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British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS)
Support for Japanese studies in the UK

The College Women’s Association of Japan (CWAJ)
A nonprofit, volunteer organisation of Japanese and non-Japanese women interested in education, cross-cultural exchange, and friendship. Support for graduate study in Japan for non-Japanese women who are enrolled in graduate degree programmes at Japanese universities and for graduate study at English-speaking universities and research institutions abroad for women who are citizens or special permanent residents of Japan

Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO)
Support and information for international students wishing to study in Japan

Japanese Government ( MEXT) Scholarships for Japanese Studies
Undergraduate scholarships to Japan

Japanese Government ( MEXT) Scholarships for Postgraduate Research
Postgraduate scholarships to Japan

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Support for international scientific exchange

Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Programme
Japanese government’s flagship educational and cultural exchange programme

JST English Articles of Science and Technology
English language citations database of articles published in Japan in the fields of science, technology, and medicine

Meiji Jingu Japanese Studies Research Scholarships (£7,000) for any full-time MPhil or PhD programme at SOAS where the student will be working on some aspect of Japanese Studies

The Royal Society
Support for international scientific exchange

The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Based in Norwich, the Institute promotes knowledge and understanding of Japanese arts and cultures

Vulcanus in Japan
This Japan-based programme, established in 1997, is for EU students of engineering or science and consists of a four-month intensive Japanese language course and an eight-month traineeship in a Japanese company

UK-Japan related Organisations

Japan400 celebrates existing links and aims to further enrich the dialogue and the dynamic relationship between the UK and Japan

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in London
Established in 1932, JSPS promotes the advancement of academic research in all disciplines from social sciences and humanities to natural sciences and engineering

The Japan Society
Support for educational and grassroots activity relating to Japan

The Japan-British Society
Promoting cordial relations between the UK and Japan

The Japan Foundation
Japan’s principal organisation for promoting international cultural exchange and Japanese language teaching. The Japanese equivalent to the British Council

Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the UK
Promoting and extending economic relations and trade between Japan and the UK and promoting the interests of Japanese business in the UK

Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO)
Promoting mutually beneficial trade and investment between UK and Japan

Funding bodies

The Artists’ international development programme
Early stage development opportunities for individual freelance and self employed artists based in England to spend time building links with artists, organisations and/or creative producers in another country

Canon Foundation in Europe
Support for cultural and scientific exchange between Europe and Japan

EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee
Support for ‘transnational activities of community members and artists involved in service of regional communities and social responsibility and to contribute to the development of healthy societies’.

Gen Foundation
Support for research in Japan or the UK

Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Grants for promoting Anglo-Japanese relations

Ishibashi Foundation
The two pillars of its activities are its museums, and the grant programmes (by recommendation only) which support outstanding artistic, cultural, and educational activities. Only non-profit making enterprises are supported.

John Crump Studentship (Final-stage PhD scholarship)  administered by the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS). Financial support for postgraduate research students who are enrolled in a UK university research degree programme to assist during the final stages of the writing up period

Nomura Charitable Trust (UK)
Funding for charities that open up new opportunities for disadvantaged young people living in poverty, deprivation and high risk situations in the local communities in which the trust operates

Nomura Foundation
Grants and Scholarships for the Social Sciences and the Arts, including an Art Prize

Toshiba International Foundation
Grants for promoting understanding of Japan through international exchanges

Toyota Foundation
The Toyota Foundation has a few different types of grants

Vulcanus in Japan
This Japan-based programme, established in 1997, is for EU students of engineering or science and consists of a four-month intensive Japanese language course and an eight-month traineeship in a Japanese company

The Wellcome Trust
Supports biomedical research and the medical humanities through a wide variety of funding schemes, including Investigator Awards, fellowships and Strategic Awards

The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
Travelling Fellowships to UK citizens from all walks of life to travel overseas, to bring back knowledge and best practice for the benefit of others in their UK professions and communities

Web Japan’s Grant & Aid links
Comprehensive list of Japanese grant-giving bodies

Official Bodies

Embassy of Japan, UK
Official Japanese government website in the UK

UK in Japan – Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Official website for the British Embassy

The British Council

The British Chamber of Commerce in Japan

Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO)
Information on travel to and around Japan

Visiting Arts: Japan Cultural Profile
Comprehensive English-language guide to culture in Japan aimed at both cultural professionals and the general public

News, Media and Information

Bridge to Japan
Comprehensive source of links and information on Japan from newspapers to museums to literature to universities

Japan Information Network
Japan-based source of information on Japanese society, culture, education, organisations and institutions

Web Japan
Comprehensive source of links on Japanese culture, sightseeing, society, history and nature sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and operated by a Japanese non government organisation

Gap Years in Japan

Lattitude Global Volunteering

The Project Trust

Youth for Understanding


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Saving Our Society

Hello from beautiful Knoxville, Tennessee!

Several DGS board members are attending this years Federation of Genealogical Societies conference. I’ll be posting thoughts and observations as time permits and will try to encourage a few of my cohorts to do the same.

