COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops on Monday captured three more strategic towns from Tamil Tiger rebels following fierce fighting in the north of the island, the army chief said. The latest advances capped three days of psychologically-important gains for government troops, who have been battling the rebels for more than 35 years and who last controlled some of the territory captured Monday a decade ago. Security forces entered the town of Mankulam, about 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of the de facto Tamil Tiger political capital of Kilinochchi, after intense battles with the rebels, army Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka said. "We have taken complete control over Mankulam after three days of heavy fighting," Fonseka said on state television. "We have inflicted heavy losses on the terrorists." He did not say if there were casualties among security forces. Fonseka noted that security forces had lost control over Mankulam a decade ago in the face of rebel attacks. Following the recapture of Mankulam, troops also took the nearby town of Pannikankulam, along the main highway that runs through the rebel political capital of Kilinochchi further to the north. Government troops battling to dismantle the rebels' mini-state also seized Kumalamunai, a town just south of the key Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) base of Mullaittivu, situated on the northeast coast. "This morning we also captured Kumalamunai in Mullaittivu district," defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told AFP. Helicopter gunships were deployed to attack suspected Tamil Tiger targets and to support ground troops advancing on the guerrillas along a broad front in the north, the defence ministry said. It said troops had also cut off a stretch of the Mankulam-Oddusudan road that leads to the main military bases of the Tamil Tigers along the northeastern coast of Mullaittivu district. The Sri Lankan military said on Saturday it had taken another key town, Pooneryn, on the northern edge of the mainland. "Mankulam is psychologically a very important place for us to re-establish because nine years ago the army lost it. The same with Pooneryn," said Rambukwella, who is also a cabinet minister. The minister did not give casualty figures, but added that a multi-pronged offensive to take Kilinochchi, the political headquarters of the Tigers, was under way. The LTTE, meanwhile, said they had beaten back an offensive against their frontlines at Muhamalai on the Jaffna peninsula in the far north of the island. "Twenty Sri Lanka army soldiers were killed and at least 80 wounded in the fighting," the pro-rebel Tamilnet.com website reported, without giving rebel casualties. Sri Lankan authorities have restricted access to the embattled areas for journalists as well as for most aid workers, making claims by the two sides impossible to independently verify. The Sri Lankan government pulled out of a Norwegian-brokered truce with the LTTE in January. UN and other aid organisations estimate that about 230,000 civilians are still living in rebel-held territory in the north where fighting is concentrated. Neighbouring India, which expressed concern for the safety of ethnic Tamils trapped inside the war zone, announced Monday that it had sent a shipment of 1,680 tonnes of food and medicines. Some 60 million Tamils in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu share close cultural and religious links with Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. Tens of thousands have died in Sri Lanka since the LTTE launched an armed struggle in 1972 to carve out a homeland for minority Tamils in the majority-Sinhalese nation.


