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Youngest Child has been a knitting model for a long time. Well, he recently turned twelve and I thought it was time to give him his own Knitting Superhero name.
Today is the unveiling of Boy X*.
|Boy X in Wee Balaclava
For some reason, I don't have a picture of him wearing his own adorable first baby sweater - an Elizabeth Zimmerman February Baby sweater and leggings - but he was my first child born since I was began knitting. The others all had babyhoods without - sob - hand knit items.
|Gull Wing Lace sweater and leggings - aka February Baby Sweater
Sometimes he wore items knitted for other people's children.
|Boy X modeling a gift sweater for Fabulous Baby Boy Melicious B.
Sometimes, he modeled his choice of knit wear.
|The unbearable yet cute Hans Lopi Sweater
Even the itchy sweater his mother knit for him.
He's worn lots of hats over the years - some for him and some for other people. Boy X is truly a good sport.
|My one and only crocheted hat.
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|An elfen Quarters Cap - after he learned about Bad Elves
Sometimes, he even modeled creations that weren't quite human.
So, why the knitting lovefest? Several years ago, Boy X asked for a sweater - a purple sweater. Well, I think it's time to create one for him. Unfortunately, the one I thought I'd make for him, Caherciveen
by Carol Feller in Contemporary Irish Knits (I own a copy and love it!), only goes up to size 10 and Boy X is now a size 14.
Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be exploring ways to turn this great vest pattern into something suitable for Boy X. And with purple.
Thanks again, Boy X, for learning to love knit wear!
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Did rift with Gary Bettman cost Ron MacLean his HNIC gig?
Among those who survived the Rogers takeover, nobody on the Hockey Night in Canada on-air crew had their role reduced more than Ron MacLean.
But was his contentious relationship with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman what cost him his job as the show's host?
MacLean admitted it may have been a factor in an interview with The Globe and Mail.
The hockey broadcast icon consistently took the players' side in regards to labour issues during interviews with Bettman. MacLean firmly believed the league was better off with a strong NHL Players' Association. It culminated into the commissioner boycotting Hockey Night after a heated interview in 2010, according to the Globe.
"Maybe that hurt me but I would gladly fall on my sword for that principle," MacLean said. "But I don't know that it had anything to do with (a reduced role). It could have."
MacLean said Bettman, deputy commissioner Bill Daly and NHL chief operating officer John Collins had heavy influence on Hockey Night when it was operated by the CBC. Since the Canadian national broadcast rights and control of the program were handed to Rogers, however, that influence has apparently increased.
"That pressure was always there to acquiesce, to toe the company line and in some cases that might have been the league line," MacLean said. "But I felt strongly about the importance of a healthy NHL Players' Association. That was a difficult thing for both the CBC and the league to accept, always was. Nobody (at the CBC) was ever happy when I was treating a partner (with skepticism), a partner that thought they were more important than the NHLPA."
Rogers broadcast president Scott Moore said in an email to the Globe that while he keeps Bettman up to date on decisions the NHL does "not have approval or veto."
The commissioner declined to comment.
George Stroumboulopoulos will take the reins from MacLean on Hockey Night this coming season. MacLean will maintain his role as Don Cherry's sidekick on Coach's Corner and also take up a new role reporting outside the studio for a segment called Hometown Hockey. It's a piece that will air Sunday nights wherein Stroumboulopoulos will throw from Toronto to MacLean, who will broadcast from a different Canadian community each week.
Whether or not his clashes with Bettman had something to do with the changes, MacLean said his differences with the commissioner were never "that important, other than I think it was a bit of an anchor in my career.
"My hero was Lewis Lapham and his basic point was always one I lived by: I'm not going to trade in the ability to think for myself for a five-star hotel or a nice job where everybody knows your name."


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Don Roach: Immigration reform appears imminent
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
a group of eight Senators from both sides of the aisle developed a framework of immigration reform. The main points are as follows:
• A path to citizenship – This is a critical issue for immigration reform. You have millions of people here illegally. What do you do with them? Deporting them seems like a near impossibility and true amnesty would seem to encourage more people to come here and say, "well, doesn't matter if I come here legally or not, I'll have a way to become a citizen." Neither appears tenable to me and the framework specifically states: Our purpose is to ensure that no one who has violated America's immigration laws will receive preferential treatment as they relate to those individuals who have complied with the law. That's a good thing, but working out the details is going to be tricky.
• Enforce the laws – Republicans have said time and again that we need to enforce our immigration laws. I completely agree and think that laws aren't there to be broken but to protect us all. There can't be one area of our legal system (other than jay walking) that is completely ignored just because we have millions of people here that we can't deport. It's critical that we create a system wherein we can enforce our laws. Immigration reform without this, isn't reform.
• Secure the borders – This is another key point but I really don't have a lot of confidence in our government to actually secure our borders. The framework calls for the creation of a commission comprised of governors, attorneys general, and community leaders living along the Southwest border to monitor the progress of securing our border. Easier said then done.
• No illegal workers – Companies should not benefit and instead should be punished for utilizing illegal workers. Make it more difficult to get a job in the US as an illegal immigrant and doing so becomes a less attractive prospect.
• No milking the system – Another important aspect would be the inability of certain immigrants in a "probationary" status from gaining access to publicly funded programs. I also think this is a positive step as it is a deterrent for illegal immigration as well as a motivator for illegal immigrants who are here to get documented.
The spirit behind the framework is threefold – give a pathway to citizenship, make it less attractive to be an illegal immigrant in the US, and secure our borders. I think the Republicans who have signed onto this should be able to encourage their fellow party members of this framework because it appears to be a significant compromise.
The President has his own ideas on immigration reform after failing on his 2008 promise to make such reform a priority in his first term. Let me pause there for a minute – Obama said that immigration reform would be a priority for him during his first term. It wasn't and still Latinos voted overwhelmingly for him in 2012? Republicans must be perceived as the boogeymen on immigration if Latinos gave the president a pass. Romney should have been all over this during the campaign…but that ship has sailed.
Back on point, the President seems less concerned about border security, illegal workers, and just about everything in the framework that requires accountability from illegal immigrants and companies. That's really disappointing. Sure he has talked about an E-verify like program, making sure immigrants pay all of their fees and taxes before becoming citizens, and things of that nature but by and large I don't feel he has a grasp on why following the rule of law is important.
Over the next few months, Congress and the President will haggle over the finer details of immigration reform. But for the first time in a long time, it appears that bipartisan change may happen. My optimism is only tempered by the fact that the leaders of Congress and the President have a horrible track record of working with one another. Still, I hope in the next few months to be writing about how we were able to achieve immigration reform rather than detailing the death of yet another immigration initiative.
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SAFER barriers will be installed in time for the September "One Last Race to Make The Chase" NASCAR weekend at Richmond International Raceway. The new SAFER barriers will cover the entire length of the inside backstretch wall, which is more than 900 feet.
