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A place to buy alcoholic beverages and to mingle/meet with non player characters. Bars in games are sometimes essential to advance the plot, or recruit party members. Bars are the modern equivalents of taverns. You see taverns in fantasy games and bars in modern/sci-fi games.
An establishment catering to the grooming needs of men.
A room which is devoted entirely to hygiene, containing a toilet and sometimes a sink. Residential bathrooms typically have a shower or bathtub.
A business establishment where clients may purchase the services of prostitutes.
Chinatown is a general term used to describe a section of a city with a large Chinese population, and with many Chinese operated businesses.
A city is a large and densely populated urban area.
A port where seagoing vessels can take on or discharge cargo.
Empire Bay is the main city of the open world crime drama Mafia II.
Once the tallest building in the world, it is still a notable landmark and fixture of the New York skyline.
A place where cars and other possessions are kept.
A gas station is a type of establishment that sells fuel and lubricants for automobiles. In video games, they serve as something else: a massive bomb.
Home is where the heart is, and a good place to go back to when you want some rest. A home can also be a good place to save your game, change your clothes, and change your options.
A hospital is a place to seek help in a medical emergency. It is also used for treating minor illnesses that aren't necessary an emergency. Some games take place in a hospital, whilst others use them as a part of the environment.
A place where the player can rent a bed/room for the night, or cause trouble. Hotels are distinct locations in games where the player goes to restore their health, save the game, cure status effects, or even to advance the plot and/or level. Also called Inns in some games.
A kitchen is found in many game for purposes of food preparation and storage. People may eat there too.
An area usually found in larger cities with a large Italian demographic.
The living room is the place in the house you're most likely to "hang out" in. It usually has a couch, chairs, and most importantly TV's, VCR's, stereos, and video game consoles and games.
Excessively large and luxurious houses, usually built on several thousand square feet.
a room or building were astronomical phenomena are observed and studied, usually through a telescope.
Featured in extensive amounts of games. Either acts as inventory for cars, like in GTA, or battlegrounds, like in Mercenaries.
A prison is a secure location built for the confinement of a person or persons for a set length of time. It is often built by the state to punish criminals, and sequester them from productive members of society.
Catch a brew at these bars. They've been around for thousands of years, and they ain't goin' nowhere.
Area above houses and buildings. You can walk, run or jump on and over rooftops. Usually good sniping positions.
A place where you can buy, and sometimes sell things.
The mall is where you go shopping.
Taking place in North America, the "Skyscraper Under Construction" is a stage in Super Street Fighter IV with the familiar backdrop of Metro City from Final Fight.
A facility where animals are killed and processed into meat foods.
A residental area located on the outskirts of a city.
The tavern offers respite for weary travelers and parched throats alike. Leave your troubles at the door, and enjoy an evening of wine and song.
A covered passageway.
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Saying Good-bye to the Pet You Love
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Coping with Sorrow on the Loss of Your Pet
Moira Anderson, Peregrine Press, 1994.
The Human-Animal Bond and Grief
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Preparing for the Loss of Your Pet
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Oh Where Has My Pet Gone?: A Pet Loss Memory Book, Ages 3-103
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The Loss of a Pet
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" Brand: Leapfrog / Age: 2 Years+ / Type: Alphebet / Phonics "
We bought this toy at Christmas or at least Santa did as a joint present for ours girls, our eldest is 4 and learning her letters so we thought this would help her with this and our youngest was 15 months at Christmas and it is with the toy having a suggested age range of age 2 and up we thought it wouldn't be long until she would be playing with it too.
Leapfrog toys are very popular and can be bought from the majority of toy shops and of course online too, I bought this from Tesco as they were doing a save a 1/3rd promotion on leapfrog toys before christmas and as the toy sells for about £15 this was a £5 saving which I was pleased with. The Leapfrog brand is one that I am very pleased with and confident in as I have always found them to be educational toys which are fun as well which of course helps a child learn without realising they are.
The Toy
The toy is made from hard plastic and is mainly white and green in colour which is the usual colours for the Scout range which is a puppy that Leapfrog have used on a number of their toys. The toy is an oval shape at the bottom where there are 26 buttons each one is a white bone shape and each one shows a letter of the alphabet, the vowels are written on in red and the constanants are written on in blue. Above the over keypad there is a curved area which has a slider to turn on and select the play option your child wants, the slider is actually the puppy Scout which I think is really cute. Finally the toy has a carry handle integrated in the main toy which is great as my youngest likes to carry toys way from her older sister and sit on her own to play with them although I think this is more that she is not ready to share toys just yet.
There are four different play settings with this toy so it provides a great range of activities so I was pleased to find this, there are letter names, letter sounds, letter music and find a letter game, each of the settings is on a paw print shape which is coloured brightly either red, yellow, green or purple. I think the way the settings are so bright and friendly makes your child want to discover what the toy does which is great and I know this is the case with both of my girls as they both love to play with it.
Letter Names
Sliding Scout to this option you find he says let's dig up some letter biscuits and then instructs your child to push on a letter button to find out it's name, the puppy's voice is really cute and he will keep encouraging your child to push on the letters and there is a cute little bark to go with it too. When your child pushes on the letter the toy tells them the name of the letter as you would expect it to do however the voice is then of a man which sounds quite boring and I would have thought it would have been nicer said in the same puppys voice. Once the toy has told your child the name of the letter there will either be a little bark or a little tune after it which my youngest wiggles her bum to, it seems she really likes anything that makes a tune. I prefer my eldest not to play on this setting just yet as being 4 she is learning the letter sounds at school and learning how to merge them so I try and encourage her to play on the other options.
Letter Sounds
When you move the slider across to this option Scout asks you to listen to some letter sounds and to push a letter to hear it's sound so it is pretty much the same as the Letter Names option however when you press the button on this one it tells you the letter name and the sound it makes as well as giving you a word that begins with the sound which I think is really good as it gives your child a backup in the way of a word with the sound rather than just the sound. Sophie plays well in this option and we will sit and point to the letter and see if she can remember the letter sound before we press it to see what the toy tells us, she is actually getting really good with her letter sounds now and can name nearly all of them every time she is asked so I am really pleased with her progress. Emily doesn't seem to like this option quite as much which I think is because there is no barking for her to woof along with or tunes.
Letter Music
Moving the slider along to this option has Scout telling you to make letter music and to push a letter to make music, this option is a little strange, you press the buttons and if you get them in the correct order then the toy will play tunes such as Twinkle Twinkle. You start at a and your child needs to recognise when a note needs to be played twice to make the song sound right, we have actually found from this that Sophie has an ear for music but that isn't a surprise as her Great Grandfather could hear a tune and play it without the need for music and her Auntie has inherited the same talent too. Emily like this settings as she loves any sort of music but she just bangs on the keys to make them make a sound rather than making actual music.
Find A Letter Game
The title really tells you what you are going to do, the males voice asks your child to find the correct letter by the letter name, if you press the wrong button it makes a little beep and tells you what letter you have pressed. When you press the correct button the toy tells your child they have done well. You keep finding the letters the toy asks for and then after a set amount of time which I haven't worked out how long this is Scout will shout time to eat and pretend to eat the the amount of letter biscuits that you have found him. Eventually the toy will change and start asking your child to find the letter that a certain word begins with such as find the letter which bell starts with and stresses the b for your child, Sophie loves playing this game and she manages to find the majority of them in time.
Sophie's Opinion
Sophie enjoys playing with this toy and she really likes it when she can answer all the questions and is really proud of herself which is nice to see and of course she gets lots of praise from myself and the toy for getting it correct. The toy is really helping Sophie with her letters and we have progressed now that if the toy asks for the letter that cat begins with she will find it but also point out what the next letters are in the words.