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Age Among Factors Affecting Survival in MG Patients with Thymoma Surgery
by Patricia Inacio PhD | March 31, 2020
Younger age, more advanced thymoma (tumors of the thymus) and cancer recurrence predict poorer survival in people with myasthenia gravis (MG) whose tumors are surgically removed, a large study from China reports.
Older age, in contrast, seems to protect against the likelihood of a tumor returning.
The study, "Surgical effect and prognostic factors of myasthenia gravis with thymomas," was published in the journal Thoracic Cancer.
Estimates suggest that about 15% of MG patients develop thymomas. Surgery to remove these tumors — called thymectomy — is indicated for all MG patients independent of MG type and status. In an extended thymectomy, the entire thymus and the fat tissue located behind the mediastinum (the thoracic cavity midline) are removed.
Previous studies have investigated how different surgical approaches, including minimally invasive strategies, affect patient recovery and outcomes. However, few studies have looked into which factors influence survival of MG patients with thymoma.
Researchers in China investigated how different disease characteristics, surgery approaches and post-operative care might affect outcomes.
They analyzed data on 194 patients (median age, 49.9) with thymoma who underwent surgery at the Peking University People's Hospital and Beijing Hospital between January 2010 and December 2018.
Before surgery, 157 patients were treated with pyridostigmine bromide (sold as Mestinon by Bausch Health; generic versions are also available), five with pyridostigmine bromide and the immunosuppressant Prograf (tacrolimus, by Astellas Pharma), and other five with intravenous (IV, into-the-vein) immunoglobulins (IVIG). The remaining 27 patients had mild symptoms and were not being treated.
Twenty-two patients had other autoimmune diseases besides MG, including thyroid diseases, skin-related conditions, ulcerative colitis, and other chronic inflammatory disorders.
Most patients (137) underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) thymectomy, a minimally invasive procedure that uses small incisions to insert a camera and instruments through the chest wall. Fifty-seven underwent transsternal thymectomy, an invasive procedure similar to open heart surgery.
Patients treated with VATS (mean age, 50.8) had shorter hospital stays and fewer complications, including lesser blood loss. They also had smaller tumors. Those in late tumor stages more often underwent transsternal surgery (mean age, 47.8).
After surgery, 77 patients were given radiotherapy, six chemotherapy, and three both.
Among the initial 194 patients, 170 were followed after surgery for a median of 45 months (almost four years). The median recurrence-free period was 39.5 months, and thymoma returned in 16 (9.4%) patients.
A majority — 81.9% — of patients were alive five years post-surgery. Fifteen died during follow-up: eight due to MG, five due to cancer's recurrence, one to stroke (cerebral infarction), and one of unknown causes.
Further analysis indicated that age, the tumor's stage under the Masaoka system (a common way of classifying thymomas), and cancer recurrence were independent predictors of overall survival.
Recurrence was more frequent in younger patients and those with more advanced tumors (Masaoka stages 3 and 4).
A post-operative myasthenic crisis (POMC) — a severe exacerbation of MG symptoms — was experienced by 20 patients in the first month after surgery. POMC incidence was significantly associated to the presence of bulbar symptoms (such as difficulty swallowing and slurred speech).
Researchers also evaluated the effectiveness of thymectomy in 162 patients. The overall effective rate was 84.5%. This rate accounts for cases with complete stable remission, pharmacological remission, minimal manifestations, and eased symptoms.
By the end of the second year after surgery, the cumulative complete stable remission rate was 19.3%, which increased to 44.1% by the fifth year. No rate differences were found between VATS and transsternal thymectomy, indicating that less invasive procedures can be similarly effective.
Overall, "extended thymectomy should be performed in patients with thymoma and MG. Age, Masaoka stage, and recurrence were prognostic factors for OS [overall survival]," the researchers wrote. In turn, having bulbar symptoms "was an independent risk factor for POMC."
"The VATS procedure could achieve similar treatment effects of MG with thymoma," the added.
Patricia Inacio PhD Patricia holds her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from University Nova de Lisboa, and has served as an author on several research projects and fellowships, as well as major grant applications for European Agencies. She also served as a PhD student research assistant in the Laboratory of Doctor David A. Fidock, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University, New York.
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Improving Future Research Communication and e-Scholarship
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* Manifesto: The Force 11 Manifesto: Improving Future Research Communication and e-Scholarship. Edited by Phil E. Bournea, Tim Clarkb, et al. Contributors: Bradley P. Allend, Aliaksandr Birukouh, et al.
URL = http://www.force11.org/white_paper pdf
"Research and scholarship lead to the generation of new knowledge. The dissemination of this knowledge has a fundamental impact on the ways in which society develops and progresses, and at the same time it feeds back to improve subsequent research and scholarship. Here, as in so many other areas of human activity, the internet is changing the way things work: it opens up opportunities for new processes that can accelerate the growth of knowledge, including the creation of new means of communicating that knowledge among researchers and within the wider community. Two decades of emergent and increasingly pervasive information technology have demonstrated the potential for far more effective scholarly communication. However, the use of this technology remains limited; research processes and the dissemination of research results have yet to fully assimilate the capabilities of the web and other digital media. Producers and consumers remain wedded to formats developed in the era of print publication, and the reward systems for researchers remain tied to those delivery mechanisms.
Force 11 (the Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship) is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, we aim to bring about a change in scholarly communication through the effective use of information technology. Force11 has grown from a small group of like-minded individuals into an open movement with clearly identified stakeholders associated with emerging technologies, policies, funding mechanisms and business models. While not disputing the expressive power of the written word to communicate complex ideas, our foundational assumption is that scholarly communication by means of semantically-enhanced media-rich digital publishing is likely to have a greater impact than communication in traditional print media or electronic facsimiles of printed works. However, to date, online versions of 'scholarly outputs' have tended to replicate print forms, rather than exploit the additional functionalities afforded by the digital terrain. We believe that digital publishing of enhanced papers will enable more effective scholarly communication, which will also broaden to include, for example, better links to data, the publication of software tools, mathematical models, protocols and workflows, and research communication by means of social media channels.
This document highlights the findings of the Force11 workshop on the Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, in August 2011: it summarizes a number of key problems facing scholarly publishing today, and presents a vision that addresses these problems, proposing concrete steps that key stakeholders can take to improve the state of scholarly publishing. More about Force11 can be found at http://www.force11.org. This White Paper is a collaborative effort that reflects the input of all Force11 attendees at the Dagstuhl Workshop1, and is very much a living document. We see it as a starting point that will grow and be updated and augmented by individual and collective efforts by the participants and others. We invite you to join and contribute to this enterprise.
About This Document: This document contains five sections. Section 1 presents our vision of the future of scholarly publishing. In Section 2, we outline six key problems that prevent scholarly communication from achieving its full potential. Section 3 contains six specific recommendations for actions to address these problems. Section 4 offers a dynamic list of pointers to relevant research reports and related projects.
Finally, in Section 5 we describe what we are doing to implement these recommendations.
The problems and recommendations we perceive can be grouped into two groups, each containing three principal themes:
Themes 1–3 concern the format and technologies of scholarly publication: how scholarly data, information, and knowledge are (or could be) represented; how readers, users, authors, editors and computers can interact with these representations; and how different knowledge representations could be combined, queried, stored and otherwise treated.
Themes 4–6 concern the enterprise of scholarly publishing, including business models and the attribution of credit. In these sections we discuss how scholarship is evaluated, accredited and monetized; current and new models and modes of assigning copyright and intellectual property rights; the financial aspects of scholarly publishing; and the mechanisms for assessing the quality and value of researchers and their research outputs, and of attributing credit and worth to them.
The problems relating to these six themes are described in Section 2, while our recommendations for their solutions are described in Section 3. These problems and recommendations are summarized in the following table."
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, sous-titré La planète de l'enfer en français, est un seinen mangas de Junji Itō, prépubliés dans le magazine Big Comic Spirits puis publié par Shōgakukan en un volume relié sorti en . La version française a été éditée par Tonkam dans la collection « Frissons » en un tome sorti en .

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Remina Oguro, la fille d'un scientifique ayant découvert une mystérieuse planète errante en route vers le système solaire, devient un objet de renommée et d'adoration après que son père ait choisi de donner son nom à l'astre en question. Cependant, alors qu'il devient clair que Remina est sur une trajectoire de collision avec la Terre et semble détruire tout ce qui se trouve sur son passage, cette adoration se transforme en peur, puis en folie meurtrière.

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Édition japonaise
Shōgakukan

