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Stanley Birdbaum couldn't be more excited. He has rolled and wrapped and dyed his hair. He has dipped it and sprayed it and made it, well, perfect. He is ready to celebrate Crazy Hair Day at school. But when Stanley saunters up to the classroom, he learns, to his horror, that Crazy Hair Day is . . . next week. To make matters worse, today is School Picture Day, and everyone is expected to line up for the class photo! What's Stanley to do?
Curious George® Learns to Count from 1 to 100 Big Book
Curious George is a good little monkey, and always very curious. Now George is curious about numbers. Counting from 1 to 10 is easy, but can he count all the way to 100? George has picked the perfect day to try. It's his town's 100th birthday today and everyone is coming out to celebrate! In this large format, paper-over-board book each page features familiar objects for children to count. A perfect book for celebrating counting, numbers and the 100th day of school.
In brilliant watercolor collages, Lois Ehlert introduces young readers to a wide variety of fruits and vegetables from A to Z. Clearly labeled and easy to identify, the favorites in the collection include apples, bananas, potatoes, and tomatoes--as well as some less common edibles.
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Big Book
As soon as they say good night to Mama, the five little monkeys start to jump on their bed. But trouble lies ahead as, one by one, they fall off and hurt themselves.
These catchy stanzas frolic through the Australian author Sue Williams's simple, funny read-aloud picture book that tracks a crazy-haired boy's stroll through the countryside. The boy sees a black cat, then a brown horse, then a red cow, and so on, and before he knows it, he's being trailed by the entire menagerie! The Australian illustrator Julie Vivas brings the parade to life in lovely, lively watercolors—when the pink pig looks at the boy, for example, the boy sprays off his muddy body with a hose. Big type, repetition, friendly art, clean design—and the visual guessing game created by introducing each animal only partially at first—make this beloved tale a winner at story time.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Big Book
his oversize (15- x 17-inch) big book edition is the perfect size for sharing in a classroom. This book is a great first introduction to Mouse, the star of the If You Give series and a perennial favorite among children. And with its spare, rhythmic text and circular tale, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is perfect for beginning readers and story time! If a hungry little mouse shows up on your doorstep, you might want to give him a cookie. And if you give him a cookie, he'll ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim...
One duck is stuck in the muck. Can two fish, tails going swish, help? What about three moose, munching on spruce? Will four crickets, chirping in the thickets, manage to pull the unlucky duck out of the muck? Bright, spirited illustrations by Jane Chapman enhance this one-of-a-kind counting tale by Phyllis Root — a feast of sounds and numbers sure to have listeners scrambling to join in the slippery, sloppy fun.
This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth. Lois Ehlert's bold collage illustrations include six pages of staggered width, presenting all the flowers of each color of the rainbow.
Dance a jig with a silly pig. Play leapfrog with a silly dog. And that's just the beginning of all the fun! Come along and join Silly Sally and her outrageous friends as they parade into town in a most unusual way. "Exploding with whimsy, humor, and zest. . . . Be prepared to read this one a thousand times!"--Booklist (starred review)
The classic tale of the old couple, with no children of their own, who bake a gingerbread boy to keep them company. Just as the little old woman is about to take him from the oven, he slips away and runs out the door past a cow, a horse, a group of threshers, mowers, etc. All follow in hot pursuit until the gingerbread boy meets up with a wily fox, and "at last and at last he went the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven . . . He was all gone!" A wonderfully frenetic cross-country chase is depicted in Galdone's broadly humorous color wash drawings. Of the eight editions of this well-known story now in print, this hilarious version is the most delectable." School Library Journal, starred "Galdone has already proven many times over that he is perfectly at home with those traditional nursery tales that are still preschoolers' favorites, and his expressive, unassuming style just right for their very young audience. . . . Children will follow along breathlessly . . . right up to that last snip snap snip when the Gingerbread Boy goes "the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven.
Exhausted by his efforts to chop down a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rain forest, a man falls asleep under the tree, and the creatures living in the tree come out to plead with him not to destroy their home.
Galdone's dynamic, amusing pictures add much humor to the familiar tale of the industrious hen and lazy cat, dog, and mouse.

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Baylor may have missed the Final Four this year, but there's good news for the Bears on the recruiting front, according to ESPN's RecruitingNation. Unbelievably good news:
The Bears trade one lottery pick for another as Isaiah Austin (Arlington, Texas/Grace Prep) comes into the program with the look and feel of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Yep, in Waco they mean business when it comes to lottery bigs, and Austin is next.
No, there's not any sort of caveat attached to that evaluation. ESPN's recruiting experts have looked at Isaiah Austin, and he's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Pencil him in for three straight college championships—followed by six NBA titles, six MVPs, and 38,000 points. They've really got these high-school projections down to a science, huh?
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The United Nations have declared 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry. On this occasion, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) and EPCA (European Petrochemical Association) have jointly produced a film called "Chemistry: It's All About You".
The film targets young people in the 16 to 20 year age group and shows the importance of chemistry in our daily lives. It explains how chemistry provides the global population with access, in a sustainable way, to drinking water, food, clothing, health and health care, energy- and emission-friendly housing, transport, communication and education. At the same time the film underlines the importance of women in chemistry on the occasion of the centennial of the 1911 Chemistry Nobel Prize to Marie Sklodowska Curie.
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There were 4.7% fewer cattle in feedlots this March compared to 2013.
By: Ron Plain and Scott Brown, University of Missouri
USDA's April Cattle on Feed report says there were 0.6% fewer cattle on feed in large feed yards on April 1 than a year ago. Today's cattle on feed report said March placements were down 4.7% while marketings were down 3.7% compared to March 2013. March placements were down for each weight category except the under 600 pound group which was up 3.7%.
