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Thank you - but if you saw the size of Pumpkin - she is about 10 times the size of this little kitty but she too likes to sit in the sun - between lying in the sun and eating in the sun!!
Brie - your cat's picture makes the two of them look like family!
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Transcynd is an Upcoming Music App that You Can Interact With
There has been tons of music apps on the App Store and jailbreak tweaks that are really creative in the sense that they juice up the music listening experience from both visual and practical perspectives. Yet could I find a rather all-in-one music player that fulfills my needs: 1) Sharing music with album artwork; 2) Color-change based on album artwork; 3) Minimal and intuitive to use, until I received a copy of Transcynd from Compatic Arts.
Transcynd is a Music Player that is well-designed and offers important functionalities within your finger touch. The core of the user interface is Cards. There are three of them – Control, Lyrics and Share Cards. This is the first time that I try out players with this special design that is very intuitive to me and easy to use and assess what and where I need to.

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New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday greeted the people of the east African country of Uganda on the eve of their independence day.
"On behalf of the government, the people of India and on my own behalf, I have great pleasure in conveying to you and to the government and the people of the Republic of Uganda, my felicitations and good wishes on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of your Independence," Mukherjee said in a message to his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
India and Uganda have traditionally shared warm and friendly relations, deeply rooted in their historical linkages and strong bilateral ties, he added.
Both countries were moving ahead together on the path of development and growth, Mukherjee said, adding: "Both our countries cherish the goals of democracy and inclusive development. The commonality of views of our two countries in various multilateral fora has further cemented our relationship.
"We look forward to continuing our multi-sectoral cooperation and further strengthening our relations in the coming years to the mutual benefit of the peoples of our two countries," he said.
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Carey Price is Out and Somehow it's Still Boston's Fault
Has Chris Kreider been arrested in Montreal yet?
Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price is out for the remainder of the Eastern Conference finals against the New York Rangers, coach Michel Therrien announced Monday. The lower body injury comes two days after Montreal's 7-2 loss in Game 1, a game in which New York's Kreider collided with the Habs netminder. Price was pulled after two periods, allowing four goals on only 20 Rangers shots.
Peter Budaj will likely get the start in net for the Canadiens in Monday's Game 2.
"I'm really disappointed," Therrien said. "Obviously he's our best player. Looking at the incident, it's a reckless play. That's the truth."
Hmm. It's also the truth that Alexei Emelin's stick knocked Kreider off balance, but hey, respect and all, Montreal.
Decide for yourself.
Krieder also had a similar incident against Craig Anderson last year.
Of course, Kreider was born in Boxford, and played hockey at Phillips Academy and Boston College before being drafted by the Rangers in 2009. Somehow, Canadiens fans still have reason to blame Boston for something.
Kreider should receive an interesting welcome when the teams face off Monday night at the Bell Center.


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Garimala and the Four Archers
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 110.0 × 99.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Borroloola, Northern Territory
- Accession Number
- 1996.124
- Department
- Indigenous Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Beverly and Anthony Knight, Fellows, 1996
© Reproduced courtesy of the Estate of Ginger Riley Munduwalawala & Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
- Gallery location
- Not on display
- Physical description
- The artist depicts Garimala, a King Brown snake, the main ancestral creator of his mother country who through writhing and circling formed the hills known as the Four Arches on the Limmen Bight River in South East Arnhem Land. Garimala is shown rising up from a waterhole created by the male/female snake near the Four Arches. The snake disappeared under the water, transforming itself into a rainbow serpent and then in the guise of Wawalu laid some eggs which are still there next to the river. The eggs which have never hatched are so heavy that it is difficult to lift them.


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I normally don't leave reviews, but in this case, feel compelled. My 3 1/2 year old daughter had a miserable time coming off of topical steroids prescribed for treating 'moderate-severe' eczema. She was itchy 24/7 for about 5 months until the introduction of Hay Fairy. Hay Fairy came highly recommended by a Dr. who had great success with it in treating patients with eczema and asthma. My daughter suffered from allergies on top of her eczema/red skin syndrome. Don't let the name fool you. The main ingredient in this product is very well known and goes back thousands of years.I do believe Hay Fairy dramatically decreased my daughter's unbearable itch and helped with allergies. She stayed on it for 4 months and as of last month no longer has to take it(for now - we shall see).I was told that it works for some people and not for others,but that you should know within 2-3 weeks whether or not it is working.Noorherbals stands behind all their products with a 100% money back guarantee so if it doesn't work within 2-3 wks, you have nothing to lose.The one bad thing is that the ingredients are extremely bitter.We had to break the capsules up as my daughter was too young to swallow the pill. It was bitter no matter what we put it in so I had to bribe her with a treat every time. Best wishes.


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Even in limited snaps, Chargerstight end Antonio Gates is still not sure how he made it through Sunday's game against the Colts.
The sharp, cutting pain from the torn plantar fascia in his right foot kept him from feeling like Superman on the football field. Whether he dresses this Sunday running routes like a mere mortal again, the superstar says he is unsure.
On Wednesday, the always candid Gates hosted what has informally become a weekly injury summit with reporters inside the Chargers locker room. This time, he spoke for nearly a full 10 minutes about his decision to face the Colts and now the Raiders, calling the latter choice "undecided."
"I have to try to make a decision week by week about what games I feel like me being out there is beneficial for the team," Gates said. "I just felt the Colts game was a big game on the road, and me being out there, maybe they draw their attention to me and allow other guys to get singled up. Whether or not that worked, I'm still not sure that was the case."
If Gates is picking and choosing when to play based on matchup, it would not be a surprise if he ultimately chooses to rest on Sunday with a crucial game against the AFC West-leading Kansas City Chiefs looming next week.
He said he will gain a better sense of his playing status for the Raiders game after he tests his foot on Friday and sees how it feels on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
"I don't want this to be a constant lingering thing throughout the season," Gates said. "...I think that's my motive because I think that's what's best for the team. ...Instead of being 60, 60, 60 (percent) all the way through the whole season, I want to eventually get to the point where I'm 100 percent and I can play at the level I know I can play at."


