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LINK Celebrates 40th Anniversary
A Herndon-based nonprofit aims to deliver food to those in need.
From left, Lisa Lombardozzi, president of LINK, and Marty Smith, Cluster One assistant superintendent for Fairfax County Public Schools, cut the ribbon on the new food donation bins at Dranesville Elementary School Monday, March 12. The school now donates unused food and beverages to LINK Photo by Alex McVeigh.
By Alex McVeigh
Herndon — In 1972, a group of churches in Sterling and eastern Loudoun County got together with the idea of providing food for the needy, with members storing donated food in their basement. Three years later, they made inroads into Fairfax County and it was eventually chartered as a nonprofit.
Forty years later, the group consists of 17 member churches in Herndon, Sterling Chantilly and Potomac Falls and has provided tens of thousands of families with assistance.
"Simply put, our goal is to provide emergency food for people who need it within 24 to 48 hours," said Lisa Lombardozzi, president of LINK. "We deliver the food, because it eliminates the need for transportation for our clients, and we've got a lot of volunteers that come from all sorts of faith backgrounds."
Photo by Alex McVeigh
Gustavo Ardila collects more than 3,100 pounds for LINK's food pantry as part of his Eagle Project. A Herndon-based nonprofit, LINK aims to deliver food to those in need.
Last year, more than 1,000 volunteers helped 2,700 families (almost 14,000 individuals) with food deliveries to last five to seven days, as well as gift
cards, gently used clothing and toys for children. They also helped assist clients receive more than $24,000 a year in emergency rent and utility costs, though those clients are vetted by Loudoun and Fairfax County offices.
Last November, the organization got a shot in the arm, when Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10) included language in an agriculture bill that protected schools
who donated unused food to nonprofits. This has led to Dranesville and Herndon Elementary Schools donating perishable food (which they are able to store in refrigerators until needed) to those in need.
"We pick up food two to four times per week from schools and get it out to the people who need it," Lombardozzi said. "One of the best parts about
that is the overwhelming donation of milk from the schools, we get hundreds per day, and in fact, we're trying to find more takers for all the milk we're getting, to share the abundance."
THE SCHOOLS began setting out special containers for students to donate unused food after lunches so LINK clients could have access to fresh food
as well as nonperishable. LINK now has the ability to take perishable items, which gives them a chance to provide more than just the usual canned
food. Meats can be frozen before they're given out, and nutritious fruits and vegetables can be stored and distributed within 24 to 48 hours.
After storing food in their basements, soon volunteers were able to store it in a small donated space in a building on Waxpool Road. As the organization grew, they began storing in a building along Leesburg Pike in Sterling. The bank moved again to the Clocktower center when that development was demolished, before finally finding a permanent home on the grounds of the Herndon United Methodist Church in 1997.
"We used to be we worried about how we could reach out overseas and help the rest of the world, but now the world has come to us," said Rev. Stephen Smith-Cobbs, pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Herndon. "We do global missions, locally with the people who come from all over the world to be part of, and be served by the ministry here at LINK."
LINK has narrowed its focus a little, they used to handle furniture and other items, but now focus primarily on food and emergency financial assistance.
Bob Ashdown used to volunteer with LINK a few times a year, until his retirement nine years ago.
"I was looking for something to do, and the concept of feeding the hungry really attracted me," he said.
Ashdown now runs the food pantry, which he says has seen increased demand in recent years.
"We saw a particular spike in starting around 2007-2008, and last years we served about 1,800 people at our annual holiday drive," he said. "That's about a 20 percent increase from the last holiday season."
LINK's holiday program also created holiday baskets with $49,410 in grocery store gift cards and more than 110,000 pounds of food for holiday baskets. They also collected about 2,300 used winter coats, mittens and sweaters, which were distributed to more than 400 eligible families.
"A few Christmases ago we were scheduled to get about two feet of snow on the day of our distribution, so we had hundreds of volunteers come together to Friday night before and the Sunday after the snow to make sure everything got out," Ashdown said. "It was amazing to not only see so many people geared up to help people, but to see how willing they were to adjust to circumstances to help others."
Judith Schoonover remembers going on a food delivery for the first time when she went with her son.
"When we arrived at the home the whole family was there to greet us, they invited us in to put the food on the kitchen counter, and we saw that there was no food in the cupboards, they were bare," she said. "Some of the family members immediately started getting into the food and making sandwiches for the children. So I know that there are people in this community that don't have food in their pantry, they don't have food in their refrigerator. This happens all year round, and there are people that need help all year round."
Lombardozzi says the group is always looking for more volunteers, and even though it's the beginning of summer, they are already in full swing preparing for their clothing drive for the start of the next school year, and finding business and individuals who are willing to donate to their holiday program.
More information on LINK can be found at www.linkagainsthunger.org.


Posted on Dec 10, 2013.
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This year the National Indian Council on Aging is proud to celebrate 40 years of services to American Indian and Alaska Native Elders. We welcome you to join us at our upcoming 21st Biennial Conference on Aging in Indian Country, to be held in Niagara Falls, New York on September 13-15, 2016.
In 1976, NICOA was founded by the National Tribal Chairman's Association, which coordinated the first conference on Indian Aging. It was held in Phoenix, Arizona and was given the theme "The Indian Elder, a Forgotten American." Since the beginning, the conference has served as the leading forum on aging for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Elders to identify unmet needs and develop recommendations for improvement through advocacy.
NICOA is a nonprofit, service, and membership based organization governed by a 13-member board of directors which provide representation for 12 regions across the country and for the Title VI Grantees Association. Time is set aside during the conference for each region's voting members to caucus and vote to elect new board members to replace those terming out. Resolutions on important aging topics are proposed and approved by the membership. Resolutions that are approved are forwarded to the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) for review and approval. This process is one way that NICOA impacts the aging policy agenda at the national level.
NICOA represents 566 federally recognized tribes with over 484,502 American Indian and Alaska Native Elders 55 and older. NICOA Biennial Conference attendees include 1,500 – 2,000 AI/AN Elders, stakeholders, and Aging Network providers.
Important work is accomplished but there is also time for laughter and good fellowship. Many NICOA members are terrific storytellers and take the stage to share their humorous insights and observations with their friends. Another evening is usually devoted to enjoying the beautiful regalia and traditional dress of AI/ANs from across the country.
NICOA invites you to be a part of the 21st Biennial NICOA Conference experience. Please join us and check our website for further information. Donate and become a member today!


