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Terri Witek in international literary dialogue
Functionally Literate highlights local and international authors Nov. 22 – Stetson University English professor, poet and author, who holds the Sullivan chair in creative writing and directs the Sullivan creative writing program at Stetson, Terri Witek, Ph.D., will be one of three featured writers/readers at this year's Functionally Literate: a literary function event, on Friday, Nov. 22, in Orlando. This event, which is free and open to the public, highlights local and international authors. Witek provides the bridge between the other two headliner authors: Caroline Walker, who writes creative nonfiction about her urban explorations of American cities; and Portuguese author Jacinto Lucas Pires. Pires' third novel, The True Actor, won the 2013 Distinguished Literature Award of the DST (Domingos da Silva Teixeira). It was translated into English for publication this month.
The reading will open itself up to a dialogue about contemporary international literature, pairing the best writers in Central Florida with visiting writers from across the country and now the globe.
Terri Witek is the author of Exit Island, The Shipwreck Dress, Carnal World, Fools and Crows, Courting Couples (Winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Contest) and Robert Lowell and LIFE STUDIES: Revising the Self. Her collaborations with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes, a former digital arts professor at Stetson, use multimedia from works on paper and video to site-specific installation, and have been featured in galleries or site specific projects in New York City, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Witek's summer faculty positions have included the West Chester poetry Conference, The Prague Summer Literary Program and the DisQuiet program in Lisbon, where she runs "The Fernando Pessoa Game."
The series, which is celebrating its one-year anniversary this month, was started by Orlando independent publisher Burrow Press. In just a short amount of time, the series has grown immensely, hosting award-winning authors in a variety of established arts venues across the city, and drawing an average attendance of nearly 100 people.
Orlando is only one stop on Pires' East Coast book tour. Other stops include Boston, New York, New Orleans and Miami.
"It's good to see Orlando on that list," Functionally Literate host, Jared Silvia, says. "Most people don't think of Orlando as a literary city… They'd be surprised."
The Functionally Literate: a literary function, is Friday, Nov. 22, at The Gallery at Avalon Island (upstairs theater), 39 S. Magnolia Ave, Orlando. Happy Hour is at 6 p.m. The Readings begin at 8 p.m. For more information, contact Ryan Rivas, at 786-547-0430 (cell); 407-422-8755; firstname.lastname@example.com.
Be sure to check out the Thursday, Nov. 21 Orlando Weekly, which features Friday's Functionally Literate event, and offers directions to the venue.


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Vikings Fans Pack Bus Headed for Lambeau Field [VIDEO]
A busload of Vikings fans (and some Packers fans) left for Green Bay's Lambeau Field Saturday morning from Townsquare Media.
A busload of Vikings fans (and some Packers fans) left for Green Bay's Lambeau Field Saturday morning from Townsquare Media.
On a soggy TCF Bank Stadium field, the Minnesota Vikings could not stop Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy in today's 24-21 loss.
No...the headline isn't a typo, the Minnesota Vikings actually finished with a 26-26 tie against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field today.
The Vikings lost 24-10 Saturday night in the NFC Wildcard playoffs to the Packers in Green Bay. Minnesota trailed 17-3 at halftime and fell behind 24-3 before scoring the final touchdown of the game.
It's on to the playoffs for the Minnesota Vikings after a last second field goal launched the purple into post-season play. A 29-yard field goal from Blair Welsh lifted the Vikings over the Packers, 37-34. See the game through the lens of photographer Joe Bielawa.
The Vikings got a 29-yard field from Blair Walsh on the last play of the game to beat the Packers 37-34 Sunday. Minnesota led 20-10 at halftime but saw the Packers tie the game at 27 at 34 before won the game on the Walsh field goal.
The Vikings home game to close the regular season against the Packers at Mall of America Field has been moved from a noon kickoff to a 3:25pm kickoff.
The Vikings led 14-10 at halftime but lost in Green Bay 23-14 to fall to 6-6. Adrian Peterson ran for 210 yards on 21 carries including an 82-yard touchdown run for the Vikings.
Several teams solidified their division leads in Week 12 of the 2012 NFL season. Here's a recap of this week's games:
Russell Wilson threw a disputed 24-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate on the final play of the game, allowing the Seattle Seahawks to beat the Green Bay Packers, 14-12, in Seattle on Monday night.

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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Human hand back skin texture (HBST) is often consistent for a person and distinctive from person to person. In this paper, we study the HBST pattern recognition problem with applications to personal identification and gender classification. A specially designed system is developed to capture HBST images, and an HBST image database was established, which consists of 1,920 images from 80 persons (160 hands). An efficient texton learning based method is then presented to classify the HBST patterns. First, textons are learned in the space of filter bank responses from a set of training images using the
Skin, as the outermost part of the human body, is known to provide much useful information, such as health status [
With the rapid development of computer techniques, researchers have investigated the use of various biometric traits, including fingerprints [
It can be observed that the human hand back skin has a clear and consistent texture pattern which is uniformly distributed over a large portion of hand back. Based on our daily life experience, we know that the hand based skin texture (HBST) pattern is not permanent and it will change over time. For example, young people will have finer (
In this paper, we study the use of HBST for personal identification and gender classification. To this end, an HBST imaging device was designed to capture HBST images. Since HBST is a type of fine scale feature, a high resolution (about 450 dpi) is set to capture the detailed texture patterns in hand back images. Different from the method in [
By using the designed HBST imaging device (please refer to Section 2 for more details), an HBST image database is established, which consists of 1,920 images from 80 volunteers (160 hands). A texton learning based method is then proposed for HBST pattern classification. The HBST images are passed through a bank of filters, and a set of textons are learned from the filter responses with the sparse representation (SR) technique. Then, under the SR framework, the representation coefficient histograms of HBST images are computed and used for classification. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by using the established HBST database in comparison with state-of-the-art texture classification schemes, including the multi-fractal spectrum [
In summary, the major contributions of this work lie in that we developed the HBST imaging device, established an HBST dataset and proposed a sparse texton learning based HBST texture classification method. We validated that HBST pattern has potential to do personal identification and especially gender classification. In addition, as a special type of texture images, the established HBST dataset is very challenging, and it provides a good platform to evaluate and develop high performance texture feature extraction and classification algorithms.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 introduces the design and structure of the HBST imaging device. Section 3 presents in detail the process of texton learning and feature extraction for HBST classification. In Section 4, the proposed method is validated on the established HBST database for personal identification and gender classification. Section 5 concludes the paper.
