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Mayor Williams and the City of Wilmington invite the community to attend the Grand Opening of the Kitchen, a film and video production house located at 227 N. Market Street, on Friday, March 1st beginning at 5:00pm during the Art Loop.
After moving to Wilmington from Atlanta in 2011, Zach Phillips, founder and "dishwasher" at the Kitchen, didn't have much: a few web clients back in Atlanta and a Macbook -- he didn't even own a camera.
"My mom, Toni Toland, a professor at Syracuse University, was one of the pioneers of designing for the web, and so I'd been around HTML and CSS for most of my life, but the people I met at The coIN Loft and the entrepreneurial atmosphere got me really inspired to delve into the backend of things. I wrote a few small apps and made a modest profit from them. Between that and my client work, I was able to begin acquiring a film rig, piece by piece."
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Phillips is joined by Greg Truono doing post production work and Jason Prezant, who serves as the company's cinematographer and colorist, and Katrina High, the production manager. Phillips writes, directs, and edits, and Truono is an animator and post-production specialist who also wears the hat of sound recorder on set.
"It is always exciting to see another business open in Downtown Wilmington, it shows the growth and development opportunities our city can offer to small businesses," said Mayor Williams.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Supernova Quilt-Along: Making the Back
I have a love/hate relationship with making backs. Love: The design possibilities, and the fact that you can make a quilt back in an evening. After spending so much time on a quilt top, you gotta love the instant gratification of the back. Hate: Dealing with gargantuan pieces of fabric. I tend to sew large cuts of fabric like a drunken sailor. That often includes the cursing.
But like it or not, making the back is a necessary part of creating a quilt. Even if you farm out your quilting to a professional, you will almost always need to provide the back yourself. So it helps to consider the back an opportunity to add to your design, rather than just another chore.
I usually have two goals when it comes to making a quilt back: 1) Use up as many scraps, excess blocks, and existing stash fabrics as I can. 2) Create a design on the back that echoes or compliments the design on the front. I also consider the back a chance to be a little more improvisational and free-flowing than I was on the front. Let's face it, there's just less pressure back there. If you end up hating it, you can always just fold the quilt with the front facing out. Problem solved!
So when it came time to piece the back for my Supernova, I started with some excess sub-units that I had on hand. I changed my mind about using these on the front, so now they were just hanging out on my design wall, lined up in a row, waiting to be useful. And do you see what I see? Yes! Zig zags!
I decided to extend the zig zag across the entire back of the quilt. To do that, I needed 9 sub-units. Since I already had four, I started by piecing the remaining five and sewing them all together, side by side, into one long row, as shown above.
Next, to complete the zig zag points, you'll need some flying geese units.
Remember how we made the "half-goose units" during the first piecing step? You'll make your flying geese units in the same way, except that when the half-goose unit is done, just add another square to the other side, as shown above.
Trim and press, and you should end up with something that looks like this.
Make 1 flying geese unit for each point of the zig zag. If you use 9 sub-units, like I did, you'll need a total of 8 flying geese units, plus one half-square triangle on each end. So here are mine, all sewn and added to the design wall, in the appropriate spots to complete the zig zag.
To complete the zig zag, cut some 3" by 10.5" rectangles from your background fabric. Sew the flying geese units alternating with the rectangles, into one long strip, as shown above. Sew that row onto the zig zag row. Now, I won't lie to you: Matching up bias seams all the way across on such a long row is not an easy task. Start by lining up the seams in the middle of the rows, pin, and work your way out toward the sides. My seams are far from perfect in a number of spots. But I was so enamored with how this giant zig-zag looks that I didn't even care. Repeat with the bottom zig zag points.
Once I had the focal point of my back—the jumbo zig zag—done, I was ready to finish off the back. To do that, I laid out the front of the quilt face down on the floor. Then I just started spreading fabric over it to create the back. Doing it this way means you'll get the size of the back right, and you can keep an eye on placement of various design elements in relation to the front. I started by laying down my zig zag, placing it off-center toward the bottom of the quilt. Then I added some strips from my Supernova scrap pile, as well as some Metro Living yardage from my stash. (Love, love, love Metro Living.) I then filled in the holes with my background fabric, Kona Coal.
Sewed it all together, and ta da, one completed quilt back! (Sorry for the truly awful photo.)
Katie, who has already completed the quilt-along(!), did a great strip-pieced back (more details here). This is a perfect use for any leftover 3" strips you might have.
really ambitious like Elizabeth, and make another whole quilt top for the back. Look—so awesome! Elizabeth and Katie, over-achieve much? : )
Quilt backs are a place where almost anything goes, and where you don't have to do much planning. Just go for it! That freedom makes for a fun design process, no matter how you feel about giant pieces of fabric. I hope these suggestions have given you a jumping off point for your own unique pieced back. Can't wait to see all of your backsides in the Flickr group!
