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2016 Speculation
06/03/15 at 10:45am in 2016 Speculation
Post: #1
Kings Dominion's additions have been quite predictable since the 2011 season, but 2016 isn't quite as obvious as of yet... It's only the beginning of June and we have approximately 80+ days before an announcement, but I was curious what you all realistically believe will happen in 2016.
One addition that I could see coming is an up-charge SlingShot. Cedar Point received one in 2014 and both Canada's Wonderland and Carowinds got one in 2015. Kings Island already has one that still does very well after many years. They are very popular, more so than SkyCoasters I would argue.
A coaster could also very well be on the chopping block. With Cedar Point removing 2 coasters, Kings Island removing Son of Beast, Canada's Wonderland removing SkyRider, and Carowinds (more than likely) removing Thunder Road Cedar Fair has proved that they actually meant that they want to "remove one or two coasters from the parks". With Anaconda getting 40th Celebration improvements I'd say it's safe (unfortunately), so I'd narrow that down to Hurler and Shockwave like the majority of everyone else. The Shockwave rumor is spinning around so maybe it is actually its finally season. A smaller-medium sized B&M or good-sized family coaster could fit on Shockwave's spot, especially if they use space around the lot.
Finally, I'm pretty sure it has been stated that there are no Triotech rides for Cedar Fair in the making for 2016 and that they will begin rolling out into "all of the parks" in 2017.
With no rides being added on the dry-side of the park since 2013 (2012 if you're not into kiddie rides), I'd expect something is coming Kings Dominion's way. Thoughts?
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06/03/15 at 11:06am in 2016 Speculation (Latest Edit: 06/03/15 at 11:52am by mwhinva.)
Post: #2
Is there any hard and fast Theme Park rule that states "When a coaster is removed, the coaster site must be used for another coaster."?
Out of the 3 Togo Standup coasters, in the old KECO park chain, KD's ShockWave was the shortest in track length. This was due to having the least amount of space to work with.
I don't think the park will put another complete major coaster on that site. The site could be used for part of a major coaster running through that area; but, I see that site more likely being used for adding a couple flat rides.
Course that depends if ShockWave is actually on its way out after this season.
I think it is humorous that so many folks, on so many web sites, are getting antsy with the lack of a coaster addition at Kings Dominion. Yet, one of the more frequent negative comments about the park is that it is "an asphalt coaster park".
Overall, it appears that Cedar Fair is still focusing on those parks that need to be "up sized" to better meet the size of the population of the region it is located in. Leading the pack is Carowinds, CA's Great America relationship with the 49'ers, and Valley Fair looking at a potential new separate water park entrance and infrastructure improvements.
Carowinds accelerated park changes/additions/deletions should wrap up in 2016 with (a) water related attraction(s) being added. Thunder Road being removed (in full or in part) due the above.
In addition, Canada's Wonderland has land prep work going on and Cedar Point has all that cleared land that could be for a 2016 attraction (CP hinted at a new 2016 attraction).
So where does that leave KD for 2016? I just don't know.
1) New coaster? I would have thought that marker/stakes would be showing up at least in the next couple weeks. Unless this coaster is going on completely undeveloped land. If not, then its looks like 2017 after all.
2) New Flat Ride(s) being added. (With or Without ShockWave being removed).
3) News report quoted Matt Quimet stating no Dark ride currently in the works. So, no Cedar Fair park is apparently getting one for 2016.
4) Possible phase II of Soak City expansion? Most of the budget seemed focused on infrastructure within the water park. Could we be getting a couple more slide towers for 2016?
5) Remodeled front entrance?
5) Another off year for 2016? Just general park improvements.
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06/03/15 at 11:16am in 2016 Speculation (Latest Edit: 06/03/15 at 01:42pm by Hokie305.)
Post: #3
Not necessarily, but if Shockwave were to be removed it would take quite a bit more than one flat ride to fill its footprint, even with it being the most compact 'adult' coaster in the park. With so many nods to the past these last 2 seasons, it'd be interesting if and when Shockwave is removed they replace it with a coaster named 'Galaxi'.
One other 'trend' that has been happening the past two seasons across KD's sister parks that I would like to see happen here is the removal of Thunder Raceway. Kings Island removed theirs after 2012 and Carowinds removed theirs after 2013. Of course, both of these were removed to make way for Banshee and Fury 325.
From what I've noticed, Thunder Raceway at Kings Dominion has lost some popularity over the years as this is its 10th season in the park. With the removal of Thunder Raceway it would open the area for 1 of 2 things: a good sized flat ride or a coaster entry plaza/station that could go back into the woods. Also, with the removal of Thunder Raceway it would allow Grizzly to finally have the separate entrance it deserves once again.
Edit: I forgot to mention that ValleyFair got rid of their go-karts after the 2013 season.
06/03/15 at 02:07pm in 2016 Speculation
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(06/03/15 10:45am)Hokie305 Wrote: One addition that I could see coming is an up-charge SlingShot. Cedar Point received one in 2014 and both Canada's Wonderland and Carowinds got one in 2015. Kings Island already has one that still does very well after many years. They are very popular, more so than SkyCoasters I would argue.
God no. Please. No. KD doesn't need more upcharge attractions.
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06/03/15 at 03:09pm in 2016 Speculation
Post: #5
I don't want to see a sling shot but CF has added one to CP, CW, and Caro. There is a really good chance we might see one come here.
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06/03/15 at 03:12pm in 2016 Speculation (Latest Edit: 06/03/15 at 03:14pm by Hokie305.)
Post: #6
Didn't necessarily say I would want to see it, but could definitely see it coming to the park based on Cedar Fair trends at the moment.
However, I would gladly swap up-charge attractions. I'd take a SlingShot over both Dinosaurs Alive and Thunder Raceway. At least I would consider riding SlingShot as they're quite a thrill.
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06/13/15 at 07:42am in 2016 Speculation
Post: #7
So, we are not seeing a coaster for 2016. But a flat or dark ride of some sort. Just want to clarify.
06/13/15 at 10:30am in 2016 Speculation
Post: #8
^Do ya have any sources for claiming we will see a dark ride/flat? Mark Ouimet already said no CF park was getting a triotech in 2016.
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06/13/15 at 01:38pm in 2016 Speculation
Post: #9
I think that 2016 will be another year for flats or slingshot because any size coaster takes months to build and get working. This means(unless they are going to building one on unused property) we would have seen marks and an attraction would already be in the process of removal.
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06/13/15 at 03:42pm in 2016 Speculation
Post: #10
Not necessarily - the only reason Intimidator 305 construction began so early was because of the amount of land clearing/water control that had to be done as well as it being such a new design (the Intamin arch lift).
Think back to the construction of GateKeeper at Cedar Point. Disaster Transport didn't close down until 7/29/12 and footers weren't even being poured by Labor Day. Northern Ohio also has much worse winters than Virginia does too.
Also, if a coaster is replacing an attraction in the park they would want to keep the ride open as long as possible through the peak summer season and to keep construction in the park limited to a certain time frame since it isn't the most appealing thing to look at. Also, the shorter construction time = less money.
I'm not saying I expect the park to get a coaster in 2016 (although I do believe it is time), but there is plenty of time before we should rule one out. 2016 is Cedar Point's big year and they haven't seen one bulldozer on site yet.
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06/14/15 at 03:16pm in 2016 Speculation
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06/14/15 at 04:52pm in 2016 Speculation
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I could see some new flats but no Cedar Fair park is getting a Dark Ride next year.
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06/14/15 at 09:31pm in 2016 Speculation
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06/15/15 at 12:29pm in 2016 Speculation
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If it's not a coaster, I'm hoping for a thrilling flat ride(s). It's been since 2012 without a new dry thrilling ride (if you count Windseeker as thrilling).