The pre-release trade estimate was for March placements to be up 1.6%, marketings down 3.5% and the April 1 on feed number to be up 0.4%. Since marketings were close to the average of trade predictions while placements were lower, this report is probably slightly positive for the futures market.
The last time the cattle on feed number was above the year-ago level was August 2012.
USDA says there were 404.754 million pounds of beef in cold storage at the end of March. That was 1.2% less than the month before, 20.8% less than a year ago and the lowest for any month since September 2010.
Fed cattle sales volume was so light this week that USDA did not issue their normal 5 area weekly average price quotes.
Boxed beef prices were higher again this week. This morning the boxed beef cutout value for choice carcasses was $233.07/cwt, up $6.97 from the previous Friday. The select carcass cutout is $222.07/cwt, up $6.99 from last week.
This week's cattle slaughter totaled 585,000 head, up 3.0% from the previous week, but down 6.4% from the corresponding week last year.
The average steer dressed weight for the week ending on April 12 was 850 pounds, down 1 pound from the week before and down 1 pound from a year earlier.
Feeder cattle prices at this week's Oklahoma City auction were mostly steady to $2 higher. This week's prices for medium and large frame #1 steers by weight were: 450-500# $239, 500-550# $214-$224.50, 550-600# $209-$224.50, 600-650# $182-$213, 650-700# $183-$199, 700-750# $181.50-$191.50, 750-800# $173.50-$184.75, 800-900# $160.25-$172, and 900-1000# $154.25-$162.75/cwt.
Cattle futures were higher this week. The April live cattle futures contract closed at $145.00/cwt today, up 80 cents from last week's close. June fed cattle settled at $136.77, up $2.40 for the week. August settled at $135.60/cwt, up $2.78 from the previous Friday. October cattle closed at $139.67/cwt.
Feeder cattle futures also were higher for the week. The May feeder cattle contract ended the week at $180/cwt, up $1.95 for the week. August feeders closed at $184.62/cwt, up $3.22 from the previous week. The September feeder cattle contract ended the week at $185.12/cwt.


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Using an ExpoDisc Portrait to set a custom white balance will eliminate many of the yellow, red and blue color casts commonly seen when using Auto White Balance in digital photography. The ExpoDisc is easy to use. Setting a white balance with the ExpoDisc is fast, and eliminates many of the inconsistencies and inconveniences associated with using white balance cards and targets, including unwieldy size, unwanted reflectivity, improper angling, and shadows.
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The Clean were one of the most influential New Zealand bands of the post-punk era. The band formed in the town of Dunedin in 1978, when Hamish Kilgour (drums) and his brother David (guitar) recruited David's school friend, guitarist Peter Gutteridge. Soon afterward, they opened for New Zealand punk rockers Enemy.
The Clean were one of the first bands in the country to play original material. They carved out a distinctive noisy but melodic sound, distinguished by David's screeching, distorted guitar. When the Kilgour brothers decided in 1979 to relocate the band to Auckland, Gutteridge had already left the lineup. The Clean played with a rotating bassist before David quit the band and moved back to Dunedin. Once he was back home, he was introduced to bassist Robert Scott and the two started playing together; news of his brother's new musical relationship prompted Hamish to move back to Dunedin and begin The Clean again.
In early 1980, the group began playing around town in earnest. In early 1981, a fan named Roger Shepherd began Flying Nun Records to release a single by The Clean, "Tally Ho!" With its jagged guitar, sweet melody, and persistent organ, "Tally Ho!" reached number 19 on the charts.
As they prepared to record their first album, they discovered that the small amount of New Zealand engineers didn't care for the band's material. The Clean didn't fight -they backed down, deciding to record on a four-track under the guidance of Chris Knox and Doug Hood. In November, the 'Boodle Boodle Boodle' EP was released; it surprised every observer by climbing to number four on the New Zealand charts.
'Boodle' and the 1982 EP 'Great Sounds Great' captured the quirky sides of The Clean's sound, since they did not have the technology to replicate the band's roaring live sound. Later in 1982, the group released their loudest single yet, "Getting Older." Soon after its release, David Kilgour exited the band, moving back to Dunedin. Robert Scott left after David's departure, forming a band of his own, The Bats. Hamish Kilgour moved to Christchurch -where Flying Nun Records was located- and bought his own four-track. After Hamish had begun writing and recording, David came up to Christchurch to help finish up the solo tracks, as well as to record some Clean songs. The resulting music, released under the name The Great Unwashed, was collected on the album 'Clean Out of Our Minds'. The music was a departure from The Clean's punk-injected sound; instead, it was folkier and more acoustic.
To promote the record, the Kilgours reunited with Peter Gutteridge while still using the name The Great Unwashed. On the ensuing tour, the band concentrated on Gutteridge's backlog of material; at the beginning of 1984, they recorded an EP called 'Singles', which earned quite a bit of airplay and sales. Bassist Ross Humphries was added so David Kilgour and Gutteridge could both play guitar, yet The Great Unwashed wound up breaking up within a year. Hamish Kilgour formed Bailter Space with guitarist Alister Parker, Gutteridge began developing a new band called Snapper, and David stopped playing for a few years.
