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The Northwest Oregon district Lions Club cites the troubling reality that nearly 800 million people around the world cannot read as showing a need for its international Reading Action Program, of which Project Kids is a part.
The campaign began in July and runs until next June. Locally the Lions Club will help in a number of ways, including providing electronic reading devices, buying classroom sets of novels, implementing reading corners in classes and developing after-school study centers.
Lions are dedicated to providing service. That renowned dedication will help us in everything we do including participating in the Reading Action Program campaign to promote reading, wrote District Governor Mary Lee Turner in a press release.
Oregon education officials are urging local schools to develop additional programs to improve reading test scores.
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Tuesday and Wednesday I'll be at the ManageFusion users conference as a guest of Symantec. They'll announce various end client, server, and network management products and upgrades. Since Symantec bought the network management company Altiris a couple of years ago, they've gradually been introducing more security into the Altiris products and more management into the Symantec products. This is one of those high tech mergers that seem to make sense, at least form the outside.
Attendees tend to be serious network management types for networks large and small. The attitude from Altiris / Symantec in the past has always been open, as executives talk more or less freely and say more or less the right things. I expect this show to be the same in that respect.
What I will be looking for are hints from users and resellers about handling IT budgets today, working with less resources, and still upgrading security at every turn. It seems the hackers are not retreating but actually increasing. Worse, bad times make users more desperate and therefore more susceptible to spam, scams, and phishing attacks.
Vendors always say more automation helps IT resources go further when manpower is stretched thin or cut due to layoffs. True, but companies laying off IT folks aren't exactly looking to buy new products if they can avoid it. The old insult "he throws nickels around like manhole covers," attributed to a Hollywood executive in the 1930's, now applies to managers everywhere.
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Today Cerf is vice president and chief Internet evangelist of Google, where part of his job is to identify new Internet applications and technologies. In addition, Cerf is chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) a nonprofit organization that coordinates Internet domain names and IP addresses globally.
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Mark Twain, A Biography Vol II, Part 2: 1886 - 1900
Literary Work in Vienna
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One must wonder, with all the social demands upon him, how Clemens could find time to write as much as he did during those Vienna days. He piled up a great heap of manuscript of every sort. He wrote Twichell:
There may be idle people in the world, but I am not one of them.
And to Howells:
I couldn't get along without work now. I bury myself in it up to the ears. Long hours--8 & 9 on a stretch sometimes. It isn't all for print, by any means, for much of it fails to suit me; 50,000 words of it in the past year. It was because of the deadness which invaded me when Susy died.
He projected articles, stories, critiques, essays, novels, autobiography, even plays; he covered the whole literary round. Among these activities are some that represent Mark Twain's choicest work. "Concerning the Jews," which followed the publication of his "Stirring Times in Austria" (grew out of it, in fact), still remains the best presentation of the Jewish character and racial situation. Mark Twain was always an ardent admirer of the Jewish race, and its oppression naturally invited his sympathy. Once he wrote to Twichell:
The difference between the brain of the average Christian and that of the average Jew--certainly in Europe--is about the difference between a tadpole's brain & an archbishop's. It is a marvelous race; by long odds the most marvelous race the world has produced, I suppose.
Yet he did not fail to see its faults and to set them down in his summary of Hebrew character. It was a reply to a letter written to him by a lawyer, and he replied as a lawyer might, compactly, logically, categorically, conclusively. The result pleased him. To Mr. Rogers he wrote:
The Jew article is my "gem of the ocean." I have taken a world of pleasure in writing it & doctoring it & fussing at it. Neither Jew nor Christian will approve of it, but people who are neither Jews nor Christian will, for they are in a condition to know the truth when they see it.
Clemens was not given to race distinctions. In his article he says:
I am quite sure that (bar one) I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being, that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
We gather from something that follows that the one race which he bars is the French, and this, just then, mainly because of the Dreyfus agitations.
He also states in this article:
I have no special regard for Satan, but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way on account of his not having a fair show.
Clemens indeed always had a friendly feeling toward Satan (at least, as he conceived him), and just at this time addressed a number of letters to him concerning affairs in general--cordial, sympathetic, informing letters enough, though apparently not suited for publication. A good deal of the work done at this period did not find its way into print. An interview with Satan; a dream-story concerning a platonic sweetheart, and some further comment on Austrian politics, are among the condemned manuscripts.
