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No matter how you feel about the current political situation in the United States, it is undeniable that this country is hurting. Now, more than ever, we need to love each other. And this is so freakin' hard! It is hard to watch hate spilling all over everywhere and come back with love. Some days, I'll admit, it feels impossible.
Valentines days seems like a day to remember this particular struggle and maybe we should just admit we are human and start with showering loving attention on the people nearest to us. While I'm not a big fan of this ultra-commercialized "holiday", I do believe that humans need to come together on a heart level, now more than ever.
So this Valentine's day, join me in a little weaving project. Let's see if we can weave ourselves a community of understanding and have some fun in the process. Below I show you how I wove a little heart. At the end of the post you will find a link to download a PDF with instructions and a template for various size hearts.
I recently acquired a Mirrix Lani loom. Previously, the smallest Mirrix I had tried was the 12 inch Little Guy. The Lani came my way and was sitting in the corner crying to me every time I walked past on the way to a bigger loom... "warp me, warp me!" And yes, I did use a shedding device on this tiny loom. I do extend the small looms as far as I can as it helps a lot with more play in the warp.**** The shedding device is super super tight if you have the loom collapsed. Sometimes I even put warp extenders on to help with this. Yes, I usually "waste" a little warp, but it is nothing compared to the loom waste from my Harrisville Rug Loom! Just look at it as part of using this particular equipment OR you can plan several projects on that longer warp and use it all up.
For this particular project, I warped the Lani 4.5 inches wide at 12 epi with 20/6 cotton seine twine (someone will ask). This loom will only warp to 5 inches wide, so I wound off some warp onto a boat shuttle bobbin (you could also use a piece of cardboard or a tapestry bobbin) so that it would fit easily inside the tiny loom as I warped. Also remember that if you want your heart centered in the middle of the warp and you want the heart to end on a point instead of two warps, you should use an odd number of warps.
Weaving a simple heart
For this project, I wanted to weave a very simple heart shape. If you'd like a bigger challenge, keep reading. I made a template (which you can download in the PDF linked below) and cut out all the hearts. I printed my template on photo paper just because it is a little thicker than regular paper.
For my project, I wanted to weave just one heart. I chose the medium sized heart and wove it on a warp 4.5 inches wide. I traced the heart onto a piece of paper and then dotted that cartoon onto the warp. Take care to leave yourself enough room on either side of your design. A heart has a much longer vertical line at each side than we like to think it does (just like a circle does!). You want to leave at least two warps on either side of the heart. I left four (which was a third of an inch at 12 epi).
I wove my heart upside down because I feel that it is an easier orientation to weave this shape. I'd rather start the triangular shapes at the wide part of the triangle than at a point. Certainly it is possible to start a shape at a point, but I think you'll find that weaving it upside down is simpler. (For those of you with more experience, what would happen if you wove a heart-shape sideways? How would this be beneficial for the final weaving?)*
You can weave the heart any way you'd like. As you'll see in the photos below, I wove it a shape at a time. I started with weaving the left side, then added the bobbins for the two parts of the heart and the two other background colors. I set these in at the same time to make sure that I had meet and separate happening between each of the bobbins.
The next shape that has to be woven is the center background color because the pink sides of the heart will weave on top of it fairly quickly. The image below shows the center triangle woven as well as a little tip. When you come to the top of a shape like this where you're wrapping one warp to end it, you can needle that end down into the weft. I am weaving from the front here, so I did this and then tucked the end to the back through the weaving and will snip it off once the piece is off the loom.**
The next step is to fill in the right side of the background color. You must do this next because the right side of the pink will be weaving on top of it quickly.***
From here, fill in both sides of the pink (or whatever color! Hearts don't have to be red). Make sure you are bubbling appropriately so you have enough weft that your piece doesn't draw in at the sides. You can fill in the background color at the sides whenever you wish. If your piece is quite large, you might want to sew the slits on each side. I did not do this on this small piece.
Continue to fill in the shape and the background colors. Put on the final header and some waste and you're ready to cut it off the loom.
Advanced design ideas
You can trial different design possibilities by cutting out multiples of a shape and moving them around. What if you had several different sizes of hearts? How could you stack them by size or use the same size several times overlapping? You could do this on a computer, but I favor cutting the pieces out of paper or thin cardboard and seeing what happens when you manipulate them by hand.
Often when moving around a set of shapes, I find a design that I really like. For example, what if you tried one of the below designs with the hearts? What other combinations can you make? What if your final design didn't even look like a heart? What if you cut the hearts into pieces? What if you added some other shapes? If I find something I like but I'm not done with the designing, I either photograph it or use tracing paper to make a copy of the design before trying something new.
If you're a more advanced tapestry weaver, see what sort of designs you can make. Decide how big you want the piece to be and then make your shapes such that they will utilize this space well.
If you're in my Color Gradation Techniques online class, think about how you could use a gradation technique with this design. Could you use regular hatching? A vertical gradation? What about the values. Did the values of the colors you chose work well to create the effect you have in mind? I used some pick and pick in the heart I wove to blend the colors more smoothly.
There are infinite possibilities. Some combinations are weave-able and some are not. For example, if the design on the left appeals to you, it would easily be possible with a size of 5 inches across or larger. Because the narrowest part between the two hearts occurs on a diagonal, this could be executed on a warp at 8 epi or smaller. If you wanted to weave that design smaller than 5 inches or on a warp that had a wider sett (4 or 6 epi), it could be a struggle to execute that thin diagonal line effectively.
Similar issues occur with the design at the right. The larger you weave it, the easier it is to render the shapes. But at a smaller sett (8, 10, 12 epi), this would be possible. Obviously the design at right is much more complicated than what I wove. If you haven't done much tapestry weaving, please start with just one heart. You can choose the size you'd like from the template depending on how large a loom you have and what options you have for sett. (Sett just means how many warp ends are in one inch.)
Get your project guide and do some weaving!
So are you ready to weave a heart? You can do this project on whatever loom you have.
Love Hokett looms? That is perfect.
Have a copper pipe loom languishing in the corner of a closet? Let her see a little action.
Have the remains of a warp on your floor loom you haven't cut off yet? Weave a heart.
Click the button below if you'd like the plans for this project. And if you're new to tapestry weaving, consider making this project in conjunction with my online class, Weaving Tapestry on Little Looms.
But most importantly, love each other.
Share your work! Hashtag it #thetapestryheart
Let's share the love. If you're in my online tapestry classes and are part of the private Facebook group for them, please share your images there. You can also share on Facebook and forward to my public page, Rebecca Mezoff Tapestry Studio (@RebeccaMezoffTapestry)
And of course if you're in the Weaving Tapestry on Little Looms online class, please share your work in a discussion question there. I've set up a special To-Do step near the end of the course.
On Instagram, please tag me @rebeccamezofftapestry and hashtag #thetapestryheart.
And on Twitter, @RMezoff and hashtag #thetapestryheart.
I'm betting you Ravelers will also post there. I am NMTapestryGirl on Ravelry.
****Remember to leave at least 3 inches of threaded rod connecting the two pieces on a Mirrix or copper pipe loom. This is very important for stability.
*Weaving a heart shape on its side would mean that the sides of the shape could be smoother curves. Shifting the shape of the heart to a more tall, narrow heart and weaving it sideways can give you some really lovely lines. Consider some eccentric outline for the edges or a design in the middle!
**It is best to cut off all ends from the back of the piece. No matter how closely you cut, you may well see those cut ends if you cut them from the front.
***Unless you're using special knots or a scaffold, it is best not to weave tapestry in the middle of a warp unsupported.


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While stumbling around the internet, I came across this little recipe for a "Baked Egg Boat."
"What an elaborate name!" my brain said. "We'll NEVER remember that!" And instantly I started calling it an egg canoe. Totally not on purpose. I honestly forgot the name. Immediately. I didn't even know that 'boat' or 'egg' was in the name until I went to type up this post.
Anyway, it's super easy and delicious! But instead of pancetta, we used bacon bits. Precooked and pre-cut. And instead of the cheese it called for, we used asiago. And instead of four little sour dough boats, we used a french baguette!
Yeah. That happened.
In retrospect, we should have skipped the salt because the cheese and bacon were loaded. Oops.
Don't you just want to grab it and take a bite?


