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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by CaboWabo5150, Jun 13, 2013.
He's on his way to Washington and he's gonna set things straight !! lol...
I got his autograph back in 2004 at the yearly Dukes Fest. I had it when i was lil bitty too but sumwhere over the years I lost it. So at least I could replace it
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Vintage 1950s NAPCO Christmas GIRL Poinsetta Headvase Planter Head Vase
You will love this one!! Here is an adorable vintage 1950's Napco Christmas headvase/planter of the cutest little girl holding presents and she has a lovely red Poinsettia flower on her head. She is wearing a bright red dress with lots of spaghetti trim on her sleeves and collar. She has beautifully hand painted features and a gorgeous face with big blue eyes and long eyelashes, a sprig of holy adorns the side of the planter. This planter measure approx.. 5" by 2 1/4" by 5 3/4" high at head. Remnants of the Napco tag remain and the item is marked #1CX2403. This item is in Excellent condition with NO Chips, NO Cracks and minimal age related wear, paint-ware to the tips of the the Poinsettia flowers, please view photos.. Colors are so bright and the glaze is rich and shiny. Inside of planter can use a cleaning. This one is stunning!! This would make a great addition to your vintage Christmas collection and decorating and would look so lovely filled with candy or holiday cards. You will be so happy with this one!!

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The Function Special Interest Group:
The mission of the Function Special Interest Group (Function-SIG) is to bring together computational biologists, experimental biologists and biocurators who are dealing with the important problem of gene and gene product function prediction, to share ideas and create collaborations. The Function-SIG holds annual meetings alongside the ISMB. Also, we are conducting the multi-year Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation, or CAFA, experiment.
The accurate annotation of protein function is key to understanding life at the molecular level. However, with its inherent difficulty and expense, experimental characterization of function cannot scale up to accommodate the vast amount of sequence data already available. The computational annotation of protein function has therefore emerged as a problem at the forefront of bioinformatics.
Recently, the availability of genomic-level sequence information for thousands of species, coupled with massive high-throughput experimental data, has created new opportunities as well as challenges for function prediction.
Many methodologies have been developed by research groups worldwide, many based in comparing unsolved sequences with databases of proteins whose functions are known.
Other methods aim at mining the scientific literature associated with some of these proteins, yet others combine sophisticated machine-learning algorithms with an understanding of biological processes to decipher what these proteins do. Indeed, we may have already identified a protein that is an ideal drug target for cancer, but it is lost in the myriad of data labeled as "function unknown".
The AFP meeting is noted for its strong community, engaged audience, and premier speakers. Previous years' speakers include: Dame Janet Thornton (EBI), Peer Bork (EMBL), Barry Honig (Columbia University), Ewan Birney (EBI), Philip Bourne (UC San Diego), Russ Altman (Stanford University), Michael Sternberg (Imperial College), Steven Brenner (UC Berkeley), Amos Bairoch (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics), Adam Godzik (UC San Diego), Simon Kasif (Boston University), David Jones (University College London), Jonathan Eisen (UC Davis), Olga Troyanskaya (Princeton University), Patricia Babbitt (UC San Francisco), Christine Orengo (University College London), Terry Gaasterland (UC San Diego), Kimmen Sjölander (UC Berkeley), Frederick Roth (University of Toronto), Shoshana Wodak (Sick Kids Toronto), Alex Bateman (EBI), Olivier Lichtarge (Baylor College of Medicine), Keith Dunker (Indiana University School of Medicine), Anna Tramontano (University of Rome, "La Sapienza"), Andrew Emili (University of Toronto), and Alfonso Valencia (CNIO, Spain).


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A senior Religious Zionist rabbi who founded the first-ever pre-military preparatory program launched a scathing attack on the IDF, contending that the army was forcing religious officers to choose between an army career and observing Jewish law.
In a wide-ranging speech, Eli pre-military academy head Rabbi Eli Sadan called the IDF's latest Joint Service Order "a destruction decree" whose purpose was to advance pluralist values at the expense of the IDF's readiness. Religious Zionist rabbis have been opposing the Joint Service Order that regulates relations between men and woman because it forces a religious officer to command units compromised of men and women.
"What the Joint Service Order says is that from the minute you go to IDF Officer School, you become IDF property and the IDF's Manpower Head can decide if you can keep halakha (Jewish law )," Sadan told his students. "If you don't want to command a mixed unit of men and women for fear of violating Jewish laws, the Manpower Head will 'consider' your request."
Sadan also addressed reports earlier this week that IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkott ignored his appeals to change the Joint Service Order. "The army decides that it is suddenly extremely important for a male soldier to command female soldiers," he said." All the rabbis and I explained to the chief of staff and to the forum of senior army officers that for the 70 years since the establishment of the State of Israel there was no law obligating a religious person to violate religious law."
On Monday Maariv reported that Eizenkot has decided to reject appeals from the Religious Zionist sector to nix changes to army guidelines and allow religiously-observant IDF officers to refuse to take command positions over female soldiers due to modesty issues which transgress halakha. According to the report, the wording of the controversial new directive will be changed slightly to mollify religious soldiers, but no substantive changes will be made.
The report also claimed that Eizenkot met last Friday with four left-wing Knesset members who are pushing for greater integration of women in the IDF - Merav Michaeli and Ayelet Nahmias-Horbin from the Zionist Union and Tamar Zandberg and Michal Rozin of Meretz.
The new guidelines, which are called the Joint Service Order, has raised alarm among religious soldiers, who contend that their religious rights are being trampled on. Unlike the existing policy, the Joint Service Order does not exempt soldiers from any activity considered to be heritage education or from military memorial ceremonies, even if they include women singing, a halakhic problem for observant soldiers. Decisions regarding other activities will be subject to the commander's discretion. The IDF previously allowed soldiers whose level of religious observance did not permit hearing women singing to decide not to attend.those performances.
Sadan founded the Eli pre-military yeshiva and has educated thousands of IDF officers and soldiers in elite units.


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Popular Electronics
|Ziff Davis
Gernsback Publications
|First issue
|October 1954
Popular Electronics was an American magazine published by John August Media, LLC, and hosted at TechnicaCuriosa.com. The magazine was started by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company in October 1954 for electronics hobbyists and experimenters. It soon became the "World's Largest-Selling Electronics Magazine". In April 1957 Ziff-Davis reported an average net paid circulation of 240,151 copies.[1] Popular Electronics was published until October 1982 when, in November 1982, Ziff-Davis launched a successor magazine, Computers & Electronics. During its last year of publication by Ziff-Davis, Popular Electronics reported an average monthly circulation of 409,344 copies.[2] The title was sold to Gernsback Publications, and their Hands-On Electronics magazine was renamed to Popular Electronics in February 1989, and published until December 1999. The Popular Electronics trademark was then acquired by John August Media, who revived the magazine, the digital edition of which is hosted at TechnicaCuriosa.com,[3] along with sister titles, Mechanix Illustrated and Popular Astronomy.
A cover story on Popular Electronics could launch a new product or company. The most famous issue, January 1975, had the Altair 8800 computer on the cover and ignited the home computer revolution. Paul Allen showed that issue to Bill Gates. They wrote a BASIC interpreter for the Altair computer and started Microsoft.[4]
How it started[edit]
Radio & Television News was a magazine for professionals and the editors wanted to create a magazine for hobbyists. Ziff-Davis had started Popular Aviation in 1927 and Popular Photography in 1934 but found that Gernsback Publications had the trademark on Popular Electronics. It was used in Radio-Craft[5] from 1943 until 1948. Ziff-Davis bought the trademark and started Popular Electronics with the October 1954 issue.
Many of the editors and authors worked for both Ziff-Davis magazines. Initially Oliver Read was the editor of both Radio & Television News and Popular Electronics. Read was promoted to Publisher in June 1956.[6] Oliver Perry Ferrell took over as editor of Popular Electronics and William A. Stocklin became editor of Radio & Television News. In Radio & TV News John T. Frye wrote a column on a fictional repair shop where the proprietor, Mac, would interact with other technicians and customers. The reader would learn repair techniques for servicing radios and TVs. In Popular Electronics his column was about two high school boys, Carl and Jerry. Each month the boys would have an adventure that would teach the reader about electronics.
By 1954 building audio and radio kits was a growing pastime. Heathkit and many others offered kits that included all of the parts with detailed instructions. The premier cover shows the assembly of a Heathkit A-7B audio amplifier. Popular Electronics would offer projects that were built from scratch; that is, the individual parts were purchased at a local electronics store or by mail order. The early issues often showed these as father and son projects.
Most of the early projects used vacuum tubes, as transistors (which had just become available to hobbyists) were expensive: the small-signal Raytheon CK722 transistor was US$3.50 in the December 1954 issue, while a typical small-signal vacuum tube (the 12AX7) was $0.61. Lou Garner wrote the feature story for the first issue, a battery-powered tube radio that could be used on a bicycle. Later he was given a column called Transistor Topics (June 1956). Transistors soon cost less than a dollar and transistor projects became common in every issue of Popular Electronics. The column was renamed to Solid State in 1965 and ran under his byline until December 1978.
Typical 1962 issue[edit]
The July 1962 issue had 112 pages, the editor was Oliver P. Ferrell and the monthly circulation was 400,000. The magazine had a full page of electronics news that was called "POP'tronics News Scope." In January 2000 a successor magazine was renamed Poptronics. In the 1960s, Fawcett Publications had a competing magazine, Electronics Illustrated.