Emily's Opinion
Emily likes to try and take this toy from her sister whenever she sees opportunity, she loves the barking noises and the music settings, there is a large paw button which when on the correct setting will play the abc song and she loves dancing around the room to it. I think it's really funny watching her with it as she looks like she is dancing around a handbag in a club.
My Opinion
The toy has two volume settings which I always like on a toy so when the girls are both playing with noisy toys I can turn the pair of them down. The toy takes 3 AA batteries and are in a battery compartment on the back of the toy which is secured by a screw, we haven't had to replace the batteries in this toy yet and it is played with nearly everyday so I think the battery life is great. I find the buttons can be a little stiff and when we first got the toy I expected them to loosen a little but they haven't although the girls manage the buttons so it isn't an issue. I like how both my girls get something different from this toy and think this toy has had something to do with the improvement of Sophies letters although obviously she is learning these in other ways I think 4 months of play with this toy has helped. I would really recommend this toy and know that although Sophie probably won't have much use for it for too much longer Emily can still get another couple of years of play from it.
LeapFrog is an American founded company. In 1995, Michael Wood discovered that there were no technology based products which could help a child develop maths, writing skills etc. Now there are many handheld, TV/computer based and teddy related products each with the skill to help a young child improve.
*~*Lets Meet Scout*~*
There are a few different character used with LeapFrog products. Scout is the little green dog and he is used on over 10 different products. Scout can be discovered on a few of the handheld games, he has his own eletronic book, phone, magnetic set and many more products.
*~*Learning Our ABC*~*
LeapFrog Scout Letter Discovers (or alphabet explorer as dooyoo calls it) is an electronic learning game which is based around Scout the dog. The basis of the game is for the child to learn the letters, how to pronounce them and recognise them. The game is promoted as being British based due to a British accent being used and also only lower case letters. LeapFrog claim that using this game with allow the child to learn the alphabet, phonics skills and fine motor skills.
Letter Discoveries is aimed at children from age 2 - age 5.
The game is battery operated and 3 x AA batteries are included. They can be accessed by screwing off a section at the back. The device itself is designed to be the ideal shape and size for a toddler to be able to handle. It is curved with no sharp edges, thick and split into well sized sections. A carry handle is placed at the corner for easy dragging around by the child.
The main body of the device is the letter section. This area is green with the speakers being tucked away up in the corner. The buttons containing the letters are white and shaped like doggy biscuits. Each lower case letter is in blue writting with the exception of the vowels which are in red. A large blue button with a paw print is prominent in the corner and is for extra activities.
Another section is based at the top of the device near the handle. Here you will find the volume control offering the option of the device being low noise or high noise. Scout is presented in slider form up here and has the option to slide up his paw printed path from off to 4 other activities which I will discuss in the next part of my review. The weight of the device is apparently 454g and the dimensions are 5.7 x 31.8 x 26.7cm. The device comes packed in a strong, cardboard box ensuring it arrives with you in pristine condition.
*~*On With The Lesson*~*
As I said, there are 4 different programmes with an additional extra via the blue button on the main part of the device. Each programme can be selected by sliding Scout up and clicking him into place.
*ABC - the first section asks the child to push a letter to hear its name. Each letter is said and followed by a little tune. Pressing the blue button here asks you to press your favourite letter, or a red letter etc.
*Letter sounds - this section allows the child to learn how to pronounce the individual letters. Pressing a letter, will result in the letter being said, how to pronounce it and a noise of something beginning with that letter eg b - bells, k-kangaroo etc. Again the blue button adds extra letter find activities.
*Letter Music - here little tunes can be created by pressing different letters. Pushing the blue button offers the ABC song sung by Scout encouraging the child to jump in and participate.
*Scout wants to play - perhaps the last section is for the more advanced child. Here an overvoice asks the child to find a specific letter giving a little countdown as a timer, second chances and praising when the child gets the answer correctly. Once a certain amount of letters have been answered correctly, the child is praised further.
*~*Availability and Price*~*
Scout Letter Discoveries is available in many outlets. Following prices are correct as of today :
www.elc.co.uk - £14.99
www.play.com - £10.49
www.amazon.co.uk - £13.99
*~*Our Experience*~*
LeapFrog is a brand I believe to offer high quality toys and games for children that not only help learn new skills, but also provide fun and enjoyment. My son will be 3 in May and he is quite advanced for his age, he picks new skills and words up really quickly and this is down to mainly us teaching him but also a few select games that he has. For Christmas 2009 (Ryan would have been 19months), he received this Scout Letter Discoveries from his Aunt and Uncle and it has been a hit ever since. The batteries were already slotted in from what I can remember and all I needed to do was pull it out the box and it is ready to play with.
From the moment he started playing with this, he was intrigued and I think the doggy pulled him in as he loves dogs (unlike his terrified Mummy). The design of the device (I cannot think of a better name) is very well made. It is thick and robust but not overly heavy. My son can easily pick this up due to the smooth handle and has been able to do so since he started using this. Although he used this before his 2nd birthday, there is no small parts that could be swallowed and he was always supervised anyway so I had no hesitation in allowing him to use it.
The green and white colours contrast well and stand out. The device is very lightweight and my son finds it comfortably to place on his lap to play. He occasionally takes it out with him in his big buggy and can keep occupied whilst I do the shopping or stand in queues at the post office. He also often selects this to play with before bed and although it isn't as desired now, he will randomly take it out his toy box for something different to play with.
*~*Learning Through Play*~*
Even at 19months, the learning aspect of this device intrigued my son. Whilst we have always been keen on teaching him new sounds and words, this helped so much more. The device itself is now easy for my son to turn on himself. At the younger part of the recommended age group, the slider may seem a bit too stiff to be pushed by your child and this resulted in Ryan becoming slightly annoyed but he can comfortably do it himself now. The volume button offering 2 options is ideal as when he uses it whilst watching TV, he turns it up loud and in bed, he turns it down to suit his own needs!
The voice is soft and sweet sounding and very clear with proper English being used and random woof woofs throughout. If Ryan forgets to turn it off, it will go quiet then woof at him encouraging him to turn it off for peace or play another game. The buttons with the letters on them are quite large and spaced apart reasonbly well. My son only has tiny fingers but even the firmness of them is no a problem as he can press them in. No issues have been raised with colour rubbing off and they feel smooth to the touch.
Ryan does have his favourite sections but often likes to flick through them all deciding what he wants to hear. Normally he plays with this on his own as he doesn't like to get interupted whilst playing but a few times he has allowed Mummy or Daddy to join in and we can learn together and have some quality parent and child time. I will run through the sections a bit more and comment on what we like and don't like so much.
*ABC - this section is very basic in terms of what can be achieved. At first, Ryan would simply press any letter and keep pressing to keep the noise going. Now he is more careful and presses one at a time. Ryan, through using this for over a year now, can identify certain letters and enjoys the little tune that follows each letter. This section is a good starting point but the extra activities via the blue button such as asking the child to pick a letter in the top row, are more aimed at older children.
*Letter sounds - this section is probably been the biggest hit with Ryan. Although he used to just laugh at the sounds of the letters, he has been repeating them for the past 6months or so. Some of products used to reflect the items sound rather weird and make my son giggle. P for popcorn is a good one and the sound quality really comes through here. Ryan often copies certain noises as well as stating the letter and will often return to that letter confirming he knows where to find it on the boards. Again the blue button option here is more for older children as it asks to find a certain letter and Ryan is quite sure about this yet.
*Letter music - this section isn't particularly about learning the letters but more fun and musical. The buttons when pressed make very short noises but when followed with the next letter and carried on, they make up the tune of the alphabet song. Out of sequence though, the sound doesn't make any sense. Hitting the blue button here encourages Ryan to sing allow with Scout as he sings the ABC song. It is clear, consise and very engaging and Ryan happily sings along in tune though missing a few random letters!
