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Texas artist Rae Andrews, paintings in all media and genre. She is an Australian ex-pat who moved to Maui in the early 1990's where she owned two art galleries .. she now resides in Texas where she conducts workshops both in the USA, Australia and Europe.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Country Living
Well here is the finished result, I am not sure which I prefer, the fence is a little close to the lower corner, a pet peeve of mine, however this version does include the foreground more, so that part pleases me.
20 x 14" unframed watercolor.
$300 Plus S/H
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Lovely! Other than leaning the closest fence post more into the middle, you couldn't have done anything to eliminate the fence being close to the lower corner. Would have looked odd not to have it continue on down. Anyway, it's not at all distracting, you're just a perfectionist! It's just a beautiful painting, as usual! And, BTW, it looks somehow Australian? Even though I have no idea of what Oz looks like other than from your paintings and Hazel's... Maybe the shape of the houses? as well as the purple trees- jacarandas?
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The fashion, design, and everyday life musings of a Los Angeles native who dyes her hair black rather than blonde (yet who loves all things sparkly, fuchsia, and kitty-related)
Thursday, September 15, 2011
The New Girl's Already Sucked Me In
I just finished watching the pilot episode of 'The New Girl,' the Zooey Deschanel show that'll air on Fox later this month but which is already available to view online here now. I have a serious girl crush on Ms. D. Ugh, I mean how can someone look so cute and gamine all the time while making it look like it's all so easy? I did once look at pictures of her when she was just starting out and man, did girl have an ugly shoe collection. So it's nice to know she is human, after all.
Still, I only have bangs because of her and when someone once told me I looked like her (surely on a night I wore enough eyeliner and mascara to resemble a kewpie doll) it was probably about the most attractive I've ever felt. So even though the first trailer for the show and all of the print work looks like garbage (hence why you're looking at pics of Zooey and not the promo materials), I gave it a shot anyway. And actually, I love it! Jess (Zooey's character) is totally a nerd and totally relatable with her random dancing, goofy faces, and life fails. Plus, if you hate Zooey, the show is a little less girly than she seems to be, and definitely less glam-a Zooey if she wasn't rich and famous, if you will. I'm guessing that her stardom should buy the show some time to find its footing and I'm certainly hoping so, because tv needs more girl nerd heroes and I'm more than willing to make Jess mine.
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Thursday we will see a Clipper pulling out of the Great Lakes, at the same time there will be a storm forming over the Gulf States and start to move northeast. As for a storm, everything will hinge on how much the northern and Southern systems interact with each other. So, depending on how this all intensifies we could see a significant snowstorm. The Euro is still holding its ground and showing a major snowstorm. The Euro has been very consistent over several runs showing phasing of the northern and southern streams. If the Jets phase it keeps things cold and allows southern moisture to move farther north. Which makes for a big snowstorm.
Until last night the other models weren't agreeing with the Euro's assessment. That changed when the models moved toward the Euro's idea of what this storm would be like. The 00 and 06 GFS took a fairly major step towards the Euro. The GFS has moved north as have other models like the Canadian.
Euro for Friday
Euro for Saturday
GFS for Friday
GFS for Saturday
GFS Ensemble for Friday
The Euro and GFS are showing a large moisture plume into Northern NYS and NE.
So we all should see a widespread snow event. depending on the track, we could several inches in northern areas of the Northeast. Right now the track looks to be east of Cape Cod.....
The GFS shows a significant snowstorm for Eastern New England, with western New England and eastern NYS seeing at least a moderate snow event. The Euro is showing an even bigger snowstorm. A track east of Cape Cod would place the western Adirondacks, western Mohawk Valley, and Tug Hill on the fringe of the disturbance, which would mean light snow....Just a few inches at most. The situation is very fluid and can / well change over the next few days. Depending on the exact track this could be a major hit for all of us, some of us, or none of us.
Still watching the possibly of a Valentine's Day storm. There looks to be a bit of warming to start next week then we will see things start to cool off.....mid to end of the week, which would correlate with the storm moving into the region....but before we can talk about next week, let's get though this coming Friday first.
That's it…I will have more later…I will post some updates on the blog and others on my weather page.


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Busy family weekend kept me out of the garden and away from the allotment, I had high hopes to get outside this week.....
BUT!!! Its snowing again as I type, with freezing temps and more expected as the week progresses, aarrrgh!!!
Well I'm a wife of thus far 12+ years, the mother of 2 girls, passionate of all things natural, very much into a self sufficient lifestyle, enjoy mothering in all its extremes, big believer in homeschooling, massive breastfeeding advocate, never happier than when I'm deep in the creative process whether that is Jewellery making/ paper crafts, etc. I've been enjoying a vegan diet now 12+ years and one of my main mottos are; Individuality Rocks!!!!!!!
Monday, 8 February 2010
Not Again!!
Busy family weekend kept me out of the garden and away from the allotment, I had high hopes to get outside this week.....
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We've had more snow today too which hasn't pleased me...I really thought things were on the up last week then we plummeted to below zero temps, freezing fog and snow showers...please hurry up spring!!!!!ReplyDelete
We had snow this morning too. Luckily it hasn't settled, but it's very very cold.ReplyDelete
I'm humphing with you. I want some nice loose soil to dig, not frozen soil and slippy pavements.ReplyDelete
Hi Jo it didn't stick here either thankfully but more is forcasted for later today so we have to brace ourselves.ReplyDelete
Garden Mum, everytime I think I'm getting my get up and go the weather pushes me firmly back down in my seat.


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We are trying another IUI cycle this month. I had my b/w Thursday and the FSH was 14.5; the E2 was 51. Not the best levels; but not to horribly bad either. I started my shots Thursday and go back Wednesday to see how it's progressing.
I really hope and pray this cycle works. There is so much emotion tied up in this. I pray we get some good news in a few weeks.
This is going to be our last IUI cycle. We have decided to move on to IVF if this fails.
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Really enjoyed seeing "Fever Pitch" tonight starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon. Fallon plays a character completely obsessed with baseball in general, and the Red Sox in particular. Barrymore is the baseball-oblivious love interest.
I liked the way Fallon distributed his season tickets. He made his friends dance if they wanted a highly-coveted Yankees game ticket.
Fallon is so Red Sox crazy he turns down a trip to Paris with his girlfriend because his team "really needs him" that weekend.
(Spoiler ahead) And of course there's a Hollywood ending where Fallon gets the girl AND baseball too.
In an unrelated item, I was really angry to come home tonight to find out the Dodgers vs. Padres game isn't televised tonight. I'm stuck listening to Rick Monday on the radio. At least the Dodgers have taken the lead in the 8th inning and may be on their way to their eighth consecutive win and maintaining the best record in Major League Baseball. (Not that I'm obsessed.)
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
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Peyton Manning Rumors: 6 Biggest Winners & Losers If Manning Signs with BroncosMarch 14, 2012
Peyton Manning Rumors: 6 Biggest Winners & Losers If Manning Signs with Broncos
Where Peyton Manning signs during this free-agency period remains an unsolved equation, but the time is drawing nearer.
After spending some time with the Denver Broncos last weekend, John Elway's home appears to still be in the mix for Manning. Not everyone will be as elated as Elway should Manning arrive in Denver, however.
Here are three winners and three losers of the potential Manning move to Denver.
WINNER: John Elway
I've been saying for a while now that John Elway doesn't simply want Peyton Manning for his abilities on the field.
Elway sees Manning's signature as the only clean escape from the Tim Tebow era.
Just consider the situation if Manning signs elsewhere and Elway tries to replace Tebow with someone like Matt Flynn, Chad Henne or a draft pick.
The Tebow faithful—which is a number that must even rival the Elway-lovers in Denver at this stage—wouldn't be able to handle it.
Tebow fans would poke holes in the new player purposely and overly scrutinize him as part of the outcry and backlash over Tebow's benching/trading. With Manning, however, there is very little to scrutinize. Nobody can claim that Tebow is better than Manning if he is fully healthy.
