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It was May 1994. My second voyage to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival had come and gone. I was now sticking around the Crescent City for a few days to catch Phish at the State Palace Theater before returning to sunny Florida. To save money we decided to camp on the Mississippi Bayou, home to many a legend, and many a biting insect.
Two nights before the show, while camping out, I made the mistake of not covering every inch of my body to protect it from insects. My ankles were torn apart and dotted like a page of Braille from all the bites.
I awoke the next morning and my left ankle was severely swollen, and very sore and tender. It hurt to walk on it. All I could think to myself was that this could not and would not ruin my Phish experience. The swelling would go down and I would have no problem. Well not quite. Through the course of the day my ankle continued to bother me but it was far from unbearable. I continued to think that it would slowly go away, so as not to interfere with the show the following evening. With that thought in mind, I went to bed.
Lo and behold, I woke up the next morning, the swelling was gone, and any pain had all but vanished. All I had left to do was enjoy the show that evening. As we waited in line for the show to start, rumors abounded that the Cosmic Country Horns would be joining the band as they had in NYC earlier in the tour. I made it through a great first set, still no problems.
The second set began, and it was really inspirational. They kicked it off with Antelope, one of my all-time favorites. This was made even more special when Trey dedicated the Antelope jam to a friend back in Burlington who had given birth to a baby during set break. He playfully wished "the baby [went on to live their] life something like that jam" and that it be named Marco Esquandolas. You wouldn't happen to have any spike man?
The set continued with a Bouncin', and then YEM into jam and bring on the horns. The Cosmic Country Horns (The Giant Country Horns + Michael Ray), marched out on stage in all their psychedelic glory blowing their brass to the beat while Trey and the crowd cheered them on. From there they proceeded to blow the roof off the State Palace Theater with made-for-horns songs like Julius, Magilla, and even a rendition of Duke Ellington/Juan Tizol's Caravan.
The show was a real barn burner and gently set me down on an astral plane somewhere this side of the Milky Way. I found myself waiting outside the venue about an hour after it ended when Mike Gordon came strolling by with a friend. "Hey, what's up?" I said. "Not much, me and a friend are going to grab a drink, wanna come?" Mike replied. Being the responsible friend that I am, and knowing how much it sucks thinking that you have lost a member of your party in a town as sketchy as New Orleans (although I love it), I declined, choosing to wait for my pals.
By this point I was exhausted, and had long since forgotten about my previously bad ankle. Unfortunately, I awoke to a painful reminder. The ankle was again swollen, only now it had become so painful I could bear no weight on it or even move it. I thought I had broken my ankle. We had a long drive ahead of us and my first priority was to see a doctor upon returning. It turned out the excessive bug bites had infected my ankle causing the pain and swelling. After twenty-four hours and a few antibiotics, I was 100 percent healed.
Looking back on the whole event, I am still amazed how I was able to will sickness away long enough to enjoy a healing of another sort, a spiritual one.


text: Agencies dealing with the Kosovo refugee crisis have said that they think they do now know what happened to the tens of thousands of refugees who were removed - some against their will - from a border camp on Wednesday. Most of them have been tracked down to other campas in Albania and Macedonia. But there are new fears for ethnic Albanians who haven't been able to get out of Kosovo. The International Development Secretary, Claire Short, spoke of a worrying change in Serb tactics - there's concern that the refugees may be used as human shields. The town of Omagh has offered to take in some of the refugees.

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The Elliptical Frontiers
With an acute understanding of color relationships, proportion, and design, Robert Straight explores abstraction in his acrylic paintings. Taking imagery and ideas from the world around him, he continually investigates the materials and forms of painting, choosing to never settle into a particular style. Characteristics common to all of his painting and drawing include a command of the language of abstraction, both geometric and organic, careful attention to materials and processes, and a particular sensitivity for color and the relationships between colors. Best known for his understanding of geometric abstraction, he also explores paint application, including the use of a squeegee, laser-cut paper patterns, and even making his own tools rather than relying simply on a brush. He builds up his surfaces through a series of layers, utilizing a stencil technique, masking out sections of the painting. Throughout his career, Straight has investigated and utilized the history of art, mathematics (number sequences and Euclidean constructions), structures found in nature, and the images and objects of diverse cultures. His new body of work continues to explore these themes. Tree branches, fan shapes, and floral forms populate the compositions, along with geometric structures. Straight brings together images from many sources, creating multiple levels and strata, producing dynamic images that play with pattern and design.
—J. Susan Isaacs, PhD, DCCA Curator of Special Projects
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Statement of Mark David Bateman: Electronic Edition, by Mark David BatemanTable of Contents
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The Witness statement of Zoe Polanska-Palmer.
97.The application notice states the Claimant could not have produced Zoe Polanska Palmer at the trial, because the Claimant had no knowledge of her until after the trial. It should be noted, however, that the Claimant did not adduce evidence from any eye witnesses to support his case. He does not suggest that he tried (but failed) to obtain such evidence. It would be surprising if he had even attempted to do such a thing: clearly, the fact that a single eye witness did not see something does not mean that it did not happen. It is only if there is a convergence of all the evidence that such a conclusion would follow. Even if Ms Polanska-Palmer saw nothing at all, her evidence would still be of no value for the court in this action.
98.Further, as appears from James Libson's witness statement (paragraphs 32-88), her evidence does not fulfil the 2nd or 3rd tests of Ladd v Marshall. Penguin notes that, despite requests going back to 1st March 2001, no signed version of Ms Polanska-Palmer's evidence has been received.
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Culver-Stockton College continued its tradition of honoring the accomplishments of students during the annual Honors Day Convocation Monday, May 13.
Dozens of students were awarded for overall academic achievement, outstanding performance within their major, academic competition and scholar-athlete rankings. Many of the awards have been established by or in memory of Culver-Stockton alumni/ae.
Awards and recipients include:
• Anna Martin, a senior history education major from Palmyra was awarded The Colman K. Winn Award for Excellence in Education.
• William Jackson, a sophomore musical education major from New London was awarded The Ellen Bowlin Boulware Endowed Vocal Music Award.
• Anna Martin, a senior history education major from Palmyra was awarded The Frank T. Edgar Award in History & Political Science and The J. David Bursewicz Senior Scholarship Award.
• Amy Durst, a junior nursing major from Durham was awarded The Junior Scholarship Award.
• Sarah Bouldin, a senior legal studies major from Troy was awarded The Koch Divisional Award.
• Anna Martin, a senior history education major from Palmyra was awarded The Phi Eta Sigma Book Award.
• Jessica Yagyagan, a senior elementary education major from Palmyra was awarded The Pi Lambda Theta Award.
• Emily Tucker, a sophomore psychology major from Frankford was awarded The Celia Frances Beck Creative Life Award.
Members of the class of 2013 will receive their diplomas during the Commencement Ceremony to be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 18, on the campus of Culver-Stockton College.
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The NLG Review Ranks #4 in Constitutional Law Reviews
The NLG is proud to announce that the quarterly National Lawyers Guild Review has been ranked as the #4 Constitutional Law review in 2013 by ExpressO.
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The NLG is proud to announce that the quarterly National Lawyers Guild Review has been ranked as the #4 Constitutional Law review in 2013 by ExpressO.
We would like to extend our sincere solidarity with our fellow lawyers and legal workers fighting for the rights of all those who have been detained, arrested, and violently attacked for peaceful protest in the last few weeks.
The NLG wrote a letter urging the U.S. Senate to block a bill that proposes allowing Israel to discriminate against American travelers. Read the full letter here.
The National Lawyers Guild recently sent a delegation to Guatemala to observe the precedent-setting genocide trial of U.S.-supported military dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt and his advisor Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez. In the wake of uncertainty over whether the trial would continue after widely criticized procedural developments over the last few weeks, we were pleased that the U.S. dispatched Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp to Guatemala to signal the importance of upholding the rule of law.
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) urges the Federal Bureau of Investigation to respect the political asylum status of Assata Shakur (a.k.a. Joanne Chesimard). The FBI has designated the 65-year old former Black Panther Party member a "terrorist" and increased the bounty for her capture from $1 million to $2 million.
The National Lawyers Guild joins Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and special rapporteur to the United Nations, in calling for an investigation into the causes of acts of terrorism directed at the United States.
Calls for adherence to federal presentment statute and to afford Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Miranda rights.
A delegation of National Lawyers Guild (NLG) election monitors visited polling sites in five Venezuelan states on April 14 and found that the Venezuelan presidential election process was fair, transparent, participatory, and well-organized.
If ever there were a moment to act upon the promise you made over four years ago to shutter the prison, it is now.


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The Fourth of July is a perfect all-American holiday celebrating Land of the Free. The stars and stripes at the beginning of parades are followed by bands playing patriotic songs as helicopters fly overhead. All this activity in celebration of signing the Declaration of Independence, which ultimately lead to the creation of the United States and the adoption of the Bill of Rights with its ensuing freedoms.
I didn't seriously think about what America's freedoms meant until I was in college. I was standing with a friend from Afghanistan waiting for a movie to begin on campus. We were surrounded by posters of candidates running for student government. I asked him if he was going to vote in the election. He said, "I've never voted for anything in my life." I remember that statement because I had been voting since I was old enough to raise my hand. I specifically recall voting for class officers in fifth grade as an exercise in the democratic process. The freedom to vote is an awesome privilege.
I was in Europe when I seriously considered freedom again. Germany was still a divided nation. At the time, civilians were not to go within a kilometer of the East/West German border, but a group of us received permission to go to the actual border. We went to the edge of a beautiful, green forest. There were no fences, wires, or other barriers. Only a post with a medallion marked the division. That is, until we looked past the post. A gray concrete tower stood several yards away. Our guide said we were probably being filmed by the armed guards at the time, and if we decided we wanted to take the medallion from the post as a souvenir we could legally be shot, because the post was on East German soil. The tower was intimidating, but it was the totally bare soil several yards wide beneath the tower that awed me. It was a mine field designed to keep its citizens inside. Intellectually, I knew about the border and the politics that created it, but seeing that mine field for myself made me reevaluate my freedom and those who are not free.
The library has numerous books written by and about people overcoming tremendous hardships to find freedom. Slavomir Rawicz tells of escaping from a Siberian Gulag, across the Gobi Desert and Himalayas to British India in "The Long Walk." In "Tears of the Desert," Halima Bashir chronicles her survival of the genocide in Darfur. "Elizabeth and Hazel" by David Margolick documents two women on opposite sides of the civil rights movement in the United States.
As you enjoy the festivities that the Fourth has to offer, I hope you'll reflect on the nature of freedom. It's a great thing to celebrate.


