Shooting Live Artists supports technically innovative convergent media projects by live artists. Works should raise issues of representation, including identity, diversity, presence, participation and mediation in contemporary culture. This fund is a partnership with the BBC and BTV. Deadline for proposals is 29 July 2002.
Gallery 9 of the Walker Art Center announces a third round of net art commissions: "Emerging Artists/Emergent Medium: Translocation" (EAEM3). With support from The Jerome Foundation, WAC will commission three new net art projects. The fee for each commission will be $5,000 plus a budget of up to $4,000 for technical support. A writer will also be commissioned to write a critical essay in relation to the project, and completed commissioned works will be presented as part of an online exhibition to be presented in February 2003. To be considered, submit a Web proposal to Steve Dietz. Deadline: 19 July 2002.
Call for participation: The 8th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia , seeks papers (10 pages max) related to the conference theme of Creative Digital Culture, especially papers dealing with virtual heritage, media art and creative technology, media and VR technology, wireless life and culture, and virtual medicine. The conference will be held on 25-27 September 2002 in Gyeongju, Korea. Please note: the deadline for submitting papers has been extended to 30 June 2002.
The5k.org is running their annual contest. The deal is, you have 5 kilobytes to make the best Web page or site you can. Cash prize! Deadline: 16 June.
The MAAP Festival seeks net art and CD-ROMs especially from artists originating and/or working in the Asia Pacific regions. Please send URLs to info@maap.org.au, and/or post your CDs to: CDROM Program, MAAP, GPO Box 2505, BRISBANE Q 4001, AUSTRALIA. Deadline: 31 June 2002. This year's MAAP festival will be held in Beijing, from 23 October to 10 November.
Patrick Crogan writes: "I'm convening a panel at the annual Cultural Studies Association of Australia conference to be held in Melbourne, Australia from December 5 - 7, 2002. Paper proposals are welcome... This panel invites different approaches to the constitution of computer games as objects of critical study that provide some insight both into the nature of computer games and into the ambivalent processes that attend and subtend the appearance of a new territory of critical work out of existing terrain." Send proposals of 250 words by 30 June to Patrick Crogan.
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology is offering grants for researchers in residence. Twice a year, the Foundation will welcome a researcher for three to six months. Following an international competition open to historians, curators, critics, independent researchers, artists and scientists, the Foundation will enable two researchers to work in the collections and archives of the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D). The research project must focus on one of the Foundation's collections. Deadline: 31 August 2002.
The Canada Council for the Arts, with the National Research Council, Canada, is launching a jointly funded Artists-in-Residence program to support independent, established artists in any discipline who wish to undertake research spanning arts and humanities within one of the NRC research institutes across Canada. The fellowships, in the amount of $75,000 per year, will be awarded for a two-year period.Two research fellowships will be awarded in the fall of 2002. For details, write to Katherine Wilson.
Call for papers: Jill Walker and Susana Tosca seek short articles (250-1500 words) for Hypertext Criticism: Writing about Hypertext, a forthcoming special issue of JoDI. The issue will be a hypertext; each article will be peer-reviewed and, if accepted, linked into the whole issue by the editors. Authors are asked to follow the submission guidelines. Deadline: 31 May 2002.
Slope seeks hypertexts for an issue to be published in late 2002, edited by Edward Picot.� Deadline: August 2002.
Focal Press is currently accepting proposals for books about new media, communications and pedagogy.
The summer issue of Convergence will be guest-edited by Amy Bruckman. The issue's theme is "New Media Technologies for Learning." The editors seek theoretical and empirical papers for inclusion in this issue. Send proposals, inquiries and submissions to: Amy Bruckman, Assistant Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 303032-0280 USA. Deadline: 15 October 2002.
Hive Projects seeks submissions of net and software art for softform, an exhibition to be held on 16 June 2002 at the Queen Street West Gallery in Toronto. Deadline: 1 June. Thanks, Adrian Miles and the Red Project!
Whalelane, an online journal of writing, arts and hypertext, seeks well-crafted submissions.
Intellect Books announces technoetic arts, an international journal of speculative research a new, peer-reviewed journal on art, science, technology, and "matters of mind and the extension of the senses through technologies of cognition and perception." Roy Ascott is the editor. Contributions should be between 3000 and 7000 words and should be written for the non-specialist.Thanks, Adrian Miles!
CHArt 2002 seeks papers for its conference, Digital Art History? Exploring Practice in a Network Society, to be held 14-15 November 2002 at the British Academy in London. Please email submissions (two hundred word synopses of proposed paper with CV of presenter and other key figures relevant to project) by 28 May 2002 to Prof. Will Vaughan, History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square London WC1H OPD, UK. Tel (0)207 631 6127; fax (0)207 631 6107.
ComGraph 2002, the third Asia Pacific digital art and animation competition. Deadline: 30 April 2002.
Call for projects: Mediatopia: Networked Technology for the Creative and Critical, an on-line exhibition and symposium, seeks media art and essays. Curated by Lara Bank and Andrew Bucksbarg for adHocArts.org. Deadline: 1 May 2002. Thanks, The Red Project!
The Consortium will consist of a Workshop held just before the conference and a Virtual Workshop held via the Internet in the weeks preceding the conference. There will also be dinner after the Consortium meeting. Doctoral students in an advanced stage of their studies (beyond proposal stage) are invited to apply for participation in this event. About a dozen students will be invited to participate. Each student will be expected to give a research presentation at the workshop and to prepare materials to be distributed for the Virtual Workshop. To apply, email a CV, a letter of recommendation from your advisor/supervisor and a position statement of about 1000 words to the Doctoral Consortium Chair. Please also include a small selection of Hypertext research experts you'd like to have invited participate in the consortium to discuss your work and the work of others in the consortium. For each potential expert panel invitee, state briefly what contribution you'd hope for that expert to make.
The Center for Contemporary Art (Sacramento) is holding an Exhibition of Digital Art at their 4000 sq-ft gallery space. The exhibition will begin on Saturday, 11 May and run through 1 June. From the call: "Beginning with the premise that digital technology has provided artists with new ways to process visual and other information, we seek innovative work in any display or presentation medium which makes use of, reflects, or explores the formal, conceptual, and/or expressive properties of any digital process...We invite submissions in any medium, including, but not limited to, computer generated art, photo-based digital art, digital film making and animation, and process/information based art. " Entry Fee: $25/first 3 entries; $5/each additional entry. Organized by Neil Houston. Jurors: Brian Clark and Steven Holsapple. For a prospectus, send an email to Neil Houston. Deadline: 25 April 2002.
Short papers are limited to two pages and typically present the initial results of new and innovative research projects. Papers are collected in an archival, refereed conference proceedings, published by ACM, which is cited and read by researchers and practitioners world-wide. Accepted papers are presented at the HT 2002 conference. Having a paper on the technical program gives authors an opportunity to have a tremendous impact on the study and application of hypertext principles, theory, and techniques.
Five-page position papers are needed for the 2nd Workshop on Spatial Hypertext. Position papers should indicate the applicant's interest and expertise in the area as well as how the applicant's work fits into the workshop's aims. Papers should be emailed as PDF files (or other reasonable attachment formats) to Frank Shipman (shipman@cs.tamu.edu). Deadline: 3 May 2002.
The Discussion Group for Media and Literature will meet at a special session of the MLA Convention in New York City, 27-30 December 2002. The group seeks papers, presentations, and readings on the subject of "digital narrativity." Proposals might include readings of hyperfiction and hypermedia narratives, or discussions of new vocabularies, concepts, typologies such as: interactivity, ergodicity, immersion, story/discourse, literacy vs. audio-vision, ephemerality, authorship, hoaxes and ethics, cyberdrama, technocultures. Send papers or 250-word abstracts and bio by 1 March 2002 to: Eckart Voigts-Virchow, Giessen University, Giessen, Germany.
Frigate: The Transverse Review is looking for knowledgeable, lively reviewers of hypertexts and of literary e-books. Deadline for the next issue: 30 March 2002. Please query before submitting.
Call for papers: The Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference will be held on June 6-8, 2002 in Tampere, Finland. Both specific analyses of games as a form of art and entertainment are welcome, as well as more general approaches dealing with the cultural practices related with games and social activities in online environments. The conference continues the series of international game studies conferences opened by Computer Games and Digital Textualities (Copenhagen, March 1-2, 2001). Proposal deadline: 30 January 2002.
Call for papers and participation: ISEA 2002, will be held on 27-31 October 2002 in Nagoya, Japan. The conference organizers expect nearly 1500 participants including artists, researchers, engineers, students, and presentations of over 200 papers and works from 30 countries around the world. Many related exhibitions, concerts, performances and other events are also planned. ISEA 2002 seeks proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, posters, and presentations. Deadline: 28 February 2002.
Call for entries: The European Media Art Festival 2002 seeks artwork and projects. This year's theme is "New Images -- New Stories: Art in Modern Media. The festival will be held on 24-28 April in Osnabrueck.
Call for papers: Digital Creativity announces a special issue on generative computation and the arts, guest-edited by Paul Brown. Full articles and shorter notes are sought. Articles may address current practice (individual works or group exhibitions) or document historical developments; they may be theoretical, practical or pedagogical. Deadlines: 1 May 2002 (abstracts) and 1 August 2002 (full papers).
Call for papers: From online documentation aboard aircraft carriers to distance learning degree programs to interactive entertainment, hypertext and hypermedia have transformed our world. Hypertext 2002, the world's premier conference on hypertext, seeks papers and proposals concerning all aspects of hypertext and hypermedia, from interactive literature and games to software engineering, HCI, virtual and augmented reality environments, navigational aids, and, of course, the Web. Formats for presentation include papers, panels and technical briefings, short papers and posters, demonstrations, exhibits, courses, workshops, and a doctoral consortium. The conference will be held 11-15 June in College Park, MD. Deadline for papers: 3 January 2002.
SIGGRAPH 2002 is receiving papers, proposals, artworks, and animations for the 29th international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques. The conference will be in San Antonio, TX, from 21-25 July 2002. Paper deadline: 9 January 2002. Gallery deadline: 6 February 2002.
Call for entries: Art in Motion, an international festival of time-based media presented by the University of Southern California's School of Fine Arts, seeks time-based works of all kinds including websites, Internet projects, film, video, digital video, hand-drawn and digital animation, interactive computer games, sound pieces, digital media, CD-ROMs, and DVDs "as well as various emerging hybrids that elude traditional categorization." No entry fee. Student work is encouraged. Deadline: 15 January 2002.
This session will explore the ways in which Shakespeare connects with various forms of information technology. A number of scholarly pursuits, including book and print histories, performance and film studies, and multimedia/digitization projects are currently examining the ways in which Shakespeare's plays and poetry migrate across various media. How have these forms of media influenced or been influenced by the bard? What role has this technology played in the creation and maintenance of Shakespeare's place in our culture? The panel hopes to highlight the role that information technology has played in the transmission of Shakespeare's work and what that work has to offer our changing information landscape.
Longtime media art site Rhizome has just announced the launch of its first net art commissioning program. Artists are invited to submit proposals in one of two categories: interface artworks (fresh ways to access content and databases) and tactical response works (pieces that address political situations around the world, in particular the events of September 11th). The deadline to apply for either of the $5,000 commissions is February 15, 2002.
Call for entries: The NOT STILL ART 2002 festival, an artist-run sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, invites artists working in abstract and non-narrative electronic motion imaging with music/sound design to submit work for the 7th annual international screening to be held in NYC, April, 2002. The festival's primary criterion for screening is the aesthetic of the electronic screen. There is no restriction as to date of production. Programs created for CD-ROM, the Web, or DVD may be submitted in those formats. Additionally, programs made with the Rutt-Etra Video Synthesizer from the 1970s are also sought for a special historic screening. Artists are asked to submit this work on MiniDV. Application fee: $25. Deadline: 20 December 2001.