"The safety of all who attend our events, including the drivers, is important at Richmond International Raceway," said track president Doug Fritz. "We will always be reviewing our facility and continue to look at ways to improve on the experience of our fans and the drivers."
The walls are currently being fabricated by GT Grandstands, Inc., a Plant City, Florida company. Installation of the SAFER barriers will begin as soon as they arrive in Richmond. Cheaha Construction LLC of Munford, Alabama will oversee the installation process.
NASCAR returns to Richmond International Raceway September 9-10 for a doubleheader weekend "under the lights." The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers will battle in the "One Last Race to Make The Chase" on Saturday, September 10. Advance tickets start at $45 and can be purchased by clicking here or calling 866-455-7223.
The weekend begins on Friday, September 9, with a full day of on-track activity, including the Virginia 529 College Savings 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race. Friday's ticket also includes Fas Mart Pole Qualifying and practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as WRIC-TV8 Pole Qualifying and practice for the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Friday's advance tickets start at $30, with children 12 and younger admitted free with a ticketed adult in general admission sections. For tickets and information, click here or call 866-455-7223.
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Mystic Falls residents will visit Manhattan soon, as the creators and cast members from The Vampire Diaries will appear at New York Comic Con this coming weekend.
Executive producers Kevin Williamson (creator of Scream) and Julie Plec are scheduled to appear, alongside cast members Steven R. McQueen ("Jeremy"), Sara Canning ("Jenna"), Katerina Graham ("Bonnie") and Zach Roerig ("Matt"). Learn what's to come this season and see a special video presentation from the hit CW series.
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Volume 16 Issue 43 | March 26 - April 1, 2004
Film Forum programmer has had an award-winning run
By JERRY TALLMER
Bruce Goldstein in his office on lower Broadway.
Im officially a chevalier, says the ever-young kewpie doll who has spent 30 years 17 of them with FF knee deep in fine old movies. Which means I can sing When le nightingale. . . , he warbles in the intonations of Maurice Chevalier. I think Im the only person from Hicksville, Long Island, to get this distinction. It was presented to me by a Monsieur Gehan.
Did he kiss you on both cheeks?
Yeah, of course. I got the medal and a little rosette to go with it. Everybody said to me: Oh, you got to go to Paris. But no, I just got to go to Fifth Avenue and 79th Street locale of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Which is just as exotic for me, says Downtowns Bruce Goldstein.
His world is in fact circumscribed between the Film Forum on West Houston Street, his and his wifes home on Elizabeth Street and a small, cluttered office on the 10th floor of a building on Lower Broadway immediately below Houston.
Office? It is also something of a museum. Look at this, says Goldstein, as he plucks down off a wall what remains of a buff-and-black 1926 poster for the Palestine Theater, Clinton Street between Stanton and Houston.
ANITA ROSENTHAL! the tattered broadsheet proclaims. The only woman Romanian cantor IN PERSON! Plus TOM MIX in No Mans Gold.
On a facing wall is the Xerox of another broadsheet. Its from Warner Bros., announcing the opening of 42nd Street (Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, George Brent, Bebe Daniels, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, 1933). It opened the week of the Bank Holiday. Nobody had any money, says the chevalier with a sort of whoop.
Wait! Wait!! he exclaims as he pries out of its plastic protection a crumbling, browning issue of Variety for March 7, 1933. BANKS BUMP BOX OFFICE, the headline hollers. And then the subheds: Trading Post Box Office. Hen Fruit and Edibles for Admission.
I love this period of movies, says Goldstein. The pre-censorship era. Before the code the title of more than one of his retrospectives at Film Forum. And in those years Warner Bros. made one great movie after another. Not B-movies. Quickies, but not Bs.
On yet another wall theres a framed letter from Samuel Z. Arkoff in which that historied producer of schlock says of Goldstein: Youre a brilliant publicist.
Sam Arkoff (1918-2001) was the last of the great movie moguls, says Goldstein. Arkoffs 140 producers credits in the Internet Movie Data Base notably include How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) and The Amityville Horror (1979).
Bruce Goldstein, son of Murray and Betty (Horowitz) Goldstein, was born July 5, 1952, in, guess where, Amityville, Long Island, not far from Hicksville.
I once went to Los Angeles, says Bruce. Sam picked me up in a 1961 red Cadillac convertible, sucking a cigar that long. He was the only Jew from Fort Dodge, Iowa. In 1991, at the opening of the new Film Forum i.e., the venue then to now, 209 West Houston we gave him a retrospective.
Sam was the luckiest man in the world. That was the year of a citywide newspaper strike. Everybody had come to interview Sam, and all the articles came out the day before the strike.
It wasnt because of Sam Arkoff that the French government inducted Bruce Goldstein into its Order of Arts and Letters. It was because of what hes done over the years, and keeps on doing, to preserve, enhance, present and publicize the works of such as Marcel Pagnol, Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda, Jacques Tati, Eric Rohmer. Just for one nationality.
Also to educate the American audience in these glories.
Look! he says, unrolling his newest acquisition, a 5-foot-high poster heralding La Grande Illusion, Renoirs 1937 World War I masterpiece thats good for this year, too, or any year. Isnt it beautiful? Goldstein asks. Hes right, it is.
Betty Horowitz Goldstein, mother of Bruce, worked for years for the Screen Publicists Guild. Murray Goldstein, who died in 1991, was a commercial artist working for Columbia Pictures, here in New York.
But, says their son, I dont think my parents were a major factor in his lifelong devotion to films. I think it was New York television. Three words: Million Dollar Movie.
Nowadays, with DVDs and video, kids can memorize a movie the way we used to memorize a song. Well, on Million Dollar Movie you could see King Kong over and over again all week, or Astaire and Rogers, or whatever it was. I remember seeing The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner [Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, directed by Tony Richardson, 1962] on Million Dollar Movie. I probably didnt understand it he was maybe 12 years old but I saw it over and over again for a week.
And then there was New York itself, in the days when art-cinema houses and revival houses thrived like mushrooms everywhere from Bleecker Street to 95th Street, or beyond.
I remember a high-school field trip to see The Silence [Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1963]. Spooky and erotic. I thought it was Ingrid Bergman, says Goldstein, cracking up.
Then I began schlepping in to the city every week to go to the Thalia [95th Street] and the New Yorker [88th Street]. That corridor along Broadway, 88th to 95th Street, terrified me. People like lunatics. It wasnt like Hicksville, I tell you that.... Years later, he adds with bemusement, I ended up running the Thalia.
I remember my father taking me to the Thalia to see The Blue Angel [Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, directed by Josef von Sternberg]. I think I took him actually. You know that moment when the schoolboys are passing around a Lola Lola photograph with a feather on it? When they blow on the feather, it shows her thigh? My father said that was the biggest turn-on of 1929 [no, Bruce 1930].