Manning is a future Hall of Famer and one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game. The idea that Tim Tebow is a better player can't even be considered by those completely enveloped in Tebow Mania.
Elway's only escape from another season with Tebow under center is through Manning. It's blatantly clear that he is not a believer in Tebow, considering he has never fully endorsed him as the team's starting quarterback.
LOSER: Tim Tebow
Obviously, being benched or traded would make Tebow a loser, especially if he winds up in Jacksonville.
I don't care how much the fans down there love him, the Jaguars are a franchise going in the wrong direction.
If the Jaguars were to try to build their franchise around Tebow, then the pressure on him to succeed in much more difficult circumstances than in Denver would be overwhelming for the young quarterback.
Playing in Denver, Tebow has his teammates' respect, a lot of emerging talent around him on offense and a defense that carries the team as a whole.
In Jacksonville, he would have a decent defense (but not as good as Denver's) and Maurice Jones-Drew, but not much else.
If Tebow isn't traded and he sits behind Peyton Manning, that could be seen as a useful learning experience. However, the reality is Tebow won't get better without being on the field and playing through his mistakes.
Manning is also at the point in his career where he won't be thinking about aiding the development of a younger quarterback. He will be too busy trying to adjust to his new surroundings himself.
WINNERS: Eric Decker, DeMaryius Thomas, Knowshon Moreno
Manning has a history of getting the best out of young, talented receivers.
Decker and Thomas proved to be valuable deep threats for Tim Tebow last season and could really benefit from playing with the veteran quarterback.
While Thomas and Decker excelled at beating defenders with their sheer physical talents, Manning would be able to help them better understand the nuances of the game and beat defensive backs with their route running.
Not to mention, Manning can actually throw the ball to short and intermediate routes, which is always a help.
Similarly, young running back Knowshon Moreno would benefit from the change in scheme that the Broncos would undoubtedly undergo with Manning under center. Moreno is a shifty running back who has struggled to stay healthy trying to carry the load in Denver.
With Manning as his quarterback, Moreno would spend a lot more time as a receiver coming out of the backfield in open space. He would still have to run between the tackles at times, but he could prove to be one of the best third-down backs in the league in Manning's offense.
LOSER: Willis McGahee
McGahee had a new lease on life when the Broncos brought in Tim Tebow and the option offense last year.
As a fullback more than a halfback, McGahee barreled his way to 1,199 yards and a Pro Bowl berth on 249 carries.
With Peyton Manning as his quarterback, McGahee doesn't figure to get anywhere near 249 carries in a season.
McGahee isn't a good receiving back—he specializes at pounding the running game between the tackles to soften defenses.
His opportunities to do this in a passing offense would be limited.
McGahee's role would return to one much more similar to the one he had in Baltimore, as opposed to Denver last year or Buffalo previously.
WINNER: Champ Bailey and Brian Dawkins
Champ Bailey and Brian Dawkins may still be playing at a Pro Bowl level, but they are both undoubtedly in the dying embers of their careers.
Dawkins and Bailey have the kind of characters that will make them value Super Bowls over anything else.
As such, they will be delighted by anything that improves the team in the short term.
With Manning on offense and Dawkins and Bailey on defense, the Broncos would have three of the best leaders of the past decade in the NFL.
More importantly for the two defensive players, Manning would instantly make them contenders for a playoff spot and maybe a Super Bowl run.
A run that could be seen as the last one for each player.
LOSER: AFC West
Outside of a big year for Matt Cassel next year, Manning would shift the power in the AFC West from Kansas City/San Diego to Denver.
The West isn't the strongest division in the NFL, and as such, an elite quarterback like Manning could tip the scales.
The Raiders' cap problems will prevent them from taking a step forward next year, while Kansas City has everything but a comparable quarterback and the Chargers are the most unreliable team in the league from year to year.
The Broncos would instantly be the favorites for the AFC West crown with a Peyton Manning signing.


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BRUSSELS, Belgium – French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday he wants the world's group of 20 rich industrial nations and major emerging markets to set up a shared central database of food prices to help control market volatility and keep commodity speculators in check.
Access to food in many areas will likely become more precarious over the next decades, and the markets will have to be more tightly regulated to avoid massive shortages, Sarkozy told an international conference on commodities and raw materials.
"Speculation, panic and lack of transparency have seen prices soaring," he asked. "Is that the world we want? France is saying quite clearly it is not."
Sarkozy currently holds the presidency of the G-20 group, with which he wants to push through a plan for more transparency in agriculture commodity market networks. He said it would go a long way toward taming the extreme food price volatility of past years. The G-20 takes up the issue of food prices at a meeting of farm ministers next week.
He said a comparison of farm market prices over the last five years compared with the 15-year period of 1990-2005 shows that price volatility for cereals has doubled, tripled for sugar and is now 4 times as high for rice, "the basic staple for a quarter of humanity."
"Is this right, is this acceptable? can we put up with this for longer?," Sarkozy asked.
Sarkozy insisted something had to be done about the many hedge funds and specialized financial institutions that have joined the traditional trading houses on the market floor, driving up prices.
"It is time for the G-20 to take its responsibility," he told the conference. He said it was the same lack of regulation now visible in the commodities and raw materials markets that drove the financial markets "to the edge of the abyss" during the 2008 global financial crisis.
"Will we have the same disaster in the world of commodities and raw materials? It is a pretty simple question. We have got to tackle it — now. And not put it off," he said.
To improve transparency and oversight in market movements, Sarkozy wants a centralized register for data transactions in derivatives. He wants trading data to be better available to boost food security and stable markets by cutting out the uncertainties of excessive speculation.
He said the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations could collect and hold all the data, including those on private stocks.
Rising food prices were also blamed by the FAO in a Tuesday report on food shortages in the Horn of Africa, where over 8 million are in need of emergency aid.
"Very high food and fuel prices are adding to the difficulties of poor households in accessing food across the region," the FAO said in a statement.
In Somalia, for example, April prices of red sorghum were between 150 to 180 per cent higher than a year ago. In Kenya, wholesale maize prices in May in main urban markets of Nairobi and Mombasa were between 60 and 85 per cent higher than in 2010, according to the report.
This year, high food prices have already helped spur unrest in the Middle East and forced families to cut back on food from Bolivia to Indonesia. The crisis in Libya has sent oil prices higher, which could further impact on the price of agricultural produce.
With the global population soaring to 9 billion in 2050, food demand will rise by 70 per cent, and production will not be able to keep up.
"Even if we all pull out all the stops, we may not be able to achieve what we have to achieve to feed 9 billion people in 2050," Sarkozy said.


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FLORENT SINAMA- PONGOLLE should be available for Liverpool's trip to the Reebok after injury.
Vladimir Smicer and Chris Kirkland are back in training.
After last week's encouraging performance in the derby, Houllier is expected to keep the same starting line-up in Lancashire.
Emile Heskey is still a doubt with hamstring trouble.


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1. My house smells like urine. I smell like urine, my baby smells like urine, her bedroom smells like urine. I'm even smelling phantom urine when the baby and her diapers are nowhere near me. I think it's time to strip her cloth diapers -- by which I mean, completely and thoroughly clean them multiple times in extremely hot water so there's no more weird smell. And that's gotta be the cause for the weird smell, right? Because otherwise we're just the Urine Family that smells like Urine and lives in the Urine House and I don't think I can deal with that.
So, I'ma be stripping some diapers today. It has to be done periodically when you're cloth-diapering, I guess. And I'm just gonna go ahead and assume you're supposed to do it way more often than once every seven months, as per the record in the Wisniewski household.