immedia 2002 is now accepting submissions of digital art including (but not limited to): installations, music, performance, dance, video and animation, interactive graphics, and Web design. Grants are also available, as are opportunities to perform your work, teach workshops, or give presentations.
"Papers could answer questions such as these: What is digital literature? What is the new vocabulary of this genre? How does it differ from published texts? How do we assess its value? What impact can (or should) digital literature have on college curriculum--in creative writing, cultural and literary studies, literary theory, digital media, or interdisciplinary courses? How can students be guided to exercise their creativity and/or analytic skills in digital media without being distracted by technical gimmickry? Papers could also present and discuss particular works of digital literature: how they were created, or the nature of the aesthetic experience in viewing such a work."
Need a server for your work? The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) in the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is accepting proposals for hosting artistic, critical, and literary projects.
Call for art and papers: A new online peer-reviewed journal, NMEDIAC, seeks papers and audiovisual pieces which "contextualize encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses [...] NMEDIAC hopes to provide an intellectual canvas where the cultural spaces and experiences of new media are theorized and rigorously explored within both global and local contingencies of the present and past." Submit work via email to Jonathan Lillie. Deadline: 1 January 2002.
Screens and networks: towards a new relationship with the written word is a virtual symposium that will be held on the Web until March, 2002. Papers will be submitted for discussion, and the subsequent debates will be archived. Papers are expected from Roger Chartier, Roberto Casati, Jason Epstein, Umberto Eco, and other scholars, writers and new media luminaries. Organized by the Bibliotheque publique d'information (BPI) Centre Pompidou, the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS) and EURO-EDU, in association with GiantChair.com. Sponsored by UNESCO.
TATTOO HIGHWAY, an online journal of prose, poetry and art, is now considering submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and graphics for its Winter 2002 issue. The theme for this issue is "Surfaces." DEADLINE: Wednesday, 12 December 2001.
Call for Papers: Craft, Critique, Culture: The University of Iowa's 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Writing in the Academy will be held on 12-14 April 2002. This year's conference will have a special focus on technologies of writing and the impact of media on the creation and reception of texts. Papers are invited from scholars and writers from a range of disciplines, such as literary studies, cultural studies, communication studies, creative writing, theater, film, music, and art history. You may present formal papers or creative work, including poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and multimedia presentations. Keynote speakers include Katherine Hayles and Shelley Jackson, celebrated author of Patchwork Girl. Deadline: 1 February 2002.
In the past, UMUAI has hosted special issues on adaptive information retrieval and adaptive hypermedia. The goal of the new special issue is different -- to show the benefits and challenges of user modeling and personalization for Information Retrieval in the context of Hypermedia and the Web. This special issue will serve as an essential reference for researchers on Web Information Retrieval who are interested in making their systems adaptive and personalized.
This special issue will be dedicated to the memory of James Chen, who contributed to several foundational projects at the crossroads of adaptive hypermedia and information retrieval. Chen passed away in 2001.
MIT's program in Comparative Media Studies announces the second Media in Transition= conference, to be held 10-12 May, 2002 in Cambridge. This year's theme is "globalization and convergence". Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2001.
Call for papers: The New Information Order and The Future of the Archive, to be held 20-23 March 2002 at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Proposals for papers are invited on the nature of the public collection and the archive in light of changes introduced by information technology and the Web. Deadline: 1 November.
LIFE 4.0 is the third international juried competition seeking to reward excellence in artistic creation that has embedded in it the practices of Artificial Life (A-life). The organizers are looking for art works premised on the strategies of A-life research, its conceptual approaches and/or its methods of digital synthesis. Prizes total US$10,000. Deadline: 2 November 2001.
From the Web site: The international jury will grant awards to the most outstanding electronic art projects employing techniques such as digital genetics, autonomous robotics, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, computer viruses, avatars and virtual ecosystems.
The 15th Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media will take place on 17-20 January 2002. The deadline for submissions in the field of Internet, CD-ROM, Installation, Film, Video, Performance, Digital Music is October 1, 2001. Internet and Web projects may be subitted online. Cash prizes!
Call for participation: ED-MEDIA 2002 will be held June 24-29, 2002 in Denver, Colorado. ED-MEDIA 2002, a world conference on educational multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications, is an international conference sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education. Deadline to submit presentation proposals: 29 October 2001.Thanks, Adrian Miles!
Call for Papers: Education, Communication and Information (ECi) seeks papers for a special focus issue, to be published next spring, on hypertext and hypermedia, edited by Wendy Morgan. Proposed papers should explore, challenge and redefine what we know about and do with hypertext and hypermedia in teaching and learning contexts. Papers for the special issue may be informed speculation, theorized argumentation, scholarship, or empirical research. Topics for articles include, but are not limited to, poetics, rhetoric and aesthetics; scholarship (including philosophy, ethnography, social / sciences and the humanities); pedagogy; cultural politics. Please contact Wendy Morgan for details. Deadline: 15th September, 2001.
Call for Papers: The Eleventh Annual International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2002) will be held 7-11 May 2002 in Honolulu! Since the first WWW conference in 1994, this prestigious conference series has brought together technical experts and social engineers to discuss the present and future of the Web throughout the world. Topics of interest include: applications; browser and user interfaces; electronic commerce and security; hypermedia; languages; mobility and wireless access; multimedia; performance; searching, querying, indexing, and crawling; semantic Web. Paper submission deadline: November 13, 2001.
Call for submissions: Javamuseum seeks art and software for its second online project, Art as Software - Software as Art - Software For Art. Selected submissions will be exhibited online in late 2001. The exhibition will remain as a permanent resource on the JavaMuseum server. Deadline: 30 September 2001.
3rd bed, a print and on-line journal of innovative fiction and poetry, is seeking hypertext and hypermedia submissions. Please direct all queries and submissions to the web editor, Paul McRandle.
Going to Aarhus? The early registration deadline for Hypertext 2001 is 1 July, and the conference program is now available.
Adrian Miles sends word of SAC2002, the 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, which includes a track for virtual reality, digital media, and computer games. The conference will be held 10-14 March 2002 in Madrid. Deadline for papers and proposals: 1 September 2001. Thanks, Adrian!
Call for proposals: Crossover seeks applications from new media, film and video makers for Studio A, a five-day retreat in February 2002. Crossover is a "media intervention" designed by Weblabto create groundbreaking new projects that expand the potential of digital media to transform the "audience" from passive consumers into active participants. The application deadline is July 13, 2001.
Call for participation: The 7th International Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems, to be held in conjunction with Hypertext 2001 this August in Denmark. Post-workshop Proceedings of OHS 7, Structural Computing 3 (SC3) and the Workshop on Adaptive Hypermedia (AH3) will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. Deadline: 5 June 2001.
Suggested topics for workshop papers include, but are not limited to: interoperation and standardisation issues in OHS, including architectural issues, protocols, naming, transformation; semantic Web including topic maps, meta data, ontologies; document models and hypertext; media aspects of OHSs such as synchronisation of contents and link data, streaming of links; OHS issues and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW); application scenarios, experiences, hypertext domains, and requirements for OHSs; Open Hypermedia on the Web; presentation aspects including personalisation and context awareness; and progress reports by OHSWG subgroup chairs.
The Hypertext 2001 Doctoral Consortium (DocCon) will be held this year in Aarhus, Denmark, co-located with Hypertext 2001. If you are a Ph.D. candidate entering your last year (or two) of your technical dissertation on a hypermedia-related topic, please apply by sending a CV, position paper, and letter of recommendation ASAP to Ken Anderson.
Call for participation: The fifth hypertext writers' workshop, MORPHING MEDIA--WHAT'S THE MESSAGE?, will be held on 15 August in Aarhus, Denmark, in conjunction with Hypertext 2001. The workshop promotes an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to bringing hypertext researchers, developers, and writers together. To participate, email a proposal to Deena Larsen. Deadline: 15 June.
TATTOO HIGHWAY, an online journal of prose, poetry and art, seeks short fiction, creative nonfiction, hypertext and poetry for its Summer 2001 issue. The theme for this issue is Roadside Attractions. DEADLINE: Friday, 8 June 2001.
The cast01 Conference on Communication of Art, Science and Technology will be held September 21-22, 2001 in Bonn, Germany. The conference organizers invite submissions of innovative research, media art practise and theory. Proposed contributions (in English or German) may be in the form of research papers or artistic presentations as well as blueprints and posters of developing concepts. Researchers, artists, theorists, practitioners and entrepreneurs are encouraged to submit interdisciplinary projects and critical reflections on the merging of the virtual and the real. Accepted papers and blueprints will be published in the Conference proceedings. Deadline: 31 May 2001.
Call for participation: Deena Larsen seeks artists, writers, and hypermedia systems developers to participate in CyberFlats 2001, a workshop to be held 20-22 August 2001 at Aalborg University in Denmark. If you would like to participate, submit a proposal via email. Proposals are due 10 June. For more information, contact Deena Larsen.
Mike Neff, editor of Webdelsol writes, "By all accounts, the first AWP Web Fair was a success...The panels were generally well attended; the film, Virtually Paris, was a big hit;, and the new media demonstrations were artsy and provocative. It was a vast improvement over previous efforts and we're certain that WF 2002 New Orleans will be even better." Proposals for next year's Web Fair, to be held next March in New Orleans, are due on 30 May.
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology is launching a program of grants for researchers in residence, who will be expected to work on certain topics in the collections and archives of the Centre for Research and Documentation. For 2001-2002, the topics are: (1) technological, artistic and aesthetic history of computer animation, and (2) conceptual, scientific and artistic issues involved in preserving digital artworks or works with digital components. Two three- to six-month residencies will be offered per year. The application deadline is August 31, 2001.
The IA/PDA poses to create new cultural modes of representation as these technologies create their own communities and networks while not wholly relying on the Internet proper. What are the issues of expression and artistic representation (visual, aural, narrative, etc) that the emergence of wireless technologies creates? How does this technology affect our relationship with one another and with these new developments?
The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) in the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is accepting new manuscripts for digital modes of publication in its Research E-ditions series. The main focus of the CDDC is to explore the new communicative potentials of hypertext, hypermedia, and web-centered publication. While all topics are potentially of interest in the Research E-ditions series, the editors are particularly interested in manuscripts, digital archives, and hypertexts from the humanities and social sciences relating to the areas of cyberculture, social theory, literary studies, digital art, and cultural studies. In addition, the CDDC is committed to Proposals from applied and natural sciences that relate directly to the fields of bioinformatics, energy and environmental studies, and information technology and communications. To propose a publication project, or to get more information, contact the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.
Call for Submissions: Perform your work at the Hypertext '01 Reading Room! A reading room for hypertext literature has been an occasional feature of hypertext conferences going back at least to ECHT '94 in Edinburgh. For HT01, cybertexts of all kinds are welcome, and non-anglophone submissions are expressly encouraged. Work in progress is acceptable, as is not-yet published work. Deadline: 15 May 2001. Email Jim Rosenberg for more details.
Hypertext 2001, the twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext, is now accepting proposals for short papers, demos, posters and exhibits. Proposals are due 10 May 2001. The conference will be held August 14-18 2001 in Aarhus, Denmark.
The trAce Online Writing School, opening June 2001, seeks proposals for courses teaching writing on the Web. For more information, or to discuss your idea for a course proposal, please contact Sue Thomas, Artistic Director of trAce.