The cover showed a 15-inch (38 cm) black and white TV kit by Conar that cost $135. The feature construction story was a "Radiation Fallout Monitor" for "keeping track of the radiation level in your neighborhood." (The Cuban Missile Crisis happened that October.) Other construction projects included "The Fish Finder", an underwater temperature probe; the "Transistorized Tremolo" for an electric guitar; and a one tube VHF receiver to listen to aircraft.
There were regular columns for Citizens Band (CB), amateur radio and shortwave listening (SWL). These would show a reader with his radio equipment each month. (Almost all of the readers were male.)[7] Lou Garner's Transistor Topics covers the new transistorized FM stereo receivers and several readers' circuits. John T. Frye's fictional characters, Carl and Jerry,[8] use a PH meter to locate the source of pollution in a river.
Authors and kits[edit]
As Editor, Olivier Ferrell built a stable of authors who contributed interesting construction projects. These projects established the style of Popular Electronics for years to come. Two of the most prolific authors were Daniel Meyer and Don Lancaster.
Daniel Meyer graduated from Southwest Texas State (1957) and became an engineer at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. He soon started writing hobbyist articles. The first was in Electronics World (May 1960) and latter he had a 2 part cover feature for Radio-Electronics (October, November 1962). The March 1963 issue of Popular Electronics featured his ultrasonic listening device on the cover.[9]
Don Lancaster graduated from Lafayette College (1961) and Arizona State University (1966). A 1960s fad was to have colored lights synchronized with music. This psychedelic lighting was made economical by the development of the silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR). Don's first published article was "Solid-State 3-Channel Color Organ" in the April 1963 issue of Electronics World. He was paid $150 for the story.[10]
The projects in Popular Electronics changed from vacuum tube to solid state in the early 1960s. Tube circuits used a metal chassis with sockets, transistor circuits worked best on a printed circuit board. They would often contain components that were not available at the local electronics parts store.
Dan Meyer saw the business opportunity in providing circuit boards and parts for the Popular Electronics projects. In January 1964 he left Southwest Research Institute to start an electronics kit company. He continued to write articles and ran the mail order kit business from his home in San Antonio, Texas. By 1965 he was providing the kits for other authors such as Lou Garner. In 1967 he sold a kit for Don Lancaster's "IC-67 Metal Locator". In early 1967 Meyer moved his growing business from his home to a new building on a 3-acre (12,000 m2) site in San Antonio. The Daniel E. Meyer Company (DEMCO) became Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC) that fall.
In 1967, Popular Electronics had 6 articles by Dan Meyer and 4 by Don Lancaster. Seven of that year's cover stories featured kits sold by SWTPC. In the years 1966 to 1971 SWTPC's authors wrote 64 articles and had 25 cover stories in Popular Electronics. (Don Lancaster alone had 23 articles and 10 were cover stories.) The San Antonio Express-News did a feature story on Southwest Technical Products in November 1972. "Meyer built his mail-order business from scratch to more than $1 million in sales in six years." The company was shipping 100 kits a day from 1800 square feet (1,700 m2) of buildings.[11]
Others noticed SWTPC success. Forrest Mims, a founder of MITS (Altair 8800), tells about his "Light-Emitting Diodes" cover story (Popular Electronics, November 1970) in an interview with Creative Computing.[12]
In March, I sold my first article to Popular Electronics magazine, a feature about light-emitting diodes. At one of our midnight meetings I suggested that we emulate Southwest Technical Products and develop a project article for Popular Electronics. The article would give us free advertising for the kit version of the project, and the magazine would even pay us for the privilege of printing it!
The November 1970 issue also has an article by Forrest M. Mims and Henry E. Roberts titled "Assemble an LED Communicator - The Opticon."[13] A kit of parts could be ordered from MITS in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Popular Electronics paid $400 for the article.
Merger with Electronics World[edit]
Radio & Television News became Electronics World in 1959 and in January 1972 was merged into Popular Electronics. The process started in the summer of 1971 with a new editor, Milton S. Snitzer, replacing the longtime editor, Oliver P. Ferrell. The publishers decided to focus on topics with prosperous advertisers, such as CB Radio and audio equipment. Construction projects were no longer the feature articles. They were replaced by new product reviews.[14] The change in editorial direction upset many authors. Dan Meyer wrote a letter in his SWTPC catalog referring to the magazine, Popular Electronics with Electronics World, as "PEEW". He urged his customers to switch to Radio-Electronics.
Don Lancaster, Daniel Meyer, Forrest Mims, Ed Roberts, John Simonton and other authors switched to Radio-Electronics. Even Solid State columnist Lou Garner moved to Radio-Electronics for a year.[15] Les Solomon, the Popular Electronics Technical Editor, wrote 6 articles in the rival Radio-Electronics using the pseudonym "B. R. Rogen".[14] In 1972 and 1973 some of the best projects appeared in Radio-Electronics as the new Popular Electronics digested the merger. The upcoming personal computer benefited from this competition between Radio-Electronics and Popular Electronics.
In September 1973 Radio-Electronics published Don Lancaster's TV Typewriter, a low cost video display. In July 1974 Radio-Electronics published the Mark-8 Personal Minicomputer based on the Intel 8008 processor.[16] The publishers noted the success of Radio-Electronics and Arthur P. Salsberg took over as Editor in 1974. Salsberg and Technical Editor, Leslie Solomon, brought back the featured construction projects. Popular Electronics needed a computer project so they selected Ed Roberts' Altair 8800[17] computer based on the improved Intel 8080 processor. The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics had the Altair computer on the cover and this launched the home computer revolution. (However, Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs incorrectly identified the magazine that ran the article as Popular Mechanics.)
The magazine was digest size (6.5 in × 9 in) for the first 20 years. The cover logo was a sans-serif typeface in a rectangular box. The covers featured a large image of the feature story, usually a construction project. In September 1970 the cover logo was changed to an underlined serif typeface. The magazine's content, typography and layout were also updated.[18] In January 1972 the cover logo added a second line, "including Electronics World", and the volume number was restarted at 1. This second line was used for two years. The large photo of the feature project was gone, replaced by a textual list of articles. In August 1974 the magazine switched to a larger letter size format (8.5 in × 11 in). This was done to allow larger illustrations such as schematics, to switch printing to offset presses, and respond to advertisers desire for larger ad pages.[19] The longtime tag line, "World's Largest Selling Electronics Magazine", was moved from the Table of Contents page to the cover.
Personal computers[edit]
There is debate about what machine was the first personal computer, the Altair 8800 (1975), the Mark-8 (1974), or even back to Kenbak-1 (1971). The computer in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics captured the attention of the 400,000 or so readers. Before then, home computers were lucky to sell a hundred units. The Altair sold thousands in the first year. By the end of 1975 there were a dozen companies producing computer kits and peripherals using the Altair circuit bus, later renamed the S-100 bus and set as an IEEE standard.
The February 1975 issue featured an "All Solid-State TV Camera"[20] by three Stanford University students: Terry Walker, Harry Garland and Roger Melen. While the Cyclops Camera, as it was called, was designed to use an oscilloscope for the image display, the article mentions that it could also be connected to the Altair computer. It soon was, the authors got one of the first Altair computers and designed an interface for the camera. They also designed a full color video display for the Altair, "The TV Dazzler",[21] that appeared on the cover of the February 1976 issue. This was the start of Cromemco, a computer company that grew to over 500 employees by 1983.[22]
The internet did not exist in 1975 but time-sharing computers did. With a computer terminal and a modem a user could dial into a large multi-user computer. Lee Felsenstein wanted make low-cost versions of modems and terminals available to the hobbyist. The March 1976 issue had the "Pennywhistle Modem"[23] and the July 1976 issue had the "SOL Intelligent Terminal".[24] The SOL, built by Processor Technology, was really an Altair compatible computer and became one of the most successful personal computers at that time.
Popular Electronics had many other computer projects such as the Altair 680, the Speechlab voice recognition board[25] and the COSMAC ELF. They did not have the field to themselves. A dedicated computer magazine, Byte, was started in September 1975. It was soon followed by other new magazines. By the end of 1977, fully assembled computers such as Apple II, Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Commodore PET were on the market. Building computer kits was soon replaced by plugging in assembled boards.
In 1982, Popular Electronics helped to introduce personal computer programming with its Programmer's Notebook column written by Jim Keogh . Each column focused on a game programming. The column continued onto Computer & Electronics Magazine. [26]
Computers & Electronics[edit]
Popular Electronics continued with a full range of construction projects using the newest technologies such as microprocessors and other programmable devices. In November 1982 the magazine became Computers & Electronics. There were more equipment reviews and fewer construction projects. One of the last major projects was a bidirectional analog-to-digital converter for the Apple II computer published in July and August 1983. Art Salsberg left at the end of 1983 and Seth R. Alpert became editor. The magazine dropped all project articles and just reviewed hardware and software. The circulation was almost 600,000 in January 1985 when Forrest Mims wrote about the tenth anniversary of the Altair 8800 computer.
In October 1984 Art Salsberg started a competing magazine, Modern Electronics. Editor Alexander W. Burawa and contributors Forrest Mims, Len Feldman, and Glenn Hauser moved to Modern Electronics. Here is how Art Salsberg described the new magazine.[27]
Directed to enthusiasts like yourselves, who savor learning more about the latest developments in electronics and computer hardware, Modern Electronics shows you what's new in the world of electronics/computers, how this equipment works, how to use them, and construction plans for useful electronic devices.