I'd also like to see an area spruced up with the flat similar to what was done with the Gemini midway at Cedar Point and Route 76 at ValleyFair when their Disk-O coasters were installed.
Also, I checked the Hanover County Building Permits filed in May and nothing large was filed for Kings Dominion so don't expect any construction to start in June.
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06/15/15 at 01:01pm in 2016 Speculation
Post: #15
Ooooo, I hadn't paid attention to the Disk'O coasters that Cedar Fair has been installing. I could totally see one of those at KD- and there are plenty of spaces for one.
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PATA to hold travel mart, bloggers meet
Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Nepal chapter today announced Bloggers Conference 2015 and Himalayan Travel Mart 2016. To be organised in coordination with Tourism Ministry, Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) and private sector, the conference and travel
Nepal needs to diversy tourism products
Newly appointed tourism secretary Suresh Man Shrestha today asked the tourism entrepreneurs to diversify tourism products and services to promote Nepal in international market effectively "We have huge tourism potentials," he said, adding, "But we are failing to get desired
JTCC, ministry talks inconclusive
Talks between tourism secretary Sushil Ghimire and agitating Joint Tourism Coordination Committee (JTCC) ended inconclusively today. The committee has been agitating against the incumbent acting chief executive of the Nepal Tourism Board Subash Niraula, apart from some probing the accounts
National Tourism Fair postponed
Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) today formally postponed National Tourism Fair scheduled for May 2 bowing to the demands of Joint Tourism Coordination Committee (JTCC). The JTCC – a forum of 19 travel trade associations – has today organised a sit-in
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|It's not every day that you turn to The Thunderer for the latest salacious news from the back benches. But Greg Hurst, political correspondent of The Times, has excelled himself in tomorrow's paper.
Ashleigh Sharp
|In An affair, a feud, an e-mail — and another Tory MP bites the dust, Greg reveals that the resignation of my successful Tory opponent at the 2005 General Election in Castle Point lies in his sexual, financial and pugilistic activities, rather than in his political ones. The story would have done Jackie Collins proud.
According to The Times, the bust-up (oh, what an appropriate term!) originated in Spink's feud with local Tories over his affair with a former Conservative councillor, Gail Boland — the long-term partner of the local Conservative Association's deputy chairman Bill Sharp — herself sacked by the local Party in April 2006. In an arrangement clearly drawing on some of my own Party's most cunning stunts in recent times, Spink uses his Commons staffing allowance to employ both his ex-wife Janet — who works from Dorset 150 miles from his constituency — and his lover's student daughter, Ashleigh Sharp (who's Bebo entry reports her as having "not much to say"). He also employs his own daughter, Charlotte.
Since Spink started his relationship with Ms Boland, he and Sharp are said to have been involved in a bitter feud. Sharp reported Spink to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, while Spink has formally complained to the police about Sharp's "criminal harassment" and sought injunctions to restrain him. According to Hurst, in one incident — which also ended in a complaint to police — the MP complained that his adversary tried to trap him in a room while Sharp, who ended up on the floor, claimed that Spink had "decked him".
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Saturday, July 28, 2007
More MFT releases coming soon!
Don't miss the new MFT sets being released on August 1st! I love the teacher set. If you go to their site at http://mftstamps.com and click on "the Team" you can go to the designers' blogs to see samples of the new sets being released. The sets can be purchased at the MFT site or at www.allthatscraps.com where you can get free shipping!
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nice blog...
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If you like the teacher set, you should check out design team member Lauren's blog at:
for a chance to win that stamp set. There are questions you have to answer, but most of the answers are at the MFT site or on Lauren's blog. Good luck! It is a cute set, especially for a teacher.
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Eastbound 94 is quickly becoming a nightmare for commuters heading from Minneapolis to St. Paul. Road work from Huron Blvd to Hwy. 280 has the right lane out of commission. A crash involving a motorcyclist at Franklin Avenue and another wreck in the same area has traffic jammed back to Portland Avenue.
Southbound 35E is busy from Hwy. 36 to downtown St. Paul. A short-lived wreck at Hwy. 36 just cleared. Commuters are still caught in a log jam from County J to County E due to a crash on the northbound side at County E.
Southbound 35W is dealing with congestion from Lexington Avenue to County 96 and a wreck in the left lane at Industrial Blvd. Plan on 30 minutes from Lexington to downtown Minneapolis.
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You should be the one who gets the "THANK YOU". If it wasn't for you setting up this fundraiser all of this outpouring would have never happened. When I saw James' story on CNN my heart stopped and tears welled in my eyes. I immediately doanated towards this most worthy cause. Good luck James and peace be with you.
Jace Stansbury
Nederland, TX
- May 30, 2008 at 4:26 PM
James . . . you're an inspiration to us all. Thank you for providing a real-life example of courage, integrity and strength.
Best wishes for reaching your goal quickly.
Steve Powers
St. Michael, MN
- May 30, 2008 at 4:32 PM
I am so greatful to be able to help with the financing of
your surgery. I have had some minor defects myself in comparison to yours. Some how I received the help that I needed and I want to pay back somehow for my fortunate assistance.
Insurance companies have no soul and should be challenged any way possible.
Good luck
Remember this day is the first day of the rest of your life and God Bless your family and their support of you.
Cindy Lissau
- May 30, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Wow. What an incredible inspiration James is. I wish I could have donated more! Thank you Katie for undertaking this wonderful cause. And James, we could all learn something from your courage and determination. You're living proof that you don't have to look a certain way to be a beautiful human being! God bless you and I wish you a speedy, successful recovery!
- May 30, 2008 at 5:53 PM
We are so happy to be able to give back some of God's blessings to a great guy made in the image of our great God. We love you and will continue to pray for you.
In His likeness
jehoshaphat, Nora, Elianna, Elijah Cardona
Lexington, Ky
- May 30, 2008 at 8:00 PM
I wasn't able to give much, but your story touched me and I had to help. You are an inspiration and I hope that you are able to get enough funds for the surgeries. May God richly bless you in the years to come.
Please pray for me, as I will pray for you.
Craig Nessel
Bonneau, SC
- May 30, 2008 at 8:17 PM
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I just donated to the cause.... so happy to help. Please keep the updates fresh so we can know the efforts are going.
Tony Miller
- May 30, 2008 at 8:18 PM
James God bless you and I hope you get the surgery you need I have sent this link to almost all in my address book and asked them to send it on I wish I could do more but If we all give a little it adds up to a lot all the best James from Las Vegas Nevada
- May 30, 2008 at 8:18 PM
I feel very blessed that I am able to help. Thank you to Katie for starting this amazing fundraiser, and thank you to James for being such a wonderful example of what people can be and do.
- May 30, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Katie & James, whisper HIPAA to the insurance company and mutter creditable coverage and bad faith, see how fast they move. In the meantime, I was more than happy to contribute. James, your inner strength and spirit are admirable. You face each day with warmth and optimism and you are truly blessed with such wonderful friends to surround you. May my small donation lead to the greater cause and you get what you need that much sooner. You Rock, James!
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- May 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM
I just sent over my donation.
James, you seem like an incredible person...keep holding your head high!! Katie, I can't even express how awesome it is what you're doing. And kudos to Safeway for everything they have done.
Good luck and God Bless!!
Atlanta, GA
- May 30, 2008 at 10:20 PM
After reading this story, and seeing how loved this man is in his community, I couldn't help but send in something to help out! He is an inspiration, and the world needs more people like him in it!
Good luck with the surgeries James, you will be in our prayers!!
God Bless!
Rich and Donna H.
Muncy, PA
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The Phillies are up a game in the World Series.
It's exciting, but the distraction fades quickly.