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Simpson's of Piccadilly
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Understandably, the number of ladies' illustrations outnumber the men's for this decade.
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You can see in the lean and clean silhouettes of the 1960s how the reaction against drape that started in the 1950s becomes complete.
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I note with interest that many, if not most, of the double-breasted suits of the thirties and forties are worn with both buttons fastened....
If you don't count the 1x2 dinner jacket ( and I didn't.) it's actually and even split.
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I do believe I had the jacket shown at the top left of this picture, bought in the 70's at a section of Simpsons called Simpsons Trend in Jermyn Street with a separate entrance at the back which catered for the more youthful client. I seem to recall that the coat lapels touched the sleeve though they were so big.
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Photo g shows the bespoke tailoring section:
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Looking at the skiing suit, I can't help but be reminded of the sort of double breasted tunics favoured by German tank crews in WW2. I believe that the Russians also had some similar garments:
The yellow scarf under the coat in this illustration is also particularly handsome I think:
Posted 05 August 2009 - 02:21 AM
I have a question:
The Simpson's fashion sketch in this thread are from a book?
The book is on Amazon or on Ebay?
Posted 05 August 2009 - 10:14 AM
The book is titled The British Tradition, Simpson a World of Style by David Wainwright. It is sadly no longer in print, but you may be able to find a second hand copy on Amazon.
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Hacking an e-mail account is a common thing now days. We need to be alert of Fund Transfers request via e-mail. It can inflict financial damage to the firm and the registered representative, this is something that can be avoided.
Reg. Rep. X (CRD #1234567, Registered Representative, Edison, New Jersey) was fined
$7,500 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for 10
business days. The fine shall be due and payable on Reg. Rep. X return to the securities industry.
The sanctions were based on findings that Reg. Rep. X falsely attested that she had confirmed
a request for a fund transfer with a customer and as a result, caused her member firm's
books and records to be inaccurate. The findings stated that Reg. Rep. X processed the fund
transfer request that she thought a customer had sent, but the transfer request was
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text: Grade 4 have had a blast making their animation films and many of them have already started on another production. There were a huge variety of themes and ideas and it really showed off the creativity of our grade 4 students. The animations were a highlight for many in our ES at exhibition and were easy for all ages to enjoy. I cannot put them all on the Blog but you can look the titles up on youtube by typing in ruminsih into a youtube search to watch the others.


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Rupert Neve, the Wizard of Wimberley, turns 90
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WIMBERLEY — Nobody ends up here by mistake. This quaint Hill Country town 40 miles southwest of Austin is not on the way to anywhere else, but a destination. And home to about 3,900.
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FCC: Broadband Users Are Getting Half of What They Expect
Consumer broadband speeds are roughly 50 percent slower than their advertised rates, according to a new report from the Federal Communications Commission.
Though consumer broadband speeds have doubled every four years since 1997 and broadband providers increase their advertised, available broadband speeds by 20 percent annually, not all consumers are actually getting that kind of performance from their high-speed Internet connection.
The information, released by the FCC this week, breaks out some of the broadband usage information described in the commission's national broadband plan.
The FCC found that the in the first half of 2009, the average broadband user consumed 9 Gbytes of data per month. That number, however, is growing an average of 35 percent per person, per year. The average user has also been online for about 10 years, and spends about 29 hours per month on the Web, double the amount from 2000.
In 2009, broadband providers advertised that they provided an average download speed of 7-8 Mbits/s. That increased to 10-15 Mbits/s among fiber-to-the-home (FTTP) providers, and to 8-11 Mbits/s for cable modem service. DSL providers promised 2.5-3.5 Mbits/s.
The average broadband speed most users got, however, came in at 4 Mbits/s. That means that "actual download speeds experienced by U.S. consumers lag advertised speeds by roughly 50 percent," the FCC said.
There are a variety of factors that contribute that gap, the FCC concluded, some of which are related to the consumer and the performance of their equipment. But providers, as well as the unpredictability of the Internet, also play a role.
Not surprisingly, the faster the Internet connection, the more time one spent online.
The FCC broke out broadband users into four categories: advanced users, probably your average bandwidth hog who consumes large amounts of data and has the most up-to-date equipment; full media users, who engage in moderately heavy Web use, but are not always on the cutting edge when it comes to applications; emerging multimedia users, who use some emerging apps, but are pretty much just e-mailing and checking the news; and utility users, the most basic of Web surfers.
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Krewe du Vieux kicks off the 2017 Mardi Gras Parade schedule this Saturday, February 11th. As parades go, this is one of the most anticipated by locals and is sure to astound and delight visitors as well! It is the one parade of the carnival season that isn't exactly family friendly, as it is full of satire, adult themes, and political comedy. As the parades start rolling, we thought we would share some tips to keep you safe and happy this Mardi Gras season!
1. DO get to the parades early! Waiting for the parade to roll is half the fun! Plus you are more likely to get a good spot. But DON'T stay out all night to stake your territory (some people do!).
2. DO buy a wristband for bathroom access, you will need it! DON'T pee on the street, you will get arrested!
3. DO bring snack food and street food with you to the parades, it's easy to have too much to drink and not enough to eat! DO also make reservations if you plan to dine at a restaurant.
4. DO dress up! It's perfectly acceptable to wear a costume to the parades, and if you are here for Fat Tuesday, you MUST wear a costume!
5. DON'T fight over beads, they are just plastic and there are always more than enough to go around!
6. DO have fun! Happy Mardi Gras!