Many of you probably know of me from my decade-long stewardship of Popular Electronics magazine, which changed its name and editorial philosophy last year to distance itself from active electronics enthusiasts who move fluidly across electronics and computer product areas. In a sense, then, Modern Electronics is the successor to the original concept of Popular Electronics …
The last issue of Computers & Electronics was April 1985. The magazine still had 600,000 readers but the intense competition from other computer magazines resulted in flat advertising revenues.[28]
Ziff-Davis asset sale[edit]
In 1953, William B. Ziff, Jr. (age 23) was thrust into the publishing business when his father died of a heart attack. In 1982, Ziff was diagnosed with prostate cancer so he asked his three sons (ages 14 to 20) if they wanted to run a publishing empire. They did not. Ziff wanted to simplify the estate by selling some of the magazines. In November 1984, CBS bought the consumer group for $362.5 million and Rupert Murdoch bought the business group for $350 million.
This left Ziff-Davis with the computer group and the database publisher (Information Access Company.) These groups were not profitable. Ziff took time off to successfully battle the prostate cancer. (He lived until 2006.) When he returned he focused on magazines like PC Magazine and MacUser to rebuild Ziff-Davis.[29] In 1994 he and his sons sold Ziff-Davis for $1.4 billion.
Gernsback Publications[edit]
The title Popular Electronics was sold to Gernsback Publications and their Hands-On Electronics magazine was renamed to Popular Electronics in February 1989. This version was published until it was merged with Electronics Now to become Poptronics in January 2000. In late 2002 Gernsback Publications went out of business and the January 2003 Poptronics was the last issue.[30]
See also[edit]
- WGU-20 - an unusual radio station first explained by Popular Electronics
- Nuts and Volts - an electronic hobbyists' magazine still in print
- Elektor - another electronic hobbyists' magazine still in print
- ^ The early issues listed the circulation figure on the Contents page. Starting in 1962 this data was in the back of each year's January issue.
- ^ "STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION (Required by 39 U.S.C. 3685)" (PDF). Vol. 20, no. 1. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. January 1982. p. 89. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
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- ^ https://popularelectronics.technicacuriosa.com/ website continues the Popular Electronics magazine title
- ^ "We have a BASIC". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015.
- ^ Raymond F. Yates (February 1943). "Popular Electronics, Part 1". Radio-Craft. 14 (5): 266–68, 316–17.
- ^ "News of Advertising and Marketing". The New York Times. June 12, 1956. p. 54.
- ^ Art Salsberg (November 1982). "Editorial: Number One!". Computers & Electronics. 20 (11): 4."A survey of subscribers conducted last year confirmed again that the great majority of our readers are male (97%)..."
- ^ Duntemann, Jeff. "John T. Frye's "Carl and Jerry"". www.copperwood.com. Retrieved 2013-02-13.
- ^ Newell, John K. (March 17, 1963). "He Hears 'Inaudible' Bats At Night: San Antonio's Gadget Lets Humans Hear Ultrasonic Sounds". San Antonio Express and News. pp. 1–G, 5–G.
- ^ Lancaster, Don (July 2001). "The Way Things Were" (PDF). The Blatant Opportunist # 63. Synergetics. Retrieved September 11, 2008.
- ^ Barnes, Bill (November 19, 1972). "Do-It Yourselfers Propel Kit Maker to High Levels". San Antonio Express-News. p. 10, Business Section.
- ^ Forrest M. Mims III (November 1984). "The Altair story; early days at MITS". Creative Computing. Vol. 10, no. 11. Creative Computing. p. 17. Retrieved September 11, 2008.
- ^ Forrest Mims; Henry E. Roberts (November 1970). "Assemble an LED Communicator - The Opticom". Popular Electronics. Vol. 33, no. 5. Ziff Davis. pp. 45–50, 98–99.
- ^ a b Mims, Forrest M (1986). Siliconnections: Coming of Age in the Electronic Era. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-07-042411-1.
- ^ Lou Garner (August 1972). "State of Solid State". Radio-Electronics. Vol. 43, no. 8. Gernsback Publications. pp. 23–25.
- ^ Jonathan A. Titus
- ^ H. Edward Roberts; William Yates (January 1975). "Altair 8800 minicomputer". Popular Electronics. Vol. 7, no. 1. Ziff Davis. pp. 33–38.
- ^ Ferrell, Oliver (September 1970). "The New Look". Popular Electronics. Vol. 33, no. 3. Ziff-Davis. pp. 7–8.
- ^ Salsberg, Art (August 1974). "Our New Look". Popular Electronics. Vol. 6, no. 2. Ziff-Davis. p. 4.
- ^ Terry Walker; Roger Melen; Harry Garland (February 1975). "Build Cyclops, First All Solid-State TV Camera". Popular Electronics. Vol. 7, no. 2. Ziff Davis. pp. 27–31.
- ^ Terry Walker; Roger Melen; Harry Garland; Ed Hall (February 1976). "Build the TV Dazzler". Popular Electronics. Vol. 9, no. 2. Ziff Davis. pp. 31, 37–40.
- ^ Cromemco Display at Stanford
- ^ Lee Felsenstein (March 1976). "Build the Pennywhistle - The Hobbyist's Modem". Popular Electronics. Vol. 9, no. 3. Ziff Davis. pp. 43–50.
- ^ Robert M. Marsh; Lee Felsenstein (July 1976). "Build SOL, An Intelligent Computer Terminal". Popular Electronics. Vol. 10, no. 1. Ziff Davis. pp. 35–38.
- ^ Speechlab voice recognition board
- ^ "Amazon.com". Amazon.
- ^ Art Salsberg (October 1984). "A Warm Welcome". Modern Electronics. Vol. 1, no. 1. Modern Electronics Inc. p. 4.
- ^ McCarthy, Michael (March 18, 1985). "End of an Era". InfoWorld. Vol. 7, no. 11. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. p. 13. ISSN 0199-6649.Ziff-Davis Publishing would discontinue Computers & Electronics due to flat ad revenues. Creative Computing magazine would continue.
- ^ Dougherty, Philip H. (August 9, 1988). "The Media Business: Advertising; Pc Magazine Sees Buyers As 'Heroes'". The New York Times. p. D19. "With 5,500 ad pages in 1987, Mr. Huey said, PC Magazine moved ahead of Vogue. Ad revenue for last year was $79 million, and for the first five months of this year it was $50 million."
- ^ Rick, Lindquist (January 17, 2003). "ARRL Letter". Vol. 22, no. 3. ARRL. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
Poptronics magazine which evolved from the former Popular Electronics and Electronics Now magazines ceased publication with the January 2003 edition (Vol 4, No 1).
External links[edit]
- Popular Electronics Magazine History
- Online scans of selected Popular Electronics issues
- Index of all of John T. Frye's Carl and Jerry stories
- STARTUP: Albuquerque and the Personal Computer Revolution
- America Radio History archives of Popular Electronics issues
- Popular Electronics website continuing the magazine title
- Archived Popular Electronics on the Internet Archive


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The Innovators of Barclays: a unified mindset
"Innovation is a change in the way you do things, whether it's big or small. It doesn't always have to be transformational. Sometimes it's simply a change in the way you do things day-to-day." Throughout her life, Mariquit Corcoran, New York-based Managing Director for Partnerships and Programmes in Barclays' Group Innovation Office, has been fascinated by how innovation can drive efficiency – from healthcare to travel to finance. She explains what innovation means to her, at Barclays and beyond.
When I was 10 years old, I wanted to be a doctor. So, I walked round with a first aid kit telling everybody I was going to heal them. But the thing I was most excited about at the time was figuring out how to distribute medicine to more people.
Now I'm older, I spend a lot of my time travelling – in airports, on trains, in traffic. I think of how much time people spend commuting and know there's got to be a better, more efficient way to do things. In both healthcare and travel, I know that solutions will come through innovation and technology, and lead to more efficient distribution.
Barclays is a vast and global organisation, but the unified mindset is innovation
Bank transfer
Transferring this to banking, there's an ability to access and share information today that would have been unimaginable a generation ago. I think back to my wedding, which was not that long ago, and on my honeymoon I carried physical cheques all over Hawaii for two weeks because I wanted to make sure I could safely deposit them when we got back home. But in the present day, all I would need to do – with these powerful computers we carry around in our pockets – is take a few pictures, and within minutes those same cheques would have been deposited to my bank account. To me, that distribution is incredible.
Is Barclays innovative?
Barclays is a vast and global organisation, but the unified mindset is innovation. We issued the first British credit card, had the first ATM, and promoted the first female bank manager. We've always had that history of innovation and that continues today, whether it's partnering with external technology companies, creating new offerings to differentiate ourselves, or making strategic investments in new players. All this informs the strategy of the Accelerator programmes I oversee in London, New York and Tel Aviv.
There are new challenges, and the challenger and neobanks are, I think, here to stay. I predict that will mean more partnerships between challenger and incumbent banks, including Barclays, and I see exponential growth in our ability to work with fintechs and startups. This will ultimately enable us to deliver better products, better customer experiences, and just to do things faster.
Female advocates
We launched something called Female Executives in Fintech earlier this year. With that, we're doing what we can to build a community with women executives from our networks and our clients here at Barclays, then bring that community together with women investors in our network as well as female entrepreneurs. Getting this group together and giving access between these entrepreneurs, investors and executives has been transformational for all parties.
Also, I'm very excited to be involved with the Female Innovators Lab by Barclays and Anthemis. That's a new programme that we've launched in New York, in which we are looking for women entrepreneurs who we can support and ultimately help build successful companies.
Banking, finance and technology are all areas in which women are significantly underrepresented and that's a fact. On top of the initiatives I'm involved in, I try to address this through spending a lot of time mentoring, speaking at panels and delivering keynotes for events designed to empower and support women. I'm trying to do my part in making sure I help improve the balance.