Next week, we'll have our final post in the series: Quilting and finishing. I'll have some suggestions for different ways you can quilt your Supernova. That post will also be the site of our exciting final link-up! This is where you can show off your completed quilt. (Remember, completed quilts only—that means quilted, bound, the whole shebang). The linky will be open until May 12, and everyone who links up a completed quilt by then will be eligible to win the Castle Peeps FQ pack. Good times! See you then.
14 comments:
- Elizabeth D. said...
You know me, over-achiever :) I love what you did with your backing, it looks just stunning, and I love how you worked in your scraps. This backing looks simply amazing!!!
- April 21, 2011 at 5:54 AM
- Blue.Ridge.Girl said...
This quilt back is so dynamic! I love how it jumps right out and says "Look at me!" Really compliments the whole design of this great quilt :o)
- April 21, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- Tiffany said...
Wow - you def. put a lot more work into a back than I do. I get as many yards as I can to make it big enough, sew them together, and it's done. Thanks for sharing the inspiration tho... will add this to my "to try" list :)
- April 21, 2011 at 8:00 AM
- Debbie said...
So glad you said that Quilt backs are a place where almost anything goes! Love the zig zag you created!
- April 21, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- Linz said...
Oh!! I love the design for your back! SOO beautiful! ANd Elizabeth's is stunning!!
- April 21, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- Susanne said...
Get out of town Lee!!!! I LOVE the zig zags!!!!! I finished my top last night¡! :)
- April 21, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- A.J. Dub. said...
Great back Lee! Love the zigzag. I am on a zigzag kick in my graph paper notebook at the moment. :)
- April 21, 2011 at 11:12 AM
- felicity said...
I can't believe I'm actually caught up. Unpossible! And I feel the same way about backings. Add to it the fact that I'm usually really REALLY eager to get the quilt done already so I don't spend a lot of time on the back.
I loved Kati's (from the blue chair) post about making a backing by stitching then cutting and rotating etc. Here is the post.
- April 21, 2011 at 1:48 PM
- Becky said...
Love it!!! Great discussion about the back too!
- April 21, 2011 at 2:13 PM
- Julie said...
I love your zig zag back Lee, fabulous! I'm a fan of piecing my backings too, for the variety it adds and the chance to use up those scraps!
I have a quick question though, I thought we had until the 12th to finish and link up? The schedule said April 28th would be the final post and we would have 2 weeks from there. Just wanted to get my timeline straight so I can rearrange some things if I need to. Thanks!
- April 21, 2011 at 2:24 PM
- Fabric said...
Love the zig zags! Gorgeous!
I was under the impression that we would have two weeks to complete the quilt and link it up. I'm hoping that's still the case. :)
- April 21, 2011 at 2:49 PM
- Katie B. said...
I love your back! It looks fantastic. I'm with you on dealing with big pieces of fabric. Drunken sailor, indeed.
- April 21, 2011 at 7:50 PM
- Marlene @ KISSed Quilts . com said...
May 12th is 2 weeks after April 28 at least on my calendar.
Lee--fun to have a creative back!
- April 22, 2011 at 10:00 PM
- Marlene @ KISSed Quilts . com said...
A few tips regarding quilt backs from a long-arm quilter.
1. Be sure to cut off your selvages if piecing the back together. Selvages don't stretch at the same rate as the other part of the fabric. When mounting the quilt, the back needs to stretch consistently otherwise you can get weird tensions of the finished quilt after it is quilted.
2. The back should be 4"-6" larger in each direction than the top. This means 2"-3" on all sides. It is important for the quilter to be able to clamp the backing and the batting onto the leaders (used to attach the back top and bottom edges to the quilting table) and the clamps (used on the sides) without touching the top. This insures the ability to quilt clear to the edge of the top.
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Orthopedic Surgeons' Buck-raking Exposed
Nearly 50 orthopedic surgeons, many affiliated with the nation's top teaching hospitals, each earned over $1 million a year in consulting contracts and royalties from the five companies that make artificial knees and hips. The payment disclosures were posted on the companies' websites last week as part of a $311 million anti-kickback settlement between four of the firms and the U.S. attorney for northern New Jersey. The complaint had accused the companies of using consulting contracts as an illegal kickback scheme to get surgeons to use a particular company's artificial joints.
The top two earners were Thomas Thornhill, chair of the orthopedics department at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and Robert Scott, also at Brigham and Women's, who each collected $6.7 million in the first ten months of 2007 from DuPuy Orthopaedics, a unit of Johnson & Johnson. In a statement released Friday, the two men claimed the money came from consulting fees and from patent royalties on an artificial knee licensed to J&J in 1986 and an artificial hip licensed to J&J in 1991. They said in a prepared statement that they collected no royalties on DuPuy products used at their hospital, and all the consulting fees were donated to charity.