schematic diagram of the major components of the developed hand back skin texture (HBST) imaging system is shown in
The texture pattern of human hand back skin can only be clearly observed in a relatively fine scale. In order to capture the HBST image in a high enough resolution while avoiding the HBST image size to be too big, the focal of the lens should be carefully designed. In our imaging system, due to the limited distance between the camera and the hand back, we chose to use a 12 mm focal length lens to capture the HBST images. Further reduction in the focal length will distort the captured image. The size of the CCD output image is 576 × 768 (the raw image is saved in the 24-bitmap format and we convert it into 8-bit gray level image), and finally the HBST image is captured under a resolution of about 450 dpi. In designing our imaging device, we tested different resolution settings of the HBST image, and found the resolution of about 450 dpi can satisfy our requirements. If the resolution of the image is too low, the micro-structures such as wrinkles in the image cannot be captured clearly. If the resolution of the image is too high, the cost of the camera will be high and the computational cost will also increase. A resolution of 450 dpi is good enough to capture clear HBST images at a low cost.
In our HBST imaging system, since we use two pegs to fix the hand position, the top and bottom boundary of the captured skin texture image can be roughly fixed. Although the hand back skin can be viewed nearly as a 2D plane in the central part, the boundary part of the hand back can be quite distorted in the captured HBST image. In order to reduce the effect of the hand back boundary area on the later feature extraction and recognition procedures, we crop a sub-image from the captured raw image by removing the four boundary areas. Referring to
Texture classification is a classical topic in computer vision and pattern recognition. Although some well-known texture classification methods [
With a more careful look of the HBST images, we can observe some properties of the HBST patterns. First, there are no clear edges and corner points in the HBST images. Second, the HBST patterns are made up of some micro-cellular structures. Third, those micro-structures are generally distributed uniformly across the whole HBST image. Based on these observations, we choose to learn the micro-structures (
As in [
The MR8 filter bank [
When computing the MR8 filter bank responses, there are some pre-processing steps to follow in order to reduce some effects on feature extraction. Before convolving the original HBST image with the MR8 filter bank, all HBST images are normalized to have zero mean and unit standard deviation. This normalization can reduce the variations caused by illumination changes. After computing the MR8 filter responses, the filter response
SR reveals the fact that if the input signal is intrinsically sparse in some domain, it can be sparsely represented over the dictionary which can define the sparse domain. For a given signal
In the application of HBST analysis, the signal
The optimization problem in
In [
Denote by D
In the method of [
The alternating direction method in [
Obviously, most of the entries in
Finally, for each pixel at position
We denote by
The test HBST image
In order to evaluate the proposed HBST analysis method for personal identification and gender classification, we established an HBST image database using the developed HBST imaging device. Those HBST sample images were collected from 80 volunteers (160 hands), including 61 males and 19 females whose ages ranged from 20 to 50 years old.
The samples were collected in two different sessions. In each session, each person was asked to provide six left-hand and six right-hand HBST images, respectively. Therefore, 12 samples from one person were collected in each session. In total, the database contains 1,920 samples from 160 hand backs. The average interval between the first and second session is about 30 days, and the maximum and minimum intervals are 40 days and 14 days, respectively. In the following experiments, without specific instructions, we use the samples collected in the first session as the training set and the samples in the second session as the test set.
Due to the various difficulties in data collection (e.g., the funding support, the recruitment of volunteers,
In this section we aim to answer the question that whether HBST can be used as a kind of biometric trait to aid personal identification. To this end, we conducted five experiments using the proposed texton learning method with SR (TL_SR), and we compare the proposed TL_SR method to some representative texture classification methods such as the multi-fractal spectrum method [
In the first experiment, all classes of HBST images are involved. The left and right hand HBST images from the same person are taken as from different classes. Therefore, in this experiment, there are 160 classes and each class has six training and six test samples. Since the multi-fractal spectrum vector and the histogram generated by the original LBP method cannot characterize well the appearance (e.g., cell-like micro-structures) of skin texture, they lead to poor experimental results in our task. The multi-fractal spectrum and original LBP methods can only achieve the classification accuracy of 35.65% and 46.52%, respectively. Hence, in the following experiments, we only compare TL_SR with DLBP, CLBP and TL_KM.
The interesting HBST image classification accuracies validate that the proposed HBST identification system can well capture the characteristics of skin textures, allowing good discrimination between different classes. These results also suggest that human identification can be aided by HBST analysis.
In the second experiment, all HBST images are involved. Different from Experiment 1, here the left and right hand HBST images from the same person are viewed as from the same class. Therefore, in this experiment there are 80 classes and each class has 12 training and 12 test samples. The experimental results using the DLBP, CLBP, TL_KM and TL_SR method are compared in
The aim of this experiment is to evaluate the performance on the left and right hand HBST separately. For either left hand or right hand HBST images, there are 80 classes and 480 images in the training and test sets, respectively. The classification accuracies by different methods are listed in
In this experiment, we fuse the left-hand and right-hand HBST for identification. That is, both the left-hand and right-hand HBST samples of a person will be collected to identify his/her identity. Therefore, there are 480 pairs of left-hand and right-hand samples in the training set, which are from 80 subjects. In the test set there are also 480 pairs of HBST samples. For the left-hand and right-hand test samples, we calculate two distances
As we mentioned in the Introduction section, one goal of this work is to investigate whether hand back skin texture patterns can be used to aid other biometrics identifiers to improve personal identification accuracy. Therefore, in this experiment we fuse palmprint and HBST for personal identification. Since there are 160 hand backs (80 left hands and 80 right hands) in our HBST dataset, we randomly extract from the PolyU palmprint database [
We use the competitive code scheme [
As can be seen in
In our HBST database, there are 61 males and 19 females. In gender classification, there are only two classes: male and female. The samples from all the 61 male subjects are taken as the samples of the male class, and the samples from all the 19 females are taken as those of the female class. The 960 samples collected from the first session are used as the training set, and the other 960 samples from the second session are taken as test samples.
Moreover, in
Currently, compared with the biometric traits such as fingerprints, iris scans and palmprints,
Furthermore, as a specific type of texture images, the established HBST dataset can be used to test texture classification algorithms in the community of computer vision and pattern recognition. Different from the commonly used texture datasets such as UIUC [
It should be noted that although HBST analysis can assist personal identification and gender classification, there are some factors, such as hairs on skin and humidity of skin, to affect the performance of personal identification and gender classification. In our established HBST database, most of samples are collected from oriental people so that there are relatively few hairs on the hand back skin. In our future work, we will collect more samples from more subjects and investigate the influences of these factors on skin texture analysis. In addition, modeling skin texture over a long period is a challenging problem since there are large variations between skin textures in different ages. Hence, in the future we will study how to model skin texture over a long period more effectively to improve the performance of biometric tasks with skin texture analysis.