Édition française
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Junji Itō
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Manga des années 1990
Manga paru dans le Big Comic Spirits
Manga d'horreur
Manga fantastique
Manga publié par Tonkam
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Hungkar Dorje Regional Multi-Disciplinary Technical School
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Located in a pastoral setting of grassy hinterland, surrounded by mountain vistas, the site is conveniently located to maximize contacts with the large population of ethnic nomads. It forms a natural connection with the nomadic farmers.
Officially named "The Hungkar Dorje Technical School" in honor of its founder, its mission is to further the cultural heritage of indigenous ethnic groups and promote learning and mastery of modern technical skills. Our aim is to promote healthy economic and cultural growth in Tibetan society and to build a private educational facility complete with up to date teaching equipment and capabilities, in accordance with the "Educational Law of the People's Republic of China." Our goal is to preserve and protect traditions and culture which would otherwise be lost.
2017 Mayul School (Hungkar Dorje School): Progress and Accomplishments
Between 40 and 60% of Tibetan children do not attend school and in the Tibet Autonomous Region, less than 25% of Tibetan children graduate to secondary schools. With our first 8 graduating classes behind us, the attendance at the HKD Multi-Disciplinary Technical School (the Mayul School) has increased from 180 students in 2011 to over 400 at present. After graduation, students are able to transfer to Lanzhou Nationalities University.
The school has expanded its program in Tibetan Medicine which is taught by two well trained traditional doctors. With ongoing ESL classes and courses in Tibetan, Mandarin, traditional art, and math, the Mayul School has gained popularity and fame throughout much of the Tibetan Plateau, drawing students from as far away as Szechuan Province and Lhasa. Our Thanka painting classes are being taught by master artistes trained at Rebkong Monastery. We are introducing a traditional art form by offering a newly developed carpet weaving program taught by 2 master weavers. Student enthusiasm is at a high point.
The Hungkar Dorje School will keep costs down to about $80.00 per month for each student in the 3 year program. This includes all costs for boarding, food, health care, educational materials, and teacher's salaries. Funds for the school's operations come from Prefecture support, private donations, a modest tuition, and the sale of handicrafts by artisans affiliated with the school. For families who cannot share in the cost of education there will be no fee. Additionally, costs will be augmented by the ongoing sale of medicinal and culinary herbs as well as by other businesses planned for development.
In addition to the technical school, a new primary school was built in 2015 and now has over 100 young students. The primary school will offer local children a first opportunity to obtain an academic education and a path to progress to schools of higher learning.
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The Importance of a Three Language Approach
In Qinghai Province, Tibetan has traditionally been the language used for education in schools. The current policy mandates Mandarin as the medium of instruction by 2015. Because of its status as a vocational school, the Mayul School is one of the few that has permission to continue teaching in the "Mother Tongue", which we consider an essential step in maintaining cultural integrity." In Qinghai Province, Tibetan has traditionally been the language used for education in schools. The current policy mandates Mandarin as the medium of instruction by 2015. Because of its status as a vocational school, the Mayul School is one of the few that has permission to continue teaching in the "Mother Tongue", which we consider an essential step in maintaining cultural integrity".
Mayul's Tibetan Language classes provide an opportunity for children who can speak Tibetan but are often illiterate, to gain proficiency in their own language. Having the ability to teach children in Nomadic Communities helps ensure that cultural assimilation does not take place and that the true history of Tibet is taught alongside more traditional subjects. David Germano, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, says: "[Studies] have shown consistently that Tibetans who train and test in Chinese medium contexts persistently perform worse than when they are able to train and test in Tibetan. By using their own mother tongue for training, education, and testing, they perform markedly better on standard intelligence and other tests than they do when they are forced to use Chinese."
The purpose of education is for teachers and students to convey and receive knowledge by the most easily understood means between teachers and students. As far as the Tibetan students in our province are concerned, they are not familiar with Chinese and so they are not able to think about or express their ideas in Chinese, not to mention being able to use Chinese to creatively analyze problems. However, in daily life the Tibetan mother tongue is the most familiar tool for analyzing problems and expressing ideas, and therefore it should be the most effective tool for study in their lives at school.
In 2010, Quang Wei, the Qinghai Provincial Secretary, stated that "the promotion of the common speech (Mandarin) is important from an economic point of view". In order to advance within the system of higher education and later within the business community or government, knowledge of Mandarin is a requirement. Tibetan students are strongly motivated to learn Mandarin to increase prospects for getting good jobs, educational opportunities and so on. Consequently, at a minimum, a bilingual education rooted in minority language and more culturally relevant education seems the best option. Tibetan students have studied Chinese for 10 or more years – but they are still unable to communicate in Chinese. In many Western countries, there has been much research into methods and materials for teaching English as a second language which have lead to positive outcomes in teaching English in non-English speaking countries. In order to thoroughly change this situation, the Mayul School intends to renew its understanding of how it can effectively teach Chinese to Tibetan students.
Most of the older people in Qinghai Province have never been to school. Because they did not need formal education in their lives many parents think that education is not so important for their children. As a result many students are suffering from low levels of education. This puts the children of this generation at a great disadvantage in their lives. Currently, students must pass the exam from the PRC government to find a government job. This exam is in Chinese and English. Tibetan students must learn two foreign languages very well (English and Chinese) in order to pass this exam otherwise there is little possibility of them getting a job. The level of English proficiency in Golok is very low, especially among the students from Tibetan schools. They are not taught English until they enter high school. This is the one of main reasons why many young Tibetan students do not pass this exam. Learning English is one of the few ways that Tibetan people can compete for available jobs.
A Report From The Field – 2017
Thanks to Mai Nguyen for this description of daily school life in Golok.
Students at the Hungkar Dorje Vocational High School go through a 3 year curriculum. They must study all the core subjects in the first year:
Tibetan: grammar, history, poetry, literature
Buddhist philosophy, Buddhist debating
Moral behavior
In the 2nd year a major is chosen from the following list:
Thanka painting
Tibetan medicine
Tibetan dance
Tibetan carpet weaving
Those who plan on taking Tibetan medicine or Thanka painting as majors in their 2nd year begin by studying these subject in year one.
