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I would like to say a big thank you to everyone that has shared this year with us all at Patchwork on Central Park.
This year has been great and we expect to keep up the high standard next year.
I am sure you will all join me in saying what a wonderful team of women I have working for me at Patchwork. So a big thank you goes out to them. It would not be the shop it is without them.
We will be closed from tomorrow afternoon at 3pm (24th Dec) and we are re opening at 10am on the 4th of January. I am really looking forward to 10 whole days off, kind of as I intend painting and setting up a studio space..
Gordon will be bring in my new shipment of the Liberty Summer Seasonals on the 4th so if you are around pop in.
So have a safe a joyous Christmas and see you all next year.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Christmas at Scarlet Jones
What am I doing up at this hour? I foolishly went to bed after dinner and this is the result!
So instead of laying there wide awake I thought I may as well check out a few blogs and do a post.
Scarlet Jones is full of gorgeous things at the moment, vintage inspired Christmas decorations as well as having heaps of the beautiful Place des Lices bath and products at bargain basement prices. Great for stocking fillers.
I am no longer importing this product so it is all being cleared.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Melbourne Cottages
Flemington is a suburb of Melbourne that retains quite a few Victorian Cottages, here are a few photo's of cute ones that I took yesterday. Unfortunately for Glen Iris (the suburb I live in) the older houses are being bulldozed at a very fast pace and being replaced by a shiny new house.
Such a pity.
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Monday, December 13, 2010
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Last Minute Gift Idea's
This scarf is a nice quick last minute gift idea for someone that has everything.
You need 1.75 cm of voile and 25cm of liberty silk.
I used the Anna Maria Horner voile for mine.
You can make two scarves from main fabric but we do have some half lengths of AMH cut at patchwork.
Rip voile in half lengthwise and rip off selvedges.
Rip your silk into 5 pieces selvedge to selvedge.
Join 3 pieces together.
Place silk strip flush onto side edges, sew along edge 1/4" in. (cut off excess when you reach the end of voile.) repeat.
Fold silk piece in half and sew along fold. repeat.
Place another silk strip along the bottom edge of scarf and sew. repeat. (I washed mine as I like that no so new look)
Finished ready to wrap.
The scarf will be in the shop if anyone wants to look at it.
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Friday, December 10, 2010
New Fabrics
For a bit of a change we have just received our New Range of Denyse Schmidt's fabric before it is in stores in the USA.
As usual it is not your average fabric Which is perfect for me. It will be on the net tonight.
p.s. French Espadrille's at Scarlet Jones $45
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Christmas Gifts
Just a quick post for a couple of Christmas suggestions. Bakers Twine $10, Liberty Packs, Les Olivades packs and scarf fabric.
The voile is just perfect to make a scarf. You can hem it or just rip it and machine 1/4" from the edge. Wash and tie into a knot to dry. Both ways look great.
Sorry the phot's are a bit fuzzy, I left my camera home so had to use the i phone.
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There is a continual misconception that Beauty Consultants are air-heads who stand at counters all day, holding perfume bottles like weapons ready to spritz and gas any poor soul who happens to stroll by. I'm a Beauty Consultant for the fantastic Benefit Cosmetics at Selfridges; an American brand that makes packaging so wonderful everyone is compelled to buy something. However, my day is not an easy-breezy-stand-there-and-look-pretty; reality is a far cry from this stereotype.
Yes, I dance and sing and giggle on counter but the pressure we are all under is continual, namely…the pressure to look good. Women come to you for help and guidance on how they can improve their 'look', so you have to first ensure you are perfectly groomed so they'll feel trusting and comfortable in your reliable well manicured hands. The pressure to look meticulous as a Beauty Consultant every day is, I'd say, 85% but for me working at the world famous Selfridges store with the world's largest Beauty Hall, it's more like 150%. Always in high heels, even if you buy a pair of shoes and realise the designer clearly hates feet. Always smiling and giving women fabulous make-overs when all you need to do is sit down and get a foot massage so you can remember how it used to be when you could feel all five toes.
Pressure, especially when performing said 'fabulous make-over'. It's not like an office role in which you can save a draft and re-evaluate the next day. "Madam, I may have ruined your eye shadow, please come back tomorrow and I'll try again" simply doesn't wash. You have to get it right first time. This is tricky when everybody wants to be transformed in under ten minutes as they're on their lunch break. Also, we have targets to hit. Benefit Cosmetics expect a lot from their Benebabes and as a prestigious global beauty brand it is quite rightly so.
The plus sides? The eye- candy! There are always half naked male models strolling around Selfridges promoting one thing or the other, which is a treat for the eyes in a hall full of women! However what makes me smile more than the delightful tanned testosterone, are my clients. Sometimes they sit down and talk to me and I know they just wanted someone to listen. You never know what story she'll have behind her and share with me, which I just love. Not to mention my celebrity clients too. Serving Gaby Roslin and Lulu Guinness in the same day was quite something, I can tell you! Also, I don't need to buy another piece of make-up again; I am drowning in Benetint and High Beam these days. Oh, and yes, walking and dancing all day keeps my legs and bum totally toned. That's got to be a benefit at Benefit (oh the cheesy pun, I couldn't resist!).

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Forced labour, child labour and exploitation were all addressed at an event marking International Human Rights Day.
A range of speakers took part including High Commissioners, businesses, government departments and civil society representatives.
The event focused on Sustainable Development Goal 8.7, which calls on states to 'Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms'.
More than 40 million people are the victims of modern slavery, with 25 million in forced labour and 15 million in forced marriage. Around 50 per cent of this number reside in Commonwealth countries.
After an opening address by the Australia High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Alexander Downer, and the Belize High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Perla Perdomo, panellists discussed progress to date in tackling child, early and forced marriage. In addition, they covered the eradication of child labour, supply chains in the fashion industry, and innovations in addressing target 8.7.
Chief of the International Labour Organization's Fundamental Principles and Rights Branch, Beate Andrees, said, "We have top level political commitment and many leaders of the Commonwealth have shown this leadership internationally as well as at home. It's very important to build momentum in sharing good practices in fostering collaborations across borders. This is very important because it's a problem which doesn't stop at a border; it literally affects every country. So we look at the Commonwealth as a partner to promote ratification of international standards, most importantly the recently adopted International Labour Organization's Protocol on Forced Labour, but also to foster implementation''.
The CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Monique Villa, talked about the challenge of modern slavery, which amounts to a $150bn business globally. However, each year just $1bn is committed collectively by governments to tackle the problem.
The event brought to a close the 16 Days of Action which took place between the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25 November and International Human Rights Day on 10 December.
Speaking after the event Belize High Commissioner Perla Perdomo said, "Belize is one of only five Commonwealth countries that has ratified all nine of the core human rights treaties. And so for Belize it is very important that we recognise International Human Rights Day and reflect on what we have achieved so far but also to look at ways we can improve going forward."
Rebecca Terzeon from the UK Department for International Development talked about the scale of child marriage, both globally as well as across the Commonwealth. She said, "Child, early and forced marriage is a serious human rights concern and there are 15 million girls across the world who are married as children, and approximately half of those live in Commonwealth countries.
"The Commonwealth as a group has a really important opportunity to work together towards eliminating child marriage, both within and beyond the Commonwealth."
Head of Human Rights at the Commonwealth Secretariat, Karen McKenzie, said, "International Human Rights Day is an opportunity to celebrate progress, to remember those who have paid the ultimate price in standing up for the human rights of others, and to take stock of the challenges which remain. We must remain ever vigilant and work to ensure that human dignity is accorded to all persons, inclusively, equally and without any discrimination."


