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The Cowboys head into 2013 with a similar cast of characters — Tony Romo throwing passes to Dez Bryant, Jason Witten and Miles Austin — but things will change with head coach Jason Garrett no longer calling plays. It will be interesting to see how the Cowboys change things, especially along the O-line. This was an explosive group at times with a healthy DeMarco Murray.
OL — Despite making changes to four of five spots last year, more are coming. Tyron Smith is the left tackle; after that it's a lot of unknowns. OLG Nate Livings probably will start, too, but the interior needs help at center and guard. ORT Doug Free gave up snaps to Jermey Parnell and could be cut this offseason unless he drastically reduces his salary. Parnell looked OK in limited time, but do the Cowboys want him as their Week One starter? Parnell likely will receive competition.
RB— Felix Jones is an unrestricted free agent, and though he could return, the team needs far more insurance behind injury-prone starter DeMarco Murray. The other options, Phillip Tanner and Lance Dunbar, entered the league as undrafted players. The team could use a backup who can handle some passing-game duty and take carries when needed.
WR — Other than Dez Bryant and emerging Dwayne Harris, the team has not drafted well here. They have had some misses, and Miles Austin has stretches where he disappears. They need more options and depth here.
The team fired coordinator Rob Ryan after a two-year run and hired 72-year-old sage Monte Kiffin, who last coached in the NFL in 2008 after spending the previous four seasons coaching in college. Kiffin's system is dramatically different than the one Ryan ran. The Cowboys will switch to a 4-3 "under" scheme that favors speed over size and will require changes at several spots.
DL — With the defensive shift, the Cowboys need a catalytic player — a three-down scheme-wrecker who can rush the passer, collapse the pocket and stuff the run. Anthony Spencer, who would be an end in this scheme, was franchised. That locks him up for this season, but long term the position could be in flux. The Cowboys also could use help inside, too, to complement DeMarcus Ware.
OLB — The Cowboys appear set with Sean Lee in the middle and Bruce Carter on the weak side (assuming they stay healthy, of course), but there is no game-changer at the other spot. Dan Connor could fill in there, but he's not a dynamic player.
DB — They need a safety to improve upon Gerald Sensabaugh and CB help with UFA Michael Jenkins likely to move on and Orlando Scandrick primarily an inside nickel guy. They must protect their investments in CBs Brandon Carr and Morris Claiborne.
1st round (6): CB Morris Claiborne / LSU (GP/GS: 15/15)
Skinny: Struggled some, with only one INT. Thrived in press-man, though.
3rd round (81): DE Tyrone Crawford / Boise State (GP/GS: 16/0)
Skinny: Came on strong late in supposed "redshirt" season.
4th round (113): OLB Kyle Wilber / Wake Forest (GP/GS: 10/0)
Skinny: Played only sparingly on defense (five tackles).
4th round (135): SS Matt Johnson / Eastern Washington (GP/GS: 0/0)
Skinny: Hamstring injury put him down early but team likes him.
5th round (152): WR Danny Coale / Virginia Tech (GP/GS: 0/0)
Skinny: Suffered torn ACL after slow start in camp, preseason.
6th round (186): TE James Hanna / Oklahoma (GP/GS: 16/2)
Skinny: Stock rising: Seven of nine catches came in final four games.
7th round (222): ILB Caleb McSurdy / Montana (GP/GS: 0/0)
Skinny: Torn Achilles tendon landed him on I.R. in August.
SUMMARY: Too early to judge this class because of injuries. Claiborne could be great. Crawford, Johnson could start soon.
Pro Football Weekly's 2013 Draft Guide is now available at stores where magazines are sold. It can also be ordered online at the PFWStore or by calling 1-800-FOOTBALL.


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Estimated Cost of Domestic Violence in Marin:
$21,889,600 to $88,500,000
According to a cost-benefit analysis of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, a nonfatal domestic violence assault costs $27,362 per U.S. female victim.
This includes emergency response, court and probation, medical expenses, property damage or loss, and the cost incurred from lost work productivity. It does not include the costs of services for children or secondary victims.
In 2009, the Marin County District Attorney received 809 domestic violence reports from police in Marin. This translates to costs in Marin of nearly $22 million.
This is a conservative estimate since actual costs are unquestionably higher, because only 1 in 4 cases of domestic violence is officially reported. According to the National Violence Against Women Survey (1995/96), only 25% of all physical assaults are reported, and 75% are not.
If we apply the 25% reporting rate, this would mean there were approximately 3,236 incidents of domestic violence in Marin County in 2009. Using this approximated actual number of domestic violence incidents in Marin, the costs could be as high as $88.5 million.

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KFF June Tracking Poll Finds Health Care in the November 2010 Mix
The start of summer finds Americans remain divided on the health reform law, but favorable views of the new law increased seven percentage points over the past month to 48 percent, compared to 41 percent who have "generally unfavorable" views and 10 percent who have yet to make up their…Policy Insights Read Post
KFF Survey Finds that a Majority of Individuals Who Buy Their Own Insurance Report Facing a Premium Increase
People who buy their own insurance report that their insurers most recently requested premium increases averaging 20 percent, according to a new Kaiser survey examining the experiences and views of people who buy health coverage in the non-group or individual market. Overall roughly three in four people (77 percent) with…Policy Insights Read Post
Health Affairs Issue Focuses on Health Reform
The June 2010 issue of the journal Health Affairs is dedicated to health reform, and "begins to tackle the hundreds of implementation issues inherent in health reform and offers prescriptions for averting trouble," according to Editor-in-Chief Susan Dentzer. The issue features an article by Kaiser researchers examining past and present…Policy Insights Read Post
Pulling it Together: REPOR(t)
In today's column I investigate a somewhat lighter topic than my last column on micro-simulation modeling: What was the impact of shows like Jon Stewart's The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report on the health reform debate? Who among us has not wondered about the answer to this…Policy Insights Read Post
Confusion Declines, but Remains Widespread in KFF May Tracking Poll
Confusion over the new health reform law declined but remains widespread, with 44 percent of the public saying they were confused in May, compared to 55 percent in April. Moreover, more than a third of Americans (35%) say they do not understand what the impact of the law will be…Policy Insights Read Post
Pulling It Together: Predicting the Future
A fair amount of attention was given recently to projections made by the Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) about the new health reform law, and how they compare to previous estimates by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). No doubt the various projections will be…Policy Insights Read Post


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Yay, so I weighed myself and I've lost weight . Considering I made some birthday food for my son on the weekend this is great (well, it was primal type birthday food lol... but still involved cake and ice cream!).
