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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Urban Circus - Giveaway!
I had so much fun designing these prints. I guess they come from that 'I-guess-I'll-always-be-a-little-kid-at-heart' place we all have lurking just beneath the surface. Just leave me a comment and tell me what your favorite toy or game was as a kid. And have fun reminiscing!
I'll randomly select one winner this Friday Dec 10, 2010 around 8am CT.
Have a great week and can't wait to hear a little about your childhood!
181 comments:
- Lindsay said...
My favorite game was snail, its a hopscotch game. We used to play it for hours during the summer. We tried playing just a few months ago and found out a feet were a bit too big to fit in the snail we drew... so we made a super-sized snail hopscotch to play in :)
lindsay.forgette at gmail dot com
- December 7, 2010 at 6:10 PM
- DianeY said...
I was a real doll person as far as toys went, and my favorite game was Clue! I used to dream of being Miss Scarlett!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:13 PM
- Candace said...
I absolutely love this fabric and wish someone I knew would have a baby soon so I have an excuse to get some :)
My favourite toy was my teddy bear Radar. Yes, he was named after the character on M*A*S*H. My teddy bear looked just like his.
- December 7, 2010 at 6:14 PM
- Tong said...
super mario!!!! my cousins and i used to play for hours. love those prints, thanks so much for the giveaway!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM
- carriegel said...
I used to spend every recess at school either jump roping or playing marbles with the boys.
- December 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM
We played all kinds of games: hide 'n seek, go fish, pretend. But my favorite was Aggravation; we had a homemade wooden board made by a friend of the family. It was kind of like Parcheesi.
- December 7, 2010 at 6:19 PM
- Unknown said...
We were great fans of cardboard in our house!
I had a big upside down cardboard box that I turned into a 'computer' (we had a friend who used to bring tickatape back for me, rolls and rolls of it) and I used to feed it through and pretend I had a proper big computer! (This was the late 60s!)
slightly scary to think I was a geek at the age of 5! oh bliss.
I love this fabric too - it reminds me of a duvet set I had of jungle animals (but not in a "you copied it" way! )
- December 7, 2010 at 6:21 PM
- Mary said...
This is such great, playful fabric. My favorite pasttime as a child was playing game after game of Candyland with my Mom :)
- December 7, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- Christa said...
I spent a good portion of my youth obsessed with jump roping. I loved it.
- December 7, 2010 at 6:29 PM
I think my favorite toy as a kid was roller skates. Makes sense that I do roller derby now!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:31 PM
- AllieKatMom said...
I didn't really have a favorite childhood toy. I was the kid that was always outside and up a tree!
Thanks for the giveaway!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- Nicole Gendy said...
I really loved playing dress up. It was so fun and then you could make your own parade around the neighbourhood with a red wagon and stuffies.
- December 7, 2010 at 6:35 PM
- Ginger said...
I used to love playing board games with my brothers. I think my favorite were the marathon Monopoly games we played during the summers.
- December 7, 2010 at 6:38 PM
- Suburban Stitcher said...
my favorite game growing up was legos. i was a total tomboy...had the whole castle collection. loved them to pieces ;)
- December 7, 2010 at 6:39 PM
- Heather said...
I really loved play doh and coloring in coloring books. Oh and I'll also admit to a serious barbie obsession :) Thanks for the giveaway!
heather.nevits at gmail dot com
- December 7, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- Michael said...
Indoor game: clue!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- 9patchnurse said...
Oh gosh, I have been wanting some of that fabric. Friday is my daughter's birthday so I hope that's lucky for me. I always loved the game Sorry, and I still do.
- December 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- Designer Jules said...
I loved legos and barbies. I loved to build little houses with the legos and have the lego guys living there. Same with Barbie I would create her house and rooms and then play with her. It was all about the houses.
- December 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- Anna said...
My favorite was my Baby Dear doll. I still have her all these years later. Thanks for a chance to win!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:48 PM
- Katie said...
I loved playing on the dock in the lake in the summer with my brother and cousins. We had so much fun!
katie.muirhead (at) gmail (dot) com
- December 7, 2010 at 6:52 PM
- Dolly said...
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- December 7, 2010 at 6:52 PM
- Dolly said...
These fabrics are so cheery !
Enter me in your giveaway, please......I liked pickup sticks and Chinese checkers !
biking underscore
dot at yahoo
dot com
- December 7, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- SoozeM said...
I love that fabric too! My favorite toy was a dolls house my parents made, my dad made the wooden frame and my mum made floors with lino and carpet samples, it had orange lace curtains, lovely bright yellow walls, it was just the best! It is still going strong and lives at my parents house, and my daughter has spent hours playing with it also!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:55 PM
- ~Michelle~ said...
my fav game was PayDay or Monopoly... any surprise that my grown-up self is an accountant?? :)
- December 7, 2010 at 6:55 PM
- holly | bijou lovely said...
Card games and puzzles were always my favorite! Thanks for the chance to win!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:56 PM
- Taya@TypeB said...
Wonderful designs! Favorite game was Clue!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:59 PM
- Melissa Corry said...
My favorite was my Rainbow Brite Doll
- December 7, 2010 at 7:03 PM
- Poppyprint said...
I can't remember what I played with when I was really little, but I was addicted to backgammon around 8 years old and interestingly, my daughter went through the same phase at the same age. I did have a Chrissie Doll that had hair you could pull out of the top of her head to adjust it's length. She came in a vinyl carry case with a spot for her on one side and her wardrobe on the other. Thanks for sharing your sweet fabric!
- December 7, 2010 at 7:06 PM
- Suzanne said...
Cabbage patch dolls and popples come to mind when I think of my kid days :) I can't say I had one favorite toy. We were outside so much playing hide-and-seek, soccer & football, jumping on the trampoline etc...
- December 7, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- Katie said...
I loved opperation! Buzz!!!! I got the femur!
- December 7, 2010 at 7:21 PM
- webmailaddress2 said...
I was excited about getting a PJ Sparkles one Christmas. I think this was late 80's or early 90's.
- December 7, 2010 at 7:23 PM
- Vicki @ DottyJane said...
I had a favorite doll named Suzie, but I loved to play Chinese checkers with my mom! Thanks for the chance to win:)
- December 7, 2010 at 7:24 PM
- missbossypants said...
My favourite game was connect 4. We never owned it, but my grandparents did, so I liked to play whenever we visited with them.
Thanks for the chance to win! I just found out I'm going to have a new niece arriving in April - this fabric would make some wonderful "welcome to the world" goodies!
- December 7, 2010 at 7:29 PM
- Katie B said...
Thanks for the giveaway! I have very fond memories of my Cabbage Patch Doll.
- December 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- Karin Grow said...
My favorite childhood toy would have to be my roller skates. I never wanted to take them off.
Looks like we're both doing giveaways today!
- December 7, 2010 at 7:35 PM
- Helen said...
When I was little, I begged and begged my parents to get me the "Guess Who" game. However, I never really got one. But I did get my other 'wish', the original Monopoly game!! Love it!
- December 7, 2010 at 7:37 PM
One of my favorite toys when I was a kid was my jacks and Chinese jacks. I would take those things everywhere. You could always find me on the bathroom or kitchen floor playing them for hours!
- December 7, 2010 at 7:41 PM
- Jodi said...
Oh, boy! Three things came to mind right away: a real turtle shell about 8" across that I carted around with me everywhere; my Etch-a-Sketch, and jump rope!