And speaking of cloth, my enthusiasm for this method of diapering has waned considerably since solids entered the picture. Solid poop is vile and my next kid I'm going to just exclusively breastfeed until he turns three and he can be toilet trained. Even if he gets anemia. Worth it. Solid-food poop is too gross. And every single time I change a diaper, with no exaggeration, I send up a silent, thankful prayer to the baby Jesus that I'm not in the first trimester. Last pregnancy, I puked when I tasted the fishy omega-3 acid in my prenatal vitamins. I cannot imagine what I'd do if there was dookie spraying all over my hands. I'd puke enough to cover the world and never stop.
Imma still keep cloth-diapering, because it's still cheaper than buying disposables every three days.
Good idea.
2. We've stopped nursing at night, for the most part. Last week she was getting up once every hour, I kid you not. Sometimes to eat. Sometimes to just yell at me from her crib. Sometimes because she just wanted to be up. I almost lost my damn mind.
So I beat her severely and went back to bed. Just kidding. But seriously, that's what people hear when I tell them what we really did, which was to let her cry it out for one night in a separate room. I don't know what the eff everyone's deal is, but when I tell people we let her cry it out they're like BUT SCIENCE SAYS NOT TO!!! Dude, Science can come to my house and get up with her six times a night for no reason and then entertain her all day. I refuse to believe that letting her cry for fifteen minutes is going to obliterate her trust in me, like the folks on Peaceful Parenting or Mothering.com would have you believe. Nothing against Attachment Parenting, but if I have to read one more article about how babies in "other cultures" don't cry because they're carried all day/co-slept/exclusively breast-fed/whatever, I'm going to 'splode (the implication, of course, is that mothers who don't do these things are harming their babies, either through willful neglect or through their ignorance). First off, that's racist as shit. African babies cry. Babies in every culture cry because that's what babies do. To say that non-western mothers have some innate, intuitive wisdom that western mothers don't have because of their jobs and dirty, dirty technology -- well, that's just racism. It's classism. It's third-world-fetishism. And I don't play that.
Second, the "science" that these websites are presenting are a little self-serving. I'm sure if you let your baby scream for hours every single night for eight months or something, that would be harmful, and there are some studies about maybe not letting babies cry to that extent, or for needlessly prolonged periods of time. But the folks on Peaceful Parenting (for instance) cherry-pick these scientific findings and tout them as the reason why any good mother would never, ever let her baby cry, even for a minute. EVER! Attending to your child's every whim is the gentle choice. The peaceful choice. The natural choice. Oh, and here's some random study I found to validate my prejudice.
|Hippy logic.
(And by the way -- did you know that circumcising your baby will turn him into a murderer? It's true, you guys! Because SCIENCE!)
4. June won't wear a bib anymore when I try to feed her solids. This may seem unimportant, but it's not: Whenever I put one on her, she rips it off and tosses it to the side, and WILL NOT EAT until it's off her body and out of her line of vision. Um, what? I try to put it back on several times before actually trying to feed her, and then I give up and pretend we don't even need a bib, because I'm not sure how to deal with this at all. Clothespins? Super-glue?
This has made me realize how little I know about discipline and how to enforce it. I'm not saying one should discipline a seven-month-old for not wearing a bib, but when she turns two and keeps taking off her pants, I'm going to be at a total loss for what to do.
I don't remember being disciplined very much as a kid. Not because my parents didn't discipline me, but because I'm not sure I knew that willfull defiance was even an option. I have a vivid memory of being in first grade and hearing my teacher tell us "You always have a choice." I put my hand up and was like, "UM, TEACHER? What if someone puts a gun to your head and is like, you DON'T have a choice?" She said, "You still have a choice." And then I think my head exploded. That was a totally novel concept. So then I went home and told my mom I had a CHOICE whether or not to clean my room, and she was like LOL FOREVER. "You don't have a choice," my mom said. "Go clean your room." And I said "okay" and cleaned it.
Basically I'm going to be pretty effed when June starts testing me.
|This is probably how I'll respond
|Me, every night. IT'S HEALTHY CUZ CALCIUM YOU GUYS!
I'll look it up later.
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Celebrating Halloween used to be so easy. In the early years, it was just a matter of which cute cartoon character to dress up as and which houses to trick or treat at. And there was candy. Lots of candy. And it was good.
In college, it stayed pretty simple – the big decisions revolved around what witty pop culture reference to impersonate and what parties to make an appearance at. There were house parties, frat parties, dorm parties, dance parties. And it was good. AND you know what? I could WALK to everything. And walk home very easily if I so chose. There was none of this public transportation / cab business. If I didn't want to walk down the street, I could take The Ride, but that was out of laziness, not necessity. Oh, and no overpriced drinks. That was a plus.
And now? Well, I don't mean to sound like the Grinch Who Stole Halloween here, but it seems to me like the city version of this holiday might be more trouble than it's worth. Next year I may stick to what I had originally intended for this year – staying in, drinking pumpkin beer and watching the Ghost Hunters marathon on the SciFi channel. As it was, I wound up wandering around the Boston bars, paying too much to get in and too much once inside, fighting my way through the drunk Clark Kents, dudes in gorilla suits, and sluttified Disney princesses (thanks for shedding a new, disturbing light on my childhood, by the way) and spending a good two hours walking back to Allston in the rain before finding a cab that wasn't already full.
Also, a bunch of drunk jerks threw a huge traffic cone at Caitlin and me? But I mean, in their defense, what ELSE were they supposed to do with it? …..what the hell.
So, verdict on my first real-world Halloween: well, I learned my lesson. Next year, pajamas and scary movies it is. Sounds pretty awesome to me. Of course, I'm the party pooper that doesn't really like Halloween anyway, so feel free to ignore my cynicism.
Also, update: got the aforementioned waitressing job. This oughta be interesting. Assuming I pass my menu and margarita tests (yes, those happen), I will be working at Border Café in Harvard Square within a few weeks. Tomorrow is my last day at The Campaign Network… so goodbye, politics. I wish you well.
Now bring on the tips, please.


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ok when i do all the injecter stuff do run as admin and then it injects and combat arms loads and when its done loading it gives me a black screen does this mean im banned?/
no your screen doesent go black when ur banned, what happens when ur banned is right when u log in a pop up comes up and say you have been banned for infrigment of the terms of service this ban will last for:7 days, 30 day, forever.
the black screen is your computer messing up, try takeing out your GFX card and takeing an eraser and cleaning the contacts on the card, then make sure you have directX10/11
and .net framework 4, if you do not have these programs the hacks will not work and if ur do not have the updated directX the d3d game will fail.
and are you my mom, if you don't know how to help him do not post saying you dont that is spam spam=Ban
No your not banned, after the new patch most public hacks are now detected and we must wait on the coders to make new ones. But I would not keep trying your old hack bc I have heard that it could lead to being banned if you keep trying to use you hack. Dont know how true that is.
Lets all just wait for the genius coders to do what they do.
There will be more public hacks soon


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While I was out
I am still with the living, hamdillah. There are many people to thank.
My nurse friend is the one who sent me to the dr. in the first place. I would have just blown it off as the flu except that she sent me for anti-flu medicine. And she also sustained me with a constant barrage of hillarious and sympathetic text messages.
Dawn saved my life by picking my daughter up from daycare so I didn't have to leave my house. She did this even though it meant having to put in our carseat which also meant having to move her carseat to drive my daughter 2 blocks while her daughter protested the relocation only to drop off my daughter and then take our carseat out of her car and eventually have to move her own carseat back! I'm tired just writing it. Even though she says it didn't take very long, it meant a lot and it was awesome of her and her temporarily displaced daughter. Thanks, Dawn. I love you every day. I especially loved you Tuesday.
My friend at work didn't blink when I told her I had pneumonia and wouldn't be able to go help with an all day training. So yeah, even though you thought you were going to that training so you could observe & learn. . .yeah. . . maybe you wouldn't mind, you know, doing the training? She didn't blink. "My GOD." She said. "Pneumonia! Get some sleep!" And I did. And it was awesome.