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The below error has been resolved through a certificate update in the Qvinci Sync Application, effective 9/22/2016 at 4:00pm CST. Users will need to launch their Qvinci Sync Application and will see an auto update take place. The current version of the Qvinci Sync Application is now 126.96.36.199. A follow up, action item related to the QuickBooks Application Certificate should be performed by the QuickBooks user. Please see this article for further information.
At times a QuickBooks application certificate error can appear for 3rd party applications that are connected to QuickBooks desktop files. This "QuickBooks- Application with Expired Certificate" error is related to a code signing certificate that needs to be updated for new technology releases, but has no bearing on historical technology authorizations. A quick toggle in the QuickBooks file will eliminate the error message until the certificate is updated.
- In the QuickBooks file navigate to Edit > Preferences > Integrated Applications
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An homage to all the Apple Mice (mouses) over the years (made with pure CSS).
Wow! That's awesome!
Does it do anything? Not on my ipad3
Really nice work
Nice work! @Olav It works on my iPad 3, I just have to touch the "navigation" dots to change mice.
Really cool idea, great execution. Needs better nav though - those dots are a pain to click.
@petekp my version allow keyboard and mousewheel nav http://codepen.io/yukulele/pen/EekAw
Just plain awesome, great work!
That's great work. Here's a version with a timer for those lazy ones out there: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Ieypk
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SCOTUS decision, marriage & Christian response/
Photo credit: Meredith Teasley. Check out her beautiful work.
Shortly after posting a critique of Jennifer Hatmaker's response to the World Vision event as it related to gay marriage last year, I was asked by a reader to explain my view on homosexuality and how I find support for that in Scripture.
I haven't done so before now because I thought others were articulating it better than I and because I wanted to give it careful thought.
Now in light of the SCOTUS decision, Christians again are asking questions about marriage. Some are asking, "Am I on the wrong side of history?" Like some pop-Christian authors and preachers, some Christians are buying into a redefinition of love that finds its meaning, not in God or Scripture, but in self-fulfillment. Other Christians chide fellow Christians for speaking up in any way negatively about the issue because they, too, have bought into a different understanding of love -- that is, to put it negatively, love doesn't offend nor does it hurt feelings, or, to put it positively, love is accepting and non-judgmental.
As it relates to the meaning of love, Christians who want to be faithful to Scripture, must ask how Scripture defines and lives out its definition of love. We must ask ourselves if our definition of love squares with Scripture. Was God's message to Nineveh through the prophet Jonah, loving? Were any of the prophets' messages to the nations and even to Israel considered loving? Why were God and his prophets so concerned with other nations? (Imagine doing evangelism like the prophets! And read the prophets if you haven't already.) Was Jesus loving when he told Peter, "Get behind me Satan"? Was Jesus loving when he rebuked his disciples for not letting the children come to him? Was Jesus loving when he overturned the tables in the temple? Was Paul loving when he rebuked the Roman, Corinthian, and Galatian Christians or Peter? I could go on.
Make a test. Use the world's definition of love (or even perhaps your own) and see whether God (in the Old Testament) and Jesus and his disciples in the New fail or pass your love test.
If the basis of love is truly self-fulfillment, then same-sex marriage is right before the eyes of God. However, this is not how the Bible defines love or marriage. Scripture speaks unanimously that practicing homosexual behavior is a sin. There are never any exceptions to this in the narrative.
But just because we oppose same-sex marriage doesn't mean we oppose people. Love both corrects and welcomes. We welcome people (whoever they might be!) into our homes; we share with them the gospel of Jesus; we get to know them and have dinner with them. We can do all these things while at the same time teaching that Scripture teaches that practicing homosexuality is a sin just like any other sin.
We also do not teach that marriage is the end-all nor do we teach that one finds ultimate fulfillment in marriage. We do not separate the married from the singles as the haves and the have-nots. Instead of offering an institution as the savior we offer Jesus as the savior.
So how should we understand marriage, our culture, the SCOTUS decision and what our response should be?
Again I refer to others who speak on this better than I can. Over at First Things magazine, a number of "male and female, gay and straight, Christian and Jewish, Protestant and Catholic and Orthodox" contributors give their answers. I highly encourage you to read each response. The following quotes are some that really stood out to me, and I hope they are helpful to you as you process a Christian response and a biblical view of marriage.
For marriage policy to serve the common good it must reflect the truth that marriage unites a man and a woman as husband and wife so that children will have both a mother and a father. Marriage is based on the anthropological truth that men and woman are distinct and complementary, the biological fact that reproduction depends on a man and a woman, and the social reality that children deserve a mother and a father.
The government is not in the marriage business because it's a sucker for adult romance. No, marriage isn't just a private affair; marriage is a matter of public policy because marriage is society's best way to ensure the well-being of children. State recognition of marriage acts as a powerful social norm that encourages men and women to commit to each other so they will take responsibility for any children that follow.
Redefining marriage to make it a genderless institution fundamentally changes marriage: It makes the relationship more about the desires of adults than about the needs—or rights—of children. It teaches the lie that mothers and fathers are interchangeable. -- Ryan T. Anderson
When a culture treats the family primarily as an arena for self-fulfillment and self-expression rather than first and foremost as the sphere dedicated to the education of future generations, that culture manifests a weakening of its faith in the abiding value and imperative power of its core beliefs. That this spirit of "negation and despair" has corroded liberal Western culture, to its detriment, is an old story. Justice Alito's dissent notes the rate of illegitimate birth, and nobody is shocked at the routine acceptance of marital infidelity and instability. All this is ominous for the sustainability of Western civilization. To outsiders, however, it appears inconsistent and selective to judge practicing homosexuals, for whom same-sex impulses are usually deep-seated, more strictly than wanton adulterers. If the bonds of faithfulness have frayed, a 5-4 vote in the other direction would not have reversed the ravages of the sexual revolution, the fruit of chronic secular despair under the progressive commodification of late capitalism. -- Shalom Carmy
However, there is one thing that, tempted as we may be to expect it, will not happen, either in our lifetime or beyond: Marriage will not go away. The Gospel-imaging union between a man and a woman as a sacred testimony to Christ's pursuit of His church will never be scrubbed from our culture, as if it were a coat of paint on our social consciousness. No, marriage is not merely a cultural accessory, it is a cosmic, spiritual, and deeply human reality is embedded into the creation itself. No amount of same-sex marriage in the twenty-first century will change this, just as no amount of blue-collar, Bible-belt divorce culture in the late twentieth century changed it then.
The Sexual Revolution always promises fulfillment but betrays its followers bitterly in the end. Even as we brace for a generation's worth of confusion and enforced conformity, we must also stand fast in holding out hope to the refugees from the Sexual Revolution who will come to us, being wrecked by the fantasy of autonomy and self-creation. We must keep the light lit to the old paths. We must point out why marriage is rooted not just in nature and tradition but in the gospel of Jesus Christ (Eph. 5:32).
Marriage is resilient because it is God-created, not another government program. That's why hand wringing and siege mentality has no place among those who want to champion traditional marriage. Marriage does not exist thanks to humanity, and so it cannot be unmade thanks to it either. Even in the aftermath of a Supreme Court ruling, we know this to be true. Let's be compassionate, confident, and, like the institution we care about so deeply, let's be resilient. -- Russell Moore
Bruce Jenner has become a celebrity because his decision "to define and express" his identity as a woman epitomizes our reigning view of freedom. It's our national religion now, the religion of Me. Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said, "Every country gets the government is deserves." We've gotten the Supreme Court decision we deserve. ...
We're part of the culture that now embraces the religion of Me and it's perverse view of freedom. Our first task today is do differentiate ourselves from this false religion—and to do so with clarity. This means speaking forthrightly about matters of moral substance.
We need to speak about sexual morality. We need to demand marriage equality. Why do the rich today get married, but the poor don't? Why is our supposedly progressive culture fixed on the luxury good of gay marriage while ignoring the collapsing family culture elsewhere in our society? We need to talk about the complementarity of men and women, something political correctness tries to prevent us from doing. We need to sin against the religion of Me by speaking of God—and God's laws.
In traditional Islamic societies, non-Muslim's are dhimmis. They are allowed to exist, but they live under severe restrictions. Islam alone is permitted to define the public square. Over time, dhimmisinternalize their subjugated status, accepting their subordinate roles.
The greatest challenges we face will not be legal. They will be cultural. We will be tempted to submit, tempted to remain silent. We will be tempted to reorient our efforts, trying to find a way to survive in an American regime governed by the religion of Me.
We must fight against this temptation. We must resist dhimmitude and its false path of self-imposed submission. Now is the time for truth-telling. We need to find our footing in today's cultural landscape so that we can speak boldly about the goods of marriage, the sanctity of life, and the true nature of human freedom. -- R.R. Reno
There are many ways that we can respond in these coming days: prayer, conversations, posting articles that reflect truth, writing letters to congressmen, teaching our children truth, etc.
Here are my two concluding thoughts:
1. We should not shame each other for believing and standing up for traditional marriage. Nor should we shame each other for speaking up that nationalized same-sex marriage will have negative repercussions for our children. We believe traditional marriage is the best for our society, and working toward a betterment for our society isn't wrong or shameful.
2. Should we shout and defame people? Should we cry and stamp our feet? Should we be rude to others? No. Whatever side you are on that kind of behavior is wrong. Rather we share the truth (notice that part) in love. A love that is patient, kind, not arrogant or rude. A love that rejects and warns against false teaching, which leads to death, and upholds truth, which leads to life. And even when people reject the truth, when a nation redefines the institution of marriage based on a new definition of love, we do not despair, because "our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness."


