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With thoughts of Spring on my mind, I've had a real hankering for green and flowers. Lucky for me single stems are half off at Hobby Lobby this week. Good thing, because the large flowers are regularly priced at $10 each. The "filler" pieces I bought were $4 at full price.
It was really hard to decide, without breaking the bank that is.
They also had the script flowers that I've been seeing on blogs lately. I even had a green one in my cart at one point, but put it back later.
I'm also enjoying having a white room to use as a back drop for my photos. Can you tell?
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I've seen a version of this before and even used that version for a grammar lesson. This one is a little different, but I wanted to share it with you! Have a great day!
What's UP?
Imagine teaching this word to someone learning English.
I'm sure you will enjoy this. I never knew a single word
in the English language could be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and preposition.
Read until the end ... you'll laugh...
This two-letter word in English has
more meanings than any other
two-letter word, and that word is 'UP.'
It is listed in the dictionary as an
[adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.
At other times, this little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it soaks UP the earth. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now . . . my time is UP!
Oh . . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?
Did that one crack you UP?
Now I'll shut UP!


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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 06:52 PM
Viva_La_Revolution (28,791 posts)
1. you should have an expert look at it
$200 is a great price until you find out it was worth $2000. at least have him take it to a few antique shops to see if they think it's special.
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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 08:48 PM
RainDog (28,784 posts)
2. thanks!
I know about books and ephemera, but not things like quilts.
It's been strange to me - since I started dealing in collectible books, etc, people think I know about other things, too. One man wanted me to sell his antiques. I would be happy to list them for him, but I'm certainly not in a position to evaluate furniture and lamps, etc. |
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Sat Apr 14, 2012, 03:24 PM
supernova (39,344 posts)
3. Fabric conservator
Your friend might do well to take it to a fabric specialist at a local museum. They could at least probably tell him about when the quilt was made and from what types of fabric.
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Sat Apr 14, 2012, 04:36 PM
RainDog (28,784 posts)
4. again, thanks!
I haven't looked at it very closely, but I thought, at the time he showed it to me, that the fabric looked older than the backing and trim. I wonder if it was pieced at one point and then assembled at another.
I'll let him deal with this - but at least I can pass along the information. However, because of my bg in rare books, etc. I also find this sort of thing interesting. It's always fun to learn about others' areas of knowledge. |
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Mon Apr 16, 2012, 03:21 PM
sinkingfeeling (33,025 posts)
5. Value for old quilts is decided not only by age, but also by the
quality of the sewing. Was it machine pieced or done entirely by hand? If hand done, what is the quality of the workmanship? Size of stitches? Is it square? Do the pieces match up perfectly?
Is the color scheme planned or random? Is it pleasing to look at? What size is the quilt? Is there a label or other identifer of the maker? Most used, day-t0-day quilts from around 1930-1940 were made for a double bed and may only be worth $125-300. Do a search of Ebay for similar quilts and see either what they sold for or what the asking price is. |
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Mon Apr 16, 2012, 11:34 PM
grasswire (50,130 posts)
6. you could very well be right that it was pieced long before it was backed.
And if that is the case, it is a very good thing that it is tied and not quilted, because too many quilts have been ruined by machine quilting. A tied quilt could even be separated from the backing and restored if the top is particularly beautiful.
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Thu Apr 26, 2012, 10:32 AM
april (1,148 posts)
7. log cabin quilt
if it is the real deal could be worth at least $1000. but I know that there was never satin on those..you can tell the age from the prints on the fabric..I would take it into a antique shop and see what they say / not to sell but just for info / ..you cant really do a touch and feel on Ebay..
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Sun Dec 30, 2012, 10:27 AM
McCIoud (102 posts)
8. +1
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Sun Dec 30, 2012, 12:26 PM
RainDog (28,784 posts)
9. no need to kick
the quilt is no longer around.
While I have a masters degree with a specialization in rare books - for some reason quilts weren't part of the program. |
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It's improved in recent years. 28 votes
It's remained about the same in recent years. 70 votes
It's worsened in recent years. 89 votes
I don't see it as an issue at all. 16 votes
203 total votes
Tammy Showalter 6 years, 6 months ago
all the articles I am seeing are about crack heads from somewhere else...getting sent here to CAPPS and staying here. Everyone wants to celebrate recovery..well that's fine BUT I think it is time the daily press does some up front in your face articles about those who have chosen to live life FREE of drugs in the first place!
slipknot 6 years, 6 months ago
Boy talk about living with your head in the sand. It's great that someone wants to live their lives free of a substance like meth. But mom you need to wake and smell the cat p**! MoCo has a meth problem and it's not being generated by CAPS. It's coming from your own little burg and your own people are cooking, packaging, selling, and using the crap. They've been trained by outsiders. How's that for in your face?
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
work in progress
work in progress, I started this along while back but never got around to finishing it and hey it's still not finished but I'm working on it so don't bust my chops kids. I'm a human not a miracle worker.
3 comments:
- 40 oz. Miracle said...
You need to finish this painting. TODAY IAN! [said with voltron voice]
- July 25, 2008 at 12:58 PM
- Frank said...
f'n sick.
- August 4, 2008 at 12:24 AM
- Allen Song said...
I saw that at the cafe on Geary. It's pretty chill. Great work up there.
- August 12, 2008 at 11:53 AM
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Anna Magnani won Best Actress at the 1947 Venice Film Festival for her stirring comic performance in this charming film, which she co-wrote with director Luigi Zampa, Suso Cecchio D'Amico, and Piero Tellini. Magnani portrays Angelina, an impoverished housewife who begins a passionate battle to improve the standard of living in her slum neighborhood in the days following World War II. The problems of flooding, suitable housing and other hardships take a backseat to Magnani's whirlwind energy and courage...more
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Mythbusters, for those not in the know, is a show on Discovery Channel with two stars, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who are Hollywood special effects gurus based in San Francisco. They take their experience (over 30 years worth combined) and use it to test and prove or disprove popular myths. Originally, the series only focused on these two men, but the crew has grown and changed over the years and currently has a second team composed of Kari Byron, Salvatore Belleci, and Grant Imahara.
This year, for the Discovery Channel's ever popular Shark Week, Mythbusters is airing a special episode. In it, the Mythbusters team travels to the Bahamas to test whether sharks are affected by magnets, attracted to thrashing swimmers, swimming dogs and flashlights at night, repelled by spicy peppers, if hitting a shark in the eye will stop them from chewing on you, as well as working out how hard is it to even aim for an eye while in the jaws of a Great White Shark.
I know that this show is very popular on the Discovery Channel, but I have tried many times to get into it and have failed every time. The subject matter and science is something that appeals to me greatly so I have always been puzzled at why the show does not grip me. Watching this episode, I finally realized why. The dialogue, jokes, and interplay between the cast feels scripted and forced, like watching high school amateur theater. Most of the jokes and silly voices are unfunny and detract from the show. Too much time is spent with "filler" where one of the cast members repeats what they are doing or what they just did for the viewer in case the viewer fell asleep during the last few moments.
Having said that, I love the actual science that happens on the show and each member has a talent for what they do. They are all obviously excited by their jobs and the best parts of the show are when they are putting the myths to the test. While the show glosses over possible problems with some of the experiments, such as the validity of testing shark responses in an area where the sharks are conditioned to be attracted to boats due to the chumming that goes on, there is absolutely nothing wrong in the way they conduct the experiments themselves. They use a control and they test several times to see if they get the same results.
Final verdict: If you like the show, you will love this special episode. If you do not like the show but, like me, look forward to Shark Week every year, you will still like this episode. It premieres Sunday, July 27, 2008.
