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The Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Academy welcomes five student musicians to its annual three-week intensive training program.
Led by COC Music Director Johannes Debus, and developed in collaboration with The Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, the COC Orchestra Academy offers its student musicians professional insight and experience in their pursuit of a career in an opera orchestra.
The five student players who join the Academy this year were selected from a pool of 12 musicians who auditioned in October 2015 for Debus, COC Orchestra Academy Director Nina Draganic and members of the COC Orchestra: GGS cellist Drew Comstock, GGS violinist Hua-Chu Huang, GGS violinist Yada Lee, GGS bassist Doug Ohashi and UofT violist Meagan Turner.
As part of the Academy experience, students are featured in multiple public performances. This year those appearances include playing with the COC Orchestra at the company's 2016/2017 season launch event on January 13 and a recital in the COC's Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre on January 21, performing Fauré's La bonne chanson with COC Ensemble Studio tenor Jean-Philippe Fortier-Lazure and Mendelssohn's Octet with their COC Orchestra mentors. Academy students also join the COC Orchestra in the pit of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on January 23 for opening night of the COC's winter production of Wagner's Siegfried, playing one of the most complex and stirring scores in the operatic canon.
New to the 2016 Orchestra Academy program are additional public performances with the COC Orchestra and opera singers from the COC, and masterclasses and private sessions with opera singers, production personnel and visiting music staff.
"It's wonderful to see how we've grown the COC Orchestra Academy since it began in 2014. Every year we build it up just a little more, moving from strength to strength," says COC Music Director Johannes Debus. "This year we've added the season launch event to the program and we've been fortunate enough to have interest from great artists like Christine Goerke and Russell Braun on how they can get involved with the Orchestra Academy. These experiences, at such an early point in these musicians' careers, are the opportunities of a lifetime."
Watch Johannes talk about the Orchestra Academy in the video below!
The COC Orchestra Academy is an extra-curricular program that launched in January 2014 as a pilot program with the intention of growing the initiative to include more students and members of the COC Orchestra. There is no official credit attached to the students' participation. Members of the COC Orchestra participate in the COC Orchestra Academy voluntarily.
2016 COC Orchestra Academy Members
Cellist Drew Comstock began cello lessons at the age of four. He completed his undergraduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Yeesun Kim, and recently finished his Master of Music at McGill University where he worked with Brian Manker. He has performed in masterclasses for Ralph Kirshbaum, Phillipe Muller, Laurence Lesser, and Raphael Pidoux. As a chamber musician, he has worked with members of the Takács, Alban Berg, and Miró string quartets. He has also performed with Boston's critically acclaimed Discovery Ensemble, the North Carolina Symphony, and the McGill Chamber Orchestra. Comstock is currently pursuing an artist diploma at The Glenn Gould School under Desmond Hoebig and Andrés Díaz.
Violinist Hua-Chu Huang was born in Taiwan and moved to Canada in 2007. Since starting the violin at age nine, he has won numerous prizes from national competitions in Taiwan, the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra Concerto competition, and recently placed silver in the 2015 Canadian Music Competition. Huang has performed as a featured soloist in the Dalhousie Concerto Night as well as with the Chebucto Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia. He studied with Philippe Djokic at Dalhousie University, where he received his bachelor's degree in violin performance. Huang is currently pursuing an artist diploma under Paul Kantor and Barry Shiffman at The Glenn Gould School.
Violinist Yada Lee has won numerous competitions and awards. She has performed concerti with Mannes Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall, New York, as well as with orchestras in Thailand and around the world. She has been a member of Verbier Festival Orchestra and Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and has served as concertmaster and principal for both Oberlin and Mannes orchestras. Lee holds a master's degree from Mannes School of Music and a bachelor's degree in violin performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She is currently at The Glenn Gould School, studying with Paul Kantor, Barry Shiffman, Laurie Smukler and David Bowlin.
Bassist Doug Ohashi is currently completing the final year of his artist diploma at The Glenn Gould School, studying with Jeffrey Beecher, principal bassist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Ohashi aspires to perform in a professional orchestra and has participated in several training programs to serve that goal, including the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and Orford Academy. He is a recipient of the James Craig Opera Orchestra Award.
Praised for her imagination and musical instinct, Toronto-based violist Meagan Turner recently completed her undergraduate studies as a scholarship student at the University of Toronto. Turner has held principal positions with numerous orchestras and performed in masterclasses for renowned artists including Henning Kraggerud, Atar Arad, and the Brentano and Belcea quartets. In addition to her studies at U of T, Turner has studied chamber music with the St. Lawrence, Cecilia, and New Orford quartets and will continue her orchestral training at the New York String Orchestra Seminar this December. Turner is currently pursuing an advanced certificate in performance at UofT, in the studio of Eric Nowlin.
The COC Orchestra Academy is an initiative of the COC Orchestra with the agreement of the Toronto Musicians' Association.
Photo credit: (l-r) cellist Drew Comstock, violinist Hua-Chu Huang, violinist Yada Lee, bassist Doug Ohashi and violist Meagan Turner
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It's clear that Violetta and Alfredo are very much in love in our current production of La Traviata, but did you know that for singers Ekaterina Siurina and Charles Castronovo this love extends beyond the stage? We caught up with the married duo to find out more about the pair behind the performance. Check out our Q&A with them below, and don't miss seeing La Traviata before it's gone on November 6, 2015!
A documentary film maker
An architect, historian, and/or poet
The Borgias
Napoleon Dynamite
The Island
Either very dark chocolate or Old Amsterdam gouda
Coming back a couple times because I forgot something
Make pottery
He is very generous, sweet-hearted and a super handsome man!