I hadn't lost any weight last week (actually I was up 200g) which I assumed was due to it being the wrong time of the month, and now I think I was right about that, because I'm actually down 1.5kg from last week, which is a substantial change (I'm going to assume I actually lost about half of that and that last week's weight was up due to water or something...).
At this stage I'd like to feel comfortable in bathers by summer (I haven't been comfortable in bathers for some years now). I don't expect to look great naked by then, as that's gonna take a lot more . But just to look pretty good and not feel too ashamed to go for a swim with the kids would be pretty awesome!
Food wise I'm going really well. I am feeling far less temptation for things I'd normally just give up and eat, but the pull just isn't as strong anymore (I'm not saying there's NO pull... just that it's pretty easy to resist). I think this is because I'm still allowing myself to eat some sweet, yummy food... it's just not sweet with sugar and doesn't have flour in it! I'd kinda like to dump the sweeteners altogether, because even though it's "okay" to have erythritol/stevia, it's really not all THAT primal!! But it's not as bad as sugar or aspartame or whatever.
Anyway I'm pretty rapt! I noticed my jeans were looser last week (ones that are usually pretty tight) and they started annoying me without a belt (I couldn't find my belt lol... and I'm really gonna NEED it soon!).


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Dopamine beta-hydroxylase deficiency
Dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH) deficiency is a very rare form of primary autonomic failure. The prevalence of DBH deficiency is unknown. Only a limited number of cases with this disease have been reported. DBH deficiency is mainly characterised by cardiovascular disorders and severe orthostatic hypotension. First symptoms often start during the perinatal period with hypotension, muscle hypotonia, hypothermia and hypoglycaemia. Children with DBH deficiency exhibit reduced ability to exercise because of blood pressure inadaptation, with exertion possibly leading to syncope. Symptoms usually worsen progressively during late adolescence and early adulthood with severe orthostatic hypotension, eyelid ptosis, nasal stuffiness and sexual disorders. The long-term evolution of the disease may be marked by limitations in standing tolerance, limited ability to exercise and morbidity related to trauma caused by falls and syncope. The disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner and is associated with heterogeneous molecular alterations of the DBH gene, which result in a complete absence of noradrenaline and adrenaline in plasma together with increased dopamine plasma levels. Restoration of plasma noradrenaline to within the normal range can be achieved by precursor therapy with L-threo-dihydroxyphenylserine (DOPS). Oral administration of 100 to 500 mg of DOPS, twice or three times a day, increases blood pressure and reverses the orthostatic intolerance.
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Sr Ailsa MacKinnon RSM.Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP has appointed Sister Ailsa Mackinnon RSM to the position of Vicar for Religious in the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta.
Sr Ailsa is a member of the Sisters of Mercy Parramatta. Since the late 1960s, she has ministered in Western Sydney in primary and secondary education and in congregation leadership.
While principal of Our Lady of Mercy College (OLMC) in Parramatta from 1990 to 2004, she was a member of the Diocesan Schools Board and Chair of the NSW Catholic Commission for Employment Relations.
During her term as Congregation Leader, Sr Ailsa had responsibility for the sponsored works of the congregation: OLMC Parramatta, St Michael's Family Centre at Baulkham Hills, Mamre Plains at St Marys, St Mary's House at Campsie and Stella Maris Aged Care Facility at Cronulla along with the pastoral and ministerial welfare of the Sisters of the Congregation.
While Congregation Leader she was the Council of Religious Institutes NSW representative on the Catholic Education Commission. This year Sr Ailsa takes up the position of Executive Director of Mercy Works Ltd in addition to the role of the Vicar for Religious.
Sr Ailsa said she looks forward to being of service in furthering the health and life of religious life in the varied ministries in which they engage.
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By Bob Allen
An Alabama Baptist pastor will not fight extradition back to Alabama to face murder charges in connection to the stabbing death of his wife last summer.
Richard Shahan, who resigned Dec. 31 as children and families pastor and facilities director at First Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., waived his right Jan. 7 to an extradition hearing in front of Judge Angelita Blackshear Dalton of Davidson County General Sessions Court in Nashville, Tenn., according to ABC affiliate WKRN-TV.
Authorities in Jefferson County, Ala., now have 10 days to come get Shahan and return him to Alabama.
Shahan, 53, was arrested on New Year's Day at Nashville International Airport as he tried to board a flight to Frankfurt, Germany. Police say he was trying to flee arrest for the July 23 murder of his wife, Karen Shahan, 52, who was stabbed to death in the couple's rented home not far from First Baptist Church.
Shahan's lawyers say he did not know that authorities in Alabama had the day before issued a warrant for his arrest when Homeland Security officers pulled him out of line after an airport computer system flagged his passport as a flight risk. He has spent the last six nights in custody of the Davidson County Sheriff's Department without bond and charged as a fugitive from justice without warrant.
Shahan, placed on administrative leave at First Baptist Church shortly after his wife's death, recently announced his resignation from the church to begin an overseas mission assignment with Bible Mission International, working primarily in Kazakhstan.
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Marshall University Math Colloquium
November 19, 2004
Topological Proteomics: Pure Mathematics in Life Sciences
Christopher Johnson and Peter Saveliev
Marshall University
How can the 3-dimensional 'folded' structure of a protein be determined from the amino acid sequence? How can the function of a protein be determined from the 3-dimensional 'folded' structure? Concentrating mostly on the second question we apply techniques of algebraic topology to identify significant geometric features of the molecule. In this preliminary report we describe how we have been able to detect "tunnels" and "hands" normally used for holding a strand of DNA. A review of the necessary background material will be provided.