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Device attached to ATMs captures your card info
Police said two men have been charged with trying to steal ATM card information at three Metro Des Moines locations.
Police said the men used the skimmer device that reads and captures bank account information at a Great Western Bank on East 14th Street in Des Moines, Great Western on Euclid Avenue and at the West Bank off 22nd Street in West Des Moines.
Michael Silva, 24, and Jose Caro, 22, were arrested and charged with several felonies including conspiracy to commit a felony and illegal use of a scanning device.
"This particular one doesn't look like a top-notch device because it just doesn't look like part of the machinery at all, but we want people to know that there are some that do look like it's part of the ATM," said Des Moines police spokesman Sgt. Steve Woody.
The skimmer device fits over the ATM's card reader slot and has its own memory chip to record the information on the card as it is swiped.
"It would be attached somewhere to the ATM where you slide your card, your bank card it," said Woody.
Skimmers also come in different colors like the green one used in this case or in a grayish color that would look similar to an ATM, making it hard to tell it's fake.
Police said there's no surefire way to protect yourself except just keeping an eye out for anything that looks out of the ordinary and reporting it immediately.


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Table of Contents
First post:
General Trade Questions/reputation page
Second post:
First Aid
Third post:
Fourth Post:
General Trade Questions
Q. What are trade skills? (Only the newest players need to read this)
A. Trade skills are the crafts of World of Warcraft. You take items you have found off of enemies, or bought from vendors, and turn them into something that is hopefully more useful. Many times you can sell these items; sometimes you'll use them immediately.
Q. What are the requirements for Tradeskills?
A. You can start getting Tradeskills at level 5. If you need to find a trainer, ask a guard (they'll put a flag on your mini-map if you ask under "Professions"). There are tiers for skills:
Level 5 - maximum skill is 75 (need to be at least 50 to raise).
Level 10 - maximum skill is 150 (need to be at least 125 to raise).
Level 20 - maximum skill is 225 (need to be at least 200 to raise).
Level 35 - maximum skill is 300 (this is the highest skill alone can take you).
These apply to the primary production skills: Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring, Engineering, Alchemy, and Enchanting. There are also three primary gathering skills: Herbalism, Mining, and Skinning. These three can be increased to any level, although you need to be trained every 75 skill levels to reach the new cap. These are mostly limited by the areas the resources you gather are in. With mining and herbalism, you will get a "track resource" button. Clicking this will show resources nearby on your mini-map as yellow dots. If the dot is grey, the resource is under the ground.
You can ONLY have 2 of these 9 skills. You can drop one to make room for another, but if you take it back up later, you will have lost all of your recipes and all of your skill levels.
In addition, there are three secondary trade skills: fishing, cooking, and first aid. You can have all three of these.
Q. How do I craft something?
A. Push "p" to open your skills window. Under the general tab, if you have the skill (say, tailoring), click the tailoring button. You'll see a list of recipes that you have learned and can make. If you have the materials for the item, next to its name you will see a number: this is the maximum amount of the item you can create with the materials you currently have on hand.
You will never fail to craft something in World of Warcraft. You can fail to pick, mine, or skin something, but you can try again without penalty. You will never fail more than three times (providing you can mine it).
Q. What's with the colors on my recipes/resource nodes?
A. The color system is how likely you are to get a skill-up when you pick/mine/skin/craft something. Orange means always (100%), yellow means usually (50-100%), green means rarely (0-50%), and grey means never (0%). Red means you need to raise your skill to pick/mine/skin/craft the item.
Q. How can I make money in WoW? (Torux)
A. The best way is to take two gathering proffessions (mining, skinning and/or herbalism) and sell the items you get in the auction house to crafters. Some people learn enchanting, then disenchant items they no longer want (as well as soulbound items from quests), and sell the dust, essence and shards to enchanters. Shards sell for alot more than dusts and essnces.
A1. This holds true for the first forty levels or so, usually up until you get your mount. With a mount, your money-making abilities increase ten-fold. You can move faster, gather more per hour, and increase your profits (and this is just with gathering). However, even later in the game, the easiest way to get money is to get some rare recipes and make items no one else can. Charge a base line and have people bring you materials; it's free for you and good for them!
Another good way to make money is to play the AH; buy low and sell high. I won't go into this daytrading technique; this is stuff for people with a lot of time and good market skills ^_^ Keep in mind a lot of people are upset by morals here: when you overstep the line and buyout everything to resell it at a higher price, it tends to become a pain. If you can do it, hey, it's all good! But odds are that a lot of people will scoff at your price and make you eat the deposit fees. A better idea: look for underpriced items and sell them at the current price. This is easy and effective.
Q. How do I unlearn a skill? (Torux)
A. Open your list of skills ('k') and click on the tradeskill you wish to unlearn. At the bottom will be a description of the skill. Next to that is an icon that you can click to unlearn the skill. Be warned, this will completely remove any knowledge you have of that skill, and therefore if you wish to relearn it in the future, you will have to start from the very beginning.
A VERY comprehensive link to reputation, including what patterns you can get and how to get reputation levels for the factions. I will link this for any reputation questions in the future. One problem... it links to thottbot instead of allakhazam >_>
Overview: Alchemy is the process of taking herbs and creating potions. These potions give you temporary stat increases or added effects; other give you healing. These effects generally last an hour before another potion is needed, or they fade upon dying. To make a potion you need to buy vials, which come in four varieties.
While only alchemists make potions, anyone can use them (unlike engineering). Potions can tip the balance in your favor in PvE and PvP; however, people in duels often consider them to be illegal. Cry babies. Specify the rules first before a duel; using your profession to help you win is NOT cheating in my book.
Healing potions can be found off some enemies. Stat potions are only created by alchemists or come as quest rewards.
Q. What are these transmutes I keep hearing about? (LockeColeMA)
A. A transmutation is an alchemist's special ability (well, besides making potions, obviously). At level 225 you can create a soulbound item called a Philosopher's Stone:
And you get your first Transmutes (from the Gadgetzan Alchemy vendor): Transmute Iron to Gold and Transmute Mithril to Truesilver. You basically make the "normal" items into their rare spawns.
However, these are relatively worthless. At level 275, you can Transmute Arcanite, which will make you big money (on most servers, around 5 gold for each transmute, for doing nothing but the service itself). Arcanite is needed for a lot of engineering and blacksmithing end-game items, so there is always a demand for it. And only alchemists can make it!
Things to note: to transmute you need the necessary materials, which are usually just the metals or essences. In the case of Arcanite, you need a Thorium Bar and an Arcane Crystal. Elemental transmutes (turning one essence to another) and Transmute Iron ---> Gold have a 24 hour cooldown. Transmute Mithril ---> Truesilver and Transmute Arcanite have 48 hour cooldowns. These cooldowns are character specific: having multiple Philosopher's Stones will NOT allow you to transmute more often.
Q. What are these Flasks I hear about? (LockeColeMA)
A. Flasks are the uber eng-game potions. They require an obscene amount of items to create, and can only be crafted at an Alchemy lab, like the ones in Scholomance (I've heard there was an alchemy lab in a different instance as well, but I know of at least two in Scholomance). Since you'll need a great 5-man or a good 10-man raid to get to the labs, these take a while to make. Not to mention that the recipes are all rare drops. Flasks used to be useless, as their effects would end if you die; but I have heard that in a recent patch Flask effects now last through death. This can make them selectively useful, especially in instances and PvP. Still, the component cost is too high for many. You can only have one Flask effect at a time.
Q. What makes money with Alchemy?
This varies depending on server age, population demographics, time of the week, and other things. Here are some decent ideas:
Healing potions/mana potions: Always in demand due to Battlegrounds and PvE use. However, usually the price of ingrediants is more expensive than the potions themselves! Potions also drop off enemies at a rate that I would say is at best uncommon.
Free Action Potions:
These things sell like crazy on WSG honor weekends from what I hear. Not tough to see why; this is the best thing a flag-carrier can use!
Oil of Immolation:
Not a huge seller, but it is needed for two very specific things: a Silithus logistics quest, and it is used by priests on their Benediction quest.
Swiftness Potions:
These also sell like hotcakes on WSG weekends; a speed boost for 15 seconds is great. Also a great PvP tool outside of BGs. The problem is that Swiftthistle can usually go for crazy prices, and the recipe is a random world drop and rather expensive off the AH. If you have cheap Swiftthistle and the recipe though, you can make a killing.
Elixir of the Mongoose:
The ultimate rogue/crit potion, it gives a good agility boost and critical hit%. Great for grinding and high-end instances, the effect is a little blunted in BGs, since you lose the effect when you die. It does NOT stack with an agility potion.
Greater Protection Potions (thanks to Turicus):
Fire: http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=13457
Nature: http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=13458
Needed for end-game instances (MC, BWL, AQ), a single player can run through ten of these in a single run. These are always in demand; if you get the recipes (which usually go for above 100 gold at the very least), you have a cash cow.
Finally getting started on this section! Bear with me; unlike everything else I have posted on, I have never done Blacksmithing; feel free to correct me if I messed something up!
Overview: Blacksmithing is a profession that lets you make weapons and mail (and later plate) armor. The weapons created include daggers, swords, maces, and axes. The ability to make mail pretty much drops off at level 40, when Paladins and Warriors upgrade to plate; mail-crafting past level 40 for Shamans and Hunters is in leatherworking at that point.
Blacksmithing has two primary differences: armorsmithing and weaponsmithing. Weaponsmiths are then divided again into an area of focus: swordsmith mastery, hammersmith mastery, and axesmith mastery.