*Scout wants to play - this section is more trivial than my son wishes to handle and is certainly aimed at the higher end of the age bracket. The countdown and little tunes encourage the child to find certain letters so me and Ryan do this challenge as a team. Mummy seeks out the button and allows Ryan to press it giving him a satisfying relief when Scout announces he has got it right! He claps and smiles and I feel he will benefit from his challenge in a year or sos time. There is plenty of time to answer and even if the answer is wrong, they don't make you out to be stupid and simple allow you to try again..all about trial and error!
*~*Our Recommendation*~*
Scout Letter Discoveries is brilliant in more aspects. It is high quality and robust despite being so small and lightweight and has suffered knocks and bumps with no ill effect to the design. The sound omitting is clear and we have yet to require a change of batteries as the sound is still recognisable with no crackling or issues there. This device or toy has encourage my son to learn something new and he has benefited from it as he is now familiar with certain noises and letters though he is still learning.
He has fun playing with this as the song and the addition of Scout allow it not to a boring, all about the learning toy and he will happily play with it either at home or out and about. It is so easy to take this to a families home for my son to play with there and he can share it with his cousins. One thing that does unfortuantely result in a star drop from us, is that although the age bracket is 2-5, some aspects of the learning and playing at too young and some are too advanced which means than my son cannot get the full use out of it. Otherwise an excellent product and well worth paying just more than £10.00 for as it can be passed to other children when no longer needed.
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The Leapfrog Scout Letter Discoveries (not Alphabet Explorer as Dooyoo have it titled as) is something I bought for my 2 year old daughter recently, it's aimed for children aged 24 months and upwards so I thought it would be great and educational for her. It's also based on the Leapfrog 'Scout' puppy, which is one of her favourite toys so I was sure she would love this.
**So What Is It?**
It's described as a 'portable learning toy which features Scout the puppy as your child's guide to learning letter names, letter sounds and more'.
It has 4 modes of play, and they are selected via a Scout sliding button across the top of the unit.
The 4 learning modes are:
* Letter sounds
* Letter names
* Letter music
* Find a letter game
The toy also claims to teach the alphabet, phonics skills and fine motor skills.
So basically you have a mini computer which has 26 lower case bone-shaped letter buttons, 1 large paw button, and as mentioned above the Scout slider at the top. So for a 2 year old child it is a very simple toy to navigate and play around with.
**My Daughter's Reaction**
When I gave this to my daughter she was quite excited to see Scout at the top and immediately began pressing buttons and moving the slider thing backwards and forwards. However, that was where the fun ended for her. You see, she is just 2 and has yet to develop an understanding of letters and phonics so this toy is completely alien to her and just not interesting enough to hold her attention.
The toy aims to teach the alphabet and letter phonics, and she is just too young to be interested in this sort of thing. Don't get me wrong, she's an intelligent child - she knows her colours and can count to 10 etc, but learning letters in my opinion (since buying this toy anyway) is for an older child.
And as it happens that older child is my almost 4 year old! Now she has had a whole different experience with the toy, and she will sit with it and play the games and is actually learning from it, something which I have never really experienced from any of these sorts of 'learning toys'. It's the first toy of its kind where I have witnessed some learning actually happening!!
**Can You Have Fun While Learning?**
I will try and briefly describe the different modes and what my daughter has learnt so far.
**Letter Names**
In this mode Scout says 'Push a letter to hear it's name', so then you can press any letter and a very British voice will say 'R' or 'T' - and that is it. It's very simple, but very easy to do and very easy for an eager child to learn their letters.
**Letter Sounds**
This mode helps your child to learn the sounds of the letters. Again, Scout will say 'Push a letter to its sound'. So this time when you push a letter, that same British voice will say something along the lines of
'K - makes the sound 'k' as in kangaroo'
'W - makes the sound 'w' as in water'.
It's all very simple and there are no irritating additional things, it is just a very simple learning aid, my daughter loves to push a letter to hear what sound it makes, and then she will repeat it.
**Letter Music**
'Push a letter to make music' - this mode is slightly odd and it took me a while to figure it out. On this setting when you press a letter it will make the sound of a musical note, and on your first try it all seems a bit random, bearing in mind that the letters are set out in alphabetical order. So at first I was randomly pressing the letters trying to make some sort of tune and just not getting anywhere.
And then I realised, the notes are programmed to play the alphabet tune, but you have to press them in the correct (alphabetical) order and you hear the tune - 'A B C D E F G...you get the idea...Now I know my ABC next time won't you sing with me'. You can also get the full rendition of this tune (with singing) if you press the blue paw button.
This mode is not particularly educational but I quite enjoy it, especially since it makes me look like I can play a tune. And my daughter likes to hear the tune; she even sometimes gets her drum and plays along.
**Find A Letter Game**
'Let's dig up some letter biscuits' - this mode is like a little game for your child to play. The British voice will ask you to find a particular letter by saying 'find the letter A', so then you press A and it says 'A' and then asks you to find another letter, but if you press the wrong letter, for instance B it will beep and say 'B - Find the letter A'. So you know if you are pressing the right letter, but also if you get the wrong letter. Scout also has some encouraging remarks for your child as they progress through this game. They also do bits where they use the letter sound rather than the letter's name.
It all sounds a bit complicated but it's not, my daughter loves this and gets on with it really well. She enjoys finding the letters and is really getting to grips with the alphabet, and I'm quite sure that this toy has really encouraged her interest in learning her letters and what sounds they make.
**Overall Impression**
I am really pleased I bought this toy and find it very encouraging that my 3 year old (almost 4) is gaining a lot of knowledge from it at the same time as enjoying herself. I think it makes her feel a little bit more independent knowing that she has full control of the toy and requires absolutely no assistance from me whatsoever.
It's definitely something I would recommend for a child who already has a certain understanding of letters and the sounds they make. Do not expect a 2 year old to learn anything from this toy unless they are already showing signs of being super intelligent! I would say the age range for this toy should be at least 3 years old because at that age they are much more capable of using the toy to its full capabilities.
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LAUGHTER was in the air at Blackpool's Christmas panto starring East Lancashire's Corrie star Vicky Entwistle.
With plenty of northern wit and Lancastrian humour wicked Queen Janice stole the show with her icy performance.
Muddles was the funny-man, played by BBC Radio Lancashire's Steve Royal - a juggling jester entertaining Queen Janice, but the audience loved him much more.
Children were pleased to see 'real' dwarfs who took their size in their stride, being handled like puppets on stage.
And who can forget Snow White, who falls to her death after eating the poisoned apple Played by Jenni Jones from children's TV programme, Hi5 the blonde beauty was well-liked by the little ones with her voice and kind presence on stage.
Snow White is a classic fairytale fantasy jam-packed with music and dance, fun and laughter and the set and costumes are just as colourful - providing audiences with beautiful backdrops and fabulous frocks.
Audience interaction is fabulous – oh yes it is!
Children are invited on stage to play amusing games and adults are just as amused.
So if you want family fun this season then head to see the classic story tale with a twist of Christmas fun.
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I've been seeing Mark for a year. He's a great, hardworking guy and I feel lucky to have found someone who I can really trust. But my friends and family think I can do better. It just so happens that my old friend Kevin (cute cute cute) has recently taken an active interest in me. I've always had a fondness for him, but have never acted on it and now I can't help but wonder about him. I worry that Kevin may be a bit of a player and that if I dated him I wouldn't be able to trust him. Do I risk my relationship with Mark for a shot with Kevin in hopes it will work out? Torn in Two
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The question you should be asking yourself here isn't about taking a chance on Kevin, rather, how much do you love Mark? If you are willing to throw away what you have with him for some other guy - that's a bad sign. When you are really in love with someone, your head isn't going to turn like it is now. The fact that you already have some doubts about Mark is a sign that you might be settling for him. I think it's wonderful that you can trust him, but it doesn't sound to me like that quality alone is going to be enough to sustain a satisfying and loving life together forever.


