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Holiday Metallics
November 24, 2013
I cannot believe how fast the year is going. We're in the last week of November already and in a few days, we will be welcoming the final month of 2013. I feel really blessed to have had an amazing year so far and cannot wait to celebrate the holidays with my family. I am so excited for Christmas that I started shopping for presents as early as September! I also began decorating our house last week with a couple of festive ornaments. I'm just waiting until December 1st so I can finally put up our tree. :)
To kick off the Christmas Season, here's an outfit idea featuring some pre-holiday metallics. I'm wearing a gorgeous gold skirt and paired it with this dainty white blouse, a present from my Mum-in-Law. I was supposed to wear a different pair of shoes with this ensemble but decided to slip into my silver heels from ZARA instead. I thought both metallic colors looked great together and made the outfit more glamorous. If you're not in the mood for Christmas decorations just yet, wearing a dressy look like this is a great way to start getting into the holiday spirit.
Happy Sunday! :)
ZARA blouse, Chicnova skirt, Forever 21 bracelet, ZARA heels
Labels: Alexa Luna, Alexa Martin, Cebu Blogger, Cebu Fashion Blogger, Cebu Fashion Stylist, Fashion, Forever 21, Holiday, Holiday Party, I Am Alexa, Ladylike, Metallic, Outfits, Zara
4 comments
- Ehara Poetry said...
lovely outfit <3 I love your metalic heels, i think this is perfect shoes for party :-)
(^_^) Im your new followers..I will be happy if you check my blog too <3
Wish U have a great day!
- November 24, 2013 at 10:50 AM
- kdawnsy said...
I really think your fringe goes perfectly well with your style, Lexy. Love how consistent you are with it. x
I just found your followers button (why only nowww), guess that makes me your new follower? :))
- November 24, 2013 at 6:42 PM
- Alexa Martin said...
@Ehara: Thank you! Yes, metallic heels are definitely perfect for holiday parties! :)
@Dawn: Awwwww thank you for your kind words. It means a lot coming from you. :)
- December 2, 2013 at 10:30 PM
- sigh said...
Gold and silver can really go well together, a look that's perfect for parties for the holidays
- December 7, 2013 at 6:33 PM
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We invite everyone to fall into Alison DeLuca's incredible steampunk world with today's blog tour to highlight the three books of the Crown Phoenix series: The Night Watchman Express, Devil's Kitchen, and The Lamplighter's Special. We share our thoughts on the first book and there's a fabulous giveaway readers can enter (steampunk jewelry and a Kindle Fire!).
Crown Phoenix: Night Watchman Express (The Crown Phoenix #1)
by Alison DeLuca
YA steampunk*paperback & ebook, 279 pages
Published October 4th 2012 by Myrddin Publishing (first published February 28th 2011)
An underground factory, a terrifying laboratory, and the eerie whistle of the Night Watchman Express…
Miriam has only her guardians' son for company, and she and Simon dislike each other from the start. But they must find a way to trust each other, or they will end up on the sinister Night Watchman Express.
Full of danger, suspense, betrayal, and a hint of romance, this steampunk adventure is for readers of all ages.
Crown Phoenix: The Devil's Kitchen (The Crown Phoenix #2)
by Alison DeLuca
YA steampunk*paperback & ebook, 208 pages
Published October 4th 2012 by Myrddin Publishing (first published January 1st 2011)
In The Night Watchman Express, Miriam and Simon were kidnapped and thrown on the strange train... Now in Book Two of The Crown Phoenix series, they arrive at the terrifying destination known as Devil's Kitchen.
There they will face human experiments in a laboratory known as The Infirmary.
Miriam will be forced to work in an underground factory.
Simon is held in a luxurious prison by jailers who are as beautiful as they are deadly...
And their courage will be tested to the breaking point.
Crown Phoenix: Lamplighter's Special (The Crown Phoenix #3)
by Alison DeLuca
YA steampunk*paperback & ebook, 212 pages
Published October 4th 2012 by Myrddin Publishing (first published May 11th 2012)
Lizzie and her sister are forced to work in a huge manor and on a steamship to support their family.
