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using System;
using System.Linq;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace ICSharpCode.NRefactory.CSharp.Parser.GeneralScope
{
	[TestFixture]
	public class DelegateDeclarationTests
	{
		[Test]
		public void SimpleCSharpDelegateDeclarationTest()
		{
			ParseUtilCSharp.AssertGlobal(
				"public delegate void MyDelegate(int a, int secondParam, MyObj lastParam);",
				new DelegateDeclaration {
					Modifiers = Modifiers.Public,
					ReturnType = new PrimitiveType("void"),
					Name = "MyDelegate",
					Parameters = {
						new ParameterDeclaration(new PrimitiveType("int"), "a"),
						new ParameterDeclaration(new PrimitiveType("int"), "secondParam"),
						new ParameterDeclaration(new SimpleType("MyObj"), "lastParam")
					}});
		}

		[Test]
		public void GenericDelegateDeclarationTest()
		{
			ParseUtilCSharp.AssertGlobal(
				"public delegate T CreateObject<T>() where T : ICloneable;",
				new DelegateDeclaration {
					Modifiers = Modifiers.Public,
					ReturnType = new SimpleType("T"),
					Name = "CreateObject",
					TypeParameters = { new TypeParameterDeclaration { Name = "T" } },
					Constraints = {
						new Constraint {
							TypeParameter = new SimpleType ("T"),
							BaseTypes = { new SimpleType("ICloneable") }
						}
					}});
		}

		[Test]
		public void DelegateDeclarationInNamespace()
		{
			string program = "namespace N { delegate void MyDelegate(); }";
			NamespaceDeclaration nd = ParseUtilCSharp.ParseGlobal<NamespaceDeclaration>(program);
			Assert.AreEqual("MyDelegate", ((DelegateDeclaration)nd.Members.Single()).Name);
		}

		[Test]
		public void DelegateDeclarationInClass()
		{
			string program = "class Outer { delegate void Inner(); }";
			TypeDeclaration td = ParseUtilCSharp.ParseGlobal<TypeDeclaration>(program);
			Assert.AreEqual("Inner", ((DelegateDeclaration)td.Members.Single()).Name);
		}
	}
}


GEN-I wanted to conduct a complete overhaul of all IT solutions that were in use to provide support to Energy Sales to all customers in all segments and markets where GEN-I operates. The solution needed to have a proven reputation in the energy market and needed to be fully integrated with an ERP solution.
GEN-I is an independent gas- and electricity supplier in Central and Southeastern Europe. The Group's core activities include international electricity and gas trading, the sale of electricity and gas to end-customers and the associated purchases of electricity and gas from producers. The GEN-I Group is present on 198 electricity and 5 gas wholesale and 8 electricity and 2 gas retail markets. The main company is based in Slovenia and there are 135 daughter companies across Central and Southeastern Europe.
GEN-I focusses mainly on so-called 'emerging energy markets' where the deregulation process has just started.
The strategy of GEN-I is to gain new customers by being the first independent supplier offering better service and tailor-made products at very competitive prices.
GEN-I promises to provide "Poceni elektrika" and "Poceni plin" (GEN-I's product brands) customers the most favourable electricity and gas prices in the long run. Since its entry into the energy market in 2009, the GEN-I Group has proven to be the cheapest electricity and gas supplier in all groups of consumption for household consumers, year after year.
At the end of 2009, GEN-I supplied more than 8.900 household customers. From then on, the GEN-I customer total has risen to 103,550 customers in May 2014 – a total of 98,453 customers amongst households and 5,097 amongst small businesses in Slovenia.
Since the introduction of the "Jeftina Struja"-product brand to the Croatian market on 17 June 2013 the company has been supplying electricity to 19,513 customers in Croatia.
All presentations and workshops demonstrated that MECOMS offered an adequate response to all challenges and requirements.
The collaboration with a very committed and skilled MECOMS Partner Adacta operating in the region of Slovenia and Croatia.
What IT challenges and requirements did GEN-I want to manage?
Being superior in customer management and request processing.
What is MECOMS performing at GEN-I?
MECOMS will be implemented throughout the whole GEN-I group during 7 phases of which 3 are completed. MECOMS is currently performing all processes for supplying Gas and Electricity (Go-live for electricity in September 2014) to B2C customers in Slovenia, and for supplying electricity to B2B and B2C customers in Croatia.
MECOMS will also be implemented for supplying electricity to B2B customers in Slovenia, for Portfolio Management and Forecasting, for supplying electricity to B2B customers in Italy and Austria and finally for supplying Gas to B2B customers in Slovenia.


