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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Gartner BPM conference in September
I booked my travel for the Gartner BPM conference on September 16-19 in Orlando: I have a bad habit of forgetting to do that until late, then finding that the airfare is $$$ and I've missed all the hotel rooms, so thought that I'd do it early this time. I'll be live-blogging from the conference as usual. I won't be staying on for the Event Processing Summit that they're running for the remainder of the week; although it looks interesting, I'm speaking at the Forrester IT Leadership Forum the following week in Carlsbad, and wanted to spend a few days at home in between, plus I want to be back in Toronto on the evening of the 19th to make it to our second Girl Geek dinner.
There was a lot of vendor grumbling about this conference coming so soon after the one in the spring, but I'm sure that all the usual suspects will show up nonetheless.
Disclaimer: Gartner provides me with a press pass to the event, although I am not otherwise compensated for expenses or my time.
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Public transit trip planning in various US locations and all of Japan. I want this for Toronto! Funny that the California sites include Orange County which (based on my 1-1/2 years living there) has really bad transit coverage, but not San Francisco.
Take the Ajax challenge
I had a chance to talk to Kevin Hakman of TIBCO late last week about their Ajax Challenge (Kevin co-founded General Interface, which was acquired by TIBCO a couple of years back), the goal of which is to build the world's largest mashup. You have to use General Interface to build it, but more interestingly, you have to use PageBus, a JavaScript client-side message bus that TIBCO just contributed to the OpenAjax Alliance as open source to become part of the OpenAjax Hub 1.0 installation.
The contest is splashy (win an oversized TV! win a video iPod!) but PageBus is the real news here: it provides a message bus for mashups in an attempt to eliminate the spaghetti mess of point-to-point integrations that we're already starting to see emerge. In the enterprise world, this is why ESBs have become an essential part of any sizable application integration effort: without a message bus, you're creating a unique integration between each pair of applications. Okay when you have two applications, but not when you have 10. [To be fair, usually you don't have every application interact with every other application in a complex integration: each one may only interact with a couple of others, but that just shifts the pain point, it doesn't eliminate it.]
This is a pretty important step in mashup-land: I'm starting to see a lot of things referred to as mashups that are actually portals, where the components don't intercommunicate, but the fundamental benefit of mashups is that they *are* an integration, not just components that happen to coexist on the same page.
TIBCO is apparently already using this in their BPM product for things such as task list publication, which means (I think) that you could create a mashup between your iProcess task list and some other component or data source — a real BPM mashup. Although many vendors are starting to provide RSS feeds of task lists/inboxes (I hope that my past year of nagging about this has had some contribution to those efforts), this is the first truly mashup-enabled BPM environment of which I'm aware.
The full OpenAjax Hub specification is about 4-6 weeks away from release, but the project is already on SourceForge. TIBCO will continue to develop the source and contribute to the open source efforts in the future; their press release about PageBus is here.
Can RSS replace trickle feeds for BI?
I was having a conversation late last week with a SaaS BI vendor about how organizations get data into their online data warehouse (ftp seems to be the most popular method), when it struck me: why couldn't they use an RSS feed from a transactional system to feed data into the data warehouse for BI purposes (or Atom, for that matter)? Near-real-time data is essential for many types of BI analysis, so there has to be something better than once-daily uploads.
BPM Think Tank Day 2: BPMN/BPDM Roundtable
I'm just getting to the last of the BPM Think Tank sessions, namely, the roundtables and one lunch session that I had documented on paper. The three sessions of roundtables spanned Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, and were some of the best conversations that I had at the conference. I'll cover each of the ones that I attended in a separate post, then the summaries of the others in another post, just to keep things from getting too long. These were fairly unstructured, general sessions so the notes might be a bit fragmented
The first roundtable that I attended was BPMN and BPDM, with Stephen White of IBM and Antoine Lonjon of MEGA.
There are insufficient books and tools for educating the community on how to use BPMN for different purposes. There is a requirement for a reference document to educate end-user organizations that is smaller and more understandable than the specification (possibly both a business-oriented primer and a technical reference). Stephen stated that additional reference documents will be available within a few months. There is an HTML version of the specification online at ModelDriven.org.
Small consulting organizations and independents can't realistically get involved in standards creation so we're always "users" of the specification. I didn't raise this point, but do agree with it — paying my own travel expenses and missing out on days of revenue to attend standards meetings several times each year is just not in my budget.
BPM vendors are unlikely to replace their own internal model formats with BPDM, but will translate to/from BPDM. Vendors need to review and understand BPDM and how it maps between different representations. There is a need for BPMN/BPDM conformance testing and certification of BPA/BPM products.
BPDM gives BPMN credibility as a modelling format since the specification is now "complete". There was a great deal of discussion, both in this session and at other times during the think tank where this same point was raised, namely, that BPMN was rushed out without a serialization format, and that may have been a short-term mistake. One person at the table was concerned that combining BPMN and BPDM, and thereby increasing complexity, may be a mistake.
A comment that Phil Gilbert made on my TIBCO webinar Q&A post made a valid point about how there's two main use cases for BPMN: non-executable process mapping and analysis by business analysts, and "visual coding" to create an executable process. We discussed this a bit at the roundtable, particularly around how business analysts could use the basic shapes (i.e., skip some of the internal graphic symbols that distinguish between different flavours of the shapes) and hence might benefit from a much simpler training program to get started. There was some discussion about how far up the chain that BPMN will or can be used for modelling businesses, e.g., whether it can be extended to strategy and goals or whether that's more the mandate of BMM (Business Motivational Metamodel)
I had an interesting side conversation with Antoine after the roundtable ended about adoption patterns for BPMN and BPDM. Although standards organizations tend to have the "if you build it, they will come" attitude towards standards adoption, I believe that there needs to be some good reasons put forward for why BPDM provides benefits to the end customer and for the BPM vendors before we can expect to see widespread adoption.
links for 2007-07-27
The next DemoCamp in Toronto, September 17th. Demos not yet decided, but they're almost always interesting. Free.
links for 2007-07-26
The business process definition metamodel (BPDM) specification on modeldriven.org, including links to the HTML version of the spec.
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BPM Think Tank Day 3: BPM & SOA panel
We're starting to wind down a bit, and many of the east coast people have taken off already to avoid the red-eye flight home so the audience is getting a bit sparse. Those of us with presentations this afternoon, however, are still here.
First after lunch is a panel on BPM & SOA, and how they complement each other, with Tony Baer of onStrategies and Brenda Michelson of the SOA Consortium. This is more of the mini-presentation format rather than a true panel, but I promised Brenda that I wouldn't blame the presenters for that. 🙂
Tony started out with the "BPM is from Venus, SOA is from Mars" phrase, which we've all been bandying about for a while, although he really meant 'business is from Venus and IT is from Mars). Considering, however, that Venus is the goddess of love (collaboration in its most basic form, perhaps?) and Mars is the god of war (technology shoot-outs and other battle language), that may not be far from the truth.
He addressed the culture issues: both business and IT talk about business processes, but business tends to take a top-down approach versus IT's bottom-up approach, and business is using BPM to rationalize the business whereas IT is using SOA as the next great way to integrate applications. He sees a process orchestration battleground between BPM and SOA about where to do integration in a process. He also pointed out that BPEL is still at the "checklist" level (that is, it's on the RFP checklist but not actually used) for most BPM applications, an opinion that I stated here a couple of weeks ago.
Brenda was up next talking about business-driven SOA and the SOA Consortium, and looked at the correlation between an Economist survey of late last year with her personal findings in touring around talking to CIOs and CTOs: the top thing that they state is critical for both revenue generation and cost cutting is the creation of services. One CTO saw BPM, SOA, Lean and Six Sigma all as the same basic thing, namely business strategy and structure, and they need to work together without artificial divisions between them in order to enable a platform for business agility.
