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text: Since I've been trying to communicate with my cuttle, I thought I'd share. I'll try and tape a session or take some pics too. My hand apparently resembles a cuttlefish enough to get some responses. If I bring my hand up near the glass, palm down, fingers together, cupped a bit, and hang there he turns his gaze to my hand. Now, he sometimes does this "pushups" movement, bobbing his head up and down while extending his arms forward a bit. If I imitate this movement, he will "answer" it. He always waits until I stop doing it first before "replying". The other main signal is first two arms raised up. Sometimes he will respond to my two raised fingers with this one, but there's also a flower printed dish that makes him react this way every time. If I switch to the bobbing movement after this, he will lower his arms and "answer" with the bobbing too. Has anyone studied what this kind of communication actually means? Is it territorial stuff? Any experiences? Thanks

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Temperature limits and thermal expansion
The permissible operating temperature for polymer ball bearings is limited by the type of polymer. Diagram 1 provides a summary of the operating temperatures for polymer materials. When temperatures outside the permissible range or below 0 °C (30 °F) are expected, contact the SKF application engineering service.
In combination with the operating temperature, thermal expansion is also important. The coefficient of thermal expansion (diagram 2) enables designers to predict the effects that temperature has on bearing internal clearance. The coefficient of thermal expansion for a polymer can be up to 10 times greater than for steel. Even the coefficient of thermal expansion for different polymers can vary considerably. Therefore, thermal expansion can have a significant influence on bearing internal clearance and should be considered when selecting shaft and housing fits (→ Shaft and housing fits) and when selecting the bearing materials.


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We may ring in the New Year in January, but let's be honest: it's the first day of school that really resets the clock on your year. Maybe you're totally blissed out in summer relaxation and can't even be bothered to think about that dreaded day in September. Maybe your so-called "bliss" is really boredom and you can't wait for the days of homeroom and homework. (Well, maybe just the first part.)
No matter how you look at the first day of school, everyone will meet these people when they stroll into the halls on that fateful Monday morning. Here are the students you're guaranteed to run into:
1. The One Who is Still in Vacay ModeShe strolls into class with a beach tote instead of a backpack and looks so sun-kissed that you're pretty sure she spent the morning laying by the pool. Instead of first day of school snaps, she's Instagramming #latergrams from her trip to Cabo.
2. The One Who Looks Completely DifferentYour history class buddy might as well be an entirely new person. Gone are the days of long brown locks: she's currently rocking a chic bleached pixie cut and clothes that you're convinced she didn't own any of back in June. She completely embodies the #NewYearNewMe hashtag.
3. The One Who SO Doesn't Want to Be HereThey're exhausted, probably because they've spent every single night of the past three months staying up until 3AM and crashing until noon. They are ready to gripe to everyone who will listen to them about how school should start later and how summer should extend until October. Fingers crossed that lunch will perk their mood.
4. The One Who Was Born Ready For the First Day of SchoolShe has pens in every single color, a notebook for each subject, and seems genuinely stoked when the teacher goes over the syllabus for the semester. Maybe she hit the Starbucks a little too hard this morning, or maybe she just really, really loves school, but either way you're exhausted just looking at her.
5. The One Everyone is Talking About
First day of school gossip is inevitable - you haven't had the chance to catch up with everyone in so long. There's always that one kid who did something insane over the summer that everyone keeps talking about, whether his band went on tour with Paramore or he broke his arm in some freak water skiing accident. Let's hope for the former.


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Chicago— Dear Chicago JazzBulls fans;
Hope you're enjoying your team and our players (but not really — not that we're bitter).
The Bulls won a league-high 62 games and are 2-0 in the playoffs so far. Despite the more publicized hoarding of brand-name talent by the Lakers, Knicks and Heat, the Bulls look like the team to beat. We're real happy for you (but not really — not that we're bitter).
The JazzBulls owe much of it to the Jazz. Little more than a year ago, three of their players — Kyle Korver, Ronnie Brewer and Carlos Boozer — were wearing Jazz uniforms. This year, they instantly transformed the Bulls into a championship contender. In one year, the Bulls went from third place in their division and 41 victories, to first place and 62 victories. That's a 51 percent improvement.
You're welcome (but not really — not that we're bitter).
Let's see, former Jazz players comprise two of the Bulls' top five scorers and three of their top seven. Korver is easily the team's best free-throw and 3-point shooter, averaging 8.3 points a game. Brewer checks in with 6.2 points a game. Boozer, who of course missed every fourth game as usual (actually 27 percent, but who's counting?), ranked second on the team in scoring (17.5) and first in rebounding (9.6). He is well rested for the playoffs, or he should be, having played in just 59 games. Same ol', same ol'.
Actually, we're happy to serve as the Bulls' farm team (but not really — not that we're bitter).
Look, it's bad enough that the Bulls beat the Jazz in the NBA Finals twice in the late '90s. No problem. We'll just wait another millennium for a Stockton-and-Malone duo to come along.
Actually, it's difficult not to cheer for the JazzBulls, especially when the other choices consist of Miami, New York and L.A. We'd cheer for the Russian mob before we cheered for Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Phil Jackson, LeBron James, 'Melo and those other guys.
But what galls Jazz fans is this: The Bulls are not that different than what the Jazz could have been. They have a great point guard in Derrick Rose; so did the Jazz in Deron Williams before they decided to sentence him to NBA Siberia while they could still get something for him. The Bulls have a good power forward in Carlos Boozer; the Jazz had the same guy. The Bulls have a great outside threat in Korver; so did the Jazz.
The Bulls have a scrappy, hustling, inside presence in Joakim Noah; the Jazz have Paul Milsap and Andre Kirilenko. The Bulls have a tough perimeter defensive player and a quick, slashing offensive threat in Ronnie Brewer; the Jazz had both Brewer and Wes Mathews, another quick perimeter player with good shooting range who signed with Portland in the off-season (now he's averaging 16 points a game for the Trail Blazers; we're happy for them, too, but not really. Not that we're bitter).
That could be the Jazz out there instead of the Bulls; instead, the Jazz are sitting at home watching their former teammates play on in the playoffs and their fans are looking for something to do. The Jazz had all those players, and now they're gone and making other teams much better (not that we're bitter).
Not that Jazz players have a history of winning rings here, there or anywhere. Yahoo.com produced a list of the Top 25 Players Never to Win a Championship. Four of them are former Jazz players (we won't count Dominique Wilkins or Bernard King). This includes:31 comments on this story
Adrian Dantley, ninth on the NBA career scoring list when he retired after 15 seasons in the NBA, seven for the Jazz; Pete Maravich, who spent half of his career with the Jazz and then made a futile bid for a ring by joining Larry Bird and the Celtics; Karl Malone, who retired as the second-leading scorer in NBA history and spent 18 seasons with the Jazz before making a Lebron-like failed bid for a ring by signing up with the enemy Lakers; and John Stockton, who retired as the NBA's all-time leader in steals and assists after 19 years with the Jazz.
Well, we wish the JazzBulls better luck than their Jazz predecessors (but not really — not that we're bitter).
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The Leading Edge Alliance, a new organization consisting of 25 of America's largest local CPA firms, has entered into a strategic alliance with Kreston International, an international network of independent accounting and consulting practices, headquartered in the United Kingdom.