From Hicksville High School hed gone on to Boston University for a while. Dropped out to run a movie theater at Provincetown, on Cape Cod. Then to New York to work for Sid Geffen, who owned the Bleecker Street and the Carnegie Hall Cinemas, both now long since dead and gone.
Then I went to London for two years, 1978 and 79. Knocked about, ended up working as publicity manager for a fashion company. Saw more great movies than ever in my life, many of them at NFT, the National Film Theater, on the south bank [of the Thames]. On British television youd get things like Kevin Brownlow and David Gills great series, The Silents on prime time, Here, it would be at midnight on Channel 9.
From London it was once more back to New York to join Richard Schwarz running the Thalia, and a half-dozen years later, in 1986, Bruce was invited by Karen Cooper to come Downtown and launch a revival screen at her Film Forum.
I wasnt into programming. It was a gig thats turned out to be 17 years now [going on 18].
The first series I did, in 1987, was called Bigger Than Life: Movies in Scope. The idea was that television could be a great entree to films, but you were always missing something. If the average picture was what? 90 minutes long, youd only get 70 minutes because of commercials. The worst case, Goldstein says with that glint of his of the ridiculous, was Silk Stockings, with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, songs by Cole Porter. On TV they cut all the musical numbers.
One of the proudest things I ever did, he says, gloatingly, conspiratorially, was restore a scene that [producer Dino] De Laurentiis cut from Nights of Cabiria [Giulietta Masina, directed by Federico Fellini, 1957] because De Laurentiis felt the picture was too long. Its called the Man With a Sack sequence, in which this person with a sack distributes food to the poor. Seven minutes. I found it in France. Its now part of the movie again. It was out of the movie from 1957 to 1998.
Goldstein pops out of his chair, goes over to a small-size monitor on a tabletop, gestures for the interviewer to come over and take a look.
On the screen is an image of that marvelous, all-but-forgotten French actor Louis Jouvet (1887-1951) in a cover shot for the movie Quai des Orfevres (Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1947). Its one of the 25 classic films found, restored, and re-released by Rialto Pictures, a company started by Goldstein in 1997 and now run by him and entertainment lawyer Adrienne Halpern.
A wonderful movie, he says. A thriller. Quai des Orfevres is what the French call their Scotland Yard. You know an intersecting thought hits him at 9/11 it just so happened that we were doing a N.Y.P.D. series at Film Forum. Youd be surprised. There are hundreds of movies about the N.Y.P.D. Back to Suzy Delair. Shes still around. Did some interviews for us from Paris two years ago when we ran Quai des Orfevres.
The list of Rialto imports to date reads like a whos who of motion-picture greatness. Among the titles, as he ticks them off: The Open City, Paisan, The Bicycle Thief thats not chopped liver, the importer murmurs Contempt, The Third Man, Nights of Cabiria, Grande Illusion, Rififi, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and, this year, Gilo Pontecorvos 1965 The Battle of Algiers.
You can see why I got this commendation from the French. But his sly grin next Im bringing back Godzilla. Yes! Its his 50th birthday and its getting more e-mail than anything weve ever done.
The office is a hop, skip and jump away from where Goldstein, his wife Keiko Kimura (a DVD-box illustrator), and their daughter Mimi live on the street that bred a Martin Scorsese and was background for parts of Coppolas Godfather triptych. Its just like being in a movie, yes, Bruce?
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Tamanend's wine for summer has blossomed into one for all seasons.
The Lancaster city winery with one of the most diverse wine lists among any in Pennsylvania -- from Bag in a Box to Lime Margarita to a sweet red called Sweet Red to Azul D'Oro that's made from Agave -- features a line of seasonal wines. One of those, called Patriot, was made with the Fourth of July and summer in mind, is a blend of blueberries, raspberries and kiwi berries in an apple base. "It does really, really well," owner/wine maker Richard Carey said by phone earlier Monday. "People seem to really love it."
Wine by the Season is a fruit-wine series that the winery developed several years ago. It's sweet, for sure, with a 7 percent sugar content.
"We've been making [Patriot] for three or four years, which used to be our summer wine for the Wine by the Season," he added. "But we've just had people keep coming back and back and back. We decided that any time is a good time to be a patriot, so we'll make it all year-round.
That year-round availability of the wine will extend to the 10 PLCB stores that carry Tamanend wines, stretching from York and Waynesboro to Harrisburg and over to Allentown and downtown Philly. They are part of that PA Preferred program that was during the 2013 Farm Show and implemented last summer. Carey, who has had his disagreements with the PLCB in the past, said he has no complaints with this program.
"Finally we have a platform that we can have enough wine in the system that makes it reasonable for us, and several of the wines are doing extremely well and others are plugging along."
What delights Carey the most is the flexibility the program gives him. "That was the neat thing about it," he said. "We got to select the 10 stores, we got to select the 10 wines, and we do the delivery for it, because I wanted to have in-person store contact with people. Is it profitable? No, it's not profitable for us. But it's building our market base and building the relationships with the stores.
"It's still dealing with the old PLCB bureaucracy, but it is at least something that we can say we are in the state store system."
Meanwhile, the winery is getting prepared for the start of the ninth annual Tour de Tanks, which will begin Saturday and continue every weekend through March. Tamanend is located on the eastern fringe of the 22 wineries and one distillery that will participate. Tickets remain available.
Don't feel like you have to like sweet wines to visit Tamanend, one of a handful of state wineries that doesn't grow any of its grapes. Besides the winery, which is located in an industrial setting on Flory Mill Road, it also has tasting rooms at 25 W. King St. in Lancaster and 11 Main St. in Strasburg.
"We make more dry red wines than most wineries around," Carey said. "It isn't a high percentage of our business, but I just keep them there and keep them going, and people love them."


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Cancer Focus Man Van pulls up in Armagh
14/03/2014Cancer Focus Northern Ireland's Man Van has been visiting the Southern Trust to bring life-saving messages and health checks to men in and around Armagh.
The Cancer Focus Man Van is a mobile unit which delivers one-to-one health awareness sessions and health checks to men at various venues across counties Down and Armagh.
Sandra Gordon, Cancer Focus ManAlive coordinator, said, "Traditionally men are reluctant to talk about health issues or seek professional help. As a result, if cancer is diagnosed it may be at a later and perhaps more advanced stage. Increasing awareness of the signs and symptoms of various cancers and offering advice on how to adopt a healthier lifestyle will help empower men to take control of their own health, lower their risk of cancer and encourage earlier detection.
"By offering health promotion services onboard a mobile unit that can travel to a community's doorstep, we are able to reach out to even more men in the Southern Trust area – an area where research has shown significant inequalities between male and female life expectancy."
Staffed by a Cancer Focus Health Promotion Nurse and Senior Cancer Prevention staff, men have been able to access free health checks including blood pressure, blood glucose and body composition measurements, and receive weight management advice and information on smoking cessation. Advice on early detection, on-the-spot cancer prevention information and referral and sign posting opportunities to reduce men's risk of cancer and to improve their overall health will also be available.