My tireless partner came home and found that my parenting strategy Monday night was something like this: put bowl of cheerios & a cup of water on the floor, kiss my baby girl, tell her that the goddess will watch out for her and pass out on the couch. I don't really remember her coming home or getting the girl to bed. I remember waking up the next day to find that the entire mess had been cleaned up and she and Dawn had taken care of everything for the next day so I could just keep sleeping. It was awesome.
There are more people to thank, I don't mean to neglect you. But I am still tired and am about to turn into a pumpkin. So let me thank the kind blogosphere with the most joyous thing I can offer: some pics of my girlchild. (that may be the cheeziest thing yet said on this here blog. no apologies, though, cuz i mean it.)
Khubz in her most Muslim moment Yet!
Does Santa come to quasi-Muslimy households
where toddlers irreverantly immitate prayer while playing in box lids?
Khubz can't bear to look.
And finally, yes, that is my daughter
playing with an orange. All day long. And eating it.
Whole. My daughter. Yes.


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Rutgers defensive lineman Julian Pinnix-Odrick is retiring from football without pursuing the NFL, he told NJ.com's Ryan Dunleavy.
Pinnix-Odrick, a 2016 co-captain who started all 12 games at defensive end and recorded 10 tackles for loss and five sacks for the Scarlet Knights, said he felt "indifferent" to the game after attending the College Gridiron Showcase in Texas.
"Being out there on the field in front of scouts against good players is no place to be indifferent," he said. "Everything is on the platter to say, 'Go! This is it!' And I wasn't feeling it. Not that I wasn't trying to: I was doing the extra work, but I wasn't excited. It reinforced what I had felt."
A redshirt senior, Pinnix-Odrick earned his degree from the School of Communication and Information, but was perceived as a "stereotypical" student-athlete -- "like being a dumb jock in class, anybody not expecting much of you when you are in a class setting." Now, he hopes to defy those with his future, which he says is to be determined.
"People say, 'You're a football player? You get in all the parties,'" Pinnix-Odrick said. "I'm like, 'Why do people think this? How do people view us?' Imagine if I didn't have football. What else would make me happy? I can translate the things in football that make me happy into something else."


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does anyone know what these two fonts could be?
I thought the one in uppercase could maybe be neutraface.
Also, I'm trying to figure out the italic lowercase monospaced font?
I think I've seen it somewhere. Not really sure.
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Wednesday, July 06, 2016
Travel Log - Day 2
At the time of my last visit to London, the museum of the Order of St. John was closed for renovation. I went there today. It includes very interesting displays and the history of all of the Order - the origins in the Holy Land, Rhodes, Malta, and the various splits in the Order in modern times. Nearby is the International Headquarters of the Venerable Order. Here are a couple of photos of the museum.
Later I had very nice visit with Alan Hughes at Whitechapel Bell Foundry. We discussed clock bells for Zimbelsterns (pipe organ stop - accessory) and electrical striking of peal bells. We also chatted about history, Brexit, and other things. I did not know that there was, historically, a "White Chapel"! The park just a block away is where it was. It had burned down a couple of times, and finally they decided not to rebuild it. The park includes some of the original stone pieces.
Then I went to Corpus Christi Church for Latin Low Mass. This church is right next to the Covent Garden Market, and you can hear the market noise inside the church. There were about 50 people, 20's -70's there.
Mass was at this side altar since the main sanctuary was under renovation.
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GBP/USD on the backfoot with Brexit concerns, 1.2110 eyedBy Ross J Burland
Currently, GBP/USD is trading at 1.2347, down -0.39% on the day, having posted a daily high at 1.2437 and low at 1.2335.
GBP/USD is under pressure with a government spokesman that has announced that Article 50 will be triggered on the 29th of this month. This brings the negative implications to the fore for the UK economy while there is huge uncertainty as to how the trade negotiations will go with the EU. At the same time, the UK is looking like an outsider in respect to the anti-populist movements in the rest of Europe with respect to the Dutch and French elections favouring the non-populist parties.
EUR/GBP bid on political sentiment, but watch for pull-backs while below 0.8800
Kit Juckes, an economist at Societe Generale explained that EUR/GBP is one of their preferred ways of trading Euro longs, though it has run into selling at 0.88 twice now in 2017. "UK data this week will see CPI on Tuesday with inflation probably rising to 2.1% and retail sales on Thursday, expected to show am 0.8% m/m fall ex-auto fuel. The retail sales data are volatile and have been far stronger than expected but if we start seeing evidence of a squeeze on real incomes bearing down on retail sales volumes, that would be a clear negative for sterling."
US dollar outlook: headed to below 100 before rebounding - Westpac
In respect to the dollar, there is a technical correction that has taken place and the market has tested the 100.00 level at the start of the week while some analysts expect 99.00 to come under pressure before a rebound in months ahead. The dovish hike from the Fed was the trigger, but bearish opinions post the mixed nonfarm payrolls result rang alarm bells as well. There were concerns over the lacklustre wages and poor quality of jobs while pure demographics remain a concern for the prospects of the US productivity and momentum in the economic recovery. As such, sterling's downside may be limited.
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The 100-day MA at 1.2413 came under pressure earlier and gave way to a high of 1.2436 before supply came on. The sudden sell-off has conflicted with bullish cross-over between the 20 sma and 200 4hr ema's where the 200 ema currently supports at 1.2342. "The recent low at 1.2110 is considered to be the last defence for the 1.1988 January low and the bottom of the 5-month range at 1.1919," explained analysts at Commerzbank who explained, on the flip side, that if above 1.2376, the next key resistance is 1.2581 (9th Feb high).
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An open letter to the lackluster moron who stole my daughter's bike:
I know: We've only ourselves to blame. The bike was chained to a pole on a boulevard, which is kinda-sorta public property. Sure, we have to mow it, but the city takes care of the trees. It's a gray area. The pole was public property, to be sure. It had a sign. In our defense I'll note that the sign did not say "Anything Attached to Me Is Yours if You Have a Bolt Cutter — Hey, What a Coincidence, You Do" but it's possible you thought this was one of those "It's near a curb, I can take it" situations.
After all, Curb Stuff is common property, right? I put out a sofa the other day. A big one, like a fainting couch for NBA athletes. It was gone in three hours. I'm surprised no one takes the garbage cans when we put them out. Hey, look at that! Free garbage cans! Score!
It's amazing that no one digs up the grass and rolls it up. Free sod! Because it's on the boulevard!
Yes, true, but technically it is the boulevard.
It's more likely you took the bike because that's what you do. You drive around at 3 a.m. looking for other people's property so you can steal it. There are two reasons why.
1. You are an impoverished man who was wrongfully imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, and your adopted child has a quiet, boundless kindness that gnaws at your soul — so mean the ration of joy the world has dealt her, so strong her spirit. You found her when she was selling matches — well, actually, batteries for vaping — barefoot, in December, and the two of you formed a bond. She waits in your tiny room, hoping you return with something to eat. But you have only a bicycle.
Oh, that is fine, Papa! she says. That's what she calls you, and it gives you a joy you never knew. A bike has lots of fine parts. We can boil the tires and pretend it's licorice! If we break down the frame and put it in a pot, we'll have Titanium Soup in no time! Oh, you're the best Papa ever. But what shall we do with the chain?
I will give it to Francois. He is building a printing press so he can expose the wrongs of society, and this will help him.
The seat goes to your dog, Cur, who will chew on it for a week. It was a good night after all, thanks to the person who put a bike out on the boulevard. There are still good people on this Earth. There are.
2. You're a miserable human being.
What sort of person steals from a child? I hope you go to Heck, which is not as bad as Hell, but is a place of eternal irritation and discomfort. Your underwear rides up, you have a toothache, and other Heck residents have horrible gas and no, the windows don't open. You constantly want a cigarette and there aren't any. The tornado sirens go off 24-7. Go to Heck.
