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This sweet Whimsical Fairy Nymph can help add a touch of enchantment and magic to any room in your home. Use them as decorations around your home or create a whimsical enchanted Christmas tree by turning these nymphs into ornaments. Girls of all ages will love these sweet felted dolls, and you're sure to love how easy and fun they are to make! Don't be surprised if you find that you can't stop making them!
- Pipe cleaners (1x 4.5 cm, 1x 5.5 cm and 1x 11 cm)
- 1 wooden bead 15 mm
- 2 wooden beads 5 mm
- Wool felt scraps
- Beeswax scrap
- Tuft wool roving (for hair)
- Mini tuft of wool roving or a thread of wool (for the shawl)
- Scissors
- Embroidery thread
- Needle
- Eco glue
- Acorn cap or chestnut shell
- Pattern
For the legs, cut a piece of pipe cleaner of 11 cm and fold it in half. You can use the ruler on the pdf-pattern for this.
For the arms, cut a piece of 5,5 cm and for the neck a piece of 4,5 cm.
Slide the piece for the arms between the legs and insert the piece for the neck on top.
Wrap the legs around each other a few times so that a body is created and the arms and neck piece are tightly attached to the body. Fold one end of the neck upward and wrap the other side downward around the body. The base frame is now ready!
Cut the pattern for the trousers out of the felt (click here for the free pdf-pattern). Fold the trousers/legging around the legs and sew it close to the legs with a blanket stitch. You can tuck the trousers legs or otherwise cut them a bit shorter before you sew the trousers together.
Stitch for the zipper seam a on a and b on b and before you tie off, wrap the thread around the waist two times to secure the trousers. It is also possible to stitch the zipper seam first before you stitch the trousers, just see what works best for you.
Choose a pattern from the pdf model A or B and cut the pattern for the jacket out of the felt.
Slide the hole on the neck and check if the sleeves fit the arm length. The arms should be a little bit longer than the sleeves so that you can attach the beads for the hands. Check if the arms are equally long and adjust if nescessary. Sew the outer edges under the sleeves and side of the jacket together with a blanket stitch. See the pdf-pattern for more details.
Put some glue on the ends of the pipe cleaners at the sleeves and slide the beads for the hands on the pipe cleaners. Put some glue on the neck piece and slide the bead for the head on it.
Divide the piece of beeswax into two small pieces and shape them into little shoes (simple oval shape). Press the legs gently into the beeswax shoes.
Glue a tuft of hair on the back of the head and glue the acorn cap on top of the head on the hair. Glue a tiny string of hair on the forehead and tie the ends of the hair into two pony tails.
Finally for the shawl, you role off a small tuft of wool between your fingers into a wire of about 6 cm long and wrap it one time around the head. If you want you can carefully cut some fringes on the bottom of the jacket of model A.
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The state Department of Education does not have to release data it used to devise a funding formula for the state's public schools, the Supreme Court ruled today.
In a unanimous 5-0 decision, the justices ruled that the data being sought by the Education Law Center, which is challenging the schools funding formula, do not have to be released because the material falls under the "deliberative process" exemption of the state's Open Public Meetings Act.
Both a trial judge and an appeals court had ruled the material should be released because it contained statistics used to compare three proposed funding formulas before one was chosen, but the Supreme Court today reversed those decisions.
"We hold that a record, which contains or involves factual components, is entitled to deliberative-process protection when it was used in the decision-making process and its disclosure would reveal deliberations that occurred during that process," Justice Jaynee LaVecchia wrote for the court.
David Sciarra, the head of the Education Law Center in Newark, did not immediately return a call for comment.
The school funding formula represents an effort to spread the state's education resources to all schools with poor students.
The reform, approved by the Legislature last year and included in the state budget, links state aid to the number of poor children in any given district. It put the state's poorest "Abbott" districts on the same footing as dozens of other towns struggling under less-than-adequate state aid.
The formula is being challenged by the ELC, but a Superior Court judge who conducted hearings on the reform measure upheld its constitutionality Wednesday.
The formula "represents a thoughtful, progressive attempt to assist at-risk children throughout the state of New Jersey, and not only those who by happenstance reside in Abbott districts," Superior Court Judge Peter E. Doyne wrote in his decision.
The issue now returns to the Supreme Court, which imposed the requirement for special aid to the state's poorest districts under its landmark Abbott v. Burke school funding decision.
Chief Justice Stuart Rabner and Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto did not participate in today's ruling.
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Do you remember where you were on 9/11/2001? I am sure you do. I was in Canaan Valley Resort, in Tucker County, West Virginia attending the West Virginia Governor's Conference on Tourism.
I had left the resort to go to breakfast in town before I was scheduled to go to the first meeting of the day. I stopped at a little restaurant in Dry Fork, W.Va., just a couple of miles from the resort.
The sign said "open" but the lady said it was not open for breakfast during the week - just on weekends. I started to leave when she asked "Did you hear about the plane crashing into the building in New York City?" I hadn't heard. She asked me if I wanted to watch CNN. I sat down and was riveted to the television, sitting next to a woman I had never met, and to this day, I do not even know her name.
I watched the first tower being hit on "instant replay." And then I watched as the other plane hit the second tower as it was happening. I was spellbound. And I was thinking to myself "the first could have been an accident, but the second crash certainly wasn't."
The scenario brought me back to Nov. 22, 1963 when I sat watching the news for days, watching the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I had been told on my way to class at Northern Illinois University that the president had been shot. (I can show you the spot on the sidewalk when I found out.) I am betting those of you who were old enough remember the exact place you were when you heard that news too. Classes were cancelled. The whole world stopped.
When I finally left the restaurant in Dry Fork, I thanked the lady for sharing her television with me and returned to the conference site. There we discussed whether the conference should go on. It did. Meanwhile me and all the other delegates from around the state sat in a trance watching the scene unfold at the World Trade Center, by then relegated to two piles of rubble along the streets of New York. The whole world had stopped again.
Stories emerged about the bravery of the firefighters who were climbing up the stairs to fight the fire when the buildings collapsed. Tales were told of people who were supposed to be at their desks at work in the buildings who miraculously had gotten tied up in traffic or who had an appointment at another building who had been spared. Others were not so fortunate and many lost their lives.
I thought of the bloodiest day in American history, Sept. 17, 1862, when there were 21,115 casualties at Sharpsburg, Md., all Americans fighting in the Civil War. I thought for sure the battle of Antietam would be relegated to second place, with 9/11 overtaking that battle in casualties. But by some great miracle, the 100,000 or so people working in the twin towers, the casualty figures of the World Trade Center was much less than expected, though tragically huge anyway.
My friend Father Brian Owens, pastor of St. James Catholic Church in Charles Town at the time, told me of the seventeen funerals he had presided at in New York immediately following the terrorism attacks. He said that was more funerals than he had done in several years at our church.
The day 9/11 is another of those days that we will never forget. For those who survived the attack on the towers and the Pentagon, I cannot imagine the scars they have that will never heal.