They are caught up in several mysteries:
The squire's oldest son cannot leave the attic
An old typewriter seems to move time and space
A passenger hides in a secret room
A beautiful visitor is plotting against them
And Lizzie discovers that she has a strange, new ability.
She and her sister must discover the secrets of The Lamplighter's Special before their enemy catches up with them.
About the author:
Alison DeLuca
Alison DeLuca grew up on an organic farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Her parents were British, so in the summers she went to stay with her grandparents near Dublin.
There was no stereo or TV there, so Alison, her sister, and her cousins spent the summer inventing stories and plays for each other. "This gave me the ability to entertain myself with my own imagination in any situation," she says. "We used to be taken to tea with great-aunts, and we were expected to sit on an uncomfortable couch and not move or say a word. It was possible to endure it because I was watching my own little stories play out in my mind."
After graduating from West Chester University, Alison became a teacher of English and Spanish, teaching students from kindergarten up to college level. She loved teaching, and it was with reluctance that she left the classroom to be a fulltime mom when her daughter was born.
While she was teaching and raising her daughter, Alison took every free minute she had to write. The Night Watchman Express and The Crown Phoenix Series were the result.
She is currently working on the fourth and final book in the series, as well as several other projects.
My thoughts:
The world Alison DeLuca creates in Crown Phoenix: Night Watchman Express is a highly imaginative one. She expertly captures the Victorian time period adding lovely flourishes to her descriptions and settings while tucking in discrete comments on the mores of society. This fast paced YA steampunk novel keeps readers of any age turning the pages with a mix of entertainment, mystery, and more as we meet freshly orphaned Miriam, now thrown into the care of guardians, the Marchpanes, who only wants control of her sizable inheritance. The Marchpanes relegate Miriam to the attic and hire a mysterious nanny, Mana, who charms everyone in the house. As we wonder exactly who Mana is since everyone seems to have an agenda in this story, she is abducted, and Miriam along with her guardian's children, Simon and Neil, travel on the Night Watchman to find their nanny.
Crown Phoenix: Night Watchman Express is a highly entertaining introduction to DeLuca's series and reminded me of Lemony Snicket and Mary Poppins but has so much more to thrill readers of the steampunk genre. Alison DeLuca's writing is downright gorgeous and quirky which is a perfect mix in steampunk and this novel delivers. I recommend this charming tale to anyone who wants an evening (or any time period) of fun, insightful reading.
Rating: 4
Next up on the tour:
12/05 - Bee's Knees Reviews
12/06 - Reading Away the Days
12/07 - Book Lover's Hideaway
12/08 - Full Moon Bites
The complete tour list
Head over to the tour page to enter the Rafflecopter for a chance to win one of two steampunk inspired jewelry pieces (one is the fairy locket above) and the giveaway for a Kindle Fire. Tour page

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The Game's Friends & Enemies May Change, But Wu-Tang Is Forever (Audio)
The last couple of months have brought some seismic shifts in affiliation for The Game. August saw the Compton MC put to rest a beef with 50 Cent that had extended for more than a decade. Weeks later, after that hatchet was buried, Game raised a new one and aimed it squarely at Meek Mill. Though the two had been friendly in the past, even collaborating together on records like Game's "Scared Now," from the 2012 album Jesus Piece, things went very wrong when Game claimed Meek Mill was behind police allegedly investigating Game and his affiliates for a robbery of Sean Kingston that occurred in Los Angeles over the Summer. Since then, it's been an all out war of words between Game and Meek that has drawn Kingston, Beanie Sigel and others into the mix, to varying degrees.
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One relationship that has remained a constant in Game's career, however, is his respect and appreciation for those MCs who have come before him. Anyone familiar with his music, knows that Game liberally namechecks those who influenced him, and, though he is decidedly from the West Coast, his respect knows no geographic boundaries. His latest release is a testament to that.
This Is How We Do: 50 Cent & The Game End Their Beef (Video)
The title of "Grew Up On Wu-Tang" says it all. The song, which will be featured on Game's forthcoming 1992 album, kicks off with a prominent sample of Raekwon's verse about how he grew up, on Wu-Tang Clan's "C.R.E.A.M." From there, Game transports back to his days of growing up, recalling his junior prom, stints in jail and, throughout it all, his love for Wu-Tang Clan.