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Quiltessential : A Visual Directory of Contemporary Patterns, Fabrics and Colours Paperback
by Erin Harris
How do you match different fabric types together? How much backing fabric does a quilt need? Which fabrics are likely to cause allergies, run in the wash, pucker, or skip stitches?
How do pattern styles work? What shapes complement one another? What are warm and cool colours and how do you pick accent colours from prints?
Much more than just a book of designs and projects to follow, Quiltessential is a quick-reference directory of fabric types, colour combinations, block settings, and piecing styles that shows you how to design your own quilting patterns from the limitless combinations on offer. The book is divided into sections on fabric, colour, design, and assembly.
Each section offers clear advice accompanied by illustrations, photos, charts, and tables, arming you with everything you need to know to design your own quilts.
Profiles of contemporary fabric designers, quilters, and sewing virtuosos provide insights, advice and stunning inspiration to demonstrate how this traditional craft is being reinvented by a new wave of artisans.
Tapping into the aesthetic of designers such as Amy Butler, Marimekko and Cath Kidston, Quiltessential acknowledges the highly design-savvy audience that is taking over the quilting world and provides an indispensable worktop reference for modern quilters, sewers, and crafters.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208 pages, 300 colour images
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date: 10/10/2013
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Taco Bell helicopters 10,000 tacos to Bethel, Alaska after hoax
July 3, 2012
By Tiffany Hsu
As far as customer service stunts go, this one was pretty epic: A helicopter sent to a remote Alaska town bearing a Taco Bell truck, itself bearing ingredients for 10,000 Doritos Locos tacos. The 6,200 townspeople of Bethel in the distant western stretches of the state got the long-distance delivery after the Irvine-based fast-food company took pity on them. Last month, fliers trumpeting the chain's debut in Bethel got residents salivating. After all, cheap Mexican-style food in the land of sled dogs and sub-zero temperatures isn't exactly easy to come by. The nearest Taco Bell is some 400 miles away in Anchorage.
Suspect in planting of hoax bomb at Boston Marathon route due in court
April 16, 2014
By Michael Muskal
A 25-year-old man who describes himself as a performance artist will be arraigned Wednesday on charges in connection with a hoax bomb placed at the site where two bombs exploded last year at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 260. Kevin "Kayvon" Edson will be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court, Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office in Boston, told the Los Angeles Times...
Thomas Pynchon Twitter account is a hoax
September 16, 2013
By Carolyn Kellogg
If publicity-averse Thomas Pynchon decided to come out of seclusion, would he do it on Twitter? With an account named @PynchonOfficial? No, says his publisher. "It's a fake," Penguin Press Vice President Tracy Locke confirmed via email. The fake Pynchon Twitter account launched Sept. 3. Although it has posted only a handful of tweets, it included the sensational "'Bleeding Edge' is my last book. I'm done with fiction. T.P. " Remember: Fake. Pynchon is the 76-year-old author of "Gravity's Rainbow," which won the National Book Award in 1974.
USGS warns of hoax earthquake letter in Southern California
March 31, 2014
By Robert J. Lopez
Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey were advising Southern California residents Monday evening about a hoax letter that is warning of an "impending large quake. " The letter with the agency's logo was apparently being sent to residents in Orange County, urging them to be prepared for a large quake. "California is issuing a statewide warning," the letter states. The agency advises residents to check the USGS website for the latest earthquake information. The letter comes in the wake of Friday's 5.1 magnitude temblor centered in La Habra.
Manti Te'o hoax: Alleged participant lived in Palmdale
January 17, 2013
By Houston Mitchell
Some of the key participants in the alleged Notre Dame star Manti Te'o-dead girlfriend hoax, have ties right here in the Southland. Lennay Kekua, Te'o's girlfriend, who apparently never existed, supposedly lived in Carson. Deadspin.com, which broke the girlfriend hoax story, first became suspicious when they called several mortuaries in and around the Carson area and dicsovered none of them had heard of Kekua. "We called all the mortuaries in Carson and they had no information," said Deadspin.com editor Timothy Burke in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Philadelphia plane threat called hoax; man questioned was victim
September 6, 2012
By Michael Muskal
A security threat that forced an airliner to return to Philadelphia was a hoax, officials said on Thursday. US Airways Flight 1267 was an hour en route to Dallas when authorities recalled the plane because of a report that a suspicious item containing liquid explosives had been placed on the airliner. The craft, carrying 74 passengers and crew members, was returned to Philadelphia where it was searched and found to be free of any explosive material, FBI Special Agent Frank Burton Jr. said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times.
FBI investigating hijacking hoax involving Alaska Airlines flight
January 18, 2013
By Michael Muskal
Military jets scrambled Thursday night and escorted a flight from Hawaii to Seattle after receiving a hoax call that there was a hijacker aboard. The FBI interviewed one of the passengers aboard the Alaska Airlines flight from Kona, Hawaii, but no arrest was expected, officials told reporters, according to the Associated Press. The incident was being investigated as a hoax, FBI spokesman Tom Simon in Honolulu told reporters there. Two F-15 jets from the Oregon Air National Guard escorted Flight 819 in to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after a threat call was received at the Honolulu FBI office in the afternoon.
USGS warns of hoax earthquake letter in Southern California
March 31, 2014
By Robert J. Lopez
Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey were advising Southern California residents Monday evening about a hoax letter that is warning of an "impending large quake. " The letter with the agency's logo was apparently being sent to residents in Orange County, urging them to be prepared for a large quake. "California is issuing a statewide warning," the letter states. The agency advises residents to check the USGS website for the latest earthquake information. The letter comes in the wake of Friday's 5.1 magnitude temblor centered in La Habra.
Philadelphia plane hoax: Victim is arrested on unrelated charges
September 7, 2012
By Michael Muskal
Christopher Shell celebrated his 29th birthday as the victim of a security hoax that forced authorities to order his flight back to Philadelphia . He celebrated the day after his birthday in custody in Texas on unrelated misdemeanor drug charges. Shell was turned over to Collin County authorities in Texas on Friday morning, officials said. He was being held on two misdemeanor warrants, possession of a controlled substance and possession of less than two ounces of marijuana, Lt. John Norton said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Story about scorned dentist appears to be a hoax
May 9, 2012
By Rene Lynch
Were you among the millions of people who gasped in horror -- and maybe a little glee -- at the story of the scorned dentist who yanked out her ex-lover's teeth in revenge? Turns out the story appears to be a hoax. And among those who fell for it? Yours truly, and the Los Angeles Times. On May 1, I wrote how the story of a vengeful dentist in Poland named Anna Mackowiak was richocheting around the Internet and setting social media channels on fire. On Facebook alone, it was shared thousands upon thousands of times.
Newman lives! 'Seinfeld' actor Wayne Knight tweets on death hoax
March 16, 2014
By Mike Boehm
After a hoax report that Wayne Knight had died in a traffic accident near the New York - Pennsylvania border, the actor who played Newman on "Seinfeld" and a treacherous techie in "Jurassic Park" took humorously to his Twitter account to dispel the rumors of his sudden demise. "Some of you will be glad to hear this, others strangely disappointed … but I am alive and well!" tweeted Knight, 58, taking a wry view of some folks' tendency to confuse him with the characters he has played.
School lockdowns in Beverly Hills, San Clemente caused by hoaxes
March 6, 2014
By Tony Barboza, Adolfo Flores and Joseph Serna
Two Southern California high schools were placed on lockdown Thursday as police investigated a bomb threat and a call of a student being held hostage at gunpoint. The two unrelated reports were deemed hoaxes by authorities. Beverly Hills police received a call about 2:45 p.m. from a person claiming to be a 16-year-old being held hostage by a man with a gun at Beverly Hills High School, said Lt. Lincoln Hoshino. Though many students had already gone home, those who remained were placed on lockdown while officers conducted a full search of the campus.
Paris Hilton slams 'stupid' Twitter hoax mixing Mandela, MLK Jr.
December 6, 2013
By Christie D'Zurilla
Someone made Paris Hilton the butt of a Twitter hoax Thursday involving "her" reaction to the death of Nelson Mandela, and girlfriend is not happy about it. "RIP Nelson Mandela," the Photoshopped tweet read. "Your 'I Have A Dream' speech was so inspiring. An amazing man. " That's right, Hilton was supposedly so dumb she confused Mandela with Martin Luther King Jr., the fake tweet would have you believe. Photos: Celebrities react to the death of Nelson Mandela A quick check of Hilton's verified account at the time the hoax started revealed she was on a plane to Miami.
Elan Gale's inglorious Twitter hoax
December 5, 2013
Meghan Daum
It was a reality show all its own. Last Thursday, 30-year-old Elan Gale, a hirsute hipster and television producer whose credits include several seasons of "The Bachelor" franchise, sent a series of tweets to his roughly 35,000 Twitter followers. Explaining that he was on a delayed flight trying to make it home for Thanksgiving dinner, he described the shockingly rude antics of a fellow passenger named Diane. Over a four-hour period, Gale tweeted a blow-by-blow of a feud that apparently played out through an exchange of handwritten notes, which Gale snapped photos of and posted on his Twitter feed.
Man arrested in bomb hoax that shut down San Diego freeway
November 29, 2013
By Tony Perry
A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat that led to the shutdown of a San Diego freeway on Thanksgiving. Victor Manuel Diaz remains in San Diego County jail on two felony counts of making threats. Bail is set at $50,000. According to the California Highway Patrol, Diaz made a cellphone call to his sister Thursday afternoon as she was driving northbound on Interstate 15 in San Diego. He told her that a bomb had been placed in her car, the CHP said.
Man's claim of being kidnapped while walking dog a hoax, LAPD says
November 26, 2013
By Kate Mather and Richard Winton
A Los Angeles man's story of being kidnapped while walking his dog last week -- just days before he was supposed to testify in a celebrity-linked burglary case -- has been deemed a ruse, police said. Police spent three days looking for Darwin Vela, 22, after his dog returned to their Southwest L.A. home alone the night of Nov. 19. Vela's fiancee said she called 911 after spotting blood on the chocolate Labrador's leash. Vela was found Friday afternoon, after he flagged down a motorist on the Westside.
Hoax caller gets duchess of Cambridge's condition from hospital
December 5, 2012
By Janet Stobart,
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LONDON -- A hoax call from Australia duped staff at the London hospital where Catherine Middleton, the duchess of Cambridge, was recovering from acute morning sickness into giving details of her condition, the medical facility revealed Wednesday. The King Edward VII Hospital, famed for its discretion and favored by the British royal family and other high-profile patients, confirmed Wednesday that an update on the duchess' condition was given to an Australian TV station presenter posing as Queen Elizabeth II. "King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes can confirm that an Australian radio station made a hoax call to the hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning. This call was transferred through to a ward and a short conversation was held with one of the nursing staff," the statement read, adding that the hospital "deeply regrets this incident." The duchess is in the early stages of her first pregnancy with her husband, Prince William.
Shooting of school police officer called a hoax by authorities
January 27, 2011
Andrew Blankstein and Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
A Los Angeles school police officer who was wounded last week in a shooting that prompted authorities to shut down a large swath of Woodland Hills concocted a story that he was the victim of the shooting, authorities said Thursday night. The startling revelation came at a hastily called news conference by Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck, who said detectives became suspicious about the officer's story as they investigated the case. Police earlier had said that Los Angeles Unified School District Officer Jeff Stenroos was shot in the chest after he was confronted by a man Jan. 19 as he was attempting to break into vehicles in Woodland Hills, near the eastern boundary of the El Camino Real High School campus.
Ex-United Airlines flight attendant sentenced in bomb hoaxes
November 25, 2013
By Ruben Vives,
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A 40-year-old man who pleaded guilty to making false bomb threats against his former employer, United Airlines, has been sentenced to prison, federal prosecutors said Monday. United States District Judge Otis D. Wright II sentenced Patrick Cau, who also used the last name Kaiser, to 18 months in federal prison. Wright ordered Cau to pay $304,495 in restitution to United Airlines and reimburse $8,838 to the Los Angeles Police Department for the expenses incurred as a result of the bogus threats. Cau, a German citizen and former flight attendant for United, pleaded guilty in August to one count of giving false information and hoaxes.
Andy Kaufman's brother now claims he was the victim of a hoax
November 15, 2013
By Meredith Blake
In what may be the least surprising development of the week, Andy Kaufman's brother Michael, who appeared onstage in New York on Monday with a woman claiming to be the late comedian's daughter, now claims he is the victim of a hoax. Rumors that Kaufman staged his own demise and was now a family man living under an assumed identity, possibly in Albuquerque, have stubbornly persisted since the "Taxi" star succumbed to kidney failure related to a rare form of lung cancer in 1984. The conspiracy theory lit up the Internet this week after a young woman came forward at the Andy Kaufman Awards claiming the comedian is still alive and that she is his daughter.
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"Catbert: evil director of human resources"
"Excellent idea."
"Cell phones with cameras are banned from the workplace."
"We don't want you taking pictures of proprietary information."
"Most of our information is in digital form and can be e-mailed anywhere."
"The rest is on paper that can be copied, scanned or tucked down one's trousers."
"My new cell phone will be rendered useless for no good reason!"
"And you aren't even banning regular cameras!!"
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A global businessman and his company own an "Octavius Tower" trademark and have ordered Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip to stop using the mark.
Caesars, owned by Caesars Entertainment Corp., disputes the claims of ownership by Marcel July, and his company Octavius Tower LLC.
So much so, that Caesars sued July and his company last month in federal court in Las Vegas, alleging trademark fraud.
The lawsuit charges that two days after Caesars announced plans in July 2007 to build Octavius Tower, July registered website domain names using the Octavius Tower name and the Caesars name including octaviustower.com and caesarstower.com.
KXNT's Robert Rytina digs deeper, in his three-part, exclusive interview with Marcel July:
In part two, hear Mr. July explain how this story goes beyond the Las Vegas Strip, to Wall Street, and beyond:
Finally, in part three, get the very latest on where the legal battle stands now:
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Did you install DVD X when you used the hacmkii installer?
Also, how old is your wii?
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Install the Homebrew channel and Can run all the apps... But still my Wii doesn't play DVD player. It just says mounting DVD and doesn't play it... Any other hacks, mods that I need? Thanks.
Did you install DVD X when you used the hacmkii installer?
Also, how old is your wii?
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Yeah, if your Wii is 2 years old or newer, you won't be able to play DVDs nor backups via optical.
Also: having a spelling fail, "Kanobi"?
If what Nightstah said is the case. Then you might be able to fix this by replacing the DVD drive with an older model. Would someone confirm this? I don't mess with those newer Wii's too much. I owned one once.
Sent from my DROID X2 using WiiHacksOriginally Posted by nightstah
Drives up to D3-2 can be swapped out, yes. The D4 has an incompatible physical footprint and no way of doing so...
Okay, I wasn't sure if there was an different model because I did see a part from an odd that didn't look familiar on someone's thread.Originally Posted by nightstah
The newest model I did swap pcbs on was d2e and d2b. But that was to see if something was defective. I swapped them back since then. No-one wants D2E in their Wii.
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Left is typical, up to D3-2. At right: D4.
I got this Wii from my mother in law and have no idea how old it is. I'm a newbie on this... 4.3 version hack installed. How do I find out how old or what type of DVD player I have?
Kenobi yes... I'm a distant cousin .
I guess it doesn't matter what hack I used right?
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Please do not double post, that's against forum rules. Look on the back of your Wii for the serial number, type it here.


