreational vehicle market.
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The Mercedes Sprinter chassis powers the Interstate effectively and efficiently. Its 3.0L diesel engine produces 188 hp and an incredible 325 ft/lbs. of torque. The power and torque produced are more than adequate for passing on the highway or climbing mountain roads. But despite its power, the Interstate can obtain 18 mpg on the highway. Compare the mileage figure to other motorhomes in its class and its efficiency becomes obvious.
Maneuverability is a key when choosing a recreational vehicle. When exploring the country, most want to travel the back roads and less congested areas. And with the Interstate, handling and maneuverability are what a person comes to expect from a Mercedes Camper Van. Despite its size, it is far easier to change lanes when passing or negotiating narrow and curving country roads. The heavy duty suspension provides a smooth ride with a minimal of bumping and jostling.
Mercedes Camper Van Designed by Airstream
Anyone entering an Airstream trailer recognizes its 80 year attention to detail, efficient use of space and the quality of materials to provide a top class, comfortable experience. The Interstate was created with those principles in mind.
With 11 different interior configurations, this Mercedes Camper Van comes standard with 4 captain chairs, a portable utility table, hot water heater, shower, toilet and an array of appliances. Seating fabrics are top quality and long lasting. The high gloss cabinetry and artificial stone countertop separate the Interstate from most recreational vehicles.
Seating can vary from 6 to 9 people, depending on the configuration. Power seats in the rear, expanding into a double bed, can be replaced with twin beds. Headroom throughout the Interstate is more than six feet. A Kenwood sound system and GPS navigational system come standard.
The Interstate is not limited to an RV park or commercial camp site. For those who are planning on more primitive surroundings, it comes with an LP generator that operates with the press of a button, immediately supplying the electrical needs of the vehicle, enough to operate the air conditioning, refrigerator and entertainment systems.
For storage of food, clothing and other camping necessities the Interstate provides 2 hidden rear storage compartments as standard equipment. A golf club storage area is available as an option.
For those who have experienced the comfort of the Airstream trailer but want to enjoy its amenities while traveling down the highway, this Mercedes Camper Van provides the best of both worlds. With the Airstream Interstate, the vacation begins when it pulls out of the driveway.


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With so much to protest these days, who will speak for the fish?
At 11 a.m. on a drizzly, overcast Wednesday morning, Jonah Blumstein, 27, and a choir of a half-dozen developmentally disabled adults whom he teaches at Clausen House in Oakland, Calif., sang for the salmon.
In front of Whole Foods Market in San Francisco, at the corner of California and Franklin streets in Pacific Heights, Blumstein strummed along on the guitar, serenading the passing rivers of traffic, migrating FedEx trucks and BMWs. He started out with a solo number called "Real Color," a folk protest song he'd written just last week for this occasion:
"Don't try to fool us with your pink-colored dye.
Don't try to sell us, what you won't buy.
Don't try to fool us with your genes modified.
True color comes from the inside."
A gigantic 12-foot-long salmon, made out of silver insulation, bobbed along to the tune, under the semi-control of the stilt-walker wearing it. A posse of about 15 other protesters lined the sidewalk, waving green and aqua banners suggesting "Think twice about eating farmed salmon" and, more directly -- "Farmed salmon: Don't you think it's kind of gross?"
The true color of wild salmon in the ocean -- ranging from pink to red -- comes from the fish's carnivorous diet of krill and shrimp. But since salmon farmers keep costs down by feeding their stock cheaper fish meal, producing salmon with grayish flesh, some grocery stores have been known to sell dyed fish to fit consumer expectations of what salmon should look like.
The iniquitousness of dying farmed salmon to make it look more palatable on the plate is just one of the charges being leveled at the aquaculture industry by the protesters, who pass out leaflets to shoppers and drivers with this headline: "Farmed salmon are fed antibiotics, colorants and pesticides. Bon appetit."
But the fishmongers at Whole Foods, the kind of grocery store where the toilet paper is 100-percent recycled and soy protein powder is sold by the coffee can, aren't taking these rhetorical barbs lying down. They had their own leaflet handy to pass out to any customers who now aren't sure what to make of the pink salmon glistening seductively behind the fish counter: $14.99 a pound for the wild king salmon fillet, $8.99 a pound for the farmed "Black Pearl/Natural Choice" salmon.
The flier brags about the store's wild-caught salmon, "certified by the Marine Stewardship Council," but adds that "to meet the ever-increasing demand for it, in addition to wild varieties, we also carry farm-raised salmon from producers who are committed to making advances in technology and minimizing environmental impact." Then, it assures shoppers that the farmed salmon sold here is chemical-, antibiotic- and dye-free.
"Nobody wants to overfish the oceans so our kids have no fish to eat," says John Dugery, the grocery store's seafood team leader, who argues that Whole Foods is part of the solution to finding "sustainable" sources of fish, by offering farmed fish from the more environmentally sensitive fish farms. He shows off a slab of farmed salmon: "That stuff is, like, cutting edge." As for the protesters: "They target us because they know our customers are environmentally conscious."
Might the lady in the giant-salmon costume and the folksinger with his tale of pink-dye woe be better off making the case against farmed salmon in front of some big-box retailer where lower-grade, antibiotic-stoked, dyed salmon, dumped on the market from Chile, is sold for cut-rate prices?
Kate Dugas, consumer campaign coordinator for Living Oceans Society, one of the 10 organizations making up the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, which organized the protest outside, disagrees. She says that her organization has been trying to work with Whole Foods for a year, with no luck, urging them to pressure their suppliers to stop using open-net pens for salmon farming.
One of the environmentalists' most damning charges against salmon farmers is that by raising the large, carnivorous fish in close quarters, unfiltered, untreated salmon excrement pollutes the surrounding ocean water, destroying valuable coastal habitat for other fish and sea creatures.
"They're so confined that they're essentially stewing in their own feces," says Don Coleman, 42, from Berkeley, Calif., a volunteer from the nonprofit Friends of the River. Another good protest tactic: grossing out the would-be fish-buyer.
Activists charge that the close proximity of the farmed salmon to each other in their net pens also promotes disease: "Like little kids in a kindergarten, in such close quarters, if one of them gets sick they all do," says Dugas. She says that in British Columbia, wild salmon migrating by the salmon farms have become infected with sea lice, thus threatening the wild stock, which fishermen rely on. During storms, some of the farmed Atlantic salmon have also been known to escape from their pens, and interbreed with other species of Pacific salmon, a charge the aquaculture industry claims is overblown.
The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, a coalition of 10 environmental, fishing-industry and native groups in British Columbia, organized the protest at Whole Foods, as well as similar actions in Los Angeles, Seattle and Vancouver at Whole Foods and Safeway stores there, as part of its "Farmed and Dangerous" campaign, which also included a recent full-page ad in the New York Times. Dugas explains that the Canadian campaigners are bringing their reform-salmon-farming message to the U.S. because 80 percent of the fish farmed in British Columbia is exported to this country, and much of that is sold to consumers in Washington, Oregon and California.
But among the protesters are a few characters who you wouldn't expect to find at this sort of placard-waving, San Francisco protest affair, revealing another side of the issue: fishermen who feel that they can't compete with fish farmers, and want their wild market protected.
Mike McCorkle, a commercial fisherman from Santa Barbara, Calif., who says that he's been fishing for salmon, shrimp and halibut there for 49 years, attended the protest because farmed salmon has been undercutting his catch. It's not often that you find fishermen, who are often under attack from environmental groups for alleged over-fishing, finding common cause with the would-be saviors of the oceans.
Five years ago, the market price McCorkle used to get for the salmon he caught was around $3 a pound. But since then it's fallen by half to $1.50, and at times even as low as a dollar. "At half of the market price, we can't make a living. California fisherman can't compete," he says.
But he thinks that the word about farmed salmon is getting out, since "this year the prices were a little better."