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The no-mount option is for when you want to glue letters directly to a flat surface using some kind of adhesive such as silicon caulk or liquid nails. The problem with this type of installation is that glue tends to squeeze out the edges and it can get very messy. Also, until your glue sets the letters can move around and for large letters that means you need to use long strips of masking tape to hold them in place.
Due to liability issues, double sided tape can only be applied to letters up to 6" in height. If using this option then always use a liquid silicon caulk as well to protect the letters in case the tape should fail
Welded studs are only applied to 1/8" thick letters. All aluminum letters thicker than that will get a drilled and tapped hole for screw in studs. Studs also known as pins, are threaded rods that get glued into holes drilled in the mounting surface. A stud mount of one form or another is required when ordering Polished, Anodized or Powdercoated aluminum letters because the manufacturing process cannot be done without them. All stud type mounts require a mounting pattern to properly locate where to drill for the studs.
The most popular mount with cut metal letters is the stud mount. Aluminum letters and numbers with removable or screw in studs, have been drilled and tapped on the back of the letter to accept the stud. The stud then gets glued into your mounting surface with silicon caulk or epoxy and holds the letters firmly in place. All stud type mounts require a mounting pattern to properly locate where to drill for the studs. A stud mount of one form or another is required when ordering Polished, Anodized or Powdercoated aluminum letters because the manufacturing process cannot be done without them.
The bottom stud (or top or both!) gives you tapped holes in the edge of the letters for mounting in a vertical configuration. Metal letters have to be at least 3/8" thick to drill the holes and the letters have a minimum height of 4" Round letters will have flat bottoms and the same applies to top drilled letters. Metal letters 8" or more must by code have tie backs when used outside. We do not supply tie backs.
Maximum length of rail is 8ft and not available for letters greater than 24" or less than 4". Metal letters are bolted through the rail into their edge and can be done either on the bottom, the top or both by request. This ordering form only provides a single rail on the bottom of the letters. For additional options please contact us for a quote.
The double rail is mostly used for installation on metal corrugated buildings. It does detract from the look of the sign and is considered old school. In today's world a metal conduit raceway from home depot would look better to mount your letters on, and they come ready finished. Double rail mount has a maximum 8ft length and the rails are pre drilled to accept the letters ordered with screws that go through the rail into the letters. Assembly is required.
Full size Drilling patterns are tracing of letters done by hand at the factory. The letters, with studs screwed into the back or into blocks, are then punched through the paper to show the exact location of the studs. Once taped onto a wall, the hole locations are then drilled and filled with adhesive for any installation using a threaded stud. $3.25 per letter.
A pounce pattern is an outline drawing of letters ordered, full size, made on a plotter with a pounce tool instead of a pen. This tool punches small holes into the paper, following the exact outline of the letters. The installer will then tape this drawing on the wall and "dust" the surface with chalk. The chalk will create a "dusting outline" of the letters on the wall that is then used as a guide for installing plain or pad mounted letters. $3.25 per letter.
Stencil is a full size cutout of smaller letters. This pattern cannot be ordered for Cast or Molded products. Guide for installing plain, pad or double face tape letters. Guide is taped to wall, letter set inside cutout, adhered to wall. $60 FOR UP TO 100 CHARACTERS. (We determine if Stencil or Split Stencil is best for your order.)
This pattern cannot be ordered for Cast or Molded products. Split Stencil is a partial cutout of bottom portion of the letters above the baseline, plus 2" below the baseline that provides a perfect way to install plain, pad or double face tape flat cut out letters. This split stencil is generated using the same file that we use to produce your letters. $60 FOR UP TO 100 CHARACTERS. We determine if Stencil or Split Stencil is best for your order.)
A guide for plain, pad or double face tape mounted letters. The letters in a specific copy are spelled out and properly spaced on a long pattern table or computer generated. A narrow (approximately 2") piece of paper contains small hash marks or plotted lower portions of the letters. This guide is then secured to the wall with tape by the installer and provides a visual guide for installing letters. $10 - ANY QUANTITY.
Embedding Letters In Concrete
Last but not officially a selectable mount, we get enough requests for embedding letters in concrete that it is worth a mention here. Essentially it\'s not just a matter of laying down some wet concrete and pressing the letters in. For any kind of professional result that will last you have to construct a framework under the letters to keep them in place and together. Above you see 3 letters with stud mounts attached to a stabilizer plate. Order the letters with 2" studs, 1.5" spacers and a mounting pattern. Go to a local metal yard and buy some stiff galvanized or steel plate large enough to set the letters on. Use the mounting pattern to drill the plate then secure letters to plate with nuts and washers (not provided). Embed the entire assembly into the wet concrete. We do not recommend Aluminum Letters for this project. Stainless steel would be best.
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Clear Anodized adds 15% - Rust adds 25% - Colored Anodized Adds 45% *Stud Mount and Minimum letter height 2" at 1/4" thick and above or 3" at 1/8" thick Required for All
Polished adds 50% --- Polished Anodized Adds 75% *Stud Mount and Minimum letter height 2" at 1/4" thick and above or 3" at 1/8" thick Required for All
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Our J105 "Y" Bridle Spinnaker Sheet is constructed of two lines each over 80' long which are spliced together into a "Y" configuration leaving a single short length of line leading to the clew. All three ends are whipped for durability, core is secured to the cover and no-load movement is provided.
The line used for this Spin Sheet is a high performance, Yale Maxibraid Plus. It features a UHMWPE Spectra core that has been proven to offer high working loads, low stretch, high abrasion resistance, zero water absorption and UV stability. APS is the only distributor for this solid, color-coded line, and we recommend it all of the time. Its solid color cover will be easily identified in high-pressure situations and the TST (Thin Sleeve Technology) construction is durable and runs smoothly through blocks.
- Diameter: 5/16 in (8mm)
- Line: Yale Maxibraid Plus - High Performance - UHMWPE (Spectra) core provides negligible stretch with a durable polyester cover.
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- I liked the price, but it was actually a waste of money
- It was slippery and didn't stand the test of time
- more than 3 year(s)
Looking to save some money I took advantage of APS's "20% off rigging" sale and bought, what appeared to be, the only J/105 spin sheets they offered.
What I later found out was:
1) They carry a set of "high performance" sheets but chose to drop them from the site during the 20% off sale. ...guys I work with e-commerce and a site-wide sale is a site wide sale...adjusting your regular stock and hiding products you don't want to discount is deceptive..."everything" is not on sale. Consumers are not dumb...but we do hold a grudge.
2) the sheets are impossibly slippery even if only a little bit damp...jibing in the rain with 25kts on San Francisco Bay while using these sheets was just plain dangerous...let alone slow.
If you are crusing a 105 ...fine...buy 'em
If you race a 105 ...stick to the expensive sets and get them custom made by a local rigger who knows the conditions and will cut them to a reasonable length. (These appeared to be cut for 'outside jibes' as the length was easily 10-15 feet more than needed which creates a real mess during racing..I actually wonder if this set is marketed for multiple boat types).
We have had to go buy useable sheets before the next regatta...so my "bargain" ended up costing us $300..anyone want to buy a barely used set of cruising spin sheets?