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Introduction to clothing construction techniques applicable to theatrical costumes, fashion design, and textile arts. Includes lectures, demonstrations, and practice lab. Recommended: DRAMA 211; DRAMA 416.
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Construction Skills for Theatrical Costuming
Deborah Skorstad is offering an intensive costume construction class . Class will focus sewing skills and garment construction fabrication. The student will learn how to use professional shop equipment, machine and hand sewing techniques; will be expected to complete 3 garments. The aim of this class is to learn how to use a sewing machine, sewing vocabulary, how to assemble and finish a garment. Students can learn basic sewing skills or take their current skills to the next level.
Lecture and demonstrations will be Thursday morning 9am to 11:20 in the UW costume shop, with 10-15 hours of homework each week. Instructor will be available for hands-on project help and other times by arrangement.
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You all know Roger, Right? Well if you don't, he's an Alien on American Dad and he dresses up in tons of different costums But I never saw him in an anime costum. I dont really like the way boy Ranma looks he kinda looks like Micheal Jackson :P
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lol i love american dad and roger!! he's so funny and gay lol great drawing!!
I bet you had fun doing this. XD Loveee American Dad! 5/5 Hearts C:
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xD awesome!!
i admire the amount of detail in this collab.i know who roger is,he's funny.5/5
Haha xD awesome
Haruhi, InuYasha, Kagome, Sesshomaru, Miroku, Sango, Ramana 1/2, and Akane! =D thats all I know
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XD... his face looks like some bleach char :P
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He looks cool I like it. Great job on his expression as well :) 5H Favs*
wow,bien detallado.me gusta el detalle de la pistola y la expreccion de su cara.5/5
wow this is soo cool
i like the hand part~
I love his face expression, and the gun is done really well, nice job ^^
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Here is a picture of the house I audited last week. These icicles aren't the biggest I've seen. They do show the low level of insulation in the attic (3 inches of cellulose).
The more immediate problem was were the ice went when the icicle melted. Below the eve was the condenser unit! So, it was ice covered. And at some point the morning I was auditing, shorted the fuse in the furnace. So, not only did we not need the AC, but we didn't have heat either!
That is an unintended consequence!
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This makes no sense to me. Nothing shorts a fuse. Rather, a short in a circuit blows a fuse. But maybe that's what you meant.
Now what circuit could that be? If it is the circuit for the furnace, how could the AC condenser short that circuit? They're completely separate as far as I know, unless they happen to be on the same circuit from the panel. That would definitely be a wiring mistake.
Moreover, why would the AC unit be on at all in the middle of the winter? Are you sure the furnace failure was caused by the AC condenser?
I believe that technically the blower fuse was blown. That did not allow the furnace to kick on. Of course the blower would be involved with both the ac and furnace.
I took the tech's word for it that the fuse was blown due to the ice on the ac causing a short. I am not an HVAC tech. He did disconnect the ac wiring. There have been no further problems in the 7 days. We had one day above 32. The rest have been temps in the teens and 20s.
What does cause a blown fuse? A short circuit somewhere. The only way I know to find out is usually some knowledge with a process of elimination.
Since it was 10 degrees outside, he said he would be their until he found the reason for the short, I could see the billing time mounting. It was nice to have him fix the problem and not just run up the bill, by checking a lot of other stuff.
By summer, the ac will be thawed and another service call can fix the problem and hook the ac back up. At least we were not out there with the temp at 12 degrees F trying to troubleshoot the problem.
Or the efficiency revolving loan program the landlord wants to work with will have replaced the ac and furnace, insulated the house correctly and put some gutters up. This 1000 sf home has 1800 per year in electric and gas bills. Obtaining a savings over 15 years of 8500 - 10000 for improvements is not unreasonable.
I live in upstate NY and we have some Whopper Icicles this year. I was having a discussion with a new home builder (modulars) about the 7'-10' icicles hanging from the new home he is finishing. When I explained to him that the icicles were likely a result of poorly installed insulation, he said "Nah, it's the SUN hitting the roof" (emphasis mine).
To which I replied: "Then how come the unoccupied buildings have no icicles?"
This is knowledge from a builder that has been doing construction for over 20 years and will swear up and down that his buildings are "tight" and "very energy efficient."
During this same discussion, the guy also said: "They (the modular fabricator) spray foam the sheetrock (tm) to the studs. You can't get better "R" Value than that!"
Well, the sun does cause some icicles. I have an unheated and unoccupied summer house that has icicles right now. Not huge ones, but they're there. They form when the sun causes the snow to melt around the edges of the roof (the most common snow pattern on roofs of unheated buildings, in my experience, is melting around the edges). I believe melting occurs where ever the snow presents a surface to the sun -- both the surface facing the sky and the surface facing the edge.
But "7' - 10'" icicles? I'd have to agree with you that the likely culprit is lack of insulation. However, it sure would be helpful to inspect his modular homes to see what the fabricator is doing with the roof.
Certainly, David. The sun and a dark roof do combine to create some ice, but not like this - I neglected to take pictures, but it's pretty dramatic.
I would love to do a blower door on that house and prove how leaky it realy is...
Why don't you offer to do one for free? He might see the light. And pay you for the next one.
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Brad Pitt sure surprised some moviegoers when he showed up at a World War Z screening in Atlanta!
On Thursday afternoon, Angelina Jolie's love was all smiles at the Regal Atlantic Station theater. Per a local NBC station, the 49-year-old actor welcomed the crowd, thanked them for their support and even handed out "World War Z in Atlanta, GA" shirts.
A few audience members captured the excitement on Vine, where Brad was seen waving to the clearly excited, cheering crowd.
This, of course, wasn't the first time Pitt's popped up at a movie theater! On May 22, he shocked fans in Hoboken, N.J., by coming out for a late-night viewing of World War Z, and he did the same thing in London on June 1.
Gotta give credit where credit is due: Pitt commits to promoting movies!