What 9/11 did do was it brought the country together and made us realize that for every good person in our country today of all nationalities, there are also bad people in the world who want to bring us down. We realize now that the "safe" world we thought we lived in was a fantasy.
I am reminded with every airplane flight where I now have to take my laptop out of its bag and take off my shoes, that terrorism is real, and that I need to be vigilant. The exercises are a minor inconvenience for the attempts to try to avert trouble. I thank the police and airport security every time I see them for doing what they do to insure me the piece of mind to keep traveling safely, a freedom I cherish.
Now, after ten years, I wonder if Americans have become complacent, as we had been. Do we feel so safe that we have lowered our guard? I fear we have. And that's not a comforting thought.


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AWENDAW Pete McKellar is in the kitchen prepping the menu. He pulls a half-thawed rat from the bucket, clips open its entrails with scissors and squeezes out the entree.
Eats at a vulture restaurant arent for the queasy.
For Saturdays this month, the Center for Birds of Prey has opened to public viewing a somewhat less-than-elegant avian dining experience. McKellar is a volunteer at the center.
Vulture Restaurant lies in a side field on the centers Awendaw property, where staff members take the parts of rats, mice, chicks, fish and quail that its rehabilitating and display raptors wont eat.
Thats stuff like the entrails, leftovers from the cage foods and roadkill brought by animal control or another public agency.
By the 10 a.m. serving, turkey vultures and black vultures line the trees waiting.
The dining isnt fine. The birds descend like, eh, well, you get the idea. A white-tailed deer brought in last year was gone in little more than an hour. When a goat was put out a few days ago, more than 30 vultures took it apart.
Bucketfuls like McKellar prepped wont last 20 minutes.
Vulture restaurants began opening about five years ago in Africa and Asia, where the species are in serious jeopardy.
The idea is to feed the birds something safe, somewhere safe, to forestall a collapse of the species.
In Asia, the decline has been scary: Only about 10 percent of the birds remain from flocks 15 years ago, said Stephen Schabel, the centers education director.
In Asia, the culprit is an anti-inflammatory drug used for cattle and sheep that kills some vulture species. In Africa, its poisoned carcasses set out to kill large wild cats or other threats to villages.
In the United States, where most vulture species are pretty widespread, theres less threat. But poisons such as those found in landfills still kill them.
So do cars, when theres road kill around.
In fact, one of the aims of the centers restaurant is to try to keep at least some vultures off the road.
The restaurant also gives the center an eco-friendly way to dispose of wastes from a tractor-trailer load of rodents and other food delivered four times per year.
The food prep is done by scissors and hand. A meat cleaver lying nearby is for chopping off rat tails: Even vultures wont eat rat tails.
The restaurant provides a singular opportunity to teach people about the value of species widely derided as buzzards, and the threats to the birds worldwide.
Mostly, its an education tool for us, Schabel said. Itd be great to see a societal change where every community has a vulture restaurant to get rid of roadkill.
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Monty Wallace, a staff educator at the Birds of Prey Center in Awendaw, takes a meal to the vulture restaurant, where wild vultures can eat in a safe environment.×


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Three's Company: Wall Street, Capitol Hill, and K Street
Deniz Igan
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Financial Studies Division
Prachi Mishra
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
June 23, 2011
This paper explores the link between the political influence of the financial industry and financial regulation in the run-up to the global financial crisis. We construct a detailed dataset documenting the politically targeted activities of the financial industry from 1999 to 2006.
The analysis shows that lobbying expenditures by the financial industry were directly linked to the position legislators took on the key bills. Network connections of lobbyists and the financial industry with the legislators were also associated with increased odds of the legislator's position being in favor of lax regulation. These findings support the view that financial regulation is prone to be influenced by the financial industry.
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July 5, 2007 - Amy Jo Hanna-Eckenrode
My co-worker Lori always has the best stories to share about her fur-babies, so I've finally coaxed her to tell us one "blog-style"!
Hi everyone! I'm Benson's Mom, a co-worker of Amy's and, well, Benson's Mom! My husband and I are the parents of a 3-year-old son, Benson, (aka - crazy Golden Retriever), and 12-year-old-ish son, Tyler, (aka - usually calmer than his brother - Black Lab). Here's my first of, hopefully, many contributions to "Have Dog, Will Blog"....
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NEW YORK — One day after Lleyton Hewitt caused a ruckus with his behavior during a match against an African American opponent, the U.S. Open referee said Hewitt did not make a racist remark and would not be fined or reprimanded.
Tournament referee Brian Earley said he investigated the incident, in which Hewitt complained about a foot-fault call by an African American line judge in his match against James Blake on Friday. According to a transcript provided by the U.S. Open, Hewitt complained to umpire Andreas Egli: "Change him, change him. I have only been foot-faulted at one end. OK. Look at him. Look at him, and you tell me what the similarity is. Just get him off the court. Look at what he's done."


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Mexico's foreign-affairs secretary on Wednesday applauded plans by the city of Phoenix to open a trade office in Mexico City, calling the move one of several signs that strained political relations that have hindered trade between his country and Arizona are improving.
The Phoenix City Council last week approved Mayor Greg Stanton's proposal to open a trade office in Mexico City, allowing business people from both sides of the border to meet directly to explore cross-border economic opportunities.
"It makes a lot of sense given the volume of trade" between Mexico and Arizona, said Jose Antonio Meade, Mexico's secretary of foreign affairs. Phoenix is "a city that is very well connected. It would allow us to come (meet) in the morning and leave in the night and get a full day of work in between."
Mexico conducts $13 billion a year in trade with Arizona, Meade said during a meeting with reporters and editors at The Arizona Republic. That is larger than Mexico's trade with Central America and Spain.
Mexico is the largest export market for goods produced in Arizona and Mexico is the largest import provider to Arizona, Meade also noted.
"It is from the perspective of Mexico an important volume of trade and therefore an important partnership," Meade said.
Earlier in the day, Meade met with Stanton, City Council members Michael Nowakowski and Daniel Valenzuela and Acting City Manager Ed Zuercher.
Meade was joined by Eduardo Medina Mora, Mexico's ambassador to the U.S., and several other members of his staff.
Phoenix plans to open the trade office in Mexico City sometime next spring, said Hank Marshall, the city's economic-development executive officer, who attended the meeting at City Hall.
The main goal of the trade office will be to foster economic development through trade with Mexico, as well as foreign investment in Arizona and increased tourism to the state, Marshall said.
Arizona's passage of several laws aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants, notably Senate Bill 1070 in 2010, was condemned by the Mexican government.
That led to strained relations between Arizona and Mexico that have hindered trade, Meade said, without mentioning the laws specifically.
"It is very likely that the (economic) importance would still be better if the climate were better and much improved," Meade said.
The decision by Phoenix to open a trade office in Mexico City, however, is just one of several "positive" signs that relations between Mexico and Arizona are improving, he said.
Last week, Volaris, Mexico's largest discount airline, began flights between Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city, and Phoenix.