The agreement provides The Leading Edge Alliance with an international network of 245 firms in 68 countries, while Kreston International gains an expanded U.S. representation through top quality firms in the nation's major markets.
With combined annual revenues exceeding $600 million dollars worldwide, The Leading Edge Alliance/Kreston International partnership creates a major new player within the international accounting community.
"The core purpose of The Leading Edge Alliance is to enhance the competitiveness of large local CPA firms here in the U.S.," said Richard Kretz, Managing Partner of Kostin Ruffkess & Company, LLC, a founding member of The Leading Edge. "The affiliation with Kreston enables The Leading Edge to focus our efforts domestically while providing a strong international network for Alliance member firms to successfully service clients on a global basis."
"The Leading Edge is aggressively pursuing new opportunities to help our member firms grow revenues and increase profitability," said Karen Kehl-Rose, Executive Director of The Leading Edge Alliance. "Many of our firms are developing and implementing new business strategies that find them entering markets in Asia, Europe and South America. This partnership with Kreston will help them better capitalize on those opportunities."


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Brent and Kelly King, the parents of slain Poway teenager Chelsea King, announced the formation of the nonprofit group Chelsea's Light Foundation yesterday.
"We know that the path to healing will be long and unsteady because Chelsea's absence leaves such a gaping hole in our hearts, our family and our community," the Kings said in a statement. "We will reach past our grief and focus our rage to bring about changes that will make our communities safer.
"Establishing the Chelsea's Light Foundation is our first positive step in that direction. We invite global participation. As Chelsea loved to say, 'Go big or go home.' "
The foundation will be dedicated to strengthening sex offender laws and changing policies with a plan of action to be defined during the coming weeks and months, the statement said.
"The Kings intend to work in concert with California Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher to develop a path forward beginning with California and subsequently the nation."
Donations can be made to the Chelsea's Light Foundation at any Wells Fargo Bank in the nation, account number 1838355913.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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National Guard soldiers from eight states will be in Minnesota next week to test their skiing and shooting skills. The Guard sponsors regional biathlon competitions for guard teams from across the country. Winning brings bragging rights for the Guard teams, as well as the chance to compete against national teams around the world.
Photos: Training for the biathlon
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Libya is reported to be planning to spend some $4.7 billion, or at least 10 percent of the national budget on upgrading its military forces over the next year, and also purchase fighter aircraft and warships. The national budget was approved by the General National Congress, GNC earlier this month. [2]The report was published by The National, a United Arab Emirates, UAE daily newspaper that quoted Col. Abdel Nasser Busnina, a senior Libyan air force officer, saying that the new government is prepared to allocate the $4.7 billion in energy revenues to acquire advanced weapons systems.During a recent arms exhibition in Abu Dhabi, Mr Busnina is reported saying: "We have 2,000 kilometres of Mediterranean coastline to defend and six borders with African countries [3]. We need to rebuild our armed forces. The equipment we have is old and in need of repair."The GNC is said to be particularly concerned about its porous desert frontiers with Egypt, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Tunisia and Algeria.After the UN's recent decision to ease the sanctions [4] to allow the new government to buy non-lethal military equipment to help boost security, Libya is determined to improve its security inside and on its borders, and around the country's extensive oil and natural gas resources.The sanctions had been imposed during the country's eight-month revolution that erupted in February 2011, and that eventually ousted from power after more than four decades the former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The programme to upgrade Libya's military forces could include aircraft, naval vessels and military vehicles provided they remain unarmed.
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://www.albawaba.com/business/libya-budget-approved-478532
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/news/libya-borders-457218
[4] http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hkL7Ut3itLGxSUAvshluHRowFsiA?docId=CNG.ed4bf533207022918ac6280bbf3c10ba.121
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now that looks cool! :)
Will you be a living legend or a forgotten casualty? MechWarrior:Living Legends (MWLL) is a total conversion modification for Crysis, MWLL is at its very core a mix between First Person Shooter and Simulation. This will be achieved through the use of a mixed arms massively multiplayer gaming experience where the player takes part in a battle using a variety of vehicles and weapons MWLL is using the concepts pioneered by the "Battlefield" franchise and more recently Crysis, of a sandbox feel where you get to play what you want and how you want it. MWLL depicts the epic struggles between the two factions of Battletech "The Clans" and "The Inner Sphere" In the project we will be bringing some of the legends of MechWarrior back to life.
now that looks cool! :)
looks sweet.
Nice. I really love the sky!
one of the best night and day cycles i've seen yet!!!
Mmm.. I love the character design.
Lol, it looks like the power armor is breathing! Amazing job on the cycles guys!
Amazing. Nice job fellas!
wats the song? and btw great work!
I'd like to know that myself, also, this is beautiful, I love the skybox.
i also want to know xD
everything is good, namely the tumbleweeds... or whatever they are
they aren't tumbleweeds, they're ashes raining down from the surrounding volcanoes. which leaves me shocked by the attention to detail here. i love u guys! one thing though, if those explosions are supposed to be volcano eruptions, they dont look all tht realistic. you might want to fix the particle effect a bit. make it more life-like i guess. otherwise perfect jon! cant wait to play
i love that song and the character looks so awsome great work.
The clouds aren't moving... yet. Aside from that, though, everything is awesome!
Soooo, anybody know what the song is?
The song is an original work created by our very own composer, one that will be heard in the game whenever you get your chance to play it
That's awesome. It reminds me a bit of the Mirror's Edge soundtrack, although I'm guessing it picks up a bit later on.
things looking good. i want more.
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.
A short clip displaying an established day-night-cycle on SA_Inferno, MWLL's volcano map.


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Fundamental analysis
The USA published some minor reports: ISM New York and IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism indices (48,7 against the forecasted 46,6). We single out only one news that might be interesting: Dennis Lockhart's speech (the Fed representative). According to Lockhart the price strengthening can be seen right now, but it is too early to decide whether this is sufficient to hike the rate. The decision regarding the rate hike will be taken at the next meeting in June.
Producer Price Index in Eurozone for March showed -4.2% (the forecast was -4.3%, the previous value was -4.2%). The index rose for the first time this the year. That is a signal that the inflation is unlikely to fall in the coming months.
On Tuesday, the pound decreased from its four months high when the UK manufacturing activity fell in April for the first time over the past three years (49.2 from 51.0 in March, vs the forecasted 51.2). The published index increased concerns about the prospects for growth in the second quarter.
Bank of Japan did not work on Tuesday amid the celebration of the Constitution Day.


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SPRINGFIELD, Ill, (IRN) – Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois says a special Joint Commission that is supposed to pinpoint cuts the national budget must convene now, not later.
The Joint Commission was part of the deal that resolved the debt ceiling crisis. The commission's task is to cut the nations spending by $1.5 trillion by Thanksgiving. That's in addition to cutting $2.4 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. Given that daunting task, Kirk says they should begin work as early as next week.
"I think the Joint Commission should start meeting next Monday," Kirk said.
Kirk is calling on Congress to reconvene as well. He says given the economy and the roller coaster of a stock market in recent days, Congress should come back to Washington to restore the public's confidence and to reassure the public that the U.S. will not go into another recession.