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"It was fascinating, but, at some level, I identified with them. I felt for their loneliness. I felt I understood their lives and they picked up on that."
Borland hung out happily with the English group and travelled to the US with them. Their group outing to Disneyland, she says with a grin of reminiscence, was just terrific fun. "They often said to me: you know, we think you're one of us."
The photographs, now on show at Anna Schwartz Gallery, testify to that intimacy. The babies' lack of self-consciousness, whether dancing ring-a-rosey or masturbating, is almost as surprising as the first shock of seeing a hairy middle-aged man in a bonnet.
"I think part of the deal is exhibitionism," Borland says. Not for all of them, she stresses - it is a very individual fetish, the single universal being a fondness for nappies - but for some. "They liked the idea of being found out. Because it is all deadly secret, a lot of them get a thrill out of the idea of blowing their identity, revealing what they do."
She suspects that the fetish sides of their minds also liked being watched, often for hours, by a sympathetic female eye. "They liked me. I think the whole thing of the camera looking at them felt like a very intense gaze, a bit like a mother's gaze.
"They reacted to me like a surrogate mother and sometimes I would take that role on; I was very mothering and I was genuinely interested in the whole thing. I think they kind of liked that I was an outsider, because it validated what they were doing."
Borland decided before she began work that, for her, the sky was the limit. Nothing was too creepy for her, even the couple of men who liked to soil their nappies as well as wet them. "Obviously, there are limits in my life," she says. "And there are limits in my photographic life. But nothing arose that made me think I was going somewhere I shouldn't be going. I had made a commitment from the beginning and I wanted to know everything about it, even the moments that were - well, smelly."
Most of the babies are men, usually pretending to be little girls.
"I met some women, but they were kind of doing it for their boyfriends who were doing it. Also, the women seemed more secretive." Among the men, however, there was enormous variation: they were straight and gay, truck drivers and one High Court judge, men with wives and children and men who were too obsessed with infantilism to get involved with any other kind of life. One man had his home set up as a nursery; he slept in a giant cot.
Borland last exhibited in Australia 50 portraits of famous Australians living in England, commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in London. Fame, indeed, is her business.
More recently, she has photographed the Queen, as one of eight photographers chosen by the palace to commemorate the monarch's Golden Jubilee.
The famous like her photographs because she does not try to catch them out: her trademark portrait style is frank, but not confrontational.
Any hoopla or irony is confined to the glittery or floral backdrops she likes to use. The Babies, by contrast, is affectionate yet too close to the keyhole for comfort, a velvety kind of voyeurism.
What she wanted was to get away from the quick snap of the celebrity shot. "I thought I wanted to do a book, to broaden what I do. I wanted to get involved with the people I was photographing." Celebrities are often rude or abrupt. The babies were not. "They were just so easy, so lovely. I got respect from them and they got respect from me. It was a partnership."
And it was exciting. "I do enjoy the portraits," she says, "but I am jaded with it as well. I think the work is becoming more important to me; I think that's because I've achieved a lot of what I set out to do in terms of career - you don't get much more surreal and famous than the Queen in the Western world - and it just doesn't mean so much to me any more."
Getting to know this closeted world, however, made her feel excited about what she was seeing. "It was pure inspiration. And I hadn't had that in a long time."
Some casual observers, she says, assume they are some sort of paedophile. This scarcely makes sense - these are adults who want to be treated as children, not treat children in inappropriately adult ways - and Borland certainly saw no sign of it. It is a world unto itself. Since she finished the project, she has had a child, but she never feels a connection, never sees the fetish babies, who were so much part of her life, in the real baby. Strange, she agrees, but true.
The whys and wherefores of the babies, meanwhile, remain a mystery. Most said they had felt the urge to infantilise since they were children, stealing nappies from clotheslines as children and secretly buying bottles and dummies with their pocket money. That was almost all they knew. They also knew they were weird. And for most of their lives, they thought they were alone in their weirdness.
By documenting them, Borland became intrinsic to their coming out, to self-acceptance. That was her privilege and, in return, she accepted them, too.
"I took delight in the strangeness of it," she says. "Really, it took me five years to work out that there wasn't a lot to work out about it."
The Babies, by Polly Borland, opened last night at Anna Schwartz Gallery, city, and runs until December 21.
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|Haptic Perception
|In my research I explores haptic perception. Haptic perception could be defined as active tactile perception, i.e. perception resulting from the tactile information gathered by an active exploration of objects by the hands. The aim of this research project is twofold, to research the human haptic perception by the aid of computational and robot models and to design and implement an artificial system with capacity for haptic perception. So far several bio-inspired robot systems using different approaches to recognize shape, size and individual objects have been implemented. All my systems so far are self-organizing, i.e. they learn by examples. In my work I design and implement all parts of the systems, i.e. I design and build the tactile grippers as well as design the bio-inspired computational models and implement them in software. The systems employ various kinds of AI algorithms, but especially artificial neural networks. In my haptic systems I have made heavy use of IKAROS, which is an infrastructure for brain modelling and control of robots.
|The first step in the project was to develop a limited system able to learn to categorize the explored objects according to size. To this aim a simple robot hand, the LUCS Haptic Hand I, equipped with nine touch sensitive piezo electric sensors was built. In addition, a number of computational models of the human haptic system were designed and implemented. The LUCS Haptic Hand I was successful in generating tactile signal patterns containing enough information for size categorization, and the computational models have demonstrated an ability to learn to categorize objects according to size.
|The LUCS Haptic Hand I was only capable of passive touch. Therefore its successor, the LUCS Haptic Hand II, has been developed. The LUCS Haptic Hand II is an 8 d.o.f. robot hand equipped with 45 piezo electric touch sensors. The robot hand consists of three fingers, each with two phalanges, mounted on a triangular plastic plate. It is equipped with a wrist and a mechanism for vertical repositioning. The piezo electric touch sensors are distributed on the palmar side of the finger phalanges. The LUCS Haptic Hand II is used in a sequence of artificial systems for haptic shape perception. These systems use active explorations of the objects by several grasps with the robot hand to gather cutaneous and proprioceptive information. The systems make heavy use of tensor product operations or a novel neural network called Tensor Multiple Peak SOM (T-MPSOM) to code the tactile information in a useful way. The systems are able to learn to map different shapes in different parts of a self-organizing map (SOM). A picture of the LUCS Haptic Hand II is available here and a movie that shows the robot hand (before it was equipped with tactile sensors) during the grasping of a ball is available here.
|The LUCS Haptic Hand III is a five fingered 12 d.o.f. robot hand equipped with 11 proprioceptive sensors. This robot hand was developed to get an anthropomorphic robot hand. A successful haptic system, based solely on proprioception, with capacity to recognize shape, size as well as individual objects has been implemented with this robot hand. This system has shown great generalization ability as well. A picture of the robot hand is available here and a couple of pictures of the robot hand equipped with 18 very sensitive experimental binary tactile sensors of my own design, is available here and here. There are also some movies of the robot hand available. One movie that shows the robot hand when it shakes hands with its creator is available here. Another movie that shows the robot hand while grasping a beer can is available here. A movie that shows finger movements from one side is available here and another movie that shows finger movements seen from the other side is available here. Unfortunately, I have been told that some people have experienced problems with seeing the movies of the LUCS Haptic Hand III. If you experience such problems the hand shake movie is also available in another format here.