Roméo et Juliette's duet (Gounod)
Water. And excellent wine
Spend it with the kids
Being Russian which includes, but not limited to: sarcasm, negativity, worrying, complaining and passion! ;-) Haha!
Baby supplies and my opera score
Opera scores, Nutcracker piano for kids, postcards and an empty cup of tea from previous coaching
All jazz standards
Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge
Pitt and Jolie
Baby lullabies
Words are silver, silence is gold (my grandma always said this, I wish I could follow it better!)
Sleep, eat, warm up, hot tea, stay quiet, and then sing!
Supportive and understanding
The Czarina Katerina :-)
Fly home to LA, unpack and repack for concerts in Russia. Then getting ready for big trip to Australia with the whole family! Very excited!
Staying on my own small island with my family for two weeks!
To learn more about La Traviata and to buy tickets, click here.
Charles Castronovo as Alfredo and Ekaterina Siurina as Violetta in the COC's production of La Traviata, 2015. Photo: Michael Cooper.
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Out of a pool of 120 aspiring opera singers from across the country, eight were selected to compete at Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition on November 3, 2015, our annual celebration of the next generation of opera stars selected from nationwide auditions for the COC Ensemble Studio—Canada's premier training program for young opera professionals. The competition features the young singers vying for cash prizes ranging in value from $1,500 to $5,000. We interviewed our eight young finalists to learn more—check out all of the interviews, linked by name as they become available, here (or here if on a mobile device).
Montreal-born baritone Bruno Roy is currently studying for his master of music performance at McGill University, where he also received his bachelor's degree. His recent operatic credits include Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro (Opera McGill); Matt in Crush (Banff Centre); L'Horloge/Le Chat in L'enfant et les sortilèges (Opera on the Avalon); Papageno in The Magic Flute (Blooming Voce Summer Opera Workshop); Masetto in Don Giovanni (FAVA Opera); and Raoul de Gardefeu in La Vie Parisienne (Opera Without Fences). In 2016, he appears as John Brooke in Little Women and Belcore in L'elisir d'amore at Opera McGill.
From a very young age, I was involved in choirs and other vocal ensembles. My mother always had a subscription to the opera and I would often accompany her during these formative years. It created in me a deep appreciation for this repertoire and it is why I decided to make it my course of study.
It is an art form that I find fascinating; it melds drama, literature and music all into one and by juxtaposing it with the power of the human voice, provides us with a unique sensory experience. It has the capacity to make us laugh, cry and reflect, and the composers, stage directors and musicians wanting to share these emotions are what keep this art form going.
I am a big foodie. When it comes to coffee, wine and good food, I always go for the best that a city has to offer. You will also find me behind the counter, whipping up a nice meal for some friends.
Lastly, I must admit that I am often a victim of vanity; I love shopping for nice shoes and I'm always on the lookout for a new hair pomade.
The title role in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande is one that I hold near and dear to my heart. It is a beautiful work in which the characters intentions and emotions are expressed with a unique colour palette where the orchestra expertly supports the prose-like vocal line and where suggestion is just as powerful as action. A highly symbolic opera, it is one that produces in me a new reflection on every listen.
Follow Bruno on Twitter at @brunobeloinroy
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit COCCentreStage.ca, call COC Ticket Services at 416-363-8231 or visit the Four Seasons Centre Box Office (145 Queen St. W.).
To buy competition tickets, click here.
To buy Under 30 competition tickets sponsored by TD, click here.
For more information about the the Centre Stage Dinner event and how to purchase tickets, please contact the PC Office at 416-363-5801
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Barry, start your own thread!
I did.
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When I think about the title - "Does cell size affect the fermentation of pollen?", I wonder if anyone has noticed bees favoring a larger or smaller cell size for the storage of pollen in natural comb?
Natural comb varies in terms of cell size. So if cell size affected fermentation, then we might find bees choosing a particular size range.


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Hello dear art friends! Guess what I've been up to?! I had my very first real art exhibit at one of my favorite places in Victoria, Canada...The Makehouse! I called my show: Love You to Bits: an Uplifting Collage Exhibition. I shared my project from 2014 which was to make a heart every single day. I learned so much from this experience!
This is my favorite heart from my show. It's a huge canvas! 30"x 36"! What fun I had making this heart. I collaged the background with vintage, handmade and recycled papers. So many symbols and beautiful words in this piece!
Of course, my sweet Inca helped me in my studio while I made all of the heart canvases for my show. : ) I have hundreds of photos that I'm still sorting through. I'll share more with you when I can.
Wishing you all a happy, heart-filled, harmonious Valentine's Day! : )
If you're in Victoria, pop in to see my show at the Makehouse! It runs Jan 29 - Feb 28, 2015.


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Intel: Production Supports Q2, Q3 Street Estimates, Says Bluefin
Steve Mullane of boutique research firm Bluefin Research Partners this morning writes that his estimates for production levels by Intel (INTC) last quarter are consistent with Street consensus for a 2.5% tick-up in revenue in the quarter and a 6.7% rise quarter to quarter in the September quarter:
Our latest estimate for the month of June suggests that the production levels have begun to stabilize after a strong start to the June quarter. While the production pace remained flattish, the 22nm technology devices continues to ramp and dominate the overall product mix. With the steady production results to end the quarter, our June quarter production projection has been modestly reduced to a pace of 4-5% sequential growth, which remains relatively consistent with the growth expectations for the September quarter revenues (see figure 1). This modest growth is consistent with our early reads on PC ODM builds in the September quarter. The current Wall Street revenue estimates for INTC call for a 2.5% sequential increase in the June and 6.7% in the September quarter.
Mullane doesn't say where he comes by his estimate for the production levels cited.
Mullane also thinks Intel may cut its capex outlook for this year, based on its having to keep its Chandler, Arizona "Fab 42" factory on hold to refit it for production of 14-nanometer semiconductor parts.