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I've been working most of the afternoon on this big, meaty review and philosophical discussion post about Veronica Roth's Allegiant, which released this Tuesday. I hoped to have it up today, but it's turning into such a monstrous and messy block of text that that is clearly not going to happen. I was just thinking though, that November is going to be such a good month to be a book lover at the movie theater as three YA books hit theaters this month.
Ender's Game-November 1st
Ender's Game, starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford, rockets into theaters November 1st. (See what I did! Rockets! 'Cause it's in space! I crack myself up.) I'd heard of the source novel by Orson Scott Card a long time ago, but I didn't read it until about a month ago, after the movie started advertisements, and I am so excited to see the game-battles on screen. It's definitely a book that I think will lend itself to an amazing visual experience, and there are so many great actors cast in it.
The Book Thief-November 8th
Just a week later, on November 8, 20th Century Fox releases its film adaptation of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I've read this book twice, and I loved it both times, but it's been at least 4 years since the last time and I think I forgot a lot about it. I'm trying to decide if I should reread it before or after I see the movie. I want to remember the plot, but I don't want to sit in the theater and nit pick about every little change the filmmakers make. I am interested to see if the movie maintains Death as a character, though. It was such a fascinating aspect about the novel.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire-November 22nd
Then, on November 22, Catching Fire, the follow up to The Hunger Games comes out. I was pretty impressed with the first movie, and I'm sure this one won't disappoint either. Catching Fire was my favorite book in the series because it so perfectly balanced emotion and action, and we all know Jennifer Lawrence can do both.
Which one are you most excited for? Did I forget any? What books are becoming movies next year that I should start reading now? Hopefully I'll be able to go and see all of these movies next month and try my very non-expert hand at film review, or at least book-to-film comparison.


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A paranormal investigator in Britain believes that the story of a legendary werewolf spotted in an English forest over the years could transform one county into a paranormal tourist destination.
The infamous 'Werewolf of Cannock Chase' has been a fixture of cryptozoological lore for decades as numerous witnesses claim to have encountered the bipedal canine.
"There have been many creditable people who have claimed to see the werewolf, including rangers, an ex-police officer, a good friend of mine who is a civil surveyor," researcher Damon Simms told the newspaper The Sentinel.
According to Simms, one tale surrounding the origins of the creature is that a boy sold his soul to the Devil for the ability to become a werewolf but became so overwhelmed by the experience that he committed suicide, causing the spirit of the entity to haunt the area.
In addition to allegedly being home to the fearsome beast, the notorious forest known as Cannock Chase has also been the site of several UFO sightings as well as other odd events such as appearances by Black Eyed Children.
Simms will soon start working with a production company in England to produce a TV series on the infamous creature which he hopes will raise the profile of Staffordshire, the county that the cryptid ostensibly calls home.
"I see the Werewolf of Cannock Chase as rather like a fantastic cash cow. I think it is Staffordshire's Nessie," Simms marveled to the newspaper The Sentinel, "and if you think how many people go to Loch Ness in Scotland because of the monster, it is incredible."
Whether Simms' forthcoming series will serve to turn Staffordshire into the 'next big thing' for paranormal thrill seekers remains to be seen, since venturing into a terrifying forest could be a tougher sell than lounging on a boat in the middle of Loch Ness.
Coast Insiders looking to learn more about the werewolf of Cannock Chase and other strange events reported in the area can check out author and Fortean researcher Nick Redfern's 10/28/2012 appearance on the program.
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Pantomime! In March?! I hear you cry..... well, stranger things have been known to happen and as part of The Garrick Academy of Performing Arts' (GAPA) productions this week, the youngest groups tackled the traditional story of Robin Hood and the Babes In The Wood.
10 days ago Sheffield's City Hall was a blank canvas, then Manor Operatic Society moved in and converted the space into a fully functional conventional theatre complete with the capability to fly scenery in and out of the stage. This is a herculean task which the team at Manor take on twice a year, and the results in the past have been superb.
It always seemed odd that a big town like Huddersfield with a lively local theatre didn't have an annual panto and now it's back with a bang……Oh, yes it is.
The Lawrence Batley Theatre has gone for a decidedly old school pantomime, and it's paid off worked judging by the enthusiastic audience participation from young fans especially as many of them will be getting their first taste of live theatre.
Ey up, it's Cinderella don't you know? She's a right nice lass, and she's coming to see all you folks in Barnsley's Lamproom pantomime. Despite the range of places they trained at, there's a distinct Yorkshire feel to the panto, particularly from Peter Foster as Buttons, who comperes the show with a 'coooeeee', he's clearly the most confident of the cast, although his voice was a little croaky tonight, there were enough Barnsley jokes to make the audience chuckle.
After the high energy, upbeat Dick Whittington by the same company last year, I have to say that I came away from this afternoon's show of Robin Hood feeling really rather disappointed.
Last year this company produced a swift (at times too frenetic) but traditional family panto, and so I was rather hoping that Eight-Freestyle, the company behind the production, would have built upon last year's success. Sadly not. Robin Hood And The Babes In The Wood felt much more like a play, with some pop songs thrown into the pot, and a few disassociated pantomime characters popping up every now and again just for the sheer devilment of it! It was very hotchpotch and not at all really very pantomimic. That is a real shame, since some of the acting, singing and dancing were of quite a high standard.
For anyone outside of Yorkshire, the name Billy Pearce may not be that well known, but anyone from this part of the country knows that he is something of a panto legend around these parts. It doesn't necessarily matter who is billed alongside him, in fact it would be easy to not bill anyone at all, Billy would bring the crowds back time and time again, a man who admits he's pension age, playing the stage like he's in his twenties, this year as Smee, that 'famous' Peter Pan character (proof again that his character doesn't even matter).
There are some traditions that just make Christmas a little bit special and one of them is most definitely the family pantomime, a British tradition which first started in 1717 and since then pantomime have become big business, with huge household names and celebrities taking starring roles in productions up and down the country, this gives us; the audience a lot of choice.
Much like the audience, this pantomime took time to warm up. Unfortunately, this Scouse delight didn't reach boiling point tonight, merely a low simmer but much of the content was familiar, a little bit cheeky in places but overall it was more or less satisfying.
We were welcomed by a Brian Blessed voice-over telling us about the history of pantomime, I was slightly distracted because the sound mix wasn't right, there was some feedback. Then an ethereal voice provided us with an epilogue before we meet Radio City stars Leanne Campbell and Pete Price, as Queen Morgiana and the Magic Mirror.
It's that time of year again. Christmas songs are blasting out as shoppers trudge the high streets in search of the perfect gifts for their loved ones, kids are getting more excited by the day and theatre stages the length and breadth of the country are crammed with the latest batch of reality TV stars for panto season.
The audience were in fine voice this evening, doing a grand job with the call and response. The boundless energy from the cast was truly reflected through the reactions.
We start with a bang, just the first of many amazing technical moments throughout the performance. We are greeted with a flying fairy, in the form of Linda Nolan, of The Nolans, suspended high above the front row, singing a Disney classic. Nolan appeared every time with a pyro, scaring me half to death and I think herself too! Alongside her a very strong core cast, with a wealth of experience in the entertainment industry. It's hard to separate one outstanding performance from another.
The panto season seems to be in full swing and with so many to choose from theatres are trying to entice customers on with big names on stage. Cinderella is the story of a young girl who is desperate to go to the ball and meet Prince Charming but is forced to stay at home by her two Ugly Step Sisters. Luckily, she has a Fairy Godmother to look out for her and Cinders can go to the ball and hopefully live happily ever after.