|My current efforts aim at developing an anthropomorphic robot arm as well as to study visual perception and computer vision in order to be able to develop a visual system that can guide the robot arm and interact with the haptic system. The robot arm has in total 14 d.o.f. and will be equipped with at least 10 proprioceptive sensors. The robot hand is designed in a similar fashion as the LUCS Haptic Hand III but is of a much smaller size. The arm is equipped with a flexible elbow and a shoulder that enables horizontal as well as vertical rotation. The robot arm will be used for further experimentation with artificial haptic systems as well as in models of interaction between the haptic and visual system.
|I am a member of the AI group at the Department of Computer Science at Lund University.
|I'm involved in teaching at the Department of Computer Science at Lund University.
|I use IKAROS. Ikaros is an infrastructure for brain modelling and control of robots. It is very much employed in my modelling of the human haptic system.
|I have done simulations of the re-organization of the somatosensory cortex after injuries to the nerves between the hand and the brain. This was done to get an idea about what kind of tactile stimulation should be provided after a surgical replantation of a lost hand in order to optimize the recovery. More.
|I have been involved in experiments together with IBIS at the University of Alicante about using different kinds of neural networks as an aid in diagnosing dysfunctions in the lower urinary tract.
Gil Mendez, D., Johnsson, M., Garcia Chamizo, J.M., Soriano Paya, A., and Ruiz Fernandez, D. (Submitted). Application of artificial neural networks in the diagnosis of urological dysfunctions. Journal of Expert Systems With Applications.
Johnsson, M., & Balkenius, C. (Submitted). A Self-Organizing Object Recognition System Based on Proprioception. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
Gil Mendez, D., Johnsson, M., Soriano Paya, A., and Ruiz Fernandez, D. (2008). Artificial Neural Networks for Diagnoses of Dysfunctions in Urology. Proceedings of Healthinf 2008, Madeira, Portugal.
Johnsson, M., & Balkenius, C. (2007). Experiments with Proprioception in a Self-Organizing System for Haptic Perception. In Wilson, M., S., Labrosse, F., Nehmzow, U., Melhuish, C., Witkowski, M. (Eds.) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2007, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, 239-245.
Balkenius, C., Johnsson, M., & Johansson, B. (2007). Explorations in Cognitive Robotics. In Löfström, T., Johansson, U., Sönströd, C., König, R. and Niklasson, L. (Eds.) Proceedings of SAIS 2007, University College of Borås, Borås, Sweden, 189-192.
Johnsson, M., & Balkenius, C. (2007). LUCS Haptic Hand III - An Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with Proprioception. LUCS Minor 13.
Johnsson, M., & Balkenius, C. (2007). Neural Network Models of Haptic Shape Perception. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 55, 720-727. Abstract
Johnsson, M., & Balkenius, C. (2006). Haptic Perception with a Robotic Hand. In Honkela, T., Raiko, T., Kortela, J. and Valpola, H. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Ninth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2006), Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, 127-134.
Johnsson, M., & Balkenius, C. (2006). A Robot Hand with T-MPSOM Neural Networks in a Model of the Human Haptic System. In Witkowski, M., Nehmzow, U., Melhuish, C., Moxey, E. and Ellery, A. (Eds.) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2006, Surrey University, Guildford, UK, 80-87.
Johnsson, M., & Balkenius, C. (2006). LUCS Haptic Hand II. LUCS Minor, 9.
Johnsson, M., & Balkenius, C. (2006). Experiments with Artificial Haptic Perception in a Robotic Hand. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 17, 4, 377-385. Abstract
Johnsson, M., Pallbo, R., & Balkenius, C. (2005). A Haptic System for the LUCS Haptic Hand I. In Mira, J., and Alvarez, J.R. (Eds.), Mechanisms, Symbols, and Models Underlying Cognition: First International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2005, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, June 15-18, 2005, Proceedings, Part I, 386-395. Springer-Verlag. Abstract
Johnsson, M., Pallbo, R., & Balkenius, C. (2005). Experiments with Haptic Perception in a Robotic Hand . In Funk, P., Rognvaldsson, T., and Xiong, N. (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Sweden, Västerås, Sweden: Mälardalen University, 81-86.
Johnsson, M. (2005). LUCS Haptic Hand I – Technical Report. LUCS Minor, 8.
Johnsson, M. (2004). Cortical Plasticity – A Model of Somatosensory Cortex. A study of cortical reorganization, after nerve injuries between the hand and the brain, with the aid of computational models. MSc thesis from the Dept. of Cognitive Science, Lund University.
Johnsson, M. (2003). Force feedback and cyber sickness in virtual reality. Examinations of force feedback usability in virtual reality, and cyber sickness in virtual environments. MSc thesis from the Dept. of Computer Science, Lund University. (Swedish with english summary).


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Hotel direction: 23 miles N
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Besides the backyard gardeners in Lakewood and the M Streets, Redenta's Nursery also helps residents of the Lower Greenville area's new townhomes and apartments make balcony-friendly planters and windowboxes. For $55 to $125 you can go home with a fully planted and meticulously prepared container made of lightweight plastic that looks like heavier terra cotta pottery. In it will be something like sedum (a succulent) or graceful ornamental grasses that don't need fussing over. They sell real stone and ceramic planters too, of course, and more complicated palms and large ferns for more ambitious patio features. Nice how a little greenery makes even the smallest place feel like a home.
Not that the rotating red and white barber's pole out front isn't enough of a clue, but once you walk inside Razor's Edge Barber Shop, there's no mistaking it for anything but a modern take on an old-fashioned men's clip joint. Not the intimidating kind where they tell you how they're gonna cut your locks. Or one of those new men's salons where you have to endure a 45-minute cut followed by a neck and shoulder rub by a breathy, over-tanned, gum-chewing hairdresser. No, this place is cozy and comfortable. The waiting room looks like a cross between a cigar shop and your grandpa's library. The décor's all dark leather with warm, walnutty woods, and there's an elevated shoe-shine bench tucked in the left side of the shop. When most men need a haircut, they just want a nice, clean trim, and for more than six years the welcoming staff at Razor's Edge has been doing just that—and only that. They don't have a comprehensive spa-like list of services. They offer a "wet cut," a "cut & shampoo" and a "hot shave" in the comfort of large, black, vintage-style barber chairs. Though, admittedly, those black chairs do seem a little Sweeney Todd when one of the barbers whips out a straight razor to give a patron a hot lather shave. So, though the shop accepts walk-ins, you may want an appointment—just to stay on their good side.
Throughout the summer of the staycation, we found ourselves up in McKinney every few weekends, even if only for breakfast at cozy Spoon's café or a walk through the Farmers Market planted among ancestral McKinney homesteads in the historic district. But a trip to The Book Gallery is an essential part of any visit, especially for the bibliophile who needs a break from poring over Half Price's estimable stacks of oldies but goodies. Encased in glass are first editions by most of the masters you can tick off in the next 20 seconds; we've long coveted the Hemingways and Fitzgeralds and Wrights and Salingers and Dickens...eseses in desperate need of our liberation and affection. They're not too pricey either; we just spend our hard-earned pennies on the estimable collection of Dallas-related books nestled in the local-interest section near the back of the shop. Here's where we picked up Lon Tinkle's essential The Key to Dallas, as well as a first-edition of the Dallas Historical Society's 1978 coffee-table book Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925.