Before SOA, business and IT strategy weren't well aligned and were often developed independently, and the business process became an output of an IT solution rather than driven directly by business requirements. Business and IT need to collaborate on both strategy and architecture, which in turn drives out portfolio planning and delivery of the business solutions. She pointed out that also "enterprise architecture" is currently mostly technology architecture with a bit of business architecture on the side (if you're lucky), in the future it will become more balanced with equal contributions from business and technical architecture.
Part of what the SOA Consortium is doing is providing guidelines for how the too-technical technology architects can become more valuable enterprise architects, and to break the artificial divide between business and IT. Part of this, I think, is similar to something I posted a year and a half ago, where enterprise architecture is not an IT function, but something that is in a strategic position between business and IT.
We're off to do the last of the roundtables now, where I'll be leading one on Enterprise 2.0 and BPM mashups. My notes will be on paper, and I'll summarize them over here sometime on that overnight flight home tonight.
BPM Think Tank Day 3: BPM vendor panel
Next up was a panel of BPM vendors: Phil Gilbert (Lombardi), Angel Diaz (IBM), Marco ten Vanholt (SAP BPX), Burley Kawasaki (Microsoft), Scott Byrnes (Handysoft) and David Shaffer (Oracle). Derek Miers moderated, and posed a series of questions to the panelists rather than having the panelists do short presentations as we saw on previous panels — a much better panel format, in my opinion, and it even generated some conversation between the panelists directly.
Phil mixed it up right away by agreeing with the other panelists that standards are important (duh), but said that the first thing that we need to standardize is the meaning of the term BPM. He also thinks that OSM (Organizational Structure Metamodel) is going to be one of the most significant standards in the coming months, next to BPMN. In other words, people are going to start modelling their business, not just their processes. Marco added that there's going to be an increasing interest in the processes that span organizations, and standards that support that will become more important. They all seem to agree that business users don't really care about standards explicitly, but that standards are an implicit part of things that the business types to want: portability of models and reusability of skills, for example.
One question was whether BPM offered via SaaS is reducing the barriers to entry to what is still a complex implementation. Burley feels that it will make a difference for departmental applications that just can't justify the spend, and for cross-organizational choreographic processes where no one organization is "in charge", but that there will still be a strong market for on-premise solutions especially at an enterprise level. Angel added that standards are going to play a strong role here, since there's likely to be a hybrid approach that uses both on-premise and on-demand systems within the same processes. Marco made the statement that some industries will "never, ever have software as a service"; it will be interesting to come back in a few years and see if he has to eat his words. Many organizations already have their data centres outsourced, including those that require advanced security, and I think that SaaS is just a small step beyond that from a security standpoint even though it might be perceived as being something entirely different. Scott things that a template-driven, simpler type of BPM functionality could be adopted by the SMB market. David pointed out that there's a difference between having BPM embedded in a SaaS application and offering BPM directly as a SaaS, and feels that the latter is going to see much lower adoption. Phil stated that their Blueprint product is a tactic in their way to building a cloud capability, implying that we'll see some hybrid on-premise/on-demand functionality from Lombardi in the future
They then discussed mechanisms for supporting more collaboration and deeper embedding into a worker's environment. Scott talked about being able to share, for example, information about the experts for a specific process, and be able to IM them directly. Marco talked about being able to do some collaborative Visio diagramming in a wiki-type plug-in (presumably on BPX); I'm not sure if this something that they have with a browser design interface, or if it's a place to upload Visio diagrams. He also pointed out that wikis, forums and IM are going to be start to be built into applications for collaboration, further pushing the need for standards since none of us want the BPM vendors to build their own wiki or IM software.
A question from the audience asked whether the vendors are getting inquiries from other vendors to embed/OEM their BPM functionality inside another product, whether SaaS or not. David, Burley and Angel spoke up that they are seeing this; not surprising since Oracle, Microsoft and IBM are all "platform" BPM vendors that tend to offer components rather than a more cohesive suite. Although I haven't written up my notes from the BPEL roundtable yesterday, this is one of the areas where standards like BPEL will help to facilitate that type of integration. Phil added that they're seeing this as well, but more from the standpoint of embedding more of their suite rather than just the engine.
Another question was on the distinction between modelling processes for business improvement purposes, and modelling processes as a visual coding/RAD tool. Phil responded that if you're just buying BPM as a RAD tool, don't buy it: stick with Java or .Net.
There was a discussion on the role of large vendors in standards, and how large vendors can sometimes take a standard off into their own organization and develop it 80% of the way and bring it back to the standards group: sometimes this works well, and sometimes it allows the vendor to just mould the standard to their own product agenda. We also came back around to the comment that Phil made at the beginning of the panel, where we need to define what BPM is in the market: the vendors all seemed to agree that they all have their own definition of BPM that coincidentally matches completely with their product functionality, and they all agreed on the buzzphrase "BPM is all about the business". 🙂 The analysts also all have their own definitions, although they all seem to be congealing around the Gartner definition of BPM as a management practice, which doesn't at all help the issue when the BPM vendors define it in terms of the technology capabilities. Bruce Silver lobbed a small incendiary device from the audience by stating that from the viewpoint of BPM as a management discipline, the vendor products are all exactly the same, and that customers may just see them as snake oil salesmen trying to sell the same thing in a different way. Not sure that we're going to solve this one today.
It's interesting watching a vendor panel like this, where the panelists are not allowed to do any product pitches, and where they're all pretty smart guys: the discussion is a complex weave of philosophy, techno-geekery and thinly-veiled nudging towards their own specific agendas. This is part of what I like about the BPM Think Tank: there's much more open collaboration between vendors than at other conferences, although there's always a strong streak of friendly competition throughout the interactions.

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(Science: radiobiology) fusion reactor thermal output power divided by the area of the wall facing the plasma. (neutron wall loading is 4/5 of the total for D-T fusion.)
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Jamey Singleton Goes Home, Continues to Recover After Accident
Rocky Mount, VA - Friday, Jamey Singleton was able to leave the rehab center he's been staying in and go home.
He'll get home care as he continues to recover from the car accident that left him hospitalized for days after several surgeries.
Jamey says all his stitches and staples have been removed, and he can now bear some weight on his arms.
He also says he has full range of motion in his legs, but it will be a while before he can put weight on them.


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I don't know how Michael Phelps is feeling, but I'm exhausted.
The live drama at the pool and in the gym during these Summer Olympic Games has kept me up later than my days as a college student (or at least since those foggy nights breastfeeding my daughter).
Olympic viewers on the East Coast have taken the brunt of it. I live in the Midwest and stayed up well past midnight watching Phelps swim to victory (some of his races didn't get underway until after 10 p.m. Central, 11 p.m. Eastern). Then, there were the nights I forced myself to stay awake to watch the gymnastics competition. It was well worth the effort, but as a mom, who on most nights falls asleep reading bedtime stories to her preschooler, staying up past 8 p.m. is an Olympic feat unto itself.
And I know I am not alone. NBC hasn't been shy about touting its monstrous ratings. According to the peacock network, record numbers of us up have staying up until the wee hours of the night watching Olympic history being made… live.
If you've spent the last week pulling Olympic all-nighters then your daily workouts might be suffering because of it. After all, who wants to run, walk or bike when they are dog tired?
But lack of energy is not the only thing being compromised when you pull an all-nighter. According to Washington, D.C.-based National Sleep Foundation, if you lose an hour or two of sleep each night for the duration of the Olympics, you stand to lose much more than just motivation to work out.
Sleep experts say that for every 1.7 hours of sleep you lose a night, your overall productivity and alertness decreases substantially the following day. One night staying up past your bedtime is not bad, but experts warn that after two or three nights you are putting your health at risk.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, Americans sleep an average of 6.9 hours per night, so if you subtract 1.5 hours of Olympic viewing you are only getting about 5.4 hours of sleep per night and experts say very few of us can function on that amount of shut eye.