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In this article:
- We love nostalgia
- It's not about going backwards, it's about going forward
- An allegory for hope
Aren't we tired of Star Wars yet? It's been around for over 40 years. The franchise is older than most of its fans.
Its reach is deep. I'll soon watch the latest movie in my home while sitting in my Star Wars-themed PJs, drinking milk out of my 35-year old Han Solo collector's cup and trying not to notice the Santa-hatted Darth Vader ornament I forgot to put up with the rest of the Christmas decorations.
You might think I've had enough, right?
Why do we love Star Wars?
Star Wars points out there are gifts and freeing powers within us. Our development is not about fixing our broken selves. Development is liberation and power over brokenness.
Disney doesn't think so. They continue to push out Star Wars content because sci-fi fantasy patrons like you and me continue to consume it. And, despite the complete cultural saturation and some disappointing movies, we continue our entertaining escapes to a galaxy far, far away.
That nostalgic feeling
With each new movie or show, many of us hope to see the franchise redeemed to its former state. We hope to see the storylines capture our creative flights of fancy as they once did--most likely when we were children. Our longing for actualized nostalgia keeps us buying tickets and merchandise.
The latest trilogy of movies (that is, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker) made sure we knew, though, that re-establishing a line to the past was not, in fact, the way forward. These movies affectionately, though sometimes abruptly, put the past to rest.
Really, they sealed off as much of the past as they could. Our favorite old characters died. Some characters, like Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi, never came out of retirement. Perhaps, most poignantly, the hopes of restoring the galaxy to our nostalgic expectations blew apart when lightning burned a sacred Jedi tree.
In a meaningful scene in The Last Jedi, ancient Jedi Master Yoda appears to Luke Skywalker as Luke debates what needs to happen to the Jedi order. Luke tells Yoda that he's going to "burn it all down." Yoda calls his bluff and summons lightning to strike a nearby sacred tree that houses several sacred Jedi texts. The power of the scene suggests there is no going back to how things were. We won't move forward by restoring the past.
Yoda used The Force to summon the tree-burning lightning. The Force is one of the aspects of the Star Wars universe that excites many of us. The Force is a mysterious power. It exists in the world around our characters. But it also exists as a power within the characters. This power provides capabilities we otherwise thought impossible. We love that idea--especially when many of us struggle with feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy.
Luke felt inadequate. In these later movies, his conflict centers on his disappointment in not having been able to restore the past. While he once was able to restore his father to his "true" former identity, Luke felt he failed at restoring the Jedi order. In his frustration, Luke quit, retreating to a hidden world containing historical texts of the Jedi order. Luke was near to the past and not participating in the future. He seemingly decided to fix the past or blow it away. Instead, Yoda erased Luke's decision with a lightning strike, setting Luke free to become the Jedi of the future.
Luke demonstrates a religious devotion to the Jedi order. Many of us harbor feelings towards religion similar to Luke's feelings towards his order. His conflict is the same conflict overshadowing our own feelings about faith. We long for restoration.
It's about going re-creation
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
But the Christian story is not one of restoration. The Christian story points towards re-creation, newness and redemption. We are told that all who are in Christ are a new creation -- the old has gone, the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17).Luke longed to erase the mistakes of the past. In the scene of the burning tree, Luke and Yoda hold a revealing conversation about Luke's mistakes. Yoda points out that mistakes are valuable lessons -- both for Luke and for those who will come after him. Yoda suggests the best state of existence is not a restoration of what once was, but rather, a historically-informed movement towards what could be.
Star Wars reminds us that human movement is not simply about fixing our broken selves. Instead, development is about utilizing our gifts and freeing the power within us. As spiritual people, we recognize the Divine nature of the power within us. So our religion is not merely a cover for our brokenness. It is a passage for getting in touch with the power that propels us forward in re-creation. The message communicates the power within that liberates us from our brokenness.
A New Hope
While Yoda and Luke watched the sacred tree burn, Yoda gives his old student one last lesson: "We are what they grow beyond--that is the true burden of all masters." It's a reminder the past is not perfect. It's also a message of hope. And hope drives much of what we find truly lovable in the Star Wars story: there's hope that friendship, goodness, community and perseverance are not merely altruism. They overcome selfishness, divisiveness, greed and hate. Perhaps what really appeals to us in the Star Wars story is that love triumphs, even against tall odds.
Star Wars provides us an anecdote of hope. For those of us who hold an expectation that love will, in the end, triumph over all the brokenness of the world, Star Wars continues to feed our creative expectations and reminds us to keep looking ahead.
Rev. Ryan Dunn is a Minister of Online Engagement for United Methodist Communications. He saw the original Star Wars in theaters as a toddler and still drinks from his commemorative Jabba the Hutt glass he got with a Happy Meal in 1983.