That also goes for the person who bought the bike from you, no doubt thinking, "How strange that this fellow who never works always has a bike to sell for $40." You know it's stolen. To Heck with all of you.
If only this crime wasn't regarded as the equivalent of scooping the pennies out of the loose-change tray at the gas station. I'm not saying they should go to prison, but it makes you want to bring back the stocks.
Except if the stocks were near a curb, someone would steal them.
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(Cross-Posted by Vincent Lofaso from the Council on Hemispheric Affairs / COHA) – On November 25, 2016, the fiery Cuban revolutionary who perpetrated massive violations of human rights and his ability to challenge U.S hegemony passed away. His brother, Raul, the current president, announced his death on Cuban state television, providing few specifics as to the cause of his passing. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (90 years old) leaves behind a legacy that, in the polarized debate over Cuban policy, can be seen through one of two lenses.
For many, particularly the Cuban-Americans who fled the island, Fidel Castro was a leader who oppressed his own people, ordered political executions, and jailed thousands for criticizing his regime. But to his faithful supporters, Fidel Castro was a freedom fighter who fended off American imperialism in the late 1950's and early 1960's by overthrowing the U.S. backed leader, Fulgencio Batista. As president, the tall bearded socialist resisted the Bay of Pigs invasion and challenged the United States during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Thus while many Cuban expats are celebrating Fidel's death in the streets of Little Havana, Miami, Cuba itself, is mourning the loss of a national hero who fought for his own people and transformed Cuba from a small agricultural Caribbean nation to a respected global player.
From his rise to power in January 1959 to his resignation in 2006, Fidel Castro's human rights record never matched the idealism of his rhetoric. According to the Human Rights Watch, "Many of the abusive tactics developed during [Fidel's] time in power—including surveillance, beatings, arbitrary detention, and public acts of repudiation—are still used by the Cuban government."[i] Additionally, Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez published a tweet describing Castro's Cuba as "Su legado: un país en ruina, una nación donde los jóvenes no quieren vivir (a country in ruins, a nation where young people do not want to live)." [ii] Castro's suppression of those who disagreed with his policies motivated many Cubans to brave the 90-mile maritime journey to Florida, which was already home to a large percentage of Cuban-Americans. These Cuban exiles have come to dominate U.S. policy towards the small Caribbean island and "they have established the paradigm for academic writing and commentary on Cuba, controlled the media narrative, and in general obstructed our ability to understand Cuba as a country, Fidel as a man, and socialism as an alternative development strategy."[iii] There are a number of hardline Cuban-Americans in Congress that would like to reverse the Obama Administration's actions towards Cuba. They create a significant challenge to the normalization of relations as it requires Congress to lift the embargo.
But, given a fair analysis of Castro's legacy, we must not only look at the atrocities he committed, but also the way he transformed Cuba, a small island nation, into a serious player in the international community. In a sense, Castro's greatest success was making Cuba a proud principled nation. Despite the controversy surrounding his socialist policies, Castro stuck to his core values in advancing health programs, biotechnology, culture, and art. Furthermore, Fidel Castro was well known for putting words into action. Castro advanced domestic policy by "[building] his legacy on agrarian reform, establishing one of the world's most ambitious literacy campaigns and developing a free, world-class health care system. He went on to nationalize companies, refineries and land and would serve as head of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965."[iv] Castro's international efforts also formed to his legacy. He contributed to anti-apartheid movements in South Africa, supported the Sandinistas who overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua, and sent doctors around the world on medical missions to support communities that had limited access to health facilities. Cuba also joined the non-aligned movement, in which the island nation took no side during the Cold War. In 1979, Castro gave a speech at the United Nations touching on Cuba's involvement in NAM; "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries in their struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, apartheid, racism and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics."[v] On December 14, 2004, a breakthrough came for Cuba in Latin America. Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez signed the Cuba-Venezuela Agreement that led to the foundation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) which aimed to exchange medical and educational resources for petroleum. The international body which also included Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Honduras all agreed to advance socialism in Latin America. Through these actions, Castro transformed Cuba into a reference point for developing countries disillusioned with the United States foreign policy.
The death of Fidel Castro coincides with a series of changes both in Cuba's domestic and foreign policy. Since Castro stepped down in 2006, his brother Raul has strived to develop the island's economy, a strategy that may have political and cultural ramifications down the line. According to Cuban expert Peter Kornbluh, Raul Castro, "has created a private sector which now accounts for almost 27 percent of the Cuban workforce; it's largely tied up in tourism, but not completely. It continues to grow, but very slowly, in some ways too slowly for the Cuban population that has waited a long time, and has had its expectations raised by the normalization of relations with the United States."[vi] The Obama Administration has worked tirelessly to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba. Some of these actions include reopening embassies in Washington and Havana, allowing more travel to the island, and even importing more American business to help transform the Cuban economy. With the election of the Republican candidate Donald Trump, many of these reforms do not appear to be threatened. It is imperative that Trump, and his fellow Cuban-American party members to take a nuanced position that benefits both the United States and Cuba. For now, they can blast the abuses of the deceased Castro as much as they desire. In the future however, they would be wise to continue on the path of normalizing diplomatic relations and expanding commercial ties.
By Vincent Lofaso, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
[i] Gilsinan, Kathy, "How Did Fidel Castro Hold on to Cuba for So Long?" November 26, 2016 The Guardian https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/11/castro-death/508811/
[ii] Sanchez, Yoani November 26, 2016 Twitter https://twitter.com/yoanisanchez
[iii] Yaffe, Helen, "Comandate Fidel: Combatant to the End" November 26, 2016 Telesur http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Comandante-Fidel-Combatant-to-the-End-20161126-0013.html
[iv] "Fidel Castro: A Latin American Legend" November 25, 2016 Telesur http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Fidel-Castro-A-Latin-American-Legend-20160812-0020.html
[v] "Castro Speaks, Meets Officials at UN: Departs for Home" October 12, 1979 Latin American Network Information Center http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/castro/db/1979/19791012.html
[vi] Gilsinan, Kathy, "How Did Fidel Castro Hold on to Cuba for So Long?" November 26, 2016 The Guardian https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/11/castro-death/508811/


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Deborah Wolf (Seattle) received a 2006 GAP to help defray artist's fees associated with the creation of a new performance piece. Wolf will choreograph this new work to solo guitar music and the piece will feature four male dancers. "I will follow the deep-seated aesthetic that threads through all of my work and is embodied in its muscular physicality, its relation to music, and it's strong reliance on structure, which helps shape its ultimate content," says the artist. The performance will be premiered in October at Velocity's Mainspace Theater in Seattle.Information included above was provided by artist at the time of application.


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COLUMBUS -- State law enforcement agents executed a search warrant today at a Walbridge home in a statewide child porn investigation, authorities said.
The morning raid was part one of four raids today across the state as part of a multi-jurisdictional effort to stop the spread of child pornography, said Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine during a news conference in Columbus.
Four individuals were targeted in the raids, with three arrested and facing criminal prosecution, and one being questioned, Mr. DeWine said. Their names were not released.
Agents were unaware of any local children victimized by the individuals in question, according to the the attorney general's office. Mr. DeWine noted that the victims were 11 years old or younger.
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DENVER -- Aurora resident Matt Smola had a mission Wednesday -- get some answers from lawmakers over why he can't use his solar panel equipment.
"I probably have $22,000 into this right now," Smola said.
Two years ago, Smola purchased solar panel and battery equipment from OutBack but said he has constantly encountered resistance from Xcel Energy over getting it turned on.
"I never thought in a million years there would be any problem with Xcel," Smola said.
On Wednesday Smola found himself at the State Capitol lobbying for a bill that would increase homeowners' rights if they chose to install batteries or solar panels on their own.
"This is about Matt's story," State Sen. Steve Fenberg said. "A regulated monopoly shouldn't be able to dictate what happens in an individuals private home."