The school has two principals and 22 teachers. Most students are from Golok but many are from further away. Approximately 90% of the students have never been to school before. The primary reason for student's choosing the HKD Vocational School is to study and preserve their culture.
School usually starts on September 1st and continues until December 31st. Spring term begins about March 9th. The school, as all schools in Golok, closes mid May to mid June to dig caterpillar fungus (Tibetan: Yartsa Gumbu).This is the major source of income in Golog. The final term is mid June to August 1st. There are currently about 400 students in all.
Students typically get up at 6:00 am and study for one hour in the school courtyard. From 7:00 to 7:40 am they go to their classroom for aspiration prayers and self study. Breakfast is next before starting first class which goes from 8:20 to 9:20. Second class begins at 9:30 and then 20 minutes of exercise – running around the school and stretching. Last year exercise was Tibetan dancing. 10:50 am to noon classes continue until lunch is served in the school canteen. Some students who are from the village are allowed to eat at home. After lunch, there is a 2 hour rest before afternoon classes begin again. Dinner is served at 6:30pm. After dinner all students study in the courtyard. Finally, from 8:00pm to 9:40pm there is self study in the classrooms. Sometimes there is extra tutoring in this time. Then lights out is 10:00pm. The School has one class on Saturday and then a meeting where school rules and events are discussed. Students are free from noon to Sunday evening at 7:00 pm when they return to school.
The HKD Vocational school provides free housing for all the teachers but teachers pay their own food and electricity. There are 2 dormitories, one for boys, and one for girls. Very few students sleep out of school, even those from the local village. There are up to seven students in each room, with bunk beds. This year new flooring and under floor electric heating has been installed in all the classrooms and sleeping quarters.
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Well it's been about a month since the last post, and I think it would be an understatement to say that I've been busy. A good busy though.
Two weeks ago (whoa time flies) I participated in the Moccasin Lake Challenge. It is an entirely free event held on the Wind River Indian Reservation, beginning just outside the town of Ft. Washakie and winding roughly 18 miles and climbing 4 or 5,000 vertical feet into the Wind River Range, finishing at the beautiful subalpine Moccasin Lake. The race director was very clear that it was not a race but an opportunity for everyone to challenge themselves as an individual, and I believe over a hundred people took the challenge! It was also a great opportunity to get some good aerobic work in with an extended hill climb and no downhill.
Aside: Long or hard downhill efforts cause a fair bit more muscle damage than uphill climbing because of the harsh, eccentric contractions in the legs. Knowing this, I went into the challenge unrested, having stacked a few longer runs before the run (14 mi trail run Thursday, 15 mi run Friday, Moccasin Lake Challenge Saturday), and followed it with another 10 miler the next day. I felt ready for that post-run ice cream cone Sunday afternoon.
It was a great day, and I spent it running with some great friends, and Gabe and I ran together the whole time. I felt pretty tired and my left hip flexor was a little grouchy, so I definitely slowed him down a bit that day. We were the second and third ones to the top (but it wasn't a race!), with our friend Kevin having had a great run that day and seemingly prancing to the lake riding a spiritual high the whole way up.
The race director Mike Chingman and a ton of folks put in an enormous amount of work, and many generous donations made it an incredibly rewarding experience in every meaning of the word. There was a huge barbecue at the finish, and everyone that made it to the lake under their own power was given an awesome Under Armor tech hoody and a pair of sweatpants, which was also a tremendous bit of foresight or luck, as it was quite windy and chilly at the top despite a starting temperature in the high 70s. It is still hard to believe that the whole production was put on at no cost to the runners. Just an amazing event, and I am very grateful to the Shoshoni to have welcomed us so warmly to what is certainly a very spiritual and culturally-significant event. Can't wait for next year!
On the way up. and up. and up.
The next week was essentially a recovery and taper week leading up to our Zion Traverse. I didn't run a whole lot, but had tentatively planned to run the first inaugural Run the Red trail half marathon on Saturday. A new race to get folks out and experience the Red Desert (and hopefully see the importance of its conservation), I was looking forward to the opportunity to run fast and see what I could do (maybe even get win and course record!) but Amber and I got caught up in frantic preparations that Friday night, struggling to pack for Zion and finish and clean the downstairs apartment for the new renter (who was arriving while we would be gone to Zion), and ended up getting maybe 4 hours of good sleep. On top of that, my lower back/hip had been acting up for the previous couple days, so I called an audible the morning of the race and went to work at aid station 1 with Amber instead of racing. Probably a good choice in retrospect, but difficult to make regardless. I took photos of all the runners coming through, and plan to post those to the Lander Running Club page soon.
After the race (Kevin came in 1st, finishing simultaneously with another guy from Rock Springs!) Amber and I hit the road, stopping for a nice lunch with her parents on the way. We camped on some USFS land somewhere south of Salt Lake City that night. Sunday we took a bit of a scenic detour for a quick run (a winding highway through the mountains that turned into a dirt road at the summit) that made us a bit late, but we met some friends in Bryce Canyon National Park for a very scenic five mile hike. The trails there are super cruisy and well-graded, perfect for running. I was eyeing the map and there are some great opportunities for a longish run (FKT?!) in a beautiful, high-elevation place. Another place to return to again in the future. That night we camped on some more USFS land somewhere southwest of Bryce and northeast of Zion. We tried to sleep in a bit the next morning, had the ol' diced up apples-peanut butter-yogurt-cinnamon concoction with a bit of kale and chia seeds, and did a nice short hike to a butte just above our campsite before hitting the road.
We got to Zion's east entrance in the early afternoon, and like the last couple visits, it blew my mind again. The sandstone formations there are out of control crazy, huge, and seemingly an endless playground for exploration. I so desperately want to spend a serious chunk of time rambling around in its backcountry. Someday! We stopped to scramble around a bit on the way in and took some photos, and then made our way to our campsite in the South Campground. We hung out and ate lunch, and the whole Zion crew showed up just a little bit later. The crew consisted of Amber and I, Gabe, Jenny, and their little one Ella, Emily, and Gabe's parents. Gabe's parents came down to help watch Ella, enjoy Zion a bit, and also crewed for us in the middle of the run. We got out for a short shakeout run from the Grotto up to the Emerald Pools in the late afternoon, took a dip in the Virgin River near our campsite, and made a most excellent dinner over the campfire: salmon, potatoes, rice, and broccoli. Talk about nutritious and delicious fuel for the run! I think everyone felt a little anxious as we did the final planning and packing for our big run the next day, but as always, all the anticipation was totally worth the next day's adventure.
I'll cover our Zion Traverse effort in the next blog post... stay tuned!