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Koya university, an emerged e-smart university
On Tuesday 28th Feb. 2017, a workshop held at the Presidency hall of Koya University at11:00 till 02:00 pm. The workshop entitled; "Smart University; How much Koya University is Smart?" was opened and ran by Prof. Salah I. Yahya, the Director of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development, and attended by the Vice President for Scientific and Postgraduate Affairs (Dr. Haidar Lashkry), and the Koya University academic teaching staff. Prof. Yahya presented the complete integrated e-system of Koya University that based on Google Apps. for Education and Open source Platforms.
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Koya University Researcher Published 11 Papers in 2016
Asst. Prof. Dr. Fahmi Fariq, Koya University Instructor, Faculty of Health and Science, has published 11 research articles in 2016. The majority of the research papers have been published by Journals having high impact factor, directly related to Thomson Reuters Index.
Concerning the selection of these research articles, Dr. fahmi said "Selecting the subjects to research is immensely dependent on their significance in Modern Technology, particularly in the field of Organic Electronics and Solar Cells."
Some of the practical sections of the research papers have been carried out by Dr. Fahmi in cooperation with international researchers from abroad universities.
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Student Innovation Competition on Sustainable Energy 2017
The European Commission (EC) aims to protect, preserve and improve the environment for present and future generations, proposing and implementing policies that ensure a high level of environmental protection and preserve the quality of life. The strategic priorities of the EC for 2016-2020 are to ensure the sustainability of theenvironment and the preservation of natural resources are key policy objectives. The EC is committed to pursue these objectives and respond to current challenges and priorities through three distinct focus areas: (i) green growth, (ii) connecting with citizens and (iii) making it happen.
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Koya University facilitates a Mental Health and Psychological Support Center
The SEED Foundation with the support of the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs has opened the Center for Mental health and Psychological Support Services at Koya University. The purpose of the center is to train academic staff so as to offer the best mental health and psychological support services to the psychological patients in Kurditan.
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Koya University Professor Publishes with Springer CCIS
In the recent years the reseachers of Koya University have become more and more active in publishing with reputable International Journals which has boost the global presense of the Koya University. Now Dr. Salah I. Yahya is a Professor at the Department of Software Engineering (DSWE), Faculty of Engineering (FENG) at Koya University. In cooperation with the UTM Big Data Center - Ibnu Sina Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research (ISI-SIR), Malaysia, Prof. Yahya participated in the 5th Asian Conference on Membrane Computing, Universiti Kabangsaan, Malaysia, on 14-16 Nov. 2016, and he presented a scientific paper entitled "Image Segmentation Using Membrane Computing: A Literature Survey". The paper has been selected and published on 08 January 2017 in Communications in Computer and Information Science - SPRINGER as a Book chapter of "Bio-inspired Computing – Theories and Applications" which is listed in SCOPUS.
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Koya University Lecturer Publishes in an IF Journal
Dr. Muhammad Ghafar is a lecturer at the Department of Physics (DPHY), Faculty of Health and Science (FSCH) at Koya University whoo is currenly engaged with Postdoctoral research at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Recently an international scientiic journal has published his research article. The artike is entitled "Structural and Optical Properties of Cadmium Sulfide Thin Films on Flexible Polymer Substrates by Chemical Spray Pyrolysis Technique", Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics Volume 28 / 2017. Dr. Muhammad with his manor in Polymer Solar Cell points out that "The ultimate aim of this investigation is to use Plastic (Polyimide) as a substrate for thin-film solar cells".
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Koya University Lecturer to be UN Adviser
Dr. Sarbast Nabi, higher education lecturer at Koya University, has been appointed by United Nations as an adviser to the affairs of Syria in ESCWA commission, which is one of the leading institutions of UN.
Pursuant to an invitation letter he received from the committee of United Nations, Dr. S. Nabi will attend the fourth meeting of the committee. Dr. Muhammad says "Following the submission of my research paper on Identity and Multi-ethnicity in Syrian constitution to the United Nations organization, it was approved upon as a documentary research paper for the agenda of Syria in the United Nations."
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Behar English Language Center (BELC) is opened
Behar English Language Center (BELC) at Koya University has been opened with the sponsorship of IREX and American embassy in Baghdad as well as with the support of Spring International Language Center of The University of Arkansas. Directly after its inaugurations, the BELC starts its English language courses.
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Koya University organizes its 2nd international conference on petroleum in 2017 with scientific sponsorship of IEEE and official support from the ministry of higher education and scientific research of the Kurdistan Region (KRG). Having more than 45 billion barrels of oil and 200 trillion cubic feet of proved gas reserves, the Kurdistan region distinguishes itself as a key oil and gas source in the Middle East. The oil and gas development activities in the region have been increased rapidly over the past ten years; therefore, the environmental protection became more and more important.
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Rosicky: We're title contenders
If ever there was a day when Arsenal news was thin on the ground, it had to be today. And so it is this morning that you'll find only the merest hint of anything Gunnerish in the papers. And believe me, I have looked. And looked. Had a cup of tea. Then looked again.
Then there it was. Mid-slurp on my second brew of the day, an interview with Tomas Rosicky in a the Islingston Gazette. Rosicky believes Arsenal are a match for the other top four teams this season and feels that the Gunners have 'started something good' with their six-game winning run.
The weekly paper adds that Rosicky has made a tentative return to Arsenal's first team after a 20- month injury nightmare that threatened his Arsenal future, and indeed his entire career.
But he has now come back into an Arsenal side that he feels is as full of potential as it was back in January 2008, when they were top of the table before injury struck the Czech Republic international.
"We are definitely as strong as the other teams," says Rosicky defiantly when it is suggested Arsenal lack the strength in depth to challenge for the Premier League title this season.
"I think when you can see how many offensive players we have got, we have got so many options.
"[Andrey] Arshavin and [Theo] Walcott have only just come back from injury, I have come back, we have Carlos Vela who has played, Samir Nasri is on his way back too, so we just have so many options in attack."
Elsewhere, you'll find the odd mention that Aaron Ramsey scored for Wales in their World Cup 2-0 qualifier win against Liechtenstein and that Andrey Arshavin hit the net for Russia in their 1-1 draw Azerbaijan, while some of our rival websites carry tales of Arsenal being hot favourites to land midfielder Stephane Sessegnon if the player leaves Paris Saint-Germain in the future.
The 25-year-old has impressed for the French outfit since joining from Le Mans back in 2008 and Arsenal along with Manchester City, Everton and Chelsea have all been linked with a move for him.
PSG managed to fight off interest in the player during the summer but a move could still happen in the future and Arsenal would be favourites to land him according to his agent Rudy Rabba.
"I was contacted this summer by England's top clubs and some other clubs from Europe, like Spain. But Paris Saint-Germain wanted to keep him in the summer so they rejected," he told Sport.co.uk.
"I think a transfer in January would be difficult because he will be playing for Benin in the African Cup of Nations, and therefore I cannot see an English club coming in and paying the money PSG want for the player.
"I think if he leaves France it will be for England. All the French and African players would love to play for Arsene Wenger."
Be assured that normal service will be resumed tomorrow as the focus turns back to the Premier League and previews of the visit of Birmingham to the Emirates on Saturday.
Nasri set for Gunners comeback
Kroenke close to Arsenal buy-out offer


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Mike Sheffield
How much money did Kendrick Lamar make on Spotify yesterday?
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past week (or don't have internet, like most of the world), chances are you've seen Kendrick Lamar's latest drop To Pimp a Butterfly adorning your feeds. The Compton-bred rapper set records with the new album, his third, breaking Spotify's record for the most full album listens in the app's history with a whooping 9.6 million full album streams.
After an embittered Thom Yorke once proclaimed Spotify as "the last desperate fart of a dying corpse," one has to wonder, how much money is Lamar (& company) seeing?
According to Spotify (and calculations by Hopes&Fears), Lamar probably made between $921,600 and $1,290,240 in twenty-four hours.
Not quite the heydays of the CD-buying generation but it's quite impressive for online streaming revenue.


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Q: Datagridview to a specific excel cell I got 2 datgridviews, trying to copy the header and it values to a excel sheet. The first loop is working fine for the first datagirdview
for (int i = 1; i < dataGridView1.Columns.Count + 1; i++)
            {
                worksheet.Cells[7, i] = dataGridView1.Columns[i - 1].HeaderText;
            }

            // storing Each row and column value to excel sheet
            for (int i = 0; i < dataGridView1.Rows.Count - 1; i++)
            {
                for (int j = 0; j < dataGridView1.Columns.Count; j++)
                {
                    worksheet.Cells[i + 8, j + 1] = dataGridView1.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value.ToString();
                }
            }

This is the second datagridview and I'm trying to copy the header and it's values.
The first datagridview header values finished at 7nth row cell D7and the row values finished at 8th row cell D8.
I want to put the second datagridview header from E7 of 7nth row and the row values from E8 of 8th row.
//Primary Continuation
        for (int i = 7; i < dataGridView2.Columns.Count + 1; i++)
        {
            worksheet.Cells[7, i] = dataGridView2.Columns[i - 1].HeaderText;
        }

        // storing Each row and column value to excel sheet
        for (int i = 0; i < dataGridView2.Rows.Count - 1; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < dataGridView2.Columns.Count; j++)
            {
                worksheet.Cells[i + 8, j + 1] = dataGridView2.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value.ToString();
            }
        }

A: So if I understand you correctly, you want to put your two tables next to each other on the Excel sheet? In which case it looks like you're getting your offsets mixed up in the loops for the second DataGridView. In this loop:
//Primary Continuation
for (int i = 7; i < dataGridView2.Columns.Count + 1; i++)
{
    worksheet.Cells[7, i] = dataGridView2.Columns[i - 1].HeaderText;
}

Instead of offsetting your count by 7 (which drives the source data location in the grid), you need to offset the destination in the Excel sheet, since the location in the second DataGridView will be the same as the first. You can replicate your first loop but just change the destination slightly. In fact the same will work for your final loop as well.
It's also worth noting that your loop to copy the values will miss out the final row. I'm not sure whether this was intentional or not, but I've corrected it. Here is how your second set of loops should look.
//Primary Continuation
for (int i = 1; i < dataGridView2.Columns.Count + 1; i++)
{
    worksheet.Cells[7, i + dataGridView2.Columns.Count] = dataGridView2.Columns[i - 1].HeaderText;
}

// storing Each row and column value to excel sheet
for (int i = 0; i < dataGridView2.Rows.Count; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j < dataGridView2.Columns.Count; j++)
    {
        worksheet.Cells[i + 8, j + 1 + dataGridView2.Columns.Count] = dataGridView2.Rows[i].Cells[j].Value.ToString();
    }
}

You'll notice that since the difference between your two sets of loops is now negligible, you could easily combine them together, cutting down on execution time (although obviously the impact would only be noticeable with much more data).