Mark Twain's interest in Satan would seem later to have extended to his relatives, for there are at least three bulky manuscripts in which he has attempted to set down some episodes in the life of one "Young Satan," a nephew, who appears to have visited among the planets and promoted some astonishing adventures in Austria several centuries ago. The idea of a mysterious, young, and beautiful stranger who would visit the earth and perform mighty wonders, was always one which Mark Twain loved to play with, and a nephew of Satan's seemed to him properly qualified to carry out his intention. His idea was that this celestial visitant was not wicked, but only indifferent to good and evil and suffering, having no personal knowledge of any of these things. Clemens tried the experiment in various ways, and portions of the manuscript are absorbingly interesting, lofty in conception, and rarely worked out--other portions being merely grotesque, in which the illusion of reality vanishes.
Among the published work of the Vienna period is an article about a morality play, the "Master of Palmyra,"--[About play-acting, Forum, October, 1898.]--by Adolf Wilbrandt, an impressive play presenting Death, the all-powerful, as the principal part.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine for August published "At the Appetite-Cure," in which Mark Twain, in the guise of humor, set forth a very sound and sensible idea concerning dietetics, and in October the same magazine published his first article on "Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy." As we have seen, Clemens had been always deeply interested in mental healing, and in closing this humorous skit he made due acknowledgments to the unseen forces which, properly employed, through the imagination work physical benefits:
"Within the last quarter of a century," he says, "in America, several sects of curers have appeared under various names and have done notable things in the way of healing ailments without the use of medicines."
Clemens was willing to admit that Mrs. Eddy and her book had benefited humanity, but he could not resist the fun-making which certain of her formulas and her phrasing invited. The delightful humor of the Cosmopolitan article awoke a general laugh, in which even devout Christian Scientists were inclined to join.--[It was so popular that John Brisben Walker voluntarily added a check for two hundred dollars to the eight hundred dollars already paid.]--Nothing that he ever did exhibits more happily that peculiar literary gift upon which his fame rests.
But there is another story of this period that will live when most of those others mentioned are but little remembered. It is the story of "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg." This is a tale that in its own way takes its place with the half-dozen great English short stories of the world-with such stories as "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Poe; "The Luck of Roaring Camp," by Harte; "The Man Who Would be King," by Kipling; and "The Man Without a Country," by Hale. As a study of the human soul, its flimsy pretensions and its pitiful frailties, it outranks all the rest. In it Mark Twain's pessimistic philosophy concerning the "human animal" found a free and moral vent. Whatever his contempt for a thing, he was always amused at it; and in this tale we can imagine him a gigantic Pantagruel dangling a ridiculous manikin, throwing himself back and roaring out his great bursting guffaws at its pitiful antics. The temptation and the downfall of a whole town was a colossal idea, a sardonic idea, and it is colossally and sardonically worked out.
Human weakness and rotten moral force were never stripped so bare or so mercilessly jeered at in the marketplace. For once Mark Twain could hug himself with glee in derision of self-righteousness, knowing that the world would laugh with him, and that none would be so bold as to gainsay his mockery. Probably no one but Mark Twain ever conceived the idea of demoralizing a whole community--of making its "nineteen leading citizens" ridiculous by leading them into a cheap, glittering temptation, and having them yield and openly perjure themselves at the very moment when their boasted incorruptibility was to amaze the world. And it is all wonderfully done. The mechanism of the story is perfect, the drama of it is complete. The exposure of the nineteen citizens in the very sanctity of the church itself, and by the man they have discredited, completing the carefully prepared revenge of the injured stranger, is supreme in its artistic triumph. "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" is one of the mightiest sermons against self-righteousness ever preached. Its philosophy, that every man is strong until his price is named; the futility of the prayer not to be led into temptation, when it is only by resisting temptation that men grow strong--these things blaze out in a way that makes us fairly blink with the truth of them.
It is Mark Twain's greatest short story. It is fine that it should be that, as well as much more than that; for he was no longer essentially a story-teller. He had become more than ever a moralist and a sage. Having seen all of the world, and richly enjoyed and deeply suffered at its hands, he sat now as in a seat of judgment, regarding the passing show and recording his philosophies.
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When you take medicine, you are likely aware that it may interact badly with alcohol or other drugs. And, often, those warnings are on the prescription label.
But many people don't realize that some medications can have dangerous, even fatal,
consequences when mixed with the wrong foods.
"This is a big issue and a lot of people aren't aware of it," says Jack Fincham, professor of pharmaceutical
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Here are six of the most common and dangerous food-drug combos.
If you're taking: Warfarin.
Don't eat: Leafy greens. Kale, beet greens, broccoli rabe, Swiss chard, collard greens, mustard greens, spinach, and other leafy greens are loaded with vitamin K, which plays a major role in blood clotting. Warfarin (Coumadin) is a powerful blood thinner that prevents blood clots. Eat too many leafy greens while you're taking this anticoagulant drug and you'll compromise warfarin's anticlotting effects, increasing your risk of developing a blood clot.