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Stephen M. Warren is an Associate Professor of plastic surgery, the Director of the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Laboratories, and the Director of the Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship at NYU Medical Center. He practices plastic and reconstructive surgery as well as craniofacial surgery. During his medical training at the UCLA School of Medicine, Dr. Warren was selected as a Howard Hughes Research Scholar. He spent 2 years with Steven A. Rosenberg at the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health and then complete medical school. Dr. Warren trained in general surgery with Donald D. Trunkey at Oregon Health Science and then completed a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship with Michael T. Longaker at New York University and Stanford University. Dr. Warren trained in plastic surgery at Harvard Medical School. He completed his fellowship training in craniofacial surgery with Dr. Joseph G. McCarthy at the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at NYU Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Warren is a Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is a member of twenty professional societies, an ad hoc reviewer for eight scientific journals, and a Member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery and the Annals of Plastic Surgery. He has authored two hundred textbook chapters, clinical, and scientific articles in journals such as Tissue Engineering, Nature, Bone, Journal of Biologic Chemistry, Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, New England Journal of Medicine, and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He has trained 35 research and clinical fellows. Dr. Warren has diverse basic and health services research interests, including tissue engineering, outcomes research, and regenerative medicine. Dr. Warren routinely speaks nationally and internationally on a variety of clinical and research subjects.
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Help Me Make a Birthday Cake Made Out of Graham Cracker Crust!
Q: A friend's husband LOVES graham cracker crusts, so for his birthday this year, he has requested a cake made of just graham cracker crust. I was thinking of layers of crust with some thin layers of cheesecake in between, but I'd love some other suggestions.
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Editor: Sara, what about looking toward a bar like this:
• Gooey, Chewy Graham Cracker Bars
Readers, what else would you suggest?
Related: Recipe: Graham Cracker Crusted and Pistachio Flecked Cheese Torte
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Bag it ... Tag it yard waste removal program offers help to Farmington homeowners
With days getting a little cooler, it's a good bet that sooner or later, Farmington homeowners will start thinking about fall yardwork and cleanup.
This year, the city of Farmington is launching a new program called Bag it ... Tag it. The intent is to help residents get rid of their yard waste.
The program is pretty simple, Farmington municipal services coordinator Lena Larson said. Residents can go to Farmington City Hall, purchase specific tags for the program, place the tags on bags of yard waste, place the bags by the curb, and the yard waste will be picked up by Dick's Sanitation.
"It's a new option for people who don't necessarily want the seasonal service," Larson said. "Some people only need it in the late spring or early in the fall. They don't need (yard waste collection) all year long."
Farmington has a seasonal yard waste removal program in place. For $82 annually, residents can have their yard waste taken away throughout the year. While many residents participate in the annual program, Larson said a number of residents said they only needed the service a couple of times a year. That's why the city worked up the Bag it ... Tag it program with Dick's Sanitation.
The tags are $3 each, and can only be purchased at city hall. The tags are good through 2019, which is the end date for the city's contract with Dick's.
"If they buy five or 10 this year and they don't use them all until next year, that's no problem," Larson said.
Residents can get rid of any kind of yard waste, be it grass clippings, garden waste, leaves or twigs. Small bundles of branches will also be collected, as long as the branches are not more than four inches in diameter, and are no more than four feet long. When the bags are ready, residents must call Dick's Sanitation to schedule a collection.
The program does not include removal of rocks, boulders, dirt, sod, stumps, logs or lumber.
Residents can still take their yard waste to area composting sites, Larson added. The closest two are The Mulch Store on Blaine Avenue in Empire, or B & D Wood Recycling and Composting near Northfield. For more information on the Bag it ... Tag it program, visit the city of Farmington's website, www.ci.farmington.mn.us.


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$70 007 Goldeneye Reloaded, $80 Resistance 3 Doomsday Bundles @ Bestbuy/BB.com(OOS)
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OOS online but if your BB are like mine there should be plenty in stock but with them being on sale like this doubt they'll last very long
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they should pm it since it's from their store but there is verbage that gives them an out for OOS items. Your response to that is simply that you'll bring the sealed(they don't have to know) item back & return/rebuy since it's such a major price difference they should understand that it would be an option. Go into the store with confidence that your right.
hey Enuf, if we bought one of the move bundles at Best Buy within the last 30 days at a higher price, will best buy price match the difference, even if the item is now OOS both online and locally? I thought I read some language in the price match guarantee that they can deny you if item is OOS. Thanks..
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They definitely would deny this since your were attempting to match a competitor that's an easy denial but if you were able to confirm stock in the physical local store you'd be good.
It's YMMV on that, they refused a price match for FFIV on PSP when it was OOS on Gamestops website.
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"Actually if you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't. There is that guy who scores goals for us -- (Adel) Taarabt. (Wayne) Routledge I've heard of. They're
all bloody nice guys, but I don't mix with them so I don't know them well."
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Sun Wheel Mandala Quilt
Back in the early 1990's the Crafts Council in London held a wonderful exhibition of 'New American Quilts' which I attended along with a couple of accompanying lectures. The exhibition totally blew my mind and I realised there was so much more I could do with quilting than just Log Cabin 'quilt-in-a-day'.
One of the quilts that most interested and impressed me was a small hanging by Susan Shie and Jimmy Acord, which was described as a 'Green Quilt' and had writing all over it, something I would never have even considered doing! The lecture that I most enjoyed was by Nancy Crow. I absolutely loved her quilts and her whole attitude to her 'art' http://www.nancycrow.com/HTML/home.html
Because she had recently been on an artist exchange in China with Susan Shie, she talked about Susan and the Green Quilt movement. I remember being tremendously excited by the whole idea of Green Quilts. Very sadly this movement has now ended, but you can read a bit about its aims and objectives here http://www.turtlemoon.com/greenquilts/gqstatement.htm
I came away from the lecture determined to get involved somehow and to make 'GreenQuilts'.
At this time I was living in a very remote part of the Scottish Borders with my husband and 2 small boys. It was an intensely creative and happy period for me, but I was also very isolated from my friends and family and (it felt like) the world. I was really fired up about environmental issues too and was always being told (by my husband!) to get off 'my soapbox'!
So when I heard about the Green Quilt movement I thought I had finally found a way of combining my creative, quilt-making side with my need to DO something and contribute to society.
I can't really remember how I got things started, this was way before the internet so I must have written letters to Susan Shie in Ohio. I certainly remember a long and friendly correspondence, and that we sent each other photos and slides of our work (so quaint!). I also received The Green Quilt Newsletter in the post from the USA.
I put an ad into The Quilter's Guild magazine asking if anybody else was interested in starting a UK Green Quilt Association. I was very excited to receive around 20 letters from quilters in Britain and Ireland who were all interested. I started a Green Quilt UK Newsletter (on paper, photocopied and sent out!) and I also started a 'Green Quilt'.
This ended up as Sun Wheel Mandala and I still have this hanging in my sewing room today. It will always be a very special quilt to me as it was my first 'art quilt' and I was, and still am, very proud of it. The New American Quilt exhibition travelled up to the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead the following year and to accompany it they had an exhibiton of new and old British quilts. I was so delighted to have this quilt chosen for the exhibition. It was also featured in that year's Fibre Arts book.