I hope the beginning of December is being good to everyone!
Some new pieces of felt with a project in mind!
and hand dyed silk .
with some soap and elbow grease!
Oh so hard at work!
how well my new venture back in the world of textiles has taken off.
make felt and be surrounded by soggy piles of wet wool!
Wow, this is stunning, Claire. What beautiful colours you've created in those felt pieces. Good on you for doing just what you want and I'm so glad it's taken off for you.
Hi Claire, this is gorgeous, I love those trees, so glad you're enjoying the felting and it's going well for you!
Hi Claire - I'm so pleased that you are enjoying your new venture. Love the felt Christmas trees on the snowy background - absolutely brilliant!
Hope you and yours are well, and keeping warm and cosy.


Chances are, you've taken more than a few photos littered with unwanted objects—or even people—that you'd rather remove from the scene. (Sorry random pedestrians, but I'd prefer if you weren't in my family shots at Coit Tower.) Macphun's Snapheal (Mac App Store link) is a Mac application that lets you do just that with a few strokes and clicks.
We recently looked at Inpaint ( ), another Mac app that lets you remove objects from a photo. While Inpaint is less than half the cost of Snapheal, Inpaint is a one-trick pony—you paint over a selected area and click Erase. The only adjustment you can make is in brush size. Snapheal offers a bit more.
Each of the erasing modes works as the app describes; the actual erase procedure (the most processor-intensive part of the process) happens quickly. And even if you're waiting for the app to erase a particularly large object, you'll be entertained by the Erase progress window, which displays fun facts such as, "There are more than 250,000 rivers in the United States, which amounts to more than 3.5 million miles of river." In general, Snapheal works well, although it isn't always perfect, as you can see in the image above—specifically, the desk corner just behind the removed object.
Once you're done erasing objects, you can perform simple edits right in the program. Snapheal's Retouch tab lets you selectively edit parts of an image for contrast, saturation, sharpness, blur, and brightness. You can make full-photo adjustments using the app's Adjust tool, which includes the same editing options as Retouch, as well as sliders for color temperature, hue, saturation, shadows, highlights, and noise. And a Clone and Stamp tool lets you can make fairly detailed fixes when Snapheal's erasures aren't perfect.
Once you're finished, you can save your image to your computer, share it via email, or post it to Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, or Twitter.
Macphun makes the weighty claim that Snapheal "can do magic." The app largely lives up to that claim, offering a simple way to remove objects from an image—you don't need to know anything about photo editing to know how to use Snapheal. If you have Photoshop, which includes a Content-Aware fill feature that accomplishes the same task, Snapheal is likely not for you. But for those who don't own Adobe's advanced—and wallet-denting—editing software, Snapheal is an excellent alternative.


