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Strasbourg, 9 February 2010
European Commission calls on social networking companies to improve child safety policies
50% of European teenagers give out personal information on the web – according to an EU study – which can remain online forever and can be seen by anybody. Today, Safer Internet Day, the European Commission is passing a message to teenagers: "Think before you post!" It welcomed actions to protect children using social networking websites taken by the 20 companies who signed the Safer Social Networking Principles last year (IP/09/232 ). Most of these companies have empowered minors to tackle online risks by making it easier to change privacy settings, block users or delete unwanted comments and content. Yet more needs to be done to protect children online, the Commission says. Less than half of social networking companies (40%) make profiles of under-18 users visible only to their friends by default and only one third replied to user reports asking for help.
"If we want children to think before they post, social networking companies should post the right information using the right language. Last year the European Commission urged companies to act, and I am glad that many have heeded this call," said EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding. "However I expect all companies to do more. Minors' profiles need to be set to private by default and questions or abuse reports have to receive quick and appropriate responses. The internet is now vital to our children, and it is the responsibility of all to make it safe."
At last year's Safer Internet Day, social networking companies recognised the need for young users – and their parents – to feel safe when socialising online and signed the Safer Social Networking Principles. These resulted from discussions set up by the European Commission in April 2008 with social networking sites, NGOs and researchers. 18 companies signed the Safer Social Networking Principles in February 2009 and were joined by another two in June 2009.
One year on, the Commission has published a report on the implementation of the Principles on the 25 sites run by the signatories – Arto, Bebo, Dailymotion, Facebook, Giovani.it, YouTube, Hyves, Windows Live, Xboxlive, Myspace, Nasza-klaza.pl, Netlog, One.lt, Piczo, Rate.ee, Skyrock, SchülerVZ StudiVZ MeinVZ, Habbo, IRC Galleria, Tuenti, Yahoo!Answers, Flickr, and Zap.lu.
Findings show that 19 out of 23 sites provide safety tips and information specifically targeted towards children and/or teenagers (this measure is non applicable for 2 services). This information is both easy to find and easy to understand on 14 sites: YouTube, Habbo Hotel, Hyves, IRC Galleria, MySpace, nasza-klasa, Netlog, One, Rate, SchülerVZ, Skyrock, Yahoo!Answers, Yahoo!Flickr, Zap.
The report also shows that most of the companies empower minors to deal with potential online risks and employ a safe approach to privacy by:
However, there has been less systematic implementation of other equally important measures designed to protect privacy:
The Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU were signed on 10 February 2009 by 18 major social networking service providers active in Europe, and joined by 2 further signatories in June 2009 ( IP/09/232 , MEMO/09/58 ). All signatories, except Giovani.it, provided their self-declarations to the European Commission by June 2009. The evaluation report of implementation of the Safer Social Networking Principles presented today is based on an analysis of the companies' self-declarations and actual testing of the respective sites from end of October to beginning of November 2009.
The Safer Internet Day is supported by the European Commission's Safer Internet Programme and has been organised by INSAFE every year since 2004, with events in more than 60 countries in Europe and worldwide.
The results of the report will be presented by the Commission and discussed at today's Safer Internet Day event organised in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, with the support of Mrs Roberta Angellilli, Vice President of the European Parliament.
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List of signatories of the Safer Social Networking Principles
Arto, Bebo, Dailymotion, Facebook, Giovani.it, Google, Hyves, Microsoft Europe, Myspace, Nasza-klaza.pl, Netlog, One.lt, Piczo, Skyrock, VZnet Netzwerk Ltd., Sulake, Yahoo!Europe, and Zap.lu. In June 2009, two more signatories joined: Ratee and Tuenti.
Safer Internet Day around Europe and worldwide
The INSAFE network of awareness centres launches a video and a quiz competition on the topic " Think before you post! " This year's edition includes events in more than 60 countries in Europe and worldwide, including:
- The Swedish Media Council organises a conference "Digital tourists", where participating adults – the tourists – will learn what children – the digital natives – do online.
For the full calendar of events see http://www.saferinternet.org
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Daydreams blur the borders of reality, change our surrounding world into a kind of wonderland. Recently I went to visit my own festival, a festival that never will be. Famous and not so famous architects talked about the drone of big city's or how the city sounds bounce back from the hills of Rio de Janeiro and thus create this wild jumpy rhythm. Shanty towns are so chaotically laid out that spiraling melodies seem a very natural musical reproduction of this structure. We would hear in sound and word how big buildings not only produce but also direct and transform the traffic noises. A modern day city dweller would feel lost in a silent town. City noises create their own dynamics, and contribute to development of new ways of thinking.
Also scientists would be there to tell us that communication between plants is based on sound. We would hear those sonic impulses from the micro world, and learn that also we, speaking our languages, use the bare sound of it to communicate, that it doesn't come down to words alone.
Ach, long distance communication between whales, navigation systems from the birds, the love call of snails, chaos theory and the buzzes of domestic flies, cosmic winds, tectonian moves, vulcanoes, tornadoes and crickets on a hot summer day, suddenly every visitor and participant alike would find pleasure in anecdotes about things they had heard and could not describe in words.
In comes the artist. Each one of them would be commissioned to use the scientific and architectural and filologic and geo-specific sounds and compile a story of it, a work of art that would cause for each listener to daydream himself to a different place.
There would also be a blindfolded sound walk in this festival that will never be. Not the one as we know it, o no. Participants would be brought to different places in a stretch limousine with blinded windows. Not able to see where they are going, together in a moving capsule they would hear strange abstract sounds. As soon as the car stopped, they would be blindfolded. They entered buildings with peculiar smells, sizzlings and tapperings, mumbles, squeeks and bits of conversation. Back to the car, and of to some place in town, a bit aside of the traffic saturated part of it, another walk. Then to an abandoned site, with distant almost undetectable whispers of all kinds. At the end of this sound walk each participant should talk about the things they had imagined.