The keynote session was titled ‘SOS! SOS! Saving Our Societies: Answering Our Distress Beacons’ by Curt. B. Wicher, manager for the Genealogical section of the Allen County public library in Indiana ( URL: ).

Curt’s talk was many things: a distress call, a motivational speech and a call to action for genealogical societies. He pointed out that genealogy on the internet has attracted tens of thousands of people (and that number is growing) while membership in ‘traditional’ genealogical societies is declining. He then discussed strategies and factors that might help traditional organizations survive and grow.

He stressed the importance of introspection. As an organization, we should constantly be asking ourselves ‘what difference do we make?’ and questioning why we are doing the things we are doing. I also liked his emphasis on the need to structure activities, events and projects so that we all feel a sense of accomplishment and have fun doing it.

More than anything else I was energized by his  encouragement to be a spark for change and to work within the organization and within the community to cooperate, collaborate and network to advance the goals of the society.

Tony Hanson

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NorthPark parade kicks off Angel Tree season

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Shoppers gathered around the Angel Tree at NorthPark Center as the Salvation Army kicked off this year's campaign. Trees are also set up at Galleria Dallas, Collin Creek, Golden Triangle, Grapevine Mills, Hulen, Ridgmar, Northeast, Town East and The Parks at Arlington malls.

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10 defensive backs the Cowboys might target in the NFL draft

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8. Kenny Ladler, Vanderbilt (right). Was quite the playmaker on the back end at Vandy, intercepting five passes and forcing five fumbles in 2013. Ladler has experience at free and strong safety as well as on special teams.

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Photos: FC Dallas jumps out early, but John injury leaves them light in the back during 2-2 draw

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FC Dallas' Jair Benitez (5) protects the ball from Toronto FC's John Bostock during first-half MLS soccer game action in Toronto, Saturday, April 6, 2013.

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In Oak Cliff Today, the Kids Were Putting a Fresh Coat of Paint on Bishop Arts
Nick Rallo

For all the talk of Oak Cliff becoming "the city's new leading edge," there's still much work to be done. Jason and Andrea Roberts -- organizers of the Oak Cliff Art Crawl, as well as Bike Friendly Oak Cliff and -- look around even the Bishop Arts District and see much work to be done: razor wire in need of trimming, trash in need of clearing and graffiti in need of erasing.

And so, on this perfect Saturday, while St.Paddy's merrymakers paraded up and down Greenville Avenue -- and we'll have photos and more from that in the morning -- the couple and other like-minded Cliffdwellers took their protest and paintbrushes to the streets. Children from four Dallas Independent School District elementary schools sprawled beneath the empty Kavala Grill -- whose ancient-looking marquee says, "Changing Concept Soon" -- to decorate 24"-by-24" black wood panels. The kids' artwork will be tiled together into a huge mural and put up behind ABC Party on Davis Street in Oak Cliff.

The goal is to soften the environment, Roberts said -- to make the arts district more inviting. Rosemont Primary School art teacher Stacy Cianciulli said the goal was to "involve the children of the neighborhood, to give them ownership and abate graffiti." For the full court press, professional (non-kid) muralists are prepping another wall near 422 W. Davis

The scene was simple fun: One student, dripping paint all over her canvas, said, "I wouldn't exist without art"; another was coating his wood panel with the haste of someone on a deadline; and still another was dipping her whole hand in green. "I like painting because you can express yourself," a younger student said. "It lets me get dirty." True: There is paint all over the streets in Oak Cliff tonight.

Check out more photos from the Art Crawl in our slide show here.

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Wick's End

Mark Graham

Wick's End
Never let it be said that the Full Frontal staff only digs silliness. We're all about the politics, too. We understand how important citywide elections are in determining how budgets will be balanced, which potholes will be filled and whose ass Sharon Boyd will kiss. Which is why we were sad to hear that D magazine Publisher Wick Allison was uninvited as moderator to last week's mayoral debate at Walnut Hill Elementary between candidates Laura Miller and Mary Poss. (Which candidate nixed him is unknown.) Because even though Allison has very questionable taste in clothing--his college garage band was called Orvis for All Occasions--at least he can ask a pointed question or two. (The candidates ended up querying each other. Zzzzzzz.) So we asked Allison to send us a sampling of the questions he would have asked . Candidates' responses were culled from movies penned by John Hughes. See if you can match the response to the film. Answers are at bottom. --Eric Celeste

To Mary Poss: You know as well as anyone that this city needs $2 billion to $3 billion in investment in its infrastructure. Isn't it a failure of leadership to not tell the city bluntly that it needs a tax increase to pay the piper?

Relax, would you? We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens. 1

To Laura Miller: You have one vote on the city council that you can count on. To be the real mayor of Dallas, you need eight votes. Are you content being a mayor who is only a ribbon-cutter? How can you get votes from people who mistrust and dislike you?

I'll do anything sexual. I don't need a million dollars to do it, either...I've done just about everything there is except a few things that are illegal. 2

To Mary Poss: You have made a big pitch to Republican clubs, and you stacked your campaign committee conspicuously with big-name Republicans. Are you a captive of the Republican no-new-taxes agenda?