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pass the information to the appropriate law enforcement agency. This week we need your help to locate the following individuals who
are wanted on warrants which have been issued by the Winnebago County states attorney's office. The first subject is wanted for burglary.
Joel Zavala is 21 years old, 5'6 tall, 140 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes. Jennifer Dock is wanted for theft. Dock is 23 years old, 5'5 tall, 145 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes. Rick Gork is wanted for aggravated battery. Gork is 21 years old, 6'2 tall, 175 lbs., with brown hair and brown eyes. Victor Leavy is wanted for narcotics violation. leavy is 28 years old, 5'11 tall, 210 lbs., with black hair and brown eyes. If you know the whereabouts of one of the subjects you have just seen or have information on other wanted subjects or criminal activity call Crime Stoppers. if your call leads to an arrest or solves a crime you will be paid a cash reward up to $1,000. please
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"David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition" takes its title in a roundabout way from "A Bigger Splash," the British artist's dreamy 1967 painting of a man diving into a Southern California swimming pool. That was also the title of a revealing 1973 documentary film about the artist.
But the new exhibit, continuing through Jan. 20 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, is not about that David Hockney, who was once described in an art directory as "the official painter of California." Nor is it about the bold theater artist who designed stunning productions of operas such as "Turandot" and "The Magic Flute."
The exhibition may be overwhelming, with nearly 400 images on two floors, but it covers primarily the past decade of the 76-year-old artist's half-century career. Don't go in looking for sun-drenched poolscapes, palm trees or costume sketches.
Don't assume, either, that it's an exhibition that settles into old age. Hockney is as prolific as ever. The de Young's deputy director, Richard Benefield, who arranged the show, said some works arrived before the paint was even dry. The dazzling colors, gargantuan scale of some images and video installations give it all a carnival atmosphere. Many Hockney fans will have a lot of fun.
But just inside the entrance to the exhibition, Hockney's past seems to come alive with sweet simplicity.
There's an unassuming "Self-Portrait in Bathroom Mirror With Sink, New York," lightly sketched in watercolor and crayon. Next to it another watercolor, "View From Mayflower Hotel, New York" from the same year, looks like a spring magazine cover for The New Yorker. A crayon-and-watercolor "Study for Cherry Blossom" is hard to resist.
Adjacent is "Self Portrait With Red Braces" from 2003, a watercolor depicting Hockney with those red suspenders over a black shirt, peering at a mirror, his glasses halfway down his nose, looking not at all like the youngster who made his way to California in the 1960s. It's an image that announces, right at the start, "This is who I am. Now."
Bigger works, assembled from four or six sheets of paper, can be magical. "The Maelstrom, Bodo," is a waterscape of dazzling whirlpools; "Near Nordkaap" depicts deep violet island peaks against a glowing blue sky.
Nearby, a grid of watercolors from the series "Midsummer: East Yorkshire" looks so fresh with its fields, harvests and puffy clouds that it seems Hockney has reinvented himself as a young artist of maybe 50 years ago.
Those watercolors are abruptly supplanted by the huge oil paintings of British scenes, many on grids of multiple canvas panels, that fill the central section of the exhibition. Most of these were shown last year at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, drawing mixed -- sometimes withering -- reviews from critics who used such words as "gaudy" and "spectacularly weird."
They certainly don't resemble picture-postcard views of the English countryside. Not with the hyper-saturated color some have likened to Disney animation and barren tree limbs that look downright threatening. "Bigger Trees Near Warter, Winter 2008" seems to show a thick grove on the move. "May Blossom on the Roman Road" is nowhere near as delicate as the title suggests -- those blossoms explode beneath a churning, blue-and-pink Van Gogh-inspired sky.
It's easy to escape all that melodrama via what will surely become the exhibit's central gathering place. It's Hockney's take on the familiar multiscreen film and video: four "moving" grids on all four walls, displaying spring, summer, autumn and winter in Woldgate Woods. It was photographed from nine cameras mounted on a moving vehicle. Whether art or just a multiple video, it's like a revitalizing exhibit in a world's fair pavilion.
In every case, the moving image draws attention in a hypnotic way that even 12-foot-high depictions of Yosemite do not.
"The Jugglers," a 2012 video production on 18 screens, really does create something innovative from Hockney's multiple-viewpoint technique. It's like a dazzling, dizzying, CinemaScope dream. A romantic English landscape, on another 18 screens, faces the de Young's main lobby, drawing visitors into a kind of annex to the exhibit.
Hockney has made news with his use of technology, surveyed here in a section titled "From Pixels to Print." First on an iPhone, then an iPad, using the Brushes application, he's done sketches and then drawings. Initially, he emailed them to friends, but now he's printing them on multiple sheets of paper to form "paintings" as large as 12 feet high.
His Yosemite series may be the most notable of these digital-to-print images, with its flattened perspective, bright colors and almost surreal atmosphere. They look even more sketchy when the five huge images fill the gallery walls. It's a long way from Ansel Adams, but just as personal.
In the midst of all this, a wide showcase displays 19 of Hockney's sketchbooks: real pencil, real ink, real watercolor on real paper. With focus and detail, they reveal the hand of the artist. The images are delightfully, absolutely Hockney's, such as chopsticks resting by a plate and a jumble of cigarette butts on a saucer.
The high-tech transformations lead to some questions throughout the exhibit. Which images are "original"? Which are "real"? There are a couple of convoluted labels, such as "Inkjet prints from digital photographs of the original drawings."
During a discussion after an exhibit preview, Hockney said that the iPad is a speedy tool, albeit just one way to continue the ancient practice of drawing. "It is a new medium, but you do need to draw on it," he said. "You need to know something about drawing."
As if to prove the point, early this year Hockney completed a series depicting the arrival of spring in Woldgate. His medium was charcoal on paper -- that's right, drawing with charred sticks that he held with his fingers. The drawings, deft but somber, are displayed on the de Young's main floor. Hockney considers them among his best work.
"A Bigger Exhibition" is a show that never seems to end. There is portrait after portrait, some clustered in the main section of the show and others (done this year) in the extension of the exhibit back on the de Young's main floor.
There is even an installation of "The Great Wall," Hockney's collection from 2000 of hundreds of portraits from art history, showing how he believed many artists used optical devices for their compositions.
But wait, there's more. Almost as an afterthought -- maybe pushed into a corner by late-arriving art -- you will find a small group of photo collages from the 1980s. These are among Hockney's most innovative and influential works, in which he took hundreds of photos from a single perspective, then assembled them to create a multiplane scene of a Zen garden, or his paint cart or the Brooklyn Bridge. They seem lost in this exhibit, but they're the perfect bridge between the old Hockney and the new.
'David Hockney:
A Bigger Exhibition'
When: Through Jan. 20; 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday; the exhibit will be open until 8:45 p.m. Fridays through Nov. 29
Where: de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Admission: $15-$25 weekdays, $18-$28 weekends, 415-750-3600, http://deyoung.famsf.org


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The Ongoing Battle for Patient Health
Week in Review: The Ongoing Battle for Patient Health
02.07.14 | By
Every day there is a war to wage against the world's most devastating diseases. It is a fight we must win to make the world a safer, healthier place for our patients, and this week we discussed some of the battles currently underway.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the launch of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) initiative in conjunction with 10 biopharmaceutical companies and non-profit organizations. AMP aims to change the current model for developing new diagnostics and treatments, particularly focusing on Alzheimer's, type 2 diabetes and autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. By bringing together the brightest minds in the scientific community, AMP will fight to increase the number of new treatments for patients while reducing development time and cost, which could yield major benefits for all patients. Many of our battles against disease, however, also require help from those outside the scientific community.
On Tuesday we recognized World Cancer Day and celebrated the tremendous strides that have been made in the global fight against cancer. There are more than 3,000 medicines and vaccines in development aimed to manage, and hopefully beat, various types of cancer, but this fight cannot be won alone. According to a new World Health Organization report, half of all cancers could be prevented if individuals acted on current medical knowledge and addressed lifestyle factors. Check out their report and learn how you can do you part in the fight against cancer.
Our own Stephanie Fischer hosted an incredibly successful #RarePOV Tweet Chat that trended nationally. More than 100 individuals and organizations joined the discussion, which centered around the resources and support available ahead of Rare Disease Day on February 28, 2014. An estimated 30 million Americans suffer from one of the nearly 7,000 diseases that affect fewer than 200,000 people and are classified as rare. The chat was a dynamic conversation and resulted in interesting feedback as well as an overwhelming sense of camaraderie in the fight against rare diseases. If you weren't able to join, you can see the conversation here.
The fight continues against these diseases and many more. Check back in with the Catalyst each week learn about the progress we're making as we tackle some of the most devastating diseases. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter to keep these conversations going.