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Makings of a KingsIsle Commercial Part III
In my last blog, I wrote about the live action aspect we had in our Wizard101 Tournament commercial. One of the key components to making that spot was the actual actors. We were extremely fortunate to work with four very talented young actors. All of them were part time aspiring actors who were also attending school full time. I was amazed at how professional and hardworking each of them was and felt honored to work with them on this commercial. Each of them wrote a short bit on their experience being in the Wizard101 commercial. I hope you enjoy their perspectives.
Hey everyone my name is Trent aka The Myth Wizard. When I first received the call to go on the audition for this commercial I was ecstatic, because I knew that there was a chance that I would get to be a part of the insanely awesome world that is Wizard101. After a few days of not hearing anything I thought that I didn't get the part, but while I was sitting in English class half asleep, trying to study, my phone started to vibrate. I asked to leave the room to answer it, and when I picked it up I heard some of the best news of my life! I was going to be a part of this commercial. Immediately after school I went home and started studying, but I wasn't studying for school… I was studying Wizard101. When the day finally came to go to the set, I have to admit, I was a little bit nervous. I walked in not knowing what to expect, but as soon as I met Bianca, Natalie, Tino, and the crew I felt like I was part of a Wizard101 family. Shooting was amazing, I was thrilled that I would be getting to play the Myth Wizard who I personally think is the coolest, but hey that's just my opinion, and we got to shoot on the coolest sets I've ever been to.
After shooting was done I couldn't wait to see the commercial, because I knew that it was going to be special. When the day finally came to see it after weeks of waiting I could barely sleep. Then when I saw it I was awestruck. It was amazing, and I can't thank everyone that worked on it enough for letting me be part of this incredible commercial. And I hope that you guys like it as much as I do.
Hello everyone my name is Tino and I was the Death Wizard in the commercial (a.k.a. Wolf DeathBlade). When I found out I got to be a part of this commercial I honestly had no clue what this would be like, but as soon as I stepped on the set and got filled in on what the dream was I was instantly overjoyed. As soon we out on our gear and began to film I could feel the magic come to life.
Being the Death Wizard is definitely a privilege since I had always thought that they were the coolest and baddest of them all. And I believe that the film crew did an amazing job making it look that way to. From viewing the final commercial I was so impressed and ecstatic at the turnout. I can't wait to finally start playing the game and maybe I'll see some of you at the Tournaments!
Hi guys! My name is Natalie and I am the Ice Wizard in this commercial. Being part of Wizard101 was such a great experience. I met so many fantastic people while preparing for and making this commercial and I had a blast on set. KingsIsle even pulled a prank on us while filming! In the scene where we were walking down the hallway, 2 pranksters jumped out and scared us, which made Bianca scream! It was unbelievably funny when we watched it. Before the filming, I wasn't really sure what to expect. All I knew was that I was ecstatic about getting the part and that I was really lucky. The filming went great and we knew that the commercial was going to be epic, so I couldn't wait to see it. The first time I saw the commercial on tv, I was so excited! I noticed something that I didn't see when I watched it on youtube, my wand lit up with frost! How cool is that?! That's one of many reasons why I personally think that Ice Wizards are "cooler" than others. Anyway, thank you guys so much for watching and commenting about the commercial. You're the best and I can't wait to see all of you at the tournament! Good luck!
Hey guys! My name is Bianca and I play the fire Wizard in the new Wizards101 commercial.
I was so excited to be chosen for this part; especially after finding out that my character gets the final shot! On the first day of filming I was shocked by how our modern outfits so closely resembled our characters wardrobe, and to my surprise I got to do my own nails. It was amazing to see how detailed the process actually was and when I saw the final product I was thrilled! Seeing all of our hard work come together was astonishing. But it is weird watching your favorite show then having your face pop up on the screen. I am blessed to have had this experience and I look forward to meeting fellow Wizards.
67 CommentsLeave a Comment
beana / Jan 15 2014 2:50 pm
thank all of you for making wizard101! 😉
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 3:23 pm
i love wiz and i love kingsisle!
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 4:26 pm
Yes, thank all of KingIsle's Crew for making these awesome games. Can't wait till the next one!
Zach / Jan 15 2014 3:10 pm
nice actually pretty cool commercial, and to wolf death blade nice name i am wolf deathbreeze a death wizard and i love acting so yea
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 3:39 pm
cool I wish I was on it
maria / Jan 15 2014 4:04 pm
oh my gosh that would be a dream come true! Those guys are lucky to get to be in such a cool commercial!
serina / Jan 15 2014 4:24 pm
I love wizard101 and pirate101.
ally / Jan 15 2014 4:32 pm
thank you for making w101, its awesome 🙂
ortiz / Jan 16 2014 2:53 pm
i love love love wz101 thank you so so much
Lucas / Jan 15 2014 4:41 pm
I love this game!!!
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 4:42 pm
Is there a link to the commercial?
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 4:54 pm
It would be nice if you used real wizard101 players instead of actors
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 5:03 pm
w101 rox!!!!
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 5:08 pm
i love the game
I can't wait for another one
please make another game just like this and pirate101
Arda Cobanoglu / Jan 15 2014 5:20 pm
wizard101 is the best game ever and i would like it if wiz were to make wizard101 even better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
henry vu / Jan 15 2014 5:21 pm
omg, i knew it was tino, should've known it was him when i knew he was making commercials and his hair
JasonTheOnlineGamer / Jan 15 2014 5:38 pm
This is great! Getting to meet new people is in fact very exciting.. and to get to meet Kingsisle's staff and faculty… just awesome. 😀
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 6:00 pm
im level 92 I could be in the commercials
Britt / Jan 15 2014 6:45 pm
I love the commercial you guys did like this, you should totally do more like this; and adding more wizard101 scenes aside from just battling would be pretty awesome as well.
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 7:08 pm
i love wizard 101
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 7:25 pm
OMG my name is Natalie too! X high fives Natalie x Wait, I wasn't talking about high fiving myself, i was talking about the actor, but i am not an ice wizard, I am a fire wizard. X high fives Bianca x
X high fives Tino and Trent x Just wondering, but how long did it take to make this commercial?
Fred Howard / Jan 17 2014 2:34 pm
About three months start to finish. However, the live commercial shoot portion was over two days. First day was getting the actors wardrobe fitted and the second day was the actual live action shoot.
Fred Howard
tylerE / Jan 15 2014 7:44 pm
I don't get how they make this game so good. It's like almost immposible too make a game this good. 🙂
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 7:48 pm
wow no balance, storm, life 😦
morgrim deathsword yeah buddy / Jan 15 2014 8:15 pm
awesome commercial
you guys did great
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 8:15 pm
I love the game. Megan red theif.
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 8:42 pm
i love w101 because its like the best game i ever had 😀
2swag4u / Jan 15 2014 9:25 pm
this is my favorite game and i love the crew
Wadih Wisam / Jan 15 2014 9:56 pm
cool wizard101 cool
Juliet Violette / Jan 15 2014 10:10 pm
Natalie, you got the best! I love my ice wizard Erin so much. I picture my wizards to be about ten years old, but you guys really pulled it off. Beautiful commercial!
tylerE / Jan 16 2014 7:50 pm
what level are you?
Anita Dmochowski / Jan 15 2014 10:31 pm
i wish i could be on that commercial. I am Bailey Lifeflower and a life wizard. i also like pirate101 but wizard101 is my favorite. my only comment is that being a nonmember has a lot of disadvantages.
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 10:42 pm
hahahaha i never notice the wizards had names!! so when i saw the death wizard guy had the same name of the first wizard i ever made who is now Wolf DeathBlade level 90 Myth (yeah MYTH) wizard!!
Anonymous / Jan 15 2014 10:42 pm
My favorite has always been the life wizard , not much attack so you must think your way through the spiral .
I noted there is no comment from anyone playing the Life Wizard In the commercial , was it space limits ?
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 12:54 am
very exciting game i wan to go to inside it woooooooooooooow
themaker55 / Jan 16 2014 6:30 am
Thanks for creating Wizard101 I've seen that commercial to!
Ashley C. / Jan 16 2014 6:43 am
God im so happy they made this game it so fun! 😀
jase / Jan 16 2014 6:45 am
I love wizard 101 and hope you all have a good year!!
Justin Shadowblood / Jan 16 2014 6:47 am
who doesn't like wizard 101 it the best game of the year and the highlight of my year
alexcrowband / Jan 16 2014 10:30 am
i love wizard101 and pirate101 and kingsisle you are the best 😀
Adrian Titan / Jan 16 2014 11:48 am
You Guys Rocks For real ya,wizard101 is the best think ya could ever make Thx kingsisle! all of you make a lot of people get out of touble kids can learn a lot of stop like be a team with other kids like have a family reunion and play this cute game ya call it Wizard101 😀 and the Comercial is awesome thx Guys And Ladys 😀
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 3:07 pm
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 3:24 pm
wish I could do a commercial so cool how they use real live people love this game
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 4:17 pm
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 4:40 pm
Great Commercial I personally loved it! (besides being no balance but no biggy) 😀
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 6:30 pm
a wizard101 movie would be awesome!
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 6:38 pm
Love Wizard101, love the commercial, and hoping to see a new kingIsle game like perhaps, Knights101, this is the Wizard101 lover Kevin TitanHunter!
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 6:39 pm
For some reason Wolf DeathBlade I think, idk but I think I seen you on wizard101
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 6:57 pm
its awesome thanks for making wizard101
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 7:22 pm
guys i love the game you guys are the best it is a good game for people keep it up!
tylerE / Jan 16 2014 7:51 pm
usually commercials are stupid and boring but this one is awesome!!!:D
Anonymous / Jan 16 2014 10:02 pm
i love wiz 101\"
alisha / Jan 16 2014 11:16 pm
i love the games you guys made w101 and p101
Anonymous / Jan 17 2014 6:41 am
Kingsisle rocks 😀 wizard101 is so awsome, i'm a lvl 70 life wizard 😀
JacobDragonStone / Jan 17 2014 9:17 am
i wish I could be in that commercial I would scream if I was part of a wizard101 commercial