O yes, it is all possible in a day dreamed world. I guess it is this kind of imagination that fuels not only my own performances. It also determines who I choose to play at my ongoing attempt to set up a festival:
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Das Kleine Field Recordings Festival
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Prayer is many things to many people. To the Muslim it is a daily ritual, to the Catholic it is a work that helps merit salvation, and to the evangelical Christian it is often a struggle. Books are written, classes …Read More
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It seems to me that much of current medical research is attempting to find good spare parts for the human body. It has a tendency to sometimes break badly and kill us with it. Today we routinely have parts removed or changed if there is a danger of breakdown, and soon we might be going for services we now adays more liken to garages. We've successfully constructed metal bones and joints, artificial kidneys, and mechanical hearts. Especially the last one gets me a bit, we can change out the very piece of us with which we associate feelings.
Anyway, for the sake of argument, let's say that you existed in a galaxy far, far away, in a different time which had access to much more advanced technology. Let's further say you are the illegitemate son of a guy mean on a galactic scale. While bickering with your old man with a photon based, energy emitting, arm extensions, he cuts your hand off. You then get a new hand, which looks and feels exactly like the one you lost, but it is made of electronics and mechanical parts.
Question: Would this hand be a part of you like your natural hand was?
Bonus question: Do you believe we ever will be able to transfer the human conciousness to a machine or something which is much more lasting that our brains?
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I think this would be a question best answered by someone who has had a limb amputated. As for me, I often find that the principle tool of my current work, a knife, really becomes an extension of myself - maybe this is the Samurai experience. Anyway, I've actually found myself reaching forward to flip something over only to realize my hand became 'shortened' when I put down my knife: and the realization is really creepy. In this sense, I feel that a prosthetic that actually returned tactile signals and very much resembled my original hand would in fact be a part of me like my original hand.
As far as 'transferring' my consciousness, I have to say that I can only think of it in terms of a file copy. If all my neural patterns were replicated in a machine, that machine would probably scream, "Holy crap this is super creepy!" and at that point its experiences would diverge from my own and we would start becoming different 'people'. To this end, if the transfer process was destructive, terminating my physical brain, then I would say the process would capture a copy of me that would at that point cease to be 'me' and 'I' would cease to exist. That being considered, I would say that no transfer of 'me' actually occurred, only a destructive file copy procedure.
The extension of the body to encompass tools held in the hand or even our entire being to include a car we are driving is a very real aspect of the brain. The brain actually creates a projection of the outer limits of our bodies. Sort of a virtual body. A simple demonstration of this would be to take a simple rubber hand from a gag gift store. Place it on a table in front of you . If it is a left hand take your own left hand and place it on the table. Place a divider between you and your real hand so that you cannot see it. You are now just viewing the rubber hand. Now have a friend gently stroke the rubber hand at the same time and in the same pattern as your real hand. Very soon your brain will transfer its' concept of what is your real hand to the rubber hand. Now that is super creepy.
Soon but probably not soon enough for me, they will be able to augment the brain with electronics. They are already doing this with implants that allow paralyzed people to control computers on a small scale with simple interfaces. Soon those augmentations may allow for a merger between the biological brain and an electronic one. The shared thoughts may be recorded and intertwined in a way that the two may seem seamless. In such a case the electronic brain would at some point not really notice the death of the biologic brain it is attached to much in the same way we do not miss the brain cells that die everyday or the ones we kill with alcohol.
The redundancy of the brain makes the loss invisible. The fact is the sense of self is an illusion of the brain to start with. We are not conscious of the trick so we are unaware that there is no us up our scull. Why would it be any different if over time we were merged with then disconnected from an electronic brain.
People wonder how we will travel out into the solar system and beyond with our human limitations. Our next step in the evolutionary process may take these journeys. Our robotized selves would only need worry about an energy source. Not temperature , not food, not air, not water, not pressure,not radiation.
Brilliant. The extension of our 'self' into the circuitry, and a gradual shift from biological to electronic, would maintain the continuity of 'self' and eliminate the 'copy/paste' limits I perceived in this. The new 'self' would of course be 'different' than the 'me' that might have existed, but that's no different than making a major change in the course of 'my' life that alters what experiences I will have.
Ok, I learned something to day. Thank you. Mind re-opened to the possibility.


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Emir: Sheikh Tamim ibn Hamad Al Thani (2013)
Prime Minister: Sheikh Abdullah ibn Nasser ibn Khalifah Al Thani (2013)
Total area: 4,416 sq mi (11,437 sq km)
Population (2014 est.): 2,123,160 (growth rate: 3.58%); birth rate: 9.95/1000; infant mortality rate: 6.42/1000; life expectancy: 78.38; density per sq mi: 455
Capital (2011 est.): Doha, 567,000
Monetary unit: Qatari riyal
- Qatar Main Page
- Taliban Opens Office in Qatar
Qatar (pronounced KAH-ter) occupies a small peninsula that extends into the Persian Gulf from the east side of the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia is to the west and the United Arab Emirates to the south. The country is mainly barren.
Constitutional monarchy.
Qatar was once controlled by the sheikhs of Bahrain, but in 1867, war broke out between the people and their absentee rulers. To keep the peace in the Persian Gulf, the British installed Muhammad ibn Thani al-Thani, head of a leading Qatari family, as the region's ruler. In 1893, the Ottoman Turks made incursions into Qatar, but the emir successfully deflected them. In 1916, the emir agreed to allow Qatar to become a British protectorate.
Oil was discovered in the 1940s, bringing wealth to the country in the 1950s and 1960s. About 85% of Qatar's income from exports comes from oil. Its people have one of the highest per capita incomes in the world. In 1971, Qatar was to join the other emirates of the Trucial Coast to become part of the United Arab Emirates. But both Qatar and Bahrain decided against the merger and instead formed independent nations.
Qatar permitted the international forces to use Qatar as a base during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. A border dispute erupted with Saudi Arabia that was settled in Dec. 1992. A territorial dispute with Bahrain over the Hawar Islands remains unresolved, however. In 1994, Qatar signed a defense pact with the U.S., becoming the third Gulf state to do so.
