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In The Rabbi's Cat, Sfar showed a knack for slightly tweaked and jokey mystical fables, a talent he updates with a harsher edge in this first volume of a new series about a band of itinerant Klezmer musicians. While Cat reflected its drowsy, lugubrious North African setting, this tale is darker, edged with a tragic, Eastern European jocularity, a mix of the fantastic and cruel. In Sfar's expressive art, bright splotches of color overflow his wildly looping drawing. In the violent opening, Noah (nicknamed "The Baron of My Backside") narrowly escapes the massacre of his bandmates by rival musicians. Later in the book, after extracting some revenge, he puts a new band together with the misfits who roam through the intervening pages. They include a pair of former yeshiva students exiled for theft; the baron's voluptuous love interest, Chava; and Tshokola, a less than truthful gypsy on the run from Cossacks. Much of the book has the feel of a goofy, somewhat twisted vaudeville routine, with Sfar's characters meeting under bad circumstances and making light of it via some bad jokes. Deeply suffused with Jewish religious and ethnic identity, the book is profane, messy, jagged and wildly enthusiastic, much like klezmer itself. (Sept.) Review in 6/23 Kirkus 2006 Graphic Novel Spotlight
Joann Sfar made some waves in the U.S. publishing world last year with a release of The Rabbi's Cat, the story of an Algerian-Jewish family with a cat that decides he'd like to be Jewish as well. Loosely drawn and energetic, The Rabbi's Cat is both sentimental and sharp in its observations of a lost Jewish world. "His whole work is infused with both Talmudic learning and with his background in classical philosophy—but it's often hilarious and always brimming with humanity," says Mark Siegel, Sfar's editor at First Second Books. "Perhaps that's what I appreciate most in his work. He has a big, big heart." While The Rabbi's Cat was based loosely on stories told on Sfar's father's side of the family, Klezmer draws on stories from the Ashkenazi Jews on his mother's side. "She died when Joann was very young," says Siegel. "That grief haunts many of his books." Klezmer tells of the birth of the bewitching Eastern European Jewish music after which the book is named. Four Jewish refugees fleeing pograms, arranged marriages and yeshiva educations—plus one gypsy fleeing everything—meet in Odessa (Ukraine) and become musicians as much through force of will as through natural talent. The first in a series, Klezmer promises to "evolve in remarkable ways," says Siegel. "[Sfar's] books aren't slick and polished, they're fresh, alive and have an immediacy that's very engaging for a reader," says Siegel. "I'm intent on offering lots more of Joann Sfar's world in our coming seasons." Review in 9/1/2006 issue of Booklist
Sfar used his father's Algerian Jewish heritage for The Rabbi's Cat (2005) and now turns to his mother's Eastern European Jewish roots for a tale he plans to spin out a bit. Early last century, 10 former military-band mates constitute an itinerant band that plays for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and so forth, until they reach a town where the local talent slays them — literally. Only the leader survives and bests the killers so decisively that after he hits the road again, a village maiden joins him. Meanwhile, an expelled yeshiva pupil finds the band's instruments, not all damaged, and takes the clarinet and the banjo. Haphazardly strumming away, he meets a hypersensitive young fiddler, then a burly young gypsy guitarist. Duo and trio collide, a new band forms in the nick of time, and more will happen in book two. For this delightful picaresque, Sfar loosens his already loose style; his line gets squigglier; the coloration, simpler and lighter. As well befits the material, Chagall, the great painter of shtetl life, haunts every panel. Review in 9/1/06 Entertainment Weekly
How much trouble can a Jewish folk band get into? A lot, if they happen to live in pre-WWII Eastern Europe. In fact, by page 8 of this graphic novel, all but one of said act have been murdered. What ensues in this exquisitely watercolored tone by French writer-artist Joann Sfar is — as all great works of art should be — a mix of Fiddler on the Roof and The Magnificent Seven.


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Nov. 22, 2013
About the Game
New Faces Abound on Bulldog Roster
Georgia's core of returning players remains solid for the 2014 season, yet coach Mark Fox will be incorporating a slew of newcomers into the lineup. Senior Donte' Williams and sophomore Brandon Morris are the only two returnees who were starting at the end of last season. Three key players, however, have seen significant playing time, plenty of which came as starters: redshirt junior Marcus Thornton, junior Nemi Djurisic and sophomore Charles Mann. The latter, in fact, earned Freshman All-SEC honors last season in primarily a reserve's role. Djurisic is Georgia's top returning scorer, despite his part-time starter status last season. Thornton had started seven of nine games before a knee injury ended his 2013 season.
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With Marcus Thornton receiving a medical redshirt season from 2013, Donte' Williams became the Bulldogs' lone senior this season. He is already the most experienced Bulldog, having started 59 games in the past two seasons. That's more than twice the total of Thornton, who is second on the team in career starts with 27, including seven in his truncated season of 2013. Williams enters this season with 471 career points, second among all Bulldogs behind Nemi Djurisic, who has tallied 475 in two seasons.
Mann is the Man
Charles Mann enjoyed one of the best seasons by a freshman guard in Georgia history last year. The Alpharetta resident ranked third on the team in scoring at 6.7 points per game. He led the Bulldogs in assists with 92 and free-throw attempts with 170. Mann's 92 assists, in fact, were the most by a freshman guard since Dustin Ware's 108 in 2009. Ware started 17 games and averaged over 25 minutes that season.