The airline plans to start flights between Mexico City and Phoenix in December.
The flights will add to the "connectives that we already have," Meade said.
Mexico also plans to open a cultural center in Phoenix and is also working with officials at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona to develop more student-exchange programs as well as greater exchange of research and faculty, he said.
"All in all, when one sees what is happening to connectivity, infrastructure, universities, all of those issues signal a better understanding to build a relationship forward," Meade said.
Arizona is investing about $1.5 million to make improvements to the state road between the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales and Interstate 19 to help avoid congestion after the federal government completes about $250 million worth of improvements that will more than double the port's capacity.
Meade said the Mexican government also plans to make improvements to infrastructure along the border to help facilitate trade.
"From one perspective, we should strive to make the border better. We have 21st century trade with 20th century rhetoric and 19th century infrastructure," he said.


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Sunday June 7 2009 / Art & Design - Horology - MB&F
MB&F's Only Watch HM2 piece unique by artist Sage Vaughn
This emotionally charged piece, a one-of-a-kind interpretation of MB&F's Horological Machine N°2, is signed by the American artist Sage Vaughn.
It will be auctioned at Only Watch, the charity auction to benefit research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy to be held in Monaco on 24 September 2009 under the patronage of HSH Prince Albert II.
Sage Vaughn was born in Jackson, Oregon and now lives and works in Los Angeles.
As a child he developed his talent for art in the company of his father, the artist Richard Smitty Vaughn Junior. His hippie parents had little money for toys, but they encouraged him to draw and to develop his own style. Later, he became an avid participant in the graffiti culture.Today he favours painting, but the city of his graffiti days is ever present in his work.
"I try to utilise animals in the same way that Aesop did in his fables"say VaughnSage Vaughn's paintings question the human condition and the difficulty of living in a contemporary environment. The bright birds and insects serve as an affirmation of life, but they also remind us of our strategies for survival in a modern society.
Maximilian Büsser said that he and his team were "shocked into" participating and were determined to work with Sage Vaughn. His paintings of gaily dressed children or bright birds or butterflies against bleak urban backgrounds had the tension between affirmation of life and a sense of desperation that they were seeking.
Vaughn, whose solo shows have won widespread critical acclaim, has fought and conquered his own demon – a seven-year heroin addiction – and the pain of that struggle is felt in the emotional power of his work. He immediately agreed to contribute his time and talent.
You can see parallels between Vaughn's 'State Penn' painting above and the HM2 only Watch.
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a genetic disorder affecting boys. It causes a progressive weakening of the muscles that becomes fatal as the child gets older.
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The man whose wife was forced to have an abortion wants the Chinese officials responsible to face criminal charges.
In June, Deng Jianmei's wife was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy.
The couple already has one child and could not afford the $6,300 fine for violating China's harsh one-child policy.
Jianmei's wife, Feng, told NBC News that family planning officials dragged her out of her relatives' home.
They took her to a hospital where she was blindfolded and injected with an abortion drug.
Since the abortion, she has been hospitalized with health problems, her sister-in-law said, without going into specifics.
The Chinese government apologized, and two officials responsible for the incident have been fired and five more have been sanctioned.
In June, the family was placed under government surveillance. Deng Jiyuan went into hiding near the end of the month when local authorities would not allow him to travel to Beijing. In the end, he made it there to seek legal help.
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It's tricky to identify precisely who this book is aimed at. Part mea culpa, part autobiography, part technical treatise on forecasting, part reassessment of the rationality or otherwise of humans, part attack on the American social security system, part plea for more markets and small government, there is no single unifying theme.
The chapters are littered with musings of variable quality. We learn that "the familiarity of the home is the source of the angst we feel after leaving, namely homesickness". Apparently, "the evidence is unequivocal that people have an inbred propensity to value relatives, especially children, over others". We're


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Today: Great Lakes (Nathan Eovaldi, 0-2, 6.57) at Wisconsin (Cody Scarpetta, 0-1, 5.11), 7:35 p.m.
Big Hitter: Loons shortstop Jaime Pedroza was 5-for-5, which is a franchise record, on Thursday with a home run, a double and three RBIs.
Key Inning: Great Lakes scored five runs in the first inning, including Travis Vetters' two-run triple and a pair of RBI doubles, one each from Matthew Wallach and Pedroza.
Winning Pitcher: Justin Miller collected the win, going 5 2/3 while allowing seven hits and three earned runs while walking three and striking out two.
Charitable: Wisconsin committed three errors that led to five unearned runs for the Loons.
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Pleading the Fifth
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides you with the right to say nothing that might incriminate you or in any way link you to a crime that's been committed. You may refuse to answer any questions that are put to you in this regard, and you are always free to refrain from volunteering information. This is also sometimes referred to as the constitutional right against self-incrimination. When someone "pleads the Fifth," either in criminal procedure or in jest, it means that they are invoking the right not to condemn themselves with their own words (or make themselves vulnerable to condemnation).
Perhaps the most powerful application of the Fifth is in criminal trial, where a criminal defendant always has the right to refuse to testify before the court. Neither judge, nor jury, nor prosecution, nor even the defendant's own council can force the defendant to take the stand in his own trial, if he is firmly resolved not to. If the defendant does choose to plead the Fifth, the jury is forbidden from considering it in their deliberations. However, if the defendant does choose to take the stand in his trial, then it is generally held that he has waived his right against self-incrimination: he will be required to answer the questions put to him like any other witness.
Alternately, witnesses may plead the Fifth by refusing to answer certain questions while they're testifying in someone else's trial, if they believe the answers might incriminate them. This is because, unlike a defendant, witnesses can be forced to testify in court with a subpoena - but this shouldn't deny them their right to plead the Fifth.
It is worth noting that the right against self-incrimination only extends to speech and not to other information that might lead to self-incrimination. A suspect taken into police custody may not refuse to be fingerprinted, nor may he refuse a DNA test or anything of the sort by pleading the Fifth. The Fifth Amendment guarantees the right to remain silent, not the right to immunity.
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How The Little Kit Company came to be:
I bought a wine making kit as a gift a few years back. The kit, which I sourced from various den-like home brew shops, was sitting on my kitchen table ready to be wrapped. It was bulky, ugly and generally uninspiring, and was not the creative thoughtful gift I had envisaged giving! An idea seeded itself in my mind, what if there was a wine kit that!
These kits allow you to make small quantities of wine, look good in your kitchen and not so, well.. scientific and give you the option to make wine simply a easily from fresh fruit and veg. Over the course of about a year I talked to people about my idea, and eventually realised I was not alone, other people were interested in making wine in the way I was. And The Little Wine Kit was born!
Now, some months down the road of putting my thoughts into reality, I am proud to say I have fulfilled many other specifications that are important to me including:
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On April 3, 2009, Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV broadcast a play with that included the ancient blood libel of Jews using blood for religious rituals.
The play, "The House of Sheikh Yassin" was performed at the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University in Gaza City, featured the character of an ultra-orthodox Jewish father.