- December 7, 2010 at 7:58 PM
- Jenny said...
just loved my handmade Mary Poppins doll. yarn hair. tiniest waist imaginable...my mom went on to make some more clothes for her...and Mary's eyes were really kind of crooked...just love her! my daughter plays with her now...much loved toy.
- December 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- Sequana said...
I grew up on a farm, and when I was about 5 or so, I would play outside with my dog, Bosco.....and use some real tools and scrap wood to build things. You know, that was 70 yrs. ago, and I can't remember what actual "toys" were around.
- December 7, 2010 at 8:04 PM
- Kristy said...
we traveled a lot during the summers so we would play many rounds of the alphabet game and the cow game and all the other fun car stuff. Love that fabric!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:04 PM
- Laura said...
I loved to play Barbies and one year I got a Barbie dream house. I was in heaven! Falalalala!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:11 PM
- Kaye Prince said...
I loved, loved, loved board games (still do!) and my favourites were The Game of Life, Clue, Battleship, and 13 Dead End Drive!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:15 PM
- Joy said...
I loved roller skating! I would roller skate EVERY DAY after school with my best friend who lived across the street. Good times...
- December 7, 2010 at 8:33 PM
- Lynette said...
I have very fond memories of a red metal tricycle I used to ride at my grandparents house. I could happily spend hours riding up and down their front path. Love this fabric!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- craftykat said...
i had a stuffed pixie doll which i loved to bits!!!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:35 PM
- Mama24Monkeys said...
My favorite toy as a kid my favorite stuffed bear. Loved him.
- December 7, 2010 at 8:35 PM
- Emily said...
Oh my goodness! My favorite game was Clue! I would play it over and over and over and over! I think my friends got really sick of it. But I never did.
Thanks! mle_mcclendon(at)charter(dot)net
- December 7, 2010 at 8:39 PM
- Willa said...
Favorite toy was always a doll. Still have some of them and many new ones. Then along came my daughter who never looked twice at a doll--well except for Raggedy Ann!
Love these prints. I have not seen them in real life but would love to!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:43 PM
- Tim, Allyson, and kids said...
Loved it when my mom taught me how to play jaxs. My favorite game was shoots and ladders :)
- December 7, 2010 at 8:46 PM
My favorite toys were G.I. Joes. My wife would love this fabric (Christmas surprise?)
spin_jbc at yahoo
- December 7, 2010 at 8:48 PM
My favorite game was Monopoly.
tim.spindler at jbc dot edu
- December 7, 2010 at 8:48 PM
- Jorie said...
Monopoly. My best friend and I would write out IOUs to each other and make mroe money slips, our games would last for weeks!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:52 PM
- Janna said...
I had an uncle who everytime he came over we played Connect 4! Loved that game;) Would so love to win these, AWESOME!!!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:52 PM
- Anna said...
I loved anything with dolls. These fabrics make me so excited to start some projects for the baby boy we're expecting this spring!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:53 PM
- Kim O. said...
My Little Ponies and Popples! Oh my, it IS fun reminiscing!!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:58 PM
- Anita said...
I loved playing monopoly. I used to play most afternoons with my girlfriend Debbie, sometimes we let my older brother play with us - except he cheated. Happy holidays.
- December 7, 2010 at 8:59 PM
- amanda said...
Oh. Totally my Maple Town doll house. They still make the same thing, only it's called Calico Critters now. I can't wait until my daughters are old enough for that (without eating all the little pieces and/or scattering them all over the house)!
- December 7, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- Katie said...
Sweet! My sister and I had this fantastic "board" game as kids. It was a plastic board, with attached game pieces that moved along tracks. I don't remember much about the game itself, but we played so much with it.
- December 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- allsewnup said...
My favourite toy was a doll my Mom made and Santa delivered when I was seven. Her name was Cathy and she had thick, black braids. Mom had also made bloomers, a dress, pinafores and a rose on pink flannel night gown. She was my best friend.
Thank you for the chance I just love this fabric.
- December 7, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Jessica said...
i loved playing outdoors as a child - no specific toys - just wild imagination!
- December 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM
- Courtney said...
cabbage patch kids - I lined them up & taught them school, played doctor with them & even sat them up on our front porch steps & pretended we were driving a wagon on the oregon trail
- December 7, 2010 at 9:30 PM
- Ranelle said...
I had one of everything Strawberry Shortcake that was ever sold. Can still smell them now. : )
- December 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM
- The Rx quilter said...
By far my favorite Christmas gift was when I Santa brought me my Pottery Wheel...I loved it!! I think it is still in the art closet at my parents home! Happy Holidays, Lisa in Boerne
- December 7, 2010 at 9:40 PM
- KarrieLyne said...
My favourite game as a kid was playing crazy 8's or 500 with my grandma. When we played we always had our special treat of a bottle of soda. You know, when they made Pepsi in glass bottles? Yum...best soda ever!
- December 7, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- Julie said...
My favorite game as a child was Risk. We would stay up all night to finish!
- December 7, 2010 at 9:52 PM
- Sarah Craig said...
I had a stuffed leopard that I slept with until I was nine or ten - of course, by that time, it had no fur left, only fabric, and the seams had been sewn up so many times that it was lumpy! But I loved that leopard...... Funny, I can't even remember what I called it, but I can remember how it felt to hold and how it smelled!
- December 7, 2010 at 9:54 PM
- Zibu said...
Lego all the way!
- December 7, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- Amy said...
We played alot of games when we were kids. Candyland, Life, Monopoly, Yahtzee, Chinese Checkers. Those were the days. Sigh!
- December 7, 2010 at 10:00 PM
- Kathryn said...
My favorite outdoor game was kickball, played at recess at school. Inside it was any kind of card game with the whole family and whoever was visiting. Kathie L in Allentown
- December 7, 2010 at 10:04 PM
- ColleenaMareena said...
I LOVED My Little Ponies as a kid. I also had an impressive collection of Thundercats comic books! :)
Thanks for an awesome giveaway!
- December 7, 2010 at 10:17 PM
- Allison Chambers said...
My favorite toy was my Cabbage Patch Doll.
- December 7, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- Bailey said...
I loved Barbies! Of course there were other things too, but Barbies is always what comes to mind first!
- December 7, 2010 at 10:23 PM
- Angela D. said...
It would have to be Monopoly.
- December 7, 2010 at 10:56 PM
- Jennifer said...
I loved Operation!
- December 7, 2010 at 11:22 PM
- Sonia B said...
I was always jealous of my brother's legos . . . I guess that translates a bit to quilting . . . blocks ;) Thanks for the chance! I love this line.
- December 7, 2010 at 11:22 PM
- ThirdMargaret said...
How fun to remember back all those looooong years ago! I remember making many cakes with my Easy-Bake oven, riding my aqua bicycle, even earlier building and building with wooden blocks! I could go on and on...
- December 7, 2010 at 11:23 PM
- Patty said...
We lived in a small town and I could go to the swimming pool by myself. I probably went swimming every day.
- December 8, 2010 at 12:12 AM
- Little Island Quilting said...
Monopoly - because it gave me a chance to play with money and buy houses...they all seemed a lot cheaper back then!
- December 8, 2010 at 1:03 AM
I had a pogo stick I absoulutely loved. Thanks for the chance to win this great fabric!
- December 8, 2010 at 1:09 AM
- Fleurette said...