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Paper Heart Garland
Last week I saw this felt heart garland over on Made By Rae. I don't have much felt in my stash, and it's on the do not buy list for my craft supply resolution. But I do have a very large paper scrap box, and out it came! Some of the paper in this garland is from projects that I finished more than 15 years ago, in my first junior high days of scrapbooking. I kind of like having it in here!
Out came the scraps, and the scissors, and I cut and cut and cut. And cut. And I have the scrap pile to prove it. And the sore scissor hand.
I sorted them into smallish, mediumish and largeish and started sewing them together, not really sure how it was going to turn out.
So, now my biggest question is, where do you put 76 feet of paper heart garland?
I am adding this to the Sew&Tell over at Amy's. I figure anything that requires 4 hours of cutting, and a whole spool of bobbin thread counts. Go look at the other projects, they are amazing. As always.
January 22, 2010 1:49 pm
Wow. 76 feet? You could wrap that around a room a couple times! I love the idea to do it with paper.


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We (I was travelling with a friend and colleague) stopped at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden on the way to the Spring Flower Show in Charlotte.
It was a treat. It's a very formal garden, not exactly what I envision for my own garden, but lovely, nontheless.
The Conservatory was remarkable, imaginative and innovative.
The Tillandsia arches are like nothing I've ever seen (nor my friend and colleague) -- and we've visited a LOT of gardens between us.
And the winter elements are lovely -- these Japanese pussy willows are just about perfect at this time of year.
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In the love of truth and in the spirit of Jesus, we unite for the worship of God and the service to all. We seek to know the will of God and to walk in God's ways, made known or to be known to us; to love one another, to proclaim the Gospel to all the world; to work and pray for the progress of knowledge, the promotion of justice, the reign of peace, and the realization of our shared humanity. And we look with faith for the triumph of righteousness and the gift of life eternal.
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Can Teach for America Remake Education?
The author spent a year embedded with Teach For America. Can its recruits really remake education? -
Keeping The Stars Safe
Most of this year's Academy Award attendees are already familiar with "screen tests"--just not the kind they'll experience on March 24. As they near the Kodak Theater, stars, guests and fans alike will be subjected to the most intensive security screenings to ever take place on Hollywood's biggest night. Every limo will be searched, every evening bag will be checked and every body will be "mag'd" (via metal detectors known as magnotometers). Security has always been tight the evening of the Oscars, but in the wake of 9/11 and with the ceremony's new location, the Academy's taking many additional protective measures.Attendees will have to show proof of identity before they are permitted to sashay the half-block walk along the famed red carpet to the theater's grand spiral staircase. And for the 450 lookyloos perched in bleachers across the street, snagging a spot will have been almost as challenging as winning an Oscar: fans were required to email seat requests seven weeks in advance... -
Islam, Arabic And Afghanistan 101
The emergency management Team at UCLA normally convenes to deal with earthquakes. But at 10 a.m. on September 11 it met to handle an entirely different emergency. Though the campus of 60,000 people appeared to be in no physical danger after the East Coast attacks, the team of top administrators declared a "policy crisis" requiring a rapid response. "We agreed that it was important to connect the event with what we do here every day--which is teach and learn," recalls Brian Copenhaver, provost of UCLA's College of Letters and Science. Within the week an e-mail titled "Urgent Call to Action" had gone out to all 3,200 faculty members, seeking volunteers to design and teach a series of one-unit, pass/fail seminars related to the events of September 11--without pay.By the time the fall quarter began two weeks later, UCLA had come up with 50 (yes, 50) new courses taught by some of the marquee names on campus. Chancellor Albert Carnasale signed on to teach "National Security in the 21st... -
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Benazir Bhutto served as prime minister of Pakistan from 1988-90 and again in 1993-96. Her husband, Asif Zardari, has been in prison in Pakistan since 1996 on charges of corruption. Pakistan's military government is now led by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who has promised to cooperate in the American effort to combat terrorism. NEWSWEEK's Donna Foote asked Bhutto, who now lives with her three children in exile, for her take on the Taliban and the current crisis.NEWSWEEK: The Taliban came to power in Afghanistan while you were prime minister of Pakistan. Why did you support the Taliban?Benazir Bhutto: The Taliban were actually students in university who decided to go back to Afghanistan after the Russians left. My reports were that the Taliban were being welcomed by the people and that they were building peace. Initially we thought the Taliban was a stabilizing force. My government was keen to establish ties with Central Asia, so we were quite pleased and we encouraged them... -
Letter From Lax
For scores of passengers milling around the American Airlines terminal in Los Angeles this morning, the word "cancelled," illuminated over and over again in alarm red across the arrivals board, provided the first hint that something horrible had happened. With no TVs anywhere near the check-in counter, it was left to American attendants in Terminal 3 to inform annoyed passengers of what had just transpired. Then, around 9:30 a.m. (PDT) the families of the victims began to arrive at Terminal 3, and the personal magnitude of today's tragedies became abundantly clear. "Leave us alone," was all the two sobbing couples could say to the press as American personnel whisked them to a private lounge.Three of the four hijacked commercial flights involved in today's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were cross-country flights, full of jet fuel, bound for Los Angeles. Federal officials shut Los Angeles International Airport indefinitely Tuesday, rerouting flights and trying to... -
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Gretchen Stewart thought she was doing the best thing for her 3-month-old boy when she allowed the doctor to include him in a human experiment. Little Gage was a fussy baby who seemed to be filled with as much gas as a balloon. The doctor, Susan Orenstein of Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, said he was suffering from gastroesophageal reflux disorder, a painful condition that causes babies to vomit during or after feedings. Although the problem usually disappears by the 2d birthday, in severe cases it can result in what pediatricians call "failure to thrive." Orenstein was therefore conducting a clinical trial to see whether a combination of the heartburn drug Propulsid and the ulcer drug Tagamet could help children like Gage. On May 27, 1999, Stewart signed the informed-consent document to enroll Gage in Orenstein's 100-patient trial. Every day, he received baby-size oral doses of the two drugs. Six months later, on the day before Thanksgiving, Gage's grandmother gave him his... -
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They smoke lots of marijuana. They're gravely ill and dying. And they've got a lot on their minds besides politics. But California proponents of medical marijuana also have plenty of fight in them, particularly when authorities threaten to take away their painkiller of choice. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected the "medical necessity" defense in federal marijuana cases, which may open the way for the Feds to close down cooperatives distributing cannabis to people suffering from diseases like AIDS and cancer. "We have no way of knowing what actions the Feds will take," said Scott Imler, president of the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center, where 381 pot plants are under cultivation. "But we know we're going to stay and fight." ... -
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When he was director of the National Science Foundation, Richard Atkinson had a mountain in Antarctica named after him. Now that he's president of the University of California, high-school students in the state might want to rechristen the capitol--or at least dedicate their yearbooks to him. Atkinson has taken on a dreaded rite of passage, the SATs, and proposed that the nation's largest and most prestigious public-university system no longer require the aptitude portion of the tests, called the SAT I. Instead, he wants UC to adopt a more "holistic" approach, which would consider activities and grades, as well as scores on the SAT IIs, tests that measure mastery of particular subjects. ... -
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Erin Brockovich is a dyslexic legal investigator with no technical expertise. So she tends to trust her gut. In 1992, her gut told her that something at Pacific Gas and Electric's Hinkley Compressor Station was making folks in that California desert town sick. Four years later a court found that residents suffered contamination by chromium VI, or hexavalent chromium, a known human carcinogen that PG&E had added to its towers for years to inhibit corrosion. PG&E agreed to pay the injured a record $333 million to settle the suit that is now the basis for the movie "Erin Brockovich."But Brockovich didn't stop there. In 1994, she had a hunch there was similar trouble at another PG&E facility in Kettleman, Calif. She and her boss, L.A. attorney Ed Masry, drove up to the plant in the San Joaquin Valley to have a look. They inspected four huge towers used to cool natural gas before it is piped throughout the state--and the nearby employee housing. Masry saw no evidence of... -
'Time And Again, I Stepped Over The Line'
Former police officer Rafael Perez began talking last September, and by the time he finished, he was using the language of horror movies to describe his years in the LAPD. "Whoever chases monsters," a tearful Perez, 32, told a Los Angeles courtroom last week, "should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster himself." Perez pleaded guilty to stealing three kilos of cocaine from a police-evidence locker in March 1998. In exchange for a lighter sentence, he revealed to authorities a pattern of widespread corruption and brutality that was frightening in scope, gothic in detail. The elite anti-gang unit of the Rampart Division, he told investigators, unlawfully beat or shot suspects, planted evidence, sold drugs, intimidated witnesses and partied hard to celebrate their reign of terror.As a result of the revelations, more than 20 cops have been fired, been put on paid leave or quit, and 40 convictions have been overturned. But it will be difficult to make criminal cases... -
It's Home Suite Hotel
Peter Greenberg knows hotels. The travel editor of NBC's "Today" show (and a former NEWSWEEK correspondent), Greenberg logs 400,000 air miles a year and spends many months--up to eight a year--living away from home. Maybe too many. He's developed such a hotel habit that, when he began planning his house in Sherman Oaks, Calif., he realized that what he really wanted in a home was all the comforts of a great hotel. Greenberg checked into his new house last month; he calls it "home suite hotel."The house is a collection of five-star touches. In the bathroom, the waterfall showerhead is from the Savoy Hotel in London, the high-tech remote-control ToTo toilet is from the Tokyo Park Hyatt and the whirlpool bathtub is from the Peninsula in Hong Kong. The floor matches the limestone tiles in the Four Seasons Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii. The custom cabinetry throughout the house comes from the folks who made the furniture for the Regent Hotel in Bangkok. The kitchen is equipped with... -
Show Us The Money!