Call for entries: 9th New York Digital Salon is now accepting submissions of internet art, essays on digital culture, animation, and digital audio and music for a gallery exhibition to take place in November (with an international tour afterwards). Deadline: 1 June 2001.
The June 2001 issue of the Norwegian web journal Localmotives will focus on net art. From the call: "The editors welcome ideas for critical, academic or creative essays as well as for artistic projects that are related to net art. We're interpreting net art very broadly, as visual, literary, conceptual, political, social, textual and/or audible art that uses or relates to networked media. We're primarily interested in contributions in Scandinavian languages, but will also consider other languages - like English. We will pay for published work. Please send a brief sketch of your idea for a contribution by April 9th; a couple of sentences is enough for now. Our email address is localmotives@kunst.no." Thanks, Jill Walker and Kevin Foust!
Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies seeks articles on for a special issue on "intermedia". Deadline: 1 April 2002. Contact Yvonne Spielmann or Jack Ox for details.
Call for contributions to frAme 6 - Net : Spirit Is there a new kind of spirituality happening out on the net? Do you get the sense you're connecting with something greater than yourself? Have you ever meditated online? Does code have a zen all of its own? What are the new spiritual patterns, symbols, and icons of cyberspace? Why all these coincidences, mindmelds, serendipities and downright unrealities? Is this religion? Who are we online? What do multiple identities do to your head? What does it all mean? Net : Spirit will be co-edited by Sue Thomas and Helen Whitehead. They're looking for webwriting of all kinds. Essays and articles will also be considered. Small payment for contributors. Send submissions to trace@ntu.ac.uk before 1 July 2001 for publication in September 2001.
The 15th Prix Ars Electronica 2001 competition for cyberarts is now open for the categories of Net Vision/Net Excellence, Interactive Art, Digital Music, and Computer Animation/Visual Effects. Detailed information on each category, the names of the Jury members, the competition regulations and all information you need to register online is at the PAE 2001 website. Deadline for entries is April 7, 2001 (postmarked).
Jaime Alejandro Rodriguez Ruiz is looking for articles on culture, hypertext, and other new media technologies for a special issue of a Columbian journal, La Revista Universitas Humanistica. For more information, send email. Thanks, Susana Pajares Tosca!
Call for Papers: CLGSA and COCH/COSH are coordinating a conference, Between Zero and One: Cybersexualities and the Technologies of Gender. The organizers seek papers on: the politics and performance of (trans)gendering in cyberspace; gender and sexuality in hyperfiction, science fiction and cyberpunk; feminism, queer theory and the interactions of computational discourse and cultural theory; cyborg feminisml multimedia applications for the study/performance of gender and sexuality in academia, the arts and sciences; gender and sexuality in the history of computing; artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and the alteration of gender and sexuality. Please submit a title, a 500-word abstract, and a covering letter to: Dr. Ian Lancashire AND to Sophie Levy .
Call for papers and proposals for a proposed MLA special session: Playing with Interactive Narrative: Computer Games, Hypertext, and Special Effects.
Andrew McTavish, session organizer, seeks papers that "theorize the intersection between narrative and anti-narrative in computer games. I am especially interested in interdisciplinary papers that engage with frameworks for thinking about narrative in computer games, such as hypertext theory, narrative theory, and/or special effects film theory. What can and can't hypertext theory tell us about computer games? What can and can't computer games tell us about hypertext theory? Most articulations of hypertext theory rely heavily upon linguistics-based theories of meaning. Can a linguistics-based approach to computer games explain the non-linguistic elements of visual and auditory effects? Are computer games interactive narratives? Or is narrative a secondary prop upon which to arrange interactivity and special effect?" Send full papers or 500-word abstracts plus short CV to Andrew Mactavish, McMaster University School of the Arts, 1280 Main Street, West Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M2 Canada. Deadline: 12 March 2001 Thanks, Adrian Miles!
CALL FOR ENTRIES: THE LITE SHOW, a project of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.
Still using a dialup modem? You're not the only one getting older while that fat file loads. In a world where everyone needs a bigger pipe, bandwidth is at once an important political issue and a significant creative constraint. In recognition of bandwidth's centrality in a networked society, Web artists and developers are invited to submit their best low-band productions to the LITE SHOW, an international festival of cutting-edge low-bandwidth animation and interactive web-based art planned for Boston CyberArts 2001. Work by LITE SHOW artists will be featured on the web, at CyberArtsCentral, and at a live interactive screening. An educational/workshop component is also planned. Entries may be animation, interactive web-based art, or other time-based media viewable in a browser. The exhibition will be juried. Judges TBA. The deadline for entries is 28 FEBRUARY 2001.
Especially interesting is the GOSSAMER category for movies shorter than 5K.
The online journal ://EnglishMatters seeks creative and analytical work focused on mixed genre writing, hypermedia writing, and other cross-genre work for its fifth issue. Particular emphasis will be placed on the ways in which new media changes the nature of mixed genre work as well as how it changes the documentation and study of such work. Web-based and non-web based work documented in a web format are welcome. Also welcome: assignments, syllabi, and other web-based teaching materials. Deadline: 4/1/01. Thanks, Jim Rosenberg!
Call for Papers: COSIGN 2001, the First International Conference on Computational Semiotics in Games and New Media, seeks papers on any subject that explores areas of overlap (or potential overlap) between semiotics and interactive digital media. The conference will be held 12-14 September 2001 in Amsterdam. The deadline to submit papers and projects is 23 March 2001.
Examples of this include, but are not limited to: The use of semiotics in the study and criticism of digital interactive media; narratology in new media; the use of semiotics in the creation of generative narrative systems, interactive digital games, entertainment and artworks; semiotic-orientated HCI; software architectures and technologies using (or based upon) semiotic theories, systems or models; the use of semiotics in AI; semiotics and hypermedia. In addition to academic and theoretical papers, presentations of practice-based artwork relevant to the themes of this conference are also invited, as are short papers.
Currents in Electronic Literacy is now accepting submissions for a special issue, New Poetics?, to be published in the Fall of 2001. The editor seeks articles on all aspects of new media and electronic poetry, including but not limited to those addressing literary, critical, theoretical, authorship, ownership, programming, visual literacy, aesthetic, and teaching issues. Also appropriate for this issue are high-quality creative examples of this "New Poetics" which make use of hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia, cybertext, and/or cybermedia. Completed articles are due April 2, 2000.
Electronic Literature Organization Announces $10,000 Awards for Electronic Fiction and Poetry. Larry McCaffery, author of Storming the Reality Studio, will judge the Fiction competition. Heather McHugh, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and author of Hinge & Sign will judge the Poetry competition.
Entries will be judged for innovative use of electronic techniques and enhancements, literary quality, and quality and accessibility of interface design. Authors may make multiple submissions, though a $15 application will be charged for each work. Collections will be accepted if they are intended to be read as a single work. The Electronic Literature Organization will open submissions on December 1st, 2000, and close submissions February 15, 2001.
The WriteOnLine Publishing Company is pleased to announce that submissions are being accepted for the first annual WRITEONLINE LITERARY AWARD for best original short fiction in the English language. A prize of US$250 will be awarded to one male writer and to one female writer for the best unpublished short story in the English language. The award also carries second and third prizes in the amount of US$100 and US$50 each respectively. Submission deadline: 15 January 2001.
Call for entries The NOT STILL ART FESTIVAL 2001 invites artists working in abstract and non-narrative electronic motion imaging with music/sound design, to submit work for the 6th annual international screening, to be featured at the Boston Cyberarts Festival in April, 2001. The aesthetic of the electronic screen is the criterion for exhibition. Artists are asked to submit a VHS preview tape. International work will be accepted in NTSC, PAL and SECAM formats. Please print the application and guidelines from the website, or fax or send a SASE to receive these materials. There is a $25 application fee. For $50 artists can apply and also receive a NTSC VHS copy of the NSA 2001 screening. Deadline: 1 February 2001.
Snakeskin, a poetry webzine, seeks hypertext poetry for its next issue. Earlier issues included hypermedia poetry by Linda Crespi and Jennifer Ley.
Deena Larsen seeks participants for a Digital Literature Workshop to be held immediately after DAC 2001, from Sunday, 29 April to Monday, 30 April 2000 in Providence. Writers, artists, readers, and system developers will share works in progress and discuss techniques and strategies to improve digital literature and literacy. Workshop participants will be limited to 25, and works to critique will be accepted on a first-come, first served basis. The deadline for submitting works for this workshop is 1 February 2001. To apply, send an email to Deena Larsen.
Transmediale will award three prizes in 2001 - each worth DM 10,000 -- for interactive, video, and stristic software. The as yet barely defined field of "artistic software" incorporates projects in which self-written algorithmic computer software (stand alone programmes or script-based applications) is not merely a functional tool, but is itself an artistic creation and a form of aesthetic expression. The closing date for entries is 31 October 2000.
Call for papers: The joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ACH/ALLC) will be held in New York City, June 13-17 2001. The theme is Digital Media and Humanities Research, and it will feature plenary addresses by Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor in Media Studies at the University of Virginia, and Alan Liu, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. ACH/ALLC 2001 invites submissions of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing or new media, broadly defined. The deadline for papers is 15 November 2000; the poster/demo deadline is 15 January 2000.
Call for papers: The Winter 2001 issue of Convergence (vol. 7, no. 4) will be devoted to the theme of an historical approach to understanding the future adoption and diffusion of new media technologies. Topics include "History of the Future of New Media", and "Theories of new Media Adoption". Copy deadline: 30 April 2001. For details, email editor Bruce C. Klopfenstein.
Call for Contributors: dotlit, an online journal of creative writing seeks unpublished works of short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, literary criticism, book reviews, hypertext and other multimedia literary texts.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies plans to devote its Summer 2001 issue to the theme of "Intelligent Environments." "Submissions are welcomed relating to the cultural and cognitive dimensions of interactions with intelligent environments from both the theoretical perspective and that of technical, artistic and cultural practices and products." For more information on this planned issue, please contact Ted Krueger (tkrueger@comp.uark.edu) at the University of Arkansas.
Literal Latte announces a new web-based community for writers interested in memoir. Hosted by Literal Latte Magazine, Memory Speak: Penning Life Into Art is a community of readers and writers who appreciate the variety and complexity of the memoir form. To participate, visit the fiction and literature area of the community section at iUniverse.
Call for sound and radio art: THE HEARING TRUMPET, a program of eclectic audio and radio art broadcast weekly in Montreal and is now streaming live to the Internet at http://www.ckut.ca, seeks "sound scratchings, e(a)rotica, experimental radio documentaries, sound travels, obscure sound archives, ear candy, audio alchemy, mp3 remixes, and other aural adventures."
Artists, authors, and institutions are invited to participate the Virtual Memorial Project of Agricola de Cologne, decribed as "against the Forgetting and for Humanity".
Country Road, an upmarket Australian clothing and housewares retailer, is running a hypertext fiction competition. The prize is a new Hewlett Packard PC; the contest is open to citizens of Australia and New Zealand only. Thanks, Adrian Miles!
Literal Latté has announced an internet-based Memoir Community. Visitors may read memoirs from Literal Latté, post their own biographical works, read articles on memoir writing, and discuss current memoirs; members may publish their own books through iUniverse.com.
The Iowa Review invites submissions of hypertext and other writing that requires an HTML environment for its presentation. Work in any genre is welcome. Direct the editor to your personal home page (by email to Brian Lennon, Web Editor) or mail submissions on diskette.
The Bernies a new award program, sponsored by the ACM Hypertext Conferenc, is seeking new hypertexts -- especially by scientists and engineers. Awards for the most extreme hypertexts will be given at Hypertext 2001 in August.
The Little Magazine writes that it's seeking original hypertexts "in the aftermath of our latest release and in anticipation of the growing complexity of hypermedia." Deadline is February 15; contact editors C. Milletti and E Savopoulos for details.
Call for Submissions: The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia seeks hyperfiction.
Eastgate Systems is always seeking superb hypertexts-- fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.