Intel shares today are up 8 cents at $23.97.


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That is an awesome find! hopefully a member nearby can snag it so it doesn't go to a scrapper.
Here is a very interesting 12x30 Hendey 12 speed gear head metal lathe for only $1.oo in Connecticut. It is still in operation but available. You snooze you loose. It does weigh 2800 lbs and a WW-II veteran machine tool. Hendey machinery was/is top of the line stuff.
WWII Vintage Hendey Lathe
The lathe isn't mine. If it were in Arizona it would be !!!!!
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That is an awesome find! hopefully a member nearby can snag it so it doesn't go to a scrapper.
It must be gone already, ad has been deleted by author.
Hell I would have paid someone to pick it up and deliver it
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
Nice piece!
Besides welding all day I run a Hendy also..
Here is mine.
20 X 90 Hendy 1941 Vintage and still dead nuts over 90"..
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Nice Hendey !!!!
Is that a special insulated welding fixture on your lathe headstock ????
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Heh...Heh I was looking for the flux funnel & wire feeder. When I was a kid outside Detroit I used to rebuild catapillar idlers & rollers. That was a hot little room. They made me do the sprockets & pads outside in the rain. I've still got that 440 buzzz going on!!
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I seldom talk to liberals.............................. But when I do, I order fries............
i just hope it ain't on its way to CHINA!
For a dollar, Id buy it , depending on the cost to ship by common carrier, it would bave to be put on one big pallet or one at each end, and banded down.. I dont think it could cost more that a grand, maybe even less, but its ine hell of a deal...Doc
Hello zapster,
I was refering to the strange-looking chuck on your Hendey. Or is that a blur from a spinning chuck ???
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Edvard Grieg
born in Bergen, Norway, composed during the Romantic period
Grieg admired his literary contemporaries and forged a productive partnership with Bjötjerne Björnson, playwright and poet, with whom he staged performances of such works as Before a Southern Convert, and Bergliot. While Björnson struggled with his output, Grieg met and befriended Henrik Ibsen. The forthcoming collaboration would prove significant for both, as Grieg would supply incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt. The premiere was performed to critical acclaim and eventually led to Grieg's scoring of Peer Gynt into Suites 1 and 2 (1888 and 1893 respectively).
As a result of the success of Peer Gynt, Grieg enjoyed tremendous celebrity and continued to travel extensively, often meeting internationally renowned composers such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Liszt, among others. In addition to a grant he was awarded in 1874, Grieg was able to earn the majority of his money by adhering to a vigorous schedule of recital tours. He served briefly as the music director of the Bergen Symphony Orchestra, and from 1880-1882, held the same position at the Bergen Harmonien. In 1885, Grieg and his wife relocated once again, this time to his native Bergen, Norway, where he built their celebrated home, Troldhaugen. The property, a popular tourist destination to this day, features a secondary building overlooking the water, which the composer used as his work area, as he could only work in solitude. He and his wife summered in Norway and departed each fall for European tours that would last the remainder of the year. Grieg also conducted extensively throughout his country.
Grieg was adored wherever he traveled and lived at a pace that would eventually catch up with him. Grieg died of chronic fatigue, with much credit given to his lifelong health problems, in his hometown of Bergen.
Norway's most famous composer, dedicated his career to the pursuit of a national sound. The respect he had for his predecessors illustrates the sincerity with which he worked towards this goal. He wrote in the Romantic tradition with, in his own words, the determination to "create a national form of music, which could give the Norwegian people an identity." ~ David Brensilver, Rovi
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Track List: Wonderland - Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto, Lyric Pieces
Track List: Grieg: Lyric Pieces
Track List: Ballad For Edvard Grieg
Track List: Best of Grieg
Track List: Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Performed on Grieg's Piano)
Track List: Grieg: Symphonic Dances; Norwegian Dances; Lyric Suite
Track List: Grieg: Lyric Pieces / Emil Gilels
Track List: Grieg: Peer Gynt; Holberg Suite; Sigurd Jorsalfar; Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Track List: Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Selections)
Track List: Grieg: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3
Track List: Grieg: Piano Music Vol. 13
Track List: Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 14
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Presentation to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
Binghamton University will honor the late Martin Luther King Jr. with a lecture by renowned scholar and author Roy L. Brooks. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at noon Monday, January 19, in the Mandela Room of the University Union.
Titled "Martin Luther King's Enduring Legacy," the lecture will focus on how King helped solidify the doctrine of formal equal opportunity and, in the process, transformed national policy on race relations.
An attorney and law professor, Brooks instructs students on matters of civil procedure, affirmative action, employment discrimination and civil rights. Author of numerous scholarly books, articles and reviews, his publications include the Rethinking the American Race Problem and Integration or Separation? A Strategy for Racial Equality, both of which received the Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book Award for civil rights.
Brooks currently teaches at the University of San Diego as the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of Connecticut.
The presentation, sponsored by BU's Convocations Committee and the Multicultural Resource Center, will also include a screening of King's historic "I Have A Dream Speech." Although the presentation is free, tickets are required and may be obtained through the Multicultural Resource Center office.
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Hey Nick Foles looks like a solid QB , ey? Remember how i had him ranked up there in my rankings, and people thought i was alittle 2 high on em? Hes looked plenty good, and is all ready starting games and won the immediete backup to Vick as a rookie.. Hes showing plenty of potential, and has a big arm.. I seen plenty of Arizona with Foles, and think he can be sorta like a Matt Shaub given half a shot.. I actually think Foles has a stronger arm though..
Foles last yr, and Fales next yr..lol
They are lighting the Gators up now. He is having a nice game.