According to a translation by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center, the father declares: "We Jews hate Muslims. We like to kill Muslims. We Jews drink the blood of Muslims and Arabs." He then turns to the audience and asks, " Are you Arabs? Are you Muslims? I hate you. I hate you for the sake of [our] God's will."
Later, the father says to his son, "Shimon, I want to teach you some things: first of all, you have to hate Muslims." Shimon answers, "I don't like them, I hate them." The father continues, "You have to drink Muslim blood. We have to wash our hands in Muslim blood" [in the context of Jewish ritual hand washing before prayer], and adds, "We have to conspire against Arabs and Muslims to satisfy God. We will destroy the Arabs and the Muslims."
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Italy, Family-Style: 36 Hours in Rome with Kidsannweeks
ROME, Italy — Finding your way around the cobblestone streets of Rome is delightful when traveling with children. After all, when the kids lose interest in the sights of the Eternal City, it offers them their all-time favorite food groups to consume: pizza, pasta, and ice cream. Nothing will make a family visit to Italy more delightful and easy to manage than taste treats for the youngsters.
Hands down, the first place to visit in Rome would be the Coliseum. Kids should know that gruesome gladiatorial and wild animal fights took place free-of-charge as a form of public entertainment in ancient times. The Coliseum was completed in AD 80. What movies mean to us in the 21st century is equivalent to what gladiator combat was to the masses in the 1st century.
Next up, hop on just about any public bus in front of the Coliseum and head back into the center of town for a stroll over to the Trevi Fountain. Rome's largest and most famous fountain was built in 1762. Kids will enjoy the tradition of throwing coins into the fountain and making a wish. It's particularly lovely after dark when the fountain is illuminated by banks of flood lights. During the afternoon hours, grab a light snack in the neighborhood and then walk over to the Spanish Steps, located in one of Rome's most exclusive shopping areas. Settle down on the Steps and watch the colorful parade of people go by.
Depending on your time frame and the ages of your children, it can be quite a challenge to visit popular places of interest. But you should be aware that several popular tourist destinations throughout the world, ones that notoriously have long lines for admission, generally run a bit lighter later in the afternoon. The kids and I have been incredibly fortunate to have visited St. Peter's Basilica — home to one of the world's greatest collections of Classical and Renaissance art including the Sistine Chapel and Raphael Rooms — on several occasions. And since each visit to St. Peter's Basilica occurred late in the afternoon, the lines to enter the facility were considerably shorter, resulting a surprisingly less waiting time.
When traveling around the city with its lovely and extensive mix of ancient and modern, you must remember: Rome was not built in a day — and you won't see it all in 24 hours. Pace yourself, see what you can, and embrace the beauty of Italy's magnificent capital.
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March 30, 2000
Assad's Chump Gambit
Administration officials were in stiff-upper-lip mode this week in the wake of the failed Geneva summit between President Bill Clinton and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
But just beneath the official resolve to persist were other reactions: anger, disappointment and genuine confusion about where to turn next in a peace process that seems to have reached yet another dead end.
The administration had tried to tamp down expectations in the days before Clinton jetted halfway around the world to meet the Syrian leader, but insiders admit they expected the president to come home with at least a decision to resume Syrian-Israeli talks, which were stalled after the Shepherdstown conference in early January.
Instead, the immovable, unreadable Syrian dictator spurned the presidential initiative, leaving Clinton hanging out to dry.
Assad's latest feint toward peace will have adverse consequences in a number of areas:
Support for the
peace process
in Israel.
Assad consistently misses this fundamental fact: Israel is a democracy, and its voters must approve any agreement giving him the Golan Heights. That vote will be a referendum on voters' trust for Assad, as well as for Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
From the outset, the Syrian leader has refused to make even minor gestures of reconciliation; his snubs and his inflexibility make it less and less likely Israeli voters will approve a deal.
Assad's latest gambit -- playing Clinton for a chump -- just reinforced the arguments of the Israeli rejectionists who insist he is an untrustworthy negotiating partner.
U.S.-Syrian relations.
Assad craves closer ties to Washington; indeed, peace process critics say that, and not peace with Israel, is his real goal.
At the least, he wants his country removed from the list of nations supporting terrorism. What he hopes for is economic aid and private investment to rehabilitate his shattered economy.
So why does he continue to play games that seem calculated to embarrass and anger his would-be benefactors? Why won't he make even the minor gestures toward Israel demanded by Washington?
U.S. officials have cut Assad a lot of slack; in return, in their view, they keep getting kicked in the teeth. That's not a formula for the positive relations Assad craves.
Wasted time.
Time is running out for a number of reasons, including Assad's own ill health, but he acts as if he has all the time in the world.
Clinton, entering the home stretch of his presidency, has been more willing than any of his predecessors to listen to Syrian concerns and weave them into an overall peace framework. His successor -- Democrat or Republican -- is unlikely to be so tolerant.
The same applies to Prime Minister Ehud Barak, whose coalition is tottering; Assad's impenetrable maneuvers aren't helping the Israeli leader.
If Assad believes he can make a better deal with Barak's successor, the "intermittent dementia" intelligence officials say is hampering his functioning may have progressed further than anyone suspects.
And Israel's promised withdrawal from Lebanon in July, or even sooner -- with or without an agreement with Syria -- represents another kind of deadline, shadowed by the prospect of confrontation and violence.
U.S. aid.
Pro-Israel lobbyists who are pushing a huge package considered necessary to underwrite any Israeli-Syrian deal were already facing tough odds, thanks to the foreshortened congressional calendar, election-year partisan wrangling and a tight budget.
Assad, by spurning the president in Geneva, make their job incalculably harder.
Opponents of the peace process have been effectively exploiting Republican hostility to the Clinton administration and wielding their trump card: dislike of Assad.
Why spend billions of U.S. dollars to support a treaty with a dictator who can't or won't fully commit to the peace process, they ask? This week's Geneva fiasco will make that argument resonate much more strongly in Washington.
Without the promise of a huge new security package, Israel's government will have a much harder time reassuring its constituents that returning the Golan Heights to Assad will not jeopardize their country's security.
And the package will include international economic aid for Syria, possibly including limited U.S. funding. Indeed, Israeli officials have been quietly lobbying Congress for such aid after a deal; Assad's performance on Sunday sawed off the limb they were precariously perched on.
This week, officials in Washington were still assessing the damage from Sunday's disaster and looking for new avenues to pursue. There were reports that the administration will ratchet up the pressure on Assad and promises that they will not abandon the peace process.
But some officials are beginning to ask this question: are they just being jerked around by a Syrian leader who is using the negotiations as tokens in some other game?
It's the same question Israel's leaders are asking; in the wake of Geneva, the answers are not reassuring.
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Geek Speak – Remembering Leslie Nielsen and Irvin Kershner
by Daniel
Geekdom lost a couple of greats this week, actor Leslie "Don't Call me Shirley" Nielsen and director Irvin "Never Tell Me the Odds" Kershner.
