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You actually search E-Bay cycling & transportation for "Armstrong " hoping to find something old, English, and steel and it takes you half a second to understand what you just did.
You actually search E-Bay cycling & transportation for "Armstrong " hoping to find something old, English, and steel and it takes you half a second to understand what you just did.
You're qualified! I am struggling for a similar analogy...of course there's Kelly, as in Sean Kelly, and, uh, well...
Or when you search for Campagnolo and get pissed off by all the carbon.
East Hill shows up demanding photos.
[Guess who...]
Lynn Travers
Finder's fee paid for info leading to purchase of Lejeune 753 Champ du Monde 52-54cm ctc
You know you're in C&V forum when you encounter lots of friendly, helpful folks who share your quirky passion for old bikes.
"Early to bed, early to rise. Work like hell, and advertise." -- George Stahlman
Capo [dschaw'-poe]: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger, S/N 42624
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1981 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
you know you're in C&V...
when campy no longer means: "providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having
artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities"
or does it? ahh, nevermind...
When you spend way more money than a normal person would call sane restoring a so called lightweight Schwinn gaspipe bike and nobody tells you that you are crazy.
And this was the bike you were looking for, Mooo: http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Armstron...QQcmdZViewItem
For $140, that's a pretty sweet deal.
#1: You believe relaxation involves bronze wool, Goof Off, Flitz Metal Polish, Meguiars Scratch X, and chrome/aluminum bike components.
#2: You use carbon seatposts as garden stakes.
#3: You're constantly examining your Campagnolo NR crankset for cracks.
#4: You're constantly ribbing the road crowd that they're Campagnolo Record carbon cranks will turn to splinters in five minutes.
#5: You're intent on finding out exactly what Eric Clapton's Condor looks like
#6: You spend your extra off-the-bike leisure time bidding up eBay scammers
#7: You report all Craigslist finds of frames 50cm and smaller to East Hill.
#8: Ray Dobbins is God.
#9: Mike Swantak is Satan. So is aluminum oxide.
#10: It is not unusual for someone to perceive you sticking half out of a dumpster, extracting some tossed bike or another from it.
#11: Chrome head lugs raise your heart rate more then Viagra.
#12: Paramounts too.
#13: And PX-10's.
#14: Your tactics to sneak new bikes past your wife are more complex then the FBI's security system.
#15: Your local bike shop doesn't know what to make of you.
#16: You don't know what to make of your local bike shop.
#17: Carbon is irrelevant.
#18: You shelled out well over 3 grand for a new Waterford that looks no different then your 1971 Paramount (that one's for you, Stan...still have to scan that Providence Report for you...)
#19: Words such as "Rabid Koala," "nlerner," "el twe," "cyclotoine," and "luker" are all familiar to you.
#20: You are posting in this thread.
Your local LBS owner tries to sell you HIS collection of ancient parts...then just tries to sell you the whole shop.
The last two bikes on my list are a 50's Lenton Grand Prix and a '64 Raleigh Record.
You know you're in C & V when...
...members look forward to what a reverend might find on one of his weekly visits to impart salvation to bicycles left at the town dump.
Dreaming about riding in NH's summertime!
Visit my websites:
FreeWheelSpa.com orpastorbobnlnh.com
...the classic French roadie you've built up for your daughter is old enough to be her grandmother.
...the LBS calls you looking for parts.
...you can spot a Miyata, Centurion, or Panasonic logo among the 3000 bikes parked at the end of a charity ride.
You know it's going to be a good day when the stem and seatpost come right out.
Sheldon Brown's site is one of your first three bookmarks.
In search of what to search for.
...when your LBS doesn't worry about you robbing the place because all you'd steal are a bunch of old, used 1" threaded headsets and alloy quill stems.
You're in the very best part of BF!!
May you live long, live strong, and live happy!
nobody thinks your nuts for waiting over 20 years for an obscure Dutch frame.
you think nothing about spending 100 pounds sterling to restore/rebuild a saddle.
the manager of your LBS asks you to help him build up a classic Italian bike
you have more tools required to build and service said italian classic than the LBS
you know there's more to rear derailleurs than campy and shimano.
you can tell the difference between all the various campy Delta brakes.
Sono più lento di quel che sembra.
Odio la gente, tutti.
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text: Inma Martinez 2016-05-29T10:10:55-04:00 Inma Martinez http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/index.php?author=inma-martinez Copyright 2008, HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. HuffingtonPost Blogger Feed for Inma Martinez Good old fashioned elbow grease. Collisions at Facebook: Mr. Gehry's Social Office is a Hadron Collider of People tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2015:/theblog//3.7221274 2015-05-08T07:35:51-04:00 2016-05-08T05:59:01-04:00 Inma Martinez http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inma-martinez/ "Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive", a statement proclaimed by Denise Scott Brown, one of the world's most most influential architects of the twentieth century. Yet technology super giants are taking up a new challenge: Tech 5.0, the disruption of architecture in the workplace. Copyright Photo courtesy of Gehry Partners LLP via Menlo Park City Council When your users are counted in the billions and your stock price shoots above $70 as the giants of the past trade around the $20 mark, the competitiveness markers in your DNA move you to demonstrate to the world that your offices challenge stereotypes, architectural canons, and interior design. Beyond the Google campus-style offices full of conveniency and the starlight rocket that Salesforce is building in downtown San Francisco - convenient but most of all, an ode to power and cosmic futures, there is a big vision behind Facebook's new offices that goes beyond a workplace full of food halls, shops and good happy vibes. Copyright Photo courtesy of Gehry Partners LLP via Menlo Park City Council Facebook offices: a one mile-long open plan for the mother of all hacks The office of the future is one where everyone mingles and collides in spaces of transient movement. And this is precisely the concept design that Mark Zuckerberg had as his top requirement. He just didn't want Gehry to do him a building with no interiors. Zuckerberg wanted to have a Hadron Collider of People to ignite innovation.The task was one that Gehry had not encountered before: to design a work space within an unstructured, hard to predict environment. The results are not yet there but they will be in 9-12 months, as Facebook unveils new products and services. This is not an office move story. It's a change of paradigm in product creation. Facebook's floor plan: designed to incite 'serendipity' Copyright Photo courtesy of Gehry Partners LLP via Menlo Park City Council As a product person behind some of today's digital technologies, I know that innovation does not happen at one's desk: it happens when there is human contact and interaction. Innovation cannot have a rational approach to how it is conjured because it emerges from chaos theory, for randomness. The offices of the digital society are not comfortable places. They are not build to host 'content' employees. They are built to make you work with higher intensity. They are designed to ignite passion, commitment, team spirit, creativity. Facebook new offices and surrounding areas are bursting with convenience and services - like Google's, but they are primarily engineered to amplify the chances for greater number of random collisions. Google, on the other hand, separates their engineers from the rest of the other divisions. Copyright Photo courtesy of Photo courtesy of Gehry Partners LLP via Menlo Park City Council Facebook's 1st Quarter results were received with lukewarm reactions, yet I have reasons to believe that the effect of the company's new surroundings will ignite the true master plan of the company: to move beyond the social network and to make 'disruption' their core business because there is a big plan in Zuckerberg's mind and that is to truly challenge the status quo and change the world in many of its facets. The stock is cheap for what I believe will trade at in 9-12 months. Follow the company and its product releases and see if the bread crumbs trail highlights endeavours in health, education and far outreaching industries beyond advertising dollars.]]> Food-Porn: Tempting You, Tempting Me, Tempting Robots tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2858454 2013-03-12T05:54:05-04:00 2013-05-12T05:12:01-04:00 Inma Martinez http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inma-martinez/ Food-Porn. Don't be silly, it is not about arranging food shaped like your private parts, but about the glamourised spectacular visual presentation of cooking or eating in advertisements, cooking shows and nowadays, your own plate. The term, originally coined by feminist critic Rosalind Coward as early as 1984, is now taking food to the domain and control of the masses. You thought that the first batch of weirdos throwing milk over their heads did it out of the blue? The human mind has imprints from popular culture that sooner or later emerge in newer behaviours. Choosing milk as opposed to paint, or even soda, is not arbitrary, but subconscious. From "9 ½ Weeks" food scene (loads of spilled milk) to Kelis' "Milkshake" the human brain looks and samples food in the same way that it does sex. Why since 2010 the whole world has been taking snaps of food in front of them like a compulsive disorder is the direct effect of technology evolution. The porn industry took off when the videotaping hardware and playware became affordable. Thanks to mobile cameras and social media, the sight of food, one the most tantalizing visual aids of our days to arouse desires, is evolving into a superior realm of human understanding. So much so that even IBM's Watson Robot is into it. IBM's Watson is an Artificial Intelligence robot that two years ago played American TV show "Jeopardy" against its two previous winners. Beating them to the delight of a bunch of IBMers in the audience, Watson's win was just the beginning for IBM to research further into the human brain and how it makes decisions, learns, and explores life. At the beginning of this month, IBM proudly unveiled what Watson had been working on. In addition to oncology discovery, pharma drugs and other scientific endeavours, Watson has been applying itself to becoming a Chef. Watson's debut recipe, a healthy breakfast pastry called "Spanish Crescent", was served to all attendees to the press conference in San