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New Rules
Kate Miller has it all; a glittering career, a wonderful home life and a promotion in the bag. She knows the rules for success, and nothing will stop her from getting to where she wants to be.
Ellie Stephens, on the other hand, can't catch a break; she's trapped in a vicious circle of dead-end jobs and red-flag relationships until she's paired with Kate in their company's brand-new mentoring scheme.
Ellie just can't seem to get to grips with Kate's ruthless recipe for success no matter how hard she tries, leaving her wondering if she's the problem. Two new men in her life, affable-but-mysterious Freddie and Kate's drop-dead gorgeous ex Liam try to help her muddle through and figure out how to get ahead.
Meanwhile, Kate's perfect life is unravelling and where once everything she touched turned to gold, it's suddenly falling apart. Her work nemesis is throwing obstacles in her way at every turn, her home life is in tatters and her first love is suddenly back in her life. Kate is more confused than ever;
is it time to break the rules?
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My thoughts:
Kate Miller is a workaholic. She has a beautiful house, handsome husband, two wonderful children and a job where she has to prove herself every single day. Just because she is a woman. Lily Hayden perfectly captures the double standards all too familar to working women. Worrying that if you stay too long at home during your maternity leave, your clients will forget you and you will have to start winning them from the scratch. Do lots of overtime working hard to finish a project and people judge you for not being a good mother and wife. Well, Kate is a fighter and she has a set of rules that have helped her to get on in life. Having said this, she might be losing sight of something very important – personal relationships.
Ellie Stephens is smart and creative, but perhaps a bit disorganised and lacking focus Kate has in abundance. She has an on and off-relationship with Josh who clearly doesn't respect her at all. At work, she is given a series of mindless tasks and completely overlooked otherwise.
When an important client would like to see how inclusive and socially responsible Kate and Ellie's company is, Kate and her Garth (her main competitor for an upcoming promotion) come up with a mentoring scheme for junior staff. While Garth has his pick of the brightest and most promising, Kate is stuck with Ellie.
I found both protagonists relatable. Yes, Kate comes across as very unlikeable and manipulative at times. Some of the things she said to Ellie and about Ellie were appalling. But then she goes through a personal crisis and realises how wrong her behaviour was. My heart was going to her when she was trying to juggle so many things and failing on all fronts with nobody to turn to for help. Both Kate and Ellie go through a lot of development. Ellie understands she doesn't need to change herself or conform to other people's ideas to be liked or respected. She has dignity, integrity and friends who care for her.
There are quite a few secondary characters (Kate's husband, Ellie's flatmates, an important client, Ellie's ex and her new love interest), but the writing is very focused and they all serve to reveal something about the protagonists and move the plot forward.
I also loved the story being set in London. One of Ellie's most important chance meetings happens on the Tube, while she is busy complaining about her train delay, praying she can still get to work on time.
The story kept my attention all way through and I found many parts of it very realistic. It is classified as chick-lit (the protagonist finds out more about herself, grows and eventually gets her Mr Right), but there are also some elements, mainly related to Kate's story, which take it beyond the classic parameters of the genre. At any rate, it is entertaining, easy to read and has a happy ending.
I really enjoyed New Rules and now will be looking forward to reading more books by Lily Hayden.
Thank you to Rachel and Lily Hayden for the review copy provided in exchange for an honest and unbiased opinion.
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Lily Hayden writes chick lit with a kick.
Modern day women want modern day heroines and Lily's characters want sizzling romance, rewarding careers and equal partnerships, but like all of us, they face many challenges and it isn't always easy.
A mother to four children, Lily graduated with a degree in Business in her hometown in South Wales and enjoyed a successful career in Financial Services before fulfilling a lifelong ambition to write books.
Her debut novel Butterflies, a heartwarming alternative to the traditional boy-meets-girl story, was released in 2018, reaching readers all over the world and she is the author of five books, including a Young Adult Dystopian novel Project Terra under the alias SJ Woods (because who doesn't love a bit of action and defeating bad guys every now and again).
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The end of the year before the beginning of the next one is always a period of mixed emotions for me.
I am always pretty happy that I am around to reflect on the past year and to anticipate the year ahead.
On the other hand, there are some years that I wish would stick around just a little bit longer.
This year is one of those years.
Yes, for those who define their life by the political events that occur across this country every single day I admit there are many of you who are only to happy to see the end of 2017.
For a long time, I have chosen not to let politics to any longer calibrate the state of my mental health – for good or bad.
I figured that after nearly 35 years of allowing it to do so that I earned the right to let somebody else carry the baggage and burden of every political event of the day defining the mood of their life.
2017 was, by all measures, a pretty remarkable year.
As a family, we had some fantastic experiences, adventures and successes.
Both son and daughter continued their journey towards adulthood in fashion that suits both of them, their personality and demeanor.
Our dog, while still not liking anybody who doesn't live inside our house, has grown more plump and anchored to our daily lives.
And, the parents to our children are beginning to think more and more about what life will look like when they decide our services are no longer needed in their lives.
Spare Key and the Team that leads it, both the staff and the Board of Directors, experienced an amazing year as we celebrated the organizations 20th Anniversary. At our last Board Meeting we began preparing for the opportunities, and challenges, for the next 20 years of helping families "Bounce and not Break."
I gained the privilege of volunteering with the Naval Sea Cadets program and do what I can to support the organization and yet stay out of the way of my own Sea Cadet who has blossomed and flourished in this wonderful program for young men and women.
I also have been rewarded with a year-end Christmas Gift from my wife to enjoy one of the last evenings of 2017 with my daughter doing one of the things we enjoy most – cooking – at Kitchen Window to bring 2017 to a close.
And, after 40 years of not having a tooth in my upper right-hand side of my mouth I finally had a bridge implanted.
Life is perfectly imperfect.
Mary-Helen's car isn't working. The dishwasher crashed yesterday. And, the downstairs window has a leak that lets the cold air in because of the son and his friends using it as an escape hatch to protect themselves from our vicious dachshund/yellow labl/corgi mix dog upstairs.
I didn't get in the shape I wanted to get in for 2017. I had peaks and valleys. Fits and starts. And, there are days when I feel closer to 64 than 54.
We didn't win the lottery. The Packers had a woeful year. Some good people I know left this world before their time. My son likes the music of Hall and Oates.
I learned long ago that life isn't what takes place on Facebook.
It's what goes on inside the four walls of your life.
Whether that's your home. Your office. Or, inside your head.
You are only so happy and contented as you allow yourself to be.
There are, of course, limits to this thinking.
If you are poor, hungry, homeless, oppressed, alone, sick and without hope there is little that words of wisdom or motivational quotes will do to change your station in life.
Which is why after a great deal of thought I have decided to change my focus on this blog.
April 2015 was my first post on Mischellaneous.
Since then I have written and published 153 blog posts.
Those posts have ranged from posts about world events, politics, people, my life, my children, our dog and a host of public policy issues.
Yet, as 2017 has inched closer to its end I have realized my need to refocus my thoughts and energy about the world around me.
I'm weary and worn out writing about politics and the people in it.
I'm tired and disillusioned writing about what's wrong in the world. It brings me no hope or confidence in a better world ahead.
So, 2018 will be different. I intend to focus my time and effort on writing about people who are making a positive difference in the world. People you know about, and people you don't know about.
I'm going to write about the things people are doing to help those who are poor, hungry, homeless, oppressed, alone, sick and without hope.
I'm going to focus on what you, and I, can do to make the world a better place.
And, I want your help, too.
Perhaps you are one of those people. Perhaps you know of someone, or an organization or group, that is making a difference out there in big – and small – ways.
Let me help be a small part of bringing attention to what is being done to make this world we all inhabit something better for all of us.
You can email me at email@example.com if you have a suggestion or an idea about who or what should be shared with others and how they can be a part of making a positive difference in the world.
We all live on the same planet until we are gone from it.
The world we are told about, far too often, is one that sounds like it is falling apart.
I still believe the world we live in is a better world today than it has ever been.
Not for everyone. But for a lot of us.
For those of us that it isn't I want 2018 to be the year that I do something more than talk about them.
I want to share stories of those who are doing something to make their life as good as it is for me, and you and others who have been fortunate to be able to count our blessings on more than one hand.
I want to give concrete pathways for all of us to be the difference we want to be in the world.
I hope you will help me.