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Northwest NEWS
ay 7, 2001
Woodinville man dies in car crash
A one-car rollover accident at 7:46 p.m. on May 2 took the life of Matthew Griggs, an 18-year-old Woodinville man.
The victim was driving a 1999 Volkswagen Passat northbound on 154th Place Northeast when he lost control of the car while negotiating a lefthand corner. The car hit the guardrail and rolled over.
A 20-year-old unidentified male passenger was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center.
Griggs was pronounced dead at the scene. He was a 2000 graduate of Woodinville High School.


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After swiping 44 bags and connecting on 42 extra-base hits -- including 12 homers -- in his first full season in the bigs, Jean Segura was a popular draft pick heading into 2014.
Segura was going off the board around No. 44 overall on average in Yahoo! leagues, and was selected No. 26 overall by colleague and amigo Matt Lutovsky. By the way, 'amigo' puts me under 'pal', but above 'acquaintance' on Lutovsky's friendship scale. Just fyi.
Anyway, the point that you're all aware of is that Jean Segura sucks. He does have 13 stolen bases, but with a .582 OPS -- that's on-base plus slugging, you know, just in case that didn't quite sink in.
He's still 93 percent owned in Yahoo! leagues, so people have either checked out or are blinded by the "brand name." Take a minute to check out how he's hit over his last seven, 14, and 30 days. He's not showing any signs of improvement. A fact further supported by his 62.5 percent groundball rate. If you've watched him at all this year, you know he loves to ground out to the opposing shortstop. That's not going to get it done.
Personally, I've had enough. I dropped him in a keeper league, and would recommend doing the same in most cases. How high could the price really be to re-draft him in 2015 if you were inclined do so?
In the meantime, Erick Aybar (.292-5-37-5) is available in 44 percent of leagues and Brandon Crawford (.257/.332/.455, 7 HR) can be picked up in over 80 percent.
Better times should be ahead for Segura, but for now, there is no reason to carry around a zero in your lineup.


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For Senior Writer Roger Wolmuth, reporting and writing this week's story on bluegrass king Bill Monroe (page 48) was a chance both to celebrate the mandolin master's 50th year as a recording artist and to deepen a previous acquaintance. Wolmuth first encountered Monroe nine years ago as a TIME reporter covering the Bean Blossom, Ind. Bluegrass Festival. "Like many people at the time, I had thought that bluegrass was old music; I didn't know that it was practically invented by Monroe in the '40s," says Wolmuth. "I was intrigued then by the guy. He was 65, robust and still going strong. Now he's 74, still robust and still going strong." The four days that Wolmuth and photographer David Gahr spent with Monroe were, says Wolmuth, "a high point in terms of both our reporting experiences."
Wolmuth, 39, joined LIFE right out of Williams College in 1968 as a promotion copywriter. Two years later he became a writer on TIME, then moved to PEOPLE in 1977. He and his wife, Sheila Dugan, a third-year law student, live in Manhattan's SoHo section with the two youngest of her five daughters. As a senior writer, Wolmuth is rarely free to report as well as write a story. "So I have to choose," he says. A guitar picker himself, Wolmuth seized the opportunity to revisit a personal hero.
On their first day together, Monroe hosted Wolmuth and Gahr at his Goodlettsville, Tenn. farmstead. "He seemed less stern to me than before," says Wolmuth. "I think he had mellowed out a bit." Monroe was particularly proud of four colts born the day before, and "one by one he brought them out," says Wolmuth, "just like he was showing off new babies."
After watching Monroe perform on the Grand Ole Opry, reporter and photographer followed him to Bean Blossom, where their sudden appearance during Monroe's first set gave him an opening for some typical humor. "Folks, looky there, that fellow's from PEOPLE magazine," Monroe called out to the audience. "They've been doing a story on me, and I haven't had to pay for a meal all week." Gentleman that he is, Monroe reciprocated with a parting dinner of his own. "It was a touching farewell," says Wolmuth. "He had shared a great deal with us, both music and memories. We regretted having to leave him."
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Sometimes a VideoGame instruction manual, in the progress of describing gameplay controls or mechanics, will reveal information that was otherwise intended to be a surprise for the player as they play the game.
For example, an illustration may depict characters that join the player's party late in the game, describe enemies or bosses they may fight in a particular area, or discuss how to control the player's GlobalAirship.
This is related to TrailersAlwaysSpoil and SpoilerOpening. See InterfaceSpoiler where the spoiling is done by an interface element instead of a manual.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' has the following:
** ''Melee'''s instruction book shows in some pics that [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Luigi]], [[VideoGame/DrMario Dr. Mario]], [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Roy]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Young Link]] and [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Mewtwo]] are playable.
** ''Brawl'''s manual shows [[Franchise/MetalGear Solid Snake]] and Franchise/{{Sonic|TheHedgehog}}, although [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil their presence is not much of a secret]]. Heck, you don't even need the manual for this one. Just look at the back of the box and see the two non-Nintendo characters taking up roughly a third of the illustrations.
* In the instructions for ''VideoGame/MarioGolf: Toadstool Tour'', there is a pic of the character selection screen. With every secret character unlocked.
* The European reprinted manuals for a number of [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega Genesis/Mega Drive]] games were more complete but would often spoil details like the name or layout of later levels or enemy types, including bosses. For example:
** The ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' manual would spoil the name and traps of every act, as well as [[spoiler: the existence and purpose of the Final Zone]].
** The ''Shadow Dancer'' manual allowed you to know how many final rooms there were before the FinalBoss.
** The ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'' manual spoiled the hazards of each stage, most notably the elevator from Stage 7.
** The Genesis's version of ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'''s manual spoiled its [[SNKBoss SNKBosses]].
* The series ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' has a few:
** The manual of the SNES North American release of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' - in the equipment section in the back, it lists the classes of all the characters, to designate what each can equip. Particularly blatant in the case of Edge and [=FuSoYa=], since you know there's more game coming after each DiscOneFinalDungeon because you haven't met a ninja or Lunarian yet.