The quilt is basically constructed as 4 quarter blocks plus border. Each of the quarters is a massive, extended 'Drunkards Path' block, machine pieced on to interlining. I then embellished with beads, Indian shisha mirrors and embroidery. It is quite heavily hand quilted with different coloured quilting threads. I used batik to write the message around the edge (I was such a hippy back then!) but it didn't come out too well so I embroidered on top.
The quilt also has an official 'Green Quilt' label on the back. I would send off for these to Robin Schwalb in New York who silk screen printed them at $1 for 2. It must have been lovely getting all this correspondence from around the world in the post!
I made a few more Green Quilts and tried to motivate British quilters to get involved. I had plans to put together a slide show and take it to different quilter's groups. But I think I just ran out of time and energy. Plus I found I was making the quilts so that I could write on them, so in the end I just started writing instead! For a few years I only made 'simple' quilts for weddings and babies and put all my energy into my business and family. I feel it is only in the last few years that I have got a new 'ambition' back in to my quilting and can continue where I left off when I made Sun Wheel Mandala back in 1994.
I guess it was pretty naive to think you could change the world by making a quilt, but I still love the Green Quilt ethos of sewing love and hope into your quilts and therefore sending it out into the world.
I think that is what everyone who makes a quilt does anyway.
I am including this quilt in the Blogger's Quilt Festival organised by Park City Girl. Click here to see an amazing array or gorgeous quilts! bloggers quilt festival


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I have had the small set of 10 for awhile. I took them out of the box and was not impressed, so I put them away. Today I was trying out some new paper and found the Conte pastels. Soooooooo - Yep I used them. Results: First, I do not consider these soft. Right next door to hard for sure, (like the conte pastel pencils). Second, With a little effort they lay down color without a problem. Third, They blend easy and the colors are very vivid. Conte did not skimp on pigment. Fourth, Will I buy more ----- Yes, and soon.
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Middle. School.They care about it if it's a high school graduation requirement like algebra and geometry. It goes on your high school transcript, which colleges ultimately see.
Generalizing to the whole like that is a logical fallacy. Just because your school does something does not mean all do. Your initial statement treated it as if it was the case overall, as opposed to just how your particular school is.Thanks for the condescending tone, BillyMc, but I know what I'm talking about. The first thing on my HIGH SCHOOL transcript (the transcript that gets sent to colleges) is my algebra grade from 8th grade because algebra is a course you're required to pass to graduate.


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Last April, Rangel met with executives from the troubled insurance giant American International Group to ask for a donation to a school of public service City College of New York was building in his honor, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Less than a month later, AIG executives asked Rangel, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, to support a provision in a bill that would save the company million of dollars a year, the Times reported.
Last summer, Rangel said he knew of no issues his committee had considered in which AIG had an interest, the Times reported after a review of congressional documents.
Rangel, who initially opposed the tax change AIG was seeking, later agreed to it as part of a much larger piece legislation after other members of Congress said it would help numerous U.S. companies survive the economic downtown, the Times reported, noting AIG never did make a contribution to Rangel's school.


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Prior to becoming a physician, I attended graduate school for biomedical engineering and volunteered in the Peace Corps. Combining my interest in fixing problems and my desire to help people was a natural fit. It led me to the field of urologic reconstructive surgery—a field that focuses on restoring a person's quality of life.
My interest in reconstructive surgery led me to a fellowship in which I gained experience in performing hundreds of reconstructive procedures for repair of urethral strictures, urinary tract fistulas, ureteral injuries, and genital deformities. I also performed surgeries to restore erectile function and urinary continence. Many of these procedures focused on helping people who had previously had unsuccessful surgeries.
Since 2013, I have been practicing at NYU Langone, specializing in reconstructive surgery for reproductive organs and the urinary system. One of the focuses of my practice is managing urethral strictures, which is a narrowing of the tube that carries urine out of the body. Appropriate evaluation and diagnosis of a urethral stricture is critical, because it can make a difference between temporary relief and a definitive, long-lasting solution.
To treat people with urethral strictures, I perform urethroplasty, a procedure used to reconstruct the urethra. I am fortunate to have the training and clinical experience to be able to perform this technically demanding surgery on a regular basis.
Another focus of my practice is urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction, conditions that can result from injuries to the urinary tract. I offer a range of surgical treatments to restore urinary continence or erectile function when medications are unable to adequately address these issues.
To perform reconstructive procedures on the prostate, bladder, kidney, and ureter, I use the newest technology in minimally invasive reconstructive surgery, including the da Vinci® robotic system, which allows for three-dimensional, high-definition views and precise movements. I was one of the first physicians to use the da Vinci® system to treat people with ureter injuries by grafting tissue from another part of the body. My study on the procedure won the award for Best Laparoscopic and Robotic Paper at the 2015 World Congress of Endourology Meeting.
In addition to clinical care, I have authored numerous articles on trauma, urologic reconstruction, and surgical outcomes. As a member of the Trauma and Urologic Reconstructive Network of Surgeons (TURNS), I am actively involved in studying improvements in surgical outcomes and patient safety by participating in collaborative research with other prominent reconstructive urologists.
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I originally posted this in the drama help thread but now I'm wondering if maybe this person is a singer rather than an actor. The face is so familiar its driving me batty. Anyone know who it is, please?
lost in the music
Does anyone know where I could find (or even have) a good karaoke version of the song World Order by Genki Sudo. I had gone into audacity to get rid of the vocals but the result was less than satisfying. Thanks
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Heard a song at work the other night.
Kindof techno.
Female singer... (It's not the one with 4string/deadmau5)
Only lyrics I got, that COULD be slightly off...
You're takin me higgggher
(something) Desiiiiire.
something something on my own?
something so loneeely
And somewhere in with higher/desire was the word fire...
Sooo yeah...any help = love.
(Please use a quote on this to answer so I know it has been answered <3)
Heya Everyone,
Basically what I'm trying to find is the best LEGAL place to buy and download MP3s of some of my favorite anime songs. Itunes and Amazon are a joke since 90% of the stuff they have are horrible remixes.
Death is lighter than a feather, Duty heavier than a mountain.
ok, i looked in all 4 soundtracks and i can not find this music, a sample is on bleach anime episode 287 at 5:50. anyone can tell me that song message me please! Thank you!!!
What's the name of this music video?
Blind girl meets a guy in the middle of the city. She ask if he can see the stars and whether they are beautiful. He lies and said yes and they fall in love. She's getting surgery to get back her vision, and he promises to show her the stars after she's healed. He gets into an accident and dies and when she shows up in the meeting spot, he's not there. She looks up and realize she can't see the stars.
This is old, like 2003-2008 kinda old.
seems no one here gets a reply was wonderin if anyone could name the song at 11.30 on this link..I've tried and asked everywhere else ><
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Hello all! I tried looking for this anime using the search function but found no results so I'm making one myself. This anime "Kyousougiga" has this really wonderful insert song starting at around 2:03 and I just can't find it! Could anyone of you help me identify it please?
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i was watching this weird video in youtube but i like the music.
i watch it here.
please can you tell me the name of the music?
Lol. It's Hips Don't Lie by Shakira.
Where can I find Bass tabs for Crossing Field?
Hello. looking for a song from youtube, i remember 2 versions of it one was in Japanese and the other in English.