text: I read, "Surely God is my help;the Lord is the one who sustains me.Let evil recoil on those who slander me;in your faithfulness destroy them," Psalm 54:4-5. Wait.Not that last part, God. Not destroy.Redeem my enemy and me. Swallow our strife. Open blind eyes.Like the centurion, who saw Jesus and believed,while at his post,doing business.… Continue reading Seeing


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More happiness arrived Tuesday in the form of the Fall issue of Modern Patchwork magazine. A hexagon pillow, designed by little 'ole me, was selected for publication! I couldn't be more excited about it! Gosh, you can even buy this magazine at Barnes and Noble, and JoAnn Fabrics!
While my piece isn't on the cover, you can see it in this online link. And, here's the page in the magazine... my pillow on a hot pink butterfly chair. I like it!
For my personal styled photos, I chose an aqua chair.
|Hexagon Pillow, 15" X 15"
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Modern Patchwork has graciously provided an extra copy for me to giveaway. This giveaway is open internationally and a winner will be chosen Saturday evening.
Just comment to let me know...
This giveaway is closed. Linda


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when i use cmlmt library, an error appears after a while, which reads "G0094: argument out of range". i dont know the reason to this error, and i wonder how i can solve it.
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The error message should also tell you which file the error occurred in and on what line. If you provide that information, it will be easier for us to help you out. Also, what code is on that line.
when i run the program, error returns as follows:
------\src\cmlmt.src(1655) : error G0094 : Argument out of range
------Currently active call: cmlmt [1655] d:\download\aptech gauss\gauss10\src\cmlmt.src
------Stack trace:
------cmlmt called from D:\gauss10\[email protected]\msckls, line 45
line1655 of cmlmt.src is:
------dv = cdftci(0.5*c1.Alpha,out1.NumObs-pvLength(out1.par)).*se;
line 45 of my program "msckls" is:
------call cmlmtprt(cmlmt(&mscklslnl,p0,d0,c0));
i dont know how to modify my program, and thanks for your precious advise


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Seward County man killed in collision with train
Published: Jun. 22, 2022 at 12:20 PM CDT|Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 1:56 PM CDT
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A 38-year-old man was killed in a collision with a train Tuesday evening, according to the Saline County Sheriff's Office.
The crash happened in rural Friend around 5:25 p.m.
The investigation revealed that Aaron Rathje was in a 2017 Ford F-150 pickup and entered the railroad crossing and was struck by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train.
Rathje, of rural Seward, was found deceased at the scene. The incident is being investigated by the Saline County Sheriff's Office.
Rathje is survived by his wife, Alicia, two sons, Arthur (3) and Alvin (1). Rathje worked at Blue River Ag in Beaver Crossing.
Copyright 2022 KOLN. All rights reserved.