Mann's 170 trips to the free throw line -- fifth-best total in the SEC last season -- were the most by a Georgia freshman guard since Litterial Green tried 187 foul shots in his rookie season of 1989.
Djurisic is Dogs' Top Returning Scorer
Junior forward Nemi Djurisic is Georgia's top returning scorer for the 2013-14 season. The 6-8 native of Montenegro averaged 7.9 points during the entirety of the season, 7.8 during 18 SEC games. This marks the first time in nine years that Georgia has no double-figure scorer coming back from the previous season. In the 2004-05 season, Levi Stukes was the Bulldogs' highestscoring returnee at 9.5 points. The 7.9 ppg average by Djurisic is the smallest average by the highest-scoring returnee since Ray Harrison led the 1996-97 Bulldogs with a 6.3 scoring average.
Forte Cracks the Starting Lineup
Junior-college transfer Cameron Forte became the first Georgia newcomer this season to earn first-team status. The Tempe, Ariz., native played his way into the starting lineup with a pair of strong performances, first in Georgia's exhibition game vs. UNCPembroke and later in the season opener vs. Wofford. He tallied 10 points and seven rebounds in just 18 minutes of the exhibition game. Four days later he contributed nine points and two boards in 16 minutes off the bench against Wofford.
Forte has created a niche for himself as perhaps the Bulldogs' most effective inside scorer. In the description of teammate Nemi Djurisic, "he just hunts the basket."
Forte originally signed with Texas Tech out of McClintock High School in Tempe but lasted just one semester in Lubbock before transferring to Northern Arizona. He eventually landed at Howard College in Big Spring, Texas.
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For the first time of his 4+ seasons in Athens, head coach Mark Fox made changes to his immediate coaching staff. Three-year UGA letterman (2002-04) Jonas Hayes was promoted from Operations Coordinator to Assistant Coach. A native Atlantan, Hayes returned to UGA in 2012 after serving as an Assistant Coach at Belmont Abbey in North Carolina for five seasons. He had also assisted the programs at South Carolina State, Morehouse and his alma mater, Douglass High School, after graduating from UGA in 2004.
Hayes, whose twin brother Jarvis continues to play professionally overseas, became the first Georgia basketball alumnus to hold a full-time assistant's position on the staff at his alma mater since Mark Slonaker assisted Hugh Durham from 1989-95.
To replace Hayes in the Coordinator's position, Fox hired Byron Samuels in May of 2013. The Winston-Salem, N.C., native, is a veteran of the collegiate ranks whose career includes head coaching stops at Hampton, Radford and, most lastly, at Hillsborough Community College, where he coached recent UGA alum John Florveus. Samuels is a veteran of SEC basketball, having assisted four Tennessee teams that earned NCAA Tournament berths.
Fox Best at Molding Talent
Blogger and hoops junkie Dan Hanner of RealGM.com penned an article in February of 2012 that anointed Georgia head coach Mark Fox as the top coach in college basketball at player development. Hanner used a complex formula to rate college coaches. Among Hanner's many observations he writes, "Mark Fox has truly been fantastic at getting the most out of his players."
The top five in the Player Development category include Fox; Bo Ryan (Wisconsin); Craig Robinson (Oregon State); Lorenzo Romar (Washington); and Mike Montgomery (Cal).
Perhaps the most tangible proof of Fox's talent development is the number of NBA draftees and current pros that have played for him. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope became the 11th player under his tutelage to get drafted by an NBA club. He was the fourth 1st-rounder.
Fox Also Tops at Producing Grads
Head Coach Mark Fox must also receive some degree of credit for developing highperforming students in the classroom. Since his arrival in April of 2009, no fewer than 14 Georgia basketball players have earned their undergraduate degrees. Every player that has exhausted his eligibility at UGA under Fox has completed his degree.
Prominent among this group of 14 includes Damien Wilkins - nephew of UGA great Dominique Wilkins - whose last year of eligibility came in 2004 and who has played professionally in the NBA ever since.
Last summer the Georgia program was recognized by the NCAA for its Academic Progress Rate (APR) scored of 990, which ranked among the top 10 percent of all men's basketball programs.
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The summer travel forecast is for continued moderate growth in tourism business, as residents of Minnesota and neighboring states travel in Minnesota on affordable, close-to-home trips, the state's tourism office reported.
Overall, travel spending is expected to increase somewhat this year, providing tourism-related businesses a second year of gradual recovery from recession lows of 2009.
Many lodging businesses are anticipating occupancy greater or similar to last summer, when business began to see an uptick in visitors. Though business in some areas was slow this spring, due primarily to lingering winter weather, early reservations have properties hopeful for the summer travel season.
"Though the economy is giving mixed signals, and consumers are dealing with high gas prices, there are plenty of reasons to get excited about this summer season," said John Edman, director of Explore Minnesota Tourism, in a news release.
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In the land of humorless vanity, the man with at least one joke is King, and that man happens to be Daniel Reskin, brother of Sweat Records owner Lolo Reskin and host of a monthly showcase of Miami comedic talent called Casa de Ha-Ha. Fans of stand-up know that all the greats started in tiny venues like Sweat with four people in attendance, including somebody's Nana, and then the word got out and the crowds grew and all of a sudden you see them on HBO wearing sequined-studded purple leather suits with no shirt underneath.
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Idaho has one of the highest marriage rates in the nation, but also has one of the highest divorce rates.