JP- a group of girls singing it in Japanese,and it had a background with anime girls in knights outfit. The girls singing would have their own character and the character would alternate as they sung.
Eng- in this version it was just one girl sing it, the background for this one was a girl with a huge glass building. i remember a bit of the song and it went like this. Every time we touch......i come back to you... we made a bond a promise to... (NOT Cascada - Everytime We Touch)
not sure if they are the exact word.
Where can I look for the English lyrics for the song humming bird by thyme? Actually I can't find the lyrics for most of her songs, the only ones I found are forever we can make it, hello, and fly away. So yeah where can I find the English lyrics for her other songs?
talk to me people :)
I love Japanese music, from bands like GO!GO!7188 to PUFFY AmiYumi, I've even found two Christian JRock bands, GaGaalinG and Glad.Of.Death.Revive., my question is if there are any other Christian Japanese bands. It's harder to find them, I can find tens of thousands of amazing secular Japanese bands, that part I'm not worried about, it's easy, but trying to find find Christian JRock bands is like trying to find a needle that's half a centimeter shorter than the rest in a stack of 500 identical needles. Any help here?
Here's examples of the Christian JRock bands I've found:
Glad.Of.Death.Revive.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3pnaBQVQtY
GaGaalinG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNpfhrFmWhM
Does anybody know the Soundtrack which is playing during the conversation between Kaiji and Endo, where the old man interferes and gets mad?
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Hi EVERYONE!
okay I can't seem to find the song that is played in the background in Episode 2 of Inu x Boku... right when she enters the room and there is a whole party set up for her! I MUST KNOW THIS SONG !!!!!!!
I've searched high and low and can't seem to find it.. I do think that it is perhaps some sort of a concerto.. but not sure which one
I hope one of you knows it it would make my day!!!!!!!!!!
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okay I can't seem to find the song that is played in the background in Episode 2 of Inu x Boku... right when she enters the room and there is a whole party set up for her! I MUST KNOW THIS SONG !!!!!!!
I've searched high and low and can't seem to find it.. I do think that it is perhaps some sort of a concerto.. but not sure which one
I hope one of you knows it it would make my day!!!!!!!!!!
Hey I've been trying to look for it but I'm not having all that much luck. I even tried to Shazam it a couple of times during the episode when it came up lol. I've looked through the OST and all that, too. It probably is some select classical piece that I don't know of. Sorry I couldn't help you there.


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Final: Red Sox 8, Braves 4
Final: Red Sox 8, Braves 4: Two flyouts and a groundout, and the Sox are back on the winning track. Morales picks up his first win of the season with another solid start, and Middlebrooks and Pedroia each go 3 for 4. Boston moves to 37-34.
Bottom 8th: Red Sox 8, Braves 4: Medlen makes quick work of Ortiz (grounder to second), Salty (K swinging) and Gonzalez (K swinging). Aceves out of the pen for the save.
Top 8th: Red Sox 8, Braves 4: Padilla might have set a new personal best this inning with a 49-mph eephus pitch that Freeman waited roughly 3 minutes for before driving it to left. He got around it with two flyouts and a weak grounder on…yes…another eephus pitch. But he topped 50 mph on that one, so there's that.
Bottom 7th: Red Sox 8, Braves 4: The Sox get some insurance off the Atlanta pen after Ross hits his second straight double, this time off the top of the Monster above the 379-foot sign and Kalish walks (up until that point, he was the only Sox player to not reach base tonight). They moved up on a wild pitch and scored on a Nava single to right.
Pedroia and Middlebrooks, each 3 for 3 entering the inning, both grounded out.
Top 7th: Red Sox 6, Braves 4: Atchison's scoreless streak ends at 6.2 innings as Ross beats out an infield single, Simmons doubles down the left-field line and Bourn hits an RBI groundout to first. Atchison's night ends after he walks Prado.
With Andrew Miller on the mound, an exact replica of Ortiz's fourth-inning lineout occurs as Gonzalez snares one off McCann's bat and steps on first to end the frame.
Bottom 6th: Red Sox 6, Braves 3: Varvaro gets around a leadoff walk to Pedroia (who, by the way, is now 3 for 3 with a walk) by getting Ortiz to pop out to third, and striking out both Salty and Gonzalez swinging.
Franklin Morales is done. Scott Atchison on for the Sox.
Morales' line: 6.0 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 8 SO, 86 pitches, 62 strikes.
Top 6th: Red Sox 6, Braves 3: Alternating strikeouts with hits, Morales gets McCann looking, gives up an Uggla single, whiffs Freeman swinging and then allows a double to right-center by Chipper Jones. Morales holds strong, shattering Heyward's bat on a foul ball then getting him to weakly ground out to first.
Bottom 5th: Red Sox 6, Braves 2: Here come the bats. Three straight hits from Gonzalez, Middlebrooks (who is now a triple short of the cycle) and Ross give the Sox another run.
Martinez exited after striking out Kalish, giving way to Varvaro who got Aviles swinging and Nava to ground out to second.
Top 5th: Red Sox 5, Braves 2: Heyward hit a dribbler down the third-base line that Morales threw away past Gonzalez for a single and a one-base error. Heyward tagged up and moved to third on a Ross popout to Gonzalez, and scored on a Bourn single.
After Bourn's single, a trainer and Bobby V came out to check on Morales. He stayed in the game and got Prado to fly out to right.
Bottom 4th: Red Sox 5, Braves 1: Pedroia has his first 3-hit game since May 11 vs. Cleveland, but gets doubled up at first on a hard Papi liner that made a beeline straight for Freeman's glove. Salty turns Heyward around on a deep fly, but the ball had just enough air under it to allow the right fielder to recover.
Top 4th: Red Sox 5, Braves 1: Morales still hitting 96 mph on the gun as he strikes out Freeman and Jones swinging. That makes six strikeouts through four innings. He may very well pass the 9 Ks he had in his last start.
Bottom 3rd: Red Sox 5, Braves 1: Yes, yes, Will Middlebrooks, we get it. You're on fire. Understood. Atlanta's outfielders never moved as the rookie parks one into the Monster to pad the Sox lead.
After a Ross strikeout and a hard Kalish liner on which Heyward made a nice diving play, Aviles doubled down the left-field line. Nava then cranked another hard liner to right that Heyward ran down, this time standing up.
Top 3rd: Red Sox 4, Braves 1: While Delgado faltered, Morales is getting stronger. The speedy Bourn beat Gonzalez to the bag at first for an infield single to lead off the inning, then Morales got Prado to ground into a 6-4-3 double play.
Bottom 2nd: Red Sox 4, Braves 1: Bobby V's prediction that Pedroia would soon be "hotter than a firecracker" is coming to fruition. Pedroia whacked a double to the left-center gap, scoring Aviles (single) and Nava (hit by pitch). Nava got a great jump and scored from first. After an intentional walk to Papi and a five-pitch pass to Salty, Delgado is yanked in favor of Cristhian Martinez.
Martinez gets Gonzalez to ground into a bases-loaded, inning-ending double play, stopping the rally.
Delgado's final line: 1.1 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 2 BB, 1 SO, 1 HBP, 56 pitches, 29 strikes.