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Whoop! Whoop! Yes it's a new author joining #TeamOrenda and I could not be more excited! Paul Cleave is an award winning New Zealand writer with an incredible track record and now he's joining the best book team there is! Paul's first outing with Orenda Books will be with his highly acclaimed book, The Quiet People. Let's take a look at what it's about:
Suspicion is cast on two successful crime writers, when their seven-year-old son goes missing. Are they trying to show that they can commit the perfect crime? A memserisingly twisty, dark thriller from number-one bestselling author Paul Cleave…
'A cinematic, raging, rollercoaster of a plot with a wry humour … The Quiet People is wildly entertaining and will keep you guessing right to the end' New Zealand Herald
'A superb novel from a champion storyteller' Crime Watch
'Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end. Do yourself a favour and check him out' Simon Kernick
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful New Zealand crime writers, happily married and topping bestseller lists worldwide. They have been on the promotional circuit for years, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.
So when their challenging seven-year-old son Zach disappears, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time…
Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime?
Electrifying, taut and immaculately plotted, The Quiet People is a chilling, tantalisingly twisty thriller that will keep you gripped and guessing to the last explosive page.
Sounds completely delicious, doesn't it? If you think I'm excited about this book, look at what others have had to say about Paul's writing!
Praise for Paul Cleave
'Tense, thrilling, touching. Paul Cleave is very good indeed' John Connolly
'Compelling, dark, and perfectly paced, New Zealand writer Cleave's psychological thriller explores the evil lurking in us all, working relentless magic until the very last page' Booklist
'Relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted and shot through with a vein of humour that's as dark as hell' Mark Billingham
'Uses words as lethal weapons' New York Times
'An intense adrenaline rush from start to finish' S J Watson
'A riveting and all too realistic thriller' Tess Gerritsen
"A gripping thriller …I couldn't put it down' Meg Gardiner
'This very clever novel did my head in time and again' Michael Robotham
'Cleave's whirligig plot mesmerises' People
'This thriller is one to remember' New York Journal of Books 'On almost every page, this outstanding psychological thriller forces the reader to reconsider what is real' Publishers Weekly – STARRED REVIEW
The e-book is out on 25th September and the paperback in November. Pre-orders are open.
Paul is an award winning author who often divides his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where most of his novels are set, and Europe. He's won the New Zealand Ngaio Marsh Award three times, the Saint-Maur book festival's crime novel of the year award in France, and has been shortlisted for the Edgar and the Barry in the US and the Ned Kelly in Australia. His books have been translated into over twenty languages. He's thrown his Frisbee in over forty countries, plays tennis badly, golf even worse, and has two cats – which is often two too many. You can find Paul on Twitter @PaulCleave, and his website is here: paulcleave.com.


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Overuse injuries in basketball: A dribble of sprains and pains
by Tumelo Lethule
Basketball has become one of the most popular sports in the world and has given us the pleasure of gushing over NBA stars such as O'neal, James, Curry and of course, the legendary Jordan. As a non-contact sport, basketball remained one of the safest sports ever played. However, as the sport seems to increase its popularity status; so did the injuries associated with the sport. Injuries most common to basketball are ankle sprains, knee injuries, lower back pains, facial and finger injuries as well as anterior cruciate ligament injuries.
In comparison with contact and other non-contact sports, basketball has been classified as one of the sports with a higher injury risk of injury and injury incidence [2]. Because basketball is a sport that requires speed, strength and power to accomplish movements such as rebounds and jump-shots, one can presume that players are likely to suffer some injuries when performing these highly dynamic movements [2].
Weiss, KJ et. al [1] used the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Questionnaire (OSTRQ) to record the onset of overuse injuries for the ankle, knee and lower back in professional male basketball players. The author assessed the prevalence and severity of overuse injuries and also determined the efficacy of the questionnaire over one season. The authors found that severe knee overuse injuries were reported more than ankle and lower back injuries [1], suggesting injury prevention strategies may need to focus on the knee.
Another study showed the prevalence of injuries in female basketball players (19.5% ankle injuries, 20.6% knee injuries) and in male basketball players (28.4% ankle, 17.5 knee injury) [3] suggesting a higher injury risk in women than men. Zuckerman and his team [4] found that during practice, males had a higher rate of ankle injury compared to females while females have higher rate of overuse knee injuries curing practice. From these findings, one can assume that females are more at risk to knee injuries and male's ankle injuries.
While the underlying causes of injuries are yet to be fully understood, some research has emerged to understand how these injuries occur. Ankle sprains may occur as an athlete lands on an opponent's foot. Overuse knee injuries seem to be caused by overloading and previous injury. Interestingly, knee injuries are seen mostly in centre players than any other positions, suggesting that playing positions may be a risk factor [2].
The cause of overuse knee injuries and ankle sprains is still a puzzle that seems to have little pieces, at least for now. With that said, through injury surveillance and the identification of injury risk factors and further understanding how injuries occur, better injury prevention strategies can be formulated and implemented. Until then, sprains and pains remain a concern in basketball.
[1] Weiss, K.J., McGuiren, MR, Besier, T.F., Whatman, CS, 2017. Application of Simple Surveillance Method for Detecting the Prevalence and Impact of Overuse Injuries in Professional Men's Basketball. The Journal of Strength and Condition Research, 31(10), p2734-2739.
[2] Cumps, E., Verhagen, E., and Meeusen, R. 2007. Prospective epidemiological study of basketball injuries during one competitive season: Ankle sprains and overuse knee injuries. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 6, p204-211.
[3] Andreoli, C.V., Chiaramonti, B.C., Biruel, E., Pochini, Andre de Castro, Ejnisman, B., Cohen, M., 2018. Epidemiology of sports injuries in basketball: integrative systematic review. BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med
[4] Zuckerman, SL, Wegner, AM, Roos, KG, et. al. 2018. Injuries sustained in National Collegiate Athletic Association men's and women's basketball, 2009/2010-2014/2015. British Journal Sports Medicine, 52: 261-268