Every Christmas all I ever wanted was a doll, I had lots of dolls, I loved climbing trees and spinning tops with the boys. I love Urban Circus, thanks for the chance.
- December 8, 2010 at 1:10 AM
My bicycle and my matchbox cars. I always neglected my dolls :(
- December 8, 2010 at 2:10 AM
- The One and Only said...
As a kid I loved Connect Four and that one game that begins with a "M" with the rocks that goes in an oval....as for Urban Circus...OMG do you know how bad I want to win? REAL BAD!!
- December 8, 2010 at 2:10 AM
My sister and I use to make the floor plan of little houses out of leaves fallen from trees during Autumn. We'd sweep the rooms and bring little chairs and tables outside to furnish it too.
- December 8, 2010 at 3:00 AM
- {Leila}Where the Orchids Grow said...
I used to dress up in my mum's clothes all the time when I was a little girl. She gave me all her old scarfs and skirts and even some high heeled shoes. And I'd be a princess, ballerina, fairy, witch all day~ good times!
Thanks for the chance to win some Urban Circus, can't get enough of it :-D
- December 8, 2010 at 3:04 AM
- Julia said...
I loved my plush pig named "Molly". She´s still sitting at my couch waiting for me to rest my head on her!
Your fabrics are stunning and i would love to make some lovely stuff out of them^^
- December 8, 2010 at 3:24 AM
- liberal sprinkles said...
Hi, I loved hopscotch as a kid, I also loved to play with marbles.
- December 8, 2010 at 3:43 AM
- Gill said...
Anyone remember a board game called "Sorry" ???
- December 8, 2010 at 3:44 AM
- Nadine said...
OH, I was (am?) such a dork, I loved playing secretary as a kid and delegated work to my friends. My mom gave me memo blocks and pencils and folders and I just loved sorting things and FILING. and no, I did NOT become a secretary. :)
- December 8, 2010 at 4:01 AM
- karlyn Jackson said...
My favourite toy was my red headed cabbage patch doll named Leda. I missed a whole years worth of pocket money just to have her. My 3 year old daughter is now her new mummy.
- December 8, 2010 at 4:22 AM
- Ana said...
I had a school for my toys in part of my wardrobe. My mum made me some desks (half of which didn't fit the toys one bit!) and I used to make tiny exercise books. I cut my teeth on crafting for my teddy - she had her own school uniform, and horse riding outfit, and I even made the horse from a soft toy kit. They're all in my parents' loft somewhere...
- December 8, 2010 at 4:58 AM
- Susan Snooks said...
I loved my Barbie doll! Some of the first sewing I did was to make clothes for her!
- December 8, 2010 at 5:28 AM
- jednoiglec said...
When I was a kid we were playing something like baseball using plastic bottles and tennis balls - we've seen baseball games in some TV series - it was something new for us, because when I was a kid Poland got its freedom back and TV started showing foreign tv programmes, tv series etc.
- December 8, 2010 at 5:32 AM
- Bec said...
mmmm When i was little, i used to love playing shops!! Any chance i could get i would love to pretend to buy.. things from around the house..Strangely enough... it hasnt changed. Im a sucker for a bit of Retail Therapy...Esp with online fabric stores!!! xxx
- December 8, 2010 at 5:42 AM
- Marg M said...
I use to love hide and seek!
- December 8, 2010 at 5:57 AM
- Carolyn said...
I loved playing Jacks and my bike!
- December 8, 2010 at 6:04 AM
I remember I used to love playing Pick up Sticks with my Uncle. I also remember picking the mint leaves from the herb garden and smelling the aroma on my hands. Simple things were the best
- December 8, 2010 at 6:10 AM
- Tina @ Squirrel Acorns said...
My favorite stuffed animal was an elephant named Ellie that my grandma gave me. My favorite game was something that I made up. I would play "office" in my bedroom, and I would use my closet as an elevator and get off on different floors. I have no idea where I came up with that!
- December 8, 2010 at 6:19 AM
- Sooz said...
I grew up on Cape Cod, MA, a spit of sand that juts out into the Atlantic from the New England coastline. It is certainly seaside rural, but the Cape has 365 lakes and I grew up on one of them, a scrub-pine, freshwater type of rural. We joke now about the complicated toys for kids and that "all they really need is a stick and an acorn", but that's all I needed. I loved following the myriad of "indian paths" through the woods, collecting ingredients for pine-cone soup, daring to go into the dilapidated chicken coop (our version of a haunted house), fishing for sunnies and hunting the giant snapping turtle, sweet toads, skipping rocks...
- December 8, 2010 at 6:36 AM
- Erin said...
Oh, my! As an only child I was always really excited when someone would play board games with me. I had a babysitter who thought I was the strangest kid because when offered a choice between TV and Chinese Checkers, I went with Checkers every time!
- December 8, 2010 at 6:43 AM
When I was little my favorite game was to make forts out of blankets. I'm now having even more fun making them with my daughter :)
- December 8, 2010 at 7:10 AM
- Hannah said...
When I was a little kid I loved the game Guess Who. A lot.
- December 8, 2010 at 7:12 AM
- Regan said...
Well as a kid I loved Mouse trap...love thsi collection..thansk for the giveaway!!
- December 8, 2010 at 7:20 AM
- Lee said...
My favorite game as a kid was the original spirograph!
- December 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM
- Stine said...
I already bought a little bit of urban circus...but I would love the rest of the prints to match! Not sure if it is my all time favorite game, but I was just fondly reminiscing about HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS....hey that could be some inspiration for fabric, colorful dancing hippos ; )
- December 8, 2010 at 7:29 AM
- Jen B said...
My favorite "toy" was my bicycle! I would go everywhere with my bike, to school, visiting friends, through the woods, all sorts of adventures!
- December 8, 2010 at 7:37 AM
- knottygnome said...
i was really into jump rope as a kid. i used to be able to do all sorts of tricks.
- December 8, 2010 at 7:37 AM
- PamOFlynn said...
I remember my Mother always having to come outside and holler for us at dark..whatever we were doing we were doing outside with the neighborhood kids. Safer times!
- December 8, 2010 at 7:44 AM
- Mary on Lake Pulaski said...
So interesting that you should ask this question now!! My favorite toy is definitely my train set! Yes, I'm a 59 year old woman who got a train set 55 years ago for Christmas and it is now displayed on my mantle for this Christmas! It's not in perfect condition (say antique) but it's in with a nostalgic display. Thanks for asking Laurie!
- December 8, 2010 at 7:53 AM
- pbs said...
This is really going to date me, but my favorite toy was Chatty Kathy. I loved dolls but this one was so special because I could pull the string and she would talk to me! What a friend she was!
- December 8, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Amber said...
I loved all kinds of arts and crafts. I loved "Hot Loops", the bright nylon loops you could chain together or use a loom to make pot holders. Also, pop beads were cool!
Thanks for the giveaway!
- December 8, 2010 at 7:59 AM
My Cabbage Patch Kids were by far my favorite childhood toy. I always had a doll that I was carrying around.
- December 8, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- Dawn W said...
Do you remember the board game called or having to do with Uncle Piggly Wiggly? I used to play it in my Grandma's basement, and loved it! I think it was an antique even then.
- December 8, 2010 at 8:25 AM
- Pattie Crum said...
I'm a Barbie girl. And Skipper too. Super cute fabric by the way.