It was standing room only at MIT's Sloan School of Management last month as 150 teams gathered for the first round of eliminations in the school's "I Wanna Be a Gazillionaire Geek" contest. The students were competing to offer the best business plan for a newfangled start-up. Why work for General Motors or anybody when you can invent your own company, strike it rich--and retire before you're 30? The prizes: $50,000 in seed capital. The MIT students had digitalia and electronic commerce and the Internet on their minds: 23 of the teams had ".com" in their names, while nine began with an "e" and four more began with an "I." In the age of eBay and Amazon.com, wouldn't yours, too? In all, there were 600 contestants--ranging from the PayMyBills.com team to RoboToys to e*dental.com, which aims to provide... one-stop shopping for dentists worldwide. Each of the semifinalist teams had just a minute or less to pitch its great idea that would change the world--or at least make them rich while... -
The Age Of Anxiety
Dr. Mark George admits his first impulse was to back-burner his research team's startling breakthrough. If that would mean letting other brain investigators luck into the same discovery, so be it. Those guys could have the glory--along with the grief of getting trapped in the ideological cross-fire of the war between the sexes. During the mid-'90s, George recalls, "it was almost taboo to talk about gender differences in the brain." Everyone was afraid of validating old sexual stereotypes and prejudices. George wanted only to keep on quietly doing his job at the National Institute of Mental Health, leading a pioneering effort to map the human brain at work. Through positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, a high-tech way of tracing precise areas of activity within the brain, George and his team were able to witness for the first time the hidden processes of human emotion.The trouble arose when George began looking at the physiology of sorrow.He asked his experimental volunteers... -
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SURVEYING THE CHAOS AT A Westminster, Calif., mini-mall in the heart of ""Little Saigon'' (population: 40,000), you'd never guess the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Last Saturday, 300 Vietnamese protesters gathered at the Orange County shopping center and confronted scores of police in riot gear. Violence broke out when the angry crowd burst through the barricades--some using crying children in baby carriages as battering rams--and headed for Hi-tek, a small video store in the mall. As news of the melee spread, thousands more Vietnamese from a nearby Tet parade massed in the parking lot, joining the core protesters who'd been camped outside Hi-tek for weeks waving yellow and red flags of South Vietnam. In the end, 11 were arrested. You might think Hi-tek was harboring a war criminal, not a faded 18-by-24-inch poster. But all the fuss is over a portrait of Ho Chi Minh that has hung in the store--and the precarious balance between one man's freedom of speech and a community's right to... -
'You Could Get Raped'
RANDI BARBER HAD NEVER heard anything as frightening as the messages on her answering machine. The 28-year-old North Hollywood, Calif., woman started getting the calls in early 1998: dirty solicitations from several different men. But one April day, Barber learned just how scared she could be when a stranger knocked on her apartment door. He left after she hid silently for a few minutes, but phoned her apartment later. ""What do you want?'' she pleaded. ""Why are you doing this?'' Puzzled by the hysterical note in her voice, the man explained that he was responding to the sexy ad she had placed on the Internet. ... -
O.J. Goes On The Record
AT FIRST O.J. SIMPSON INSISTED TO me the interview would be short. He was busy. His family was in town. He was taking his son Justin for a haircut. Two hours later he was still talking; he even called back twice to elaborate on some points. Timed exactly to the third anniversary of the murders of his ex-wife and Ron Goldman, it was Simpson's first wide-ranging print interview since last February, when he was found liable for the murders-- and hit with a $32.5 million civil judgment. Laughing easily, he sounded as sure as ever of his innocence. But he also unleashed his anger at the Brown family, the Goldroans and the system. ... -
Seems Like Old Times
JUDGE HIROSHI FUJISAKI HAS WON kudos for keeping the O. J. Simpson civil trial relatively incident-free. But even he isn't immune to the same malady--call it acute jury fever--that flattened criminal-trial Judge Lance Ito. The jury was into its fourth day of apparently painstaking deliberations last week when the disease struck. By the end of the week, Fujisaki had dismissed one juror, directed the new jury to start from scratch and ordered an investigation into possible jury tampering. Oh, he also turned down a defense request for a mistrial and a plaintiffs' request for jury sequestration. And he took time to scold the lawyers for talking to reporters. This trial, the judge learned, was never meant to go gently into the night. ... -
Two For The Show
FOR FOUR MONTHS THE JURORS sat through a parade of witnesses who covered the same ground that had been beaten into the nation's psyche during the criminal trial. The mountains of blood evidence, the gruesome crime-scene pictures, the tales of spouse abuse. Yet pity the O. J. Simpson civil-trial jurors who zoned out, thinking nothing had changed. By the time closing arguments in the wrongful-death suit were presented last week, they had heard a case that had changed in tone and fact from the criminal case--from $160 designer shoes to the dramatic testimony of Simpson himself. And as they began deliberations this week the biggest difference--and question--was the jury itself. Would this mostly white jury view the evidence differently from the mostly black criminal jury? And how would the nation, black, white and otherwise, interpret its conclusion?The most remarkable thing about last week's closing arguments was the absence of a racial theme. At the criminal trial, the nation was... -
The Trial Winds Down
AS ANY FAN OF COURTROOM drama knows, what a difference a friendly lawyer makes. Last November O. J. Simpson was hammered by the plaintiffs' lawyer in his first appearance before the jury hearing in his wrongful-death civil suit. Last week, returning to the witness stand, Simpson finally got the chance to begin telling his story--the way he wanted to tell it--under the gentle guidance of his attorney Robert Baker. If his string of denials the first time was unconvincing, on Friday he was charming and thoughtful, giving jurors his portrait of his troubled relationship with Nicole Brown Simpson. But even as he said the two had been "very much in love," he depicted his ex-wife as emotionally erratic and running with a crowd he didn't like.It was not a surprising performance by the charismatic former football star and actor. He has always maintained that he could convince people of his innocence if he could just talk to them. But after the shaky direct examination last year, it was... -
Then Nicole Said, 'Good Night' And 'I Love You'
WHEN JUDITHA BROWN was called to testify last week at the civil trial of O. J. Simpson, the striking dark-haired woman rose from her second-row seat and dropped her glasses. It was a poignant moment, reminiscent of another night when she left her glasses behind at a restaurant. Once she took the stand, in the final full week of the plaintiffs' case, she told what little she knew of the deaths of her daughter Nicole Brown Simpson and her acquaintance Ronald Goldman, the waiter who brought the eyeglasses to Nicole's home. Mrs. Brown spoke movingly of her premonitions on the night her daughter was killed, and of Nicole's final words in a phone call. "And then she said, "Good night' and "I love you.' And I said, "I love you,' and those were the last words," she said, sobbing. ... -