Hmm. Tough call. You got your blond woods and Southwestern-looking pastels at Borders. You got your darker woods and warmer feel at Barnes & Noble. And you got pretty much the same damn books, magazines and CDs at any location of the massive chains. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, we say. So instead of picking just one, this year we're giving the prize to a 'hood, Preston Hollow, where a fairly new Barnes & Noble sits catty-corner to a redecorated Borders at Royal Lane and Preston Road. Nothing like a little cutthroat corporate competition between the homogenized purveyors of cultural commodities, we say. Any day now we expect to see highly literate gang tags sprouting up on walls, sprayed there by the competing staffs. Maybe a little Jets and Sharks action between khaki-wearing booksellers too. The best part is, if one store happens to be out of the latest title you crave, it's only a short drive—for God's sake, don't walk—between them, and there's a Starbucks right smack in the middle.


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CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) Fumes from a work site forced air traffic controllers to evacuate their tower at Dulles Airport and shift to a backup facility Wednesday.
The fumes were reported about 10 a.m., and firefighters ordered the tower cleared, airport spokesman Robert Yingling said. He said the fumes were coming from a work site at the airport's main terminal.
No flights were affected, he said. The tower was being ventilated, and workers exposed to the fumes were being evaluated.
Laura Brown, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the air traffic controllers were moved to another tower that is normally used to coordinate planes at airport gates.
Both towers have the same capabilities, though the backup tower has fewer work positions, Brown said.
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An Ancient Revolution: The Written Word
Unearthing the Bible
The Legacy of David
In the Days of the Prophets
The Story of Hanukkah
Islam and Judaism: From Muhammed to the Ottoman Empire
The Roadmap to the Jewish Golden Age of Spain
Immigration to the Golden Land: Jewish Life in America
Yiddish Culture: From Europe to America
The Shtetl: An Incubator of Jewish Culture
Memory and History
The Origins of Zionism: 19th Century-World War I
The Jewish Calendar
To the Teacher
Unit 1
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Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Unit 9
Offering a Distant-Learning Course
Manual for Faculty
Unit 9: Into the Future
(1945 to Present)
Teaching This Unit
Directions to Students
Program Overview
This program surveys the state of contemporary Jewry throughout the world, focusing mainly on the Jews of Israel, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
After World War II in Europe many Jews were in Displaced Persons (DP) camps. Those who wished to emigrate to Palestine were prevented from doing so by British authorities. Still, some were able to emigrate illegally. Tiring of the strife between Arabs and Jews, Britain decided to end its mandate over Palestine and leave the country. After a tumultuous debate in the United Nations, the world body voted for the partition of the land into Jewish and Arab states.
The Jewish areas of Palestine had been laboriously improved by years of hard work. Swamps had been drained, stony areas reclaimed for agriculture, and desert land brought under cultivation. When the British left Palestine, the Jews declared all the areas they controlled to be the new independent state of Israel. Arab armies immediately attacked and the war for Israeli independence began. After the hostilities, Jews from many countries flocked to Israel to join in the building of the new Jewish state.
The six million Jews residing in the United States constituted the largest concentration of Jews in the world. These Jews, living in a free society, were able to integrate successfully into the American mainstream. This, however, was often at the expense of their Jewish identity. Intermarriage and assimilation threatened to undermine the Jewish community. However, as the TV interviews indicate, there has been a renaissance of Jewish identification among those who are pursuing new forms of Jewish communal and religious expression.
Some of the nearly three million Jews who live in the Soviet Union suffered persecution in the years immediately prior to Stalin's death. Some have requested to emigrate to Israel and a few have been allowed to leave. Public expressions of Judaism and Jewish peoplehood are frowned upon, causing hardship for many Jews. Those who wish to emigrate, but have not been granted permission, often endure constant harassment by the Soviet authorities.
The show ends with a wide-ranging discussion of the possibilities for Jewish identity and expression in the contemporary world. While answers are not provided, the eloquent opinions of a number of Jews are presented.
Learning Objectives
Analyze the creation of the state of Israel.
Explore the reaction of world Jewry, and especially American Jewry, to the rise of Israel.
Examine the fate of the smaller Jewish communities around the world and the Jews of the Soviet orbit.
Chart the major problems, challenges and opportunities facing Jews today.
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• Catch a Christmas Eve matinee of Ballet West's "The Nutcracker," at the Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City. Show starts at noon. Tickets available at ArtTix.
• The Salt Lake Film Society presents its annual showing of the holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life!," today and Christmas evening at the Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City. Showtimes are today at 3 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. on Christmas. Free.
(No "Plans for tonight" post on Christmas Day. Have a wonderful holiday, everyone!)


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The South Carolina primary may be over, but MSNBC anchors are not letting up on their portrayal of Republican primary voters are bigots whose support is being courted by the use of "code words." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
During a promo for her 2 p.m. Eastern show NewsNation, MSNBC anchor Hall falsely accused Gingrich of using incendiary rhetoric on minorities, and claims such words are part of an overall racially charged "attack strategy" in his bid for the White House. About two hours later, fellow MSNBC host Martin Bashir read from a 17-year old New York Times editorial that similarly blasted Gingrich.
Of course, Hall and Bashir are following the well-worn path cut by Hardball host Chris Matthews, who has maniacally denounced the former Speaker as "Mephistophelian."
Instead of responding to the substance of Gingrich's critique of Obama's economic stewardship: food stamp use has exploded under Obama -- not to mention the growth in black unemployment -- MSNBC instead continues to reach new lows every day by accusing the former Speaker of using racially charged language in his presidential campaign.
Below you will find excerpts from Hall's tease and Bashir's closing commentary:
1:30 p.m. EST
And also, the South Carolina voters were drawn in by Newt Gingrich's debate performance, many of them voting for him only after he went on a tear in the debate just days before the primary. Will his attack strategy and incendiary rhetoric on food stamps and minorities work this time or is the shtick getting old.
3:57 p.m. EST
And as we prepared for today's broadcast, we came across an editorial from "The New York Times" that provides a brilliant distillation of Newt Gingrich's character and political development. It starts with those who newt hates the most. He describes himself as a battler against liberal elites and the media.
As we know, Mr. Gingrich has been blaming the media for twisting everything from his multiple marriages to his vast income from government agencies like Freddie Mac. The editorial then goes on to describe how Newt has decided to use code words, which barely conceal a tone of racial decisiveness and contempt for the poor. The editorial goes on. Mr. Gingrich has reinvented the political landscape of his youth. A sun belt where politicians communicate in the venerable code words of Barry Goldwater and George Wallace. The code words, of course, originally had much to do with race.
But this race-based anger charged politics mutated in Mr. Gingrich into a more generalized moral authoritarianism. Mr. Gingrich wants to be obeyed. Indeed he does. When Gingrich refers to Mr. Obama as the greatest food stamps President in modern history, it doesn't matter that it's not true. It allows him to use those code words that he so loves. So according to "The New York Times, Mr. Gingrich hates the media and his campaigning is marked by the deliberate use of racially divisive language.


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Attractions of all types are proving a hit with visitors to Cornwall over the Easter holidays but one has wormed his way to number one in the charts as a star.
Barry, the giant sea worm which was responsible for virtually destroying a living reef display at Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium was already internationally known, but seeing it for real has brought the visitors out in force.
The four-foot-long reef worm was identified as the mysterious culprit who had been eating through a fragile living coral and news of his exploits quickly spread around the world with stories appearing as far afield as America, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Spain and Switzerland.
His story even featured in the Washington Post, on Canada's Discovery Channel and in scientific blogs worldwide.
Such has been the response that fans have now set up no fewer than four separate Facebook sites and he has even inspired an American rabbi to write a poem about him.
Blue Reef manager David Waines said: "To be honest I am a little dumbfounded by the response we've had from around the world.
"One PHD student in Australia is actually planning a visit to the UK next year just to meet him and we have been inundated with enquiries and requests for interviews.