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Rare 'Polio-Like' Syndrome Strikes Small Group of California Children
Written by Brian Krans on February 24, 2014
The CDC is monitoring the outbreak of an illness that causes severe weakness and limb paralysis, similar to polio.
An estimated 25 California children have developed a syndrome with polio-like symptoms, with five confirmed cases—three in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A new report from the American Academy of Neurology shows that a cluster of children developed the mysterious illness, which can cause paralysis of one or more limbs.
Case report author Dr. Keith Van Haren, an instructor of Neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine, said there are numerous potential viruses that can affect the spine, but few have been reported in the U.S. in recent history.
"In the past decade, newly identified strains of enterovirus have been linked to polio-like outbreaks among children in Asia and Australia," he said in a statement. "These five new cases highlight the possibility of an emerging infectious polio-like syndrome in California."
Polio was a major concern for generations of Americans, showing up in highly contagious outbreaks and causing paralysis, muscle deterioration, and sometimes death. Children began to receive the polio vaccine in 1954, and thanks to high rates of vaccination, the polio virus has essentially been eradicated over most of the planet.
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5 Known Cases Reported in California
Three of the first five known cases began with a respiratory illness. Other symptoms peaked two days after onset.
Symptoms did not improve during treatment, and the children continued to experience poor limb function six months after contracting the disease.
All of the children affected were vaccinated against polio, and two tested positive for the enterovirus-68, a rare virus known to cause polio-like symptoms. No cause was given for the other three children, the researchers said.
Read: How Vaccines Prevented a Measles Outbreak in the Bay Area »
'Very, Very Rare'
"Our findings have important implications for disease surveillance, testing, and treatment," Van Haren said. "We would like to stress that this syndrome appears to be very, very rare. Any time a parent sees symptoms of paralysis in a child, the child should be seen by a doctor right away."
Van Haren and his colleagues discovered the pattern after seeing similar cases at their medical centers. They reviewed data from all polio-like cases among children whose cases were reported to the California Department of Public Health's Neurologic and Surveillance Testing (NST) program from August 2012 to July 2013.
Researchers looked for children who had experienced paralysis that affected one or more limbs, who had been monitored with abnormal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of their spine. Children affected with Guillain-Barre syndrome or botulism, which can have similar symptoms, were excluded from the study.
The California Department of Public Health is working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to collect data and monitor the progression of the disease.
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KALW
227th Day of 2012 / 139 Remaining
39 Days Until Autumn Begins
Sunrise:6:25
Sunset:8:04
13 Hours 41 Minutes of Daylight
Moon Rise:3:30am
Moon Set:6:01am
Moon's Phase: 9 %
The Next Full Moon
August 31st @ 6:57am
But it's Blue in name only. That's because a Blue Moon is sometimes defined as the second full moon in a calendar month. The first full moon was August 1. The second full moon is August 31, 2012. There are two more definitions for Blue Moon. It can be the third of four full moons in a single season. Or, someday, you might see an actual blue-colored moon.
High:10:31am/9:06pm
Low:3:38am/3:21pm
Rainfall (measured July 1 – June 30)
This Year:0.03
Last Year:0.11
Normal To Date:0.00
Annual Seasonal Average: 23.80
Navajo Code Talkers Day
V.J. Day
National Creamsicle Day
Wiffle Ball Day
National Financial Awareness Day
Festival of Hungry Ghosts-China
Independence Day-Pakistan
Honey Spas-Russia
National Flag Day-Paraguay
Oued Ed-Dahab Day-Morocco
World Lizard Day
International Nagging Day
On This Day In …
1848 --- The U.S. Congress created the Oregon Territory, made up of today's Oregon, Washington, Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
1873 --- The first issue of 'Field & Stream' was published.
1880 --- Exactly 632 years after rebuilding began, the Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany, was completed ... only to be damaged again during WWII. The largest Gothic style cathedral in Northern Europe was first built on the same site in 873 A.D., but was destroyed by fire in 1248. Rebuilding began on this day in 1248.
1896 --- Gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area to look for gold.
1935 --- U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, creating a system of federal income insurance for the elderly.
1941 --- The U.S. Congress appropriated the funds to construct the Pentagon (approximately $83 million). The building was the new home of the U.S. War Department.
1945 --- An official announcement of Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allies is made public to the Japanese people. Even though Japan's War Council, urged by Emperor Hirohito, had already submitted a formal declaration of surrender to the Allies, via ambassadors, on August 10, fighting continued between the Japanese and the Soviets in Manchuria and between the Japanese and the United States in the South Pacific. In fact, two days after the Council agreed to surrender, a Japanese submarine sank the Oak Hill, an American landing ship, and the Thomas F. Nickel, an American destroyer, both east of Okinawa. In the afternoon of August 14, Japanese radio announced that an Imperial Proclamation was soon to be made, accepting the terms of unconditional surrender drawn up at the Potsdam Conference. That proclamation had already been recorded by the emperor. The news did not go over well, as more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers stormed the Imperial Palace in an attempt to find the proclamation and prevent its being transmitted to the Allies. Soldiers still loyal to Emperor Hirohito repulsed the attackers. That evening, General Anami, the member of the War Council most adamant against surrender, committed suicide. His reason: to atone for the Japanese army's defeat, and to be spared having to hear his emperor speak the words of surrender.
1953 --- The whiffle ball was invented by David N. Mullany at his home in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1953 when he designed a ball that curved easily for his 12-year-old son. It was named when his son and his friends would refer to a strikeout as a "whiff". A classic wiffle ball is about the same size as a regulation baseball, but is hollow plastic no more than 1/8 inch thick. One hemisphere is perforated with eight .75-inch (19 mm) oblong holes, with a solid second hemisphere. This construction allows pitchers to throw a tremendous variety and size of curveballs, sinkers, and risers.
1969 --- The New York Mets were 9-1/2 games behind the league-leading Chicago Cubs. The Amazing Mets began a comeback that launched the phrase, "You Gotta Believe," as they began a drive that took them to the National League pennant and the World Series Championship (over the Baltimore Orioles). It was the first championship for the Mets franchise which began in 1962.
1971 --- Elton John put the finishing touches to his Madman Across the Water LP at Trident Studios, London. He recorded Indian Sunset, Rotten Peaches and the title song, Madman Across the Water. Tiny Dancer, Levon, Razor Face, Holiday Inn, All the Nasties and Goodbye had been recorded earlier. Since the album's release on Feb 2, 1972, it has sold over two million copies in the U.S. alone.
1980 --- Workers in Gdansk, Poland, seize the Lenin Shipyard and demand pay raises and the right to form a union free from communist control. The massive strike also saw the rise to prominence of labor leader Lech Walesa, who would be a key figure in bringing an end to communist rule in Poland. Gdansk had been a center of labor agitation in Poland since the 1960s. When the Polish government announced new economic austerity policies and higher food prices in 1980, workers at the Lenin Shipyard exploded in anger. Lech Walesa, a veteran of Poland's labor disputes, joined the workers and on August 14, 1980, they took over the shipyard. The workers' first demand was that Walesa be reinstated to his position as a labor leader. Walesa had been fired from his position at the shipyard in 1976, but remained active in labor protests and agitation against the communist government of Poland. For these actions, he was arrested numerous times. A few days after the workers had seized the shipyard, Walesa announced the formation of an organization designed to tie workers from different fields together into one labor movement, known as Solidarity. The strikers were finally able to wring some concessions from the Polish government, but in 1981 the communist regime struck back and arrested Walesa. He was released in November 1982. Solidarity continued to grow, and in 1989, the crumbling and desperate communist government agreed to recognize Solidarity and to have open elections. In 1990, Walesa was elected as the first noncommunist president of Poland since the end of World War II.
1987 --- Mark McGwire set the record for home runs by a rookie, as he connected for his 39th round-tripper of the season. He got the homer off of 317-game winner Don Sutton of the California Angels. McGwire led the the Oakland Athletics to a 7-6 win -- in 12 innings. He finished the season with 49 homers.
1988 --- Guitarist Roy Buchanan died after hanging himself in a jail in Fairfax, VA.
1995 --- Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, South Carolina's state military college. She quit the school less than a week later.
2003 --- A major outage knocked out power across the eastern United States and parts of Canada. Beginning at 4:10 p.m. ET, 21 power plants shut down in just three minutes. Fifty million people were affected, including residents of New York, Cleveland and Detroit, as well as Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. Although power companies were able to resume some service in as little as two hours, power remained off in other places for more than a day. The outage stopped trains and elevators, and disrupted everything from cellular telephone service to operations at hospitals to traffic at airports. In New York City, it took more than two hours for passengers to be evacuated from stalled subway trains. Small business owners were affected when they lost expensive refrigerated stock. The loss of use of electric water pumps interrupted water service in many areas. There were even some reports of people being stranded mid-ride on amusement park roller coasters. At the New York Stock Exchange and bond market, though, trading was able to continue thanks to backup generators.
2009 --- Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.
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Two nations who have been waiting years to put right the bitter memories of World Cup semifinal defeats will face each other on Wednesday in Moscow with the chance to finally go one step further.
England's last appearance at this stage was in 1990 when they lost in a penalty shootout to West Germany in Turin while eight years later, in their first World Cup as an independent nation, Croatia lost to hosts and eventual winners France.
England, who made an early impression with a 6-1 crushing of Panama in the group stage, then overcame their shootout hoodoo in beating Colombia in the last 16 and looked composed and mature in the 2-0 quarterfinal victory over Sweden.
Given Croatia had extra time and penalties to recover from, England should come into the game fresher and they also have the edge in previous meetings, winning four of the seven encounters, including a 5-1 victory in their most recent match — a World Cup qualifier in 2009.
The Three Lions' only international title is the 1966 World Cup victory on home soil. Croatia, who became independent in the early 1990s, have reached the World Cup last four once before, in their debut World Cup appearance in 1998. They lost to hosts and eventual winners France. Croatia topped their World Cup group in Russia with three wins out of three games, scoring seven goals and conceding just one. They are unbeaten so far in the tournament. England finished second in their group, having lost their final group match to Belgium.