According to federal data, the Gem State ranks fifth in the nation for divorces. In 2011, there were 4.9 divorces in Idaho for every 1,000 people – more than double Iowa's divorce rate and well above the national average of 3.6 divorces per 1,000 people.
"The population around here, the age range of people getting married is a little bit younger than the national statistic so we have to take that into account," said Travis Bybee, president of the Teton Counseling Center in Idaho Falls. "Do they get married before they're really ready and not understand ultimately what they're getting themselves into?"
Relationship counselor April Moedl with Rehabilitative Health Services said she's seen many young people marry without really getting to know each other.
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Bybee said money problems are another reason Idahoans are ditching their spouses .
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Bybee said the best thing people can do is to get relationship counseling before getting married.
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Six states weren't included in this ranking because their divorce data wasn't available. These states include California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana and Minnesota.
The five states with the highest divorce rates are Nevada, Arkansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Idaho.


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Like Higginson, who spent 14 years as finance and strategy director at Tesco before resigning after being passed over for the top job, Richard Pennycook was overlooked as candidate for the chief executive role at Morrisons in 2010 and is now leaving to build a portfolio career.
Pennycook has said he wants his portfolio to include a chairmanship, and in this respect his former opposite number at Tesco would be a good act to follow.
Higginson's current non-executive portfolio reads better than many finance directors' career biographies, and when added to his previous executive experience – including stints at Laura Ashley and The Burton Group – to list the jobs and companies in full would leave little room for much else.
For a man who lost out on the top job at Tesco, a company he effectively helped turn into the world's third-largest retailer, Higginson has made the most of that setback and has instead chosen to build one of the most impressive non-executive portfolios around.
The 14 months since he announced he was to leave the retailer – he actually stepped down in June this year – has seen Higginson take non-executive roles at the Rugby Football Union, BSkyB and McCurrach as well as non-executive chairmanships at Poundland and N Brown, the fashion business behind Jacamo.
In order to understand why Higginson is so well suited to juggling such a disparate collection of roles – they range from broadcasting and digital media, sporting bodies, retail and financial services – it is worth recapping some of his successes at Tesco.
Back in November of 2008, for example, Higginson was engaged in not one, but three jobs. That year marked his eleventh year as Tesco's group finance and strategy director, the tenth as chairman of Tesco Personal Finance and the first as chief executive of Tesco Retailing Services.
Pound for pound
Since Higginson's resignation in August last year – when Phillip Clark was preferred for the top job – the fortunes of his erstwhile employer have been mixed at best. The company's share price has fallen 15.9% from 377.30p a share, on the day he announced his departure, to 317.35 a share at the time of writing.
The grocer stunned investors in January with its first profit warning in more than 20 years, and in April launched a recovery plan to reverse a decline in UK market share. As a result, it has managed to stem declining sales with a 0.1% rise in underlying second-quarter revenues, but the costs of its £1bn investment in its domestic operations meant profits fell by more than 10% in the first half of 2012, the first decline in almost two decades.
Given Higginson had been widely tipped as Sir Terry Leahy's successor as chief executive, he could be forgiven a moment of Schadenfreude. Such thoughts, however, could not be further from the truth. Higginson insists there are no sour grapes associated with missing out to Clark.
"I didn't get the job, and that's fair enough. Phil got it and I genuinely wish him all the best," he says.
Nor does he agree with critics of Tesco's performance or with claims it is 'losing touch' with British customers.
"It has just made £3.8bn [for the year ended 25 February 2012] and has grown 5% in the fifth year of a major recession. The recession is hitting everyone hard. It is tough for everyone," he says.
Yet it is tougher for some, more than others. Despite Higginson's magnanimity towards Tesco, there is no denying that discount stores such as Aldi, Lidl and Poundland, which Higginson joined as non-executive chairman in July, have been gaining market share as a result of an influx of squeezed middle-class shoppers.
Poundland, which sells everything from Jammie Dodgers to paper cups for £1, now serves more than four million customers every week and recently opened its 400th store. The company has grown rapidly since it was acquired by private equity house Warburg Pincus in 2010 for £200m. In the year to 1 April, sales climbed 21.6% to £780m, while underlying earnings rose 26.5% to £40.1m.
Notable success
While some retailers such as HMV are struggling with online competition and changing customer buying patterns, and the likes of Mary Portas, who authored the Portas Review, warning of the death of the high street, Poundland is a notable success story.
"You have businesses on the high street that are doing very well – Poundland being one and coffee shops another," Higginson says.
"Music and entertainment has been badly hit because customers are moving to downloads. They have been left with high rents to pay and have struggled as their products have become commoditised."
Where others have struggled, Poundland has benefited from discount stores becoming mainstream retailers, which was never more apparent than the moment when a star from reality show Made in Chelsea told Alan Carr on national TV that they shopped in Poundland.
"Poundland is now ingrained in the way people shop. It was a fledgling business at the start of the recession and has gained traction," Higginson says, adding that it should not be viewed solely as a "recession business".
"It is now in people's shopping repertoire. People will still like the value it provides," he says.
But what does Higginson specifically bring to Poundland, alongside his extensive experience? One skill would be his international knowhow, in leading Tesco's charge into the US – despite its subsequent travails. This will be key, given Poundland has opened 13 stores in Ireland and is plotting a foray into Europe next year.