"Initially we were planning to keep Barry off display because, frankly, we felt he was just too disgusting. However due to public demand we have now set him up his very own - coral free - display where he appears to be thriving."
Barry is being fed on an algal based gel combined with the odd bit of whiting and, as far as anyone can tell, he appears to be perfectly happy.
In addition to having two sets of powerful jaws, Barry is covered with thousands of bristles which are capable of inflicting a sting resulting in permanent numbness.
It is thought Barry arrived in Cornwall as a juvenile in a shipment of living rock from another aquarium and has now turned out to be a star.


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We're clearing all STATE and other women's apparel to make room for casual and athletic wear from our sister company, NuBe9.
February 24, 2011
NUBE Seattle is NuBe Green's new private-label line of women's sculptural garments, crafted entirely from local materials by local artisans. Materials consist of re-purposed garments and cast offs, as well as locally grown fibers from sustainable farms. Using these sources, seamstresses, knitters, spinners, paper makers, and felters design unique, one of a kind pieces that directly reflect the local character of the Pacific Northwest. The goal of this line, available exclusively at NuBe Green, is to continually re-discover local materials, to celebrate local craft, and to refine 'sustainable' design.
October 27, 2010
NUBE Seattle, our first custom line of women's garments, launches with a trunk show blow-out at Western Bridge, Friday October 29, 2010 from 6 to 9pm. Join us for a spritz and craft your new autumn wardrobe around these gorgeous garments hand-made locally from vintage luxury fabrics and locally-farmed alpaca wool.
October 12, 2010
Adrienne Antonson is an artist and designer living on Vashon Island. She is the creative force behind the NUBE Seattle line, managing its production, material selection, and aesthetic cohesion.
May 13, 2010
NuBe was a proud sponsor of CRAVEgreen, which took place at Seattle's Herban Feast on Tuesday the 11th. As CRAVE puts it: This glamorously green party proves that you don't have to sacrifice style to be sustainable. We love that this was an event with heart -- all of the raffle proceeds went to support the Women's Funding Alliance.
March 7, 2010
One of our favorite things about NuBe is the customers. This morning we were blessed with some adorable ladies who let us take photos for the web store of them trying on pieces from our clothing line. [For the record, the woman writing this blog is the short brunette, & I'm not referring to myself in those terms!]


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Under pressure from BSY faction in Karnataka, BJP central leadership is all set to make Yeddyurappa loyalist and prominent lingayat leader from north karnataka Jagdish Settar as the Next Chief Minister of Karnataka. Shettar is all set to take over as the third chief minister of Karnataka in last four years of BJP government. BJP central leadership is taking stock of the situation and planning to give a nice exit to D V Sadananda Gowda. DVS is called to Delhi today and will be meeting central leaders Nitin Ghadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitely later today.
After 15 days of drama BJP Central leadership seems finally has cracked the whip to bring the party under control. Keeping the next election in mind the changes in the cabinet is also being planned.
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Kings Park Hotel Hotel
Mill Street, Rutherglen, Glasglow, Glasgow, Scotland
Atmosphere 88%
Cleanliness 85%
Facilities 90%
Location 90%
Safety 95%
Staff 100%
Value 100%
- Free Breakfast
- 24 Hour Reception
- Bar
- Café
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Hair Dryers
- Housekeeping
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- Parking
- Restaurant
- Tea/Coffee Making Facilities
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Check-in / Check-out
Earliest check-in: 14:00
Latest Check-out: 11:00
- Credit Cards Accepted
- No Curfew
- Pet Friendly"
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About Kings Park Hotel
Offering Free Wi-Fi, Fully cooked Scottish B/fast, Housekeeping service every day, this 3 star property will spoil you for comfort at affordable price.
Warm and friendly service awaits you.
Visiting Scotland is a unique experience and whether your visit is part of a Scottish break, holiday, studies you can treat yourself to the best accommodation and service.
The Kings Park Hotel is only minutes from Glasgow city centre . A 3 Star Property rated by Visit Scotland.
We offer superb accommodation and dining facilities - an ideal place for Wedding Receptions, Honeymoons and Corporate Events.
Arrivals between the period 18th July -6th August 2014 the entire stay will be charged upon booking. This will be non refundable for the entire amount. Invalid card will invalidate your booking.
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This 3 star hotel has accommodation for 26 en-suite rooms, some with private Jacuzzi, all have been completely refurbished to a luxurious standard. All rooms have TV, Direct Dial Telephone, Trouser Press, Hairdryer and work station.
Free Wi-Fi access in the hotel.Free Car parking.
Room price includes Full Scottish B/fast. All rooms have free WI-FI access, toiletries, linen, towels and are serviced every day.
All en-suite bathrooms have been upgraded to a four star standard.
There is also 24 hour room service,
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Quite conveniently located to use the public transport , it is just a 12 minute ride on the bus into town.
This Hotel is nestled in a quite and serene location of Glasgow, overlokking the Overtoun Park.
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Customers can cancel their reservation free of charge up to 1 day before arrival. After this date, charges will be applied by the property up to the first nights cost of the reservation, unless otherwise stated in the property's conditions. Deposits paid are non refundable.


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Aedan Tomney
Moondance Alexander
When plucky teen Moondance (Kay Panabaker) finds a lost pony named Checkers, she immediately feels a bond with him. Convinced that he's a champion jumper, Moondance persuades Checkers' owner (Don Johnson) into training the two of them for the Bow Valley Classic. Based on a true story, this touching family drama from director and co-writer Michael Damian also stars James Best and Lori Loughlin.


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entry form
photo album
and special events
visual arts
and ecology
in June '05
join the prestigious
Rhodes ecofilms
.......at the Greek croisette
Born in Stockholm 1951. Film critic
and film maker. Founder and editor of the Swedish
film magazine Filmkonst 1989-2002. Director of
Göteborg Film Festival 1994-2002.
Filmography: The Voice of Bergman
(1997), The Voice of Ljudmila (2002, Ecocinema
2003), Ingmar Bergman; Intermezzo (2002), The Voice
of Silence (short, 2003).
Presently cultural editor for the
daily paper Helsingborgs Dagblad.
Giorgio (Turin, Italy, 1977).
Degree in DAMS (Disciplines of Art,
Music and Spectacle-Cinema Sector) at the Turin's
University of Studies in 2002. Actually is working
for the same university as PhD in Disciplines of
Scandinavistic and Spectacle.
From 2002 he's specialized in danish
silent cinema, he's actually working on a thesis
titled Dreyer Screenwriter at Nordisk (1913-1917)
with the cooperation of the Dansk Film Institut.
He attended several international
convention ad published some critical essays
concerning this argument.
From 2002 he's working for
Cinemambiente – International Environmental Film
Festival – as documentary film searcher.
For the same festival he also
organized two retrospectives: Joris Ivens (2002),
Panaria Film (2004), and edited with Gaetano Capizzi
and Marina Ganzerli the volume
Joris Ivens.
Una storia di vento/Joris Ivens.
A wind's tale
(Torino, Cinemambiente, 2002), in
collaboration with The European Foundation Joris
Ivens of Nimega.
J.a.c.e., Feature film (In progress)
1985, AVE MARIA 26 min, ALPHEUS,
1982-1986, researhcing, textes and
collaborator-director at the 12 (half an hour) D.
Maurikios documentaries THE IONIAN BRIDGES.
Other activities:
1985, collaborator-director at the
perfoming of Jules Massenet's opera WERTHER, Greek
National Opera House.
1985 - 2005, writer, director and
producer of 550 radio programmes for the Third
Channel of the National Greek Radio.