To get stared, you'll want a few things... first and foremost, mining. To make almost everything, you'll need ore and possibly gems. You also need a blacksmith's hammer, along with an anvil to create blacksmithed items.
Q. Why is blacksmithing a good profession?
A. Right now blacksmithing is what I would call one of the most completed professions. It has different routes, something promised to other professions (tailoring and enchanting) in the future. It serves multiple purposes; while Warriors and Paladins will be able to make great armor out of it, rogues, hunters, and shamans can all make weapons they can use. Also, blacksmithing is needed to create the epic hammer that will be come the legendary Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros:
Unlike gathering skills, a high level blacksmith is potentially able to buy materials right off the AH, smith something, and sell it for a profit. This obviously requires using the AH to plot price potentials, but the possibility is definitely there.
Unlike Tailoring, the ultimate pre-MC items blacksmithing can create are actually darn useful. The enchanted thorium items come to mind. These items can blow away the Valor set (depending on what kind of gear you are focusing on). For weaponsmithing, the Heartseeker, Arcanite Champion, and Arcanite Reaper are amazing weapons; the Arcanite Reaper reigns as one of the best Warrior weapons outside of MC+ raid instances.
Also, unlike alchemy and enchanting, you won't be called a cheater if you use your own smithed items in a duel >_>. I hate people who call others cheaters, but hey, it is a reason...
Q. What are some of the rare patterns for blacksmithing?
I don't know if anyone would actually ask this, but there are some difficult to get patterns. Some are worthless, some are situationally useful, and some are really good.
Darkrune: Just added in patch 1.7 or 1.8, these items are from a repeatable quest in Silithus called Still Believing
These armor pieces (there are three) have a hefty amount of shadow resistance on them. The Dark Runes drop off enemies in Scholomance; kind of like Righteous Orbs from Stratholme, but Orbs are worth a lot more and are apparently a lot rarer.
Enchanted Thorium Platemail: These patterns are learned off of the Advanced Armorsmithing pieces (you combine them together to form the book, get the quest, and drop them off in DM to learn the patterns). These are amazing pieces of equipment for tanking; they have a healthy dose of stamina, decetn strength, and +defense. Great for tanking.
Bloodsoul: Some of the mail that blacksmithing can make after level 40. This is decent hunter gear: agility and stamina, along with 3% crit and a passive mana regen bonus. This is from the Zandalar trolls (ZG faction), so you need ot have pretty high reputation to get these from them.
There are also all the things you can get from the Timbermaw, Argent Dawn, and Thorium Brotherhood factions. With the TB, Exalted nets you the plans to make this:
Which, again, is used to make the legendary hammer :-P
Q. Okay, I can choose my path: armor or weapon... so... what do I choose!?
A. Well, the first question is a matter of class: Warriors and Paladins will primarily be the only ones taking armorsmithing, as they are the only classes who use plate armor. But as to the question of which to choose... it gets tricky. I won't deny that armorsmithing has some great recipes, as does weaponsmithing. And you don't lose all the recipes; there is life after your path, and both sides can learn some of the same generic blacksmithing recipes. But your path opens up new patterns for you. Remember you need to have at least 200 skill (might be more, not sure of the prereqs...) and around level 40 to choose. Note: you need 210 skill for some parts of the prereqs for armorsmithing at the very least... so you might want to be artisan (225, level 40) before you start.
Great outline in the comments for Alliance armorsmithing:
To find the respective quests for weaponsmithing/armorsmithing, check the Trade Skills: List of Trainers bar on the left, and go to blacksmithing. Much easier than me writing it all out :-P
Note: weaponsmithing has fewer patterns at first, because you are not specced into one of the three branches of it: hammer, sword, or axe.
Q. What do I do to become specced in a weaponsmith mastery branch?
A. First, be above level 51. Second, go to Everlook, in Winterspring. Third, look for the three people hanging out... I believe in the bank... You'll notice them easily; one is Lilith the Lithe, a dancing undead. Another is a human (I believe his last name is Scourgebane... funny, as he is watching an undead dance, hehe), and the last is a troll. These three are the masters of the weapons; their quests will get you into the path you desire. You can ONLY be one type of master. You will receive 4 recipes from them (or on the quests; I know the swordsmith will pick up the plans for Corruption, and the hammersmith gets the plans for Serenity). You are now a weaponsmith master.
Overview: Cooking allows you to take raw foods and whip up some cooked ones! Cooked foods generally restore more hp/sec than their raw counterparts. Some cooked foods give you a "Well Fed" effects, which will boost a stat for 15 minutes if you remain eating for more than 15 seconds. There are some other foods with different effects.
Q. Who uses cooking?
A. Generally non-healing classes. To reduce downtime, cooked food is great. You'll get more hp back faster if your food is cooked. If you're soloing, well fed bonuses can give you a nice edge. Warriors and Rogues will use cooking most often as they take direct hits (bandages work better, but have a cooldown). Hunters will use cooking as well, because their pets need to eat. Cooked food restores more happiness than uncooked food. Warlocks don't generally need to eat because they can drain life and tank with Voidwalker. Mages generally don't cook because they can conjure up their own food. Healing classes may or may not use food; it depends on play style.
Q. What do you need to cook?
A. In general you only need a basic campfire, which (if you aren't near one) requires a flint and tinder. The wood for the fire can be stacked. By the way, a basic campfire adds 4 spirit if you are within its range.
Most of the added effect foods require additional ingrediants to make. Basic grilled upgrades (like grilling a raw fish) does not require anything but the fish and a fire.
Q. What are some nice added effect cooked items?
Thistle Tea: Restores 100 energy instantly. A great Rogue item.
Grilled Squid: Well Fed effect increases Agility by 10 for 10 minutes. http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=13928
Nightfin Soup: For the occassional magic-using cook, Well Fed effect grants 8 mana every 5 seconds for 10 minutes. http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=13931
Mightfish Steak: Well Fed effect grants 10 Stamina for 10 minutes. http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=13934
Spiced Chili Crab: Well Fed effect grants 12 stamina and spirit for 15 minutes. http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=12216
Dragonbreath Chili: Occasionally belch flames at enemies when struck in combat! This is always a crowd-pleaser ^_^. It's nice to get a little extra damage; the flames do around 60 damage, and I believe hit in a cone in front of you. http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=12217
Smoked Desert Dumplings: Gives you a whopping 20 Strength for 15 minutes! These are from quests in Silithus though, and will require a decently high level skill (280 or so, I believe) to get (and level 45 to eat).
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Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops: I'm adding this more for fun than anything else :-P This is the ONLY epic cooking recipe. Why is it epic? The quest for it is part of the AQ gate-opening series. You need to kill level 61-62 elites with a full raid to get the meat for it. The food itself gives you +25 stamina, which is great... but it is insane to get, and to make :-P (Original info by Turicus, who didn't mention it was part of the AQ opening ;-))
Q. Where do I get recipes for Cooking?
A. Try any general goods or fish dealer. Flip to the end of what they sell and look for recipes. It is very possible to get from 0-300 with only fish and fish-frying recipes; but to get added effects and well fed statuses, you need to gather additional ingrediants and more-difficult to find components.
(Torux) Not specifically a tradeskill related question but more a quick tip. If you've no intention to cook, don't sell things like boar meat or scorpid stingers to vendors. Save them up in stacks and put them on the auction. Alot of people at later levels want to raise their cooking skill but don't want to spend hours killing low level mobs to get the meat to cook (specifically rogues who need to learn to cook thistle tea... speaking from personal experience). They'd much prefer to simply buy the stuff.
I'd recommend saving;
Chunks of boar meat
Clam Meat
Scorpid stinger
Stringy wolf meat.
Basically the very first uncooked meats that drop from low level mobs. These are the main regeants used to get the cooking skill required (60).
Q. What is the Cooking Quest?
A. Clamlette Surprise:
This is available at level 35 (thanks, Turicus!), and you must have maxed skill (225/225). There used to be a bug where if you logged out after getting the quest finished you couldn't level any higher, so it is recommended you get at least one more skill point before logging out.
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CULLOWHEE – Prospective nursing students can learn about career opportunities in the field as Western Carolina University's School of Nursing hosts its sixth annual Education Fair on Saturday, March 29, at WCU's instructional site at Biltmore Park Town Square in Asheville.
The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. No registration is required to attend, and prospective students are welcome to drop in at any time. The offices and classrooms of WCU's Programs at Biltmore Park are located at 28 Schenck Parkway, Suite 300.
University representatives will be on hand to discuss WCU's traditional pre-licensure bachelor's degree program in nursing, the accelerated bachelor's program, the registered nurse to bachelor's degree program, the registered nurse to master of science program, and a dual enrollment undergraduate program that WCU offers in conjunction with Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.
Graduate program representatives will be available to discuss master's degree programs in family nurse practitioner, nurse administration, nurse anesthesia and nurse education, plus the doctor of nursing practice program and post-master's certificate options.
Prospective students also will have an opportunity to meet with admissions and financial aid advisers. There will be a chance to win door prizes and refreshments will be served.
More information about the fair is available by visiting nursing.wcu.edu or by contacting Jessica Shirley, director of student services for the School of Nursing, at firstname.lastname@example.com or (828) 654-6506.


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To get a sense of how women are doing in Washington, look at the White House.
President Bush has had two women, besides his wife, as trusted advisers: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, one of the world's most powerful women, and Karen Hughes, the former White House counselor now at the State Department. Both have a long history in Bush's inner circle.