Parents with young children may argue that point, but there's no debating the fact that none of us would want to be sharing the highway with a sleep deprived driver, who can't keep his eyes open because he stayed up watching Phelps add to his medal count the night before.
Have you been pulling Olympic all-nighters?
Swimming is over, but track and field is just getting underway… are you primed for more sleepless nights?


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Hit or Miss
You may remember that a couple of dudes at the New York Times ran that survey a while back, the one that purported to demonstrate there was not only no co-relation between body checks (hitting) and winning in hockey, but that the reverse was actually true. In other words, the more hitting, the less likely a team was to win.
Which is highly counter-intuitive in the macho world of the NHL.
Well, the Times guys (Jeff Z. Klein, he of the Mark Messier biography, and Karl-Eric Reif) took a count among first-round teams, it turns out.
The result: Teams that outhit their opponents by a significant margin (nine or more hits a game) had a record of 7-8.
Wonder if Anaheim Ducks GM Brian Burke has taken a gander at these numbers.


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HMML in Iraq
In 2010, HMML began a partnership with Father Nageeb Michaeel, O.P. and the Centre Numérique des Manuscripts Orientaux (Digital Center for Eastern Manuscripts, or CNMO), an organization founded by Father Nageeb in Mosul, Iraq in 2003. Together, the two organizations began digitizing the manuscript heritage of ancient Mesopotamian Christianity. The survival of these manuscripts—some dating back to the seventh century or earlier—testifies to the profound meaning they have in the cultural memory of traditional communities.
In the summer of 2014, when Mosul was attacked by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) more than one hundred thousand people were uprooted from their towns and villages, and fled to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Many of the regional collections Fr. Nageeb and his CNMO team had digitized became under the control of ISIS. They managed to evacuate the manuscripts and archives from their library, but had to leave behind most of the studio equipment behind.
Grant monies raised through HMML replaced their studio equipment, and Fr. Nageeb was able to set up a new studio in Erbil. Today, refugees continue to digitally preserve the remnants of their country's rapidly disappearing identity. To date, HMML's and CNMO's collaborative efforts to preserve Iraq's cultural patrimony has resulted in over 5,000 digitized manuscripts. HMML and CNMO must continue to preserve these collections before they are lost to the world forever.
More about HMML in Iraq
Learn more about our work in several issues of Illuminations: Fall 2012, Fall 2014 and Spring 2016.
In the News
NPR story, Piece By Piece, Monks Scramble To Preserve Iraq's Christian History
A September 2015 article in The Ancient Near East Today by Fr Columba that discusses HMML's work in Iraq.
The Gospel Herald Ministries profiles HMML partner, Fr Nageeb.
News release on HMML's work for cultural preservation in Iraq.
From the Collection
All images subject to copyright. Want to know more? Email firstname.lastname@example.com. Many of the manuscripts from Iraq are now available on vHMML Reading Room.


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Still fuming over "Shakespeare in Love" beating out "Saving Private Ryan" for the Best Picture Oscar in 1998? Can't sleep at night over Johnny Depp losing out to Sean Penn for Best Actor in 2003?
Well, here's your chance to rewrite Academy Award history.
Entertainment Weekly has launched the "Recall the Gold" project, inviting a who's who of Hollywood to re-cast their votes on Oscar races from years past.
"We want to explore whether the industry's perspective on these great film achievements has changed over time," said Entertainment Weekly managing editor Rick Tetzeli. "We're asking everyone from directors to actors to executives to answer a question that comes up every Oscar season: did the right films and performances win?"
Earlier this week, EW.com mailed out 7,000 ballots to movie industry insiders, each emblazoned with the words "Recall Ballot" in red, giving people the chance to vote one more time for various Oscar categories over the years.
Specifically, "Recall the Gold" focuses on the six major categories – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress – in five different years.
Up for re-vote are the awards given out in 2003, 1998, 1993, 1988 and 1983 – covering ceremonies five years apart over the last 25 years.
"Recall the Gold" was the brainchild of EW's Los Angeles bureau chief Sean Smith, who came up with the idea when "Crash" beat out "Brokeback Mountain" for Best Picture in 2006.
"I thought it was a historic moment for 'Brokeback' that didn't quite happen and thought Hollywood would be rethinking this decision later," Smith told AccessHollywood.com. "It was one of those, 'What were they thinking?' moments."
But that's not the only Oscar that Smith said he'd hand to a different winner, given the chance.
"When 'Taxi Driver' lost to 'Rocky,'" Smith added, citing the race for Best Picture in 1976. "That's the one that always bothers me. You look at it and say, 'You've got to be kidding me!' 'Rocky' is a fun movie, but over 'Taxi Driver?' Seriously?"
In terms of what kind of response "Recall the Gold" will elicit from the 7,000 ballots that were mailed out, Smith was optimistic for a higher rate of return than normal.
"The average mailings get about 20 percent back, and that's for cold lists to people with no vested interest in the subject. We're hoping for 30 to 40 percent return," Smith said. "This is what we'd call a well qualified list [of recipients]."
EW noted each "Recall" ballot has been numbered for security, and each voter will remain anonymous once the results are tallied. In addition, readers can cast their own ballots on EW.com.
EW will reveal the results of the Hollywood poll in January 2009, just in time for Oscar season.


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Would You Wear White To Someone Else's Wedding?
Spring is here, which means many of us will be spending all of our weekends for the next four to five months going to wedding after wedding after wedding. When you're an adult, weddings are the closest thing to high school proms or homecoming dances. Unless you're a socialite who attends charity balls on a regular basis, weddings are one of the only times we get to put on a pretty dress and go dancing! But what to wear? Over on Fashionista, commenters are going wild discussing whether female guests can wear white. It's long been a rule that no one but the bride should wear that color; however, some schools of thought say that rule is no longer relevant. Keep reading to hear what Peggy Post of the Emily Post Institute, along with various wedding authorities, has to say about wearing white when it's not your wedding.
We think there are too many factors to consider to give a solid yes or no. If the person whose wedding you're attending is a real stickler for tradition, then it might piss her off if you wear a dress in a matching shade. However, if she's a modern woman and your dress doesn't resemble a wedding dress in the least bit, then go ahead and wear white. Just know the bride's grandma is probably going to be talking about you at the bridal party brunch the following day.


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A leisurely Look at Michigan's stories and traditions from yesterday to yesteryear.
The 1950 "Treaty of Detroit" represents a pivotal moment in the offering of full medical benefits to the American worker.
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The Michigan Chorale gave Michigan students the opportunity...
Martha Edna Wright Griffiths, stateswoman and champion...
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Death Records, 1921-1952
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Preview scenes from Last Tango in Halifax, Episode 6. Celia reacts badly to John's revelation that Caroline is gay. When she and Alan have dinner with Caroline and Kate, she's very rude to Kate. Alan feels crushed after this. The next day, Celia learns that Alan has had a heart attack. Airs 10/13. Check local listings.
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The Hambacher Schloss is considered as one of the symbols of democracy in Germany since the Hambacher Fest in 1832. The discontent of the people of Palatinae, at the time goverened by Bavaria boiled over in 1832 because the government retracted certain rights which had been established by the French revolutioon just a few years before. At that time the castle was a ruin.
It was extensively restored for its 150th anniversary in 1982 and seres since then a a symbol of democracy and as one of the oundations of the modern Germany.
You have very nice views over the Rhine valley from the castle.