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Pakistan's tribal areas. Graphic by Michael Harry.
Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan is a rugged, mountainous area that has attracted militants and insurgents — and become a target for Pakistani military operations and U.S. drone attacks.
A number of terrorists who have plotted against the United States and Great Britain trained in these border areas of Pakistan, known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the Northwest Frontier Province, including Faisal Shahzad, who is accused of trying to set off a car bomb in Time Square in New York City in May; Najibullah Zazi who admitted last year that he was planning a series of suicide bombings in the New York City subways; Zazi's partner Zarein Ahmedzay; and the perpetrators of the bombings in London in 2005.
"It's the wild west of the 18th century," says Imtiaz Gul, Pakistani journalist and author of "The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier."
"People are like the old time Wild West, adventurous creatures who grew up with guns, who grew up with a lot of adventurism and who are pretty partially alien to the culture of United States, or for that matter even the culture of Islamabad.
"Originally the locals welcomed [the militants] as heroes, as crusaders against the United States because they'd been living with them in the 1980s as the anti-Soviet Union jihadists, so for them it was no surprise and they extended all sorts of hospitality and assistance to these people," said Gul.
Because the area is so remote, efforts to develop and rehabilitate the region have not been easy, he continued. "The machinery required to reconstruct, to rehabilitate and also develop these areas is still missing. They can't go in, and that's why a lot of developmental and rehabilitation schemes have been on hold so far."
Gul discusses more about how these tribal areas became a draw for militants in this Reporter's Podcast:


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Today is the day.
More than 55,000 children in Richmond and Columbia counties will start a new school year.
It's an exciting time of year for parents and teachers, but maybe not so exciting for the children, whose long summer days have come to an end.
Parents and students gathered in schools last week for open houses and orientations to get ready for the school year.
One of those gathering places was John M. Tutt Middle School's cafeteria Wednesday, where Principal Nathan Benedict explained the intricacies of the pickup and drop-off lines for car riders and the dismissal procedures for car riders, walkers and bus riders. He also provided an overview of classes and extracurricular activities and stressed the importance of attendance.
"If you don't come to school, I will call you and bother you," he said. "So come to school."
The stage behind him showed signs of work left to do, as it was filled with stacks of boxes.
Elizabeth Samuels' daughter Janiya, 11, is a new sixth-grader at Tutt.
"From what I can tell, my daughter seems to be coming into a safe environment," Samuels said.
She said she is glad to see Tutt add Future Business Leaders of America this year.
"At such an early age ... I was introduced to it in high school," Samuels said.
April Pataka said she was impressed with Tutt's extracurricular offerings. Her 11-year-old son, Dante, will start sixth grade today, and daughter Gabie McCort, 10, begins fifth grade at National Hills Elementary.
Band director Brandi Colon is also looking forward to this school year.
"The music, and getting the kids back into the music," she said. "We've been away from school for more than two months."
This year, Colon's fourth at Tutt, she will be able to offer jazz band as a class. It was previously an after-school activity, but interest has grown.
"I'm very excited about it," she said. "I hope we will have opportunities for the jazz band to perform."
For those students who aren't so thrilled about coming back to school, take heart. Your first holiday is Labor Day, Sept. 5, and the last day of school is May 18 -- only 176 instructional days away.
If you're in Aiken County, you've got one more week of vacation. School starts Aug. 15 there.