Stream Of Denials
AS IN ANY BIG CASE, THE END OF THE O. J. Simpson murder trial left behind loads of evidence and exhibits. So the plaintiffs' lawyers in the civil trial did what good lawyers do: they subpoenaed it. They also did something else: they read it. It was a massive amount of information, from transcripts to phone records to laboratory analysis to tape recordings. It was so much stuff that lead attorney Daniel Petrocelli took to listening to some of the tapes in his car while driving home. ... -
Taking His Stand
THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM LAST week was that there wouldn't be a Perry Mason moment. There wouldn't be a time when O. J. Simpson would suddenly break down on the stand or make a mistake so bad as to be decisive. For once the analysts were right; that momentous occurrence didn't happen. Yet as the day anticipated by millions was drawing to an end, plaintiffs' lawyer Daniel Petrocelli approached Simpson and began a series of questions that stilled the courtroom: ""You used the Bronco to go to Nicole Brown's condominium that evening . . . You had gloves. You had a hat. You were wearing a dark sweat outfit. And you had a knife?'' Simpson, hesitating ever so slightly, answered: ""That's absolutely not true.'' ""You confronted Nicole Brown Simpson and you killed her, didn't you?'' Petrocelli continued. ""That is absolutely not true,'' Simpson replied, now turning his body to face the jury. ""And you killed Ronald Goldman, sir, did you or did you not?'' Petrocelli demanded. ""That is... -
Playing The Victim Card
ANY HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER KNOWS the formula for a sequel: take the basic story and add a little twist to keep the folks happy. And so it is with the civil installment of the O. J. Simpson murder case. The wrongful-death case, which opened last week, had the same feel of the criminal trial. Simpson, more pounds on his frame and gray in his hair, alternatively grimaced and smiled like he had the last time. His family members sat behind him (""Great birthday present, huh?'' Simpson said of his mother's 75th). Nicole Brown's family listened carefully, and so did Ron Goldman's parents and sister, who sobbed at times. And as the new lawyers laid out their cases in opening statements, there were the now familiar stories of domestic abuse, DNA evidence and Kato Kaelin.Yet the lawyers unveiled enough tantalizing goodies to ensure that O.J. II isn't going to be a total rehash. The lawyers representing the Brown and Goldman families made it clear they didn't feel bound by the prosecution's failed... -
It Was The Best Of Juries, It Was The Worst Of Ju
IF RAGE, AS EXPECTED, WILL BE THE pivotal factor in the O. J. Simpson civil trial, then the plaintiffs are off to a very good start indeed. The jury selected last week is a typical Santa Monica, Calif., panel and exactly what the plaintiffs wanted: mostly whites, well educated, middle class. The breakdown-seven whites, three Hispanics, one black and one Asian-black-is a near reversal of the predominantly black jury that acquitted Simpson last year. Simpson's lawyers weren't pleased, and that wasn't the only hit they took. NEWSWEEK has learned that Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki banned the defense's jury consultant from the courtroom. The judge's reason: Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, the consultant's colleague, violated a court gag order by appearing on NBC's "Today" show. Opening arguments were expected Wednesday. ... -
Here Comes The Jury
IT'S THE OPEN SECRET OF THE FIRST O. J. Simpson trial: the case was won--and lost--before the first word of opening arguments. Most observers agree that once Marcia Clark ignored the advice of high-priced consultants and let the court seat a largely pro-defense jury, there was no way to win a conviction of a living icon in the black community--especially when the distrusted LAPD was central to the prosecution's case. But this time things could be very different. ... -
The Show Of Shows
BOTH SIDES IN THE O. J. Simpson civil trial continued slogging away last week to select a jury. But the real action was outside the courtroom, with repercussions for both sides if the prospective jurors were paying attention. Mark Fuhrman, the disgraced former detective, did potential damage to the plaintiffs; Robert Kardashian, Simpson's longtime friend, may have hurt the defense. ... -
The Jury Puzzle
FOR THE PLAINTIFFS IN THE O. J. Simpson wrongful-death civil trial, it was as smooth a week as they could expect. In the time that Judge Lance Ito would have consumed in just one sidebar conference, Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki sharply reined in the smorgasbord defense of police conspiracies and corruption that served Simpson so well in the criminal trial. Mark Fuhrman's racist past? Don't look for the N-word drumbeat this time. Colombian drug lords? Not likely in this trial. A police frame-up? Not unless defense lawyers can offer evidence. ""You've tried a shotgun approach,'' Fujisaki told the defense. ""I want chapter and verse.'' ... -
The Knife, The Gun And Those Ugly Shoes
LIKE A STEVE FORBES POLITICAL AD IN Iowa, O. J. Simpson seemed to be everywhere last week. He spoke to the Los Angeles Times for 90 minutes, to CNN for about an hour and even to a local radio station. O.J. analysts sprang into action once more, debating whether Simpson's appearances would help polish his image or whether he was merely exploiting a free platform to hawk his $29.95 video. But now there's an even fuller, quirkier picture of Simpson's character; this springs out of the sworn deposition he gave last month in a wrongful-death suit brought by the Goldman and Brown families. The 1,534-page transcript, obtained by NEWSWEEK, reveals inconsistencies with evidence presented at the criminal trial (chart), which plaintiffs will try to exploit. It also shows Simpson as a man of huge appetites -- for golf, for public adulation, for women -- and for shoes. He is a generous and devoted father, to hear him tell it, and a long-suffering husband who endured his wife's excessive drinking... -
'A Marriage Made In D.A. Heaven'
They met over a dead body. Back in 1981, young Lance Ito was part of the Los Angeles district attorney's elite gang unit. At 4 a.m. one day he was called to a murder scene in Highland Park. Margaret York was the detective on the case--part of the LAPD's first all-female homicide team. Ito and York met, dated and married within months. It was "a marriage made in D.A. heaven," says Robert Philobosian, the former district attorney who recommended Ito for his current job on the bench.Unfortunately for the tabloids, Judge Ito and Captain York-- the highest-ranking female police officer in Los Angeles and a 27-year veteran of the force-are, by all accounts, a devoted couple who deftly handle the potential conflicts posed by their careers. It may not be "Adam's Rib," but having a judge married to a top cop can be ticklish, as the O. J. Simpson circus illustrated last week. York is one of two captains who oversee LAPD's Internal Affairs Division. Her lawyer says any investigations... -
Slashes, Stabs And Bruises
The national biology lesson continued last week in Judge Lance Ito's courtroom. As prosecutor Rockne Harmon presented the second stage of the state's DNA case, he lived up to his boast that the mountain of DNA evidence would "cascade right where it belonged--on Mr. Simpson." According to prosecution witness Gary Sims, a senior criminalist with the California Department of Justice DNA Lab, the odds that blood drops at the murder scene came from an assailant other than Simpson were 240,000 to 1. And the chance that the blood found on Simpson's socks at his home did not come from Nicole Brown was a microscopic 1 in 21 billion. ... -
'Any Old Day Now...'