Germany? Before the beginning there was Ginnungagap, an empty space of nothingness, filled with pure creative power. (Sort of like the inside of my head.)And it ends with Ragnarok, the twilight of the Gods. In between is much fighting, betrayal and romance. Just as a good Godly story should be.Heroes have their own graveyard called Valhalla. Unfortunately we cannot show you a panorama of it at this time, nor of the lovely Valkyries who are its escort service.Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.And there we must leave you, O my most pure and holy children.Text by Steve Smith.


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This route was named after our friend Christian Burrell (aka Crisco). His wife is very pregnant and due any day now, and Christian's been going crazy from barely being able to get out climbing for the past several weeks. His climbing life is dead for a while. Good luck, buddy. We miss you.
This route has two starts. The left start is more direct, the right start is probably a bit harder. If you start right, you'll have to traverse left 4 or 5 feet at the first horizontal crack system.
By Christian "crisco" Burrell
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Aug 3, 2009
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KwaZulu-Natal - With an average of 49 rhino poached a month, and with just over one month to go until the end of the year, South Africa could end up with the unenviable figure of 600 – or more – poached rhino in 2012.
The country has lost 588 rhino to poaching so far this year – 140 more than last year's total of 448.
Since mid-November, 39 rhino have been poached.
KwaZulu-Natal has lost 59 rhino to poaching so far, compared with last year's total of 34, and 38 in 2010.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Department of Environmental Affairs said the Kruger National Park had been the hardest hit, with 362 rhino lost to poaching, while the North West, KZN and Limpopo collectively lost 186.
"If 588 rhino were poached so far, this means for 12 months, there is an average of 49 rhinos poached per month, so it is very likely that this number will exceed 600 by the end of the year," said Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife spokesman, Musa Mntambo.
"We need to be more vigilant and try to better understand how poaching syndicates work in order to bring this number down next year," he added.
World Wildlife Fund SA head of conservation, Deon Nel, said the country was reaching a worrying level of rhino poaching.
"We are already in excess of last year's number, despite a lot of work done by various groups," he said.
He said poaching was an issue that required intervention at a systematic level.
"We need to intervene at various levels and work with governments and civil societies of countries using rhino horn and try to better understand the demand," he said.
Nel said one of the problems facing the eradication of poaching was the type of arrests made.
According to the department, 246 people have been arrested for rhino poaching this year, compared to 224 last year, and 165 in 2010.
"Those [suspects] that have been arrested so far are too low in the pecking order. The arrests require a more sophisticated understanding of how these syndicates work."
However, Nel said, despite the worrying number of poached rhino, the rhino population was continuing to grow.
"We need to ensure that this growth continues," he said.
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Well written chapter, curious to see where this is going.
Author's Response: Thanks. I'm always glad to know people are liking the story.
Not typically something I would read, but I think it is starting to grow on me... :-)
Author's Response: Thanks. I've got a lot of people saying that to me, so I hope it is a good sign.
great chapter...i like how you kind of still have lily hate james like in cannon and i am absolutley loving your portrayal of lily :)
Author's Response: Well, Lily did hate James in the beginning in canon, and I don't think either of them would have changed much yet, not without the influence of each other to make Lily loosen up and James start thinking about what it is like for people who *aren't* wealthy purbloods.
Hmm very interesting first chapter...I think I am going to see where this one goes
Author's Response: Thanks! I hope you'll like where it is going...
amazing chapter :) your characters are so well written despite this being au the characters still act cannon...and all the characters even minor characters are really well written. please update soon :)
Author's Response: Thanks! I'm glad you think the characters act like canon. I know it is AU but I'm trying really hard to keep everyone in character.
Oh my gosh. I just realized--Remus is dead :o I think I just died a little
Author's Response: Well... someone had to die otherwise it wouldn't be a very good murder mystery. But yes, I was sad to have killed off Remus, too.
i like your writing style =) the way you ended your chapter is very powerful.
Author's Response: Thanks! I hope you continue to enjoy the story.
Ooooooohhh ohhhhhhh oooohhhh how I love this so far. You should update soon cuz it's amazing. And it got me hooked. In one chapter. Awesome. It's different too. Obviously AU, but I was wondering. Is it set in the seventies or early eighties or is it current or does it not really have a time frame? Or is it a surprise? I was just curious. Anyways, that totally rocked! Can't wait for the next ch
Author's Response: Thanks! I always like getting people hooked. I hope you continue to like it as the plot unfolds. It is set in the late 80s (Lily and James are both in their late 20s). That becomes more clear as the story progresses.
wow this is sooo different than anything else but its really good so far...please update soon :)
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A controversy over the human genome has broken the silence that usually surrounds research papers under review at a scientific journal. Celera Genomics, a biotech company in Rockville, Maryland, announced on 6 December that it has submitted a report on the human genome sequence to Science (ScienceNOW's publisher). At the same time, Michael Ashburner, a well-known British geneticist and former Science reviewing editor, issued an open letter denouncing Science for considering Celera's paper, because he says the company is seeking special terms.
Ashburner, a Cambridge University expert on the fruit fly, is upset that Science has reached an agreement with Celera that will allow the company to release its data through its own Web site rather than through a public database, as is normally done. "I am ... outraged and angry," Ashburner wrote, arguing that Science is custom-tailoring its policies for Celera. The change, he argued, will fragment genetic data resources.
For 2 decades, Science and the journal Nature have insisted that papers on DNA sequencing be accompanied by release of data to a public database. In practice, authors deposited information in one place: GenBank, a system maintained by three centers, including the European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge, United Kingdom, of which Ashburner is co-director. But Celera used private funds to pay for its DNA sequencing and wanted to retain some control of its DNA data. Specifically, it plans to ask users to agree, through a "click-wrap" agreement on the Web site, not to commercialize the information without Celera's consent. The company insisted that DNA data be released through its Web site, that unrestricted academic users be limited to downloading no more than 1 megabyte of data, that those seeking larger downloads submit a letter from their institution promising not to redistribute the data, and that industry scientists accept other restrictions.
Science Editor-in-Chief Donald Kennedy issued a response to Ashburner yesterday. It said that the existing principle that DNA data must be publicly released has been "fully upheld in our agreement with Celera, which has agreed to make the entire sequence available free of charge." The statement says the arrangement allows public access to data "that might otherwise not be open to public scrutiny." Asked about Ashburner's concern about the need to avoid fragmenting data sources, Kennedy said: "I think he has a point," adding that "we need to think about ways to avoid it" in the future.


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Smart or weak? Reaction is swift as Rubio joins questioning of Hillary Clinton over Benghazi
Eager to show toughness in the questioning of the attacks in Libya, Sen. Marco Rubio's office just put out a video of him questioning Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. While the hearing was still ongoing.
For some, the spectacle of potential 2016 rivals going head-to-head was an irresistible side bar to the serious issue at hand. But hard-core critics of the Obama administration were not happy with Rubio, if Twitter is any guide (and remember that Twitter is but a tiny sliver of the overall public):
"How do you plan to beat Hillary in a presidential campaign if you can't even stand up to her about #Benghazi video?," wrote @carolt2000. A person who goes by the handle Impeach Obama wrote, "@marcorubio What happened to the hard questions? You let her off the hook! WHY????" Cynicalmike wrote: "A big fan & supporter, I am most disappointed in your questioning of Sec Clinton this morning. You dropped the ball - big time!" But Rubio supporter Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) tweeted: "What you just saw from @marcorubio was how to drive questions in a smart, thoughtful way that still doesn't pull punches."
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Megan Hunt of Princess Lasertron has lots of exciting floral projects in her new Fabric Blooms: 42 Flowers to Make, Wear & Adorn Your Life.
Megan is a popular wedding designer and specializes in custom wedding bouquets. She shares her expertise with great photos and clear instructions in the book, and shows you how to make things like a sweet boutonnière, a velvet wreath, a "cascade" of poppies and more. Materials for the projects range from felt and wool to cotton and silk.