Norman Scott of the Insall Scott Kelly Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Manhattan collected $5.5 million in payments so far in 2007 or about $25,000 a day from Zimmer Inc. The institute's website claims an affiliation with the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, but the Yeshiva University affiliate says Scott's appointment ended in 2005. A secretary at the institute refused to comment or put a call through to Scott. Richard H. Rothman of the Rothman Institute, the former chairman of the orthopedics department at the Thomas Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, received $2.4 million in 2007 or about $12,000 a day from Stryker, a division of Howmedica Osteonics Corp. A spokesman for the institute, contacted Sunday, refused to comment. A full list of the surgeons who collected more than $1 million in payments can be found here.
With seniors accounting for nearly 70 percent of the knee and hip replacement market, Medicare spent $16 billion on the procedures last year. A typical knee replacement costs $33,000, according to Medicare records. A spokesman for Christopher J. Christie, the U.S. attorney in Newark, said the investigation into the alleged kickback scheme is ongoing.
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Natural gas companies that use an underground extraction process pioneered by Halliburton Co. may be violating the nation's clean water laws, but the Bush administration refuses to exercise scientific oversight, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) charged at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing last week. The Bureau of Land Management has failed to complete a study of the environmental and health impacts of the process that was promised in 2005. The process, known as hydraulic fracturing, injects hydrocarbon waste fluids into underground coal beds. That forces natural gas to the surface, but leaves behind a toxic residue of benzene, toluene, mercury, and other waste products, which may migrate into underground water supplies.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 exempted hydraulic fracturing from groundwater protections that would normally apply under the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act. But the law required the Interior Department to commission a National Academy of Sciences study of hydraulic fracturing. The study, due 14 months ago, hasn't been started. The agency chose a less expensive alternative, which the BLM itself concluded would be of "limited value," because the cost of conducting the more extensive review "would have an impact on BLM's ability to provide sufficient funding to process additional" oil and gas drilling applications, according to internal agency documents obtained by Waxman's oversight committee.
Shining Light on Physician Payola Gets Boost
A New England Journal of Medicine article assessing the prospects for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which would require that drug companies reveal all their payments to physicians, listed the consequences of the ubiquitous conflicts of interest that plague modern medicine. While granting that physician-industry interaction was important for clinical trial enrollment and occasionally educated physicians about drugs that are underused, the review emphasized the negative effects of the payments:
ExxonMobil Sullies Science on Polar Bear Decline
A recent study that claims polar bears are not harmed by global warming was funded by ExxonMobil, New Scientist reported. The study, which appears in the September 2007 issue of Ecological Complexity, claims that a human-caused role for warming Arctic temperatures "remains difficult to identify," and that predictions of polar bear decline are "highly premature." The study's authors include Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, both of whom are affiliated with the George C. Marshall Institute, which receives funding from ExxonMobil; David Legates of the University of Delaware Center for Climatic Research, who has received funding from ExxonMobil, the DaimlerChrysler Corporation, and the El Paso Energy Foundation; and Timothy Ball of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project in Calgary, which has ties to lobbyists for Canadian utility companies.
The article received no peer review and the journal Ecological Complexity has no disclosure policy for its authors. The article was cited by the State of Alaska in its filing with the Fish and Wildlife Service opposing endangered species protections for the polar bear. Brad Miller (D-NC) of the House Committee on Science and Technology last month demanded that ExxonMobil turn over all records of its support for polar bear research.
IOM Adds Two to Conflicts of Interest Panel
Responding to criticism that the panel investigating conflicts of interest in medicine lacked balance, the Institute of Medicine last week added two prominent researchers to its roster. Lisa Bero of the University of California at San Francisco and Eric Campbell of Massachusetts General Hospital, both of whom have documented the extent and impact of financial conflicts of interest in medicine, join the now 17-member committee. The panel includes three members granted conflict-of-interest waivers because of their ongoing ties to drug and medical device companies, and at least one other with recent ties to industry that were neither waived nor revealed on the IOM website. The committee holds its first meeting today and Tuesday.
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The Food and Drug Administration proposes posting the entire roster of an advisory committee meeting on the day that it releases briefing materials for the meeting, which is usually a day or two early, according to a draft guidance . . . .
Michigan Democrats introduced legislation last week that would limit drug company gifts to doctors to $100 a year. The legislation makes Michigan the first state to consider limiting the practice; Minnesota and Vermont require disclosure of all physician gifts. The bill isn't expected to go far since the state Senate is controlled by Republicans . . . . Consumers International issued a new report "Drugs, Doctors and Dinners" that claims multinational drug companies showering gifts on doctors in the developing world leads to half of all drugs sold there being wrongly prescribed, the London Independent reports. The report calls for banning the practice . . . . Office of Science and Technology Policy director John Marburger, President Bush's chief science adviser, was responsible for severely editing CDC Director Julie Gerberding's testimony on climate change and health impacts, Naturenews reports (subscription required) . . . . the United States Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services agency, which according to its website implements "sound, science-based projects designed to reduce conflicts between humans and wildlife," last year spent $108 million to kill 1.6 million animals. A record number of those killed were protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, according to agency statistics compiled by Sinapu and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility . . . . The revolving door keeps spinning: Robert E. Brackett, director of the FDA's food safety division, will join the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents food, beverage and consumer-products companies, the Washington Post reports. His predecessor, Joseph Levitt, moved to Hogan and Hartson, a lobbying firm whose clients include numerous food firms.
