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"When I sing a song," Beyoncé Knowles said, as her car went from the photo studio to the recording studio, where she was deciding the final cuts for her new album, "I definitely have the image for the video in my mind. I kind of hear the choreography that will be in the video, and I can see how I'll look, even before anyone—the record company, the director—has heard the song." Beyoncé, who was speaking to me by phone, was interrupted. Her life in the last month, judging by the weeks of delays and canceled dates before our phone conversation could, at long last, take place, was a jam-packed series of planned and unplanned activities: photo shoots for the covers of magazines; a video shoot for the new single "Run the World (Girls)"; glam appearances at events like the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute gala, where she was booed for not spending enough time on the red carpet. "My friend is coming over to the car with her baby," Beyoncé told me now. "I don't want to be rude." I agreed to be put on hold. The line went dead. "I'm so sorry," Beyoncé said, when she called back 10 minutes later. "That was a first for me. I'm sure it was for you, too." She laughed softly.
Frankly, I was prepared to be annoyed (our interview was set for 4:00, and it was now 7:30; I'd been staring at the phone for hours), but Beyoncé, who has a mix of intensity and girlish Southern charm (she grew up in Texas), is instantly compelling. During her 18-year career, which began when she was 12 years old with Destiny's Child, she has hardly been out of the spotlight, and yet she has the zeal and drive of a beginner with something to prove. "I wanted this record to come from a raw place," Beyoncé continued. "Playing Etta James in the movie Cadillac Records really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe."
Beyoncé's little-seen performance as James was remarkable—she was no longer the perfect Beyoncé. As James, who sang the blues and was addicted to drugs, she was complex and haunted. That performance may have inspired Clint Eastwood to cast her in his soon-to-be-filmed adaptation of A Star Is Born, in which she will play a singer on the rise who falls in love with a famous actor in decline. "Oh, my God," Beyoncé exclaimed. "That scares me the most."
Before that movie starts filming, there's the new album to finish. On the six tracks I heard, the beats are more jagged and deeper than on previous albums. In one song she berates an ex-lover ("It sucks to be you right now"), and in another, celebrates losing a not-good-enough man ("Thank God you blew it/Thank God I dodged a bullet"). Her voice has more rasp, more raunch, but there's also an instant-classic power ballad that swells with female empowerment. "The fans have named the album 4," Beyoncé explained. "And four is my favorite number. It's an important number in my life: the date of my birthday, my mom's birthday, my husband's birthday, the day I got married. Barack Obama is the 44th president, and I performed 'At Last' by Etta James at his inauguration."
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Grandmaster Maurice Ashley talks about "Working backwards to solve problems" for the prestigious TED Talk series. After less than a day, the video has received over 500 likes, and is certainly helping spread the word on the benefits of chess. Ashley is no strange to speaking for large audiences- he has also told stories at the Moth Series and done commentary live on ESPN. You can listen to his recent Moth piece here.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Breaking their silence for the first time, the family of the woman shot and killed by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher said Monday their ``hearts are truly broken'' and asked for privacy while they grieve the loss of two loved ones.
Belcher shot and killed his 22-year-old girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, at their Kansas City home Saturday before driving to Arrowhead Stadium, where Belcher committed suicide in the practice facility's parking lot, police said. The couple had a 3-month-old daughter, Zoey.
``Our hearts are truly broken for Kasi was a beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, mother, cousin and friend,'' the family said in an emailed statement. The family also asked that the media ``respect our privacy during this difficult time.''
``Please keep us in your hearts and prayers as well as the Belcher family,'' the statement said.
Kansas City police Sgt. Marisa Barnes said Monday that authorities hope to deliver an investigative report to prosecutors on Tuesday.
``They're moving it along just like any other case. There's a formal process it has to go through,'' she said.
Dan Ferguson, a spokesman for Jackson County, said the medical examiner's office has completed examinations on the bodies of both Belcher and Perkins. A full autopsy report would not be available for six to eight weeks, he said.
In an incident report released Monday, police said officers were called to the Kansas City home of Belcher, 25, and Perkins about 7:50 a.m. Saturday. Police found Perkins on the floor of the master bathroom. The report said she died from apparent gunshot wounds, but did not say how many times she had been shot.
Belcher then drove about five miles to Arrowhead Stadium. There, he was met by general manager Scott Pioli and coach Romeo Crennel, and Belcher thanked them for all they'd done for him.
The police report said that when officers arrived at Arrowhead about 8 a.m., they saw several people in the practice facility parking lot.
``As they approached, a subject later identified as Jovan Belcher, observed their presence and moved to an area behind a vehicle,'' the report said. ``From that position Belcher shot himself one time in the head.'' Belcher was taken to a hospital, where he died, the report said.
Barnes said Monday that firearms found at the couple's home were legally registered to Belcher. It is unknown how many guns were found.
``The majority of people own them, you know, especially in the places that they're legal,'' Chiefs linebacker Brandon Siler said. ``People don't go out and shoot other people. Most of the time they're for self-defense or sport. Yeah, people own guns, but did you ever hear him say anything about harming someone with a gun? No.''
Chiefs defensive tackle Shaun Smith bristled when asked about a ``gun culture'' in professional sports, and said players that carry them usually do so for protection.
``Just because we're in the NFL, that doesn't make us no different,'' he said. ``You never know when someone would try to rob you or whatever. ... I've worked hard to get where I am. I'll be damned if I'd let someone just take it away from me, period.''
Police spokesman Darin Snapp said Monday that Belcher's mother, who had been staying with the couple, was given temporary custody of the couple's daughter. But, he said, it was unclear Monday if the grandmother and baby were still in the Kansas City area or if they had returned to Belcher's home in West Babylon, N.Y. Perkins was from the Austin, Texas, area.
Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles and his wife, Whitney, also released a statement Monday asking for privacy. In it, the Charles' confirmed that Perkins and Whitney Charles were cousins, and that Perkins was a ``not only family, but a friend and a loving mother.''
``As my actual family and my Kansas City Chiefs family have been altered forever, we ask that you keep us and most importantly their child in prayer,'' the Charles' statement said.
Brianne York, 21, a friend of Perkins, said Sunday that Perkins met Belcher through Whitney Charles.
Belcher's relatives also provided statements Monday, as several relatives gathered outside of Belcher's boyhood home, looking somber and sad. Yamiesse Lawrence, a cousin of Belcher's, said the weekend's events were an ``inconceivable tragedy.''
``As a family, no words can express the sorrow we feel over the loss of Jovan and Kasandra,'' Lawrence read aloud.