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An interesting debate occurred on our Facebook page after we removed a petition post, which contained a very graphic image of a slaughtered orangutan.
Prior to its removal, we noticed many comments from upset people over the image.
We had also received many notifications that the post had been reported to Facebook.
The debate became a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. People were upset because it had been posted. People were upset because it was removed.
So, this has inspired me to write our first blog.
When is an image too upsetting to post?
We always assess an image prior to posting. There have been many times over the years where the decision has been made to not share something to our page due to the distressing content.
We are sensitive individuals ourselves and use this to assess a post before sharing to our page. However, we are also aware that due to the extremely graphic content we see often from the NGO's on the front line, that we have become somewhat immune.
This recent post of an important petition to the RSPO, sat borderline with us. It was too important to not share, so we posted it.
Many believe that graphic content must be shown to spur people into action for a cause. Yes, that is true. But at the same time, it can also turn people away. I myself have un-liked many pages due to graphic images constantly posted. Sometimes it's just too much. The result being, I lose track of that cause. I never forget as it is embedded in my mind, but I cease receiving updates when there is a call to action.
Yet I am also reminded as to how and why I started POI.
4 years ago, a distressing image of a burnt orangutan was doing the rounds on Facebook. Every day this image would appear in my feed and every day I would hide it. The image of this poor creature that was still alive at the time the image was taken. Laying with his arms over his head and his skin burnt from his body. This photo was haunting me. All I knew was that this incident was related to palm oil. I didn't know how or why. In fact, I didn't even know what palm oil was. One of my friends posted a status, pleading her friends to please cease sharing that image into her news feed.
It was that day, 27th March 2013 that I commented on her status. Stating that I was going to research palm oil, find out what it was and why that orangutan had suffered so because of it. Within an hour of my comment, I found out that palm oil was an ingredient in products that I had been buying. I felt that I had unwillingly contributed to the suffering of that orangutan.
I made a promise on my friend's status that I would find a way to get the word out without having to use that image. That is the day that POI was born.
Telling people to just scroll past an upsetting image, or hide it from feed is not the best way to deal with something that distresses people. Nor is telling them that they have their head in the sand if they cannot cope with an image that is upsetting or graphic. We must learn compassion for our fellow human beings and understand that many suffer depression. To scroll past, or hide an image from your news feed means you must see it to begin with. Once you see something, you cannot un-see it. For many, these images can cause a downward spiral into the depths of despair, trauma and a feeling of utter helplessness. It's not that people don't want to see distressing images because they don't care. They don't want to see them because they do care, and seeing these things can be just too much for a person to be able to cope with.
About 3 years ago, I remember Facebook changed their settings where videos in news feed automatically played. A friend had shared a video and just titled it cruel. That video played as I scrolled through my feed. I clearly remember that the video length was just over 20 mins long. I had seen no more than 8 seconds before I scrambled for the stop button. In panic I slammed my laptop shut. 8 seconds was all it took to totally traumatise me to the point where I took almost 2 weeks off. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, I couldn't function. What I had seen would not leave my mind, and the remaining footage that I had not seen started to play out in my head. To this day, I am still traumatised by that footage.
When it comes to photographs of upsetting images, the imagination often takes over and pieces together the scenario that led to the state of the deceased, suffering or tortured animal. That alone can cause trauma to some people.
Social media is a platform which is not only used by adults, but also children. It is important for us to be mindful of what we post and share. We know that some images are graphic in content and feel that they should be shared. But there are others that are just too graphic for us to force into our follower's news feed without warning. We do our best to use our own sensitivity meter to assess what is appropriate, and what may not be.
What works for some, doesn't necessarily work for others.