Megan and Lark Crafts have a free PDF Poolside Posy project from Fabric Blooms for you to download and enjoy.
From the book:
- These giant posy flowers are great for adding some much-needed interest to plain plastic beach totes, the bag you take to the pool or a cover-up for your swimsuit. You can even attach it to a hair elastic for your post-swim hair! The bright, water-resistant oilcloth won't wilt when splashed, making it perfect for summertime accessories.
This Poolside Posy is made with oilcloth but you could also use the same technique with cotton stabilized with interfacing. Download your free PDF Poolside Posy tutorial and pattern!
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Iris are starting to bloom in my backyard. They look so lovely after the cold winter we have experienced this year. I cannot wait to own a copy of Ms. Hunt's book. Her flowers are beautiful and I would love to teach my granddaughter how to make them.
I love azaleas which are blooming all over my yard right now.
I love roses, but I haven't mastered making them with fabric yet, soon though, with a little more practice!
My favorite flowers are roses and lilly of the valley. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love Camilla's, Clematis, and Roses among many others -lol.
I haven't tried making fabric flowers yet, but have been storing up idea's to try. I want to put them on vintage look pillows I'm making.
I grow dahlias and sunflowers. They are my favorite flowers. I haven't made fabric flowers but have made crepe paper flowers.
Very cute. Love daisies!
Blossoms and roses and tulips, oh my!
Thank you for the chance to win such a beauty! x
So beautiful! Very excited about this book.
My orchid finally bloomed after years of neglect!! Love all the bulb flower baskets showing up in the stores!
My favorite flowers are tulips. I don't have much of a green thumb though. I will be needing my mom's help soon!
Nothing, unfortunately, is popping up in my garden at the moment–it's simply too cold. My favorite flower is jasmine. Where do I use fabric flowers? I like to use them on bags I sew, but also on the covers of books I make.
I always have my rosebushes blooming. I have love poppies as a natural, not planned look. I wish they would grow in my yard. At the moment I sew for my son so I don't usally incorporate flowers.
Right now all I've got are tulips outside…still working on my green thumb. But I'm always looking for new and different fabric flowers to make. From brooches to hair clips, pins and embellishments, I love making different flowers, and would love to learn to make even more.
All the bright n bold flowers n poses would help me fight spring fever!!! I need a material fix that is so bright!!!
Awesome designs!!!!!
I want to start piddling in flower beds but to wet, cold n windy. I love everything you do!!
All the bright n bold flowers n poses would help me fight spring fever!!!
I want to start piddling in flower beds but to wet, cold n windy. I love everything you do!!
I use crochet flowers,never try fabric.My fav flower is rose,and also country flowers and my daughter love tulips.lovely giveaway,thank you for the chance to win it.
I love the basic flower with 5-6 petals and the circle in the middle.
I have recently started making backs with fabric brooches attached. I am trying to learns all kinds, so this book would really help!
Snow drops are just starting to show. We still have snow on the ground , but these tiny little guys are brave.
Thank you for the pattern!…and the chance to win too!!
My favorites are bulb flowers.
I love a bright big flower pinned to a hat.
we don't have a yard or flowers, but I have tulips on my table! 🙂
What a cute project and awesome book! We love blue bells here in Austin, TX, but my favorite flower will always be roses. I love making little rose hair clips for my daughter. Would love to expand my skills! 🙂
My favorite flower is the tulip. But love the smell of hyacinths.
My favorite flower is the tulip, but smell-wise, it's the hyacinth.
there are only weeds in my garden! I love flowers though and have a vase of felt flowers on my window sill. I'd like them to be joined by some more fabric flowers.
The fabric flowers are very pretty. So far we have only had crocus in our yard and I love them because they are the first sign of spring. My favorite flowers are roses so I am really looking forward to June when mine should be in full bloom if we get enough warm weather.
The peach blossoms are about to end in our yard. I love flowers, I normally make Kanzashi flowers for hair accessories. I would love to know other ways to make fabric flowers!
I have some very creative flowers with linen. That fabric is perfect improvised flowers – brooch, decorate bag etc.
I love peonies and recently found a pattern that works pretty well. Love to put fabric flowers on bags, and pillows.This book looks terrific.
I love roses and carnations and have made many out of sugar paste. Jasmines are another favorite with their gorgeous scent!
I am just waiting for some flowers to sprout out in the garden and am looking forward to the colors. Any time now would be nice!
I LOVE this flower. I love adding flowers to bags for an extra pop 🙂
What a cute idea! I love a nice big flower!
I make fabric flowers from my leftover quilting projects. They make great adornments on gift packages.
I love Gerber Daisies and Peonies. I make handbags and fabric flowers are an awesome way to dress up my bags. I would love to learn some new techniques!
I live in Northern Virginia. We have some daffodils that are pushing through in my garden. Nothing else really… yet. My favorite flowers are roses. So many varieties, and they are not as difficult to raise as people think.
I like picking out adorable fabric and making flowers just like the one on the left there, cut a long strip, scallop one side, baste stitch the other and gather, then roll ot up really pretty. I have make zillions of those. For my daughters wedding I made a garland of red roses from batik. I have not made any of these other types of flowers you have displayed here. I would love to learn how to make those !!
Love flowers for embellishments
Daffodils are starting to show themselves in our yard, although it will likely be a week or two before they are in full bloom. My favorite flowers include coneflowers, Rudbeckia, and mums.
I like having sunflowers grow on my porch. I also have crocheted many… many… flowers.
I love this, in fact I love all your tutorials ! SewMamaSew is my favourite blog.
Do you have any new bag making tutorials coming up for intermediate level sewers like me ?
Thanks so much
I love tulips! My husband bought bulbs this year for our garden, but we had an unexpected frost a week or so ago and they didn't make it. Love this giveaway! Thanks for sharing!
I love every kind of flower and I enjoy capturing them inside resin. My favourite flower would probably be marigolds
I love making fabric flowers, especially for my girls' hair accessories. I love making headbands, hair clips, and hair ties, as well as adding them to their clothes. When it comes to fabric flowers, the possibilities are endless! I would love this book, it would give me a chance to make some more flowers that I haven't made yet, and the book looks like it has some wonderfully awesome flowers.
I love tulips (so hooray it's almost spring). But my favourite flower is that small rose bush we "inherited" from my hubbie's grandparents. They planted it more than 20 years ago. And I don't know why or how, but it's always in bloom for my birthday – at the end of November, even when there's ice and snow!!!
The book looks fantastic, love the playful text to go with the picture above 🙂
I love daffodils and tulips!!
I love sunflowers!
My daffodils and crocus are coming up even with our bitter cold days that are popping in and out!
Would love to have this book!
I love Gerbera daisies! My 14 year old daughter has been into making flowers out of fabric lately. She would love this book!
Only the Daffodils are up at the moment. I love all the flowers outside. I plant anything but the hard, red clay soil here makes it difficult to get things to grow. My absolute favorite flower is a Sunflower outside and an Orchid inside.
I love pansies, violets and Queen Anne's Lace.
🙂 Linda
My favourite flower is the orchid. The only thing that's 'growing' in our yard is the snowbank!!
I love flowers and I love fabric so fabric flowers are something I would love to learn to make. I think roses are my favorites but I love daisies too. The book looks wonderful!
I live in the MO Ozarks. I have daffodils popping up and my Lilacs are budding.
I love orchids! I am not very good at keeping them blooming though 🙁
My favorite flowers are lilacs. I just wish they lasted longer than a month. Nothing is growing here yet … it's still too cold here for even the grass to turn green. Hoping for warmer weather SOON.
We are having lavenders in the backyard! I love them… Just last week we were working in the garden and as I was clipping the old, dry lavender, I was surprised because it still smelled really good! Another flower that I really like is peonies, I love the layers that they have!
Daffodils are my favorite.