So how would You handle it if your kitchen-table startup made its first thousand sales in 24 hours and sold another one-third million units within the next half year? Host Bart Jackson invites Joe Caiola, founder of Watch Yo Mouth game & corporation to tell the tale of his overnight success, and how he is handling his volcanic explosion into the giddy task of becoming a CEO. Staffing, warehousing, capitalizing, law suits, compliance, customer relations, and cracking the whip on production have all heaped upon the broad shoulders of this amazingly clever entrepreneur. Tune in and learn how this ultimate Horatio Alger living legend is riding the whirlwind he created.


This quirky cushion is the perfect Christmas gift for astronomy lovers. Stylish and minimal indigo blue and white design showing famous star constellations.
Add a bit of interest to your sofa or they make a great gift for anyone that loves astronomy. This modern blue and white design shows well known star constellations on the front. The back tells you a little bit more about star constellations and their names.
We also have a blue and white cloud types cushion in the Newton and the Apple shop.
MADE FROM: Newton and the apple cushions are 100% cotton and screen printed with our designs here in the UK. They can be machine washed on a 40 degree cycle.
DIMENSIONS: Each blue and white star constellations cushion is a 40cm square.


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import { observable } from 'mobx'
import api from './_api'

export default class UserStore {
  @observable user = undefined
  @observable statistics = undefined

  login(username, password, success = () => {}, failure = () => {}) {
    let store = this
    api.post('/api-token-auth/', {
        username: username,
        password: password
      })
      .then(function(response) {
        store.user = response.data.user
        store.setToken(response.data.token)
        success()
        console.log('Login successful')
      })
      .catch(function(error) {
        console.log(error)
        failure()
      })
  }

  register(data, success, failure) {
    let store = this
    api.post('/users/', data).then(function(response) {
      success()
      console.log('Registration was successful.')
    }).catch(function(error) {
      console.log(error.response)
      failure()
    })
  }

  setToken(token) {
    api.defaults.headers.common['Authorization'] = 'JWT ' + token
  }

  logout(success = () => {}, failure = () => {}) {
    this.user = undefined
    this.statistics = undefined
    api.defaults.headers.common['Authorization'] = ''
    success()
  }

  fetchStatistics(success = () => {}, failure = () => {}) {
    let store = this
    api.get('/statistics/').then(response => {
      store.statistics = response.data
      console.log('Statistics were successfuly fetched.')
      success()
    }, errors => {
      console.log(errors, errors.response)
      failure()
    })
  }

  validateUsername(username, success = () => {}, failure = () => {}) {
    let store = this
    let data = {
      username: username
    }
    api.post('/users/is_valid/', data).then(response => {
      console.log('Username is valid.')
      success()
    }, errors => {
      console.log('Username already exists.')
      failure()
    })
  }
}