She said the family is ``overwhelmed with both sadness and confusion,'' and extends thoughts and prayers to the Perkins family.
Belcher's niece, Quaresha Boston, said the football player ``embraced life and excelled at all he put his energy behind'' and that God alone could ``mend our hearts.''
``We loved Jovan. His kindness, humility, respect and gratitude for family and friends were steadfast,'' she said. ``... He was happy to be a new father and both he and Kasandra loved Zoey greatly.''
AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta in Kansas City, Mo., and AP Writer Frank Eltman in West Babylon, N.Y., contributed to this report.


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The Post Office today apologised to its customers for a computer problem which affected some transactions in its branches. Martin Moran, Post Office commercial director said: " We are making every effort to restore these services as soon as possible."
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Munich, 2 October 2012 – After a construction period of almost two years, the new Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes (CBP) in Leuna was today officially opened by the Chancellor of Germany, Dr Angela Merkel. The main aim of the CBP is to transition innovative biotechnological and chemical processes to industrial-scale production, thus enabling companies to manufacture basic chemical products from regenerative raw materials. Linde affiliate Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH (LEDD) was responsible for engineering the process units, the supporting infrastructure and necessary media and utilities. LEDD was commissioned by the Fraunhofer Institute to plan and build five pilot-scale process units, known as modules, for the CBP in December 2009, following an EU-wide tender.
"The CBP is an important milestone on the journey to advance green technologies. We are delighted that Linde Engineering Dresden was chosen as the general technology contractor. This has given us the chance to make a key contribution to a project that is highly challenging from both a technical and organisational perspective," states Professor Dr Aldo Belloni, Member of the Executive Board of Linde AG. "By paving the way for a cross-connect between established and bio-based process steps, the CBP is opening up attractive growth opportunities for Linde's site in Leuna and the region as a whole."
As Fraunhofer CBP is part of the BioEconomy cluster in central Germany, German Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel and Dr Reiner Haseloff, Minister-President of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, also took the opportunity to visit the cluster. It primarily focuses on producing chemicals, materials and energy from wood and won the third round of the Leading-Edge Cluster Competition held by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) at the start of the year. As one of the cluster's key partners, Linde is involved in further bio-economy projects.
Today, plastics, paints, adhesives and many key interim products for the chemicals industry are still made primarily using crude oil. Regenerative raw materials can help reduce dependency on crude oil and cut CO2 emissions. However, many of these processes – which have the advantage of not conflicting with food and livestock supplies – have only been tested under lab conditions. The new CBP and the BioEconomy cluster in Leuna aim to bridge the gap between laboratory and industrial-scale production, paving the way for wider use of regenerative raw materials.
For Linde, the Leuna site is not only significant for the development and scaling of new technologies, but also as one of the largest and most modern gases production centres in Europe. The Linde Group produces industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, various rare gases and hydrogen at the site, supplying customers based at the Leuna chemical park and across Germany. The company has invested over EUR 500 million in the site since 1991, building, for example, a modern Remote Operations Centre for air separation plants in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as a TÜV-certified, green hydrogen production plant based on regenerative raw materials.
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The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 51,000 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2011 financial year, it generated revenue of EUR 13.787 bn. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The Group is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
Under the "Clean Technology by Linde" label, the company offers a wide range of products and technologies that help to render renewable energy sources financially viable, and significantly slow down the depletion of fossil resources or reduce the level of CO2 emitted. This ranges from specialty gases for solar module manufacturing, industrial-scale CO2 separation and application technologies to alternative fuels and energy carriers such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) and hydrogen.
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Wednesday, October 14
Anthony Kim and My College Golf Days
The story had me wondering, "How does a golfer stay out all night and play great the next day?" And then I remembered Ray.
Ray was the No. 1 player on our golf team at Antelope Valley College in California. He was also the best player in the Central Conference, averaging 73 the year I played on the team.
Sometimes I played No. 3. Other times I played No. 2, which meant I got a good look at Ray's game because the No. 1 and 2 players were in the same group in dual-team matches. I remember one home match in particular. Ray shot 68 in heavy wind. (The wind almost always blew on the California desert.) Ray was superb at the knockdown shot. I was dazzled.
The rest of us? We were ordinary to mediocre.
There was also an AK quality to Ray. He could stay out most of the night and still play his butt off. I don't know how he did it. Me? I would be lucky to shoot 75 if my mom tucked me in and I got nine hours of sleep.
I haven't seen Ray since those college days. But a few years ago I was back in Southern California and played a championship course not far from our old haunts. I noticed a framed scorecard hanging on the wall in the dining room. I walked over to take a closer look. 62, the course record. Nice round, Ray.
−The Armchair Golfer
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- Unknown said...
Ray probably shot that course record 62 on the way home from an all nighter, God love him...
Poor Robert. He made a few enemies again this weekend.
Why do Pros often play their best golf when they're feeling bad from an illness? Some players hungover are still better at the game than those who never stay out beyond 9 PM...go figure, it's just the nature of the beast.
- Andrew said...
..my buddy..also from college..was "gifted"..he was the kind of guy who could pick up any sport in a manner of a few minutes and then be able to compete in that sport. He'd bet that he'd could make a paper ball basket 50 feet away and make it..ping pong..bowling..the guys was incredible. On numerous occasion we'd be drinking all night..and the next day he'd shoot an easy 72/73 with no sweat. Some people are born to dominate.
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Pekka Rinne made 19 saves for his second consecutive shutout, leading the Nashville Predators to a 3-0 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday night.
Gabriel Bourque, Nick Spaling and Mike Fisher had the Nashville goals.
Rinne has shutouts in three of his past four starts and has not allowed a goal in his last 137 minutes, 41 seconds of action. He has been strong this season on a Predators team that has struggled to score.
Bourque scored the game's first goal at 2:40 of the third period.
With the Predators on a power play, Martin Erat sent a wrist shot from the right boards toward the net. With his back facing Coyotes goalie Mike Smith, Bourque deflected Erat's shot with his right skate. After making contact with Bourque's skate, the puck trickled across the goal line on Smith's stick side.
Spaling added an insurance goal at 9:38 of the third.
Matt Halischuk won a battle for the puck in the right corner and found Spaling at the right faceoff dot. From there, Spaling beat Smith with a wrist shot tucked just underneath the crossbar on the short side.
Fisher concluded scoring with his second of the season at 18:16.
Phoenix had its best chance of the game just more than 3 minutes into the opening period.