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Posted: Jul 26, 2017 3:25 AM EST
The day begins with plenty of sunshine and comfortable temperatures but humidity increases through the day. More clouds move in during the evening with a chance for storms moving in late but most of the system arrives overnight. Scattered showers and storms last into Thursday with a couple stronger storms possible. Sunshine quickly returns for Friday with highs dropping into the upper 70s. High pressure settles in for the weekend, keeping us mild and sunny.
Wednesday: Mostly to partly sunny, high 86, chance of storms late.
Tonight: Scattered showers and storms, low 70.
Thursday: Thunderstorms likely, high 80.
Friday: Mostly sunny, highs in the upper 70s.
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The Lust List: Summer Swim
June 20, 2012 by Cori Sue
My my, how the time has flown. Not long ago, we were cold and frozen, experiencing the winter woes. Then, there was a brief bout of spring. Now it's summer and we're expected to be tanned, toned, sexy and sassy—with perfect beach waves despite the District's unforgiving humidity.
Whatever, girls. It's humid, it's hot, and I am far too busy working, brunching and Bitching to be flawless. Plus, I thoroughly enjoy a good beer. That being said, I have and will spend a good bit of time by the pool this summer and, despite the dozen bikinis I already own (Florida girl!) I'm likely to pick up another.
I'm a firm believer in investing in nice, high-end swimwear, as it lasts longer, fits better, and looks nicer. You scoff at the $150+ price tag for a bikini now, but, mark my words, once you've invested in nice swimwear you'll know what I mean.
Four years ago, I spent a few months working at a high-end swimwear boutique to supplement my editorial assistant salary. I learned the ins and outs of effectively fitting ladies, large and small, tall and short, boobs and not, in high-end swimwear. I watched their confidence skyrocket when they found pieces that fit well in all the right places—then drop hundreds without flinching. A good swimsuit is worth the price tag, as it hides the problem areas, hugs the right places, and gives a boost here and there.
While there, I purchased a Trina Turk bikini that was $100 with the employee discount. I wear it regularly and nearly always earn complements from others at the pool. It's been four summers in the sun—and the colors are still bright, the butt doesn't sag, and it looks as good as new.
Meanwhile, the Victoria's Secrets suit I purchased a month ago is already fading and sagging in the butt. Another Victoria's Secret suit I had went completely see-through in the crotch within a month of weekends at the beach.
So, in case you weren't paying attention, why do I invest in high-quality swimwear? So innocent bystanders don't have a visual of my lady parts, that's why. Oh, and I want my butt to look good—so, sue me.
Lucky for us all, our favorite Georgetown boutique has a swimwear sale starting today—with 20% off swim, cover-ups and flip flops that are high-end, high-quality yet don't break the bank. Here are our picks, you sassy summer Bitches.
Shoshanna, Triangle Bikini Top in Anchors Away, $75; Shoshanna, Beaded String Bikini Bottoms in Anchors Away, $77.
Shoshanna, Twisted Bandeau Top in Papaya, $116; Shoshanna, Ruched Brief in Papaya, $68.
Shoshanna, Ruffle Bikini Top in White Diamond, $79; Shoshanna, String Bikini Bottoms in White Diamond, $84.
Shoshanna, Triangle Bikini Top in Black, $92; Shoshanna, String Bikini Bottoms in Black, $95.
Charlie Jade, Sarina Romper in Blue Multi, $159.
Shoshanna, Boatneck Dress in Aqua, $198.
Shoshanna, Lace Insert Tee Cover-up in White, $215.
Tkees Flip Flops (available in many colors), $48.
The trunk show begins today, June 20 and runs until June 24. Stop by for 20% off your swimwear—just be sure to avoid those delicious pastries at Patisserie Poupon around the corner.
Urban Chic Georgetown
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WASHINGTON — As the Federal Reserve considers how quickly to raise its benchmark interest rate, officials are struggling to reconcile the strength of job growth with the weakness of inflation.
John Williams, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, argues that the American economy is healthier than it looks and that inflation softness is overstated.
In an interview on Monday, Mr. Williams said prices of goods and services that tend to rise and fall with the economy are rising at a healthy pace. The weakness is concentrated in the prices of goods and services that tend to march to their own beat, notably health care.
Mr. Williams, who will hold a vote on the Fed's monetary policy committee in 2018, said the Fed should aim to raise rates in December, and three more times next year.
The conversation is edited for length and clarity.
You've been pretty upbeat about the economic outlook. Can you explain why?
You look at the jobs data, the gross domestic product data, all the data on how the economy is doing, and I think those have done as well or even better than we were expecting. Obviously, the employment report showed the drop in jobs in September, but we know that was because of the hurricane. I think unemployment will be below 4 percent by this time next year and it's remarkable — assuming we get below 4 percent — we've only seen that a couple of times in the last 50 years.
Yet a lot of prime-age adults have not returned to the work force.
Labor force participation is one of those big questions. I won't say it's a mystery, but it's a big question. What we've seen has actually been fascinating. As the labor market has improved and unemployment has come down, the labor force participation for prime-age females, 25-54, looks like it is moving back up quite a bit. But for the men, the same age group, this has been pretty flat. That's something a lot of economists are trying to sort through. To what extent is it structural? To what extent can policies affect that?
We're in a good place to kind of let this economy run a very strong labor market, with inflation low and no signs of inflationary pressures really picking up yet. A couple more years of roughly 4 percent unemployment and we're going to learn a lot more about this labor force participation issue and really test this out to see if there's more people who can come back into this labor market.
Your staff has produced some interesting research suggesting that wage growth has been stronger than it seems. Tell us about that.
What my colleagues have highlighted is that a lot of people who are at the end of their careers are retiring, and at the same time we're pulling in a lot of younger and less experienced workers who are being paid less because they're new to the work force.
By the way, during the recession this worked the other way. Younger people were laid off and the more experienced workers stayed on, and that helps to explain why we saw wage growth during the recession. To the average person, this is all backward, and that's why it's important to look under the hood.
A longstanding economic theory, known as the Phillips Curve, is that inflation increases as unemployment declines. Given unemployment is low, why haven't we seen stronger inflation?
If you look until 2015 or so, the inflation data basically followed our models, emphasizing the role of weakness in the economy. Where this mystery has happened is really in the last year or two. I view both inflation picking up faster than expected in early 2017 and now the pullback as just part of the variability that's going to happen. I don't see any signs that somehow the inflation process is fundamentally changed.
I've been doing this a long time, and the Phillips curve has been declared dead far more times than Mark Twain.
People say that foreign factors matter a lot. I feel like I've read this book before. I've read it a few times. It's a plausible hypothesis — obviously global factors are more important today than they were 25 years ago. But you have to test that on the data, and every time we've tested that, it generally doesn't show a robust relationship with U.S. inflation.
So onward and upward?
If you look at a dart board view of our objectives, where to the right and the left is unemployment relative to the normal rate, and up and down is inflation relative to 2 percent, we're not right at the bull's-eye but we're about as close to that bull's-eye as we've ever been. This is pretty good.
Beginning in December?
My own view is we want to continue this gradual pace of increase. One more rate increase in December and three more next year is a pretty good starting point. I am still data dependent, but that is my baseline view.
My view is that the normal fed funds rate in the future is 2.5 percent, which is pretty low. That's not a lot of rate increases to get to that normal level, but I do think we want to be moving gradually toward that over the next two years.
Does your outlook include a boost from fiscal policy?
My baseline view is that there won't be a change in fiscal policy that has a significant effect on the economic outlook — not a major tax cut or a major infrastructure package.
Would a tax cut benefit the economy?
We don't need fiscal stimulus in the short run — our economy is strong, we're in a good place — but I do think it would be valuable if we could find a way to improve the supply side of the economy, labor force participation issues, productivity growth.
I think that the research on corporate tax changes of the kind we're talking about here is that they have relatively modest positive effects on the supply side. We also know that if major tax changes create much larger deficits and debt, we know that's going to squeeze out the availability of credit for productive investment too.
You spend a lot of time talking to business leaders in the western U.S. What is their view of the state of economic policy?
The word uncertainty comes up far more in my conversations with business and community leaders than it does in the economic data. You look at these market-based indicators, and uncertainty measures are near all-time lows. But when you talk to businesspeople, they're just very nervous about all of these things. As time has progressed, they're not seeing the positives and they're not seeing quite the things they were worried about, but they're still just nervous about what's going to happen. How much that's actually affecting hiring and investment, I can't say. We're actually in a strong economy now. It's not like businesses are struggling. But they do mention uncertainty a lot.


