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I haven't been very good lately at updating my knitting progress on the blog. I have been adding things to Ravelry, but I sometimes forget about mentioning them here. Bad habit to start! After all, not everyone has access to Ravelry yet, and the blog did come first. In any case, here is a list of what I have been working on. I hope to have pictures soon (I HATE taking pictures for the blog. Don't know why, but I do.).
Bunny Hop Lace Socks - These are done, so I will write a full FO post soon. I am happy with the way they turned out, but I must admit the short heel on the second is much nicer than it is on the first. Plus, it makes me sad that I have used up my Sweet Georgia yarn and there is no more.
Elfine Socks - I started these a few weeks ago. I was trucking along very nicely when I realized I must have ether skipped a row (pretty hard to do), or I lost count and did the same row twice. I have been trying to kink back and fix the blunder, but if you have ever made these socks or looked at the 16 row repeat, you can understand why I do not have much desire to tackle the problem.
Ella Shawl - I am on my last 20 or so rows. Since about 10 of these are decrease rows, it should go pretty quickly if I can just find the time to sit and get it done.
Monkey Socks - I only have to stitch up the toes. I hate doing toes. Another one of those where I just need to sit and make myself finish them up.
Tree Jacket - I did a swatch for this, so I might cast on before the weekend. The yarn I got is awesome, and very affordable (always a bonus!). I will tell more later when I get started.
I think that is about it. Nothing overly exciting, but a lot going on.


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I sat down Saturday afternoon to make it with my Cricut Explore, a new blade and a new mat (I didn't realise how blunt my blade was until I put the new one in)
The files were very easily to upload to Design Space but there were quite a few layers which also meant a lot of paper and card stock.
The instructions were really helpful for cutting the pieces. I then used the YouTube video on their site to help with the construction. It was pretty self explanatory but the video really helped with positioning.
And this is the final card:
It took about 2 hours with all the cutting and layering. I also made the matching envelope.
The only negative I would say is that it's hard to see the poker chips front the front (it looks more like a no entry sign front behind the queen) and also next time I'd used black card instead of the dark blue suggested.
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Honoring Kitten Mai
Kitten Mai is an advocate for mental health. She is not afraid to stand up for a cause that is highly stigmatized and for that Mental Health Awareness Retreat honors her.
Kitten Mai is the proud owner of Mad Echo. As a store owner she knows there will be countless of people who will stop by her land. In order to help others find their mental health resources and a community that cares and is there to help with such matters, Kitten has placed up a Mental Health Awareness Retreat Poster in her store.
That is not the only thing Kitten has done. She has also helped many times to decorate the land which is a safe haven for many. She has created the environments to be peaceful and pleasant. She also is the creator of our hunt poster for the Postpartum Depression Hunt. Kitten is always volunteering and always giving of her time.
Recently, Kitten Mai chose to raise awareness via her Flickr. She is also very active in the community's group, offering a listening, genuine ear.
As part of honoring a person, Mental Health Awareness Retreat gives the honored person $500L. Kitten Mai donated the money back along with an additional $2000L which will go towards the Asylum Exhibition coming soon.
It is people like Kitten Mai who make a huge! difference in the world. Who make the world a better place to live in. Her actions don't go without notice. She is helping to create the changes we wish to see.
In honoring Kitten, I would love to share some of her favorite quotes:
"The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are the minutes you will not know again." ~ Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
"You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three - year - old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly: and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better."
For Kitten Mai, most of her favorite quotes about depression come from The Noonday Demon book written by Andrew Solomon. She says that The book helped keep her from suicide at one point.
She also enjoys this quote "Oh, the sound is just the sound. It's me who is going out to annoy it. If I leave the sound alone, It won't annoy me. It's just doing what it has to do. That's what sound does. It makes sound. This is its job. So if I don't go out and bother the sound, it's not going to bother me. Aha!" ~ Ajahn Chan
This quote was for Kitten a revelation. It made her realize that when she is about to have a panic attack over a spider...it's just a spider being a spider. It is her who is making the big deal about it. Same goes when she is afraid to leave her house. People are just out there going about their business, and it is her who is interpreting them as threats. She says that when she recognizes that she is the one creating these anxieties in a way, then she is able to fight the anxiety itself.
She goes on to say that it is not one's fault that one is anxious. It's just the anxiety coming from within, from the mental illness. Knowing that the "scary" things are not the one hurting you but the illness itself, it's empowering to her.
Besides these quotes, Kitten Mai finds Fat Acceptance/Body Acceptance movements to be really great, especially for those with mental illness. She states that Mental Illness too often affects self esteem and body image. To expose one self to body-positivity and work on body acceptance can really boost self worth.
Kitten Mai's favorite links are:
Thank you Kitten Mai for being an advocate for mental health! For raising awareness and helping people find their resources, help, and a community where they don't feel alone. You DO make a difference in the world =]
***Every month, Mental Health Awareness Retreat is choosing to honor someone who is standing up for Mental Health and raising awareness and/or advocating for Mental Health.
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I've Been Adopted!
Age: 6 years
Gender: Female
Adorable Fairy-Tale Pumpkin
Update 5/29/2011: Pumpkin came to stay with me less than a month ago. She is a total joy to have in my home. She is incredibly affectionate and loves to cuddle. She is great with other dogs, including her much larger foster sister, and wants to greet everyone she meets -- animal and people. She especially likes children, and is very good with any child who will play gently with her or hold her. Pumpkin is so tiny I can hold her in one arm (17 lbs); in fact she sleeps cuddled up in my arms at night. Pumpkin is a little timid at first; once she gets to know you her tail wags all the time. She tells me when she needs to go out and will potty on the leash without any problem. The only times she's had any problem was when left alone either in the kitchen or in her crate at home or when we've ridden in the car; she tends to urinate more from insecurity and/or stress at being left/confined in the crate than from a need to go. Pumpkin loves to ride she just doesn't like being confined. She easily spends the night in my room and will wait for me to take her out in the morning with no problem at all
Pumpkin is a tiny little sprite who is very sweet and friendly. At only 17 lbs., she looks like a puppy and can be very playful.