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Iraq paramilitaries find mass grave of hundreds executed by ISIS
An Iraqi forensic worker excavates human remains in a mass grave, believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by ISIS militants when they overran. (File photo: AP)
AFP, Baghdad Saturday 11 March 2017
Iraqi paramilitary forces announced Saturday that they had discovered a mass grave at Badush prison near Mosul containing the remains of hundreds of people executed by ISIS.
ISIS reportedly killed up to 600 people after seizing the jail in 2014, and was also said to have held hundreds of kidnapped women from Iraq's Yazidi minority at the facility.
The Iraqi military said that forces from the Hashed al-Shaabi -- an umbrella group of pro-government forces that are dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias -- were among the units that recaptured the prison from the extremists.
Hashed forces found "a large mass grave containing the remains of around 500 civilian prisoners in (Badush) prison who were executed by (ISIS) gangs after they controlled the prison during their occupation of Mosul," they said.
The Hashed did not say how they reached that figure, which could not be independently confirmed, but it is in keeping with a Human Rights Watch report of ISIS killings at Badush.
According to HRW, ISIS gunmen executed up to 600 inmates from Badush prison on June 10, 2014, forcing them to kneel along a nearby ravine and then shooting them with assault rifles.
Iraqi lawmaker Vian Dakhil also said that year that the jihadists were holding more than 500 Yazidi women at Badush.
ISIS targeted the Yazidi religious minority in a brutal campaign of executions, kidnapping and rape, killing men and holding women and girls as sex slaves.
ISIS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces backed by US-led air strikes have since regained most of the territory they lost.
Iraqi forces launched an operation to retake Mosul -- the last ISIS-held city in Iraq -- in October, recapturing its eastern side before setting their sights on its smaller but more densely populated west.

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Moore Group staff have significant experience in the preparation of appropriate assessment screening and Natura Impact Assessments.
What is Appropriate Assessment and when is it needed?
Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive requires that:
'Any plan or project not directly connected with or necessary to the management of the site but likely to have a significant effect thereon, either individually or in combination with other plans or projects, shall be subject to appropriate assessment of its implications for the site in view of the site's conservation objectives. In the light of the conclusions of the assessment of the implications for the site and subject to the provisions of Paragraph 4 of the Directive, the competent national authorities shall agree to the plan or project only after having ascertained that it will not adversely affect the integrity of the site concerned and, if appropriate, after having obtained the opinion of the general public.'
And Article 6(4) of the Habitats Directive requires that:-
'If, in spite of a negative assessment of the implications for the site and in the absence of alternative solutions, a plan or project must nevertheless be carried out for imperative reasons of overriding public interest, including those of social or economic nature, the Member State shall take all compensatory measures necessary to ensure that the overall coherence of Natura 2000 is protected. It shall inform the Commission of the compensatory measures adopted.'
For more information see this Guide from the EPA, or see the NPWS website here.
What is Appropriate Assessment?
The EU Habitats Directive requires an 'Appropriate Assessment' (AA) to be carried out where a plan or project is likely to have a significant impact on a Natura 2000 site. Natura 2000 sites include Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) and Special Protection Areas (SPAs). Appropriate Assessment is referred to in Articles 6(3) and 6(4) of the EU Habitats Directive. Guidelines on AA were launched by the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government (DEHLG) in December 2009.
How is an Appropriate Assessment Conducted?
There are a number of steps in the AA process, including:
Screening, which establishes whether a plan or project could have significant effects on a Natura 2000 site, on its own or in combination with other plans or projects.
If there is potential for impact, the next step, or full Appropriate Assessment, is undertaken.
If the AA concludes that there will be no adverse effects on the integrity of a Natura 2000 site, the consent authority can proceed and decide to grant or refuse permission under the planning or other relevant process.
If adverse effects are possible, the project or plan can only proceed where there are Imperative Reasons of Over-riding Public Interest (IROPI) and other alternatives are not applicable.
Who Conducts Appropriate Assessment?
Recent Guidance on AA by the DEHLG state that it is the responsibility of the competent authority (or consent authority) to undertake AA. This will be completed based on information submitted by the proponent of the plan or project, in the form of a Statement for AA. This Statement of AA must be prepared by an ecological specialist with input from other experts e.g. hydrologists or engineers as necessary.
What Types of Development Require Appropriate Assessment?
Any development which has the potential to impact on a designated SAC or SPA must be screened for AA. The terminology 'plan or project' must be given a very broad interpretation and can include development applications, development plans, local area plans, waste, discharge and other operational licenses and permits.
For more info contact Ger.


17 Dec 2014 Fateha khwani, Candle lighting & flowers for the victims of Peshawar Blast!
A mystery novel is never intriguing if its not deep and mesmerising. For a mystery or crime novel to successfully kill you, it should have cover story that fits nicely in every crevice and groove. It must have suspense that should persist till the right moment. And, it should have surprises, something unique that only the most genius of readers can fathom it would take place. Surprisingly, we have a winner, a novelist who clearly and successfully appreciates all the three objectives in her novels. The novelist is none other than Agatha Christie.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born on September 15th, 1890 into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Initially, she was unsuccessful in getting her work published. But in 1920, The Bodley Head press published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. That set the wheels of her literary careee into motion.
She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections and sold roughly 2 billion copies. Her estate claims that her books are world's third most widely published books and she remains the most translated author of all time. Most of her books and short stories have been adapted for television, radio, video games and comics. More than thirty feature films have been based on her work.
And then there were none: This novel was voted as 'World's Favourite Christie' in 2015. It revolves around ten people who have been gathered at a mysterious island by an unknown host. Its a regular get together when suddenly, peculiar things start happening and everyone is suddenly fighting for their lives.
The ABC Murders: A homicidal maniac is killing people in an alphabetical order. Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective works to get to the bottom of this mysterious series of murder.
The Unexpected Guest: A driver who comes to a lonely house asking for help, finds himself amidst murder of the host. He must save himself from being convicted and also save those who are wrongly taking the blame for it.
The novels of Agatha revolve around special protagonists who see things in a better perspective and solve mysteries. Notable characters include Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple,Ariadne Oliver, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.


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July 24, 2017 August 1, 2017 Posted in Interview, RCC
In March 2016, Sarah Prince was approached with the idea of leading a fortnightly women's ride out of Rapha Manchester. Encouraged by her guidance and enthusiasm, word quickly spread with growing numbers of both experienced and individuals new to cycling meeting at the clubhouse for a pre-ride coffee. A little over a year later, city centre shoppers are now regularly treated to the sight of a neat peloton disappearing down Deansgate en-route to Cheshire lanes or Peak District climbs.
Part of the Rapha Ambassador team, it's fair to say that Sarah has played a key role in encouraging more women to ride their bikes in and around the city with over 60 registrations for the Manchester rides of the Rapha Women's 100 a clear indication that female participation has never been stronger.
Returning to the clubhouse after leading the 'hilly' route out from the city centre towards Ramsbottom and the iconic 25% ramp of the Rake – a prize on offer for the day's fastest Strava time – Sarah took a moment to explain what it means to encourage other women to get out on their bikes.
Why, on a personal level, do you ride?
It's the sense of freedom; you, the bike and the road. The exhilaration of being outside in all weathers and knowing that you have the abilities and confidence to deal with whatever is thrown at you. And then you combine all that with the camaraderie and spirit of riding with other people. The smiles as we arrive back at the clubhouse; the feeling of, 'We're all in this together, let's crack on.'
What's it like cycling in and around Manchester?
Within the city centre it can be challenging but we address these issues and explain about positioning yourself properly when riding and that confidence is the key. Not letting the cars squeeze you into the curb. And once we're out into the lanes, which doesn't take long, then it's just brilliant.
A favourite route?
I do like my hills so the Hayfield loop is a good example. There's a few short, sharp climbs and a delightful little tearoom where we sit down after 25 or 30 miles and talk about what we've just achieved.
What do you find are the most common concerns for riders new to cycling?
I'd say coping with the traffic. But I find that once they understand how riding in a group gives them a presence on the road – a feeling of protection – then their confidence soon begins to build. And I always do a pre-ride briefing so everyone knows where we're going, what to expect and to look out for each other. Riders that joined us in the New Year – some of them initially very nervous and apprehensive – are now passing on advice and encouragement.
What are your goals or ambitions for women's cycling out of Manchester?
When I first took up this role it was simply to help more girls enjoy the sense of freedom that riding your bike can provide. It's now grown to a point where they're organising themselves through our group chat and planning their own rides. Our women's Rapha Cycling Club (RCC) membership is also growing so we have more mixed rides on a Sunday which I personally feel is a healthy sign of the way we're moving forward in encouraging female participation.
An important role that Rapha plays?
Events like Braver Than The Elements and the Women's 100 really help in celebrating women's cycling on a global scale. And the female specific kit that Rapha is designing in response to our feedback is so encouraging. For me, though, what really stands out is Rapha's sponsorship of the Canyon-SRAM professional women's cycling team. Days leading up to this year's Tour de Yorkshire we had team members Hannah Barnes and Mieke Kröger visit the clubhouse before we took them out on a ride. So inspiring to share the road with such strong female cyclists.
It's clear you feel very passionate about your role?
Sometimes, it can be the little things you notice. Someone turning up at the clubhouse on a Saturday morning wearing trainers – very apprehensive and nervous about that first ride – and then they show up two weeks later in a pair of cycling shoes with cleats. We're all on a journey and to play some small part in helping to encourage another female rider; well, that's a privilege that I value enormously.
To view the Rapha Manchester Women's 100 'hilly' route.
For more information on the Rapha Manchester Women's Clubhouse Rides.
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Jane Apperley, MBChB, MD, FRCP, FRCPath
Professor of Medicine Chair, Department of Haematology Hammersmith Hospital
Imperial College, London (UK)
Professor Jane Apperley is the Chair of the Department of Haematology at the Imperial College and the Chief of Service for Clinical Haematology at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, England. Jane Apperley served as the President of both the European Group of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and the British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research.
She qualified in Medicine from the University of Birmingham and after initial specialization in internal medicine she completed specialist training in hematology in Birmingham, London, Cambridge and Boston.
Her particular interests are the biology and management of CML, which has led to an extensive experience in stem cell transplantation and to the use of signal transduction inhibitors. Her group at the Hammersmith Hospital site has extensive experience in the use of the first- and second-generation TKI's, particularly in the areas of molecular monitoring and mechanisms of drug resistance. She has a long-standing interest in the ways in which hematologic diseases and their treatment impact fertility, pregnancy, and fetal outcome.