Jose, California, and let's all rejoice, no one ended up with food poisoning. What started as a Flickr group called "I Ate This" and was followed by a myriad of food blogs and mobile apps is not just a cute consumer trend like collecting Star Wars memorabilia or writing a diary when you are time-rich. We are talking food here. You make it and eat it every night. The digitalization and archiving of food is taking things to a deeper level of knowledge about consumers and what lies behind their behaviours. In the case of IBM, the firm is investing thousands of dollars into Watson learning to be a chef because Artificial Intelligence research has a lot of inroads into human-centric behaviours. The way we construct and deconstruct recipes, not just when we cook them but when our taste buds sample them, when our eyes see delicious food in front of us, sends signals to our brain that "inspire" or "ignite" other deductive and creative neural systems within our cortex. And if performed with emotional values, our brain goes into ecstasy because we release endorphins, the addictive happiness substance. While the U.S. mobile applications are all restaurant-review focused or foodspotting, Platter, a Wayra UK startup company, is leading the new inroads about food digitalisation: recipe deconstruction and consumer insights gathering around how people feel, think and act about food. "Food is identity", remarks Will Hodson, Platter's founder and CEO. "If there's one thing we've learnt since launching Platter, it's that almost everyone loves carbonnara (especially in the winter). The other thing we've learnt is that no two cooks make it the same way. Our tagging system reveals the little tweaks and secret ingredients that make dishes personal." On a macro level, Platter's tags, which Will and the team are expanding from ingredients to cookbooks and suppliers, flag new trends as they emerge in kitchens across the globe. This, above all things, is what the market, from food publishers to other corporates in the cookery industry, have been trying to unveil for decades. While watching cookery programmes is mostly a passive enjoyment, only a small percentage of the viewers end up trying to cook the recipes, food preparation and re-creation of food recipes is revealing the platterazzi's, platter's universe of home chefs, creativity, the drivers of their hobby. At grassroots level, entering private kitchens in action allows product designers and concept creators in the food industry, not just supermarkets, to understand better their customer target in order to keep their innovation ticking. Technology startups are entering an industry that is bound to be not just huge, but exponentially longevous because food preparation is a universal act of love, eating is as powerful as sex, and being an explorer of new tastes is as tempting and exhilarating as peeping into what a good looking 30-year-old man by the name of "NoshableAdam" or an Spanish brunette called "estheramigo" cook for dinner somewhere out there tonight. Yes, full circle, we have gone back to sex. That's why Nigella is such a hit. Stick a fork in me, I'm done.]]> Lookk-Out: Fashion Retail Is More Nuts and Bolts Than Pixels tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2710104 2013-02-18T07:51:14-05:00 2013-04-20T05:12:01-04:00 Inma Martinez http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inma-martinez/ Lookk, the London-based fashion tech startup invested by the big and the mighty, has gone out of business after 4 years. Its CEO exited in August declaring that, while they succeeded in creating a nurturing community of fans and designers, they failed at creating an e-commerce market place. Though this may surprise the Silicon Roundabout dwellers, it is hardly news to the fashion insiders for the pieces of the puzzle to solve if tech startups want to disrupt and improve the Fashion industry, are a lot more than just "discovering" labels. What makes Fashion a multi-billion dollar global industry is above and beyond discovery. Discovering new designers is not the gap to solve because thousands of media professionals, bloggers and stylists are at it 24/7 on a worldwide scale. While thousands of students graduate from fashion schools, only a few have real 'genius' worth backing financially. The creative industries, namely film, TV, animation, special effects, even source code writing, have tough recruitment requirements: only the best make it. Same as the restaurant business: discovery is not the major pain if the chef is a true artist. Anyone who has travelled to El Bulli or Thomas Keller's The French Laundry will confirm how out of the beaten track these Michelin star temples are, yet their reservations list is booked up six months in advance. Any industry that turns creativity into a business makes it or breaks it because of other 'unsexy', 'little known' background factors, namely production deadlines and deliveries. This is why the fashion insiders can't stand Mary Portas and their stomachs churn at the mention of Hollywood pearls like Devil Wears Prada or Zoolander. Profit margins in the pre-a-porter or couture are tough or almost impossible to achieve, so the big houses build pyramids of product lines that allow them to create EBITDA at group level thanks to scalable and cheap to produce "lower entry products" such as accessories and fragrances. The esoteric formula creates a brand promise sustained by the genius and aspirational elements of the top line products, in order to successfully sell at higher volume their leather goods and perfumes. It is as fragile an ecosystem as an orchid garden. It requires perfection, genius and obsessive work. Financial backing for a fashion label is not just about financing talented designers. While one is funding a creative genius that sometimes dictates collections based on costly fabrics and artisanal processes, this is just the pre-production side of the business. The bigger hurdle to conquer is to secure infallible supply-chain and manufacturing mechanisms like only the Spaniards at Inditex, MANGO or Textil Lonia (CH Carolina Herrera) know how to conjure up. And then, if producing a collection every six months was not straining enough, there's the deliveries of merchandise, something that deprives all retailers of sleep and profit margins, as the revered Burton Tansky, CEO of Neiman Marcus Stores declared at the Annual Vogue Retailers Breakfast in Paris. "Designers need to recognise", Mr Tansky pleaded to Anna Wintour, a fashion editor of true vision and a real mentor to many designers, "that the worldwide demand for their products is expanding at a rate that even they themselves don't understand, so they are not keeping up with the production as demand is (currently) outstripping supply." Mr Tansky was not talking about amateurish designers from up and coming labels that are learning the ropes. He was referring to the heavy-weight houses in luxury prêt-a-porter. His angst was a torrent of despair. "We are waiting longer and longer for deliveries, and these mostly come at the back end instead of the front end of the delivery process". What Mr. Tansky unveiled is that discovery is really not the point: "Fashion is fun and we all love it, but with the ads out there in the media and no goods to sell..." Bingo. Here is your Lean Canvas's Problem to solve for all of you Google Campus crowd that want to get into Fashion by way of coding software. When you are a buyer at a retailer, meeting amazing genius at the fashion fairs is really not the problem: the real pain is to find labels that can guarantee a certain stock of deliveries so that when you spend thousands of dollars in shooting ads showcasing their new collections, the products can be put on sale as soon as possible to cover your investment and cash exposure. Enormously talented designer labels coveted by clients and industry have gone out of business because of deliveries. Even when they had funding for a given collection, it is the manufacturing, the supply-chain what makes or break a fashion business. Sourcing materials is as hard as getting a place in the queue of a reputable manufacturer. Successful labels use the same production lines, believe it or not. Ask Luxottica, the Italian eyewear manufacturer that in addition to its acquired brands (Oliver's People, Ray-Ban) produces the entire eyewear collections of PRADA, Dior, Chanel, FENDI and pretty much the whole world of couture. A good supply-chain executive can help an up and coming label get into the production line of a top reputable name in manufacturing, but it is done in the gaps in-between the big names. And if the big names have their own production troubles, guess where your place in the queue goes if something gets delayed. Lookk may have created a phenomenal fan base for your collections but you cannot supply their demand because you've been delayed by a major name out there. The Fashion world does not need more designers to be discovered: it needs more high quality goods manufacturers that can produce and supply on time and in flawless condition the sizes and pieces that a collection has been paid to deliver to retailers; it needs shipping companies that can price their fees still leaving margins for the labels, with logistics that reduce costs and reduce time; it needs governments that reduce taxes on artisanal businesses that employ local people so that the labels do not outsource to third world countries where women and children are exploited. The latter is what has allowed the Spaniards to cost-cut and oversee quality at close range. I am hugely annoyed when the tech media calls tech fashion the businesses of ASOS, Yoox, Fab.com, who are simply helping out getting rid of excess inventory. This is not innovative and this is not the business of Fashion: it is called "outletting". It is like putting Poundland in the same vertical of Waitrose. Let the stylists, the bloggers and the press discover creative talent. If you really want to help transform the Fashion industry, don't showcase emerging talent that cannot supply or produce proper collections. Fashion is not the Art world in need of curation. Fashion is big business, it is part of the GDP of many nations, and it is a business of talent and perfection in the background. When this week London held its Fashion Week, the average collection run through is about 12-16 minutes. The rest of the seconds, minutes and hours towards and after that moment is a clockwork industry of talent and precision. That, the behind the scenes, is what needs your entrepreneurial innovation.]]