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I'm often asked what I've been working on lately, so I figured what better way to answer that than with a regular column about just that subject.
For this entry, and I'm sure quite a few of my subsequent entries, I'll be detailing some of the work I've been doing for Hasbro's Marvel Universe line. This is a series of 1:18 scale action figures that will include the entire pantheon of the Marvel comic book universe. Basically, my dream line when it comes to making action figures.
While I was not involved in the creation of any prototypes for the first wave, I did work on 3 out of the 6 figures in wave 2, and then 4 out of the 6 figures in wave 3. The quality of my team's work on these has been very well received and we are now prototyping the vast majority of Hasbro's Marvel Universe figures!
While this is great news it is also a LOT of work. The Marvel Universe line debuted in stores on March 1st 2009 and the 6th wave is already starting to get worldwide distribution. At approximately 6 figures per wave that is 36 figures released in just 9 months! To really put this in perspective its takes us approximately 2 weeks to complete a single action figure prototype. Luckily we have been working on this line for a while now and have a nice head start.
For this go around I'll be spotlighting one of the most iconic Marvel heroes, Spider-man, in his 1980's era black costume. The black costume Spider-man is a part of Marvel Universe wave 3, which is currently available nationwide in the action figure aisles of Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target, Toys R' Us, and local comic book stores. They generally sell for $7.99 and the line seems to be performing quite well at retail. I guess I'm not the only one that wants a superhero action figure that will fit in my pocket!
On that note comes one of the first specifics I want to address about Spidey and really the line as a whole. Size. I mentioned earlier that the Marvel Universe line is 1:18 scale, what does that mean you ask? Well as you can see in the photo below, Spidey is just about the same height as an iPhone, around 4 ¼" tall, but far skinnier, black is slimming after all. What this boils down to is that Spidey here is approximately 1/18 of the size he would be if he were a real person like you or me. We sculpt the prototypes at actual size, putting the majority of the figures somewhere in the 3 ¾ – 5" range, so you can understand why all of my sculptors wear glasses.
Another important point regarding the Spidey action figure and the Marvel Universe line is the articulation. When we refer to articulation in regards to action figures we are not referencing their speaking abilities but rather their moveable joints that reflect the natural, or in some cases superhuman, movement that a body can have. Spidey has about 22 points of articulation that allow him to get into a ton of different poses.
And finally, where my lifetime hobby really pays off, comic book accuracy. Spider-man's black costume debuted on the cover of May 1984's Amazing Spider-man #252, however the origin of how he acquired his new costume would not be revealed until December's issue #8 of the twelve-issue limited series Secret Wars.
As you can see in these images, the graphic white on black costume is a dramatic change from the classic red and blue webbed costume. The fans embraced the new look and he has worn the black costume off and on for the past 25 years. I'm a big fan of the look of this costume and was super excited to have been involved in the making of this action figure, so much so that I have already bought 3, 1 for home, 1 for work, and 1 to keep in the package, and that doesn't even count the re-release 2 pack that comes with an exclusive Magneto figure and a reprint of the Secret Wars #8 comic book!


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[UNFILTERED] OU Professors Stand With Colleagues At Capitol
Tuesday, April 3rd 2018, 10:11 pm
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OU students Kayla McCullough and Sarah Beth Guevara talk to University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate Chair Professor Sarah Ellis about the statewide teacher walkout.
Weekend in Iowa: Oklahoman Bernie Canvassers Reflect On Shared Values, State's Populist History
News 9 A group of Oklahomans dedicated to the Bernie Sanders campaign recently spent a weekend in Iowa to drum up support.
[Unfiltered]: SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments In Okla. Murder Case Concerning Tribal Lands
The state of Oklahoma and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation met in a tense hour's worth of arguments and questioning before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday in a case that could restore significant land and power to the tribe.
News 9 The state of Oklahoma and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation met in a tense hour's worth of arguments and questioning before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday in a case that could restore significant land and power to the tribe.
[UNFILTERED] Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief 'Blessing' After Hurricane Michael
(Editor's Note: Storme Jones is reporting for News 9 [UNFILTERED] on behalf of Gaylord News and the Gaylord College of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma.) Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers clean up debris and provide hot meals, both major blessings for people impacted by Hurricane Michael in the Florida Panhandle. "Started out with Katrina, and then I went to Rita -- and that's what I've been doing, every one of them," said Choctaw resident Wanda McLaughli...
[UNFILTERED] PSO Crews From Oklahoma Helping Florida Recover From Hurricane
(Editor's Note: Storme Jones is reporting for News 9 [UNFILTERED] on behalf of Gaylord News and the Gaylord College of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma.) About 20 workers with the Public Service Company of Oklahoma are working to get power restored to neighborhoods in the Florida Panhandle in the wake of destruction left behind by Hurricane Michael. They're doing everything from replacing snapped lines to broken poles and blown transformers. "Even though we have major ...