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The fifth Jewish Summer Festival will open today in Budapest and continue for 10 days. Highlights of the festival include an international cantorial concert, international klezmer celebration, dance recitals, a concert by Dudu Fisher and the premier of a Hungarian-language version of Handel's "Israel in Egypt." The festival, which will also include an Israeli film festival, Jewish book week and "Gastronomy Days," has been previewed widely in the Hungarian media.
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Buffett begins the letter by telling partners to focus on relative performance rather than absolute performance: "Whether we do a good job or a poor job is not to be measured by whether we are plus or minus for the year. It is instead to be measured by the Dow-Jones Industrial Average…if our record is better than these yardsticks we consider it a good year whether we are plus or minus. If we do poorer we deserve the tomatoes."
Buffett revisits this point in Berkshire Hathaway's 2001 Letter to Shareholders. Inside he says, "some people disagree with our focus on relative figures, arguing that "you can't eat relative performance." But if you expect ¾ as Charlie Munger, Berkshire's Vice Chairman, and I do ¾ that owning the S&P 500 will produce reasonably satisfactory results over time, it follows that, for long-term investors, gaining small advantages annually over that index must prove rewarding. Just as you can eat well throughout the year if you own a profitable, but highly seasonal, business such as See's (which loses considerable money during the summer months) so, too, can you regularly feast on investment returns that beat the averages, however variable the absolute numbers may be."
Buffett goes on to make several promises to partners:
- "Our investments will be chosen on the basis of value, not popularity"
- "We will attempt to bring risk of permanent capital loss (not short-term quotation loss) to an absolute minimum by obtaining a wide margin of safety in each commitment and a diversity of commitments"
- "My wife, my children and I will have virtually our entire net worth invested in the partnership"
In addition, Buffett starts a section entitled the Joys of Compounding. In this letter he considers Columbus' Isabella voyage a "moderately successful utilization of venture capital." The voyage was underwritten for $30,000 and Buffett annotates this figure is would be $2,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion) in 1963 dollars if the initial $30,000 had been compounded at 4% per annum. With this said he presents a table presenting $100,000 compounded at 5%, 10% and 15% for 10, 20 and 30 years, respectively.
Buffett also tells investors that he is not hesitant to use leverage in work-out situations saying, "I believe in using borrowed money to offset a portion of our work-out portfolio, since there is a high degree of safety in this category in terms of both eventual results and intermediate market behavior."
Buffett moves on to a specific company — Dempster. This company was partially covered in Part I. As of its mention in Pat I, Buffett had not instituted any significant changes, however in this letter Buffett notes he has hired Harry Bottle to run the company. "Harry is unquestionably the man of the year. Every goal we set for Harry has been met, and all the surprises have been on the pleasant side…our breakeven point has been virtually cut in half, slow-moving or dead merchandise has been sold or written off, marketing procedures have been revamped, and unprofitable facilities have been sold." As a result of Bottle's actions (primarily, quickly converting unneccessary "assets" into cash), Buffett's adjusted value per share moved up to $51. Why is this? Because Buffett values cash at 100% stated value vs. just 60 cents on the dollar for inventory, 85 cents on the dollar for accounts receivable and prepaid expenses at 25 cents on the dollar.
After explaining the Dempster situation Buffett tells partners that one of the cornerstones of his investing philosophy: "Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results. The better sales will be the frosting on the cake." Essentially, valuation should be performed so conservatively that any upside from the original valuation is merely a bonus.
In his 2nd letter of 1963 Buffett informs partners that his adjusted book value per share for Dempster has moved up again due to Bottle's continued rapid conversion of assets to cash. Buffett's adjusted net worth figure not stands at $64 per share.
Additionally, Buffett uses a very commonsense approach to look at the current situation in Dempster: "On June 30, 1963 Dempster had a small safe deposit box at the Omaha National Bank containing securities worth roughly $2,000,000 the partner's 72% share of this amounts to roughly $1,450,000." The cost of acquisition for the partners totaled $1,260,000, thus any continued upside in the company is pure profit. Buffet notes, while this may be a "primitive" valuation method for the educated readers, Buffett finds it contains "a bit more substance…rather than in prayerful reliance that someone will pay me 35 times next year's earnings."
In this letter's The Joy of Compounding, Buffett notes the two determinants of compounding are length of life and rate of compounding.
Interestingly, Buffett remarked he doesn't take a control position "to get merely active for the sake of being active. Everything else equal I would much rather let others do the work. However, when an active role is necessary to optimize the employment of capital, you can be sure we will not be standing in the wings." This is an interesting point, especially when considering many modern day activists disclose a new 13D filing practically every other week.
In the appendix on the first letter Buffett elaborates on Texas National Petroleum and revisits Dempster. TNP was an oil sellout work-out situation in which Buffett claimed, "the risk of stockholder disapproval was nil. The deal was negotiated by the controlling stockholders, and the price was a good one. Any transaction such as this is subject to title searches, legal opinions, etc., but this risk could also be appraised at virtually nil. There was no anti-trust problems…the only fly in the ointment was the obtaining of the necessary tax ruling." The partnership ended up making 20%+ annualized returns on the company's bonds, stock and warrants.
When Buffett revisits Dempster he says, "Experience shows you can buy 100 situations like this and have perhaps seventy or eighty work out to reasonable profits in one to three years," in reference to control situations. Regarding Dempster specifically, Buffett comments that under Harry the company:
- Has invested $2,050,000 in marketable securities and made about $400,000 in profits
- Cut administration and selling expenses costs
- Closed five branches operating unprofitably
- Converted some PP&A (property, plant and equipment) into cash
We also learn something very interesting – Buffett's positions are audited at net asset value, rather than share price. Essentially, he could choose his returns for the year (as he created the adjusted book value figures), a system that seems like it would be extremely impractical in today's environment.
In his second letter for the year Buffett speaks about companies where the fundamentals continue to improve yet the share prices don't go up (or even fall):
"What we really like to see in situations like the three mentioned above [generals in which BPL is the largest shareholder] is a condition where the company is making substantial progress in terms of improving earnings, increasing asset values etc., but where the price of the stock is doing very little while we continue to acquire it."


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I received some English muffins for Christmas this year - you know, the expensive gift ones. I like them, but I'm not going to pay that kind of money for English muffins for myself, and I've always had a sneaking suspicion that I could do better.
I made some English muffins this weekend using a recipe similar to Rose's, with some success. However, they were just about as thick as regular supermarket English muffins - maybe a little thinner. I made some thicker ones, but had a hard time getting them fully cooked on the griddle. My question is; how do they bake those holiday gift muffins so tall? They must be 3/4" thick. I don't see how the center could get cooked on the griddle, but they do have a pattern on them that looks like how it was done. Any insight would be appreciated.


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Ondrej Pavelec has allowed 14 goals in his last three starts.
"Obviously, it's not good," said Pavelec. "The last three games we didn't play well and I didn't play well. We know, if we're going to get some points, we have to be better and I have to be better. It's no secret. It is what it is. We're trying to look forward and not behind. It starts tonight." Pavelec will probably start on Tuesday despite his recent struggles. The Jets inked him to a five-year/$19.5 million contract that runs through 2016-17, so they clearly see him as their long-term starter.


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A giant isopod can be any of the almost 20 species of large isopods (crustaceans related to shrimp and crabs) in the genus Bathynomus. The species are noted for resemblance to the common woodlouse or pill bug, to which they are related. The few specimens caught in the Americas with baited traps are sometimes seen in public aquariums. They grow to between 7.5 and 14 inches and can weigh up to 4 lbs. We think he's kind of cute, in an alien kind of way!
In the bonus video below from the Sustainable Seas Expedition, shared by photographer Kip Evans, National Geographic & NOAA, Sylvia Earle dives deep off the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico – and finds Deep Sea Isopods! Typically, they inhabit the depths below 1,200′ or greater.


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The second jewel of my Teavivre Black Tea Triple Crown. While the cocoa is not as pronounced as in Black Pearl it is present and provides a soothing, smooth cup with a softer touch. Very nice tea and is one of my go to teas.
200 °F / 93 °C 2 min, 45 sec 2 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML


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'Julie & Julia' and Meryl Streep
The true stories of chef Julia Child and the blogger she inspired
Warm and fluffy, with a standout turn by Streep as the lovably dotty Child.
Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina
Butter, that rich but simple staple, lies at the heart of every great dish, according to "Julie & Julia," a salty-sweet movie in which a young blogger finds inspiration in the recipes of Julia Child. Meryl Streep, as Child, is this film's butter; everything else is garnish.
Affectionately written and directed by Nora Ephron, working from both Child's memoir, "My Life in France," and the blog-turned-bestseller "Julie & Julia," the film juxtaposes the biographies of two women who find purpose and meaning in food. Child's story, however, proves to be the more engaging.
That's partly because she faced the sexism and conformity of the 1950s while laboring over her still-iconic book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." And, of course, there's Streep, incarnating Child to perfection: the yodeling voice, the tottering height (6 feet, 2 inches), the general daffiness that made her television show, "The French Chef," such a hoot. And thanks to Stanley Tucci as Child's ever-encouraging husband, Paul, "Julie & Julia" also serves up a tender, even amorous love story.
Amy Adams has less to work with as Julie Powell, an unfulfilled office drone living in Queens whose bland husband (Chris Messina) suggests she start a cooking blog. It's still intact at blogs.salon.com, complete with cutesy punctuation (!! as well as ?!) and words like "ugh." Nevertheless, Powell's attempt to make all 536 recipes in Child's famous book gains such a following that the blog itself becomes a book (and, as the movie wryly notes, a movie).
Powell's story, while inspirational, seems slightly trivial. Before her death in 2004, Child said she found the blog somewhat of a gimmick; audiences may feel the same way.