"You don't have to totally eliminate [these foods] but you should limit your intake if you're taking Coumadin," Fincham says.
If you're taking: A statin drug.
Don't eat: Grapefruit. "A compound in grapefruit and grapefruit juice binds with the
active ingredient in statin drugs so they don't work as well," Fincham tells Newsmax Health.
It's best to "take the statin drugs at bedtime because most cholesterol is formed when your body is at rest," Fincham says. This way, you can safely eat half a grapefruit in the morning.
If you're taking: Blood pressure drugs.
Don't eat: Dried fruits. If you eat potassium-rich foods potassium (such as dried fruits,
avocados, bananas, oranges, and leafy greens) or salt substitutes while taking blood pressure medication that are ACE inhibitors or diuretics, you could end up with dangerously high levels of potassium. This can lead to an irregular heartbeat or heart
If you're taking: Antibiotics.
Don't eat: Dairy products or calcium-fortified foods. The calcium salts in milk, yogurt, cheese, and calcium-fortified foods (like OJ) impair the body's ability to absorb antibiotics such as those in the tetracycline class or ciprofloxacin, which could compromise the drug's ability to cure your infection.
Your best bet is to consume dairy products or calcium-fortified foods an hour before or two hours after taking one of these antibiotics, Fincham says.
If you're taking: Levothyroxine or digoxin.
Don't eat: High-fiber foods. Soybean flour, walnuts, and other high-fiber foods can make levothyroxine (used to treat an underactive thyroid gland) less effective. Tell your doctor if you eat a lot of these foods; he or she may need to adjust your dosage of the drug.
If you take digoxin (used to treat heart failure), foods that are rich in fiber could decrease levels of the drug in your body. Your best bet is to take digoxin at least two hours before or after consuming foods that are loaded with fiber.
If you're taking: MAO inhibitors or anti-mycobacterial drugs.
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Most Excellent! Textured Estonian Knitting Stitches….So Much Fun!!
Happy Wednesday 🙂
So, having checked out my 'attendence' for last year with this blog, I have decided to commit to twice monthly posts, at a minimum, I promise!
It's been a hectic time for me, lol – new job and then a promotion to another new job within just a few months, lots of training, and uptraining, lots of pressure and lots of getting sidetracked on projects — NOT getting much actually 'done' but having fun for a little while with things I haven't yet finished. Maybe even a few I will never finish. I have begun to suspect I am what I have heard called a 'process knitter'. I will often start a new project because I am interested (or possibly fascinated by lol) in a particular technique or stitch or whatnot. Once I've 'experienced' or learned the method/stitch/whatever quite often I'm good.
This year for Christmas I got a Kobo tablet and have been collecting a few very nice knitting resources for it – I figure that I can take projects on the go a lot easier this way and that works for me! Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could work more time into our days?
The stitches pictured above are from a great tutorial with pdf written patterns provided as well as a great video demo of the stitches done by the sweetest lady ever! I purchased it as a digital download from The Interweave Store; "Creative Estonian Knitting" by Merike Saarniit — Textured stitches to swatch and explore. Just one thing though – the video did not play on my kobo and I watched it on my laptop. Not at all an issue for me but something that one should know going in. The pdf works great in my Adobe reader app on the tablet.
I love how the stitches are so textured and how they flow. The tutorial does not instruct you on how to build the blanket but instructs on how to work the basic stitches and helps one see how to expand on the subject matter — Merike does a fantastic job of giving you that 'I can DO this' feeling. I consider myself an advanced knitter and still appreciated having the video tutorial and would definitely recommend it. A lot of fun and something to use up that left-over yarn from your other projects!
Another thing I am working on is a spinning project – some beautiful baby suri alpaca blended with bombyx silk from india which is going to become a wonderful pair of silky stockings when it grows up!
A couple pictures of the blend….
Ok, so time to knit…or spin…or something 🙂
I'm Painting A Blanket! With Handspun Yarn…
I hope you are having a fantastic day!
I have found the PERFECT project for my handspun bits! It is a free pattern available through Ravelry, called "Patchwork Knitting".
I've got so very many balls or small skeins which I have collected over the years and this blanket should be an excellent showcase for them. There are a lot of naturals as well as handdyes in the mix – plenty of silk, cashmere, camel and alpaca in addition to wools. I'm including nothing but handspun and I think it'll be a great way to look back at my progress. Because the yarns vary in weight I'm stranding them together to an approximate worsted weight and knitting on a 4.5 mm circular needle.
I may have to spin some more yarns specifically for this blanket but we'll have to see as I go….
Ahhhh….A Glorious 13 Day Holiday!
Good morning!