A busy week for us next week. We both have papers to write, due early next week. Last week, we had car problems. Our Jaguar wouldn't start, after I had driven it to pay a bill. New Alternator, new battery, new Serpentine belt…but it is handled. I was very grateful for the AAA tow, and the fact that we had AAA, and our neighborhood handyman. I wish everyone had a handy guy like Marty.
So in this expression of gratitude, I offer this prayer.
I know that there is only one: One spirit, one mind, one eternal being. As I recognize that we are one with this one, I live and breath in this one. I know that as I express my gratitude, it opens up my heart. I am open to the outpouring of spirit into my life. I recognize this outpouring of all the wondrous experiences of life. I am so grateful for this truth. I am so grateful for All that I have. I release this prayer to the law of the universe. And so it is.
Thank you mother father God.


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Most obviously, hotels would have a monopoly over Internet access and could charge guests with exorbitant Wi-Fi fees; much like Marriott did with its $1,000 access rates at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel …Worse yet, hotels and other enterprises could also easily censor access to content deemed undesirable to the business via the Wi-Fi access contract terms. For example, Hilton could block all access to travel booking websites that list hotels with lower rates.
As the battle for Net Neutrality rages on, Federal regulators may soon be ruling in another dispute between consumer access and business control of the Internet.
"Wi-Fi network operators should be able to manage their networks in order to provide a secure and reliable Wi-Fi service to guests on their premises," Marriott argued.
To date, 10 of AH&LA's largest hotel member chains have activated 911 direct dial access at nearly all of their owned and managed properties, with the remainder expected to complete the process very soon.  Further, more than half of these chains have updated, or are in the process of updating, brand standards to ensure franchisees upgrade their phone systems as well. Led by AH&LA, all of these chains, as well as the broader hotel industry, also have worked hard to educate franchisees and their properties on the need to make the switch as quickly as possible.
One year ago, tragedy struck an east Texas town. Not only did our community lose a loving mother, daughter, and sister, but the nation also lost trust in a system it relies on in life-threatening circumstances.
Last December, Kari Rene Hunt Dunn was murdered by her estranged husband in a hotel room in Marshall, Texas. Kari's 9-year-old daughter, while witnessing the unthinkable, did exactly what we train our children to do in an emergency—dial 911. However, in this case, the daughter could not get through to the authorities because she failed to dial 9 to get an outside line.
In order for a restaurant to run smoothly and deliver excellence on a consistent basis, Standard Operating Procedures ("SOPs") and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures ("SSOPs") are an integral part of the business. No matter whether you're a corporate chain or an independent owner/operator, it behooves you to take a moment to think about your SOPs and SSOPs. You have them, of course, don't you? Or are they only in your head and it takes a visit to Total Recall in order to pluck them from your brain? Are they written policies or are they handed down verbally from person to person? Or will it take a lawsuit in order for you to address your policies and procedures?
The holiday season is upon us and our P3 team here at Petra knows that, that means more use of fireplaces and heaters. Because of this, we have put together a video on the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning and the steps your staff can take to help best protect your guests and themselves in these colder months!
Chavez said housekeepers have been reprimanded for not cleaning rooms fast enough and some have resorted to working through breaks to avoid warnings. Still, she said, there are days when she looks at the clock at 2 p.m. and realizes she won't finish on time. By comparison, before the program started, she could clean up to 20 rooms in a day because some rooms just needed a light touch.
A program that encourages hotel guests to decline housekeeping to conserve water and electricity sounds like a noble idea.
But hotel housekeepers say the program is killing their jobs, their legs and their backs as those workers still employed say they have to work harder because the rooms tend to be dirtier.
Fabiola Rivera, 31, said her managers expect her to clean rooms left unkempt for as many as three days at a pace of 16 rooms per day in an eight-hour shift, the same quota as if the rooms were tidied daily. And she also has to run around delivering fresh towels to guests in the program who cheat a bit.
One of the most exciting things was Turning OFF and ON the lights and controlling Air-conditioning with the of apps. IT departments in major hotels are also looking at TV based motion and voice controls, and presence detectors to allegedly making it easy for the guests, while at the same time – controlling energy.
Hotels are embracing digital in a big way, as they seek to distinguish themselves from the competition by offering compelling reasons to stay with them, over the competition.
One of the emerging trends is taking advantage of the technology in your pocket.  At select Starwood hotel brands around the world, guests will no longer have to fumble for their room key card at the bottom of their bag now that the chain has rolled out keyless technology that opens doors with the swipe of a smartphone. Starwood's SPG Keyless program is being called a first for the hotel industry and will roll out to 10 hotels around the world in markets like Beijing, Doha, Hong Kong, New York, and Singapore.
A recent Preferred Hotel Group survey found boomers want unique interludes for themselves and for multigenerational family groups. Yet, they typically don't want to sleep in the same room as their children or grandchildren. Seeing this trend, Preferred created a family rate that allows boomers to book two rooms—one for themselves and another for family at a 50 percent discount, says Michelle Woodley, SVP of distribution and revenue management. Promoting this sort of accommodation, distinct from inventory of traditional rooms, drives incremental revenue for the properties.