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Filmmaker Given Time to Appeal or Turn Over Chevron Footage
A documentary filmmaker has been given more time to decide whether to comply with a subpoena that he turn over outtakes from a film on environmental litigation against Chevron in Ecuador. A New York federal judge on Thursday denied the filmmaker's request for a stay pending appeal of an earlier order approving subpoenas for footage from his movie "Crude," but nonetheless gave him 10 more days to comply. Chevron claims the footage shows corruption in the Ecuadorean judicial system and misconduct by a plaintiffs lawyer.
By Mark Hamblett | May 21, 2010 at 12:00 AM
A documentary filmmaker has been given more time to decide whether to comply with a subpoena that he turn over outtakes from a film on environmental litigation against Chevron in Ecuador.


My, What A Busy Week! Week is the last full Monday-through-Saturday in August. Previously; previously; previously; previously.
Monday: Alex oniugnip and I work on re-settling into our house after thirteen weeks away; Alex, just having come from Manhattan, marvels at the fact that we have so much house and that it's full of so much stuff. At new-grad-student-orientation events, I meet some interesting people and do some CSGSA evangelism (I'm the president general chairperson this year), but eventually I go hide in the corner for a while to study for the fast-approaching systems qual. In the evening, we buy groceries to fill up our empty fridge, then go out for a nice evening run. We can't believe we get to live together again; we can't keep our hands off each other.
Tuesday: After sleeping late, we have an amazing lunch at Anatolia with Dale and Karen, who are the parents of one of Alex's friends from high school and who happen to be passing through town. They're seasoned world travelers, and they spend lunch regaling us with stories of, like, the actual Anatolia. Afterward, I hole up and study for the systems qual for the rest of the day. I feel pretty good about the questions on the 2006 exam that I've been doing as practice, but start to panic a bit when I look at the questions from the 2005 and 2004 exams, which somehow seem much harder. Alex talks me down from the ledge and orders a pizza from Mother Bear's. I handily polish off half of it in between memorizing the four conditions necessary for deadlock, trying to remember how an inverted page table works, and whimpering.
Wednesday: Systems qual day! It goes okay! Two of the nine questions are exact duplicates of ones on the 2006 exam I had been studying from, and I nail those two; another is pretty close, and I think I nail that one as well. The others are hit or miss, but I manage to find ways to write about things I know on most of the questions, and to my relief, I'm not asked to compare the Internet to NFS. I turn in my exam, head home, finish the pizza, and try out the new vacuum cleaner that Alex just got for us; it delights me by sucking up pretty much a whole cat's worth of cat hair from the living room carpet (a task that our Roomba, though adorable, has never been powerful enough to accomplish; sorry, little guy!). Feeling enamored of vacuuming-like tasks, and drunk with sudden freedom to do things other than studying for the exam, I go outside to clean up the sticks, leaves, and other debris that managed to fill up the yard between May and now. Our oak tree steadily drops acorns around me, reminding me of the futility of my efforts; I pull weeds and think about how gardening isn't for the faint of heart, considering that it's mostly about (a) fighting entropy and (b) killing things. In the evening, Rebecca and Andy and Mark tristmasjedi come over, and we walk to the Chocolate Moose for ice cream.
Thursday: In the morning, I sit on a CSGSA panel of current grad students and answer new students' questions for two hours. It's fun to talk to all of the new people, and the panel goes about a thousand times better than last year; the questions we get consist mostly of "What is Professor So-and-So like?" or "Which course should I take if I'm interested in topic Foo?", rather than "Help! They didn't tell us anything! Where are the bathrooms and how do I get a student ID?" -- a testament to the fact that orientation is being run much better this time. After the panel, my colleague Dave and I sneak off to the Runcible Spoon for brunch and geeky conversation, and in the afternoon, I sign a contract and officially become a paid research assistant for the first time. Woohoo!
Friday: I run around going to Yet More Orientation Events and handling CSGSA business all day. One of the new CS Ph.D. students tells me about trying out for choral ensembles; it's the first time since coming here that I've had to miss choral placement auditions, since preparing for quals meant I had no time to prepare an audition piece, and I'm sad about it and envious of him. I always have to make choices between music and CS, but this time the choice was particularly stark, since the exam coincided with the first day of auditions, and being prepared for the exam was not exactly optional. I resolve to take voice lessons this year -- something I haven't done in over half a decade now -- so that I can be really prepared for auditions next time they happen. In the evening, we host one last CSGSA-sponsored orientation event: sandwiches and Howl's Moving Castle with a group of new and old students. Afterward, Christine lyceum_arabica leads the way to a tiny, cute bar I hadn't previously known about, where they serve ten awesome beers on tap and basically nothing else, and we sit around talking about the bad old days, like you do. Andy asks me if I "feel suckered yet" regarding being in charge of CSGSA, and a confused drunk guy at the next table is all "Yeah! Do you feel suckered yet?" and continues on at length in that vein. I laugh nervously.
Saturday: We sleep wonderfully late, then head out into the world to run errands, including dropping off a lot of the aforementioned so much stuff at Goodwill. It feels good. While at the humane association to donate a giant bag of cat food we don't need, we get distracted by the incredibly adorable bebbeh kittehs and bunnehs, but narrowly escape without bringing one home. Just as we get back, Andy arrives on his bike to drop off a key to the PL office for me. Now I have both an research assistantship and a real office! Can't stop the rock! I go down to the basement to pound on the keyboard for the first time since May; after a while, Alex joins me on the drums and we bang out a furious "For the Win". Thus sated, I vacuum about another half a cat's worth of hair out of the living room furniture, then snuggle with Alex while he plays ストリートファイター. This year is going to be great.
I'm basically a terrible person.