You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Does that answer your question? 3

To Laura Miller: How will you work with a city manager you have openly said you want to fire? And what good did it do to say you want to fire him when you didn't have the votes to do so?

I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it. 4

Follow-up to Laura Miller: Do you know anything about managing people?

I'm here to kick your ass, and you know it, and everybody here knows it, and above all, you deserve it. In fact, I think it's safe to say that this party is about to become a historical fact. 5

To Mary Poss: You are well-regarded as a get-it-done kind of public official. Would you make a better city manager than Ted Benavides?

I have been awake for almost 60 hours. I'm tired and I'm dirty. I have been from Chicago to Paris to Dallas to...where the hell am I? 6

Follow-up to Mary Poss: When financial management is such a big part of your résumé, why do you support a city manager who can't even get a budget straight?

Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean. 7

To Laura Miller: Do you want to fire police Chief Terrell Bolton? If so, how will you?

I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people, and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! 8

To Mary Poss: Do you want to fire Chief Bolton? If so, how will you?

Les jeux sont faits. Translation: The game is up. Your ass is mine.
9 Answers

1) Sixteen Candles, 2) The Breakfast Club, 3) The Breakfast Club, 4) Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 5) Some Kind of Wonderful, 6) Home Alone, 7) The Breakfast Club, 8) Christmas Vacation, 9) Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Anger Displacement
Until last Friday, there had been no sign of Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, the stand-up comic who has emerged from Gulf War II as something of a superstar. There's even a Web site,, devoted to the man so hysterical not even Darrell Hammond could mock him on Saturday Night Live last weekend; you can't parody a parody, turns out. Some media outlets speculated al-Sahhaf has shuffled off to Syria with his boss; others believed him dead in a bomb blast (which was odd, considering al-Sahhaf recently insisted, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad--never!"). But, turns out, you can't kill the funnyman, who surfaced last week as a film critic for al-Jazeera's English-language Web site. Since that site has been difficult to access during the war, which al-Sahhaf insisted never took place anyway, Full Frontal is reprinting excerpts from his body of work, which has us surrounded with laughter.

Assassination Tango, starring Robert Duvall: At first I thought the mercenaries of Hollywood were referring to the great and powerful Saddam, who dances away from nonexistent American bombs as though his bare feet were made of angel wings. But then I realized this was just a movie with Robert Duvall, who plays a hit man sent to kill a general who looks like the great and powerful and very much alive Saddam himself. Duvall, a villain, kills the man, but it is the movies which are not to be believed, unless it is Wag the Dog, which is very much truth because it is all lies. And the movie is all lies, because I do not believe for a second that Duvall has for a girlfriend someone as young and as pretty as Luciana Pedraza, who is young enough to be Saddam's daughter or mistress.

Malibu's Most Wanted, starring Jamie Kennedy: The failure of this movie is abysmal--or abizzymal, as the villainous devil Jamie Kennedy says, doing a very awful impression of the great Eminem. May Kennedy be accursed for attempting such a movie that confuses and keeps in a quagmire an audience raised on the tyranny of MTV and al-Jazeera's accursed "rock block" of videos, which are most definitely not off the hook.

The Quiet American, starring Michael Caine: Such a thing does not exist, unless he is like a snake and cut into a million pieces. Most Americans are tarateers [translation: full of hot air or gas], who breathe the foul stench of evil and do not stop talking lies. Be quiet, Americans. We have you surrounded with tanks and sticks and shoes.

Anger Management, starring Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson: I speak better English than this villain Sandler, who is not fit to be beaten with shoes. (Though, to be fair, I did find Happy Gilmore quite funny, especially the part with Bob Barker, who is a devil dog.) As usual, Hollywood is relying on a desperate and stupid method of pairing two war criminals whose crime is being loud and obnoxious, like the mercenary devils they are and will be always be. (Nicholson, however, was robbed by Adrian Brody, that criminal.) Joe Roth, the villain who runs the stupidly named Revolution Studios, said his strategy is based on shock and awe. This movie was shocking only because it was so awesomely bad and retarded with shame and fear.

--Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf Wilonsky

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Charcoal + Dance = Stunning Art

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art3New Orleans–based artist Heather Hansen isn’t afraid to get dirty.

Hansen, who as a dancer, painter and sculptor is making a real run for Renaissance Woman Of The Year, creates charcoal works on huge sheets of paper by stretching and sliding her body around—almost like a dance. The pieces she produced at the Ochi Gallery in Idaho were part of a project called “Emptied Gestures.” All are large in scale and pleasing in symmetry, and Hansen made her process a live performance as part of the exhibition.

Her work is a fascinating collaboration between dance and visual art—check out this video of her creative process on her website, or browse the images collected from her live performance here.


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Millennium Dancesport Championships 3 1108.00 7/10/2015
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Red Irish Lord Metridium Anemone Whelk White lined Dirona Nudibranch
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Daniel Burke

A.I. systems developer,  Engineer.