** One of the screenshots on ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' Advance's back of the box has Krile, a character [[spoiler:who doesn't appear after Galuf's PlotlineDeath]] and a screenshot spoiling TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' came with a physical map of the World Map (''both of them''), with every dungeon labeled.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' manual contains information about three party members and four aeons that aren't present early on and whose eventual appearances are supposed to be surprising at varying degrees.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' explains that Basch and Ashe will join your party, even though they're both supposed to be dead after the prologue.
** The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' game manual reveals that Lightning's party will be joined by TheSixthRanger Fang and land on Pulse. But then again, they aren't very big spoilers, as it's been in every trailer and review.
* The manual for ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' discusses the controls for all three of your partners, somewhat spoiling the "YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle" moment where it looks like the game's over after week 1 because you haven't even ''met'' one of them yet. It also means Beat [[FaceHeelTurn joining the Reapers]] has less of an impact since you know he'll be a partner later.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'''s manual spoils the identities of four eventual party members, and eagle-eyed gamers can spot clues that [[spoiler:there is another world involved]].
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'''s American manual for the [=PS2=] version spoils a major development of the protagonist Luke simply with the cover - the cover of the manual was also the cover of the game. Not only that, it initially shows Luke's character page with him having long hair, but we already saw him with short hair. Later pages, explaining the status screen show Luke with short hair and flat out calling him Luke Fon Fabre. So already, the emotional impact of the scene of Luke [[ImportantHaircut cutting his hair short]] to symbolize his will to change is ruined simply by buying the game and looking at the manual. Incidentally, the Japanese manual ''did not'' spoil this. The manual was redone for the [=3DS=] version of the game and fortunately does not contain this blatant spoiler.
* The manual for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' reveals the game's use of a DecoyProtagonist.
* The American manual of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' doesn't tell the player about Death Egg Zone on its level list, but reveals what Dr. Eggman's Giant Mech/Death Egg Robot looks like on page 4.
* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun: The Lost Age'' sets up three members of the hero's four-member party, and his alliance with Alex, an Adept of the fourth element... who is not with them on the box art. A random sailor you encounter very briefly and don't see again until ''almost halfway through the game'' is. Hint, hint. Also spoilered in the manual proper when it includes instructions on how to navigate with Piers's ship, and the [[{{Feelies}} map and relationship chart]] that come with the game also spell out that Piers is playable and Alex is not.
** Also subverted, in that the {{Feelies}} make a big fuss about Sheba's power of precognition... and it ''never even comes up'' in the game, aside from one line insisting it's her destiny to travel with Felix (and she later admits she was ''lying'' about that).
** Speaking of {{Feelies}}, a similar relationship chart was created for ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' and pulled (and leaked on the Internet) at the last minute because it spilled the beans on [[ShipSinking Matthew's ancestry]]... and [[HeroicBastard Amiti's]], which was ''supposed'' to be a big unresolved plot point!
* The manual for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' spoils the fact that Lloyd is a Wingly. Not that it's hard to figure out, but it's not actually revealed until Disc 3. It also spoils the complete endgame party.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'', the intended GrandFinale of the ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX X]]'' series (it was supposed to lead into ''[[VideoGame/MegaManZero Zero]]'' until [[ExecutiveMeddling Capcom went ahead]] and made ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX6 X6]]'' without Keiji Inafune's knowledge or consent, forcing him to change around the plot), had Zero dying at its close... [[KilledOffForReal for good.]] In spite of this, ''X6'' brought him back with the half-baked explanation that Zero was in hiding, repairing himself (although Zero notes in a discussion with Dr. Light that he has no knowledge of who really repaired him while in his near-death state). The fact that Zero was alive was spoiled by the game manual speaking of another playable character, a "resurrected Hunter" whose profile, weaponry, and skillset fits Zero to the bill. Never mind that the back of the game case has the words "Zero is missing" in big, honking letters.
** Lampshaded in the case of ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'', where [[spoiler:Colonel Redips's name was intentionally misspelled as "Rideps" in the manual to prevent giving away the plot twist that he was TheMole (by disguising as "Spider") and the ultimate BigBad.]]
* ''Tecmo's VideoGame/{{Deception}}'' has the manual give away the fact that [[spoiler:Fiana]] is an acquirable summoned monster.
* The manuals of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' and ''Red Alert'' give you the full tech-tree, including the factions' super-weapons. It thus doesn't come as much of a surprise to the player that in the campaigns, Nod develops nukes, GDI has a KillSat, the Iron Curtain project is about temporarily making things invulnerable and the Allies develops a teleporter. [[spoiler: The Soviets]] developing nukes in ''Red Alert'' is given a partial spoiler -- you know the game has nukes, since they are in the manual... but the manual shows the ''multiplayer'' tech-tree, in which both factions have nukes, so which side develops them first in the course of the campaigns is still left open.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/GhostTrick''. The manual is carefully written to never make any claims regarding [[spoiler:who you really are]], ensuring that it is completely accurate even after all the [[PlotTwist plot twists]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Nightfire}}'' has the general plot of every mission (and pretty much the entire plot of the game) spoiled with a quick look at the manual.
* The page describing the ship's manifest from ''VideoGame/StarControl2'' displays artifacts required to complete the game, such as an Illwrath cloaking device. [[spoiler:Subverted: there is no such device obtainable in the actual game]].
** It's also averted in a broader sense; the manual is written to give the impression that you'll be rejoining and resuming the war from the previous game, hiding the fact that [[spoiler:the war was lost nearly twenty years ago.]]
* The manual for ''The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle'' shows a screenshot of the password screen. The problem? Inputting the password in the screenshot takes you to the last level of the game.
* ''VideoGame/DisneyPrincessEnchantedJourney'''s manual reveals the BigBad, while the game doesn't tell you there ''is'' one until the final battle.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Infernal}}'', [=EtherLight=]'s evil plan isn't revealed until you're half way through the game... unless you read the the manual, which states it outright in the introduction.