The Clean -the lineup featuring Robert Scott- reunited in 1988 for two concerts in London; a five-song EP culled from the shows was released a year later. The members of the band were encouraged by the results and decided to embark on a world tour. After the tour ended, the band recorded a new album, which was more straightforward and pop-oriented than their previous material. The record, 'Vehicle', was released in the spring of 1990 and the band supported its release with a world tour. After the tour's completion, the band split again. David Kilgour formed Stephen, Scott returned to The Bats, and Hamish Kilgour was inactive; the group reunited in 1994 to record a new album. 'Modern Rock' was released in late 1995, followed by 'Unknown Country' in 1996. 'Getaway' appeared in 2001 on Merge, but went unnoticed. Two years later, the definitive Clean collection was captured on the 'Anthology' release. In 2003 the band released the first of two new live albums, 'Syd's Pink Wiring System: Live in New Zealand 2000' and 2008's 'Mashed: Live in New Zealand 2007' followed in 2009 by the all-new studio LP 'Mister Pop'. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]


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Luke Bryan vs. Randy Rogers Band – The Showdown
Luke Bryan fans are up for a challenge. For the second straight day, they made 'Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye' the Showdown champion. Yesterday and last night on Taste of Country Nights, the fourth single from 'Tailgates and Tanlines' topped Casey James' new single 'Cryin' on a Suitcase.' The competition only gets stiffer as the new hit moves toward Showdown immortality.
The Randy Rogers Band guys are ganging up on Bryan with their new song, 'One More Sad Song.' The lead single from their upcoming fourth studio album on a major label finds Rogers riding a tenuous emotion all the way to the finish. It's an honest ballad that leaves one reconsidering his or her own past relationships. The group will need the full support from their sturdy fanbase to topple the current champion, however.
Listen to clips of both Bryan's and RRB's songs and vote for your favorite here. You can vote once every hour online, so come back and vote often to be sure your artist wins. Hear the full versions of the songs tonight after 10PM on Taste of Country Nights, and vote again by calling (888) 678-9995. You can listen to the show online through any of the 33 radio stations that carry it. Voting will end tonight at 10:40PM CT.
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Showdown Rules: The song with the most votes wins, and the winner goes on to face a new challenger in the next Showdown. Vote as much as once per hour. If a song wins five days in a row, it will be retired into the Taste of Country Showdown Hall of Fame to allow for new songs to compete. Some songs will be considered for a second Showdown if voter turnout is healthy in a losing effort.


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Mentioning Unbroken Dub (Rawax, Delsin / RU) will ring a bell in everyones ears.
After he denied the russian military draft, the public authorities took away his passport, which blocked him for years from travelling and playing gigs outside of Russia.
But now his time has come and we are very happy to announce that Unbroken Dub will play his first international gig on our next Parallel showcase on the 8th March at Humboldthain, Berlin.
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Unbroken Dub (Rawax/Delsin, Russia)
Stojche (Tangible Assets/Subwax/Parallel)
René Audiard (Blank Slate/The Double R/Parallel)
Daniela La Luz (Rawax/Parallel)
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Conservation and Environment in South Africa: Monthly Updates
Legodimo Nature Reserve - September 2009
September was a month of change. Spring is here in full swing and most trees and other plants are flowering and here and there life is starting to come back in full force.
We have at long last seen Leopard (Panthera pardus)! We had a magnificent sighting during one of our research drives when it ran across the road in front of us. Mieké spotted it first and struggled to get the word out her mouth for a couple of seconds. Everyone was able to see it and we got some good photos for the Endangered Wildlife Trust's Carnivore Project.
The new observation deck at Kolobe Dam is basically done and we have already had some wonderful bird observations as well as more Elephant (Loxodonta africana) behaviour that always fascinates everyone.
We have started collecting seed for our plant re-introduction project as the rains have come. We are all so thankful as animals have started getting desperate for free surface water. We hope that it'll keep on raining frequently enough.
The insect life is starting to get interesting and quite a few of the migratory birds have started making an appearance again. There were about five or more sightings of snakes and then plenty of Monitor lizards (Veranus veranus) and Nile monitors (Veranus niloticus).
I have brought some more snakes to come stay on the reserve for educational talks and presentations like an enormous Puff adder (Bitis arietans), Snouted Cobra (), African Rock Python (Python natalensis) and Brown House Snakes. We have also started a rodent breeding programme to sustain our new members of staff.
This month we started with a dam wall at one of our more reliable seep lines. Most of the water makes its way to the Limpopo River and during this dry hot part of the year, more water is much appreciated. The wall should create a nice wetland area as well as an ideal location for our next observation sight. The soil is hard though and progress slow but surely.
Next month I should have loads of interesting news as the rains arrive along with all matter of interesting wildlife and we have some very exciting projects that we're working on.
Till then, regards and African Greetings,
Gerrit Prinsloo
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Apple is now giving a $25 iTunes gift card to anyone who buys a $99 Apple TV set-top box at its stores or online, according to a report.
The promotion, seen on Apple.com, seems to be a way for the Cupertino, Calif., company to quickly sell its TV hardware and make room for a possible revamp of the system later this year, according to 9to5Mac.
Apple has been reportedly testing the new Apple TV hardware with purported app and game support being readied for later this year. However, readers have a right to be skeptical about the reports. Last year, much of the media said that Apple would be debuting a new Apple TV, but it turned out not to be the case.
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Still, if someone has been thinking about Apple TV and the $99 has put them off, perhaps a $74 set-top may make it more attractive.


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A New York judge has awarded $6.7 million to graffiti artists who sued after their work was destroyed on 5Pointz buildings torn down to make room for luxury condos in Long Island City.
Federal Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn noted Monday there was no remorse from the owner of the warehouse buildings.
"Wolkoff could care less, as he callously testified," the judge said. "The sloppy, half-hearted nature of the whitewashing left the works easily visible under thin layers of cheap, white paint, reminding the plaintiffs on a daily basis what had happened. The mutilated works were visible by millions of people on the passing 7 train."