Artificial Intelligence.

 Intelligence is what makes humans special. with it we rule the world and will go to the stars. My purpose here is to find out how intelligence works and build some software that provides evidence for my ideas.

My definition of intelligence is : Intelligence is the use of knowledge to gain advantage and avoid disadvantage.

 This means that any intelligent system must have knowledge and must have a means to assess advantage along with desired goals. In order to achieve this I believe we need sensors so that a system has a feedback loop in order to assess advantage. This feedback loop is what we call consciousness.

I have been working on my current bot Aidan for a while now it only came tenth in the Lobner Prize this year. You can download a copy here. Aidan-install. I will be adding to it over the next few months.

I like to try out new ideas at the Loebner and so I am currently working on new ideas for next years competiti0n.

Adam was my entry to the Loebner prize (2012), It came third which I was pleased with considering it was my first serious entry.  Adam was a standard keyword response system in that it scanned for certain words and responded. Adam had a variety of responses for each found set of keywords and had a few tricks such as a personal history and it made mistake like people do.

All software is virus and spy-ware free and designed for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. I have not tested it on Windows 8. If you get any problems you can contact me by Email.

Machine Translation.

There are too many languages in the world. How wonderful it would be if we could all talk to each other in a single language.  Machine translation would be a fantastic tool to break down the language barriers. True automated translation is still a dream but there has been some progress such as Google Translate.

I am very interested in this field and have written some applications to test out ideas and techniques, they can be found here.

current research in machine translation

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Mirai Airlines

Posted by Danny Choo On Sun 2012/04/01 17:58 JST In Mascot
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Although we are starting off very small scale, I'm thrilled to announce that my company is now going into the airline carrier business as an LCC (Low Cost Carrier) - the name is Mirai Airlines.

As you previously read, I'm currently working for the Japanese government as Creative Director and was recently invited to give a pitch at the headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in a business matching session. I mentioned in the previous post that companies from the field of anime, music, electronics, food manufacturers and airlines attended too.

I was contacted by one of the airlines and a member of METI who was interested in doing something to reach out to my 200,000 Facebook comrades.

After a few meetings, I proposed that we setup a low cost carrier called Mirai Airlines which would be branded with the mascot character of Culture Japan - Mirai Suenaga.
This is not a new idea however and I got inspiration from ANA's Pokemon and ANA's Gundam collaboration where they plastered a few planes in their fleet with branded stickers. My Mirai Itasha is also another inspiration ^^;

By branding Mirai Airlines with Mirai-chan, I plan to target Mirai-chan fans around the world and give them an inflight experience where they can consume a variety of Japanese Pop Culture. We then came up with the tag line:- "Mirai Airlines - the worlds first Japanese pop culture themed airline."

As you already know, I have a lot of clients in the Japanese pop culture field including Good Smile Company, Bushiroad, King Records, Konami, Kadokawa, Production IG, Ascii Media Works and many more who have all agreed to suport my new venture. They have been very open to sharing their content and the inflight entertainment systems (which will all be iPads by the way) will be showing a lot of their anime titles - which will also include my TV show Culture Japan (season 1 + 2) too.

One of the selling points about Mirai Airlines is that there will be exclusive merchandise available in the inflight duty free - figures and merchandise from licenses held by my clients.

The best thing about the flight experience however is the safety video which will be fully animated by JC Staff just like Mirai Millennium.

We are currently doing test flights between Tokyo Narita and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia - the reason being that 46,000 of my Facebook comrades are located in my parents homeland of Malaysia.

I did mention that we are starting off small scale and can currently only afford a small plane at the moment. Our plane has been in service for only a few years and is like brand new so no need to worry about safety ^^;
Due to tying to manage Culture Japan season 3 and my new TV corner every morning on Check Time, I've not had the chance to get to the airport to take a look at our plane - hope to get out there this week!

I'm currently finalizing the design of what the stewardesses will be wearing and I'll probably go with this design which is based on Mirai's Solar Marine uniform.
You can download the 2560px x 1600px wallpaper of this image for your computing device.

Here are some other designs which I've been working on with Pinakes - which do you prefer? Wallpaper available here.

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We are still considering what the next destination should be after Kuala Lumpur but will most probably be Jakata as 69,000 of my Facebook comrades are from Indonesia.

Which city should Mirai Airlines fly to next?

It only seems like a few weeks ago when I was giving that pitch. Apart from the Mirai Airlines project, METI has also matched me up with various electronics manufacturers and we are currently in talks to set up a new brand of electronic footwear - details soon!

Anyway, I need some feedback from you regarding your flight experiences which would help me drive Mirai Airlines to be one of the best in the world!

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The Gingerbread Man’s Top 5 Writing Tips

Happy Holidays

Just got an e-newsletter from the North Pole and Santa passed along these writing tips from the Gingerbread Man, posted for the young-at-heart who are writing novels this year.

Back by popular demand is my series on writing tips from popular Christmas figures. First published in 2007, they are updated here for your Christmas cheer.