> Bio-Slavery: The 2032 Factory Worker Is Likely to Be a (Plant) (Triffid) tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2534901 2013-01-23T13:03:04-05:00 2013-03-25T05:12:01-04:00 Inma Martinez http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inma-martinez/ Professor Carole Collet, Reader in Textile Futures at the University Of The Arts, and founder of the Textiles Futures postgraduate degree course at London's Central Saint Martins College, elegantly approaches the stage in 5inch heels. Within two minutes of her French accentuated presentation, the audience is in complete owe of her charm, her many scientific titles and her undeniable depth of know-how on the subject: sustainable biofacture. This is the blonde, sexy scientist that any film producer would like to add to the cast of X-Men. Only that she is for real, very real and very serious about her research: to genetically modify plants so that they sprout enhanced edible produce and weave... textiles in factories. To illustrate the wondrous Brave New World that she can't wait for us to enjoy, she shows the audience a video animation of the biofactory of the year 2032. A visionary and futuristic 3-D rendered model shows a factory where thousands of strawberry plants grow shiny black berries and weave incessantly something that looks like a mesh, an intricate Irish lace of the future. The soundtrack to these images is a kind of 'insect sounds overture' that makes me imagine a future where these blue-collard plants will be more akin to John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids than to Willy Wonka's happy singing Oompa-Loompas. What scares me the most is that Professor Collet's project is a cheap deal to finance: just around the $100 million according to what an entwined biogenetics laboratory in Denmark has already budgeted for and confirmed to her. In the world of corporate innovation funding, the prospect of having textiles produced by workers that one will never ever pay wages to sounds like a bargain. Workers that will produce 24/7, without going on strike or taking paid holidays. Workers that will not defect to a competitor or take maternity leave to bear the next offspring of future workers. I can see why professor Collet is excited. I can foresee why, this spring when she takes this sci-fi show on the road to the Espace Fondation EDF in Paris to take part in "ALIVE: Designing With Living Technology" some banker or two will salivate at the prospect of investing in the industrial revolution of the future. The benefits will be endless, not just cost-cutting: "Biofacture promotes the convergence of biological living matter with inert nanomaterials", Collet confirms. "It will be possible to attach gold nanoparticles to a sample of live DNA, thus rendering the DNA conductive, (...) opening the doors to designing biotechnically enhanced smart textiles". Some people in the audience must also show the long- horsy face that I myself must have been displaying since the video kicked in. To this, professor Collet throws an olive branch of appeasement: "With living technology comes a whole new set of ethical concerns", she adds knowing that if biofacture takes place on a larger scale many of us will question the rights of plants to be left alone the way God created them. Moreover, that some of her peers in the scientific community will feel concerned knowing that performing DNA alterations in living organisms will have to be operated in controlled environments to perhaps avoid that these lace-making berry plants may one day decide to jump off their plot and chase humans down the road. Worse: that the fabulous, anti-oxidants loaded strawberries may continue mutating human DNA when consumed. This is a scientific way to argue that this whole biofacturing may not be such a great idea after all, but that is not the concern I have. My impulse to leave the room and write this article is motivated by my refusal to condone societal attitudes that continue to exploit living organisms, in this case plants. I can accept that the Dickensian times of women and children industrial exploitation was motivated by a society that justified a class system of the rich and the poor and hence the understandable emergence of a Marx and an Engels, of the Suffragists, as the immediate rebuttals to counterbalance this very unfair code of industrial practice. But it is still a long road and a hard rock to crack, still some 100 years later. For it will surprise many that only in 1992 the female population of Appenzell in Switzerland was allowed to cast their vote in local and general elections. For it continues to be a cause worth fighting for if you are a female so much so that even a couple of days ago, during his acceptance speech, President Obama still reminded the nation that women should be equally paid for their skills. Unbelievably, the early years of the twenty-first century seem to continue carrying some of the shameful issues that are still latched to our backs from the previous decades. But thirty, fifty years from now, one should expect that the New Millenium human civilisation will have finally come to realise that the human race has no God-given right over the lives of the animal and the plants kingdoms. Human progress as a society is not solely a path of scientific endeavour. Along the way we have learned to appreciate that what makes us human and not just smart homo sapiens that send men to space is that we care beyond utilitarian and rational practices. That we do not abandon our disabled or weakest offspring like a pack of wolves, but we take them to hospitals and care for them even more intently. That we create laws that protect animals, whether they are pets, working livestock or destined to an abattoir to become steaks. That more and more cosmetology laboratories are abandoning animal testing. That less and less rich ladies want to acquire fur coats to display economic superiority. Science is a challenging path of proving that humans can achieve innovative endeavours. What I disagree with science in the year 2032 is that it will still continue to exploit other living creatures because it can, not because there won't be any other ways to produce the same. If in the year 2050 the chemical industry is not able to weave for me a beautiful, futuristic Irish lace made of some non-organic material, it will be because someone in the year 2014 gave professor Collet $100 million dollars. I surely hope the future is not such bleak prospect of enslaved plants but a life where we all commune with what's around us, perhaps singing "Oompa, Loompa, do-ba-dee-doo, I've got a perfect (planet) for you". Fingers, paws and stems crossed.]]> 'Kiddie-Hack': Primary School Developers tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.2330864 2012-12-28T19:00:00-05:00 2013-02-27T05:12:02-05:00 Inma Martinez http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inma-martinez/ She is programming a dancing robot project in Scratch, the programming language created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. She is not a geeky kid with a rocket science IQ: she is a typical little girl that dreams of ponies, watches X Factor on Saturday evenings, and begs Mum to allow her to wear nail polish. Thanks to Scratch, she has also learned about something called 'software' and what she can do with it. Around the world and sharing projects on a common website, thousands of youngsters are programming imaginary endangered species that live in magical landscapes, desktop games, season greeting cards with gifs and music tracks, projects that turn their creativity into interactive digital dimensions. Scratch provides kids with an exciting environment to create and share computer applications. Applications in Scratch are built around what are referred to as Sprites; these could be animals, objects, people and so forth. Using simple drag-and-drop programming, students can control their actions and interactions. In the process, they are subtly exposed to basic programming concepts such as conditional statements, iteration, variables, and event triggers. As a parent of primary-school age children, Daniel Appelquist, co-founder of Over the Air hack days and currently leading product management for BlueVia in Telefonica Digital, was horrified to learn that his kids' ITC lessons were kind of a "crash course into Office" and nothing else. Appelquist approached his children's teachers to encourage them to incorporate computer programming, specifically using Scratch, into their curriculum and agreed to teach two classes of 30 10-year-olds. The result of his 'stunt' bore a beautiful fruit: the kids were uniformly engaged and excited about the subject and they had fun working through the simple examples that Appelquist prepared for each class and even going beyond. In West London, the Hammersmith Academy is the first secondary school for 11 to 18-year-olds with specialism in creative and digital media and IT. Its chairman, Tom Ilube, a serial tech entrepreneur who has worked alongside Sir Tim Berners-Lee and founded schools in the UK and Africa, also started cutting his teeth programming at a young age. "For many young people, learning to program is as satisfying as learning to play an instrument" he says with a beaming smile. ICT skills are presently taught at many primary schools in many countries but the curriculum is basically consistent of (scream now, if you will) how to use office applications, and here is where both Appelquist and Ilube draw the line and encourage curriculums where computational skills are not solely taught as a vocation. "Software writing is a creative process. The first time you write a truly elegant piece of code that does exactly what you wanted it to, you feel a real sense of achievement", Ilube recalls. Learning how to write code and how to build and run a programme is one of the most creative intellectual challenges a person can do alongside writing music and literature. When developers talk about the beauty of a programming language, one could easily believe that they are discussing Byron or Hemingway: PEARL developers pride themselves by recalling the "poetic" essence of the code; Drupal developers relish in the joy of writing in a language that is the Swiss Army knife of php based CMS. In real terms, what developers enjoy and fall in love with are the various properties of each programming language: how smoothly and easily its syntax supports the clear and structured flow of ideas. "I would greatly encourage any parents who have some background in computer science and computer programming to get involved with their kids' schools in this way", suggests Appelquist. In the meantime, and perhaps this is how things should pan out, by creating a critical mass of parents that want to make a difference in the educational system, Appelquist advocates that parents looking to get involved should check out Code Club which provides a lot of resources and a kind of "after school club in a box" for teaching Scratch. Scratch is a first step of discovery but an important one to allow children to find an environment where other disciplines like Maths and English creative writing will come into play. Mathematical knowledge allows the scripted language to have marvelous 'short cuts' to express very complex equations that words would only make very cumbersome to enunciate while writing with flare and no typos in a programming language is the perfect symbiosis of merging Maths with literary prowess. Once those skills are mastered, developers tend to allow their personalities bloom and emerge in their code and their attitudes. 