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The heart showcases a silver embroidered star patch:
This pillow cover has hand-embroidered red 'stripes', for a quilted affect:
The next photo is of the first pillow cover I made of this design, and I'm debating if I want to keep or sell it:
I used some of Tone Finnanger's Tilda's World fabrics on these pillow covers, and I love their faded soft look. Speaking of Tilda's World....there's a new blog showcasing the latest and greatest of all things Tilda!
Make sure you take a look here.
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Don't miss the sweetest videos showcasing the latest spring and summer Tilda's World collections. You can view them here.
Happy spring folks!
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Researchers are developing a Mobile Motion Capture (MiMiC) System that uses smartphone technology and motion sensors to capture ergonomics data in the poultry plant environment, which is then used to assess workers' movements as they perform their jobs without needing assistance from experts and expensive equipment. The creation of the MiMiC System is meant to be the main building block to bring motion capture into the workplace for better analysis of worker safety issues in areas such as slip/fall detection and prediction, ergonomic stress in lifting, deboning, and worker training. The key purpose of MiMiC is to optimize the worker's performance, leading to increased productivity while reducing the risk of injury.
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"Men seem determined to adhere to old prejudices, and reason wrong, because our ancestors reasoned right."–Noah Webster
When dealing with the Constitution of the United States and the concomitant Amendments thereof there is an innate and perverse bias to "preserve, protect, and defend"1 the document as it exists now, which is essentially, with small but important exceptions, in its original finished state. This bias should not be mistaken for the facile arguments over whether the document should be seen as "living" or "dead, dead, dead", in the the words of the ineffably ardent textualist Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Between the loose constructionist (as the proponents of the living are called) and textualist (as the proponents of the dead are called) schools there is an long lasting, even structurally essential, detente: the notion that the basic precepts of law and ethics outlined in the document should be preserved and built upon. Therefore it is my contention that the Constitution of the United States of America was and is the primary obstacle to the advancement of human rights and dignity in the nation.
This is not altogether surprising when we consider who it is that has had the job of crafting and maintaining the document: slave owners, patriarchal aristocrats, elite academics, capitalist businessmen, wealthy jurists and entrenched political officials. Of course there have been exception to this essentially conservative codere but those exceptions, civil rights activists, socialists, workers rights advocates, independent scholars, feminists and Aboriginal activists, tend to prove the rule. There is a vested interest in keeping the Constitution as it is or at least only allowing it to grow within strict and legalistic parameters that are controlled and set by the same folks who benefit most from the current systems. For the most part insurgencies against entrenched bias and privilege in the document have taken the form of mass protests and targeted legal maneuvores to bring attention to issues of abuse and neglect within the context of the preexisting systems. The most effort has been put towards the further amending of the document as it exists in order to "expand" its reach and "widen" its applicability to include marginalized groups and people. Outside of anarchist, communist, or fascist intellectual circles (circles that are, rightfully or not, considered "fringe" at best and seditious at worst) there has been little or no attempt to analyze the role the Constitution itself, as a system, plays in perpetuating injustice and marginalization. Activists and reforms miss the forest for the trees, and are either too blind or too afraid to take on the Constitution itself.
The United States as it exists today is the antithesis of the nation that existed when the Constitutional framers first worked on its system of laws and government. The nation of today is 100 times larger by population, many times more influential in world affairs, for the most part has an ethos of democratic participation as opposed to republican good order, is internationalist in outlook, diverse in population and, at least when it comes to the vast majority of citizens, populist in matters of economics and governance. The United States as it existed in 1789 was an oligarchial agrarian state with a large population of paupers, indentured servants, itinerant farmers and hunters, enslaved people and displaced indigenous folk ruled over by an immensely rich and powerful entrenched semi-feudal aristocracy and wealthy merchant capitalists. The revolution that overthrew the authorities governing the various colonial nations (and they did indeed see themselves for the most part as disparate and unique nations) was more like a localized coup then an authentic mass revolutionary movement like those in late 18th Century France, mid 19th Century Central Europe and early 20th Century Russia. A system of overseas control was overthrown in favor of a local alternative.


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For all of our Get You In Shape Clients, we want to say THANK YOU!!!
We really appreciate you putting your trust in Get You In Shape for your fitness and weight loss program. We enjoy having people like you who are truly committed to their goals and the success of their program, and we would like to meet more people like you.
That's why we're doing the "Christmas In July" at Get You In Shape August 4th-16th. You have from now until the end July to GIVE THE GIFT OF HEALTH. If you have a friend, family member, or co-worker who would like to see what you've been up to here at Get You In Shape, feel free to invite them to enjoy two weeks of workouts with you. If they can't come at the same time as you, but would still like to try a workout with us, have them call us at 214-603-8287 and we'll make sure our trainers know to keep an eye out for them.
It's free…with no strings attached.
In fact, they can come as often as they like with you or on their own during our Christmas in July. The only thing we will require is that they follow the directions on the gift certificate you received in the mail before coming to the first class. (See below for a copy).
This allows us to contact them via email and give them the information they need to be prepared for class, including knowing which days and times are available for them to enjoy. If they decide to join after the two weeks, we will also give them an incentive to sign up as a client, if that is something they are interested in doing.
What's in it for YOU?
With our Cash Referral Rewards program, YOU win by getting cash for every month they sign up! As a special bonus …we'll be GIVING away prizes for every client that brings a friend AND we will have a grand prize of ONE FREE MONTH!
You also will get MOTIVATION to come to the Get You In Shape sessions in the dead heat of summer because you have your friends joining you.
As another incentive, if you are not already in Cardio Club, you can come with your friend(s) that come for those 2 weeks.
Here are the details:
Because each client is limited to 5 people to give the Gift of Health to, we will let you know when someone has signed up so that you can contact them and let them know you are excited and motivated by them joining you.
Here are some options to help promote our "Give the Gift of Health" Christmas in July.
1. Make a personal phone call to the 5 people you have in mind to let them know out the "GIVE THE GIFT OF HEALTH" Christmas In July.
Let them know you only have 5 spots and you thought of them. Them direct them to sign up at www.CoppellFitness.com or call us at 214-603-8287. You can also just let them know you will email them the details so they can sign up. Ask then if they will commit and sign up, though, because you only have five spots to give out.
You can also text them but they are more likely to respond with a personal phone call.
2. Message someone on Facebook – With only 5 people you can give it to, we recommend that you not put it on your page as you may get more than 5 signing up.
So just send them a message wit
3. Send an email
Here is an Email you can send to the person(s) you want to GIVE 2 FREE WEEKS!
Hey ___________!
Hope things are going great for you.
I've recently been attending Get You In Shape and the owner is having a Christmas In July giveaway. They are letting me give up to 5 of my friends 2 Free Weeks of the Get You in Shape Program. This giveaway will be for the 2 weeks starting August 4th – 16th and includes 7 boot camp sessions and 4 Cardio Club sessions.
That's why I'm emailing you. I would like to give you 2 Free Weeks for you to use.
I've always wanted a fitness program to motivate me to stay on track and push me to reach my goals and Get You In Shape has done that for me. In fact I've already lost ______ pounds since I joined, feel better than I have in a long time and think you would enjoy it too.
If you would like to take advantage of this gift, I'd love to give it to you as I'd really enjoy having you in the fitness sessions with me and I'm sure you'd love it!
Just email me back or give me a call and let me know if you would like to take advantage of this great (and FREE) gift. If you don't have time or are already part of a program you like, no problem. Just let me know so I let someone else use it.