I'm fighting the urge to go in multiple directions at once lol. Holidays do this to me. I want to wash fleece, prep fleece, spinnnnnnnn (well that one was sort of a given!). Also wanted to super clean the house, arrange everything within an inch of it's life and organize my already spun yarn so I can properly post it all on my handspunyarn.wordpress.com site.
13 days is not as long as it sounds…
So far I have accomplished some of my goals (we are currently on the 6th day). I have managed to build a database and to list all of my already spun yarns on it, or at least everything which I have not already wound into balls, and was labelled at least somewhat – there are some stragglers I admit!
Here are some of the new additions to the site…
I washed fleece, weighed fleece and took inventory of fibers…
Just beautiful for blending with wools or spinning on their own!!
Then there are the odds and ends – a bit of cashmere, some camel, huacaya alpaca, suri alpaca etc…they really require another collage to show properly 🙂
So, feeling oh-so-organized and have also managed to rewash the targhee x fleece shown in the first collage – it is drying now. The cvm lamb and rambouillet fleeces were washed during the first couple days of holidaying. There is something so appealing about freshly washed, beautifully fresh smelling, soft and fluffy fleeces — truly addictive lol.
The side effect of building the database was that I ended up completely cleaning out and updating all my computer programs, and adding a couple more programs…even the computer feels oh-so-organized now!
I DID finish a knitting project (I think I hear the trumpets) and am so very very pleased with it!
I knitted it with the bond/rambouilet cross fleece/4 ply/light worsted weight or dk. I'll have to get one of my girls to take a picture and post it as soon as I can 🙂
Have a fantastic day – I'll be trying to figure out how to relax!
Please check out my handspun yarn site if you might be interested in any of my handspun – I've updated the pricing page recently as well.
Scandinavian Spinning Wheels!
Good morning!
Over the past month or so, we've been very very fortunate to find two wheels from Scandinavia. Both Kijiji finds, both very reasonably priced, both with all their parts and both in spinning order! One was in a ready-to-spin-right-now-and-i-cant-wait-to-get-started state, the other more of a help-me-im-smothering-underneath-all-this-nasty-oil-paint state lol but you'll get to see how I saved her…she was sort of masquerading as one of those captains beds from the 70's – you know the ones! – and had not been used much in her life but is definitely made to work. I took her for a test spin before beginning the stripping, just to reassure myself.
Ok, so, the first spinning wheel we found….
She was found in Trenton, Ontario and has a little bit of history (as told by the guy we bought her from). She was apparently brought from Sweden, by her Swedish family, and has been in the same family for her lifetime, save the time she spent with the gentleman we bought her from. The interesting thing is that she is actually a Norwegian style double table wheel with distinctive Finnish double upright wheel posts. The beautiful curving end caps on these double posts are also distinctly Finnish.
Check out her bearings! This wheel is absolutely THE MOST SOLID wheel in my collection – old or new. She is put together completely with wooden pegs and everything is in perfect shape. She's like a miracle wheel, considering her probable age…
An amazing thing…she has all her bobbins! And the wood is beautiful….
the third bobbin, on the flyer…
Her treadle has the comfy foot indent and she loves to spin…a cleaning, an oiling and away we went 🙂 Her wheel is large, partially hand carved and beautiful. It measures 26.5 inches, approximately.
God bless her original family, they took exceptional care of her.
Now, the second wheel…
We found this wheel on the local Kijiji, just about 30 minutes away. I couldn't help but notice the double wheel posts with the curving cap which are secondary supports on this tiny spinning wheel and I was intrigued since I had just gotten the first a week or two before.
She was covered in thick brown oil type paint – very shiny. I could tell that it was not original paint because they had painted over her decorative end caps. She was doing a very good job of impersonating a reproduction wheel of some sort from the 70's and I had more than one doubt when buying her.
My grandson, bless him, loves her. Grandma, for ME?!!! was his reaction 🙂
First things first, when I got her home I took her for a spin and she did spin!
Some pictures of her parts…
The painted over decorative caps
This was a job for solvent…and lots of gloves and paint scrubbie pads…
The wheel itself was a lot of work…
And then all the smaller pieces…
The whole job took approximately 20 hours, lots of patience and plenty of elbow grease but now she is perfect!
Her flyer, with tool marks from the file it was 'sanded' with
One thing missing – one decorative metal 'cap'
It's a super cute antique spinning wheel that has seen very little use. There is no foot indentation in the treadle, the hooks may be replacements but they are in good shape and well bent so I didn't replace them. She has an odd arrangement with the front maiden on an angle to accomodate the flyer and a 14″ wheel diameter.
After stripping the whole thing, I treated the wood with orange oil, no wax so far.