'Hard-core' developers add to that an uncanny and brave disposition for challenges: they are undeterred when confronted with an impossibility to solve. System administrators are meticulous, database developers are able to create worlds within worlds and connections that compare and match objects within contextual scenarios. Every single developer is unique in how they approach projects and come up with the goods. Proof of this is the plethora of mobile apps that have been uploaded by developers worldwide. Next time you sit on your sofa tapping away on your tablet, realise that his is only possible because thousands of developers have put theirs skills, passion and enormous love for good code writing into developing the apps you can't live without. Your children want to be creative, not apply for a job at an accounting firm. Don't kill their mojo so soon. In a not too distant future, you may well take your kids to their football practice or to a hackathon, or to both.]]> 'Eco-doom': Silently Trending on Teens Virtual Networks tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.2166373 2012-11-20T13:21:03-05:00 2013-01-20T05:12:01-05:00 Inma Martinez http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inma-martinez/ Her painful message delivers a calm but blatant exposé of the double-standards that adults use to justify how carelessly they are destroying the future of all species. Loose ponytail, sweaty hands but steady, her gaze looks directly into the eyes of every adult in the audience. Unfortunately for Severn Cullis-Susuki, her call to arms is delivered in the pre-social networks society, failing to reach out to the millions of teenagers that could have seconded her plight. However, as Samuel Adams once said: "It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen to set brush fires of freedom in the minds of men". In April 2008, a Kuala Lumpur blogger loads Severn's speech as "The Girl Who Silenced the World for 5 Minutes" - a very appropriate Stig Larsson's title, and her act of valour is watched by 25 million people. Severn's fears, legacy and 'fighting' disposition are today running deep within the minds and hearts of teens playing in a digital network near you. If you thought that your children were clubbing with Penguins or feeding livestock on a digital farm oblivious to the threat of ecological disasters, smell the coffee that organisations running such networks have uncovered. The first report emerging in 2009 in the United States conducted by Discovery Communications, a powerhouse in the nonfiction broadcast media, brings to attention a sample of 500 American preteens 56% of which worried about the planet becoming a blasted heath or at least a very unpleasant place to live. 28% said that they feared animals would become extinct. In the same year, a separate study of UK children found only 11% of those surveyed to be carefree, or free from worry. The research involved interviews with 200,000 children aged 6 to 14. While the natural disasters broadcasted by the media worldwide have created a widespread sentiment of hyper-locality amongst adults, the teenage mindset has put its own spin on it: it wonders to what extent global warming is to blame for it, and rippling from it, it feels impotent and puzzled at the thought of adults destroying nature as if it was a means to an industrialist end. In 2012 children, empowered by the same technology that makes them participants of the global disaster spectacle, are also turning to the web to find their power and let their voices be known. Enter the 'MiniMonos' island. Founded by Melissa Clark-Reynolds, a passionate eco-activist very close to Al Gore and his endeavours towards ecological awareness worldwide, MiniMonos - little monkeys in Spanish, captures the desire to "do something for the planet" felt by a growing number of children worldwide. "These kids are learning to equate positive actions with positive feelings: fun, delight and accomplishment", reveals Melissa. "Our aim is to have a million children taking real-world eco-action as a result of playing on MiniMonos." The site's virtual world is a digital safe haven for children who love the planet. Merging both digital and offline life, children get rewarded for their participation in real eco-projects and share their own local eco-initiatives with other children on the MiniMonos blog. MiniMonos, with over 1 million teens playing on the site from over 150 countries, also conducted its own survey. Only this time, the children apeaced their global warming fears by carrying out eco-friendly behaviour - recycling (38%), picking up litter (16%), planting/protecting plants and trees (6%), protecting wildlife (5%), saving energy (5%). When asked why they liked helping the environment, their answers ranged from "feeling good" to "having fun doing it" and "liking helping others". Twenty years on, Severn has ignited her audience. Only this time, it is her teen peers the ones getting into action, the ones fighting for their future in their daily lives and alongside a mini monkey or two in a digital world called the web.]]>


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The Women of Marvel / Shaken and Stirred by BillWalkoWatch
©2012-2016 BillWalko
"The Women of Marvel: Shaken and Stirred" - A series of pieces mashing up the Women of Marvel Comics with bold and beautiful Bond Girls. I was inspired by the extraordinary James Bond book covers by Michael Gilette ([link]).
Plus, there's MORE excellent Bond mash-ups at "The Line It Is Drawn", too: [link]
Plus, there's MORE excellent Bond mash-ups at "The Line It Is Drawn", too: [link]
Great work!
love love love!!!
Bill this is awesome, do you sell this as a Print?
I need all of these on my wall NOW!
Amazing covers, all my favorite marvel ladies in 007 cover titles, nice job.
Any chance you can make this a wallpaper? It's gorgeous and I'd love to use it
i would definitely have this framed and up on my wall
Dazzler for "The Living Daylights"!
Great series of pics, I really hope you make more in the future. With that said could I be so bold as to suggest Moonraker starring Carol Danvers(Miss Marvel) or Dr No starring Storm.
Great suggestions.. but I'm thinking Carol could be either Moonraker or Quantum of Solace. (Medusa or Crystal orMoondragon could be Moonraker, too) Storm for Skyfall. And Night Nurse for Dr. No!
oh...I thought you were only doing the original Flemming novels, never mind im sure what you choose to run with will be good
Fantastic Pics. But I mean Elektra would fit better to "For your eyes only" and Misty better to "Live and let die"
I think Mrs Grey has been alive a bit more than twice...but this is great!
A very clever combination sir!
Nice matching of titles to characters; Jean's made me laugh so hard. In fact, her's might be my favorite just because of the little touches like the literal fire in her eyes and the flames at her fingertips. All of them are great, but Jean Grey takes the win for me.
Jean's is my favorite, I think, as well. I like that she's both a GOOD Bond girl and a BAD Bond girl! I like her innocent expression with the fire eyes. And, this cover had some great composition, the positive and negative spaces.
awesome work, love them all
I would have gone with FOR YOUR EYES ONLY for Elektra, given that film has a Greek heroine in Melena Havelock...and Elsa Bloodstone for LIVE AND LET DIE, given that L&LD is the only Bond film with a vaguely supernatural element, and Dazzler for THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS for obvious reason, maybe Colleen Wing for TOMORROW NEVER DIES...
Good suggestions. My rule was: "just match up the titles". I didn't want to get into mashing up the actual characters because it gets too complicated... just keep it simple, y'know? The first thing that hit me with "Live and Let Die" was Elektra, (who came back from the dead, plus she's an assassin).
I could have also done Storm / Thunderball and Invisible Woman / For Your Eyes Only -- the possibilities and permutations are debatable and fun to debate..... but also, the artwork is just meant to be enjoyed!
I could have also done Storm / Thunderball and Invisible Woman / For Your Eyes Only -- the possibilities and permutations are debatable and fun to debate..... but also, the artwork is just meant to be enjoyed!
Scary how this makes so much sense! Great job, Bill
Cooooooool. That is super awesome. They look like they could be posters~
or... book covers? (That was the inspiration)
o.O or book covers, those too. These just make me think, "Movie posters!" because I don't see book covers this stylized that often.
Love this! Great stuff Bill......
These are great Bill! Really striking.


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As others have noted (and contrary to my first comment), it appears that copyright can apply to a work. I found this useful:
As others have noted (and contrary to my first comment), it appears that copyright can apply to a work. I found this useful:
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6JSC/ACOC/8 Addition of the Copyright holder relationship – Amendments to RDA 220.127.116.11 and Appendix I
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If adding "copyright holders" to 184.108.40.206, also need to change the Glossary definition for Other Person, Family, or Corporate Body Associated with a Manifestation, which is otherwise identical to this paragraph. Kathy Glennan (talk) 14:12, 6 August 2013 (PDT)
OK with proposal. Future fast track proposals could include additional terms for inclusion in the new I.4.4. Kathy Glennan (talk) 14:18, 6 August 2013 (PDT)
It is not clear to me that copyright holder is a relationship limited to or possibly even applicable to the Manifestation. Does not the copyright apply to the Expression or Work? A statement of copyright holder would apply to the Manifestation, but that is a statement, not a relationship, involving the Manifestation. Further, would not such a relationship be ephemeral and geographically conditioned by the copyright laws of a given country? MYERS/CCDA liaison to the MAC, 2013/08/06
Agree with John Myers. I think it would be useful to establish a relationship designator for "copyright holder." However, it seems plain that such a relationship should be linked to an Expression, not a Manifestation. Copyright protects the intellectual content, not any one publication of that content (right?). Associating copyright with a manifestation becomes even more problematic (I think) when a Manifestation consists of intellectual contributions from more than one party, each of whom may hold copyright to her contribution (but not to the rest of the manifestation). – Francis Lapka, RBMS liaison, Aug. 7, 2013
I too agree that a copyright should be applicable to the Work or Expression, not Manifestation. From the Legal Dictionary: The 1976 Copyright Act provides that copyright protection "subsists … in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed".
Proposed amendment in 188.8.131.52 lists book designers and platemakers along with copyright holders: Other persons, families, or corporate bodies associated with a manifestation include book designers, platemakers, copyright holders, etc." This puts a copyright holder in a category secondary even to the creation of a manifestation ("other" persons). It might have sense when a copyright holder is separate from a creator of a work, but then it should be noted somewhere?