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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what's real news and what's made up. On the Web, you can play along too.
It takes more than a couple brain cells to make this show what it is... so let's give credit where credit's due.
Peter Sagal — Host
Prior to becoming host of Wait Wait in 1998, Peter had a varied career including stints as a playwright, screenwriter, stage director, actor, extra in a Michael Jackson video, travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter and staff writer for a motorcycle magazine. In October 2007, Harper Collins published Peter's first book, The Book of Vice: Naughty Things and How to Do Them, a series of essays about bad behavior, which was released in paperback in 2008. He lives in the Chicago area with his family. Since he now has his own Web site, he is finally a real boy.
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders met with his Dutch counterpart, Mr Frans Timmermans, at the Egmont Palace today. Today is Minister Timmermans' first full day in office following the swearing in of the new Dutch government yesterday.
The two Ministers stated their shared desire to expand cooperation between the Benelux countries further, both in the European Union and within other international organisations.
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The students of the European Peace University - Private University, based on their positive experiences, have decided to support the advertising of the academic programs of the 2012/2013 academic year starting in Fall 2013 with the following declaration:
We, the students of the European Peace University - Private University, would like to recommend potential applicants to study Peace and Conflict Studies as well as European Peace and Security Studies at a private university, accredited by the Austrian Accreditation Council and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research, in Stadtschlaining, Burgenland, Austria. At the end of their studies students receive an MA Degree which is accredited according to the Bologna Process of the European Union.
Our professors come from a number of continents and are outstanding representatives of their fields of research. We are impressed by the well-rounded program and the high-level discussion in the seminars. Studying in a multicultural environment, learning much about cultural differences and tolerance - also outside the seminar room - is one of the great benefits when studying at EPU.
In Stadtschlaining, the EPU students stay in the comfortable, friendly, hotel standard accommodation facility "Haus International", the students' residence with single room arrangement for all students and professors. The special multicultural atmosphere placed in the scenery of the medieval Stadtschlaining with a 15th century castle, housing also the main offices of the EPU, serves as a great addition to the overall positive impressions we have gained during our study trimesters here.
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It's time again for our annual room-share blog. This is the place for you to find roommates to share your hotel room at the Sheraton.
Even if you're not sharing, our conference room rate is already in place at the Sheraton. Book early! The room rate will be available until mid-September, by which point the hotel will be filling up, so why not book now? It's one more thing you won't have to remember when summer patios beckon.
You'll find hotel information here: http://www.siwc.ca/hotel_travel/index.php
If you're hoping to find someone to share your room with, please feel free to use the comment section below to try to connect with a kindred spirit. We suggest you share whether you have a room booked or are looking to share costs with someone who does, what's important to you in a roommate (ie M/F, early-to-bed or early riser, etc.), and whether you snore loudly.
As always, please do your homework. We provide this comment trail for your convenience, but we don't know many of the people who post and we do not get involved in this process. Roommate arrangements are made at your own risk.
That being said, lots of great new friendships have been started in this very thread in past years. Save money and meet new people. Sounds like a good plan to us!
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Looking for a roommate
If last year is any indication, I spend almost NO time in my room. I'd turn in around 10pm (even 11) and head out at 7am the next morning. Come in, sleep, leave, that's me! I was just as happy to be downstairs on my netbook as eating breakfast in my room.
Looking for another female, someone who doesn't mind a quiet/absent partner. :)
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Looking to share a room
I am a non-smoking female in my late 40's - okay, I'll be 50 in March - and I'm looking to share a room during the conference. I usually go to bed around 10:00, don't snore and get up around 6:00 a.m. Quiet, considerate and tidy, I'm never in the room as I don't want to miss anything. I've roomed at this conference before and it worked out great. I'm willing to reserve the room and you can pay me when we get to the conference if that works best.
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Looking for female roomie to share at SIWC 2012
The title really says most of it, but here's the rest of the story:
I'm a woman in her late 40's, mother, writer and speaker and have attended the conference several times (as a volunteer). This time, I can afford to go as a guest, so I am trying to keep my costs down by sharing a room.
I am quiet but not anti-social. I like to read before bed to quiet down, and am both an early riser and sometimes late to bed. But if I stay up late, I'll be quiet coming in and out of the room.
As far as I know, I don't snore. You can email me at mstephany at shaw dot ca
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female room mate wanted
Hi there-
Despite the name, I'm female (blame my mother). Married. Kids. Poodles. High school teacher. Author. Poet. Dancer. Harpist. Shoe-o-holic. Artist. Traveller. Rotarian. Je parle francais. Puhun Suomea.