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2013-11-17 Turtleback (a.k.a Caballo Cone)
Turtleback ridgeline. Can you count the prominences?
Towering over Truth Or Consequences, NM, Turtleback Peak is the highest point on a north-south trending ridge. The initial part of the trail rises up to the low end of the ridge line and is occasionally steep (near the left side of photo). The ridge line itself ascends steadily and surmounts at least five "prominences" before striking the actual summit block, although everyone counts prominences differently so your mileage may vary. The summit is labeled on Google Maps as Caballo Cone (high point in photo). There is no shelter from the sun at any point, but the trail provides a pleasant high-desert stroll on a winter weekend.
The notes on roads and distances are slightly open to question, since they were recorded on the way back from the mountain rather than on the way to the mountain. (Bushy Mountain was the original destination, but Country Road A010 was too water logged and Turtleback became the day's target).
From University Av in Las Cruces, enter I25 headed north
In 77.9 miles, take Exit 79 for Date Street in Truth Or Consequences, NM
In 0.3 miles, at the ramp end, go right onto Date Street
In 1.9 miles, go left onto E Third Avenue/NM 51
In 3.1 miles (immediately after the bridge signed "Rio Grande") go right onto Turtleback Drive/A005 (this road was not signed when I was there). It begins paved but turns to dirt after about 100 feet.
In 1.9 miles, turn left onto a very short, unsigned road.
In 50 feet (approx) park car at trailhead.
Turtleback Drive crosses the mouth of Mescal Canyon directly on the canyon bed. Judging from the size of the boulders on either side of the road, this might not be the best choice for mid-monsoon season.
The turn-off for the short trailhead road lies immediately after a small rise in Turtleback Drive that contains a cattle guard. If you miss the turn-off, then you will very soon (roughly 0.2 miles) come to open farm fields on the right side of the road.
The trailhead has room for just a few cars, be careful when parking. There are no amenities.
Map: Engle Quadrangle (USGS product 281347. Download as zip)
Starting Elevation: 4280′
Ending Elevation: 6080′
Net Elevation Gain: 1700′
Distance: 2.3 miles, one way
Stones and cairn indicating the entrance to the trail.
The actual trail is shown on the map in blue. On the way up, however, I walked past the well-cairned and seemingly unmissable trail entrance. Eventually the tread at my feet disappeared and my easiest option was to go cross country to the ridge. I've attempted to recapture my route using the orange line. The terrain is entirely open and very inviting to such off-trail rambles.
As mentioned above, I went off-trail for the initial approach. It isn't easy to recapture that track and it isn't obvious that anyone would care. The details of the description here are derived from what I saw of the formal trail while returning from the summit.
Ocotillo plant, part of a thicket on the way up to the ridge line.
From the car head southwest (the same direction as you were driving on Turtleback Avenue). Very quickly you will come to cairns signaling that the trail turns left and climbs steeply up an embankment. The trail is strewn with small rocks and becomes a little hard to find particularly when it enters ocotillo patches. In about half a mile of steady upward slogging it intersects a much better defined trail. Go right on this new trail (making note of the intersection for the hike back). In another quarter mile the trail begins a steep ascent up a rib that will take you to the ridge line, arriving in less than a mile from the trailhead.
trailside succulent, making a good job of it at over 5000′ in the desert
On the ridge line you can scarcely get lost. The trail hugs the top of the ridge, dropping briefly to one side or the other to avoid the narrow rock fins that occasionally occupy the highest terrain. The ocotillo and other thorny plants have been largely left behind. The trail winds by occasional cacti and creosote bushes, but there are few patches of heavy growth.
Elephant Butte reservoir and view towards Fra Cristobal Range
It is a matter of rise-and-fall, rise-and-fall, as you cross the several prominences that form the ridge. Some of the notable prominences are found after you've hiked 1 mile, 1.2 miles and 1.5 miles. It makes you wonder if the darn thing will keep rising and falling forever. The views north to Elephant Butte reservoir are beautiful. There is something unworldly about that blue water against a sere desert landscape.
View to false summit and summit
At 2.2 miles you will top out on the last false summit and see the true summit just above you, not more than 100 yards away. It is an easy stroll to the summit with views south to Palomas Gap and Timber Mountain (highest of the Caballo Mountains), east 50 or more miles to the San Andreas Mountains, north to the reservoir, the Fra Cristobal range and the San Mateo range, and west to the Aldo Leopald Wilderness. Much of south-central New Mexico is in plain sight from up here. It is slightly disappointing to report that there were no indications of snow. The reservoirs have risen with the monsoon rains, but at just 10% of capacity there is obvious room for improvement.
Return the way you came. Or, given the open quality of the terrain, by some other route.
Author in requisite summit pose, Elephant Butte in background
This is a fun and fairly easy amble by New Mexican standards. Due to its shadeless nature (not a single tree to be seen) and desert location it may be that a winter visit is best. Thunderstorms or heavy rainfall might be good reason to postpone a visit. There is one fin of rock that is hard to skirt around, and although there is little exposure it would be uncomfortable if a gust of wind knocked you into the neighboring cacti and boulders.
This is a great hike for a short day or if you simply need a "plan B" for more aggressive plans.
On the way back I stopped off for a pulled pork sandwich (good) and fries (excellent) at Sparky's in Hatch NM. I'll return, even if mango-chile shake seemed better on paper than on palate.
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Remote Control Weapons
August 1944 Radio-Craft
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Craft, published 1929 - 1953. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
World War II brought about the first wireless remotely controlled weapons. Prior to radio technology, bombs and missiles needed to either be within a distance serviceable by detonation wires, or were set off using mechanical or electrical timers. Both of those methods required the operator to gain access to the target area at a time relatively close to when the attack was to occur. Army battalions did have warheads with spooled wires attached that enabled them to control the time of detonation and even in some instances some degree of steering, but range was limited. Wireless technology enabled weapons to be delivered and controlled over great distances. Missiles could be directed enroute and bombs could be planted practically anytime and anywhere to await a signal when appropriate. Hugo Gernsback wrote a short op-ed piece in the August 1944 issue of his Radio−Craft magazine about how wireless technology changed warfare during WWII - for Axis and Allied forces. This "Radar Rockets" editorial appeared a year later in the July 1946 issue of Radio−Craft.
Hugo Gernsback
... The present war has introduced the first remote-controlled weapon. The future will bring a far greater variety of more formidable and more powerful war machines .
The so-called secret Nazi weapon - which was not a secret at all - first appeared on a fairly large scale against the British Isles last June.
As long ago as last February, Prime Minister Churchill several times mentioned the fact that the Germans were going to launch their "secret weapons" against English cities.
The Nazis subsequently made good their threats. By means of their pilotless robot planes, carrying a high explosive and weighing about a ton, they indiscriminately sprayed the English countryside with these flying robot-bombs.
The type which was used during June was not radio-controlled. The planes were launched from secret roller-coaster chutes, then winged their way over the English Channel and plummeted down haphazardly over town and country in southern England. These particular Nazi rocket-propelled robot planes were steadied in their flight by a regulation gyro compass, but the Germans at the sending end had no idea where the missiles would finally land. This was wholly beyond their control because the robot planes could not change their course once they were launched. Wind drift, atmospheric conditions, squalls, etc., naturally affected the course of the robots considerably, so that all they accomplished was a slight degree of terror. From a military viewpoint the Nazi aerial robots were complete duds as they could not be sent or directed to a specific target. They demolished houses, killed people, and in general raised some havoc, but even the Nazis had to admit that their robot-bombs would have no effect upon the outcome of the war.
This is the first time in warfare that a major effort was made by any power to use long-distance robot missiles against an enemy. It is true that there is a parallel with the German "Big Bertha" supergun, during the first World War, which bombarded Paris from a distance of not quite eighty miles. This was orthodox artillery where the shell exploded and killed people indiscriminately, similar to what the robot planes did in England last June. But the Paris gun projectile weighed only a fraction of the new robot bomb, consequently the latter could do far more damage than the former.
So far the Allied countries have viewed the German effort with disdain and scorn, chiefly for the reason that it is not a military weapon and because the enemy cannot see and know in advance where the missiles will strike. Allied military men look upon the Nazi robot plane as a tacit admission that the German Luftwaffe has failed miserably, and further that the weapon was used primarily as an instrument of revenge in order to raise German morale.
It is certain that military science will not stop with the Nazi robot plane. It is only the forerunner and the first example of far more effective and frightful weapons to come.
Long distance rocket-bombs which are radio-controlled and can be aimed fairly accurately are no longer an impossibility. I referred to them in an article in the last issue of Radio-Craft. But even more effective long distance robot weapons are in the offing.
As long ago as 1924 - to be exact, in my former publication The Experimenter Magazine, November 1924 issue, I was the first to describe in word and picture a pilotless robot plane, which was television-controlled. Here we have a weapon which - contrary to the Nazi terrorizing robot - can be conveyed over hundreds of miles to the exact spot desired, without any human being aboard the machine. The television-controlled airplane sees in six directions at the same instant - something no human being can accomplish. The television plane, as I described it twenty years ago, has six photo-electric eyes which can see north, south; east and west, up and down simultaneously. A continuous image of what the plane sees - in all six directions - is radioed back to headquarters where observers view the six-image screen as the plane proceeds on its course If another plane or planes approach from any point, the distant radio-control officer can put the plane through evasive tactics and elude the pursuers. The plane can even be equipped with guns, which can be fired by remote control as desired. After the television plane has negotiated the various war hurdles and evaded interception flak, etc., it can then discharge its bombs on the target, or (if necessary) the plane can carry a single large load of explosive which is detonated on contact - blowing up the plane itself, should this be desired. If the plane is to be saved, it could drop bombs in the manner of present-day bombers, and then return to its base - all by radio-control.
All this is not an impossible picture and you may be sure that long distance robot military planes of this type will be in use in the future.
One thing about them - they most likely will not be used to terrorize the population and kill people needlessly as the Nazi robots are doing now. In war, whenever possible, every High Command prefers to use weapons for purely military purposes.
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Port Orchard, Wash. (July 24, 2009) – The father-son combination of Richard and Brandon Cardwell of Tacoma, Wash. shot a 3-under par 69 to win the Inaugural Parent-Child Championship by one stroke over Jim and Joey McNelis of Gig Harbor, Wash.
The Cardwell's birdied the last two holes on the front nine to shoot one-under to set up there assault on the back. The duo stayed steady making par on the first 7 holes of the back nine waiting for their moment to capitalize. The Cardwell's would again birdie the final two holes to win in dramatic fashion.
A field consisting of 42 teams of Washington's Parent-Child golfers competed at the beautiful and challenging McCormick Woods Golf Course in Port Orchard, Wash on Friday, July 24, 2009. The field was split into two divisions comprising of both male and female competitors. The male competitors in the Championship flight played the par 72 course at 6,350 yards, while the female competitors played at 5,300 yards.
The first flight was won by the father-son team of Steve and Tom Morris of Edmonds, Wash.who shot a 1-over par 73 to win their respective division by one stroke. Male competitors in the first flight played the par 72 course from 5,800 yards while the female competitors played at 5,300 yards.
The WSGA was proud to announce earlier this season that 2 new championships would be added to the schedule in 2009 which already included the 9 traditional championships. The new WSGAParent – Child Championship is a Chapman competition open to parent – child teams whose relationship is either natural, adopted or step. Partners may have more than one generation between them (i.e. a grandfather may play with his grandson/granddaughter).
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Q: What is polarisation, spin, helicity, chirality and parity? Polarisation, spin, helicity, chirality and parity keep confusing me. They seem to be related, but exactly how they are related is unclear to me. Can someone maybe give a short overview about what these quantities mean and how they are related? What are the values for e.g. basic particles like electron or photon?