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The judge said he would not have assessed so much in damages if the owner had awaited his permits and demolished the art 10 months later than he did.
The ruling followed a three-week trial in November.
Twenty-one aerosol artists had sued the owner of a Long Island City, Queens, site known as 5Pointz. Their graffiti was painted over in 2013, and the buildings were torn down a year later.
For 20 years, developer Jerry Wolkoff had allowed urban artists to cover the buildings with their tags and murals. As the popularity of the site, located at 45-46 Davis Street, grew, so did its reputation.
Local organizers held residencies for renowned artists from all over the world. Soon thereafter, the place became known as "the world's largest open-air aerosol museum," according to Eric Baum, one of the artists' lawyers.
Artists tried to stop the demolition of the "Art Mecca" when Wolkoff informed them about the development projects, as the neighborhood's real state value grew. They pleaded with the city to grant landmark status to save community-beloved 5Pointz, but woke up to a whitewashed building.


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Today is National Coming Out Day. Celebrated on October 11 in the United States and around the world, this is a day that celebrates and raises awareness about LGBTQ movements, people and perspectives.
One of the things that has been interesting is that there has been an increased push for LGBTQ-affirming allies to also come out. In all honesty, the call for allies to come out on National Coming Out Day has always made me a little uncomfortable. I already have issues with the term "ally" because it is built on assumed power and privilege and allies are often given far too much face time. This coming out for allies raises the same concerns for me. Yes, for some people, especially for those serving in conservative religious communities, being vocal about affirming LGBTQ people is a huge deal, but I do not think that anything that could happen to an ally can compare to what LGBTQ folks have dealt with historically and currently when it comes of civil rights, violence and marginalization etc. Coming out as ally does not bear the same weight as coming out as LGBTQ, so we must take care that we do not treat them as equal actions.
I simply have a hard time giving too many props to people for stating something today that they should be living already. I know that this is more than a little judgmental and not everyone is a fair-weather ally, but if this day is more about getting one more badge on your progressive cause sash, please do not bother. You see, the danger with making this day into one more "look at how progressive I am" opportunity is that the dominate culture, in this case, "straight" allies, can begin to co-opt a movement that must be voiced by those who have been marginalized. Yes, allies have a place in every movement of liberation, but it is NOT in the forefront, rather our best work can be done in our own communities where the marginalization has grown the deepest roots.Our coming out is only meaningful if it transforms our lives.
So . . . if you count yourself an ally and are thinking about coming out, please ask yourself a few questions before you do? There will be no quiz, just some things to think about.
- Will coming out as an ally be a natural expression of what you already believe and live?
- Will coming out as an ally transform your life: voting, faith, attitudes, etc.?
- Might coming out as an ally overshadow the impact and power of those for whom this could be a powerful day as they come out to friends and family?
- Do you expect affirmation for coming out?
- Are there other ways you might better or also offer support, encouragement and witness to LGBTQ friends, family and stranger?
By now there are some who might think that I am discouraging public LGBTQ affirmation, giving permission for people to remain silent and/or just plain encouraging apathy. Quite the contrary, I want every coming out of an ally to mean something deeper than this day alone. As allies our coming out must impact the ways in which each of us lives so that we are a meaningful part of the movement.
So come the hell on out you allies: be public, be affirming, be persistent . . . but be sure it is not only for today.


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Due to Pablo's bottomed-out blood count, he will need to complete 14 days of antibiotics starting with the first negative blood culture, which was Sunday's blood draw. Before we had an exact diagnosis on the bacteria, we were covering bases with two other antibiotics, and now we will be switching to one, ampicillin. I was told that we would get another platelet transfusion tomorrow and be on our way home with a home nurse coming over to meet us and show me how to administer IV antibiotics to Pablo so we can continue to medicate him around the clock for the remaining 11 days. Fine—I'm up for the task...no problem.
At some point when all of this information was coming my way, I just thought, 'What does Dr. Mascarenhas think of all this? Does he know everything that's happening in our little corner of 435W...and would he agree with what the attending, the fellow and the resident are saying?' I sent him a quick little email letting him know that we would like to see him and he said that he would stop by after clinic. On our way to the playroom, we saw Dr. M coming off of the elevator. He acknowledged straight away that Pablo is looking great, but that this is what we always worry about. Pablo had a bacterial infection—this is the risk! I told him that I was under the impression that as far as bacteria goes, this is a better one to have—possibly even a contaminate... "Bullshit," he cut me off. I have to admit, I was taken aback. Dr. M is incredibly gentle, yet firm with his thoughts, comments and game plans involving Pablo. This is the first time that I felt like we were taking something way too lightly. I told him that we were being sent home tomorrow, blah blah blah... "No way!" Fine, We are not interested in taking risks with our son's life—we will stay as long as we need to in order to keep P safe. That said, it still manages to change our mood and energy.
I asked Jeff to stay at the hospital tonight, so that I could be home with Grady and drive him to school in the morning. I even went out and bought fillets to cook for dinner tomorrow night for all of us... just another lesson in everything can get turned upside down in a flash of a moment. Learning how to roll with it has not been so easy for me this time. I'm sad about it. It's been another incredibly rough week on our floor and in the Wilms' Warrior world. Two sweet kids from our floor and three brave soldiers from my Wilms' email group have passed this week. Another beautiful young woman, exactly Grady's age, had to have her leg removed below the knee. That's the reality of what we're living these days.