Right now , not much in the way of flowers popping up in my yard. Bummer! However, I do have two favorite flowers! I love tulips! They are so pretty and come in so many gorgeous colors. My other favorite flower is the calla lilly! It has been my favorite for years! Of course, there are so many other flowers that I really love!
Thanks for the pdf and the giveaway!
I love flowers! Crocus and daisy are two of my favorites! thanks!
Roses are my favorite by far. Mine are blooming right now across the front of my house.
lilacs, peony, and camellias. unfortunately the only thing growing profusely here is weeds at present as we are just getting out first rain for quite some time.
Our lilac is in bloom right now. It is a short but treasured time"
I love this flower. Thanks so much for the free download. I have crocus and hiacinths blooming. The daffodils have already come and gone. Looking forward to beautiful azaleas. Thank you for the opportunity.
No flowers here yet! Looking forward to some daffodils soon 🙂
Love love love dahlias and blue hydrangeas. Wish my dahlias were popping up right now, but not til the middle of summer. Til then I've got crocuses and hyacinth and tulips and daffodils to keep me happy.
I love pansies and violas. Nothing's popping up in our yard yet – too much snow left.
I'm excited about this book as I'm making fabric flower bouquets for my bridesmaids to use at my wedding!
how cool. I'll definitely check this book out. thanks for the chance. 🙂
I have my favorite daffodils at present!
Would love the book as I just got engaged and plan to make all my wedding flowers!
My favourite flowers are tulips. They're springing up all over the place at the moment. I love to make flowers, I've made them from paper, fabric, needle felting and sugar paste. The great thing is they never wilt!
we live in florida so for two weeks now we have been covered in green pollen….but i LOVE when our tiny little orange tree blooms right next to our screened porch!
I love sunflowers.
Gorgeous flowers . Thanks so much for sharing
I am a flower maniac!
I love them in any form, shape, size or medium but my favourite real flower is probably the african violet.
This book looks great! Thanks for the give-away!
I crazy quilt and am always looking for new ways to embellish – what could be better than flowers!!
Our lawns are carpeted with primroses at the moment and it quite breathtaking.
My favourite flower at the moment is the hellebore!
Absolutely adorable! Getting me in the mood for spring. Which doesn't seem to be anywhere in sight over here!
I love flowers, but I don't have the patience to take care of them. Fabric versions would be perfect for me!
I've always been a lover of daffodils, probably because they remind me of childhood spring seasons.
I have daffodils and camellias popping up in the yard! My favorite flower is probably the carnation. And fabric flowers are perfect for cute little hairbows 🙂
What a great flower! Would love to win book and learn more.
I love primroses and cowslips. To me they are the epitome of spring here in Europe.
Ooh, purty purty flowers. ;-). I would love to learn to make these beauties. Thank you for the tutorial.
I love adding flowers to hats & bags!
Very cute! Just what a tote needs!
Snow keep popping up in my yard! I did see my hyacinths peeking out during our few days snow-free. They are my favorite spring flower! Thank you!
My favorite flower is the iris. I live in he desert and do not have a green thumb. I'm better off with fabric flowers than trying to keep real ones alive.
My entryway had floral watercolors, a vase of silk flowers, and several cross stitches. I would love to add some three dimensional flowers! Thanks for the giveaway.
My favourite flower is the forget-me-not. So tiny and delicate. Would be hard to replicate in fabric I think.
My favorite flowers are daffodils and they have been up for about a week. Now the tulips are making an appearance.
We're waiting for our sweet peas to pop up, other than that we have daffodils on the tail end of blooming, and peonies just starting to poke up through the soil. We can't wait for more flowers, but this book would be great to look through while Mother Nature does her thing.
Unfortunately, nothing is popping up in my yard (except snow – another inch last night!)! I love tulips in the spring but don't have any in my yard because the deer eat them! Thanks for sharing with us!
Daffodils are coming up finally! So excited.
Tulips are my favorite flowers
Absolute favourite flower– peonies– I like to sew flowers for my daughter's hair clips- would love to get my hands on this book!
The daffodils are blooming here in Arkansas. Yellow roses are my all time favorite flowers. I carried a dozen in my wedding bouquet almost 37 years ago. I have been making felt flowers for years. I usually make pins of them. Looking forward to having a baby granddaughter in July and am sure I will be adorning her with fabric flowers.
What a great idea for accessories using your leftover fabric pieces. Using the the corresponding fabric to match your newly created garment brings your piece from great to fabulous!
So darling!! I was just looking for a fabric flower pattern for Easter hair decorations for me and my little girl.
My favorite flower is the gardenia. I love the way they smell! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Oh my gosh what a fun book. I think my daughter and I could make some really fun flowers over spring break.
I am so wanting to plant Sturt Desert Peas – the red & green would really brighten up my native garden.
I love flowers! Thank you so much for this tutorial. The books looks wonderful too.
No flowers peeking out of the snow banks that still exist in my area. Wah! But my favorite flower has to be hydrangea, but truly I love sooo many. Would love to win this book… fingers crossed!! 🙂
There are no flowers in my yard, yet, too much snow! I like daffodils, though. Thinking about it, I have quite a few fabrics in my stash with flowers. I have not made use of any fabric flowers in my sewing, yet.
Experimenting with daffodils at the moment
Peonies are my new favorite. I hope I get to see them again after this never ending Michigan winter.
Peonies are my new absolute favorite flower. I hope I get to see them again after this never ending michigan winter.
Our camelias are looking great.
Daisy's are my favorite!
I'm here in the Willamette valley where we are knee-deep in spring flowers.
Camellia, daffodils, tulips, Heathers are all making my yard beautiful.
Thanks for the giveaway.
Well, there was snow here in the NC mountains yesterday but the daffodils are peaking out! My very favorite, my grandmother's Lenten roses that I replanted from her yard are in full bloom. They are so dear to my heart!! I would love this book…I'm doing some flowers for my brother's wedding in the fall!!
I do not have a green thumb so my favorite flowers are the fabric ones!! This book sounds great.
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Friday, February 27th: The God of Love and Passion exits the watery and sublime spiritually driven Pisces and enters action oriented and direct Aries where Eros will transit until mid-April. A potent energy is occurring in the sign of initiation and assertion. Mars, Venus and Eros are all transiting in the sign of Aries strengthening your inspiration and bravery. Expect your courage in matters of the heart, finance, and entrepreneurship to rise up ten fold. You are ready for action now, as are others.
The Moon enters her home sign Cancer at 7:50 a.m. EST after a LONG Moon Void period (all day Thursday). Now your habits, home, Mom, family and food are important for your comfort and emotional nurturing.
On SATURDAY the Moon in Cancer goes VOID just before 1 p.m. EST for the remainder of the day highlighting deep thoughts, feelings and emotionalism as she squares Pluto at Void. On SUNDAY uplifting energies align to expand your mind, willingness to take risks and communications. Opportunities may arrive in the form of travel, writing, speaking, foreign connections, technology, friendships, children and communications as Mercury opposes Jupiter and sextiles Uranus (14 Aquarius to Leo to Aries).
Growth is found in the areas of finance and relationships as Venus opposes the North Node (10 degrees Aries to Libra). Destiny and attraction are dancing together in an awakened and growth oriented manner. Understanding between your need to be a separate healthy individual while also participating in relationship is illuminated in a positive manner.


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Does anyone know the exact differences between the USMC's M39 Enhanced Marksman's Rifle and the Navy Seals Mk 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle? They look identical to me.:confused:
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Hi Gunner,
I just checked out these two critters on Wikipedia. I believe you will find your answers plus additional info on the rifles there.
Keep your powder dry!
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Antarctica. Linda Scher. Art Direction & Design by Joe Zeff Design. Kids Discover. 2013. iOS, requires 4.3 or later. Version 1.1. $2.99.