- December 8, 2010 at 8:30 AM
- ellesquare said...
how about my favorite book. My three favorites were:
A) Miss Suzy
B) A Pony for the Winter
C) The Wednesday Witch
- December 8, 2010 at 8:42 AM
- Four dogs and one quilter said...
Barbie, definitely. Monopoly: for days on end. Gin rummy, does anyone still play cards using real cards anymore? Thanks for the giveaway.
- December 8, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- Toni said...
My favorite game was to line up my animals and talk to them, fully expecting them to talk back to me. I wrote little stories starring them and drew scenes too!
- December 8, 2010 at 8:53 AM
- Patricia Newhouse said...
"Simon says...", loved playing with all of the neighborhood kids.
- December 8, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- joolee said...
i loved, LOVED anything having to do with American Girl dolls. i read all the books and finally got a doll for christmas as a teenager. and honestly, i still love playing with her and reading the books with my 5-yr-old daughter. so i guess it's STILL a favorite toy. :)
- December 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM
- Jennifer Ladd said...
I loved Mastermind. It seems boring, but it's a great puzzle game. I can't wait to get it for my daughter (who seems to like that kind of stuff as much as I do).
jennifereladd at yahoo dot com
- December 8, 2010 at 9:19 AM
- Tammy Robbins said...
This sounds lame, but pick-up sticks just came to mind! Also, I had a weeble (remember those?) treehouse that I adored! Thanks for the giveaway. Love these fabrics.
- December 8, 2010 at 9:19 AM
It's not really a toy, but my favorite thing to pass the time as a child was playing on our family swingset. Thanks for the giveaway. I've been admiring this fabric for a while.
- December 8, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- Andrea said...
My early years were spent in Wyoming where I had the great outdoors to explore. I collected rocks...agates and petrified wood abounded...I had a trunk full! Played dress-up indoors, climbed trees and played w cars n trucks in the dirt...and loved my jump rope! I read whenever I had a spare minute and taught myself to sew on my mother's old Singer...doll clothes mostly. Awe sweet memories.....your lovely fabric draws them to the light once more!
- December 8, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Mary Grace McNamara said...
Battleship! And I still love it! I played it just the other day with my 6 yr old Gracie and she is one tough competitor! She reminds me of me when I was her age!
- December 8, 2010 at 10:15 AM
My barbie dolls. My great aunt made us a ton of clothes. She was the best dressed barbie in the neighborhood
- December 8, 2010 at 10:21 AM
- Heather said...
My favorite doll was a My Friend Mandy doll. She came with little patterns to make clothes for her. I loved doing that with my mom!
- December 8, 2010 at 10:23 AM
- StudioCherie said...
I have many fond memories of playing hide and seek both around the house and in the yard with my parents and siblings. "All ye! All Y'all come free!"
- December 8, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- All With LOVE said...
My little ponies!! Thanks for the giveaway.
- December 8, 2010 at 10:31 AM
- Unknown said...
I loved playing "spy" with my older brother. We would sneak around the house as our mom was cleaning. We were sure she had no idea we were there! ;) Funny to look back at it now...
- December 8, 2010 at 10:32 AM
- Angela said...
I was just at my parents house last night with my 1-year-old talking about some blocks I had as a child, and my mom pulled them out of the closet! I had no idea she still had them. They don't even live in the same house I grew up in, so they've somehow made the cut during multiple moves. I got to play with them with my daughter. So great!
- December 8, 2010 at 10:58 AM
- Brittany said...
We were never allowed to have a video game system in our house, so in the winter when all of the bushes were covered in snow, my brothers and I would play "Super Mario" on them. When we fell through was when we got to the dungeon level. Yes we got into trouble for that too. Thanks for the great give away. I have always loved this line.
- December 8, 2010 at 11:07 AM
- Beth said...
I was all about my baby dolls, and my favorite of these was Teddy, a Madame Alexander baby who arrived under our Christmas tree when I was five or six.
- December 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Unknown said...
Since I was a little girl, my favorite animal has been elephants. I love this fabric! It's so ME! Colorful...with elephants. Life couldn't get much better if I won!
My favorite "toy" growing up was crayons. I was a "drawer." When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I answered, "an artist." That made my parents a little nervous! I came from an athletic family, and I was that girl on the sidelines of the basketball game coloring on the bleachers!
- December 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Absolutely Small said...
Ooh, fun!
It's hard to pick just one favorite...probably it would have been Legos, or markers and paper. Anything that let me create my own little world. ^_^
- December 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM
- Margaret said...
I loved crayons and coloring for indoors and skipping double dutch for outdoors and my inner tomboy loved playing street hockey!
- December 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM
- Leigh said...
I loved My Little Pony and Strawberry Shortcake... Funnily enough, they're my daughters' favorites now!
- December 8, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- deserae said...
I loved Candyland! :)
- December 8, 2010 at 11:48 AM
- diana said...
I didn't really have a favorite toy as a kid, so no funny story here. And it seems my son doesn't have either. I do however have a favorite print as an adult. Guess with pick fabric with elephants that is :)))))
- December 8, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- bless their hearts mom said...
my fav toys were my breyer horses- they went EVERYWHERE with me- when I went to grandmas, I took a stable full! i still have them and am passing them onto my daughter!
- December 8, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- Lisnaweary Quilts said...
My favourite toy was a red tricycle, oh I loved it!
- December 8, 2010 at 12:34 PM
- Anne D said...
I was a Barbie girl. I would spend hours playing with my barbie dolls and was sad when I decided I was too old to play with them anymore. It is funny that I loved them so much as I was not a girly girl.
- December 8, 2010 at 1:08 PM
- Sally said...
PLaying in the park our house backed onto with all the neighbourhood kids - lots of good outdoor fun!
- December 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM
I remember playing lots of board games as a child - I used to love Mousetrap and Kerplunk(this is in the UK, so they might have been called something different over there). My kids are just getting to the age where they can enjoy them too, so I'm loving the thought of playing with them - in fact, maybe Father Christmas could add an extra parcel or two in his sleigh? :o) Happy Christmas Laurie, looking forward to seeing more of your beautiful work in 2011.
- December 8, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Heartsdesire said...
Your fabric is so cute. I would love to win some.
My fIavourite game was Clue. My friend and I would play for days on end. I've bought one for each of my grandchildren in the hopes that they will get as much enjoyment from it as I did. Thanks for the chance to win your giveaway.
- December 8, 2010 at 1:58 PM
- carrie said...
We loved playing statue as kids. We swung each other around in the backyard and however we landed we had to remain still.
- December 8, 2010 at 2:12 PM
- sarah said...
Ironically enough, my favorite toy was a little cardboard box with about 24 drawers in it, each containing a different tiny plastic animal. It was my own portable zoo! And what's better than tiny animals? Well, fabric animals, maybe... :)
- December 8, 2010 at 2:23 PM
- Johanna said...
I had two little dolls and each evening I would make up stories about them. Like one being Rapunzel and the other one the witch :)
I guess I really liked fairy tales...
- December 8, 2010 at 3:23 PM
- Meri said...
Barbies, troll dolls and blocks...I designed my own houses for them! And coloring books and a 64 pack of Crayolas...heaven!!!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
- December 8, 2010 at 3:23 PM
- Stephanie C. said...
I was all about the Barbies and the Easy Bake Oven as a kid. Total girly girl stuff!
- December 8, 2010 at 3:44 PM
- Denny1600 said...