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Sana Alabdulwahed-El_masnad Lounge Carpet
At Design Interviews
Interview with sana alabdulwahed : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. sana alabdulwahed : What amused me to do this project is the observance of people rebel against furniture. I believes by bringing the furniture closer to the ground and emphasizing the armrest, we will achieve one of the most intuitive seating units that is inspired by the Middle Eastern leisure culture. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. sana alabdulwahed : The main focus was to achieve a design that is easily manufactured by women. The weight of it, the size, the structure and the materials are all picked specifically to be handled by women during the making of it to to the shipment. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. sana alabdulwahed : Tow terms, which is about 6-8 months .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. sana alabdulwahed : El-Masnad is a cultural expression where I want to make a social impact on people's contemporary lifestyle by meeting a local aspiration through design and making. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. sana alabdulwahed : All of these are an option. Whatever is faster will be my choice. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. sana alabdulwahed : I believe that the furniture that we own have a great impact on our lifestyle. and I wanted to make a statement about the contemporary lifestyle of Arab Gulf region of this time. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. sana alabdulwahed : First, Peter Opsvic wrote a book that was a great inspiration for me. The book and his designs attempts to overcome our stereotypical sitting habits and show how the norms of sitting nicely and still can be broken. Second, The lava sofa for Cor furniture designed by Studio Vertijet received the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany in Silver, in 2009. Also, won red dot award in 2007. They were able to make something playful that appropriate the lively families. Third, the Body Props. By Olivier Peyricot, IDSland. Manufacturer: Edra S.p.A., Italy. This project was developed to introduce new philosophy of comfort where it embraces the floor as a living space. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. sana alabdulwahed : The Arab Gulf Countries. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. sana alabdulwahed : El_Masnad is an Arabic word that means everything you lean on. It used traditionally to describe armrests. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. sana alabdulwahed : I Created ideations through sketches and physical mock-ups in 1⁄4 scale for structural elements and fabric design by using laser cutter. I Prepared production drawings for fabrication. Including: 1⁄4 scale model with dimension for metal tube frame. Digital file for hot wire milling on foam. Generated pattern design in Grasshopper, and produced files for CNC stitching. Produced files for felt cut on CNC machine using Grasshopper, Pepakura, and autoCAD. Rendered the design in five different suggested environments using Photoshop, KeyShot. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. sana alabdulwahed : I worked closely with my master advisors during my research who's skills are at the top of the furniture design realm. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. sana alabdulwahed : Technology has a big role in my design, specially, since the business model is initially intended to be produced and supervised by women. As mentioned in question 12, the structure is carved by a CNC machine to eliminate any requirement of physical handling. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. sana alabdulwahed : Yes, I Conducted a qualitative Research process to understand the demographic, market and fabrication method. Then, I synthesized research findings and articulated insights to inform and inspire design outcome, linking research threads together in frameworks to achieve desired design. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. sana alabdulwahed : One of the most difficult challenges was finding Saudi women willing to participate in taking pictures. The Second challenge was to see the demographic dramatic lifestyle changes as an outsider, which is critical to synthesize the research findings for the design outcome. Lastly, was Understanding the relationship between the designers, makers and consumers. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. sana alabdulwahed : A teacher recommendation. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. sana alabdulwahed : I learn a lot about manufacturing and taking the design idea from the studio to fabrication. .
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I am sure all of you may be aware that October is
Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
I created these spiffy notecards with Scrapbook Max and I want to share them with you!
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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing.
The Kinks' ambitious, flawed 1973 concept album Preservation Act 1 is near the top of pretty much no one's list of favorites by Ray Davies and Co., but it does contain one great song that happens to be near to my heart, for reasons that should be obvious from my byline. Growing up with a weird, French-y name in a land of Melissas and Marys, I had an acute case of the Borts, resigned to never seeing my name on novelty license plates or, especially, hearing it in a love song. So it was a revelation to discover, in my teen years, that not only was there a love song for Genevieves, but "Sweet Lady Genevieve" is pretty awesome to boot. (Learning later on that there's a second great Genevieve song, by Eric Bachmann, was just gravy.) But I think the appeal of The Kinks' song should be apparent to even the non-Genevieves of the world: It's a bittersweet plea for forgiveness anchored by Davies' aching vocals and by evocative lyrics ("You're not the child who smiled so innocently / And I'm not the rogue I used to be") that are universal, despite the somewhat unusual name at their center. It never fails to make me smile away all my sadness.


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(CNN) — The current crew of the International Space Station marked Thanksgiving with zero-gravity-friendly packets of smoked turkey, rehydrated cornbread dressing and a Russian side dish high above Earth.
U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford, the commander of the three-man Expedition 34 crew, showed off the menu in a NASA video. He said he and his Russian crewmates, Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy, would eat the traditional meal in orbit, adding a Russian mashed-potato-and-onion dish to the American holiday's traditional favorites and washing it down with a cranberry-peach drink.
Ford, Tarelkin and Novitskiy arrived at the station in late October for five-month stint aboard the station. The previous crew returned home Sunday night — but not without leaving behind a jar of marshmallow cream for Ford's candied yams.
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Since late last month, Microsoft is rolling-out its first Windows Phone 7 update and after some earlier problems, it seems to work stable now and the pre-NoDo updates finally hit my devices as well. Every Windows Phone 7 is communicating with Microsoft's Windows Phone update server and checks if a new device/firmware update is available or not. This works similar to Windows' update mechanism but in this case, the device reports a device ID and carrier-branding combination to the server and the server decides if an update is available or not. As soon as a firmware update is available, the server notifies the device and suggests to update the Windows Phone 7 via side-loading, using a PC or Mac.
The following 8 minutes video shows the whole process and isn't edited or shortened in any way but the update only took 8 minutes.