Ultimately insignificant, like most things
I dedicate my attention and efforts to...
To avoid raking my mind over the coals,
Imaginary ashes of what never was.
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My one addiction;
I have become so tired of this junk.
Yet, unable to throw it all away.
Hard to see past the threshold.
Still, it's nice to win game one.
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So...I've been hearing that I've been having some sidebar problems. Leave a comment and let me know if they're fixed. I'm new to this whole "computer" thing (not really, sadly).
Someone downstairs in my apartment is making a lot of noise. I hate living in an apartment. It's not just the fact that there are a few college kids living above me who play blaring bad rap music and any random moment in a 24 hour period, but it's the fact that the walls at times seem so thin that I could just mute my TV and occasionally I can hear the audio coming from across the hall. I really want my own place. It's not that far off, but it seems like it. I just want a place that I own, you know? I suppose it's all a result of being an elitist only child.
I've got a pseudo-date tonight. I'm excited.
Have you noticed that the US wants Iran dead? This may be a loaded question, but I'll ask it anyway: Why isn't Iran allowed to have nuclear weapons, and we are? Is it because we're "right"? I hate the fact that the American public doesn't even ask this question.
All the best.
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Cheryl Cole to make X Factor decision today
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Cheryl Cole must decide today (29.05.11) if she will return to the UK version of 'The X Factor'
Cheryl Cole must decide today (29.05.11) if she will return to 'The X Factor' in the UK.
The singer turned reality TV judge – who made a shock exit from the US version of the show after just four days of filming last week – has reportedly been given a £2 million offer to stay on the UK programme, but has to decide today as filming for the new series starts on Wednesday (01.06.11).
A source told the Daily Mail newspaper: "They have offered to double Cheryl's pay packet in the UK and Simon is trying to convince her to take this opportunity.
"The truth is that Cheryl is in a major sulk and she may turn the offer down.
"No one knows what she's going to do, but the feeling is that if she turns down X Factor in the UK it really would be career suicide."
Another source claims Cheryl – who is said to have been convinced to take the job on 'The X Factor' in the US by show boss Simon Cowell – was refusing to talk to him last night (28.05.11), with her manager, Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am taking all calls on her behalf.
The source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "She's been told to get a grip, grow up and pick yourself up or you'll lose the British show too.
"It's tough, but we start filming the UK programme on Wednesday. No one is bigger than the show, that's what she has to realise. If Cheryl doesn't want to do it we'll just go on without her.
"It's very worrying that she's refusing to engage with us. We need a dialogue but she won't answer the phone. Cheryl needs to call us."
The only member of the judging panel now confirmed for the UK version of the show is Take That singer Gary Barlow, though Louis Walsh is also expected to return. Also in the running are N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos and former Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland.


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The Doctor Who exhibition in London is celebrating Halloween this year. From the thirty first of October to the second of November, children dressed as heroes and foes from Doctor Who will gain free admission to the exhibition. Please not to gain free admission by dressing up you have to be under the age of sixteen. Other Halloween events will take place during the Halloween weekend at Earls Court. The Davros prop will appear for the first time at Earls Court on Halloween night joining previous props added to the exhibition. The Earls Court exhibition is closing on the ninth of October.
Thursday, 23 October 2008
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The St. Louis German School is in immediate need of a German Teacher for an A1 level class. Classes are held on Saturday mornings from 9 am to 12 pm. Qualified candidates will either be native speakers or hold a teaching certificate in German. Classes run through the first week of May and follow the Public School calendar. Please contact Daniela Muller-Williams firstname.lastname@example.com or at 314-452-8780 as soon as possible.
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Monday, December 20, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
soul food: mike e + afroflow
his album afroflow ii pays tribute to the fact that hip-hop flows from africa and his music is heavily influenced by the sounds of africa, in general and ethiopia in particular.
in addition to being an incredible lyricist and poet, mike-e has also used his music to generate awareness and promote change and social responsibility both in america and in ethiopia. his annual afroflow tour is a collaboration with the american cancer society and aims at engaging youth and families in the fight against cancer. in ethiopia, he has launched the christmas in ethiopia campaign which is raising funds to purchase uniforms, educational supplies, and gifts for children affected by HIV/AIDS. all proceeds from album sales in december will go to this fund. listen and buy the album, here.
good music + art creating change = awesome.
soul food: mike e + afroflow
Thursday, December 16, 2010
soul food: i love you more
soul food: i love you more
Friday, December 3, 2010
flashback friday: sample goodness
flashback friday: sample goodness
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
soul food: asa's 'beautiful imperfection' [preview]
Friday, September 24, 2010
soul food: shad + von pea and donwill: rose garden (remix)
download here
soul food: shad + von pea and donwill: rose garden (remix)
Monday, September 20, 2010
soul food: shad k's 'we, myself, and i' [video]
pure dopeness.
soul food: shad k's 'we, myself, and i' [video]
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
interviews: john forté
Thursday, September 2, 2010
quotables: soul mate
Saturday, August 7, 2010
soul food: k'naan 'take a minute'
soul food: k'naan 'take a minute'
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
a thousand [and one] hills
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a thousand [and one] hills
soul food: k'naan's bang bang
K'Naan & Adam Levine : Bang bang (2010)
yeah, i know a lot of hardcore dustyfoot philosopher fans that this video is going to give pause.
but i'm digging the imagery and the execution. dopeness.
soul food: k'naan's bang bang
Friday, July 16, 2010
- jina moore takes on the white reporter's burden in africa. i just started following her on twitter and then realized she had emailed me ages ago inquiring about a flat for rent. ah, small world. (jina moore)
- this is africa is looking for bloggers, vloggers, and coolhunters! where do i sign up? (this is africa)
- was just explaining black hair politics to a friend the other day, then came across this great article in clutch about the politics of hair in south africa. (clutchmagazine.com)
- and, lawd...bassey ikpi, like, TOTALLY GETS ME. i love her recent piece on the constant struggle of learning to let go and stop missing: emotional hoarding. (bassey's world)
- okayplayer (my first interweb home...ah, 1999) has launched the hugely impressive okayafrica! (okayafrica.com)
- the pan african dance festival in rwanda is on the world wide webs: official site, twitter, facebook, and blog.
- and, finally, a little bit of canadiana awesome: k-os interviewed by my SHAE sister, tastykeish on societyHAE & shad k profiled in the globe and mail.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
soul food: john forte's 'your side'
soul food: john forte's 'your side'
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
la la la: when a song says it better than i can
quotables: going further
Natalie Goldberg
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Friday, July 2, 2010
quotables: writing
quotables: writing
Monday, June 28, 2010
quotables: dreams.
'you've got to follow your passion. you've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. and have the courage to do that. i believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dream.' ~ auntie o. (aka, oprah winfrey)
it is never too late to be what you might have been ~ george eliot
quotables: dreams.