With all but one Predators player caught in the offensive zone, all five Coyotes on the ice drove into the Nashville zone on an unusual 5-on-1 break. Ex-Predator Steve Sullivan sent a wrist shot on goal, but Rinne was able to glove the puck and force a faceoff.
Sullivan played his first game in Nashville since leaving the Predators following the 2011 playoffs. In parts of six seasons with Nashville, Sullivan played 317 regular-season games, scoring 100 goals and adding 163 assists.
He was awarded the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy in 2009 following his return to action after missing nearly two full years of action with a back injury.
During the game's first media timeout, the Predators played a highlight video of Sullivan's time in Nashville. At the conclusion of the video, Sullivan stood up and waved to the applauding crowd.
NOTES: The Predators outshot their opponent for just the second time this season. ... Erat played his 700th career game, all with Nashville. ... Phoenix D Derek Morris sustained an upper-body injury in the first period and did not return.


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Worcester is served by rail, through the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA); by the Greyhound and Peter Pan bus companies; and from Boston's Logan Airport and Providence's T.F. Green Airport.
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Narottama necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 380 diseños de 68 diseñadores freelance.
Reflective Media
Our company is hard to define because we cover such a wide range of creative services. We have high end film and video equipment, we have a huge video and music recording studio. When we first started we just wanted to do movies as our dream jobs. Back then our company was called Suspended Logic and we shot some short films intended to win film festivals. Recently we've realized that our dream jobs could also pay our bills now. We were "going" to start a separate company and name it something cute like 4everLasting Images but the idea of spending money to promote 2 companies at once became daunting. We needed something more Universal. Like Universal Studios, or Paramount Pictures, or Columbia, or Sony ... ect To us the name covers all the bases of what our company does. There are three meanings. 1st "New media" like youtube usually have videos mocked and parodied days after they are released. Then soon after that the parodies are parodied. This is one of the meanings of Reflective Media. Also is the literal meaning: Light bounces and reflects off of surfaces and into the camera. And finally if someone grows older than can always reflect back at their magical moments that we captured. Were not saying it will be easy. Good Luck!
Broad Audience. Think families, and small businesses and hopefully big Hollywood later down the road. We prefer to keep this logo forever.
1.) Please understand that we want you to go all out and make it as beautiful and wonderful as you can.
2.) Imagination
3.) If I could also get a photoshop version with the layers still intact then it will be easier for me to animate it during our opening credits.
4.) Extra credit if you animate it for us. lol
That's our old logo animation. Of course we are trying to upgrade on this one.
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Tahj Mowry takes his girlfriend Erica to Bali for a New Years vacation
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They will be priced at $28 for a 3.4 oz spray.
Building on its long history of supporting the arts, today Gap introduced Artist Editions T-Shirts, a limited edition collection of t-shirts designed by 13 of today's most influential contemporary artists, including Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Marilyn Minter, Kiki Smith, Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger, Ashley Bickerton, Kenny Scharf, Glenn Ligon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kerry James Marshall, Hanna Liden and Sarah Sze.
The clothing at the Gap is made from very good quality material, this is not surprising, and it is because of this quality that the Gap clothing store is one of the leading places to purchase blue jeans. They have something for everyone in the family. Mom can go into the store and purchase a trendy and hip dress to wear for an evening out on the town. She can even grab a handbag and a pair of shoes to go with the dress. Dad can go and grab a nice quality T-shirt and a nice pair of dark denim blue jeans. They offer on a brand of clothing made especially for children; this clothing would be found underneath the name Gap Kids. Clothing for women at the Gap range from size zero and go all the way up to a size 24. This is especially good for plus size women tend to have a very hard time locating stores that specialize in their sizes. The good thing about buying your jeans from this store is that the sizes tend to run on the large side. A female that would normally wear a size 10, can walk out of the store with clothing in a size 8.
Gap the USA-based clothing retail store, promoted their Khaki line of clothes with a visual-effect-laden revival of swing music and dance. Gap -- Khakis Swing, a 1998 television commercial, introduced much of the world to what became known as 'Bullet Time'. The 30 second ad featured khaki trousers-wearing dancers doing the lindy hop, the 1920s Harlem dance that inspired the Swing Era, with its jitterbug or swing moves.
Why a collection of 6 scents all at once, one might ask? "We wanted it to be a whole environment, and that's hard to do with one scent," said Laird. "These scents are light, so you can easily layer several of the products and not be over the top."The limited edition collection is available exclusively at select Gap stores in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and franchise markets, as well as online in the U.S. at It's also available at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and at Colette, a Paris-based boutique. The t-shirts range in price from $28 to $38.Gap worked in close partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art and Art Production Fund to create the collection with the 13 artists, who are all previous Whitney Biennial participants. The Whitney Biennial is a special exhibition held every two years at the Whitney Museum of American Art that features the most important contemporary art in the United States. Gap is a proud sponsor of the 2008 Whitney Biennial.


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Posted by Lucile Scott February 24, 2014
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality bill into law on February 24. (Photo: U.S. Army Africa)
As protests surrounding the Sochi Olympics focused the world's attention on Russia's homophobic law against "gay propaganda", draconian anti-gay legislation was passed in Nigeria and Uganda. Previously, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni had stated that, while he believed homosexuals were "sick," he did not think they should be imprisoned for life and would therefore not sign a bill, passed by Parliament in December, that punishes homosexuality with life in prison and outlaws "promotion of homosexuality"—including HIV outreach targeting GMT. The president changed his position last week, saying that "scientists" had presented him with research findings showing that homosexuality is not genetic, but a learned behavior. "It was learned and could be unlearned," he said.
In Nigeria, the Solidarity Alliance, a coalition of Nigerian human rights organizations, announced a March 7 Global Day of Action to condemn the "Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act" that was signed by President Goodluck Jonathan in January. Like the Ugandan law, it puts both LGBT and the health providers and educators working with them at risk of criminal prosecution and guts the response to HIV. "Right now, HIV work with MSM is largely stalled as those of us working in the field are concerned for the safety of the community," says Morenike Ukpong, coordinator at Nigeria's New HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Society, a GMT Initiative grantee partner. "Those still working in the field have had to shift their focus from HIV programming to protecting people's lives and property."
Dr. Paul Semugoma (right) with his partner Brian Kanyemba (left)
As part of the campaign surrounding the Global Day of Action, the Solidarity Alliance is asking supporters worldwide to sign a petition calling for Nigerian officials to stop arresting people for their sexual orientation and to start prosecuting individuals who assault members of the LGBT community. Stay tuned for more updates on what you can do in March.