My favorite toy was a table and chairs set, but I usually covered them up with my other toys and stuff. I also had an Easy Bake Oven which was a big hit. I was surprised that my mother didn't get overprotective about me and that oven. Perhaps because she didn't like to bake and the stuff that I made actually came out edible and good! Barbies, too. Oh, and the 64 pack of Crayolas--wow--hours of pleasure from those.
Thanks for the memories and the giveaway.
denny1600 at gmail dot com
- December 8, 2010 at 4:19 PM
- December 8, 2010 at 4:26 PM
- Val Miller said...
How fun!! I used to play with my barbie for hours and hours ...
- December 8, 2010 at 4:43 PM
I drove my mother crazy demanding that we play Hungry Hungry Hippos . . . I LOVED that game! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
- December 8, 2010 at 4:49 PM
- Unknown said...
I lived in a neighborhood where all the kids could run and play in the street and our favorite game was kick the can. In the summertime we would play for hours.
- December 8, 2010 at 5:43 PM
- Tracy Lynn said...
As a child, my mom, sister and I would play Chinese Checkers for hours. It was just as exciting to get the longest move in the game as it was to win. Fun memories!
TTracyLLynn at yahoo dot com
- December 8, 2010 at 5:53 PM
- mascanlon said...
Capture the Flag...the whole neighborhood of kids in one grand game!
- December 8, 2010 at 7:05 PM
- peaknits said...
my favorite - Avalanche - a weird game with loads of marbles. It was a staple at grandma's - now that I have inherited and grandma isn't my opponent, it is totally not fun...but the memories are sweet!
- December 8, 2010 at 7:32 PM
- Nina said...
My little brother and I liked to put on plays with our friends and have my mom film them. Our best was The Wizard of Oz! :)
Love all so the prints so much!!!
- December 8, 2010 at 8:52 PM
- Mel Nunn said...
Aww I love the urban circus range :) My favourite toy was my cabbage patch doll. I loved to dress her and pretend she was my baby. I used to pretend to wash her clothes and hang them out to dry on a skipping rope I strung between the bedhead.
I still have her and her name is Sally.
- December 8, 2010 at 9:08 PM
- Beverly said...
I just adore these fabrics! I think I had the most fun as a kid when my friends and I would play school (we even had gradebooks for our pretent students) or Charlies Angels or anything make believe.
- December 8, 2010 at 9:52 PM
- Nancy Sue said...
I loved...I mean loved my Close and Play record player. Remember those? Red? and you placed a little 45 record in there and closed the lid for it to play. There lies in the problem. I was so frustrated that I couldn't see it when it played, I ended up taking it all apart. I wanted to figure out how it worked. I couldn't get it back together and my parents ended up buying me a second one, with strict orders not to try to take it apart. I loved that thing!
nsue21702 at gmail dot com
- December 8, 2010 at 10:35 PM
- Sherrie said...
My brothers and I would build elaborate houses for my Barbies. They had multiple levels with the uppermost always being a card table, wooden plank staircases, wood block furniture, blanket curtains. We spent about one hour building and about 10 minutes playing Barbies but we always had so much fun!
- December 8, 2010 at 11:54 PM
- momto2wasd said...
I remember playing with paper dolls. We'd make little rooms and furniture and clothes for them. I really enjoyed it!
- December 9, 2010 at 2:24 AM
- Sally said...
One game that I vividly remember is a game my grandmother had. It was called Monkeying Around. I think I remember it so vividly because when I was 3 I had my tonsils taken out and grandma let me bring the game home with me while I was recovering!
- December 9, 2010 at 6:42 AM
- Joanna said...
What came to my mind was Pick up Sticks and Barrel of Monkeys! I had hours of fun playing with them!
- December 9, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- Heather said...
I loved my Breyer horses, they are realistic plastic horses, my sister and I would play with them every day. I have saved them, and now my daughter plays with them every day. Best toys ever! :) I love this fabric, it is soooo cute.
- December 9, 2010 at 9:45 AM
- Mama Spark said...
I love this!! Please enter me in the drawing!!
- December 9, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- J-me said...
my favoirte game was playing clue! or pretty pretty princess, loved those games!! and still do!!
- December 9, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- Julie said...
Clue. Always - hands down. Clue.
- December 9, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- ilovebabyquilts said...
My mom believed in gender neutral or switching toys, so I never had a single doll or barbie growing up. My brother got one, though. My favorite toy was an Electronic Detective.
- December 9, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Lisa said...
I love this fabric! I have a little bit of it and would love some more!! As a kid I really loved playing with legos. I would build with them for hours. I also recall they were my mom's least favorite toy as she would sometimes step on them.
- December 9, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Brooke Boland said...
If I ever said to mum "I'm bored" she would give me cleaning jobs. I must say it worked a treat, so I used to entertain myself by writing children's stories - mostly a rip off of May Gibbs but still lots of fun!
- December 9, 2010 at 5:58 PM
- Mrs Chronic-Shock said...
I love the fabric!
My childhood favorite was my LiteBrite! I think I'm going to get one for my kiddo.
- December 9, 2010 at 7:48 PM
- sally said...
I liked a lot of different toys. I was born into a large family but between the only boys. I loved playing with My Little Pony and my Barbies. But I also loved playing G.I. Joes.
- December 9, 2010 at 9:15 PM
hmm, there were a number of beloved stuffed animals/dolls, but the toy that immediately came to mind -- and made me smile -- was my LightBright.
- December 9, 2010 at 10:11 PM
- MadeByMeaghan said...
I loved my barbies, and my stuffed dog named Winslow. :)
- December 9, 2010 at 11:40 PM
- Unknown said...
I loved monopoly. Thanks for the giveaway. Your fabric is wonderful.
- December 10, 2010 at 4:33 AM
- Missie said...
Hungry, Hungry, Hippos
I loved how loud it was and how it drove my parents crazy. Funny, but the marbles in my kids' game have mysteriously come up missing recently....
- December 10, 2010 at 6:23 AM
- mcregan said...
I remember loving Christmas despite the fact that I had 5 younger brothers who created chaos constantly! I loved playing house with my dolls and after 24 years of teaching, I am still taking care of children! I would love to have your fabrics to make a quilt for my friend/fellow art teacher in the next room who is due with a baby girl or boy next week. Happy Holidays and thanks for the giveaway!
- December 10, 2010 at 8:56 AM
My friend Mitch recently got married. For a gift, I sent a converted Super 8 tape of all of us playing fairies on the playground in Kindergarten. At the top of his lungs, he screamed "I want to be the pink fairy." I thought he would get a kick out of that old memory. Apparently, fairies were big when we were kids.
- December 10, 2010 at 10:12 PM
- Susanne said...
Me and my brother played Super Mario on NEW all the time :) Thats why I made a Super Mario Doll quilt.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the classroom, along comes Jaws himself. Green's functions are your friends!
The inhomogeneous Maxwell equations are now compactly written as
To solve this inhomogeneous differential equation, we construct simultaneously
a Green's function
Next week we will concentrate on the integral equation solutions themselves.
Now let us see how to construct the appropriate (covariant) Green's function.
As usual, the principle part of the Green's function can involve only the
absolute distance between the points. Thus if
we seek solutions to
There are several ways we could go about solving this equation. They are all equivalent at some level or another. For example, we have already solved this equation for a single fourier component in Chapter 9. We could transform this result and obtain a four dimensional result. However, a more general procedure is to construct the solution from scratch.