I think adding a relationship designator for copyright holder to Appendix I would be helpful (with rewording? and changing the location - section 1.2.2 instead of 1.4.4.) but in terms of amendments to 126.96.36.199. I think the proposal needs more work. Larisa Walsh (CC:DA) Aug. 8, 2013
I am becoming more convinced that this relationship is appropriate at the work/expression level rather than the manifestation level. Of course, the whole thing is complicated by the fact that one can only assert copyright ownership once there's a manifestation or an item, but I believe that the copyright really exists at the expression level (e.g., a particular Spanish translation, a specific audio recording).
In addition, for some of the resources I catalog, it's sometimes not clear exactly what the copyright date applies to. For a sound recording with both a phonogram copyright date and a "normal" copyright date, the phonogram date applies to the recorded sound, while the copyright date could apply to the program notes, the cover artwork, or something else. Of course, this confusion could occur with any aggregation, which I suppose is another reason to consider this relationship at the expression level.
Kathy Glennan (talk) 13:58, 9 August 2013 (PDT)
As others have noted (and contrary to my first comment), it appears that copyright can apply to a work. I found this useful: Copyright Codex -- Francis Lapka, 2013 Aug 12
Is CC:DA willing to make a specific counter proposal, which moves the applicable instruction & relationship designator under works (or possibly under expressions) instead?
- If we chose works, that would mean adding instruction(s) to 19.3.1 (Basic Instructions on Recording Other Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with a Work) & defining the relationship designator at 1.2.2 (Relationship Designators for Other Persons, Families, or Corporate Bodies Associated with a Work).
- If we chose expressions, I think we'd actually need to define a new instruction, 20.3, which would address Other Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies Associated with an Expression (since copyright holders are not contributors). This would have an impact on the earlier parts of chapter 20 as well. The relationship designator would need to be defined in a new section of I.3, as I.3.2, Relationship Designators for Other Persons, Families, or Corporate Bodies Associated with an Expression.
Or, given the complexity of the above, would it be better for the ALA response to simply point out these difficulties?
Kathy Glennan (talk) 14:08, 9 August 2013 (PDT)
Would it be appropriate to suggest in the CC:DA response adding these provisions at BOTH the work and expression levels? I will note that I have seen scores published by Presser that include at the bottom of the first page of music a copyright statement like this: [copyright symbol] 2011 by Merion Music. Presumably, this is applicable at the expression level, but I would not want to exclude applicability at the work level, since an author could be the copyright holder.
On a related note, should there be instructions in ch. 2 for a statement of copyright for the manifestation? In the above example, I could do something with c2011 per RDA 2.11, but could I really do anything with Merion Music? In that example, Presser is given very clearly as the publisher, with Merion only appearing in the copyright statement. Even though it is tangential to the ACOC proposal, could this issue be raised in the CC:DA response? Tracey Snyder, MusLA, August 12, 2013


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Posted by Tom Westerholm on Jul 11, 2013 20 comments
We have reached a point in Orlando's Summer League where most coaches have pretty well figured out which of their players will make the training camp roster and which ones won't. For the most part, coaches are giving their training camp players (eg. Olynyk, Iverson and Pressey) some time on the court while giving other players (eg. Fells, Granger and Hill) one last extended look and a chance to shine in front of international and D-League scouts.
The Celtics were no exception in an 85-78 loss to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday. If you care about such things, the loss put the Celtics in a three-way tie for third place with Miami and Utah. The problem is that Miami and Utah both have games tomorrow while the C's have a day off, so unless both the Heat and the Jazz manage to lose every quarter of their games on Thursday, the Celtics will end up in fifth place at best with the potential to fall even farther if Indiana, Detroit or Orlando makes a final surge.
Does any of this matter? No, not really, except that the 4/5 game on Friday would be at 8 a.m., which just sounds unpleasant. So I'm all for an early start to the tanking.
Courtney Fells can jump extremely high, and Phil Pressey seems to enjoy doing flashy things. It was only a matter of time before these two connected to create a fun highlight together.
Mitchell had a rough game, and this play was no exception. It's easy to lose yourself under the basket, but that doesn't make it look any less ridiculous when you can clearly get high enough to score but you still put it short.
A few bullet points from yesterday's loss:
The Celtics have Thursday off before they wrap up their Summer League stint on Friday. Enjoy the game, since it's the last time we will see the team on the court until preseason.
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Year Listed: 2005
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Daniel Webster, one of America's foremost statesmen (U.S. Congressman, Senator, presidential candidate, and Secretary of State) and most dynamic orators, maintained his family's Franklin farm as a retreat, a model stock farm, and a meeting place until his death in 1852. The 141-acre property includes the National Historic Landmark-listed Webster/Tay home, several surviving buildings related to the orphanage and convent, the remains of an early fort, and a historic cemetery.
In 1871, the farm became the site of the New Hampshire legislature-chartered New Hampshire Orphans' Home. This home, school, and working farm for children orphaned in the Civil War was one of the first such institutions to be strategically located to take advantage of the health benefits of a rural environment. Additional buildings were added throughout the rest of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century to accommodate more and more children.
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American Idol Recap: Top 7 Attempt Classic Rock Hits
April 04, 2013 02:00 AM by Melissa Stavarski
This week on American Idol, the Top 7 take on classic rock songs, accompanied by Orianthi on guitar. Host Ryan Seacrest promises no ballads! Yay! Also, the American Idol contestants reveal all the little things that they love and love to hate about each other. Keep reading for all the details!
Burnell Taylor: Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name"
Burnell gives American Idol's rock theme a bad name. Bless his heart. He's trying, but rock isn't his thing. Keith Urban tells Burnell that he's never looked more uncomfortable. Nicki Minaj urges him to make the songs his own, especially if he's out of his comfort zone. Randy Jackson says Burnell fell too far behind the beat, adding, "Ride that beat harder!"
The Idols poke fun at Burnell's accent, hand movements, and laugh.
Duet: Angie Miller and Lazaro Arbos sing "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" together. "Well, that was nice," snarks Nicki. "Lazaro, you seemed to be comfortable until you forgot the lyrics again." Lazaro says he doesn't know the song. Has Lazaro heard of any song ever?
Kree Harrison: Janis Joplin's "Piece Of My Heart"
Personally, I think Kree's voice sounds strained, though we later learn that she's suffering from a pinched nerve. Randy announces the "start" of the show, adding, "That's how you come out and rock the stage!" Mariah Carey praises Kree's ability to choose the right songs. Nicki calls Kree's performance stunning and magnificent.
According to the Idols, Kree irons everyone's clothes, goes out of her way to learn about others, and always gives hugs.
Janelle Arthur: Billy Joel's "You May Be Right"
You can take the girl out of the country … but you can't take the country out of the girl … even on rock week! Janelle puts on a pair of bedazzled cowboy boots, makes the song fit her style, and works the stage like no other contestant this season. Keith agrees with me, adding, "You get better and better every week." Randy and Mariah agree with Nicki's observation that viewers are going to relate to Janelle and that felt connection is going to translate to votes.
Obviously, the Idols make fun of Janelle's country roots, with Lazaro saying, "She's the girl in corn thingies, except she hasn't lost all her teeth yet."
Duet: Burnell and Candice sing "The Letter." Holy awesome, Burnell! Burnell totally should have chosen this song as his solo. I very much enjoy this duet and hope to see it again on finale night. The judges gush over Candice, of course, but they manage to give Burnell the credit that he deserves also.
Lazaro Arbos: Queen's "We Are The Champions"
The good news is, it's an easy song to learn and Lazaro's vocals sound better than they have in weeks. The bad news is, Lazaro still manages to flub lyrics and the key of the song changes throughout to compensate for the inadequate vocals. That said, Nicki, Mariah, and Randy all insist that Lazaro did the song justice, with Nicki adding, "It was crack juice." Keith thinks Lazaro was wise to a choose a song that supports his dramatics.
The Idols poke fun at Laz's over-the-top poses while singing and blindingly bright colored clothing.
Candice Glover: Rolling Stones hit "I Can't Get No (Satisfaction)"
Candice's vocals are outstanding, as per usual, but I feel as if she's overdue for a WOW! performance. Mariah thinks every performance brings out a different side of Candice. Keith praises Candice's power, adding, "Your voice is so freaking good." Nicki says the song put her to sleep and loudly "boos" her own comment, robbing the audience the pleasure of doing it first.
Candice has her own bedroom. When Burnell suggests it's out of pity, because she's going home soon, Candice reveals that she wants to punch him in the face. Obviously, no punches are really being thrown, as they're simply fooling around.
Trio: Janelle Arthur, Amber Holcomb, and Kree Harrison sing "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." Amber forgets lyrics. Nicki calls it sleepy and cheesy, adding, "I'm obsessed with all three of you, but I hated the performance."