Pumpkin is a bit timid, but doesn't let that get in the way of asking for lots of pettings. This Beauty wants a Beast or Fairy Godmother to give her love and attention--she is a super-snuggler.
She is a pretty tri-color--her black has a beautiful orange tint to it, which is probably how she got her name. Pumpkin has huge ears for her small face, reminding us of Rapunzel's long hair.
Pumpkin is curious like Alice in Wonderland, and is a dainty, but enthusiastic eater.
Pumpkin gets along well with her beagle step-brothers. Like Cinderella, Pumpkin is happy she doesn't have to sleep in the fireplace anymore. She likes toys, treats and warm dog beds.
Pumpkin is a good Sleeping Beauty and is crate-trained. She enjoys exploring the yard like Little Red Riding Hood as long as there is a fence to keep out the wolves!
Little Pumpkin is hoping that someday her Prince (or Family) will come! Won't you rescue this magical girl and turn this Pumpkin into a Princess?
Older info: Pumpkin is mom to the HairDo kids! She came as a stray to the Amelia County shelter and had her pups. A family tried to care for her, but they were moving and had to give her up. She is on the small side and adorable and sweet as can be. And, she is just a little bit of a thing!
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- Jessica Bernstein - We are sponsoring Pumpkin in honor of our beagle Farley, who was our best friend and most wonderful companion. He passed away last June. We miss him every day and hope to help Pumpkin find a wonderful home.
- Susannah Ashlynn Gonia - love ya babbieee!!!!!
- Claudia Booker - I have adopted her sweet little puppy Fauxhawk, now Lily. I am very thankful to Pumpkin for bringing my sweet little girl into this world. I want to now help Pumpkin find a forever home of her own!!
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This has to be one of the most involved makes for me in a while, and while it's not difficult, it is beginning to get to me. I have reached that stage where you tell yourself to just get on with it!
This is it right now, with the hem half sewn. (I am so relieved with how invisible it seems to be.)
But it's the buttonholes that's got me in a panic. Should I have made bound or corded buttonholes? They'd be stronger and look really neat, but it's way too late for them now.
After much googling and searching for tips, clues, ANYthing on making buttonholes on corduroy, I found this post by Vicki Kate Makes on her own beignet. Holy crap, her buttonholes turned out FANTASTIC!! And they're machine-made.
The buttons were originally meant for my wearable muslin, but the heavy cotton twill fabric from IKEA (a neighbours old curtains) ended up being ripped ON the seam due to a nicked machine needle. ARRRGGGGG!
So, they'll go on this make instead. I can't face searching for more buttons again!
And the fabric used for the facing is a piece of cotton home dec remnant I've had in stash for a couple of years.
It's nothing special, but the purple fibres running through the fabric (grid design) matches the corduroy and bemberg lining really well. It's functional.
Oh and those are hanging loops up there. In Sandra Betzina's book, More Fabric Savvy, she recommends adding these to bottom pieces instead of using the clips on hangers which leave marks.
So there we are. The end is in sight. Must push on!


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More on Index design
Posted by decipherinfosys on July 14, 2008
We have blogged a couple of times over the factors that should be considered when designing indexes. In one of such posts, we had also covered indexes over multiple columns. In all of those posts, you will see one common thing that we try to emphasize – do not try to come up with a "rules of thumb". Here is a simple example (from one of the e-mails to a question to a reader);
Question: I am trying to see how to tune/optimize a query and I saw that an index on the where condition columns is missing. Should I just go ahead and create an index and add all the columns that are used in the where clause into that index?
The answer is of course: NO. First, we requested the reader to go ahead and read the post from above where we have discussed the column order in covered indexes and then also gave a simple example to help illustrate the point:
Say, you have this query:
select col1, col2, col3
from dbo.big_table
where col1 >= @x and col1 <= @y
and col3 = @z
For this, we might want to create a covered index (in this order): col3, col2, col1. This is so that we can first of all process the data based on the equality operator on col3, then scan through and narrow down the data based on the >= and <= conditions on col1 and then get the value for col2 from the index itself rather than going through the table. Now, as we have always stated, understanding your data and it's characteristics is very very important. Suppose that col3 is unique in this table! In that case, we would just create a single index on col3 and be done with it. Why? It will qualify for a single record and thus we will just do the row ID lookup on the table for that one single record.
So, bottom line is that please spend some time to understand the data characteristics – understand how indexes work, understand how the query is accessing the data and the data distribution – density and selectivity of the column data values as well as how often that particular index is going to be used – if an index is being created to support a report that runs only once every 6 months, is it worth to have it in the schema all year round or should we just create it prior to generating that report? Once you have that understanding, then only decide how you want to approach the design.


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Science is hard.
But more than that, science is hard to keep up with. Everyday it seems like there's a new discovery being made that completely changes our understanding of the Universe. If you had told me a couple weeks ago someone invented a real-life reactionless drive using only the magnetron from a microwave oven and the contents of his garage I would have said you're a dirty liar. But now look, NASA is experimenting with a reproduction of that very same device and they still haven't come up with a good explanation for how it works.
As someone who writes science fiction semi-regularly I find the burden of scientific accuracy a little overwhelming at times. I could spend months designing a fictional rocket and all it's components; the nuclear reactor, the deck plan, weapons and give it the most robust and accurate engineering I can. And sure, I could sell the idea to Reader's Digest and rake in millions. But it will all mean exactly zilch if a few weeks after publishing NASA appears and announces they've invented honest-to-God anti-gravity. It's impossible to keep up with every new scientific discovery and sooner or later any piece of science fiction will succumb to what TVTropes calls Zeerust.
I accept that everything I write here and now will one day be seen as dated, even quaint. But if my fictional universe is doomed to being hopelessly antiquated then at least it's going to be consistent.
Here in 2015, there are dozens and dozens of theories regarding the possibly quantum nature of gravity. Some of these were formulated simply to reconcile General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics (two very very different fields with completely incompatible equations), while others have the lofty goal of becoming a so-called Theory of Everything, a theory so complete in it's description of the physical world that it can predict and explain every aspect of the physical Universe.