Dogs struck by cars or trucks may sustain severe injuries ranging from a broken pelvis to internal injuries. Such injuries are not for the amateur to fool around with and possibly cause complications. They require expert treatment. But first aid is almost always necessary, especially when severe bleeding or shock are present.
First, remove the dog from the road or street, out of the path of traffic. Remember that injured dogs may bite. If the dog's mouth is not injured, put on an emergency muzzle. Slide the dog onto a blanket, burlap bag or coat and drag or slide him out of danger.
Next, get to work. Control all bleeding. After this, treat for shock. Examine the dog for possible fractures. A break in a leg is usually visible as a large lump or you may see part of a bone protruding through the skin. The dog cannot move the broken part. Do not move the dog or broken part unnecessarily. If there is an obvious break, put a splint on it.
Use stiff cardboard, wood, folded newspapers or 4-inch wire mesh for splints. Gently place the splint against the broken parts, with the upper and lower ends of the splints extending well beyond the break. Fasten the splints above and below the break with roller bandage, adhesive tape or strips of cloth.
If the dog tries to struggle to his feet and can't get his rear end up, he may have a broken pelvis. You can't put a splint on the pelvis. The best you can do is try to keep the dog still. Place him on a board, have someone hold him there, and transport him to a veterinarian.
After you've done all you can for the dog struck by a car or truck, get him to a veterinarian.


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500 Startups raises $33 million for its MENA-focused fund
By Ghadeer Alaradi	March 27, 2019 No Comments
500 Startups has announced that its MENA-focused fund, dubbed 500 Falcons, is now ready to operate full-fledged. The $33-million fund is designed to provide financial assistance to promising up-and-coming businesses in the region's thriving ecosystem.
Already widely recognized as one of the world's leading early-stage investors, 500 Startups is increasingly focusing in MENA because of its rich talent pool and a superior infrastructure that has turned the region into a hotbed for entrepreneurial success.
500 Startups issued the following statement to underline the significance of this new development: "We are happy to announce that we've had an oversubscribed final closing for our first MENA region focused fund, 500 Falcons. We set out to raise a $30 million fund to have a significant impact in the MENA region, and thanks to the support of our Limited Partners we held an oversubscribed final closing for the fund at $33 million."
Despite operating in MENA since 2012, the global venture capital firm first raised its MENA-focused fund nearly two years back. The net capital raised at that time was $15 million.
Till date, 500 Startups have invested (or committed to invest) in more than 100 companies across the region. Notably, one of nearly four startups backed by the firm had at least one female founder.
More than 250 entrepreneurs have benefitted from the VC firm's activities in the region over the past few years.
"We hope that our influence on the region has been positive, both for investors and startups, and we are excited to continue playing an active role in the MENA region for many years to come. This is just the start," the statement from 500 Startups added.
Ghadeer Alaradi
A writer and content producer for StartUp Bahrain who enjoys uncovering stories of founders who are making a difference in their communities, successful women, passionate youth, and change-makers who strive to make the world a better place.


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Sustainability in the Toy Aisles: New Trend Hunter Report
January 3, 2020 | TrendHunter.com's latest free monthly report for Toy Association members explores trends around sustainability, eco-friendly alternatives, and up-cycling tactics as it relates to toys and play.
"The latest Trend Hunter report addresses how today's parents are putting more value on being environmentally mindful through their purchasing decisions and its impact on product development," said Anne McConnell, senior director of market research & data strategy at The Toy Association. "Toymakers are encouraged to use the key takeaways from this report to explore how they might incorporate more sustainable product designs in their own businesses."
Featured consumer insights include:
Purposeful Plastic – Taking note of the popularity of recycled fashion, other industries are creating new products from old plastics and, in turn, gaining more loyal consumers. This includes zero-waste café pop-ups, such as Ecover's Cafe that only accepts recyclable plastic as payment, and a children's book line made of recycled plastic from the Japanese company Tejin, made in collaboration with the non-profit group Waste Free Oceans.
Eco Education – Kids' toys are evolving to offer elements of environmental awareness ranging from food sustainability to concerns over plastics in our oceans. Last year, LEGO announced the LEGO Replay program, an initiative that will recycle and donate previously used LEGO bricks. In addition, awareness is being raised through games like the pictured Unbearable Warfare Card Game (rescuing wildlife) or Play Food from the Future's line of 3-D printed toys, which help familiarize kids with sustainable food.
Interactive Cardboard – Brands can leverage cardboard for the basis of eco-friendly, low-tech playtime. Such products as Nintendo Labo's DIY kits (compatible with Nintendo Switch) and Petit Pli's Cardboard Clothing Boxes, which transform into wearable pretend jetpacks, help encourage children's creativity while appealing to environmentally conscious parents.
Upcycled Play – Impacted by older millennial parents' values in environmental responsibility, children's products are increasingly produced with upcycled materials in order to reduce their environmental impact. Examples include Luke's Toy Factory's eco-friendly toys, which are made entirely from upcycled materials, and Dutch fashion label Patta's collaboration with Coloured Goodies to produce a diverse doll line featuring upcycled fashions.
This report is the latest in a series from Trend Hunter offering in-depth perspectives and trends to help spark unique ideas in various areas related to the toy industry and youth markets. For additional relevant trends, toy companies can click on the report's consumer insights examples, scroll down, and click the images for further information.
Members are encouraged to send topic suggestions for future trend reports to The Toy Association's Anne McConnell.
TrendHunter.com has accumulated nearly 3 billion views from more than 100 million visitors. The data research company helps clients "Dive Deeper," "Work Smarter," and "Save Effort" in order to increase the overall success of their companies and brands.


The AI, Ethics, and Society conference will be relocated with AAAI-18 and held February 2-3 in New Orleans, Louisiana USA.
AMS Short Course on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R and Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), 10 January, New Orleans, Louisiana Preregistration deadline: 15 December 2015 Initial Announcement Published: Oct.
The groomsmen were Gayden Locke Ward, brother of the bride, of Jackson; Stephen Coerte Crawford of Pass Christian; and Michael Edward Winters, Patrick Michael Breeden, David Olivier Melancon, and Will Hart Brundige, all of New Orleans, Louisiana.
TAPPI Solving Corrosion Problems in the Pulp & Paper Mill Short Course May 20-22 Omni Royal Orleans Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Kathy Betts, kbetts@tappi.
The TAPPI Tissue Runnability Short Course will be held May 21-23, 2002, at the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Solving Corrosion Problems in the Pulp & Paper Mill Short Course May 20-22 0mni Royal Orleans Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 02SOLVE Kathy Betts, kbetts@tappi.
Verges announced a Chinese Consumer Market Commerce Center to be built in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Company is engaged in exploration and development activities along the central U.
a national real estate investment and management services company, specializing in the acquisition, repositioning, management and disposition of high-growth properties, announced today it is actively seeking major multifamily investment opportunities in the greater New Orleans, Louisiana region while completing renovations to its two apartment communities in the area.
Heron created Southern Comfort, a fruit, spice, and whiskey flavored liqueur, in a small bar in New Orleans, Louisiana.