Debate on the measure lasted throughout the afternoon in front of the Senate Business Committee with Xcel lobbying against it.
"There are certainly standards that you have to meet for safety and reliability that protects both the customer and anyone who might be receiving his power outside and onto the grid," said Mark Stutz, an Xcel spokesman.
Stutz said Xcel has repeatedly tried to work with Smola but have not been able to come to a compromise.
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S0 why do I think that you should go and see the movie?
After all, it isn't playing in a lot of places. According to Boxofficemojo.com, it was running in only 535 theatres nationwide during the weekend of August 7-9. Compare that to the two high-profile big-studio releases of the same weekend and you'll see a pretty wide gap: "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" (4,007 screens); "Julie and Julia" (2,354).
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," which opened the same week to almost universal critical derision (which is really a dreadful, mind-numbing and overlong piece of shit), is still playing in nearly FOUR TIMES as many theatres.
That means that you're probably going to have to seek "The Hurt Locker" out. So why should you?
I could just say "because it's a great film," and that's true, but it isn't enough.
"The Hurt Locker" delivers everything that a discriminating filmgoer wants from a cinema experience, namely:
- Great acting
- Great, memorable scenes and no bad ones
- Great dialogue
- A totally immersive movie experience, best had communally, on a big screen with an audience
- And as a bonus, no character looks earnestly into the camera and says something like "man, we're really in the hurt locker now." In other words, the movie respects your intelligence a bit.
The movie is Rated R, and deservedly so - it is a war picture, there is violence and death and the ugly realities of combat, and plenty of salty G.I.-type language for seasoning. But you won't see fountains of gore. Aside from one sequence, the blood is more or less offscreen. The most impactful aspect of the movie is its intensity, the tension of its carefully constructed sequences.
The subject matter may not be everyone's cup of tea. There haven't been that many movies about the Iraq War yet, but they have generally not done well at the box office, which is of course the bottom line in the movie business. ("The Hurt Locker," again according to Boxofficemojo, has earned just a shade under $9 million in box office to date - pretty respectable for a small film on a few hundred screens, but a mere pittance in the big-studio ballgame.)
I think the general failure of Iraq War movies to date is largely because of fatigue from debating the rights and wrongs of the war. It was (and still is) a polarizing issue. I've got my own opinions, but in the spirit of the film, I'm not going to spell them out here, at least not now.
Just know this: if you're afraid of a preachy, message-filled two hours, don't be. THE MOVIE DOES NOT JUDGE THE WAR. In the movie, the war simply is. And the characters of Sergeant James, Sergeant Sanborn, and Specialist Eldridge as just guys doing a job, and hoping to go home when their job is done. That's all. Kind of - make that a lot - like the same guys I knew in the 90s in the 2nd Infantry and 3rd Infantry Divisions.
Just guys doing a job, hoping to get out and go home alive and intact.
I could go on. But instead, I'd like to offer the viewpoint of some far more prominent critics:
Roger Ebert - I've been reading and watching his reviews for nearly 30 years, and I've never seen him make a statement like he makes at the end of this review.
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Wanderlust Take Two... or Three?
While in DC I had hoped to connect up with good friends who moved there recently. Unfortunately it just didn't work out. On conference travel a person is a bit more free to wander around and meet up. But when meeting with a client for two days, the constraints are greater. But that's not to say that I didn't think about them often while there.
I really like Washington DC a lot. I have been there three times in the past year alone and I don't see this visit schedule declining at all in the coming months. I enjoy the Metro and moving through the city easily. I absolutely love the history and the museums and monuments. And I love the good food.
All these are things, I remind myself, that as a resident of a city you don't necessarily view as positively. The Metro probably gets tiring - a friend of mine who recently returned from an offsite assignment in DC cited that everything was hard. Getting groceries was hard, taking kids to a park was hard. That we don't know how easy we have it in a rural region where you hop in the car and drive a mile (if that) to the grocery store. I can see this. I have been in big cities to know that the convenience of public transit as a visitor translates into limitations as a resident.
The museums and monuments? Well just as I don't spend my time in wineries all the time (contrary to popular belief, of course), we wouldn't spend all our time learning through immersion. Same with the food - a different cuisine experience each night is fine while on travel, but not realistic as a family.
I wondered what it would be like to pick up and move? Ok, not the whole logistics aspect - that's a pain and my friends who moved in August are still living this pain. But picking up and starting over in a new town where establishing friendships starts at square one, getting to know the area, the endless options... it all seems somewhat romantic I guess! An adventure!
On the way home we flew into Atlanta. This is a part of the country that I have never been in. I didn't order iced tea at lunch out of fear it would be sweetened. There was lots of big hair and people I had trouble understanding. But it was different! And gorgeous as we flew in and out and saw all the trees. What would it be like to live in the South?
Oh then the mountains of Colorado, we flew right over those and I could identify the ski areas from the sky. And the snow. I love the snow. I miss the snow. Maybe we will get some this year.
Then I thought about the area my children were growing up in - very little snow, very little history I want to share with them at this age, though maybe when they are older they will appreciate growing up in the area that produced the first plutonium for the atomic bombs... no scratch that. Nevermind. Very little recent history, though a significant amount of interesting geological history. Yes, that is what they will learn!
I was a bit down as I ran to my flight in SLC. My poor kids, growing up in an uncool place. Sure, it is great for raising families, but at what cost?
Then we started approaching Southeast Washington and I was filled with fondness. AB and I both have very good jobs. I love what I do - I am very lucky in that aspect. Look at all the crops out there finishing up the remainder of the season. Wow, we are lucky to live in a place with access to fresh fruits and vegetables. And our friends.
I am not sure we would ever find friends like those we have made here. Not to mention, the schools! How could I forget about the high quality schools we have?
Snow? We can drive to that. Museums make for a fun vacation. Eating out? So we don't do it much here, but my kids will grow up to be great cooks and to know good food from the ground to the table.
Wanderlust? Nevermind. I am fine here.
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- NanaNor's said...
Hi there, Loved this post April-so very humorous but I could so relate.
We have moved twice in our lives-once from silicon valley to wine country and the transition was easy cause I still had kids. Then here to the snowy land-and the transition was so much harder at retirement age. New weather, new surroundings etc etc. I'm slow to make friends and the first summer was so hard. Now I'm settled in. If I could choose to live anywhere it would always be where my kids are, but we love the south and of course any place where we can see the ocean. I also love Maine, Kentucky, Tennessee. If you have to move, do it when the kids are young-it's easier that way. Plus we still haven't seen about 80% of our new state.
Hugs, Noreen
- RAB said...
Great Post!
Eric and I often have those same discussions and come to the same conclusion...we are very blessed to be where we are.
Moving is hard. I did it a lot as a child (4 different states by high school). Although there are some plusses to this, overall it's a tough transition each time.
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Danny Berger spoke with the media today about the dangerous incident that nearly cost him his life. He also revealed some new information about the status of his health and his course of action moving forward.
In a press conference, Berger revealed that a defibrillator has been implanted in his heart to help mitigate the risk of any future cardiac episodes. He said that if all goes well, he could be cleared by doctors to be back on the court within three weeks, shortly after USU's WAC schedule begins.
Tuesday, Berger collapsed into the arms of teammate Kyisean Reed during practice, and his heart stopped. Team trainer Mike Williams administered CPR and used a defibrillator to keep Berger alive. Berger was then rushed to Logan Regional Hospital and then flown to Intermountain Health Center in Murray.
Because of the incident, the game between BYU and USU, originally scheduled for Wednesday night, was postponed. Saturday's game between the Aggies and Western Oregon, however, is scheduled to be played. Berger told the media as part of his news conference today that he and his family would be in attendance at that game.
More details on this story are forthcoming.