Kevin Murray found it useful to attend and said: "I got my weight measured and I am going to continue to stay healthy with my swimming. I tried on the 'beer goggles' and learnt about the health impact of drinking alcohol."
Aaron Donnelly adds: "The Cancer Focus health promotion nurse explained why it is good to go to the doctor, and that the doctor might look in my ears or my mouth. I know about eating healthy food and not having too many sweets and chocolates."
Jimmy Green also attended the Man Van during its visit to Armagh and said: "I learned a lot of useful information on my health."
The Cancer Focus Man Van is part of the ManAlive project funded by the Big Lottery Fund Reaching Communities Programme. To find out more information about the Cancer Focus Man Van, or if you are a business or community group interested in bringing the service to your area, contact Sandra Gordon, ManAlive Project Co-ordinator, email: firstname.lastname@example.com or telephone 028 9066 3281 or visit www.manalive.co
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It's a man's world - or is it? Southern Men: A study of the life expectancy of men living in the Southern area of Northern Ireland. PHA May 2010.
In Northern Ireland:
- Men with a learning disability die 13 years earlier than men in general
- Women with a learning disability die 20 years earlier than women without a learning disability
- Men die about five years younger than women
- Men have higher death rates than women for all the leading causes of death
- Poor lifestyles in men are responsible for a high proportion of chronic diseases
- Men delay going to see their GP or health care worker. This can lead to diseases being detected at a more advanced stage, leaving less effective treatment options and poorer outcomes.
(Source: Men's Health in Northern Ireland: Tackling the root causes of men's (ill) health, March 2011. Man Matters Policy Briefing Paper No 1)
Eileen Canavan, Community Access Officer at the Southern Health and Social Care Trust; Aaron Donnelly; Kieran Wadforth, Day Opportunities Worker, Southern Trust; Marie Loughran, Health Facilitator, Southern Trust; Paul McClatchey; Sandra Gordon, Cancer Focus ManAlive coordinator; (kneeling) Martin McClatchey, Kevin Murray and Jimmy Greene


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Help Japan! Donation Sources and Keeping Up to Date
While this is an Anime Blog, there are times when we will step out of the box to bring awareness to helping the country that provides us so much joy, when they are facing a major crisis. As you know, an off-shore about 125 kilometres off the coast Earthquake 9.0 Magnitude happened on March 11th 2011, Friday afternoon at 2:46pm in Japan, as result had brought forth a devastating, monstrous tsunami that has destroyed homes and taken hundreds, if not thousands of lives. It was already overwhelming watching this happen LIVE despite not being there ourselves. As our hearts go out praying, and hoping for the most positive outcome, we can help by donating to the relief fundraisers, rest assure these sources are not scams. I will continue updating the list and links to LIVE broadcasts and anything that is related to this subject.
*Earthquake Magnitude 8.8 has been updated to 9.0: Confirmed
*Added 13/03/2011: Social Network Support Activities and Music Related Support and Charities
*Behind the Cut: Fundraisers | Keeping Up to Date | Anime/Manga/Game Industry Members Check In After Quake | Social Network Support Activities | Music Related Support and Charities
Canadian Red Cross
American Red Cross: "If you are looking for away to help Japan. Text "redcross" to 90999 to make a $10 donation or go to redcross.org".
Australian Red Cross
British Red Cross
Japanese Red Cross
Salvation Army: "Funds can also be donated US$10 at a time by texting "Japan" and sending it to the number 80888"
Crunchyroll: "For every dollar that you donate, Crunchyroll will match your donation (up to $5,000 USD)."
Keeping Up to Date:
– Google Crisis Page
– http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tbstv (LIVE: TBStv – Japanese News Network)
– http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv (LIVE: NHK-GTV – Japanese News Network)
– YokosoNews.com : Explanation and Details from the Japanese News Network that may not be covered by other broadcasts around the world. (LIVE: Updates) *RECOMMENDED.
– TRIO LIVE BROADCAST: *Middle Footage, ENGLISH CHANNEL ON NHK
– BBC News
For Concerned Anime/Manga/Game Fans:
– Anime/Manga/Game Industry Members Check In After Quake
– List of Japanese Personalities: Seiyuus Mangakas Music Artists/Actors Others
Social Network Support Activities:
Support and Charities:
– N. American Industry Members Join Podcast Fundraiser (@http://helpjapan.onepiecepodcast.com/)
– Voice Actors, Artists to Hold Quake Charity in L.A.
– T.M. Revolution to Turn Concert Into Charity Event
– Rock Singer Gackt Starts Earthquake Relief Fund
– Sphere, Milky Holmes Support Quake Victims in Words, Song
– Kimi de Ite Buji de Ite from Kanno Yoko, dedicated to support Quake Victims.
"Yoko Kanno — the composer of Cowboy Bebop, several Macross projects, Escaflowne, and many other anime and live-action works — posted a song she created to support the victims of the March 11 earthquake (Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin) and tsunami on Sunday. The song is titled "Kimi de Ite Buji de Ite from Kanno Yoko." Kanno was born in Miyagi — the prefecture hardest hit by the earthquake and tsunami." – ANN
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Steven Chapp is a practicing studio artist and his primary media are printmaking and drawing. He works in many different printing techniques including intaglio (etching on zinc plates, and photopolymer plate etching), wood and linoleum relief prints, and monotypes. His preferred drawing media are oil pastels and oil sticks, but at times his drawings will also include additional manipulations of graphite, charcoal, and colored pencils.
He recently retired with 29 collective years of teaching visual arts with 25 years of those years in the Greenville County, S.C. School System.
His teaching experiences have also taken him to Genoa, Italy where he taught at Clemson University's Genoa Campus, the Charles Daniel Center for Urban Studies.
He has conducted multiple printmaking workshops with the Upstate Visual Artists, Greenville County art teachers, Oconee County art teachers, Pickens County Art Museum, Picture This Art Gallery, Hilton Head Island, IF Art Gallery in Columbia, SC and privately in his studio.
At his Black Dog Press and Studio he offers workshops in various printmaking techniques and can provide services as a master printer for collaborations with other artists to produce limited editions. He also does contract printing. He has printed 30 editions of Solar Plate etchings for Herb Jackson, who taught painting at Davidson College, N.C.


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The gangster lifestyle has been popularized to the nth degree since Grand Theft Auto first burst onto the scene so many years ago. In August of 2006 Saints Row released to the Xbox 360 as the first, of what was then known as next-gen, free-roaming killing sprees. The nature of the original Saints Row was about delivering over-the-top characters and action set in a grizzled city environment. Saints Row 2 picks up after the events of the first with your character broken and unsure of his loyalties. We recently spoke with James Tsai, Lead Designer for Saints Row 2 at Volition Studios, to get the scoop on everything from returning characters, new mission types and the development team's confidence in going up against the monster known as GTA IV.