My editor was going to attend with me, but now she's not, and so her queen size bed is available for someone else!
I'm a 'stay up until the very last event is over' night owl, who will be challenged by the mornings. I attended SIWC in 2009, when I was a last minute walk in, and successfully pitched my first novel there. Now I'm back to pitch another one. I snore sometimes, but I will bring a pair of new ear plugs for you, to ensure your comfort. I don't smoke or drink, because I'd be dangerous intoxicated! :-) I don't read at night, because I'd still be reading in the morning.
Come visit my blog at http://www.shawnbird.com if you want to know more about me. What's most important: I have a room booked, and there's a bed free for you.
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Female Roomie wanted!
Hi all, I'm looking for a female roomie for Friday and Saturday nights...I'm a female in the Lower Mainland, won't be smoking or drinking, tend to be a night owl but may crash early this year. I can book or you can book. Email me karin (at) cowbels (dot) ca


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A couple of summers ago, my ex-husband's ex-wife gave me the key to her Malibu beach house and asked if I'd like to live there for a while. She no longer wanted to tackle the hideous weekend traffic from Beverly Hills to the beach, and she hated to see the house sit empty. I was floored. A cottage on the sand, with views of flaming sunsets? A chance for me, a freelance writer with a lifetime membership in the 99 percent, to live like the 1 percent? Count me in. For the first four months I'd race down there on weekends from my home in an L.A. suburb. Then I just locked up my apartment and moved to the beach full time.
My benefactress (with whom my ex had a daughter) was long gone from his life by the time I met him. He was an older man, a narcissistic actor with enough sophisticated charm to persuade me, a naive 19, that his mood swings were sexy.
At the time, I lived with my widowed mother, my grandmother and my aunt, a little band of women making life tough for the only male in the house, my young cousin. We didn't put much stock in traditional weddings. Too many exes. Grand-father had sailed off to Australia, and Uncle Reggie had scarpered to Spain, which put a damper on everyone's romanticism. There was also Uncle Walter and his French mistress.
My wedding was to happen in our living room, decorated with cherubs and streamers by Mom's gay friends. The marriage had been the actor's idea, but he arrived with a face like thunder.
"Call it off," my mother said. "We'll just have a lovely party." I was hiding upstairs, dabbing at mascara streaks.
No, no, we had the ring, bought, significantly, from a line known as Fabulous Fakes. And we had the Marrying Judge, known for his whirlwind off-hours ceremonies, hovering impatiently downstairs.
The marriage ended swiftly, but my relationship with my stepdaughter didn't. She sent postcards from her school in Paris, and I attended her graduation party at her mother and stepfather's Malibu beach house. That day, the ex glowered in a corner, affronted that his first wife had remarried so well. I shared a roll of the eyes with this smart and beautiful woman, cementing not a friendship, exactly, but a strong enjoyment of each other whenever we met.
Then, suddenly, that house was mine. Every morning I flung open the bedroom curtains, stepped onto the balcony, gazed at the waves and wondered how long it could last. "Lovely day," I said to Pierce Brosnan, romping with his hound on the sand.
Confession: I'm a journalist, not a novelist. I thrive in civilization. So after 10 glorious months, I decided to bid Pierce adieu and move back to town. "So happy you had a chance to live there," my benefactress says whenever we talk. Me too. I've seen our mutual ex only rarely over the years. But hardly a day goes by without my thanking him mentally for marrying so well the first time around.
LOUISE FARR has written for W, Family Circle, Los Angeles, the Robb Report and other publications.
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Art Rupe, founder of Specialty Records, is born in Greenburg, Pennsylvania.
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Art Rupe dissolves ties with both the Juke Box and Sterling labels and founds Specialty Records.
Art Rupe moves Specialty Records into offices on Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles, where it will remain until the label goes dormant in the Sixties.
Art Rupe's Specialty Records has its first Number One hits with Joe Liggins' "Pink Champagne" and Percy Mayfield's "Please Send Me Someone to Love."
Art Rupe signs New Orleans singer Lloyd Price to Specialty Records. His first release, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," is a Number One crossover hit, reaching both black and white audiences.
"The Things That I Used to Do," by Guitar Slim, becomes a Number One R&B hit for Art Rupe's Specialty Records.
Having signed with Art Rupe's Specialty Records, Little Richard scores a #2 R&B hit with "Tutti Frutti" which also crosses over to the pop chart, reaching #17.
Little Richard's biggest hit, "Long Tall Sally," tops the R&B chart for eight weeks and reaches #6 on the pop chart.
Larry Williams' "Bony Moronie" becomes a #4 hit, helping to pick up the slack at Art Rupe's Specialty Records after Little Richard quit the music business for religious studies.
Art Rupe's Specialty Records has its last Top Ten hit with Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly."