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Distance from the property to major attractions
- Sea: 350 m
- Town center: 13 m
- Airport : 67�km
- Grocery shop: 2�km
- Stop of the public transport: 2�km
- Hospital: 13�km
Field in Kassandra, Halkidiki, 21.000 sqm, on a unique spot with sea view and faade to the main street. It is flat and has beautiful view, also only 350 m from the sea. The field is complete and buildable and is ideal for residential constructions of any type.
We offer you this agricultural land with a total area of 21,000 m2. The property is connected to electricity and communal water supply.
Within a short distance from the property there is an airport and a bus stop. Close by you can find a hospital. Additionally, the area provides the following amenities for a pleasant and comfortable living and entertainment: a food market.
We are ready to organize a viewing of this property at a time convenient for you. Please contact the responsible estate agent and inform them when you would like to have viewings arranged. We can also help you with flight tickets and hotel booking, as well as with travel insurance.
Property reservation
You can reserve this property with a non-refundable deposit of 2,000 Euro, payable by credit card or by bank transfer to our company bank account. After receiving the deposit the property will be marked as reserved, no further viewings will be carried out with other potential buyers, and we will start the preparation of the necessary documents for completion of the deal. Please contact the responsible estate agent for more information about the purchase procedure and the payment methods.
After sale services
We are a reputable company with many years of experience in the real estate business. Thus, we will be with you not only during the purchase process, but also after the deal is completed, providing you with a wide range of additional services tailored to your requirements and needs, so that you can fully enjoy your property in Bulgaria. The after sale services we offer include property insurance, construction and repair works, furnishing, accounting and legal assistance, renewal of contracts for electricity, water, telephone and many more.
This is the approximate location of the property. Please get in contact with us to learn its exact location.
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Giovanni VICIDOMINI
Insegnamento di THORACIC SURGERY
Corso di laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA
Periodo di Erogazione: Primo Semestre
|Teaching language
Lectures on chest diseases of surgical interest. Slides with text and figures will be used, with simultaneous film projection. One or more lessons will be devoted to the practical illustration of invasive therapeutic diagnostic procedures in Thoracic Surgery
|Textbook and course materials
Pocket Manual of General Thoracic Surgery. Authors: Amin Madani, Andrew Seely, Lorenzo Ferri.
|Course objectives
The course aims to provide basic clinical knowledge on thoracic diseases of surgical interest. The course, therefore, is aimed at a training course at the end of which the student will be able to elaborate diagnostic-therapeutic pathways in patients suffering from thoracic surgical diseases.
Passing the preparatory exams as decided by the Consiglio di Corso di Laurea.
|Teaching methods
Three lectures during an hour and a half with compulsory course attendance. Attendance is recorded using a badge. The minimum attendance percentage allowing to take the exam is 75%.
|Evaluation methods
The exam is oral. The student must demonstrate sufficient learning of each topic included in the exam program. In particular, the following will be evaluated: capacity for critical connections, ability to synthesise, quality of the organization and exposure of the speech, the use of specialized vocabulary, the ability to medical investigate, etc. It will be held with an interview divided into questions on the topics of the program, designed to ascertain the level of knowledge achieved by the student. The final grade will be in thirtieths and will result from the arithmetic average of the marks obtained in the two oral tests (Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery). The exam can be passed only if the minimum score of 18/30 is obtained in both oral tests.
|Other information
The slides used during the lesson are released to the students.
|Course Syllabus
Course program of thoracic surgery


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Keynote: Karla Schlieper, Mondelēz Canada
Industry Keynote: Risks and Rewards: A global journey of leadership through change and growth
Speaker: Karla Schlieper was named president of Mondelēz Canada in January 2022, following her success leading the Mondelēz business in Latin America's Southern Cone region (Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay). She will share with attendees her fascinating and inspiring story, as well as lessons learned along the way.
Winners Panel:
2022 winners were honoured at the annual Star Women in Convenience Awards Ceremony at the International Centre on Wednesday, October 12th 2022!
In addition, winners were featured in the July/August issue of Convenience Store News Canada magazine, in the All Convenience e-newsletter, at CCentral.ca and via social media.


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France and Spain are the best places to live in Europe, according to the latest uSwitch Quality of Life Index.
The UK came 10th out of the 10 European countries in the Index, thanks to high living costs, below average government spending on health and education, short holidays and late retirement. The Index shows that people in France enjoy the highest quality of life, closely followed by Spain.
For your move to France you might well consider the Rhone Alps as a great place to live ….. So what's here? Main stream attractions include the numerous golf courses here – did you know there are 80 of them! The never ending skiing which along with the lakes, 8 national parks, numerous thermal spas and superb cities makes the Rhone Alps the second biggest holiday destination In France, welcoming more visitors than Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (the French Riviera). In fact accounting for 12% of all holidays in France!
You may well already have consider this area if you've been looking for a golf home or ski property, but how about if you want to be based in France and earn an honest crust? This is a good place to be. First it is very commercial, providing 10% of France's GDP, it has a wide range of industries protecting it very efficiently from economic cycles, in fact the area is so successful it accounts for almost 1% of world trade.
For all our properties in the Rhone Alps you can find us on our main Leggett site were we have over 6,000 properties to share with you www.frenchestateagents.com simply go to the map and click on departments 73 and 74 and all our Rhone Alps properties will come up.
Or got to www.skifrenchproperty.com where you'll find all properties within an hour of a ski resort in the Rhone Alps.


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Coaching with Character
At DePaul Catholic all of our coaches have successfully passed the Notre Dame Play Like a Champion Program and the Paterson Diocese's Protecting God's Children course.
Our coaches are skilled educators and leaders who support the winning traditions of our school. They develop scholar-athletes that excel both on and off the field. Spartan teams are dedicated to a higher standard of academic and athletic excellence that focuses on integrity, sportsmanship, and mutual respect.
Play Like A Champion
DePaul Catholic High School is pleased to announce a partnership with Play Like A Champion Today (PLACT) developed by the Alliance for Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame. The Play Like A Champion Today Character Education Through Sports Initiative is a national coach and parent educational series designed specifically to elevate Catholic high school sports programs.
PLACT, which was founded in 2006, teaches �Character Education Through Sports� and works to develop ethically responsible leaders. To date, the program has reached over 35,000 coaches, 20,000 parents, and over 1 million student-athletes. Though the program is rooted in academic disciplines, it is applied in practical ways.
Play Like A Champion Today Coach Clinic
Staff from the University of Notre Dame presented the coaches clinic. This 5-6 hour clinic included training in the Play Like A Champion Today Sports as Ministry program. Topics included: coaching as a ministry, the spirituality of sport, developing a team as a moral community, the GROW approach to motivation, leading a moral discussion, adolescent development, safety and risk management, and strategies for developing partnerships with parents.
Parent Like A Champion Today
This one hour workshop focused on appropriate roles and responsibilities for parents. It included an examination of parent expectations in sports programs. Parents received education and materials that help them reinforce the goals of athlete development stressed by the PLACT program. They also received practical guidance on how they can help their children to form habits of perseverance, sound decision-making, teamwork, good nutrition, and regular exercise.