He is also a heavyweight name, which has increased speculation that the company is preparing for a flotation. Higginson won't be drawn on talk of a market listing, but says that there are "other growth opportunities" which it hopes to explore.
There is no denying Tesco looms large in Higginson's career, but it should not blot out valuable retail experience he picked up in his earlier days. For instance, his fashion experience from Laura Ashley, where he led a financial restructuring, will prove invaluable at N Brown.
The chairmanship at N Brown came seemingly in tandem with that of Poundland and marked a busy summer for Higginson. His appointment was preceded by the announced departure of chief executive Alan White and of chairman and major shareholder Lord Alliance, who built the company from a mail order business he bought in 1963 into a business with sales of £753m and pre-tax profits of £97m.
Interestingly for someone of Higginson's calibre, he is somewhat in awe of his predecessor in the role.
"When you have these amazing entrepreneurs – I don't pretend I am a David Alliance – the business is not always run on traditional governance grounds," says Higginson. "It was appropriate in the days when he built the business to run it the way he did. As it goes to the next phase, it needs to conform to more standard governance."
Going plural
Many finance directors, Higginson included, aspire to becoming the boss. But in Higginson's case, hindsight has proved that going plural is the more suitable option.
"FDs make quite good chairmen, better than chief executives," he says. "The alternative was to get a chief executive job elsewhere, but it would be hard to get the same buzz. At 55, I still wanted to be reasonably hands on and a chairmanship keeps me involved."
Given the multitude of roles he has taken on, Higginson says he is still working five days a week – something he "wanted to do" – but happily accepts that he can now take time out. "I didn't really ever take all my holiday when I was working full-time," he remembers.
But while the board work is keeping him busy, he denies that taking on so many roles has him over-stretched.
"The biggest challenge is managing the board meetings. People tend to want you on the same day," he says. "One of the benefits of being chairman is that you can set the dates."
Higginson says the "intellectual challenge" and diversity of a portfolio career is interesting, but that the same principles can be applied regardless of whether he is working with Sky, Poundland or the RFU.
"The most important thing as a non-executive director is focusing on the bigger picture – you are not the one running the business. To that extent, you are adding value in a different way," he says.
"If you have that ability to see across the business and understand the strategy, then you are half-way there. But if you want to dive into the detail, being a non-executive will not be for you. Where you get problems is when people try to do the same job."
Peace and quiet
Being involved in something you enjoy also helps. Such is the case with his independent board role at the RFU. Drafted into the governing body in October 2011, Higginson brought some much-needed boardroom credibility to the union. He joined at a tempestuous time that saw chief executive John Steele ousted from the organisation following a botched search for an elite performance director.
With chairman Martyn Thomas stepping down a month after Higginson's appointment, he says the job of a non-executive director in such a situation is to help the new management team "bed in" and help bring about a "period of peace and quiet".
The combustions at the RFU have since died down, leaving Higginson – as a Wasps season ticket holder – free to enjoy the rugby.
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Baston, Lewis (2011) The boundary commission for England has been unnecessarily radical in its proposals, often ignoring local government boundaries. New constituencies may lack community cohesion and local loyalty. British Politics and Policy at LSE (23 Sep 2011) Blog Entry.
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Last week, the Boundary Commission for England presented its proposals for new constituencies based on 600 rather than 650 parliamentary seats. Democratic Audit's Lewis Baston undertook a parallel analysis in June, and while he finds some similarities, he argues that the Commission may create tri-borough seats, orphan wards and the crossing of the boundaries of upper-tier authorities and counties, which may lead to seats that have little or no community cohesion.
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The Daffodil Queen from Jacquard Products really captures my heart and makes me grin whenever I look at it. No one here at Jacquard can resist a smile when walking by Bert. We had the funny bunny doll blank in our boxes of stuff and I thought it would be cool to dress this bunny up for Easter!
I'd been dreaming up ideas for ExtravOrganza for some time (it's my new favorite product!) and it's perfect for this application.
- Jacquard's ExtravOrganza: 13 sheets
- Jacquard Neopaque: Brown
- Jacquard Lumiere: Pearl White, Sunset Gold, Metallic Olive Green
- One yard of 3" wide ribbon (I used a piece of Chinese Dupion painted with brown Jacquard Dye-Na-Flow)
- Bunny doll blank
- Thread
- Paintbrushes
- Needle
- Optional: Doll-sized spectacles, beads, narrow masking tape
- Printing Images: For this project I used a copy machine to create the images on ExtravOrganza, but you could use a scanner and work with the images in Photoshop if you prefer. I gathered the quintessential flowers of Easter (daffodils and narcissus), tossed them on the copier, put in a sheet of ExtravOrganza, set to "photo" and hit start. Be sure to place a large sheet of paper or white fabric behind the flowers before you begin as you won't be able to close the lid of the copier without squishing the flowers. The result is a wonderful image. Use any flowers you like. I can imagine so many projects using this one technique. Continue making copies of flowers loading the ExtravOrganza one sheet at a time. I used a total of 13 sheets: 5 sheets underskirt (copier set to enlarge at 200%), 5 sheets skirt top layer, 1 sheet for the neck piece (copier set to reduce at 75%) and 2 sheets for the sleeves (copier set to enlarge at 200%). Play around with reducing and enlarging the image to fit the size of doll you are working on. Do tests on plain paper first, writing the copier settings on them for reference as you go, so that you conserve the ExtravOrganza.