Art Rupe sells the Specialty Records catalog to Fantasy Records.
The Specialty Story, a five-disc box set surveying the history of Art Rupe's Specialty Records, is released.
Art Rupe is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 26th annual induction dinner in New York. Billy Vera is his presenter.


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The act of taking a poop and upon whiping yourself you discover nothing on the toilet paper....It's completely clean. This event has been known to make peoples day.
Mark walked out of the bathroom with an odd grin on his face; this was because he just had a flawless victory.
بواسطة TMaC مارس/آذَار 21, 2004
Mortal kombat term of perfect
Kung Lao wins
Flawless victory!
Flawless victory!
بواسطة drunken duck سبتمبر/أيلول 11, 2004
The pleasant and rare occasion in which after a long and sometimes stressful poo the wiper reveals a clean piece of toilet paper. No poo to speak of, it's all in the toilet.
Person one: Wow that was a fast shit!
Person two: Flawless victory man! In and out!
Person two: Flawless victory man! In and out!
بواسطة whiskeybeer أكتوبر/تشرين الأوّل 8, 2009
Anytime one takes a shit and there is no required wiping.
Chris came back to the restaurant booth after taking a dump.
He exclaimed with great happiness, "FLAWLESS VICTORY MOTHER FUCKERS!!!"
Hi-fives were dispersed for the achievement.
He exclaimed with great happiness, "FLAWLESS VICTORY MOTHER FUCKERS!!!"
Hi-fives were dispersed for the achievement.
بواسطة Paints يونيو/حَزيران 25, 2007
This occurs when you have completed taking a duece and when you go to wipe your ass the paper comes away pristine and white.
Grant-"Dude, yesterday I was dropping a log and when I wiped i got a flawless victory!"
بواسطة skeeter50 مايو/أيار 29, 2006
When you grow a dick made of chocolate that ejaculates money
Joe has a flawless victory
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Noun. A session of defication in which the toilet paper comes back clean after the first wipe.
Dude, I just had a flawless victory; now I don't have to shower.
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Scott Evans, owner of Pago, says his new restaurant Finca will be opening April 2. I'll be following its progress until then with weekly posts about the restaurant's evolution. Tune in.
I talked with Scott last night over an amontillado cocktail and a plate of mussels and frites with super-garlicky aioli, a couple of Pago's signature caviar pillows and a glass of natural wine–flavors that reflect Evans' twin passions for Spain and sustainability.
Evans fell in love with Spain the same way you did: traveling through Europe with a backpack and a skateboard in 1998.
Isn't that the way it happened? Well, maybe just the way you wish you had.
Anyway, since then Scott's had his head in Spain, and although he's eaten in Spanish restaurants all over the country–and liked many of them–he hasn't found one that captures "his Spain."
Meanwhile, he pursued his idea of a local, sustainable restaurant, Pago, which has won local and national kudos and a loyal following for its innovative but not unnerving cuisine and exciting, ever-changing wine list.
Still Scott's dreams of Spain persisted.
When he saw a new development going in on the northeast corner of 1300 South and 1100 East, across the street from Liberty Heights Fresh, Scott knew he'd found the location to invest in.
Here's what to expect:
A modern, jazzy rendition of Spanish style. "No old pottery, no mantillas, no old oil paintings," says Scott. "That's fine, but it's been done."
Finca is going to be about the spirit of Spain, not a Disney-style re-creation of cliches. And the food will follow suit. "Spanish food isn't really about classic recipes," says Scott. "It's more about the process and the ingredients–really fresh fish and vegetables, simple preparations that don't require a recipe so much as a terrific sense of taste."
With his new teams in place for each restaurant in place–two chefs, two sous chefs and two sommeliers–Scott's pumped. He and Finca's chef, Phelix Gardner, will have room to buy and whole animals and break them down the way they want to, allowing for much more latitude in the menu. Look forward to a three-foot grill, an all-Spanish wine list, a real tapas bar–that is, a bar–with sherries, ports and Madeiras available as well as 16 original cocktail recipes.
Like the one I was sipping as we talked: an ounce of Amontillado Gutierrez Colosia (a special order sherry) and 1/2 ounce dry French vermouth. The rim of the glass is rubbed with lemon zest, so the taste progresses from vibrant lemon oil to the deep nuttiness of the sherry.
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I'm sorry if the answer is obvious for you guys, but why don't we all (including buildings, road, people, the ground) collapse to the center of the earth because of gravity? Is it because we have velocity, just like the earth not falling to the sun (or electrons not falling to the protons)? But that analogy doesn't sound right because those involve wide empty space.