As for potential Theories of Everything or the less ambitious Grand Unified Theories, there's plenty of candidates to choose from. Of course you have String Theory, the lesser known but still very interesting Loop Quantum Gravity and ugly ducklings like Supergravity or Euclidean Quantum Gravity. The problem is that there's so many to chose from and none of them can be experimentally verified. All these theories concern themselves with either very small or very energetic environments; conditions we're physically incapable of interacting with. So who knows what's really going on down there. We certainly don't, because our giant, fat instruments make a mess of everything we're trying to observe. This is part of the reason why some believe the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal isn't due to the actual nature of subatomic particles, but is actually a result of the limitations of our giant Human measuring equipment.
The point is that any one of these theories could be correct and I have no way of knowing which one that might be.
I'm getting ahead of myself of course. Because before we can even hope to unify Relativity and Quantum Mechanics we need to figure out how we've even supposed to interpret Quantum Mechanics. As you know, Quantum theory is very strange, some would say frightening. Much of what goes on down there is open to interpretation and the math supports plenty of daffy ideas. For example, when you take a measurement of a particle's position or momentum (but not both), what's really going on? Was the particle behaving like a wave and you've just collapsed it into a particle? Are you getting interference from an unseen pilot wave? Or have you inadvertently created an alternate timeline where your measurements were different? Nobody knows.
The most common interpretation by a wide margin is of course the Copenhagen Interpretation. It has the distinction of being the most widely accepted and visible interpretation and also the one with the most crazy stuff going on under the hood. This is the one that gives us such weirdness as wave-particle duality and wave function collapse; strange circumstances that probably don't even accurately describe the nature of subatomic matter but is as close as we're going to get to really understanding it using our feeble Human minds.
Then there's Pilot Wave Theory which asserts that the bizarre behavior of particles has less to do with them being probabilistic bundles of energy and more to do with 'hidden variables' called pilot waves: ripples particles leave in the fabric of space-time as they pass through. These waves 'remember' the path the particle took and influence the motion of all subsequent particles that pass through it, providing a handy explanation for unusual behavior like what's observed in the famous double-slit experiment.
Or you could stick with the old sci-fi standby of the Many Worlds Interpretation and toss all those sticky questions regarding wave-functions in an alternate timeline.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There's a plethora of unanswered questions in physics and each one could have a potentially bizarre answer that totally changes our understanding of reality. For example, what is the origin of mass? We don't know because the concept of mass is so intertwined with gravity and like I said earlier, we don't know what gravity even is at the quantum level. Is mass actually the symmetry breaking Higgs field? W Z Bosons we haven't detected yet? Nobody knows.
How can neutrinos of a specific lepton flavor suddenly have an entirely different flavor? Do they spontaneously transform into a different particle?
Why is there so much more matter than anti-matter in our universe?
What is dark matter and dark energy? Is it zero-point energy? The cosmological constant? Another universe absorbing our own?
Who knows how long it'll take to answer all these questions. Some of them might never be answered. Well, I am not a scientist. But I am someone aiming to write a gripping sci-fi yarn so a few weeks ago I decided I wasn't going to wait for real results from the LHC. Instead, I'll come up with my own fictional Grand Unifying Theory; one that was complete in it's description of the physical universe, that was consistent with all our experimental data so far and allowed for plenty of wacky circumstances like negative mass, anti-gravity or the Alcubierre drive; phenomena conducive to a good science fiction story that haven't been disproven yet.
I call my fictional theory the Theory of Choice as it'll be fine tuned for exactly the sort of stories I want to tell and take all of what I consider the most interesting and probable explanations that are floating around in the physics community right now.
In all likelihood, my pet theory will be disproven ten, maybe twenty years from now. But in the meantime it'll serve as a good framework for the physics of my fictional universe, providing consistent and (hopefully) reasonable explanations for how all the technology therein works. And if any particular element gets disproven (like dark energy ends up being angry ghosts or something), well, I never said my fictional universe was supposed to be our universe. I'll just say in a press conference that my intellectual property takes place in an alternate timeline, similar to our own but with subtly different laws of physics. Until then I can claim perfect scientific accuracy.
How the Theory of Choice works is that I make a few sweeping assumptions about physics and from there, pick the real scientific theories that best fit those assumptions and slowly move down the list of unanswered questions , using explanations from the aforementioned theories until everything is more-or-less ironed out. It's slow going, partially because there are just that many unanswered questions in physics but mostly because I am dealing with heady scientific topics most laypeople don't even know exist. I still have no idea what CP Violation is but it's important and because it's important I have to pretend I'm an actual astrophysicist and try to wrap my head around it.
First, the assumptions: in the ToC, the universe is probabilistic, not deterministic. Second, gravity is quantum but Relativity and Quantum Mechanics go ultimately unreconciled. Third, the origin of mass lies in the Higgs field, the Higgs Boson is not the only such particle of it's type and there are many more left to be discovered, each one capable of more and more bizarre gravity-like effects than the last. Finally, no matter what, the ToC must allow for travel to alternate realities, each more terrifying than the last. This last point is the most important as it allows the antagonists of my work to kill far more people than the total population of any one universe.
Right away, I can say that String Theory has no place in my fictional universe. It's not that I think String Theory is necessarily wrong or bad. I just feel like String Theory has ballooned far out of proportion and makes a lot of assumptions that aren't going to hold up to real-world experimentation. As of this writing, there's virtually no experimental evidence for String Theory and yet it enjoys widespread acclaim and support as the most likely candidate for the fabled Theory of Everything. Plus, String Theory's implication of an orderly and elegant universe is totally at odds with the kind of story I want to tell. String Theory describes an intricate tapestry of 11-dimensional manifolds, where matter arises from the subtle vibrations of mysterious bundles of energy. Well not here it isn't. My universe is a violent, unwholesome place; a cosmology of terror where life counts for nothing and there are only three spatial dimensions.