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It's very often that I get uber excited by a new collection of makeup from a brand. Don't get me wrong I love allllllll the makeup but sometimes a new collection just grabs you. Well the first of 2015 is MAC's Lightness of Being collection.
What I love about it is its simplicity, the lack of loud colours, lack of fancy new technology in makeup. It's quiet and beautiful. It's the first collection of makeup that I feel the need to have everything in the collection. I feel a shopping spree coming on, sorry Mr. Bank Manager!
The collection was inspired by 'whimsical flights of fancy' this is a release that brought me such joy, it rare that every person who reads a press release can come away with different ideas of where the collections inspiration came from, but whimsical flights of fancy has a different meaning to everybody so it makes this collection personal before you even have it in your hand!
You'll find frosted lavender, pearlised champagne along with Mint Green shadows. Beautiful rosy lips or even a perfectly beige nail. I will not be getting the beige lippy, y'all know my feelings on beige lipsticks. But I will be getting the rest of the collection.
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One of the most important elements of Fremont Detox Center programs is education. Patients find the opportunity to find out about their ailment and the project helps them create life skills and adapting techniques that will serve throughout the recuperation. After having the care, some programs, for example, 12-step programs are fused to give a successful approach to protecting long haul recuperation and empower persistent participation in. And since addiction is a family problem and needs family healing, when necessary, Palmdale Drug Rehab provides family support groups to offer support and hope for the recovery of loved ones and the whole family.
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ATLANTA, Ga. - Senior Kristina Williams picked up another post-season award on Wednesday, earning a spot on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division III Coaches' All-America Team.
The 10-member team was selected by a vote of the selection committee. The committee is composed of one representative from each of the eight geographical regions and a chairperson.
Williams, who is the only Northwest Conference Player on the list, earned a spot on the D3hoops.com All-West Region First-Team on Tuesday. The senior guard is also the Northwest Conference Player of the Year for the second time in her career.


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Good morning! Here's how you can have a productive day!
5 really simple time management tips to enhance your productivity at the workplace
Employees stuck in a 9 to 5 job often complain about working long hours and not being left with time to do other things. Working in the office requires a professional to manage time judiciously so that s/he can complete her/his work and socialise to develop a professional network while also taking healthy breaks to remain rejuvenated.
In order to take out time for additional tasks you need to juggle between chores for which you must prioritise work and most importantly, manage your time effectively!
All employees are given equal number of hours to work. While some manage to show their calibre in the stipulated hours, others may barely touch the borderline or may even fail to accomplish the tasks in the same duration.
The following points will offer helpful tips for those who wish to learn the art of time management.
1. Prioritise to complete most crucial tasks first
The golden rules of time management include prioritisation and scheduling. Make sure you spend the first 30 minutes of your day to plan it out.
You must identify a couple of tasks that are important, assign them a specific number of hours and finish them off one by one.
The first step towards this is to create a list of things to do. Keep it short with only three to four items.
It will prevent you from getting intimidated by a long list of things on your agenda.
Once these tasks are completed, you can move on to the less important things. The main objective is to eliminate the non-essential.
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2. Muster the courage to say 'No'
Making several commitments can create unrealistic perceptions and lead to disappointments.
Even if you want to excel and give your 100 per cent, you will someday have to learn to say 'No' to extra work.
It is okay to decline a few opportunities if it helps you take the burden off and helps you focus on more important tasks (prioritise, remember?). Your ultimate aim should be to take on commitments that you truly care about and are sure you can finish in time.
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3. Focus on the task at hand
If you find it difficult to get your work done because of disturbance you can begin by discouraging disruptions. This is a useful technique when you require deep concentration for a couple of hours.
Transfer your phone calls to voice mail and temporarily turn off your email notifications.
Check the messages only in the morning, post lunch and in the evening.
This way you will be able to address significant issues and yet have quality time to do real work. It is also important that you shut the browser windows that are currently not being used or have social networking sites opened on them.