In June 1995, Crown Prince Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father, primarily because the king was out of step with the country's economic reforms. The emir was not stripped of his title, and much of the power was already in his son's hands. The new emir lifted press censorship and instituted other liberal reforms, including democratic elections and women's suffrage (1999). In 2003 Crown Prince Jassim, who declared he had never wanted to be king, abdicated in favor of his younger brother, Prince Tamim.
Qatar is the home of Al Jazeera, the immensely popular and controversial Arabic satellite television network.
Qatar introduced its first constitution on June 9, 2005. It guarantees freedom of expression, assembly, and religion and calls for a 45-seat parliament. Thirty of the seats will be filled in democratic elections; the emir will appoint the remaining seats.
Sheik Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani resigned as prime minister in April 2007. The emir named former foreign minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassem al Thani as his replacement.
On June 25, 2013, Emir Sheikh Hamad ibn Khalifah Al Thani abdicated the throne. His fourth son, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, age 33, succeeded him as emir. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani appointed his cabinet, including Sheikh Abdullah ibn Nasser ibn Khalifah Al Thani as the new prime minster.
Taliban Opens Office in Qatar
In June 2013, the Taliban opened an office in Doha, Qatar, and its representatives held a press conference with an international media contingent. The U.S. said it would begin long-delayed peace talks with the group. Afghanistan was expected to do the same, but instead said it would not engage in any dialogue with the Taliban, saying such discussions lent the militants credibility.
See also Encyclopedia: Qatar .
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You've no doubt been hearing the harrowing warnings about what might happen if Congress refuses to lift the federal government's debt ceiling, as some conservative Republicans have threatened.
If the federal government gets anywhere near defaulting on its debts, President Obama warned this month, that "could plunge the world economy back into recession."
"A prolonged delay in raising the debt ceiling may negatively impact markets well before a default actually occurs," said Matthew E. Zames of JPMorgan Chase — and chairman of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee — on Monday.
Even House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), Obama's chief sparring partner, has agreed that a default "would be a financial disaster."
So how worried should we be? Not very — at least, not in the short run.
Even though the government will technically hit the debt limit in mid-May, the Treasury can use an assortment of accounting tricks to stave off a real squeeze until July or beyond. That's still plenty of time for making a deal.
Despite the dire predictions, it's clear Wall Street isn't all that worried at the moment. We know this from the financial markets, whose traders stand to gain or lose the most in any crisis over federal borrowing. The interest rate on 10-year Treasury bills, the benchmark federal government bond, stood at about 3.3% this week, little changed from its level last year.
"The marketplace is already telling you that this is going to get worked out," said T. Timothy Ryan Jr., president of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Assn., the financial houses' trade association. "Nobody thinks the U.S. government … is going to cut its own throat."
The bankers and the business establishment have every reason to be confident. All through the presidency of George W. Bush, they watched as conservative firebrands made angry speeches about the need for fiscal restraint, and then Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling.
That's what is likely to happen this time too, but that doesn't mean the country can relax. A battle is underway for the soul of the GOP, pitting Wall Street against the "tea party" movement, whose adherents distrust big banks and big business almost as much as they loathe big government.
Depending on who wins that battle, the next debt ceiling fight could play out very differently.
As many as 50 Republicans in the House might vote against increasing the ceiling this time out, regardless of what spending concessions they can wring out of the Democrats.
Others, like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), are holding out for conditions so tough that they stand just about no chance in the Democratic-run Senate. Bachmann says she'll vote to raise the ceiling only if the measure defunds Obama's healthcare law.
"If we fail to pass increasing the debt ceiling, it isn't that the federal government shuts down," she said this month. "It's just that we'd have to prioritize our spending.... It almost acts like a balanced budget amendment in a way, because it says you can't keep spending money you don't have. That's a good thing!"
The party's two most active potential presidential candidates are divided over the issue too. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says the ceiling should be raised to keep the country running, but that it should be accompanied by spending cuts; former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, making an apparent play for tea party votes, says it shouldn't be raised at all.
None of this will, in all likelihood, be enough to prevent a deal, particularly since the most powerful Republican in Congress, Boehner, is pushing hard for a compromise that would include more of the spending cuts his party has been seeking.
"I believe it's responsible to increase the debt limit." Boehner said in an interview with ABC News this week. "But it's time to cut up the credit cards. And that means that we've got to have real cuts in spending."
Obama has already agreed to that general concept, proposing what he calls a "fail-safe" mechanism that would cut spending in future years if debt rose too high; Republicans have rejected that as too gentle and too slow. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and other Republicans have proposed faster, tougher triggers, but have ruled out the tax increases that Democrats want to put on the table. In the middle, the Senate's "Gang of Six" budget negotiators hope to produce a proposal as early as next week to move the debate off dead center.
Those differences make clear that, while it's likely the two sides will agree to a short-term extension of the debt ceiling to avert an immediate crisis, the vote will be followed by months of negotiations between Obama and Boehner over a budget.
How that deal comes out will affect voters' perceptions of the two parties, and their seriousness in addressing a deficit problem that a growing number of Americans want solved. It will produce winners and losers, affecting Obama's chances of winning reelection and the GOP's chances of taking control of both houses of Congress. And it will serve as prelude to the renewed budget negotiations that will take place after the 2012 election is concluded. Those negotiations will almost certainly include yet another showdown over the debt ceiling, this time under a new balance of power.