This paper studied the problem of using hand back skin texture (HBST) for assisting personal identification and gender classification. An effective skin texture imaging system was developed for capturing HBST images. Moreover, we employed the sparse representation (SR) technique to learn the dictionary of textons to model the HBST pattern. Then, based on the learned textons of HBST images, we extracted the SR coefficient histogram as feature for classification. To evaluate the performance of the proposed system, an HBST database was established, consisting of 1,920 images from 160 hands of 80 persons. Extensive experiments were conducted and the experimental results showed that human identification and gender classification can be aided by HBST analysis with good performance. In the future, more HBST samples need to be collected to verify the different aspects of HBST analysis and algorithm development. Meanwhile, some factors (hairs on the skin, humidity,
The schematic diagram of the developed hand back skin texture imaging system.
The MR8 filter bank.
The coefficient histograms of HBST images from different persons. (
Classification accuracies by competing methods. For one person, the left hand and right hand HBST images are viewed as from two different classes. Thus there are 160 classes in this experiment.
Classification accuracies by competing methods. For one person, the left hand and right hand HBST images are viewed as from the same class. Thus there are 80 classes in this experiment.
Classification accuracies on the left-hand HBST images.
Classification accuracies on the right-hand HBST images.
Classification accuracies by fusing the left hand and right hand HBST.
Classification accuracies by palmprint, HBST and the fusion of them.
Gender classification accuracies by different methods.
Numbers and rates of falsely classified male and female samples by the proposed TL_SR method.


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|Ray McGath Collection
|1937 – 2008 [1980's]
|Extent: 0.5 Linear Feet
|Accession Number: 2009.007
|Abstract: Contains a wide variety of materials relating to CCC work and men that worked for the CCC. Includes materials on CCC reunions from 1973-2008, photographs, artifacts, and other records.
|Processed by: Anthony Machiran, June, 2009
Repository: Special Collections and Archives, Southeast Missouri State University
Phone: (573) 651-2245; Fax: (573) 651-2666; Email: email@example.com
|Provenance: Donated by Ray McGath
|Citation: Ray McGath Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Southeast Missouri State University
|Restrictions: None
|Biographical Note
|Raymond McGath (1919- ) was born in Portageville, the son of a Southeast Missouri sharecropper. He joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1939 as a way to help support his family. He served first at Babler State Park, in Wildwood, Missouri, and then transferred closer to his home to New Madrid (Company # 3729). He left the CCC in 1941 in order to join the Navy, where he fought throughout World War II. He served in the Navy until 1946[?] as a signalman. After he left the Navy, McGath worked for several years at a gas company in Grand Junction, Colorado, but then returned to Southeast Missouri. McGath worked for over thirty years with the Missouri Natural Gas Company, Poplar Bluff, Missouri. McGath was married close to sixty years to wife, Wilma Lucille Million McGath. The couple had three sons. McGath currently resides in Poplar Bluff.
|Scope and Content Note
Includes journals, photographs, and a memory book from McGath's time at New Madrid Camp #3729, materials on CCC reunions from 1973-2008, artifacts, and other records. Of special note are the journals, as they contain a lot of information about what the men would expect when joining the camps, and also what the men were doing once they were working in the camps.
Also includes financial information on what the CCC spent money on for meals and reunions. The correspondence is mostly relates to mailing out invitations to members of the CCC for reunions.
In addition to archival records, the collection includes an oral history with McGath. Click here for a transcript of this interview.
|Archivists Note: Ray McGath also included materials given to him by Edward and Margie Fae Virgin, William B. Pinnell, and Cecil A. Westmoreland.
|Rules or Conventions: Finding Aid prepared using DACS
|Box 3198
|Folder 1
|1979 – 1993
|Folder 2
|1940 – 1991
|Folder 3
|Memory/ Information Book
|1937 - 1940
|Folder 4
|1979 – 1996
|Folder 5
|Reunion Information
|1979 – 2008
|Folder 6
|Newspaper/Magazine Clippings
|1982, 1991
|Folder 7
|1939 – 1940
|Folder 8
|1983, 2003
|Folder 9
|CCC Calendars
|1988, 1990, 1991, 1993


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Like most of the farmers in developing countries, farmers in
India also lack proper access to market information. Realizing this information
gap, a free SMS-based product called Fasal that connects rural farmers with
buyers and provides them with real-time price information in India is developed
by Intuit.
It facilitates the
relationship between sellers and buyers, whether through finding marketplaces
or determining market rates. The service uses complex matching algorithms to
ensure that the multiple service messages reach the farmer every day, providing
him with data so that he can make informed decisions. Itis rapidly becoming
popular among farmers in the Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh states with the
outreach count reaching to 9,24,838 and 8,000 new members joining the fasal
community every week.
Access the Fasal website here: fasal.intuit.com/index.html
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text: Swimming…Ah Natural: Tips on Protecting Hair From Chlorine & Salt Damage Photo Credit: Natural Chica I have decided to take swimming lessons again. Yes, I said again – because I've taken lessons numerous times before and made great progress but never got to the place where I felt 100% comfortable jumping into a pool, ocean, or lake. In retrospect, there are a couple of the reasons why I didn't learn as a child was, first of all neither of my parents swam and I also believe that dealing with a little girl's chlorine-filled hair once or twice a week was not something my mother was interested in dealing. I can understand that, I had a lot of hair back then and it was super thick. At any rate, I'm here in my 30s, I'm taking swimming lessons for the first time with natural hair. I've done a little research and found a great video from Naptural85 (one of my favourite youtubers) on how to protect your tress while swimming. The key seems to be filling your hair with water and conditioner to keep it moisturized, but also if your strands are already full of goodness, the chlorine will have a harder time penetrating them. I plan to try Napturals85 steps and hopefully my hair will survive my swimming adventures. 🙂 I'll keep you all posted. Swimming with Natural Hair | Protection from Chlorine and Salt Do you have swimming with natural hair tips? I'd love to hear them. Blessings and Curls, Canadian Curlie Comments comments September 11, 2012 by Canadian Curlie 0 comments 4552 viewson Community (Blog) Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus Pinterest Linkedin Mail this article Print this article Next: Hair Inspiration: Erykah Achebe Previous: Gabrielle Union Talks Shadeism, Self-Esteem & Love in Ebony Magazine's October 2012 Issue


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|Bicycling Street Smarts
Picture yourself on a city path. Suddenly, you notice that you're about to ride down a flight of stairs. Or you're riding on a country road and there's a bridge out just a few feet in front of you. In cases like these, your bike's brakes could save your life. But even if you don't have such a dramatic experience, you'll feel more confident and go faster if you're ready to stop quickly and smoothly.