Well, if you run over a sufficiently deep hole, you WILL fall to center. So why don't you fall to the center anyway? Because there already is something thats blocks the space - namely "the earth". As most of it is either heavier than you are (so switching places would need energy to lift the it up) or at least is solid and sticks together, it's on you to stay on the outside of the ball. If the matter below you is light and doesn't "stick together" tough, you will fall as deep as possible to the center (i.e., until you hit something that again is solid and/or heavier than you are). In case of a hole this lighter material is air, in case of, for example, the ocean it is water. In both cases you "fall" to the ground, that is, towards the center of the earth.
So why does matter block us at all, why can't we go through walls or fall THROUGH the ground to the center of the earth? The answer is: elektromagnetic forces between the atoms of the matter. They prevent the atoms from colliding.
While there is some truth to all the answers presented, I think there is something important that has been missed.
It is not just electromagnetism, it really is a quantum mechanical effect. The Pauli exclusion principle for the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ electrons says that two electrons with the same spin state cannot occupy the quantum orbital state. So when two atoms are pushed together by, for example, gravity, is therefore essentially a quantum mechanical effect that prevents the electrons from occupying the same space that results in a distortion of the quantum mechanical wavefunction. The energy it takes to create this distortion is what then results in the electromagnetic repulsion.
As @Vineet and others say, there are only 4 forces in nature and only gravity and electromagnetism have a long range. So it has to be the stronger electromagnetic force that opposes gravity, but it is the quantum mechanical Pauli exclusion principle that causes the distortion of the wavefunction that results in the electromagnetic force.
A simple framework of the fundamental forces suggests the following explanation
The second of your guesses is the correct one. The reason we do not fall to the center of the Earth is the same reason you don't fall to the floor when you sit down in a chair; the electrons in your body repel the electrons in the chair.
More specifically, there is an electron cloud around each atomic nucleus. When two atoms get close to each other, the repulsion between their respective clouds keeps them apart. Meanwhile, the attraction between the cloud and the nucleus keeps each individual atom together.
From this view, the explanation superficially makes sense.
As pointed out in the comments below, this explanation is not the one given by modern quantum theory. According to quantum mechanics, particles with half-integer spins follow the Pauli exclusion principle and cannot occupy the same quantum states simultaneously. Because electrons, protons, and neutrons are all fermions, they are excluded from occupying the same states and it is this that prevents you from falling through the chair. To figure out why the Pauli exclusion principle holds, it is necessary to get deeply into quantum mechanics and solid state physics. I am not an expert in either so I'll leave that up to those more capable than myself.
It should be noted that the correction to my original answer is not a trivial one. It isn't just the framework of the two views that changes, the predictions made by them also change. A fantastic example of the difference can be seen in superconductivity. In this phenomenon, electrons join together to form Cooper pairs. These pairs of fermions are bosons and so do not obey the exclusion principle. As a consequence, they can travel through superconducting material (made up of electrons and protons) without resistance despite the Coulombic attraction and repulsion.
To add to the previous answers, note that the universe has four major forces. Of these, gravity and electromagnetism dominate the macroscopic level. Between these two forces, electromagnetic forces are orders of magnitude stronger than gravitational forces, mainly because of the small value of the Gravitational constant $G$. So, when you sit on a chair, there are two forces playing tug of war, the gravitational force of the earth pulling you towards center, and the electromagnetic forces between the electrons in you and the chair which keeps you apart (one is attractive and other is repulsive).
Because the electromagnetic force, the force that keeps atoms together is much much much much more stronger then the gravitational force. So the only thing that the gravitational force can do given the mass of the earth (G = mg) is bring the atoms closer, but as we go down to the atom, the electromagnetic force overcomes the gravitational force and keeps everything as it is


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- 1 package yellow cake mix (regular size)
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 3 eggs
- 8 to 10 drops red food coloring
- 1/4 cup chocolate syrup
- 1 tablespoon baking cocoa
- Confectioners' sugar, optional
- In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, water, oil and eggs; beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on medium for 2 minutes. Divide batter into three equal portions.
- Pour one portion into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Stir red food coloring into another portion; carefully spoon into pan. Stir chocolate syrup and cocoa into remaining batter; carefully spoon into pan. Do not swirl.
- Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from the pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired. Yield: 12 servings.
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"Haggadah for Pesach: A Christian Passover" is a resource for those Christians who want to celebrate the ancient Jewish festival of Passover for themselves. Following the tradition of the "haggadah" or "retelling," this compilation offers a simple script for the Passover ceremony with selections from both the Old and New Testaments, tracing the steps of the Jews as they came out of Egypt and slavery as well as of Christ on the night before he died. Use in homes or churches, at Easter or throughout the year, to enrich your understanding of our Savior and the redemption he offers.
An unashamed follower of Christ, I have traveled a little and learned a lot. I will never cease to be amazed at the glory of God.
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Propane autogas fuels this work truck and walk behind mower. More than 270,000 vehicles across the United States depend on public propane refueling stations or private stations located at a fleet's home base.
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Government agencies are increasingly specifying propane autogas, also known as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), for buses, lawn mowers, pickup trucks, police cars, shuttles, and street sweepers.