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2012: Vidal Sassoon, who started out as a hairdresser and became a worldwide success with his chain of hairstyling salons and line of hair care products, dies of leukemia at the age of 84 in Los Angeles. [ + - ]
2010: Singer, actress and dancer Lena Horne dies of heart failure at the age of 92 in New York City. Horne started out as a nightclub singer at the age of 16 before moving to Hollywood and signing a contract with MGM in 1943, becoming the first black performer to sign a long-term contract with a major studio. She appeared in movies such as "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather" before being blacklisted for her left-leaning political views. She then returned to nightclub singing, took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and found work on television, all while releasing well-received record albums. Horne, seen here in a 1961 publicity photo, returned to the screen three more times: in the 1969 film "Death of a Gunfighter," in the 1978 musical "The Wiz" and the 1994 MGM retrospective "That's Entertainment! III." [ + - ]
2009: Basketball coach Chuck Daly, who coached the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA titles in 1989 and 1990 and coached the Dream Team to the men's basketball gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 78 in Jupiter, Florida. Daly also coached for the Cleveland Cavaliers, New Jersey Nets and Orlando Magic in his 14-year NBA career, compiling a 564–379 career record. [ + - ]
2004: Chechen Islamists assassinate Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov using a bomb placed under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya. Two of Kadyrov's bodyguards, the chairman of the Chechen State Council, a Reuters journalist and as many as a dozen others were also killed in the attack. [ + - ]
1992: The sitcom "Golden Girls" airs its 180th and final episode after seven seasons. The series, which starred Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, ranked among the top 10 highest-rated programs for six out of its seven seasons. The finale was watched by 27.2 million viewers, roughly 38 percent of the audience at that time. [ + - ]
1986: Tenzing Norgay, the Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first confirmed ascent to the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 71 in Darjeeling, India. Norgay, whose birth name was Namgyal Wangdi, is seen here with Hillary in 1971. [ + - ]
1980: The Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with a pier of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Florida's Tampa Bay during a storm, making a 1,400-foot section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars, a pickup truck and a Greyhound bus fell 150 feet into the water and died. A new bridge was opened in 1987, with the approaches for the original bridge eventually becoming the Skyway Fishing Pier State Park, the longest fishing pier in the world. [ + - ]
1979: Actress Rosario Dawson, best known for movies such as "Kids," "Sin City," "Rent," "Death Proof," "Eagle Eye," "Seven Pounds" and "Unstoppable," is born in New York City. [ + - ]
1974: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. [ + - ]
1965: Hockey Hall of Fame center Steve Yzerman, who won three Stanley Cup championships in his 22 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings, is born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. Yzerman made his Red Wings debut in 1983 and was named captain of the team before the 1986-87 season. He served as the team's captain continuously for the next two decades, retiring in 2006 as the longest-serving captain of any team in North American major league sports history. The 10-time NHL All-Star finished his career ranked as the sixth all-time leading scorer in NHL history. He also won a gold medal representing Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics. [ + - ]
1962: Actor John Corbett, best known for his roles in the TV series "Northern Exposure," "Sex and the City" and "United States of Tara," is born in Wheeling, West Virginia. Corbett has also starred in the "Sex and the City" movie and its sequel and in the 2002 sleeper hit "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." [ + - ]
1960: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his "Wasteland Speech" to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. In the speech, Minow referred to American commercial television programming as a "vast wasteland" and advocated for programming in the public interest. [ + - ]
1960: Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Tony Gwynn, who won eight batting titles in his 20 seasons with the San Diego Padres, is born in Los Angeles, California. Gwynn collected 3,141 career hits and had a .338 career batting average, never hitting below .309 in any full season. He died of complications from salivary gland cancer at age 54 on June 16, 2014. [ + - ]
1958: Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller "Vertigo" premieres in San Francisco, California. The movie, which stars Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, garnered mixed reviews initially, but has become acclaimed over the years and is now considered one of Hitchcock's defining works. [ + - ]
1949: Singer-songwriter and pianist Billy Joel, who has written and performed 33 Top 40 hits in his career, is born in The Bronx, New York. Some of Joel's hits include "Piano Man," "Just the Way You Are," "Tell Her About It," "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me," "Uptown Girl" and "We Didn't Start the Fire." [ + - ]
1946: Actress Candice Bergen, best known for her Emmy-winning role on the sitcom "Murphy Brown," is born in Beverly Hills, California. Bergen also appeared on the TV drama "Boston Legal" and in movies like "Starting Over," "The Sand Pebbles," "Carnal Knowledge," "The Wind and the Lion," "Gandhi" and "Miss Congeniality." [ + - ]
1940: Filmmaker James L. Brooks, best known for directing the movies "Terms of Endearment," "Broadcast News" and "As Good as It Gets," is born in Brooklyn, New York. Brooks won three Oscars for "Terms of Endearment," including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, as one of the movie's producers. Before moving into film, he created the TV shows "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Rhoda," "Lou Grant" and "Taxi," and has also served as a writer, producer and actor on "The Simpsons." [ + - ]
1936: Actress and politician Glenda Jackson, who won Academy Awards for Best Actress for 1970's "Women in Love" and 1973's "A Touch of Class," is born in Birkenhead, England. Jackson, who also starred in the movies "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Mary, Queen of Scots," "Hedda" and "Stevie," retired from acting in the early 1990s to enter politics and has been a member of the British Parliament since. [ + - ]
1926: Adm. Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole, although there has since been controversy and debate over whether the two actually reached the North Pole. [ + - ]
1918: "60 Minutes" journalist Mike Wallace is born Myron Wallace in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was one of the original correspondents for the show, which debuted in 1968, and retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006. Wallace died at the age of 93 on April 7, 2012. [ + - ]
1914: President Woodrow Wilson issues a proclamation declaring the day the first national Mother's Day. Carnations have come to represent the day as they were distributed at one of the first commemorations honoring the mother of Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother's Day. [ + - ]
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Splitting names
The quest
I'm on a ongoing search to find the best algorithm for splitting a full name into a first name and a last name. I'm sure this sounds like a ridiculously trivial quest — just explode the string on a space, right?
The challenge
But how do you tell the difference between people with double first names like Jo Ann Smith and people with double last names like Jo Von Trapp? What would you do if I gave you a double first name AND and a double last name at the same time?
Did you remember that you might need to parse out prefixes (Mr, Mrs, etc) and suffixes (II, Jr, PhD, etc)?
How do you turn Paul T. S. Williams into Paul Williams while intelligently deducing that that T. James Adams probably wants to go by James Adams, but T. Adams should probably stay as T. Adams?