IGN: Explain to us exactly what has transpired from Saints Row 1 to Saints Row 2. What has happened to the main character and how has his outlook changed?
James Tsai: Saints Row 2 takes place a few years after the original. With the Vice Kings, Rollerz, and Los Carnales out of the picture, several new upstart gangs have been able to sweep in and make their mark on Stilwater. At the same time, a multi-national conglomerate known as the Ultor Corporation has become a pivotal player in city politics, pumping millions of dollars into rebuilding the metropolis.
Regarding the main character, it's pretty easy to explain what's happened to him: he's slept. Comatose and disfigured after the explosion at the end of Saints Row 1, he has passed the years in the confines of a dingy prison infirmary. Much in the same way his body was rebuilt while in recovery, the city of Stilwater has changed and rebuilt itself. It's a brave new world that he can't wait to tear back down.
IGN: I understand that Julius and Troy are returning to SR2. Are they aware that the Saints stabbed our character in the back at the end of the first game? How has their role changed within the Saints from the first game to Saints 2?
Tsai: Without trying to give up too many spoilers, I can definitely say that Julius and Troy do indeed return in Saints Row 2. At the start of the game, we see how far the Saints have fallen and find the old leadership fractured and spread out. Troy has left the ranks of undercover officers to become Stilwater's Chief of Police. Johnny Gat is on death row. As for Julius, the player will find out what his old mentor had to do with the bombing that left him for dead in the first game.
IGN: Since your character undergoes plastic surgery at the beginning of the game (in order to create your custom look) do Julius, Troy and the rest of the Saints recognize you from the get-go or do you have to reveal your identity later down the line?
Tsai: The player is actually quite infamous in our game; he's the leader of the Saints, and everyone knows it this time around. We do crack a few jokes in the storyline referring to the fact that the player might look completely different than in Saints Row 1, but the visual disparity is not a focal point of the game.
It was very important to us to continue to offer a more robust character customization system than anyone else. Playing as who you want to be is part of the core Saints Row experience. You can even select your voice this time around, since your player is no longer a mute who stands by and takes orders but rather an angry badass who takes charge in every situation.


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LONDON (AP) — Former Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins has had to find a new school for his children after what he described as harassment and bullying following the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.
Wiggins told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper on Wednesday that he moved his two children Ben and Isabella to another school last year because they were repeatedly asked whether their father had used drugs like Armstrong.
Speaking at a training camp on the Spanish island of Majorca, Wiggins said his victory in the 2012 Tour, when he became the first Briton to win cycling's showcase event, was a life-changing event.
"I left home pretty much unknown and came home the most famous man in the country for that week," Wiggins said. "It was hard for me and the family. It affected them as well. The Lance Armstrong thing in January... my kids started getting harassed at school. 'Is your dad on drugs? He won the Tour. Is he the same as Lance Armstrong?' My son getting bullied at school. I had to move my kids from that school and move them to another school."
Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour victories and banned for life in 2012. After years of denials, Armstrong finally acknowledged drug use in a TV interview with Oprah Winfrey in January last year.
Wiggins watched Armstrong's confession with his son and explained to him that his dad had won the Tour clean. That did not prevent the bullying at school and the 33-year-old Olympic champion said he felt accountable for it.
"Horrendous stuff. Horrible," Wiggins said. "I felt responsible for that and it all added to my unhappiness at the time."
Wiggins, who has always taken an uncompromising stance on doping, said he has moved on from that unhappy period and feels "much more comfortable in my own shoes now" — despite a disappointing season.
After his Tour triumph, followed by a time trial gold medal at the London Olympics, Wiggins struggled to cope with his new celebrity status. He lost his focus during a year that saw him withdraw from the Giro with a chest infection and then pull out of the Tour de France because of a knee injury.
His working relationship with teammate Chris Froome also broke down as his former lieutenant became Team Sky leader and went on to win the Tour last summer.
However, Wiggins said he is now ready to ride in a supporting role after putting aside his disagreements with Froome during a three-day team bonding session in December.
"We're actually looking forward to racing together," Wiggins said. "It's nice when it's like that. I want to do the team proud and do myself proud."
Wiggins added he has yet to decide whether to stay with Sky in 2015 or switch back to track cycling with the aim of ending his career at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
"That was where it all started for me in Sydney (2000)," said Wiggins, a former pursuit specialist. "To finish there, and hopefully go out on a high, would be great."


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So my husbands Christmas Party is coming up and I wanted something nice and festive on my nails- Finally a date night without the kiddos! Lol. We live in Northern Florida and don't see much snow here so I thought why not paint some snow on my nails! I just used a regular nail art brush similar to a nail striper brush to paint the snow flakes and the falling snow. I wish I would have used a small dotting tool instead for the falling snow but oh well there's always next time. I also wanted a little sparkle to go along with the snow flakes so I used a round supper sparkly glitter polish for the center of my snowflakes- OPI I Snow You Love Me. The background color is such a beautiful grayish-blue with a gold shimmer throughout that isn't picking up in the picture- OPI I Don't Give a Rotterdam. I have had this color for a while and finally got around to using it. I love it with this design- it reminds me of the pretty and comfy Christmas sweaters you see in stores every year. I topped it all off with one of my favorite top coats- OPI Top Coat. This top coat isn't fast drying but its worth the wait in my opinion. It makes my polish last for about a week with minimal wear. For the background color I did three thin coats for full opacity.
Let me know what you think of this design and if you have done a similar manicure before. I think this is so beautiful and Christmas party appropriate. Now I just have to figure out what to wear! 🙂
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Lessons Learned From "The Lego Movie"
If you haven't seen "The Lego Movie," then you should probably steer clear of this article. More importantly, you should steer yourself toward a movie theater, because "The Lego Movie" is maybe the most enjoyable film I've seen in a very long time. It skillfully adds layers of metaphorical meaning on top of a base storyline that's packed with rip-roaring adventure and tons of jokes. It's been a while since I've left a movie theater not only pumped up to create my own stories, but also questioning the rigid social structures we've created as a society. The fact that a 90-minute toy commercial had me question anything at all still blows my mind.
So seriously, go see the movie.
Now that the spoiler warnings are out of the way, I'll start building up the primary comic book focused lesson I learned while watching "The Lego Movie," one brick at a time. One of the film's many themes — and there are surprisingly a ton of them — is the idea that living strictly by the rules and adhering to order can lead to a sacrifice of creativity. The main conflict presented in the film happens between the evil Lord Business, a world conquering maniac obsessed with order, and Emmett and his band of Master Builders — a team of Lego Minifigures that let their imaginations take control, thus allowing them to build whatever they need whenever they need it. There are even more nuance bricks on top of that foundation, so again, go see the movie if you haven't yet. Also, I told you there might be spoilers in this article!