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Win7-64 - QCAD 3.0
There is on thing that bothers me, the autosnap never seems to work for "on entity", I realize it is the last priority, but I find it very quite useful in many cases, i.e. dimensioning. This feature was working very well in ver 126.96.36.199.
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text: One of the cool things about my job is to see something on a LifeWay Bookstore shelf that was once just a picture in my head. Check this out. Here's a sketch of the idea for the New Testament covers for VBS 2013. It's not the best drawing I've ever done but it doesn't have to be. Scott Burroughs, my artist friend in Arvada, CO, sees pictures in his head too. He can make any 'ole rooster scratches look good! Below is what Scott sent back—clearly a much better sketch, still rough, but one that ... Continue Reading


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My Windows XP machine went "phut" the other day. I think it isa hardware problem as it had been "phutting" more and more over the pastmonths, but now it is unusable. This is not the disaster it mayappear to be!
The children are the only ones who really use it and theapplications they use are OpenOffice.org for typinghomework, Firefox for researchingprojects etc and MSN for chatting with friends - thoughnot necessarily in that order. As a temporary measure I letthem use my Ubuntu laptop topull them through, with some surprising results...
One of the main reasons my children used Windows XP and not GNU/Linuxbefore was because of their use of MSN. Although GAIM suffices as a chatclient, it is not what they call "Real MSN", and does not have thebells and whistles such as "emoticons" and other gizmos that make itlook like someone has vomited on the screen. Personally I think one ofthe advantages of GAIM is that I am spared from these horrors, but mychildren have informed me that such paraphernalia is crucial to theirgeneration's ability to share internet experiences with others.
I had heard of a product called aMSN – a quick searchthrough Ubuntu's "Add/Remove Programs" option on the "Application" menushowed that it was in the Ubuntu repositories so I installed it for them tosee if it was any better. I was duly informed it was still not "Real MSN",but despite that the client passed the acid test and it is adequatelytacky for them to communicate important information such as thelatest girlfriend/boyfriend news or the playground gossip which theydid not manage to fit in during break-time at school.
My wife is Chinese and the 18th February saw the arrival of the yearof the Pig. Not just any pig though, 2007 sees the advent of the yearof the golden pig, something that happens only every 60 years. My son,being twelve this year, is a pig so this year is very special to us.
To celebrate this we held a new year party and familyand friends descended on us en masse to help consume the mountains ofdelicious Chinese food my wife had prepared for the event. My daughterand her cousins obviously missed some friends because theyfired up the computer and started "chatting" to them through MSN. Aguest, who was glancing over their shoulders while doing this, decidedto show off his knowledge of computers and said "Ah – I see you have gotVista then..."
No I had not. I have no intention of getting Vista unless it isextremely necessary for my business, and then only as a secondarymachine. Also, with my XP machine dieing on me, it appears I haveno Microsoft supported operating systems in the house, just an oldWindows 2000 laptop gathering dust which I occasionally switch on when Ineed a Windows environment. What he saw was Ubuntu for the first time;I guess he came to the conclusion he did because it was slightlyunfamiliar and looked classy.
On the applications front, the developers of aMSN need to becongratulated. They have identified a hole in the requirements of amodern GNU/Linux desktop, especially in a domestic environment likemine, and have filled it. The same goes for the free softwarecommunity in general: a nice usable free desktop exists, in all sensesof the word, enabling a real choice of environment and because of that Ican move my entire family away from the Microsoft monopoly. Althoughthere are some things my children cannot run, and some inconveniencesthey experience because they are not tied into the closed formats andprotocols of their peers, they are not significant enough to keep themon Windows.
Another event happened a few days ago related to Ubuntu: Idiscovered that my children had not done their homework. This isnothing unusual, but this time they blamed the new system. It was notdue to any shortcomings of the GNU/Linux environment, Ubuntu orOpenOffice.org, but rather they had discovered a program called"Five or More". They were hooked and were taking turns on the computerto compete against each other - so much so that it distracted them fromdoing their homework. That is their excuse anyway. Even if I wanted tonow I do not think I can move them back to MS Windows, not withoutfinding a Windows port of that game and other goodies they havediscovered. Hopefully they will show their new system to their friendsand more people will adopt GNU/Linux.
The younger generation are evolving in a rapidly advancing society, farmore so than any has before. Where exactly it is advancing to matters:it is so easy for us to sacrifice their freedoms for our convenience,and so important that does not happen. I do not want my children tofind that some faceless foreign corporation controls their computer anddecides what can be run and when; or for their electronic devices to bedisabled by unaccountable organizations on a whim; or "because theycan", simply using it as a means for increasing profits.
Free software, with GNU/Linux, plays an important role in this contextby creating a base-line of freedoms that other systems willneed to compete with. It is more important now than ever before. I believeGNU/Linux is rising to the challenge, but it needs to continue to doso. It needs significant adoption and slick distributions likeUbuntu are helping (I know it is not perfect and has flaws, I am nottrying to create a distro-war here); programs like aMSN are also veryimportant as they destroy some of the roadblocks to deploying free software. Ialso like to think I am helping with its all-important adoption: it isup to others to judge my performance and contributions though.
Now, when discussing home computers with colleagues I explain: "Mychildren have a fantastic new computer system. And no, it is notVista! No WGA. No license restrictions.".
make amsn more cool
If you would like to make amsn more cool, there is a project called Emerald2.0 http://amsn.lnxteam.org/ which is a skin that makes amsn look more like a modern program
Kopete and Gaim
Yeah I've noticed that aMSN's GUI doesn't seem to be very attractive. Personally, I find Kopete to be good for MSN when using KDE. I also think Gaim's good when using GNOME, but I find it slightly less nice than Kopete. I particularly like how you can set custom names for the contacts in both, which as far as I know you can't do in the official MSN/Windows Live client.
GNU - free as in freedom
I'm quite satisfied with Kopete. I like the seemless (okay, mostly) integration of the different protocols, which is remniscient of Trillian, but free as in freedom. It is annoying that you seemingly can't send messages to non-buddies, though.
Kids Use Linux...
Good article. My 3 daughters (14, 11, 6) and my wife all use Linux at home as I have removed Microsoft products from the house. We use OpenOffice.org, Konqueror, Thundebird and Firefox running on Slackware 11. My eldest comes home from secondary school (a Windows environment) complaining about the number of crashes the PCs had that day and wishes she had Linux there. My 11 year has hassled the IT guy so much that he has now installed OpenOffice.org and The Gimp (albeit windows versions) as standard programs. I have found by showing my kids the alternative and stable software available they won't put up with software that doesn't perform. When given a choice, they choose OpenOffice.org and Firefox everytime.
Kids are the future, show THEM what is available, they will set the standards for all software and only that which makes the grade will survive.
Your comments are right on the spot ! I also run a small internet-café, with teenagers and young adults customers, here in the north-coast of the Dominican Republic, and what people want is the "REAL MSN". I have 4 public PC's, 2 of them dual boot with winxp, being also Edubuntu Dapper & Vector Linux 5.8 Std. And the 2 others are Vector only.
I am glad for aMsn because it is trendy enough to feel like the bloated Microsoft counterpart, but I wish it will go further in the teenagers idea of instant messenging.
As of me, I use Gaim only, because I have no use for those things... My main box is FC6, and it looks much nicer than Vista whenever I use Beryl... But I must admit I just uninstall Beryl, as I am not a big fan of those 3D things...
Anyway, your article was a good read, and I get your feeling ;)
As an added idea, if they want to use the sys for school too, they can use Edubuntu. You can even load it on top of Ubuntu or as a separate install. Due to the range of ability children have there will be programs that are not 'of their age' but there will be others that could promote their schoolwork.
You've been dugg...
Vista v. Beryl
I have my Ubuntu laptop set up with Beryl. I had a Windows Vista background modified to say "is SPYWARE," a blue theme, and blue/green skydome. One of the techs at the computer store / repair shop where I work said "oh you got Vista?"
"No, this is Linux. Read the background"
"But Vista can do that, right?"
*spins cube to other desktop "No, Vista can't do any of this" *uses the Expose plugin*
"I've seen that before though"
"No, you saw a Mac do some of it"
"Oh, yeah that's right..."
"The new Macs that aren't out yet will have multiple desktops, but they won't flip like this. They don't have the 3d desktop or the wobbly windows. Expose *demos that again* is the only thing already on Macs"
"Yeah but how much memory does that use?"
"I'm using 500mb right now. If I play a DVD and open more Firefox tabs, get on Gaim and IRC...about 900"
"How much memory do you have?"
"A gig--I've never used swap. I didn't even have swap for a while"
*looks stunned* "You've NEVER touched a pagefile?! How?!"
"Linux isn't as bloated as Windows, more optimized"
RE: Vista v. Beryl
I've had conversations like that before, but somehow people aren't impressed when I do that and tell me all about how cool WMP9 and IE7 are and how I need to get Vista so I can check it out. I've used WMP9 and IE7. They're not worth the time.
Monkey Messenger
There is a new mono-based MSN client in the works called Monkey Messenger, which claims to be on-par with the "real" one.
The new generation needs Linux and free software
I'm a college student from China, and also using Ubuntu. Nice to meet you here who has a chinese wife. ^_^ That's very good you've converted your children to GNU/Linux, although it was caused by a game.
I'm 22. When I was a child, I remember that the only thing we could play what has some relations to electronics is GBA, and it's even not colorful. When I went to high school, the only OS we had is Win98, I never heard about Linux or Unix before I went to the college. This might be the big difference in China. However, I think we need Linux and free software much urgently than west countries, for our falling behind in IT developing and lack of enough money into research.
But that's odd, few people in China knows GNU/Linux, let alone contribute to this great project. I think the main problem caused this is education. People at my age have no much knowledge about it, and as a result we would teach the new generation only Windows, from 9x to NT and now Vista. And our children will teach their children Windows, and so on and so on......
Finally, I would to say sorry for my English, hope I've made myself clear. Thanks for the great post!
"does not have the bells and
"does not have the bells and whistles such as "emoticons" and other gizmos that make it look like someone has vomited on the screen. Personally I think one of the advantages of GAIM is that I am spared from these horrors, but my children have informed me that such paraphernalia is crucial to their generation's ability to share internet experiences with others."
My experiences on forums (some thing, only asynchronous) with a lot of teens seems to show similar behavior which isn't actually that surprising if you think about your developmental psychology.
Image is extremely important to teenagers. They're at a stage in life where they are actively trying to define their ego and super-ego (to use psych terms I'm not qualified to use ;-) ), and the image they portray to their friends is an important part of that experience.
For them, conversation is just as important as display behavior as it is for actively seeking information. This is why you'll frequently see posts like "Oh that is SO true!" (basically NO denotative content), but this post has an avatar, a tagline, a "location" (frequently comically fake), and a 500 word signature quoting their favorite song lyrics, anime characters, or whatever. On some sites, it may also have gender, sexual preference, astrological sign, favorite band, favorite anime, or whatever else you'd be frightened to imagine.
This is more about establishing presence and making peer bonds than it is about communicating in the technical sense. It's what substitutes online for "face time". And just like teenagers spend hours on what decorative T-shirt or earrings to wear and whether their hair should be long or short and which popular accent they should attempt to fake or what slang words are cool, they spend just as much time on these electronic accutrements.
They'll grow out of it -- sort of. Most adults still care about the status impression that their car or house makes. Even choosing to "dress down" or "look nerdy" is often really a signal, used to link to certain peer groups.
Of course, I went to a high school with uniforms, so some of these behaviors are held in check -- but we still found ways to push the envelope. An online communities I moderate for has a similar set of restrictions -- limits on avatars and signatures, for example. That actually works pretty well at maintaining a sense of balance -- but I'm sure there are a lot of kids who don't find that comfortable and so go elsewhere.
I think the "younger generation" (queue Lawrence Welk) has a lot of fun with these things, and so they do matter. We should definitely not delude ourselves about that: free software needs to provide these kinds of tools as much as serious communications channels, applications, or games. I'm glad to hear that it hasn't been that much of a problem.
I myself have been treated to the forbidden pleasures of flash animations -- my kids have discovered apparently endless collections of parody animations based on video game characters and the like. The volume of this kind of work that exists is really stunning: I bet amateur flash animators are producing more total animated cartoon output than the entire commercial industry did when *I* was 10.
Good for your children!
Your kids are smart in staying away from that MS Office. Openoffice all the way!
Yours truly now has a blog.
Custom emotes in Gaim
Gaim surpasses Yahoo messenger at one point: you can create custom emote themes in Gaim. Just take a look at how the themes on gaim.sf.net work. Then your children can make custom themes to share with their friends (yeah, Gaim in windoze, just care about the line ending in text files though).
I still couldn't convert all my friends to Gaim, coz they need webcam/audio support. Hope vv comes to Gaim soon.
P/S could you please remove "coward" from the generic name?