Santa Claus’s Top 5 Writing Tips
12 Days of Christmas Writing Tips (live on 12/3)
The Gingerbread Man’s Top 5 Writing Tips (live on 12/4)
Frosty the Snowman’s Top 6 Writing Tips (live on 12/5)
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer’s Top 5 Writing Tips (live on 12/6)

The Gingerbread Man’s Top 5 Writing Tips

Top 5 Writing Tips from the Gingerbread Man
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Based on the folktale about this popular Christmas pastry that comes to life, the Gingerbread Man gives his writing tips.

  1. Event Repeat. The story of the Gingerbread Man uses an event-repeat type plot. An event is repeated several times, with only a minor change. When the Gingerbread Man escapes and runs away, he meets several people who want to eat him. Each character is added to the parade as the Gingerbread Man runs away, until the Fox outsmarts him at the last.
  2. Chorus. Using a Chorus is effective in short stories and picturebooks.
    Repetition of this chorus make the story fun and invites the audience to join in.
    “Run, Run, Fast as you can, you can’t beat me, I’m the Gingerbread Man.”
  3. Changing Setting. Especially for the picturebook format, it’s important to keep the setting interesting, so the illustrations are exciting. By sending the Gingerbread Man across the landscape, the illustrations have visually exciting possibilities.

  4. Darcy’s Best Writing Advice: Fiction Notes Books

  5. Folktale Mode. This story is in the folktale mode, which treats characters as a general type. For example, the ugly stepsisters in Cinderella, have a role as mean, ugly stepsisters, and not much more. When Gingy is added to the Shrek movies, though, his character is made more interesting by giving him individual characteristics. Decide if your story needs a general, folktale type character or a more individual character.
  6. Folktale Morals. Folktales and fables often add a moral at the end of a story. Of course, the Gingerbread Man should not have trusted the Fox! It’s seldom that picture books and stories today have such an explicit, straight forward moral. Instead, it’s usually implied and the reader is left to verbalize it for him or herself.


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Children's Council of Darien* Fairfield County Football League
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Connecticut Festival of Words* Family Centers
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First Congregational Church of Darien*

  Friends of Woodland Park Nature Preserve in Darien
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Darien Antiques Show* Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk
Darien Arts Center* Kiwanis Club of Darien
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League of Women Voters of Darien*

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Darien Book Aid* Middlesex Club*
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Screenwriter Jesse Wigutow ("Eragon") was brought onboard the other week to pen a re-write of the script. Joseph Kosinski is also attached to return as director.

Hedlund confirmed the news this week whilst doing "On the Road" publicity. He says "You know, yeah, I'm very excited, Disney's very excited."

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Since I make about $2 a copy after Apple's 30% cut and taxes, a handful of people have asked how they can pay me for answering support emails. Here is a Pay Pal donate option that you can use if I have answered a support email for you and you would like to thank me.

Attendance2 has many features that the original Attendance app does not have and as of version 2.0 (approved by Apple January 4, 2013), it has all the major features of the original app including importing from Contacts (added in version 2.0). In general the new app is more flexible and more customizable. The second status also allows for participation, or other uses such as using status1 for checkin and status2 for checkout. I wrote the new app from scratch because the original app was written for iOS 2.0 and I could not add many of the feature requests based on the original data structures. Attendance2 was written for iOS 5.0 and higher and allows me to take advantage of many additions Apple made and I re-designed the internal data structures to make it more flexible for new features.

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Attendance2 cannot import the attendance records from the original Attendance app since the internal data structures are completely different; however, you can export the names as a CSV file (using the Info Report on the report tab of the original Attendance app) and import that CSV file into the new app. If you were using the original app, it probably makes sense to start using the new Attendance2 app at the beginning of a new term/semester.

There are a few videos below that I've made showing its usage and features. There is a FAQ that I update along with blog posts with news for the apps and tips for using them.

If you are using the original Attendance app, you may continue to use it if you want as I will support it at least through iOS 6 (i.e., make certain it works on iOS 6 and fix any bugs). A few of the features (accessing photo library) are broken in iOS 7 due to changes of Apple made, but most of the original app still works. Of course, if you were happy with the original Attendance app, I hope you will purchase the new app.

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Creating and scanning QR codes (can also scan bar codes).

Longer introduction video showing more features (made with version 1.x of Attendance2)

CSV Import video

Export roster from Moodle as CSV file and import

Shows how to customize statuses and gives an example for day care centers.

Here is a link to a longer video made by a music teacher who used Word/Excel and their mail merge feature to print out nice folder labels with the QR codes generated by the app. You don't need to go to all this trouble to use QR codes (as the app will even assign unique ID numbers and generate the QR codes for you), but if you want to include other information and print the QR codes, this is a well-done video showing detailed steps to do it.