At the same time, Bush lags behind his predecessor in the number of women appointed to key positions in his administration, according to an analysis by Newsday. Women have won 36 percent of the plum jobs in this administration; 44 percent of Clinton's top appointees were female.
The White House is emblematic of the paradox Washington women face. Individual women—like Rice, retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, associate justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi—have achieved lots of success here. But a giant leap for one woman hasn't translated into steady steps upward for womankind.
"Organizations and institutions promote a few smart high achievers, and then the gate closes," says Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity University and one of only two female university presidents in the Washington area. (Charlene Drew Jarvis is president of DC's Southeastern University.)
Where are women doing well? As career civil servants and appointees in government. Across the board, the federal government has become such an exemplary employer of women that we could fill our entire list of 100 powerful women with those in high-level positions.
Women have flourished, too, in broadcasting, medicine, and the arts.
Three of the four major network bureau chiefs here are female, and women dominate cable and public broadcasting.
Where women used to be relegated to handmaiden status in medicine, they now head four of the institutes at the National Institutes of Health.
At one time, works by female artists were so scarce in Washington museums that local collector Wilhelmina Holladay founded a museum dedicated to women in the arts. Today, women head three of the Smithsonian museums.
But these successes make the absence of women at the top in other fields all the more striking. Where are the female newspaper editors, bank presidents, school superintendents, corporate CEOs, and elected officials?
Women fill two of DC's top elected offices: Linda Cropp chairs the DC Council, and Eleanor Holmes Norton is DC's congressional delegate. But suburban jurisdictions have few female county executives, mayors, chairs of county councils, city administrators, or heads of local school boards.
On the business front, only one of the area's top 100 publicly traded companies is run by a woman. Dr. Martine Rothblatt heads the company she founded, United Therapeutics. Rothblatt is a transsexual who got her start as a male telecommunications lawyer.
"Women aren't getting the assignments that allow them to cut their teeth as executives," says Ericka Miller, director of Isaacson, Miller, an executive recruiter for universities and nonprofits. She says women need more mentors and better networks. Miller, who credits former DC school superintendent Floretta McKenzie with being her mentor, finds hope in the increasing number of women coming up in engineering and other male-dominated fields.
Corporate consultant Rebecca Shambaugh specializes in helping women reach the "C suite," where CEOs, COOs, and CFOs dwell. Shambaugh says women often defeat themselves in the competitive corporate environment. She counsels not to expect recognition and promotion just for a job well done. "You have to develop strategic relationships with the right people," she says. "Spend 20 percent of your time getting out, taking people to lunch, making contacts."
Many women tend to focus on their individual assignment rather than the company as a whole, says Shambaugh. And pursuing perfection—even if it means doing everything yourself—leads many women to burn out before they get to the executive suite.
Some women have opted out because they can't see combining motherhood with the 60-hour workweeks required by many top jobs. "There are all these former Supreme Court clerks who are now working on the auction at my daughter's nursery school," says one Washington mother.
Other highly educated young women, not wanting to bow to the demands of corporations and other large organizations, are choosing less traditional career paths. Georgetown law graduate Julia Lichtman Kepniss and Yale MBA Carin Rosenberg Levine decided to skip the law and corporate route and recently opened Hitched, a bridal boutique in Georgetown.
On the plus side, some of Washington's best and brightest women are using their power positions to promote other women. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff, legislative director, and communications director are women. Half of the senior officials serving under Secretary Rice are women. At Discovery Communications, 45 percent of the executives working with company president Judith McHale are female.
But they are the exceptions.
"Women haven't lifted as they climbed," says Patricia McGuire. Shambaugh also sees the need for stronger women's networks. "Women need to advocate for one another," she says. "We need to be looking at all levels for women we can pull up."
What difference does it make if people in power are men or women? The actions of decision-makers are often based on their own life experience, women leaders say. Phyllis Greenberger, president of the Society for Women's Health Research, recalls that women weren't included in federally funded medical research and were kept out of clinical trials until women fought for leadership roles in health agencies and began serving on the peer-review committees that consider research proposals. As a result, almost all medical research was based on the false assumption that the only difference between the sexes was in their reproductive systems.
"We're still playing catch-up," Greenberger says. Recent studies have highlighted different symptoms and treatment outcomes for women with heart disease and the fact that women face greater risk from lung cancer than men do.
The good news: Nearly half of the 2005 medical graduates were women. Women are gaining more positions on medical-school faculties. And women's-health advocates have found powerful friends in the growing women's caucus in Congress.
What does it take for a woman to succeed and lead? Here are eight whose achievements inspire young women to aim for the top. They have done more than break glass ceilings—they've defied the stereotype that women have to give up marriage and family to achieve professional success. Seven of the eight are married.
The court's counterpuncher
Conservatives call it "Aron's Army." Nan Aron, 58, is the founder of the Alliance for Justice, a coalition of 75 public-interest and civil-rights groups that works on issues ranging from abortion to the environment. But the alliance is best known for its advocacy on judicial appointments. Its most public victories were helping to defeat the nomination of Robert Bork for the Supreme Court and the successful appointment of Roger Gregory, the first African-American judge on the Fourth Circuit.
Aside from its Judicial Selection Project, Aron's group is working to increase foundation support for nonprofit groups, offering technical assistance to advocacy organizations, and promoting youth leadership. In 2004, the Alliance started Coaches Against Gun Violence in eight DC high schools to get adults who are respected by kids to talk about preventing teen shootings.
Aron started the Alliance in 1979 with a small grant and support from 20 public-interest groups. She had been a trial attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a litigator representing prisoners for the American Civil Liberties Union. "Many conservatives were challenging the gains we'd made," Aron says. "We needed a community of organizations to take on the right wing and big corporations."
Organizing the opposition was second nature to the descendant of a long line of social activists in New York. "My grandmother went around the country raising money and lecturing about Israel, and many of my aunts were part of the civil-rights movement," she says. "There was a lot of discussion around the dinner table about social causes."
Aron met her husband, Bernard Arons, at Oberlin College: They were classmates, and seating was alphabetical. Arons is a psychiatrist who practices in New York and comes back to DC on weekends. They have three grown children—a son who's a lawyer, a daughter getting a doctorate in psychology, and another daughter who works with people with HIV/AIDS in DC.
Case Western Reserve law school equipped Aron with the skills she needed to follow in the family footsteps. "It's a catalytic profession. You can help improve policies that improve people's lives," she says. But while litigation is head-to-head combat, social advocacy requires the cultivation of allies. "You have to be a networker, work the phones, write letters, build an army."
That coalition is even more important now, Aron believes. corporations feel more empowered in GOP-dominated Washington and law firms seem less eager to take on pro bono cases, she says: "The legal establishment has moved to the right."
But not Nan Aron. Sean Rushton, who heads the conservative Committee for Justice, says, "Nan is viewed as an effective advocate for her side, someone willing to stage a debate anywhere, any time, as a vigorous proponent for her side's point of view."
When the Wall Street Journal called her the Madame DeFarge of liberal court watchers, Aron had only one complaint about the reference—she's much too busy to take up knitting.
Helping a university make the grade
When Pat McGuire graduated from Northeast DC's Trinity College in 1974, she never dreamed she'd come back 15 years later as the college's president. If she were going to be an academic, she figured she'd teach at a law school.
McGuire, 53, had gone to Georgetown Law Center and become deeply involved in its DC Street Law Project. Law students were teaching DC high-school kids about the law and the legal system. The idea was that the more kids knew about the legal system, the less they'd want to run afoul of it.
After McGuire graduated, she stayed at Georgetown to run the street-law program. When federal funding for the program was cut, GU's law dean told McGuire she'd have to raise the money to keep her program going. "I don't do development," McGuire said. But before long she proved so effective as a fundraiser that she was asked to become director of development for the entire law school.
The development job gave her the skills she needed when Trinity came calling, asking her, at age 36, to be its president. "I learned how to ask for money, how to cultivate prospects without appearing to have an agenda, and the social skills needed in business," McGuire says.
In 1989, Trinity needed all of McGuire's skills and more. The first Catholic liberal-arts college for women had been through six presidents in eight years, was no longer attracting the daughters of the upper-middle class that had been its mainstay, and had a campus and a reputation in need of repair.
"We didn't know how to tell our story," McGuire says. "I had to convince people inside Trinity as well as outsiders."
First McGuire promised annual raises to the staff. Then she authorized $20,000 to paint the dome of the main building. "We needed a sense of pride," she says.
Then McGuire did more than tell the Trinity story. She rewrote it. Today, Trinity serves mostly minority women who would otherwise not have access to higher education. The innovative weekend college and programs linked to the educational and business communities offer opportunities to students with limited time and money.
"As a university president, you have to be an entrepreneur," McGuire says. The new $20-million Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports provides NCAA athletic opportunities for students and partnerships with groups like the Girl Scouts and Washington Hospital Center's cardiac-rehab program. It also generates income from the community through its fitness center.
That humility comes with a down-to-earth manner. While other college presidents get mansions, drivers, and entertainment allowances, McGuire, who is single, lives modestly, drives herself, and doesn't even have a president sign in the parking lot. For Christmas last year, the faculty gave her something she really wanted—a new orange traffic cone to reserve a space for her in front of the main building.
Discovering secrets to success
In 1987, when Judith McHale left New York and a job as legal counsel at MTV to go to the tiny Discovery Channel in Landover, Maryland, most of her friends thought she was crazy. MTV was the hottest network on cable, and Discovery, back then, had 35 employees and an uncertain future. John Hendricks had originally called the company the Cable Educational Network. But even with the new name, Discovery seemed like a snooze.