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An American flag blows in the breeze in front of one of the largest pils of storm debris at the Jersey shore in Long Branch N.J. in this Nov. 15, 2012 photo. Superstorm Sandy created tons of debris that towns in New York and New Jersey are still struggling to dispose of weeks later. Three weeks in, the round-the clock effort to remove storm rubble has strained the resources of sanitation departments and landfill operators, and caused heartaches and headaches for thousands of families. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
After overwhelming support from the community, New World Flood in Lansing is collecting donations for another trip out east.
The group has sent four trailers filled with clothes, food, toys, blankets and other items to the victims of Hurricane Sandy since the storm hit last month.
For the final drive, New World Flood is collecting the following items:
- Toys (only new, packaged, unwrapped toys will be accepted)
- Trash Bags
- Non-perishable food (canned goods)
- Cleaning supplies
- Batteries (all sizes)
- Cooking items (such as charcoal)
**Absolutely no clothing will be accepted***
There are several locations donations can be dropped off at:
Lansing Area:
- New World Flood Office; Marshall Street Armory, 330 Marshall St., Suite 101 (drive to the back of building to drop off materials, a sign will be posted on the office window).
- Donations accepted 10am - 6pm (Wednesday 11/28 - Friday 11/30 only)
Battle Creek:
- Battle Creek Metro PCS; 5275 Beckley, Battle Creek, MI 49015
- Donations accepted 9am - 5pm (Mon, 11/26 - Thu, 11/29, Friday, 11/30 until Noon)
Kalamazoo Area (3 locations):
- Kalamazoo Metro PCS; 4436 S. Westnedge Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008
- Metro PCS Campus; 2929 Howard St., Kalamazoo, MI 49008
- Midwest Communications; 4200 W. Main St., Kalamazoo, MI 49006
- Donations accepted 9am - 5pm (Mon, 11/26 - Thu, 11/29, Friday, 11/30 until Noon)


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Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten.
UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)--The 17-page document produced by the latest global gathering here on women's rights leaves open what appears to be a long-term fight between conservative and progressive factions within the Commission on the Status of Women.
"It's turning into a battle ground over women's rights and that was not the original intention of the Commission on the Status of Women," said Savi Bisnath, associate director of the Rutgers University-based Center for Women's Global Leadership, in New Jersey, in a phone interview. "It was supposed to be a forum in which we can discuss and negotiate and advance women's rights."
UN Women's Executive Director Michelle Bachelet announced her resignation as the head of the gender equality superagency on March 15, the same day 131 U.N. member nations jointly issued the outcome document.
In parting words, the former president of Chile said she was "particularly heartened" that conclusions were reached, given that in 2003, when the commission also tackled the thematic issue of violence against women, it ended without an agreement.
The rights of women are becoming more prominent and contentious at the U.N., as more agencies, offices and initiatives are expected to work together on gender equality, sexual violence in armed conflict and maternal health.
Member nations of the U.N. sit in on the Commission on the Status of Women, a policy-making body of the U.N. Economic and Social Council. They negotiate mostly as regional factions.
Conservative Backlash
Shannon Kowalski is director of advocacy and policy of the New York-based International Women's Health Coalition.
"One of the biggest challenges was that the African group, which includes Egypt and a number of ultra-conservative countries, continued to work together as a group," Kowalski said. "The more progressive countries, like Kenya, Zambia and South Africa, were not able to moderate those positions in the way we would have hoped."
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood criticized a draft agreement last week, calling the document misleading, deceptive and contradictory to the principles of Islam. It listed free contraceptives for adolescent girls, equal rights for adulterous wives, equal rights for homosexuals and the right for women to file legal complaints against their husbands accusing them of sexual assault as "destructive tools meant to undermine the family as an important institution."
The Observer Permanent Mission of the Holy See also mustered strong conservative positions on sexual and reproductive health. The mission was unable to respond to an interview request to meet this publication's deadline.
The conclusions in the final outcome document say that violence against women has a short- and long-term effect on sexual and reproductive health and that governments should provide survivors and victims with access to related services.
Up to seven out of every 10 women will suffer violence in their lifetimes, according to U.N. figures. And about 603 million women live in countries where domestic violence is not a crime.
Kowalski hoped for a more progressive document and said more lobbying will be done around sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as reproductive rights, in the lead up to next year's meeting. That meeting will focus on the "post-2015 development framework," following the end of the eight anti-poverty U.N. Millennium Development Goals.
Drawing Global Leaders
The two-week-long meeting routinely attracts thousands of civil society leaders and activists from around the world to participate in back-to-back panel discussions.
Some travel long distances at their own expense or personal risk.
It took Zahara Abdalniem Mohamed, a gender rights activist from North Darfur, Sudan, seven days to reach New York. She took risks in leaving her village. Militants regularly attack and rape women when they go beyond the village's borders, Mohamed said.
But the opportunity for Mohamed and others to share common experiences in New York and report back to their countries each year is worth the trip, she said. They can also take the outcome document home as a national lobbying tool.
Gender rights advocates are calling the agreement uneven. It's strong on such issues as providing emergency contraception to survivors of sexual assault. The document also condemns gender-related killings, or femicide, and violence against women and girls in conflict and post-conflict settings, which drew a statement of commendation from Zainab Bangura, the secretary general's special representative on sexual violence in armed conflict.
It agrees to protect female human rights defenders and says no custom, tradition or religious custom should stop governments from working to eliminate violence against women.
But the document goes silent on protections for lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual people. It also does not condemn violence against women in intimate partner relationships.
"It's a crapshoot every year," said Cynthia Rothschild, an independent consultant on sexuality, gender and HIV who has closely followed the negotiations for several years. "Some people say it is the issue of sexual and reproductive rights that makes this controversial. I say it is the manipulation of tradition and culture for a political end. It is the denial of women's rights."
Rothschild said the document's failure to address sexual orientation and gender identity and intimate partner violence was significant, but not surprising. "There is something kind of pathetic about the fact that states can't even allow for recognition that this kind of violence exists in 2013," she added.
Last year, member nations did not agree upon any document to reaffirm the meeting's theme of sexual and reproductive rights.
Amy Lieberman is the U.N. correspondent for Women's eNews.
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'MythBusters' stars bring science show to North Port
Published: Friday, November 16, 2012 at 3:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 16, 2012 at 3:35 p.m.
NORTH PORT - It is a television show famous for burning off eyebrows and blowing things up. You know, the fun parts of science.
So the North Port High School staff might be wise to make sure all fire extinguishers and smoke alarms are in good working order before two cast members from Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" make an appearance on Dec. 1.
Television personalities Grant Imahara and Kari Byron are visiting the school for an event sponsored by the Gulf Coast Community Foundation.
Past episodes of "MythBusters" have involved everything from lighting models of the Hindenburg on fire to test why the famous zeppelin exploded, to driving a car into a lake to discover the best way to escape.
The show — one of television's most popular and enduring science programs — has even attracted appearances from the likes of President Barack Obama and former major league pitcher Roger Clemens.
The North Port event will feature a "live discussion, presentation, and question-and-answer session" with Imahara and Byron as part of the Foundation's STEMsmart initiative, a project geared toward strengthening science, technology, engineering and math education.
STEMsmart is investing in new classroom technology, professional development for teachers, student internships, science and math clubs and special events — such as the "MythBusters" presentation.
Imahara is a former animatronics engineer and model maker for George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic.
Byron has worked as a model maker and creator of toy prototypes and for the visual-effects studio M5 Industries.
Seats for the 11 a.m. program can be reserved online at http://www.stemsmart.org/.
Admission is free but tickets must be reserved.
Herald-Tribune Staff Writer Zac Anderson contributed to this report.
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I've been using QCad 22.214.171.124 for about a year now and although I'm very pleased with it I have some suggestions which I think might improve an already great piece of software:
1 I would like to see the amount of space taken up by toolbars reduced to the absolute minimum. To this end it would be nice to be able to choose the tool buttons individually, and to be able to put them wherever one likes. Narrower toolbars would help too. (So would a bigger screen, but that costs money)
2 A hotkey for select/deselect entity, or leave this permanently on the toolbar - which would be easy if the tool buttons were separated.
3 The possibility to leave more than one snap on at the same time.
4 A hotkey toggle to enable/ disable snap .
5 A quick way to return to last action - for instance if you've been trimming lines, and stop in order to draw more lines , right click, hotkey, or button to return to trimming them.
6 Spline editing. (Someone else has suggested this) For some users (eg boat designers and naval architects, but no doubt there are others) it would be useful to be able to edit splines, making them pass through certain points, or to have a smooth transition to a straight line or another curve. There is a naval architecture program called Hullform which does this, and the manual for this gives a good idea of what I have in mind (http://www.hullform.com/ - there is a non-professional freeware version)