And how do you straighten out the capitalization? I MIGHT WRITE IN ALL CAPS or all lowercase. Most names have the first letter capitalized and everything else in lowercase, but of course there are exceptions. J.P. likes to have both initials capitalized and Mr. McDonald always gets fussy when you forget to capitalize the D. Oh, and I hope you're prepared for other anomalies like people with dashes in their name.
As you have probably realized by now, splitting a full name into its proper parts is a little more complicated than it appears on the surface.
I wrote the first version of my name-parsing algorithm two years ago and I've been gradually refining it ever since. It's not perfect, but it's improved a lot over time. I'm posting this code along with a demo in hopes that it will spur contributions to improve its accuracy even more. Throw the hardest names you know at it and let me know how it performs. I know I'm missing words for the various dictionaries of prefixes, suffixes, and compound name identifiers. Please let me know what I missed.
The algorithm
We start by splitting the full name into separate words. We then do a dictionary lookup on the first and last words to see if they are a common prefix or suffix. Next, we take the middle portion of the string (everything minus the prefix & suffix) and look at everything except the last word of that string. We then loop through each of those words concatenating them together to make up the first name. While we're doing that, we watch for any indication of a compound last name. It turns out that almost every compound last name starts with 1 of 15 prefixes (Von, Van, Vere, etc). If we see one of those prefixes, we break out of the first name loop and move on to concatenating the last name. We handle the capitalization issue by checking for camel-case before uppercasing the first letter of each word and lowercasing everything else. I wrote special cases for periods and dashes. We also have a couple other special cases, like ignoring words in parentheses all-together.
The code
// split full names into the following parts:
// - prefix / salutation (Mr., Mrs., etc)
// - given name / first name
// - middle initials
// - surname / last name
// - suffix (II, Phd, Jr, etc)
function split_full_name($full_name) {
$full_name = trim($full_name);
// split into words
$unfiltered_name_parts = explode(" ",$full_name);
// completely ignore any words in parentheses
foreach ($unfiltered_name_parts as $word) {
if ($word{0} != "(")
$name_parts[] = $word;
$num_words = sizeof($name_parts);
// is the first word a title? (Mr. Mrs, etc)
$salutation = is_salutation($name_parts[0]);
$suffix = is_suffix($name_parts[sizeof($name_parts)-1]);
// set the range for the middle part of the name (trim prefixes & suffixes)
$start = ($salutation) ? 1 : 0;
$end = ($suffix) ? $num_words-1 : $num_words;
// concat the first name
for ($i=$start; $i < $end-1; $i++) {
$word = $name_parts[$i];
// move on to parsing the last name if we find an indicator of a compound last name (Von, Van, etc)
// we use $i != $start to allow for rare cases where an indicator is actually the first name (like "Von Fabella")
if (is_compound_lname($word) && $i != $start)
// is it a middle initial or part of their first name?
// if we start off with an initial, we'll call it the first name
if (is_initial($word)) {
// is the initial the first word?
if ($i == $start) {
// if so, do a look-ahead to see if they go by their middle name
// for ex: "R. Jason Smith" => "Jason Smith" & "R." is stored as an initial
// but "R. J. Smith" => "R. Smith" and "J." is stored as an initial
if (is_initial($name_parts[$i+1]))
$fname .= " ".strtoupper($word);
$initials .= " ".strtoupper($word);
// otherwise, just go ahead and save the initial
} else {
$initials .= " ".strtoupper($word);
} else {
$fname .= " ".fix_case($word);
// check that we have more than 1 word in our string
if ($end-$start > 1) {
// concat the last name
for ($i; $i < $end; $i++) {
$lname .= " ".fix_case($name_parts[$i]);
} else {
// otherwise, single word strings are assumed to be first names
$fname = fix_case($name_parts[$i]);
// return the various parts in an array
$name['salutation'] = $salutation;
$name['fname'] = trim($fname);
$name['initials'] = trim($initials);
$name['lname'] = trim($lname);
$name['suffix'] = $suffix;
return $name;
// detect and format standard salutations
// I'm only considering english honorifics for now & not words like
function is_salutation($word) {
// ignore periods
$word = str_replace('.','',strtolower($word));
// returns normalized values
if ($word == "mr" || $word == "master" || $word == "mister")
return "Mr.";
else if ($word == "mrs")
return "Mrs.";
else if ($word == "miss" || $word == "ms")
return "Ms.";
else if ($word == "dr")
return "Dr.";
else if ($word == "rev")
return "Rev.";
else if ($word == "fr")
return "Fr.";
return false;
// detect and format common suffixes
function is_suffix($word) {
// ignore periods
$word = str_replace('.','',$word);
// these are some common suffixes - what am I missing?
$suffix_array = array('I','II','III','IV','V','Senior','Junior','Jr','Sr','PhD','APR','RPh','PE','MD','MA','DMD','CME');
foreach ($suffix_array as $suffix) {
if (strtolower($suffix) == strtolower($word))
return $suffix;
return false;
// detect compound last names like "Von Fange"
function is_compound_lname($word) {
$word = strtolower($word);
// these are some common prefixes that identify a compound last names - what am I missing?
$words = array('vere','von','van','de','del','della','di','da','pietro','vanden','du','st.','st','la','ter');
return array_search($word,$words);
// single letter, possibly followed by a period
function is_initial($word) {
return ((strlen($word) == 1) || (strlen($word) == 2 && $word{1} == "."));
// detect mixed case words like "McDonald"
// returns false if the string is all one case
function is_camel_case($word) {
if (preg_match("|[A-Z]+|s", $word) && preg_match("|[a-z]+|s", $word))
return true;
return false;
// ucfirst words split by dashes or periods
// ucfirst all upper/lower strings, but leave camelcase words alone
function fix_case($word) {
// uppercase words split by dashes, like "Kimura-Fay"
$word = safe_ucfirst("-",$word);
// uppercase words split by periods, like "J.P."