Again, I hope things are going well for you. Hope to see you soon.
Have a great day!


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Who manages the fund? The Permanent Endowment Committee manages the endowment at the direction of the Charge Conference.
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DNC floods with balloons to close out convention
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton rounds out her speech at the end of the DNC with a line synonymous with her campaign theme, ''let's be stronger together.'' Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton closed out the final remarks of her acceptance speech with a call for unity and strength in America. "The world is watching what we do. Yes, America's destiny is ours to choose. So let's be stronger together, looking to the future with courage and confidence. Building a better tomorrow for our beloved children and our beloved country. When we do, America will be greater than ever. Thank you and may God bless the United States of America!" Clinton said. She was joined by her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and her VP pick, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine and their families on stage to celebrate. The arena was then flooded with balloons of red, white and blue. Clinton made history on Tuesday when she became the first woman to secure the presidential nomination from a major party. Now that she has accepted the nomination, she is the Democratic standard-bearer against Republican nominee, Donald Trump, in the Nov. 8 election.


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Email marketing – best practices for unsubscribing
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Even though Plants vs. Zombies made its debut over two years ago, developer Popcap is still adding fresh iOS content to the unique tower defense title. PvZ 1.8 has just been released, and it brings with it nine new mini games for zombie fighters to purchase.
The mini games are all for sale in Crazy Dave's shop, and can be purchased with in-game coins. Players that don't want to wait to earn enough coins through normal play can purchase the new mini games in $0.99 three-packs ($3 total for all nine).
These mini games are taken from the PC release of PvZ and include Zombie Nimble Zombie Quick, Seeing Stars and Pogo Party. A new collection of Game Center achievements have been added, for those players that master the nine new mini games. A brand-new Race to China "micro game" has also been added, exclusive to the PvZ iOS port.
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MONTROSE — More than 30 artists showed their wares Saturday at an Art Walk organized by the Montrose Chamber of Commerce.
The chamber runs the event four times each year, and artwork committee chairman Laurie Jo Phillip said the event is always popular with local artists and residents.
"Many artists are repeat artists and come to all of our Art Walks," she said. "We show mostly fine art rather than craft, and today we have ceramics, oils, prints and watercolors."
Stalls lined Honolulu Avenue with 36 artists working on their projects and selling their goods. Musicians entertained shoppers as they browsed.
Artist Teresa Downer, a full-time artist from Sunland, creates what she calls "dimensional collages."
"I use lots of recycled materials in my collages, like bark, wire or thick paper."
Her work ranged from $35 to $375, and she hoped to sell lots of pieces.
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Lee Duigon
September 12, 2013
Homeschooling is against the law in Germany. Why? Because, says the German Supreme Court, they don't want anyone developing a "parallel culture." The fact that millions of Muslims in Germany insist on living in a parallel culture doesn't seem to register. But let Christian parents in Germany try to give their children a Christian education, and watch the jack-boots storm into action.
It was the Nazi regime that banned homeschooling. This law is one of the few surviving relics of the Hitler era. The Third Reich lives on in the law against homeschooling.
Last week a German reader wrote a letter to Michael Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, complaining about Farris' articles attacking the ban. I don't wish to edit the letter when quoting it, so please allow for the fact that Herr Schmidt is writing in what is, to him, a foreign language.
After telling Farris to mind his own business and stop picking on Germany, Herr Schmidt gets down to brass tacks:
"The only thing these so-called parents want is to prevent their children from a free and open minded view on the world. They want to force them into their own little world regardless of what the children want or not and only for religious reasons!"
This would imply that it's somehow possible to raise children without indoctrinating them—or should we say "passing on to them"—some kind of world-view. Does he mean the public schools don't do exactly that? Of course they do. So every parent must make a choice: shall the child be brought up in the parents' world-view, or the public educators'? For Christians, those world-views are in deep conflict.
So far, Herr Schmidt is coming right out of the National Education Association playbook—right down to his declaration that "religious reasons" are contemptibly trivial. He continues:
"From the beginning these so called parents drummed their opinions into their poor children. They never had a chance to build up their own opinion. This can be called torture and if for sure harms the children in their development to be free, tolerant and open minded members of society. Only to please their parents and only to spread the parents strange ideas, disgusting."
We get it: Christianity is a strange, disgusting idea, and Christians are slavish, intolerant and close-minded. Their children are mere clones. (And how many parents would be astounded to hear that!) I suppose he thinks "tolerant" means to embrace the ideology of public education—homosexuality, abortion, evolution, socialism, "Barack Hussein Obama, mm, mm, mm!" and so on.
How does Herr Schmidt propose to deal with all this intolerance and close-mindedness? He tells us.
"For my opinion these parents should be imprisoned and they should not be released before all of their children have finished school. Anyone, regardless of the reasons who harms his children, in whatever respect, should be removed from them immediately. If it happens for religious reasons the person should be jailed."
This guy ought to run for president of the NEA. Somehow it's "tolerant" to teach children how to use butt-plugs for anal sex, to teach them "you can be a boy today and a girl the next day, depending on how you feel," and that there is no God and we're all just a bunch of randomly-assembled molecules existing for no reason—but it's out-and-out child abuse to teach them to love God and keep His commandments. Now that's being open-minded! And anyone who doesn't think so should be thrown in jail.
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Herr Schmidt errs only in speaking from the heart, however warped and sinful his heart may be, instead of dolling it up in fine-sounding public education jargon. He shares with our expert "educators" the assumption that the Christian religion is a wicked lie standing between the human race and the achievement of a secular utopia. Acting on such views, Germany bans homeschooling and arrests Christians who practice it.
Is this the same Germany that gave us Luther, Bach, and Bonhoeffer? Say it ain't so!
But I'm afraid it is so, kid; and not just for Germany. All the nations of the Western world, including our own, are already a good way down this road.
We have already seen, in the not-so-distant history of Germany, where that road leads.
� 2013 Lee Duigon - All Rights Reserved
Lee Duigon, a contributing editor with the Chalcedon Foundation, is a former newspaper reporter and editor, small businessman, teacher, and horror novelist. He has been married to his wife, Patricia, for 34 years. See his new fantasy/adventure novels, Bell Mountain and The Cellar Beneath the Cellar, available on www.amazon.com
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5 dance steps for Drumbeat
November 30, 2010 § 24 Comments
Coming out of the Drumbeat "Learning, Freedom and the Web" Festival, we've been working with a handful of interesting new projects. It's been a great opportunity to test and get feedback on the process for on-boarding new projects into Drumbeat. The goal: make it easier for anyone with a potential project idea or innovation challenge to explain it, get help, and push forward quickly.
5 steps seem to be emerging on the dance floor…
- Strategy — what's your big idea?
- Story — help people understand it.
- Tools — set up simple tools that make it easy for contributors to see what's happening and get involved.
- People — who are you trying to reach? how can they help right now?
- Prototype — build fast. test and improve it together.
(Shake and repeat.)
This post shares some early draft documentation around each of these steps. With your help, I'm hoping it will grow up into a proper "how to" for new Drumbeat projects in time for the new version of Drumbeat.org next month. We'll ultimately present this as five individual pages, but I've included them as one big post here. What do you think? Please leave your notes, links and examples as comments on this post, or help make edits to the etherpad version here.