* Not immediately apparent with ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy'', but in the original [=PS2=] version the game's manual folded out into a map of the locations visited in the game provided by Jak's uncle, showing the names and roughly the path the player would take through the game. The problem is that the last level is called '[[spoiler: Gol and Maia's]] Citadel' which spoils the names of the BigBad. The problem? [[spoiler: The whole point of Jak and Daxter's journey at the beginning is because they believe Gol can turn Daxter back into a human/elf, and since there's a man and a woman seen in the opening cutscene it's very easy to work out who these two are...]]


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Page 18: [A]ccording to at least one individual who claims to have knowledge of Mr. Bosch's deal, MLB is paying Mr. Bosch a total of $5 million (in monthly installments) in order to buy his cooperation.
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I love that site for tactics training, try to do it regularly. I enjoy how it forces you to move very quickly if you want the points, forcing you to train yourself to recognize the patterns instantly.
I've always thought there was a diminishing return on tactics training for more than a few minutes each day, but maybe not completely worthless. A common advice is that you should study until you've memorized three new tactical patterns that you didn't know before. An adult brain (assuming you are an adult) is not supposed to be wired to handle much more than that daily.
But let's say I've already done my 15 minutes or so and my three new patterns, but I don't have time to play a full game. I can study endgames (okay, I should do that, but I've been avoiding it) or go over some master games, but it's always tempting to just go for the tactics trainer.
Depending on your level of play, chess is indeed 99% tactics. Probably for anyone rated under 1800 USCF, 99 out of 100 games hinge on a tactic... the odd 1 out of 100 will contain no gross tactical blunder by one side. Yeah, that sounds about right.
Like uh oh said though, there are other areas worth focusing on, i.e. without any strategy you position will never be good enough to facilitate a winning tactic. Without endgames you can't convert a superior position, etc.
I like chesstempo.com better than the emerald one. I prefer untimed tactics, so just like a real game I have to make sure it works to the very end before I play the first move. I guess blitz tactics are ok if you want to see a lot of new patterns. Untimed works your visualization, that is holding a future position and looking from that new point for the best move. Many times this is trying to find the best defensive move for your opponent after you find the main tactical idea.
I've read GM's like Susan Polgar who say that below a USCF rating of 1900 your main focus should be tactics. I've known strong players (and been beaten by them) who say you should learn the end game first. I beleve that a large majority of games below expert level are decided by tactics. I also believe that lower rated players will benefit from study of the end game.
Endgames are like the best kept secret weapon vs class players.
Ok it's no secret, but it's as if 99% of class players find it too boring to bother looking into it. There was this 2150 rated 11 year old from TX I saw at a tourney once, all the kid did was trade down into an endgame about as quickly as he could, sometimes ignoring finer points, even if it resulted in an equal endgame... and dismantle the guy from there.
It wasn't working so well for him as I watched him play a master... he eventually lost, but it obviously got him as far as 2150...
You have to have tactics. You could play a better positional squeeze than Petrosian himself but if you hang a piece to a tactic then it doesn't really matter any more. You're screwed no matter how good your plan was.
How do you think Tal was so great? That guy could just tactically get his way out of almost anything.
I've been ignoring endgames because I felt like they could be figured out on the fly just by thinking things through.
In my first OTB tournament last weekend, I dropped a clear 0.5 points by botching an endgame, and another 0.5-1 point in a game where I had an opportunity to simplify to an extra-pawn endgame but wasn't sure of myself and chose to keep on with an unclear attack instead.
So yeah, maybe I do need to study endgames a little... or a lot...
You could play a better positional squeeze than Petrosian himself but if you hang a piece to a tactic then it doesn't really matter any more.
If you're playing that well positionally, you WON'T "hang a piece to a tactic." Your opponent will have no sound crushing tactics because you've eliminated the opportunities. Good tactics will beat position if the position was flawed. Good position will beat tactics if the tactics are flawed. The idea of positional play is to attack from strength. Accumulate advantages, THEN launch the tactics.
Shhhhh, this is my cunning plan to escape from the bowels of class C into the promised land that is class B !! It won't work if you go telling everyone
Studying basic endings IS tactics, although strategy does play a role as well. Just as learning elementary tactics enables you to find more complicated tactics over the board, so learning basic endings enables you to play more complicated endings because you know what can happen with simplification.
You can't learn endings on the fly. Some of these things have changed evaluations over the centuries, and GMs still make fundamental errors in the ending.
There is a famous Rubenstein Rook ending where he is even in material, but passively placed and his opponent seems to have any winning chances with an easy draw in hand. Suddenly Rubenstein abandons his defense of a pawn to move his Rook to an aggressive position. In the process he lost a second pawn, but his Rook was then able to control the game and he won. Tartakower remarked that had the game been played 300 years earlier, Rubenstein would surely have been burned as a witch.
These are the sort of things you just can't figure out on your own over the board.
Tactics is 99% of the game and should be 99% of your emphasis in study and practice - until you no longer lose to simple tactics. Once you can get through games without giving away material or letting your King be overrun with an easy shot, then you can proceed to learn more strategy and position play.
There's a famous saying, "Chess is 99 percent tactics". That may be an exaggeration, but no matter how deep your strategic understanding is, it can never replace accuracy in calculating tactical positions. - Susan Polagar - Chess Tactics For Champions
Treat yourself this Holiday season to a www.chesstempo.com membership. It's dirt cheap, and absolutely the best tactics trainer on the internet. The interface looks fantastic, as well.
I use Tactics Trainer at chess.com also, like it, but find it lacking in certain areas.
Chesstempo has two rated speeds, standard and blitz. It's important to do standard rated tactics first, because the goal is to get the problems right and improve your calculation, not to do them fast.
I just started the endgame tactics trainer at chesstempo, and it's amazing. It feels like I'm in a real endgame situation with just a few pieces/pawns.
I now spend more time doing tactics training than anything else to improve my game. It took a solid year for other chess.com members to beat that idea into my skull.