It hit me while watching this central theme that this could apply to comic books. I mean, really I think it's a metaphor for the current political climate, but that's not what this column is about. Trust me, once I've found a home for my "Kid Movies With Subliminal Political Messages In Your Face" column, I'll let you all know. But yeah, the battle between the instruction booklet and free play shown in "The Lego Movie" definitely relates to how readers should read comics.
In this metaphor, the instruction booklet, the one that Emmett clings so dearly to, is continuity and the expectation to adhere to what's been established before. On the other end are the metaphorical Master Builders, who write the stories they want to tell, with nary a concern that Tony Stark stating he hates broccoli contradicts with a meal he ate in a comic from 1978. In my life as a comic book fan, I've gone from a Lord Business to a Master Builder.
At some point I'm going to dive in and dissect my kneejerk hatred for Grant Morrison's "New X-Men" run for the world to see/get mad at, but until then, here's a teaser. I hated "New X-Men." Times a million. However much you Star Trek fans hated "Star Trek Into Darkness?" Mulitply that times a million. I hated it that much. I hated it because it took a Master Builder wrecking ball to the pristine, architecturally sound continuity that I had been building up in me ever since I picked up my first X-Men comic. Suddenly Emma Frost was faux British, Beast was a cat person, the Imperial Guard were called "Super Guardians," and every single one of my favorite characters (Cannonball, Siryn, Multiple Man) were treated as cannon fodder. We had very different ideas of what the X-Men should be, and their new leather-bound personas were a far cry from the '90s animated iteration I fell in love with.
At the time, Morrison's drastic change drove me away from the characters. Yes, I still bought "New X-Men" every month — why wouldn't I buy and half-read a comic that made me mad? I'm a comic book fan! I just didn't connect to the stories or characters the way I had in the past. Things changed, and they didn't change back into a recognizable shape until Joss Whedon started his run on "Astonishing X-Men." He followed the instruction booklet a little more closely; the characters looked like super heroes again and they had interactions that felt naturally formed from the preceding decades. Whedon and artist John Cassaday's first issue even straight up samples images from classic Kitty Pryde stories that would form the basis of their interpretation of the character. That choice makes "Astonishing X-Men" #1 even read a bit like an actual instruction booklet. But during the course of their run, the duo made choices that messed around with the order — specifically the Master Builder move of making the Danger Room a sentient being. Whedon's run wasn't all (Lord) Business, after all.
I like to think I've grown a bit since my continuity obsessed "New X-Men" days. I eventually realized that I had no control over what comic book creators did, and that no amount of screaming or citing could dissuade a writer from telling the story they want to tell with the characters they were hired to write. Being a comic book fan becomes a lot easier when you realize you can leave the instruction booklet in the box sometimes.
A recent example of this has to be Boomerang's transformation from a bumbling comic relief baddie in "Thunderbolts" to a wisecracking, wannabe mastermind in "Superior Foes of Spider-Man." Nick Spencer acknowledges the character's past under writer Jeff Parker, but the character's personality has definitely shifted as he's moved from a bit player in an ensemble to a leading man. As someone who deeply loved "Thunderbolts," and specifically Boomerang's lovable idiocy, I could feel let down that that version of the character isn't in "Superior Foes." After all, I want more of that thing I loved! But instead I read "Superior Foes of Spider-Man" a bit divorced from what's come before, and instead of getting hung up on my continuity quibbles, I'm constantly rewarded with the funniest book Marvel Comics is putting out right now. Sure, Boomerang's a different type of funny now, but he's still funny. And so what if Spencer and artist Steve Lieber have added a few wrinkles to Tombstone and Shocker's backstories and/or personalities? Those wrinkles are devilishly clever and have resulted in me actually caring about Shocker and — to a lesser extent — Tombstone.
During "The Lego Movie's" big climax, Emmett pleads with Lord Business to take a look around and really see the wondrous creations that the civilians of Bricksburg have built from his city. It really hits home one of the film's many messages, which is that life works better when we're a team that celebrates and adds to each other's unique ideas. For comic book readers, maybe we can view every character, creator, location, group affiliation, etc., as a Lego brick. All those bricks together form a construct — or a comic book. That construct/comic book will eventually get dismantled and mixed in with other parts to form a new comic book, but that pure character brick is still there. It might be on top of a Grant Morrison brick, and together they might be forming a sun-smasher super-collider that's really a metaphor for, like, life man, but when you remove the Grant Morrison brick, those character bricks go back to their starting point again, unchanged.
The reason that Grant Morrison's "New X-Men" run startled me so was because it was the first time my X-Men bricks had been used to construct something unrecognizable to me, something outside of the rule book I knew by heart. I realize now that nostalgia places an unequal importance on the constructs the X-Men were in when I first met them. In my head, the Havok and Quicksilver bricks will always be in an "X-Factor" set, and an "X-Force" construct without a Shatterstar or Domino brick will never feel complete to me — but that does not automatically mean that the new constructs are bad.
As time has gone on and every member of every X-Team has now done time with every other X-Team, I have to accept the fact that all these bricks are interchangeable — but that those changes don't inherently alter the bricks themselves. For example, the Cyclops brick is snapped in-between the Massive Guilt brick and the Pretty Much A Jerk brick right now in "Uncanny X-Men," but at some point in the future those pieces will be broken apart and used in another way. Maybe the Pretty Much A Jerk brick will latch onto the Beast one, resulting in some truly literary put-downs.
The thing is, story comes first. If a story benefits from using the instruction booklet, then it just does. If a story calls for random bricks to be assembled into something we haven't seen before, that's great too. That's what we all have to realize about these shared universes — they're just giant bins filled with Lego bricks waiting to be assembled and disassembled in whatever forms best pass the time. I did not go into "The Lego Movie" expecting to have that lesson reaffirmed in my brain, but that happened.
Now, if only I could find a home for my dissection of the film's religious and political themes…
Brett White is a comedian living in New York City. He co-hosts the podcast Matt & Brett Love Comics and is a writer for the comedy podcast Left Handed Radio. His opinions can be consumed in bite-sized morsels on Twitter (@brettwhite).
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Injury Law for Leadville, Colorado 80461
Accident legislation, likewise called tort legislation, is developed to safeguard you if you or your home is wounded or hurt due to someone else's act or failure to act. In a successful tort activity, the one who created the injury or damage makes up the one who endured the losses.
Personal Injury Claims: When You Required a Lawyer in Leadville, CO
Occasionally, the skills of a knowledgeable injury attorney– or at the very least the risk to an insurance company that such an attorney might offer– are worth the money you should pay that legal representative to represent you. You might need a lawyer due to intricate legal guidelines associated with your specific insurance claim, or because the seriousness of your injuries may trigger your settlement to differ greatly from the standard– or merely since an insurance company chooses not to settle an issue in good faith. The following sorts of injuries as well as accidents almost certainly need a legal representative's assistance.
Just what is a "Accident" Case?