1) Strategy
d) Why are you passionate about this? What brought you to this project or innovation challenge? How does your personal background relate to the story? What strengths, interests or skills do you bring?
e) How does your idea make the web or the world better? How will this make peoples' lives better, easier or more meaningful in some way? How does it promote innovation on and for the open web? Why is it something other people should care about?
2) Story
3) Tools
- A project mailing list — Could be a "working group" with daily discussions and updates. Or an "announcement list" that just lets people know when something really important is up.
- A project blog — This is often the easiest way to share the main action and milestones for the project. Many projects uses aggregated blogs or "planets," like a "blog of blogs," so that multiple contributors can post about the project. (e.g., Planet Mozilla, Planet Drumbeat, Planet WebMadeMovies.)
- A Twitter or Identi.ca hashtag — Like "#yourproject" or "#drumbeat." Monitoring and embedding a simple hashtag is an extremely fast and easy way for people to talk about your project. For Drumbeat, it's often the most up to date source of what's going on.
- Chat — A public chat room makes it easy for anyone to get help or ask a question, or for contributors to work together in real time, share links, or just hang out. (Drumbeat uses Internet Relay Chat (IRC). How to set up your own.)
- An issue tracker — Issue trackers are especially helpful if you're working with developers. Issue trackers take tasks or requests for work and turn them into open tickets, so that groups of contributors can see, assign and comment on them to get the job done faster. (Mozilla uses Bugzilla. There's also Trac, Redmine, and many others.)
- Images and videos — To share napkin sketches, designs, "how to" or explainer videos for your project, photos of your new robot prototype, etc.
- A project wiki or web site — You may already have a project web site, or eventually build one. Or you can just use your Drumbeat project page, a wiki page, or etherpad. It doesn't have to be fancy — just include your five-point overview and links to your various project tools. (Here's a sample project wiki page.)
- A source code repository. If you're working on a software project, you may want to use a source code repository like GitHub.
4) People
5) Prototype
§ 24 Responses to 5 dance steps for Drumbeat
I love this, Matt. In fact, with your permission, I'd love to reblog it (or at least link to it) on the HASTAC site because I know it would be invaluable to those of us in higher education who are working hard to transform hierarchical teaching and learning structures with open source and open web development peer-to-peer/learn-by-doing principles. I would love to use it as a method in my classes next semester ("This Is Your Brain on the Internet" and "21st Century Literacies") and will report back on what my students think about this method. It will entail a lot of re-learning for them as schools teach you how not to take control of your ideas or to pitch them to one person ( a teacher who will be grading you). The expansive possibilities here are great. Wonderful work, Matt.
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After reading this I believed it was really educational. I appreciate a person taking the time to put this web site patch together. I remember when i once again discover personally spending way to enough time each reading through as well as leaving comments. No matter what, it had been still worth it
Thanks Matt for this posting. It is exactly what i needed to help me get started on the two projects I pitched at Drumbeat in Barcelona: the Minority Voices Visualizer and the tool-we-have-no-name-for-yet (aka the large classroom learning activity facilitator). The search for prior art and previous tools is taking some time; but I'll post the findings soon on both of these projects.
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Much appreciated Dave!davetherave wrote:Not my Xantia Kev, I was lexiating it for Rhothgar, I was in the Cx this time.
Shame the weather was not so good today! Even Jims umbrella did not help the situation!
Weather is a sore point with me today. Out on the Harley + waterproofs. Harley worked - waterproofs didn't (well, lower half didn't). Sylv was dry though.
Oh boy. The Xant actually looks decent with Andy's handy camera work. You see! He knew not to take a full shot of it - that's expertise at work, that is.


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Michael Froman said on Monday (25 July) that it's too early for the US to start talks over bilateral trade and investment deals with the UK. The US Trade Representative (USTR) added that negotiations could start once there was more clarity over the UK's new trade relationship with the European Union (EU).
While the UK decided to leave the bloc on 23 June, it is yet to start separation negotiations with the EU. There is hence a lot of uncertainty over the future trade relationships such as free movement of goods, immigration rules and EU tariffs between an independent Britain and the EU. The bloc will now be reduced to 27 countries.
While UK Chancellor Philip Hammond at the recently held G20 summit said that this uncertainty could be cleared later this year. Froman's announcement follows the UK international trade secretary, Liam Fox's visit to the US. Fox had begun a three-day visit to assure US officials and business leaders that Britain would not slowdown both economically and strategically in both the US and Europe, despite the Brexit vote. The intention of his visit is also to reassure Americans that the UK seeks to preserve its close economic ties with the US, even after it has left the EU.
The USTR office issued a statement which said that Froman told Liam in a meeting in Washington, "that the United States will be prepared to engage in conversations with the United Kingdom about how to develop our trade and investment relationship in the best way at the appropriate time."
"As a practical matter, it is not possible to meaningfully advance separate trade and investment negotiations with the United Kingdom until some of the basic issues around the future EU-UK relationship have been worked out," the USTR office added, according to Reuters.
Separately Fox had argued that the Brexit vote would help the UK establish better ties with the US and other countries. "The first thing is to dispel the idea that Britain leaving the European Union was somehow an anti-free market decision. In fact it was the reverse: In my view, it was about Britain becoming a much more outward-looking country," he told the The Wall Street Journal.
The US currently accounts for the UK's single biggest export market. Official data reveals that in 2015, the UK's exports to the US stood at £100bn (€119.25bn; $131.06bn), which is about 20%, of the UK's total exports.


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Ford v. Gardner
|Henry Lee Ford, III
|Deberah Gardner, Frederick Dixon, Scott, E Mitchell, C O'Brian, A LaShore, G A McMillian, Shirly Nunn, Charles Garner, J Graves, K H Thompson and Sammuel Howard, Jr.
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|January 31, 2008
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|St. Clair
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|Karon O Bowdre
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|T Michael Putnam
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|Prisoner: Civil Rights
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|42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights
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I suppose on the bright side the UK succeeded in getting its proposal to require members to pay their membership fees directly from a bank account. There have been repeated allegations that some countries pay these fees for others in exchange for votes, and the UK aimed to create a paper trail to make this more difficult. Hopefully it will cut down on corruption.
What is particularly galling is the idea that by expecting the meeting to actually function and do something, some government representatives feel that the Latin American bloc was harming "progress." As the BBC article states, despite massive efforts to reach compromise between 2008-2010, it all came to nothing at the 2010 meeting. So what are countries who want the IWC to actually start helping whales supposed to do? Wait until the pro-whaling nations finally decide enough progress has been made to hold votes on issues? Whatever the whalers and their supporters want, it's clear that they have no interest in true compromise - otherwise they would not so blatantly expect to be fully catered to without offering any concessions in return. Sometimes in international fora like the IWC, countries have complicated, long-term strategies for accomplishing their goals. From the outside it can look like inaction even though progress is being made. Based on the opinion of Dr. Holt, who represents our organization at IWC meetings, that doesn't appear to be the case. Without some big changes, it seems most likely that the IWC will be dysfunctional for a long time.


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The Dean Gate Inn is an old coaching inn and postal receiving house.
The position of the Steventon Rectory is marked by the arrow marked with number "3″ and the position of the Ashe Rectory, home of Jane Austen's great friend, Mrs Lefroy, is marked by the arrow numbered "2″. Jane Austen mentions Dean Gate in her letter to Cassandra Austen, her sister, written on the 9th January 1796: We left Warren at Dean Gate in our way home last night and he is now on his road to town. Warren, was John Willing Warren (1771-1831) who was one of the Reverend George Austen's pupils at Steventon Rectory. He was a life long friend of the Austens and Deirdre le Faye describes him in her book,
When Jane and Cassandra returned home from school in the autumn of 1786 their daily companions were therefore…the good natured, ugly John Willing Warren, son of Mr Peter Warren of Mildred Court, Cornhill, London who had come some time in the 1780s and who also went up to Oxford in 1786 ,remained a friend for life and is mentioned in several of Jane's letters.