Top 2nd: Red Sox 2, Braves 1: Morales settles into a nice groove, getting Heyward to fly out to right, and striking out both Ross and Simmons swinging on fastballs dialed up to 96 mph.
Bottom 1st: Red Sox 2, Braves 1: The Sox engage in a nice game of "anything you can do, we can do better." Pedroia singles up the middle, snapping an 0 for 11 slide and moves to third on a Salty single. Gonzalez then smacked an RBI single and Middlebrooks cranked a double off the Monster for his 10th RBI in his past seven games.
Top 1st: Braves 1, Red Sox 0: Morales digs himself into a hole early, giving up a leadoff single to Bourn and walking Prado, Morales' first free pass since May 31. Bourn and Prado got great jumps on a breaking ball for a double steal, and McCann singled home the game's first run.
But two swinging strikeouts and a sharp lineout to short, and Morales minimizes the damage.
Pregame: The five-game winning streak over thanks to Jair Jurrjens' performance Friday night, the Sox send Franklin Morales (0-1, 3.14 ERA) to the mound Saturday against the Braves, who counter with righty Randall Delgado (4-7, 4.12 ERA).
Internin' Alex Prewitt has your live updates on the blog. As always, friends, please comment away during the game. Enjoy.


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Managing Relationships
There are primarily two paths to growth in this or any industry. There's the organic variety whereby you grow your business through marketing, outreach and expansion into new regions. And then there's the fast-track approach of growing through acquisition.
The former entails a process of building relationships with business partners--be they providers, employers or individual enrollees--while the latter is based on acquiring a set of ready-made relationships. Success via the acquisition route, however, is dependent upon the successful integration of these relationships into your own operations. And there's the rub.
Officials with the Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group issued a mea culpa of sorts recently, conceding that they mishandled the integration of some of their recent acquisitions. The result? A serious backlash from providers and enrollees alike--particularly in its PacifiCare operating unit--that is costing the company over a half million members.
"We pursued too much change, too fast, and the results were too disruptive," said David Wichmann, executive vice president at UnitedHealth, assuring analysts and investors that the most disruptive portions of the integration have already been completed. Wichmann says providers and consumers alike were alienated by the company's integration process, which included moves to shift call center operations overseas and to centralize provider relations rather than maintaining a network of regional representatives. Those moves are now being reversed, but much of the damage has already been done.
Ken Burdick, president and CEO of the company's UnitedHealthcare division, noted that the integration woes and other customer service problems would cause the United's membership rolls to shrink by over half-million members at the beginning of 2008--350,000 in risk-based membership and 200,000 in fee-based membership.
The member flight problem was most acute among those covered by its PacifiCare unit. In his presentation, Burdick noted that the unit is on target to lose 305,000 members this year and another 215,000 next year. The PacifiCare unit lost 135,000 members in the first year following the merger for a three-year total of 640,000 members.
Still, Wichmann and Burdick were optimistic that the company has turned the corner. Burdick said United is on track to boost its risk-based membership by 100,000 and its fee-based membership by 150,000 by the end of 2008. And Wichmann noted that the company has adopted a new attitude toward provider relations. "We understand relationships and we recognize that this is a health system that needs to work for everyone, not just for us," he said. "We're approaching negotiations in a much more inclusive and collaborative fashion and we're achieving comparable economic results."
Brad Cain is editor of California Healthfax and executive editor for managed care with HealthLeaders Media. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Like Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner, and Elizabeth Taylor, Attila the Hun married more than six different people.
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Like Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner, and Elizabeth Taylor, Attila the Hun married more than six different people.
Why do people have such a hard time staying awake after Thanksgiving dinner? Most people blame tryptophan, but that's not really the main culprit. And what is tryptophan, anyway?
Tryptophan is an amino acid that the body uses in the processes of making vitamin B3 and serotonin, a neurotransmitter that helps regulate sleep. It can't be produced by our bodies, so we need to get it through our diet. From which foods, exactly? Turkey, of course, but also other meats, chocolate, bananas, mangoes, dairy products, eggs, chickpeas, peanuts, and a slew of other foods. Some of these foods, like cheddar cheese, have more tryptophan per gram than turkey. Tryptophan doesn't have much of an impact unless it's taken on an empty stomach and in an amount larger than what we're getting from our drumstick. So why does turkey get the rap as a one-way ticket to a nap?
The urge to snooze is more the fault of the average Thanksgiving meal and all the food and booze that go with it. Here are a few things that play into the nap factor:
Fats: That turkey skin is delicious, but fats take a lot of energy to digest, so the body redirects blood to the digestive system. Reduced blood flow in the rest of the body means reduced energy.
Alcohol: What Homer Simpson called the cause of—and solution to—all of life's problems is also a central nervous system depressant.
Overeating: Same deal as fats. It takes a lot of energy to digest a big feast (the average Thanksgiving meal contains 3000 calories and 229 grams of fat), so blood is sent to the digestive process system, leaving the brain a little tired.
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In October, scientists using the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS 1 telescope sighted something extraordinary: Earth's first confirmed interstellar visitor. Originally called A/2017 U1, the once-mysterious object has a new name—'Oumuamua, according to Scientific American—and researchers continue to learn more about its physical properties. Now, a team from the University of Hawaii's Institute of Astronomy has published a detailed report of what they know so far in Nature.
Fittingly, "'Oumuamua" is Hawaiian for "a messenger from afar arriving first." 'Oumuamua's astronomical designation is 1I/2017 U1. The "I" in 1I/2017 stands for "interstellar." Until now, objects similar to 'Oumuamua were always given "C" and "A" names, which stand for either comet or asteroid. New observations have researchers concluding that 'Oumuamua is unusual for more than its far-flung origins.
It's a cigar-shaped object 10 times longer than it is wide, stretching to a half-mile long. It's also reddish in color, and is similar in some ways to some asteroids in own solar system, the BBC reports. But it's much faster, zipping through our system, and has a totally different orbit from any of those objects.
After initial indecision about whether the object was a comet or an asteroid, the researchers now believe it's an asteroid. Long ago, it might have hurtled from an unknown star system into our own.
'Oumuamua may provide astronomers with new insights into how stars and planets form. The 750,000 asteroids we know of are leftovers from the formation of our solar system, trapped by the Sun's gravity. But what if, billions of years ago, other objects escaped? 'Oumuamua shows us that it's possible; perhaps there are bits and pieces from the early years of our solar system currently visiting other stars.
The researchers say it's surprising that 'Oumuamua is an asteroid instead of a comet, given that in the Oort Cloud—an icy bubble of debris thought to surround our solar system—comets are predicted to outnumber asteroids 200 to 1 and perhaps even as high as 10,000 to 1. If our own solar system is any indication, it's more likely that a comet would take off before an asteroid would.
So where did 'Oumuamua come from? That's still unknown. It's possible it could've been bumped into our realm by a close encounter with a planet—either a smaller, nearby one, or a larger, farther one. If that's the case, the planet remains to be discovered. They believe it's more likely that 'Oumuamua was ejected from a young stellar system, location unknown. And yet, they write, "the possibility that 'Oumuamua has been orbiting the galaxy for billions of years cannot be ruled out."
As for where it's headed, The Atlantic's Marina Koren notes, "It will pass the orbit of Jupiter next May, then Neptune in 2022, and Pluto in 2024. By 2025, it will coast beyond the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt, a field of icy and rocky objects."