Nielsen was famous for his roles in goofball comedies like Airplane! and Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad, and that's how most of my generation know him, and there is nothing wrong with that.
BUT–did you know he was the star of the 1956 classic science fiction film, Forbidden Planet? No? Well, rent it, stream it, whatever-you-need-to-do, and watch it ASAP.
Nielsen plays Commander J. J. Abrams Adams, a proto-Captain Kirk in this charming space adventure. It features an all-electronic music score (in 1956, this was a big deal) and also stars Robby the Robot.
Nielsen is mostly known, to people around my age anyway, for his comedic films, but Forbidden Planet is a great example of 1950s era science fiction. Check it out.
Kershner is best known for directing Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back, which is not only my favorite Star Wars film, but one of my all time favorite films. Deal with it.
Sadly, there are more than a few folks who think George Lucas directed all six Star Wars films, but die-hard Star Wars fans know better.
Kershner also directed other sequels, including RoboCop 2 (written by Frank "Dark Knight Returns" Miller). Sure, it ain't as great as the first RoboCop, (another of my all time favorite films) but nothing can really compare to the original. RoboCop 2 does have plenty of intense robot-on-robot action, though. …What?
So if you are in the mood for a bit of a science fiction tribute this week, watch 1956's Forbidden Planet and follow it up with The Empire Strikes Back*.
And I promise my blog posts won't just be "Remembering…" all the time. It just happened that way :/
*= and for those in the "Star Wars isn't really science fiction" Camp, shut up.
Daniel J. Hogan is the geek half of Ginger and the Geek. He is a photoblogger, and never calls anyone Shirley. Follow him on Twitter, @danieljhogan.


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Celestial FantasyThe program includes Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini featuring pianist Igor Lipinski, Aaron Jay Kernis' Musica Celestis, and Richard Strauss' Death and Transfiguration.02/08/2014Time: 7:30 pmButler Intermediate High School, 551 Fairground Hill Rd, Butler, PAwebsite | map
Onward to MarsIf NASA could send you to Mars but it was only a one-way trip, would you go? Dan Wilcox's "Onward to Mars" is a live, audio/visual astronautical rock opera that takes you on a journey to discover the music of the Red Planet. Part of the Community Supported Art (CSA) series.02/08/2014Time: 8:00 pmNew Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Carnegie Mellon University Wind Ensemble Featuring Carrie Vertin, horn, 2013 Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition winner, in James Beckel's The Glass Bead Game (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, 1997); also, Marilyn Taft Thomas: Snapshots of a Great City and Edgard Varese: Ionization 02/09/2014Time: 7:30 pmLocation: Palace Theatre, 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg, PAwebsite
Duquesne University Symphony OrchestraJeffrey Turner conducts Bernstein's Candide Overture, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite #2, and Holst's The Planets.02/09/2014Time: 7:30 pmLocation: Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Av, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
A Classical CabaretSongs and Arias of classical composers strongly influenced by jazz sung by Desiree Soteres and Kelly Lynch.02/09/2014Time: 3:00 pmLocation: Campbell Memorial Chapel, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Pittsburgh Gospel ChoirDirected by Herbert V. R. P. Jones, the Pittsburgh Gospel Choir is a multi-age, multi-ethnic ensemble that performs American gospel music.02/09/2014Time: 2:00 pmCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
PYCO ConcertBeethoven: Egmont Overture; Saint-Saens: Allegro Appassionato for Cello and Orchestra; Britten: Simple Symphony; Meredith Wilson: Symphonic Impressions of (the musical) The Music Man; directed by Guest Conductor Edward Leonard.02/09/2014Time: 5:00 pmLocation: Ingomar United Methodist Churchwebsite
Heinz Chapel Choir Chamber Choir FestivalOutstanding regional high school choirs join with Heinz Chapel Choir for a celebration of a cappella music.02/09/2014Time: 3:00 pmLocation: Heinz Chapel, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Helene CooperHelene Cooper is White House correspondent for The New York Times, with a unique perspective on America's first African-American president. Her memoir The House At Sugar Beach, is the story of an idyllic childhood in Liberia--until it became a nightmare.02/10/2014Time: 7:30 pmCarnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Adam Liu, celloCellist Adam Liu is joined by pianist David Allen Wehr in a recital celebrating Mr. Liu's 10th anniversary in Pittsburgh, and welcoming the Chinese Year of the Horse. The program includes works by Boccherini, Saint-Saens, Chopin, Faure and Brahms, plus the evocative Chinese erhu showpiece Sai Ma (The Horse Race) played by Mr. Liu. Free admission.02/10/2014Time: 7:30 pmPNC Recital Hall, School of Music, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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Sometimes you want to go somewhere and are waiting to get a cheap airfare and you can't get it. Then suddenly it is there. I exeprienced this some time ago. I always wanted to go to Nice for spotting. However, the cheap fares were always sold out when I looked. Thus when easyJet announced their Grand sale late August I hoped that I had the chance to get to Nice. And yes on September 1st 00.01 I looked on their website and it was indeed possible to do a daytrip for the NLG 132 (USD 55) roundtrip fare (taxes included).
Thus on October 13th I woke up early (05.00) to take the first train to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. I didn't know what to expect as after I booked the terrible events happened in NY and thus didn't know if I could do some spotting in Nice.
The check-in desk opened just as I arrived. However, as usual I wasn't the first. Already many people lined up at the check-in desk for Nice and I wondered whether I could get a boarding card below the 30. Fortunately for me another check-in desk just opened and I checked in. Nowadays you seem to get a real paper boarding card (the first time) with the number (22) printed on it. As I had some time to spare before departure (I checked in at 0720 and the flight left at 0915) I went to my "usual" places to spot aircraft (being the end of the B-pier if I go to a Schengen destination).
After half an hour I walked from the B-pier to the end of the C-pier to read the Atlas 747 which now flies for the US government and went to my gate D72. This was the first time I had to walk on the upper part of the D-pier (usually I walk in the non-Schengen part) and I must say it's good. I arrived too soon at the gate (it would open at 0845), thus I walked to the end (gate D80) to do some spotting. While I was spotting I noticed that my aircraft (G-EZYF) arrived at the gate. I was very pleased to see that this was a "new" one for me . At 0845 I went down to sit with all the other passengers and waited for boarding to begin. As usual first families with children and the elderly were allowed on the plane and than the rest. As always in Amsterdam the gate agents don't know that easyJet boards according to your number and thus it was the typical easyJet mess when general boarding started. Somehow I manged to get through the crowd and boarded the aircraft. As people tend to sit in front of the cabin I immediately walked to the rear and sat down on seat 29F.
A couple of minutes later the cargo doors were closed and I expected a very early departure. However, I didn't count on two passengers not turning up. The cargo doors were opened (unfortunately they had luggage) and I wondered how long it would take. Then came the announcement from the captain that he secured a take off slot at 0930 (only 15 minutes delay) and that they have some problems locating the bags of those who missed their flight.