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Altria also announced today that Michael E. Szymanczyk, 63, has decided to retire after 23 years of distinguished service to the company, including four years as Chairman and CEO of Altria and 12 years as President and CEO of Philip Morris USA (PM USA). The Board has elected Martin J. Barrington, 58, to serve as Altria's Chairman and CEO, effective upon Mr. Szymanczyk's retirement following the Annual Meeting of Shareholders on May 17, 2012. The Board also has elected Mr. Barrington to Altria's Board, effective immediately.
News worthy of posting! Thoughts? Stories? Reflections?
What a guy! 2 aquisitions and hasn't moved the needle on both. A true friend to the Distributor Network; terms of payment that should be challenged in court.
If he can still walk, would love to play him 1on1 in a basketball game, the money from the gate would go to charity. I am sure the gym would be filled with ex UST and Middleton sales and marketing people. Thinking this challenge over, he would probably commit then not show up (an analogy only ex UST and Middleton people would understand).
yep he wouldn't show up! I'd bet on that with a can of Cope!
I agree and you wouldn't believe the heat we get for his screw up.
I hope the new guy understands the dynamics of the business. I mean how could he allow the joke of a product called Marlboro Snus. It is really a very ineffective alternative.
Met the guy once at a retailer top to top. Wasn't impressed. But then again was never impressed with PM folks except for one cute gal.
Charlie Hagen – met him at a top to top meeting. We're you serving the drinks?