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Baumstahl Furniture by Eric Prada; Custom Handmade Artisan Audio Furniture
Baumstahl – German for Tree/Steel.
Started in a hay barn in the Sangre De Cristo mountains, artisan/builder Erik Prada aspired to creating pieces of furniture that were timeless in their beauty and durability. Works are made of solid hard woods, steel, and stone.
Audio Furniture can be custom made to any specifications.
Price varies depending on exact specifications.
Sound Anchor
All custom sizes. These pictured are $2,500.00 for gear rack and $2,000.00 for speaker stands/pr.
All Sound Anchors stands are built to order. Please call for specifications and pricing.


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To find Music For Video you would need to do one of three things.
1. The first option and the easiest way to find music would be to find music from a Production Music company. You can find 2 types of Production Music companies online. There is what could be called the Lease Production Music Companies and then there are the "Buyout" or "Royalty Free" Production Music companies. Each type has its own advantages and disadvantages. In either case you can find music from as low as a few dollars up to a few thousand dollars.
2. The second and possibly and potentially the most expensive way to put music in your video is to contact the Publisher for popular song that you have heard on the radio. If you go this route the price for a piece of music will typically run $5,000 up to millions. Once again this is typically too costly for most individuals and the majority of companies making a video.
3. The third and by far the most difficult would be to write your own music. If you write your own original piece of music which you own the rights to then it is no problem to use in your own video. For many, writing original music can be a problem because most people lack the skills or talent to play a musical instrument. If you do have the skill the next problem you will face is recording your music in a studio. If you are one of the few people who do have these skills then read no further. If by chance you are like the vast majority of people then I suggest you keep reading.
It is important for anyone looking to find Music For Video to know what Synchronization Rights are because a Synchronization License is needed to synchronize your video with the music you wish to put into the video.


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Similar Names: Shellie, Shella
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Hehe, fair enough ^^ I'll PM you my facebook details then ^^
Mostly ^^ I was so shattered though xD
And I know, I've seen them too <3 It's not as bad as I feared!
There were umbrellas and shields, they could not stop the hail xD
Ech, any help is appreciated ^_^
Yush indeed =] I'm a walking nightmare if I get rained on, because all my bodypaint suddenly gets very wet again and it gets on literally everything. I got hailed on at May MCM and I left a trail of fake blood across the front area, lol.
If I do bring him and stuff, that'd actually be really cool =] thanks!
I'm not entirely sure for Summer LAGC tbh... I'll be bringing back my Lucy cosplay =] with upgrades from her last appearance (last Feb LAGC, last May MCM). I might run Witcher on the other day though, I don't know yet xD
I'm... So-so on swords, but I can try and learn =P and I can definitely make sure I don't go full retard on posing.
Fairdoos... But ahhh, alas =[ indeed.
July LAGC is also on my to-do list... Gonna be booking the rooms as soon as I have confirmation on holiday from work, and my ticket reserved ^_^
Alas, I'm this lone Witcher fanatic among my friends, and pretty much all of us have cosplays allocated already, lol. I'm vaguely hoping that CD Projekt will have a booth kicking around, or that somebody, somewhere at MCM, will be representing TW3... Hopefully I'll find other cosplayers though xD
Fair enough =] I'd imagine your knees will get quite achey after a while though.
If I was travelling solo, I'd definitely have issues finding affordable rooms >.<
I will indeed be acquiring a wig =P my hair's naturally very dark brown, so it really won't dye to white/silver at all well without just massively falling out, lol. My hair is also currently quite short, and it'll be going shorter soon =P *is generally a pixie cut girl* But haha, I may well have a deck of 'those' cards xD it hadn't occurred to me... Heehee, perhaps I shall indeed make some, lol.
The hooves are honestly more simple than they sound, they're just a bit time consuming. Looks like wood constructs would definitely be more appropriate for you though, coz that's a hella lot of digigrade xD
They're not too awful to walk around in, and I can move quite smoothly in them provided I have a nice level surface and I'm not dodging around people constantly xD they're a bit of a challenge on stairs though and on stuff like cobbles, they rock terribly xD I can honestly say I've only fully fallen off them once though (and I've worn them to cons... Seven times now I think?) and that was because I crouched and then misjudged how to get up and fell flat on my ass, lol. I can't wear them for a full day though, but that's true of pretty much all high heels - these ones are the highest I own, at a 7" heel xD I can still handle them for a good six to eight hours though, I think? The fur is just legwarmers which I pin together underneath where my heel is to stop them flapping around too much.
Tutorials for making them though? Nah xD I'd read a couple that talked about sawing the heels off existing shoes, and I was just like noooo, and just sort of... Flailed around by myself after that xD
The digigrade (I think, it's a weird word xD) boots are literally a pair of heelless shoes that I got on Ebay, like these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WOMENS-LAD...item27d7e0bbfe though mine have a zip up the back instead of laces. I then made a craftfoam shape, which makes the base for the hoof on the front... I then used kobracast to make /that/ way more solid, and then finally I went over that with long fibre fibreglass - just a body repair kit, that I only needed to add hardener to, from Halfords - and I filled the cavity with scrunched up foil and stuff to reduce the amount of fibreglass I needed. It's quite a thick coat, which I then sanded a bit, before sticking soles onto the bottoms (which I got from Timpson's), and then I just painted them with gesso and acrylic, before finally spraying them heavily with car lacquer =]
MCM would be too expensive for me if I stayed in hotels xD we have previously, but we've also stayed a short distance away from the event, rather than the ones right on site, coz holy cow those are expensive. We now tend to stay in Croydon though, as my cosplay partner's Dad lives there and is generous enough to put us up =]
I'm doing a bit of a mix with Geralt =] gauntlet from LARP suppliers, boots from eBay, shirt from LARP suppliers, swords with lots of help from @Drifter xD
^_^ Ta!
Roflmao, seems like a fair shout.
Next con for me will be MCM in May =] and I'll hopefully have finished my Geralt of Rivia cosplay (doing prologue version from the first Witcher game, with intent to upgrade to other versions later), and my Maiden in Black (Demon's Souls)... After that, July LAGC, then Alcon, then Bristol AGC. I'll probably end up stealthing off to a couple more though, tis what usually happens xD
Hey ^_^ thanks for chatting to me so much, you really helped me calm down a bit, lol. I still love your tech arm thingy - I'd probably hit literally everyone I know in the eye with it if I wore anything like that xD
*hug* But meep, thankoo =] x
Not yet, been a bit shy in that regard. I will do soon though once the chest piece is glued
Haha, sounds good. Although if you go as a loyalist, I can teach you the error of your ways
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