- Underskirt:
Remove paper backing from the 5 sheets of ExtravOrganza for the underskirt.
Crinkle the edge of the fabric and cut deckle edge as shown.
Paint edge with Lumiere in a color that compliments your flowers. I used Lumiere Pearl White tinted with Sherrill's Sorbets Lemon and then accented the edge further with Lumiere Sunset Gold.
Highlight a flower with Lumiere. I decided to bring more attention to the daffodil so I used my combination of Pearl White/Lemon for this. Set aside. NOTE: I paint my ExtravOrganza on pieces of scratch paper. It's very important to lift the ExravOrganza off the paper right away. The paints dry very quickly and could make the paper stick to the ExtravOrganza when you try to lift it off.
- Skirt-top layer:
Remove paper backing from the 5 sheets of ExtravOrganza for the top layer of skirt.
This layer of skirt is done as a flounce, rather than simple gathering. It adds more of a tutu effect which I find quite whimsical. To create this simple flounce fold the ExtravOrganza in half and then in half again.
Cut a small ¼ circle at the folded edges then cut open from one edge. The size of the circle dictates how dramatic your flounce will be. Experiment with some scraps of fabric.
Fringe the straight edges of the skirt pieces. I usually like tidy fringes but on this project I took a page out of Kim's book and made them rather wild.
Paint the flower accents. I accented all the flowers on this layer using the same three Lumiere colors: Sunset Gold, Pearl White and Pearl White/Lemon. Set aside.
Sleeves and neck piece. The sleeves are made by enlarging the flower image, the neck piece by reducing the image. BEFORE removing the paper backing, cut out the large flower or selection of flowers. I find it easier to see the edges of the flower shape before I take it off the paper and I can get more precise detail. (I recently did another project and forgot to leave the paper on—it was SO much harder to cut out!) It's always a good idea to leave more flowers, only trimming away what you're sure you don't need at this time and check it on your doll form, you can always cut more away if you need to. When you are happy with these pieces pull the paper backing off and paint accents with Lumiere. Set aside.
- Paint the bunny. NOTE: Let each color dry before applying next color.
Start by painting the bunny from the waist up. I used Sherrill's Sorbets Lemon for this but you can choose any color that compliments the flowers you printed on the ExtravOrganza. Remember that you can thin the paint up to 25% with water if it's too thick right out of the bottle. Paint the outside of the ears with the body color and use a contrasting color for the inside (My choice: Lumiere Pearl White).
Paint the feet with Neopaque Brown or other color of your choice.
Paint the stripes on the legs. My colors were Lumiere Sunset Gold and Metallic Olive Green. I painted the stripes free hand, but here are a few tips to make things easier: begin by painting the legs one color up to the waist and to the brown at the feet. It would probably be a good idea to test your color choices to find out which one should go on top, as one may cover better than the other. When the first layer is dry mask the stripes with tape and paint the second color. Let dry and remove the tape. Create a decorative edge (like a scallop or a point) where the stripes meet the feet at the ankle. You don't need to do anything special at the waist since it will be covered by the skirt and a ribbon applied at the end.
- Sew on the skirt. Do one layer at a time, this adds more poof at the waist which in turn increases the overall whimsy of the project.
Using the 5 pieces for the underskirt, run a gathering stitch (by hand or machine) on each piece of ExtravOrganza. I gathered mine by hand on the short edge for a longer underskirt.
Whip-stitch the bottom layer of the skirt onto the bunny at the waist.
Do the same for the 5 pieces of the top layer, running the gathering stitches on the edges where you cut the circles and whip-stitching to the doll at the waist.
- Sleeves and neck piece:
Hand stitch the large ExtravOrganza flowers for the sleeves at the shoulders.
Hand stitch the small ExtravOrganza flowers for the neck piece at the shoulders and in the back.
- Embellishments:
Attach the ribbon at the waist by gathering and sewing beads at even intervals to cover the whip stitching. Tie a big bow in the back.
Sew bead accents on the toes.
Attach spectacles by hand stitching at the ears.
- Now Bert, our Daffodil Queen, is all ready for the Easter Parade!!!
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Has anyone made this adorable bunny? A friend of mine created a similar bunny sewing a plain muslin body and then a pinafore dress apron over it. The body was similar to this one, but this one has a lot more embellishment! The instructions are great and involve some wonderful creativity! Thanks so much for sharing!
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"He's Flying" is a song sung by SpongeBob and the Bikini Bottomites in the episode, "The Sponge Who Could Fly."
- Mable: Wow, I guess he wasn't a lunatic after all.
- SpongeBob: I'm flying! I'm flying!
- Bikini Bottomites: He's flying! He's flying!
- He's really really flying!
- SpongeBob: They laughed, they scoffed,
- Before I had liftoff.
- Bikini Bottomites: But, now he's flying!
- He's flying high in the sky!
- SpongeBob: I'd love to hang around to say "I told you so."
- But it's off to Jellyfish Fields I go!
- Roads and streets are not for me!
- Mrs. Puff: Help! Please help!
- My snail is up a tree!
- I've had her since I was a little girl,
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- NO! (Mrs. Puff's snail fall down from the tree, and SpongeBob comes to catch it.)
- SpongeBob: Gotcha! Next time, try the elevator.
- Mrs. Puff: Thank you, birdman!
- SpongeBob: I have never felt so free,
- High in the sky is the place for me!