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Greenwood Gardens' mission is to connect people with nature in an historic garden oasis.
Our vision is a world that embraces the beauty and transformative power of nature, and celebrates the history of place.
A Brief History of Greenwood Gardens
Two very different American families have left their marks on Greenwood Gardens. In the early decades of the last century, self-made multi-millionaire Joseph P. Day established the gardens as a private pleasure garden, a place of retreat from the hectic pace and sizzling heat of the big city. Here his family cultivated lush annuals and perennials and commissioned pergolas, terraces, a summer house and tea house constructed of rough local stone and decorated with colorful Arts & Craft tiles.
The architect William Whetten Renwick laid out the garden according to strict axes and vistas bound by walls and pavilions made of rough local stone embellished with colorful Rookwood tiles.
After the Days sold the property and following some years of decline, Peter P. Blanchard Jr., an introspective gentleman farmer, and his wife Adelaide Childs Frick, purchased the property and created an evergreen formality to the garden.
In 2000, following his father's wishes, Peter P. Blanchard III and his wife Sofia began the process of establishing Greenwood Gardens as a nonprofit conservation organization with guidance from the Garden Conservancy, a national organization based in Cold Spring, New York. Greenwood Gardens is now one of 16 exceptional gardens in the country endorsed by the Garden Conservancy.
Graced with the original cascades, grottos, Tea House and Summer House, it took more than a decade and the completion of the first of a three-phase preservation program to restore vitality to the historic grounds.
The last part of the current phase of preservation work has been the restoration of the forecourt, the original entry area to the Gardens. We have reconstructed the circular drive and moved two enormous native holly trees to a center bed. We have laid down rough stones to edge the adjacent hilltop and repaired curved retaining walls to the east and the west.
The towering, hand-wrought iron-grill gate greeting visitors as they emerge from the parking area was recently restored by Greenwood Gardens after suffering years of exposure and neglect. Extensive conservation work has mended the broken and rusted birds of paradise, parakeets, vines and ferns conjured in the early part of the last century by one of America's great master craftsmen, Samuel Yellin, who has been described as the `Tiffany of metalwork.'
Greenwood Gardens maintains a number of outdoor sculptures and ornaments. The stone Tea House is framed by ceremonial hand-washing basins of granite and whimsical oversized chess pieces. Granite lanterns adorn the walls of the cascade terrace, a bronze sculpture of a boy holding two geese by the sculptor Emilio Angela (1889-1970) has been reinstated in the center of the Garden of the Gods and latticework panels have returned to the Cottages.
A Day family carriage ride through the gardens c. 1920s.
Aerial view of the Blanchard home and gardens c. 1950s.
Greenwood: A Path to Nature and the Past
Greenwood Gardens' founder, Peter P. Blanchard III, has written a delightful history of an extraordinary place of natural beauty, including the stories of the Day and Blanchard families who shaped the Greenwood we enjoy today. Peter grew up as an only child at Greenwood, then called The Greenwoods. Filled with vintage and contemporary photographs, the book provides an overview of the Gardens, their history, and mission. In addition, Mr. Blanchard has included a delightful collection of personal anecdotes from his life growing up at Greenwood.
Peter P. Blanchard III is the author of three long-range land conservation studies published by the Trust for Public Land and New York City Audubon: Buffer the Bay Revisited (a review of unprotected open space fringing Jamaica Bay, 1992), The Century Plan (presenting 100 conservation sites on Barnegat Bay (1994) and An Islanded Nature, (a study of remaining natural areas in Western Staten Island (2001). Peter is also the author of We Were an Island; the Maine Life of Art and Nan Kellam (University Press of New England, 2010).
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Gun Violence in America: A Small Town Lawyer's Thoughts
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By Burton Hunter on March 1, 2018 3:32 pm Leave your thoughts
A GREAT CHALLENGE FOR AMERICA: VIOLENCE
Where do we start? With our animal nature? Our tribal past? Our "Colt and Winchester" frontier myths? Our warlike natures? Our vicious propensity for war? Our distrust of anyone who is different? Our belief in myths as fact? The exploding "Age of Information"? Racial and gender-based hatred?
I will assume "all of the above" and proceed accordingly.
I think having a historical and anthropological perspective is essential to thinking of this challenge clearly. It can dispel the belief that we are somehow special, touched by God, with a pre-determined future. Realizing that we are "simply" an advanced ape-mammal is essential. If we insist we are different, special, created by God in his form, we keep looking for a supernatural "savior" when there is none. The only "salvation" is within us, what we are, and what we may become.
I also think that a view toward the future, a grounding in science and technology, and an appreciation of the remarkable explosion of progress we've had (starting with seeds before the Age of Enlightenment), and an appreciation of "accelerating change", are essential.
We know that people have been fantasizing and dreaming for over 30,000 years as evidenced by the French cave paintings and the pregnant fertility doll from Germany. What a coincidence that those are the things that interest me. One of our best dreams can be a safe America, with the lowest gun violence in the world.
I have a "liberal education", a good science and math foundation from high school, a misapplication of my energy in college but still lots of reading, three years of learning the structure and philosophy of the law, and 46 years of representing individuals in all manner of conflict. I have supplemented my adult personal and professional experiences with reading that tends to be heavy on "information", including science for the educated lay reader.
I grew up next to a farm, worked there for six summers, had a bolt action .22 rifle, five years of military prep school, and "marksmanship" training, and four years as a USAF JAG. I am not against private gun ownership. I am a lifetime Republican who is done with the Republican Party. I am a generalist!
But, think of the specialists, the people who understand the inner workings of the atom, the scientists who have cracked the secret of the genome, the brilliant economists and "big data" psychologists who are analyzing the behavior of millions of people and billions of transactions, and the mathematicians and physicists who understand "relativity", black holes, the expanding universe, deep matter, deep energy, and "The Big Bang".
I am glad to know that such puzzles exist but am not bright or specialized enough to figure it all out.
There are a tiny few "polymaths" who somehow seem to have synthesized a great deal of it. I guess I might aspire to be a "mini-poly", just smart enough to get a glimpse into the infinite and to articulate some practical suggestions. As meager as my accomplishment are, I am sad that a large portion of our citizens are swimming and breathing in waters they do not even know exist. They won't read this or agree if they do.
I strongly encourage anyone who aspires to an understanding of our most puzzling country to read "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: a 500 Year History" by Kurt Andersen. https://tinyurl.com/y98wtddf It gave me insights that reading a dozen books on related topics the last few years has not.
The short summary is that this country of immigrants has its own peculiar ability to have dreams, goals, and myths that are not grounded in fact. We "baby boomers" include a disturbing percentage of members who somehow have grown into adulthood believing we can stay "young at heart", or childlike, our whole lives. Many of us dress like kids and gorge on porn, video games, and fantasy (e.g. sports leagues) and "holy roller" churches
A startling number of people, devout and not devout, believe in a God that interacts and monitors people, punishes them, rewards them, and acts out in petulance. And there are thousands, no millions, who pander to these beliefs and profit from them. These beliefs are false and destructive to our adaptation to the modern world.
I have written my first page without addressing the question, "How do we reduce gun violence in America?" It is a subject akin to arguing about religion. The more we argue, it seems the more entrenched we become. But here, as Fareed Zakaria says, "Is my take".
The Nature of Gun Violence
Gun violence is a symptom like fever, pain, or that itching rash. We of course want to alleviate symptoms, but that will not cure the underlying disease. We must address the disease and the side effects of any treatment. While treating to control the sneeze and wheeze, we still want to solve the riddle of cancer and heart disease. Violence, oppression, greed, and hatred are the diseases. Bump stocks and semi-automatic rifles are also symptoms.
If you want a peek at the foundation upon which these comments stand, here are a few ideas, articles I have written, on related subjects and suggested sources:
http://hunterlawfirm.net/burts-history-of-the-world-part-i-to-the-age-of-enlightenment/
http://hunterlawfirm.net/a-small-town-lawyers-reading-list/
http://hunterlawfirm.net/burts-criticism-of-religion-and-religiosity/
http://hunterlawfirm.net/symantics-metaphor-religion-and-clarity-of-thought/
http://hunterlawfirm.net/the-challenge-to-the-church-in-the-modern-world-or-whats-it-all-about-anyhow/
http://hunterlawfirm.net/the-formative-effect-on-a-country-boy-of-the-4-h-clubs-in-ohio-county-wv-in-the-50s-and-60s/
http://hunterlawfirm.net/a-modern-view-of-religion-by-a-spiritual-person/
http://hunterlawfirm.net/burts-response-to-the-challenges-of-the-modern-world/
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Why Gun Violence is the Symptom?
Mass killings seem to feed off "The Information Age". They follow a pattern as if the perpetrators have read the same "How To" manual. In a way they have. Each tragedy plays out the same on the news. What happened? How many dead? Who were the heroes? Who was the perpetrator? Why did no one stop him? Were there warning signs? Who were the victims? What were their stories? Who are the scapegoats? Who can we blame it on? How quickly can one side of the gun violence issue accuse the other one of politicizing it?
I can hear regret in the reporters' voices as they inevitably help to make the shooter famous. And, somewhere, another warped and broken person is thinking, "Wow, look at how important that shooter is. I can do that."
So, gun violence is a symptom of our troubled age and our difficulties in adjusting to accelerating change. 150 years ago, a death was tragic, but everyone in America did not get to share it in real time.
And, vicious ideas could and did spread, but at the speed or a horse or boat or train. Now it is the speed of light.
In the Wikipedia Age, the experts are hard to spot. Twenty years ago, we could trust The Encyclopedia Britannica to find to best scholars in their field and put one curated version on the page. Libraries were organized by The Dewey Decimal System.
Now, people compete to fit the truth into Wikipedia. Much seems to be accurate, but it is a different world. As divorce rates skyrocket, marriage rates drop, parents lose the ability to be gatekeepers of their children's information, and the problems grow. So, a key to my proposed solutions is a "Manhattan Project" or "Man on the Moon" effort to teach our people, adults and children, how to curate and evaluate the flood of "The Information Age". If we fail, America, even if it survives, is facing chaos.
What Kinds of Law?
We've heard it all. "It's not the gun; it's the person holding the gun." "It's a mental health issue." "The only way to deal with a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "They want to take our guns". "Secure the schools." "Harden the targets." The problem is the men; get rid of men." Really?
From the NRA is mostly silence. They don't even make the argument that I would make for them. They have abandoned their original purpose, to support the sportsman, the hunters and hobbyists, to promote gun safety, and to train gun users in the safe and responsible use of these inherently dangerous tools, tools designed expressly to kill and maim.
Gun manufacturers and The NRA are willing to say or do anything to keep gun sales going. Their reason to exist is selling guns.
Do we restrict gun sales? Register every gun? Limit magazine sizes? Restrict military style semi-automatic weapons? The type of ammunition? Require mental health screening? Limit "conceal and carry"? Place age limits on the purchase of firearms? Some of these subjects are toxic, but I say, "Let's consider everything and attack from many sides." This giant problem needs a multifaceted solution, not piecemeal band-aids.
Here are some ideas I posted this morning, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018.
1. Personally, i think NPR is nuts to be interviewing someone about repealing the 2nd amendment. Perhaps the idea is to scare people into voting for regulations. My long article is almost done, but it is clear to me that we need to train those who wish to own a gun with the kinds of precision and ethical framework, be it hunting, self-protection, or sports, that reflects the dangerousness of the instrumentality. I'd say at least twice what driving a car requires. Compare The Skip Barber Racing School to your high school driving instructor.
2. I would have limits by age. I would have strict rules, age and qualifications, surrounding concealed and open carry. I would consider what to do about volunteer security personnel in schools but require at least the training in shooting that a state trooper gets.
3. Yes to universal background checks. All weapons, even my Grandpa's 100 plus year old single shot .22. Should be registered. No special privileges for gun shows. Big penalties for illegal weapon sales. Liability to gun manufacturers for people illegally killed with their inherently dangerous product. Once registered, I would have a computer chip in every gun. I would track every transfer. Punishment would not be big for people with clean records; say relinquishment of the gun, a fine or short jail sentence, or community service. Prison reform. Revision of our drug laws. Complete review of our mental and cognitive illness medical system.
4. Outlaw gerrymandering and pass comprehensive campaign reform? Outlaw military style weapons unless a person meets very strict criteria.
5. Bump stocks? Of course; even the president likes that one. That would be a start.
How Does This Relate to Accelerating Change?
By now you should have seen it. The line graph, low on the left, rising to the right, and zooming nearly vertical on the right side. This line chart mimics "accelerating change" towards what one authority calls "The Singularity". "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transend Biology", Ray Kurzweil, 2006.
America the Fantasyland
I am 60% through a book called "Fantasyland – How America Went Haywire: A 500 Year History". I am going to try to finish it before posting this. I commend it to everyone. It reminds us that we once used words like "hokum", "malarkey", "con man", "scam," "balderdash," "hogwash", "confidence game", "poppycock", and "Buncombe", words used to reject a flamboyant but bygone era and welcome the modern world to America. The evidence is that we are falling back into a new "dark age". I hope I am wrong. The evidence says that the purveyors of myth, fantasy, and falsehood have a powerful new weapon that we have not learned to deal with. It began with t.v. but morphed and metastasized with the Internet.
Fantasyland also began because America went through at least a couple hundred years of idiocy, dreams of streets paved in gold, "end of the world", magic elixirs, medicine shows, carnivals, Mesmerism, Phrenology, homeopathic medicine, Mormonism, Scientology, conspiracy theories, and so much more. It is a multilayered book, but it reminds us that since the '60's, in America, people can pretty much believe anything they want, that the earth formed 4000 years ago, that people can rise from the dead, that flying saucers exist, that Princess Diana both planned her own death and died of a murder conspiracy, or that Elvis was just seen, alive and well, or a man can live in the belly of a whale for two days.
Donald Trump is the epitome of the "huckster", the "Carney", the "over-promiser", the liar, or as Fareed Zakaria properly quoted of him, "The Bullshit Artist".
But, how does an angry, maladjusted, mentally ill, evil, or "misled" individual come to believe that killing a bunch of people, mostly strangers, will solve anything? Those are complex questions. But, first I think we must focus on how to stop them.