Last week, University of Wisconsin–Madison astronomer Ralf Kotulla and scientists from UCLA and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) used the WIYN Telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, to take some of the first pictures of 'Oumuamua. You can check them out below.
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Academic background Doctor in Engineering – Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS)– Argentina, 1997. Master of Engineering Science (M.E.Sc.) –University of Western Ontario (UWO) – Canada, 1984. Civil Engineer – Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS) – Argentina, 1981. Director of postgraduate careers "Master of Engineering" and "Doctor of Engineering. Department of Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Since 2011. Present occupations Full professor (full-time), Department of Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina. Since June 2006. Undergraduate and graduate courses: Statics, Strength of Materials, Dynamics of Structures, Variational Methods. Scientific Researcher (Cat. Independent), CONICET, Argentina. Since 2003. Research areas of interest Dynamics of structures and structural elements, Structural stability, Non-linear dynamics, Wind actions, Damage detection, Uncertainty quantification and stochastic modeling. Thesis supervision Two Master in Engineering theses. UNS, Argentina. Finished. Five Doctor in Engineering theses , UNS. Argentina. Finished. Three Doctor in Engineering theses in development. UNS, Argentina. One Master in Engineering thesis in development. UNS, Argentina. Researcher supervision One CONICET (Argentina) researcher supervision. Publications in reviewed journals with ISI impact factor (updated to 2012) Number of published papers (JSV, JASA, LAAR, IJNLM, NLD, EFM, IJMS, ES): 42 (forty-two) Publications in refereed proceedings of national or international conferences (updated to 2012) More than 100 (one hundred).
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Exclusive: Gloria Estefan Will (Probably) Return to 'Glee' This Season
There are only a few things we really want out of life. The first is a music player that can read your mind to always give you the perfect song. The second is calorie-free brownies and cupcakes. And the third is for Gloria Estefan to return to Glee as Santana's (Naya Rivera) sassy yet sweet mama Maribel Lopez. Welp, looks like one of our wishes is coming true — but this one definitely does not involve frosting.
"I'm totally up for it, are you kidding me? I had a blast! I'm a big gleek myself and it was such a thrill to play Santana's mom," Estefan gushed to Hollywood.com this morning while promoting her new show The Next (more on that later).
The legendary singer confirms that her second guest appearance is "in the works" but she can't pinpoint her exact episode just yet. "From last time, look at the difference from when they announced that I was going on, to the time that I actually got on [the show]," said Estefan. "I can't say for sure I'm going to be on this episode or whatever, but it is in the works. They really want to do it." Praise Breadstix! Our favorite Lima Heights mama will be back!
Plus, the lovely Latina knows exactly which storylines she would like to tackle in her next visit to Lima Heights. Estefan reveals, "I would love to close that circle that we left open with Santana's grandma."
Here's a quick little recap for those who have let the fumes of suntan oil mess with their memories during this summer break: Santana had always been extremely close with her Abuelita, but when she bravely told her the truth about her sexuality, Santana was heartbreakingly shunned by her own grandmother.
Estefan continues, "I know in my family I would never let that sit. If my mother were to talk like that to my daughter I would definitely want some kind of reunion or at least some resolutions out of that. I think that's a crazy thing to have left open so we're hoping to do that in this new season."
Now that we've discussed the drama, let's get down to the music. Estefan heard your tweets of despair when Maribel didn't sing her heart out in the McKinley halls. "I know everybody was disappointed that I didn't get to sing on [the last] show, but quite honestly, I'm happy about it," Estefan says, adding that she was less concerned with singing and more focused on building a strong connection with her onscreen daughter.
In this next episode, the down-to-earth Estefan says she has only one diva demand: "I would love to sing with Naya. That would be my number one."
Are you excited to see Gloria Estefan on Glee again? Which song do you think would be perfect for Maribel/Santana duet? Sing to us in the comments below!
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Video games typically operate along slightly different rules than our own lives. It's what makes them fun and a welcomed escape from reality. As consoles become more powerful and gaming becomes more inventive, the gap closes between video games and what we might consider, true realism. It's not all the way there yet, but do we really want it to be? Even so, it makes for some interesting comparisons…
By the way, there is a point to all of this; this is not just a mindless thought dump.
Whether you're in a loving relationship, hitting the dating scene, in between or an asexual yeast cell budding off progeny as you see fit, relationships are a lot more straightforward in video games. RPGs have particularly interesting approaches to courtship.
Take Dragon Age: Origins – my favourite example of this. Players can prostitute themselves in exchange for cool perks or to just secure their loyalty to you later in the game. Yet, still have a meaningful stake in a relationship. Who ever heard of a STI in Fantasy Middle Earth anyway? All you need to do is find a particular item of sentimental value to them and you'll open a dialogue option to invite them back to your tent. Men, women, everyone's game. But let the other member of your party find out about your shameless promiscuity and you'll have real life's drama to deal with.
This is simpler still in Skyrim. Travel to the Temple of Mara in The Rift and speak to the priest to get yourself one of his patented amulets. Let all the single guys and gals, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Argonians, Khajiit and human alike know that you're single and ready to mingle. They're not fussy. In these times of conflict and uncertainty, citizens of Skyrim just don't want to be alone. Perhaps this is how Mr. T thought the world worked and was just trying to find the right amulet.
Our lives are far from fantasy. Let's consider a game where relationship dynamics hit closer to home. Grand Theft Auto. Do I steal jets from military bases? No. Do I initiate turf wars only to take to the skies in a jetpack and rain down fire from above with akimbo Uzis? Only after a few. But I do use my mobile phone to ring my shorty (showt-ay-ee if you're T-Pain). First introduced in San Andreas, by taking your shorty on a number of dates, the relationship blossoms. Each girl even has their own tastes and respond accordingly. You can even meet girls on dating websites. A melding of real and virtual worlds. Besides the odd entertaining interactions, like Dragon Age, there are a number of in-game benefits too.
Cowering From Conflict, Behind a Corner or in a Haystack
Tough boss battle. Blind corner. Hit it, quit it and hope their health doesn't regenerate. Stealth is a key element in a lot of games. Sometimes we can push this in unusual directions by devising our own strategies to remain unseen, even if the game never intended you to play it that way. That's the strategy I like to call the cowardly rogue. And it's gotten me through a lot of tough situations that probably wouldn't work as well in life.
You're probably familiar with AI behaviour in stealth situations. They see you, they go on high alert and when they get bored they carry on as if nothing happened. I mean, really? You just saw, with your own eyes, an enemy who is a considerable threat to your entire operation and you just assume he was just, I don't know, lost and went home?
I think this system is a little more believable in Assassin's Creed. Hiding around a corner or in a haystack only works if the enemy doesn't see you go there. Much better.
Nevertheless, while AI behaviour in video games is certainly different from our own unpredictability (or predictability if you're Derren Brown) the end result would be the same. Foolish guards and short-term memory loss lets James forever lurk in shadows. Not in real life though, I tried. Not that I sneak around like a weirdo, I just love hide and seek. With people I know.