On another note, what'sup with shariff floyd? Damn hes beastly, draft gurus please share some insight......elam too
Elam is a monster who plays well in big games and can do a lot, including cover man 2 man. If he was 2 inches taller, he would easily be the best safety prospect in a year that is decently strong at safety.
Bridgewater looked pretty good last night, no doubt.. The zip on some of his throws and accuracy for most part was impressive, but i still don't think hes a NFL star u take a early 1st rd pick on.. I just don't.. Hes thrown a pick in about 4or5 straight games, and when u watched last night, u thought he was gonna have the kinda game that just blows u away, but the end stats were 20-32 266yrd 2td 1int 7carries minus 17yrds... Sure, solid, but not overly insane, which in my opinion, is what it would take for me to take a QB in the early 1st...


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(May 26, 2006)--UTSA is celebrating the 10th year of a successful partnership with the Engineering and Technologies Academy, a magnet program at San Antonio's Roosevelt High School. The Technology Student Associations (TSA) recently honored the distance-learning program as the best engineering principles program in Texas.
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More than 20 UTSA professors and staff members from across the university have participated in several academy courses that are credited with inspiring students to take the next step to attend a college or university.
According to William Sturgis, director of the Engineering and Technologies Academy, many of the high school students who participate in the program would not have considered college or the field of engineering without the special classes.
"Since we began our interaction with UTSA, we have had countless numbers of students receive many scholarships to help them get started and then go on to complete their post-secondary degrees," said Sturgis. "I feel that we owe UTSA a great deal of gratitude for supporting our program."
Sturgis and other Roosevelt staff members work closely with Bill Angrove, UTSA assistant vice provost for distance learning and academic technology, to plan and implement the distance learning classes.
"We congratulate the Roosevelt team for their success at the state competition," said Angrove. "And we want to thank the UTSA faculty and staff for their hard work and dedication. Their support as guest lecturers makes the program possible."
One course, Engineering Orientation, helps students feel more at ease about attending college and exposes them to the field of engineering and its breadth of career opportunities. Another course, College 101, provides the opportunity for the students to interact with UTSA professors, financial aid representatives and advisers to gain a better understanding of the college experience, application procedures and career opportunities. A third course, Careers in Technology, supplements College 101.
"Our students that complete the courses have by far been the most motivated," said Sturgis. "Seeing the enthusiasm of the students in the class would just send goose bumps down you. It is very exciting to watch students who are first enthused about being in a learning environment and are excited about what they didn't know, and then want to learn more."
The TSA award was based on student projects submitted on solar energy, biotechnology, power generation, principles of flight, electricity, hydroelectric power, laser technology, global positioning systems, satellite communications, robotics and a written engineering principles test.
The distance-learning classes, topics and presenters were:
Careers and Technology
Richard Howe, retired professor of engineering -- Overview of Engineering
Enos Inniss, assistant professor of engineering -- Civil Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering
Woodie Spivey, associate professor of engineering -- Aerospace Engineering
Dawnlee Roberson, assistant professor of engineering -- Biomedical Engineering
Dr. David Cohen, chief of cardiothoracic surgery, Brook Army Medical Center -- Mechanical Engineering and Surgery
Randy Manteufel, associate professor of engineering -- Mechanical Engineering
Milo Silva, director of academic technology, distance learning -- Communication Technology
Dave Sebald, associate professor of music -- Music Technology, Multimedia
Linda Shepherd, information systems lecturer -- Computer Programming
Chino Rao, associate professor of information systems -- E-Commerce
Steve Brown, environmental sciences -- Global Positioning Systems, Geographic Information Systems
Margaret Costantino, career counselor -- Career Exploration
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Ricardo Romo, UTSA president -- Video Profile
Rosalie Ambrosino, UTSA provost and vice president for academic affairs -- Campus Life
Jesse Zapata, UTSA vice provost, Downtown Campus -- Choosing the Right College
Jennifer Ehlers, director of admissions
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Ricardo Gonzalez, executive director of K-16 initiatives -- Scoring Well on the SAT/ACT
Steven Levitt, associate professor of communications and Department of Communication chair -- Classroom Survival Skills
Sabina Kapoor, associate director for outreach, Tomas Rivera Center for Student Success -- Student Advising
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JD Drew warms up before a game against the Baltimore Orioles.
2011 season has not been the most remarkable for Red Sox outfielder JD
Drew. Just three years after being elected an All-Star in his second
season with Boston (2008), Drew has hit a new kind of low, even for him.
management and lasting Drew believers can continue to sugar-coat this
guy's fading talent and justify the $70 million deal he signed in
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Guest Authors & Schedule Set for NOW Literary Festival
The Nature of Words will again present a roster of renowned guest authors at its annual literary festival November 7-10.
The ninth consecutive year of the festival will include authors from the genres of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and young adult fiction. The Rising Star Creative Writing Competition awards ceremony, recognizing emerging writers, will be the opening event of the festival. The festival also includes one night of author readings at the Tower Theatre, lectures and workshops by the guest authors, a VIP reception and an author reception with flash readings. A Sunday guest author reading and open mic conclude the festival.
The festival will showcase these authors: (in order of appearance)
Lawson Inada is a former Oregon Poet Laureate and currently professor emeritus of writing at Southern Oregon University. Inada will be honored with the 2013 Caldera Award from The Nature of Words, in recognition of his body of work. He is the author of five books including Legends from Camp, a volume of poetry which won the American Book Award.
He also is a winner of the Governor's Arts Award (1997), the Oregon Book Award (for Drawing the Line 1997) and the Pushcart Prize (1996) for poetry. Other titles include In This Great Land of Freedom, Just Into/Nations and Before the War. Professor Inada has won two Poetry Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and his work has appeared in The Best American Poetry.