THE EMERGING SCIENCE OF EARTHQUAKE prediction is a lot like modern weather forecasting -- it's better than you think, but not nearly good enough. That's because seismology, like meteorology is based largely on probability estimates. Seismologists are pretty good at knowing when conditions favor a big event. But they are almost totally unable to say when, where -- or even whether -- the event will actually take place No one predicted the Northridge quake that caused more than $20 billion in damage in the San Fernando Valley last year. And seismologists at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., are still waiting for a magnitude 6 quake they predicted would strike California's Parkfield fault before 1993. "We still think there's going to be a magnitude 6 there any old day now," says Allan Lindh of the USGS. "But the fact it hasn't happened yet tells us we were too confident." ...
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Who would have thought a Cee Lo Green concert would run shorter than an average results show of "The Voice"?
When Green played MGM Grand at Foxwoods Friday night, his show clocked in under an hour — closer to 50 minutes, in fact.
Granted, Green hit his career-so-far highlights, running through numbers from his Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley days and culminating, inevitably, with a crowd-pleasing "(expletive deleted)/Forget You" finale. But, come on, Cee Lo, why so stingy? Bring on more material from the "Lady Killer" CD, at least.
Green did open with one of "Lady Killer's" best numbers. He made like James Bond in a "Lady Killer" video and then sauntered onstage and smiled that infectious Cee Lo grin through the winning "Bright Lights, Bigger City." Yes, as always, Green exuded that quirky likability factor of his.
The show itself was pretty simple and straightforward. Descriptions of Green's upcoming Vegas concert residency have used phrases like "over-the-top creativity" and words like "flamboyant"; that wasn't the guiding principle here.
Instead, the concert had a club vibe to it. Lights pulsated and rotated. The DJ music — no band, just a DJ — boomed with bass-happy abandon. Sometimes, though, the music sounded too loud in the mix, overshadowing Cee Lo's old-school-soul, next-generation-Al-Green voice.
Midway through his set, Green — dressed in reddish-orange T-shirt and pants — brought out his Goodie Mob gang, giving the star a chance to showcase his rap prowess and reunite with his former group-mates. The segment started with cool energy but ended up dragging on too long.
Ah, but there's nothing like going a little "Crazy" to get the crowd energized again. Green had concert-goers on their feet for Gnarls Barkley's sinuous "Crazy."
For his biggest hit — either "(expletive deleted) You" or "Forget You," depending on whether you go for the parental-advisory version — Green turned the microphone toward the audience each time it came to the title phrase, allowing the fans to sing out their own PG- or R-rated lyrics.
Green's opening act was the divine Melanie Fiona, who did a half-hour stint. She's one of those performers who lives every song, conveying every love-and-heartache emotion. The woman clearly does not know how to phone it in.
The velvety-voiced Fiona returned to the stage to join Green on their Grammy-winning "Fool for You," and their chemistry was fun to watch.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2005
After the storm...
News-Argus/Kaye Nesbit Mother Nature took two pieces of history when this barn was destroyed. Gerald Howell kept an antique truck inside. For more information see Storm leaves disrupted lives, property damage....Published: Mar 9, 2005 1:53 PM Full Story
Storm leaves disrupted lives, property damage
Clear, sunny skies greeted Wayne County residents this morning, but trees freshly splintered and scattered debris from damaged buildings showed that Tuesday had been different. Violently different. The line of thunderstorms that moved eastward across the county Tuesday had disrupted...Published: Mar 9, 2005 1:52 PM Full Story
City may change policy to allow earlier retirement
The Goldsboro City Council is considering changes to the city's personnel policy that would allow some employees to retire earlier than expected. If the revisions are passed, some city employees would be allowed to convert unused vacation days to sick...Published: Mar 9, 2005 1:52 PM Full Story
County board OKs first subdivision in floodplain since Hurricane Floyd
The Wayne County Planning Board approved Tuesday the construction of the first subdivision with multiple lots in a flood plain since Hurricane Floyd struck. Final approval of the subdivision is up to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, since the county's...Published: Mar 9, 2005 1:51 PM Full Story
Man killed in accidental shooting
WARSAW -- A Warsaw area man was killed Monday night in an accidental shooting. Law officers said Bruce Mason, 38, was returning to his home on Gaston Street when he dropped a handgun he was carrying and it went off,...Published: Mar 9, 2005 1:49 PM Full Story
Public records
Crime of the Week A break-in at the Bojangles restaurant on N.C. 111 South has been selected by Goldsboro-Wayne County Crime Stoppers as this week's "Crime of the Week." When Goldsboro police arrived at the restaurant at 3:35 a.m. on...Published: Mar 9, 2005 1:48 PM Full Story
Leadership class restores old cemetery
Visitors to Waynesborough Village will soon be able to see an original cemetery that was restored by the 2004-05 class of Leadership Wayne County. The class worked Saturday on the cemetery, which dates back to the original township. They cleared...Published: Mar 9, 2005 1:47 PM Full Story
Pikeville board awaits bids for park project
The Pikeville town board held its monthly meeting at the community center Monday night. All bids for contracts on the remainder of Pikeville's park project are to be submitted by Thursday at 5 p.m., town administrator Lonnie Graves said. Still...Published: Mar 9, 2005 1:46 PM Full Story
School days off The Wayne County public schools have several holidays and early dismissal days for students this month. Monday is a teacher workday. There will be no school for students. Students will be dismissed early on March 22 in...Published: Mar 9, 2005 1:45 PM Full Story


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In the Sun it was an important week for sport. First there was great excitement because Gazza is to become a Dadda, followed the next day by the sad news that, nonetheless, he had been dumped by the pregnant Shezza. (Fear not, the latest word is that they are to be reunited for the sake of what will no doubt be known as the Babba.) Then there was the necessity to mark the British Open Golf championship appropriately. "Doll in one" was the headline to the caption for the Page 3 girl on the opening day. "Wood you believe it? It seems all the hunky young golfers have got their iron [sic] lovely Lisa Bangert, 22. And why not? Our Mansfield swee-tee is the only birdie many of them will ever see." (Two days later I checked again and found "Putterly gorgeous Angela ... with pins like hers they're queuing up to be her sugar-caddy".) Truly the Sun is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
Koloss, the American food group, has launched a takeover bid for Red October, the Moscow sweet factory, purveyor since before the revolution of such legendary Russian delicacies as Clumsy Bear chocolates. Privatised last year, the firm's shares are mainly held by its workers, who are being urged by management to hold on to them. Has anyone suggested to the Russians the Chancellor Clarke method of deterring the small fry from selling their shares by harshly taxing their modest profits?
I was fascinated to learn how the royal-watcher Ingrid Seward could manage to cobble together a full-length biography of young Prince Edward. Having perused an extract last week in the Daily Mail, I now understand that the trick is to omit no detail, however slight. We read, for instance, that Sophie Rhys-Jones, the Prince's inamorata, was discovered by Debrett's Peerage to be the sixth cousin once removed of the 11th Viscount Molesworth. This reminded me of a German academic, who when someone dismissed a piece of information as unimportant, reared up in Teutonic horror and cried passionately: "Everyzing is of importance."
Now to bring you up to date with complicated happenings in the insults department. Mike Cox, who accused me of being "a tight Welsh git", now writes: "Sorry you were upset about the Welsh thing; deceptive things, photographs", thus compounding his offence. It was Andrew Lewis who denounced me as a "pompous English trout" and thus bears the responsibility for all the ensuing erudite discussion about trout as abusive epithet, trouts in milk and so on. Two addenda. My friend Roger Leclerc points out that in 1483 "to trout" meant "to curdle", which has implications both for milk and for insults. And the tenant of my affections, who having been abroad has come to the debate late, went to the heart of the matter with his explanation that "trout" was used as a term of abuse for the simple reason that to the human eye it looks particularly fat, stupid and ugly.