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War of 1812: The story of Joseph Shepard, who risked his life in Battle of York
Born in New Hampshire in 1767, Joseph Shepard had come as a youngster to what are now Quebec's Eastern Townships with his Loyalist family in the wake of the American War of Independence.
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Knit Picks Yarn
Added in May 2005: Read a review of Shine
Added in December 2005: Read a review of Ambrosia
Something big is happening, and you're lucky enough to be right in the middle of it. A major yarn retailer has decided to bypass its vendors, going straight to the mills to produce its own broad and deep line of yarns—and passing almost every cent of their savings on to you.
Suddenly a merino afghan can be yours for under $30. A woman's merino jacket for under $15. An alpaca lace shawl for as low as $8.
Indeed, the prices on Knit Picks yarns are so scandalously low that I wonder if the catalog should be shipped in a plain brown wrapper.
Who, and How?
Launched in 2002, Knit Picks is the knitting branch of consumer catalog and online marketer Crafts Americana.
It is headed by the husband-wife team of Kelley and Bob Petkun. Bob is the self-proclaimed numbers guy, while Kelley—with a genuine and infectious passion for knitting—heads all creative operations.
After Knit Picks' first two years, Kelley and Bob decided that they needed to completely change the way they were doing business. Bob believed that by going directly to the mills and producing their own yarns they could pass a substantial savings on to their customers.
He began by crunching numbers to determine the best-selling yarns from the last two years, and presented the results to Kelley. It was quickly apparent that their best-sellers were basic, standard yarns.
The Quest for Good and Basic
An ardent Elizabeth Zimmermann fan, Kelley firmly believes that "good, basic yarns in natural fibers are the only way to go." Reassured to see that her customers felt the same way, she decided to focus on offering good quality yarns, simply spun from natural fibers.
Bob researched mills and contacted local consulates in Italy and Peru, and within a few weeks he was off to establish relationships with mills.
Peru quickly became their country of choice, not only because their mills offered a good product but because Kelley liked the ability to include alpaca fiber in her yarns. Kelley played an active role in developing these yarns.
As an avid spinner, she insisted that the yarns be four-ply, which she knew was more balanced. She also had fun explaining yarn fundamentals to her husband Bob, for example, that it's OK for self-striping yarns to look so strange on the skein, and that even if the bulky alpaca is reasonably priced, it's too heavy and hot for anybody to wear.
The Unveiling
Kelley has finally unveiled her new yarns in the Winter 2005 Knit Picks catalog. The resulting 11 new yarns—many of which contain some element of alpaca—have been flying off the shelves almost faster than they can stock them.
The Yarns
The first question on everybody's mind—including my own—is are these yarns any good? Having just received a care package with generous samples of each yarn, I can offer these initial impressions.
Wool of the Andes
Peruvian wool is a cross between merino, which gives delicate softness, and Corriedale, a more rugged merino-cross with reasonable softness and greater durability.
This four-ply yarn is priced at $1.79 per 110-yard skein and knits up at 4.5 to 5 stitches per inch on US 6-9 needles. It is available in 24 rather strong, saturated colors (including the Mulled Wine you see here).
The yarn behaved fine when I knit test swatches, with no snagging or other obvious troubles.
Agreed, it felt a little dry and lifeless in my hands, and my stitches looked rather uneven (they smoothed out after a warm wash). But remember: We're discussing a pure wool yarn priced at a mere $1.79 per skein.
Merino Style
Pure merino tends to be more rare and delicate, bringing the bill for Merino Style up only slightly to $2.29 per 123-yard skein. This four-ply yarn knits up at 5.5 stitches per inch on US 5 needles, and is available in 24 lighter but still saturated colors (pictured here in Rhubarb).
Distinctly softer than Wool of the Andes, Merino Style was perhaps my most pleasant surprise. Knitting was fast, smooth and easy, and the swatches were soft, even, and light. How exciting for new and budget-conscious knitters to get to experience merino without intimidation!
But here are a few notes about this yarn, only for those seeking perfection. First, it didn't have as much bounce and elasticity as other, more expensive merinos I've tried.
Second, when I pulled a few individual fibers loose from the yarn and tugged them, they quickly snapped. This snap test is something you usually you do when testing a fleece, but I was curious how it would work with these fibers. (You grab a lock of fibers from a fleece and tug them firmly. You want a fleece whose fibers don't break.)
But again, at $2.29 for 123 yards of pure merino, this is a fantastic bargain—regardless of whether or not the individual fibers snap under pressure. Held tight with four plies, the fibers will hold together just fine.
Possibly my favorite of the Knit Picks line, this plush and soft combination of 70% baby alpaca and 30% silk comes in 110-yard skeins priced at $4.29 apiece. For alpaca and silk, that's still a bargain.
Elegance knits up at 5.5 stitches per inch on US 5 or 6 needles. It worked up quickly, easily, and evenly for me, producing a next-to-the-skin soft and plump fabric. It has the visual shimmer of silk paired with the slinky drape and warmth of alpaca.
It is initially available in 12 colors, including the Wild Rose you see here.
Andean Silk
This is the only yarn in the Knit Picks offering about which I have slight misgivings. Although luxurious in principle, with 55% super fine alpaca, 23% silk, and 22% merino, the fibers somehow didn't quite come together in this batch.
Blame it on rushed processing, perhaps? As I knit, I kept finding tiny flecks of what I presume to be silk noil that—with lengthier and more careful processing—probably would've been removed. However, lengthier and more careful processing would also up the price from $3.29 per 96-yard skein (a catalog typo listed it at 110). So, again, put these remarks in context.
To its credit, the yarn has an extraordinary sheen, softness, and drape. It is available in 14 strong, saturated colors (including the Orange pictured here).There are also six colors under the label Andean Silk Twist (pictured here in Pumpkin Patch). In this case, each of the four plies has been dyed a different color.
The resulting lively blend of colors works perfectly in projects that also feature larger areas of each color in the twist. You can use the Andean Silk Twist to transition from one solid to another.
Andean Treasure
Of the yarns I didn't yet have time to try extensively on the needles, this is my favorite. This four-ply yarn contains baby alpaca dyed in 12 gorgeous heathered colors, including the delicate Lilac pictured here.
The yarn comes in 110-yard skeins for $3.79 (so low a price, I almost feel like I should whisper it), knitting up at 6 stitches per inch on US 3 to 5 needles.
The yarn's exquisite softness makes it perfect for any next-to-the-skin garment, especially one that could benefit from alpaca's heavy, relaxed, fluid drape.
Alpaca Cloud and Shimmer Kelley chose to begin with two lace yarns, each of which prominently features alpaca fiber spun in two plies.
Alpaca Cloud (pictured at left in Sunlight) is pure alpaca and ships in 440-yard hanks for the almost shameless price of $3.99. It is initially available in 12 earthy colors, ranging from an airy blue Horizon to deep heathered brown Autumn.
Shimmer (pictured at right in Grape Hyacinth) is so named because of the "shimmery" addition of silk (30% silk to 70% alpaca). It is hand-dyed in eight colorful blends. Each 440-yard hank is priced at $4.99.
Some lace-weight yarns tend to be made from soft, bouncy wools, producing lightweight shawls that seem to float over the body. But with Alpaca Cloud and Shimmer, shawls are anchored by the sophisticated, elegant drape only alpaca provides.
Sock Garden and Sock Landscape Never one to leave sock knitters out of the loop (so to speak), Kelley included a 100% merino sock yarn. The two above are identical in fiber composition. Sock Garden comes in 220-yard skeins, Sock Landscape in 192-yard hanks. Both retail for $3.99 apiece.
Sock Garden is so called because Kelley chose garden-inspired color combinations (including Pansy, pictured here), while the eight colors of Sock Landscape were inspired by, you guessed it, landscape images (including New England Foliage shown here).
A standard pair of socks will require approximately two skeins of either yarn. They both knit up at 7 to 8 stitches per inch on US 1 to 3 needles. (Hand wash or dry clean only.)
Simple Stripes And finally, fans of self-patterning sock yarns rejoice: there's one for you too! It comes directly from Italy and is nearly identical to the competition... except that it's only $3.69 per 231-yard skein. (You'll need two skeins to make a standard pair of socks.)
The superwash yarn is 75% wool, 25% nylon, and knits up at 7 to 8 stitches per inch on US 1 to 3 needles. It is currently available in eight color combinations (I chose the perky Sweet Tarts, pictured here).
What's Next?
Kelley is already hard at work on summer cottons. She told me about her rather unconventional criteria for choosing a cotton. "I am very careful about not getting sunburnt," she said, "but sometimes I get a little pink. You know that chilly feeling you get when you are sunburned? And your skin is so sensitive. Well, I chose cottons that I would like to have against my skin when I am sunburned."
She's been knitting test swatches and running them through the washing machine and dryer to see how they fare, with good results so far.
Beyond the summer cottons, she is also working on introducing more colors. She's also adding scarf components that you can use together to make "silly, sassy scarves," as Kelley described them.
And this fall, even more new lines will be introduced, although it's too soon for Kelley to give details.
What About The Other Guys?
With such inexpensive yarns now available on a large scale, should other yarn companies be nervous? That depends.
If they've been delivering a product nearly identical in quality to the Knit Picks yarns but pocketing a substantial markup for themselves, then yes. That practice may not be able to endure once customers get used to these lower prices.
By cutting out the middleman, Knit Picks has revealed just how inexpensive these yarns can be. But in doing so, they require that either yarn manufacturer or yarn retailer must go.
Why Pay More?
So, now that you know you can get a skein of merino for under $2.50, why bother paying more elsewhere? Again, that depends.
So much goes into a skein of yarn that you cannot possibly judge it by price alone. My best advice is for you to get your hands on some Knit Picks yarn and play with it for a while. Let your hands become familiar with its texture, the way it moves and plays on the needles.
Then, the next time you visit a yarn store, you'll be far better prepared to evaluate similar yet more expensive yarns. Your hands will know the difference and tell you if the value is worth the extra money.
Talk about these yarns in our forums