Since Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 update itself isn't done over the air (OTA) but is always done through a PC or Mac, as soon as the device is connected to the PC, the Zune Player kicks-in and also checks if an update is available; connecting the same update server as the Windows Phone. After confirming that the update should be performed, everything goes automatically and the user hasn't have to do anything anymore until the Zune Player and the device reports that update was done successfully.
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Taste of the Festival
FREE Open to the public
Capital City Bar and Grill
3149 S. Dirksen Pkwy
For those not familiar with film fests, this evening event will include a preview of 5-6 of the festival's shortest entries, movie trivia with IT's movie critic Chuck Koplinksi.
Pre-festival Party w/ filmmakers
6pm - Midnight
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Skatin' 66
Tyrone Dixon, Hollywood, CA
Musician Robbie Love skates Route 66 to promote his music and raise money for charity. 65 m.
Golden Blade III: Return of the Monkey's Uncle
TJ Wiedow, Asheville, NC
Kung Fu spoof with intentional bad dubs and misspelled subtitles. 91 m.
The Crimson Mask
Elias Plagianos, Brooklyn, NY
Businessman and has-been wrestler struggle to break free of overwhelming debt by any means. 85 m.
Session #1 10-11:50am
Audience Favorite Debut Competition
A Short Film about Love
HsinYin Sung, Taiwan
Street cleaner tries to win a beautiful woman with an expensive gift. 7m.
Travis Pittman, Kelly Daniela Norris, New York, NY
A student takes drastic measures to protect his future when a former girlfriend becomes pregnant. 19 m.
Laura Meoli, Bronx, NY
A magic camera gives a claymation artist a new perspective on life. 13 m.
In the Dark
Alex Fazeli, Pasadena, CA
A double agent agrees to exchange information for safe passage when Khomeini takes over Iran. 17 m.
Letter Home
Ken Pak, Ontario, Canada
One person understood what William went through in the war; now it's his turn to understand. 9 m.
Business as Usual
Dominique Schilling, Los Angeles, CA
A young businesswoman suffers a miscarriage three hours before a major presentation. 17 m.
And Seven Hours Later
Lynelle White, O'Fallon, IL
A geek and a preppy girl find something in common when trapped in an elevator. 7 m.
The Last Legend
Brant Hadfield, Kirkwood, MO
A young woman journeys to a remote farm to solve a riddle learned from her grandmother. 12 m.
Session #2 11:50am-1pm
Short Documentaries – Free Show
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo
Gary Lester, Winter Park, FL
Story of how the zoo became a safe haven for 300 Jews at the beginning of WWII. 29 m.
Heart Sutra
Satoshi Hirayama, Japan
An interpretation of Buddhist text through scenes, monologues and dance. 24 m.
Session #3 1pm
Fest Sampler & Filmmaker Panel
Skylight - Animation
David Baas, Toronto, Canada
Penguins deal with strange light from above. 5 m.
The Bro Pact - Foreign Language
David Xarach, Victor Peceno, Spain
Three young men take a friendship pact one rule too far. 6 m. (Written by Jan Militello, Rochester, IL)
I Am a Man: From Memphis, A Lesson in Life
Jonathan Epstein, Memphis, TN
Documentary of a sanitation worker who marched with Martin Luthur King. 27 m.
Cantata in C Major – Best Experimental
Ronnie Cramer, Denver, CO
Montage of horror movie clips and soundtracks. 8 m.
Hush - Student Film - Drama
Jauvonnie Brown, Chicago Vocational H. S.
Students keep secrets about family, drugs and personal problems. 10 m.
Repaired? - Animation
Seung-Hoo Ihm, San Francisco, CA
Aliens try to repair their ship. 3 m.
Scarecrow– History Award Winner
Patrick Knipe, Burbank, CA
Deserting Civil War soldier redeems himself by saving a runaway slave boy. 17 m.
The Birthday Party - Drama
Veronique N. Doumbe, New York, NY
A 10-year-old's birthday party ends in tragedy. 7 m.
Caught in Paint - Experimental
Rita Blitt, Leawood, KS
Artist's paintings are reproduced by dancers behind a glass partition while she paints. 6 m.
The 2 Sons and Their Crogzookies - Comedy
Dale Ward, Eureka, MO
Twins approach a task in different ways. 3 m.
See You Next Fall - Student Film - Comedy
Allison Martsch, Nino LoGrasso, Springfield H.S.
Falling into a pile of leaves sends boy into an alternate universe where he is being pursued. 3 m.
Appliance Night Out – Animation
Peter J. Casey, Rockford, IL
Washer and dryer have night on the town. 3 m.
Filmmaker Panel
Meet visiting filmmakers and hear about their films.
Session #4 3:15 – 5:15pm
Audience Favorite Comedy Competition
50 States
Caity Birmingham, Chicago, IL
Father and daughter go on road trip. 13m.
Woke Up Ugly
Ryan Parker, Memphis,TN
Man awakes with a different face prompting the girl of his dreams to confess her own affliction. 21m
Stalk Much?
Bill Bayken, Chicago, IL
Man experiences stages of grief after breakup. 10 m.
True Beauty This Night
Peter Besson, Sherman Oaks, CA
Rhett must convince his ideal woman to date him in spite of their unusual meeting. 10 m.
Death in Charge
Devi Snively, Mishawaka, IN
The grim reaper is mistaken for a babysitter and learns a thing or two about life. 15 m.
Alex Beh, Chicago, IL
Waiter dreams of romance when diners ask for sugar. 8 m. (Co-produced by Brett Hays, Springfield)
El Turista (Subtitled)
Lori Chodos, Toronto, Canada.