It takes practice to get peak performance out of your brakes. You can't just jam them on and skid to a stop as in a car.
Your brakes must be in good condition to give you the most control. Good bicycle brakes work powerfully and smoothly. If your brakes are weak or grabby, it's time for an overhaul. But to get the quickest possible stop, you also need to understand weight transfer and how it affects your stopping.
When you're stopping - in a car, on a bicycle or on foot - your weight shifts to the front. You see this happen every day. When you're running and stop suddenly, you have to put a foot out in front of yourself to keep from toppling forward. In the same way, when you stop a car, it "nosedives" as more weight goes to the front wheels.
When stopping your bike, the weight also goes to the front wheel. Try a little experiment: Walk along next to your bicycle with your hands in their normal positions on the handlebars . Squeeze the front brake lever. The bicycle will stop quickly, but the rear wheel will rise off the ground.
Also try squeezing the rear brake lever. Braking will be weak, and the rear tire will
How, then, do you get a powerful stop without risk? There's a trick to learn. Use the rear wheel as a signal to tell you how hard to apply the front brake. You become an antilock braking system for your bicycle.
Practice on your bicycle in an empty parking lot. Squeeze the front lever three times as hard as the rear, at first lightly. Increase force on both brake levers at the same time.
For a powerful stop, squeeze the brake levers harder and harder - the front always three times as hard as the rear. The rear wheel will eventually skid. But by this time, most of the weight will be off the rear wheel, so it will skid only lightly. You won't wear a big bald spot in the rear tire - though you will feel and hear the skid.
The rear wheel's skidding is your signal to release the front brake a little, transferring weight toward the rear to reduce skidding and avoid pitchover. Once the rear wheel stops skidding, squeeze the front brake lever harder again. Continuously adjust the force on the front brake lever to keep the rear wheel from skidding constantly .
This is your braking technique for straight-ahead stops on clean, dry pavement. Under these conditions the front wheel will never skid, so you can adjust the front brake to keep the bike under control.
Also train yourself to release the brakes whenever the bicycle begins to go out of control. Practice only with great care in a quiet location. At a very low speed, 2 or 3 miles per hour, squeeze the front brake lever hard enough that the rear wheel begins to lift off the ground. Then release the brake lever instantly. Wear your helmet!
Braking technique is different when the road surface is slippery, or if you're turning. Under these conditions, the front wheel can skid. You must brake lightly and use the front brake less.
When turning, you may have a choice to swerve out of danger or stop - but don't try to do both at once. Practice braking on turns and slippery surfaces to get a feel for these conditions.
On a long, steep downhill grade, use both brakes equally to control speed and avoid overheating either rim. If the slope is extremely steep, the risk of pitchover is increased, so ride slowly to avoid the need for a quick stop.
Rear wheel brake only? Not!
Some bicycles have only a coaster brake on the rear wheel. Others have a "fixed gear" – the cranks always turn when the rear wheel turns, and braking is by pushing back against the turning pedals. These bicycles need twice the stopping distance of a bicycle with a front brake. Any brake will eventually fail mechanically in one way or another. With the coaster brake or fixed gear, it's usually by the chain's lengthening with wear and falling off. A coaster brake can overheat, and fixed-gear pedals can spin out of control on downhills. A front rim brake easily can be added to any bicycle. It is a wise investment.
Your training will pay off as you become more confident on your bike in all types of riding situations. You never know when you might have to stop - and the better you can stop, the more confidently you can go.


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Have you ever had one of those days you were unsure of? One where you didn't know how it was going to end. You hope for a just a good day, but by the time you lay down to go to sleep you realize it was life altering. That was the kind of day I had yesterday. It all started with a Latina Brunch at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Annual Conference. I was invited as a Toyota Latino Ambassador. The brunch, which included Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, was beyond inspiring, motivating, and all of the above.
After the brunch, I attended an Adelante Movement event, run by the one-and-only Nely Galan. My beautiful friend Kathy of CraftyChica.com was on a panel, along with other successful social media Latinas. After an afternoon of inspiration, I was invited to Nely Galan's home, where the photos below were taken. By the way, her home is stunning!
This is where the magic continued. I was surrounded by amazingly smart, brave, and successful people. People who have traveled on life's bumpy roads and lived to tell their story, start businesses, and conquer their fears. And all they want to do is empower and give back to the community that they are so passionate about. I had a personal moment while I sat their listening to them speak. I was reminded that life is too short to not be living and working towards your dream.
I know you were expecting just an old outfit post, but I wanted to share this moment with you. One that will bring much change to my life. A life that you're all a part of anyways. Thank you for joining me on this ride. And of course it helps that I was wearing an outfit yesterday that made me feel confident and comfortable.
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5 Best MLB Catches So Far This SeasonAn early look at the most impressive catches in baseball based on Catch Probability.
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Following Empire's all-singing, all dancing, ridiculously indispensible guide to Hollywood actor name pronunciation, here's an equally essential digest of those actors and actresses who have dared to establish careers under names that do not necessarily belong to them. Betty Perske? Johnny O'Keeffe? Phil Clapp? Bryan Trout? All await you among the 50 that follow…
Real name: William Henry Pratt
Reason for change: You'd think it was self-explanatory, but it was actually to avoid his family's embarrassment over his choice of career (his brothers were all in the British foreign service). He said he chose 'Boris' because it sounded exotic, and claimed that 'Karloff' was a Slavic branch on his family tree. His daughter said that was nonsense, so we may never know how he landed on it.
Real name: Nicolas Kim Coppola
Reason for change: In a word, nepotism. Keen to avoid accusations of securing an unfair Hollywood advantage via his Oscar-winning uncle Francis, he went incognito as Cage. Famously a comics geek, he lifted the name from Luke Cage, Marvel's hero-for-hire Power Man.