McHale signed on as the only lawyer but helped shape the fledgling enterprise as it launched Discovery in Europe and acquired the Learning Channel. At Discovery, McHale worked closely with founder Hendricks and president Ruth Otte. Still, she felt hamstrung by her legal label. "Don't think of me as just as a lawyer," McHale told Hendricks and Otte. "There are other things I can do." The general counsel was soon in charge of human resources and information technology.
She's a lot more than a lawyer now. Named president and chief operating officer in 1995 and CEO in 2004, McHale runs a global media and entertainment company that includes the Travel Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Health Channel, the Nature Company stores, Discovery Channel stores, and an alliance with the BBC. Discovery has 6,000 employees and operates in 160 countries and territories, reaching 1.3 billion subscribers.
McHale says that in its early days cable television offered more opportunities for women than network TV because it was seen as a risky business, and women were willing to take the risk. The secret of her own success? "If you're interested in doing other things, raise your hand. It makes people look at you differently."
When Discovery had a major programming position open up, McHale was surprised that no women applied. She learned that many women thought that if they were qualified for the job, a manager would have asked them to apply. "Have confidence to take the first step," she advises.
A working mother, McHale makes it easy for women to combine work and family. Discovery's work/life initiative provides flexible hours and lots of opportunities to work from home. A Women's Leadership Group offers guidance on coping with a career and a newborn. Discovery is often on lists of best companies for women—and men.
But McHale would not have stayed at Discovery for its enlightened culture alone. "A job should not just be a paycheck, it should be a passion," she told the American University graduating class of 2005.
And it shouldn't be an unrequited love affair. "Don't stay in an organization that is not meeting your goals and objectives," McHale says. "Find an organization that really works for you."
Her chessboard is the city
For Linda Cropp, 57, politics began at home.
A social-studies teacher and later guidance counselor at DC's Eastern High School—whose husband also taught there—Cropp was determined to keep her children in DC public schools even though she was dissatisfied with the neighborhood school, Powell Elementary School in Ward 4. Cropp got so involved in the PTA that after DC got home rule, neighbors encouraged her to run for the ward's seat on the new board of education. She won in 1981, when Floretta McKenzie was the new school superintendent.
Student test scores were rising, but school buildings were falling apart. "We demanded that Mayor Barry replace 100 roofs on schools," Cropp recalls. "We sued him, and we won."
Cropp became head of the school board in 1987 and four years later won a seat on the DC Council. In 1997, she became council chairman. She has no problem with the "man" in the title. "It's 'chairman' by act of Congress and signed by the President as part of the home-rule legislation," Cropp says. "They never thought a woman would be in this position."
Her chairmanship began when the city grappled with unbalanced budgets, junk bonds, and the financial control board. "We have a cash reserve now, and I'm not about to let this city turn around again," she says.
Cropp describes herself as a consensus builder rather than a crusader—a leadership style that has left her open to criticism. She admits she's had to use her old skills as a teacher and guidance counselor to keep the council moving forward. "Consensus doesn't mean you lack vision," she says. "Until you get other people to buy into your position, you cannot move forward."
On a council with 13 strong personalities, controversial issues, and several members running for council chair or mayor—including Cropp—consensus can be elusive. Her secret of success: Play chess instead of checkers. "You have to look out five moves ahead," she says.
And Cropp is not afraid to go it alone. When she felt Mayor Anthony Williams hadn't cut a good enough deal with Major League Baseball, Cropp dug in her heels until both sides agreed to more private funding for a new stadium. The headline in the Washington Post the next day read, at the end of the day, cropp owns the deal.
The art of following your passion
At 39, Olga Viso would qualify as a "woman to watch" but for the fact that she isn't on her way to the top—she's already there. Ten years after coming to the Hirshhorn as an assistant curator, Viso last year was named director of the museum. She has turned a childhood passion for making art into an adult passion for nurturing and celebrating artists. "This museum is dedicated to encouraging and exhibiting the art of our time," Viso says.
Viso grew up in Florida, the only child of Cuban immigrants. Her mother had had her own business but had to start from scratch when she emigrated here. "She always encouraged me to be respectful, disciplined, but a free thinker," Viso says.
At Rollins College in Florida, Viso proved herself as entrepreneurial as her mother. While studying art and business, Viso asked permission to exhibit works by students and faculty in the campus library. "I did six or seven exhibits there a year," Viso recalls. By this time, she had concluded that she lacked the talent to be a professional artist.
After graduation, Viso tried marketing for a development company but wasn't happy. From there, she went back to school for a master's in art history at Emory University in Atlanta. She also started working at Atlanta's High Museum of Art and stayed on after graduating. In 1993, Viso moved to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, where her interest in contemporary art and living artists flourished. She was specifically qualified to curate the exhibit that brought her national acclaim—the work of four female Cuban artists called "Transcending the Borders of Memory." Two years later, Viso came to the Hirshhorn as an assistant curator.
As curator for contemporary art, Viso led the museum's Directions program to showcase emerging artists. She has expanded the museum's reach to include artists from Asia and Latin America. "We have an opportunity and a responsibility to be even more global," she says.
Viso says being young has been more of a barrier than being female: "I've had to be more persistent. I've also had exceptional mentors, mostly men, who gave me encouragement."
Her relationship with the other Olga—Olga Hirshhorn—is also close. "The Hirshhorns had a strong personal relationship with artists," Viso says of the museum's founders. Olga Hirshhorn's highest accolade about an exhibit: "Joe would have liked this."
What does it take to succeed in the arts? Viso has followed her mentors' advice to network and be visible. She gives lectures and gallery talks all over the East Coast, writes for scholarly publications, and is active in international arts organizations.
When her appointment was announced, she started hearing from women. "I symbolize a shift for women, particularly for Latina women," Viso says proudly.
An alpha female in a field of alpha males
Nancy Dorn arrived in Washington in 1981 with $1,000, seven cartons of stuff, and no job. The Texas native had been working on small-town newspapers but says, "I wanted to make news rather than report it." Dorn, 47, started knocking on congressional doors and landed a job as a press assistant to Tom Loeffler, a Republican congressman from Texas. Six years later Loeffler ran for governor and lost, but Dorn had earned enough political points to move to the Reagan White House as a special assistant for legislative affairs.
A few years later, at age 33, President George H.W. Bush nominated Dorn to be the first woman and the youngest person to serve as an assistant secretary of the Army, heading the Corps of Engineers. How did a young female civilian deal with the senior military officers?
"I was not a known quantity in the Pentagon. I had a one-star Marine general who was supposed to work for me," she says. "It took a few months before he realized that I had a wealth of experience in the legislative and executive branches. I had come from the White House. I had connections to the Secretary of Defense."
Dorn's secret of success: Bring something to the table. The corps had been having problems with the Office of Management and Budget. Dorn may not have known how to build steel bridges, but she did know how to build personal bridges among the Pentagon, the OMB, and Congress. As a result, the Corps of Engineers broadened its mission to include environmental cleanup.
When Bush left office in 1993, Dorn joined a lobbying firm. It was a welcome break for the young mother. "Being out of power, you have time to do things with your kids," she says. But by 2000, when House speaker Dennis Hastert beckoned, Dorn was ready to go back. She worked for Hastert on foreign policy and defense issues, then moved into a new Bush administration, first as an assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney for legislative affairs and then as deputy OMB director.
But demanding administration jobs didn't leave her much time to spend with her preteens. "If you're lucky, you have choices," she says. When she was offered the job of running General Electric's Washington office, she took it.
Washington is a good town for "alpha females," Dorn says. "Look at Condi Rice—she is so far from being a token." So is Nancy Dorn.
Banking on the right priorities
Catherine West, 46, did not grow up dreaming of dollar signs. She got her first job at Chevy Chase Federal Savings Bank in 1984 because the bank had a solid reputation, offered a training program, and was located near her ailing father.
West, a Washington native, had just graduated from Lynchburg College. "I went in as a young girl, and Lynchburg touched my soul for four years," she says. "I came out a confident woman."
It was a heady time for young women. Geraldine Ferraro had just been nominated for vice president. "I had a sense I could do anything I put my mind to," West recalls.
It was a heady time for Chevy Chase Bank, too. The bank was starting its first credit-card program, and West was one of the first three people hired. Being part of a start-up fueled her enthusiasm and ambition. Six years later, West was vice president of the bank's credit-card serving operation, handling nearly $5 billion in managed loans. She moved to First USA Bank in Wilmington, Delaware, and joined Capital One in 2000.
In 2004, she became president of US Card, the largest division of Capital One Financial. She directs all product, marketing, and consumer-service activities for more than $48 billion in managed loans and $7.9 billion in revenues. Capital One is the last company she'll ever work for, she says: It has a culture that "promotes women and diversity of thought."
West's secret of success: "It's the company you keep. Seek out the kind of company where you can succeed, a company on a growth trajectory."
West's own idea of success changed when she became a mother. When her son, Will, was born nine years ago, West was working in Wilmington and returning to Chevy Chase most weekends. When she went into labor, she drove herself to the hospital and kept working on bank business until she was wheeled into the delivery room.
She took six weeks' maternity leave. But after six months of juggling motherhood and management, she realized something had to change. At home in Wilmington one Saturday night when she and the baby were sick and her husband out of the country, she got a call from her boss at 10 o'clock asking her to come into work. West wrapped up the baby, went to the office, and asked a friendly security guard to keep an eye on Will.
After about an hour, West realized the absurdity of the situation. She picked up her baby and walked out and says she has never gone back to her workaholic ways. "A child helps you get your priorities straight," she says. "It has made me a better person."