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The Killer Inside Me (2010) – Review
The Killer Inside Me is a dark if not frightening film delving into the mind of a disturbed psychotic killer. Throughout the film seems a bit disjointed. The viewer is not always sure of the motivation or the passage of time, or even what is real – but it works. Director Michael Winterbottom structures the film through the mind of his protagonist and being that he is demented and oblivious to wrong-doing the structure is at times hard to follow or even unreliable. Can the audience really trust anything that they are shown? Winterbottom (and protagonist Lou Ford) do not pull any punches as the story is told – it is quite unnerving and specifically graphically violent. Much like American Psycho, the mask of sanity erodes as the story unfolds – the more time the audience spends with Ford, the more uneasy they become. The film emits tension, but subtly – the viewer feels alarmed and uncomfortable with the character they are given to follow, but they cannot place the reason – and then like a striking blow Winterbottom exploits the tension to its emotional peak (and at this point alienating some audience members). However, what makes this film particularly interesting, and Winterbottom's work astounding, is despite the character being very unlikable and the brash violence, there are still moments in which the audience is behind the character – much in the same way as with the film Downfall. The viewer recognizes the evil in the character yet that same character being the narrative storyteller captivates the audience, and done correctly can even garner support from the audience – and Winterbottom achieves that, but still keeps the character distant as well. Ford is always on guard even from himself. Ford tells the story in a matter-of-fact way, but he does not divulge his emotions, they are there for the viewer to see gradually, just underneath. The film works best as a character study – everything around Ford is just scenery, a nuisance that he sees himself above. The film is impressive in its duality of viewer emotion (we hate Ford utterly from a moral stand, but yet underneath we root for him to overcome the obstacles closing in around him). The two female characters in the film are portrayed to be strong, and yet they both give in to Ford's violence, not running from it but embracing it with compassion (much like the audience). The film, it would seem, would not play well for a feminist audience, but Winterbottom seems to be using his female characters as a plant in the audience's mind – to see if he can bring them over to the dark side, and here like Ford's control over the women, he succeeds in many cases. With The Killer Inside Me Witnerbottom has created both an interesting character study of a psychopath, but an even more penetrating look at the emotional morality and narrative influence on a passive audience. On the technical side of the film: Winterbottom is able to craft a film that is primarily interested in the emotional state of the audience. He is less concerned with a tight narrative that is easy to follow. This is a big risk, but Winterbottom succeeds in engaging the audience with characters rather than plot. The supporting characters are not really developed and are sometimes distracting, but overall Winterbottom and screenwriter John Curran (a fine filmmaker in his own right) are able to capture the tone and performances they need for the film to work. Casey Affleck is calm with sinister misdeeds waiting to erupt behind his eyes (the performance reminds me a lot of his work in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford). Jessica Alba is shot beautifully in the film and plays the role in such a sweet way that the contrast of violence to her allure is quite powerful and jolting. Kate Hudson is also good, in maybe the most unforgiving of all the characters. As with Alba, Hudson portrays her character to be likable, yet dumbfounding at times, that the juxtaposition of emotion is dynamic. Cinematographer Marcel Zyskind (a frequent Winterbottom collaborator) shoots the film to perfectly capture the core emotion of each scene. Melissa Parmenter's score is subtle and supports the emotional weight – but it is the lack of score at key moments that provides more of an impact. The minimalist production design by Mark Tildesley helps focus the attention solely on the characters. The film is not for everyone, as much of it is visually intense – but Witnerbottom and cast and crew have made an unhinging film in which the audience partakes in the brutality and culpability. 7/10
Labels: Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Michael Winterbottom, Movie Reviews, The Killer Inside Me
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Image caption Two groups clashed near the Alea Casino in Upper Parliament Street on 24 November
A 32-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a street fight in Nottingham.
Two groups clashed near the Alea Casino in Upper Parliament Street in the early hours of 24 November.
Thomas King has been charged with six other offences including possession of an offensive weapon and possession of an imitation firearm.
He has appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court and has been remanded into custody.
Mr King, of Alford Close, Beeston, was also charged with dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualified, criminal damage and driving without insurance.
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Some juvenile jail staff forced to work 18-hour shifts after layoffs
by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas May 19, 2016 @ 6:11 pm Updated March 4, 2022 @ 10:56 pm
Connecticut Juvenile Training School
The Connecticut Juvenile Training School in Middletown CTMirror.org
Some state employees at the state-run jail for juvenile offenders are being forced at times to work 18 consecutive hours in the wake of 106 layoffs, state officials told the state panel that oversees juvenile justice Thursday.
"Our desire is to bring back some of those laid-off staff to fill those vacancies," Fernando Muñiz, deputy commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, told the Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee.
Before staff can be brought back, the governor's Office of Policy and Management would have to sign off. GianCarl Casa, spokesman for the office, said, "We're working to balance the needs of all our agencies, collective bargaining agreements and our budgetary constraints. We don't yet know what the solution will be."
The recently adopted state budget assumes more then $250 million will be saved by laying off state employees and not filling positions as they become vacant. To date, 680 state employees have been laid off, though many more layoffs are expected. Union leaders have said that nearly 5,000 state employees would have to be laid off to achieve the level of savings in the budget.
When staff at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School were laid off earlier this year, the administration said it would not impact operation of the school. That, they said, was because the number of inmates typically at the facility had dropped – to the low 40s from 160 two years earlier – while the number of employees had stayed the same. The school houses juveniles who commit crimes not serious enough to be transferred to the adult criminal justice system.
Thursday, in response to questions, Muñiz confirmed that some employees at the Middletown facility were being forced at times to work mandatory triple shifts. He said that the employees typically did not have to work the entire third shift and were allowed to leave a couple of hours into that shift.
Muñiz did not quantify how many employees were asked to work the long shifts or how many such shifts were mandated.
Staff at CJTS are complaining on social media about the long hours.
"So I guess as long as you pay them it's okay to force CJTS employees to work 22, 23, 24 (and up) hours…" Suzanne Borner, a teacher at CJTS, tweeted Wednesday.
"That is of grave concern to me. You are looking at burnout. Not because they don't care – because they are tired," Rep. Robyn Porter, D-New Haven, told the deputy commissioner of DCF Thursday.
Heavy use of overtime raises a number of questions, including whether it is cost-effective and whether it over-stresses staff, making them less effective in managing difficult situations with inmates.
A review by the Connecticut Mirror before the layoffs found that numerous youth service officers, who are the front-line staff members responsible for maintaining order and security at CJTS, were working such long hours they had more than doubled their income. In some instances, incomes topped six figures after factoring in overtime pay.
The culture and conditions of confinement at the state-run jails have been the focus of added scrutiny by state lawmakers in recent months after a state watchdog released an investigation that concluded staff were "unlawfully" restraining youth and putting them into seclusion.
The debate about whether the facility has enough staff to operate comes as the administration works to close the facility by July 2018. Muñiz said the department plans to have a preliminary plan by next moth for closing CJTS and providing alternative placements and services that for youths now sent there.


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Containing panic in pandemic: Experience should mute coronavirus economic impact
Auto operations shut down until at least Feb. 9
Less deadly, thus far, than SARS
Health community working faster than before
People wear surgical mask on a subway in Shanghai. A new type of coronavirus has been spreading to many cities in China.
Despite the tremendous ill effects on human life and immediate impacts on labor, the economic damage caused by the ongoing spread of the coronavirus is likely to be muted in comparison to past pandemics.
In late December 2019, health officials in China reported that a previously unidentified coronavirus, later dubbed 2019-nCoV, had infected 59 people in the city of Wuhan. By Jan. 30, more than 9,500 people had been infected, 213 were killed and it had spread to 11 other countries, including the U.S. A sixth person tested positive for the infection in the U.S. last week, marking the first human-to-human transmission stateside. There are no known cases in Michigan though several people have been tested.
The World Health Organization on Jan. 30 declared the lethal virus a global health emergency and in response the U.S. State Department warned Americans not to go to China and advised that people in China should consider leaving the country. The State Department advises the same travel warning for war-torn countries like Afghanistan and Syria.
Experts believe the virus won't peak until April or May, leaving citizens and businesses vulnerable for several more months and at the mercy of the world health community's ability to contain the deadly infection. But its impact on the global economy is dependent on those same health workers and business leaders to contain the panic in the pandemic.
The economy is more resistant to the affects of fast-spreading viruses thanks, in part, to experience. Response in recent years to the pandemics SARS and MERS as well as natural disasters have prepared the global business community's response, said Brian McNary, vice president of research and development at Ann Arbor-based private security and risk management firm Pinkerton.
"We're all more prepared despite the lack of current awareness on transmissibility," McNary said. "The concern we're experiencing now, from health officials and corporate decision makers, is the uncertainty. But genome sequencing happens faster than it did with SARS and MERS, emergency action plans were quickly in place. The WHO moved quickly. That's going to truncate the adverse impact we've seen historically with other viruses."
But that doesn't mean business is asymptomatic to the virus. U.S. imports were down 8.7 percent through Jan. 31 compared to the last quarter of 2019, according to U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data. An import drop of 10 percent has correlated with U.S. recessions since 1990.
The outbreak could potentially shave 0.5 percent-1.5 percent from China's gross domestic product growth in 2020, the Economist Intelligence Unit estimated last week. With more than 50 million Chinese residents now under quarantine — roughly 16 cities in China — travel in the country is essentially stifled.
Delta Air Lines, Detroit's dominant carrier, announced on Jan. 31 that it had suspended all flights to China from Feb. 6 through April 30 as officials around the globe work to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus.
"Travel, tourism and hospitality will be the most immediately affected sectors, but manufacturing could suffer if migrant workers are prevented from traveling back from their home areas after the Lunar New Year holidays," Simon Baptist, global chief economist and managing director of the Asia unit at the Economist Intelligence Unit, wrote in a report on Jan. 30.
Luckily for manufacturers, the outbreak coincided with the Jan. 24 start of China's Lunar New Year celebrations, which cause shutdowns all over the country so citizens can go on holiday.
General Motors Co.'s China operations have been shut down since Jan. 24. It had planned to reopen operations on Feb. 2, but will remain shut down until at least Feb. 9 per Chinese official instructions, James Cain, senior communications manager for the Detroit automaker, told Crain's. U.S. expatriates on assignment at GM's China operations were given the option to return to the U.S., while travel to China has been restricted, Cain said.
Ford Motor Co. has extended the Chinese holiday two days through Feb. 2, but is asking workers to work from home Feb. 3-7 with regular production operations slated to start on Feb. 10, said Anderson Chan, global communications manager, told Crain's via email.
However, if the outbreak continues to spread and shutdowns remain in place past Feb. 9, U.S. businesses operating in China face greater challenges. Southfield-based automotive research firm IHS Markit estimates a production loss of about 350,000 cars in the first quarter if plants are idled only until Feb. 10. By mid-March, things look worse.
"In this scenario, we might expect the potential of a China-wide supply chain disruption caused by parts shortages from Hubei, a major component hub," IHS Markit said in an emailed statement on Jan. 31. "If this scenario comes to fruition, IHS Markit predicts potential lost production of more than 1.7 million units for the first quarter, or about 32.3 percent decline from our initial expectations before the crisis began."
That spells potential crisis for automakers and parts makers already facing possible production slowdowns in the U.S.
But so much of the virus's impact, economic and otherwise, is uncertain. At this point, there's no reason to believe this virus is worse than recent outbreaks.
The SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak from China in 2003-2004 reduced global GDP by $40 billion, or about $56 billion adjusted to today's dollars. The 2015-2016 MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) outbreak in South Korea cost much less, resulting in only a $2.1 billion hit to the Korean economy and negligible impacts on the global economy.
However, the full economic impact of this coronavirus will be dictated by a psychological war, said McNary.
"My parents, who live in the U.S., said they were getting masks (to prevent potential transmission of the virus)," McNary said. "We've had way more deaths via auto accidents in the U.S. this year than we have from the coronavirus worldwide. It's good to have media coverage and communication about the virus, but it leads us to overreact. The impacts of that overreaction are only going to be contained by confidence in the health authorities."
The panic over the virus is likely unwarranted. By historical outbreak standards, this coronavirus is mild.
Symptoms resemble flu, but can include pneumonia, which can be fatal. But only about 20 percent of reported cases are severe enough to require medical care. About 2 percent of cases have been fatal.
Coronavirus is more deadly than the flu, but its lethality will depend on how far it spreads. Roughly 61,000 Americans died of influenza during the particularly bad 2017-2018 season, but 45 million Americans were infected. If the flu killed at the same rate as coronavirus, 800,000 more Americans would have died.
But health authorities are already working on a vaccine and treatment.
"Again, we're moving so quickly. The majority of the actions, such as quarantine, are a prophylactic in nature to contain the spread," McNary said. "The most potent tool for American companies is awareness. Communicate the symptoms and protocols about when workers should stay home. Containing the spread of this thing keeps factory doors open and businesses operating."
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Level-slope-curvature – fact or artefact?
The first three factors resulting from a principal components analysis of term structure data are in the literature typically interpreted as driving the level, slope and curvature of the term structure. Using slight generalisations of theorems from total positivity, we present sufficient conditions under which level, slope and curvature are present. These conditions have the nice interpretation of restricting the level, slope and curvature of the correlation surface. It is proven that the Schoenmakers-Coffey correlation matrix also brings along such factors. Finally, we formulate and corroborate our conjecture that the order present in correlation matrices causes slope.
Presentation of this paper given at the QMF 2005 conference in Sydney can be found here.