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Planet of the Grapes: 'What matters is wine's soul'July 09, 2013
Now, I'm no fan of scores either, but the reality is that change is still far away. Shelf talkers in almost every wine store aisle still tout the critics' numbers. And consumers still purchase wines based on those numbers.


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Despite an economic drought, young Camels are proving they have the staying power — and the innovative spirit — to make it in
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Tracy Teare '87 checks out their progress, three years after 9/11.
Making it in New York's business world is a feat in its own right, and even more impressive when you achieve success as a relative youngster in turbulent economic times. Yet that's just what many recent Connecticut College graduates are doing. Despite the economic slowdown that began in the summer of '01 and then nose dived following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Connecticut College alumni found a variety of ways to cope, retaining jobs and indeed often furthering their careers. Their stories are varied, but they share common themes of strength, determination and optimism.
You can't keep a Camel down
Though every New Yorker still feels the effects of the 9/11 events in economic terms, some felt the blow more directly. Caroline Samsen '87, lost her job in credit risk management in investment banking with Credit Suisse First Boston in October '01. Though some of her colleagues are still out of work, she was rehired five months later by PricewaterhouseCoopers for a special project that eventually became full-time work. "It was certainly no thanks to the economy," explains Samsen, but my experience and the ties I'd made added up to a good fit."
The jolt came later for others, like Jennifer Scott '94, former special events manager for the Observation Deck at the World Trade Center (who by a stroke of luck hadn't yet reached work that September day). Scott's employer ARAMARK was able to keep her on the payroll at their Meadowlands facility in New Jersey. The job wasn't ideal, but it was a paycheck, until 14 months later when she was laid off and spent six months out of work. "I came really close to giving up and moving home," says Scott. "But thanks to a Connecticut College connection with Joe St. Cyr '87 who knew what I was capable of, I got an interview that led to a job as the special events manager at Grand Central Terminal."
Other Camels held on, despite layoffs all around them, until the economy started to recover. Mach Arom, '89, now the executive creative director at Foot Cone & Belding Interactive, knew from the previous recession that marketing dollars would be the first to go. Sure enough, jobs vanished left and right, and though Arom kept his at Ogilvy, he still felt the pinch.
"The interactive field was burgeoning then, and it just went on hold for two years. All the seed money to develop new technology dried up, and as a result, creativity hibernated, too," he explains. "I was lucky to be at a stable company at the time, because many people I know left New York, changed their focus or tried to hang on with freelance work."
Survival was the name of the game for big and small companies alike. Jonathan McBride '92, a College trustee who had just launched Jungle Media Group in early 2000, had to completely re-think his young business plan in the wake of 9/11.
"Suddenly all bets were off," recalls McBride, whose company publishes five magazines that target young professionals. "It was tough, but we didn't think about giving up. We focused on doing everything in our power to get to the other side of the stormy, uncertain business environment. This meant honing in on where we were headed and those things we could control, instead of worrying about all the circumstances that were out of our hands."
Tight times also brought a sea change in how some approached their careers. Jim Moran '92, then managing director at the British design firm Attik, cringed when so many fellow employees took the brunt of the financial crisis. That propelled him to start his own firm in May 2002, in the face of uncertain times (see sidebar page 21).
The strategies of survival
Today, even with the economy back on an upswing, the effects of the attacks and the recession continue to reverberate throughout the New York business world. To keep a job, further a career, and move a business forward requires an array of strategies and tactics. Everywhere, money is tight, and people are making do with fewer resources on a number of levels. Businesses that could once look a full year ahead to see how their fortunes might lie now get only a snapshot at a time.
"That means we have to be much more careful with our dollars," says Marisa Farina '93, associate publisher of marketing at Time Out New York. "We're fortunate that local businesses need to advertise with us, but national advertisers are planning month by month, not a year at a shot now."
"On a personal level, I'm handling projects that were once done by two people, now with a streamlined budget, and I don't know if that will change anytime soon," says Makiko Ushiba '94, manager of graphic design at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The museum had to close its doors one more day per week and eventually laid off some staff to cope with the significant drops in attendance, donations and membership. On the bright side, the cutbacks have inspired many to work smarter and have sparked creativity. "You figure out ways to take on the challenge, and make the best of the situation," adds Ushiba.
Indeed it's a recurring theme.
"The conservative environment forces you to be more creative, not just on the concept you're selling, but how you sell it," explains Arom, "We've had to learn to package things with more strategic underpinning. It was easier before, but now we're better ad people as a result."
Businesses also have been forced to set themselves apart from the rest. "To stay alive in this market, it's more vital than ever to make your product stand out," explains Scott, special events manager at Grand Central Terminal. Despite Grand Central's strength as a unique venue, the group made a deliberate effort to pursue the corporate event marketing business in particular. And the effort doesn't end with landing the business. "Then you've got to provide outstanding customer service and make sure that everything that is supposed to happen happens, with absolutely no surprises," she adds.
In many sectors, there are positive signs of growth, reflected by an increase in hiring and looser budgets. This shift brings a new set of challenges, but compared to years of cuts, they're the best kind to have. "Recruiters didn't call for three years, but now everyone's hiring again, and everyone is trying to poach your talent," says Arom. "Competition will start to increase, now that there's a buck to be made," adds Moran.
The strength of liberal arts
in lean times
Most alumni are quick to credit Connecticut College with many of the basic skills that have helped them succeed in turbulent economic times. "A lot of the business stuff you can figure out if you're smart, but it's much harder to come by the people skills and leadership skills that I developed at Connecticut College," says Farina. "Knowing how to take a range of opinions and mold them into something that works has been more valuable to me than a business degree."
Building consensus starts with listening. "Connecticut College was always about that," says Moran, who paid sharp attention to clients, peers, and competitors to formulate a unique business model for his communications agency. "I got the basics of communication at the College, and it's so key, because if you can't listen and respond, you'll have a tough time in business."
Others have come to appreciate the flexibility their education affords them more than they ever thought they would, like Ed Freiberg '92, whose career has spanned public interest law, television production and now restaurant ownership (see sidebar). "That's the beauty of liberal arts," he says. "You get a broad base that won't leave you pigeonholed."
Flexibility is handy when you see a business opportunity or want to make a career change, but it's downright essential when an unforeseeable event like 9/11 shatters every assumption in your business plan.
"You don't learn how to react to macro changes like that in business school," says McBride. "My experiences at Connecticut College — which taught me to be open to different ideas, be willing to admit when I was wrong, and take responsibility for making positive change — were essential to making it through those lean years."
At a time when it would have been more than understandable to look on the bleak side, Connecticut College graduates drew on another lesson from their college days: that getting involved makes a difference.
"Student prerogative is such a part of what Connecticut College is all about," points out McBride. "You learn that outcomes matter, and you get pushed to become part of the solution. It teaches you a level of pro-activity and confidence that you need and keep throughout life."
Keeping a balance
Nearly three years later, the perspective shift forced by the 9/11 attacks still shapes the way many approach work and life in New York. Warnings and security updates are constant reminders of what happened and what could happen again. "What was a hard skin gets even tougher," says Ushiba. "But you have to plan emotionally and get over always being worried and scared. You can't change it, so you try to move forward, work hard and appreciate what's here in both your job and quality of life."
Many strive to keeping an eye on the bigger picture. "The challenge for me is to grow my career without causing upheaval to my family," says Samsen.
"Personally, you work harder, but you have to work smart and balance your life," adds Moran. "The 90s were incredible for business, but now I look at what's important to me in life as well."
A tale of two opportunities
A weak economic forecast means it's time to hunker down, play it safe, and hope your job and business survive. Unless you're Ed Frieberg '92 or Jim Moran '92, that is. Then you see an opening while others are slamming doors shut.
After learning the ropes in TV production, branding, and design in firms big and small, Moran and a partner launched CO-OP, a cutting-edge branding and communications agency with alliances to other small, related businesses, in the spring of 2002. But the leap — precipitated when Moran and other top managers at his then employer did not see eye to eye on dealing with the financial fallout of 9/11 — signaled much more than a desire to go solo.
"Everyone said you're crazy, the economy is dead. We knew it would be tight but it was also a great time to start. I knew that if we came up with a sound, unique model, we could establish ourselves and ride out the storm. Then when the economy came back, we'd be in a position of strength while others would be just ramping up," explains Moran, whose clients include Madame Tussauds, Imax, Major League Soccer, and A&E. "Now we're getting calls every day from new and existing clients."
Business is also humming at Freiberg's Cafe Luise, a small restaurant that serves up a fusion of French Caribbean and French Asian fare in Manhattan's up and coming lower east side. "In a strange way, 9/11 inspired me to do this," explains Freiberg. "It makes you want to live life harder, and stronger, and better, and go after what you really want." Freiberg, who had years of behind the scenes restaurant experience from the times when he needed two jobs to make ends meet, spent seven years in television production prior to this venture.
"My business partner had a great space, and as a born and bred New Yorker, I hated spending $75 on a mediocre meal," he says. Oddly, running a restaurant has parallels to Freiberg's former work. "It's still producing, essentially. Now it's atmosphere and appetizers instead of script and scenery, but it's all about creating an experience," he explains. And though he uses skills from his Connecticut College education every day to communicate clearly with staff and customers, Frieberg ultimately lives by the advice his father gave him when he was 24. "'You don't have to have one career,' he told me, 'Just always do your best.' That gave me confidence to try a variety of things," says Frieberg. "No one likes to fail, but it's a necessary evil that helps you learn."