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Fire Safety and Risk Management Revision Guide - For the Nebosh National Fire Certificate
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The Fire Safety and Risk Management Revision Guide: for the NEBOSH Fire Certificate is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management. As well as being a handy companion volume to the Fire Protection Association textbook Fire Safety and Risk Management: for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management, it will also serve as a useful aid memoir for those in fire safety roles. The book: * Provides practical revision guidance and strategies for the students * Highlights the key information for each learning outcome of the current NEBOSH syllabus * Gives the students opportunities to test their knowledge based on NEBOSH style questions and additional exercises * Provides details of guidance documents publically available that students will be able to refer to The revision guide is fully aligned to the current NEBOSH syllabus, providing complete coverage in bite-sized chunks, helping students to learn and memorise the most important topics.
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Forensic Science : An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques
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Covering a range of fundamental topics essential to modern forensic investigation, the fifth edition of the landmark text Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques presents contributions and case studies from the personal files of experts in the field. In the fully updated 5th edition, Bell combines these testimonies into an accurate and engrossing account of cutting edge of forensic science across many different areas. Designed for a single-term course at the undergraduate level, the book begins by discussing the intersection of law and forensic science, how things become evidence, and how courts decide if an item or testimony is admissible.
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Despite their removal from England's National Curriculum in 1988, and claims of elitism, Latin and Greek are increasingly re-entering the `mainstream' educational arena. Since 2012, there have been more students in state-maintained schools in England studying classical subjects than in independent schools, and the number of schools offering Classics continues to rise in the state-maintained sector. The teaching and learning of Latin and Greek is not, however, confined to the classroom: community-based learning for adults and children is facilitated in newly established regional Classics hubs in evenings and at weekends, in universities as part of outreach, and even in parks and in prisons. (hide)
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Fundamentals of Graphic Design
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Jamie Lidell rocks. It's plain, simple and true. His funk and soul are energetic and exhilarating. His new album, Jim is a follow up to 2005's Multiply, which earned him many fans from around the world. His classic influences are fused with genuine songwriting, meticulous production and a powerful voice. This has set Jamie Lidell apart from the rest. In between launching the new album and tour, Aesthetica were fortunate enough to catch up with him.
Jim kick starts listeners with groovy gospel song, Another Day, which is soon followed by Wait For Me, carrying on the gospel flavour with a heart stopping pounding piano riff by Gonzales. One of the main highlights on the album is, All I Wanna Do. This track is a slow burning ballade that gradually builds up to a beautiful harmony, with even some of the lyrics being inspired by William Burroughs — you've got to love a guy that knows his Beat poetry.
With the influences that formed Multiply still present in Jim, the soundscape has evolved and something bigger, bolder and better emerges. Jim came out on 28 April 2008 on Warp.
Amalia Pica's first major museum show explores her vast oeuvre, highlighting her ongoing preoccupation with modes of communication.


Looking for a new board to take on that Sexa-Core AMD CPU? - The GIGABYTE 890FXA-UD7 could be the one.
Although not new, the 890FX has been a big deal to AMD fans. With its release AMD finally had a chipset to match their GPUs and CPUs performance. The 890FX is the top dog for AMD. When combined with the SB850 it offers you native SATA 3.0 and much more.
We have played with a couple of the 8xx series chipsets, but so far have not gotten too deep into the 890FX. We have tried it out, but only once. Now we have been able to acquire a second 890FX board; this one is the GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD7. As an ultra-durable board it features GIGABYTE's top end components and design. You get SATA 3.0, USB 3.0, Dual LAN ports (both GBe), advanced chipset cooling and much more.
Of course, with a price tag of $246 on NewEgg.com the GA890FXA-UD7 is still less than many high-end P55 boards. So, let's find out if the lower price means lower performance or not.


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White House says 'a fair amount' of US military equipment is in Taliban's hands
Oma Seddiq,Erin Snodgrass Aug. 17, 2021, 7:23 PM
US National Security advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily press briefing on the situation in Afghanistan at the White House on August 17, 2021. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images
The White House acknowledged that US military equipment has fallen into Taliban's hands.
"We don't have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone," National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said.
Taliban forces have seized US defense materials over the years.
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The White House acknowledged on Tuesday that US military equipment has fallen into the hands of Taliban forces.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters during a press briefing that "certainly a fair amount" of the US's defense apparatus is now in Taliban control.
"We don't have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone. But certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban," Sullivan said. "And obviously, we don't have a sense that they are readily going to hand it over to us at the airport."
The admission comes a day after US Army Major General Hank Taylor told reporters during a Pentagon briefing that he does "not have the answer to that question" on whether the US is taking any steps to prevent its equipment from landing in the Taliban's hands.
A spokesperson for the Pentagon on Monday told Insider that defense officials are "looking" for information on the military equipment that was left behind amid the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and the sudden collapse of the US-backed Afghan government over the weekend.
Taliban forces swept the country in a little over a week, claiming the capital Kabul on Sunday. The escalation sent many Afghans scrambling to leave the war-torn nation and the US government rushing to evacuate its embassy personnel.
During its capture of the country, the Taliban acquired a vast amount of US defense materials, including combat aircraft, guns, and helicopters.
The US government spent billions of dollars to equip and train Afghan security forces over the war's two decades. But US weaponry ending up with Taliban forces is not new. The insurgent group has claimed to have seized American automatic rifles, grenade launchers, weapons optics, radios, humvees, and other US military articles over the years.
The Pentagon has a history of losing track of its weaponry delivered to foreign nations. It failed to account for around $715 million of equipment sent to Syrian partners to fight ISIS in 2017 and 2018. A similar outcome happened in Yemen in 2015, when the Pentagon lost track of more than $500 million in military materials.
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Ubuntu's package management system, which it owes to it's big brother Debian, makes it as simple as it gets to keep your system up to date.... And you'll be pulling packages from your very own mirror. If things look stupid, just stop updating your main mirror and you will have working code that could potentially keep going even if the kernel gains diversity, good and hard.
I am using debian squeeze and want to create an offline repository or a cd/dvd for the debian non-free branch. I looked around the internet and all i found out is that there are neither iso images nor there are jidgo files for creating such image so I had the idea to fetch the packages from one of the debian package servers using: how to clean inside your vag properly Here is a step by step tutorial about that Packaging/Intro - Debian Wiki basically you will need to create a directory in your source code root called debian which will include a file called changelog that you can create with the tool dch.
Please note that you can use this setup to mirror official Debian packages or create a repository with your own packages, as the steps are same. The first file of the two we will need to create (both will live in /var/www/debian) is named apt-release.conf.
This article describes a simple way on how to create a home made debian package and include it into a local package repository. Although we could use a existing Debian/Ubuntu package, we will start from scratch by creating our own minimalistic unofficial debian package.
For the uninitiated, creating Debian packages is a mysterious process that looks much harder than it really is. To make it a little less mysterious, let's take a look at two methods of building Debian packages: using standard Debian packaging tools and the CheckInstall utility.