Have a fantastic day! 🙂
This Yarn Is Delicious!
I spun this 2 ply out of rambouillet blended with baby suri alpaca on hand cards. It turned out so soft it doesn't even feel like wool!
Also the colour is lovely – chocolate and tan with a bit of a shine! It has a really rich look and I love it.
I'm working on a pair of gloves for winter…I'll keep you updated 🙂
Have a great day!
If you might be interested in purchasing my handspun yarn, please visit handspunyarn.wordpress.com
Dreambird Shawl in Handspun Yarn
I've been working on a special shawl for a special friend's birthday and I'm finally done! Yay!!
It is Nadita's Dreambird pattern, purchased from her shop on Ravelry. She is a really interesting designer with a lot of patterns I think would work really well with handspun yarn 🙂
A reminder of where this came from — the shetland lamb from earlier this year…(the handdyed coloured sections)
The grey is a rambo/bond cross.
The pattern takes some getting used to but is really easy once you get the hang of it. Highly recommended!
Have a great day 🙂
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Hi, i'm trying to regrout an area where it's loose. I took out the broken grout cleaned the spacings.etc..For some reason when the new grout cures, it doesn't stick to the old grout, and later on cracks again due to the vibration of the floor. I used the latex ahesive to get more flex, no change.
Thanks for any help.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news---but you are describing tile failure--not grout failure.
Those tiles are moving---so the grout will continue to fail until the tile is installed properly.
Tell me about the tile work----what kind of floor is under it? What is the underlayment ?
I've worked on houses where someone installed tile over partical board, hardwood floors, 15 lb. roof felt, loun, peel and stick tile.
Non of which are exceptable underlayment.
The customer kept asking me to remove the cracked grout and redo it. You try and explain to them why it's failing and all of them said they could not afford to redo the tile. I make them sign a paper saying I told them it would not work and they still had me do it. Everyone of them failed again and expected me to go back and redo it for free, so I just stopped doing it at all. Tile is a one shot deal and 90% of it is in the prep work.
We had one that we removed all of the tile with nothing more then a flat shovel, no wonder it was cracking.
yes sir tile is moving breaking down grout.......fix tile 1st ....then regrout.....can you get us some pictures...
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My wife and I are traveling across Canada and back this summer and have been looking at camping trailers to make the trip a bit more comfortable. After much thought we've decided a tent trailer would best suite our needs and would allow for better gas mileage as it shouldn't create as much wind drag as a larger camper. We made an offer on a 2008 Fleetwood Evolution 1 tent trailer and may take possession this week. I'm having problems finding out how this trailer will affect my mileage. Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated.
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Tess Vigeland: I'll be in Vegas during the Academy Awards this weekend. Probably drop a buck or two on my favorite to win Best Picture, "The Hurt Locker." Strictly funny money, of course. But imagine if you really could get in on the movie action. Maybe, say, put a little scratch on how well a certain movie is going to do. Well, pretty soon, you can. It's a new offering in the futures market called the Cantor Exchange.
Richard Jaycobs is the company's president. And Richard, is this a version of the Hollywood parlor game where everyone has a prediction of how a movie is going to do at the box office?
Richard Jaycobs: Well, it's certainly the case that everybody has an opinion on how our movies are going to do at the box office, and we're giving them a properly structured exchange, where they can go in and buy and sell that one-one millionth of a box office receipt.
Vigeland: All right. Take us through exactly how a trade works. I know your futures look six months out, so assuming that trading starts in April, I looked at a few end-of-the-year releases and let's say I want to bet good money on the new "Tron" movie, which is out in December (I am a child of the 80s after all). How would I do that?
Jaycobs: Well, we'll have an auction six months before the "Tron" movie comes out. That will establish the opening day price and after that, it'll trade just like any other futures contract or stock contract, where buyers and sellers will show up at the market, the market will move up and down. Finally, when "Tron" is released into movies, we'll get the opening weekend results, traders will adjust their positions. After that fourth weekend, we'll settle the contract to the value that was actually earned in the box office. And the way we do that, we take the total box office receipts divide it by a million and that's the final value of the contract.
Vigeland: OK, so say I wanted to put $1,000 on "Tron" doing really well. How would I know how much a share is, for example?
Jaycobs: Well, when you come to the Cantor Exchange Web site, you'll actually see the price at which other folks -- and you're always trading against other folks -- are willing to sell and buy the contract at. And let's say in the case of "Tron," I'm not sure what the level would be for "Tron" right now, but let's call it a $100 million movie. That would make each contract worth $100. So if you were looking to invest $1,000, you'd have a choice of buying or selling up to as many as 10 contracts.
Vigeland: I see. So then the number of shares you get are based on a prediction on how well the box office is going to do.