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Much of so-called hospitality architecture leans too heavily on nostalgic imagery for my tastes. Especially so are those buildings that are in or adjacent to national parks, which try to harken back to pioneer days. True, there are many great, truly rustic lodges in the West -- Timberline, Crater Lake, Yosemite, Glacier National Park -- to name but a few. But those lodges, if not built during the time period we typically associate with pioneering days (the 19th Century), were at least pioneering in the location within which they were built, which was more often than not far removed from established roads, towns, and other support infrastructure.
This lack of support meant that -- much as the true homesteading pioneers -- lodge builders relied on hand tools and manual labor, local craft traditions, and other limitations not posed today. Lodges built in the later half of the 20th Century and to this day were (and are) not faced by such hardships, yet many (most?) continue to evoke forms that have nothing to do with the time or traditions within which they were built. This is not the case at Jasper Park Lodge, where the architect (whose name I could not ascertain during my stay there) artfully blended an historic 'lodginess' with mid-century modern flair.
Most likely built in the 1950's, this incredibly well conceived building combines the seemingly disparate goals of handcraft and the then jet-age aesthetic into a wholly original design. I can only image the struggles the architect endured balancing the expectations of rough-hewn and hand-crafted, with where his or her heart really was -- firmly modern. Fortunately for us, they were able to not only represent both, but do so in a highly original and satisfying way. And is a most spectacular setting.


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Marc I: What would you say is the absolute best all around, year round saltwater (near shore) fishing area in Florida, besides the Keys? (*bigger fish being better, including sharks.)
Hi Mark,
This is a great question, but you are making it difficult for me to answer. I was ready to give the super quick answer of The Florida Keys, because it is the very best area in Florida to fish year round. When you ask about other areas, I have to say that I don't have as much experience in other areas as I do in the Keys. However, Rich and I did fish all over the great State of Florida when we did the Redfish Tournaments.
I really liked 2 areas that we visited often and see them both as great year round fisheries in Florida.
1. Mosquito Lagoon- The fishing here was sick and the first time we had a tournament here there was ice on the boat as we left the dock. The redfish didn't care and we had a blast catching them and finished 2nd place in our very first professional Redfish Tournament. That definitely left a good taste in my mouth for the area, but I have been back many times at various times of the year and it has not let me down. I love Mosquito Lagoon.
2. Punta Gorda/Ft Myers- This area is on the West Coast of Florida and is home to a wide variety of species. Redfish and Snook will keep alot of anglers busy but there is much more to offer. Boca Grande Pass draws 100,000's tarpon to the area and you can fish in the circus of the pass or find some other amazing fishing inside and outside of the pass. Permit, Pompano, Jacks, Goliaths, Groupers, Snappers and virtually every fish found in the Keys can be caught in this area. With an offshore boat you are also in range of the Fort Jefferson, Marquesas and the entire Gulf of Mexico. With a skiff you can go south to Chockoluskee and the Everglades.
Outside of the Keys, these two areas would be my top choice based upon my experience.
-Tom Rowland
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How reform turned into curse for sheriff
With the power of a new crime-tracking computer system, the Broward Sheriff's Office wanted to launch a new policy to ensure the agency was properly clearing thousands of burglary cases.
The BSO brass sought permission from Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials in February 2000 - and they said to go ahead.
BSO officials then asked the Broward state attorney's office for approval - and prosecutors said absolutely not, according to correspondence between the two agencies.
BSO decided to go ahead anyway, without prosecutors' approval.
"We weren't comfortable doing business the way we were doing it, " BSO Maj. Tony Fantigrassi said Friday.
Now, Broward prosecutors and FDLE are investigating allegations that BSO deputies falsified hundreds of crime reports after the agency adopted that new policy in May 2000. The probe has not only caused friction between BSO and the state attorney's office, but documents obtained by The Herald show their relationship already was strained over the BSO's initial proposal for clearing cases.
One BSO memo said the agency was having "difficulty in dealing with the state attorney's office when seeking their opinion."Fantigrassi said BSO tried to engage the state attorney's office as a "checks and balances" to review old burglary cases along with current ones for possible clearance - and prosecutors rebuffed them.
He said that he and his boss, Col. Thomas Carney, corresponded by phone and in writing with Broward prosecutors to get them to sign off on bundles of cases that could not be prosecuted for reasons other than lack of evidence.
"We wanted desperately for the state attorney's office to be a part of this process, " Fantigrassi said. "Their office wasn't willing to handle the additional work. They didn't want to do it."
The Broward state attorney's office strongly disagreed.
"We told BSO that we do not believe it is the job of a state attorney's office to be involved in any kind of process, formal or otherwise, of clearing cases en masse, " office spokesman Ron Ishoy said.
"Each case has to be fully considered on its merits, " he said. "It's pretty basic: We're here to prosecute cases if the evidence shows they merit prosecution."
Had BSO followed that standard of review, the agency might not be in the fix it is today.
Its case-clearance policy, part of BSO's new culture of crime-fighting, led to scandal: Two Weston deputies were arrested in December on official misconduct charges for allegedly falsifying crime reports.
Broward prosecutors are now targeting as "suspects" several other deputies, from Weston to Deerfield Beach.
There could have been another reason for the drive to clear crimes: With high clearance rates and low crime numbers, BSO could tout its crime-fighting statistics when it sold its services to Broward cities, urging mayors and commissioners to do away with their police departments and sign multimillion-dollar contracts with BSO instead.
BSO's policy allowed deputies to close an extraordinary number of unsolved property crimes by exceptionally clearing them without arrests and without review by Broward prosecutors - unlike procedures followed by sheriff's offices in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Hillsborough and Orange counties.
One glaring example of abuse: BSO deputies improperly cleared 58 cases, attributing the crimes to Ronald Williams, 38, of North Lauderdale, who was sitting behind bars at the time the crimes occurred.
Another example: Former Oakland Park detective Joey Isabella admitted to BSO investigators that he fabricated confessions to clear cases because of intense pressure from other detectives. BSO suspended him without pay in July.
In 1999, Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne wanted to improve BSO's system of tracking crime and clearing cases.
Under previous administrations, BSO detectives relied mainly on exceptional clearance, rather than arrests, to solve crimes and boost their clearance rate.
In 1995, under the late Sheriff Ron Cochran, BSO cleared 27 percent of its crimes by exception, 15 percent by arrest, according to agency statistics.
Jenne's weapon to monitor the rates was Powertrac, an innovative computer system that could help investigators pinpoint crime trends street by street.
Jenne sought the advice of the late John "Jack" Maple, a former deputy New York police commissioner and chief architect of the New York Police Department's heralded strategies for fighting crime - Compstat, similar to Powertrac. Maple warned the sheriff to be careful about his agency's use of exceptional clearances - cases solved, or "cleared, " without making an arrest or seeking criminal charges.
The FBI allows police agencies to clear cases by exception when they have a suspect and strong evidence, such as a confession, but cannot make an arrest, possibly because the victim refuses to testify.
Jenne asked his senior staff to revise what they all considered a flawed 1992 BSO policy on "multiple-case clearances."
Fantigrassi, a former homicide detective, was tapped in 1999 to help develop the department's new exceptional clearance policy for multiple cases, especially in property crimes. He called the head of FDLE's uniform crime report unit and asked about exceptionally clearing cases.
"I told them they could clear cases themselves if they know that this is the individual that did the crime and they have enough information to prosecute him for the crime, but there is something that stops them [from prosecuting] like the suspect died or witnesses died, " said Randy Luttrell, a senior manager for FDLE's statistics program.
Though FDLE gave the sheriff's office assurances, BSO was having "difficulty" with getting the state attorney's office to agree to the new policy, according to the internal BSO memo. "By involving the state attorney's office in our process, we feel that it will add another measure of credibility well beyond what [FDLE] guidelines call for, " said Col. Thomas Carney, Fantigrassi's boss.
The state attorney's office rejected BSO's plan. Afterward, discussions between BSO and the state attorney's office abruptly ended.
On Friday, Fantigrassi said it was apparent from the state attorney's office's blunt response that prosecutors did not want to work with BSO on developing a new policy on clearances.
So BSO officials, eager to inject some "integrity" in a flawed clearance process, decided to do it alone, he said.
"The best scenario would have been for the state attorney's office to review [cases for clearance], " Fantigrassi said. "We had to settle for second best."


text: Meet Clara Holmes - the face of the Q100 R 16/10/2018 I try to live my life to the fullest the best I can. I try to have a positive outlook on life and surround myself with positive people. Of course, there are many challenges I face as a wheelchair user, but I believe the first hurdle you must get over is the in the mind. Once you have conquered that, then you can deal with other challenges you may face. I have been modelling for the past year and a half, after I was spotted in Canary Wharf by two model scouts from Zebedee Management and the next day I was signed to the agency. Keep Reading