- Helping friends from up above,
- These are the things that I love!
- I'll help Mr. Krabs reclaim his dime,
- Mr. Krabs: I'm rich!
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Montana Celebrates Information Literacy!
Montana's Governor Schweitzer recognizes October, 2012 as Information Literacy Awareness Month in the state of Montana!
According to Governor Schweitzer, "the success of Montana's citizens at home, at school, at work and as part of a healthy community depends on it."
Montana becomes the fourth state to recognize information literacy as critical to the overall economic and social welfare of its citizens in the 21st century.
Kudos to the Montana proclamation team for securing this very important policy statement – Sue Samson, Professor, Humanities Librarian, and Library Instruction Coordinator for Mansfield Library at The University of Montana—Missoula coordinated the initiative. Her collaborators were Jan Zauha, Montana State University, Bozeman; Timothy Donahue, Montana State University, Bozeman; Brent Roberts, Montana State University, Billings; Ann St. Clair, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte; and Connie Daugherty, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte.
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1. To promote and introduce the activities of my company within the sector as part of preparations for Expo 2016 Antalya, to display to local and foreign visitors that we can undertake a role during this process.
2. To promote our company and products to Managers of Parks & Gardens Department of Municipalities in varies regions of our country who are invited to the exhibition as staying guests.
3. To meet managers in charge of gardens & landscaping works in tourism facilities and hotels along the coastline especially in Antalya, to promote our company, products and services.
4. To meet people in charge of landscaping for contractors who undertake large local and international projects, to promote our company, products and services.
5. To meet and network with foreign buyers of ornamental plants and related products from Turkey ,to promote our company, products and services to them.
6. To meet and promote our company, products and services to end consumers such as villa owners or those involved in villa projects and architectural landscape design businesses who are participating from different regions especially from Mediterranean.
7. To meet other end consumers within Mediterranean region who are interested in ornamental plants and promote our products.
8. To network with manufacturers of ornamental plants in order to discuss new product ranges and potential business opportunities.
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Publishing with React VR
Here are some steps you might have overlooked when publishing your React VR project for the first time.
Here's my first finished project: http://daviseford.com/tcpi-react-vr/
1.) You have to upload the static_assets folder yourself - it's not included in the build folder.
2.) You need to modify your vr/build/index.html file to resemble this
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I lost my dad 7 months ago; he was 62. He suffered a massive heart attack and dropped dead in front of my brother, mother, Uncle and cousins. The doctors said he didn't feel a thing- it was just lights out. He was doing something he loved, laughing and having a good time until all of a sudden he wasn't. He was joking up until the last second.
My brother started performing mouth to mouth but he was already gone. I feel so badly when he tells me things like he will never forget the way our father tasted the day he died.
The worst part is that I don't feel him in my life anymore. I miss him so terribly. I miss the sound of his voice, the advice he would give/ the advice he wouldn't give. He was just so instrumental in my life and I am broken and lost without him.
I don't know how to mend. I don't know how to grieve. I have to figure out how to live. Having him in my life is all I have ever known and I'm still too young to not have my dad.
Some days are fine and I manage like I did before he died. But then some days are horrible and I feel like I can't get enough air to sustain my own life.
I go to sleep at night trying to will myself to dream of him. But it doesn't happen. I wake up thinking I can call him and hear his voice. But I can't. I think of the things that he won't see me do and accomplish and it breaks me. I am just so lost and don't know how to find my way.
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Progressive Fitness brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
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We do One on One Personal Fitness Training we would like the logo to be friendly for all people and of a modern art design.
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At Progressive Physical Fitness we do one on One Personal Fitness Training. We would like the logo to include The name of the business "Progressive Physical Fitness" and our brand "30 min 3 times per week". The brand can be 3x week for 30 min, 30 min just 3 times per week anything that looks good using our brand.
Must have "Progressive Physical Fitness" must have some use or form of 3 times a week for 30 min. Colors well Red is good with Gray and white. Um not to picky on the color just as long as it looks good and no pink.
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Aubert & Duval strengthens its commercial presence in the CIS
In order to offer its clients a local service, Aubert & Duval is strengthening its business development resources in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) with the recruitment of an engineer based in St Petersburg (Russia).
Aubert & Duval has been selling products in Russia since the early 2000s. Today, Russia and the Ukraine have become key figures in all of Aubert and Duval's markets, in particular aeronautics (aeroplane and helicopter frames and motors) and energy (gas turbines, generators, nuclear power), in the form of long products, open-die and closed-die forgings, castings or even parts obtained by powder metallurgy.
The "Aubert & Duval - Enhancing your performance" corporate brochure, which provides information for clients and prospects, has just been published in Russian. It will be presented during the Moscow International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS) which will take place from 16th to 21st August 2011 and at which Aubert & Duval will also present their range of innovative metallurgical solutions.
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In a 3-year collaborative effort between cityLAB + Gensler Los Angeles, the Future of Work project evokes a new conversation about the future of office work, office buildings, and their impacts on downtown Los Angeles (DTLA). This investigation takes place during an era of urban resurgence in the city and increased mobility in contemporary life. Office work in Los Angeles has been sheltered by multiple versions of the mono-functional office building, both high and low-rise, situated within many different settings; from the office parks and low-rise industrial buildings of the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys, to the landscape of logistics that is the Port of Los Angles, to the autotopia of Century City, to the creative offices spaces of the Westside, and to work-live spaces in a re-imagined downtown. The variety of Los Angeles's office landscape is the result of decades of architectural experimentation, and, according to some boosters, has contributed to its resilience to broad economic change.