Amber Holcomb: Heart's "What About Love"
So, despite Ryan's initial promise regarding the theme of the week, Amber sings a ballad. Keith praises the "killer key change" of the song. Comparing Amber to "sleepy" Candice, Nicki says, "This is the difference between your song choice and what I just saw – the first line out of your mouth just completely melted me." Randy appreciates her legs and ability to always "be" Amber.
The Idols reveal that Amber talks to herself and loves to take "selfie" pictures. We also learn that Burnell has a major crush on Amber.
Angie Miller: Evanescence's Bring Me To Life
How is this classic rock? Anyone? Nevertheless, Angie sings well, starting with the piano and ending with the wind machine set to full blast. Nicki is rude to the audience, go figure, but compliments Angie's toned down look. Randy likes Angie's "tender" moments. Mariah rambles on and on and on about nothing. Keith implores Angie to focus more on feeling her songs and less on worrying about how she looks in front of the camera.
The Idols mock how Angie gets overly excited about everything and how she mugs for the camera.
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SEATTLE — The Western rattlesnake is not native to Western Washington where it is usually too cool and damp, so no one knows how one came to be sunning itself on a rock wall in north Seattle.
KING reports that someone reported the snake Saturday to the Seattle Animal Shelter. The state Fish and Wildlife Department helped the shelter in moving the snake Wednesday to Eastern Washington where is should feel more at home.
The Western rattlesnake is classified as an exotic animal under the Seattle municipal code and is illegal within the city limits.


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|Release Date: November 17, 1995
|Running Time: 91 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
|Box Office: $103,351.00
|Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Drama
Mia Farrow
Scott Glenn
Mary-Louise Parker
Tony Goldwyn
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Summary:Rachel is a perpetually perky housewife who has it all--home, husband, and children. She also loses it all, on the night before Christmas, when she discovers that the creature stirring in her house is a hit man, hired by her husband. Dressed in nothing more than her flannel nightie, Rachel flees, embarking on an odyssey that spans many a Christmas Eve and that will take her through all 50 states of the Union as she searches for some semblance of security, and sanity--and a permanent address. Like a latter-day Candide, Rachel encounters a series of increasingly surreal calamities and coincidences on her journey through denial. She also meets up with a bizarre cast of characters, including a s... Full Summary >>


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ATLANTA — A federal judge has asked the state's high court to clarify parts of Georgia law in a case involving a woman who was 14 when she exposed her breasts during spring break in Florida to a man with a video camera who later sold the clip for use in a provocative women's video series.
The high court is set to hear arguments in the case Monday.
Lindsey Bullard sued video producers in 2004 after her bare-breasted image appeared in a "Girls Gone Wild" video. Bullard, who's now 26, is seeking damages for the alleged unauthorized use of her image.
A federal judge has said it's unclear under Georgia law whether Bullard has a viable claim. The federal judge has asked the Georgia Supreme Court to answer questions on Georgia law.


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USF To Induct Five Into HOF Class of 2013
The induction ceremony is part of USF's 2013 Homecoming, to take place Oct. 11-13 at various locations on the Sioux Falls campus and at the USF Sports Complex. The 2013 USF Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet/Dinner kicks off Homecoming activities and will be held Friday, Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. in the McDonald Center on the Sioux Falls campus. Banquet tickets are $25 per person, $200 for a table and can be purchased online or by contacting the USF Athletic office at 605-331-6791. The Hall of Famers will also receive a special halftime recognition during the USF-Winona State football game at Bob Young Field (1 p.m. kickoff).
"We're excited about resurrecting the USF Athletics Hall of Fame and that our first induction class since 2000 is such an elite group," said USF Director of Athletics Kevin Hesser. "We really look forward to the unique opportunity to celebrate the Homecoming weekend conjunction with honoring our best of the best with the Hall of Fame induction ceremony."
Here are bio sketches for the USF Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2013:
Steve Baas
Baseball (1980-81)
Iowa City, Iowa
Southwestern CC '79
Sioux Falls '81
A two-year ace for the Sioux Falls Cougars, Baas led the NAIA in both earned run average (0.92) and innings pitched (98) in 1980. Baas was also very active in SFC intramurals and officiated adult basketball games for the Sioux Falls YMCA. Upon graduation, he spent 26 years as a coach at Dowling Catholic High School in Des Moines (Iowa), including 26 years as assistant baseball coach and six as head volleyball coach. Baas also coached baseball and volleyball for a combined seven seasons at Waukee High School. In addition, he has been employed by Fed-Ex for the last 27.5 years. He is a current member of the Iowa High School Baseball and Volleyball Coaches Association and active with the Lutheran Church of Hope.
Why Baas attended SFC: "My first contact after Southwestern Community College was with baseball coach Kevin McDonald from Sioux Falls College. I think any student/athlete remembers the first coach during the recruiting process. After visiting and meeting people, I thought SFC would be a good fit."
Sammie Hasegawa
Professor (1955-91)
Head Golf Coach
Assistant Football Coach
Assistant Basketball Coach
Lawndale, Calif.
Ottawa University '45
Kansas State '48
Sammie Hasegawa taught Economics and Business Administration at Sioux Falls College from 1955 until his retirement in 1991. He was awarded Faculty Emeritus status in 1991. As a professor in the business department, Hasegawa mentored and educated young men and women for nearly four decades. In addition to his teaching duties, Hasegawa served as the Braves' men's golf coach for several years, winning the Tri-State Conference title in 1967. He was named the Tri-State Conference Golf of the Year in 1967. Hasegawa was also an assistant coach for football and basketball for many years and remains an ardent supporter of USF athletics. He is the father of four children (Sammy Hasegawa, Stephen, Carol, Claudia) and his grandson Stephen is a 1973 graduate of Sioux Falls College.
Patti Ibis
Women's Basketball (1986-90)
Los Angeles, Calif.
Patti Ibis was a four-year starter for the Sioux Falls women's basketball team and ranks third all-time on the school's career scoring charts with 1,731 points. Ibis broke the school's career scoring record during her 1990 senior campaign—a record she held the until 1996. She is currently the Director of Rehabilitation at Infinity Rehabilitation in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Why Patti Ibis Chose USF: "The smaller class sizes and specific courses at USF allowed me to get more individualized attention and helped me focus on maintaining the level of academic success I would eventually need to attend graduate school and pursue a career in Physical Therapy. By being a member of the women's basketball team, I was able to develop leadership skills and realize the importance of teamwork. These characteristics have enabled me to be to be successful and take on leadership roles throughout my career."
Ibis listed several favorite memories from her time at Sioux Falls: "Our first game (my sophomore year) at the then newly constructed Stewart Center. My freshman year, we practiced in the old Pierce gymnasium on campus and played most of our home games at the Sioux Falls Arena. I was happy that we finally had a "home gym" of our own. I also remember the game in 1990 against Westmar College when I broke the scoring record. All of my team members signed the basketball and presented it to me. I still have it.
Kurtiss Riggs
Football (1993-1996)
Green River, Wyo.
New NAIA Hall of Famer Kurtiss Riggs amassed a record of 25-1 in two seasons as the Cougars' starting quarterback. He still holds several NAIA records, including the most touchdown passes in a season (55), most consecutive attempts without an interception (290) and lowest interception percentage (.75%). His career and season marks also remain the standard at USF. Riggs holds school records in single-season passing yards (3,993), completions (265), touchdown passes (55) and single-game records in passing yards (457), completions (30) and touchdowns (8).
The Green River, Wyo., native was a two-time All-SDIC 1st team quarterback and Don Hansen's National Gazette NAIA All-American who also received the 1995 SDIC Player of the Year and 1996 NAIA 1st Team All-American honors.
He saved his best for the last game of his collegiate career—the 1996 NAIA Championship game. Riggs passed for 455 yards and five touchdowns to lead USF to its first national championship, a 47-25 victory against Western Washington.
Riggs thrilled USF fans and haunted opposing coaches and current Colorado Mesa University head football coach Russ Martin is better qualified than most to assess his place in NAIA football history. In a letter of recommendation on behalf of Riggs, he called Kurtiss "exactly the kind of person that the Hall of Fame was created for." The former Black Hills State coach added that he "had the great pleasure (and displeasure) of coaching against him and have never seen another QB at any level operate with as much efficiency as Kurtiss; you can look at his statistical background and see there is no comparison available."
Riggs teaches Advanced Placement Psychology at Roosevelt High School and is also owner of Riggs Premier Football. He has served as the head coach for the Sioux Falls Storm since 2003. With Riggs at the helm, the Storm has compiled a record of 140-28 and has won seven national titles (2005-2008, 2011-2013). He is a three-time IFL Coach of the Year. Riggs is married to Leisa and they are the proud parents of Peyton (13) and Afton Riggs (10).
Why Riggs Chose USF: "The opportunity to play multiple sports (football, basketball, baseball and track). I was impressed with coaches, in particular, Coach Young and Coach VandeStreek."