So, as a place to catch and be dropped off by coaches, this inn would have been a very familiar place for the Austens, travelling to family, university, and naval college. Their pupils, friends and family would have used it on the way to and from Steventon, and no doubt the Austens used it too. Jane Austen almost certainly used it when she travelled to Andover to meet with Mrs Poore and her mother, the wife of Phillip Henry Poore, the apothecary, surgeon and man-midwife, while changing coaches on the way to visit Martha Lloyd at Ibthrope:
My Journey was safe and not unpleasant. I spent an hour at Andover of which Messrs Painter and Redding had the larger part; twenty minutes however fell to the lot of Mrs Poore and her mother, whom I was glad to see in good looks and spirits.
(See Letter to Cassandra Austen dated 30th November 1800)
Constance Hill in her book, Jane Austen Her Homes and her Friends, published in 1923, describes her joy at being able to stay at the Dean Gate Inn on her first excursion into what she termed "Austenland":
After a short halt we again resumed our journey, and finally, as darkness was closing in, we drew up triumphantly at the solitary inn of Clarken Green. But our triumph was of short duration. Within doors all was confusion – rooms dismantled, packing-cases choking up the entries, and furniture piled up against the walls. The innkeeper and his family, we found, were on the eve of a departure. It was impossible, he said, to receive us, but he offered us the use of a chaise and a fresh horse to take us on to Deane – a place a few miles farther west – where he thought it possible we might find shelter in a small inn. The name struck our ears, for Deane has its associations with the Austen family. There Jane's father and mother spent the first seven years of their married life. By all means let us go to Deane! So bidding farewell to our charioteer, the blacksmith's wife, as she led her sturdy pony into the stable, we drove off cheerily along the darkening roads. Before long a light appeared between the trees, and in a few minutes we were stopping in front of a low, rambling, whitewashed building – the small wayside inn of Deane Gate. Our troubles were now over, and much we enjoyed our cosy supper, which we ate in a tiny parlour of spotless cleanliness. A chat with our landlady gave us the welcome intelligence that we were within two miles of Steventon. Our small tavern and Gatehouse (as it was formerly) stood, she said, where the lane for Steventon joins the main road to the west. This, no doubt, would give it importance for the Austens and their country neighbours; and we recalled the words of Jane in one of her letters, when speaking of a drive from Basingstoke to Steventon she says: "We left Warren at Dean Gate on our way home." So we fell asleep that night with the happy consciousness that we were really in Austen-land. austenonly


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Last spring, La Cocina alumna Reem Assil won a contest sponsored by restaurant-reservation site OpenTable that enabled her to transition from a farmers market pop-up to a full-fledged brick-and-mortar. There was a Kickstarter campaign in there, too, which means Assil's dream of an Arab street-corner bakery fragrant with the scent of za'atar really resonated with people.
As of Tuesday, May 16, Reem's is open just beneath Fruitvale BART, serving the pillowy flatbreads with excellent chew known as man'oushe that come straight out of the saj, or traditional dome griddle. It can be eaten as a burrito-style wrap or open-faced like pizza. This being California, there's a Golden State Man'oushe (served with eggs, red-pepper tomato sauce, goat cheese, parsley, and tomatoes) that can be dressed up with sujuk (Armenian beef sausage) or a fried, cured pastrami known as basturma bacon.
After the idea of opening a place of her own came to her one day at a bakery in Beirut, Assil did a stint at Arizmendi, the S.F. bakery cooperative. And Reem's is a breakfast-and-lunch spot, open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. So there's lots of the sweet and savory breakfast pastries called ka'ak — a cognate of sorts, being Arabic for "cake" — such as sesame bread rings or orange turmeric tea cakes.
Palestinian-Syrian by birth, Assil was a community organizer before making the move into the kitchen. You can see a strong reflection of her labor roots in the oversized mural by Chris Gazaleh of a smiling Palestinian activist named Rasmea Odeh wearing a headscarf, with lime green, pink, blue, and yellow Arabic calligraphy superimposed over her. Look closely and you'll see a picture of BART police shooting victim Oscar Grant, inset almost like a cameo. Put your fist in the air, but don't spill your cardamom iced coffee.
Reem's, 3301 E. 12 St., Suite 133, Oakland, 510-852-9390 or reemscalifornia.com


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Interstellar media in primitive meteorites are only clue to clarify presolar history. The difference between interstellar media and solar matters is only isotope ratio of elements. We have made in-situ measurements of isotope ratios, textures, shapes and crystal structures for individual fine particles in primitive meteorites. The goal of in this study is construction of new scenario for material evolution from interstellar media to planetary matters.A novel micro-scale analysis for oxygen isotope ratios has been developed by secondary ion mass spectrometry. A calcium-aluminum-rich inclusion (CAI) from the Allende meteorite was analyzed and found to contain melilite crystals with extreme oxygen-isotope compositions (-5 percent oxygen-16 enrichment relative to terrestrial oxygen-16). The oxygen isotopic variation measured among the minerals (melilite, spinel, and fassaite) indicates that crystallization of the CAI started from oxygen-16-rich materials that were probably liquid droplets in the solar nebula, and oxygen isotope exchange with the surrounding oxygen-16-poor nebular gas progressed through the crystallization of the CAI.Additional oxygen isotope exchange also occurred during subsequent reheating events in the solar nebula. The 160-rich dust and 160-poor gas continued together in the solar nebula from the CAI-forming period until the chondrule-forming period.A possible scenario for new evidence would be an active protosun with bipolar out-flow. Interstellar media near the protosun has been processed thermally and then launched into outer solar system. Therefore, composition of solar nebulae distributed heterogeneously along radial direction, The characteristics of composition and isotope ratio of each planet have been achieved in the first million years of solar system evolution.
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SARANAC LAKE - The Saranac Lake Free Library art show, starting June 22, will include 12 works from each of the following artists: watercolor painter Martha Laverty, gourd artist Georgette Bacon, and landscape artist Cat Micheels.
The artists reception will be July 15 from 4:30-7 p.m. during Saranac Lake's July Art Walk. The show, open during library hours, runs through July 27. For more information, contact Nadia Korths at 637-1307.


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UNH Captain's Corner: Vermont Series
|UNH Captain Collin MacDonald
The Vermont Catamounts came to the Whittemore Center tied with UNH, Northeastern and UConn for 6th place in the Hockey East standings. On Friday night, UNH scored the all-important, first goal of the game. As Parker Wheeler pointed out in his game report, the Wildcats had a record of 6-0-3 when scoring the first goal. UNH utilized the 6th best power play (24.8%) in NCAA Division I hockey to get on the board as Tyler Kelleher scored his 8th goal of the season.
Vermont answered with a power play goal of it's own early in the second period. Minutes later, UNH capitalized on 5-on-3 power play opportunity when sophomore Michael McNicholas made a nifty move around UVM goalie Packy Munson.
Tyler Kelleher notched the 100th point of his UNH career as he assisted on the McNicholas goal. Kelleher is the first UNH player to join the Century Club in his junior year since Jacob Micflikier and Brett Hemingway in the 2005-06 season.