1989 -2005, he has published short
stories and essays in various greek magazines and
2004-2005, consultant in National
Greek Television,
Director, producer on several events
as: Christmas Concert Megaron Music Hall Athens,
December 2004, Concert for the tsunami victims,
Olympic Stadium, February 2005
Worked for 25 years in a variety of
roles in environmental research, policy and
advocacy, based mainly at the RSPB, BirdLife
International's partner organisation in the UK.
He is a leading figure in
international law and policy on topics such as
protected areas, environmental assessment and
wetland ecosystems, and has had a particularly long
and central association with the Ramsar Convention
on Wetlands, as well as being a Director of Wetlands
Dave is also involved in dialogues on
the links between science, culture, aesthetics and
the role of the arts in environmental conservation
At the end of the
1980's, as director of the Sarajevo Obala Art Center
Mirsad Purivatra oversaw the works of numerous
theater productions. Many of them, including
Tatoo Theatre and Moonplay, were featured
in theatre festivals in Edinburgh, Paris, Toronto,
New York, Montreal, and London.
During the war in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Center organized a great
number of exhibitions by B&H authors that were shown
around the world and in Sarajevo. Obala hosted such
international artists as Christian Boltanski, Annie
Leibowitz, Sophie Ristelhueber, and Peter Waldegg.
In 1995, Obala established the Sarajevo Film
Festival, which in ten years has grown to be one of
the most influental film festivals in southeast
Today, working full
time as the Sarajevo Film Festival Director,
Purivatra teaches Production at the Sarajevo Academy
of Performing Arts.
He has also served as
Director of Bosnia and Herzegovina Radio and
Television (1998-2000), and General Director of the
B&H branch of McCann Erickson marketing agency
COMPETITION SHORT FILMS jury
Alekos Arplias, journalist
He studied for a while Law, but he
occupied himself, for two decades in broadcasting,
and was specialized at the field of Regional
He has been working as producer,
chief editor and newscaster in central Radio
Stations. He created the first and unique in Greece
electronic Regional Newspaper.
He has been for five years
(2000-2004), Director of the Regional Broadcasting
Network of ERT (National Radio Television).
He cooperated with the Adults
Education Secretary, at the realization of original
Regional radio projects as well as seminars.
He is
currently working in ERA's General Direction and he
is studying European Civilization at the E.Α.P.
born in Pesaro in 1949.
He graduated in architecture from the
University of Rome in 1976, with a thesis entitled:
'A residential complex for the elderly in Pesaro'.
Since 1976, he has created some 150
design projects for all areas of civil and
industrial building, including the building of an
experimental theatre in Pontedera.
Since 1987, he has been the creator
and art director of Tonelli, bringing in designers
such as Isao Hosoe, De Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi and
Luigi Serafini.
In the design field, he works on
occasional, non-specific projects that have seen him
collaborate with Tonelli in the furniture industry,
MFFM in the jewellery sector, and Benelli for
hunting rifles.
As part of an overall research
project into mobility, which he carried out in
conjunction with Isao Hosoe, he created 'Fluida', a
'bag' bicycle.
Born in 3 December 1950. Archer,
self-educated, free-lance.
Science studies (quickly quitted),
obligatory military service, then license at French
Literature and Linguistics and cinema at the Paul
Valery University in Montpelier.
Co-founder and general delegate at
Mediterranean Film Festival of
Instigator and organizer of "Fonds
d'Aide au Development du Scenario"(in the frame of
the Festival d'Amiens)from 1996.
Co-founder of "Carrefour des
Festivals" (president from 1989 to 1999) and of
"Coordination Europeenne des Festivals de Cinema".
up to '88 was partner of the distribution society
"Les Films du Semaphore", on 1992, founded the
society CINE-SUD PROMOTION, essentially destined at
the origin at the promotion of films of writers and
cinemas South.
Projects feature films
L'OMBRE DE LA VILLE of Jean Khalil
Chamoun, TIRANA, ANNEE ZERO of Fatmir Koci, RACHIDA
of Yamina Bachir Chouikh, AU FEU!
(Gori Vatra) of Pjer Zalica,
MUR of Simone Bitton,
MOOLAADE of Sembene Ousmane,
NOCE D'ETE, of Moktar Ladjimi,
L'ANNEE NOIRE of Fatmir Koçi,
L'EXIL of Atef Hetata,
LA GRANDE PATURE of Omar Bekhaled
Born in Egion 1947.
Studies: Cinema in Athens and Semiology in Paris.
Films: Black-White, 90min, 35mm, Bio-graphia, 97min,
35mm, Fiction, 45min, 16mm, Corpus, 80min, 35mm,
Electric Angel, 86min, 35mm,Silent Machines, 72min,
Series & Pieces: Faggoto (1983)
Theatre faces (1984), The Greek Typography (1985),
The Athenian Fusion (1992), The Centenary of
Olympics 1896-1996 ,Olive Civilization (2001)
Founder of the EXPERIMENTAL FILM CENTRE in 1969.
Founder & Director of the quarterly publication FILM
Secretary & President of GREEK DIRECTORS' GUILD
President of F.E.R.A. (1980-1982).
Director of THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL (1986-1988).
Director of ENTERTAINMENT DEPARTMENT in
Various publications of essay sandarticles in books,
magazines & newspapers
Born on
1970 in Netherlands.
Studied film in Amsterdam, graduated
in Stockholm, and produced a number of short films
in Rotterdam.
Since 1998 Rik works for the
International Film Festival Rotterdam as a member of
the programme department and coordinating the
Festival's Industry Office.
As he operates free-lance, Rik also
works on a yearly base for the Transilvania
International Film Festival (programme coordinator),
and Sarajevo Film Festival (CineLink Industry
Other incidental film festival
environments over the last years include among other
Warsaw, Stockholm, and Edinburgh.
Mario Cenni is an Italian, from
He was born, lives and works in the
city of Lucca. He is a biologist graduated in 1981.
In his working life he has faced several nature
related issues. Has restored an ancient Natural
History Museum, researcher on wolfs and otters, was
for ten years the Biologist of a Nature Park.
He is
now responsible for the wetlands of his region in
the ARPAT, the governmental agency facing all the
environmental problems of the region.
Petr Lom
Petr Lom was born in Prague,
Czechoslovakia in 1968.
He grew up in Canada and received his
Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard in 1997.
He taught at several European
universities, wrote a dull scholarly book on
skepticism, and translated a beautiful book of Czech
He gave up his career in the
University in 2004 to pursue a full-time career as a
documentary filmmaker.
He is much happier now.
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan is his
first film.
Semene Guitart
Was born in 1974. After his
university studies in Evolutionary Biology he
completed a PhD on Population Biology from the EPHE/Sorbonne
University (Paris).
During the last years of his studies,
he started working in parallel in journalism,
including collaborating with several radio stations
and writing chronicles for one of Andorra's national
newspapers, El Periòdic d'Andorra, on cinema and
society issues.
He is currently working as the
Convention Development Officer of the Ramsar
Convention, an international treaty ratified by more
than 145 countries and promoting the conservation
and sustainable use of wetlands and water recourses.


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Diana Vishneva's performance on Saturday, March 17 has been canceled. Ticket-holders for that performance should call CityTix at 212-581-1212 for a refund or exchange.
Prima ballerina Diana Vishneva returns to City Center with Dialogues, a new project from the Mariinsky Theatre, Diana Vishneva Foundation and Ardani Artists, the team that brought us Vishneva's Beauty in Motion in 2008. Dialogues charts the evolution of modern dance through the 20th and 21st centuries with works by four choreographers from various generations and genres: Martha Graham's 1947 classic Errand into the Maze, with music by Gian Carlo Menotti and sets by Isamu Noguchi; Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon's Subject to Change; and Mauro Bigonzetti's Vertigo.
Diana Vishneva - photo by Sasha Gouliaev
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