Oh That? That's Just Where My Neck Stopped That Draugr's Waraxe
Players are stronger than most enemies. I can accept that. However, if you think about it, players aren't only stronger but have skin impervious to blades, bullets and fire. Even when things go haywire, you can usually scoff down a potion or any number of restorative herbs and foods in an instant. Me? I don't think I could fight on a stomach full of Diet Coke and sweet roll.
I was lucky enough to win a couple of tickets to the PlayStation Access Presents: The Last of Us event back last May. It was held in Shoreditch in what looked like a post-apocalypse era warehouse. There were plenty of opportunities to get hands-on with the game, not to mention food and drink were included! [Oh man the burgers…] They had an exclusive presentation of the game presentation followed by a live Q&A. The most memorable moment being one of the developers dying as he played through the level.
Naughty Dog, and also Irrational Games, put a lot of work into developing novel companions for The Last of Us and BioShock: Infinite. They felt freshly dynamic. By that, I mean these companions are not just blindly following wherever you go. They interact with the environment in the same way as the human player. It's almost like they're discovering this virtual world as much as you are. Except that it is real to them.
Then you have companions whom absent-mindedly stand between your sword and the enemy. And then they complain about it!
However, the most absorbing video game companionship that most closely resembles reality is co-op. None more spellbinding Beyond: Two Souls. One player assumes the role of Jodie as the drama skips back and forth between various significant points in her life. The other takes the role of an inexplicable spirit, Aiden, bound to her since birth. The decisions Jodie and Aiden make are completely independent in co-op driven by both our own ethical beliefs and our relationship with the other player. Seeing your friend, vulnerable and nervous, being bullied at their first party stirs up different emotions in different people. It provoke a spectrum of responses. Your connection to the person you're playing with dictates how you react; how you play the game. Nervously, harshly, supportively. Multiple endings throughout provide consequences dependent on these decisions and reactions. It makes the world of Beyond seem more real.
Queues = Loading Screens
This one's a quick thought. Chew on this: loading screens are like when we queue for stuff.
Exploiting Glitches
We've all done it. Trying to climb into weird places in a video game by spamming the jump button, when walking around it would be so much simpler. But inevitably, you become stuck and end up swimming through the floor. In a real situation you could simply raise your right leg and walk over the object you're stuck behind or somehow fused onto (or fall down the cliff you've defied the laws of physics to climb). I know I shouldn't do it and yet every time it happens I'm like…
The good thing is we can exploit these bugs. That's cheating?! Well, if securing the left analogue stick in the down position with a rubber band so you sneak backwards into a wall of a cave where a blind man sits while you sleep for ten hours is too exploitative and ruins the fun, then call me Wolmanatix, the Daedric Prince of cheating and exploitation.
The interesting thing is, that glitches sort of exist in real life too. There are bugs in the way people behave and the processes by which things are done that can be exploited. Con artists, like Frank Abagnale, are good at exploiting life's glitches. But in a more relatable sense, this sort of thing happens all the time with people. We all have our ticks. Something woven into the fibre of our being that causes us to behave in sometimes bizarre ways. Whether it be a ritual, a pet peeve or an uncontrollable 'knee-jerk' type reaction.
"Dude, can I have your stereo when you die?" A humorous jibe between two mates – one of whom is about to do something stupid and/or dangerous. If they do bite the dust, are you actually going loot their corpse? Maybe not. A treacherous idea in society; practically mandatory in games. But arguably sort of fun in both?
Looting has never been more addictive and rewarding as it is exemplified in Borderlands.
RPGs contort this concept even more. Bethesda, for example, (who I love by the way as you can probably tell) seem to subscribe to the principle that it's even okay to roam around in somebody's pocket as much as you like. 'ave a good old nose. Just don't take anything or you'll be in trouble. I don't know if I'd like that to be true of real life, but it might help in a "okay, which one of you guys took my pen?" type situation.
Levelling and Reward Systems
If you have the right perspective, life is pretty similar to levelling up in a video game. We can control which attributes we'd like most to customise and level up by improving the relevant skills. In fact, Razeware LLC has made this a digital reality by crossing life with levelling, with their app, 'Level Me Up'. It might not be the same addiction of fighting zombies and assigning attribute points to strength and intelligence. But it gives you the same sense of achieving something as you XP grind in various tasks. It provides visibility over the progress of skill progression.
The sad truth can be that in life, we sometimes can't see if we are getting any better at something because there is no progress or XP bar. Nobody to unequivocally say, "You're 95% there, keep going!" A lot of the time, we can be a mere iota from reaching the next level. But we give up because we've fought so hard to get to where we are, only to bear no reward nor end in sight.
On occasion, video games can be so engrossing compared to our own lives because the reality is, games are fairer than life. We *always* get rewarded for completing a quest in a video game and doing something positive, even if it's only small. It's a matter of incentives. Only life's incentives are more unpredictable. Sometimes they are just; sometimes none at all. Sometimes they are more than we could ever hope for.
So, What's Your Point?
So besides being a (fun) thought experiment, what's the point? It's not to showcase how much I have been playing Skyrim recently. These laboured parallels between video games and our lives have implications for how realism in gaming might change in the future, to mirror life more accurately. Not by making consequences of say, grave robbing, more severe, but by stirring up a more emotional response and connect more deeply with the player's own views. This would let morality to bear a more powerful influence over every decision a player would make.
Some would argue that the story is the most important aspect of a game. Stories stir up emotions after all. Take COD: Ghosts' single player storyline, written by Hollywood writer, Stephen Gaghan. A tale of two brothers and a man's best friend. It's insane and inventive. But it's the emotional story of the two brothers that truly shapes the player's experience. And having a strong, raw and emotional investment in a game and its characters, it feels deeply personal.
What's more, video games have the ability to invoke emotion from a whole different perspective than cinema ever could. In a game, you are the main character and they are you. Spectators watch decisions; players make them.
We have actually seen this concept evolve over time. Nobody ever felt bad for jumping on and killing a Goomba. But take games like Fallout where the decisions you make have consequences for the story. And these decisions are often directed by your moral alignment. Okay, comparing a modern RPG to a classic platformer is clumsy and stupid, but consequential gameplay centred on a morality is definitely transforming.
Since beginning this post, I have had a rethink of my opening paragraph. Video games aren't catching up to reality, they are beyond reality. And that is what makes them so fun.


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VCCA (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts) is one of the largest artists' communities in the nation. Tucked into the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, VCCA has awarded fellowships to thousands of our best national and international writers, composers and visual artists. This blog tells their story—their achievements and the work they are doing in your area and around the world. VCCA news is here, too: events, fellowships, opportunities. VCCA. Because creative space is a creative edge.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
2009 Moulin à Nef Resident Director Named
Fellow and painter Cheryl Fortier has been named the new Resident Director of the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France, and will begin her work there in July, following in the footsteps of the current Resident Director, poet Lucy Anderton. Cheryl and her husband will travel from their home in Vancouver to spend the season at VCCA's French studio center, facilitating residencies and workshops while representing VCCA in the community. Please visit our website to learn more about VCCA's France program.
Cheryl's paintings can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada and in the United States. She is represented in Vancouver by Nest Interiors and D'or Art Consultants, in New Westminster by Van Dop Galleries, and in Toronto by the Willow Gallery.
During Cheryl's most recent fellowship at Mt. San Angelo last fall, she kept an online journal of her experience. You can read it here.
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