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Perhaps you don't have a job. Or maybe you want a new challenge, but you don't know what you want to do with your life. If you are under 45 years old, you don't drink, you don't smoke, you don't use perfume, and you don't have nasal problems, there's a career waiting for you in China: Fart smelling.
Called "wen pishi" (聞屁師 or "fart sniffing master") in Chinese, the career isn't exactly well known in China, either. Recently, it's been introduced via newspaper reports as well as a show on Jiangsu Satellite TV called Fei De Will Watch (pictured).
These specialists work at traditional Chinese medicine hospitals and help detect gastro illness through flatulence, reports People's Daily. Chinese traditional medicine offers a more holistic approach; you can read more about how it differs from Western medicine in this University of Pennsylvania piece.
Maybe like how dogs can smell early stages of lung cancer, trained humans can also sniff out serious stomach diseases via farts. The nose is one amazing instrument.
So for example, foul smelling poots might mean the bowels are infected, while other, stronger scents might even mean there is internal bleeding. Serious stuff! It's even more serious when you consider that China accounts for half of the world's stomach cancer deaths, which might be based on diet or even might be genetic.
However, this is not an exact science, and sometimes further tests are necessary. But the specialists can often reveal how something is wrong with a person's body or diet. And how much do these trained toot huffers make? They can make around the equivalent of US$50,000. That's quite a good salary in China, and enough to tell yourself it's not smelly anal oxide you are sniffing, but simply gas.
职业闻屁师年薪30万引争议 疑为嗅辨员一种 [People's Daily]
おならの匂いを嗅ぎ分けるプロ 健康状態チェックに、採用条件は厳しい [Xinhua]


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Best Apps for Surviving Black Friday
It's almost time for the most miserable shopping day of the year, when everyone decides to hit the malls and major stores on the same day, nearly a month before Christmas, to rout out the best deals on gifts.
But these days, shoppers can stem the Black Friday madness. They can avoid getting trampled in the mayhem and sitting in lines for hours. They can do it all from their phones. From the comfort of their sofas or beds.
Not sure how? Grab your smartphone because we're about to go through a few apps that will help you finish your shopping without having to leave the (relatively) safe confines of the Internet.
Amazon Mobile (Android, iPhone). As one of the top retail sites on the Web, Amazon is the first and last stop. If you've already set up an Amazon account and have a credit card tied to it, shoppers can purchase about anything with a few taps. Side bonus: Shoppers can take photos and scan barcodes of products while out in the real world, and buy them through Amazon.
RetailMeNot (Android, iPhone). If you enjoy Black Friday solely for the deals, you're missing out on a lot of apps that already offer deals for major retailers like Nike and Old Navy. RetailMeNot serves as a good aggregator for these deals — which often work for both online and in-store purchases.
Flash sales apps like Gilt and Fab (Android, iPhone). If you're looking for something on the more esoteric side or something more design-oriented, you should do the majority of your shopping on flash sales apps — which often sell products you won't find in brick-and-mortar stores.
In the end, if you absolutely must go out into the fray, here are a few apps that are worth picking up before you leave your home:
ShopKick (iPhone, Android) detects when shoppers are in or near stores and offers rewards targeted to them.
BFAds.net (iPhone, Android) is basically a massive collection of all the major Black Friday sales at top retailers like Best Buy. It'll also aggregate news and deals in the app.
Use a price comparison app that scans barcodes like Amazon or Redlaser (iPhone, Android) to ensure that you are getting the best deal when you are browsing in stores.
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it seems that any time i complete the requirements for an achievement i never get the achievement, ill put it this way i'v played countless games on this site and yet i'm still only level one, either i need to give up gaming or there's something terribly wrong here. I'd appreciate it if you could look into this for me. Thanks
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Canyon Florey's idea to design and build his own lightweight camera equipment started two years ago on an Alaskan sea kayaking trip. The South Shore resident wanted to document the adventure, and he realized that there wasn't anything on the market light enough or compact enough for an extreme cinematographer who wanted to venture into the wild. So he launched Lite Pro Gear, a Meyers-based company that specializes in lightweight camera gear for adventure sports documentarians. Visit the website at www.liteprogear.com, which went live Tuesday, and you'll see that the company currently sells only one piece of equipment, but it's a piece of gear that's already caught the attention of filmmakers nationwide. "I'm kind of surprised that all of a sudden the product we have is considered top-of-the-line, since it's coming from a very small company with limited resources. We just want to continue to create high-grade, lightweight production equipment for the professionals who need it," Florey said.
With a cold rain pounding the roof of a Toyota van — his "mobile R&D unit" — Florey pulled a 38-inch carbon fiber tube from his backpack Wednesday. In less than five minutes, he'd extended the pole into the 10.5-foot, ultra-lightweight Feather Camera Crane that gives cinematographers the ability to capture sweeping, smooth shots without lugging extra pounds into the wilderness. The crane — made mostly from carbon fiber and aircraft-grade aluminum — weighs 3.4 pounds and doesn't require any tools to set up. Perched on a standard tripod, the telescoping carbon fiber boom cradles the camera on one end, while the shooter directs the lens from the other. It's professional-caliber equipment with a $895 price tag that could be prohibitive for amateur shooters, but Florey said that it's a tool for any cinematographer who wants to increase production value of his or her movies. Florey doesn't have an engineering background, but he said the hardest part about the research and design process was finding already available pieces that fit together. The crane's comprised of more than 50 different parts that come various manufacturers, from a machinist in Reno to a factory in China. One of the more innovative components came from a Denver, Colo., company called Boa Technology. Boa manufactures small reels made with stainless steel laces, a closure system usually used for snowboard boots and cycling shoes that allows for microadjusting on the fly. On the crane, the Boa system lets the cinematographer adjust the camera angle without removing the camera from its platform. "This is the first time we've seen the Boa system applied in this way. It's very innovative. We welcome that kind of innovation and entrepreneurial thinking. Sometimes we need to rely on those innovative visionaries to come up with ideas like these," Boa Technology Marketing Director Garett Graubins said. Florey tried to keep all of the production in the United States, but he couldn't find a company that would easily manufacture the telescoping carbon fiber tube, so he set his sights on China. He found a Chinese business on the internet that promised to get him a prototype within about 10 days, and he decided outsourcing was his best option. America has some catching up to do, he said.
Chris Edmands, the founder of Leeward Cinema and the man behind the cameras of the Jeremy Jones "Deeper" and "Further" movies, used to carry a 20-pound camera crane to shoot his human-powered films. Without the use of chairlifts, snowmobiles or helicopters to access the backcountry, every ounce matters and Florey wanted to lighten his friend's load. "I was like, 'My buddy needs a lightweight camera crane.' So I made him one," Florey said. As for Edmands, he said he was blown away the first time he used the Feather Camera Crane and that he'll no longer go on a shoot without it. For Edmands — who'd schlepped the heavier gear throughout Yosemite National Park and into the Arctic and who would saw off extraneous parts from his tripods — a lightweight and durable crane changes the game. "It's perfect. It's the future. It has to be or else people will stop trying to achieve these shots. Half a pound when you don't know what it's like to carry your world around doesn't sound like much, but with the work I do, it's huge," Edmands said. South Lake Tahoe-based adventure photographer and cinematographer Corey Rich took a Feather crane prototype to Pakistan, where he filmed climbers David Lama and Peter Ortner climb the Trango Tower. Many of the shots for the film came from Florey's crane, Rich said. "What I love is that we have a film and photography community that's developing in South Lake Tahoe. Canyon is just part of that world. It's really unique — he's really become an innovator in that area. We're an epicenter, we're becoming one of the great mountain towns. We've always been a great mountain town, but now creativity is part of that equation," Rich said.
Florey said he hopes to grow Lite Pro Gear into a company large enough to employ other community members, but at the moment he's still on the frontier of a relatively new market and he's not sure where the business will take him. Ideally he wants to continue his adventure lifestyle and develop the company to the point where he can run it from his iPhone, and prevent his filming and shooting from slipping away, Florey said. Lite Pro Gear is in many ways a one-man show. Florey builds the cranes himself once the various parts arrive in Meyers, though he does have an additional 10 to 15 people who help him with research and development, marketing and social media. And some members of that informal team —which includes snowboarding rock star Jeremy Jones, outdoor photographer Rachid Dahnoun and South Shore cinematographer Mike Wier in addition to Edmands and Rich — are at the cutting edge of their professions. With its high concentration of extreme athletes and professional cinematographers, Tahoe provides an awesome studio, Florey said. "It puts us in the perfect testing ground. Our outdoors is the perfect studio. Tahoe has a very awesome community of creative people and once you tap into that everyone does a good job of taking care of each other. I have the largest concentration of bad asses here who are down to make stuff happen," Florey said.