And most importantly, sign out of that instant messenger.
If you find it difficult to shut people out, wear earphones so that they think you are listening to music and don't try to strike unnecessary conversations with you. This way you will also be dealing with the ambient noise.
The trick is to immerse yourself in work until you finish what is important.
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4. Turn regular tasks into habits
As an employee, you would have been assigned certain tasks that are recurring in nature and have been doing over a period of time. Things like these that you do every day should become regular habits.
Once you start viewing them as a habit, the task will instantly become manageable as you are accustomed to it and it rarely breaks the routine or surprises you. It will come naturally to you and you shall begin to do it fluently without taking any pressure.
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5. Pause and take buffer-time between errands
When you rush from one task to another, it becomes difficult to give quality and appreciate what you are doing.
Allow yourself downtime between two tasks and take a breath of fresh air to rejuvenate and refresh yourself.
Take a short walk, talk to people around, meditate or perform some mind-clearing exercises.
The given tips will help you get organised and wrap up work in time. You can then make good use of the available time to do activities that you enjoy or educate yourself in hope of professional growth.
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Related to fall over: at first, liven up, take into account, follow up with, increase by, lined up
fall over
1. To tip over and fall to the ground after having been upright. I don't know what happened—one minute, she was talking to me, and the next minute, she just fell over! I tried propping the frame up against the wall, but it must have fallen over.
2. To trip over something. How many times do I have to complain about falling over your toys before you finally clean them up?
3. To expend a lot of energy or effort to do something; to inconvenience oneself. I can't believe how ungrateful you're being, especially since we fell over ourselves planning this dinner party for you! Please don't fall over backward preparing for my visit—I'm totally prepared to sleep on your floor!
fall over (oneself)
To expend an inordinate amount of energy or effort to do something, especially as a means of gaining attention or approval. John is such a teacher's pet, falling over himself to impress Mrs. Smith. My parents fell over themselves trying to seem cool to my friends. It was pretty embarrassing, to be honest.
fall over someone or something
to stumble over someone or something. Sam came into the house and fell over a kitchen chair. Walter fell over Roger, who was napping on the floor.
fall over
to topple over and fall down. The fence fell over and dented the car. I felt faint and almost fell over.
fall over
see under fall all over oneself.
fall over
1. To tip over; fall from an upright position to a flat one: The vase fell over after I bumped into the table.
2. To stumble over something or someone: I fell over the skates that you left on the stairs.
3. To attempt eagerly or frantically to accomplish something. Used reflexively: I fell over myself trying to please my guests.
fall over (oneself)
To display inordinate, typically effusive, enthusiasm: fell over themselves to impress the general's wife.
fall overbackward/backwards
To overexert oneself to do or accomplish something: We fell over backward to complete the project on time.


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Buylater: Track Amazon Items without Wishlists
Buylater is a Firefox extension that adds a "Buy This Later" button to each Amazon item page. The button allows you to add the item to a special Buylater list where you can customize notifications based on the item's stock or price
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At the same time though, few of those apps (if any) let you know when items that are out of stock come back into stock so you can jump on them. Buylater may not give you the price history other apps do, but it does track items with multiple vendors and will notify you when it's back in stock. Buylater is a Firefox extension that adds a Buy This Later button to each Amazon item page. The button allows you to add the item to a special Buylater list where you can customize notifications based on the item's stock or price. You have to sign up for an account to use Buylater so the service knows how to notify you when an item you've added drops in price or comes back in stock after not being available.
The app is pretty simple; just install it in Firefox. Then you simply shop Amazon as you always do. The Buy This Later button appears on every item listing, and you can use the service to add as many items to your tracking list as you choose. Buylater works with Amazon US, Amazon UK, and Amazon.de (Germany), and the developer is planning to add Amazon's French and Japanese sites soon.
The first time you use Buylater, you're prompted for your e-mail address so the service can send you a confirmation message. Afterward, your items are automatically added to the list as soon as you click the Buy This Later button. Buylater then sends you an e-mail that you're watching the item, and if you visit your Buylater tracking page, you can see all of the items that Buylater is following for you.