In my universe, there is no Theory of Everything and the interaction between gravity and the three fundamental forces is ultimately hazy and indistinct. There might not be a Grand Unifying Theory either, meaning there was never a time when electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces were unified as a single fundamental force. This goes back to the idea of a probabilistic universe. Here at least, God really does play dice with the universe. Everything that occurs in the subatomic world is hazy and left to chance, meaning that at it's most basic level, the universe is open to all sorts of unsettling unrealities.
This is why Pilot Wave Theory has no place in my universe either; it offers a logical, deterministic explanation for the strange behavior of particles with the introduction of pilot waves, injecting reality back into the study of Quantum Mechanics. Determinism and the idea that there is a logical, mechanical explanation for everything his has no place in my chaotic, ultimately nihilistic universe. Instead, I'll probably end up sticking with a modified form of the Copenhagen Interpretation, but it has problems of it's own.
The crux of the Copenhagen Interpretation is the wave function collapse: before observation, particles are in superposition where they occupy any number of energy states and locations. But after observation the wave 'collapses' and the particle inhabits a single energy state. Many have interpreted this as meaning a conscious observer is an essential part of quantum mechanics and that the conscious mind plays a large part in shaping the nature of reality itself. I want to avoid this as it opens the door to a lot of New Age mysticism and other hippy-dippy nonsense I don't want to be involved with. Plus, this mindset kind of implies magic is involved.
Now don't get me wrong, there is magic in my setting, but it has it's own rules unrelated to physics at large and the less said about the quantum mind, the better.
Instead, I'll probably stick with something closer to the idea of Quantum Decoherence. But it's implications are little more far reaching than what I'm comfortable with. If I end up sticking with this route then I might not be able to justify the existence of quantum computers in my setting, something I'm not too eager to let go of.
As for dark matter and dark energy; I think I'm going to stick with main stream opinion on these two. I'll claim that dark energy has actually been the cosmological constant this whole time, similar to what's proposed by the Lambda-CDM model. Dark matter is composed of weakly interacting massive particles (also known as WIMPs). This is the detritus left over after the Big Bang which have been counteracting the force of gravity ever since. Of course, there have been a few other interesting ideas regarding the identity of dark energy. My favorite comes from Christos Tsagas who in a paper published in Physical Review D claimed that there is no such thing as dark energy. Instead, the apparent expansion of the universe we observe is actually an illusion caused by the relatively fast motion of our corner of the universe compared to our neighboring galaxies. If he's right then all this fuss over phantom forces is ultimately pointless.
Beyond that, I like the idea of there being no supersymmetry as it reenforces the idea that this universe is altogether 'broken' or 'inelegant'. What this means for the aforementioned CP violation, I don't have a clue, but I might allow for spontaneous symmetry breaking. It's just something I'll have to work out later.
Finally, there's the question of the ultimate fate of the Universe. Personally, I prefer a scenario like the Big Rip destroying everything in the end, because it's more horrifying that way.
The Theory of Choice is an ongoing project, probably one I won't be finished with for many years, if at all. It relies on the work of actual physicists for me to iron out, so really nothing has changed. I'm still have to follow the latest news from scientific journals and letting their discoveries inform the nature of my science fictional universe. But the point is that the Theory of Choice is consistent and will make it easier to make a timeline of technological progress in this nightmare vision of the future. Plus, it'll be easier to keep track of just what each technology is capable of.
Do I think the real, physical universe is as probabilistic and inelegant as this fictional universe? It's hard to say really. Pilot Wave Theory was suppressed throughout much of the twentieth century in favor of the Copenhagen interpretation. Given the chance, I think it could have gone a long way to describing the physical world. But as it stands, Pilot Wave Theory is tragically under-researched and nowhere near as robust as the Standard Model, which I think will stand the test of time no matter how clunky it is. I think our desire to unify all the fundamental forces and find the superpartners of all the particles is a natural human tendency to see order and symmetry in every system we encounter. We just naturally like things to make sense, even if the universe might not on some hidden, fundamental level.
With that in mind, I still think String Theory is a load of malarkey.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Quantum Of Distress
Scribed by Shadgrimgrvy at 2:11 PM
Labels: quantum, rocket science
2 comments:
- Fabeiço Marques said...
Pls make an sequel of Hyphnophobia pls <3 i loved
- June 21, 2015 at 1:17 PM
- Unknown said...
I never knew you had such an interest in physics!
- October 26, 2015 at 8:41 PM
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Enough is Enough
Anger is what I feel, and heartbreak, when I hear of yet another friend struggling with the realities of this disease.
Adrienne, an integral part of the online Hodgkin's community (along with her incredible mom, Alison), is currently in the hospital giving her all so that she may soon return home to her family, her studies and her puppies.
Please join us in sending the family your thoughts, intentions and wishes, and in visualizing Adrienne's full recovery.
We are also keeping Kathy in Ottawa close to our hearts. We think of you and Eric so often. To read about this thoughtful young man and his legacy, click here.


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WASHINGTON (July 17, 2008)—The National Geographic All Roads Film Project has announced its 2008 photography program awardees: Khaled Hasan (Bangladesh), Farzana Wahidy (Afghanistan), Alejandro Chaskielberg (Argentina) and Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan).
They were selected from more than 100 photo essay nominees by an advisory board of photographers, National Geographic magazine photography editors and other field professionals. Their work will be exhibited during the 2008 All Roads Film Festival in Los Angeles (Sept. 25-28), Washington, D.C. (Oct. 2-5), Santa Fe (Dec. 3-7) and at additional venues worldwide.
A native of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Hasan recently completed his advanced diploma in photojournalism from Pathshala, the South Asian Institute of Photography. His photo essay "Living Stone: A Community Losing Its Living Environment" focuses on the area of Jaflong on the Piyain River, near the border of India and Bangladesh, whose inhabitants are struggling with the environmental, political and physical effects of the region's stone-crushing industry.