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The link in my signup email for the documentation takes me to a 403 error page. The link takes me to a directory, not a file and I suspect the 403 is due to directory listing being turned off. There was probably supposed to be a file on the end of the link, but it was left off. The link in the email is:

I tried going to "My Download Center" and get it from there, but the link there takes me to a 404 error page. The link has a english language designator in the file name, which appears to be spurious. The link there is: Manual_0.3_en.pdf

I did finally find a link for docs that works, in the announcement in the forum about open enrollment. That link works: kManual-0.3.pdf

So... is that last one the most current version of the docs, and is it the only doc that i need to be concerned with, or am I missing something with the first two links? Either way, you probably want to fix it so others don't have the same problem as I.

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Good catch. The correct link is the one that you can find in the footer of the M44 Online Web site: kManual-0.4-en.pdf

We'll fix the broken links in the other pages you mentioned.

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First off, Tuesday's Buffy, The Vampire Slayer season finale is two hours long. Adjust your timers.

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pixels / class 10.2M  SLR digital camera
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image quality very good image quality rating
ease of use good usability rating
camera body very good camera body rating  excellent viewfinder
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U.S. Announces Indictment of International Arms Dealer for Conspiracy to Kill Americans and Related Terrorism Charges

MAY 6 -- MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and MICHELE M. LEONHART, the Acting Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment against international arms dealer VIKTOR BOUT, a/k/a "Boris," a/k/a "Victor Anatoliyevich Bout," a/k/a "Victor But," a/k/a "Viktor Budd," a/k/a "Viktor Butt," a/k/a "Viktor Bulakin," a/k/a "Vadim Markovich Aminov," for, among other things, conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (the "FARC") -- a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Colombia -- to be used to kill Americans in Colombia. BOUT was arrested by Thai authorities on a provisional arrest warrant on April 9, 2008, based on a complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. BOUT has been in custody in Thailand since March 6, 2008. According to the Indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court:

BOUT, an international weapons trafficker since the 1990s, has carried out his weapons-trafficking business by assembling a fleet of cargo airplanes capable of transporting weapons and military equipment to various parts of the world, including Africa, South America and the Middle East. In 2004, as a result of his weapons trafficking activities in Liberia, the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control within the Department of Treasury placed BOUT on the Specially Designated Nationals list, which prohibits any transactions between BOUT and any U.S. nationals, and freezes any of BOUT’s assets that are within the jurisdiction of the United States.

Between November 2007 and March 2008, BOUT agreed to sell to the FARC millions of dollars’ worth of weapons -- including surface-to-air missile systems ("SAMs"), armor piercing rocket launchers, AK-47 firearms, millions of rounds of ammunition, Russian spare parts for rifles, anti-personnel land mines, C-4 plastic explosives, night-vision equipment, “ultralight” airplanes that could be outfitted with grenade launchers and missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles. BOUT agreed to sell the weapons to two confidential sources working with the DEA (the "CSs"), who represented that they were acquiring these weapons for the FARC, with the specific understanding that the weapons were to be used to attack United States helicopters in Colombia.

As described in the Indictment, during a covertly recorded meeting in Thailand on March 6, 2008, BOUT stated to the CSs that he could arrange to airdrop the arms to the FARC in Colombia, and offered to sell two cargo planes to the FARC that could be used for arms deliveries. BOUT also provided a map of South America, and asked the CSs to show him American radar locations in Colombia. BOUT said that he understood that the CSs wanted the arms for use against American personnel in Colombia, and advised that the United States was also his enemy, stating that the FARC’s fight against the United States was also his fight. During the meeting, BOUT also offered to provide people to train the FARC in the use of the arms.

The Indictment unsealed today charges BOUT with four separate terrorism offenses:

  • Count One: Conspiracy to kill United States nationals;
  • Count Two: Conspiracy to kill United States officers or employees;
  • Count Three: Conspiracy to acquire and use an anti-aircraft missile; and
  • Count Four: Conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

If convicted, BOUT faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment on each of Counts One through Three, including a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years’ imprisonment for Count Three. BOUT faces a maximum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment on Count Four. The case is assigned to United States District Judge SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN.

The United States is actively pursuing BOUT’s extradition from Thailand.

Mr. GARCIA praised the investigative work of the DEA and thanked the Royal Thai Police, Office of the Attorney General for Thailand, and the Royal Thai government for their assistance. Mr. GARCIA also thanked the Romanian Border Police, the Romanian Prosecutor's Office Attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the Korps Politie Curacao of the Netherlands Antilles, and the Danish National Police Security Services, for their cooperation, and thanked the U.S. Department of Justice Office of International Affairs.

"Viktor Bout has long been considered by the international community as one of the world's most prolific arms traffickers," said U.S. Attorney MICHAEL J. GARCIA. "Today, Bout is in Thai custody facing extradition to the United States, where he will be prosecuted for agreeing to arm a terrorist organization, an aim of which was to kill American citizens."

"Viktor Bout no doubt faces some of the most extraordinarily serious conspiracy charges possible for his crimes against Americans," said DEA Acting Administrator MICHELE M. LEONHART. "With the unsealing of this indictment, we are one step closer to ensuring Bout has delivered his last load of high powered weaponry and armed his final terrorist."