Karen Finneyfrock's debut young adult novel, The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door was published by Viking Children's Books in 2013. Her second book of poems, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost was released on Write Bloody press in 2010. She is a former writer-in-residence at Richard Hugo House in Seattle and teaches for Seattle Arts and Lectures' Writers-in-the-Schools program. Finneyfrock has competed in four National Poetry Slam teams and was honored as a Slam Legend at the National Poetry Slam in 2006. In 2010, Finneyfrock traveled to Nepal as a Cultural Envoy through the U.S. Department of State to perform and teach poetry.
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Does PCI becomes a standart for everyone but not just Payments Processing
I am wondering what is your professional opinion, how do you see its happening, will the PCI-DSS will become a standart that is followed by most of the companies no matter if they do payments processing or not. We all know that PCI-DSS became a standart based on best practice that some big companies decided to be and made them official.
Any comments and suggestions are welcome.
Thank you in advance for your time.
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It was a slow start as I had to fix a puncture but then we were out of Eureka and looking forward to only having to cycle 50 miles instead of running 35. We had met up with the Transamerica bicycle route and soon met our first cycle tourer coming towards us. Chuck had just retired and was cycling to San Fran before accepting the role of grandfather/hedgecutter/painter decorator/babysitter and whatever else his kids could find him to do. As we chatted we saw our first live armadillo shoot across the road ahead of us – the rest have been interesting roadkill
A couple of miles on we met another chap, he was much less charismatic and looked pretty grumpy in the heat and headwind so we made our conversation brief and let him go. A corner store further along was clearly used to cyclists. She provided us with a 7 day weather report and a cyclist's guest book to sign. It made us feel that it may have been quite nice and comfy to follow the route mapped out across America but we don't do nice and comfy, we have our own plan.
It was a great ride with much greener surroundings. We made good time with a gentle breeze nudging us along and we reached Iola by early afternoon. We immediately found a good spot to camp, Budd the RV park owner giving us a free night, and then cycled out to find the swimming pool. The daily problem of then trying to avoid the heat for the afternoon was easily solved by another trip to the cinema. Transformers was a solid choice and bought back childhood memories of the 'robots in disguise'.
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The TOP 25 Most Influential Christian Sports Figures
The readers have spoken and Sports Spectrum's commemorative Silver Anniversary: Top 25 Most Influential Christian Sports Figures book is underway -- Pre-Order Now!
(available this spring)
We're going to give you the inside scoop and help you count down to the top 25. Each day we'll reveal another sports figure and you can see where your picks come in at.
And The Top Influential Sports Figures Are:
Thanks to the readers of Sports Spectrum who voted and helped create this list.
#26 Josh Hamilton, Baseball
2x All-Star. Very open about his life, testimony and his recovery from addiction.
#27 Shaun Alexander, Football
3x Pro Bowler and 2005 NFL MVP. He and his wife are very outspoken about their faith and are regular attendees at Federal Way's Christian Faith Center and are firm supporters of abstinence and sexual purity discussing the issue publicly on many occasions.
#28 Tom Osborne, Football
3x National Championship coach, 1994 Coach of the Year at the University of Nebraska and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, active speaker for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
#30 Darrell Green, Football
7x Pro Bowler, 2x Super Bowl Champion, and 1996 Walter Camp Award Winner. The founder and Executive Director of Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation, and served as the Chair of Presidnet Bush's Council on Service and Civic Participation.
#31 Steve Largent, Football
Pro Football Hall of Fame, 7x Pro Bowler and Walter Payton Man of the Year Award Winner. Served as a U.S. Congressman and often promoted and voted conservative bills.
#32 Lance Berkman, Baseball
5x MLB All-Star. He has been very outspoken about his Christianity throughout his career, has a foundation that gives only to missions, and has helped to lead several Bible studies.
#33 Walter Payton, Football
Pro and College Football Hall of Famer, 9x Pro Bowl selection, 1977 NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion and 1978 Pro Bowl MVP. Established the Walter and Connie Payton Foundation for organ donors, is the namesake of the NFL's Man of the Year Award for character and work outside of football.
#34 Bobby Bowden, Football
2x National Champion in 23 seasons at Florida State University. The namesake of the The National Bobby Bowden Award presented by FCA to the top college athlete making an impact on and off the field.
#35 Anthony Munoz, Football
11 consecutive Pro Bowls as a lineman. Founded the Anthony Munoz Foundation and Impact for Eternity Camp.
#36 Julius Erving, Basketball
NBA Hall of Famer, NBA MVP, NBA Champion, and 11x All-Star. 2x ABA Champion and 3x ABA MVP. Influential in the history of Sports Spectrum.
#37 Derrick Brooks, Football
11x Pro Bowler, Super Bowl Champion, 2000 Walter Camp Award Winner and 2002 Defensive Player of the Year. Avid philanthropist and founder of the Brooks Bunch, a Christian youth charity.
#38 Curt Schilling, Baseball
7x All-Star, 3x World Series Champion, and World Series MVP. Has extenisive charities and charity work with his wife in the New England area.
#39 David Thompson, Basketball
2x All-Star Game MVP, 1975 Naismith Player of the Year, 1975 NCAA Champion, and NBA Hall-of-Famer. Co-founder of 2XSALT Sports Ministry and activate motivational and faith speaker.
#40 Mary Lou Retton, Gymnastics
Olympic Gold Medalist, first non-European all-around winner. Grounded mother, who says experience and spiritual maturity is leading her to speak about her faith.
#41 Bobby Richardson, Baseball
1960 World Series MVP, 7x All-Star, 3x World Series champion. A national leader within the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
#43 Michael Chang, Tennis
ITF Hall of Fame and French Open Champion. Serves on the board of Biola University, and first spoke outwardly of his faith after his French Open victory.