Real name: Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Reason for change: Audiences laughed at Caine's early 'Maurice Micklewhite' credits - as did The Muppets, years later (look at the names of the shops here at the 2.47 mark) - so he initially opted for 'Michael Scott' as "less risible", until the fact of another Michael Scott on (actor's union) Equity's books forced a rethink. From Caine's autobiography The Elephant To Hollywood: "I went and sat down on a bench in the middle of Leicester Square. I looked around at all the cinemas… and then I saw it. Humphrey Bogart, my hero, was starring in The Caine Mutiny. Caine I would be – because it was short, because it was easy to spell, because I was feeling very mutinous at the time…"
Real name: Allan Stewart Konigsberg
Reason for change: Jewish performers anglicising their names was simply the done thing in the '50s, "to simplify pronunciation, to enhance euphony [and] disarm bigotry". There are various stories about where 'Woody' came from. Allen says it came from his being handy with the wooden Stickball bat as a kid. A friend meanwhile, says he named himself after the dog belonging to his unrequited love Nancy Kreissman.
Real name: Adam Spiegel
Reason for change: Maybe to disguise the fact that he's related to the billionaire Spiegel catalogue dynasty. He started going by Spike Jonze in BMX and skateboard competitions as a yoot. The name itself seems to have been attached to him in reference to the comedy bandleader Spike Jones. Our guy's is a more sk8er boi spelling.
Real name: Ashley Tyler Ciminella
Reason for change: Judd's parents divorced when she was four, so she goes by the maiden name of her mother, country singer Naomi Judd. She didn't deliberately name herself after a Blue Peter presenter.
Real name: Blake Ellender Brown
Reason for change: Brown is the surname of Blake's father Ernie, who took the surname of his wife, Elaine Lively, when they got married. So legally you'd imagine 'Lively' actually is her name. But for some reason it isn't.
Real name: Archibald Leach
Reason for change: Grant worked as Archie Leech at the start of his career, but his name was deemed unacceptable by Paramount once he went under contract to them. He wanted to be 'Cary Lockwood' after the character in The Last Flight, but Paramount also nixed the Lockwood part. He chose Grant from a list they gave him, reasoning that the initials 'GC' had worked well enough for Gary Cooper. See also: John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda.
Real name: Olivia Jane Cockburn
Reason for change: Olivia says she became Wilde while still at school "as an homage to the writers in my family, many of whom created pen names for their careers" (her grandfather was the pseudonymous James Helvick, who wrote Beat The Devil). 'Wilde' came from Oscar, obvs.
Real name: Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo
Reason for change: Carrying on the family tradition. The first Alda was Alan's father, actor and singer Robert (born Alphonso Giuseppi Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo). Alda is a portmanteau of the first two letters of Alphonso and D'Abruzzo. We'd assume Alan chose 'Alan' as a more neutral 'Al' name than Alphonso.
Real name: Charles Dennis Buchinsky
Reason for change: He thought 'Buchinsky' sounded too Russian. 'Bronson' comes from Bronson Avenue in Hollywood, location of the famous gates of Paramount Studios.
Real name: Dirk Niewoehner
Reason for change: The A-Team's Face Man changed his name at the suggestion of his agent, presumably on the grounds of pronunciation and spelling. The story goes that Dirk ate some particularly good eggs Benedict at a restaurant on his way to signing up to the Screen Actors Guild. So he literally picked his new surname from a menu.
Real name: Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith
Reason for change: Sylveste McCoy (no 'R 'yet) was a character that the future Seventh Doctor and Radagast the Brown played in Ken Campbell's mad Roadshow act: given to setting his head on fire and hammering nails up his nose. His co-performer Brian Murphy came up with the name. Post-Campbell, McCoy just kept it, but added the R.
Real name: Michael Andrew Fox
Reason for change: There was already a Michael Andrew Fox in the Screen Actors Guild, and the Back To The Future star feared that calling himself Michael A. Fox might sound vain. He went for the initial 'J' instead, in homage to Bonnie & Clyde actor Michael J. Pollard. Pollard's stands for John. Fox's doesn't really stand for anything at all.
Real name: Eric Banadinovich
Reason for change: Bana is shorter.
Real name: Caryn Elaine Johnson
Reason for change: The name Whoopi apparently stems from her flatulent antics in early-career dressing rooms, whence her fellow cast mates dubbed her 'Whoopi Cushion'. However, fearing 'Cushion' was too daft a surname she opted for Goldberg instead. Various explanations for this include Goldberg's own claim that the name is genuinely "a part of my family somewhere", and the story that her mother thought a serious Jewish name would take her further in showbiz.
Real name: Chan Kong-sang
Reason for change: Chan briefly worked construction in Australia in his early 20s, hanging around a lot with a co-worker called Jack and thereby earning himself the nickname 'Little Jack'. That then became Jackie, and stuck.
Real name: Bernard Schwartz
Reason for change: Curtis, who served on submarines in WWII, says he "despised the name Schwarz and its German ancestry" during the '30s and '40s, so changed it when he went under contract to Universal. He initially went by 'Anthony', which he got from Hervey Allen's adventure melodrama Anthony Adverse: "the first novel I ever read". Curtis, he says, in an anglicised version of 'Kurtz', a name from his mother's side of the family.
Real name: Winona Laura Horowitz
Reason for change: It's not really clear what was wrong with 'Horowitz', but the stage name 'Ryder' was an impromptu decision. Her father Michael Horowitz happened to be listening to a Mitch Ryder album, when Winona's agent called to ask what name she wanted in the credits of 1986 teen romance Lucas.
Real name: Jerome Silberman
Reason for change: Having decided he'd prefer a stage name, Wilder got 'Gene' from Eugene Gant, a character in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. 'Wilder' he took from American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder.
Real name: David John McDonald
Reason for change: The old actors' union chestnut: another David McDonald on the books at Equity. Tennant opted for 'Tennant' in homage to his favourite Scottish lager Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys.
Real name: Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm
Reason for change: Another name clash: there was another Peter Storm at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden when Stormare arrived. He seems to have arrived at his new surname as a sort of process of escalation: it translates as something like 'Stormer'. He apparently considered Mrots Retep (Peter Storm backwards) for a while.
Real name: Simon John Beckingham
Reason for change: No great mystery. Pegg's parents divorced when he was seven, and when his mother remarried he took his stepfather's name. Which is cool, because The Beckinghamster doesn't have quite the same ring as The Peggster.