"Injury" instances are legal conflicts that occur when a single person suffers damage from a mishap or injury, and somebody else may be legally responsible for that harm. An accident case can become formalized with civil court proceedings that look for to discover others legally at fault with a court judgment or, as is far more common, such conflicts could be solved through casual settlement prior to any type of lawsuit is submitted.
Do I Have a Personal Injury Case? Serving 80461
Life happens to all of us. Most people experience some kind of injury at some point in time. And also of course, a lot of us would rather merely heal up and also move on. However some injuries are also big to be that basic. When costs from treatment or harmed home (such as your auto, which you should get to work) pile up and also bring about lost wages, stress and anxiety could make the suffering worse and also your monetary security could be interrupted. Injuries you receive after a mishap because of negligence or other variables that are brought on by somebody else are certainly grounds for filing a claim and getting financial compensation for all those problems. There's no basic black-and-white checklist you could comply with, though. Just how do you understand when you have an injury case?


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This black and silver mask is a lot of fun. With a black feather accent and silver foil stars along with silver sequin streamers, this mask is the perfect accessory for your next masquerade or ball.
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Dallas Stars forward Ray Whitney, who will be 42 next month, had a lot to talk about with 43-year-old Ducks winger Teemu Selanne on Wednesday during the first game of their teams' first-round playoff series.
And it didn't involve swapping stories about AARP.
With a timeout in effect, Whitney decided to pay his respects to Selanne, who plans to retire after the season. To his surprise, Selanne repaid the compliment.
"Just saying how a pleasure it's been playing against him for so long and he said the same thing, which was very nice of him," Whitney said after the Stars' morning skate Friday at Honda Center.
"It is a tribute. If you can play this long in the league you've done something right for a long time. It's something that we should all be proud of, if you're in the league 40 or beyond."
Whitney made his NHL debut during the 1991-92 season, a few months after current Stars center Tyler Seguin was born and one season before Selanne's rookie-record 76-goal performance with Winnipeg. Whitney has scored 385 goals and 1,064 points in 1,330 career regular-season games, in addition to 21 goals and 53 points in 104 career playoff games. Whitney won the Stanley Cup in 2002 with the Carolina Hurricanes, one of eight NHL teams he has played for.
Selanne scored 684 goals (11th all-time) and 1,457 points (15th all-time) in 1,451 regular-season games and has added 42 goals and 83 points in 119 playoff games. He won the Cup with the Ducks in 2007.
"I have seniority on him, I guess, in that aspect," Whitney said. "I'd say his career has gone ahead slightly quicker than mine in terms of production, but his production the next year when he came in slightly outdid mine.
"He's had a great career. It really has been a pleasure playing against a guy like that for so long and seeing the way he's conducted himself. With all that success, you certainly wouldn't know he's where he is in the overall standings in the league."
Whitney was slowed late in the season by a lower-body injury but returned for Dallas' 4-3 loss at Anaheim on Wednesday in the series opener. He skated alongside Seguin and Jamie Benn for part of Friday's morning skate in advance of Game 2, but Coach Lindy Ruff cautioned against reading anything into that. Still, Whitney said that if he's placed alongside Dallas' two best forwards, he's ready for the challenge.
"I guess I'll just be passing it up to them most of the night," he said. "It's a tall order to play with those two for sure. We'll see what tonight brings, but it brings excitement for sure."
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If I join the imam in the Eid prayer after he has started the takbeers after takbeerat al-ihram (the takbeer with which he starts the prayer), should I say the takbeers that I missed after the imam has said takbeer?.
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked: What is the ruling if I catch up with the imam when he is praying the Eid prayer, and he has said the additional takbeers? Should I make up the takbeers I missed or what should I do?
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If you join the imam during the takbeers, then you should say takbeerat al-ihraam first (the takbeer to start the prayer) and then follow the imam in the remaining takbeers, and you do not have to make up what you missed.


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Pronation is the inward movement of the foot as it rolls to distribute the force of impact of the ground as you run. The foot "rolls" inward about fifteen percent, comes in complete contact with the ground, and can support your body weight without any problem. Pronation is critical to proper shock absorption, and it helps you push off evenly from the front of the foot. Although pronation is a natural movement of the foot, the size of the arch can affect its ability to roll, causing either supination (underpronation) or overpronation. If you have a normal arch, you're likely a normal pronator, meaning you'll do best in a shoe that offers moderate pronation control. People with flat feet normally overpronate, so they do well in a motion-control shoe that controls pronation. High-arched people typically underpronate, so they do best in a neutral-cushioned shoe that encourages a more natural foot motion.
Generally fallen arches are a condition inherited from one or both parents. In addition, age, obesity, and pregnancy cause our arches to collapse. Being in a job that requires long hours of standing and/or walking (e.g. teaching, retail, hospitality, building etc) contributes to this condition, especially when standing on hard surfaces like concrete floors. Last, but not least unsupportive footwear makes our feet roll in more than they should.
Symptoms can manifest in many different ways. The associated conditions depend on the individual lifestyle of each patient. Here is a list of some of the conditions associated with Over Pronation. Hallux Abducto Valgus (bunions). Hallux Rigidus (stiff 1st toe). Arch Pain. Heel Pain (plantar fascitis). Metatarsalgia (ball of the foot pain). Ankle sprains. Shin Splints. Achilles Tendonitis. Osteochondrosis. Knee Pain. Corns & Calluses. Flat Feet. Hammer Toes.
You can test for pronation by looking at the leg and foot from the back. Normally you can see the Achilles Tendon run straight down the leg into the heel. If the foot is pronated, the tendon will run straight down the leg, but when it lies on the heel it will twist outward. This makes the inner ankle bone much more prominent than the outer ankle bone.
Non Surgical Treatment
Solutions typically presented will include physical therapy sessions, prolonged prescription drug regimens, occasionally non-traditional approaches like holistic medicine and acupuncture. These options can provide symptom relief in the short term for some patients. However, these treatment methods cannot correct the internal osseous misalignment. Ligaments are not effective in limiting the motion of the ankle bone when excessive joint motion is present. Furthermore, there is not a single, specific ligament that is "too tight" that needs to be "stretched out." The muscles supporting the bones are already being "over-worked" and they cannot be strengthened enough to realign these bones. There is no evidence to suggest that any of these measures are effective in re-establishing or maintaining the normal joint alignment and function.
Surgical Treatment
Subtalar Arthroereisis. Primary benefit is that yje surgery is minimally invasive and fully reversible. the primary risk is a high chance of device displacement, generally not tolerated in adults.
An implant is pushed into the foot to block the excessive motion of the ankle bone. Generally only used in pediatric patients and in combination with other procedures, such as tendon lengthening. Reported removal rates vary from 38% – 100%, depending on manufacturer.


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Almost of a repeat of the recent Steam deal, Green Man Gaming are currently providing the best price for Techland's open world zombie shooter, made even better by their voucher code. That said, even without the code it is the current best by at least £4, but every little helps. Just remember that this purchase requires Steam to play.