By default, Buylater tracks items only at Amazon. You can tell Buylater to track the item's price at multiple vendors if you choose, and you'll be notified via e-mail whenever the price drops at any of the site's supported online stores. The in-stock notification, however, works only with Amazon.
Buylater doesn't have the price tracking features that heavier Web apps such as Gazaro, PriceProtectr, or Amazon Price Watch do, but what it lacks in some features it makes up for in simplicity and the ability to notify you when items are in or out of stock


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This Thursday, on their days off during conference days, 36 LWMGS students and 15 parents/guardians will join John Platt, co-owner of St. Clouds restaurant in Madrona, in his kitchen for a special cooking project for the homeless. Mr. Platt, a former high school principal, is dedicated to "providing an hour of dignity and good food to people who find too little of both in their lives," and created the Neighborhood Cooking Foundation to do just that. Each third Wednesday of the month he invites neighbors, friends, and a generous community of volunteers to come together and cook dinner for over 450 people utilizing the services of organizations such as the YWCA Women and Children's Shelter, The Men's Inn, the Cherry Street YWCA, Peace for the Streets, Tent City, and Jubilee Women's Center. Our group will be cooking on a special Thursday L-Dub session for 150 women at the YWCA Angeline's Women's Center in Belltown.
YWCA Angeline's Women's Center is a safe, welcoming, supportive, and supervised drop-in center for homeless and low-income women 18 years and older. It serves as many as 300 women each day and more than 2,300 each year. Women who visit Angeline's can enjoy meals in the dining room, leave their belongings in large lockers, care for their personal hygiene in showers and bathrooms, and clean their clothes in the laundry rooms. They can take refuge from the cold, talk to counselors, get medical treatment, or simply sit and rest. On Friday, our students will serve the Angeline's women a hot meal that they've made, and sit down to eat with them as well.
Our students and families will be contributing food donations and ideas to Mr. Platt on Thursday, and together, based on the ingredients and skills in the room, the group will come up with the menu...and get to work!
Thank you to Mr. Platt and St. Clouds for inviting our school to support this good work, participate in this important lesson of giving back to the community, and to stand with (and hopefully lift the spirits of) other women.


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Planning your 2018 Beach wedding (A stationery lowdown)
So you have just got engaged and already you are thinking of your perfect wedding. Which girl (or guy) doesn't! You might have already found your venue, a beach in Barbados, by the shore in Cornwall, sounds idylic.
Just over 2 months ago, I was invited by Perfect Wedding magazine to be a stationery expert in their SOS section. What an honour! The question went a little something like this… "We are having a wedding on a beach in Cornwall, how can my stationery say "beach wedding" without being cheesy?" Well guys, you have come to the right place. I HATE stereotypical weddings. Ok so you are getting married on a beach, does this mean you need throw some shells at it? HELL NO!
Two of my studio collections incorporate inspiration on the sea and I can promise you there are no clichés involved from this gal!
Somethin' Blue
The inspiration for this piece came from two places. The obvious, something blue! Everyone needs a little bit in their wedding day, it's good luck after all. But more importantly the waves. What can be more beautiful than the pattern waves make as they crash against the shore? Why did I choose marble as a medium? Well I love how you just don't know what you might get. Just like the sea! Marbling makes its own pattern, creates it's on style and just recently I learnt that marbling isn't refined to paper. You can even marble your vases that your wedding flowers go in. I AM SO DOING THIS!
Pastel Perfect
Originally this studio collection wasn't inspired by the sea, I was just obsessed with green – like everyone else this year, including Pantone! Now, looking back, I think it's a really subtle and beautiful way to incorporate sea colours in a stylish and modern way. Watercolour ALWAYS gives an amazing depth of colour, with different shades and hues coming through, and we've all been to those amazing beaches where the sea shimmers with that beautiful green colour. So forget about shells and pebbles, this is where it's at for a modern beach wedding.