Assistant United States Attorneys ANJAN SAHNI and BRENDAN R. McGUIRE are in charge of the prosecution.

The charges contained in the Indictment are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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I havn't been doing much in Berlin this time. The weather sucked and it just provoked me to stay in bed and read and watch movies. Which wasn't so bad I have to say. We didnt even make it to our favorite 80's party in Kreuzberg, but next month there is another one and we will be there!
Anyway the last day we went to see an exhibition of my favorite photographer Ellen von Unwerth, called The story of Olga.

Back home from Berlin. This beauty was waiting in my mailbox. Sangbleu 6. 700 pages of tattoo work, fashion, fetish... interviews and articles. Cant wait to read it all. Respect to the Sangbleu crew for amazing work.

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Rád cestuji a rád fotím. Fotky většinou zveřejňuji na Facebooku a na našich stránkách. Už několikrát se mě někdo ptal, jestli je možné zakoupit vytištěnou fotografii a já odpovídal, že není. Před několika týdny mě oslovili kamarádi, kteří se zabývají Fineart tiskem s tím, že by několik mých fotografií chtěli nabídnout k prodeji. Vybrali jsme několik málo kousků, které je nyní možné zakoupit přes jejich webové stránky:

I love to travel and I love to take pictures of the places I visit. I upload most of my pictures on Facebook and our website and I have been asked many times if it is possible to buy printed versions of these pics. I had to answer no, because I didn't plan to print them and sell them. Few weeks ago my friends asked me to give them some pictures for their online shop. They have a company specialized in Fine art prints and they really do a good job. We have selected a couple of photos that are now available on their website:

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Thursday, December 06, 2012

Fotka je z parku Tazi Shan Gongyuan v Chengdu (Sichuan, Čína), který jsem měla v podstatě jen pro sebe.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Notebooks ready for London, NY, Vienna, Berlin, Praha

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Sprayed Sea Shepherd logo on my friends dress - she asked for it

Robert. Nejstylovější pán jakého znám.
I love Robert for being soooo stylish!!!

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Dnes jsem byl s kámoškou v kavárně a vedle u stolu seděla holka a psala si do deníku s kolem. Tak jsem se jí zeptal, jestli si ji můžu vyfotit a neprotestovala. Je milý vidět někoho, jak ten deník opravdu používá.

Today I had a coffee with my friend and there was this girl sitting by the table next to us writing in her new Bike notebook. So I asked her if I can take a picture and she didnt say NO. So good to see people using what we made for them.

Takhle se má chodit na hardcore koncerty. Pěkně ve stylu. Řekl jsem Janě, aby si příště vzala svou Louis Vuitton kabelku - to je jasný, že ji má :-).

Thats the scarf you should wear on the hardcore shows - I told Jana that she better take her Louis Vuitton handbag next time. Of course she has it.

V sobotu jsem stěhoval první várku krabic do nového studia a v tom mi zvoní telefon. Kanár mi volá z Triba, že pár ulic od obchodu našel plnej kontejner svázaných Mladých front a Lidových novin. Zmocnil se mě smutek, protože jsem neměl čas kvůli stěhování. Tak mu říkám, že to nestihnu a že mě to fakt sere. Ale pak jsem se neudržel a zrušil stěhování. A vyrazil jsem pro Kanára a pro nákup z kontejneru. Tohle jsou opravdu krásné úlovky.

I was sitting in the car - moving boxes of stuff from our old studio to the new one. Than my phone started to ring and there is Kanar on the phone telling me about this treasure he found just few blocks away from the Tribo Tattoo shop he works at. The whole dumpster packed with binded old newspapers. I told him I wont make it because of moving. But than I just canceled moving to pick him up in the shop and we went hunting for books and newspapers.

Už se mi dlouho nestalo, že bych se pořádně začervenal. Ale na středečním koncertě the Sounds se mi to povedlo a to když se ke mě zpěvačka Maja Ivarsson přiblížila na můj vkus až příliž na dotek :-).

Its not often that someone makes me blush. But Maja Ivarsson of The Sounds totally managed that by getting way too close to me :-).

The Sounds Lyrics

" Beatbox "

Wake up one day with a song in my head

In the basement a beatbox on my bed

Silver frame, claim to fame
Never made them quite the same
So I tip tap toe tapping down the street
On my way I saw Tony The Beat
This is the time to lose control
Everybody's here come on let's roll!

So turn it up and break it down
Come on bring that beatbox back
Tell me do you feel it?
So turn it up and break it down
Come on bring that beatbox back
Tell me do you feel it?

Late that night I saw a woman in red
"Hey there honey!" that's what she said
Tried to move my feet up and down
But the DJ sucked I'm stuck to the ground
I wanna dance, dance to the beat
That's all I want that's all I need
This is the time to lose control
Everybody's here come on let's go!