Information Overload.
I delete 50 extraneous e-mails each morning. I ignore the clamor of half a dozen news feeds. I decline a dozen books a day but still order three times what I can read. While I drive, I listen to audiobooks, podcasts, and Sirius XM. I still take a few magazines, Wired, Archeology Today, Road and Track, Car and Driver, and professional magazines.
I send the e-mail I find useful to Evernote and the task list Wunderlist for future review and read the ones I "can't help" finding interesting. I scan paper documents, tag or archive, and hope I can find them when I need them. I try more than most, but information overload is real.
Loss of Ethical and Moral Compass.
When our top political and religious leaders have learned that lying is better than telling the truth, to accomplish their venal goals, America is in trouble. Rush Limbaugh got it started Congress repealed "the fairness doctrine" and "opinion news" entertainment was permitted. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/uncategorized/are-we-better-off-without-the-fairness-doctrine/
When our U.S. President is the best liar in the country, willing to say simply anything, and to contradict himself constantly, and we can't find a proper balance or bar to that, we are in trouble.
The Problem of Religion.
I was raised to believe that the truth is important and that lying, and liars, are bad. Now lying is not such a big deal.
Americans, perhaps 25% of us, have reverted to a perverse, medieval, form of religion. The more fundamental for these groups the better.
Each must have a supernatural leader, God, Savior, Prophet, Dictator, or Supreme Leader. Each totem performed supernatural miracles.
Each claims a divine source for his teachings.
The war of knowledge was fought, and science and rationality won, we thought? But new evangelical and Pentecostal views and "new age relativity" and their teachers have returned to feed into the myth of the American Frontier, our rural heritage, our Southern supremacy, and our freedom to believe anything regardless of its factual basis.
It is a backlash to progress, but it is real. Sorry, no room to explain this, but part of it grew out of the mythical "lost cause" of the post-Civil War South.
Yesterday the pastor who led the prayer at the NASCAR race spoke to "The Lord" as if he were a favorite uncle asking him to return America to be "a Christian Nation" with every single citizen saved, and presumably, reborn in "the blood of Jesus Christ".
Yuck. Before 1960, hardly anyone was "reborn". That's pretty much the end of me and NASCAR. Maybe I'm just hearing "same'ol" for the first time, but it made me mildly ill. It is a sports event, NOT church!
The Problem of Science.
Science is a system for seeking objective truth. It requires experimentation, control of variables, patience, and a rigorous refusal to follow "wishful thinking". It is rational and empirical. It is technically amoral, but to me must be just as rigorously ethical.
But, Nazi's and even people in America came up with theories of dealing with racial minorities, inferiors, and defectives. Detractors of science decry objectivity, empirical thinking, and the rejection of intuition. They insist that if they FEEL strongly enough about something, we should concede its validity.
People who believe in "Natural Law" reasonably ask, "Where is the concept of right and wrong in science." I struggle with that question, and I have accepted what former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. called "can't helps".
These are core values of empathy, honesty, non-violence, compassion, equity, and fairness that my upbringing tells me are good for most people, in the sense that they can flourish and survive better if these values become the norm. I may be wrong but "can't help" feeling I am on to something.
Prison Reform.
The history of crime and punishment in England holds many lessons. Credit Dickens with casting light on the plight of the poorest classes, a failed criminal system, and the "bleakness" of pollution filled cities.
More recently, wholesale incarceration escalated in America during the Clinton era. It was well-intentioned, designed to deal the drug crisis. But, with the highest percentage of incarcerations in the world, and 25 times (2500% of) the gun violence per capita in America than in other developed country, we have created a crime manufacturing industry.
In theory, we control these prisoners. In practice, we do not.
Do we make sure they read Aristotle, Spinoza, Edward O Wilson, Einstein, Darwin, Shakespeare, Martin Luther King, or Gandhi? Do we make sure they learn to read, write effectively, to calculate, to think critically, and to have a moral compass, to care for others? We do not!
We allow them to collect into racial groups and cliques, to operate as gangs behind the bars, use television as a drug, and allow them to organize for future criminal activity. Any dramatic decrease in gun violence will require a massive effort to reform our prisons.
Drug Reform
Our society teaches we must have more, we must have fun, we must be stimulated, we must be entertained, we must feel happy, and we must CONSUME. We are, after all, FANTASYLAND, where all views have equal weight, where criticism of anyone's faith is "fightin' words", and where getting high is no longer wrong.
Our medical treatment system is broken. The power of drug companies, insurance companies, the corruption of our political system conspire so that it costs too much and does too little. Add to that a food industry that puts processed foods into our children, at school and at home, and the fact our diseases, to a large extent, are self-inflicted. That may not obviously connect to gun violence but obesity, lack of universal health care, and exorbitant costs constitute a huge challenge to America's social and medical health.
Healing Racial Divisions
"Fantasyland" helped me to understand the phenomena of police violence, racial conflict, the burning resentment of white working-class America, and the "southern mentality" Confederate Flags and the myth of the noble south.
Our Problems with Sex and Gender
The success of birth control, break-down of morals, the progress the gay and transgender community have made, gay marriage, and the rest, have caused America to bonkers over sex. That leads to anger and conflict and creates one more impediment towards solving our problems, including gun violence
God Gave Us A Tool We Cannot Handle or Even Fathom
The power of instant communication and computers in our hand beyond anything we imagined even twenty years ago have created a problem we are only now beginning to appreciate. It will take some of our best thinking to figure out who we can turn that tool away from porn and games and gambling to something positive.
Training Our Youth
We are not training our youth with the tools of our time. Smart devices, computers, and everything related to that is powerful. No one should be handling them without training, especially with the ethical foundation that makes their use positive and acceptable. We don't let :12 year olds" drive, and we don't let "15 year olds" drive without an adult, and "16 years olds" without a license.
The Role of Regulation in America
The evil nature of government regulations and rules is a myth. An orderly society must protect the young, the weak, the vulnerable, the poor, and promote an upward path for those who can achieve it while not letting wealth and power accumulate into the hands of a tiny view.
Our government must be powerful enough to control organized crime, terrorists, and the politically corrupt.
A young person should be learning core values and ethics from the playpen on. If parents aren't doing it, we must train the parents and the children.
Cars aren't designed to kill, but they can kill, and we regulate them. We regulate roads. We regulate industries, chemicals, zoning, sewage removal, water systems, housing, and drug production and sales. Look what happens when the regulation fails. You get the opioid and heroin crises!
The 2nd Amendment was an afterthought, part of the bill of rights, something that almost didn't make it into the US. Constitution. It is ambiguous, and it implies the right to bear arms is so we can form militias if we are threatened from the outside.
I concede that hunting, properly regulated, needs to remain in America. For sport? Food? Competition? Recreation? It is legal. And our society is not ready to say goodbye to it. Killing for trophies? Disgusting. Diminishing species to extinction? A profound crime.
There are two devastating developments in medical treatment in my lifetime. The Opioid crisis, of course, was created by the push of the drugs industry to be unfettered in its prescription of addictive, powerful, pain medications FOR PROFIT. The other was the closing of our mental hospitals and the belief that the severely mentally ill could simply be turned lose and maintained by outpatient treatment.
I recently learned that "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", directed by Milos' Foreman, written by Ken Kesey, and starring Jack Nicholson, was part of a major campaign to reject the concept of mental illness and promote the idea that any belief, strongly held, had some validity. The result of that revolution, during the Kennedy years, was the an avalanche of homeless people and lost humanity.
If a doctor notices his patient is no longer capable of driving safely, it his his/her obligation to notify the Dept of Motor Vehicles. If a psychiatrist or psychologist notices his patient lacks stability to operate a firearm safely, he should take similar action. How do they do that and maintain proper rapport and respect confidentiality with their patient? I am not sure, but some people, who are mentally ill, are dangerous, to themselves and sometimes to others.
America believe everyone is entitled to believe whatever they want. Bullshit! That's a shame. If you believe that Jesus could fly without an airplane or Mohamed talked to God, or bushes burned without being consumed, you should be declared crazy and locked up. It is crazy. It is nuts. It is not true.
If you think that Buddha got in right in how to meditate, sacrifice and show empathy for the poor, great. If you think Jesus' teachings of poverty, charity, non-violence, compassion, tolerance, and the rest, are superior, fine. If you think black people and white people shoudn't hang out together, that's your view, but we probably should keep working on core ideas, honesty, compassion, sharing, cleanliness, conservation, responsibility to other life forms, preservation of our environment, tolerance and respect for others, WITHOUT claiming it comes from a supernatural honcho that only you and your little group are tuned into.
I believe we can require extensive training to operate such dangerous tools. I think fitness matters, sight matters, training matters, a stable mentality matters. Yes, I think each person should pass a mental and physical examination before getting a license.
I think we should monitor the Internet and use big data of spot the whackos.
I think we should train everyone in Internet ethics and etiquette.
I don't think young males should spend endless hours on games and porn; how to deal with that. I don't know. But they are subject to adult discipline and rules. Somehow, there need to be "rewards" for pursuing a positive and constructive course on the Internet. And, heaven forbid, forms of censorship, child porn, porn, age appropriate, violence, racism, and hate speech, may not be the worst thing.
I think every parent should be certified in Internet safety and trained in how to protect their children. No certificate of completion, and our kids can't have a cell phone at school.
I think it is time for a strong "surge" into the future, with less myth, superstition, hatred, and tribalism.
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This listing is for the full 52 Weeks of Yarn Club for 2023. This will consist of 52 mini skeins of 20g in 4ply fingering weight along with 52 tonal/semi-solid skeins totalling 104 minis.
These will be split up into mini packs sent monthly across 12 months. January will have 10 minis, February will have 8 minis and so on dependent on the amount of weeks in each month. They will dispatch in the second half of each month.
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February 6, 2018 + 2018 Oscars Challenge
2018 Oscars Challenge: [17] "Beauty and the Beast" – 2 Nominations
Director: Bill Condon Writers: Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos Cinematography: Tobias A. Schliessler Editor: Virginia Katz Composer: Alan Menken Distributor: Walt Disney Motion Pictures Release Date: March 17, 2017 Run-time: 129 minutes FILM SYNOPSIS: Furious that her father has been imprisoned for petty theft, book-loving villager Belle takes his place in the mysterious castle where he is being held. Belle stands up to the castle's … Read More 2018 Oscars Challenge: [17] "Beauty and the Beast" – 2 Nominations
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Oscars Watch: 20th Annual Costume Designers Guild Award Nominees
Excellence in Contemporary Film "Get Out" – Nadine Haders "I, Tonya" – Jennifer Johnson "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" – Arianne Phillips "Lady Bird" – April Napier "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" – Melissa Toth Excellence in Period Film "Dunkirk" – Jeffrey Kurland "The Greatest Showman" – Ellen Mirojnick "Murder on the Orient Express" – Alexandra Byrne "Phantom Thread" – Mark Bridges "The Shape … Read More Oscars Watch: 20th Annual Costume Designers Guild Award Nominees
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Oscars Watch: 2018 Makeup and Hairstylists Guild Award Nominees
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PERIOD FILM "DARKEST HOUR" Production Designer: SARAH GREENWOOD "DUNKIRK" Production Designer: NATHAN CROWLEY "MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS" Production Designer: JIM CLAY "THE POST" Production Designer: RICK CARTER "THE SHAPE OF WATER" Production Designer: PAUL DENHAM AUSTERBERRY FANTASY FILM "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST" Production Designer: SARAH GREENWOOD "BLADE RUNNER 2049" Production Designer: DENNIS GASSNER "STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI" Production Designer: RICK HEINRICHS … Read More Oscars Watch: 22nd Annual Art Directors Guild Award Nominees
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Oscars Shortlist: 70 Original Songs Shortlisted for 90th Academy Awards
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Hi it's Christine here at Magenta with a plant based background. You're probably wondering what that means. If you look carefully the leaf images are real plants pressed between two sheets of card stock in my die cutting machine.
I use the plates for my thin dies, place the plants between the two pieces of card stock. I use Mixed media but as long as it absorbs water it will work. The water from the plant will squeeze out so you might have to wipe off your machine and the plates after but it's worth it.
I also blended some distress ink (weathered wood) around the edges to bring the colours together.
Bonjour, c'est Christine ici chez Magenta avec un arrière-plan à base de plantes. Vous vous demandez probablement ce que cela signifie. Si vous regardez bien, les images de feuilles sont de vraies plantes pressées entre deux feuilles de papier cartonné dans ma machine de découpe. J'utilise les plaques pour mes matrices minces, je place les plantes entre les deux morceaux de papier cartonné. J'utilise un papier média mixte, mais tant qu'il absorbe de l'eau, il fonctionnera. L'eau de la plante s'écoulera et vous devrez peut-être essuyer votre machine ainsi que les plaques, mais cela en vaut la peine. J'ai également mélangé de l'encre Distress ("weathered wood") sur les bords pour rapprocher les couleurs.
Look at the beautiful print you can use as your background for your stamps.
Regardez l'impression magnifique que vous pouvez utiliser comme arrière-plan avec les étampes.
Wow Christine, what an amazing technique. Your card is gorgeous!
You are amazing! Love this technique. The card is stunning.
Stunning card Christine. I'll be out in my garden picking some leaves today to try this! Your cards are inspiring!
Beautiful and love the background design too. Would also make a great sympathy card.
What an amazing technique and a perfect background for these lovely wildflowers!
Your card is stunning Christine. I love the technique and the stamp you paired with the background.
What a beautiful background and a great way to do it. This made a simply gorgeous card. It is such a back to nature look and I love it.
Great results from pressing the leaves, Christine! It created a perfect background for the wildflower stamp.
This is amazing! I have to try it! Thank you, Christine!
This is amazing, Christine! Your plant based background is simply stunning and perfect for the wildflowers. Love the wonderful colors and the detail from the real leaves. Thanks for sharing the technique!
Wow...the most stunning effect and what fabulous inspiration, thank you x.