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Old soldiers never die; they just go back to work
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Unabridged from my Bonus Years column in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Capital, Annapolis, Maryland. Ron Edwards may not have nine lives, but he sure challenges the observation of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who said before Congress in 1951 that "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." Instead of fading away after spending more than 20 years…
A vigil is a good time to reflect on life's transitions
By Phil Burgess | December 7, 2014 | 0
Unabridged from my Bonus Years column in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Capital, Annapolis, Maryland. It began 12 days ago when we received a phone call from family friends who retired in Florida. They had stopped by to visit my mother, known to her friends as Ginny. Ginny is "97 and three-fourths" — her words — and…


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This is a project for the europython 2014 Hackathon on a Boat #ep14boat.

How to use
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In order to collect the statistics you need to change you ``urls.py`` file.
Instead of import ``from django.conf.urls``, you need to import ``django_url_counter.counted_url``.

You can usually do this by changing

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Then you can leave the definition of your ``urlpatterns`` untouched.

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Each entry contains the regular expression that was evaluated. The two numbers are:

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Naturally, you would want the second number to be as low as possible.

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White House: Winter of Severe Disease and Death for those who aren't vaccinated
The Medical Progress December 17, 2021
Editor's Note Search the Coronavirus Resource Center for the most recent COVID-19 news and guidance and information.
Top infectious disease officials anticipate an increase in COVID-19-related cases following the holidays. They also they predict that Omicron will soon take over as the most prevalent strain in the United States.
The best way to stay protected is by getting vaccinations and boosters, they say.
"For the unvaccinated you're looking at a winter that is full of severe illness, death -for you, your families, and the hospitals that may soon overflow," Jeff Zients, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, said Friday at a news conference. "We require the American citizens to take action."
According to Rochelle Walensky MD, CDC Director, the Omicron variant was detected in at most 39 states and 75 countries.
The strain is more transmittable than the already extremely infectious Delta variant. She said that although there was evidence early of milder illness, it is likely that the majority of infected people were vaccinated or booster.
Walensky said that Delta is still widely available in the United States. However, Omicron is growing rapidly and we believe it will become the dominant strain in America over the next weeks.
The U.S. is averaging close to 1,300 deaths due to COVID-19 every day. The number of new cases hospitalizations, deaths and new cases of COVID-19 is greater than in the previous winter when vaccines were more widely available. The New York Times reported Friday that the number of new infections in Connecticut and Maine have increased by 150% in the last two weeks, and Ohio and Indiana are seeing hospitalization rates nearing the top of last winter's surge.
Dueling reports that were released this week caused relief and concerns about Omicron.
Tuesday's news release from South Africa shows that Omicron waves have resulted in fewer hospitalizations than other waves. This is the good news.
The news is alarming from the United Kingdom , where Imperial College London reported Friday that the risk of re-infection from COVID-19 from Omicron was five times greater and that Omicron-based COVID-19 cases are increasing at a rate of 2 cases per day.
The study also did not find evidence that Omicron has a lower severity than Delta. This is based on the proportion of Omicron positives who report symptoms or the percentage of Omicron patients admitted to hospitals. Researchers said that hospitalization data is not yet available.
"We don't have any evidence that the virus is less severe," Eric Topol (MD) executive vice president of Scripps Research, and editor-in chief of Medscape WebMD's sister website for health professionals, told PBS NewsHour. "Until the information is available, we can assume that those who have no protection are at risk of becoming very ill."
The White House COVID-19 team continues to remind parents and guardians to have their children vaccinations, particularly in anticipation of a post-holiday spike. Walensky said that the CDC's advisory panel met on Thursday to continue safety discussions about COVID-19 vaccines for children.
So so far, 20 million children under 17 and 5 million children under 11 have received their shots.
"Looking specifically at vaccine safety data from more than 50,000 children 5-11 years old We found no evidence of any serious safety concerns," Walensky said.
Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, MD, has stressed the importance of being vaccinations and boosters in order to avoid serious diseases like Delta and Omicron.
"We're in a situation in which we're currently facing a very important Delta surge and are looking over our shoulder at an incoming Omicron surge," he said. "The best protection is vaccinated plus a boost."
News briefing, White House COVID-19 Response Team December. 17, 2021.
Imperial College London: "Modelling suggests a rapid spread of Omicrons in England but with the same level of severity as Delta."
The New York Times:"Doctors and Nurses Are "Living in a Constant Crisis' as Covid Overflows Hospitals and Omicron Looms."
Twitter: @EricTopol, Dec. 17, 2021.
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Eventually, I decided that I wanted to pursue building up some of my foundational skills. Since my departure, I've worked for companies large and small, ranging from workplace wellness to Digital Marketing. We all go through different phases in our careers where we are searching for what really drives us and makes us happy.
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Over the last few years I've learned to truly listen and learn from the people that I work with. I consider myself to be extremely self aware of my strengths and weaknesses. This has led me to the conclusion that I need to rely on other people whose strengths compliment mine and that I can learn from.
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