Jaycobs: Correct.
Vigeland: Got it. So you definitely want a movie with legs that, not just a big opening weekend.
Jaycobs: Legs is a big part of the equation. If you think a movie's going to have legs -- "Avatar" was an example of this -- buying it and seeing those legs benefit the upside of your position is certainly one good strategy.
Vigeland: There are some movies that aren't going to make it on your exchange.
Jaycobs: They have to be wide-release movies and beyond just being wide release, they have to sort of meet the internal test. We have to just be certain that that movie is going to come out and that we don't have a complicated situation.
Vigeland: Doesn't that prevent you from being able to bet on, say, a sleeper hit, an indie hit?
Jaycobs: It does, and for example, "Slumdog" would've been a movie that we would not have listed. But again, we are very concerned about the integrity of the marketplace and the sleepers make that challenging.
Vigeland: If you are up and running already, which of the Oscar movies, aside from "Avatar," obviously, might've been the big movers?
Jaycobs: That's an interesting question. So much of that depends on the timing of your trade. Even "Avatar" was a sleeper right up until and through the opening weekend. What really made that film work for the people who are buying was the fact that it had the legs. So, you could've bought some films, probably made more money than you did even on "Avatar" if your timing was right.
Vigeland: I wonder if that would've applied to movies, you know, like "Blind Side" -- which I think also lasted longer than folks expected -- even "Up in the Air"?
Jaycobs: Both of those movies did very well. "Blind Side" was incredible. It opened on our exchange for something on the order of $40 and nobody saw -- well, they were blinded by it, if you will -- and I think that movie settled for $140, which as a percentage return, is much higher than you received on "Avatar." There are films that are the other way; the Jonas Brother movie that came out earlier in 2009 was disappointing. And so, futures trading and all trading is risky and this is no different.
Vigeland: Boy, you really can put your money on just about anything, can't you?
Jaycobs: We're focused on movies for now.
Vigeland: Richard Jaycobs is president of the Cantor Exchange and is a member of the board of directors there as well. And we've been talking about the pending release of a new exchange, where you can bet on how movies are going to do. Thanks so much for your time.
Jaycobs: Thank you.


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Former Luther College faculty member Ruth Fjelstad will present "The Bayeux Tapestry and the Operation Overlord (D-Day Invasion Plan) Embroidery:Conquest and Reconquest as depicted in two major historic textiles" at Decorah Public Library Wednesday November 17 at 7 p.m.
Fjelstad's illustrated presentation will cover two outstanding
textiles: The Bayeux Tapestry and the Operation Overlord (D-Day) Embroidery. The presentation will introduce and contrast these two famous historic works whose creations are separated almost 900 years from one another. The Bayeux Tapestry (length 231 feet) depicts the
1066 Norman invasion of England, directed by William the Conqueror and concluded at the historic Battle of Hastings. The Operation Overlord Embroidery, created between 1968-1973, is 273 feet long and represents the Allied D-Day invasion and recapture of Europe in June, 1944. The presentation will include representative scenes from each of these impressive works.
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Great to see you covering metro apps John. I'm looking at enabling all my wp7 apps to work on Win8 starting with the beta of: "Shooting Range".
Are you going to do a XAML TV Show?
Ian2 - A XAML TV show sounds like a great idea.
Where is the video???
A XAML TV would be very awesome!
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I'm really glad to see that XAML is only getting better in Win8, but am a bit unclear of whether MVVM will carry over as well...as none of the sessions I've watched thus far have utilized it.
Hi Ross ... there is no reason MVVM (or any pattern) shouldn't be used here. I've got some material I am putting together on this already.
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EXPLORING THE ART OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS to Open at Nashville's Frist Center, 3/1
All of the works in the exhibition come from the collection of John Bourne, which he generously gifted to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. After a trip to the jungles of southern Mexico in 1945, Bourne, along with another explorer and photographer, became the first non-Maya to see the ruins of Bonampak, the now famous Mayan site celebrated for its royal building whose interior walls are covered with historically and politically significant murals. Enamored of the creative expressiveness of the peoples of the ancient Americas, Bourne began collecting art from this region and time period. "At this time in the 1950s, Bourne was one of only a few-which included the Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo-who recognized pre-Columbian artifacts as fine art," Ms. Delmez notes. "Art of the Ancient Americas is as much about the cultural expression of these inimitable cultures as it is John Bourne's lifelong love of collecting works from these regions."
Exploring Art of the Americas: The John Bourne Collection catalogue is written by Dorie Reents-Budet with and introduction by John Bourne and contributions from Julie Lauffenburger, Jessica Arista, Glenn Gates and Marc Zender. Dr. Reents-Budet is consulting curator for art of the ancient Americas at the Walters Art Museum and curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Gallery Guide:
A Spanish language gallery guide will be available in conjunction with Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection.