The week also brought more instances of the homophobic violence and arrests that have been on the rise in both countries since the bills' passage. In Nigeria, a pastor in the small village of Gishiri organized a mob that broke into the homes of approximately 15 people suspected of being gay in the middle of the night, looted their belongings, and dragged them to a police station. None of the attackers were prosecuted.
Prominent Ugandan-born LGBT advocate Dr. Paul Semugoma was arrested in South Africa and nearly deported to Uganda, where he is "wanted" for his advocacy against the bill. His nearly week-long detention by immigration officials continued even after a South African court ordered his release. He was finally released on February 20.
On February 16, after Museveni announced that he planned to sign the bill, President Obama issued a statement that enacting the legislation would "complicate our valued relationship with Uganda," a recipient of U.S. developmental aid. In a statement, Museveni responded: "Africans do not seek to impose their views on anybody. We do not want anybody to impose their views on us."
A coalition of Ugandan human rights advocates released a plan for how the international community could most effectively support their efforts against the legislation without sparking an anti-Western backlash that could exacerbate the violence. The plan asks the U.S., the U.K., E.U. member states, and other countries to recall their ambassadors from Nigeria and Uganda and to urge the Presidents of both countries to ensure that the law does not affect national health policies pertaining to LGBT, does not give rise to increased police brutality towards the community, and does not interrupt the work of NGOs. The advocates also requested assistance engaging the African Union and the leadership of other African nations, including Rwanda, South Africa, and Mozambique, to speak out against the bill.
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Well, here we are at the end of 31 posts about female ancestors for the month of March. I found it very interesting but I feel that many of the topics I could not answer too well as I had very little information to write about concerning so many of my female ancestors. It has certainly shown me that I need to get cracking and delve some more into these ladies and learn more about them and their lives.
Here is the last post on this series.
March 31 – Pick one female ancestor and write a mini-profile (500 words or less).
For this mini-profile I am going to write about my partner Paul's maternal grandmother Annie Jane Fowler nee Goad. She was born in 1882 at Redruth, Cornwall. When she was eighteen, Annie married William Bawden at Redruth and the following year they had a son, Frederick Charles Bawden.
Within two years of their marriage Annie became a widow. She was only 20 years old. So she was left all alone with a baby son at such a very young age.
However, Annie met someone else and married him, Alfred James Fowler, in 1904 again at Redruth, Cornwall. Alfred was the same age as Annie and they went on to have many children and Annie lived to well past her seventies.
My partner Paul remembers her as a very lively, cheerful woman who was always on the go. Paul tells me that there were always home-made cakes and buns on the kitchen table, which was always scrubbed every day by Annie. Her other daily chores were black-leading the Cornish Range oven and also shining the brasswork on it. Life must have been a bit hard for Annie, the toilet was in the garden 100 yards away from the house and she had to get water from the well in the garden.
To go shopping, Annie would sit on the crossbar of her son's bicycle and did this hundreds of times. But one day, she fell off the bicycle which caused her to break her hip. Annie died shortly after this and it was always felt that the shock of the fall and the injury was the cause of her death.
My partner Paul has very happy memories of Annie and I found it very interesting hearing him talking about how her life was when he knew her.


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Parents, students get involved in 'I Am Lincoln' event in Vallejo
By Irma Widjojo/Times-Herald staff writer/
Posted: 03/03/2013 01:04:21 AM PST
Torriana, 7, wrote down "I love Lincoln because it is fun."
Her small poster will be one of the many posters hung in the hallway of Lincoln Elementary
School. The creations were
made by the community members during Saturday's first-time "I Am Lincoln" community event organized by the school.
"We want to focus on the positive of the community," Principal Melanie Buck said.
"The event is for the community. A
school can really make a community, and the community can make a school. We are here to change the culture."
Children and their parents participated in many activities for a small fee, including
face painting, bingo, quilt and poster
making, and browsing through the book fair. Tickets for activities were sold at 25 cents each.
Parent volunteers, as well as volunteers from Touro University and Vallejo High School, helped out at the event.
"We received so much support," Buck said.
Local businesses donated raffle prizes, while parents brought food for the festival.
Torriana's family lives just a couple of blocks away from the school.
Her mother, Nicole Kimmons, said two of her children, including Torriana, attended the school.
"I love (the event)," Kimmons, who also volunteered on Saturday, said. "It needs to
happen more often. Parents need to
get involved with their children's schools."
Buck said the event was also organized in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy
Hook Elementary School, in
Connecticut, last year.
"We're standing together to let people know that the kids are safe in our school," she said.
Kimmons also said that parents' involvement is critical, especially after the Connecticut mass shooting.
"I think parents need to step up and find a solution and speak on behalf of their children," she said.
Tony Ubalde, Vallejo school board member, said he was proud of the school.
"I like Lincoln's approach," Ubalde said. "We need more dialogue like this between the school and the community."
Contact staff writer Irma Widjojo at (707) 553-6835 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @IrmaVTH.
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Beth Chatto's Plants & Gardens
2.5 hectares (6 acres) of gravel, water and woodland gardens, a large modern tea room and plant nursery.
Bourne Mill
National Trust property, the mill was originally built as a fishing lodge in 1591 and features stepped "Dutch" gables. There is a millpond and some of the machinery, including the waterwheel which is still intact and working.
Colchester Zoo
Colchester Zoo is home to 220 species set in 60 acres of parkland and lakes!
Castle Park
Colchester's Castle Park provides a perfect setting for a huge range of events including shows, festivals and concerts.
Set on the wooded slopes of the River Colne, Wivenhoe has attractive old inns and a pretty quayside.
The town of Brightlingsea - the only Cinque port outside Kent and Sussex, a centre for all things nautical.
Tiptree Tea Room,Shop & Museum
Over 50 years ago, John Wilkin began collecting the paraphernalia of preserve making and Essex village life.
Natural History Museum
Discover and interesting 'hands-on' perspective on the local natural environment from the Ice Age right up to today. Explore the garden trail and stag beetle exhibition, free entry.
Mersea Island
Mersea Island
Britain's most easterly inhabited island, home to the settlements of East and West Mersea. It is accessed by 'The Strood' - a causeway which at high tide floods, making the island separate from the mainland.
Roman Wall/Guard Room/Triumphal Arch
Colchester's Roman Wall is the oldest and longest surviving town wall in Britain.
Hollytrees Museum
An important part of Colchester's rich history with three centuries of fascinating toys, costume and decorative arts displayed in an attractive Georgian town house from 1718.