Meanwhile, in the immigrants' newspaper, the Irish Post - where I come frequently under stern criticism for being a lickspittle to the British Establishment - Padraig O'Conchuir wishes to find an Irish equivalent to "Uncle Tom" to apply to the Professor of Peace Studies in Bradford for offences to do with speaking well of the English language. Having proposed "Uncle Pat", Padraig continued: "Judging from your correspondence columns, Ruth Dudley Edwards is the feminine example which would spring to the lips of most readers so she would qualify as an 'Aunt Patricia'" - although he offers "Aunt Biddy" as an alternative. "What," he ends disarmingly "does Ruth herself think?"
What I think is that I have to find some way of making money out of being insulted. After all, Alan Bryans, a college lecturer at Northumberland College of Art and Technology has just won a claim for racial discrimination mainly because a colleague called him an "Irish prat". Mind you, I have to admit in his defence that another colleague dubbed him "Gerry Adams". Now that's an insult that might upset even me.
Those of you newcomers who are in agony about the meaning of "listowel" need to know that it derives from a small town near Limerick and refers to the opening two lines of a limerick that the author cannot finish. I'm awash in limericks and related correspondence, but this week, to salute the end of the parliamentary session, Poetry Corner goes exclusively political. First, Mike Bradshaw:
The Right Honorable Michael
Affects a tonsorial billow.
This Iberian whim
May look fetching on him,
But not on an ordinary fellow.
And to show we're even-handed as between Tory Michaels, here is Diana Brazier's "Gathering Clouds":
Michael the archangel,
On cloud of principle he,
Came flying down from Westland,
And made us Thatcher-free.
Michael avenging angel
On cloud as black as pitch,
Drove the miners into hell,
And made our rivals rich.
Michael innocent angel,
Hovering on cloud Scott-free,
Waits in the wings of Major's play,
And "Me-PM" will be.


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CD Death Rituals #11151
Release Date: November 11, 2008
1. Death By Machete
2. Involuntary Movement Of Dead Flesh
3. None Will Escape
4. Eulogy For The Undead
5. Seed Of Filth
6. Bastard
7. Into The Crematorium
8. Shot In The Head
9. Killed In Your Sleep
10. Crossroads To Armageddon
11. Ten Deadly Plagues
12. Crossing The River Styx
13. Murder Addiction
Death Rituals, the latest offering from Tampa, FL's Six Feet Under, features 13 tracks of pure American death metal. Tracks like "Death by Machete", "Seed of Filth", "Involuntary Movement of Dead Flesh" and "Shot in the Head" sees the godfathers of groove laden death metal doing what the do best; delivering a bludgeoning slab of metal that will leave fans hungering for more. Legendary death metal vocalist Chris Barnes, along with guitarist Steve Swanson, bass legend Terry Butler, and drummer Greg Gall, continue to follow the dark and demented path that merges what OUTBURN Magazine calls "tried and true death groove" with stomach-turning lyrics and themes.
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Throughout the eukaryotic lineage, the small regulatory RNA pathway centered on PIWI (P- element-Induced WImpy testis) proteins and their associating 24~30 nucleotides (nt) PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) silence transposons and other selfish genetic elements to maintain genome integrity. PIWI proteins and piRNAs are expressed predominantly in the germline and essential for germline development. However, in contrast to other small regulatory RNA pathways, we lack a mechanistic understanding of this genome defensive system. The piRNA biogenesis how precursor RNAs are generated, processed and matured are largely unknown. Equally unclear is how the PIWI/piRNA complexes silence transposons. Our research goal is to clarify the biogenesis and function of piRNAs, and to uncover the molecular mechanism of the PIWI/piRNA pathway-mediated genome defensive system in the germline. Since recent reports have shown the human PIWI expression in various tumors, our research will impact biomedical goals of understanding diseases related to reproduction disorders and cancers. Toward the goal, we have previously discovered that PIWI proteins contain evolutionarily-conserved symmetrical dimethylarginines (sDMAs). Since TUDOR-domains of proteins are known to specifically bind to sDMAs, our discovery of PIWI sDMAs lead to our hypothesis that the important function of PIWI sDMAs is to be recognized by TUDOR-domain containing proteins, and the PIWI-TUDOR interactions play important roles in piRNA biogenesis and function. To elucidate the function of PIWI sDMAs in the piRNA pathway, we will express PIWI proteins containing or lacking sDMAs in BmN4 (a Bombyx mori ovary-derived cultured cell line) that is an excellent cell system for piRNA research due to its endogenous expression of the PIWI/piRNA pathway and convenience to use plasmid transfection and RNAi. Comparison of localization, interacting proteins, and quantity and quality of the associated piRNAs between the PIWI proteins will clarify the role of the PIWI sDMAs and their interacting TUDOR-domain containing proteins in piRNA biogenesis and function. Moreover, by systematical screening for the Bombyx TUDOR-domain containing proteins, we have recently identified BmPAPI as the factor responsible for piRNA biogenesis. We will perform biochemical, structural and functional characterizations on BmPAPI protein to investigate the molecular basis of BmPAPI-involved piRNA biogenesis. In addition, we recently found that cell-cell contact globally activates the piRNA biogenesis in BmN4 cell system. We propose to utilize this activation system to observe how piRNA clusters are transcribed to precursor RNAs and how the precursors are processed into mature piRNAs. .
PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are expressed predominantly in the germline and silence transposons to maintain genome integrity;however, the biogenesis of the PIWI/piRNA pathway is largely unknown. We propose to clarify the piRNA biogenesis by focusing on PIWI arginine methylations and their interacting TUDOR proteins, which would give us clues to understand the molecular mechanism of reproductive system diseases and various types of cancers expressing human PIWI proteins.
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QA/Test Days/Template
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<<FIXME>> | From 12:00 to 21:00 UTC (8am -> 5pm EDT) | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
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What to test?
Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on <<FIXME>>
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Development - Developer1 (IRC: nick1), Developer2 (IRC: nick2)
- Quality Assurance - Tester1 (IRC: nick3), Tester2 (IRC: nick4), Tester3 (IRC: nick5)
Prerequisite for Test Day
List any prerequisite needs for the test event. A fresh system, virtualized guest, a blank DVD ... a desire to break software?
- Usb key
- Usb externally connected HD IDE/SATA
- Empty HD IDE/SATA/SCSI
- Free space on HD
- Rawhide Fully updated
How to test?
High level details on how a contributor can get involved. This can include (but not limited to):
- Areas to target with exploratory testing
- A list of pre-defined test cases to execute
- How to report back results
Test Cases
Provide a list of test areas or test cases that you'd like contributors to execute. For other examples, see Category:Test_Cases.
Test Results
Construct a table or list to allow testers to post results. Each column should be a test case or configuration, and each row should consist of test results. For example:
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Out of Control Ski Club
P.O. Box 13901Albany, NY 12212-3904
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About Out of Control Ski Club
A good club to have fun, ski and meet new people.
Out of Control Ski Club Contact Information
Out of Control Ski Club Website
Area Served
Day bus trips are Southern VT to Killington VT and Gore and Whiteface NY.Weekend trips to Eastern Canada.
Weeklong trips to the Rocky Mountains from California to Canada.
One weeklong trip to Europe.