The four dimensional fourier transform of the desired Green's function is
defined by
The integrand in this expression is singular when .
Recall that the presence of singularities means that we have to decide
how to treat them to get a well-defined result. There are several ways
to do this, and each has a physical interpretation. If we integrate
over the ``time'' component first, we get
Let's do the integral carefully (in case your contour integration is bit rusty). Note that the poles of this integral are both real. This means that the integral is ambiguous - it can be assigned any of several possible values depending on how we choose to evaluation it. It is beyond the scope of these notes to evaluate the consequences of making and physically interpreting each of these choices. Instead we will choose to include both poles completely within a standard contour closed in the upper or lower half plane respectively, and then take limits such that the poles return to the real axis after the integral because this particular choice leads us very simply to the advanced and retarded forms of the Green's function that we already obtained when discussing the fourier transform of the incoming or outgoing spherical Green's functions for the Helmholtz equation.
First we have to decide which way to close the contour. Examining the
integrand, we note that if
the integrand vanishes
on a lower-half contour like in the figure above. We displace the
poles down slightly so that they lie inside the contour :
. Finally, let
be a
complex variable such that the real axis is .
We can then write the Green's function as
Using a trig identity (or if you prefer expanding the 's in terms
of exponentials and multiplying out, then changing variables and
exploiting the fact that only even terms survive) to extend the integral
to we can write this as:
These remaining integrals are just one dimensional Dirac delta
functions. Evaluating, we get:
If we had chosen the other contour, identical arguments would have led us to
the advanced Green's function:
For what it is worth, the Green's functions can be put in covariant form. One
almost never uses them in that form, and it isn't pretty, so I won't bother
writing it down. We can now easily write down formal solutions to the wave
equation for arbitrary currents (not just harmonic ones):
It is a worthwhile exercise to meditate upon what might be a suitable form for the inhomogeneous terms if one considerst the integration four-volume to be infinite (with no inhomogeneous term at all) and then split the infinite volume up into the interior and exterior of a finite four-volume, as we did with incoming and outgoing waves before, especially when there are many charges and they are permitted to interact.
Dirac noted that choosing a ``retarded'' Green's function, just as
choosing an ``outgoing wave'' Green's function before, results in a
somewhat misleading picture given that the actual physics is completely
time-reversal symmetric (indeed, independent of using a mixed
version of the Green's functions in either case). He therefore
introduced the ``radiation field'' as the difference between the
``outgoing'' and the ``incoming'' inhomogenous terms given the
contraint that the actual vector potential is the same regardless of
the choice of Green's function used::

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So this is the beginning of the Adoption April series that I decided to do. The first topic I wanted to touch on was the reason why I was adopted in the first place. A little back story on my family is necessary since I will be talking about them these next few Mondays.
My mom passed away after a four-year battle with breast cancer on April 6, 2006. Oddly enough that is today, the beginning of "Adoption April". I know my mom would have loved the fact that I'm sharing my story with so many people. I have a 20-year old brother whom I will refer to as "T". My father and I currently have a very strained relationship, but before my mom passed things were fine. My family used to be the "perfect" nuclear family, according to many standards. My parents were always happy, and we were more than blessed in the community where I grew up. I grew up in a Christian home and went through a Christian K-12 school system. So that's a little background of the fam, now onto why I was adopted.
First and most obvious, my parents couldn't have children. I have been told that not having children of her 'own' was one of my mom's biggest 'regrets' in her short life. My parents tried a lot of different ways of getting pregnant but my mom's body wouldn't allow her to produce a child, and she had to have a complete hysterectomy in her twenties. They began to look into other options.
I think this is why whenever I stumble onto a blog about a woman trying to get pregnant I feel a twinge of pain in my heart. Sometimes I think maybe this is how my own mom felt while struggling with the fact that she could not get pregnant. I couldn't imagine when everyone else around you is having children, and you want to have one so badly, how much your heart must ache. It would be miserable, and I feel like I can understand the pain some might be dealing with because I remember my mom telling me about the pain it caused her. I can't imagine wanting something so bad and knowing it won't happen for you like you planned. My mom told me sometimes she felt like she failed but I knew she hadn't. I knew that the struggle she endured only made her a stronger person.
When they realized my mom couldn't get pregnant, my parents then decided to explore adoption. The fees associated with adoption are costly, and I am glad my parents could afford it at the time. One of the first steps in their adoption process was to create books. Prospective parents created these photo books to 'show/share' with birth mothers that you are legitimate people. The books also described their hobbies, the church they were involved with and had pictures of them and their dogs. It is a glimpse into the prospective parents lives. I have seen these books and they are fun to look through. I couldn't imagine being pregnant and looking through the books and wondering "if my baby would fit in" with this family, but it gives you a sense to the family, their beliefs, their story, and their extended family.
My parents were on the waiting list for a baby for quite some time. They prayed about getting a child. They hoped. They waited. They had no idea when and if they would ever get a child to adopt.
My mom was shopping at Costco when my aunt called her. The adoption agency had called my aunt to tell her that they had a baby waiting for my mom at the hospital. That baby was me. My mom was shocked. There was no talk of her and my dad getting a baby anytime soon. They didn't have any names picked out. They were not prepared for me, but they were still so excited to have me.
After my mom passed away, my grandpa let me listen to the the voicemail she left for him, and it will forever be etched in my memory. Since then somehow it was eaten on the machine, but I will never, ever forget her voice on that message. The love that oozed from her tone, the excitement, the nervousness. It was all there, and it was all about me, being able to go home with her and my dad, and the beginning of a family.
I was born close to where I grew up and was incredibly small when I was born so they had to make sure that I was healthy and okay to go home. I will get into why it was a surprise when I talk all about my birth parents in an upcoming post but my parents were surprised but so happy that they finally had a baby.
Adoption allowed them to have the joy of having a child, even if I came to them in a non-traditional way. My parents' prayers had been answered and they were surprised and shocked all at the same time. Now they had a baby to take care of . In the whirlwind of events that had taken place, their lives had completely changed. Though I was originally named Baby Girl Anderson, my parents quickly picked out my name from a list they had compiled for the past years while trying to have a child. I have two birth certificates, and one literally says my first name is Baby and my Middle name is Girl and my last name is Anderson.
My parents took me home from the hospital and I lived with them for a year and a half before being officially adopted on January 23, 1987. In order to make everything official you have to go down to an LA courthouse and sign paperwork and take vows in front of a judge. Obviously I was too little to remember my own adoption, but I do remember my brother's adoption and traveling to the courthouse.
After the papers were signed I legally was my parents 'child'. Though my adoption day made it 'legal', I consider myself to be my parents child from the day I entered their life and we became a family back on the day I was born at the hospital.
Next Monday I am excited to talk about how I was raised and how adoption was an integral part in my life. What my parents did and how we address my adoption was important to me and I'm excited to share it with you guys. The last adoption post will be about Q&A that anyone has, so if you have any questions, feel free to email me firstname.lastname@example.com
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In the aftermath of Saturday's 3-0 loss to Western Kentucky in the second day of the Billiken Invitational the Lady Bisons called a players only meeting.
"Like any team, when you are faced with a new challenge, there is the question of what do we need to do," Lady Bisons coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "It wasn't a long meeting. But they worked some things out themselves. I think that is a good sign.