And, she believes, a better manager. What impresses people who work for her most? "The fact that I'm a good mother," she says.
Following her heart to medicine and the top of her game
Growing up in St. Paul, Betsy Nabel was fascinated by her father's work as a scientist for the 3M Company. An inventor of ScotchGuard, he made research sound like an exciting voyage of discovery. But Nabel, 54, was a girl in a traditional Scandinavian family in Garrison Keillor country; nobody encouraged her to follow her father's path. She went to St. Olaf's College and studied psychology.
After graduation in 1974, Nabel left Minnesota to study at Columbia University. "Manhattan was the place to be," she says. Ms. magazine was energizing women. Nabel realized she wanted to study medicine and enrolled in Cornell Medical School. One-third of her classmates were women.
At Cornell, Nabel first thought she wanted to be a surgeon. But she had heard about the treatment another female student had suffered from the head of surgery so instead chose cardiology. A stint in Africa working with volunteer doctors confirmed that she had made the right career choice. "I knew that I was using medicine to improve people's lives."
Nabel was back in the States doing a residency at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital when she met her husband. Gary Nabel was her intern, and she was reluctant to date him. But he won a bet with her about a patient's diagnosis. The prize: dinner.
Their first child was born in the second year of a cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women's. Nabel smiles as she describes carrying breast milk in the same Igloo coolers used to transport hearts for transplantation.
When both had finished their training, the doctors Nabel were offered jobs on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School. Betsy was director of the Division of Cardiology, doing research in vascular biology and molecular cardiology, when the National Institutes of Health asked Gary to head the Vaccine Research Center in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda.
"It was the opportunity of a lifetime," Betsy says. But the Nabels insisted that they were a team—they wouldn't move unless both were offered challenging opportunities—and NIH came through in 1999, making her scientific director of clinical research for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She started a cardiothoracic surgery branch and began to investigate the genetics of vascular diseases.
When the Institute's top job opened, Nabel went after it. Her secret of success: Be bold. "It's common for men to talk about their accomplishments," she says. "It's important to show our colleagues that women can be equal contributing partners." She was named director of NHLBI in 2005.
Nabel has a budget of almost $3 billion, a staff of 850, and responsibility for research all over the country. She also has a bully pulpit—one she is using to tell women about their risk for heart disease. "Now we know that coronary artery disease kills more US women each year than all cancers combined."
She also seeks to be a role model, which has had interesting consequences on the home front. When her five-year-old son was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said, a cell doctor. "Only girls are heart doctors," he added.


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When it comes to reasons that people love their vacations, "getting away from it all" usually ranks at or near the top. When it comes to getting away from it all, few vacations cannot compete with a camping trip.
The simplest and most inexpensive means to overcome these barriers is to utilize a recreational vehicle. Recreational vehicles these days are in demand for traveling from one place to another. You can get the details of RV rental prices in San Diego through online research.
Camping provides people, couples, and families the chance to enjoy nature and to escape the strain and higher speed of regular life.
In the hassle of preparing a tent into the time that it takes to pack a campsite, occasionally there are things involved with camping which may function as a barrier or a drawback regarding how much the holiday can be appreciated.
Cost – When searching for recreational vehicles, generally the cheapest are kayak trailers. Frequently a used kayak trailer could be had for approximately 2-4 times the price of a top-end tent.
Packing Benefits – Towing a kayak trailer into the campsite you have selected as your destination signifies there is an opportunity to bring more materials or to travel more smoothly.
Benefits Of Towing – Though it could be a learning alteration to tow something for somebody who lacks expertise in towing, it's also much easier to tow a kayak trailer compared to several other bigger vehicles.


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Fall Front Porch Decor from Our Home Away From Home
Easy Baked Chicken Chimichangas from Natural Chow
Headboard Turn Quilt Rack from Bre Purposed
Gold Tipped Cork Leaf Wreath from Shaken Together
DIY Reversible Tote form Haberdashery Fun
Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake from The Gold Lining Girl
Easy Halloween Pillow from So Much Better With Age
Deep Fried Twinkie Bites from This Silly Girl's Life
Laundry Room Makeover from DIY Passion
Toasty Cheese and Bacon Bread from Life with the Crust Cut Off
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My mom is flying in this weekend and I am prepping to head out of town for the next few weeks.
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In this episode I'm taking to Dr. Muffie Weibe Waterman, author of Wired to Listen, a book about how what we say to kids, and don't, impacts the way that kids see the world and act in it. In her book, Dr. Waterman writes about how, and when, to talk to kids about the hard stuff; death, divorce, and sex–topics that we all struggle with addressing honestly and effectively with our kids.
I asked her to be on the show because many of the people that I work with, and many of the people listening to this show, struggle with talking appropriately, and effectively, to kids (of all ages) about death and dying. These conversations can be around the death of a beloved grandparent, or about the process of estate planning, or, even, between adult children and elderly parents, about the reality of end of life planning.
If you have ever struggled with how to talk honestly and openly about death and dying with your children or your parents, and honestly, who hasn't?, I think you'll enjoy listening to today's show.
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The meeting will be held at the Bristol Public Library, from 10:30am to 12pm in the Library Meeting Room #2. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, contact Aimee Petras via email or call (860) 658-4442 x201.


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Day of the Dead "Paint a Skull" Party
Not ready to pack up those skeletons after Halloween? Why not keep the party going a bit longer by celebrating the colorful Mexican holiday Dias de los Muertos.
Until recently this wasn't a holiday I knew very much about.
Lucky for me I grew up with a mother who is a hostess and crafter extroadinaire. She can turn any occasion into a fabulous fete or find any excuse to throw a party. Considering Mexico is one of her favorite travel destinations, I wasn't surprised to find myself invited to Dias de los Muertos luncheon and skull painting party.
A holiday honoring the dead may sound like a somber affair, but this is anything but a staid or serene occasion. In Mexico it is a time for festivities, feasts, sweet sugar skulls, colorful decorations and the famous costumed skeleton characters depicted dancing and singing.
For more information and wonderful photos try this fun site http://www.celebrate-day-of-the-dead.com or one of the many others covering this unique holiday.
|Buffet-turned "Altar"
The altar is the centerpiece of the celebration and might feature photos of the deceased with objects representing their interests (wings for a pilot, paintbrushes or spoons for the artist or gourmet) and of course colorful skulls flowers and candles. My Mom turned her dining room buffet into a showstopper but a small table or shelf will work fine too. The important part is being creative and making it a personal tribute.
|Some Altar "fun facts"
|Skulls, photos and trinkets
Lunch is Served
We dined on "squash"ed skull soup and "to die for" tea sandwiches with "coffin" cake and my attempt at sugar skulls for dessert.
|Death by chocolate: Brownie "coffin cake" with white chocolate skeletons from candy molds
|Sugar Skulls: see Halloween Dessert bar post for Instructions!
And we hung a traditional "Papel Picado" banner
Papel Picado: Day of the Dead Paper Banners
Banners make everything more festive and the famous Papel Picado cut paper flags so popular for the Day of the Dead in Mexico are true works of art, many cut by hand. You can order them online but many are quite pricey.
I tried to wing it by picking up some fun scrapbook paper at Joann's Crafts (my second home)
I splurged on the laser cut floral ($1.99) but the others range from 29- 59 cents.
I cut the large squares into 4 equal size "banners" and cut some simple skull patterns and glued them on several of the plain background. I punched holes in the solid paper and strung them on colorful ribbon.
The fun part is choosing the colors or patterns to match your color scheme.
|Let the Crafting begin!
|Basket of Skulls- Brown paper forms from Joanne's crafts painted assorted solid colors
The ladies had a ball painting and gluing! The fun part is seeing how each creation turned out to be so unique.
The Spooky Spectacular results!
From Flowers to Felines.....
to Pirates and Pesticides
Inspired by these great cat designs I found online I decided to honor our beloved four footed furry friends who have moved to the great beyond by adding cat ears and tinsel whiskers to my skull


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Word 2010 has some quite powerful image editing tools. One that's been around for a long time is 'Crop'.
You should crop an image when you have:
- extraneous white space around the image
- labels, borders, or other information outside the main image that you don't want to keep.
Note: Cropping will only remove unwanted white space or information from the edges, not from within the image. And it's NOT permanent – you are cropping what you can see, not cutting it out completely.
Below is an example of a figure added to a Word document. You can see that there's a little white space above and on the sides of the image (#1, 2, 3), but the main offender is the big blank bit with a date (#4) sitting below the image (I clicked on the image to show the 'handles'). While you can edit out this big space in graphics software, it's very quick and easy to do 'on the fly' in Word using the cropping tool.
How to crop an image:
- Click on the image in Word to select it. The 'handles' (see above) show that it's selected.
- On the ribbon, go to the Format tab for Picture Tools.
- Click the Crop icon.
- The image is now surrounded by black markers at each edge and corner.
- Hover your cursor over the black cropping marker of the edge you want to change until it changes to a 'T' icon (for the edges) or an 'L' icon (for the corners).
- Click and drag the cursor in towards the image – as you do so, the area that will be removed by the cropping will be shaded dark grey.
- Stop and release the cursor where you want to stop cropping the image.
- Repeat steps 5 to 7 for any of the other edges you want to trim down.
- When you're finished cropping, check that the image is as you want it to be. Make any adjustments.
- Click the Crop icon again to save your changes.
Note: Word doesn't delete the unwanted bits of your image—it just hides them. You can always reset your cropping for that image by clicking on it again, then clicking the Crop icon.
[Based on a Writing Tip I wrote for my work colleagues]