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If you live in the Chicagoland area—or even just the greater Midwest—you've probably eaten Jay's Potato Chips.
What you might not know, however, is who is majorly responsible for them: Al Capone!
Seriously. According to Jay Shefsky, host of WTTW's Jay's Chicago, Al Capone had a hand in popularizing the potato chip. Back in 1927, Al was a friend and backer of Leonard Japp, the original founder of Jays Foods, a snack manufacturing company who provided Al's speakeasies with salty snacks like peanuts. When Al went to New York and tried potato chips for the first time, he fell in love—and told Leonard to start making potato chips for his speakeasies pronto. In response, Leonard founded a famous Midwestern chip that continues to this day: Jay's Chips. It was one of the first big companies to help popularize the potato chip around America—and the first company to make potato chips as we know them today, which are thin and crispy rather than thick and oily. Not only did Al encourage Leonard to make chips, but he gave him the capital to do so, and encouraged him to build factories, especially in Chicago. Without them, the potato chip as we know it might not be as popular as it is today. It's a bizarre but interesting connection!
You can watch the full video—and learn more about Leonard's connection to Al—by following this link to the WTTW clip in question (I tried to embed it and failed, sorry).
And if you want, you can learn more about the history of Jay's Foods in Chicago at this blog post at South Side Weekly.
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ID10T Music Festival & Comic Conival is brought to you by Chris Hardwick had their first ever show this year Mountain View, CA at the Shoreline Amphitheater. If you were going for just the music, you would be better going when the first music set starts. During the morning and early hours of the show, there is no music acts playing. There is, however, the Comic Conival which had panels and comedy going on along with the Power Rangers Lazer Tag and of course exhibitors and artists to fill your comic con needs if you weren't lucky enough to get tickets for San Diego Comic Con.
Overall the show was good. There were still some things that could be improved. It would've been nice to have some live music maybe an hour after the show started. There were a good amount of people there to check out the panels and Comedy Tent but it feels like something was missing. I think there should've been more interactive events etc... to keep people busy. It felt once you walked around and checked everything out, it was basically a waiting game if you were waiting for a specific panel, comedian or band to perform.
There's no word if there's going to be a show next year so we'll just have to wait and see. I think if they could reel in more big name companies to exhibit and have fun interactive booths, it would definitely bring more people to the show and keep people from being bored.
The show has something for everyone but just not at the same time, so, if you're planning to attend the show when it opens just be prepared to keep yourself busy.