Under the Taliban's regime in Afghanistan, women were forbidden from pursuing their education. Wahidy secretly attended an underground school in her hometown of Kabul until the fall of the Taliban allowed her to complete high school and enroll in a photography program sponsored by the AÏNA Photojournalism Institute. Since then she has worked as a photojournalist for both Agence France-Presse and The Associated Press. Her photo essay "Afghan Women" explores the enormous pressures and perils faced by the women of her native land, who enjoy far fewer rights today than they did 30 years ago.
Chaskielberg of Buenos Aires, Argentina, began his photojournalism career at age 18 working for local newspapers and magazines. He received a degree in photography from Argentina's National Film Institute and has used his experience in documentary photography to create strong visual representations of his subjects. His photo essay "The High Tide: Native Islanders and the Community of the Paraná River Delta" shows a new culture — with its own laws and codes, a byproduct of unemployment and immigration — that has formed in this unique estuary, with a dense forest full of water and silence.
Hailing from Baku, Azerbaijan, Effendi has been a photographer since 2001. Her work focuses on themes of urbanization, post-conflict societies and the effects of the oil industry on people's lives. She has received several awards and in 2007 was chosen by Photo District News magazine as one of 30 emerging photographers. Her photo essay "Khinaliq Village: A Staircase to the Sky 2003-2006" explores the effects of urbanization on the ancient village of Khinaliq in Azerbaijan, a village whose unique ancient culture is being threatened by the development of a luxury ski resort.
The photography program is part of the All Roads Film Project, which showcases breakthrough films and still photography by and about indigenous and under-represented minority cultures around the globe. To be considered, photographers must be indigenous or under-represented minorities, and their work must document the changing cultures and communities in the country in which they live. Awardees receive cash awards, photography equipment, a new professional Web site and photographic instruction from top editors in their fields — in addition to having their work displayed under the National Geographic banner at premier venues throughout the year. For more information on All Roads, visit www.nationalgeographic.com/allroads.
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Hi All!
I'm sorry I have neglected you! I know, I know, you are waiting for the rest of the Birthday Trip story...and all the news happening now. I have just been overwhelmed with school and life and school and life. Five people in my town or from my town have died in the past three days...see, life is overwhelming here!
Anyway, I am writing today just to tell you this...I love Elizabeth Berg! She writes wonderful novels and a wonderful blog. I wrote her a letter last year and I just read her blog and discovered that she thanked me online for my letter!!!! Here's what she said...
"To Sarah of Leesberg, Va: Your purple greeting card and purple ink were fantastico. As was your personal card, which described you as "adventurer, believer, can collector, good samaritan, reader" and about a million other things."
How cool is THAT??


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Strawberry Gourmet Collection
This trio of gourmet-flavored strawberries will be a cinch to grow in pots. The three colored berries;crimson red and white;will make a colorful and tasty fruit treat. These are easy to grow and easy to pick snacks;perfect for summer picnics. Collection includes one plant each of Sweet Charlie Elan F1 and White Pineberry....
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Yesterday, I got to be a gaijin extra in a TV drama for NHK (the Japanese equivalent of the BBC, or Australia's ABC).
It's not like I was a wet-behind-the-ears extra—earlier this year I worked for 4 days on Watashi wa Kani ni Naritai, which focuses on the same time-frame (just after World War 2), so you could call me extra-battle-hardened, if you lack a decent quip that's actually funny—which is precisely what I'm lacking as I write this crap blog.
Anyway, back to the point here, maybe I chose to delete certain parts of that previous experience, and romanticize the others?
If, by standing around for 15 hours in a chronically airless, perpetually artificially daylit, smoke-filled room that's doing the dopplegänger thing for MacArthur's GHQ in Tokyo, in 1945, it sounds like fun—then perhaps, indeed, it was just that. Hah.
The highlight was my promotion—no longer was I the gate-pushing PFC MP of that first picture; no, this time I was a pen-pushing GHQ lieutenant in a swanky new uniform.
And I did get to natter on about nonsensical subjects with Matt, my mate from that first shoot back in February (this time inexplicably forced to wear fancy red braces), and a new lad, Peter, fresh off the boat from the U.K.—who's really a bonafide actor, set to be on stage doing the Bard thing in Ikebukuro next April.
Along with them and the 37 other hapless ring-ins, we were locked up, badgered, flattered, cajoled, encouraged—but fed no lunch, as that wasn't included in NHK's budget plans. Maybe I should've paid the NHK viewer fees after all.
The film's title is Shirasu Jiro, and it stars a couple of actors from a swag of favorite Japanese flicks: Miki Nakatani, from Tetsuya Nakashima's Memories of Matsuko and Ringu, and Yusuke Iseya, from Casshern and Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django—as well as the voice of Kimura in Tekkonkinkreet.
While Nakatani was MIA, Iseya was on the set and turned out to be a very cool, charming individual who responded to the nobodies around him and had a superb voice far more impressive than you'd picture emerging from the tonsil area for a man his age (he's 32). Coming from someone who waxes obsessive about cinematic vocal cords (George Sanders, Basil Rathbone, and Vincent Price are among my iPod's aural highlights), I figure that's saying something.
And going by the shots we glimpsed in between standing, smoking like chimneys, grumbling, swapping barbs on pumpkinite, singing 'Greensleeves', and paper-shuffling, it looks sweet.
There's no beating a smoke-engulfed, cavernous hall, with '40s-clad people and typewriters, to capture that Blade Runner-cum-noir feel for the big picture.


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[Hull] Models and measures 1 & 2
http://www.fincad.com/blog/models-and-measures-1 (2 Feb 2016)
"Risk-neutral valuation is without doubt the most important single principle in derivative pricing. If we did not have risk-neutral valuation, we would have to make estimates of the return provided by underlying market variables in the real world and then quantify the riskiness of the payoff in some way to determine the correct discount rate."
http://www.fincad.com/blog/models-and-measures-2 (1 Mar 2016)
"But it should always be remembered that a risk-neutral world is nothing more than an artificial construct. It does not describe how market variables behave in the real world, the world we actually live in."