$word = safe_ucfirst(".",$word);
return $word;
// helper function for fix_case
function safe_ucfirst($seperator, $word) {
// uppercase words split by the seperator (ex. dashes or periods)
$parts = explode($seperator,$word);
foreach ($parts as $word) {
$words[] = (is_camel_case($word)) ? $word : ucfirst(strtolower($word));
return implode($seperator,$words);


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Jerry Bruckheimer may be ending his relationship with Disney. But is his longtime passion project "Top Gun 2" also done for?
The sequel to the 1986 aerial adventure was thought to be scrapped after the death of director Tony Scott in the summer of 2012. But the Tom Cruise pic may yet have a shot, Bruckheimer said.
"Gosh, I hope so," Bruckheimer said in an interview with The Times last month when asked if there was a chance it could be resurrected. "What was the original, more than 25 years ago? I'm still trying to get it off the ground."
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Scott was scouting the movie until just before he died, visiting the naval air station in Fallon, Nev. But his death seemed to end the project at Paramount and financier Skydance Productions, where it is set up.
Bruckheimer said that, despite Scott's untimely death, there had been some development on it. "We're still working on the script," he said in the interview. "The Town" writer Peter Craig was the last and most notable writer hired, brought on in the spring of 2012, several months before Scott's death.
The film, at least at one stage of its development, was focusing on the use of drones in modern warfare, a departure from the manned fighter jets at the core of the original.
Bruckheimer is still formulating his plans post-Disney. But a statement about his ambitions suggested that movies like "Top Gun" may not be out of the realm. The producer is "looking to produce more mature films outside the scope of the Disney brand," the company said in a statement Thursday.
And for fans looking for reasons to be optimistic the '80s have been on Bruckheimer's mind: A few weeks ago, he was reported to be in talks to join a new sequel to "Beverly Hills Cop."
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Shan Bhattacharya, LDRA Software Technology
Tom Erkkinen, MathWorks
In this webinar learn how Model-Based Design and code verification technologies streamline flight software development for DO-178C, the FAA's upcoming flight software certification standard. Simulink's family of products enables simulation, code generation, and verification using models. The LDRA tool suite lets you assess code coverage and conduct low-level testing on target platforms, analyze software for standards conformance, and generate and manage artifacts for compliance. This webinar will introduce new integrations involving MathWorks and LDRA products that automate development and verification activities specified in DO-331, Model-Based Design supplement to DO-178C.
Note: Simulink Verification and Validation transitioned to Simulink Check, Simulink Coverage, and Simulink Requirements in R2017b.
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Tom Erkkinen is an Embedded Applications Manager at MathWorks. He has more than 20 years embedded system experience including control system software development at Lockheed and NASA.
Shan Bhattacharya is a Business Development Manager for LDRA. He also manages the US Field Engineering team. He has worked for major defense system integrators as a software engineer, software lead and an IPT lead. As a Field Applications Engineer for over five years with LDRA he has deployed LDRA's software solutions for a lot of major defense, commercial avionics, medical device, and automotive vendors to meet industry software certification.
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Editor's Note: This is the second installment of a five-part series by Gigi Sayfan on creating cross-platform plugins in C++. Other installments are: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.
This article is the second in a series of articles about developing cross-platform plugins in C++. The first article described the problem in detail, explored various solutions, and introduced the plugin framework. In this installment, I describe the architecture and design of a plugin-based system based on the plugin framework, the lifecycle of a plugin, and the internals of the generic plugin framework. Beware! Some code may surface here and there.
The Architecture of a Plugin-Based System
A plugin-based system can be divided into three parts that are loosely coupled: The main system or application with its object model, the plugin manager and the plugins themselves. The plugins conform to the plugin manager's interfaces and protocols and also implement the object model interfaces. Let's illustrate it with a concrete example. The main system is a turn-based game. The game takes place in a battlefield that contains various monsters. The hero fights the monsters until he dies or all the monsters die. Pretty basic yet gratifying. Listing One is the definition of the Hero class.
#ifndef HERO_H #define HERO_H #include <vector> #include <map> #include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp> #include "object_model/object_model.h" class Hero : public IActor { public: Hero(); ~Hero(); // IActor methods virtual void getInitialInfo(ActorInfo * info); virtual void play(ITurn * turnInfo); private: }; #endif
The BattleManager is the engine that drives the game. It takes care of instantiating the hero and the monsters and populating the battlefield. Then in each turn it calls upon each actor (hero or monsters) to do their worst via the play() method.
The hero and the monsters implement the IActor interface. The hero is a built-in game object with a predefined behavior. The monsters on the other hand are implemented as plugin objects. This allows the game to be extended with new monsters and decouples the development of new monsters from the development of the main game engine. The PluginManager's job is to abstract away the fact that monsters are spawned from plugins and present them to the BattleManager as actors just like the hero. This scheme also allows the game to come with some built-in monsters that are statically linked in and are not implemented in plugins. The BattleManager shouldn't even be aware ideally there is such a thing as plugins. It should just operate at the C++ object level. This makes it easier to test too, because you can create mock monster in the test code without having to write a full-fledged plugin.
The PluginManager itself can be either generic or specialized. A generic plugin manager is unaware of the specific underlying object model. When a C++ PluginManager instantiates a new object implemented in a plugin it must return a generic interface, which the caller must cast to the actual interface from the object model. This is a little ugly, but necessary. A custom PluginManager is aware of your object model and can operate in terms of the underlying object model. For example, a custom PluginManager for our game can have a CreateMonster() function that returns an IActor interface. The PluginManager I show is a generic one, but I'll demonstrate how simple it is to put an object model specific layer on top of it. This is standard practice because you don't want your application code to deal with explicit casts.
Plugin System Lifecycle
It's time to figure out the lifecycle of the plugin system. The application, PluginManager and the plugins themselves participate in a complicated dance according to a strict protocol. The good news are that the generic plugin framework can mostly orchestrate the process. The application gets access to the plugins when it needs it and the plugins just need to implement a few functions that will be called in due time.