Gr 2-5–Kids learning about the continents are sure to appreciate this new production from Kids Discover. Jam packed with facts, figures, and stunning images (archival and contemporary), it's both visually arresting and informative.
Separate sections delve into Antarctica's geography, climate, and "cold critters," expeditions to the frozen land (current and historical), and its importance to research scientists. There's even an interview with a support staff member on her first trip to the McMurdo Station. Maps, quizzes, animations, and short video clips make it a valuable resource for a range of learners.
The app is user-friendly and navigation is easy from the visual table of contents to the discretely placed tabs and arrows. Images are crisp and bright. A five-question quiz culminates the story line. Children who choose incorrect answers are encouraged to try again and are rewarded with applause when they respond correctly.
One of the interactive highlights is the penguin egg that users can hatch by tapping the screen. Other in-app activities include a penguin word scramble and a cartoon figure to dress for the frigid environment (layers being key). A suggested extension activity involves making a glacier (with snow or shaved ice) in three quick steps. A short resource list of Web and print resources are appended.
All in all, an app that is sure to please parents and educators as well as youngsters.–Morgan Doane, Kent District Library, East Grand Rapids, MI
Rounds: Parker Penguin. Barry Tranter and Emma Tranter. Nosy Crow Ltd. 2012. iOS, requires 3.1.3 or later. Version 1.0.1. $4.99.
PreS-Gr 2–In this engaging app, a gregarious emperor penguin cheerily relates salient facts about his species and Antarctica. Readers first encounter Parker as a fledgling standing expectantly against the frigid backdrop of the South Pole, with snowflakes falling gently around him. Soft, lullaby-like music by award-winning composer Robin Beanland plays in the background and complements the crisp, wintery illustrations.
Viewers track the bird through various stages of his development as he glides and swims in his icy habitat, hunts food, avoids predators, meets his mate, Penelope, and helps hatch their chick, Percy. Per the "Rounds" series title, the life cycle story begins again with Percy, followed by his son, Peter.
The jocund narration is charmingly voiced by British child actors. In the "Read and Play" mode, words are highlighted as they are spoken; with the independent reading option, children can manage the length of time the text appears. In both modes, users tap pale blue dots that appear on the penguins and their surroundings to glean additional information about the animal's habits and habitat.
Sweeping fingers across the screen will cause snowflakes to swirl; tilting the device propels Parker across the ice and into the water with a splash. Animation standouts include the lively penguin mating dance, and Parker's age progression cleverly juxtaposed against the rising and setting of the sun. The app displays excellent sound design with realistic penguin vocalizations interspersed throughout the story.
Parker Penguin's seamless presentation of nonfiction content in a captivating manner makes it an essential purchase for burgeoning digital collections.–Lalitha Nataraj, Escondido Public Library, Escondido, CA
Trucks. Byron Barton. illus. by author. Oceanhouse Media, Inc. 2012. iOS, requires 3.2 or later. Version 1.09. $1.99.
PreS-K–Dump trucks, delivery trucks, bucket trucks, and cement mixers—all sorts of oversize vehicles doing their jobs—rumble by cities and towns and through tunnels and over bridges in this app based on the book of the same title (Crowell, 1986). The vibrant colors and bold images outlined in black that generations of Barton's fans have enthusiastically responded to are also here. In the app, kids can slide some of the trucks about and hear a range of background sounds from horns beeping to workers' conversations.
Users tap different items on the screen to trigger labels to appear, such as "tree" or "road"—a useful feature for emergent readers. With the sound option switched "on," the story is also narrated and words are highlighted as they are read. Large, directional arrows turn the pages and a home button on each screen will return viewers to the main menu. This app is sure to be a hit with the young truck-loving set.–Kari Allen, National Writing Project in New Hampshire, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH


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The area called Nishijin is the town of weaving, and Orihime (the weaver princess) is the main character of the Tanabata Festival and worshiped strongly by people in this area. After the Machiya tour, enjoy a special meals associated with Tanabata.
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Get Involved as AU Celebrates 50 Years of McDowell Hall
This year McDowell Hall is turning 50 years old. To commemorate this momentous occasion, the Alumni Association is teaming with Housing & Dining Programs to spend the year celebrating. Over the past 50 years McDowell Hall has undergone a number of changes. It began as a women's residence complex and is now a newly renovated coeducational facility.
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Criticism is mounting of the failure of the UN peace-keeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo to prevent the fall of Goma. The provincial capital in eastern DRC was captured last Tuesday by M23 rebels, widely believed to be backed by Rwanda.
MONUSCO, the UN peace-keeping force which has been stationed in DRC since 1999, is supposed to protect the civilian population. But when the Congolese army retreated from Goma, the peacekeepers decided to abandon the city of over one million people.
The peace-keepers from India, South Africa and Uruguay have defended their actions, saying they had fired hundreds of rockets at the rebels. But the UN says its troops were overwhelmed by the number of rebels attacking the city.
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Survivors include four sons, John Hudson of Granbury, Allen Hudson of Alaska, Aaron Hudson of Wichita Fallas and Frank Hudson of Sulphur Springs; eight daughters, Mrs. Emma Grant, Mrs.Bessie Clearley, Mrs. Ethel Dunning, Mrs. Flora Monroe and Miss Elda Hudson of Forth Worth and Mrs. Myrtie Isham of Campbell, Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler of Estelline and Mrs. Maggie Matlock of Silverton, a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Durbin thinks it might hurt Colton because people won't think Colton is anything new or different.
I'd be curious to know what Colton thinks about all of this besides that they (James and Colton) are friends.
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Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2006/12/12 - Frost & Sullivan finds that emerging technology developments in piezoelectric materials and devices will drive applications that are currently spread over a broad range of sectors such as military, automotive, commercial, medical and consumer.
One key obstacle that material manufacturers face while developing piezoelectric materials is the non-availability of piezoelectric material application information. Manufacturers find it increasingly difficult to develop materials when they do not have enough information about the devices that require the material. Material researchers and manufacturers do not have the sources and knowledge to foresee potential material applications. A number of key participants opine that combining their advanced materials with knowledge of the application devices would benefit the material manufacturers as well as the device manufacturers.
Frost & Sullivan finds that emerging technology developments in piezoelectric materials and devices will drive applications that are currently spread over a broad range of sectors such as military, automotive, commercial, medical and consumer.
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The growing demands for sophisticated, portable, miniaturized devices with long battery lifetimes have favored the use of tiny power-efficient piezo-solutions, notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Archana Jayarajah. Piezoelectric solutions can now replace heavy and possibly bulkier electromagnetic solutions.
New piezoelectric fiber-based energy harvesters provide an answer to this problem as they can obviate the need for batteries or recharge the batteries, thereby increasing their life in the WSNs. Piezoelectric devices are extremely attractive in this area due to their thin form factor and ability, when packaged robustly, to harvest energy in extreme environments.
While the EU directive lists that piezoelectric devices are exempt from the legislation, they will be reviewed regularly to discover if technical obstacles to their substitution have been overcome.
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Writers on the Range: Cliven Bundy needs to pay his grazing bills
April 24, 2014
Whatever you've read or seen on television, a new "Sagebrush Rebellion" of public-land ranchers against the federal government has not erupted in rural Nevada. What's happened there can best be described as the last act of a long-running dispute between a delusional rancher and a hapless federal agency, the Bureau of Land Management. Unfortunately, the controversy has attracted anti-government zealots, who see this as an opportunity to "fight for freedom," and the media has enthusiastically followed them. Perhaps it's not surprising that this kind of piling-on has happened before.