A growing portfolio of products from manufacturers and aftermarket upfitters provide equivalent horsepower, torque, and towing capacity as conventional fuels at a much lower cost of ownership. Although known as propane, when used to fuel vehicles it's called propane autogas because it's calibrated for on-road use.
Vehicles that run on propane autogas emit 12% less carbon dioxide, 20% less nitrogen oxide, and up to 60% less carbon monoxide than gasoline vehicles.
They work like gasoline-powered vehicles with spark-ignited engines. Propane is stored as a liquid in a relatively low-pressure tank (about 150 psi) and travels along a fuel line into the engine compartment. The supply of propane to the engine is controlled by a regulator or vaporizer, which converts the liquid propane to a vapor. The vapor is fed to a mixer located near the intake manifold, where it is metered and mixed with filtered air before being drawn into the combustion chamber where it's burned to produce power, just like gasoline.
Propane autogas vehicles can either be conversions from gasoline vehicles or purchased new. Therefore, the first step in specifying a vehicle is deciding on a dedicated or bi-fuel vehicle and then converting a small test fleet to determine the right setup.
Generally about 10% more than diesel counterparts.
Good for fleets with a defined route and centralized refueling.
Product offerings used to limit a fleet manager'a ability to take advantage of alternative fuels, but the number of light- and medium-duty propane autogas vehicles has surged in recent years. Engines and fueling systems are also available for heavy-duty vehicles like street sweepers and transit buses.
Refueling is comparable to filling up with gasoline or diesel. The main difference is that a propane autogas nozzle is threaded into the fuel tank to eliminate spillage and prevent fuel theft.
Accessibility also has been a concern of fleet managers. But with about 2,500 refueling stations, such as gas stations and hardware stores, propane is readily accessible and is the only alternative fuel with fueling stations in all 50 states. To find locations in your state, visit the U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center.
Although you'll have to add propane autogas equipment to your existing fuel stations, federal incentives cover up to 30% of the installation cost. Some propane retailers will pick up the cost when a fleet agrees to a fuel contract. Costs will depend on the contract and equipment complexity.
Fifteen propane autogas refueling stations can be installed for the cost of one compressed natural gas station.
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Adorably cute and amazingly fast, the cheetah is a perennial favorite among kids. This National Geographic Reader will delight kids with beautiful photographs and mind-boggling facts about this majestic and mysterious cat. Did you know a cheetah could go from 0 to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds? True to the National Geographic Kids' style and trusted reputation, snack size bites of information provide easily digestible learning that fulfills both the reader's curiosity and sense of achievement.
This high-interest, educationally vetted series of beginning readers features the magnificent images of National Geographic, accompanied by texts written by experienced, skilled children's book authors. The inside back cover of the paperback edition is an interactive feature based upon the book. Level 1 books reinforce the content of the book with a kinesthetic learning activity. In Level 2 books readers complete a Cloze letter, or fun fill-in, with vocabulary words.
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Store tricks that get you to spend more money
Don't Waste Your Money
Summer is supposed to be a time for clearance sales at stores as they get ready for fall fashion and back to school shopping.
But it turns out some of the biggest deals are not quite the deals they appear to be.
Instead, it's slick retail marketing, and tricks to get us to buy things we had no intention of buying when we first walked into the store.
Moneywatch.com calls it "pricing psychology," and lists some tricks retailers use to get you to buy more.
Limit 5 Items
Among them: The "5 per customer limit," which makes you think the item is red hot and scarce.
In many cases, the store has plenty.
99 cent trick
Another trick, according to Moneywatch, is that old $.99 tag. It works.
For example, a box of Tide detergent for $17.99. Come on, we all know it's really 18 bucks. This is even more effective if an item is $99.99.
And if they put that promotion on an endcap, it is more effective, even if it is not the greatest deal.
There's nothing like seeing that big display of brand new fall jackets as soon as you walk into the store. Or the display of power drills and sanders at the entrance of the big box hardware store.
Eye-level displays
In the main aisles, the priciest name brands tend to be located at eye level, where they are easiest to grab. Companies actually pay for that positioning.
Cheaper generics and off-brands are often down at floor level or up high.
10 for 10 and BoGo
Two more tricks: 10 for 10. We all know you don't really have to buy 10, and that it really means one item for $1 at most grocery stores. But many shoppers still buy 10.
And finally BoGo, or buy one get one free (or at half price.)
Moneywatch says shoppers can't resist BoGo, and often buy two pairs of shoes this way, when they never even planned on buying one pair in the first place.
That's a $60 impulse purchase.
What you can do
Retailers and restaurants all want you to think you landed a good deal when you made a purchase.
So its a good idea to be prepared for the "come-ons", the "two-fer" offers and the great displays that await you when you walk into many stores these days.
If you are planning to buy two things, try to resist the urge to buy five more, knowing the psychology stores are using.
That way you don't waste your money.
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