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It's July and We Still Don't Know Much About Nintendo's Holiday Plans
Nintendo recently held its annual shareholders meeting, and one of the questions asked of representative director and president Shuntaro Furukawa was about the lack of future titles with release dates attached. Usually at this time of year we're coming right out of E3 and Nintendo has just announced its software release schedule for the rest of the year. However, due to COVID-19 there has been no E3 and no major announcements from Nintendo regarding its holiday plans. Here's what Furukawa said as a response.
In the annual shareholders meetings, we have routinely shown a video of E3, which was usually held just before the meeting. But this year, none of the large industry events are being held because of COVID-19, not just E3, and Nintendo also has no plans for any such events. We intend to use other methods flexibly in order to deliver the latest information on our products, so please stay tuned. We have continuously released information, including the announcement of a new fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for Nintendo Switch and the announcement by The Pokémon Company of new Pokémon-related titles.We think the Nintendo Direct format is very effective for us to directly and clearly convey information about games to consumers.
It's true that we did just get information drops from The Pokemon Company and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai. Pokemon delivered trailers for a Pokemon Snap sequel as well as Pokemon Unite while Sakurai unveiled the newest Smash Bros. fighter, Min Min. All that news was welcome — even if I'm skeptical of Pokemon's plans — but we didn't get the kind of "megaton" announcement we're used to hearing at E3. Maybe that will come later this month, but until then all we have to look forward to in 2020 is Paper Mario: The Origami King (later this month), Bravely Default II (sometime in 2020) and The second round of Pokemon Sword and Shield DLC (this autumn).
I think Paper Mario could be great and the Pokemon DLC, called The Crown Tundra looks to be bigger and more exciting than the first round with new forms of Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. However, we're still waiting on highly-anticipated titles like Metroid Prime 4 and a The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel that was teased at last year's E3.
Is one of those games secretly slated to release in the near future, or is Nintendo's silence a sign that they still need much more development? Other series we haven't heard from lately include Star Fox, Pikmin, and Donkey Kong. Maybe one of those franchises is getting a new entry soon. I've only been waiting 23 years for the next kickass Star Fox game. I'm so desperate that I own both Star Fox Assault and Star Fox Zero, to say nothing of Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet, which wasn't even supposed to be a Star Fox game.
I think we'll get something in the coming weeks from Nintendo regarding its 2020 plans, but the soonest we see Metroid or Zelda is probably 2021. Hopefully something super secret and fun (Splatoon 3?!) has been in development all this time, but I'll have to reserve judgement until I see it.
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I had really bad polyps on my vocal cords, and I've had them since I was a kid, but the bulimia made it 10 times worse. They were bleeding constantly, and it was straining on my voice. And just the lack of nutrition - my vocal cords couldn't keep up because I was so unhealthy.