[Duffie] You're doing Swaps Account wrong (11 Mar 2016)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-11/professor-to-wall-street-you-re-doing-swaps-accounting-wrong (11 Mar 2016)
"Nitpicking over a $500,000 cost on a $100 million trade might seem inconsequential, but the market for interest-rate swaps, the largest in the world, is $319 trillion in size, according to the Bank for International Settlements. Even small errors matter."
and here is Hull on the ongoing FVA debate:
http://www.riskmindslive.com/what-is-the-fva-debate/ (26 Nov 2015)


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Afternoon anglers found better weather and water for trout over deep reefs.
Winds were 10 knots or less in the afternoon, allowing anglers a decent bite while drifting with Gulps under a popping cork.
The South Zone dove season ended at sunset Sunday and results were good. Afternoon shoots for mourners were solid near El Campo, Wharton and Collegeport. Duck and goose season opens Saturday, Nov.2 in the North and South Zones.
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December 26, 2010
Aurora Levels
I made a pile of sketches when brainstorming the new levels. I figured I'd share what the game looks like when it's rendered entirely in awful handwriting. (The level above was the "3 rings" level in the sketch below.)
December 7, 2010
Et Tu, Minecraft?
If there's two game design tactics that indies hate, they're grinding and slot machine mechanics.
Grinding refers to performing some time-consuming task over and over again, usually with some sort of exponentially growing reward. It takes lots of time and no skill. This is one of the things that get people so riled up about Farmville and its compatriots. Professor Ian Bogost wrote, "The ire [toward social games] isn't without rationale: these challenge-free games demand little more than clicking on farms and restaurants and cities and things at regular intervals." He mentions this by way of announcing his own game, Cow Clicker, which neatly skewers Farmville by condensing it to a single task: clicking a cow, over and over.
The other reviled design element, the slot machine mechanic, is a blanket term for any sort of variable ratio (VR) reinforcement schedule. That's a fancy psychological term, courtesy of the great B.F. Skinner, who famously demonstrated just how addictive gambling could be through his experiments with rats in boxes. As we slowly realize that humans, too, can be made to press a lever over and over again, Professor Skinner is getting invoked increasingly often. See references to "Skinnerian time- and money-sinks" and "an industry that so blatantly manipulates people like rats in a Skinner box". Essentially, we're rediscovering the power of these psychological techniques. We're learning that we can, in fact, control minds, and it's actually kinda scary.
But enough about all that stuff. You know what we love? Minecraft! Yes, Minecraft, the indie darling of the year. The game comes with my hearty recommendation, by the way. In Minecraft, you dig deep underground, mining for stone and precious metals, and then you use these materials to build whatever your heart desires. Some people build ships, some people build working CPUs. My friends and I dedicated our efforts towards a simple yet gigantic castle. The outer wall alone contains about twenty-four thousand blocks of stone, each harvested one by one.
Minecraft is the quintessential indie success story. It was built by one person, Markus Persson (AKA Notch), who became a multimillionaire just because gamers loved what he made. Minecraft opens up a world of exploration, adventure, and creativity. It's no wonder that the game is so celebrated.
Until, that is, you consider some of Minecraft's core mechanics.
The most basic verb in the game, unsurprisingly, is mining. This involves mousing over a block and holding down the button for a second or so. In return for your effort, you get a bit of some material and a nice little sound effect. Then, repeat a thousand times. It's not a skill challenge; I could collect any number of almost any block if I just put in a little bit of effort and a huge chunk of time. Could this be... grinding? I thought we were beyond such nonsense!
Then, consider a common experience in the game: you're deep underground, digging a tunnel, hoping to find something valuable. And for every block you hack away, you have some small, pre-randomized chance of uncovering something valuable. Re-read that, and let the horror dawn on you: even in Minecraft, the messiah of indie games, there's a slot machine hidden in the core mechanics!
I've felt its hypnotizing allure firsthand. I spend hours chipping away with a pickaxe, happy to find resources that I'll never use and thrilled to discover ore that's both extremely rare and *explicitly useless*. The best find is diamond, which will let me play the slot machine even faster. Awesome! And if I grind for long enough, I get to customize the game world. Sounds almost like Farmville!
I'm being a little unfair here, of course. The materials in Minecraft are mostly a means to the end of building stuff, which takes strategy and creativity. And mining isn't always just a time sink. There's danger too, since you're about as likely to unleash a horde of zombies or a gout of lava as you are to strike it rich. If we say that Minecraft's fun comes from mining, building, exploring, and fighting, three out of four parts are immune to my critique. But there's undeniably some aspects of grinding and gambling, and I find it fascinating that a game that I so love can contain design techniques that I so loathe. I'm left wondering: what would happen if we removed the time sinks and the slot machines? Could Minecraft be made pure?
We can already get a taste of that with the game's Creative mode, in which the player gets an infinite pile of every resource and is set loose to build whatever he or she wants. There's no need to spend time digging, so you escape the need to gamble for the good stuff. And people have fun with Creative mode! But not as much fun, usually. I played primarily in the default mode. My castle is a pretty significant piece of work (or at least a ridiculous time investment), built from tens of thousands of blocks lovingly collected one by one. Any idiot could build that castle on Creative mode, I snort derisively, but it takes an especially *dedicated* idiot to build it under default settings. And for some reason, the fact that I spent (read: wasted) so much time on that castle makes it more special to me.
And realizing that makes me scream. Why??? Why is it that I get more satisfaction out of knowing that I needlessly spent more time on my buildings? If it's all just grinding, why does anyone feel good about their giant castle or their extravagant farm or their level 80 character?
I see two possible answers, and they both scare me to death.
First, we could say that the satisfaction I get from having spent more time on my castle is perfectly justified. Not every task in life is fulfilling, and there's virtue in hard work, even when it tends toward drudgery. By grinding, I'm proving my ability to commit to a goal. In this case, someone who wants the biggest farm in Farmville ought to take real pride in their dedication, even if it meant spending huge amounts of time and money to reach a wholly virtual objective.