Tourist misses flight to Miami and vacations at home in Lima, Peru. 8 m.
Josh Hope, Chicago, IL
Daughter is asked to dispose of dead dog. 8 m.
And the World Goes Round
Marie-Juliette Steinsvold, Brooklyn, NY
Fantasy about man who thinks he needs silver coins to win a promotion. 10 m.
"Animated American"
James Baker, Joe Haider, Pasadena, CA
Old-style cartoon characters must find new jobs when computer animation becomes the rage. 15 m.
Session #5 6:30 – 8:30pm
Best Documentary Winner
Vietnam Long Time Coming
Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Peter Gilbert, Chicago, IL
Vietnam vets bike with their former enemies and make peace with their wartime experiences. 120 m.
Session #6 8:45 – 11:30pm
(Mature audiences only)
Adult themes, nudity, language, R-rated
Bathtub of Happiness (Subtitled)
Nadine & Norbert Keil, Munchen, Germany
Two strangers find love in magical bathtub. 27 m.
Mysterious Ways – Best Debut Feature
John Denn, Minneapolis, MN
Mysterious intruder forces prosecutor and his psychologist wife to examine their
feelings. 98 m.
Dusty Mancinelli, Toronto, Canada
Young mother is desperate when she discovers her lover dead from slipping on a bar of soap. 15 m.
Foet (Director's Cut)
Ian Fischer, New York, NY
Based on F. Paul Wilson story, a pro-life woman falls in love with handbags made of fetal skin. 14 m.
Stephen Keep Mills, Topanga, CA
Two women viciously argue about their relationship while in the nude. 14 m.
Session #7 9:30am – noon Audience Favorite Dramas
Hidden Hearts
Caity Birmingham, Chicago, IL
Siblings search for their old home and family. 15 m.
Open Your Eyes
Susan Cohen, Pasadena, CA
A woman diagnosed with breast cancer begins a journey of self-discovery when locked in a bathroom with a stranger during a bridal shower. 14 m.
The Paradigm Shift
Jon Barr, Bryn Mawr, PA
Professor assigns class to plan a presidential assassination and puts grad assistant in the middle. 26 m.
Dixon's Girl
Fernando Rivera, Miami, FL
An abandoned daughter finds her past, dark secrets through the afterlife. 19 m.
The Orchard
Will Simmons, Lincoln, MA
Fugitive stumbles on an apple orchard where things aren't what they seem. 21 m.
Robert Shaw
Bryan Dobrik, Peoria, IL
Man can't escape his past no matter how hard he tries. 10 m.
Hermione Merry, Victoria, Australia
Child's fairytale journey reveals horrible reality. 10 m.
The Dying Western
Michael Kortlander, Athens, OH
Movie extra makes his mark by playing dying cowboys, but knows little about the real thing. 25 m.
Session #8 1-3:15pm
Shorts & Comedy
Feature Winner
Burn Down - Animation
Hyun-Woo Kim, New York, NY
Life, death and rebirth all in an ashtray. 5 m.
Live from New York - Documentary
Bridget Matthews, Astoria, NY
Story of Saturday Night Live's most loyal fan. 12 m.
My Name Is Jerry - Best Comedy Feature
Morgan Mead, David Hamilton, Muncie, IN, Zach Baliva, Springfield IL
Middle-aged salesman decides to change his life when he meets a younger woman. 100 m.
Session #9 3:15pm
Foreign Short & Feature Winner
Pelo Ouvido (Through the Ear)
Joaquim Haickel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Young wife tries to preserve her passionate relationship with her handicapped husband. 17 m.
Euforia – Best Foreign Film Winner
Alfonso Corona, Mexico
A burned-out 46-year-old former rock star risks everything to help a beautiful woman. 100 m.
Session #10 5:30 – 8:30pm Winning Shorts & Awards
The Incident at Tower 37 – Best Animation
Chris Perry, Northampton, MA
Watchman is menaced by intruders. 11 m.
The Caretaker – Best Debut Short
Darryl Kinson, Burbank, CA
A young woman must decide to trust her instincts or a stranger when stranded in the desert. 22 m.
Crook – Best Thriller
Daric Gates, Burbank, CA, (Chatham, IL native)
Real estate mogul becomes the target of a secret government agency in a political coverup. 30 m.
William's Christening – Best Drama Short
Joshua Hume, Brooklyn, NY
Wealthy father and sleepwalking mother who misplaces her baby go to extremes to get another. 15 m.
Dream the Life – Best Comedy Short
Rebecca Rocheford Davies, Australia (MN native)
Film star's favor for a pregnant waitress creates a media frenzy. 27 m.
Al's Beef - Best Western
Dennis Hauck, Los Angeles, CA
A mysterious woman comes to western town for revenge. (Stars Jordan Ladd & Dean Stockwell) 35 m.
Gone Fishing – Best of Fest Winner
Chris Jones, London, UK
An old man and a boy come to terms with bereavement through a love of fishing and a tale of a giant fish called Goliath. 13 m.


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Norwegian Airlines is offering passengers the ability to rent in-flight movies and television on its Wi-Fi-enabled aircraft.
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Customers are able to access a total of 40 movies and 130 television episodes on their laptop, smartphone or tablet via Norwegian Internet. The service costs a fee and gives passengers 24 hours of access to the available television shows and movies.
The airline said the service is streamed directly to passengers' personal electronic devices on a separate network which does not impact the speed of the Wi-Fi connection.
The service is available on all 60 of Norwegian's Wi-Fi-equipped aircraft.
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The Five Star award, the highest honor at FedEx, recognizes team members who have enhanced service and profitability and exemplified the spirit of teamwork and professionalism.