Real name: James Todd Smith
Reason for change: Showbiz rapper bravado. Not, as David Baddiel has suggested, short for Lionel Lionel Cool J, his moniker is a reduction of Ladies Love Cool James. As we've seen, Michael J. Fox was wary of dubbing himself 'A. Fox'. No such concerns for LL.
Real name: John Charles Carter
Reason for change: You'd think being the namesake of an Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian superhero would be cool, but even before his stage name, John Carter went by variations of his middle name: Chuck and Charlie. 'Charlton Heston' is derived from his mother's maiden name and his stepfather's surname.
Real name: Frances Ethel Gumm
Reason for change: Frances, Mary Jane and Dorothy performed for a time as vaudeville dancers The Gumm Sisters, before tittering audiences (and at least one mis-billing as 'The Glum Sisters') prompted a name change. 'Judy' certainly came from a Hoagy Carmichael song popular at the time. The origin of 'Garland' is less clear. It was either after Carole Lombard's character in Twentieth Century, the drama critic Robert Garland, or because their father once said the girls looked "prettier than a garland of flowers".
Real name: Eric Marlon Bishop
Reason for change: Foxx adopted his stage name in 1989 when he started playing comedy clubs. He hit on 'Jamie' as something gender ambiguous, having noted that female performers usually got called to the stage first. 'Foxx' is a tribute to comedy legend Redd Foxx.
Real name: Frederick Austerlitz
Reason for change: At their mother's suggestion, Fred and his sister Adele adopted a new surname, fearing that their real one sounded too militaristic (it's a famous Napoleonic battle). 'Astaire' possibly comes from an uncle whose name was L'Astaire, though it seems that might be family myth.
Real name: Michael T. Williamson
Reason for change: On the surface simply a creative re-spelling of 'Michael T'. The story goes, however, that he was dubbed 'Mykelti' by his grandfather, and that the name is Blackfoot Indian, meaning 'Spirit' or 'Silent Friend'.
Real name: Althea Rae Janairo
Reason for change: 'Tia' is obviously a shortened 'Althea': it's apparently the only way her younger sister could pronounce the name when she was little. She describes herself as being of "Filipino, Spanish and Chinese descent, raised in Hawaii', and took the stage-name 'Carrere' as a homage to Nicaraguan Bond girl Barbara Carrera. Just to be confusing, Asia Carrera took her name from Tia, but spells it Barbara's way. And Barbara's real surname is Kingsbury. Carrera was her mother's maiden name.
Real name: Joseph Yule Jr.
Reason for change: The 'Mickey' comes from the 78 comedy shorts Rooney starred in as 'Mickey McGuire' between 1927 and 1936 – he even legally changed his name to Mickey McGuire for a short time to (unsuccessfully) try and stave off a law suit from the owners of the comic strip on which the films were based. He was always Mickey from then on, although he wasn't allowed to keep on using the McGuire bit. His mother suggested 'Mickey Looney', but he altered it to Rooney, feeling it slightly more sensible.
Real name: Jean-Claude Camille Francois Van Varenberg
Reason for change: Fearing that Van Varenberg was too unwieldy for his intended American audiences, Van Damme initially opted for 'Frank Cujo' until association with Stephen King's rabid St. Bernard made it untenable. He retuned to his original first name, and rightly hit on 'Van Damme' as a punchier surname, although its origin is disappointingly ordinary: it comes from a friend of his father.
Real name: Susan Alexandra Weaver
Reason for change: Perhaps thinking 'Susan Weaver' was not a name that would stand out on a marquee, the future Ripley started going by 'Sigourney' in 1963. She lifted it from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Sigourney Howard is Jordan Baker's never-seen aunt.
Real name: James Scott Bumgarner
Reason for change: Nobody likes 'Bum' in their name, although the decision was actually made for him. Warner Bros. credited him as 'Garner' in Toward The Unknown without even asking him. He was clearly fine with it though, and later dropped the 'Bum' legally.
Real name: O'Shea Jackson
Reason for change*:* 'O'Shea Jackson' wouldn't have looked right in an NWA line-up that also included Dr Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella, Arabian Prince and, later, MC Ren. Cube says the name came from "My brother, when I was little, because I was too cool for my age. I was always trying to talk to his women."
Real name: Philip John Clapp
Reason for change: A surname that sounds like an STD is clearly not a good idea for showbiz, hence the adoption of his middle name and his hometown, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Real name: Arthur Stanley Jefferson
Reason for change: Laurel headed for the American vaudeville stage (in the Fred Karno troupe, along with Charlie Chaplin) as Stan Jefferson in 1910. He apparently dropped that moniker due to superstition, realising that it had 13 letters. He's thought to have picked Laurel at the suggestion of his commonlaw wife Mae, who was inspired by a picture of a Roman general wearing a laurel wreath.
Real name: Betty Joan Perske
Reason for change: Howard Hawks changed Betty Perske's un-glamorous name when he cast her in To Have And Have Not, as part of "building" the unknown model into a star from the ground up. Bacall was her mother's maiden name (actually Weinstein-Bacal, but she too changed it to Bacall later), and Hawks must just have liked 'Lauren'.
Real name: Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiminez
Reason for change: Reno was born in Casablanca, Morocco, where his Spanish-Andalusian parents had fled to North Africa to escape Franco's dictatorship. They relocated again in 1965, this time to Paris, where Reno attended drama school and began his acting career. So the process here is basically the Gallicising of his Spanish-sounding name. Juan becomes Jean, and Reno takes the weight for the rest.
Real name: Ramon Antonio Gerardo Estevez
Reason for change: Finding that his genuine moniker was attracting prejudice at auditions, Ramon felt a stage name was in order. He chose 'Martin' after Robert Dale Martin, the CBS casting executive. 'Sheen' comes from the Catholic televangelist Fulton J. Sheen, whom Estevez considered 'a magnificent actor'. He's since said he regrets not sticking with his family name, and that the change disappointed his father. His son Emilio, of course, kept it, while Charlie Sheen has just been "introduced" as 'Carlos Estevez' in Machete Kills.
Real name: Natalie Hershlag
Reason for change: Natalie did some early childhood work as Hershlag, but adopted 'Portman' for Luc Besson's Leon. She says she took on the stage name for the privacy of her family. 'Portman' is the maiden name of her paternal grandmother.
Real name: Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra
Reason for change: Divorce again. Ryan's parents separated when she was 16, so Ryan opted to use her mother's maiden name professionally. Her brother Andrew of the folk-rock band Billy Pilgrim, kept the Polish Hyra.