Colchester Roman Circus Centre
The Colchester Roman circus (chariot-racing arena) was discovered in 2005. It was built in the early 2nd century AD and seems to have been in use for about 150 years. It is the only known Roman circus in Britain.
An international gallery and creative community space, Firstsite is open all year round, for free, for everyone.
Set by the River Stour, Dedham is in the heart of Constable Country. It was here that Britain's greatest landscape artist went to school.
Welcome to Manningtree, a gateway to Constable country and more... As England's smallest town - at just over 19 hectares - Manningtree is small but packs in a great deal for residents and visitors alike.
Castle Hedingham
Castle Hedingham
A picturesque village with narrow winding streets lined with timber-framed buildings and elegant Georgian houses.
St Botolph's Priory, Colchester
The first English Augustinian priory church, founded at the end of the eleventh century from the Anglo-Saxon minster community of Colchester. Only the ruined remains of the nave survive today, under the care of English Heritage.
Eight miles to the East of Braintree lies Coggeshall a lovely little 'olde worlde' town with a lot to offer.
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A No. 1 hit in the U.K.
Chart placement in countries as far and wide as Germany, Latvia and Saudi Arabia.
A European promotional tour.
Made in Calgary.
The locally born, locally raised singer-songwriter Kiesza not only doesn't shy away from that last fact while discussing the others, she wants it front and centre.
"That's my home," says the dance-pop artist whose birth certificate reads Kiesa Ellestad and who's on the line from Paris. "I was born and raised in Calgary, so I want to rep the homeland.
"That's where I started."
And, oh, my, how far she's come.
Kiesza is currently the toast of the pop world thanks to her first single Hideaway, which hit the coveted and career-changing top spot in the British singles charts a week ago.
And the press has become enamoured with her, due to a pretty wonderful backstory — that includes sniper and code-breaking training, ballet skills, time in the Navy, a scholarship to Boston's Berklee College of Music — coupled with that catchy, '90s-esque song and its accompanying video, which is a one-shot danceathon that was filmed in New York by her brother, Blayre, also, obviously, a homegrown talent.
Already, the song and video have inspired a BBC parody, at least four remixes and a Lego remake of the video.
"That's when you know you've made it," Kiesza says with a natural laugh. "It's amazing. It's very surreal."
That, again, is especially true when you look at the 25-year-old's hometown beginnings, with performance training in the Young Canadians. Musically, when she finally ventured out on her own releasing a CD in 2008, it was more in the singer-songwriter vein but with a little jazz and some funk thrown in for good measure.
The straightforward approach was, in large part, a result of her classical guitar training — the transition being a fairly natural and easy one for the gifted artist.
"But I was brought up on '90s divas basically. My mom was always playing these big singers in our house. So that's what I was brought up listening to and I always loved it. But it seemed so far out of reach for me being this girl from Calgary where most of the music I was hearing was either country or soft-rock," she says.
"So how do I go from here to singing diva house music? I didn't even think I had that kind of voice at the time. So there was this whole journey in between starting and finding my way to this point where I realized that this music that I always loved growing up was actually my calling.
"And I think it's just because I'm really so genuinely passionate about it in my heart, so I think it comes across that way in my music as well."
That passion also attracted a great number of believers into what she was doing, especially producer/friend Rami Samir Afuni whom she met at Berklee and who shared her affinity for the pop music of the '90s.
The pair found their way to NYC after she graduated, and immersed themselves in the dance scene, writing and collaborating together. Hideaway came from one of those artistic couplings, produced in an hour-and-a-half session and released on Afuni's label Lokal Legend label.
Of course, success for the song wasn't that immediate, with the North American sensibility not quite in tune with what the two were doing, not quite ready to revisit the time Kiesza and Hideaway recalled.
"There were times when I really thought nothing was going to happen," she says. "It's a tough, tough world, the music industry. And I just kept beating down the door. But there were some people that stuck with me the whole way, so because of that I'm just so grateful to the people on my team. I could never take them for granted."
Thing changed entirely when earlier this year she headed across the pond, where she admits the connections came almost immediately and the affection for Hideaway was instantaneous.
DJs were spinning it and the crowds were loving it, which paved the way for its official release through Universal Music and Hideaway entering the charts at No. 1, as the "fastest-selling debut single of 2014," according to the label hype.
Kiesza's celebration of the feat was very much in keeping with her modest, Alberta upbringing, going out for a nice, quiet dinner with Afuni and the driver who had been taking them on their media rounds. "I had some really, really good chocolate pudding," she coos.
Her low-key celebration is also because she realizes that despite, the long road she's already travelled, this is only the beginning. Hideaway's success has opened a great number of doors, and given her an opportunity to take advantage of them and follow things up with more proper singles and a full-length album.
To buy some time, she's already released jaw-droppingly gorgeous cover of Haddaway's 1993 dance smash What Is Love?, which she slowed down and "stripped it back to the bare bones" to get the "raw emotions."
The video helps, with the singer, herself, stripped down, facing the camera and slowly revealed in a long line of equally as unclothed people looking the opposite direction. It gives the viewer goosebumps, both because of the haunting treatment and due to sympathy chills for the singer and her faceless co-stars.
"It actually wasn't that cold," she says with a laugh. "It was well heated."
As for that full-length, she's hoping for a late summer, early fall release, promising that it will be a cohesive "musical journey," one that mirrors her own, with everything from ballads, breakbeats, more urban and R & B songs, with a very "soulful" feel running throughout.
And while she's mindful of the hype created by Hideaway and the expectations, she's more excited than worried that she'll wind up a one-hit wonder whom someone else might cover 20 years down the road, certain that if she sticks to the same artistic formula good things will follow.
"I never expected Hideaway to be so big, especially so quickly. Now people are really expecting something else," she says. "But the way I started this project was I wasn't going to stress about trying to squeeze a circle into a square or a square into a circle. I was just going to do what I love, do it from a completely genuine and passionate place ...
"At first I wasn't even worrying about who was listening I was just writing music that I loved."
Whatever the result, she says she's eager to share it with the world in the coming months and years. And, yes, that includes the homeland she still proudly reps, which is slowly but surely starting to take notice, and will undoubtedly welcome her as a conquering hero upon her arrival.
Perhaps the only question remaining is if the person who returns will be the talented but modest young girl who left or a one-name diva prone to tantrums, coffee tosses and screaming fits?
Her answer?
Made in Calgary.
"I'm the complete opposite of a diva," Kiesza laughs. "Everyone says it's because I'm Canadian that, 'You're just way too nice.'