#44 Darrell Waltrip, Racing
3x Cup Series Champion, 84x race winner. The focus of Jay Carty's One-on-One 60 day devotional series.
#46 Charlie Ward, Basketball
1993 Heisman Trophy Winner, NCAA National Champion and 1st Round pick in the 1994 NBA Draft where he spent 12 seasons playing basketball. Founded a Bible study for the N.Y. Knicks.
#47 Joe Girardi, Baseball
4x World Series Champion (3 as a player and 1 as manager) and current Yankees manager. Active in his community and youth organizations.
#50 Jerry Lucas, Basketball
NBA All-Star, 1964 NBA Rookie of the Year, and NBA Hall-of-Famer. Known for his memory skills, Lucas wrote Remember the Word, a book teaching people how to memorize the Bible.
#51 Chris Paul, Basketball
2x All-Star and Olympic gold medalist. Started the CP3 Foundation aiding victims of Hurrican Katrina
#52 Kyle Petty, Racing
8x race winner. The founder of the Victory Junction Camp, a camp for terminally ill children.
#54 Clark Kellogg, Broadcast
1982 Big Ten Basketball MVP. Currenlty the lead announcer for NCAA basketball on CBS.
#55 Frank Reich, Football
Held records for largest comebacks in both the NFL (Buffalo Bills) and the NCAA (Univ. of Maryland). Served as a Pastor and works as the Quaterbacks Coach of the Indianapolis Colts.
#56 Lou Brock, Basbeall
6x All-Star and 2x World Series Champion. An ordained minister and serves a church in St. Louis with his wife.
#57 Pat Summerall, Broadcast
Former NFL placekicker, but renown as a sports broadcaster. Pat was led to the Lord by his former coach, Tom Landry, and was baptized at the age of 69.
#58 Wayman Tisdale, Basketball
Olympic gold medalist, was the 2nd overall pick in the 1985 NBA draft and had a 12-year NBA career. The son of a pastor and is outspoken about his faith and his strength from God through his battle with cancer and the loss of a limb.
#59 Allyson Felix, Track
Olympic gold medalist. 2x Olympic silver medalist. 4x World Champion; 5x U.S. Champion; First woman to win 3 straight 200 meter World Championships. On her website she says, "My faith is definitely the most important aspect of my life…My running is an amazing gift from God and I want to use it to the best of my ability to glorify Him. I'm thankful that I have been given this platform so that I can share my faith with the world."
#60 Matt Holliday, Baseball
3x MLB All-Star, 2007 NLCS MVP. Led to the Lord by teammates and credits his success to living his life for Christ, not himself.
#61 Michelle Akers, Soccer
National Soccer Hall of Fame, 2x FIFA Women's World Cup champion, Olympic gold medalist, FIFA Women's Player of the Century. Has leaned and spoken on her faith for years, is a very popular speaker.
#62 Trent Dilfer, Football
Super Bowl champion. Very active philanthropically, involved with several charities and is a fan favorite in Baltimore for the work he does.
#63 Heath Shuler, Football
1993 Heisman Trophy Runner-up and 3rd overall pick in 1994 NFL Draft. Serves as Representative for the state of North Carolina, is a member of "The Family" and was instrumental in fighting the NFL to allow churches to host Super Bowl parties.
#64 Barry Sanders, Football
10x Pro Bowler, 1997 NFL MVP, and 1988 Heisman Trophy winner. He holds 10 rushing records for the Detroit Lions
#65 Zach Johnson, Golf
2007 Master's champion, 6 victories on the PGA Tour. A member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
#66 Kyle Korver, Basketball
Member of the NBA's Utah Jazz. The son of a pastor, an outspoken Christian, and is very active through several missions in Africa.
#67 Mark Schlereth, Football
3x Super Bowl champion and 2x Pro Bowler. Father of 3, and public speaker crediting God for pushing him past the long odds to his success.
#69 Gary Carter, Baseball
11x MLB All-Star, World Series Champion and 1989 Roberto Clemente Award Winner. Created the Gary Carter Foundation.
#70 Kyle Rote Jr., Soccer
Former professional soccer player, and 3x winner of ABC's Superstars. Currently runs an athletes representation firm. One of the first publishers of Sports Spectrum, and a popular motivational speaker on faith and life.
#71 Paul Azinger, Golf
1993 PGA Championship winner and has 17 professional event victories. Lifelong friend of Payne Stewart and soft-spoken"good guy" of golf.
#73 Tim Howard, Soccer
U.S. men's national team goalkeeper and 2008 U.S. soccer Athlete of the Year. Credits his faith for his continued battle with Tourette's Syndrome and works with youth who have the affliction, and is an active leader in Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Athletes in Action.
#74 Bernhard Langer, Golf
Won the Masters twice. He was appointed as an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)
#75 Bobby Jones, Basketball
NBA World Champion, 1983 6th Man of the Year, Olympic silver medalist. Co-founder of 2XSALT Sports Ministries.
#78 Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Baseball
8x MLB All-Star, 5x World Series Champion, and 1974 AL Cy Young Winner.
#79 Joe Carter, Baseball
2x World Series Champion and 5x All-Star. Continues to be very active in the community and has been honored by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
#80 Tamika Catchings, Basketball
2x Olympic gold medalist, WNBA Rookie of the Year, 6x WNBA All-Star and NCAA Champion. Credits her fatih in God for keeping her grounded, and is highly active with youth in the Indianapolis area.
#82 Lorena Ochoa, Golf
Currently, No. 1 ranked women's golfer. Womens British Open Champion and 35x LPGA Tour winner. Founded a school in her native Mexico for underprivileged youth.
#83 Betsy King, Golf
6x Major Championship winner and has 34 LPGA Tour victories. Works with Habitat for Humanity and orphan groups in the old Soviet bloc countries.