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Special Olympics World Winter Games 2017
"Heartbeat for the world", was the motto of this year´s Special Olympics World Winter Games, the worldwide largest winter sports event for people with mental impairments and which took place from March 14 to 25. More than 2600 athletes from 105 nations, 1100 trainer, 5000 family members, 3000 volunteers and 600 journalists and media representatives were present at the sporting venues at Graz, Schladming and Ramsau am Dachstein. Eight days of competition resulted in about 1000 medals.
In total, the World Winter Games were the initial impulse for a new culture of exchange which was characterized by openness, warmth and by working together instead of against each other. This was also easily seen even before the competitions began: with the Torch Run and the enthusiastic realization of the Host Town program in the whole of Austria.
The people realizing and participating in both programs were significantly responsible for the more than a thousand people who witnessed the competitions as well as the award ceremonies and therefore were responsible for those countless moments of heart-warming emotions as well as the exuberant atmosphere at all the venues.
And there is even more good news: apart from a few mild injuries, there were no complications whatsoever during this beautiful event.
Jürgen Winter, President of Special Olympics Austria: The Special Olympics World Winter Games 2017 were games of all games! Austria could show how cordial its people as well as its culture can be. In the future we need to seize this launch vehicle to further the cause for people with mental impairments and move a step forward to a change of the whole of society.


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West Michigan Growers Group
Thursday, July 7th, potluck at 6pm and tour at 7pm
Pleasant Hill Farm
5859 124th Ave, Fennville, MI 49408
Pleasant Hill Farm was started in 1976. They grow 40 acres of organic blueberries, as well as strawberries, peaches, and other fruit. They also produce maple syrup, raise some vegetables, and have oxen, milk goats, and chickens. They mainly sell through u-pick, online orders, and frozen berries year-round. Find more details at http://www.pleasanthillblueberryfarm.com/
Please bring a dish to pass for the potluck. These events are family friendly. Feel free to invite other growers.
Notes from WMGG's May Meeting on Food Safety
"Dear West Michigan Growers,
Below are some summary points about on-farm food safety that came up in our June 2 discussion at Groundswell Community Farms. Thanks very much to them for hosting!
Best regards,
Ben Werling, Phil Tocco, Mariel Borgman and Garret Ziegler
MSU contacts: Please feel free to contact us with food safety questions!
- Phil Tocco, MSU food safety educator: email@example.com
- Mariel Borgman, MSU & KVCC: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Garret Ziegler, MSU community food systems: firstname.lastname@example.com
Group GAP
- This program helps spread the cost of GAP certification amongst groups of small growers
- Contact Garret Ziegler if you want to learn more: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hand wash stations
- It's key for harvesters and anyone handling harvested produce to wash hands after the bathroom, eating or smoking
- A simple handwash station should include disposable paper towels, a container with water, a catchment for the water, soap (it need not be antibacterial), and waste receptacle.
- The water container should have a sign posted on it indicating it's for handwashing
Wash stations
- The main thing is that food contact surfaces are cleanable
- One way to achieve this is to cover wood frames with formica.
- Plastic and stainless steel are also cleanable
- A very simple wash setup can consist of washed and sanitized plastic washbasins.
Birds and harvest areas
- If your wash station is outdoors, consider a simple canopy
- If it's enclosed or partially enclosed, try to keep birds from getting into nooks by, e.g., placing strawberry netting over them
- Strawberry netting hung under a roof in an opening is one cheap way to keep birds from flying into partially enclosed packing areas (e.g., with a roof but one wall)
Keeping harvest containers off non-food contact surfaces
- Ideally harvest contianers should not touch the ground or floors of truck bed, etc. that are not washed and sanitized regularly
- In the field, keeping havest containers in a pull cart, on a piece of plywood on the ground, or on top of a smaller container is sufficient
- In truck beds, clean pallets are one example of a way to keep harvest containers off floors
Washing and sanitizing harvest containers
- The key is to have a schedule
- For busy growers, one option is to wash them ahead of each harvest, but only sanitize once a week. Best practice to wash and sanitize before each use. Do your best to work toward best practices.
- Washing = removing dirt (visible filth, ie.If you can see dirt, you're not done)
- Sanitizing = killing bacteria with a sanitizer like bleach or Sanidate
Recycling wax produce boxes
- No problem if you use food-grade plastic liners, which will keep produce out of contact with the box
- Don't use household trash bags, which contain antimicrobial compounds that can contaminate produce
- One example shared by a farm is the use of plastic bun tray covers, available from suppliers like GFS. Whatever you use, it needs to be food grade.
Using Sanidate as a sanitizer
- Pros
o Breakdown products are safe, just carbon dioxide and water
o Compared to chlorine, it does not lose efficacy in dirty water as fast
o No rinse required after sanitizing produce, no chlorine smell
o Safe once diluted
- Cons
o Dangerous in concentrated form
o Don't store in another container than the one it came from
o Will etch concrete and remove the galvanized coating of metals, so not good for floors or galvanized surfaces.
- Tips on safe use
- Need a face shield, chemical resistant gloves, closed toed shoes, long pants, read label for more
- Mix in a well ventilated area. Fumes are not good in an enclosed space."
Ben Werling, PhD
West Michigan Vegetable Educator
Michigan State University Extension
210 Johnson St.
Hart, MI 49420
Office: 231-873-2129


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My daily driver since April 2012, used to take me up and down the country, mainly on the motorway - something to which it was very well suited indeed. Bought pre-registered (6 miles) from Aylesbury Honda, and serviced and maintained by them until its replacement with a new CR-V in April 2015.
Pictures of the car were taken in Summer 2013 on its standard 17" wheels, with more taken in April and May 2014 showing the Sigma alloys, bought from HH in 2013 and fitted in April 2014.
Some extra 'photos were added in June 2014 after cleaning and treating the seats with Swissvax Leather Cleaner and Swissvax Leather Milk.
In March 2015 a couple of new photos were added to show my latest "optional extra" HondaKarma stickers in place
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We have a winner for the Video Games Live Contest!/
The Video Games Live contest has ended, and the winner is none other than Anthony Barnes. Congratulations! We'll be in touch with you to get you some more information on claiming your two tickets.
To the rest of you who entered, don't feel too bad-- there are still plenty of tickets for Video Games Live performances in Chicago, and a myriad of other areas. You can see a full list of them here!