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Coronation Street star Samia Ghadie has revealed that her character Maria Connor will have a breast cancer scare in upcoming episodes.
Ghadie told The Mirror that the storyline echoes her personal experience of finding a lump after the birth of her daughter.
"It was really scary," said the 30-year-old. "[Freya] was only three months old when suddenly I came across a lump on my breast that was like a really hard pea.
"I went to the doctor straight away and I was hoping she was going to say 'Oh, don't worry', but I was very frightened when instead she said: 'Actually we don't want to get caught out with things like this, you need to see a specialist.'
"To hear that was terrifying... in those few hours while I was waiting, all sorts of horrid things went through my mind. You worry so much."
Ghadie was later told that the lump was benign and a result of hormone fluctuations.
"I was so relieved," she said. "I am so glad I did get it checked out and it's made me very aware now. I check my breasts on a regular basis. It's so important to."
The actress revealed that her own experience made her determined to portray Maria's scare as realistically as possible.
"Because it's so sensitive, we worked with Macmillan on the storyline as we wanted to get it right," she explained. "I know myself how it feels and how scary it is and I think a lot of women will identify with what Maria has to go through... I hope people will feel I have approached it sensitively.
"Maria goes through very similar emotions as I did but it is far worse for her as she doesn't get the results back so quickly and she really stresses out about it."
As well as dealing with her health scare, viewers will see Maria being forced to confront her emerging feelings for her best friend Marcus (Charlie Condou), who is gay.
"Marcus finds Maria crying about her breast cancer scare and, eventually, he manages to find out what is wrong," said Ghadie.
"She is dating Jason Grimshaw [Ryan Thomas] but it's Marcus who she wants to accompany her to the hospital.
"They are good friends but the lines start to get blurred. She knows he is gay but she can't help her feelings for him.
"On paper, Jason is the best choice for her but she can't stop her feelings for Marcus."
Ghadie said that she was "completely shocked" when she first learnt about the storyline and was initially reluctant to film the scenes.
"I found it weird and I didn't want to do it at first. It is such a sensitive area and it was completely unexpected," she explained.
"But after a while, I realised this does happen in real life and I do think it is a good issue to tackle. It will get people talking and I know some people will be pleased they do get together. People stop me in the street and ask me why Maria isn't with Marcus."
When asked about how the story develops, Ghadie admitted that the outcome "affect[s] Jason heavily".
"The whole street turns against [Maria and Marcus]," she said. "They are happy initially, but long term, I am not so sure."
She added: "With Maria, there is never a happy ending. At some point I will be crying again!"


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Okay, California Pacific Airlines ready again
FAA-certified, but start dates out of Carlsbad airport uncertain (psst, April)
Ken Harrison 8:30 a.m., Nov. 18
It was a Saturday matinee at the second-run Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Illinois. Some of you may recognize the name from its vast marquee used as the backdrop for the title sequence of Siskel and Ebert's At the Movies. The Pickwick was a spacious, old neighborhood single-screen (constructed in 1928 with 1,500 seats) and per usual, I'm parked fourth row center.
The afternoon fare consisted of visit #2 to Clint Eastwood's principled screwball comedy western, Bronco Billy. The film opens with a traveling rodeo show about to do their thing. As if timed to the second, the moment Scatman Crothers announces Billy's entrance, a teenage kid emerges from behind the screen (stage left), and begins walking towards the center of the frame.
Did I mention it was July 5, 1980, the day after America celebrated Independence Day? That might explain why the sight of a giant tin can with a sparkling fuse, swinging loosely in the left hand of the unbilled live-action co-star, didn't seem all that out of place.
Without once looking out at the projector's white glare, the scraggly teen methodically hit his mark and paused momentarily to place the pint-sized torpedo in the footlights. Brushing his hands together, as if to indicate a job well done, our hero slowly made his exit (stage right).
Twenty-seconds later and the room is aglow with fireworks. I'm in the middle of what feels like either the Step In Time number from Mary Poppins or SeaWorld at 9:50 p. m. My wide-eyed inner-child deems it a magnanimous way to celebrate American independence, but isn't this indoor display of pyrothecnics a tad bit dangerous?
I have to duck in order to avoid a whizz-bang hurling just inches over my head. Fireballs and spangled meteorites ricochet off the ceiling, some actually tapping on the projection booth glass. All I see for rows behind me are tops of heads bobbing up from behind their seatbacks.
What if it was a nitrate print?
It lasted no more than 90-seconds and in even less time, the auditorium was filled with smoke. Even at close range I could barely make out the screen, but the thought of running out to the lobby never crossed my mind. My maiden screening of Billy, on an almost equally foggy opening night at the Sheridan Drive-In, was far from optimum. The evening's one everlasting memory was a scratchy print of The Gauntlet, complete with Spanish subtitles, that rounded out the double-bill. Bronco Billy demanded the hard-top treatment and dammit, I was going to get it!
A reel goes by before I feel a hand on my shoulder. "Would you please accompany me to the lobby, sir?" the voice asked from the fog. Nobody talks to me during a movie. "Can't it wait until the picture is over…?" A flashlight on the officer's badge cut me short.
Inside the cramped manager's office, the copper lit a butt and began grilling me about the alleged canister-wielding assailant's identity. "We brought you in here because you were the one sitting closest to the screen," he began.
Habitual behavior does have its disadvantages.
I stupidly confided that I thought the fireworks display was a post-4th part of the show. That's all it took for him to go full Jack Webb on me.
"Do you know how dangerous this could have been, Mr... (pausing to glance down at my driver's license) …Marks? Do you want to see this theatre burn to the ground?"
Yeah. Get your marshmallows on your sticks! I'm the first one to applaud arson, particularly when a vintage movie theatre is concerned.
"Would it be okay if I went back and saw the rest of the movie?" I asked. "It's my second time."
"You've already seen it?" he asked, making it sound as if only a mental patient would waste their time watching a film twice. "Then you know what happens and should have no problem."
In my mind, The Gauntlet's Ben Shockley is growling, "Aaaaaaasshole!"
Officer Squarenuts continued his line of questioning (height, shoe color, complexion, etc.) for another five minutes before letting me go. It turns out the little rascal was a disgruntled former employee with a score to settle. The kid masterminded one of the most memorable times I've ever had at a movie. I wasn't about to squeal.
Great story, Mr... (pausing to scroll up the screen) Marks!
I used to attend movies at the River Oaks Theater in Calumet City, Illinois. No fireworks, a few gang fights here and there... but the single greatest moment in that theater's history came in 1991.
Towards the end of "Silence Of The Lambs", Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) informs Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) about the identity of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
"We're heading to his home now." "Where?"
"Calumet City, Illinois".
The ovation was deafening at every screening - the catcalls went on and on... everyone was so proud Hannibal Lecter was a neighbor in their hometown of Cal City (Blues Brothers, be damned!).
Happy 4th to one and all!
Haha! Colonna, I used to live in Cal City and saw the same movie at the same theater opening weekend and vividly remember that bit. As a loudmouthed high school kid, I yelled out - "Hey! That's MY house!" and got the crowd going even more.
I also remember Demme's version of Calumet City had mountains looming in the background.