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R-this past two days have been amazing! I have gone to TWO mlb games in TWO stadiums. This is heaven-like to this baseball fanatic. Today was definitely a highlight. I even got emotional walking into the place. Baseball history is contained in Wrigley. I imagined people watching all dressed up in the old days! It was a dream come true to see the ivy at Wrigley. The game is always the same. A player ran into the ivy wall. Must hurt! Cubs won! Great day! Alice


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Like many of you, our state is implementing the Common Core Standards. I'm really excited about this new set of standards, but it is a bit overwhelming! Our 2nd grade is looking at what we have and what we need to implement these standards with fidelity. There are many things that we have that we are able to use, but there are MANY things that we are having to either create or find from our great fellow teachers on the web.
As we move along in our units, the things I create I plan to post here for you! Up for grabs tonight is a graphic organizer for the RL.1 standard and the RIT.1 standard. These standards deal with the 5 W's (who, what, where, when, why) and an H (how).
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Till next time...
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Monday, October 04, 2010
Dr. Peggy Sartain
Peggy attended public schools in Arp as well as Kilgore, Texas, graduating as Salutatorian from Kilgore High School (KHS) in 1951. Peggy was active in many activities in KHS including being a Member of the "Dog House" Committee, Senior Class Treasurer, Flutist in The Kilgore Bulldog Marching Band, and various choir and drama Groups. She recently attended her 55th class reunion.
Peggy attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas from 1951-1955, receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with minors in Chemistry and English in 1955. Peggy's lifelong love and support of Baylor started during this time. While at Baylor, she was a member of the Baylor Student Congress, Student Court, Pre-Med Club, Sophomore Class Treasurer, Memorial House Council, Summer BSU Council, and Rhapsody in White Choir. To this day, Peggy's lifelong Baylor friends were one of her greatest joys.
Upon graduation from Baylor, Peggy attended the University of Texas at Galveston Medical School, graduating with Medical Doctorate (M.D.) in 1959. Her medical training continued at Memorial Hermann Hospital/ Washington D.C. General hospital as she completed her internship in 1960 with a specialty in Pediatrics. Finally, Peggy completed her pediatric hematology residency at Children's Medical Center, part of Parkland Memorial Hospital, in Dallas, Texas in 1961. During her professional medical career, Peggy described herself as a "plain, ordinary, no-frills person" who had a job she adored: working with sick children. Between 1960 - 1989, Peggy was a pediatrician specializing in Oncology and Hematology at Children's Medical Center in Dallas. Her career began in 1960 when she joined the Hematology One Program at Children's Medical Center for a one year internship working in medical research focused on children's blood-related diseases; this resulted in a 29 year career at only one hospital, Children's Medical Center.
A "no-nonsense", plainspoken, and extremely straightforward physician, Peggy's primary focus was to serve as each patient's advocate, in which the needs of her patients were paramount above everything else. Peggy's impact to medicine was not limited to treatment of children and their blood diseases. She also served as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in which she mentored and taught hundreds of medical students in the pediatric oncology-hematology specialization as well as being a prolific medical researcher and author of many articles and studies in this field, including contributions to the Southwest Medical Journal, the Journal of Pediatrics, The New England Journal of Medicine, Southern Medical Journal to name a few. Additionally, she was selected to participate in two separate US/South Vietnam Pediatric initiatives with the South Vietnam Children's Hospital in the early 1970's, living abroad in Saigon and travelling extensively during this time.
In 1979, Peggy was a founding board member of the Ronald McDonald House in Dallas. Peggy also served as "camp doctor" and founding board member at Camp Esperanza/Camp John Marc for seriously ill children. Known as the "Big Kahuna" to thousands of children patients, colleagues, and co-workers, she was beloved by all. Her honors and accolades were many. Being an incredibly modest individual, it was not uncommon that these honors were never mentioned by Peggy. She was however most proud of the honor bestowed upon her by her alma mater, Baylor University, when in 1990, she was selected as an Outstanding Alumnae of Baylor University. That same year she was also recognized as an Outstanding Baylor Alumnae by the Dallas Baylor Women's Council. Upon her retirement, the Peggy Sartain Library and Conference Room was named in her honor at Children's Medical Center in Dallas.
Upon retirement from her medical practice, Peggy led an very active life in Horseshoe Bay including active participation in the Horseshoe Bay Women's Golf Association, the Horseshoe Bay 19 Hole Club, past President of the Highland Fling Golf Tournament, Trustee of the Church at Horseshoe Bay, past board member of Hill Country Community Theatre, past board member, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Horseshoe Bay Homeowner's Association, Dallas Baylor Women's Council, Life Member of the Baylor Alumni Association, and Baylor University Heritage Club. Her greatest enjoyments were "watching the deer and Texas wildflowers grow", playing golf, being an avid reader and crossword puzzler, watching Dallas Cowboy and Baylor Bear football, and playing Tuesday afternoon bridge with the Horseshoe Bay gals.
Peggy was preceded in death by Forrest Lee Sartain (father), Inez Smith Sartain (mother), Nancy Sartain Robinson (sister), and Larry D. Robinson (brother-in-law).
She is survived by Holly Robinson Young (niece) of London, England, Amy Robinson (niece) of Farmers Branch, Texas, Robert "Buddy" Young (nephew-in-law) of London England, Mary Jane Denson (cousin) of Troup, Texas, Carolyn Peacher (cousin) of Alexandria, Virginia, Bettye Salvans (cousin) of Quinlan, Texas, second and third cousins, many friends and former colleagues, and thousands of former patients.
A memorial service was held at The Church at Horseshoe Bay on Tuesday, September 28, 2010, in Horseshoe Bay Texas, with arrangements by Clements-Wilcox Funeral Home in Marble Falls. Upon cremation, internment will be at Ebenezer Cemetery in Arp, Texas. In lieu of flowers, Peggy's express wishes were to have any donations made in her memory to go to (1)Special Camp for Special Kids-Camp John Marc, (2) The Church at Horseshoe Bay, and (3)the Marble Falls Public Library.
Peggy had a great passion for life, humanity, and a wonderful sense of humor - she will be greatly missed by those who had the pleasure of knowing her.
Please access www.clementswilcoxfuneralhome.comif you would life to see the photos that celebrate her life.
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Holly, I'm really sorry to hear about your recent loss. Both Sharon and I are thinking of you and your family at this sad time. Kind regards, Matt Whiteman
- Courtney said...
I'm so sorry to hear of your aunt's passing. Oddly enough, I saw the title and thought...I've seen that name somewhere recently. And sure enough I had...in my Camp John Marc newsletter. I worked at CJM for 3 summers as a staff member. Your aunt has made a tremendous impact on more children (and adults) than you could ever possibly imagine. Her legacy will live beyond all of us.
Courtney (friend of Amber from St Louis)
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August 25, 1931
BICKELL ET AL.v.SMITH-HAMBURGSCOTT WELDING CO. OF NEW YORK, INC., ET AL.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York.
Author: Swan
Before MANTON, SWAN, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for patent infringement brought by Bickell, as owner of the patent, and Kramer, as exclusive licensee thereunder, against two corporations, each of which has a place of business within the Eastern district of New York and is charged with having there committed acts of infringement.
The patent in suit relates to a tank truck for transporting and delivering inflammable liquids such as gasoline. The specifications refer to deficiencies in trucks of the prior art which provided for drawing off the liquid by gravity through outlets at the bottom of the tank, with consequent danger of leakage if the outlet faucets become damaged or defective. In certain cities such tank trucks were forbidden to operate and gasoline was required to be delivered in drums on stake wagons -- a method uneconomical and also fraught with danger. These difficulties the inventor proposed to overcome by drawing off the gasoline through the top of the tank by siphonic action. The tank of the patent is described as divided into compartments, each having individual discharge pipes leading to a common discharge pipe above the gasoline and operating by siphonic flow, which is initiated by a pump and allowed to continue, once it has been started, through a by-pass around the pump. Associated with each compartment is a control valve, and these valves are operable selectively so that liquid from any compartment can be discharged at will siphonically, while the other compartments remain closed.