As a second year player, my tactics stats reflect that of a beginning chess player new to tactics, I hope. My percentage correct for standard rating is low, but that was before I knew to strive for accuracy, not speed. Now I take my time and strive for 100% accuracy. Here's how chesstempo reports stats.
Rating: 1425.5 (RD: 37.29) (Best Active Rating: 1425 Worst Active Rating: 829)Active Rank: 5222/7701 (Better than: 32.19% Best Active: 2018 Worst Active: 5816)Problems Done: 1123 (Correct: 849 Failed: 274)Percentage correct: 75.60%Average recent per problem time spent 158 secondsFIDE Estimated Rating based on standard tactics: 1637
Rating: 1206.5 (RD: 101.68) (Best Active Rating: 1206 Worst Active Rating: 1190)Active Rank: Not Active/842 (Best Active: 802 Worst Active: 804)Problems Done: 36 (Correct: 31 Failed: 5)Percentage correct: 86.11%Average recent per problem time spent 26 secondsNeed to do 114 more problems to get a blitz tactics FIDE estimate.
Rating: 1454.7 (RD: 137.37)Active Rank: Not Active/506Problems Done: 35 (Correct: 27 Failed: 8)Percentage correct: 77.14%
"It took a solid year for other chess.com members to beat that idea into my skull. "
I keep an online diary blog about my chess experiences, and since I fancy myself a bit of a decent writer, I someday might turn it into something more for the public to see. I think it'd be really useful for adult amateur intermediates who struggle to improve.
The most basic theme I keep coming back to is this: I (we) am not smart enough to ignore the advice of the collected wisdom of better players! I don't get to take shortcuts.
When I stopped ignoring them telling me to take my time on each move, my internet rating went up about 200 points.
When I stopped ignoring them telling me to study tactics regularly, I went up another 200 points.
I've recently decided to stop ignoring them telling me to study endgames. We'll see how that goes :)
Why do us noobs think we know better?
creative play, is tomorrows tactical trainer....
a good game is 99% creative play...the one tactic you have, can win you the game.
Evident is why you take a stronger player on, with a line, that is creative....
the winning tactic, is the one, that lead to mate, in the fewest moves.
creative play, always result in an upset.
a creative player, can win anyone!
a tactical player can loose.
That's what's weird about me - I don't do tactics puzzles at all. I can't remember the last time I did a tactics puzzle either. I think I was able to learn tactics by watching master games of aggressive openings like the Pirc and Alekhine.
But when I look at all the pawn sacrifices in the Grunfeld I'm always confused.
Maybe Teichmann was trying to say that 1 mistake is usually enough to cost you the entire game (or 1 tactical blow is enough to win).
How many chess games have you seen whereby both players don't make ANY blunders or inaccuracies? Maybe only at the top level now, but not for the old masters back then and definitely not for us noobs...
Getting in the habit of systematically looking at every check and capture is probably the most important single thing you can do to improve your chess strength
That's a good tip! One that I need to be reminded of from time to time.
Definitely the most important thing. I've blown 2 superior positions in OTB tournament play in 3 weeks this way. I'm trying to become more systematic about my checking for blunders/drawbacks
Hammerschlag, it sounds like we're of a roughly similar level so, FWIW, here are two examples of a similar tactic, based on strategy, that happened in my games. The first is an OTB game where I missed it, the second a live chess game from earlier today where I saw it (perhaps an old dog can learn new tricks!). The point is that I had a strategy and my ability to implement it properly it was a function of whether I could see tactics that would help me.
Game 1: Missed the tactic
In this game I was playing a line of the KID where I wanted to play b5 and expand on the queenside. White playing Qc2 would have allowed me to do so immediately ... but I missed it. Note that I blundered the game away a few moves later but that's not the point here
Game 2: Found the tactic
In this game I was playing the Pirc but had the same idea as with Game1: play b5 and expand the queenside. The knight on c3 is overloaded so I took advantage of it
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Did you do your homework? My Feb. 26 column suggested parents study the homework their children are bringing home. Not just the struggling students, but all students and especially the honors students. Did you bother?
Since that column ran, discussions with teachers and parents convince me that very few people did. We'll get back to that point.
Quality of education is a "hot-button" issue right now, with everyone from the president of the United States to shoppers at the Food Lion talking about what children are learning. President Barack Obama and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin are both talking about waivers for the federal "No Child Left Behind" mandate. Elected officials in Washington, D.C., and Charleston are considering legislation to "fix" our education system. Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito offered her opinion during a visit to Martinsburg this week, and several local teachers, parents and residents made it a point to share their opinions on the issue.
Personally, two opinions have been reaffirmed: First, "No Child Left Behind," during its decade of influence, hasn't improved the overall quality of our education system; and second, the quality of education can only be improved in the classroom.
West Virginia, having failed to meet the increasingly tougher annual requirements of NCLB, is seeking a waiver from those requirements in exchange for developing new performance standards of its own.
Ironically, on the first opinion, my concern is that NCLB fails to improve the overall quality of education because - at least in actual practice - it focuses too much on the underachieving students, those West Virginia students who still aren't achieving the standard performance levels of NCLB.
The theme should have been "No Child Left Behind and No Child Held Back." Unfortunately, by working to pull all students up to a standard level, I'm afraid we're keeping many students from reaching their true potential. Does the current system put as much effort into challenging the average and good students - making them better students - as it does helping the poor students become average?
There would seem to be a fundamental difference between finding the level of education that all students can achieve as compared to finding the level of education that each student can achieve. To borrow a phrase, we should be helping each student "be all that they can be," not trying to produce a classroom full of average students.
Education, figuratively and literally, should not be about producing what modern culture considers the lowest common denominator because we need our best and brightest and, unfortunately, we're not certain how many of today's students understand the term lowest common denominator.
During a meeting this week, Capito said NCLB, overall, was a major educational failure, but she did point out that the data collected from the standardized testing was invaluable in terms of determining who was struggling and where help was needed.