Fortunately at 0926 the plane was pushed back from gate D72. We had to wait a few minutes as an Aer Lingus B737-400 taxied to gate and we started rolling at around 0930. Todays runway for take off was runway 27. After take off we immediately headed south to Nice. The captain gave our route (via Geneva and the Alps to Nice) and said that the weather at Nice was very good. Flying time was 1 hour and 45 minutes (this meant we would catch up the delay).
I decided to go to sleep as I had three seats for myself making it a very comfortable bed (loadfactor was probably around 67%). However, suddenly I woke up and looked outside. I must say that I've never flown over the Alps before when there was a clear sky and I now know what I missed. It's the most beautiful scene I've ever seen from an aircraft. Flying over the mountains and looking at the summits with snow on it. Very beautiful (make sure you've a window seat when flying over the Alps).
After 1 hour and 30 minutes we started our descend into Nice Airport. We first passed the airport and now flew over the Mediterranean Sea. We made some small turns to the right followed by a sharpe turn to the right (almost 180 degrees). We flew over those lovely yachts (or better ships) and beautiful holiday cottages (villas) before we started final approach on runway 4L. The aircraft touced down at NCE exactly on time (11.10) and headed to the gate at terminal 1. When the aircaarft arrived at the gate everybody left the plane (including myself).
Nice Airport (NCE)
Nice is an airport under construction. I hoped that Terminal 2 provided some spotting possiblities but couldn't see one. Fortunately I spotted during final approach a site where I could go spotting. It was near the CAP3000 shopping mall. The only problem was how to get to the spot. After walking for about 30 minutes I reached the spot and settled down for the day (my return flight left at 2030).
After more than 5 hours of spotting in the sun I decided it was time to go to the airport again. I arrived at terminal 1 and searched for the easyJet check-in desks. After I saw them I waited before check-in started. Again I wasn't the first one waiting to check-in. Fortunately I manged to get again a number under the 30 (this time I was number 28). Again I received a paper boarding card, this time with the usual easyJet plastic card. I walked to security hoping that I could eat (I was looking for a McDonald's) and spot something. Unfortunately Nice airport isn't very big and there was no McDonald's(or equivalent) in the boarding area. I thus was looking for a place to do some spotting. Given the limited possiblities I setlled down in a corner of the building. Fortunately I already anticipated that Nice Airport wouldn't have any McDonald's after secuirity and I thus ate my own food, which I always bring along if I fly (you never know what happens).
At 2000 we were to start boarding at gate E4 and thus I moved to the gate some time before. At 1945 it became very crowded at the gate thus I also went to the gate. After 15 minutes we started boarding for the return flight and I saw that it was yet another "new" B737-33V for me (still need to fly all the B737-73V's and the EZYH/O/R/T). I boarded the aircraft and immediately went to seat 29F (hoping that I would get three seats again). Unfortunately this flight was a little bit fuller than the onward flight (loadfactor approx. 75%) and thus only two seats.
The aircraft was pushed back at 2030 sharp and the aircraft taxied to 4R the runway which was used for takeoffs the entire day. The co-pilot (an American) advised people on the right hand side to look out of their windows upon departure as you could see the beautiful lights of the Côte d"Azur. And indeed it was beautiful. The aircraft made a sharp turn to the right just after take off (probably because the people who bought the villas don't want to hear the aircraft noise). The routing was almost identitcal to the route we've flown to Nice. Via the Alps, Geneva and Strassboug to Amsterdam). I must say that even in the dark the Alps look beautiful (all those lights). Flying time was, according to our American co-pilot just 1 hour and 35 minutes. The purser apologised for the fact that the easyKiosk was empty "due to a catering problem earlier in the day" (as this particular aircraft had flown AMS-BFS-AMS-NCE-LGW-NCE before our flight to AMS I wondered where the problem had arisen).
After more than 1 hour and 15 minutes flying we entered Dutch airspace (The Netherlands is very easy to spot from the air at night. You only have to look at the way residential areas are contructed). The first familiar point was Rotterdam, followed by the Westland. Thus I expected to land at runway 06. However, I was wrong. We flew over Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and headed for my home town of Alkmaar. As we passed the airport I could see very good the city of Amsterdam. I must say that I haven't seen this before (at least not at night) as this approach was new for me. Just after we passed Zaandam we made a 180 degrees turn to the left heading for runway 19R. We touched down at runway 19R at 22.05 and headed to the gate. The aircraft arrived there at 2215 (15 minutes ahead of schedule).
After a satisfactory day in Nice and two goods flights on easyJet (as usual) I headed to the railway station to catch the train knowing that I'll be flying easyJet again in a few weeks time (can't wait), but this time to GVA.


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How strong a connection is the Wii reporting? I've found that it doesn't have the worlds greatest antenna and you need to be relatively close to the signal to connect (which is why I went for the LAN option).
Can you move either the Wii or the router so that they are closer together?
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Stop harrassing me ya freakin' mulley, like you would understand anything I'd say anyway.
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Wooty is a racist term used in thailand which originated in Koh Hong by cambodians who had settled there.
by Thailand enthusiast November 06, 2010
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white girl with a booty
Damn, i was walking down the street and I saw a white girl with an ass. she was a real wooty.
by Don Nicolas September 10, 2008
As the stereotypical black person has a "booty," not too many white people have one. The word wooty is used to describe any white woman that does have one.
"I'm not going to lie, but Hillary Duff is a 'wooty'."
by 20questions July 16, 2009
A white girl with a nice ass...as seen on TMZ
Did you see that girl! She's such a wooty!!!
by dofuguy69 July 15, 2009
A congratulations to one or more persons ( See woot)
Wooties! I just leveled!
by KrypticStorm February 13, 2004
The word 'Wooty' is a term commonly used to racially provoke and describe a settlement of Cambodian people (named 'wootyians) in the Koh Hong region of Thailand and is seen to be an extremely racist and controversial word in Taiwanese society.
Theres a Wooty in those bushes! watch out! he'll impale you!!
by Hin Chon Cheaang November 06, 2010
a term created by some dick wipes in new orleans meaning white girl with an ass
rapper:I was at "Da" club and i saw a "wooty"
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It looks like eight is enough for golden boy Michael Phelps.
The Olympian scored yet another gold medal Sunday in the 4x100 medley relay, bringing his grand total to eight since the games in Beijing began. It is the most golds won by any athlete at a single Olympics.
The US men's 4x100-meter medley relay team, again on the strength of an anchor leg swim by Jason Lezak, broke a world record with a time of 3:29.34.
After the victory, Phelps led the team (which included Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen and Lezak) in a long poolside embrace.
"These guys made it possible," he told reporters upon leaving the pool. "I literally wanted to do something that no one's ever done before in this sport. Without the help of my teammates it wouldn't have been possible."
At the end of it though, Phelps added, "I don't even know what to feel right now – so many emotions. I guess I kind of just want to see my mom."
He got his wish: Phelps was able to embrace his mother Debbie, who had watched the race in the stands with Michael's sisters Whitney and Hilary, for just a moment.