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Important Women in the Church
There are so many aspects to the 'women priests' argument that are at odds with the Church that it is difficult to know where to begin. Theologically speaking, on so many grounds, those who seek a change in Church teaching on this subject (or indeed any subject) are all at sea.
It strikes me that those who campaign for 'women priests' in the Church really misunderstand what the Church understands by 'vocation', as well as the Church's mission as a whole. St Therese of Lisieux joyfully exclaimed that she had found her vocation within the Church. She was, as the large majority of Catholics know, a nun. Surely, anyone who has become a nun, one would have thought, has already discovered their vocation? However, St Therese, because of her great sanctity and profound friendship with Our Lord, suggests that she only discovered her true vocation after she had made her profession to enter a convent. Her vocation was to be 'Love in the Heart of the Church'. She wrote...
"O Jesus, my love, at last I have found my calling: my call is love. Certainly I have found my place in the Church, and you gave me that very place, my God. In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and thus I will be all things, as my desire finds its direction."
She didn't say, "O my God. Make them change the rules so I can be a Priest. I can't bear this nun lark!"
The Church, by virtue of Her Holy Tradition and the Sacramental nature of Ordination, the Sacrament having been given Her by Her Founder, Our Lord Jesus Christ, cannot alter Her position on the requirement for Priests to be male. Not only this, but not even every male is considered to be suitable for the Priesthood. I mean, if all of the men who had been told explicitly that their spiritual directors believed that they did not have a vocation to the Priesthood and all of these men formed an alliance called, 'Men Who Wanted to Be Priests But Who Were Told, "You Do Not Have a Vocation to the Priesthood, Try Something Else", Priests Now!' then they would still not be able to become Priests since it would be abundently clear these men have a problem with Obedience.
That is not to say that women and indeed men, do not have a 'priestly' or 'apostolic' mission in the Church and to the World. Every Catholic is really called upon to defend the Church, to proclaim the Gospel and to evangelise by word and deed. St Therese of Lisieux certainly saw her role as missionary, priestly even, but with childlike simplicity and humility understood that her expression of Christ's saving love was different to a Priest's expression of Christ's saving love. A mother's expression of Christ's saving love is different to that of a Priest or a nun as is that of a husband's. Rest assured, however, that Heaven has little regard for human status and mothers, fathers, nuns, single people, Bishops, Priests and the Pope are highly esteemed and loved by God!
Becoming a Priest, is not like becoming a youth worker, or a journalist, a nurse, a doctor or an accountant. It is a Vocation to serve Christ in a special way, to be Alter Christus, 'another Christ', not merely to strive to imitate Him, but to be Him sacramentally. A Priest may or may not have sins many and large, but, regardless, it is Christ who acts through the Priest at the Consecration of the Bread and Wine, Who transforms these species into His Body and Blood. It is Christ Who absolves, through His Priest, the sins of the Faithful in Confession. It is Christ Who, in Baptism, acts through the Priest, bringing a human being into the life of the Trinity, Who bestows Sacramental Grace upon those adopted into the Family of God.
There will never be a woman so important in the Church as she. She is so important that we pray to her every Mass. She is so important that we are encouraged to pray to her very regularly indeed, to intercede on our behalf to her Divine Son. She is a model for all not by virtue of what she did, but who she was and is now before the Throne of God. None shall ever be so close to God as she. Look, here she is, literally bestowing the Church and the World with Grace because she is the Mother of God!
I mean, can you imagine being a woman, or indeed man, so important that everyday people get up in the morning and pray to you? St Therese of Lisieux knows how that feels, St Anthony of Padua knows how that feels and the Blessed Virgin Mary definintely knows how that feels...
St Francis of Assisi didn't even think himself worthy of becoming a Priest. He was a man, he was exceedingly holy, he was very humble and let's face it would have made a wonderful Priest, but he entrusted himself to Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary and allowed Heaven to do the rest.
No matter what heretical authors say, St Mary Magdalen was not a priestess, nor was she Our Saviour's secret lover or wife. Today's Gospel recounts how she sat at Our Lord's feet and just listened to Him. One can imagine she did that a lot, clinging on His every word that left His Sacred Heart and was delivered by His Sacred Tongue. Her part, that of a contemplative, was 'not to be taken from her'.
All the Saints and Martyrs tell us something about God, but their lives tell us that if you want to be important, ask to be delivered from that desire. I'm sure Blessed Mother Teresa said exactly that. Be close to Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Mother, be loyal to your mother, the Church, pray, seek the Face of God, love God and your neighbour intensely and maybe, just maybe, one day, you will be a very important person indeed.


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"Have fun!", "Make new friends!", "Sing a song!" those phrases all land in the beginning of the fun, fun, fun of starting school. But with the rush of new choices, many unknown and hard to plan for, these phrases may sound like barking commands. All that fun, fun (aren't you excited???). Some children are able to take it in stride, even embrace all that fun, and skip and hop through any new adventure, while others are struck with something akin to terror. As I was sending set upon set of labels through the laminator, I thought about how these labels help children find their way around the school without a lot of adult noise. The first set of labels are given to children new to the school at their home visits. The returning children get them in the mail. When they arrive at school, the children will find matching labels under their coat hooks, on their journals, at the snack table, and once completed, on their artwork. That is just one part of the story of setting up school.
So while I was building the labels and journals, I had to give this a good think: Is the school's story told by extroverts?
"'Have a nice day,' is a hideous thing to say to someone," a friend of mine grumbled, "What if I don't want to have a nice day?" This kind of forced jocularity would probably be a pretty good sign that a school's story is shaped by an extrovert. And, as parents and teachers, we really do want our children to have a nice day, to have fun at school and in life. We can't help it.
I understand this struggle between the quiet and the have-a-nice-day. I like the quiet. I have to force myself to speak in large and even small groups and yet I love to talk. I set myself, at school, a challenge to remove strands of conversation or intrusion, so that each can find his or her way. This is what the symbols are all about and there is more to the story (of course!).
Inside the school, we are constantly looking for hidden pockets and corners. We are limited in square footage and ceiling height. We do, of course, find places-- thankfully, the children are quite small and can fit nicely under and on top of tables. Nothing a tablecloth, sheet, or bolt of cloth can't fix! It is outside the school that you can really see the purposeful planning that has shaped a place suited for both extroverts and introverts!
This photograph, "A blank canvas," shows a turning point in the renovation of the playground. The parents demolished a large shed and you can see the outlined shapes of what would become our sandpit, berm, and campsite. The parents took a leap of faith in this design that combined destinations and running space. It is hard to believe that the space was once, only a short time ago, this empty. Just imagine for a minute, how awful a space like this would feel to someone who needed to find the quiet.
The plan all along was to create hidden places. Sometimes these hidden places can be found with a feeling, like seeking the warmth of the underside of our boat on a cool day.
Other spaces are found through plantings.
In any case, I feel like finding quiet should be an unspoken question, but the answer is already there, through something as simple as labeling or in carefully planning the environment. "Fun," is whispered, not shouted to let each child and adult find the way.


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About Dickson Films
Award winning Filmmaker Peter Dickson has proven over a long period of time to be a supreme storyteller. His compelling and emotionally gripping documentary and short film work leave real impact and stand the test of time.
Peter's most recent documentary series "forged in fire - features an in depth look at crickets greatest rivalry on and off the field - the Ashes. His unique style and crafting of this Series resulted in a number of International Film Awards and the Series broadcast prime time on the Nine Network in Australia.
Peter began his filmmaking career 16 years ago alongside his late brother Rob (who was a pioneer and extremely talented Sporting Filmmaker). That experience and learning has been instrumental in helping him develop into the filmmaker he is today.
His production company Dickson Films Pty Ltd utilises the experience and expertise of seasoned and world class cinematographers, writers and editors.


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BP Promotion is a festival events agency, which successfully continues the culture activities, established and managed since 1991 by Bohemia Ticket. Nowadays, its main focus is based on complex servises in area of culture tourism and an organization of international festivals and competitions for amateur music ensembles.
Among the most established festivals we highlight an International Competition of Choirs: PRAGA CANTAT, which has its privilegious position in culture life of Prague. Long trandition of other festivals such as FESTPOL – International Festival of Police Bands and Choirs – or SHANTYFEST – International Festival of Shanty Choirs, brings to our city a variaty of vocal-instumental ensembles from all around the world.
BP Promotion provides a wide culture programme for all music-focused groups including organization of performances in and outside of the capital city, which includes sighseeings and the knowledge of historical and temporary culture life of Czech Republic.
BP Promotion also organizes events in area of insentive tourism, company events and venues. We cooperate with many concert and artist´s agencies and produce concerts of many important foreign music ensembles. We proudly mention our cooperation with CHANTICLEER (organization of part of their european tour between 2008 and 2014).