As for the second reaffirmed opinion - that the quality of education can only be improved in the classroom - the ongoing review of NCLB makes it even clearer that rules, regulations and policies don't improve education; teachers do.
A student's only chance of getting a quality education stands in the front of the classroom each morning. The ability of little Johnny and Susie to learn is directly tied to the ability and efforts of their teacher. Once that bell rings, it's about the teacher and student relationship, not the rules, regulations and policies. What and how a teacher instructs the students each day is what makes the difference at the end of the school year, not the goals in August or the test scores in June.
How does that teacher handle a classroom filled with individual students, all at different levels of maturity and learning ability? Does each student improve - not to a standardized level, but to the highest personal level possible?
It was enlightening to talk with teachers about the quality of education, the challenges of homework and the difficulties of managing a classroom. The homework issue was, perhaps, the most interesting topic.
Too much homework, a teacher explained, creates problems in the classroom. Some students have parents at home to help with homework, others don't. If too much work is sent home, students without help begin to fall behind, forcing teachers to spend more class time with those students on material the other students already know. Too much homework can create a classroom in which some students struggle with the classwork while others struggle with classroom boredom.
Again, it comes back to the parents. As this nation looks at reworking the education system, we must demand standards, but what standards? Do we want our children to ... A) pass the class or ... B) learn the material?
Too many of us would miss this question.


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Courtesy: Ball State Athletics
Release: 12/02/2015
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Fifth Year as Ball State Head Coach in 2015
23rd Year as a Football Coach
Coaching Experience:
Lehigh, head coach, 2001-05
Elon, head coach, 2006-10
Ball State, head coach, 2011-present
Career Head Coaching Record: 112-65/15 Years
Personal Information:
Date of Birth: April 16, 1970, in Staten Island, N.Y.
NOTES: Four-year starter as an offensive lineman at Georgetown . . . team captain as a senior in the 1991 season . . . selected to the American Football Coaches Association Ethics Committee (2014) . . . member of the FCS Head Coaches Executive Committee (2002-10), the All-America Selection Committee (2001-05) and the AFCA Public Relations Committee (2002-05).
Career Coaching Highlights:
At Ball State (2011-present)
• First Ball State head coach in the school's history to win at least 30 games in his first four seasons at the helm.
• Added the title of associate athletics director to his head football coaching position in March of 2014.
• Guided the Cardinals to a 10-3 overall record in 2013, including a second straight bowl appearance when Ball State played in the GoDaddy Bowl. It marked only the second time in 91 years of football the Cardinals have played in back-to-back bowl games.
• One of 20 coaches in country named to the 2013 Paul Bear Bryant National Coach of the Year Award Watch List.
• Earned his 100th career victory with a 27-24 win over Kent State in Ball State's 87th Homecoming Game in 2013.
• Signature non-conference victories: 27-20 vs. Indiana (Big Ten), Sept. 3, 2011 ... 41-39 at Indiana (Big Ten), Sept. 15, 2012 ... 31-27 vs. USF (Big East), Sept. 22, 2012 ... 48-27 at Virginia (ACC), Oct. 5, 2013.
• Led the Cardinals to a 7-1 MAC record in 2013 -- only the fifth 7-1 or better MAC record since Ball State joined the league in 1975.
• Led Ball State to a 10-3 overall record in 2013, which marks only the third time in the Cardinals' 91 years of football with 10 or more wins in a single season.
• Led the Cardinals to a school record 501 points in 2013.
• Led Ball State to a 9-4 overall record and a 6-2 Mid-American Conference mark in his second season in 2012.
• Guided Ball State to the 2012 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg in only his second season at the helm. The bowl appearance marked the eighth in Ball State history.
• 2011-12 APR was 966 -- the highest in Ball State history and tied for first in the Mid-American Conference among football programs.
• Coached Briggs Orsbon, who was named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America Team. Also has coached 18 Ball State student-athletes who have received Academic All-MAC honors in the last three seasons, including eight first-team selections.
• Led Ball State to back-to-back wins over Indiana -- 2011 (27-20 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind.) and 2012 (41-39 at Bloomington, Ind.)
• Coached the Cardinals to two wins over BCS automatic qualifying teams in the same year for the first time in school history in 2012.
• Led Ball State to a 34-27 win over nationally ranked Toledo, which marked the Cardinals' first win over a nationally ranked opponent since 2001. Toledo entered the game ranked No. 23 by The Associated Press.
• Improved his career record to 12-3 in season openers after leading Ball State to a 48-36 win over VMI in the first game of the 2015 season.
• Helped Ball State to six wins and bowl eligibility in his first season at the helm in 2011, and to bowl eligibility for a third straight season in 2013.
• Led Ball State to the fourth best come-from-behind victory in school history with a 31-27 win over Central Michigan in 2011 in a game the Cardinals fell behind 17-0 in the second quarter.
• Has won his first game as a head coach at all three schools he has coached.
• Coached Ball State to his first Mid-American Conference win and first Scheumann Stadium win in his first home game vs. Buffalo Sept. 17, 2011.
Ball State Records Set in Lembo's Tenure at Ball State
Single Season
Single Game
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At Elon (2006-10)• Led Elon to 35 victories in five years after taking over a program that tallied a 14-42 record in the five years prior to his arrival.
• Elon was nationally ranked for 33 straight weeks (from 10-20-07 to 9-25-10) and 34 weeks overall during Lembo's tenure.
• Lembo's Elon teams broke 124 NCAA, Southern Conference and school records during his tenure.
• Managed a 24-14 career record in the Southern Conference.
• 75 percent of Elon's conference win total in 11 years as a member of the Southern Conference came during Lembo's seasons as its head coach.
• 2007 Southern Conference Coach of the Year.
• Raised the NCAA Academic Progress Rate at Elon to 971 in 2009-10 and a four-year average of 965.
• The 2010 team averaged 435.2 yards of total offense per game, the fourth straight year the Phoenix averaged more than 400 yards per game on offense.
• Led Elon to the 2009 Football Championship Subdivision playoffs for the first time in the history of the program. The nine wins in 2009 tied the school record for most wins in a season since 1999.