"I don't think there is a cause for panic. We have to get back to what we know best."
The Lady Bisons started out 12-6 in the first set against Western Kentucky, but from there things went from bad to worse. The Lady Bisons lost set 1 25-20, set 2 25-12 and set three 25-21.
"We had a six-point lead and then a couple of things didn't go our way," Rosenthal said. "Boom, the next thing you know that set is tied and we can't find our way out of it. We have to find a way.
"Western did a nice job. Unfortunately, I didn't think we competed the way we needed to compete."
Outside hitter Meghan Hinemeyer and middle blocker Alex Kelly tied for team lead in kills with nine each. Kelly led the Lady Bisons in digs with 11. Hinemeyer added 10.
The Lady Bisons opened the tournament Friday night with a 3-1 loss to host St. Louis.
The last time the Lady Bisons lost two matches in row was Aug. 30 at Tennessee followed by another loss at Kansas Sept. 4.
Western Kentucky, led by 16 kills from Tiffany Elmore, had a .333 hitting percentage. The Lady Bisons posted a .196 hitting percentage.
Both Lipscomb and Western Kentucky are 9-4. The Lady Bisons only lost four games last season.
The Lady Bisons close out the tournament Saturday against Marshall at 4:30.
"We have sense of urgency to clean up our game," Rosenthal said. "As far as a game plan against Marshall we are more focused on what we are going to be doing. We have to get better on our side of the net before we worry about all of the other things."
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Hoosiers to get the world's fastest academic super
Alley-oop for privately paid for petaflops
Indiana University is set to rise to the top of the flops among the world's academic institutions as it aims to break through the petaflops barrier with its upcoming "Big Red II" supercomputer using a Cray XK7 hardware - at least as gauged by raw computing power, and specifically those that foot their own bill for machines.
The XK7 has not been announced yet by Cray, but that is obviously the future name of the machine as you could see from the benchmark tests that Cray and Nvidia did recently to test the meddle (surely metal?) of the "Kepler2" Tesla K20 coprocessors that will be at the heart of the "Titan" super at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the similar "Blue Waters" super at the Hoosiers' Big Ten football rival, the Fighting Illini of the University of Illinois.
Although Blue Waters is expected to weigh in at between 10 and 20 petaflops and be therefore considerably more powerful than the Big Red II machine at IU, Blue Waters is largely paid for through a grant from the National Science Foundation to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the place where Marc Andreessen famously cut his teeth developing the Mosaic browser they led to riches for him.
The Big Red II machine will have over 21,000 processor cores and use the latest processors from Advanced Micro Devices as well as the latest Tesla GPU accelerators from Nvidia.
That almost certainly means the current "Interlagos" Opteron 6200s from AMD and the forthcoming K20 GPU coprocessors from Nvidia, but Cray was intentionally imprecise in its statement given the fact that the XK7 super is not yet announced, much less available.
We know it is not a "Cascade" machine going into IU as Big Red II since Cray says it will be using the current "Gemini" XE interconnect that is used in both the all-CPU Cray XE6 and the hybrid ceepie-geepie XK6 machines today.
The Hoosiers built a funky new data center for $32.5m in 2009 to house supers like Big Red II:
The Hoosiers' data center for Big Red II (photo courtesy of Indiana University)
The original Big Red super was installed in 2006 by Indiana University and was built by Big Blue, as it turns out, not Cray. The machine is based on IBM's JS21 blade servers for its BladeCenter chassis, and in this case the nodes were based on dual-core PowerPC 970MP processors.
The 2,050 nodes in Big Red were linked with Myrinet 2000 cluster adapters and linked out to a cluster of pSeries p505 servers running IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) through Gigabit Ethernet links; this file system has 346TB of capacity.
The Big Red cluster ran SUSE Linux, the Moab workload manager from Adaptive Computing, and IBM's LoadLeveler workload scheduler, although why it needed two workload managers, we don;t know. Big Red's 4,100 cores had a theoretical peak performance of 40 teraflops and hit 28 teraflops on the Linpack Fortran benchmark test that is commonly used to reckon the horsepower of supers in a very general way.
IU also has a 16-node Xeon 7500 cluster called "Mason" and another cluster called "Quarry" that is a mix of BladeCenter HS21 blades and iDataPlex dx340 nodes that has a total of 2,960 cores and a peak performance of 26 teraflops.
While the flops and bragging rights are fun, just like college basketball (which the Hoosiers are legendary at) and college football (not so much), what has Indiana University excited about the current and future Big Red machines is the money it drives. IU says that the researchers who used the Big Red machine in the past six and a half years were able to secure more than $253m in grant money that drove research across many different domains.
"We foresee a similar positive impact being made by Big Red II," Brad Wheeler, vice president for information technology at Indiana University, said in a statement announcing the new machine.
"The key importance of these systems has been in the discoveries they have enabled, represented in thousands of published papers produced by the IU scientists who have used them. Big Red has been an extraordinary value for IU over its almost seven years of service, and the frontiers with Big Red II will be even more expansive."
Big Red will be retired in early 2013 when Big Red II comes in, and the older machine has already done two more years of duty than the typical super does. Neither Cray nor Indiana University divulged what the petaflopper will cost. ®
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The battle over blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng's freedom and well-being is a battle over information. Both Chinese and U.S. officials are trying to spin the story their way. A few activists and media claim to speak for Chen, and in China's anti-press environment they are putting themselves at risk. Direct interviews with the man himself are hard to come by.
Chen, a public figure for the past decade due to his work advocating for victims of forced birth control, escaped from house arrest in Shandong province last week and made his way to the U.S. embassy in Beijing. The desperate 300-mile overnight trip was a cry for help. Thugs have restrained him at home and physically attacked journalists who tried to interview him since his release from prison in 2010, where he spent four years for his crusading work.
According to the State department briefing, Chen departed the embassy this morning because China had promised he would "treated humanely." The American official said the U.S. would follow up on Beijing's commitments and that Washington was "true to our human rights policy, which is one in which individuals within their own societies are given an opportunity to engage."
Here's the rub. Chinese leaders have repeatedly denied Chen the "opportunity to engage." Plain-clothed security agents have continually obstructed the media from reporting on him. How can officials in the U.S. embassy monitor his treatment going forward if neither he, nor the media, can speak freely? Images of hospital security marshaling journalists outside the Beijing hospital where he was reported to be receiving treatment today were reminiscent of the anti-media guard stationed outside his home in Linyi.
A Foreign Ministry spokesperson accused the U.S. of "misleading public opinion" about Chen, according to Agence France-Presse. Beijing is not willing to cede control of this narrative.
And even if Chen's story were to have a happy ending, dozens of other activists, writers, and journalists are under extrajudicial house arrest in China. They must all have a line of communication with the world: The local and international media must be allowed to report on their cases. Until that's true, the safety of neither Chen nor the others can be guaranteed.
So who is left to speak for Chen? Chinese activist Zeng Jinyan, wife of formerly imprisoned journalist Hu Jia, close friend of Chen, and herself a long-time victim of intense extrajudicial surveillance, has been reporting another version of today's developments on her personal Twitter account:
"Guangcheng didn't want to leave the embassy, he had no choice. If he didn't leave, Yuan Weijing (Chen's wife) would be sent back to Shandong."