Registration of Static Plugins
Static plugins are plugins that are deployed in static libraries and are linked statically into the application. The registration can be done automatically if the library defines a global registrar object whose constructor is called automatically. Unfortunately it doesn't work on all platforms (e.g., Windows). The alternative is to explicitly tell the PluginManager to initialize static plugin by passing it a dedicated init function. Since, all the static plugin are statically linked to the main executable the init() function (which must have the signature of PF_InitPlugin) of each plugin must have a unique name. A good convention is something like <Plugin Name>_InitPlugin(). Here is the prototype of the init() function of a static plugin called "StaticPlugin":
extern "C" PF_ExitFunc StaticPlugin_InitPlugin(const PF_PlatformServices * params)
The explicit initialization creates a tight coupling between the main application and the static plugins because the main application need to "know" at compile time what plugins are linked to it in order to initialize them. The process can be automated as part of the build if all the static plugins follow some convention that the build process can use to find them and generate the code that initializes each one of them on-the-fly.
Once a static plugin's init() function is called it will register all its object types with the PluginManager.
Loading of Dynamic Plugins
Dynamic plugins are the more common ones. They should all be deployed in a dedicated directory. The application should invoke the PluginManager's loadAll() method and pass the dedicated directory path. The PluginManager scans all the files in this directory and load every dynamic library. The application may alternatively call the load() method, which loads a single plugin if it wants fine-grained control about what plugins are loaded exactly.
Plugin Initialization
Once a dynamic library has been loaded successfully, the PluginManager is looking for a well-known function entry point called PF_initPlugin. If such an entry point is found, the PluginManager initializes the plugin by calling this function and passing the PF_PlatformServices struct. This struct contains the PF_PluginAPI_Version, which lets the plugin perform some version negotiation and decide if it can function properly. If the application's version is inappropriate the plugin may decide to fail the initialization.The PluginManager logs the fact that the plugin wasn't initialized properly and continues to load the next plugin. It is not a fatal error from the point of view of the PluginManager if a plugin fails to load or initialize. The application may perform additional checks by enumerating the loaded plugins and verify that no crucial plugin is missing.
Listing Two contains the PF_initPlugin function of the C++ plugin (and its exit function).
#include "cpp_plugin.h" #include "plugin_framework/plugin.h" #include "KillerBunny.h" #include "StationarySatan.h" extern "C" PLUGIN_API apr_int32_t ExitFunc() { return 0; } extern "C" PLUGIN_API PF_ExitFunc PF_initPlugin(const PF_PlatformServices * params) { int res = 0; PF_RegisterParams rp; rp.version.major = 1; rp.version.minor = 0; rp.programmingLanguage = PF_ProgrammingLanguage_CPP; // Regiater KillerBunny rp.createFunc = KillerBunny::create; rp.destroyFunc = KillerBunny::destroy; res = params->registerObject((const apr_byte_t *)"KillerBunny", &rp); if (res < 0) return NULL; // Regiater StationarySatan rp.createFunc = StationarySatan::create; rp.destroyFunc = StationarySatan::destroy; res = params->registerObject((const apr_byte_t *)"StationarySatan", &rp); if (res < 0) return NULL; return ExitFunc; }


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Mark G. Yudof, 1997-2002
Mark Yudof, a Philadelphia native and lawyer, served as executive vice president and provost at the University of Texas prior to becoming the University's 14th president in 1997. He traveled throughout Minnesota to learn what its citizens wanted from their University and its new president. In time, he would become known for his wit, his love of pancakes, and his building and beautification initiatives. In his October 17, 1997, inaugural address, Yudof emphasized the importance of achieving a balance between access and excellence, cautioning his audience, "If we do not provide reasonable access...the state government will turn their backs on graduate education and research." He subsequently identified six key programmatic priorities: agriculture; molecular and cellular biology; design; digital technology; new media studies; and continued attention to undergraduate education.
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In 1999, Yudof was tested by allegations of NCAA rules violations in men's basketball on the Twin Cities campus. Three years later, he restructured men's and women's athletics on the Twin Cities campus, combining them under a single administrative head. Academic initiatives moved forward, as did administrative enhancements such as moving from the quarter to the semester system, developing and refining computer-based financial aid and registration systems, and strategic compacts between the administration and the University's individual campuses, colleges, and service units that tied additional resources to specific desired outcomes.
In 2001, Yudof was approached about returning to Texas as chancellor, but he refused to let his name be considered. The following year, however, he was again approached, and this time he accepted the offer.
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I knew I couldn't capture accurate colors in the salon so I placed all the tape on a paper and brought it home for a dose of my regular lighting and camera. As you can see, the browns and metallics completely reflected light, so I'm thankful the photograph above was as close to true color as it could be. That taupe color is so intriguing, but I wouldn't purchase that without trying it on my finger before. If you have it, let me know how it looks!
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Thank you for my dose of happy nail colours!ReplyDelete
These colors are so lush! Want them all <3ReplyDelete
wowie zowie!!! i love silver belle and femme fatale. will these ever be available for sale nationwide?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2011 at 4:05 PM
Wow! :) Thank you for letting us know about these lovely nail polishes. I have three in mind I'd like to order, but waiting to see if you will by any chance do a post with the ones you picked for yourself, in case you entice me with your beautiful photos of some other color/s on your nails I thought I can do without! lolReplyDelete
I like this installment. The colors are rich and creamy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2011 at 5:59 PM
OH GOD, I should not have looked..... :) So pretty!ReplyDelete
I die! All of the browns/grays need to be mine.ReplyDelete
Mmm, browns look like chocolatey goodness. Please come overseas, LMdB!ReplyDelete
Jamilla- Now all I need are happy nails to paint them on :(ReplyDelete
Flyavstad- me too T_T
jeanette- I don't think so, unfortunately. These are specially made for the salon (they have a manicure section) and I heard they weren't even used to be for sale but someone changed the rules and I'm super glad they did!