When asked what he thought of himself at a press conference following the race, Phelps said with a laugh, "I have no idea. I think that's probably the first question I don't know the answer to."
Phelps's victory on the last day of swimming helped break Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals from the 1972 Olympics in Munich. He now has 16 total Olympic medals in his lifetime, 14 of them gold (a world record).
But he's not done yet: he has his sights on the World Championships in Rome. Why? As he said with a laugh, "My mom's told me that I better make the team because she wants to go to Rome!"
Phelps Wins Eighth Gold, Breaks Spitz's Record


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Like other Field Notes books, these are durable and flexible, designed to survive any pant or shirt pockets. They are bound with a rugged three-staple saddle-stitch process. Inside the front cover, you can write in your contact information and, with a sense of humor, indicate whether or not the person who returns your lost book will be rewarded. The inside back cover lists "practical" applications for the memo books such as #02, "Best Pies Tasted." The Field Notes story and further specifications are also presented. The books are manufactured and printed in the USA.
As a bonus, this pack includes a bright "America the Beautiful" decal (No. FNC-18a). Stick it on your car window or luggage, just like they did in the 60s.
This pack includes 3 memo books, each containing 48 pages (24 sheets), and a decal.
Memo book dimensions: 3.5 x 5.5 inches (8.9 x 13.9 cm).


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EA Sports, It's Outside The Game
Welcome to 2016, an age in which Nike and EA Sports collaborate on an actual pair of FIFA series football boots (soccer cleats, Americans).
Welcome to 2016, an age in which Nike and EA Sports collaborate on an actual pair of FIFA series football boots (soccer cleats, Americans).
One pair to rock, and one pair to stock, right? Sneakerheads might amass a large collection of shoes, with some pairs not aging like fine wine, but rather, falling apart.
Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson Jr. is my favorite football player. Okay, he's the only football player I can name, and that's only because people call him Megatron. Now I love him even more, because he's the inspiration behind a $550 box set of three pairs of sneakers and a limited-edition Transformer.
Nike is launching some kind of reality... video game... thing in the near future. Powered by the company's Nike+ FuelBand wristband, they're calling it the "the first game powered by your everyday movement."
NBA 2K has a great track record of indulging its players' shoe fetishes, but according to IGN, it's going even further in NBA 2K13.
Darrin Crescenzi works as a designer at Nike, where he's done stuff like the Dream Team's uniform for the recent London Olympics. Another thing he's done recently that's even cooler is this redesign of the family crests from George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones) series.
This new commercial for Nike, aimed at using social media and the company's Nike Fuelband gear to inspire athletes to train with/against each other, does a pretty good job of making me wish this is what Wii Fit actually looked like.
Yesterday, Nike's football division—that would be football football, not American football—cranked up "My Time is Now," which looks like the big campaign it'll have going during UEFA Euro 2012 in about three weeks. It shows a soccer pitch, the locker room, a team dinner all overrun by ordinary joes. OK, I get all that.
The flawless revealing, two weeks ago, of the NFL's new uniforms and their designs required an unusual level of secrecy. But it was a particularly nerve-wracking process for the Madden NFL developers, the game's creative director told me.
Nike is the new maker of uniform apparel for the NFL, and yesterday saw the unveiling of the new threads for all 32 teams. And they're ... basically the same as last year's for most teams in this tradition-bound sports institution.
I have a nephew who's a bit of a sneaker enthusiast. He's done the whole line-up-at-midnight-for-new-Dunks thing, despite the fact that he's got size 14 feet. He's also a gamer and I took him to see a demo of NBA 2K12 earlier this summer. And, while he was polite enough not to ask about the in-game footwear in this…
Now this is a bundle: Laser-etched Killzone 3 PlayStation 3. Move Controller. PlayStation Eye Camera. Nike Move sneakers. Nike Killzone combat boots. Sony showed it all to us at a PlayStation event in New York today.
Sorry, sneakerheads and Killzone fans, but these new ultra-limited edition kicks from the most recent Nike and PlayStation collaboration are for "friends and family" only, two more Sony commissioned sneakers that will likely become instant collector's items.
The diagram of a successful touchdown play from the New Orleans Saints Super' Bowl XLIV victory is lasered into the heels of the "Madden 11 Air Trainer 1.2" by NIke, only 500 of which will be made available at retailers.
Normally the demo for NCAA Football pairs participants from the national championship game, and the latest one, releasing next week, still does. It just features the combatants from the 2003 BCS championship game. Update: Plus six more teams.
Nike sent a size 10 love note to Sony for past collaborations on console-themed kicks, but this series, based on the face buttons of a PlayStation controller, might be a little hard to find. Only 24 pairs will be made.
Remember those sexy Ms. Pac-Man Nike Dunks from last month? This month, Nike is previewing their male counterpart.
Nike isn't shy about flirting with video game references for its Nike Skateboarding line of sneakers, having already released Dunks "inspired by" 720° and Skate or Die. And speaking of not shy... Ms. Pac-Man sneakers!
Last month we wrote about a pair of Air Force 1 Playstation 2 Tenth Anniversary shoes that Sony sent us.


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Show off your jewelry making skills with this California Roll Bracelet from Polyform Products! Never wonder how to make clay jewelry again...with this polymer clay craft, you'll be able to make all kinds of fun clay beads and bangles!
- 1 block Premo! Sculpey®: Navy Blue * - 2 oz
- 1 block Premo! Accents: Blue Pearl - 2 oz
- 1 block Premo! Accents: Peacock Pearl - 2 oz
- 2 blocks Premo! Accents: Bright Green Pearl - 2 oz
- 1 block Premo! Accents: Blue Granite - 2 oz
- Clay Conditioning Machine
- Sculpey® Style & Detail Tools, Set of 3
- Sculpey® Super Slicer
- Premo! Sculpey® Cuff Bracelet
- 1/4 inch dowel or the same
- Create sheets of your three lightest colors and stack these in order from lightest to darkest. Shown here are Bright Green Pearl on top, Peacock Pearl in the middle, and Blue Pearl on the bottom. At this point I am reserving Navy for later. Create long and narrow, about 6" long and only about 2"-3" wide.
- Starting at one end, make deep impressions in the clay stack with the dowel rod all the way across the stack. These grooves should be parallel with the short side of the stack. Depending on the look you would like to achieve, for this step you could substitute something thinner than a dowel rod, like the edge of a ruler, and you could experiment with making the grooves closer together or further apart. Trim the short ends of the stack when you are done making the grooves.
- Pinch the stack flat on the two short ends. Sheet your fourth and darkest color on the #3 setting. Place it under the grooved stack. Trim the dark color so it lines up on three edges and extends past one of the short edges by 1/4 inch;. Wrap this extra 1/4 inch; around the short edge of the stack.
- Gently and carefully roll up the cane jelly roll style starting at the end with the dark color wrapped over the edge. Continue rolling up the cane all the way and then smooth the trailing edge of the stack to the cane body.
- Reduce as desired, slice and enjoy!