I'm in the midst of relocating and organizing my sewing space to a room with more light, but one that is also a wee bit smaller. That means that I really have had to rethink things as my previous basement sewing space doesn't translate fully to my new room. Moving and setting up my space is certainly fun, but going through and getting rid things I don't need, sure isn't….
I put off this project as I just didn't want to go through my bins of fabric, but it was time to sort through the fabric and get rid of stuff I really do not need. I am a person that likes things organized and I don't like a big cluttered mess. I also don't like to keep a lot of things that I'm never going to use. I imagine that comes from growing up on a ranch where my grandpa hoarded all kinds of junk in the garages, barns, outbuildings, etc. and almost five years after he left us, we are still trying to get rid of the JUNK. I just hate junk and here I am with bins of it in fabric form.
I really love looking at photos of other sewists and their fabric collections and how lovingly they are displayed on racks in their sewing rooms for all to see. Me, I live in the country and there's a lot of dust, so I prefer to keep my fabrics folded in plastic bins. I've also moved to a space that has DUST. I really didn't have that in the basement.
I have a love/hate relationship with having a fabric stash. On one hand, I love how I can go into my stash and sew something as I have the fabric and patterns to do so. And yet, I feel that I shouldn't be buying more fabric until I whittle down the stash. Earlier this year, I decided not to buy much (if any) fabric until my stash became smaller. I did buy a few pieces that I just had to have and quickly sewed them up.
At the end of my fabric purge, I culled a big pile of fabrics that I'm going to donate. I decided that I did not need anything that I was never going to sew. A big contributor to my stash was buying mystery fabric bundles from Fabric Mart. I stopped buying them a couple of years ago when I just kept getting a bunch of junk in the bundles. And where did that junk go? Into my bins of course! And then came "gifts" from family and friends who went through their stashes and gave me fabrics that I wouldn't have purchased on my own. So all of these fabrics went into my donate pile, along with a few that I had purchased because they were cheap…. My bins were lighter and I felt better about having less in my hoard, plus perhaps someone else could find use in the fabrics that I didn't need. I also tended to keep a lot of fabric remnants from garments that I've sewed. I suppose I thought that I might use them at some point, but if they've been sitting there for 5 years or more, I know I'm not going to use them. Into the donate pile they go!
I used to buy fabrics with no real plan for them. Almost two years ago I decided to only buy fabrics that had a use and I made a list of what I wanted and started sticking to that when I was fabric shopping. I also made a list of types/colors/styles of garments that I wanted in my wardrobe and I began choosing my fabrics and sewing with those guidelines. With these rules in mind, I stopped buying fabrics that I would never use and thus I stopped adding unnecessary bulk to my stash. I also began sticking to higher quality fabrics and buying more locally and regionally from independent fabric stores.
It's been overcast and fall-like this week, which really makes me think about fall sewing. So after I went through my fabrics and removed those that I no longer wanted, I pulled some out that I wanted to sew up. I started cataloging them in my Curvy Sketchbook and pairing them with patterns, making a list of my fall/winter sewing plans. This really helped me plan my wardrobe as I ready myself for the approaching cold weather we are supposedly expecting. Some of these fabrics have been sitting in my stash for a while as it hasn't been cold here, which hasn't given me any inspiration to sew them. My cold weather clothing is also lacking due to this, as I generally just layer cardigans over my spring/summer dresses in the fall and winter. But I've been wanting some nice warm dresses and jackets and I'm finally making a plan to sew them up! By doing this, I also figured out what else I wanted to sew and made a plan for what I wanted to buy. 🙂 So yes, a fabric shopping spree is in my future! Finally! And I won't feel bad about it, either!
So what is on my fall sewing list?
I think I'll be set with my list! Now let's see how much of that I can accomplish!
I don't know about you, but I feel really good when I rid myself of stuff I don't need. I've gone through both my fabrics and my patterns and removed a lot and organized it. I just need to finish documenting my fabrics and get more pattern boxes and I will feel really good about my new and organized sewing room. No clutter and nothing is there that I don't want!
I totally get it! I've made it a point to sew from the fabric collection for the next year. I'm not going to say that I won't buy fabric but I'm finding that if I stop, think and delve into the collection, I can find something to sew…especially since there is so much there. However, since my collection has been weeded through several times and is stored so that I can access it at all times, I'm good with what I have. I think each sewist should have the fabric collection/stash that they are comfortable with…I just happen to happiest with a lot!
I just received another box from Fabric Mart and the stash officially no longer fits in its dresser. I've got to stop buying fabric. Looking forward to seeing that stack of beautiful fabric get made up!
I used to hate getting rid of fabrics that I "might" sew someday…. Just with my closet, I decided that I don't need to keep things that I'm not going to use/wear and it's so much better giving them away and hope that someone else will find them useful.
I need to cull my fabric. I have quite a few of those what was I thinking early fabric purchases that just need to go. Your cold weather sewing plans look awesome. Love that Marc Jacobs fabric. So happy you are going to sew the Misty jeans!
I used to be amazed by my MIL's fabric stash and used to keep whatever and buy whatever — but no more! 🙂 I've been wanting to make a coat for a while, but haven't been inspired to with the warm winters here. But I'm definitely going to! I'm excited to sew the Misty jeans, too! Just need to get my fabric, which I will hopefully find on my shopping trip next week.
I enjoyed this article! ESP since I also grew up on a farm with bits and bobs stashed everywhere LOL.
I sew with the Home Ec teacher at the local high school, and they love receiving donations of fun fabrics, especially "easy to sew" fabrics like quilting cotton and flannel. I know the local theatre takes donations too!
Oh yes…. I was walking around the old garage and barn the other day looking at all the junk! With bits of treasures stashed in….
I've been donating the cottons to a local 4-H club for quilts they're making. Not sure yet where I'll donate all of these other fabrics yet, but there are several places in the area that take fabric donations.
Oh gosh yes!! I'm slowly culling things from my stash – like you, a lot of it was "gifts" from people who were destashing themselves 😉 plus I've been sewing for so long that there are things hat have been in my stash for well over a decade and just aren't my style any more. It's so nice to remove "stuff" from ones life!!
Yes — we surely don't need stuff that isn't useful! That's for sure!
I do think a velveteen blazer will be worn more – so I'm swinging more in that direction!
I don't even want to think about how big my stash is. In my defence, it's 90% inherited from my grandmother. Whilst I still buy fabric i like the look of occasionally, I have enough to last me until I'm making clothes for my grandchildren (and there's a lot of baby clothes fabric in there). I'm actually writing this wearing a dress made from fabric my grandma had bought to make me a dress as a toddler. There is still so much of it left I'm not sure what to do with it.
Currently most of the stash still lives at my Mum's place, and I have what I think I will sew up next at our apartment. A one bedroom apartment doesn't leave much storage room. It's mainly in tubs and cane baskets, but I'm hoping to organise it into my vintage suitcases and hat boxes soon. Then I can go raid more of the stash at Mum's place to replenish.
It's really awesome. It's sad in a way because she cannot sew herself anymore due to Alzheimers, but she was so relieved when she found out I had taken it. She can barely remember now that she ever sewed, but she still likes to fuss over what I've made.
I like your method of stash organisation. I am about to go through my own as I am buying a new bedroom suite and I've got to reorganise a few things and I've found myself rethinking my stash too.
Moving new things in always help with de-stashing, doesn't it? I'd love to find a cabinet with shelving that I can keep my fabric in.
Yay! I'm glad to see that you'll be joining us in the Misty sewalong. 😉 I did a pass through my stash when we moved to Seattle 2 years ago, but I still have several plastic tubs that I've barely touched since moving. I really need to go through those and cull/donate. It's so hard to be ruthless, but like you, I hate things taking up space when I'll never use them.
I've gotten a lot better about downsizing things and donating what I don't need. I used to hoard and think I needed "stuff", but I have a different mindset now. Maybe you'll find some treasures in your tubs!
I understand your dilemma, however, as ashamed as I am to admit it, I'm a certified fabric/pattern/notion hoarder. My stash is neat and shelved, patterns are filed numerically and notions are next to be organized. Your reasoning appeals to me and makes sense. I've totally curbed my purchasing though–I only buy what I have immediate plans to use. BTW- I have that Marc Jacobs fabric too-been in the stash a while (lol).
YEP!!! And I bought the pattern on etsy, just haven't printed it out. Next is finding appropriate fabric!
I start feeling bad if my sewing space looks cluttered and messy, so I guess that pushes me to keep it up.
Yes, when you don't have a place for something it can really get cluttered! I still need some type of nice losses box to keep the fabrics in that I want to use soon.
I love that cabinet you have for your fabrics! It's perfect for keeping them looking nice whilst still being able to look at them. You're also so lucky to find the fabrics you do at your thrift stores. I look here and just see a bunch of old junk, poly nightmares and quilting scraps. My sewjo is high, but I'm still organizing, which would make me feel bad about sitting down and sewing!