"No, I hope I don't become a diva personality. Please if that ever happens, please throw coffee in my face."


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Donald Trump spent all of Tuesday discussing Monday night's debate, asserting that he won against Hillary Clinton, NBC News reported.
"Last night was very exciting, and nearly every single poll had us winning against Hillary Clinton, big league," he said.
Later, veering off, Trump explained away a performance even Republicans said was reactive and lacking substance as a planned strategy of "holding back."
U.S. & World
"I didn't want to do anything to embarass her," he said.
Trump also repeated a number of falsehoods from the debate, asking the crowd: "Does everybody believe me, I was against going to Iraq?" though his initial support is well-documented; and "I explained last night stop and frisk was constitutional," he said, though it was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in 2013.


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John Dankosky
John is Executive Editor of the New England News Collaborative, an eight-station consortium of public media newsrooms. He is also the host of NEXT, a weekly program about New England, and appears weekly on The Wheelhouse, WNPR's news roundtable program.
Previously, he was Vice President of News for CPBN, and Host of Where We Live, twice recognized by PRNDI as America's best public radio call-in show. You can also hear him as the regular fill-in host for the PRI program Science Friday in New York. He has worked as an editor at NPR in Washington, and reported for NPR and other national outlets on a variety of subjects.
As an editor, he has won national awards for his documentary work, and regularly works with NPR and member stations on efforts to collaborate in the public media system. As an instructor, John has held a chair in journalism and communications at Central Connecticut State University and been an adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University. He is also a regular moderator for political debates and moderated conversations at The Connecticut Forum , the Mark Twain House and Museum, The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, The World Affairs Council of Connecticut and The Litchfield Jazz Festival.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Unwilling to shuffle the current roster or depart with young talent, the Los Angeles Angels stayed inactive on the final day of the non-waiver trade deadline.
While AL West-leading Oakland obtained left-handed starter Jon Lester, the second-place Angels appeared OK with the prospect of playing a pat hand down the stretch.
"We're very happy with the way our pitching staff lines up," general manager Jerry Dipoto said. "Our bullpen is deeper and much improved over the last month-and-a-half. Our starting rotation has been steady throughout."
The Angels tweaked the roster previously with trades in late June and earlier this month that added three solid relief pitchers.
"Our deadline was some time ago when we acquired Joe Thatcher, Huston Street and Jason Grilli," Dipoto said. "Today was just Thursday to us."
Los Angeles started the day with a 63-43 record, second-best in the AL behind Oakland (66-41).
"We like our team," Dipoto said. "There is no secret about it, we weren't necessarily looking for anything today."
Also playing in the decision: Starter C.J. Wilson is expected to return Saturday from a right ankle sprain on Saturday and outfielder Collin Cowgill will soon come back from a nasal fracture.
"That will bolster us," Dipoto said.
Still, the A's addition of Lester created a stir in the clubhouse before the Angels faced the Orioles on Thursday night.
"It makes their pitching staff better, for sure," outfielder Mike Trout said. "Facing Lester is always a battle and now he's in our division. "
Manager Mike Scioscia said of Oakland: "They were good yesterday and they're good today."
And the Angels?
"We're very happy with our team," Scioscia said. "We're psyched to have C.J. coming back. We have a lot of baseball left and we're still looking at the big picture and focusing on our team moving in the right direction."
Trout indicated that there's something to be said for not shaking up the roster in the middle of the season.
'The chemistry here is great. We're very loose," he said. "We have a great group of guys here who get along."


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Korin wrote:Why is the forum strict so much, I can't even do stuff freely anymore.
I never even read the forum rules, since nobody told me where they were.
Posts with horrible grammar and spelling, or those that fail to properly communicate their point due to formatting, can fall into this category. Again, please avoid things like 'r' for 'are' or '4' for 'for', and please please use paragraphs and the glorious period (•).
Korin wrote:Why can't I use memes or youtube 10 second videos?
Shikanosuke wrote:Korin wrote:Why can't I use memes or youtube 10 second videos?
This is not your blog.
Korin wrote:Blogs don't use that,
websites like reddit or memebase use that stuff, or any other meme site.
I mean, I am on a forum where memes are okay but not here? -.- - It's possible to post memes because you can use them to answer the posts instead of typing it out. - How is it spam, it answers the post!
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Mike Swain's 1932 Ford Deuce Cabriolet
It Was A Killer Ride Back In The Eisenhower Administration And Remains That Way Today
Everything old is new again. After three decades of street rod decadence that showcased fads ranging from root beer-brown funk machines to billet-laden Pro Street cars so radical they couldn't be driven down a public road, traditional style is back, and bigger than ever. Simple paint, clean lines, nostalgic motors, and speed tricks developed on the salt flats and dry lakes in the years following WWII have returned. Of course, some rods never deviated from the original traditionalist theme, despite whatever contemporary trend may have been exploding around them.
These cars are survivors. Leftovers from a bygone era when primer was the most popular body covering, not because it was cool or trendy but because many early racers and street freaks couldn't afford to ante up for paint. Big, hulking Buick, Olds, Pontiac, and Caddy mills were dropped between the rails of early Fords, not for their nostalgic value but because the small-block Chevy hadn't been invented yet, and these massive chunks of iron were the biggest, baddest engines available at the local wrecking yard. The closest thing original rods got to billet accessories was when a part wasn't available anywhere, so the owner had to whittle it himself out of a block of alloy.
While many cars built in the early years of rodding morphed with the ebb and tide of the hobby and the constantly evolving tastes of their owners, a handful of time machines managed to make it through the years untouched, and they now serve as a testament to the ingenuity of the original hot rodders and as inspiration for the new crop of traditional rides being constructed in their image. The sweet little Deuce cabriolet you see pictured on the following pages is just such a car.
Mike Swain of Lebanon, Ohio, dragged this beautiful droptop Deuce out to the NSRA Nats in Louisville, Kentucky, and it absolutely floored us. The bitchin little cabriolet is a picture-perfect representation of a 50s-era street rod down to the stickers in the trunk, and we absolutely had to show it to you. What makes this thing even cooler is the fact that Mike is just the second owner of the car nicknamed "Hot Rod," having picked it up from the widow of the original owner in 1995. So you want the nitty gritty details? This is the story, as told by Mrs. Ruth Winchel, who has been involved with the cabby since its inception.