- After you've made the grooves, you can leave them open and empty or you can fill them with a contrasting color to create small dots in the canes. This pink cane was filled with bright orange spots in it was done by filling the grooves with ropes of orange clay.
- On the widest setting of the Clay Conditioning Machine roll 2 strips of Bright Green Pearl, one strip of Peacock Pearl and one strip of Blue Granite.
- Place the strip of Blue Granite on the bracelet, followed by the two strips of Bright Green Pearl.
- Using various size circle cutter cut a random pattern of holes in the strip of Peacock Pearl. Create a random pattern using the smallest Style and Detail tool.
- Add the Peacock Pearl strip and trim as necessary. Add slices of the cane and bake as directed by manufacturer. Allow to cool and remove bracelet blank.
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love it!! Again the photos are really a HUGE plus to the directions, thank you!!! Some of us are visual people and just having word directions sends us into the outer zone of nowhere land..lol
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Guard Kimberly Artho, a freshman from Vega, has quit the West Texas A&M women's basketball team, coach Bob Schneider said Saturday.
Schneider said Artho quit for personal reasons shortly after the Lady Buffs lost to Texas A&M-Kingsville on Dec. 2.
Artho's departure left the Lady Buffs with only eight players for Saturday's game against Oklahoma Panhandle State. Schneider said a ninth player, freshman guard Nicole Mosley from Lockney, would become eligible Monday and travel with the team to the Bahamas Sunshine Shootout this week.
Without Artho, starting shooting guard Shelia Kirksey will have to back up starting point guard Mindy Norman.
Artho, who helped Vega win the Class 1A state title in 1998-99, had averaged 14.8 minutes of playing time in five games. She was 0-for-8 from the field, 3-of-4 from the free-throw line, had three assists and six turnovers. - MIKE LEE
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Republicans suffer major defeat in US mid-term elections
Published 08/11/2006
George W Bush's Republican party has suffered widespread defeats in the US mid-term elections.
The Democrats have pulled off a historic victory to seize control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years.
A number of key seats in the Senate also remain on a knife-edge, where the Democrats need six net gains to also take control there.
They have already made three of those gains and three more states are still neck-and-neck.
The elections were widely regarded as a referendum on the Iraq War and will be regarded as a major indictment of President Bush's controversial foreign policies.


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Rumor had it that Swedish supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg was looking into building a four-door model, but it appears the company will simply launch another two-seat coupe: the Agera.
According to GTSpirit.com, these images show the Koenigsegg Agera, which may make a surprise debut in Geneva this week. Judging by the details provided by GTSpirit.com, the Agera appears to be an evolution of the company's long-running CC line. It matches the latest CCX in size and retains the same 4.7-liter V-8 engine, but weighs just 2832 pounds and packs a stunning 910 horsepower and 811 pound-feet of torque.
Throw in a Koenigsegg-designed, paddle-shifted transaxle with limited-slip differential and you've got a car reportedly capable of sprinting from 0 to 62 mph in just 3.1 seconds and topping out at more than 245 mph. 15.4-inch front brake rotors and 15.0-inch rear brake rotors, made from drilled carbon ceramic material, pull stopping duty while special Michelin tires on 19-inch front and 20-inch rear wheels handle grip and an adjustable suspension keeps them planted. GTSpirit.com says the car will pull an astounding 1.6 g in the corners.
The Agera, which means "to act" in Swedish, features an all-new interior with plenty of carbon-fiber and leather. Aluminum switchgear will supposedly be lit by a fancy nanotube "ghost lighting" system and the interior will be finished with custom stitching. The removable roof will stow under the hood.
No price is known yet, but GTSpirit.com says Koenigsegg plans to build 16 to 20 cars per year. Orders will reportedly be taken at the Geneva show next week and deliveries are expected to begin by the end of the year.
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Jazz fans are the obvious audience for this engaging little film (an Academy Award nominee for Best Feature Documentary), but its 60 minutes are so lively, good-natured and full of unforced affection that others, too, will find it thoroughly enjoyable.
Great Day chronicles a 1958 photograph commissioned by Esquire art editor Robert Benton (later director of such films as Kramer vs. Kramer and Places in the Heart) for a special issue on jazz. Benton asked freelance art director Arthur Kane, who had never taken a professional picture, to gather as many jazz stars as he could on 126th Street in Harlem for a group picture.
Kane, mostly through blind luck, wound up with a remarkable photograph that included Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Gene Krupa, Marian McPartland, Roy Eldridge, Buck Clayton, Art Blakey, Bud Freeman, Pee Wee Russell, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Jimmy Rushing, Sonny Rollins and Mary Lou Williams. (In a sad footnote, Kane died last month at 69 in Lancaster, Ky., an apparent suicide.)
Fortunately for the makers of this documentary, the group also included bassist and longtime amateur photographer Milt Hinton, who brought his wife, Mona, and his 8-mra movie camera. It is Mona's shaky but fascinating footage that producer Jean Bach mixes into filmed interviews with surviving members of the group, reminiscing about being in the photo. (The shot was taken around 10 a.m., a shockingly early hour for the nocturnal jazzmen. "Somebody said it was the first time he realized there were two 10 o'clocks every day," one participant recalls.) Bach rarely intercedes, letting the musicians' recollections and Mrs. Hinton's film speak for themselves. That reticence is a weakness at times, however, since the film cries for, among other things, an explanation of why such greats as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington skipped the portrait session (which ended up including an array of neighborhood children).
Still, Bach's interviews reflect the spontaneity and camaraderie that create (and are generated by) great jazz. And Susan Peehl stitched all the elements together in a spectacular job of editing, creating what is in effect an interpersonal variation on the jam session, (not rated)
Picks and Pans Review: A Great Day in Harlem
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the process by which sectors of society and culture are removed from the domination of religious institutions and symbols
The Sacred Canopy
Written by Peter Berger - argued that religious pluralism would inevitably lead to secularization
Secularization Myths
Religious decline, past piety, failure to Christianize, religion adn science, eastern revivals, other religions
Religious Economies Model
comes out of the Rational Choice Theory; explains competitive religious markets; accounts for increased religious participation
Church/Sect Theory
Sect Characteristics: usually the product of a schism, sees itself not as a new religious body, formation is more likely to happen in a tolerant society, formation increases in times of hardship
Religion (according to sociologists)
religions is a group phenomenon; a socially organized and patterned set of beliefs and practices that concern ultimate meaning and assumed existence of the supernatural
social, membership by birth, link to political structure, formal, bureaucratic, formal training for leaders, few demands on members ex. Christian Church
no formal link to political structures, respectable but no official power, varieties and tolerance, widespread membership and longevity ex. Protestant Church, Orthodox Church
Conscious acceptance, small groups, broken off from denominations; typically a doctrinal dispute, require intense loyalty and commitment ex. Amish, Jehovah's Witnesses
Smile Durkheim and Religion
sough to locate the essential and permanent features of religion, qualities which would exist in all religions
Karl Marx and Religion
false consciousness, the opiate of the masses, allows ruling class to stay in power