• Elon spent two weeks ranked third in the nation in 2008, while the 7-4 record in 2007 was the school's first winning campaign since 2000.
• Led Elon to final rankings in the top-25 in three of his last four seasons -- 23rd in 2007, 17th in 2008 and ninth in 2009.
At Lehigh (2001-05)
• Led Lehigh to the 2001 and 2004 Patriot League Championship and berths in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.
• His .759 overall winning percentage and .778 league winning percentage at Lehigh are both the second highest in Patriot League history.
• Named the Eddie Robinson National Coach of the Year and the Patriot League Coach of the Year in 2001.
• Lehigh led the Patriot League in home attendance in each of Lembo's five seasons as head coach.
• Lembo was the second youngest head coach in the country when named the Lehigh head coach in 2001.
• Lembo won more league games in his first five years in the Patriot Leage than any other coach in the conference's history.
• His 2001 team finished 11-1 and ranked fifth in both the NCAA I-AA polls.


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Another wild week of football has come to a close, and many familiar faces seem to be making a mid-season push towards the top. This development is evident in the newest edition of the NFL Power Rankings.
New England, San Francisco and Denver gave us dominating performances, while the fixtures atop the 2012 NFL Power Rankings—Houston and Atlanta—narrowly avoiding what would have been a pair of shocking upsets.
The Eagles continue to spiral out of control, as do their fellow birds, the Cardinals.
Do any of the 4-6 AFC teams have a shot at catching Pittsburgh or Indianapolis? On the flip side, can any of the 6-4 NFC teams hold off New Orleans?
Here are the current NFL Power Rankings, as well as the direction each team is headed.


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Her Majesty was received by Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank (Colonel, The Life Guards) and Colonel Stuart Cowen (Commander, Household Cavalry).
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Michigan has had back-to-back rough outings in wins over Akron and Connecticut.
But the 18th-ranked Wolverines still enter their first bye week of the season at a perfect 4-0.
Is Michigan's record a mirage? Perhaps. But is it time for Wolverine fans to start panicking? ESPN analyst Todd McShay says it just might be.
"It's very difficult to gauge the Wolverines at this point," McShay wrote Monday. "The tape of their win over Notre Dame is really impressive, and I thought Michigan was better than my preseason expectation after studying that game. But they've really struggled in close wins over Akron and UConn the past two weeks, and after seeing how Notre Dame has been playing, how much stock can we really put in that Week 2 win for Michigan?
"And how much longer can the Wolverines continue to play with fire before seeing it affect their record?"
Through four games, Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner has thrown eight interceptions, tied with Western Kentucky's Brandon Doughty for the most in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
As far as total giveaways are concerned, Gardner's 10 total turnovers leave him alone in first place among FBS teams.
Three of those turnovers have been directly returned for touchdowns.
As a team, Michigan's turned it over a whopping eight times over its past two games. As a program, Michigan's turned it over 61 times in its past 30 games -- so, the turnover woes are nothing new.
While McShay's suggestion that Michigan fans might want to start panicking seems a bit strong, he does bring up the obvious point of when, exactly, will these miscues (if untreated) start resulting in losses.
Well, possibly right away.
Michigan opens Big Ten play Oct. 5 against a very improved Minnesota team at home. From there, it's back on the road -- this time in a much more hostile environment at Penn State, for a "White Out" night game.
The basic facts are simple here. Michigan could, in theory, beat every single team on its remaining eight-game regular season schedule.
And, of course, there's a chance the Wolverines could lose to every team left on the schedule. Michigan's talented, but it's also young and very imperfect.
In the end, most of this probably comes back to Gardner -- who, as expected, holds the key to the Wolverines' success this season.
But, that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
"What I'm struggling to figure out is Michigan's upside," McShay writes. "It has a bye this week to get things straightened out, then conference games against seemingly inferior opponents (although it's hard to tell given the team's play the last two weeks) in Minnesota (at home Oct. 5) and Penn State (on the road Oct. 12). But are the Wolverines capable of learning from their mistakes? Is there enough talent on defense for coordinator Greg Mattison to get this group into shape for games against high-powered offenses like Northwestern (on the road Nov. 16) and Ohio State (at home Nov. 30)? And can Gardner be a playmaker without exposing his team to all those turnovers?
"If the answer is "no" to one or more of those, the concern level in Ann Arbor could increase quickly."
McShay thinks its time to panic.
Don't expect Brady Hoke to share that sentiment.
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The cute friendship mobile and frame from Krylon make great best friend gift ideas! Whip up a handmade mobile and matching frame to give to your best buddy. Make sure to include a picture of the two of you!
- Krylon Brights - Bright Blue (#9920)
- Krylon Brights - Bright Pink (#9921)
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- Krylon Short Cuts® Aerosol Paints - Gloss White (#SCS053)
- Dimensional glitter fabric paint
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- Embroidery Hoops: 8", 4"
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- Ranger Industries non-stick Craft Sheet
- Ribbon: 1" stripe (5yds), 3/8" organdy white (3')
- Rub-Ons: Friends
- Terrifically Tacky Tape: 1/4"
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- Paint chipboard flowers and letters with Brights Pens; let dry. Lay flowers on non-stick craft sheet and fill openings with dimensional glitter paint; let dry completely then carefully peel off craft sheet leaving paint intact in center of flower openings.
- For mobile, wrap embroidery hoops with striped ribbon, secure with Tacky Tape. Attach hoops together by tying with a bow at top. Use outside of large hoop as a template and cut circle from transparency film; adhere to back of hoops with Tacky Tape. Arrange letters and flowers on transparency and secure with Tack Tape.
- Attach two flowers to each of three 8" lengths of organdy ribbon, and adhere to back of large hoop with Tacky Tape.
- For frame, remove glass from frame and spray with Gloss White; let dry. Embellish border of frame with Brights Pens.
- Adhere chipboard flowers to frame with Tacky Tape.
- Apply Rub-Ons according to manufacturer's directions.
- Insert glass and photo back into frame.
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