A: Polarization is, generically, a normalized vector in spin-space, i.e. the spin-state of a particle (When I say spin, I actually mean total angular momentum, spin+orbital angular momentum). Usually we take "fundamental" polarizations to be an orthonormal basis in spin-space.

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*For scalars (spin-0), there is only a trivial polarization because the spin-space is 1-dimensional.

*For spin-1/2 particle you can have a normalized linear-combination of spin-up or spin-down, $c_1|\uparrow\rangle+c_2|\downarrow\rangle$. Actually this isn't Lorentz covariant notation, but never mind that.

*For spin-1 massive you have $3$ spin degrees-of-freedom. The usual choice of basis polarizations here are $\epsilon^\mu_{\pm}=(0,1,\pm i,0)$ and $\epsilon^\mu_{3}=k^{\mu}/m$.

*For spin-1 massless (which means helicity-1, since the concept of 'spin' only strictly applies to massive particles) you have $2$ spin degrees-of-freedom, which can be taken to be right/left handed polarizations $\epsilon^\mu_{\pm}=(0,1,\pm i,0)$, or any linear combination of them.

*etc.

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*Spin is determined from the representation of the Lorentz group the quantum field transforms in. The projective finite-dimensional representations of the Lorentz group are labeled by two half-integers $(s_1,s_2)$. The spin of a field is the sum $s = s_1+s_2$. For example, a scalar transforms in $(0,0)$, a vector field in $(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2})$, a Dirac spinor in $(\frac{1}{2},0)\oplus(0,\frac{1}{2})$, and those have spin $0$, $1$ and $\frac{1}{2}$, respectively.

*Helicity is the projection of the spin vector upon momentum. Formally, if $S^{\mu\nu}$ are the generators of the Lorentz group in a given representations, then helicity is given by the operator
$$ h = \epsilon_{ijk} p^i S^{jk}$$
where $p$ is the momentum operator. For massive particles, it is not Lorentz-invariant, but for massless particles, which lack a rest frame, it is a Lorentz invariant notion.

*Chirality only makes sense for Dirac spinors and similar objects whose representation decomposes into smaller representations, or where exactly one of the two $s_i$ labelling their spin is zero. The Dirac spinor representation $(\frac{1}{2},0)\oplus(0,\frac{1}{2})$ decomposes into the left-handed $(\frac{1}{2},0)$ and the right-handed $(0,\frac{1}{2})$, which are also called the (left/right)-handed Weyl spinors. For massless fermions, the evolution equations that couple the right-handed part of a massive Dirac spinor to its left-handed part decouple, meaning a massless Dirac spinor is equivalently a theory to two uncoupled Weyl spinors. The projection operator into the chiral subspaces of the Dirac spinor representation is
$$ \mathbb{P}_\pm = \frac{1}{2}(1\pm\gamma^5)$$
for $\gamma^5$ the usual product of 4D gamma matrices. It is to be noted that, for massless fermions, the chiral subspaces are precisely the eigenspaces of helicity.

*Parity is the unitary operator $P$ upon the quantum space of states that is associated to the classical symmetry $\vec x\mapsto -\vec x$. It is equivalently one of the generators of the $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ when presenting the Lorentz group as the semi-direct product
$$ \mathrm{SO}_0(1,3)\ltimes \left(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\oplus\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\right)$$
of its component $\mathrm{SO}_0(1,3)$ connected to the identity with the group $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\oplus\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z} = \{1,P,T,PT\}$