Acrylic Signs
Without doubt one of the most amazing things about a beach wedding is the beautiful scenery and amazing views you get. So the less distractions you have from that the better – in my humble little opinion anyway. That's why I think acrylic signs are perfect for your "on the day" stationery. Just imagine your table plan or order of the day on clear acrylic, with the waves and that seemingly never ending horizon visible THROUGH it! I That will look stunning and I can't wait to show some of my latest projects off to you all. Watch this space.
Fabric Menu
Another on the day stationery piece I'm loving right now are fabric menus. And if you're already mixing up traditions with a beach wedding, I think this twist on a traditional paper alternative will be right up your street. They create a really rustic feel, which suits the outdoor beach wedding vibe perfectly, and by dip-dieing them, they can be customised to fit with any colour scheme. Vector illustrations add a little bit of fun too, and really suit the more relaxed, natural feel, which is what makes beach weddings so special. What's not to like?
So there you have it, a few lil' tips and suggestions from lil' old me on how to avoid the stereotypes and have the beach wedding that everyone's going to remember for all the right reasons. Whatever you decide, the beach is about so much more than a few pebbles and shells.
Until next time
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This was the final qualifier event for the amateur boxers ahead of the Rio Olympics 2016, and India have made the perfect use of it. Vikas Krishan (75 kg category) and Manoj Kumar (64 kg category) on Thursday joined Shiva Thapa (56 kg category) as the other boxers to represent the nation in Rio 2016.
The duo progressed to the semifinals of the ongoing World Qualifying Tournament organised by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) in Baku, Azerbaijan, and in the process also sealed berth for the nation in the mega quadrennial sporting event.
It was announced earlier in the day that Indian star Mary Kom will not be participating in Rio 2016 and that brought a lot of glum faces, but the recent development has brought the cheer back. "Given the terrible state in which boxing is right now, I am relieved to have qualified for the Games," said Manoj to Press Trust of India following achieving the feat. "There was lot of pressure on the team which is competing here and I am glad that came good."
Manoj got past Tajikistan's Rakhimov Shavkatdzhon to progress to the semifinals of the ongoing competition. The Indian pugilist will be taking on European champion Pat McCormack of Britain in the next round.
Krishan, meanwhile, got past Korea's Lee Dongyun in the quarterfinals and will be up against Turkmenistan's Achilov Arslanbek in the next round. The 24-year-old Indian boxer had earlier this month beaten Nickson Abaka of Kenya in an AIBA Pro Boxing event in New Delhi.
"I am extremely delighted to have secured the Olympic quota," said Vikas. "It has been a long journey with quite a few ups and downs. I was confident in my abilities and always believed that I had what it took to reach the Olympics and put up a strong performance on that stage."
Two more Indians, Devendro Singh (49kg category) and Sumit Sangwan (81kg category), can increase the number of boxers from the country in the Rio games. The duo are also participating in the World Qualifying Tournament in Baku.


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Selected Pipe Organ Works 1983-2014
12" LP | cover printed on 300gsm reverse stock
Recorded Fields Editions | RFE_01
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Digital Release: 19 May 2017 - Bandcamp + iTunes / Boomkat etc via Cargo
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Released: 27 June 2014 (Sold out at source - see stockists adjacent)
Mastered & Cut by Rashad Becker, Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, April 2014.
16-foot pipe organs recorded in Cornwall at the churches of St Paul (Ludgvan), St Winnow (Towednack), St Uny (Lelant), St Wyllow (Lanteglos), St Cyrus & Juliette (St Veep). Unprocessed pipe organ recordings, equalisation only. Additional turntables, acetates & dubplates recorded in Trewellard, Penzance, Trewetha & 4 The Field
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A1: Ressuscitant de l'étreinte de la Sirène
A2: Cornubia
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B2: Imperial Horizon (for Caliban)
A1: pipe organ section from "and only the dogs and the fires on the horizon" (on "They tore the earth and, like a scar, it swallowed them" - RFE_02, released September 2014). Originally composed at Trewetha, Cornwall, February & WORM studio, Rotterdam, Netherlands (October 2012). Expanded and remixed In Melbourne, Australia (February 2014) and Spreewald, Germany (March/April 2014) with moments of microtonal dubplates & turntables.