UVM tied the game again midway through the second period on another power play goal. In the waning seconds of the period, the puck ricocheted off the right skate of Conor O'Neil past goalie Danny Tirone for the controversial game-winning goal. It looked to me that O'Neil made a deliberate kicking motion the instant the puck reached Tirone's right skate (see slow motion video below). Referees Jeff Bunyon and Thomas Fryer reviewed the video replay and ruled that it was a goal.
Here's a link to Parker Wheeler's game report of the 3-2 loss from our blog:
Controversial Goal Leads to Vermont Victory Over UNH
Vermont's win combined with Northeastern's win over UMass on Friday night meant that UNH dropped down to a tie for 8th place with UConn. At this stage in the season, UNH's primary objective is to finish between 5th and 8th place. Doing so will give them home ice in the best-of-three opening round of the Hockey East Playoffs. The pressure was on to bounce back with a win or tie against UVM on Saturday night.
The game had added importance since it marked the 1,000th game in Dick Umile's career as UNH Head Coach. After falling behind by two goals midway through the second period, UNH rallied a couple minutes later with a power play goal by the nation's leading scorer Andrew Poturalski. Sophomore Shane Eiserman scored the game-tying goal early in the third period. It was his second goal in the last 3 games.
Here's a link to Parker Wheeler's game report of the 2-2 tie:
Vermont and UNH Skate to a 2-2 Tie
With 4 games left in the regular season, UNH holds a slim 1-point lead over UConn for the 8th spot in the Hockey East standings. Boston University (23 points) is in 5th place, Northeastern (16) is in 6th, and Vermont (15) is 7th. UNH faces BU this coming weekend in a home-and-home series then finishes the regular season in another home-and-home against UConn. Connecticut plays Northeastern in a home-and-home this Friday and Saturday.
I had an opportunity to interview UNH Captain Collin MacDonald about the weekend series with Vermont:
Would you take a look at the slow motion replay and give your opinion on whether it was a legitimate goal?
Collin MacDonald: Definitely a tough one to watch, I wouldn't want to be a ref deciding on that goal. Calling it a goal on the ice makes it tougher for them to overturn it. It looks like if it went in when he first made contact with the puck off his skate we might have had it called our way. But when he's stopping at the net and it goes in off his skate while he's stopping it makes it hard to overturn. A tough goal to lose on for sure, but that's hockey, it goes that way sometimes.
Mike Lowry: Over the last 3 games, sophomore Michael McNicholas has scored 3 points including this power play goal on Friday against UVM:
In recent games, Michael has centered a line with Shane Eiserman and Jamie Hill on the wings and has played point on the UNH power play. Would you describe Michael's skill set?
Collin MacDonald: Michael's skill set is phenomenal; I'm used to seeing it everyday in practice and I'm glad the fans are getting a taste of it. It's hard to explain I guess, but his feel for the puck is just different and it's been cool to watch. I'm glad he's getting opportunity on the top PP unit; he brings a little something different to it and it's working. He's gaining confidence and his skill will continue to show as we make this final push into and during playoffs.
Lowry: Saturday night was a special occasion for Coach Umile as it marked his 1,000th game as head coach of UNH. Would you share your thoughts on his accomplishments and what it has been like to play for him for 4 years?
MacDonald: That was a pretty amazing milestone for him, we were happy to be a part of it. I wish we pulled out the win, but I'm glad we got a point out of it on the night. He's very big on senior leadership, and we've all got to know him on more of a personal level this year, which has been great. I've learned through my time this year especially how much he wants to win for the school and community. UNH hockey is his life, and I hope we can start to get on a little run here and make something special out of this year for him.


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RAP and Order
RAP and order
Keeping our bearings
Wikis lead to dispersion. Interlinking entries spread out over flat space; it is easy to click around and wander off into paths that feel tangential or idiosyncratic. To a point, such an environment can feel liberating: students can respond positively to perceived shifts in traditional, print-bound, instructor-dominated order.
But disorientation is quickly frustrating, especially in a pedagogical setting. A big reason we settled on SnipSnap as the engine for RAP was its various mechanisms for bringing order to an unpredictably developing environment driven by the collective interest of its users.
Instructor order
Knowing where to begin in a wiki, and charting an intentional path through it, takes some practice. Debuting the use of the tool, the instructor, acting somewhat like an information architect on the fly, decided on which pages to highlight in the navigation column that SnipSnap conveniently placed site-wide on the right-hand side of pages (see Fig. 1). This column could be programmed by the instructor to list certain entries, assuring them prominence. During the term such entries included the following items.
Help links. There were one-click paths to the traditional course web page (where the syllabus, assignment sheets, and reserve reading lived), as well as SnipSnap coding instructions.
Assignment indexes. The instructor built indexes of weekly posting assignments (which asked students to build entries off of designated text; see Fig. 2), longer essay assignments, and multimedia student projects, all posted in RAP over the course of the semester. Students would add the titles of their longer essays to essay indexes and post the text off these titles.
Author pages. Ironically enough, the author function proved quite helpful in RAP after all. A list of studied poets grew in the navigation column over the course of the semester, linking to author pages. These pages served as entry points for anyone interested in what RAP had to offer on the subject of, say, William Blake. After the instructor had defined a template for such pages (photo, poems in RAP, related text, images, student essays, outside links; see Fig. 3), students started building them, unbidden, for authors they particularly liked: probably the best example of extra work inspired by RAP.
Naming and attribution conventions. To promote proper citation of sources, the instructor required a source link at the bottom of any text or image copied from elsewhere.
Student 'home' pages. Each student was assigned a home page in RAP, on which he or she could list his work. The software allowed for a macro on this page that would automatically list all entries in the system by the student (see Fig. 4).
SnipSnap allowed the use of a variety of simple macros in its navigation column. Of particular use to us during the semester:
A search field. We placed this box in the top, right-hand column of every page, assuring a consistent place to hunt for content. This enabled text-based searches that could group entries in an interesting way. A search for the word 'find' in RAP, for example, now connects with odd frequency to entries by or about Dorothy Wordsworth and John Clare.
Users currently logged in. If a student was logged in, her user name popped up in the navigation column, meaning that she was one click away from her user page no matter where she was in RAP.
A recently changed list. This was a list of the most recently altered or added entries; the instructor could dictate its extent, and 25 seemed to work well. This list proved popular with students, who were often logged in the night before a weekly posting assignment was due, trolling around for recent entries to comment upon.
Most viewed pages. In RAP's afterlife, we have replaced the 'recently changed' list in the navigation column with a macro listing the 50 most viewed pages. This is the one way RAP dynamically responds to outside visitors, fed to RAP mainly by Google and other search engines. Canonical authors and poems have been inexorably crawling up this list — as of this writing, Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is out in front — but some widely-viewed student postings are hanging on.
Computer-generated related links. Finally, paths through RAP have always been suggested by SnipSnap itself, which generates links to other entries under the "See also" heading at the bottom of any page (see Fig. 5). A drawback here: there were some bugs in the program, and some of these computer-suggested links didn't work properly. However, most did. Romanticists may be overfond of ghosts in machines, but it can be of interest to be led by the computer from Mary Robinson's "The Haunted Beach" to Shelley's "The Mask of Anarchy," say. Both are stunned inventories of murder, come to think of it.
There are certainly more navigational and organizational features that we could wish for, but overall SnipSnap provided enough entry points and handles to keep users and visitors oriented.
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