Friday, June 25, 2010
remembering the magic: michael jackson 1958-2009
one year ago, when we heard of michael jackson's passing, my sister said that since she was a child, she'd always wondered where she'd be when that news came. today, everyone is remembering where they were when they heard. i first heard the news on twitter. michael jackson rushed to the hospital. cardiac arrest. a little while later, news of his death hit and my immediate reaction was complete denial. part of me is still in denial, i think. how can someone whose music is so interwoven into the fabric of so many lives be gone, just like that? i kept waiting for someone to announce that it was, indeed, a hoax. that it was yet another rumour flying out of control. but as the hours passed, and i stayed up all night on twitter...more confirmation poured in. i still could not fathom it. it was too big and too shocking to comprehend, somehow. it's like the child in me was stubbornly refusing to acknowledge what was happening. plugging my ears, and shutting my eyes, and shaking my head vigorously until it all went away. it wasn't until the televised memorial service that it started to sink in. michael jackson was gone. michael jackson, who had always been bigger than life. michael jackson who--even in my adulthood--never lost his magic. he was more than a man, more than an artist. he was a beautiful spirit, whose influence cannot be ignored. his impact is felt every single day, all over the world. he transcended race and nationality. he was music. he was dance. he was style. he was artistry. he was a true entertainer.
he was the best. simply. and he always will be. he is my first memory of truly LOVING music. thriller was the first album i memorized all the lyrics to. 'thriller' is the first video that enchanted me and made me fall in love with dance. that red leather jacket is the first item of clothing i remember obsessing over. he's been gone for a year, and his absence is palpable. it's a void that i'll always feel and that will never be filled. we have lost a master, a legend, a true work of art, a powerful force. and that is something that cannot be denied, despite one's personal opinion of the man. it's just fact.
i still cannot accept the fact that he's gone. i wish i could thank him for all he meant. i pray he felt the love more than he felt the mockery and the fear and the misunderstanding. i hope he knew he was loved. i hope, in the end, his gift was more of a blessing than a burden.
rest in peace and power, michael jackson. i love you as much now as i did when i first laid eyes on the thriller cover and declared that you were my boyfriend for life. there will never be another.
remembering the magic: michael jackson 1958-2009
Thursday, June 24, 2010
soul food: somi's 'prayer'
'prayer to the saint of the brokenhearted':
love the tribute to harlem!
soul food: somi's 'prayer'
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
soul food: afropolitanic nomads: shadk + k'naan on tour
afropolitanic nomadic lyrically genius awesome, all in one show.
a little reminder of why i have nothing but love for my favorite
african canadian lyricists
soul food: afropolitanic nomads: shadk + k'naan on tour
la la la: when a song says it better than i can.
As long as we got each other
There's nothing in the world that can steal my joy
Yeah, As long as we got each other
We can overcome the madness of the world
la la la: when a song says it better than i can.
food for thought....
~ Abraham-Hicks
(via les delices)
food for thought....
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
soul food: afropolitana: shad TSOL
soul food: afropolitana: shad TSOL
Thursday, April 29, 2010
soul food: nas + damian marley's 'as we enter'
(video directed, once again, by nabil elderkin)
love the fact that (inspired by k'naan) they sampled mulatu atske 'yegelle tezeta'
soul food: nas + damian marley's 'as we enter'
Friday, April 23, 2010
soul food: afropolitana: shad k
soul food: afropolitana: shad k
soul food: maxwell's fistful of tears
Maxwell - Fistful Of Tears (Official Video)
soul food: maxwell's fistful of tears
soul food: moments
soul food: moments
Thursday, March 18, 2010
universal anthem
The Official World Cup Anthem (feat David Bisbal)
aaand, finally, the video for the album version (directed, once again, by the awesome Nabil)
universal anthem
Thursday, March 4, 2010
badu's back
loving the hat. side-eye-ing the leotard (?). loving her.
badu's back
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
give me freedom, give me fire...
99 days til the World Cup is hosted by South Africa.
wave ya flag!!!
give me freedom, give me fire...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
negrita's soundtrack: the tour
@john_forte: It's official - K'Naan, Wale, and John Forte coming to a town near you this Spring!
negrita's soundtrack: the tour
Thursday, February 11, 2010
let freedom reign: nelson mandela
i clearly remember watching his release on television on a cold winter morning, and writing about it in my little journal, which was ordinarily filled with angst-ridden pre-teen non-drama. after years of participating in anti-apartheid protests with my parents and their friends (my first taste of activism), i knew i was witnessing a moment that would forever impact the continent, and the world.
--Nelson Mandela
if you have not already, read about his epic journey in Mandela's 'Long Walk to Freedom.'
and 'When Mandela Turned Down Freedom' via Khaya Dlanga.
let freedom reign: nelson mandela
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
soul food: erykah's 'window seat'
here's 'window seat' by erykah badu, from her forthcoming release new amerykah pt. 2: return of the ankh.
over the past year or so: new k'naan, john forte, maxwell, sade, common, mos def, q-tip...and now erykah. at this point...all i need is lauryn and d'angelo to come back and i'll be complete. next up...groove theory!!!
soul food: erykah's 'window seat'
Thursday, January 14, 2010
teddy pendergrass
may his soul rest in eternal peace.
Teddy Pendergrass first gained notoriety as a member of the Philadelphia group, Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes.
in 1977 he begun his solo career, and went on to become the first African American to have five consecutive platinum albums. in 1982 Pendergrass was injured in a car accident, which left him paralyzed from mid-chest down but which did not stop his momentum. two years later, he returned with his next album, which featured this single (and which is when i first fell in love with his voice):
you will be missed, Teddy. truly.
Teddy Pendergrass
teddy pendergrass


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Yes, that's right. The gardening season hasn't even ended, and I'm already dreaming up next year's garden. The truth is, I'll change my mind weekly from now until next January or February when my seed orders must be in. With all this indecisiveness, I could end up spending far more than I can afford on plants and seeds as they strike my fancy. That just wouldn't do! I'm on a strict gardening budget, just as I am for everything else, so I have a system to help keep myself on the straight and narrow, budget-friendly garden path.
I've split my budget into three categories: the Edible Garden, the Other Garden, and the Annual Garden Project. Just for clarity's sake, there may be crossover between the two plant sections.
For the Edible Garden, I allow myself to purchase a set of plants or seeds for each of four sections:
~Annual Food Crop-- You could further divide this category into warm season and cold season crops if you like, but my budget this year is likely to be particularly small with a new baby on the way, so I'll be adding only one new annual veggie to my garden.
~Perennial Food Crop-- This could be anything from fruit and nut trees to grapevines to berry bushes or asparagus. Whatever it is, it's likely to be much more costly than the other edible garden purchases because most of these aren't purchased as seed. You can purchase seeds for most of them, but these usually take at least a few years to start producing. In the case of trees, it could be a decade or more. Keep that in mind and budget accordingly. Also keep in mind that many of the plants in this category need several plants or varieties for proper pollination. This can hit your budget especially hard.
~Herb-- These are useful little buggers, attracting pollinators to your yard, providing protection to your veggies when used as companions, providing flavor to your homegrown meals, as well as providing medicine more often than not. This is always my weak budget area. I see herbs or herb seeds, and I. Want. To. Buy. It's very important for me to stay on track here because even a few extra seed packets or plants can really add up.
~Edible Flower-- This is where the edible garden and "other" garden sometimes crossover. Edible flowers are a must in my garden. I use most of them in a manner very similar to herbs.
The Other Garden is also split into four sections, based on the time of the year in which they bloom or provide the most interest. This allows me to maximize the food and shelter for pollinators and other garden beneficials, like birds, throughout the year. The categories are:
~Spring Bloomer-- Um, obviously, plants that bloom in spring. Again, if your budget is larger than mine, you can further break this section down into early, mid, and late spring bloomers. I just try to alternate years, buying early one year, mid the next, and late after that. These plants are so very important since they provide the earliest food sources for beneficials just coming out of hibernation. The earlier your garden is in bloom, the earlier you'll see those happy buggies humming through it and the more likely they are to stick around for your summer veggies that need their pollinating powers. Spring bloomers are also a quick fix to my SAD.
~Summer Bloomer-- Plants that are at their height of bloom or interest in the summer months. Because this is also the apex of my vegetable garden, I usually end up picking an herb or edible flower for this category.
~Autum Bloomer-- It's important to keep those beneficials well-fed all the way up until hibernation, so fall blooming plants are a must. They're also the most difficult for me to choose because the selection at this point tends to shift from a plethora of flowers to a majority of shrubs and trees. In my small garden, there are only so many shrubs I can fit.