The first year of the project has sought to review the planning history of downtown Los Angeles and the political and economic regimes attached to various Los Angeles downtown planning ideals and evolutions of work in downtown Los Angeles at the scale of the city, the building, and the desk. Year two continued to identify new opportunities for design and reinventing the urbanism of downtown through architectural and urban design interventions. While an array of innovative ideas and designs can be imagined for the future of work, implementation remains elusive. Such interventions seek to address the office work of the future and the role the city plays as a place where technology facilitates the doing of such work, and imagines alternative futures for downtown's obsolescent office building fabric. In turn, the third year focused on promoting new design ideas that address these opportunities. The intention will be to provoke new conversations among the downtown and metropolitan leadership about the future character of downtown as place and point of exchange.
As the culmination of a three-year collaborative research project on office work in downtown Los Angeles, cityLAB-UCLA and Gensler LA collaborated to create "Work on Work," an exhibit at the A+D Museum in downtown Los Angeles, that interprets the history of downtown and offers paradigmatic scenarios for re-conceptualizing the structures, locations, and scalar boundaries of workplaces within the city. Threading together historical research and speculative design, "Work on Work" evokes a new conversation about the trajectory of office work, office buildings, and their impacts on Los Angeles more broadly.
To mark the opening of this exhibit, Dana Cuff (cityLAB), Shawn Gehle (Gensler) and Li Wen (Gensler) participated in a panel discussion moderated by KCRW's Madeline Brand on July 24th. The exhibition will be on view from July 24th to August 2nd.
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• 2015 The Future of Office Work Vol. 2: Re-Wiring Work (cityLAB-UCLA & Gensler Publication)
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I recently sat down with cyclist Tyler Hamilton at his Montana home. Hamilton opens up about his use of illegal performance enhancing drugs and reveals details about the alleged illegal drug use of his former teammate and close friend Lance Armstrong.
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Hi,A friend of mine, whom I taught to knit, just finished her first sweater. Everything is fine except it is way to big for her. I feel terrible because I helped her with measurements and all. I still don't know how it ended up so big! The yarn she used was 100% cotton. Is there anyway to shrink the sweater? She has already thrown it in the dryer and it didn't work. She's talking about ripping it out and she's wondering if she'll ever knit again! :shock:
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Machine wash and dry that baby! If that doesn't do it, I'm afraid it's a goner. Did you check your gauge before you started?
Don't let her be discouraged. It happens to everyone! I spent 3 months on a sweater for my sister, checked my gauge and everything, but as soon as she put it in the dryer to fluff it up.. the yarn relaxed and now it's about 4 sizes too big. :shock: But I keep knitting anyway!!
oh man.. that makes me want to run right out and start on a sweater.. :lol:
that would just be depressing as all hell... I wonder if my Irish/German temper would allow me to get over such a thing. I can see it now.. my husband would walk in from work and ask "honey, I don't mean to be a nag.. but why are your knitting needles jammed up the cat's butt*?"
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It's always a good idea to check your gauge frequently throughout your project as it can change at anytime, depending on how you knit and what mood you are in.Rick
I recently bought a great tool called the Gauge-o-Knit. It's a ruler, but it also tells you how many stitches per inch; I'm not able to find a website that has a decent picture, but my LYS has it. It's very handy.


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SIPPING an espresso in the lobby of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Aisling Burnand does not look like a bruiser. But the chief executive of the BioIndustry Association has been fighting on at least three fronts over the past year and is not ready to give up.
Her challenges include a drop in funding for early-stage biotechnology companies, a public backlash against drug testing following the so-called "elephant man" trials in London, and an ongoing battle with animal rights protesters.
Burnand was in Scotland last week for her organisation's annual Thistle Bioscience Forum. According to Scottish Enterprise, 27,000 work in the wider life sciences industry in Scotland, making it comparable in size to the electronics industry. So trends in the industry are studied particularly closely north of the Border.
And right now, those trends look a little worrying. Burnand and a few hundred other biotech industry leaders have just heard that total investment in European healthcare companies fell by 13% to 980m in 2006, and the number of deals plunged by 31% to 239. The figures, from Ernst & Young, the accountancy firm, suggest that a smaller number of companies are landing slightly bigger funding deals.
Burnand shivers slightly and pulls her black jacket around her as a cold draught, literally and metaphorically, blows through Edinburgh. "There is a funding issue in Europe," she says. "While there are some things that mean the UK is a better place to invest than our competitors it is not great right now."
Even the news that Abingworth, a venture capital firm, has just raised 300m to invest in life sciences does not mean a guaranteed boost in the UK: "Over the past decade, venture capitalists have become global, so if somebody raises 300m here, you would expect a significant percentage of that to be invested in the US."
According to Burnand, US biotech companies have a significant advantage because the Washington-based National Institutes for Health there spends 2.5bn a year supporting clinical research into drugs. "That effectively de-risks that early-stage for drugs firms and makes companies in the US much more investable."
Despite her reservations, Burnand sees Scotland as a model for the rest of the UK, with Scottish Enterprise's Proof of Concept and Co-Investment fund taking some of the risk out for early-stage businesses developing drugs. "SE recognised that there is a funding problem at the early stages," she says. "These are really good initiatives. They may now need to be capitalised at higher levels because it takes 10 to 12 years to get a drug to market."