A2: remixed from a 2011 composition and live room recordings by Martin Clarke of an 8-channel diffusion at The Exchange, Penzance, Cornwall. Including live microtonal dubplates & turntables, guitar feedback and fan/ventilator. Remixed and expanded in Spreewald, Germany (March/April 2014)
B1: Expanded and remixed for vinyl - the full title of the track as it originally appears on "Transfixed" (The Tapeworm, TTW#58, 2013) is:
The Internal Meta-Narrative of Turner's Tempest As He Is Tied To The Mast in Order to Create the Direct Experience of the Drama Embodied Within a "Snow Storm – [wherein a] Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. [is rendered by virtue of the claim that] The Author was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel left Harwich". This story is but a story, to quote the Tate article referenced above – "No ship called Ariel is associated with Harwich in the 1840s, and Turner is not known to have visited the east coast at this time. Moreover, a man of any age, let alone in his late fifties, would probably not have survived such an experience. Turner most likely chose the name Ariel because of its association with Shakespeare's Tempest – the implication being that he was a painterly Prospero, able to conjure up any kind of weather, real or imagined, at will." This piece examines not Turner's story of the story behind the painting, which is in itself a story, but aims instead to experience the meta-narrative of Turner's supposed unmediated experience through his embodiment – a conscious body tied to a mast on a boat cast out into a storm.
B2: Beethoven's "Eroica", Symphony No.3 in E Flat, Opus 55, 2nd movement, conductor Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony Orchestra (78rpm shellac/acetate - HMV D.B. 5948, year unknown) with pipe organ. Mixed at Trewetha, August 2013.
Originally Beethoven was to dedicate Opus 55 to Napoleon, but upon his proclamation as Emperor of France this honour was withdrawn and the piece retitled "Eroica".
Caliban was the original inhabitant of the island to which Prospero is banished and he is forced to become the servant of Prospero...
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In this episode of flowful meets… we talk to Junko Kobayashi, a member of Brown's Field in Japan. Brown's Field is an organic farm, a vegan café, a shop and accommodation but also has a huge educational component.
Junko lives and works at Brown's Field that is located just 80km from Tokyo for almost two years now. Growing up in an international environment and travelling around the world for a while, she felt like it is time for her to go back to Japan to connect with her own heritage and culture, came back to Japan and found Brown's Field.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
30 Posts in 30 Days: Day 24: Where you live
The town: Dh & I live in what's known as "the Greater Toronto Area" or GTA. Dh was born & raised in Toronto, in the city proper (close to one of the subway stations, in fact). Never in my wildest dreams, growing up on the Prairies in the 1970s, did I imagine living in Toronto. Calgary or Edmonton, maybe. Toronto?? Never!
Then & now, Toronto has always been the city that people living elsewhere in Canada love to hate. (Typical joke: How many Torontonians does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: One to hold the bulb in place while the world revolves around him.)
But Toronto & the Prairies actually have more in common than most people realize. I've come to realize that most of the people telling the insulting jokes about either place (& believe me, coming from Manitoba, I've heard enough jokes about "Winterpeg" to last a lifetime) have never actually been there.
I remember the first time dh brought me to Toronto to meet his family. We were both students then, & rode the train into the city, coming in from the western suburbs, along the shores of Lake Ontario, past the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition. I peered out the window as the towering skyscrapers of the financial district & the famed CN Tower came into view. His brother was waiting for us at the gorgeous old train station (which we now walk through, every morning, on our way to work), & drove us home. He took us down Danforth Avenue, where the street signs are in both English & Greek characters, & stopped as a Greek Orthodox priest with a long white beard wearing long black robes crossed the street at a pedestrian crosswalk. If I hadn't realized it before, I knew right then that I wasn't in Kansas anymore. ; )
Toronto has its faults, of course. The "centre of the universe" mentality does exist in some quarters, particularly on Bay Street (read: Wall Street of Canada), where dh & I work. Fighting the traffic, the mobs of people, the panhandlers on every downtown street corner, wears on your nerves after awhile (particularly when half the people seem to be staring at their Blackberries & not watching where they're going -- both on the sidewalks AND in their cars, anti-texting laws notwithstanding...!). The city has gotten both scruffier and meaner in the 25 years that I've lived here. Unfortunately, you don't hear stories anymore about movie crews having to strew garbage on the streets to make it look more like New York (& then having to do it again because the street cleaners sweep it up). The sports teams generally suck -- have for years (and yet Leafs games still sell out...!).