Cited his teammates as his best memory from his time at USF. "Unique bond of a team that was limited with facilities, lack of full time coaches, no stadium for home games, and a lack of program funding. All things aside, only brought team closer together. 1995-1996 was a true family."
Courtney (Farrell) Wynthein
Women's basketball, softball (2002-06)
Sioux Falls, S.D.
Four-time NAIA All-American Courtney Farrell debuted in the Purple and White in the fall of 2002, with USF coming off a 16-17 season. The Cougars marched back with a 23-10 record thanks in large part to Farrell, who broke the school's single season scoring record (599) en route to Great Plains Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year, First Team All-GPAC and NAIA Third Team All-American honors. An NAIA second teamer as a sophomore, Farrell averaged 17.0 points per game and led the nation in field goal percentage (61.7%). She earned third-team All-American honors during a junior campaign that included a Cougars' upset of defending national champion Hastings College—a win made possible by Farrell's three-point play as time expired. Farrell saved the best for her last season, earning her fourth-straight All-GPAC first team certificate and NAIA All-American honors. She set three USF records that still stand: all-time scoring (2,433), all-time rebounding (1,168) and field goal percentage (61.8%) and led the nation in double-doubles. Farrell was also a four-time all conference pick at first base for the USF softball team who as a senior helped lead the Cougars to their first-ever NAIA national tournament appearance.
An FCA Honor Athlete, Purple Feather Award Winner and USF Female Athlete of the Year, Farrell returned to USF for a master's degree in reading and works as a first grade teacher in the Sioux Falls School District.
Why Farrell Wynthein Chose USF: "It was close to family, has an excellent education program and welcoming coaches. The teamwork and leadership learned through sports and USF's education department more than prepares you for the teaching profession. I also learned the importance of God in your life from life on USF's campus.


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MAGIX Music Maker is a music editor that offers you the possibility of creating and recording your own songs, beats and sounds. The productions that you make with this download will seem like a professional work, whether you're a beginner or an expert. You can make songs quickly, in an easy way and share them for free on social networks, including Facebook, YouTube or SoundCloud. Loops and samples can be mixed with different melodies. The tempo of the song is automatically adjusted, so the user can completely concentrate on creating songs.
One of the main advantages of this download is the feature of adding realistic instruments' sounds to your songs. These sounds have a high quality and can be modified with effects like distortion, reverb and compressor. Furthermore, there is a wide range of instrument samples such as drums, string instruments or classic sounds, giving you great possibilities of musical production.
Very intuitive and complete interface
This editing software includes an interface in which searching for something will not take you too long, and will let the user decide how to work thanks to the flexible windows it has. At first, its interface can be a little tricky as it is very complete. However, there are several free tutorials that can guide you in your first steps. Once you get used to it, the interface is very intuitive and will provide you with all the necessary tools to create your music.
It is a program that makes it possible, even for beginners, to compose their own productions in no time. It transforms your computer into a recording studio. This editing software offers a wide variety of effects that you can add to your songs to make them look professional.
Tools and effects
Magix Music Maker offers thousands of loops, various genres, musical instruments and sound effects of a virtual professional studio. It also has tools that will add a profesional look to your projects. Record your own voice and add real instruments to your musical arrangements with the new function Tune Vocal and Pitch Assistant. Just connect the microphone or instrument into your computer, then record the sound and apply effects.
Tools and effects work with a simple and fast drag. The latest version of Magix Music Maker includes more than three thousand sounds and loops, new tools like Tune Vocal, BeatBox and six different styles of samples or Soundpools. These Soundpools include from Rock Pop, Hip Hop, Dance, Techno, Chillout to Dubstep.
Regarding musical instruments with realistic sounds, the latest version of this editing software has included a Power Guitar, an Electric Piano, the Drum Engine and the Synthesizer DN- e1. When you mix and remix, you will do it through some screens with professional effects. In this editing process, you can use up to 99 tracks. Once you get your music piece finished, you will be able to share it for free via social networks.
MAGIX Music Maker 2014 Features
These are some of the features of MAGIX Music Maker :
- Possibility of creating your own music
- Combination of loops and sounds
- True-to-life instruments
- MIDI Editor integrated
- Studio Sound Quality
- Extra effects and instruments by VTS support
- 'EssentialFX' which provides a lot of tools
- Vintage Effects Suite available
- Intuitive Loops remix
- Possibility of remix creation
If you want know more about this software before you download it, feel free to check the developer's website
System requirements
The minimum system requirements for the correct download and installation of MAGIX Music Maker are the following:
- Operating System: Windows XP or later
- Processor: 2 GHz or higher
- RAM Memory: 1GB
- Onboard graphics card
- Internal Sound card
- Screen resolution: 1024 x 768
- HDD Space: 5.5 GB of free space
If you work with music or you are simply an enthusiastic of music retouching, MAGIX Music Maker is a good choice for you. With this program, you will be able to add amazing effects to your songs, real life instruments sounds and more. Enjoy playing your own music and sharing it in diverse social networks and different websites. In addition, this editing software will bring you the possibility of making your songs look professional as if they were recorded in a music studio.
- Free trial version available
- Create music themes from the beginning
- Produce songs with a professional appearance
- MAGIX Music Maker includes more than 3,000 sounds and effects
- Latest version includes new music instruments
- At the beginning, MAGIX Music Maker could seems difficult to manage
PLAN ON MAKING MY OWN SONGS. FOR PERSONAL USE. wHY DOES IT MATTER HOW MANY CHARACTERS THAT i TYPE IN THIS BOX, super annoying that I have to
For playing good music in my spare time to hear it later instead of hearing songs that I don't like besides I love mixing beats together to make a great tone
Make my own enjoyable music and be proud of what i have made. to learn new strategies and possibly get something out of it like a job to earn money
i have used magix music maker 2014 premium before it stopped working on my computer yesterday while i was trying to show my friend jaylon it
MAGIX manufacture all kinds of audio video software and graphic photo ... Our softwares allow you to edit and produce professional productions
its about the best music program, easy to use and then has some real depth. i like it becaause it is very creative and many different sounds
I like sharing my work with others. It's rewarding to know my music is being listened to by a bunch of other happy people who love music too
best quality and there is very nice searching easly we can search within sort period of time i hope alwes it should run entirely in l the fu
That i can create my own sound and be creative in a very artistic way being that i have a full roster of artist signed to my entertainment company.
This program gives you the freedom to create your own music
By Daren Garius
On Thursday, September 4, 2014
MAGIX Music Maker 2014 is a very useful and great application for making my soundtracks. I use this program to make my videos more fun and attractive before I share it with my friends on my Facebook account. As you all know, royalty free music is very expensive. The reason I purchased this program is that I don't want my videos banned for using copyright material. Of course, we all know that this software is just the ticket for making an original soundtrack for videos. Music Maker does what I want in the fastest and easiest way possible. There are just some issues that I do not like about this program. It lacks declick and noise reductions effects which for me is very important. Even most of the free music editors have these as standards so I don't understand why it is not available in this software. Other than that, MAGIX Music Maker works well and suits my basic needs in a music maker.
- Extensive editing tools and great effects
- Great library of loops and sounds
- Learning this program is tedious
A Brilliant Tool that is suitable for Seasoned Pros and even for Amateurs
By Pablo Conde Ferrer
On Friday, July 18, 2014
If you are an audio editing enthusiast, MAGIX Music Maker is suitable for you. In my opinion, this tool is appropriate for anyone. Whether you are an experienced professional or just a beginner, you will appreciate all the features of this software. It has an uncomplicated and user-friendly interface. You can simply enhance, cut and remix files using presets in just a few clicks. There are also lots of effects and editing options that you can use for mixing your music tracks for your movies, or you can even create new dance track. Moreover, this software adds a lot of editing tool features that can make your work easier. It even offers high-quality audio. Plus, it has online extras if you are a registered user. Though I noticed that it does not have a voice reduction feature. It is quite difficult to eliminate vocals from recording. Because of this reason, it is not compatible when making karaoke tracks. Overall, MAGIX Music Maker 2014 is a fantastic music editing tool with advanced features that both novice users and professionals can exploit.
- It has lots of advanced features
- Capable of making studio quality files
- It does not have voice reduction


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Brandon Brown paced the Green Wave with 16 points and nine rebounds on Friday.
Dec. 21, 2001
NEW ORLEANS, La. - Tulane University once again used its press to wear down an opponent, thwarting an impressive Lipscomb University comeback bid, on route to a 77-64 victory on Friday evening at Fogelman Arena.
The Green Wave improves to 7-1 on the season. It is just the fourth time in the last 50 years that Tulane had a mark of 7-1 or better. Lipscomb drops to 2-8 on the year.
Despite committing a season-high 28 turnovers, Tulane shot 52.7 percent (29-of-55) from the field, while holding the Bisons to 34.9 percent (22-of-63) shooting. The Wave also held a 44-31 advantage on the boards.