Of the five claims in suit, it will suffice to quote claims 3 and 23, which read as follows:
"3. A gasolene delivery vehicle having in combination multiple tank compartments on the vehicle, pipes in the respective compartments constituting intake limbs of a siphon, a delivery limb on the vehicle, a pump connected with the siphon, means for by-passing the pump when flow has been established, and means for selecting the compartments."
"23. A tank comprising a plurality of compartments, a siphon having a plurality of intake limbs terminating in different compartments, means for selectively controlling flow from the individual compartments, said selective means being operable at a point remote from said valves, means for initiating flow through the siphon, and a by-pass around said means."
The District Court found that each of the defendants had infringed the claims in suit by making tank trucks of the type illustrated in Exhibit 9. If the claims in suit are valid, we have no doubt of the correctness of the finding of infringement.
The defendants' first challenge to validity of the patent is based upon the contention that the idea of siphonic discharge was not a part of Hayes' conception when he filed his application on May 7, 1923; that his original disclosure showed that he contemplated either pumping out or forcing out by compressed air the contents of the tank compartments; and that the introduction of the idea of siphonic discharge, made by amendment in 1926 and after the fire department officials of New York City had published specifications calling for this type of tank truck, changed the whole tenor of the original application and was not the invention of Hayes.
It is true that the original application did not mention the word "siphon," and that only one of the seventeen original claims could possibly be read as claiming a tank truck discharging by siphonic action. The original specifications and drawings disclosed a tank divided into compartments and equipped with two systems of piping, one for discharging the gasoline, and the other a fire-fighting apparatus. Most of the claims were directed to the fire-fighting equipment or to that in combination with the discharging apparatus. In December, 1923, the Patent Office required a division between the fire-fighting device and the gasoline discharging device. Thereupon all claims were canceled except 13, 15 and 16, and the fire-fighting device dropped out of the case. Claim 13 called for a tank truck having its tank divided into "compartments with closed bottoms containing pockets, and delivery piping having valved branches extending through the tops of the compartments with their inlets in said pockets, and means for raising the contents of each compartment over the top to pass out through the delivery line." The means shown were a pump or, alternatively, compressed air. There was a by-pass around the pump which was to be used when the gasoline was to be forced out by compressed air. Hayes contends that it was also to be used as soon as the pump had primed the siphon. Hayes, Bickell, and Brandenburg testified that siphonic discharge was the essence of Hayes' invention and was explained by him to his attorney Brandenburg who drafted the application. There is no doubt whatever that Hayes had the idea long before the amendment of 1926, suported by his supplemental oath, for in the spring of 1924 he built and used the tank photographically shown in Exhibit 3. This operated siphonically, with a hand pump to start the siphon. Hayes claimed a patent for it (Exhibit 6), but contends that this was simply a narrow imprvement on his application for the patent in suit; the pump in Exhibit 6 being movable to connect with one compartment after another. While it seems somewhat strange that the original application did not in express terms refer to "siphonic discharge," the specifications and drawings show a machine which could operate in that way, and claim 13 can be read as claiming it. Therefore the amendment of 1926 did not introduce a new and previously undisclosed invention. This conclusion finds further support in the allowance by the Patent Office of the amendment without objection to it as containing new matter (see General Electric Co. v. Cooper Hewitt Electric Co. [C.C.A.] 249 F. 61, 64), and in the fact that no such point was taken in the interference proceedings between Hayes and Kramer.
A second challenge to validity is the contention that the apparatus disclosed in the patent in suit is inoperative. This objection rests primarily on the fact that the tank compartments are not shown to be provided with air vents. It is common knowledge that air must be admitted when liquid is being discharged from its container, whether by gravity or by siphonic action. Indeed, this necessity is so obvious that many of the patents introduced as prior art fail to illustrate or mention air vents. To provide vents by petcocks or by removal of the manhole covers on the top of the compartments would be no more than a matter of common skill. It is self-evident that the manhole cover could be opened to admit air when siphonic flow was to be initiated by the pump. When it was to be initiated by compressed air pressure, of course the covers would have to be closed until after the discharge pipes were filled with liquid. The failure to mention such obvious matters should not invalidate the patent.
Inoperativeness is also alleged because the patent does not describe any operative means for selecting the compartment to be emptied, or means whereby the selective means may be operated from a remote point. Figure 2 of the drawing shows the valves 19, and the specifications state that "operating connections, represented schematically at 20 in Fig. 2, preferably extend from the valves to the cab 21 or forward part of the vehicle, so that the valves may be operated from a convenient point." Defendants' expert admitted that the rigging of cords or rods to operate valves from a distance is a perfectly obvious thing (fol. 813). A patentee is only required to describe his invention in such terms as will enable those skilled in the art to use it. Hayes has met this requirement, and the contention that the apparatus is inoperative cannot be sustained.
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Automata came out around the time of a cluster of films all addressing the issues of machine intelligence and robotics. This was kicked off by Spike Jonzes amazing Her (2013) and followed by the fine and underrated The Machine (2013) and Alex Garlands sensational Ex Machina (2015). There were also high-profile works on the topic with Transcendence (2014), Chappie (2015) and Morgan (2016) that turned out to be flops. Automata did not gain the same profiles that these others did. Looking around the web, it seems to have been greeted by various reviews calling it beautifully designed but tired and cliched all of which show that most mainstream reviewers are a bunch of braindead kneejerks that wouldnt even recognise an original thought if it jumped up and bit them.
Ibañez creates a fascinating future world. It is certainly one where he is drawing more than a little on the imagery of Blade Runner (1982) unavoidable if it is a story about an official trying to track down rogue robots but twists it in ways that are sufficiently original. The background of the film is littered with fascinating details city streets piled with overflowing refuse, the construction site that has a worker hired to shoot the scavengers in the wasteland below, the shantytown where we see brokedown robots on walking frames or propelling themselves along on skateboards, even images of robot that act as panhandlers for their owners. (Although I did find the replacement of Blade Runners wall-sized video ads with giant-sized holograms of tv shows playing out between skyscrapers to be slightly improbable). This is a world that looks sufficiently fascinating that you wished the film had taken more time to explore it.
The opening credits in their mention of the two Protocols borrows a very large leaf from Isaac Asimovs Three Laws of Robotics that said, what we have is a far more authentic Asimov Robot story than I, Robot (2004) ended up being. There is a particularly captivating scene not long into the film where Antonio Banderas goes to a clients apartment to check out the robot the man claims brushed his dog to death and picks up a kitchen knife to test that the robots protection protocols are working.
The most captivating sections of the film come from the point when Melanie Griffith messages Antonio Banderas to announce theyve just come down from the trees and the startling scene where Antonio finds himself in the midst of a high-speed car chase in a car being driven by the Cleo robot. The section with the robots dragging Antonio across the desert wasteland, dutifully tending to his needs, as all the while they remain insistent about heading to their destination become absolutely fascinating. The relationship and trust that grows between the ailing Antonio and the blank but curiously sympathetic robots is hauntingly well developed (not to mention has some superb effects). It is maybe in the scenes when the human pursuers arrive to eliminate them that we get to the cliche elements that others seemed to find but I didnt think it to be the case. What I actually found was a strong and intelligent work of science-fiction.
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I had the students in Theory walk up to the whiteboard to complete review exercises of basic rhythm and not names, I think they enjoyed the activity. I really enjoyed one moment when I was writing some music on the board with errors in each measure for them to identify (I had not told them yet what the purpose was of what I was writing), and not a moment after I drew the first bar line a student said, "Wait! There's something wrong with the first measure!" Awesome.
With a Lily in Your Hand (Eric Whitacre) - Polyphony (iTunes)
I forget earlier to mention that we have a daily listening journal activity for the GM classes, similar in nature to my Theory ritual. Today we played the William Tell Overture (Gioachino Rossini) for them, followed by this:
They loved it.