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Is Ballinger fertilizer plant a safety concern?
BALLINGER, Texas - After a deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, people all over the Lone Star State have concerns about the plants in their area.
KTXS checked the Big Country and found out there is a fertilizer plant in Ballinger, however, it is not the same type of plant as the one in West.
For the first time in more than 30 years they agreed to let the media inside to help people understand what it is they do there.
"We are not the same kind of company as West. People have a tendency to lump all fertilizer companies together; we are extremely different in that regard," Edward Studer, president of Buddy's Plant Plus.
Buddy's Plant Plus has been in operation in Ballinger for more than 30 years.
"I raised my kids here in this community, I served on the school board here, I hope to raise my grandkids here, and there is nothing that I would do to place myself, my kids or my community in danger. There's no amount of money in the world worth any of that," said Studer.
That doesn't mean he can guarantee there will never be an incident at the plant, but he said they take extra precautions to ensure it will remain contained.
"You never ever want an accident to happen, but you have to be prepared for an accident even if it doesn't," Studer said. "We have accident plans in place with the hospital, with the school, with the fire department for anything that might possibly come around," he added.
The Ballinger Fire Department does a walk-through of the plant once a year. We talked to the Ballinger Fire Department to find out if they think the plant is a concern. They said no.
"They're not the same thing that the other place, West, had. I mean they don't have any anhydrous ammonia or anything like that. Far as I'm concerned I'm not really that worried about it," said Brent Allen, assistant fire chief of the Ballinger Fire Department.
Almost every move made at Buddy's Plant Plus is tracked by the government to ensure that they are complying with safety standards.
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SAN JOSE -- With their hopes for a Pacific Division title dwindling, the Sharks face exactly the kind of team that has given them problems lately when they meet the non-playoff-bound Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.
San Jose is 2-3-2 in its last seven games and although one of those wins came last week against Edmonton, the Sharks have left points on the table over that stretch against four teams that won't be in the postseason.
So does coach Todd McLellan need to remind his players not to take the Oilers for granted?
"I hope we don't do that," he said. "We've learned some lessons -- we've been taught some lessons, I don't know if we've learned them -- from some teams that will not make the playoffs. We haven't had much success against those on some nights."
As an Edmonton team that did defeat San Jose 1-0 on Jan. 29, he added, "We've played them enough, I think we understand them enough to know that they can win a game 6-1 on any given night against any team in the league."
Is there a common theme in San Jose's losses to lower-ranked teams?
"Inconsistency," McLellan said. "We were sloppy at times, play real well for 15 minutes in a period and go to sleep for five. Details. That maybe gets away from us a little more against the non-playoff teams than against the Bostons and St. Louis."
Goalie Antti Niemi, who backstopped the Sharks to a 5-2 win one week ago in Edmonton, will be back in net for San Jose.
With 103 points and six contests remaining on the schedule, the Sharks trail the Anaheim Ducks by three points and have played one more game. On Monday night, the Ducks overcame a four-goal deficit to beat the Winnipeg Jets in overtime, 5-4.
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.


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Landlady gets pulled back out of Punch for the opener and this one was just average to me, and had a rough end. Funky Bitch is back and I like it a lot. Sparkle continues to have great control in tempo. Melt was good and rocking. Double shot of Gamehenge material with an average Lizards and Sloth, both were ok, but not smooth and tight. Maze rocked as usual. Fee and Ice were also just average for me tonight, and so was Lawn Boy. It just seemed kind of extra lame for some reason. Antelope had some teases and was pretty good overall for an average first set closer.
Another deep cut makes its way onto the list as we have a rare Walk Away to open up second set. Not sure why, maybe for the pun of walk away, run away? Anyway, Jim is really on tonight, and totally rocks! Mound was good, maybe a few week spots in the jam. It's been a little while for Gin also, and this one was good. Then the Balls come out... YEM starts kind of rough, but then there is the priceless debut of the PEZ song? Funny story before YEM actually takes shape. It was a pretty good jam, plus a funny vocal jam off of Higher Ground that rounded out the 20 minute affair. Paul gets the call and had a cut in the recording, but pretty standard for this one. HYHU brings Fish out for a long Love You, with band intros. Mike gets the back end of this show starting with a long, rocking Possum, complete with McGrupp teases for a lot of it. Nice one to close up the mostly average second set.
Mike continues with a kind of rare Contact. Great stage banter during and at the end when an annoyed Mike sings "Sing the song." to Trey. Double Mike encore with the always entertaining Creature from Mars! Really funny stuff here, as Fish starts the jam while Trey isn't ready, so he doesn't play and Fish apologizes over and over. "Sorry about that man."
There are too many average songs in here to make this five stars, although Mike did play a lot better overall tonight. I'm going to give this show four stars like last night's show.


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Alice Lloyd College is a non-sectarian institution and promotes no specific doctrine or creed. Students are encouraged to attend the church of their choice. However, the college philosophy is based on the Christian faith and promotes Christian principles and values.
The College has an active Baptist Collegiate Ministry chapter, which is open to all denominations. Activities include:
- weekly prayer sessions
- dorm Bible studies (Thursdays)
- discipleship training
- various mission projects
- participation in creative ministry and musical ensemble ministry teams
- several state and national events
- transportation by bus to Hindman Student Ministries activities on Wednesday nights
BCM offers students an opportunity for Christian fellowship. A student-elected executive council works closely with the director to coordinate campus activities. The BCM participates in activities on the state level in such events as the annual volleyball tournament and state convention. Raising money for world hunger missions and going on mission trips are some other projects the BCM undertakes. The BCM's primary goal is to promote the spiritual growth of the student body.
Along with providing opportunities for student involvement in Hindman Student Ministries, the BCM also encourages participation in Caney Student Ministries, a non-traditional Christian worship service for college students, high school students, and college-aged adults in eastern Kentucky. Services are held every Monday at 9 PM in the CSM Center on the campus of Alice Lloyd College.
The BCM Director is available to mentor students in their spiritual development. For more information, contact:
Matthew Stewart, Campus Minister
Phone: (606) 368-6087
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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POSITION: Left Wing
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Palmerston, ON, CAN
DRAFTED: NSH: 2007-58 overall
|@AFNOT = Traded to Pittsburgh by Nashville with Patric Hornqvist for James Neal, June 27, 2014. Traded to Toronto by Pittsburgh with Kasperi Kapanen, Scott Harrington, New Jersey's 3rd round choice (previously acquired) in 2016 Entry Draft and future considerations for Phil Kessel, Tim Erixon, Tyler Biggs and future considerations, July 1, 2015.
|2012-13: Tied for fourth on the team in goals (9) in 47 games, just one shy of his career high set in 77 games during the 2011-12 season… Set career highs in average ice time (15:51) and shooting percentage (15.7)… One of three Predators with multiple game-winning goals (2)… The Predators are 20-4-1 when he scores a goal and 34-9-3 when he records a point all time... Played the second-most shorthanded minutes on the team (98:12), and ranked second among club forwards in average shorthanded ice time (2:05)... Suited up for his 200th career contest on Feb. 27 at Anaheim… Assisted on Nashville's lone shorthanded goal of the season on March 2 at San Jose.
2011-12: Set career highs in games played (77), goals, assists and points (10g-12a-22pts)… Led Nashville forwards in average shorthanded time on ice (1:57)… Tied for fourth on the club in game-winning goals (4)… Ranked second on the team in face-off efficiency (50.1%), winning nearly as many face-offs (448) as he took the season prior (497)… Missed five games due to injury. PLAYOFFS: Tied for second on the team in assists (3)… Led Nashville forwards in plus/minus rating (+4)… Ranked second among club forwards in average shorthanded ice time (2:41)… Recorded assists in Games One and Two of the WCQ vs. Detroit.
2010-11: Ranked second on the Predators – and 24th among NHL forwards – in average shorthanded ice time (2:40)… Nashville posted a 6-0-0 record when he scored a goal and an 11-0-0 record when he notched a point… His first career goal was a power-play marker on Dec. 13 vs. the New York Islanders… Suited up for his 100th career NHL contest on April 5 vs. Atlanta… Recalled from Milwaukee on Oct. 18 after playing in the Admirals' first four games. PLAYOFFS: Tied for fourth on the team in points (2g-4a) and third in plus/minus (+3)… Led Nashville forwards in average shorthanded ice time (2:23)… Set up both of Nashville's overtime goals – Jerred Smithson's in Game Five of the WCQ vs. Anaheim and Matt Halischuk's double-OT goal in Game Two of the WCS vs. Vancouver… Scored two goals – including the series-deciding marker – in Game Six of Nashville's WCQ series vs. Anaheim.
2009-10: Recalled to Nashville twice (Dec. 15 and March 23)… Posted his first career point/assist in his NHL debut on Dec. 15, 2009 vs. Tampa Bay… Scored five of his seven goals AHL goals on the power play, tying for fifth on the Admirals. PLAYOFFS: One of three rookies on Nashville's postseason roster… Suited up for all six playoff games.
2008-09: Tied for fourth on Milwaukee (AHL) in points (35) and tied fifth on the Admirals in assists (23) during his first professional season… Ranked second on the Admirals in games played (79)… Tied for the team lead in shootout goals (4) and shootout attempts (11).
AMATEUR: Helped the Kitchener Rangers win the 2008 OHL Championship and reach the Memorial Cup Finals… Tied for second in assists (6) and tied for third in points (8) at the 2008 Memorial Cup… Ranked third in 2008 OHL playoffs in goals (14) and fifth in points (30)… Tied for the 2008 OHL playoff lead in power-play goals (8)… Scored the game-winning goal in Game Seven of the 2008 OHL Finals series vs. Belleville… Ranked second on Kitchener in goals (38) and third in points (72) in 2007-08 despite missing six weeks with mononucleosis… Also ranked second in the League and led the Rangers in power-play goals (25) in 2007-08… Scored a goal for the Eastern Conference at the 2008 OHL All-Star Classic… Ranked third on the 2006-07 Kitchener Rangers with 59 points (23g-36a)… Competed in the 2007 CHL Top Prospects Game… Teammate of fellow Predator Matt Halischuk with Kitchener from 2006-08.
BACKGROUND: Nickname "Spals"… Helps put on the Tyler Lopers Memorial Golf Tournament each summer in memory of his cousin who died in 2005 after a long fight with cancer. Nick and Tyler were the same age, and grew up playing hockey and going to school together… Lists his older brother Nathan as the biggest influence on his career. Nathan completed his senior season and served as captain at University of Ontario Institute of Technology in 2010-11… Favorites include Brett Eldridge (musician), Doug Gilmour (player to watch), Lose Yourself by Eminem (pump-up song) and New York Yankees (non-hockey uniform)… Thing he misses most about his hometown is The Stray Cats, a slow pitch softball team he plays on with all my buddies.
TRANSACTIONS: June 23, 2008 – Nashville's third choice, 58th overall (second round), in 2007 Entry Draft.