"The body and frame were purchased from Lowes Auto Wrecking on Maple Road in Lorain, Ohio, in 1956. My husband, John Winchel, and his brother-in-law, James Dittmer, built the car in their garage during the winter and spring of 1956 and 1957. Every part used in the car, including the 50 Olds engine, came from various junkyards around Lorain County, as new parts were either too expensive or hard to come by. The Ford was originally black with red trim, and it was later repainted silver by a nephew. The seats are from a 58 Ford Fairlane. We nicknamed the car Hot Rod, and it was used only for pleasure and joy riding; it was never in a show."
In the seven years since purchasing the Deuce, Mike and his son, Nick, completely disassembled the car and restored it from top to bottom, retaining all of the original 40s-era dirt track suspension and running gear. New "vanilla shake" white paint and tasteful red pinstriping by Tom Willis of Carlisle, Ohio, top things off. So is this thing bitchin because it taps into the hot trend of "traditional rods" and nostalgia? No way. This baby is a survivor. It was a killer ride back in the Eisenhower administration and remains that way today, unchanged, and ready to cruisejust the way it should be.


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Ericsson will be laying off another 1500 people following a quarter that saw net income down to less than a fifth of last year's.
In the last three months of 2009 Ericsson's net income was 725m Swedish kronor (£62.5m), on sales of 58bn kroner, compared to the 4bn kroner the company brought in during the same period of 2008, on sales of 67bn kroner.
The figures prompted the company to announce it will be laying off a total of 6,500 people as part of its program of cost-saving - up from the 5,000 announced in January last year.
The drop in revenue can, in part, be attributed to network operators holding back on investments during the financial squeeze. But competition from Huawei is also significant - Huawei has been winning a lot of infrastructure deployments around Europe and the world, putting pressure on the small club of existing suppliers.
On Friday the company's joint venture with Sony announced things were equally bleak in the handset world, where sales for the tail of 2009 were more than 40 per cent down on 2009, with the average price per handset falling by a Euro to €120.
Ericsson has spent the last 12 months cutting costs, and the company reckons it's on track to achieve around 15bn kroner in annual savings, though it's going to have to spend another 14bn kroner to get there.
Pressure from America, in the form of Apple and Google, is eating away at the more profitable end of the handset market; while pressure from China, in the form of Huawei, is snatching infrastructure deployments that should be funding the company's recovery. None of this is good news while the still-unstable economy makes every penny harder to pick up. ®
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• Meet Tammy Petrucelli, Senior Associate AD and Director Of Student-Athlete Support Services
• Meet Randy Brochu, Student-Athlete Support Services Coordinator
The Student-Athlete Support Services Office is committed to administering the NCAA Leadership Development's mission for Sacred Heart University student athletes. Specifically, Student-Athlete Support Services provides skills support in five areas: academics, athletics, personal development, career development, and community service. The main goal in doing so is to promote the overall well-being and development of SHU student-athletes and by providing them with the best possible overall experience. Student-Athlete Support Services provides numerous resources, programs, training, and on-going education to all student-athletes and the athletic department professionals who service them.
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eClinical OS(TM) Provides Single Platform for Clinical Study Data Capture, Processing and Reporting
CHICAGO, Feb. 14, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced that NorthWise Services (NWS) has partnered with Merge and selected eClinical OS™ to collect, manage and report on clinical trials data across all studies.
NWS is a specialist CRO offering services in data management, statistics and medical writing. Its services are complementary to the offerings of Merge, which has allowed for a strong and active working partnership to develop.
"NWS has always supported products at the forefront of eClinical technology, but in the past this tended to be separated into different software tools for EDC, ePRO, IVR, etc.," explained Dr. Philip North, Managing Director of NorthWise Services. "It is therefore very appealing now to be able to access a wide range of eClinical functions on a single web-based platform, with just one user login and password."
Recognizing the potential benefits of eClinical OS in collecting, managing and reporting clinical trials data across all phases, NWS has arranged to have its own eClinical OS certified study builder, who can now build studies for clients using eClinical OS.
"We were pleased with how easy it was for our study builder to become qualified and certified in the use of eClinical OS," continued Dr. North. "Merge provided NWS access to eClinical OS in a sandbox environment during the self-training process. Because of this, the qualification was quickly and entirely achieved, using only the extensive online training materials available within eClinical OS. The built-in training materials were intuitive and thorough. Our staff did not require any additional help from Merge – though that would have been available if needed."
Cost transparency using eClinical OS's self-service quoting tool was also a benefit to NWS.
"The cost calculator tool has been very valuable," added Dr. North. "Not only is Merge eClinical OS competitive in the eClinical marketplace, but this tool allows us to remain competitive when bidding on a new study with our sponsor clients."
"With eClinical OS, NWS has deep visibility into the cost of its studies," said Justin Dearborn, President of Merge Healthcare. "We designed a cost calculator into the system which allows our clients to generate their own quotes and create budget scenarios in real-time. This provides them with the decision support tools to balance options and costs."
Merge eClinical OS provides end-to-end study support through a single, easy-to-use interface allowing clients to manage and run studies more efficiently than ever before. It delivers built-in study templates, libraries and reports to help users create studies quickly and manage them effectively without technical assistance. Merge eClinical OS works for the largest and smallest studies, has the flexibility to support trials in any phase, and captures any type of data, from any source, from any modality.
About Merge Healthcare
Merge is a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare. Merge's enterprise and cloud-based solutions for image intensive specialties provide access to any image, anywhere, any time. Merge also provides health stations, clinical trials software and other health data and analytics solutions that engage consumers in their personal health. With solutions that are used by providers and consumers and include more than 20 years of innovation, Merge is helping to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare worldwide. For more information, visit merge.com.
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NorthWise Services (NWS) was founded in January 2001, and has main offices at the Kent Science Park in Sittingbourne, UK. NWS offers a range of services, including data management, statistics, and medical writing, to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other industries, and other services and products through strategic working alliances. For more information, visit northwiseservices.com.


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GoPogo wrote:I have a question. (Its a bit exciting to have the first question on here, I must say.)
Do you already have the story planned out, or are you making it up as you go along?
GoPogo wrote:Don't even get me started on Sid Vicious. I could rant for hours about him. Okay, maybe not hours, but a few solid minutes at least.
I wish I had another question for you, but at the moment I don't. Not any good ones, I mean.
Tenma wrote:Nice place you got here, Monroe. Now, let me just stretch out grind my feet on your couch...
I don't think I've ever heard of anyone doing the lettering and bubbles first. That's an interesting way to do things, though, and I can see how it would give you a better idea of exactly how much space you have to work with. I usually hit it in between setting my lineart in the frames template and coloring, in case I need to make adjustments.