#53 Randall Cunningham, Football
4x NFL Pro Bowler. Active in the Gospel music business as owner of a recording company, as well as being an ordained minister and pastor of a church he planted in Las Vegas.
#86 Mike Gartner, Hockey
Hockey Hall of Fame. Chaired the NHLPA Goals & Dreams Foundation and was led to the Lord by a former teammate while playing for Washington.
#87 John Vanbiesbrouck, Hockey
US Hockey Hall of Fame, Vezina Trophy Winner and 4x All-Star. Credits his faith and his wife for his success and his ability to raise three sons.
#88 Ryan Hall, Track
Olympic marathoner, U.S. marathon champion and America record holder in the half marathon. He and his wife, Sara, are members of Tema World Vision.
#89 Aaron Baddeley, Golf
Credits his fatih for staying on the PGA Tour through all of his struggles.
#90 Asafa Powell, Track
Olympic gold medalist and World Champion. Credits his mother and father for his strong faith.
#91 Jennifer Azzi, Basketball
Olympic Gold Medalist, 1990 NCAA Champion and Naismith Award Winner at Stanford University.
#95 Hersey Hawkins, Basketball
1988 NCAA Player of the Year and 1999 NBA Sportsmanship Award Winner.
#97 Lee Janzen, Golf
2x US Open Champion and 8x PGA event winner. He frequently speaks about his Christian beliefs.
#98 Larry Mize, Golf
1987 Master's Champion. Very active on behalf of cystic fibrosis and several charities.
#99 Rob Pelinka, Misc
Member of Michigan's two Final Four teams of the 1990s, and now an NBA player agent. Worked to share his faith with college teammates, now with clients.


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It's the final day of the Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia, and few people outside of the progressive bubble give a shit. There are about 300 Occupy allies making noise in Franklin Square, three blocks from the city's mid-week Fourth of July parade. But while the activists made headlines days earlier, after 28 protesters were arrested, they've been ignored by most media and locals since Sunday.
Looking for attention, Bay Area anti-war hero Medea Benjamin marches toward the sanctioned parade. With about two dozen cohorts from her group Code Pink — most decked in their namesake color — she hatches plans on the fly for an impromptu demonstration. Benjamin turns to a young man who, despite the sub-Saharan heat, has his upper body coated in fuchsia latex body paint. She places him in charge of the bullhorn, and they're off to Independence Mall.
On the scene, a handful of onlookers snicker at the gallivanting Code Pink brigade. But most people just stare the opposite way down Market Street, waiting for the planned floats and festivities en route from City Hall. The group starts up a pacifist rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching In," but it's drowned out when two fighter jets scream overhead. Reacting to the interruption, Benjamin rails against the human and financial cost of warfare, while her legionnaires collapse to the concrete as if they've been bombed. But pedestrians are too doe-eyed to consider death or taxes, as adults and kids alike point at the sky in sheer amazement. A few minutes pass by, and the pastel-dipped objectors scatter off without having so much as slightly dulled the patriotic bliss.
In terms of impact and public response, all of today's actions around the National Gathering will prove equally underwhelming. That's a big change from even May Day, when pro-labor protests attracted tens of thousands of people to New York. Occupy has graduated from its initial sprint phase, but has also hemorrhaged a number of its mainstream supporters. It's a similar story with the Tea Party on the other side of the divide; even the dreaded upholding of Obamacare has failed to spur the flag-clad rebels to revolt in droves.
Critics of both the Tea Party and Occupy blame each movement's declining numbers on the alienating extremism of the remaining fringes — anarchists on the far left, fact-deniers on the extreme right. But apathy is also to blame as protest-fatigue catches up to the rank and file. The bulk of the 99 percent, it seems, have no time for movement building — they're too embroiled in real-time happenings like Supreme Court rulings and Mitt Romney's banking exploits.
Occupy has a problem of attrition, and it's not just a result of losing moderates to Obamamania. There are blatant internal rifts, some of which were on full display this Independence Day. In addition to the National Gathering — a loose assembly that was attended by Occupiers from more than 100 cities nationwide — last week Philadelphia also hosted two unrelated groups that formerly placed themselves under the Occupy umbrella.
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A low-budget New Zealand movie written in two weeks and filmed in 17 days in a new initiative by groups including the New Zealand Herald has its Auckland debut at the New Zealand Film Festival tonight.
How to Meet Girls From a Distance, created by a Wellington team of budding filmmakers, is a romantic-comedy about a man searching for love in all the wrong ways. Going through rubbish bins may or may not be involved.
It won the Make My Movie competition, an initiative from the New Zealand Herald, the New Zealand Film Commission, NZOnAir and V48Hours organiser Ant Timpson, that saw anyone with a good idea pitch to get funding to turn that idea for a movie into reality.
With the tagline, "Get to know her, then meet her", the "peeping Tom rom-com" movie follows Toby, a 30-something guy who stalks future partners, gathering as much information about them as he can so he can turn himself into the man of their dreams.
The Herald's TimeOut section called it a "kooky, whimsical film about whether the ends justify the means when it comes to finding love".
Wellington team Traces Of Nut, including Dean Hewison, Richard Falkner and Ruth Korver won the inaugural competition back in January then worked to create the film which screened last week as part of the NZ Film Festival in Wellington.
The Make My Movie competition saw filmmakers pitch for $100,000 provided by the Digital Content Partnership of NZOnAir and the New Zealand Film Commission.
Timpson and nzherald.co.nz entertainment editor Hugh Sundae then provided advice and captured all the development in regular webisodes which ran on nzherald.co.nz.
"I would recommend [Make My Movie] to people as a crash course in feature film-making for sure," Hewison told TimeOut.