Yeah you know that you want it 'cause you can't deny it
Yeah you know that you want it so don't even try it
And that's what I said now it's up to you
(Hey Schoolly, Thanks for the Hi-Hat!)
So turn it up, So turn it up, and break it down

Yeah you know that you want it 'cause you can't deny it
Yeah you know that you want it so don't even try it
Come on bring that beatbox back
So turn it up and break it down
Come on bring that beatbox back, back, b-back, back!
So turn it up and break it down
Come on bring that beatbox back, back, b-back, back!
Come on bring that beatbox back
Back, B-back, Back!

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Lost from my memory

Monday, February 20, 2012

Tenhle obraz jsem vyfotil na stěně mého kamaráda Vitakra. Udělal jsem ho asi deset let naz5 a je to kopie obalu desky Jane Doe od kapely Converge. Sprej na kovové desce. Rozměr: 700x400 mm.
Took this picture in my friends apartment. I made this copy of Converge cover album Jane Doe about 10 years ago. Spray on metal. Size: 700 x 400 mm.

Original Jane doe Cover by  Jacob Bannon - Love his work so much

Girl in a bus

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Primitiv Aťko na schodech pražského klubu 007

I love skype calls. Especially when the other person Im speaking to sits in her warm room in Australia and she goes with her computer to a balcony to show me how peoble walk on the sidewalk almost naked because it is: "So hot outside I dont even wanna go out". And when we finish this call Im looking outside to see snowflakes falling on the roof under my window. This is not fair!!!!

Skype fight - Prague vs. Melbourne

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Berlin again...

Friday, February 17, 2012

On the way to Berlin there was a sleeper. Apparently he went to all 5 floors. I hate these t-shirts, hate what they call pub crawl.

On Saturday we went to Upcycling fashion shop co-owned by our friend Luise we stayed with whole weekend.

We met this guy. In the apartment but later  on the street as well :-) with cute bike.

Original fashion brands, nice staff...what else you need. If you are from Berlin or going there make sure you come by.

Ondra checking our notebooks - i think it was first time he saw them. And of course he thinks we are hippies.

I told you. Nice staff..

In one pub in Kreuzberg

With these gloves and map you cant get lost

One of many things I love about Berlin is street art you get to see on every step

Last 3 months I have been tattooed 3 times. With this pace in a shor time  I wont have that much free space left on my body.

Drawing a whale - what a great design!

Check out the shoe

I dont know why I do this to my body - I guess because it just make too much sense to get tattoos from your friends

I know it - i was already writing about this in my last post from Berlin. But I just love there is so many vegan places where you can go and eat. This time I think we didnt do anything else but eating. It was too cold outside to do any sighseeing so we spent all our time going from place to place to eat and drink coffee. Thinking about that it wasnt that much about coffee this time, but the food. And what a delicious food!

Saturday night we went dancing. Me with my only shoes I had in Berlin. My winter shoes. They matched well with the floor - fuck fashion and be warm - that was the rule of the night - at least for me.

My favorite tattoo ARTIST - Lujsička

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New FACEBOOK page/Nová FACEBOOK stránka

Monday, February 13, 2012

NEW FACEBOOK page here

Kdo má raději FCB komunikaci, tak zajisté ocení novou FACEBOOK stránku.
Objednávky však stále přes tento web.

Posted by: Deaf Messanger

Aktualizace telefonu

Monday, February 06, 2012

Holka na tréninku

Holka z Újezdu

Holka s tahákem

BONUSChapeau Rouge

SECRET WARS v 2.patře
proti sobě stoji: Lazybastard a Tttroy

And the winner isssss.......

Na novy verzi Larsona v kině. Ta noc byla plná dobrodružství. Tohle je kuba líbající velkou hlavu ženy, co ho tak z plátna pomátla.

Tyhle tagy mám hodně rád

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  • 0.50 c. fresh organic lime juice
  • 0.50 tsp. salt
  • 3 tbsp. organic whole-wheat flour
  • 1 c. organic milk

  1. To make the crust: Butter a fluted tart pan lightly with organic sweet butter.
  2. Grind the oats in a food processor for 30 seconds.
  3. Add the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt to the oats in the processor. Pulse once to blend.
  4. Add the cold butter and pulse the machine until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Add the lime juice and pulse a few more times to incorporate the juice evenly, then add as much cold water as needed to bind the dough together. Turn the dough out onto a board and gather up all the pieces. Shape the dough into a round disk, wrap in plastic, and chill for 1/2 hour.
  5. Place the dough in the center of the tart pan and press into place with your fingers, working from the center outward until the crust is a uniform thickness all around. Chill again for 15 minutes before baking.
  6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  7. To make the filling: Combine the butter, sugar, and egg yolks in a mixing bowl and beat until smooth.
  8. Add the lime zest, lime juice, and salt. Stir in the flour and milk and beat at a medium speed until smooth.
  9. In a separate bowl beat the egg whites into soft peaks that hold their shape. Fold the egg whites into the egg yolk mixture and spoon filling into the chilled piecrust.
  10. Bake until the tart is golden brown on top, about 40 minutes. Cool for at least 1 hour before serving. Leftovers keep well in the refrigerator.
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