Real name: Maud Solveig Christina Wikstrom
Reason for change: The former model and twice Bond girl (much beloved of Roger Moore, who names her his favourite) still goes by the surname of her first husband, the photographer Roy Adams, though they divorced in 1975. She's now married to retired judge Charles Rubin.
Real name: Elizabeth Irene Mitchell
Reason for change: The Screen Actors Guild. Banks was forced to change her name because Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell, four years her senior, was already on the books. She says she wanted a single-syllable surname to contrast with the longer Elizabeth, "so I made a list and then alphabetised it, and Banks was the first one on the list. And I called SAG and they said it was available, so I said, 'I'll take it!' I just wanted it over with!"
Real name: Virginia Katherine McMath
Reason for change: The future dancing partner of Frederick Austerlitz was dubbed 'Ginger' in childhood by her younger sister, who could only approximate 'Ginga' for Virginia. The surname was her stepfather's: her mother remarried when Ginger was nine.
Real name: Bonnie Bedelia Culkin
Reason for change: See what she did there? The sister of Kit Culkin and aunt of McCauley, Kieran and Rory, simply dropped the 'Culkin', presumably to carve a niche separate to her acting sibling's.
Real name: Bryan Ray Trout
Reason for change: Bryan Trout? C'mon. 'Skeet' is a nickname the actor picked up in childhood, playing little-league baseball: his coach dubbed him 'Skeeter' (diminutive/slang for 'mosquito') because he was small and skinny. 'Ulrich' comes from his stepfather, the NASCAR owner and driver DK Ulrich.
Real name: Thomas Michael Moore
Reason for change: There was another Tom Moore in the Actors' Equity Association (the stage version of SAG), so change was necessary. He adopted 'Berenger' from his best friend at high school (actually Behringer).
Real name: Robert Bartleh Cummings
Reason for change: The rocker-turned-director's original band was White Zombie, so as frontman and founder, 'Rob Zombie' was how he became known (see also Dani Filth, Clint Poppie, Monk Lewis etc.). Like Alice Cooper, he kept the name into his solo career. His wife Sheri Moon Zombie was born Sheri Lyn Skurkis, and his brother Michael David Cummings is Spider One from the industrial metal band Powerman 5000.
Real name: Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keeffe
Reason for change: He says he wanted to make a distinction between the public Jonathan Rhys Meyers, "this different person who I suppose doesn't really exist", and the private Johnny O'Keefe, "who sits at home and plays his guitar badly". 'Meyers' is his mother's maiden name. It's unclear where the 'Rhys' comes from.


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Sprott Inc. (SII) Given Consensus Recommendation of "Hold" by Brokerages
Shares of Sprott Inc. (TSE:SII) have received an average recommendation of "Hold" from the seven analysts that are covering the company, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Seven investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation. The average 12-month price target among brokers that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is C$2.58.
A number of equities research analysts have commented on the company. TD Securities increased their price target on Sprott from C$2.50 to C$2.75 and gave the company a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, May 11th. BMO Capital Markets increased their price target on Sprott from C$2.25 to C$2.50 and gave the company a "market perform" rating in a research note on Thursday, May 11th. Desjardins cut Sprott from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Friday, June 30th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada reiterated a "sector perform" rating and issued a C$2.50 price target on shares of Sprott in a research note on Tuesday, April 11th.
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Quote Of The Day: Is Nora Ephron A Pessimist? Or A Realist?
"If you want to be a successful and you are a woman, you have to understand that there's all kinds of horrible stuff that comes with it and you simply cannot do anything about it but move on."
—Nora Ephron, director of "Julie & Julia," "Sleepless In Seattle," "You've Got Mail"…and basically every other chick flick you've ever seen. [The New Yorker]


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Scones really might be my favorite kind of pastry. I'm sort of a pastry connoisseur, but I try to keep the enjoyment of them to a minimum because well, they're not usually the most healthy. BUT, you gotta have a little fun in life.
A few weekends ago I had finished a 3 mile run + yoga and was doing chores around the house and had a hankering to do a little baking. It was the day before the Peterson Ridge 20 miler, so carb loading was an added plus.
I opened feedly and what do you know, Averie Cooks had just posted a berry scone recipe and I happened to have all the ingredients!
Luckily, I almost always have a bag of frozen berries on hand {because I'm obsessed}, so I pulled the berries, butter and all the other goodness out and got to work.
To note: for scones, the berries and butter are best when kept cold until ready for use. That way, your berries stay in tact when you mix them in and the butter makes for lighter {go figure}, flakier scones.
*I did a little internet research and it sounds like cold butter basically melts inside your pastry in the oven, opening up pockets of space in the scone, therefore making it flakier. Interesting!
Very Berry Carb Loading Scones
2 cups all purpose flour (I like Bob's Red Mill or King Arthur)
1/2 cup white sugar (or slightly less)
1 Tbsp baking powder
pinch of salt
1/2 cup of unsalted butter (keep it in the fridge until needed)
1 large egg
1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup frozen mixed berries
turbinado/raw sugar for sprinkling
The recipe also called for lemon zest and a glaze, but I think these are perfect without all of that. I also went slightly less on the butter and sugar because that's how I roll.
1. Preheat your oven to 400F. Get out your silpat baking mat and cookie sheet, or add parchment paper if you don't have a baking mat.
2. Mix all dry ingredients together in a large bowl. {I subbed in 1/4 cup of rolled oats for a 1/4 cup of the total flour to health these up a bit.}
3. Grab your stick of butter (or slightly less in my case), and use a fork or pastry cutter to work in the butter until it is in small chunks throughout the flour mixture. You may need to use your hands to get the butter a bit smaller, but once the chunks are about pea size, you're good to go.
4. In a smaller bowl, mix the egg, vanilla and greek yogurt together until smooth.
5. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry, being careful not to overmix as it will make for tough scones. I had to add a splash of almond milk here because my dough did not have enough moisture.
6. Fold in your berries, being careful not to smash them too much.
7. Flour a clean dry surface or a separate cookie sheet to roll out your dough. Carefully roll out the dough to a 8-inch round circle. Then use a knife to cut your scones into 8 even wedges.
8. Transfer the scones to your baking sheet with the silpat mat or parchment paper. Carefully separate the wedges so there are about 2 inches between each scone as they'll grow while baking.
9. Finally, sprinkle a little turbinado sugar on top of each scone and bake for 15-18 minutes, or until light brown. Let cool for a few minutes before eating or transferring to a baking rack.