October to April we have weekly meetings, social gatherings, at the Polish Community Center located at Rapp Road and Washington Ave. Extension, Albany NY. During the summer from May to September we meet on the 1st Thursday and 3rd Wednesday.Memberships
The applicant fee is $40 and we ask that applicants attend 3 meetings, go skiing 3 times with the club, and volunteer 3 hours to the club.Trips & Events
We run buses weekly once the ski areas have snow. The areas we go to on our day bus trips are from Killington VT to Southern VT and also to Gore NY. We have a weekday bus that runs on Wed. or Fri., a Sunday bus, a XC bus on Saturdays, and occasional Happy Hour Buses on Saturdays. We also have weekend trips to Canada, weeklong trips to the Rocky Mountains, and at least one trip to Europe.Upcoming Trips & Events
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The Gratzel Cell: Where Next?
Peter, L. M., 2011. The Gratzel Cell: Where Next? Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2 (15), pp. 1861-1867.
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Twenty years after O'Regan and Gratzel's seminal Nature paper entitled "A Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar-Cell Based on Dye-Sensitized Colloidal TiO(2) Films", dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) and analogous devices have become a major topic of research, with over 1000 papers published in 2010. Although much more is now known about the physical and chemical processes taking place during operation of the DSC, the exponential increase in research effort during this period has not been matched by large increases in efficiency. This raises questions regarding the nature of the barriers that are holding back progress and whether current research is adequately addressing the key issues that are currently limiting device performance. This Perspective attempts to identify some of the factors that determine DSC performance and, as part of a selective survey of recent research highlights, presents a personal view of new approaches and research strategies that could offer ways to overcome the current efficiency stalemate.
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Hi Ithompson,
How about having a "note-passing" time among your students? I did this last year with my 6th graders as a positive way to respond to the note-passing happening in my classroom. I told them that I noticed how much they loved to write to each other, so I was going to allow them to continue---but with a catch.
My students had to use the friendly letter format, which we had already learned, on paper that I passed out. I allowed them about 10 minutes at the end of the day to write their letters to each other, and then I collected them after they were read. Of course, guidelines were established to curb inappropriate discussions.
My students were very eager to engage in writing notes to each other and looked forward to responding to their notes. In fact, knowing that we "might have time" at the end of the day motivated them to stay on task.
This year, I hope to have a mailbox set up in my classroom (I have yet to find a small one) and allow the kids to keep the friendly letters going
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Rihanna has officially reached fashion icon status. The star will be honored with the Fashion Icon Award at the 2014 CFDA Fashion Awards. She will be recognized for her contributions to the industry as well as her partnership with MAC AIDS Fund Viva Glam Campaign. The award is given to those whose style has made an impact on pop culture around the world—and the fashion muse definitely fits the bill. The award ceremony will take place June 2 in New York. [USAToday]
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Columbus Short is the center of an investigation following a bar fight that he was reportedly involved in. The Scandal star was at a bar in Los Angeles on March 15 celebrating a friend's engagement when he allegedly got into a fight with a man who made a comment about his wife. The altercation left the man with a broken nose and he was taken to the hospital. Police are now investigating a criminal battery. [TMZ]
The Google homepage honored civil rights leader Dr. Dorothy Irene Height on Monday. Dr. Height was known for her dedication to women's rights, serving as president of the National Council of Negro Women for over 40 years. The indelible leader would have been 102 years old. [HuffingtonPost]
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A destructible privacy label includes a sheet-like member having an upper surface and an adhesive lower surface. The upper surface is capable of displaying information-conveying indicia thereon. The sheet-like member includes two conjoined segments formed by a separation line that traverses the sheet-like member. Each sheet-like member segment is separable from the other along the sheet-like member separation line. A release liner having a tackless upper surface releasably contacts the sheet-like member lower surface. The release liner includes two conjoined segments formed by a separation line. Each release liner segment is separable from the other along the release liner separation line. The separation line of the sheet-like member generally does not overlie the separation line of the release liner.
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Serial No.: | 591198 |
Series Code: | 11 |
Filed: | October 31, 2006 |
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I'll go first:
1.) Alcohol.
I'll go first:
1.) Alcohol.
2. Porn
3. Hooker
4. Death
5. Time
6. Someone more enthusiastic about you
My gran's hotpot with accidentally added fag ash
I feel better already.
New Bike?
Hand shandy
Rohypnol ?
or that billy bragg song
....while she was giving herself for freeeeeeee (sob)
Her sister
STW is more romantic than I ever imagined. Keep 'em coming.
you still pining after maggie comrade? you know she'll never leave the captain for you...
you still pining after maggie comrade?
LOL - CFH, er, slipped far more easily into the Dennis role, despite his other shortcomings (his love of soft rock). She knew - and accepted that. I wasn't for turning.
Drunken 3am texts and phone calls
8 cans of special brew and 200 paracetamol
or that billy bragg song....while she was giving herself for freeeeeeee (sob)
at a party to which i was never invited !
great song
8 cans of special brew and 200 paracetamol
Disgusting, you shouldn't encourage anyone to drink special brew.
A vivid and creative imagination (you can still have her..)
Her mother?
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Yesterday I wrote about forming the Neighborhood Watch on Steroids and described a situation where you might need to join together with others in your neighborhood to provide defense from people or groups looking to do you harm or simply steal what is yours. Long ago, there were no such thing as police officers who roamed around in their cars connected by radio and dispatchers who monitored a central 911 system. If trouble broke out, you and your family were on your own. You may have been able to rely on neighbors if they lived close enough but the defense of your property was a personal responsibility.
Flash forward to today and for a whole host of reasons our society has largely abdicated this responsibility to law enforcement. While there are many noble police officers out there, they are woefully outnumbered when it comes to people so while they may arrive in time to help, usually the police arrive after the drama has occurred and try to sort out the players as best as they can. This isn't ideal when our society is functioning as it should be. A police presence could be non-existent in a crisis or disaster and it will be back to you and possibly your neighbors to defend your village or neighborhood.
Again, I am not talking about some snow that keeps people at home. I am talking about chaos where for whatever reason, law enforcement is unable to get to you much less protect you and you have bad people who are trying to get in. For the rest of these articles I am going to assume a national disaster that has rendered our nation in a crisis where there is no rule of law.
Your neighborhood could be configured in all types of ways depending on where you live. In a larger city we might have boundaries that are simply streets. Your neighborhood might run a certain number of blocks ending at the river. It could be that your neighborhood is the traditional suburban subdivision complete with a sign out front. You could live in a gated community or your neighborhood might just be a dozen homes in the country.
Before you enact a plan to defend your neighborhood, it helps to think about a few things first.
Understand the Enemy – Who are you defending your neighborhood from? What kinds of threats could you expect to encounter? For the purposes of this article, we aren't going to consider a professional military force. We will say that the enemy could be lone individuals or gangs who range from simply hungry and desperate to organized and violent. Depending on your location and the duration of the event, you might encounter all types of people.
Use Situational Awareness – This will be key to any defense and that is to know what you are protecting and who is trying to get in. The size of your defensive team will dictate how much area you can realistically try to secure. There are force multipliers obviously and we will get into those in an upcoming post, but you have to know your neighborhood better than anyone so that you can model your defensive strategies where you will have the most advantage.
In another post on Preparing your neighborhood against attack, I mentioned drawing out the boundaries. You may only be able to secure a couple of streets or even one street and it will help to draw out the streets identifying access areas, choke-points, natural cover and the assets you hope to control. Some resources you can use now are websites like MyTopo.com that will allow you to order a detailed topographic map of your entire area or Scribblemaps.com that will allow you to create your own maps and add symbols. Naturally, these would need to be taken care of before any crisis prevents you from access computers or the internet.
I mentioned also that virtually none of us have a walled compound so it isn't like we can march along the wall and shine spotlights down on anyone trying to access your neighborhood like some type of Alcatraz Island. You will have to use the advantages you do have though to give you and the rest of your neighborhood defenders the upper hand. If someone does come into your neighborhood you will be able to rely on your strengths.