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27 April 2005
Manifesto, Manifestas, Manifestat
The one that was new to me and that I was grateful to find out about (from L. Timmel Duchamp) was Jeanne Gomoll's "An Open Letter to Joanna Russ". Be sure to read it if you haven't -- it's one of those pieces that, regardless of whether you fully agree with it, deserves to be read and thought about.
(The SF world certainly isn't the only one that seems to spawn a new manifesto every week -- for some background on the artistic tendency to get all manifesto on the world, check out Manifesto: A Century of Isms. If you're a political revolutionary looking for a cheap collection of subversive material [and who isn't, really?], I know of nothing better than the Dover Thrift Edition of The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings -- it gives you Marx, Marat, Voltaire, Paine, Proudhon, Kropotkin, Bakunin, Emma Goldman, Gandhi, Mao, Guevara, Havel, and others all in one book for $3.50. If that won't get you storming some barricades, then you're probably dead.)
Manifestos and rants are fun! Everybody should write them -- and often! Down with the system that discourages manifestoing!!!
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I am entertained by your entry title.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4/27/2005 11:23 PM
- Hal the Robot
The thing about Gomoll's manifesto is that she reads Sterling as being anti-feminist, writing off women writers, when really he is just doing what ever new movement manifesto does: kill off the previous movement/group/style/etc.ReplyDelete
Good point about the new reacting against the previous (and Sterling certainly is an example of deliberate newness). For the record, I don't think Gomoll is reading Sterling as "anti-feminist" per se, but simply as failing to recognise or acknowledge the value of that previous movement/group/style because it was feminist or women-oriented or written by women, which she sees as a common attitude in the field at the time. I think she is saying this attitude is not a conscious attack on feminism in SF, so much as an overlooking and dismissal of its importance.ReplyDelete


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< Summer is just around the corner and I have a sudden urge to shop. I want some nice tanks and pants other than black. Speaking of tanks, when I was at work the other day, it got so hot I almost took off my blazer and skimped around the office with a racerback! And I want shoes. How lovely are those saddles? I'll have to find a pair from the thrifts because you know us vintage vultures ain't got the—rubs thumb against index and middle fingers—for Duckies. Alright, have a sweet weekend! Other happy finds :
+ Loving these Seattle hotspots from I ART U.
+ The 50 Things every graphic design student should know from Jamie Wieck.
+ Sicily through the eyes of La Maison d'Anna G.
+ Inspiring 4th Grade Portraits by Jude Gelles via Grizzly Bear Modern.
29 April 2011
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Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
@ jandjhome Thank you! Have wonderful weekend!ReplyDelete
haha i'm broke and i want to shop too. let's do it.ReplyDelete
thanks for linking david!!! :)))
going to check out the other links now! see you soon i hope.
Thank you so much for linking to my photos, makes me really happy! :)ReplyDelete
oooo i like the colour of those pants!ReplyDelete
have a great weekend, hope the weather is great in california!
@ Jennifer Let's do it! Have fun at the wedding shoot!ReplyDelete
@ Anna G. Thank YOU for the lovely photos. Happy weekend!
@ SJ The weather is warming up in L.A. Hope it's all sunny over on your end. Have a good one!


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Absentee voting has been ongoing for a couple of weeks in Mississippi. Officials say it's on a level that was expected, with voters interested in local and state races, as well as three proposed amendments to the state Constitution.
Lauderdale County Circuit Clerk Donna Jill Johnson says she's pleased that more than 700 voters have already cast their absentee ballots.
"We're awfully proud of Lauderdale County voters because we feel like they care," said Johnson. "They've stepped up to the plate. They've tried to learn something about the three initiatives on the ballot."
One is about whether or not voters must show a photo ID in order to vote.
Another asks if the term 'person' should be defined as a human being from the moment of fertilization.
The third asks if government should be prohibited from taking property through eminent domain and then transferring it to others.
While Johnson admits 700 is slightly below the average number of absentee voters she would normally see two weeks prior to an election, she says she's confident the pace will pick up as the election nears. Johnson encourages you not to wait until the last minute if you are voting absentee.
"We need to go ahead and proceed now with absentees," said Johnson. "So they won't be waiting in line; they won't wait until the last minute. And there is a legal process that you have to go through if they are out of town. So time could be running out."
"There may be a crowd or something in here voting at that time," said Jerry Greene, who voted by absentee ballot. "So it'd be wise to get on down here now and do it."
Wallace Heggie, District 1 election commissioner, says he and the other commissioners have been working to make sure all of the poll books, election ballots, precinct furniture and other essential equipment are in place for election day.
"It has been real smooth," said Heggie. "We don't see any bumps at this time. We are in the process of proofing some ballots over here now to make sure everything is squared away there."
The last day to vote by absentee ballot is Saturday, Nov. 5, at 12 noon.


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Check it out if you're into early soundboards and weird set lists.
Thursday, 09/21/1989
Pearl Street Ballroom, Northampton, MA
Set 1: GolgiGolgi Apparatus > Ya Mar > BagAC/DC Bag > MSOMy Sweet One, Fee > AlumniAlumni Blues > LTJPLetter to Jimmy Page > AlumniAlumni Blues, McGruppMcGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters > Who Do? We Do! > BowieDavid Bowie
Set 2: DividedDivided Sky > The Chase > Dinner and a Movie > Bundle of Joy > Possum, GinBathtub Gin, YEMYou Enjoy Myself, If I Only Had a Brain, AntelopeRun Like an Antelope
Encore: GTBTGood Times Bad Times
Average Song Gap: 29.43
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Who Do? We Do! was played for the first time since October 31, 1987 (187 shows).
Song Distribution:
6 Junta
6 The White Tape
3 Lawn Boy
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 Stash
Songs by Debut Year:
This show was part of the "1989 Tour."
Check it out if you're into early soundboards and weird set lists.


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Definition of diarrhoea in English:
(US diarrhea)
noun[mass noun]
A condition in which faeces are discharged from the bowels frequently and in a liquid form: a range of symptoms including diarrhoea and vomiting
More example sentences
- Constipation, diarrhoea or alternating constipation and diarrhoea are common symptoms.
- Their symptoms include vomiting and diarrhoea as well as nausea and general aches and pains.
- Its most common side effects include diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, and skin rash.
loose motions, looseness of the bowels
informal the skitters, the runs, the trots, gippy tummy, holiday tummy, Spanish tummy, Delhi belly, Montezuma's revenge, Aztec revenge, Aztec two-step
British informal the squits
North American informal turista
- Example sentences
- Other diagnoses included diarrhoeal disease, dengue fever, typhoid, pneumonia, urinary tract infection, brucellosis, acute myeloid leukaemia, and infectious mononucleosis.
- The report describes how all major infectious diseases including tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, pneumonia, and diarrhoeal diseases are slowly becoming resistant to existing drugs.
- Siti said babies and children were most vulnerable to lung infections, malaria, diarrheal diseases, cholera and measles, which usually emerge after floods.
diarrhoeic adjective
- Example sentences
- A total of 13 Salmonella isolates were recovered from cattle diarrhoeic rectal swabs comprising S. Enteritidis, S. Typhimurium, and S. Bareilly.
- She had a one-year history of what she described as 'active stomach': She felt a permanent activity in her abdomen, a need to pass diarrheic stools, and was constantly 'aware of her rectum.'
- The length of each diarrheic episode ranged from O to 19 days in foals from treated dams and from 2 to 21 days in foals from non-treated dams.
Late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek diarrhoia, from diarrhein 'flow through', from dia 'through' + rhein 'to flow'.
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