Second, we could say that I'm being tricked by a brain hack, and I'm ultimately the prey of some sinister Skinnerian psychology. In this case, if I ever take pride in a game, it shouldn't be for the time I put into it, since that didn't prove anything real. The only true rewards are those that correlate to skill or strategy, i.e. those that act as some actual indicator of creativity or mental acumen. The reward should be intrinsic to the gameplay. I should be proud of what I did, and not just of how long I took to do it.
Now we've dug deep enough to reach the really valuable questions. Can there be true meaning in gaming, or is it "just for fun"? Where does the meaning come from? What do hardcore gamers get out of their hobby that slots players don't? Does Farmville require "dedication"? Is this dedication something we should value?
Depending on the answers, we'll end up in one of two places. In one case, accomplishments in Farmville are legitimately worthy of pride, and we indies need to shut the hell up. In the other case, Minecraft is flawed, and we indies need to recognize and criticize the faults in the game we love. Heads they win, tails we lose.
What do you choose?


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A little update from the life I call my own. I'm studying like a crazy person, which means I'm watching hours and hours of Youtube and eats a lot of popcorn. I took a break, though, last Friday, and met my friend Hampus for some amazing Korean food. Afterwards, he took me to an amusement arcade where we spent hours staring at colorful and loud Japanese games before we took a long walk home.
Btw, oh dear lord. I need your help, kind of. I was just casually scrolling through Zalando's website (yes, just scrolling, not shopping – promise) when I found that some of my friends are nominated for the yearly Nordic Style Icon Awards. My friends, and obviously the most award-deserving-ultra-cool people, are boo thang Julia Dang (Style Icon Female) and Salem Indrias (Best Newcomer). I can't think of anyone who deserves your vote more than Salem!
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Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) today announced its sponsorship of the Mexican National Team for the teams annual U.S. Tour, beginning with todays game against Ivory Coast at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The sponsorship further establishes Wells Fargos commitment to supporting soccer in the U.S., building on the companys July 31 announcement of a national sponsorship of Major League Soccer (MLS). Both agreements run through 2016.
Soccer is a growing sport in the U.S., with a dedicated fan base, and Wells Fargo is proud to support MLS, the Mexican National Team and the beautiful game of soccer, said Jamie Moldafsky, Wells Fargo Chief Marketing Officer. We believe this is an incredible opportunity to connect with local communities and soccer fans across the country to share Wells Fargos passion for their financial success, as well as the sport of soccer.
The company unveiled its support of soccer during the 2013 AT&T MLS All-Star Game in Kansas City, KS. Todays Mexico-Ivory Coast game in New Jersey, the fourth of five U.S. Tour matches in 2013, will again showcase Wells Fargos commitment to the sport.
We welcome and thank Wells Fargo for their support of the tour which allows el Tricolor to visit all of its fans across the United States annually, said Justino Compean, president of the Federacion Mexicana de Futbol, the Mexican soccer Federation.
In addition, through its sponsorship of the Mexican National Team, Wells Fargo secures a second national soccer platform to introduce and strengthen the Wells Fargo brand in the minds of the 90 million soccer fans across the U.S. The agreement also allows Wells Fargo and the Mexican National Team to work together on philanthropic and community programs during the teams annual U.S. Tour.
These community programs complement similar efforts within MLS, where Wells Fargo is a presenting partner of the MLS WORKS Community MVP program, recognizing individuals who go above and beyond to make a difference in their communities. Each year, one Community MVP is selected to represent each of the 19 MLS clubs across North America. During the 2013 AT&T MLS All-Star Game, Bobby Samra, the 2013 grand prize winner, was presented with a $20,000 donation from Wells Fargo and MLS WORKS to help support the charity of his choice.
We are excited to welcome Wells Fargo to the soccer family, said Kathy Carter, President of Soccer United Marketing. Soccer fans are passionate, loyal and community-oriented qualities that Wells Fargo and their team members share and embody everyday as they seek to help their customers succeed financially.
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Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.4 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, and the Internet (wellsfargo.com), and has offices in more than 35 countries to support the banks customers who conduct business in the global economy. With more than 270,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 25 on Fortunes 2013 rankings of Americas largest corporations. Wells Fargos vision is to satisfy all our customers financial needs and help them succeed financially. Wells Fargo perspectives are also available at blog.wellsfargo.com.
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In 2009, SUM announced the creation of the MLS Digital Properties, the only soccer advertising network of its kind, covering all facets of the sport in the U.S., and which allows advertisers to reach millions of soccer fans via online advertising and sponsorships campaigns. These global properties are represented by SUMs slogan: One Sport. One Company. For more information, please visit www.SUMworld.com.


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A moment with ... Norm Stamper, former Seattle police chief
He is perhaps best remembered as the Seattle police chief who fell on his sword after the WTO riots of 1999.
But former chief Norm Stamper was also an agent of change for the Police Department. He instituted community-policing policies, changed the way domestic violence cases were handled and made a point of reaching out to minority communities, once by marching in uniform in the city's Gay Pride Parade.
A career cop, who had his share of street tussles and once shot and killed a man in the line of duty, Stamper nevertheless offended many rank-and-file officers in Seattle with his progressive stances.
This month, Stamper's new book, "Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Street Smart Approach to Making America a Safe Place -- For Everyone" was published by Nation Books.
The book, a memoir and study of modern policing, tackles racism in law enforcement, police accountability, the war on drugs. One chapter is on the World Trade Organization demonstrations, which resulted in thousands of arrests and led to Stamper's resignation.
The book tour will take Stamper down the West Coast, with readings in San Francisco, Berkeley, Long Beach, Pasadena and his old hometown, San Diego.
His next stop in the Northwest will be June 24, when he reads at Powell's Books in Portland.
Describe your life today.
"My life today is about 180 degrees different from what it was when I was police chief in Seattle. I live in a cabin on a mountain. It's very quiet. I don't see any of my neighbors. The only noise I hear is typically from the wildlife. I've got a terrific view. I love it. I've made some very good friends, with whom I dine out, and I've been involved in some community theater as well. It's a very slow-paced life, but I spend my days writing."