Chen's wife fears for her safety if she is left in the hands of the vindictive local law enforcement, Zeng reported. Time magazine correspondent Austin Ramzy spoke to Zeng by phone and reported on his own Twitter account:
"Spoke briefly with @zengjinyan She said tweets were hers but couldn't speak further. 'It's a big risk,' she said."
The situation is still unfolding, but it is clear that more than just Chen's safety hangs in the balance. Those who report on him still face harassment or worse.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Negotiations have ceased between the Indians and unsigned pitcher Josh Tomlin. The sides are scheduled to head to an arbitration hearing on Friday to determine the right-hander's salary for the upcoming season.
Cleveland has adopted a "file and trial" approach on a case-by-case basis with arbitration-eligible players, meaning in some instances the team will go to a hearing if salary figures are exchanged. Tomlin fell into that category for Cleveland, which won its hearing with reliever Vinnie Pestano on Friday.
"We've been open to trying to come to a settlement," Tomlin said on Tuesday. "Whatever happens, happens. That's just the business side of it. It's nothing you can really control. That's the way it is and the nature of the beast, I guess. Hopefully, we'll get this behind us pretty soon and we can focus on baseball."
Tomlin, who is vying for a spot in either the rotation or bullpen this spring, is seeking a salary of $975,000, while the Indians are offering $800,000. By arbitration standards, the gap in salary is slim, making it seem as though the sides took a stubborn approach during talks.
"I wouldn't say it's both sides being stubborn," Tomlin sad. "I think it's just both sides understanding the business side of it, and that's all it is. There's nothing personal about any of it."
Tomlin, 29, appeared in just one game (two innings) for the Indians last season, following a comeback from Tommy John surgery on his right elbow. In parts of three seasons with Cleveland, he has gone 23-19 with a 4.92 ERA in 60 games (54 starts). Tomlin's best season came in 2011, when he went 12-7 with a 4.25 ERA across 26 starts for Cleveland.
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Every spring the NCAA college basketball tournament — known as March Madness — turns workplaces into play spaces. Betting on brackets and watching games seem more suited to sports bars, but since many of the games are played during the workday, it's not unusual for otherwise dedicated employees to schedule in some pleasure along with business. However, March Madness can cost workers and small business owners much more than productivity as cybercriminals target unsuspecting fans with malware.
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I enjoy going out with friends and am looking to make a site to help them organize and broadcast what they are doing tonight. This will be a platform for sharing small meetups and events that are happening soon such as what is going on in San Francisco tonight.
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Alias: Neogobius melanostomus
Homeland: The Black and Caspian Seas, the same home as the zebra mussel.
Arrival Date: First discovered in Great Lakes at Lake St. Clair in 1990. Scientists think they traveled here in ballast water from ocean going vessels. They were found in 1994 on the east shore of Lake Michigan and have now invaded all of the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, and most likely all tributaries that lead to Lake Michigan up to the first dam.
How to identify: This invader is a bottom dwelling fish with a large head, resembling a tadpole. It can can grow to be 10 inches long but is usually five or six- inches-long.
Look for the unique bottom fins on the belly that are connected. They form a suction disk that helps this fish hold onto rocks in fast moving water. The goby also has dorsal fins without spines. Young are a solid slate gray in color and larger fish have black and brown patches with a greenish dorsal fin.
Round gobies are successful invaders because they:
1. Eat the eggs and young of native fish (sculpins, darters, lake trout, smallmouth bass).
2. Protect vital spawning sites from native fish (sculpins).
3. Have sharp senses that allow them to find food in total darkness.
4. Can survive in poor water conditions.
5. Reproduce up to six times a summer.
The zebra mussel is an important part of the goby's diet and one goby can eat as many as 78 zebra mussels per day, which may reduce the numbers of this other invader but will not eliminate them. Predators of the goby include sport fish like the smallmouth and rock bass, walleye, yellow perch, and brown trout.
These invaders can be a nuisance near shorelines since they often steal worms or other invertebrates from your hook. They can also get on your line when you really want to catch perch, but don't let them go. They should be thrown in the trash!
Disguise: Be careful, round gobies look like the sculpin, a native bottom dwelling fish. They both have similar markings, are black during spawning, and have a black spot on the dorsal fins. Look for the separate bottom fins on the underbelly to know it is a sculpin and not a goby.
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Getting rid of these invaders is nearly impossible once they multiply. What can you do?
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"Beasts of the Southern Wild" came out of nowhere to win the Cinematography Award and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance earlier this year, and now those of you who didn't brave the frozen tundra of Utah in January can get your first look at the film's trailer--it's looks stunning.
"Beasts" tells the story of a little girl living on the Bayou who's father is sick, and whose home is sinking. Here's the official synopsis:
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
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The second generation of antihistamines were found to cause cardiac issues in some people who took them, and again, the side effects sometimes caused more issues than the allergies. The third generation of drug antihistamines seems to have hit the jackpot for allergy sufferers, allowing them to live their lives free of allergy symptoms.
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The public health care system is a wonderful thing to have. It takes care of people in need, providing them with basic health care all the way up to surgery. However, it is not a perfect system and has gaps that can leave the patient with a bill they may struggle to pay. Private health insurance eliminates those issues, providing the same coverage that the public system does and a whole lot more that the public does not.
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The FDA recently approved 10 generic drug manufacturers approval to start making generic versions of Singulair. This is great news for allergy and asthma sufferers as they are now able to purchase their medications at a lower price. Merck, the manufacturer of Singulair, expects its sales of the drug to drop by 90 percent once the generic versions hit the market.
Singulair (montelukast sodium) actively blocks leukotrienes, a substance found in the body that is responsible for asthma and allergies. It is not intended to treat a sudden asthma attack. Montelukast in pill form can not perform the same duties as a rescue inhaler. Instead, it works to prevent an attack by stopping the chain reaction that is started by leukotrienes. Allergies aggravate the lungs, causing the lungs to constrict, resulting in an attack. Removing allergens from the equation stops asthma from happening in the first place.
Some patients may find themselves confused at the move from brand-name to generic labeling. Fortunately, information is readily available from websites like www.i-medsource.com, which has a team of medical experts at the ready. Patients who currently take Singulair in its branded form can talk to a doctor online or over the phone, and get their questions answered. While websites such as www.i-medsource.com do not replace a visit to the doctor's office, the specialists that work for the operation are actual doctors, capable of discussing the generic form of Singulair with the caller.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Office Depot will close at least 400 U.S. stores, shedding more than 20% of the stores it now operates in the U.S. after its merger with rival OfficeMax.
The company said the stores will be closed by 2016, with 150 of the closings coming at the end of this year. Office Depot operated 1,912 stores in its North American division at the end of last year, and the OfficeMax merger added 823 stores to its lineup. The merger was completed in early November.
The company has not identified which stores it is closing.
The closings were widely anticipated since there are many locations where the two brands have stores close to one another.
There have been a number of store closings announced so far this year, as brick and mortar stores face more competition from online competitors such as Amazon.
Office Depot rival Staples announced this year it would close 225 stores in North America, or about 12% of its locations, as it moved to trim costs and respond to more of its sales being completed online.
Radio Shack also said it plans to close 1,100 stores, or 20% of its North American locations, while troubled department store chain J.C. Penney has announced plans to close 33 locations.
Some analysts also expect that Sears Holdings could close as many as 500 Sears and Kmart locations soon.
Shares of Office Depot were up 15% after the company announced the closings as well as better than expected earnings.
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