Burnand has the assured tones of an experienced public relations professional and frequently moves her hands, describing imaginary shapes in the air to emphasise points.
She has been running the BIA, which represents 300 companies and a 2.5bn revenue industry, for five years, following a stint as the organisation's public affairs director. Before she joined in 1998, she worked for Rhone-Poulenc, the French pharmaceuticals giant, and for the Rowland Company, a division of the Saatchi & Saatchi empire.
A self-confessed crisis management specialist, she faced one of the biggest challenges of her career last March when six drug trial volunteers at Northwick Park hospital in London suffered severe adverse reactions, including severe swelling, after being given a drug developed by a biotech company in Germany.
"I heard a small clip on the radio before I went to bed, and thought 'this is going to get bigger'. By the time I was in the shower in the morning, it was clear that this was an unprecedented incident."
Part of her job was to assure the public that 17 other similar products which were already on the market were safe. "It was obviously devastating for the people involved and it was important that we should not stick our heads in the sand and shut up shop."
But explaining what had happened was tricky when nobody really knew. She spent most of the week putting journalists in touch with experts who could explain how monoclonal drugs worked. But the questions persisted - how could this have happened, and how could it be prevented from happening in the future?
A report published by scientists from Imperial College last month showed that the drug had a provoked a reaction in human cells which would not have been picked up by earlier tests on animals.
The BIA recommends that patients should be given the drug one by one, starting with the smallest possible dose and then increasing it.
Improved testing could lead to more work for Scottish companies such as CXR Biosciences and Biopta which have developed drug screening technology which can test for human tissue reactions without using human testers. "Clearly the use of animals [in cases like this] may not be the best way to test for safety," says Burnand.
The disastrous trials marked a watershed in drug testing. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some testing companies have had trouble attracting volunteers since last March, although Burnand believes there was a somewhat surprising increase in willing patients after the trials.
While events at Northwick Park may demonstrate the need for an extra layer of drug testing, nobody has yet come up with an alternative to animal experiments for early-stage drug testing. Here, Burnand is fighting on another front as she argues for tough laws to tackle violent animal rights protesters. At Wednesday's Thistle Biotechnology conference, she spent some time talking to a representative of Lothian & Borders Police about the issue.
Despite the occasional unpleasant incident, anti-vivisection campaigners have never been as violent in Scotland as around the Cambridge and Oxford areas, the UK's other biotech hotspots. And there are signs that extremist activity may be dying down. Figures for the first half of 2006 showed 15 violent attacks on the homes of people connected with vivisection compared to 110 in the same period in 2004, before the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act which outlawed many extremist practices came into force.
Burnand joined the BIA as its sixth employee when the industry was in its infancy in the UK. During that time, hope has grown that at least some of tomorrow's blockbuster drugs will come from outside the big pharmaceutical groups like GlaxoSmithkline which have dominated the industry in the past. Now, Burnand has 25 lobbyists and industry experts working for her in London and a satellite office near Edinburgh.
But there is still a start-up atmosphere at the London-based organisation, which is chaired by Simon Best, founder of Scottish biotech hopeful Ardana Bioscience. "The BIA understands the ups and downs of its members because we are like a small company. Working with Simon is good because he is a scientist and an entrepreneur and he can talk about the issues from that point of view."
Burnand and Best were both guests at last week's Scottish Enterprise life sciences dinner at the EICC, which attracted 700 entrepreneurs and academics to listen to the likes of Enterprise Minister Nicol Stephen sing the industry's praises.
In spite of the feelgood factor, some business figures question in private whether a loss-making and very risky industry like this is a suitable recipient for public cash.
Burnand, who has two young sons, believes long-term health requirements make investing in biotech essential: "Healthcare is a growing business, and we have a real advantage here in areas such as stem cell research and gene therapy, and it makes sense for us to capitalise on the intellectual property we have developed.
"The alternative is that these medicines will be developed in America and we will end up having to pay to use them. It is a risky business, but the rewards will be great in the long term."
Right now, the sheer quantity of cash pouring into life sciences elsewhere has Burnand worried. South Korea has just pledged to invest 8bn over 10 years to build up its biotechnology industry, and the French government plans to pump billions of Euros into high-growth companies. Poland, the Czech Republic and India are breathing down our necks.
The UK is still the world's second-biggest developer of new drugs after the US, but Burnand sees worrying signs in a drop-off in the rate at which new biotechnology companies are formed. "There are a lot of merger and acquisition deals, which would not matter so much if we were seeing a renewal of the company base, but that is not happening now," she says.
The BIA is considering ideas which could make it more attractive to start biotech companies. One is to push for the Treasury's research and development tax credit scheme to be extended to drug trials. Another is to tap into the NHS's vast database of patient information and potentially willing drug test subjects.
"The UK has a real opportunity because the NHS's patient records make this a unique place in the world to study clinical trends," says Burnand. "We are not there yet, but that is the vision."


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Tenor Russell Norman and actor Peter Bowles performed at the Bob Champion Cancer Trust carol concert in Chelsea Old Church last night.
Perhaps the illustrious company unnerved Champion himself. The jockey, who recovered from cancer to win the Grand National on Aldaniti in 1981, referred in his reading to "gold, Frankenstein and mirth". Cue much mirth in the church, though Frankenstein thankfully did not appear.
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