It has to be said that this one is best played in co-op, although those looking to go solo will still have plenty to do over the tropical island resort of Banoi. With patches continuing to fix some of the more annoying bugs and balance issues, and the Bloodbath Arena DLC now out (for those wishing to spend a little more) now might be a fine time to start cracking some undead heads. Thanks to goonertillidie @ HUKD!


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Sunday, 5 March 2017
Heart of Hearts
Card blank: 6" x 6" white silk
Die: Impresion Obsession 'Heart of Hearts'
Card: Silver mirri, silver pearlescent, white silk
Other: Computer generated sentiment 'Harrington' font
I printed the sentiment in grey onto white card and then die cut the heart. This was trimmed before being layered onto silver pearlescent and silver mirri card. I die cut the heart from both the silver pearlescent and silver mirri card and inlaid the pieces. The completed topper was then attached to the centre of my card blank.
Kath x
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This is beautiful Kath. I thought youhad die cut lots of hearts and arrnged them into that big heart until you said it is an IO Heart die.Really gorgeous. Congratulations on your wedding anniversary. Christine xxReplyDelete
Stunning card, Kath. very eye-catching. The computer generated sentiment is perfect and I love the silver heart.ReplyDelete
I pressed the publish before I meant too. Just wanted to wish you a very happy anniversary. Elizabeth xxReplyDelete
Many Congratulations to both of you, lovely card.ReplyDelete
A beautiful card Kath, such an elegant design. Congratulations on your Silver Wedding Anniversary.ReplyDelete
Stunning CAS card Kath, I love the heart die you have used.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your Siver Wedding Anniversary.
Janice x
Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Alphabet Challenge, good luck!!! Amy DTReplyDelete
Congratulations on your silver wedding anniversary. This card is gorgeous, all of those little hearts within a heart - beautiful.ReplyDelete
Sue xx
Congratulations to you both on your Silver Wedding Anniversary. The card for you hubby is absolutely beautiful Kath. BarbxxReplyDelete
Lovely card for your OH. Many congrats on your Silver Wedding Anniversary.ReplyDelete
Hugs, Sarn xxx
Hi Kath, Another lovely card.ReplyDelete
Happy Anniversary to you and your hubby. Sue
Congratulations on your Silver Wedding Anniversary Kath and love that heart, and the pretty inlaid silver hearts too which takes a bit of time but looks fabulous. xReplyDelete
What a stunning creation! Thanks so much for playing in our 'Something New' challenge at Dies R Us! Please come back again soon!ReplyDelete
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A beautiful elegant card. This die is fabulous. Thank you so much for sharing with us at Alphabet Challenge.ReplyDelete
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This is really beautiful Love the colour tones. Very swish. Thank you so much for sharing your lovely creation with us at Sparkles Monthly Challenges.ReplyDelete
Cathy DT Member
Beautifully done! Love the silver touches! And Happy Anniversary!! Thanks for joining our "Something New" challenge at Dies R Us!ReplyDelete
Wow what a lovely card, love how you have mat and layered those wee hearts into the pictureReplyDelete
Crafty hugs Pen x
This is really beautiful Kath. Lovely design with the silver inlaid hearts. And a wonderful way to celebrate 25 years together. Congrats!ReplyDelete
Happy Silver Wedding Anniversary! What a fabulous die cut and very stylish CAS card! Thank you so much for joining us at Sparkles Monthly Challenge!ReplyDelete
Love Jacky x
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wow, this is stunning. So elegant and perfect. Congratulations on your anniversary! Thanks so much for playing along at Happy Little Stampers xxReplyDelete
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Rob Douglas: Barkey, Wiggins, Rae and 64
November 15, 2012
Last week's decision by Colorado voters to legalize the recreational use of marijuana has triggered an avalanche of local, state and national reaction. Over the next year, myriad constitutional, statutory, regulatory and tax issues stemming from Amendment 64 will be hotly debated in the halls of Congress, the state Capitol and right here in the Yampa Valley.
While there will be ample time to argue about some of the thornier issues Amendment 64 will force legislators at all levels to confront, the amendment does require state and local law enforcement officials across Colorado to make immediate decisions when it comes to citizens 21 and older found in possession of 1 ounce or less of marijuana between now and the moment the amendment takes effect.
Specifically, Amendment 64 sets a time schedule for the creation of state laws and regulations that will guide the establishment and licensing of marijuana retail stores and associated facilities that will, realistically, delay lawful sales until 2014 at the earliest. But personal possession will be legal within a matter of weeks.
Article V, Section 1(4) of the Colorado Constitution mandates that the governor provide an official declaration of the vote to pass the amendment "not later than thirty days after the vote has been canvassed." In other words, even if Gov. John Hickenlooper keeps begging U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to threaten Coloradans with federal intervention when it comes to the cultivation and sale of marijuana, possession of small amounts of marijuana will soon be legal under Colorado law no matter what the feds do.
To their credit, most local law enforcement officials in Routt County have accepted that the passage of Amendment 64 means there is no justifiable rationale to prosecute those found in possession of small amounts of pot during the gray period before the amendment is legally in force. One notable exception is District Attorney Brett Barkey, who serves as the top prosecutor for Routt County. Barkey, seemingly cloaked in a cloud of prosecutorial callousness, told the Steamboat Today on Thursday afternoon that he has no plans to drop charges that are pending in the courts related to petty marijuana offenses. Hopefully, Routt County judges will throw Barkey and his petty marijuana cases out of their courtrooms.
Fortunately, our local police leadership consists of men with more maturity and common sense than Barkey. On Wednesday, I spoke with Routt County Sheriff Garrett Wiggins and Steamboat Springs Police Chief Joel Rae. Both stated that as soon as Amendment 64 passed, they instructed their officers to not cite anyone 21 and older for possession of 1 ounce or less of marijuana. In fact, anticipating that Amendment 64 would pass, Chief Rae proactively held a departmental meeting on Election Day to inform his officers of his decision. Once the election results were tallied, Capt. Jerry Stabile repeated Rae's order in an emailed directive to Steamboat police officers.
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Given that both Chief Rae and Sheriff Wiggins publicly opposed Amendment 64, they are to be commended for appropriately using their discretionary authority to not charge anyone with possession during the period of legal limbo before Amendment 64 constitutionally precludes those charges.
But beware. Before marijuana users get carried away in a celebratory haze, they would be wise to fully grasp that while Amendment 64 legalizes the personal possession and private use of an ounce or less of marijuana for those 21 and older under Colorado law, there are still a significant number of state and federal laws that remain in effect and could result in life-altering criminal charges.
Based on my conversations with Sheriff Wiggins and Chief Rae, there is no doubt that law enforcement officers in the Yampa Valley will arrest and charge citizens who violate drug laws — including those involving marijuana — that are not eliminated by Amendment 64. After all, 64 is not a Get Out of Jail Free card for those who wander beyond the boundaries of the amendment.
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