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IRONSIDE is a sustainably crafted creative collective of placemaking (an ongoing process) for the human scale (pedestrian), honoring the historic context of the community. As a SITES-certified applicant with the United States Green Build Council (USGBC), IRONSIDE implements measures to protect eco-systems, provide wildlife habitats, reduce energy and conserve water.
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It's National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and it's time to shine a spotlight on childhood domestic violence. This form of abuse has been radically ignored until now. Its consequences for children can be severe, leaving permanent scars and radically changing the adult survivor, even decades later.
Covered up until relatively recently, there's finally a lot of talk about the physical, sexual and emotional abuse of children. We're taking action at last because we know the devastating impact on our young.
But what about the children who are forced to live in a home with one parent being beaten and tormented by another? What's the impact there?
CDV.org says that childhood domestic violence occurs "when a person grows up living in a home with domestic violence. From a childhood standpoint, 'domestic violence' is violence between parents or violence towards a parent – from a stepparent or significant other. And the violence can be physical or nonphysical, or both."
I spoke to Brian F. Martin, CEO and founder of Childhood Domestic Violence.org, about CDV. Martin himself grew up in poverty and lived through the childhood domestic violence inflicted for years on his mother by her boyfriend. It wasn't until he was an adult that he discovered that both his mother and her boyfriend were children of CDV.
With his father in jail, the New Jersey native spent most of his childhood in this kind of life. He's now a highly successful businessman and New York Times bestselling author of "Invincible: The 10 Lies You Learn Growing Up with Domestic Violence, and the Truths to Set You Free."
Martin is straightforward and likes to get to the point. There are three kinds of people who emerge from a childhood of domestic violence, he says. "There are the ones that fall, the ones that are resilient and the ones who figure it out."
Those that fall end up addicted, incarcerated, violent and often suicidal. (Martin is the first in four generations not to be incarcerated.)
The resilient adult children of CDV are the ones who do alright on the outside, can hold down jobs and appear relatively happy.
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Jai Lakshmi Ramana
India, you may well say, is on a roll and, naturally, this is bound to rub off on Indians. Having chosen to spend this Diwali in London, I am struck by the exceptional efforts of retailers, particularly those peddling high-end goods, to target desi pockets. Louis Vuitton, that iconic maker of luggage and women's handbags, has a Diwali theme for its shop windows throughout the world; in Piccadilly, I spotted a European maker of fine porcelain displaying its stock of Hindu gods and goddesses, and an incongruous figure of Mahatma Gandhi; and, at a dinner hosted by a wine aficionado in Delhi, a representative of Chateaux Margaux was heard asking if Indians were likely to gift bottles of their fine wine at Diwali. These may be isolated examples of innovative marketing but they also represent a trend.
India has not merely arrived with a bang on the global stage but the buzz is that the rich Indians have oodles of money which they are willing to spend. The image of the parsimonious Indian entrepreneur, living simply and on a frugal vegetarian diet, has gone out of the window. Our successful brethren may not yet have matched the spending potential of the Arabs, the Russian oligarchs and the Chinese millionaires, but we are getting there. And the world is noticing.
It is one thing to celebrate the final liberation of Indian entrepreneurship from the shackles of state oppression and penury. It is a complete different matter to suggest that there is also a flip side to this triumph of the Goddess Lakshmi.
As Indian opulence becomes more and more marked and India becomes a good place to do business in, more and more people are expressing a parallel concern: the "cost of business" in India is rising exponentially.
In corporate-speak, "cost of business" is a euphemism for what you and I call corruption. It indicates the extra overhead costs and the hidden service charges that have to be paid to get things done. Most businesses set aside a little bit of their capital and running costs on those hidden taxes and ex-gratia payments that have to be paid to keep the locals happy. But these costs have to be reasonable, otherwise there is the constant danger of killing the goose that lays the golden egg. In recent months, investors are discovering that the "costs of business" are precariously close to reaching punitive levels.
That we should be talking about what is plainly extortion in code is in itself shameful. But what takes the biscuit is the fact that Indians have become blasé about this exponential rise in corruption. Apart from a few sniggers about the recently-held Commonwealth Games, India's fall in the honesty index of Transparency International didn't produce any widespread indignation. A Twitter message actually complimented India for being better than Pakistan!
Maybe there is scope for self-congratulation. After liberalisation of the economy, when the scale of government regulations lessened, it was imagined that the loss of some discretionary powers would see a sharp drop in corruption. To be fair, petty corruption has declined in some areas, such as the purchase of railway tickets or the installation of telephones. The rationalisation of personal taxes also made it possible for many Indians to live an honest life with dignity.
However, if the number of people who can be called corrupt has shrunk, the gains have been offset by a smaller number of people becoming more corrupt.
The high economic growth in the past two decades has undoubtedly been a contributory factor. With the solitary exception of Gujarat which has bucked the trend, corruption is highest in precisely those states which have experienced high growth. If West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Kerala, Assam, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh are relatively less corrupt, it is because there is not enough economic surplus. These states remain mired in petty corruption.
As the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society scam in Mumbai vividly demonstrated, real estate is still the fountainhead of corruption. A casual signature on a file that transforms land use from "agricultural" to "residential" or "commercial" is always worth a few crores in cash. Additionally, anything to do with licenses, whether telecom or mining, invariably attracts a high unofficial surcharge. I am informed that the business of environmental clearances is in the queue to become a billion-rupee underground industry.
Finally, there is a new trend which appears to have begun in Maharashtra by a senior politician, of the extortionists forcing their victims to part with an equity stake in the new venture. We can look forward to this new trend making a dramatic appearance on the national stage.
It is a commentary on the changing course of political discourse that corruption is not seen as a priority issue. This may have something to do with the fact that there are few areas of public life that have been insulated from the disease. Former law minister Shanti Bhushan's audacious act of identifying the rotten eggs in the judiciary has prised into the open a phenomenon that was only spoken about in whispers; the top brass of the armed forces stand indicted in the public eye after the Adarsh housing scandal; and a section of the media is seen as a blackmailers club.
Since corruption cuts across parties, there is a disinclination on the part of the political class to protest too much. But the government, which was at the receiving end of a Supreme Court stricture for its non-serious handling of the 2G scam, also believes that the spurt in corruption will not have any adverse political fallout because the Opposition is splintered and confused. This may well be wishful thinking but until something tangible happens to force a review of this assumption, we may see the image of Corrupt India overshadowing the triumph of Indian enterprise.
Swapan Dasgupta is a senior journalist
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Let us wish all success to the initiative taken by RTI activist Kejariwal, Baba Ramdev and others to make a beginning in at least making the aam aadmi aware how the omni-present corruption is snatching away his right to dignified living.


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This past week my good friends at Lot 207 and In Season Catering hosted an amazing rehearsal dinner for some really great people, Jillian and Brady Luby. We began working with Brady's mother, Donna, months ago creating custom invitations, menus, seating charts, table numbers... you name it. We even used a design Carol created on chocolate made by Yelibelly Chocolates! It was such a blast working with Donna, and we hope to work with her again very soon. Congratulations Jillian and Brady! Oh, and of course, Carol designed a map for their wedding! Check out some of the photo's before the party started below.
Flowers: The Stalk Market
Farm Tables: Propmaker Event Rentals
Table Numbers, Stationery, Figures: CW Designs
Chargers: BBJ Linen
Dining and Glassware: TLC Event Rentals
Catering: In Season Catering
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Is what we wear showing or hiding our real selves?
I asked myself this question a few days ago, after I bought something new to wear. I was suddenly feeling confident and fresh. It kind of brought my ego out.
This reaction made me think: what does what we wear arise? what does it hide?
Jose Miguel Iribas, great sociologist I really appreciated personally as well, and whom unfortunately recently passed away, used to say: there are three main tools to socialize: sports, alcohol and the naked body.
Some people imagine the audience naked to loose their fear on stage. Perhaps they become "real" in their eyes, free from their power, position or career skins.
I love cool clothes (always the ones I can't afford :-). But I've been (unconsciously) neglecting owning new stuff in the past years, perhaps and coincidentally at the same time that I had a major shift in my career. Since my work has increasingly become more personal, I had the need to be more naked. Not only emotionally, also literally.
Possibly because when no clothes are present, there is only body to wear, only the real deal. And the ego-wear falls flat.
What the wear? Here's my humble hum to invite you out:
Now, throw me back some wearing love:
- which "you" reflects on what you wear?
Can't wait to hear your stories, blurbs and cuts in the comments below.
And on wearing, I just released a very limited collection of thread wraps:
Purpose Me
They are summery, colorful, textile, flexible, warm and unique.
And now for sale!
Click on the image to see them:
Purpose Me are very personal pieces. Each one hand-made, body-made, and with her unique process story.
From 19.06.2015, six wraps will be shown as well in Buen Gusto shop/gallery, Zurich Altstadt.
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Recently, I discovered Ravelry.... and I am already addicted!! It such and easy way to connect with other crocheters and knitters, and well as keep track of your projects, yarn, and what size hooks you have. Plus find hundreds of patterns and get thousands of ideas from others for projects to make!
If you are a crafter and haven't already joined, I encourage you to!
And after you have joined, or if you already have account, find me and friend me! My username is 'horsearoni'! Can't wait to hear from you!


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