~Winter Bloomer-- These plants are more likely to provide winter interest than blooms, but the important thing is that they fill a niche. They could provide shelter, protection, or even food for beneficials, structure to the sleeping garden, a windbreak or snowbreak, or even decoration for my Winter Solstice celebration. Just as with the autumn bloomers, the focus here usually shifts to shrubs and trees, limiting the choices for very small gardens like mine. Of course, if you have a greenhouse (I don't), this broadens your selection. This section is often the first to go if I really need to pare the budget down.
So altogether, I have the potential for adding eight new plant varieties to my garden each year. This doesn't usually happen. I often make sure my herb and edible flower choices bloom at different times, enabling me to subtract the budget for spring, summer, or autumn bloomers or add that money to another category. Some years I simply have to make choices about what I want most because, especially with the perennial edibles, one category is maxing out my budget. The point is that I know I can only get ONE variety of plant for each category. If I buy, for example, a packet of borage seeds on sale in September, my edible flowers category is maxed out already. Period. This ensures that I wait until I'm certain about what I want before buying as well as keeping my money where it belongs.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
2 comments:
- Nourished Mother said...
What an awesome blog you've got going on here! I could spend plenty of time looking around, and I will.
Thanks for the heartfelt comment. It does feel a little odd to have sympathy expressed my way when there are dozens and dozens of people who were more deeply effected by it.
But of all those people, you know only me. So thanks :-)
- September 3, 2008 at 3:47 PM
- Mist said...
Thanks for stopping by my little blog, and thanks for the compliment!
You know that all those who have commented on your post are thinking of those who have been mostly deeply affected by the death, right? :)
- September 3, 2008 at 8:33 PM
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I had an entire post written out yesterday afternoon that I was just going to add photos too after dinner and then everything I wrote became false…
It went something like- I'm sad I can't work for DC Public Schools because it will never be enough money, but then HR from DCPS called and with my years experience it is enough, more than enough! I'm so excited!! The only problem is I have to be at "orientation" aka signing my contract and shaking hands tomorrow afternoon, so all my letters and proof, along with fingerprinting and some medical tests have to be done by then and then I have to start working on Thursday! It's exciting but so intense. Today was much too long and tomorrow will be even longer. At least all my trips tomorrow are on the same metro line so I don't have to waste time switching or going in a million different directions!
Oh, and the job is as a paraprofessional (aka souped up teacher's aide) for a "model" elementary school. The school's a model because it should be an example to other schools, and because it's near Capital Hill, but it's still in Southeast DC and even though the school and the blocks around it are safe enough, most of the students live in government subsidized houses and are among the vast number of extremely poor children in the city. DC happens to have the highest rate of child poverty in our nation. You would think that at least the nation's capital could "get it together" and be an example to the rest of the nation, but sadly, that's not the case
I did commit to food blogging though and based on my horrific eats bad food choices, I know that for the time being, I really do need to stay on top of it. Either, I'd go for a day or so and not eat because I was busy or stressed and just forget and then I'd wake up hungry and get some high calorie snack (on purpose) and go back to sleep. Or, I would just eat random unhealthy things because there was no accountability. Today, knowing that I was taking pictures and that I needed to blog I did much better.
Breakfast, was eaten in the comfort of my gorgeous apartment (I'll do pics this weekend) at the table. I never used to eat at the table at my old job, I mean I might start there but then I'd end up standing at the counter eating because I had a better view of what was going on that way. It was so peaceful this way 🙂
Nature's Path Heritage O's mixed with PB Puffins and vanilla soymilk. I was worried that this wasn't going to fill me up enough since I have to get back into the swing of packing a lunch. It ended up working just fine, but I think it's because I coupled it with…
Strong coffee and french vanilla creamer. Delicious. I L-O-V-E hot coffee, but I think tomorrow will be an iced coffee sort of day 😉
It looks weird, but when I packed it in the morning it looked better… but then I ended up being home at lunch time so I unpacked and ate at my table again lol. It's a "Roll-Up" wrap that I got from Costco. It's basically a rip off of Flat Out wraps but with less calories and they cost less too. Score! Inside is a LC wedge, baby spinach and a tomato. Yum! Along with it I had a bunch of juicy grapes!
I packed this just in case I got hungry which I did on the way back to school. I liked this flavor, light on the PB which sometimes is a good thing!
After a long day of work, cooking was not in the cards, so my roommate and I stopped at the supermarket and picked up the healthiest, fast thing we could find. Wait, my roommate is a teacher at the same elementary school (free ride lol!).
We found a Spinach, Garlic and Mushroom pizza that had lots of diced tomatoes along with tomato sauce (and cheese) so we had that. Take this picture and multiply it by two because even though the food I ate was very filling beforehand it was wayyyy under calories and I was starving after a day of moving desks and chairs and helping my roomie set up her classroom.
Now, I just need to figure out what the kids should call me… Ms. ??? Initial or Last Name or an Abbreviated version of it. Grr, I hate being called Ms. Anything because it makes me feel like an old spinster (at 21 yes)… oh well.
Uh oh, I just realized DCPS classes start Monday for students and my college courses do as well…… it's a wild ride and now it's after 10 and my room is still half packed and I need to go to bed! Yikes!


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Ease alcohol burden on emergency services, Assembly urges Mayor
Assembly Members today urged Mayor of London Boris Johnson to take action to ease the burden drunks are putting on the capital's emergency services.
The Assembly agreed two motions focused on relieving the strain public drunkenness is putting on Accident and Emergency departments and the London Ambulance Service.
They call for the re-opening and expansion of services dedicated to dealing with intoxicated patients at or near London's night time hotspots, such as the Soho Alcohol Recovery Centre, and for the Metropolitan Police to take a more proactive approach to dealing with people for drunkenness.
Dr Onkar Sahota AM, who successfully amended both motions, said:
"Public drunkenness is a blight on our streets and a drain on precious NHS resources. Why should those in genuine need of emergency treatment wait longer for an ambulance and sit for hours in A&E departments because some people overdo it when out on the lash?
"Where people go out deliberately to get drunk and cause a nuisance they should feel the full force of the law. But at the same time we must recognise that alcoholism is a disease that needs proper medical support and treatment."
The full text of the motions is:
"Over the past 8 years the Metropolitan Police have given out a third fewer Public Notices for Disorder (PNDs) related to drunken behaviour, while in the same period hospital admissions related to alcohol have nearly doubled. The Assembly requests that the Mayor encourages the Metropolitan Police to work more closely with London's emergency services to help target abusers and troublesome users of our emergency services."
"In light of growing hospital admissions and ambulance call-outs related to alcohol in London, and the Mayors continued work to address the health implications of alcohol to Londoners, the Assembly would like the Mayor to look more closely at reducing the strain of alcohol to our emergency services. Recently the Soho Alcohol Recovery Centre (SARC) and the Booze Bus programme have significantly reduced their operation in London, with the SARC remaining closed since 2013. These services provided a simple and safe alternative to having intoxicated patients overwhelm London's ambulances and A&E departments. Their benefits include savings in time, costs and distraction to our health workers. The Mayor is requested to work with the NHS and to lobby the Government to save and extend such programmes to help keep emergency services focused on truly time-critical life-threatening emergencies."
Notes to editors
- The first motion was agreed by 14 and no votes against.
- The second motion was agreed by 14 votes for, to 5 against at a meeting of the full Assembly today. Watch the webcast
- As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.
For more details, please contact Mark Demery in the Assembly Media Office on 020 7983 5769. For out-of-hours media enquiries please call 020 7983 4000 and ask for the Assembly duty press officer. Non-media enquiries should be directed to the Public Liaison Unit, Greater London Authority, on 020 7983 4100.