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State Class A baseball: Osakis brings home runner-up trophy
It was a season that played out like a movie script without the perfect ending.
On the final day of the high school baseball season, Osakis was right where it thought it would be coming into the year. The Silverstreaks talked about ending their season at Target Field from day one, and that's what they did at one of the most beautiful venues of anywhere in the game.
What didn't go as planned was the final outcome. The Silverstreaks did what they have done all spring on a sunny Monday morning in Minneapolis. They got good pitching, their defense was solid, even spectacular at times, but their bats went cold in a 3-0 loss to BOLD in the Class A title game.
"I'm very proud of every guy on the team," senior Ky Zimmel said. "Everybody put in the time. Everybody played their role. We can't hang our heads about this season. We had an unbelievable season."
The Warriors' Logan Sandgren was just a little too much in the championship game. The junior lefty tossed a one-hitter for BOLD, with the Silverstreaks' only hit coming from Doug Zimmel in the sixth inning.
Sandgren was effectively wild throughout the day. He walked five but never gave the Silverstreaks anything good to hit. He used his fastball to set up his off-speed pitches and was able to work his way out of a few jams in the early innings before settling in.
"That's about all you can do [is tip your cap to him]," Osakis head coach Shad Schmidt said. "He's got two or three no-hitters this year, one already in the state baseball tournament. He was smart. I didn't think he was overpowering, but he was smart. He hit his spots. He's a great pitcher, one of the best we've seen all year."
Sandgren made single runs in the second, fourth and sixth innings stand up. Jordan Frederick got the start for Osakis and took the tough-luck loss after going five innings. He allowed three runs, two earned, after scattering seven hits and three walks, while striking out two. He also got a couple great plays from his defense as Ky Zimmel and Hunter Scherr both made diving catches in the outfield.
The chance to start a championship game at Target Field was everything the junior righty thought it would be. He put aside any nerves he had and gave his team a chance before giving way to Ky Zimmel in the sixth.
"It was amazing," Frederick said of pitching on this stage. "It's my dream to be up there. I hope I can be up there when I'm older pitching. It's just what I wanted. I feel like I [had my stuff working]...I feel like the lower part of the strike zone was a little shut off, but I threw the best I could, and they hit the best they could."
This is a team that fought to the final out as Hunter Scherr put together a good at-bat and worked the count full with two outs in the bottom of the seventh. Sandgren eventually got him to ground out as the Warriors stormed the field to celebrate a championship.
"It's something that we can be proud of," Schmidt said of his team's second-place finish. "It's a legacy that these kids are going to leave at our school, but at the same time, you feel like you get here and you may never come back here. You may never have that opportunity and you'd like to seize those moments and take advantage of them."
The sting of losing was still too fresh on Monday for this group to fully appreciate exactly how much it accomplished this season. It probably won't take long before that sets in, though.
These players and coaches will likely be remembered as the best baseball team ever assembled at Osakis High School. They finished the year 20-3. Even after the 3-0 loss, they still outscored opponents 51-7 during the playoffs.
Included in that were back-to-back shutouts in a 3-0 win over New York Mills and a 10-0 win over Blackduck at the state tournament. That got them to Target Field, where they had a chance to play on a field that only a handful of high school players can say they have played on.
"It was incredible," junior Drew Fearing said. "I thought it was going to be cool, but I didn't think it was going to be this amazing. Even though we lost, it was a great experience. The first state appearance in school history, and we get second place. I don't think we can complain about that."
What made the experience even more enjoyable was how close this group was as a team. That was the common refrain by players and coaches after coming up just short on Monday. That's ultimately what these guys will remember most from a season filled with memorable moments.
"I'm going to remember this team and this coaching staff," Ky said. "You can have talent, but if you don't play well together and get along, it doesn't mean anything. We're a close-knit family, and that was the best experience."


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Return on Training in the Knowledge-Based Economy: Review and Analysis of Existing Approaches to Evaluation of Training Outcomes
Studies report that in the knowledge-based economy the company's sustainable growth depends on its employees. Having identified a positive correlation between investments into training and bottom-line, organizations pump millions of dollars into personnel and want to estimate ROI. For justifying training costs, training professionals should know the training evaluation techniques and master the proper language for successful communication with the financial department and top management. Based on the extensive literature review, this paper analyses existing approaches to estimating ROI into training. This study highlights the traits of up-to-date methods for estimating return on training, identifies weaknesses and outlines the areas for further research.
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SACRAMENTO Thirty years after a vintage war jet crashed into a crowded Sacramento ice cream parlor, family members gathered this weekend to dedicate a memorial to the 23 victims.
"It was emotionally draining," said Kathy Francis of Sonora, who traveled to Sacramento for Saturday's ceremony with her husband, Roger Francis. "But it was also a wonderful experience.
"I think there were between 40 and 50 people there from Tuolumne County, including some we weren't expecting to see."
One of the couple's twin daughters, Kristi, died in the crash. Her surviving twin, Kerri Francis McCluskey, spearheaded efforts to put up a memorial.
Francis said she felt physically ill driving to the site for the first time since she and her husband rushed there after hearing about the crash 30 years ago.
"But when I got there, it was OK," she said. "It ended up being a very peaceful day because it recognized the heartache of so many people, especially when the doves were released against the blue sky."
The crash on Sept. 24, 1972, ''left an indelible mark on the entire community,'' said Sacramento Police Chief Albert Najera, who had been on the job three months when he was called to the scene.
The Korean War-era F-86 Sabrejet fighter was part of an air show at the Sacramento Executive Airport. The plane's pilot lost control on takeoff, skidded across Freeport Boulevard, hit a car and then smashed into the corner of Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour.
Twenty-three people, including 12 children, died in the crash.
McCluskey, now 34, remembers arguing with Kristi over who would sit at the end of the booth. Kristi won, and both girls, then nearly 4 years old, started eating a huge bowl of ice cream with little animals in it, McCluskey said.
''Then everything went dark, and there were screams and the jet fuel smell,'' she said.
Kerri was found under rubble by her 12-year-old baby sitter. Kristi Francis and the baby sitter's mother, Joan Bacci, died in the crash.


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Scott Stevens, director of student ministry at LifeWay Church Resources, told Baptist Press it's not uncommon for youth ministers to hear teenagers voice thoughts of suicide.
"Teens face challenges of many kinds, not to mention the pressures of a performance-based existence where often the only time they feel accepted is when they excel in their performance -- in athletics, academics, etc.," Stevens said. "Unfortunately, teen suicide continues to be a permanent 'solution' to what are often painful but temporary problems." ...
sounds like good advice to me.
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