Junior Brandon Brown (Houma, La.) led the Wave with 16 points and nine rebounds, while junior Waitari Marsh (Chicago, Ill.) added 12 points and six assists. Nick Sinville (Shreveport, La.) and freshman Marcus Kinzer (Nashville, Tenn.) were also in double figures with 11 and 10 points, respectively.
"The ball was slippery tonight," Tulane head coach Shawn Finney said. "We were very lackadaisical with the ball and we were not making the easy plays. Every night is a test and tonight we learned that we're still young and we can't overlook any team.
"Fortunately, we shot the ball well," the Wave mentor continued. "Twenty-eight turnovers showed that we were out of rhythm. We couldn't get going. We went up 34-17, then we relaxed offensively and defensively."
Tulane held a 44-36 lead with 16:41 remaining in the game. However, careless turnovers and poor shooting saw the Wave go over five minutes without a point. Meanwhile, Lipscomb managed seven points to cut the Wave edge to one at 44-43 with 12:58 to go.
Wave freshman Karl Hollingsworth (Jonesboro, Ga.) finally found the bottom of the net at the 11:30 mark, poutting back his own miss to make it 46-43. However, Lispcomb's Jeff Dancy (game-high 25 points) buried a three-pointer to knot the score for the first time since 2-2.
A three-point play by Brown and a baseline trifecta from Kinzer rallied the Wave, but not enough to stop the Bisons. Lipscomb scored five unanswered points to make it 52-51 with 8:32 to go.
However, three free throws from freshman Ben Benfield (River Ridge, La.) and a Kinzer layup ignited the Wave. In addition, Tulane's press began to force fatigue and turnovers as the Wave took charge, building a 10-point edge at 63-53 with 5:11 remaining.
"I thought the press was effective," Finney said. "It created some steals for us. But we would get a steal and throw it right back to them."
Lipscomb would cut it to five with 2:48 to go, but Tulane settled into a groove and cruised to the victory down the stretch.
The Wave had not played for 10 days due to a break for final exams.
"The break (for finals) is tough," Finney said. "It's been 11 days. It's hard. Plus, everybody all week has been talking about Georgia Tech and it's easy to get sidetracked. We are looking forward to Georgia Tech, it's a big game against a name team."
Tulane returns to action on Sunday evening with a nationally-televised game at Georgia Tech. The contest tips off at 7 p.m. (Central) and will be broadcast live throughout the nation on Fox Sports Net.


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CORNELIUS – U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger flew to Israel Aug. 9 on a weeklong fact-finding trip as part of his duties as chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. He represents North Carolina's 9th district in Washington D.C.
Accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Pittenger will attend private meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Conversations with the country's top Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders are also on the itinerary.
Jamie Bowers, Pittenger's communications director, said the trip is meant to "introduce Pittenger to the key players in the Middle East and make him more effective in his new role." He's chaired the task force since March.
The congressman will also visit Golan Heights, a basaltic plateau southwest of Syria that Israel seized from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Pittenger is particularly interested in his meetings with Israeli security officials who have extensive expertise in combating terrorism.
"Terrorism and unconventional threats like chemical weapons and cyber attacks are now the greatest threat to America's national security," Pittenger said. "By learning from Israel's anti-terror experience and meeting with leaders from both sides of the conflict, I'll be better prepared to create legislation to protect Americans from these threats."
A meeting at Cornelius Town Hall, 21445 Catawba Ave., at 7 p.m. Aug. 28 will give the public an opportunity to hear about the trip and ask Pittenger questions.
"He wants to make sure he's spending as much time as possible on the public's questions as opposed to his own statements," Bowers said.


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Thursday, October 14, 2010
christmas cards
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i did tiny prints one year but i think this year im goin minted all the way.ReplyDelete
i looove christmas cards.
I've been (quietly) thinking about Christmas cards too!! Nice to know I'm not the only one. :)ReplyDelete
Its never too early to start thinking about Christmas:)ReplyDelete
Good for you! I finished buying my cards and stickers for them yesterday...even have my holiday stamps! :)ReplyDelete
It will be here before you know it...actually, my mother writes close to 200 Christmas cards every year with long hand written letters to each, that is individual to the person, so, she starts September 1st!
Liesl :)
Happy to know I'm not alone!ReplyDelete
Liesl- your mom is my hero!
So, I'm new to your blog but LOVING IT!ReplyDelete
I am so into christmas cards and have been looking for the right one this year since last christmas!
I love the one you shared with from Minted. I don't think you can ever go wrong with a minted card. :0)
I am also thinking about Christmas..Really love that card and I am freezing here too:)ReplyDelete
Hugs and kisses
Ps: I hope you had a chance to enter my Giveaway!
Love the card! I like Tinyprints too! Usually I do a photo card from Costco (like everyone else we know). It's cheap and easy except for picking or taking the picture.ReplyDelete
xx Vivian @ http://diamondsandtulle.blogspot.com
I've already started looking for Christmas cards too! I love minted and also finestationary.com. It's such a hard decision to make!ReplyDelete
i love all these admissions of christmas card frenzy! i too have been thinking about it - but then i remember i will probably have to update my wedding invitation address list to mail them! ahhh!ReplyDelete
I have a draft up on my computer right now. From Minted. They're expensive, but they're beautiful. I just wish it was possible to take a decent picture of all four of us (us and our little boys) together!ReplyDelete
I've been thinking about christmas cards for months now haha! Good to know i'm not the only plan way tooo far in advance planner :)ReplyDelete
Love that one!!!!ReplyDelete
I usually use Shutterfly and they've always come out cute!ReplyDelete
i love the cards on minted! the holidays always seem to sneak up, so i don't think you're too early :) christmas will be here before you know it!ReplyDelete
That Christmas card above is so beautiful...not boring or typical at all.ReplyDelete
i can't lie. i've been thinking about the Christmas cards too. but my hangup is this: is it crazy to think that amidst interviews for residency that I will actually be able to send them out?ReplyDelete
and secretly, i'm also wondering if it's dumb to just send out a card of me and the hubs. there. i said it. go ahead and judge me, newlyweds. i hate myself for it a little bit too.
OH! Your blog is just so sweet! I'm so glad I found you! I'm a bit ridiculous like you and am already thinking about holidays and cards too. I usually go all out but last year I just had my daughter, so we skipped the crazy/artsy (that I usually do) and went with a simple baby shot. This year I'm gonna step it up!! Check in on my blog and you'll see!ReplyDelete
November Grey
Last year I sent out an Xmas card of just me and my dog...I felt like i had to send something! I've been dating my boyfriend now since April, but since we aren't married I don't know if it would be appropriate to send out a card with both of us on it? hmmm....ReplyDelete
I LOVE your blog! it's so dainty, vintage feeling :)
New follower!
You are SO not alone. But I haven't even known where to start!! Please keep us posted on what you decide!!ReplyDelete
I am already brainstorming our Christmas picture and getting a few designs bookmarked. I have a girlfriend who has her own etsy store and has made every single annoucement, invitation and Christmas card for me for the past four years. I check out tiny prints and other various websites and then send them to her so she can design something for me that is original!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing! I love it!ReplyDelete
Loooooooove it :)))))ReplyDelete
Oooh thanks for the reminder! I need to find a cute Christmas card print too! I hope you find something soon!ReplyDelete
I've been scoping out Christmas cards too!!ReplyDelete
I must admit...I bought mine last year and I can't wait to use them! I even had them out the other day admiring them! They are of course of St. Nicholas (you must go to my blog to see why that is an "of course!")ReplyDelete
It's never too early to start preparing for Christmas! I love it!ReplyDelete
I loooove Christmas cards!! This one is just AMAZING!!! I think about cathcing the perfect photo all summer actually! I love to send and receive Christmas cards:) Good to hear that there are more people like me. Have a lovely new week!ReplyDelete
Kristin xx
you're so smart.ReplyDelete
i'm one of those people who are constantly being drug behind life by my hair trying to catch up. Christmas comes and i go into panic mode and then i'm not really happy with any of the gifts i got anyone and i wish i'd sent more Christmas cards and i wonder where december fourth through twenty-fourth went...
o bother.


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The Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA), a charity which gives disabled people life-changing experiences involving horses and horse-riding, is celebrating after receiving a donation of £80,000.
Para-Equestrian Dressage rider Anne Dunham MBE was named Disabled Sportswoman of the Year at the 2011 Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Awards last night at The Sunday Times offices in London.
Twenty London families were able to receive free horse riding and stable management lessons led by Britain's Team Gold Medalist from the recent European Dressage Championships, Emile Faurie, over the October half term holidays.
Holly Valance was 'rescued' by London horse Purdey on Strictly Come Dancing when her usual professional partner, Artem Chigvintsev had to bow out due to a back injury, with a clip of Purdey and Brendan's 'rescue' being shown on Saturday's show.