My Youtube Channel - Amigurumi crochet videos and tutorials.
This deadmau5 head keychain was a special request for a friend who is a big deadmau5 (pronounced Dead Mouse) fan. For those who don't know, he is an electro-house music producer from Canada. It's a simple pattern that make a 2.5 inch tall keychain size deadmau5 head and could probably be repurposed to a reasonable Mickey Mouse or random monster weirdo. The head is based on another designer's pattern (Ideal Crochet Sphere), linked below. The deadmau5 head has varied in colours and styles over the years so there is a ton of room for modification and alteration, though apparently red with black x-eyes was the first.
I made this using worsted weight, unmercerized cotton yarn and a 3.5 mm hook. Felt is recommended for the mouth.
CH x 5, work in joined rounds not a spiral.
Sandwich the ear pieces with right sides facing out and sew two together (whip stitch) for robust ears that will not be floppy. Pin to head and stitch in place.
Finish off and leave long tail for sewing. Pin to head and stitch in place.
Because of the shape of the head, the mouth should be made of felt. It will likely be necessary to cut a fold (a small pizza wedge that extends to the middle of the mouth) from the bottom part of mid-section of the smile and stitch it closed with white thread. This will permit the felt mouth to wrap around the sphere. I glued mine in place with fabric glue then sewed it to the head once the glue was dry. Please ask any questions about the pattern in comments so answers can be helpful to others in the future.
Deadmau5, Free Patterns - Crochet.
Hello! My boyfriend loves this DJ and I am thinking of giving him a crochet DeadMau5 bigger, like a plush.
How many stitches do you believe the sphere must be?
Do you think it will look nice in a bigger size?
Hey. I was really hoping that i might be able to get access to a video tutorial on how to make this. I am a visual learner, and it would highly help me. please and thank you!
Simple pattern and easy to follow. No problems.
When I was taught to crochet I was about 5 yrs. old. I have been doing crochet work for over 60 yrs. now and it is rare that I don't spot problems in a pattern before I try to make it.
I was taught to read a pattern at least 3 times before starting the work. The first time was to see if I understood all the terms in the pattern. If not now was the time to find information on what I did not know. Such as new stitches or stitch patterns I needed to practice and become comfortable with before making the item.
The second time was to look for things that did not make sense to me. Such as when row 6 says there are 20 stitches and row 7 says 30 stitches but I did not see an increase. Questions: Did I miss something? or Did the printer or designer leave something out? We all have accidents.
The last time to read through the pattern was to actually visualize the stitches and see how they blended together so I could decide if I wanted to make the item or not.
Doing this has never failed me yet and I thank my mother and grandmother for teaching me this. Patterns back then did not come with all the extra information they contain today.
Please take the time to read the patterns and you will find that your enjoyment and understanding of the art of crochet are both increased.
OMGoodness DeadMau5 is my son's absolute favorite. I made him a hat, using coathangers to shape and hold the ears! I'll try and show you the pic through link. I'm definitely gonna make him the keychain to go with it! Thank you!
Did you watch the video on working in both sides of the CH?
omg!!! i love this pattern. I'm using it as a base for a different character tho. i LOVED the way you did the ears, But I'm so confused as to how to make them. got any hints? it's mostly the starting off… its just doesn't make sense to me since I've never done a joined round… but i'd LOVE to get that look.. thanks!
Did you watch the tutorial for working in both sides of the chain.
I'm having trouble understanding the pattern for the head! Is there another pattern I could use? Or is there a better written pattern for it?
What exactly is it you are having trouble with and not understanding? Maybe rather than asking the author for a "better written" version of it, you could actually try to learn how to read it? My patterns are not written very differently from most, if anything they contain more details and information suited for beginners.
I've only just started learning crochet the past day or so, with this project being my very first one to try and I've managed to follow it just fine.
You probably need to watch some crochet tutorials on YouTube if you're unsure of what to do, I did and it helped me a lot!
I was having troubles with this at first too. What I had troubles with was with the numbers. For example, in row 4; "2, inc, 3, inc, 3, inc, 3, inc, 2 (21)". They say at the top in the abbreviations that when you see numbers like that, it means you do that many SC. So Row 4 would look like this: SCx2, INC, SCx3, INC, SCx3, INC, SCx3, INC, SCx2. And then "(21)" Just means in total the row has 21 stitches. Does this make sense?
Hey, I was curious about the chain you have on the head of Deadmau5. Where did you get it? If you don't mind me asking.
It's ball chain in key ring lengths from Michael's. You can find it in the leather work section of the bead stuff. There are around 10 in a package for $6 or something ridiculous like that so bring a coupon. Failing that you can get them crazy cheap on ebay and etsy. I had tried a hardware store since that sort of chain used to be readily available for hanging bath and sink plugs but no luck.
Oh, wow, I'll have to wait 'till I get a coupon then. Not surprising, though, Michael's is always expensive. Thanks for the info, I'll be looking for them.
No, it's really not that complex. It's a sphere and then some oval shapes. There is a linked tutorial that demonstrates the basic technique for working in both sides of a chain.
Love your patterns (and Deadmau5)… Canada FTW!
Hey thanks so much for the pattern! However I'm having trouble getting past the first round for the ears. I do the SC and hdc in 2nd ch from the hook but when i get to the 4 DC im always left with one ch at the end. Any idea what im doing wrong?
You're not doing anything wrong! Just ignore that last CH. The hole left by putting 4 DCs in the same CH is less noticeable if there is a spare or extra CH at the end. Just ignore it and pop over to the other side of the same CH you last worked in.
Hey! Massive fan of the site here, saw this and just HAD to make it (big deadmau5 fan too!
Here's my version! I wasn't very happy with your version of the ears, so I just did a magic ring, 12 dc into magic ring, then in the next round 2 dc into each dc (so you end up with 24).
Thanks again for the inspiration and the pattern!
I completely adore your version of the ears. I respect the author of this site very much and love her patterns, but I found that her version of the ears was too complicated for my limited crochet skills 😛 and your version provided a nice alternative. Although I made four of them instead of two, because I wanted a nice thickness to them. Much thanks for your alternative.
I love all of your amigurumi patterns!
My son is a HUGE Dead Maus fan & moving across country this week. I have a feeling this little guy will be in one of the 1st care packages he receives from home 🙂 THANKS!
OK, so I've got the head made & I'm moving to the ears. However, I've never done the joint round…I've only done spirals.
I'm having a hard time aligning the 2 sides. It's making a lopsided oval shape! Lol So, any tips on this process? Know of any videos I can watch? I tried to find a video tutorial & no luck.
I did watch the one from your Domo pattern that is linked in the instructions, but it didn't seem to help me with whatever MY problem is.
The ear is supposed to be oval shaped but not really lopsided. Try having a look at this tutorial video about joining rounds. If you are still not able to get the ovals looking right maybe take a picture of what you have made, upload it to imgur.com and post a link in a comment reply so that I can have a look and see if I can figure out what might be happening.


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