Why did you decide to write this book?
"I had two motives; the first was, I wanted to write a polemic, to talk about the politics of policing and to raise questions I believe are important to answer by society, as well as our police departments.
"There are some major political barriers to effective policing. ... It's time for those barriers to come down.
"The other is much more personal. I wanted to create an opportunity, in the wake of my WTO experience and my 34 years in the business, to really think about how I became a cop, how in a very short period of time I underwent this stunning change in my values and beliefs, from a vaguely liberal individual to thuggish police officer and how, after I got my comeuppance as a rookie, I became a change agent, a reformer."
Why did the demonstrations during the WTO conference in Seattle go so wrong, and why do you feel you were responsible for that?
"We were woefully unprepared for the magnitude of the event. Some of my cops knew more about what was coming than I did. I'm not saying anybody else was snookered but me. I personally believed we were up for it and we could handle it, and I was wrong, and it's not the cop's fault. ... I should have known far more."
What do you think of the Seattle Police Department's post-WTO crowd control tactics?
"The fact is, you do have to prepare for worst case, you have to be ready for worst case. The problem could be in trotting out the worst-case equipment and an image that has a polarizing effect on the community. It's not pleasant to look on. ... I believe the way to not have another WTO is to not have another WTO."
Throughout the book, you remark upon good officers and good departments, but many of the issues you tackle reflect negatively on police. What reactions have you received from rank-and-file officers to your book?
"I think they see me as a Judas, as a traitor, as somebody who's got no right to write about the dark side of our business or as someone who's got it wrong. I'm principally writing about my experiences, which began in 1966. ... We have come a long way. The kind of racism and sexism and homophobia that we experience today is not as virulent and as blatant as it was in the '60s. That constitutes progress, and we ought to celebrate progress. But I won't shy away from the reality of life in the United States. We still see rich veins of racial prejudice and discrimination. I think the criminal justice system is fraught with racism and classism.
"I knew that a lot of cops would not like this book. I knew a lot of chiefs would not like this book. I did not set out to hurt them. My attack is on the system."
What changes do you expect rookie cops today will see by the end of their careers 30 years hence?
"By the end of their career, what I hope they'll see is that they'll be basically, fundamentally removed from the war on drugs because we'll have declared it a failure and we'll have made drug use a right of adults with an expectation that they behave responsibly or face consequences and declare abuse a medical problem.
"I don't think I will see that, because I think we're going in the opposite direction now.
"I would love to see in 20, 25 years the abolition of the death penalty. I'd overhaul the disciplinary system, I would systematically demilitarize the police.
"I want a police officer to smile. I think being human and presenting oneself as a cordial, polite, dignified human being with a sense of humor does so much to defuse tense situations. Policing is filled with decent people."
What is next for you?
"My next career is fiction writing. ... I wasn't sure what would come of this writing adventure, but I did fall in love with it."
Any parting thoughts?
"There were a handful of police officers (at the last book reading). A couple of them said, 'I found a hard time disagreeing with anything you wrote.' That blew me away. I thought I was alone. ... I have tremendous respect for all the good cops out there who are tough crime-fighters and compassionate people, especially the ones with a sense of humor."


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The Real Issue Surrounding the Daily Caller Dinner with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn: Your Tax Dollars Helped the Illinois Council on the Humanities Sponsor It!
Ayers has talked for the Council on such topics as "Should Public Schools be Saved?," "A Culture of Fear?," "Reading, Writing, Revolution," and a series on "Civic Cinema." Ayers is, clearly, a regular figure in programs featured by the Council. We should not be surprised. When Richard Daley was Mayor of Chicago, he awarded Ayers the distinction of being Chicago's citizen of the year in 1997. Nevertheless, the decision to have a dinner hosted by Ayers and Dohrn actually led two of the Council's board members to resign in protest. This month, both Gary Koch, who had been on the board since 1999, and Thomas Pavlik, a board member for the past two years, resigned.
In his letter of resignation, Pavlik wrote that "I have been vocal and adamant in my view that it was a mistake to auction off the Ayers/Dohrn dinner and that the proverbial 'plug' should have been pulled on the entire matter some time ago. Although I take consolation that I have fought the good fight, my arguments have been unavailing." When the Board refused to do what he and Koch recommended, he regretfully resigned, telling them that "my conscience will not allow me to remain on the Board of an organization that, if only tacitly, condones citizens who advocated violence as part of civil protests," which he noted "betrays the very nature of the humanities."
In Gary Koch's letter, he wrote that "I … find it reprehensible to be associated with individuals who advocated blowing up police stations and federal buildings. I would be a hypocrite to look the other way on this." The Council's executive director, Kristina Valaitis, refused to make any public comment, only telling the press that "why people…choose to end their service is an internal matter." At 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Valaitis phoned me. Refusing to make any comments, she set up a phone appointment for me with the chairman of the Illinois Humanities Council, Alton Harris, who will phone me tomorrow. I will post an update after I talk with him.
According to Judy Havemann, communications director of the NEH, their office recommended to Valaitis that "the dinner not be held." Havemann said that 38 percent of the NEH budget goes to all local councils, and that she had no idea how much of that received by the Illinois Council made up the percentage of the Council's entire budget. A source familiar with the NEH, however, told me that the Illinois Council's budget was funded almost entirely -- over 90 percent -- by federal contribution, which means taxpayer dollars. When I asked whether or not the chairman of NEH had any position on whether an affiliate state body should be sponsoring events by Ayers and Dohrn, she responded that it was their position only that these decisions were up to the local council, and not the national NEH.


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Oh, we had fun!
The ladies were a riot and the guys at the Fishwest Open House http://fishwest.com/ made the JD even more fun.... What a great time!
Some pics of the weekend.....
Photos of our class by Douglas Barnes. He is very talented! Check out his site at http://www.nowpicturethis.com/
Teaching the mini Fly Gals how to crank!
Even I was able to sneak away for a while.... (Photos by Dustin Carlson)
Keeping low....
Got ya!
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