I remember you saying something about quitting drawing and coming back to it several years later to do Out There. Did you do anything else of this magnitude before the great hiatus, or was it always kind of just a hobby? I ask because you seem to have a well-defined style and excellent consistency, which suggests you've had a lot of practice.
rcmonroe wrote:Yeah, to me doing the word bubbles first just makes sense, because then I know exactly what space I have left to work with. I can see how it wouldn't be necessary in your case, because you usually have much wider panels than I do and therefore a lot more space to work with. When one of my windy characters goes into a diatribe though, I know that with my skinny panels space is going to be at a premium.
As for my style, I started drawing comics when I was a wee lad, drew a daily strip in college, then a couple of weekly strips in various community (read: very low-circulation) newspapers after that before throwing my hands up in the air. So I did have a lot of practice. I guess it's like riding a bike, because when I started again, it felt a lot like it did in the old days.
I'm getting to the point where I'm starting to feel like the drawings are consistent, but I'm not there yet. It's a funny thing--I didn't want to start the strip until I had sketched the characters enough so they wouldn't be changing a lot once I started the strip. But they have changed; maybe not radically, but the change is noticeable. I wonder if you've also found the following to be true: no matter what you think you know about your characters, the final decision always seems to be up to them.
KAM wrote:How do you feel about people you don't know suggesting your comic for reviews?
KAM wrote:How do you feel about your characters making cameos in other comics?
KAM wrote:Okay, I noticed your comment over at the Studio Rat forum & thought I should stick my head in & say hi & there didn't seem to be any other thread for that.
Been reading Out There from the 3rd comic. Cracked up, read the first 2 & bookmarked it. Just not much of a forum person.
Cloudy wrote:Sure, I'll bite. Have any artists ever influenced your drawing style, and if so, who and in what way?
rcmonroe wrote:Am I dating myself?
Schprocklabor wrote:rcmonroe wrote:Am I dating myself?
You sure are, you young whippersnapper. Where's the love for George Herriman, Winsor McCay, and A.D. Condo?
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Following fast on the heels of my last post about robot fabrics and sewing projects, I have a completed robot softie ready to go on the robot rampage. In posting, I was really just bookmarking Jenny Novinsky's 'Geared up robot' from issue 8 of Fat Quarterly on the to-sew list, but before I knew it, I had a whole robot leg in front of me.
Issue 8 of Fat Quarterly is all about paper peicing, and although I've done English paper piecing for years, I've never tried foundation paper piecing, or freezer paper piecing before. If you're interested in giving any of these techniques a try, then this themed issue will give you lots of small projects to have a go at (next up for me is Kerry's fancy teapot cosy block using the freezer paper method). I also found this useful youtube video, Paper Piecing Made Easy which I wish I'd seen before getting started.
I'm not saying I didn't have to unpick the odd line of teeny tiny stitches as I went, or that I didn't sew right sides and wrong sides together once or twice, but I really loved making this little robot! The little flying geese on the arms and legs were a bit of a challenge due to the small scale and curve of the limbs; I made life more difficult for myself by making this as a bona fide tiny scrap project - the pieces I used for most of the triangles were the little offcuts you get from slashing your quilt binding strips at a 45 degree angle prior to sewing them together, on the small side even for the scrap bin! You give yourself a much bigger margin for error if you use scraps that are bigger than you need rather than trying to make small scraps fit. It's a very satisfying feeling to make something out of such tiny bits and pieces though, especially when that something is a cute and cuddly robot.
One caveat only - I belong to the school of stuff-your-softie-like-there's-no-tomorrow which made assembling the robot a trifle difficult. Those bulging biceps don't half get in the way of your sewing machine foot, in spite of me trying to push it well down the arm. Next time, rather than compromising on stuffing quantity (I do loathe it when a softie goes flat), I am resolved to pack it down even more firmly into the limbs, then to keep it an inch shy of the open edges with a couple of tacking stitches to be removed when the robot is fully assembled, letting the stuffing expand back into those flattened underarms. Alternatively, I could have handstitched the whole body, or even just finished the leg and arm openings by hand just to make it that bit less awkward.
I made just one tiny change, which was to introduce an antenna made from jumbo ric-rac. That was mainly because I happened to find a 6 inch piece of red giant ric-rac on my sewing desk crying out to be used. I like it though; it's jaunty.
alas it's too wet for robots to go outside to pose
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Okay, full disclosure. The writer of this article is from the conservative part of the political firmament. However, he's struck by what seems like a relative lack of backbone in the Obama administration. As far as my side of the ideological divide goes, hey, great. We'll push as much as we can to either get what we want or make sure that the left doesn't get what it wants.
However, were this writer a Democrat, he might start getting a bit distraught over how quickly the Obama team caves on both principle and defense of its own supporters and colleagues.
The latest example of this is the resignation accepted on Thursday of Yosi Sergeant, communications director of the National Endowment of the Arts. Sergant was exposed by the conservative Big Government site (same one responsible for the distribution of the ACORN videos) as having encouraged NEA grant applicants on a conference call to overly politicize their work:
U.S. & World
"I would encourage you to pick something, whether it's health care, education, the environment, you know, there's four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service," Sergant told artists on the call, which he reportedly invited some of them to attend. "My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities utilities and bring them to the table," he said.
Conservative denounced Sergeant's statements as being out of bounds. The NEA originally stood by their communications director; then, today, the ax was announced.
This, of course, comes a few weeks after the Van Jones defenestration. He, of course, had his signature on his a 9/11 "Truther" document, so there was little hope for him.
What was Sergant's offense? Being somewhat political. Shocking!! The NEA has been a hot-point for those on the right for decades. Frankly, we don't think government should be funding the arts. But, hey, even with a twelve-year GOP congressional majority, Republicans couldn't get rid of the NEA. So it's still around. The country is stuck with it.
Given that, why was Sergant's action a firing offense?
Shouldn't liberals be asking, why doesn't the administration stand up for someone who's offense was actually figuring out a way to "creatively" advance the administration's objectives? He went too far? Fine. Take him aside, give him the professional version of sending him to his room without his supper and move on.
Realistically speaking, if a political base doesn't believe that a politician or an administration is willing to stand up for that base's principles -- and the people in the administration trying to effect those principles -- the base will lose heart and confidence. Meanwhile, the opposition -- yep, us nasty conservatives -- will take heart in having gotten another scalp from this administration.
To the extent that politics is a type of warfare, elected leaders have to show cover for their "soldiers" on the battlefield. If the Obama administration doesn't show a greater willingness to fight for its troops, it might start seeing some desertions.
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