"I'm hopeful that if the film does well then I might not need to put myself through that sort of intensity again, but basically within six months we went from having an idea, to watching a film with 400 people in a theatre at the film festival, so it was definitely worth it."
Sundae said the movie was written in two weeks, filmed in 17 days, and edited in one month.
"Despite all this the movie was accepted by Bill Gosden to screen at the NZ Film Festival. Bill has a reputation for programming films by merit regardless of their origin, and this is reinforced by the fact it has been programmed not just in Auckland and Wellington, but a range of other screenings around the country."
The nzherald.co.nz web series on the making of the movie has now almost 100 minutes of footage capturing the highs and lows of the process.


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It has now been one year since Rockstar Games released the first DLC content for Grand Theft Auto IV titled The Lost and Damned. The DLC also became available as apart of the Episodes from Liberty City collection at a later point in the same year. In this title players were able to take control of Johnny Klebitz, the Vice-President of The Lost M.C. Alderney Charter, a character who is seen is Grand Theft Auto IV a couple of times and is deeply involved with his own problems surrounding his gang and its members.
Upon its original release on Xbox Live, The Lost and Damned was quite a success for Rockstar Games with few reviewers actually saying this is how DLC SHOULD be done. Rather than adding small things to the game, Rockstar Games added a whole other side to Liberty City with new Characters, Vehicles, Music, Weapons, etc, that gave off a totally different feeling compared to what players experienced with Niko Bellic. With Episodes from Liberty City coming out next month for the PlayStation 3 and PC Gamers, I can assure you that this part of the DLC is very satisfying and very well made with a brilliant story backing it; it certainly is something to look forward to playing on the 30th of March! For those of you who have already played the game, feel free to tell us your favorite things such as Missions, Songs, Best Gang Shoot Out you've had, etc in the comments!
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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animals on the cover of .NET Framework Essentials, Third Edition, are shrimp. Different species of shrimp are found in marine and fresh water--shallow and deep--all over the world. Swimming backward by rapidly flexing its abdomen and tail, and with the assistance of specialized legs for swimming, the shrimp feeds on smaller plants and animals, as well as carrion. In fact, several species engage in symbiotic (mutually beneficial or dependent) relationships with other organisms. The coral shrimp (Stenopus hispidus) cleans the scales of the coral fish, while the fish in turn swims backward through the shrimp's pincers (presumably to clean them). Matt Hutchinson was the production editor for .NET Framework Essentials, Third Edition. Octal Publishing, Inc. provided production services. Jane Ellin, Phil Dangler, and Claire Cloutier provided quality control.Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted to FrameMaker 5.5.6 by Andrew Savikas. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia Free-Hand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Jeff Holcomb.
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This book makes abstract concepts understandable.You never get lost in the details. As you read the book, you realize the author is proper expert.
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This was a very good book when it came out in 2003. Now in 2008 with the current .net framework at 3.5 this book seems rather dated, as it covers version 1.1.Will this book be updated or will it just go out of print? Can't tell from O'reilly's website.
Framework for all!
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This book really was one of the first ones that my pupils had started to study in the course. It said they whom our day would start here, and after one year of study I see that this was the tip initial foot for our group of study. Really the concepts of ADO NET and the library of access the data, as well as the XML presents good examples to give itself in a course. Now the pupils are diving of head in the secrets of web services and learning SOAP and Web Forms... Thus, this book I recommend to have an ample vision of the architecture of framework, and its languages.
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.NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition Review
By Jose Ramírez
We are in front of an excellent introductory book oriented, mostly, to the experienced Web, VB, Java, C++ programmer who wants to get into .NET. The book makes the conceptual transition easier, presenting good analogies and code comparisons. This is not a book for the experienced .NET developer, but it is an excellent resource if you want to become one.The book is updated for the .NET Framework 1.1, covering: .NET Platform, CLR, .NET Programming, Components, Data and XML, Web Services, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, .NET and Mobile Devices. The best chapters are the devoted to XML (chapter 5) and Web Services (chapter 6), the continuity of the explanation, the examples selected and the organization conform an outstanding introduction to the concepts and facilities of .NET in the Open world. Equivalent code examples in VB, C++, C#, J# and even in IL (Intermediate Language) are presented side by side, seasoned with analogies with Java and other non.NET languages.Chapter 7, ASP.NET, presents an excellent transition roadmap from ASP to ASP.NET. This chapter will be appreciated by the ASP developer that is evaluating the migration and pondering the effort and impact. The problem with this chapter is the very limited number of illustrations. Many verbose explanations about the output produced by example code would be clarified.The authors seems to be are very experienced, present the information in a clear and concise way. Each subject is preceded by context and background information, and the footnotes and remarks are really useful. I would expect more references. No introduction is complete without a review of the books and online material available, given the reader an idea of how to proceed with the in-depth study of each subject.The presentation of the book is excellent, the fonts were good selected, the index is very detailed. The Appendix B (Common Acronyms) is a bless in the Microsoft Acronyms jungle. The notation and conventions are easy to follow.If you are an experienced developer, familiar with Object oriented concepts, and want to know how costly will be to migrate to .NET, this book is a good starting point.
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I managed to get Pansy done and here it is...Going to Delaware in the morning for a few days...Have a great Labor Day Weekend everyone!!!
All the Pansy blocks have turned out spectacular everyone! Wouldn't that make a beautiful quilt, if we all exchanged just that one block! My pansy is going the wrong way - I always forget to "mirror image" when I print the pattern!
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Jeanie ,,,all you have to do is rotate the block one turn so that the large light triangle is on the top right...
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Jeanie - I think your horses are very happy on your OIT. Great FCing! Love the purple & pink pansy, nice contrast!
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