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Hope everyone is having a nice weekend!! This Sunday morning - I wanted to do a bit more crafting - and I decided to make another card for the latest CAS-ual Friday Challenge. This week its all about "ME" - haha - You draw inspiration from you own blog - which is different and fun! To talk about my own blog - I, probably like a lot of us crafters/bloggers are proud of our blog - and how its turned out. I've had my blog up and running for two years now and its flown by so fast, but feels just like yesterday too when I decided to create a blog. I didn't know what they heck I was doing - so I must say I am proud of how far IT and I have come in two years!! Onto my card that is inspired by my blog!
I drew inspiration from my caricature. It was actually drawn for me at a craft fair here where I live, and I brought it home and my hubby did his magic on the computer with paint shop and added color as you see it now! I knew I wanted it to be the focal point of my blog - I never get tired of it!! I am a card maker - and what more to represent my blog than to create my CAS card with supplies :) This fun stamp set is from TPC Studio called "Card Crafting". I actually bought the set off of EBAY. I first dry embossed my white card base with the "Fancy Fan" embossing folder from SU! I stamped out the envelope, and the glue bottle from white card stock, and added color with some Copics. Then I thought it would be fun to stamp and emboss my "card" from a piece of Lucky Limeade card stock from SU! Then, from the Tiny Tags set from SU!, I stamped the "4 YOU" and punched it out with a small heart punch, also from SU! I added some washi tape ( because it seems I can't make a card without it anymore) to represent ribbon and my fun sentiment from the same TPC studio set. To finish the sentiment off, I added some green jewels from Little Yellow Bicycle.
Where do you draw your inspiration??? It is all around us - even within ourselves :) Have a nice rest of the weekend!!
Sweet Stamp Shop and Epiphany Crafts!
Hi everyone! I just wanted to pop in and invite you over at the Sweet Stamp Shop blog as we are teaming up with Epiphany Crafts this week!! These tools are so fun to work with and you can make some fun embellishments or just use the punched out pieces for various other uses!! Today I show case two cards using the Star shape and how cute they are used with Sweet Stamp Shop stamps!!
Here is a sneak peek of what you will find over at the blog today!
Hope all of you are having a good Monday - I won't even go into the Monday I am having - so I will digress and share with all of you my project for the latest CAS-ual Friday Challenge. You can tell around my area that fall is here - the cooler temps, the turning of the leaves - my favorite time of the year. So - it was fun to create this fall themed card!
I started out with a 4.25 square piece of Vintage Cream card stock from PTI - and used my Hero Arts Woodgrain background stamp to add texture to my card stock. I stamped out some leaves from Stampin' Up cling set called "Gently Falling" - this is actually a two step stamp set - but I just used the outlined portion. I stamped out all of my leaves onto pattern paper that I purchased from Michael's that is a 6 x 6 pad from AC. I then "fussy cut" out all of the leaves. I added some pretty Glitter tape from AC as well as some Perfect Pearls Mists for some shine and shimmer to my fall card. My sentiment comes from a Lawn Fawn set called Many Thanks. The stamp is actually one line - but I stamped it out into a two lined sentiment. I punched that out with a Stampin Up punch - I forget the name of this punch ( sorry).
Here is a close up of the shimmer if you can see it.
**By the way I wanted add that Katie from KB Stamps and Chari from MossyMade nominated me for the Liebster Blog award. I am honored that these talented ladies thought of me for this award. Thank you to you both!!
Here are the five blogs that I'm nominating. These ladies are fabulous!! You won't be disappointed by the talent that these ladies bring to the blog world!! Check 'em out!!
1) - Yainea - I can't say enough wonderful things about her! Her talent is out of this world and she is an absolute sweet heart!!
3) - Kelly - This girl has a heart of gold and she is uber talented! I just love her style!!
4) - Kim - Fellow DT member with Sweet Stamp Shop and all around fantastic crafter!
5) Stephanie - The moment I saw her blog I was hooked and she's done some awesome video tutorials as well! Very talented!!
Happy Fall Ya'll!! It's that time again! Another fun Lawnscaping Challenge! Have I mentioned how much I love this challenge blog! I never try to miss a challenge, but sometimes I don't make it - but not this time! I've got a card to share with you for this challenge which is "Getting Texty" - add text to your project. For my card I used 8 different LF stamp sets!! Yes you read that right - EIGHT! - by the looks of it, my card doesn't look like it had to take eight sets - but I am about to explain :) First - here is my card.
I used some Vintage Cream card stock from PTI - I took from each of the sets I used the "hello or hi" sentiments. I stamped out the speech bubbles and the sentiments in Gray Flannel Memento Ink. I then added washi tape ( because if you follow me - you should know by now I am obsessed with it) for a fun element. I stamped out the cute telephone from Just my Type onto some pattern paper from Basic Grey's Little Black Dress and then used black sparkle Sukara Pen for something extra to the phone. I then added some Lawn Fawn trimmings and then popped phone image for dimension. I adhered my card panel to some dark teal cardstock ( I forget where this is from) and then added that to a Vintage Cream card base.
It was a fun card to make. These challenges always get my creative juices flowing to see how far it will take me in my creativity. Of course it also helps that I just love my Lawn Fawn stamps!!
Hi everyone!! Sorry I am been away from my blog for a little bit - but I've been super busy with work mainly - but I've been able to carve out some time to get crafty!! My favorite thing to do!! I wanted to share with you my card for the Sweet Stamp Shop's Challenge : Embossing. If you haven't heard already - SSS is now doing a challenge on the blog. Here is my card for the challenge.
Head over to the blog and have fun participating in the challenge! There is a great prize package waiting to be won!! There are some great DT samples sure to get you inspired!!
Hello my blog readers - Today, I wanted to share with you my entry for the latest LSC. It is based on a sketch - and I will tell you right now - for some reason - I am not very confident in my creativity when it comes to the sketches for some reason. You would think it would be pretty simple - but leave it to me to make it difficult for myself. Anyhoo - for my card for the challenge - I am pretty happy with the result.
My card base is the beloved Hero Arts Kraft note cards I love so much ( that I am hoarding as much as possible). They are hard to find in stores or online - this pack come with the note cards and envelopes. I started with a washi tape back ground scene ( love this washi tape), and then added the scalloped border at the bottom. I had some POW glitter paper, and used my Fiskars Cloud punches to punch out some clouds. I then stamped out my airplane from Lawn Fawn's Bon Voyage - and paper - pieced it with some papers from Basic Grey What's Up 6 x 6 pad. I popped up my airplane with dimensionals, then stamped out my sentiment from Grand Greetings from Lawn Fawn.
I just might send this card to my cousin that lives in the Chicago Area - she is a pilot for United Airlines - this would be perfect for her!!
Welcome back SSS fans!! Hello to Day #3 for the new release blog hop! Today we are focusing on another awesome set - Dream Ocean. I'm your first stop today :) . Here is my card for this dreamy set Dream Ocean.
This card was fun to make. It is relaxing to looking at these colors. These images looked like they were just sitting in shallow beach water. I actually did some masking with the snapshot fun dies. I die cut from the die some masking paper and created my scene here, and then I "fussy cut" the whole image out. All my inking for the contrasting colors from "sand" to "water" are Memento Inks - Toffee Crunch, Teal Zeal, and Summer Sky. My patterned papers are from My Mind's Eye. The colors were perfect with my "picture" I created. I added some stickles to the starfish, and glossy accents for extra dimension on the sand dollar.
To finish off the card - I added some stitched borders from Basic Grey, some twine and a key that I thought would add to the "serene" feel. Hope you all like it!! OK - I can't keep you any longer! Time to turn you loose onto the oh so awesome Stephanie. Thank you to all that has left wonderful comments!! YOU are the ones that inspire US!
Welcome all again to another blog hop release for Sweet Stamp Shop!! This week the design team will be showing you sneak peaks into 3 new sets designed by the wonderful and uber talented Nicole!! You should have arrived to me by the way of the awesome, and of course talented Laurel. If not - never fear - you can just head back to Sweet Stamp Shop's blog or you can just use the line up for reference.
I stamped out the super cute umbrella from this set on a scalloped circle, and then paper- pieced the umbrella top, and handle using some patterned papers from Echo Park. I, then stamped out this beautiful sentiment onto vellum card stock in Staz- On ink. I chose vellum, because I didn't want to cover up my cloud back ground which is also patterned paper from the same pad from Echo Park. I heat embossed the rain drops in white. I added three gem stones for a little bit of "bling" to the sentiment, and one for the top of the umbrella.
Then I couldn't stop there. I was having so much fun, and on a roll creating with this set that I used some "scraps" that were left over, and came up with this card as well.
For this card, I used up what was left of my cloud background paper and stamped, then heat embossed the rain drops this time in silver for something different. I had some white card stock left from when I die cut my first scalloped circle and I stamped my sentiment again, and punch it out with a circle punch, then took a smaller circle punch and created scallops on the bottom, to make the circle look like an umbrella. I thought the sentiment was so neat looking in an "umbrella" shape. I stamped out the handle from the umbrella stamp onto vellum and heat embossed it with black embossing powder. I popped up with umbrella onto my strip of clouds and cut a "banner" edge at the bottom. To finish it off, I added some yellow bakers twine from The Twinery, and a few gem stones. The background paper is from that same Echo Park stack.
So two different ways to showcase this cute and fun set.
You are off now to visit Ellen, and I am sure you won't be disappointed for what she has in store for you on this set too!! Be sure to leave comments along the way - a fun prize pack awaits!! See you soon!!


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