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More About ELLEBELLE21
Recipes I've Shared:
My mom adapted this from my grandma's BBQ Spare Ribs recipe.
This is adapted from The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook by Elana Amsterdam. To make savory biscuits, reduce the sweetener to about 1 T.
This is my Mother-in-law's recipe. We traditionally serve it with a piece of bread floated on top of the soup, a generous sprinkling of cheese over the bread, broiled until bubbly and golden. Since cutting out animal products, I skip the cheese and save quite a few calories.
Adapted from Veganomicon. I cut the chili powder from 3 T to 1 T, omited the 1 T mustard, and substituted 2 T brown sugar for 3 T maple syrup.


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I've always been a fan of what I call "found object journaling." While most of my journals use freshly purchased wirebound notebooks, I sometimes find and use notebooks discarded by others for my thoughts. Like a crab finding an abandoned shell, I move right in and make somebody else's notebook my literary home for a few months. These notebooks are often from school classes, tossed away as soon as a class ends. They're rare, but they exist.
My latest find is a real gem. I know, because it's my very last class notebook from Princeton University, "Spring '80" written on its yellow cover. After I graduated I held on to it as a record of my closing months at Old Nassau. I knew I had it, but never paid much attention to it until I finished up a volume and decided to use the 40 or so open pages in the massive 130-page, narrow-ruled notebook now. So the classes of the 22 year old me are mixing with the daily thoughts of the 54 year old me. I think of it as a single conversation with a 32-year gap in it.
My classes were the History and Philosophy of Science, English 313 on Literary Criticism (I would have been better off taken a plain old English course rather than one on the criticism of literature), and Religion 348 on Modern Judaism with Ellen Umansky, an excellent teacher who is now a professor of religious studies and the Director of the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at Fairfield University in Connecticut.
My notes from Umansky's class are riveting because the lectures and precepts marked my first rigorous, academic study of Judaism. Until that point, I had been completely self-taught as I meandered my way into some understanding of Judaism. Now, I had some badly needed guidance.
Writing in an impossibly compact handwriting I can't duplicate now, I jotted notes on the rise of the Jewish Enlightenment. Haskalah, maskilim, the Besht (Isaac Baal Shem Tov), mitnagdim, the Mussar movement, Moses Mendelssohn — they were all covered in just one lecture. As the notebook rolls on, I can sense the solid organization and the enormous territory covered. A March 3 discussion covered "forerunners of Zionism," going all the way back to the destruction of the first Temple in 586 BCE and marching ahead to the 18th and 19th centuries. Leo Pinsker, Herzl, Peretz Smolenskin, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, Ahad Ha-Am: the names keep rolling on and coming in between other lectures and classes featuring Coleridge, Hazlitt, Chaucer, Dryden, Johnson, Baudelaire and scientific equations that are completely incomprehensible to me — did I actually understand them at one point?
The notebook marks my keen awareness of the closing of a tumultuous four years of college. I note the months and then days before my senior thesis was due on May 11, 1980. The inside cover has the phone numbers of publications to which I would apply for jobs — the New York Times, the Journal of Commerce, Fortune and Forbes. The inside cover also had the contact for an internship in the office of New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where I indeed had an interview in Washington with his senior legislative assistant Chester Finn, Jr., now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution focusing on K-12 education issues. He was baffled about why a guy from Texas wanted to work in the office of a New York senator.
Even my doodles are full of meaning, from a drawing I called the "Laughing Centaur" to Grateful Dead song titles "St. Stephen" and "Dark Star" to wistful scribbles of the names Christie, Esther and Barbara (my mind was wandering to romantic daydreams that 30 years later I would turn into a book). There's even a thumbnail-sized sketch of Texas with dots indicating my home town of Mission, no doubt meant to show a classmate where I was from and where I really hoped I would not be immediately returning.
In May, I started the laborious handwritten process of composing "Modern Judaism paper (last one!)" that started with the line, "A hesitant mysticism pervades the Zionist thinking of Mordecai Kaplan and Ahad Ha-Am." That essay concluded my undergraduate education on a high note.
The future relentlessly barreled down on me in the spring of 1980. As challenging as Princeton had been, that future would be even more chaotic when I plunged into the real world of New York life and high-stakes business journalism just days after graduating. The very last page of the notebook has notes on "apartment survival techniques" and hints like "check Salvation Army, places for clothing, furniture" and the almost-poetic "if trouble get lawyer."
And now, 32 years later, I'm still doodling names in margins of notebooks, although I tend to do so in Hebrew and Russian. I still read about Judaism and build on what I learned in Religion 348, and I even attend the outstanding speaker series that Ellen Umansky organizes at Fairfield University. I still like the Grateful Dead and I'm not above picking up a good bargain at Salvation Army and Goodwill stores.
And I'm still writing in notebooks, although these days I prefer the wide-rule format — they work much better for 50-something handwriting.


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|Action Man
The equipment was the same thought, especially on this guy. Some of my other figures were a bit odd. The American Vietnam era soldier seems to been a combination of action figure parts. I see several bits that look familiar from the aussie jungle fighter that were pulled for the American. My brit WWII radio man seems to have been actually several bits from the French Freedom fighter on a basic crap figure. I think my marine was the only figure that doesn't seem to be made up of components stolen from the Action Man line. I have no idea if this was something the actual company did on the cheap in America or full on counterfeits sold through my local close out store.


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West Is Best for NP and PA Staff Salaries
Published Online: Thursday, May 18th, 2017
The West region of the United States is where nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) working in physician practices earn the highest wages, as reported by FierceHealthcare this week.1
Physicians Practice surveyed 10 positions in medical practices across 6 US regions. NPs and PAs in the West average annual salaries of $95,071 and $93,417, respectively—and that's with 0 to 2 years of experience. In contrast, their counterparts in the Northeast both average around $89,000. NPs and PAs with 0 to 2 years of experience in the South-Central United States average $92,318 and $86,500, respectively; in the Mid-Atlantic, $82,619 and $80,750, respectively; the Plains and Rockies region, $80,833 and $87,215; and the Southeast, $89,186 and $85,889.2
The survey included 1082 individuals and is broken down further by state and years of experience.2
1. Finnega J. How staff salaries compare in physician practices. FierceHealthcare website. fiercehealthcare.com/practices/how-staff-salaries-compare-physician-practices-across-country. Published May 16, 2017. Accessed May 16, 2017.
2. Physician Staff Practices. 2017 Staff Salary Survey Results: Regional. Physicians Practice website. physicianspractice.com/staff-salary-survey/2017-staff-salary-survey-results-regional. Published May 15, 2017. Accessed May 16, 2017.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Okay, maybe I'm just paranoid....
I keep thinking about those two poor boys in elementary school that were murdered for telling their peers that they thought they were gay. Elementary students. Murdered. Just months ago. And the police raid at a gay bar in Texas weeks ago where man's skull got bashed in. And I'm out of the closet. I have gotten insults and stares, but that's because my school has so many students that if you want to make any noise you have to be a BIG noise. Which is what I want to be so that people know about the club and how strongly I believe in what I'm doing. I just want to help kids like me because I've been there. I know that I wouldn't have had half the pain and hopelessness I went through before I came out if there was someone willing to listen and sympathize with me. It HURTS to not be considered equal.
The closer the school year comes the more nervous I get. There's been so much violence at school. An attack with a machete made it to the front page of the local paper. But do you think anyone outside of my family or circle of friends will care if an angry dyke like me gets harassed?
At least the ACLU is on my side. God bless those important, marvelous pricks.
3 comments:
- Lauren said...