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Spaces: Patrick and Carla Heath
COMFORT — "It found us," is how Patrick Heath begins the story of he and his wife, Carla, becoming the first non-family owners of the Schmidt farm, a 259-acre property bounded by the Guadalupe River and Flat Rock Creek on the outskirts of this Hill Country community.
The Schmidt-Heath home is one of five houses on the Comfort Heritage Foundation's Early Homes Tour on Saturday. Some, including the Schmidt-Heath property, date to the late 1800s.
In 1876, 30-year-old Eduard Schmidt paid 25 cents an acre for 402 acres of country land, according to a family history compiled by Eduard's granddaughter Elizabeth Schmidt Johnson. He built a small shack for his wife, Wilhelmina, and two children to live in while their one-room log cabin and lean-to was being built. The land provided the materials for Eduard and his wife's relatives to construct the house. Cypress trees were cut into logs; limestone blocks were quarried, and rock was burned in kilns to produce mortar.
The children, eventually nine of them, slept upstairs in a loft accessible by outside stairs. Over time, the Schmidts expanded the house, adding a dog trot and two additional rooms in 1891. Porches came later, and major changes occurred in the 1930s, when Herbert, the ninth child, owned the house.
Herbert bought the farm from his mother in 1917. The Heaths have a framed copy of the deed hanging on their dining room wall.
The remodeling, about 1939, brought a small bathroom and electricity to the house. The Heaths surmise that the massive cast iron bathtub was set in place and then the bathroom walls were built around it. "Because they certainly couldn't have put that through the door, so the bathtub came first," Carla points out.
Black-walnut wood that Herbert collected from the property was milled in Fredericksburg and became a new floor in one room. Other rooms got new wood floors, too. Walls were replastered and painted. An artist from Anhalt cut stencils and hand painted floral borders in three rooms, the newer part of the house.
Herbert's widow, Clara, was the last Schmidt to occupy the house. She moved to a nursing home in 1985 after breaking her hip in a fall.
The Heaths came along in 1988, brought to the property by a real estate agent who had heard they'd been looking for ranch property for about a year. They liked the house just the way it was and had no intentions of making any changes to the house, other than painting the interior.
And that is the way it has remained, pretty much, for the last quarter-century that it has been their country home. The original lean-to is now the kitchen. The log cabin is the dining room, and the enclosed dog trot is the living room. The two added-on rooms are bedrooms. The Heaths left the upstairs sleeping loft spanning the length of the house, now accessible by inside stairs, in its original condition.
They furnished the home with family pieces; a checkerboard table made by Patrick's father when he was a student at Jefferson High School and a hutch that he made later, tables made by Patrick and furniture that came from relatives. Family quilts cover the beds; portraits of Patrick's grandparents hang in one bedroom, a portrait of his great-grandmother is in the living room.
More InformationWhat: Five houses dating from the late 1800s to the 1930s will be featured on the Comfort Heritage Foundation's Early Homes Tour.
When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets: $20; available in advance and on tour day at the Comfort Public Library, 701 High St., and the Comfort Heritage Foundation, 640 High St. Maps to the homes will be provided with tickets.
More info: 830-995-3131.
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It seemed fitting to decorate the house with older things, Patrick noted.
"This house doesn't like new, it likes old."
Chrissie Murnin is a San Antonio freelance writer.


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Tributes have been paid to paralysed sailor Andrew Farrow from Devizes who has died.
Father of two Mr Farrow, 48, died at home on July 7.
Mr Farrow suffered a spinal cord injury after he fell out of a tree eight years ago.
He became a sailor and thanks to a grant from the Southern Spinal Injuries Trust (SSIT) he bought a boat and last year competed against some of the world's top sailors at the International 2.4 metre class World Championship in Poole.
A statement on SSIT's website says: "Andrew was a wonderfully gifted man who we came to know as a beneficiary of our grant programme.
"SSIT helped fund the purchase of his boat and Andrew did so much to spread awareness of our grants to others.
"It was a real pleasure working with him and following his journey through sailing.
"He wrote a beautiful and, at times, painfully raw blog about sailing and the difficulties faced by those with a spinal cord injury. It was clear that sailing was everything to him: "Sailing is joy," he said, "It's changed my life."
He was sponsored by Walter Rose & Son butchers in Devizes and butcher Jack Cook said: "It was gutting to hear that Andrew had passed away. He was a great, all round guy and will be sorely missed.
"He was a very honest and caring guy and very loyal to us. He became a friend and we met up for a beer.
"Sailing was a sport he took up and within six months he qualified for the World Championships. I went to Poole where he was competing in the World Championship and spent time on a boat watching him, it was good fun."
Mr Farrow, who formerly owned and ran The Toy Tree in Old Swan Yard, told the Gazette last year: "Sailing is one of the few sports that disabled people can take part in alongside able-bodied people. It's opened up a whole new world for me."
Mr Farrow's funeral service is tomorrow at Salisbury Crematorium at 4pm.


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OXON HILL, Md. — The Prince George's County Council is expected to clear the way for construction of a new MGM casino at National Harbor.
The county council is holding a hearing Monday and is expected to approve MGM's application. That would allow construction to begin within weeks for a casino slated to open by the summer of 2016.
The county planning board approved the project May 8, despite hearing complaints from residents and community leaders who object to the building's lighting features and giant video screens.
Officials with MGM Resorts International say the video screens are an important part of the building's operation and design.
The company is planning a 300-room glass tower hotel and a complex with 3,600 slot machines, 140 gaming tables, a theater, several restaurants, a spa and high-end stores.
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