The first time I experienced something like it was back in 1995 in the old Hamilton, Mont., high school gym. The Militia of Montana had rented the joint and a pretty good crowd showed up — though I'm pleased to say it was not as large as the crowds we used to draw for the all-star basketball games I organized when I lived in the Bitterroot. I remember one of those speakers promising that something big would happen on April 19, the second anniversary of the Waco tragedy. And yes, something did: April 19, 1995, was the day "Patriot" member Timothy McVeigh set off a fertilizer bomb outside a daycare in Oklahoma City so he could blow up hundreds of working people.
Montana's "militia" wasn't involved in the bombing. They were just repeating the chatter of other extremists. But those violent crackpots of the 1990s, the ones who read the Constitution with a keen eye for any word or phrase they could twist into a rationale to relieve themselves of responsibility for anything, held many Montana communities hostage through their twisted assaults on civil society. They fancied themselves "freemen" avenging Ruby Ridge or Waco or any other violent standoff that they could exploit for their own interests.
If you wonder about the mental health credentials of Cliven Bundy, the rancher at the heart of the protest in Nevada, or the groupies who descended on the desert in support of their God-given right to steal from the American people, do a Google search for the Reuters photo of the "protester" sprawled out on an I-15 bridge, gun drawn on BLM officers. These are zealots with a tragically inflated sense of self-importance. They are the most dangerous kind.
Rancher Bundy didn't like the regulations that the BLM imposed on the federal lands he leased to graze his cattle, so he went to court to protest them. He lost, and lost again.
Cattle grazing in the Southwest is a tough business. There's not much water. It's often profitable only if you get access to a lot of publicly owned land on the cheap. But Bundy stopped paying his grazing fees in 1993, and insisted that the federal government had no right to bill him for using public land near his 160-acre ranch, partly, he said, because his own ranch was so old. The feds issued warnings, revoked his permit and obtained several court orders, but took no other action. Finally, they decided they had to get tough. At stake were threatened desert tortoises; Bundy refused to obey an order to remove his cattle from an area known as Gold Butte, which was designated habitat for the species.
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I've never been a huge fan of the BLM, as it's often seemed the least effective federal agency. But I think the best approach involves working to reform the agency, and more important, properly funding it so it can do its job with a degree of professionalism.
None of that matters to Bundy. Once he saw the writing on the wall — that the law wasn't on his side — he reacted like all those other Western thugs we've been dealing with for decades. He started making up his own law. He's amazingly blunt about it, announcing that he does not "recognize the United States as even existing."
The overwhelming majority of the 16,000 public-land ranchers pay us for the opportunity to graze their cattle on our land. I've watched many of them form partnerships with government agencies and incorporate ecological restoration as an integral part of their ranching operations. And I've watched those efforts produce varied results on the land. All these examples of cooperation form a stark contrast to what's happening in Nevada.
Let's look at the facts: Bundy hasn't paid for his grazing leases for decades. Yet his cattle still graze on our land, eating our grass and probably making that part of the Nevada desert ever less suitable for desert tortoises. Meanwhile, Bundy paints himself as a victim of the jackbooted feds.
If any of us tried to get away with that, we'd have been in jail long ago. It just goes to show that if you're willing to wave a tattered pocket copy of the Constitution above your head (even if you don't understand it) while shouting "freedom" at the top of your lungs, you can get away with almost anything. And that's why these people are so dangerous.
Rob Breeding is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an opinion column service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes in Powell, Wyo.
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Religious leaders called for a boycott of Elton John's free HIV awareness concert in the Ukraine on Saturday, stating that gay people are responsible for spreading AIDS. Two hundred thousand people did show up for the concert, however, including President Viktor Yushchenko. One new HIV infection is reportedly diagnosed in the Ukraine every 10 minutes.
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Greetings Sorors & Friends!
On behalf of the dedicated members of the Orange County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., it is truly my pleasure to welcome you to our website. We are a sisterhood of college educated women committed to providing quality public service programs in the Orlando metropolitan area.
Our website is designed to provide you with insight and valuable information about the Orange County Alumnae Chapter programs and activities, which include: Delta Academy (girls ages 11-14), Delta Gems (young ladies ages 14-18), EMBODI (young men ages 14-18), EMINENCE Gala & Breakfast with Santa.
As our dynamic sisterhood embarks on its 104th year of committed public service, we hope that you will join us in our mission of transforming lives and impacting communities. Please feel free to explore our website in order to learn more about the Orange County Alumnae Chapter and our wonderful sisterhood.
If you are a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and new to the Orlando area, I encourage you to connect with our chapter and join us as we strive to make a difference in the communities we serve.
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Hootenannie's Dating TipsThursday, January 8th, 2015
I've heard that activity on online dating sites soars after the holidays.
As one who currently does not have a profile on any dating site (despite having spent some quality time on every available platform in the past – and probably will again in the future), I say good on you. If you've declared 2015 the year of finding love, I wish you more of Cupid's arrows than you know what to do with.
By no means am I a dating aficionado. That very thought deserves a literal LOL. But in 2014, I went on my fair share of dates – maybe more than any other year in my life thus far. And I learned a few things. And because I am known as a Lady of Wisdom (again, literal LOL – and why can there not be a Sarcasm font?), I am here to bestow on you Hootenannie's Dating Tips. LOL. LOL.
- Get a puppy. Instant conversation starter. But…
- Do not go out with men from the dog park. You need that place too much to want to avoid it later.
- If Tinder were space travel, you'd be at Pluto sooner than you'd think (i.e. three days). Despite how it feels in the beginning, the options are actually quite finite. And then you reach the end. And you realize, "THERE IS NO MAN FOR ME IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE" (i.e. 50 mile radius).
- If someone is sending you mixed signals, it's actually just one signal: run for your life. Mixed signals are the equivalent of multiplying by zero: no matter how positive, times it by zero and you wind up with nothing.
- Do not spend the better part of a year emotionally entangled with a person who has no intention of dating you – even if he is the best texter you know. Listen, I grew up in church youth group, which means that at age 14 I made a "Husband List" (just to keep the LOLs rolling). And I'm here to tell you that not even googly-eyed teenage girls put "good texter" on their List.
- If he doesn't want to date you, do not listen to "I Can't Make You Love Me" on repeat while drinking wine and envisioning your bleak future of solitude.
- If she doesn't want to date you, don't send her snarky texts in the middle of the night and defriend her on Facebook before she's even awake for the day. Take it like a man, because God knows I'm trying to.
- A breakup is like a broken bone: set it, and then don't mess with it.
- Confidence will get you further than looks. Just look at Tom Petty.
- Never, under any circumstances, assume that the man is her cousin.
- No matter what, keep hoping. Because just like Fievel says, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star.
Now go forth and date. Be your wonderful self, and don't settle for someone who doesn't make you laugh. But maybe be open to someone shorter than you imagined when you wrote your Husband List. I'll be here on my couch with Foxy cheering you on.


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I made this cute little 4x4 card for Teya a few days ago & she spotted it today, so it's back to the drawing board I go! I'll be up late making her another tonight. I guess I was a little lazy & serves myself right as I cased this card from splitcoast & had already worked out how to do the medallion layers with the scallop edge punch & had them ready for a card (not specifically for Teya's!). I should have put more thought into it, none the less I wanted to share my little blunder & this cute card. I'll be back to share with you the card I end up giving her soon.
In the meantime here's a Gift Certificate Wallet I made last night & express posted today. I just loved Alley's clever idea on using the Linen Thread for the ribbon on the Gift. The closure works well (seen in previous post) & I had to add the balloons as the width of the wallet needed something more, I was real happy with it & it did look better IRL (most do I guess).
"Happy Moments" & "Big Bold Birthday" stamp sets.
Pink Pirouette DSP, Sahara Sand, Pretty in Pink & Whisper White CS, inks, Pretty in Pink marker, Linen Thread, Dazzling Diamond & 2way glue, Word Window 1" & 1/2" circle punches & Rhinestone Brad.