Well, i know one teacher that'd listen probably and that's mrs.gaddy lol. She's really liberal and very nice. I dunno what her opinion is on those things but she's really against any kind of insults on the gay community. and legally a school facualty can't allow you to get hurt if you really think someone will...i mean...if anything, no school wants to get sued over it. Deffinately not hillcrest with its reputation. Just be careful is all I really know to say. I dunno really how many open gays there are at school now. Many graduated. But I'm sure there's still some kind of group. Honestly, i don't see the club really going through just because our school has such a big rep now. I mean...it's one things to fight for what you believe but...i mean...be safe. I'd hate for something to happen to you. =[ Don't worry. Ive heard college is WAY different.
- July 30, 2009 at 10:34 PM
- Lauren said...
Well, I agree with you on that about how i dont think having no government would work. People aren't intelligent enough and well...there's just too many bad people. If people could live with doing what they love and helping others, if we'd never had this concept of money, and like...i guess the way im thinking about it is like...teachers would be ppl who loved to teach and teached because they wanted to and farmers would grow food because they loved to farm and then they'd feed people, kinda like we still do...WAY far beyond anything soceity could do now. We don't have the right mind set to do that. well, my band fee was 170 dollars. It's sad that band has to cost so damn much. Something so worth behind a part of...and well...you know. It's just sad to me. My schedule was almost four hundred dollars though. I think if you're smart enough to take AP classes, you shouldn't have to pay for the damn classes. I can't stand politics but I get really into them sometimes now. And yea, I've deffinately realized that schools are falling apart. There are so many ppl that want to be educated but can't because of the cost. It's horrible. and I'm so tired of hearing that our economy is bad. It's bad but we're not in a damn depression. And holy crap, I felt bad for Strickland. Like how they're making her teach ALL science classes because they fired some. she loved english. Im just sick of soceity and the way things are.
- July 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM
- Lauren said...
Sorry for the typos =[ Band camps been rough haha
- July 30, 2009 at 10:42 PM


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Everybody loves to complain about Facebook. But I've been wading through all the nonstop commentary over the last few weeks and I've made a startling discovery. Everybody also lies about why they use Facebook. After exhaustive research, I've discovered the Seven Lies You Tell Yourself About Facebook.Seven Lies We Tell Ourselves About Facebook | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com
The reason I post so much about facebook is a see it as leading the way for what MySites should become. This article is just stupid fluff, but its cool to see how deep in to the culture this thing has gone. It was only a few Thanksgiving ago that a nephew at Harvard told me about this cool social network someone made and I, brilliantly, dismissed that area as too crowded and already dominated by friendster and classmates.com. Boy am I smart.


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One of my favorite local writers (besides myself) is Beth Cody, who writes a monthly opinion column with a libertarian perspective for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. In this month's column Beth writes about her experience going to an "Appleseed Project" training event for rifle marksmanship.
According to Cody, "The program attempts to teach the vital rifle skills that used to be common and that won our nation its freedom, but that are disappearing from our national general knowledge."
Why are rifle skills important to the average citizen? Cody writes: "The founding fathers of our country understood that the best way to safeguard the liberty of citizens was to leave most power with the citizens and divide government power between levels and branches. Similarly, gun ownership and skills, being a bulwark of liberty, should be broadly spread among the majority of citizens. In many countries, dictators take power by gaining control of the military or police, leaving an unarmed populace with no recourse. This would be more difficult to do in America, where half of households own firearms."
You can read Cody's Press-Citizen column here. She also wrote a good gun-related article shortly after the Virginia Tech shootings, which you can read here.
You can also learn more about the Appleseed Project here. I didn't see any more shooting events in Iowa on their schedule, but they'll be back next year. Although I'm fairly comfortable with a rifle, I think I'll go to an Appleseed event for a refresher. I haven't had any formal rifle training since I was a young kid in boot camp.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Beth Cody on Rifle Marksmanship
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In the midst of Christmas sewing, so I can't post pictures or status updates or I'll ruin the surprise. But this doesn't mean my mind has been idle while my iron is a-steamin'. Oh, no: I am busy planning next year's projects. Always save room for new and shiny ideas to invade and take over. I have decided to work on the new t-shirt quilt for my youngest daughter during winter retreat. Which is not until January.
Meanwhile, however, I saw another idea for sashing and setting the t-shirts: flying geese!
This quilt was seen at October's quilt market in Houston. (Thanks to Becky at Piece by Piece Fabrics for posting this picture.)
The flying geese idea is clearly a winner. Looking back on the blog post for the original t-shirt quilt dreams, I see that the San Francisco-themed quilt had a lot of flying geese in it, too.
Okay, storing this idea away for later use. Back to Santa's Workshop for me...


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This morning as I was reading all of my favorites, I stumbled across a stranger's blog and it touched me immensely! For the past several years, I have been waiting to see what direction my life was going to lead. Like every girl, I have always dreamed of my life as a wife and a mother and since graduating from Ole Miss, I have watched many of my friend's dreams come true! While I treasured the honor of standing beside 12 friends as they each married the man God had chosen for them, I couldn't help but ponder when my day would come. When would these beautiful ladies get to stand beside me? In fact, I think about it often. Do I know him? Will I meet him soon? Is he even out there? Maybe this is my life?!?!
After reading Amy's blog, I feel refreshed. While some days I might wonder, I am confident that God is ALWAYS working in my life even when I can't hear him or may not realize it. I take for granted how amazing my God is and how quickly he could change my life! I need to focus on His plan and not on my own! I shouldn't worry about the small things like whether I will be married by my high school reunion, or whether my children will go to Ole Miss (ha!) with all of my pregnant friend's children, or any other minimal detail that I worry and wonder over. GOD already has my life planned and He is in control!!! What a refreshing, amazing, and comforting feeling!
While I am sure that I will always wonder what's in store for the next chapter in my life, I will remain hopeful because I know He loves me and He has a beautiful life planned just for me!!


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Sit back and relax in this beautiful three bedroom two bath home located on the water on Marco Island.
This house is over 1600 square feet so there is room to spread out. The spacious lanai boosts over 800 square feet to cover the swimming pool (14x28) and spa and is complimented with a dining area and grill. It makes for a perfect vacation without leaving the house.
This open floor plan allows everyone to gather and enjoy the pool while dinner is being prepared or cocktails are being poured. There is a dock for your boat or you can fish from the deck.
Make yourself at home in the master bedroom with a king size bed and private master bathroom and garden tub. One guest bedroom is furnished with a queen size beds and the second guest bedroom has two twins. The 2 guest bedrooms share one bathroom that also opens to the lanai/pool area.
This location would also make a great destination for a long term rental of greater than 30 days because of its short walk to the resident beach.
Some information about Marco Island
Often referred as 'The Last Paradise'; Marco Island is the largest and only developed land in Florida's Ten Thousand Islands. It is located a short ride from the Florida Everglades and just outside of Naples. It is graced with miles of white-sandy beaches, luxurious real estate and known for beautiful year-round weather. The sumptuous restaurants, fine shopping, and lively entertainment make Marco Island a popular vacation destination. It attracts visitors and residents from all over the world. Marco Island is an absolute favorite destination for boating, fishing or just soaking in the sun. With 6 miles of white sand beach and over 100 miles of waterways it is a stunning subtropical beauty that is unique to Southwest Florida`s Gulf coast.
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Tigertail Beach is one of two public access beaches and is a short drive from your vacation home. Tigertail offers you the Lagoon as a great place for families with younger kids to enjoy the flat and calm water. There is plenty of wildlife to view and is a designated 'Great Florida Birding Trail. To reach the Gulf of Mexico with the beautiful soft sandy beach you either have to wade through the lagoon or walk around the to the left. It's definitely worth it the ten minute stroll. The beach here is absolutely breathtaking and totally natural. And don't forget your shelling bags. The beach offers you beautiful shelling. It is open 8 a.m. to sundown and there is a fee for parking.