Anonymous- I'd like to know what are your three in mind :) Je N'ai Se Quoi will appear on the blog tomorrow so you can take a look, but I won't be featuring the others I bought, which are Mon Petit Cheri, Ma Belle Amie, Tussled Tulle, Mint Bliss, Bon Voyage, and Kona (though I regret not snatching Uma Paro and Bali up) in case you were interested to know :)
Girlie Blogger- like chocolate yum!
Tracy- :) the whole time I was doing this I thought "this is how Karla Sugar feels"
Leigh- Will you be making an order? Would love to know what are your picks!
peach- #cosign!
- AnonymousDecember 21, 2011 at 4:37 PM
Thanks for letting me know which ones you picked :) The three I have in mind are: #1 Gilded lily- don't have a nice rich green like that #2 Tussled tulle- looks like a nice mute color, but wondering if it is too sheer? Is it possible in 2 coats not to see your visible nail line with it? #3 Was Mint bliss, but now you got me thinking Kona! lol, oh shoot, now I'm thinking Bali too! Great & tomorrow I'll be probably thinking Je N'ai Quoi! Just yesterday I received my LMdB in Magic at Dusk thanks to your post on it. I love it, very true to your pics, only downside is on Neiman's site the older colors are still listed at $15 instead of $10 :( I love your blog, always great reviews & pics of not only nails, but of your beautiful face too! x NaomiReplyDelete
Ask me a tough question, why don't you, Xiao? I am fully prepared to place an order in January once the holiday madness has settled down. Here's my wish list:ReplyDelete
Gilded Lily
Hope Diamond Blue
Uma Paro
Mon Petit Cheri
Ma Belle Amie
Tussled Tulle
La Belle
Tres Taupe
Grey Gardens
I swear I'm frothing at the mouth at the prospect of discovering these beauties.
Anon/Naomi- #1 you guys are making me regret Gilded Lily! #2 I can't answer that yet but hopefully someone gets it soon and lets us know :( #3 I think Kona and Bali are SUCH great colors, but I'm totally in a brown mood right now. Give me two months and I'll be all over the pinks/orangesReplyDelete
Yay for Magic at Dusk. Lucky you too I think there are literally only a few bottles floating around for sale :) Thank you for the kind words! (I promise my face will come back soon. It's just a huge acne problem is refusing to go away right now...)
Leigh- Nyahahahaha. And don't forget LMdB's resort collection features three very bright nail shades! I bet Grey Gardens will be an unexpected fav with you :D It's one of the nicer grays I've seen. If I didn't already own RBL Stormy I would jump on that in a heartbeat
aw boo. do you know if the salon will ship nationwide if i order? i don't expect to visit NY anytime soon.ReplyDelete
thanks for all these swatches by the way! =)
jeanette- yes they will! I think there is a shipping charge but I cannot be sure what that is. Which ones are you thinking of getting?ReplyDelete
yay! i think i'm going to have to order at least a few.ReplyDelete
this is kind of atypical for me but i think i've fallen in love with their blues! maybe because my current nail polish collection is void of blues. their coral color does also look amazing.
thanks for responding so fast! =)
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Other things to do with watercolor
Powdered pigments really are not watercolor as watercolor paints are transparent, but you can achieve the look of watercolor with them. You can make your own palette of powdered pigment paints by using gum arabic as a binder. Paint basically is pigment with a binder added that makes the paint stick to the paper. You might have some Pearl Ex or other powdered pigment that does not have a binder, but by adding gum arabic (which is available in powder form or liquid form), adding some water to allow you to mix it, and then let the mixture dry, you can make your own paint. There are several brands that are available that already have the binder added.
I especially like to spatter with powdered pigment as it gives that extra little spark. The examples above are much prettier in real life as you can see the pretty gleam that Twinkling H20's possess.
I had also shared an example earlier (bats flying) of adding salt to a wash for a background....be sure and allow the salt to dry before brushing it off. The size of the salt spots will be determined by the kind of salt you use (table, sea, rock) and how much pigment was in the wash.
You can achieve this look even when not using die. To water emboss an area, we will say a heart, use a stylus to trace around that heart, having the paper lying on a soft surface like fun foam. It helps if the paper is damp. When you pick up the paper, you should be able to see the heart tracing on the reverse side of the paper. Wet that heart shape and carefully push the heart using the stylus (not too sharp of a stylus...one with a medium size ball). You can do this on the fun foam or holding it in your hand. You don't want to do it on a hard surface, as you want room to give. This is possible as watercolor paper is made from cotton and the fibers are pliable. It is a great technique!
Something I tell my students when I teach watercolor is that there are two things I can't give them....a sense of urgency for when you need to work wet on wet and secondly, patience for when you need to allow paint to dry before you add more paint. The ultimate thing I can not give you is experience. You just have to do it. I hope these instructions have helped you see that you can do it....with the help of stamps, anyone can create great watercolor images! You will learn from doing. I will be happy to explore any other areas of watercolor you want to ask about....just let me know. Pick up those brushes or crayons and have fun!!!
I have something I want to show you tomorrow and then we will launch off into using markers, specifically Copic markers. Feel free to leave comments for any questions you have or send me an email. Thanks for honoring me with your visit to my blog.
Posted by Holly's Hobbies
Labels: Spellbinders, watercolor
6 comments:
- GaMtnScrap said...
Thanks for all the information, I look forward to trying these techniques and uses! I love your blog!
- February 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Norine said...
thanks again for all the great info you did an amazing job
- February 20, 2009 at 4:24 PM
- Kara Ward said...
So beautiful...you have been so busy!!!!!
- February 20, 2009 at 9:36 PM
- Judit V said...
This is so beautiful and thanks for the info!
- February 20, 2009 at 10:06 PM
- Mason said...
This issue of the Rubberstamper has always been my favorite cover! I'm so pleased to discover that you are the person who created this card and you are sharing techniques to recreate this look. Thanks so much!
- February 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM
- Holly Craft said...
Thanks, Mason! I also had a cover near the end of the Rubber Stamper at Christmas time...it had a card with photo of a vignette of gingerbread men I had made. I used Serendipity Stamps on that card.
Thanks for writing!
- February 21, 2009 at 8:59 PM
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