You will have the ability to fight from cover and to create fortified positions. Again, this is assuming a SHTF type of scenario. What can you use? Depending on the disaster you can roll cars into position, refrigerators, use stones that used to form your ornamental garden walls. For me if this really was a disaster I would be looking to build my own foxholes and augment those with sandbags. Digging a hole is free and a lot of dirt makes great cover. With planning and enough resources (people) the routes into your neighborhood that you want to defend can be set up to be highly defensible.
You have the home field advantage. You know your neighborhood and where everything is. You will know where your partners are with rifles trained on the bad guys. Communication will augment this but we will get into that later as well. You will know where paths through the woods go, where fences are opened or where special defensive devices meant to injure or slow the enemy are hidden.
You have the ability to prepare. Anyone who is intent on coming into your neighborhood will only be able to observe from the outside what is going on provided you don't have patrols outside of your area watching for this behavior. You can set up defensive positions, deploy obstacles to prevent unwanted vehicle traffic and reinforce as you go along. If this is a gang who is somewhat organized they could have experience offensively but they will not have had as much time as you to prepare your neighborhood to be defended against them.
In the next article I will be talking about coordinating an intelligence and response plan so that your group will have direction and methods for knowing who is coming and what the neighborhoods response to various threats will be.
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I know this post is over a year old, but the age of it doesn't make it irrelevant. The time factor actually increases its relevancy. The lack of comments is a bit concerning because I see this as apathy.
Great topic and one many people don't discuss and don't want to talk about. I'm retired Army and have my own plans, but I think this needs to be put out there and folks need to kick it around. I have been watching what is going on in our great country and determined a number of years ago that the American people don't have the heart to stop it before it happens, but I do think they will fight when it gets tight.
With this said, if you ain't gona get dirty to stop the fight before it starts then you had better be prepared for when it does start. Military training is built on planning, train until it's second nature, and then be prepared for everything to change once you engage, because that's what's going to happen. In other words, have contingency plans and know how to react.
I plan to read the rest of your posts and see where you are going with this. I also hope to see more folks responding. Do you have any stats on the number of visits. I would be interested to see if this is getting out or just doesn't have the visibility to pull people in.
Thanks for the comments Paul!
This post was actually part of a series all done consecutively. I think this was the second.
The other posts were:
Neighborhood Watch on Steroids
Thinking of your neighborhood from a tactical perspective
Coordinating your Neighborhood Intelligence and Response Plan
Neighborhood Defense: May the Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
Neighborhood Defense: People, Weapons and Supplies
Since starting the Prepper Journal we have published over 900 articles which have been viewed more than 10.5 million times so I know the post is getting viewed. Some topics spawn more comments than others.
Thanks for reading!
So my cousin is an Iraqi war veteran and has been harping on me for years. I just got my home defense SHTF rifle and am going to the range to sight it in. We are getting 35# sealed barrels to store food that is non perishable. This website I have found to be very useful as it's my cousin who sent it to me and I have been equipped with knowledge I otherwise would not have had. I like the Ariel map to better know my area and to coordinate with my neighbors in developing a plan together. Problem is like one of the commentors said, there are not enough people that seem to care to much. My goal is to be able to take out a target from a long distance with superior accuracy. I will continue to watch this site and comment further.
It's a sad fact that when it comes to SHTF, the vast majority of people, be they friends and family, or coworkers and neighbors, just will not 'get it' like you do. They either don't see the warning signs, or do, and expect someone else to get them out of trouble. By and large, when we need something done, we're going to be doing it on our own. That's why it's important to either build a reliable group among those who are willing to listen, or prepare yourself for the reality of being the only one. It's lonely. It's sad. But it's happened before.
You also have people who are 'talk', and they'll be fully supportive, until your actual situation arrives, and they'll either fall apart right there, or take all they can and head for the hills, leaving you stuck.
It's important to not only have partners who can help you prepare for things of this nature, but that everyone involved can trust everyone else. That's likely the only way for the group to survive.
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4.39 / 5.00 6,959 ViewsBallgina Safari is a music video that tackles the issue of men who wear their pants too tight for their own good... please try and prevent the ballgina from spreading!
Animation by Curtis Richardson-Smith - http://www.youtube.com/us er/BlatantlyObviousMan
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i loled
what in the fuck?! i found this incredibly hilarious. as well as a tic disturbing. but it definately was worth the time i took to watch it.
Thanks for the vote, glad you enjoyed it :D
It was a bit short, and I agree that female 'protagonists' would have helped a bit. With that aside, I liked it. : ) Ballginas are just as bad as (if not worse than) camel toes.
I, for one, find it hilarious.
I find it funny that some NG users are getting their panties all up in a bunch about it, considering I know for a fact if the song was about camel toes, they'd be handing out tens if they could get their hands off their dicks long enough to do it. (Anyone else seen that South Park episode about fart jokes and queefs?)
Anyway, on the topic of the animation itself, it was ok. Really short song to work with, the visual humor was kinda stupid as well, although I did smirk at the guy who couldn't pedal his bike with his buddies because his balls were too small. To make it short and sweet: you guys have great talent, there's nothing in the technical departments that were wrong, just wasn't your best work. Could've been funnier, and I personally think you might've been better received if the two characters going the safari were female this time around. I don't know about you, but I know a lot more women who would've connected better to this then men. Other than that... just lengthening the song could've helped make it more colorful
Thanks for your vote, yeah, the animation isn't my best, but with the time I had I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
Some of you people have issues. This is a joke, it is meant to be a joke, and amusing in some way. Personally the sheer absurdity of it makes me laugh. That being said I do not understand how on a site with the goals of open support of artists many of you can be so rude and unduly harsh. The very creators of Newgrounds have posted stranger and more disturbing things than this so stop acting like somebody just shat in the main gallery of the Louvre. Enough of your peers saw something of value in this for it to reach the front page, accept it and move on.
Hahaha, thanks man. Yeah it was suppose to be just a fun, video that plays on our immature side, never made it to disgust anyone... to bewilder maybe. I'm glad you got a kick out of it. Thanks for your vote :D
OK... what the fuk is this shit?
I mean it and im surprised this is the first vid I rate bellow 5 and thats very hard so congratulations you made me feel pissed off with such a faggot animation.
And realy I m not the mean guy but thats realy stupid...sorry.
Well now that I expresed myself I suggest you to dont put soo hum random shit. Animation is good in deed and oh well maybe theres some people that likes this i dont know but i wish you got more luck next submission...i mean dick jokes are funny ball jokes well only for fags. (not saying you fag)


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This small Cap Rock style area sits high up on the wall between the Beginners Area and Storm Warning Wall, and just over the edge of the old parking area for Tollhouse Rock. Before the access road was closed, this was the parking area for climbers, hang glider pilots, and wild partiers, who frequently hurled random objects down the cliff below. Three boulder problems are found on this formation, and are usually toproped because of the exposure - if you fall off the more difficult problems you will likely hit and roll off down the steepening slab to join the debris at the base of the 300 foot wall. |
Approach: | From Tollhouse Grade drive about a mile down the dirt road and find a safe turnout before the locked gate. Just before the gate a trail cuts right, up the hillside, under the powerlines and joins the old access road at a switchback. Continue another quarter mile up this road to a flat slab area (the site of many wild parties). Walk toward the edge of the cliff and look for a Cap Rock type formation where the climbs are found. Alternately, you can hike up the 4WD road from the Tollhouse Grade up past the Cap Rock trail and down to the old parking area. |
Approach Time: | 30 minutes |
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Access Issues: | A gate now blocks the old access road. Park before this gate and use the trail to avoid crossing the disputed property. |
Rock Type: | Granite |
Type of Climbing: | Top Rope |
Sun Aspect: | Morning Sun |
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