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The parking lot is located on Swallow Avenue and is a short walk across South Collier Boulevard to a one-acre beach access on the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. There are 70-parking spaces with rest room access. The walk is lined with sabal palm trees and is surrounded by plush hotels on Marco Island. It is open 8 a.m. to sundown and there is a fee for parking.
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We absolutely loved this home. This home checked off everything on our must-have list. We wanted to be on the canal for fishing, wanted a pool and jacuzzi as well as walking distance to the beach. This home surpassed our expectations and provided many extras. The dock on this home is huge and we spent many nights sitting on the bench enjoying the view. We were also able to fish. The swimming pool is amazing and we spent many days and nights swimming. In fact besides all my check list items, the pool is what sold me. The house is spacious and well laid out with high quality bedding and furniture. We loved that the master bedroom was on one side of the house and that the other two bedrooms could be closed off (for late sleepers). The master bath was enormous. Other amenities we enjoyed were being able to have a key code and not stopping for a key somewhere. The walk to the beach is very quick and we discovered the back road route which was awesome. You cannot access beach at Resident's Beach as they are very strict. The beach access is close-by though and accessed taking a leisurely walk through the neighborhoods. We were thrilled to find the owl nest on the vacant property next to the home (another plus) and while we were careful not to disturb we got some awesome photos. The home is also very private and quite with a lot of flowers and trees. I cannot say enough good things about this home. My 16 year old son loved it and felt so at home. The bathroom door leading from the pool area was very useful as was the grill and abundant seating. As you can tell we had an amazing time at this home and on Marco Island. Thank you so much for sharing your home. We felt so comfortable here and thoroughly enjoyed our time. We were very sad to leave. I would rent this home again!
We bought the house in 2014 because we loved vacationing in Marco Island and it was our dream to purchase a house that was on the canal. We choose Manor Terrace because of the of all the houses that we looked at this one checked all the boxes. It captured the beautiful Florida light, was beautifully landscaped, very peaceful and restful and was conveniently located to everything that Marco Island has to offer. The house has a dock so you can hire a boat or fish, it has a beautiful swimming pool and spa or you could just relax in the Lanai! We love it when we get a chance to spend some time at the house and we hope that you will too!
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We're getting ready for our son's Star Wars party. It involves a lot of work, and Henry has been helping me out a bit, heh heh. Today he is making Star Wars snowflakes, or Man Doilies as I like to call them!! This year I have seen so many good party ideas on Pinterest and have been trying to do them all. So I saw this cool design for snowflakes, printed out the template….and asked Henry to make them, as he's precise, good with geometry and knives (and guns) and I'm too busy writing this post. Here's the first sneak peeks of our party decorations:
Is this cool or what??? that's Darth VAder, and the Storm Trooper turned out even more awesome!! I'll post it later, along with links for the printout and all the other fun Star Wars stuff. Here are some photos I took this morning to add so some decorations:
more later!! I'm busy 🙂


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During your stay in Jesolo, spend one day in the historic island of Torcello that rests quietly in the northern lagoon, a 40-minute ferry ride from the main islands of Venice.
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Welcome to SP9!
Below is the questionnaire for this round. Please post your answers to your blog before October 15th. Be sure you post the questionnaire where your pal can easily find it. :-)
1. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with? What fibers do you absolutely *not* like? Favorite yarns: lorna's laces, Crystal Palace, cascade, rowan, Blue sky's, Goddess Yarns, any sock yarn. Hate 100% acrylic.
2. What do you use to store your needles/hooks in? I have a couple of handy dandy cases, but I've been feinding after the Susan Todd and Lexie Barnes cases/bags.
3. How long have you been knitting & how did you learn? Would you consider your skill level to be beginner, intermediate or advanced? Been knitting for 2 years. I would call myself intermediate/advanced.
4. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list? Why yes I do. I'd better update it.
5. What's your favorite scent? (for candles, bath products, etc.)Citrusy, but not too sweet. Orange bergamot, orange ginger, eucalyptus and mint, lavender and basil
6. Do you have a sweet tooth? Favorite candy? Not so sweet toothy. Love peppermint patties, junior mints and microwaveable kettle corn.
7. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do? Do you spin? Beading, quilting, scrapbooking, comic booking -I've done some drop spindle spinning and I'm not so good at it.
8. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD) I can play mp3s til the cows come home. I love lotsa different music. Except hardcore gangsta rap. Top 10 bands: radiohead, fiona apple, scissor sisters, nirvana, death cab for cutie, john mayer, garbage, van morrison, david gray, Ben Harper, U2.
9. What's your favorite color(s)? Any colors you just can't stand? hate royal blue. Not so big on orange either. But I love pinks, teals, purples. Think Lorna's color Desert Flower. I also like the colors in Lorna's Vera.
10. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets? One husband and a cat that lives with my mom
11. Do you wear scarves, hats, mittens or ponchos? yes to everything but the ponchos
12. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit? socks, handbags,scarves, sweaters and shawls
13. What are you knitting right now? A clapotis, a cardigan and a pair of socks. Oh and a dice bag for dungeons and dragons.
14. Do you like to receive handmade gifts? but of course!
15. Do you prefer straight or circular needles? Bamboo, aluminum, plastic? I love all needles. But when it comes to sock needles 6" or shorter
16. Do you own a yarn winder and/or swift? Why yes I do.
17. How old is your oldest UFO? E gads theres a baby blanket that's in pieces and it's like a year old.
18. What is your favorite holiday? Hallothanksmasnewyear. I love the whole season between Halloween and New Years.
19. Is there anything that you collect? Old Susan Bates Circulars (the plasticy ones), fabric, pins, Skipping Girl handbags.
20. Any books, yarns, needles or patterns out there you are dying to get your hands on? What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have? I have subs to Interweave and Knit Simple. Would love to get my hands on the new Rebecca and the special Rebecca featuring Savannah. Would love Alter-knits, A Gathering of Lace, Vogue Accessories, Mason Dixon Knitting, oh and the Knitter's Handy Guide to Sweater Patterns.
21. Are there any new techniques you'd like to learn? Lace knitting! Short rows!
22. Are you a sock knitter? What are your foot measurements? Love socks! I'm a 9 1/2. I'll get back to you on the exacts...
23. When is your birthday? (mm/dd) 6/2
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Kane's Handcrafted Donuts issued the following press release
In honor of National Donut Day on Friday, June 2, 2017, Kane's Handcrafted Donuts will host a call-to-action for all bakers, donut lovers and aspiring donut makers in Greater Boston to create "Kane's Next Handcrafted Donut."
Maria Delios, co-owner of Kane's Handcrafted Donuts, will call for submissions on Kane's Instagram and Facebook pages, encouraging friends, fans and followers to post their most eclectic, unique and flavorful donut combinations along with the name of their donut.
Three finalists will be chosen and announced on Monday, May 22, 2017 through Instagram and Facebook, and Maria and the Kane's team will offer those three donut creations at both Saugus and Boston locations through Thursday, June 1, 2017.
Guests who visit both locations will have a chance to vote on which donut is their favorite, and the winning donut with the most votes will be announced at the Saugus Kane's shop on Thursday, June 1, 2017 – the morning before National Donut Day. The winning donut will then be available on Kane's donut racks from Friday, June 2 through Friday, June 30 and the winner will also receive a $100 Kane's Handcrafted Donuts gift card and other merchandise and apparel.
"We think this contest is a fun way to involve our loyal guests, celebrate National Donut Day and give them a chance to see a creation from their own kitchen make it onto our shelves," Delios said.


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