Audio Tour:
An audio tour will explore the conservation of selected objects in the exhibition.


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I ask my eight-year-old son Joel if he would like to come fruit picking with me. He looks briefly puzzled, as if it hadn't really dawned on him that fruit could be picked. Then his eyes light up. "Yes!" he says.
Joel's enthusiasm is a happy surprise. He would never dream of coming to the supermarket with me to buy fruit, yet he is really excited about the prospect of picking it. Of course, there's nothing fun about a supermarket, where everything is always in season and in perfect proportion. Picking your own (which from now on I will refer to as PYO) is like being on a treasure hunt, searching for that magical flash of jewel-like colour amid the green and the brown. Plus, I suspect fruit picking stirs in us some ancient longing, some dormant need to venture forth and forage, rather than have everything laid out for us on a plate.
I wonder which farm to choose. There are more than 1,000 PYOs in Britain. I randomly narrow my search to Oxfordshire, where there are scores of lovely-sounding places like Medley Manor Farm and Peach Croft Farm. In Britain, you can still basically trust that if a farm has a picturesque name, it'll be picturesque. Not so in the United States, where I once stayed in a neighbourhood called Moose Lake in the hope of seeing either a moose or a lake. The chances turned out to be slim at best. There were, however, loads of drive-in burger bars and massive Wal-Marts.
In Oxfordshire there are farms where you can pick blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, tayberries, black and redcurrants, broad beans, mange-tout, peas, sugar-snap peas, potatoes, asparagus, gooseberries, loganberries (oh loganberries, how I enjoyed eating you as a child. You were, as I recall, really long and thick. Whatever happened to you?) apples, plums, and on to fruit that I have never heard of, like jostaberries.
I like the look of Millets Farm Centre, near Abingdon, because it has an incredible 75 acres of PYO, plus a jungle maze, a petting zoo, a restaurant and a garden centre. Millets Farm seems the biggest in all of Oxfordshire, the Disneyworld of PYOs.
"Joel will love it," I think. And so we set off.
Along the way I realise I'm incredibly excited about doing this. Thirty years ago, when I was 10, PYO was all the rage. We did it all the time, that and fossil hunting. I have great memories of skipping along the rows of strawberry bushes, eating three or four for each one I put in my punnet. It's the stuff that childhood memories are made of - the humming of insects, the gentle breeze and bramble-scarred forearms and fingers, the really bad tummy ache by the end of it, the parent saying: "It's nobody's fault but your own. You shouldn't have eaten so many."
PYO began in the late 60s, at the tail end of the hippy revolution. It was a backlash against supermarkets. But the pursuit has fallen on hard times of late, perhaps because supermarkets have become so fantastically well-stocked and easy to get to. Supermarkets are basically winning the war. A few weeks ago, on the BBC4 documentary Crisis at the Castle, a PYO owner was saying how the legs have gone from under the business compared to 30 years ago. Parents have forgotten that PYO is something children really love to do. As a nation, we drive past countless PYO signs on our way to some tacky theme park that will charge a fortune.
It has, in fact, fallen out of vogue so much that my spell check doesn't even recognise the word "punnet". It would be a terrible shame, for all of us, if these places folded.
We pull into Millets Farm and immediately Joel's face falls. "Uh oh," I think.
The thing I thought he would love - the hugeness of the place - is a grave disappointment to him. He was dreaming of some tiny, rustic retreat. Millets Farm is vast, with a giant car park and an overflow car park. This is the first sunny day in a month (this Noah's ark weather has wreaked havoc on the PYO world this summer) and the place is consequently mobbed with visitors.
"Farms don't have car parks and shopping trolleys," Joel snaps at me.
"It is big," I reply, "but just wait until you get out into the picking fields. Oh, you'll love it."
"This isn't a farm," mutters Joel. "It's a shopping centre."
"Let's get lunch," I say, "and then we'll pick."
"Farms don't have restaurants," snaps Joel.
We head for the restaurant. I order Joel a cheese and ham panini, but the large car park has put him in the blackest of moods.
"I never imagined eating a cheese and ham panini in a FARM," says Joel, shooting me an accusatory glare. Finally, I've had enough.
"THIS IS A FARM!" I yell.
"GIVE ME THREE REASONS WHY," Joel yells back at me.
"IT GROWS CROPS, IT HAS ANIMALS, and IS CALLED A FARM," I scream.
Joel falls silent. I have won. But now I am in a furious mood.
"Let's pick some fruit and get it over and done with and get the hell back to London," I loudly mutter, stomping off towards the fields.