10. Best when eaten warm, but may be stored in an airtight container for a few days or saved in the freezer.
These scones are sweet enough on their own and perfect with your morning coffee or tea, or as a treat after a hard workout.
The last time I wrote about scones on blog, it looks like they were blueberry lemon zest. Clearly, I have a thing for berries.


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Sennheiser Implements Groundbreaking Anti-Counterfeit Technologies in Consumer Products, Packaging
Sennheiser Continues Aggressive Anti-Counterfeiting Measures with New Security Label, Protecting Customers and Ensuring Product Authenticity
"These security labels offer an incomparable level of protection against counterfeit for our customers by using visible and hidden security features," said Volker Bartels, president of corporate services and spokesperson for Sennheiser's executive management board. "The new security labels offer a clear benefit to customers in terms of transparency, as well as being quick and straightforward."
Visible and hidden protection against counterfeiting
Each label is unique and has special features – both visible and invisible. For example, the tesa® PrioSpot shows up in different colors under direct light. Additionally, the last digit of the security code is repeated in an enlarged format. By using the code on the security label, customers can quickly and easily check online whether the product is a Sennheiser original or not. Authentication can be carried out at any stage of the purchasing process, regardless of whether the product has already been bought or is still in the store.
All that is required to verify a genuine Sennheiser product is a visit to the www.qr-sennheiser.com website, where a user simply enters the ID number printed on the security label. By doing so, a user can compare the security features and code on the product itself to those displayed on the website, and then immediately receive a declaration of authenticity.
Simple authentication by smartphone or tablet
Another practical way of product verification comes in the form of a smartphone application. By simply scanning the security label's QR code using a smartphone or tablet, a user can initiate the authentication process without manually browsing to the site. Additionally, there is no need to enter the ID since it is picked up automatically.
While the new labels represent a powerful new weapon against counterfeiting, Sennheiser recommends that customers continue to purchase only from authorized Sennheiser dealers to ensure warranty coverage; also because there are still many products on the market which have not yet been labeled with the new technology.
Another milestone against counterfeiting
The new technology represents the latest milestone Sennheiser has taken in its unrelenting effort to combat product piracy and illegal counterfeiting activities in recent years. "These new labels demonstrate that Sennheiser is taking the next step in customer and brand protection and that we are committed to taking an active position against product piracy that goes beyond talking," said Volker Bartels.
Last April, Sennheiser partnered with channel management solutions developer Channel IQ to implement an innovative badging program for its network of authorized e-commerce dealers. In September of last year, the company filed its first wave of federal lawsuits in the United States District Court for the Central District of California targeting a number of Internet based pirates and counterfeiters located throughout the United States who are engaged in the sale of counterfeit Sennheiser branded merchandise.
Sennheiser is a world leading manufacturer of high performance and best-selling headphones and microphones, considered indispensable among music lovers, audiophiles, recording studios, sound professionals, custom-installers and home theatre enthusiasts. Sennheiser products feature superb sound reproduction quality, making them first choice for many high-profile recording artists.
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Sennheiser is a world-leading manufacturer of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems. Established in 1945 in Wedemark, Germany, Sennheiser is now a global brand represented in 60 countries around the world with U.S. headquarters in Old Lyme, Conn. Sennheiser's pioneering excellence in technology has rewarded the company with numerous awards and accolades including an Emmy, a Grammy, and the Scientific and Engineering Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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The Azle News offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 28-29, so its employees may celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with their families.
We here at the News are thankful for the community in which we live, its rich heritage and the wonderful people we serve, and we wish each of you a blessed and peaceful Thanksgiving.
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Matt Cavenaugh (Mark) and Kathy Brier (Marcie). Gotta wonder what they're up to.
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Italian and French architect Marina Sciarrino is the designer of Petsmood, a new line of ultra-modern European pet furniture. These pieces are much more like architecture than pet beds and they demonstrate how beautifully cat furniture can integrate into a modern home.
There are several cat-specific designs in the collection: Saltato, a multi-level perch with elegant wood grain laminate options; Intellato, a sleek climbing tower; and Librato, a room divider that is perfect for kitties. I can't think of a more elegant way to divide a space.
Other designs in the collection include several modern pet beds that integrate human seating or a surface that can be used as a side table. Prices range from 1300 € to 2500 € and it looks like these items are only available in Europe at the moment, but we can all daydream about owning them someday.
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Subject: Re: [S-I] Zotero Group created
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:26:21 +0000 (UTC)
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Congrats -- hopefully it gets easier or it could be as awful as manually creating footnotes and bibliographies, though it is hard to imagine much more awful.....I got a book with a thousand footnotes and man, is it awful to try to work into shape. Once Word made all the footnotes number 1. Now that was a bad day...... Oh, and then you redo the chapter and the Ibids get screwed up. I decided to never use ibids. I think it is Latin for "Lost Reference" <grin>.
I tried to yank metadata out of a PDF file, had to download two more plugins (automatically -- it was easy) and then it said the document didn't have info embedded in it. Oh Well! A history of the Sewickly Presbyterian church that I found.....
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924029488735/cu31924029488735_djvu.txt .
Linda Merle
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From: "Nancy Elder Petersen" <>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 10:02:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [S-I] Zotero Group created
Hi Ann,
Hooray, success - I saved a book!
I had started my browser again,
made sure I was logged into Google,
then into Zotero,
clicked on menu item for "My LIBRARY,"
made a new category, ELDER BOOKS, so that was
the last item on the list of choices to save.
I searched for the book "Pennsylvania Genealogies" by Egle.
I knew it was a Google Book and found it just fine.
Then when I clicked on the faded entry: "Add to Bookshelf", I could
click on "ELDER BOOKS", and
also could see the SAVE box at the end of the left column of choices.
It Worked!
Nancy Elder Petersen
Volunteer Host, ELDER DNA project
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> Nancy said: Hi Linda,
> Thanks for setting up the SI Zotero Group.
> I have registered at Zotero,
> and subscribed to the library contents feed today.
> How do you do that?
> What happens if you do that?
> Linda, could you slow down just a bit in describing what
> you are doing. I
> think more of us could keep up and contribute if we get a
> bit more of a
> step-by-step description of what to do for a while until we
> learn this.
> It looks like a great project and you have 7 members
> already!
> Ann Lamb
> PS, Don't forget to plant your peas tomorrow. It's
> Washington's birthday.
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