And, as soon as we do, our bad moods vanish. Before us lies 75 acres of loveliness: fields stretching as far as the eyes can see, filled with all the fruits you would find in a summer pudding. We collect our punnets. (A word of warning: they don't like you putting different fruit into the same punnet - it causes weighing difficulties.) And we begin.
We head instantly for the strawberries - the classic. This is a bit of a mistake. The strawberry fields are the busiest of all. They're the Piccadilly Circus of Millets Farm. The smart thing to do, I would advise, is to head instead to the more serene raspberry fields. Today, the raspberries are beautifully juicy and perfect, they slide off their little white cone holders (their "central core" to use the botanical term) with a satisfying ease. The sun beats down on us as we pick. We are slowing down the pace of life. Joel is loving it, just like I did when I was his age. There is something deeply satisfying about spotting that perfect raspberry - the one nobody else has noticed. It really is like finding treasure.
Like children throughout history, Joel begins to eat more fruit than he puts in his punnet.
"Is this legal?" he asks me after a while.
The truth is, I don't know. Surely the farms are not ignorant of this practice.
We decide against picking spinach. The fact is, one doesn't want to pick things that are green. One wants to pick things that are coloured amid green. We pick for two hours in total, which is just long enough. Any more and you start to feel exhausted and clammy, like a low-paid seasonal labourer.
"I've got a tummy ache," says Joel in the car on the way home.
"It's nobody's fault but your own," I reply. "You shouldn't have eaten so many."


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We describe the procedure to prepare staged Drosophila embryos for the visualization of the embryonic nervous system during embryogenesis.
Date Published: 12/11/2010, Issue 46; doi: 10.3791/2150
Keywords: Neuroscience, Issue 46, Drosophila neurobiology, Embryo, Immuno Fluorescence
Kaczynski, T. J., Gunawardena, S. Visualization of the Embryonic Nervous System in Whole-mount Drosophila Embryos. J. Vis. Exp. (46), e2150, doi:10.3791/2150 (2010).
The Drosophila embryo is an attractive model system for investigating the cellular and molecular basis of neuronal development. Here we describe the procedure for the visualization of Drosophila embryonic nervous system using antibodies to neuronal proteins. Since the entire embryonic peripheral nervous and central nervous systems are well characterized at the level of individual cells (Dambly-Chaudière et al., 1986; Bodmer et al., 1987; Bodmer et al., 1989), any aberrations to these systems can be easily identified using antibodies to different neuronal proteins. The developing embryos are collected at certain times to ensure that the embryos are in the proper developmental stages for visualization. After collection, the outer layers of the embryo, the chorion membrane and the vitelline envelope that surrounds the embryo, are removed before fixation. Embryos are then incubated with neuronal antibodies and visualized using fluorescently labeled secondary antibodies. Embryos at stages 12-17 are visualized to access the embryonic nervous system. At stage 12 the CNS germ band starts shortening and by stage 15 the definitive pattern of the commissure has been achieved. By stage 17 the CNS contracts and the PNS is fully developed (Campos-Ortega et al. 1985). Thus changes in the pattern of the PNS and CNS can be easily observed during these developmental stages.
1. Preparation of Reagents
2. Collection of Embryos
3. Removal of the Chorion and Vitelline Membranes and Fixation
4. Antibody Staining, Mounting, and Visualization
5. Representative Results
Figure 1: A Representative images showing the embryonic CNS at stage 16-17, using antibodies against CSP (red) and HRP (green). Note the distinct staining of the commissure.
Figure 2: A representative images showing the embryonic PNS at stage 16-17 using antibodies against CSP (red) and HRP (green). Note the repeated patterns of peripheral neurons.
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The Drosophila embryo is a powerful system for investigating the cellular and molecular changes during neuronal development. In this protocol we have demonstrated how to prepare whole mount embryos for immunohistochemistry We have adapted this protocol from the protocol described in Carroll and Scott, 1985. This protocol can also be adapted to test other neuronal antibodies, but optimization of antibodies should be done. Further, developmental defects of the embryonic PNS and CNS can be easily visualized by comparing embryos from different mutant lines. We have successfully used this protocol to visualize the PNS and CNS in embryos carrying motor protein mutants. Under high magnification we have also evaluated the axonal tracks within the embryonic PNS and CNS.
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SG is supported by funds from the State University of New York at Buffalo and from John R. Oishei Foundation.
|Catalog Number
|37% formaldehyde
|Fisher Scientific
|Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank
|Jackson ImmunoResearch
|Alexa Fluor 568 Goat Anti-Mouse IgG
|Vectashield Mounting Medium
|Vector Laboratories
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