But it is still a beautiful, exciting city. I love the big trees & beautiful parks, the wonderful old buildings (too many of them have been thoughtlessly torn down, of course, but there are still some architectural gems around). The diversity -- Toronto has one of the most diverse populations in the world, home to people from every country in the world. Greektown on the Danforth, Little Italy & Little Portugal on College Street, Little India on Gerrard Street, the Polish bakeries on Roncesvalles, other Italian sections on St. Clair West and in Woodbridge, Chinatown downtown & the Pacific Mall in Markham.... As I have said many times -- living in this city, you have absolutely no excuse to be bored. Movies, shopping, museums, art galleries, sports teams, concerts of all kinds, theatre, readings. World-class hospitals, excellent universities -- some of the best institutions in Canada & the world are all right here. We are so very fortunate. If there's anything that truly bothers me about Toronto, it's perhaps the tendency of some people who have lived here or around here all their lives to take that all for granted.
Dh & I lived in a small one-bedroom apartment in a yuppie midtown area for the first five years of our marriage, but when we started looking for a house, we ventured out to the suburbs. We'd been out here before to visit his cousin, & wound up buying a house a couple of blocks away. (We rarely see them these days, but at the time, living close together seemed like a great idea.) Houses here were much cheaper (& newer) than what we could afford in the city, & you got a lot more house for your money. The commuter train station is just a 5-10 minute drive or bus ride away from our house, with service every 10-20 minutes during rush hour and every hour during the rest of the day. Our house is near good elementary & high schools (both public & Catholic) -- considerations in that heady period when we envisioned the family we hoped to start soon -- a short walk away from a shopping plaza with a supermarket, drug store, dollar store, dry cleaner, pizza & subway outlets, etc. etc., and a short drive/bus ride to a sizeable mall with good shopping.
The house: I've written about our house before, most recently in answer to the "30 Posts in 30 Days" question about your dream house. It's about 25 years old now, & we've lived here 20 (gulp) years -- a lot longer than we ever thought we would. We thought we'd move up to something bigger when we had kids... well, we're still here. ; ) The house is not large -- two storeys, 3 bedrooms, about 1,400 square feet, a large pie-shaped lot that would have been perfect for a swing set or pool or maybe even both. We've made various upgrades over the years, & it probably needs more... we constantly debate whether we should move, maybe to a condo? But it's a nice little house in a nice little neighbourhood. And it's ours. : )
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I love Toronto - go there often since it's not too far from Detroit. Beautiful city. I can imagine it's very different from where you grew up!ReplyDelete
i love toronto. torontonians amuse me because of the very attitudes and opinions that you listed but it's ok - i accept it. because the shopping's so great on queen west. lolReplyDelete
Thanks for brining me home with you!ReplyDelete
I've never been to Canada, but Toronto sounds like a place I would love to visit but - like you - after growing up in the country could never imagine myself living!ReplyDelete
Congrats on making it to the big city!
Yay Toronto! I grew up in Mississauga and now live in Oakville. There are other places in Canada I've visted that I would probably consider calling home were it not for the tact that all my ties are here. I imagine I won't stray far.ReplyDelete
I'm glad you're here too. It's comforting.
Thank you for sharing your home with us!ReplyDelete
I've never been to Toronto, but D. loves it. It sounds great and is on my ever-growing list of Canadian vacation spots (read: prep work for booting I & N up north if the sociopolitical need arises). ; )ReplyDelete


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Samantha is reportedly keen to remake the forthcoming Kannada movie "U Turn" in Tamil and Telugu. After being impressed by the trailer, the actress came down to Bengaluru to watch the preview of the flick and to discuss about the project with director Pawan Kumar.
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When I first spoke to Mimi and her mother Chris, I knew I was going to love helping them with their wedding plans. They were thinking along the same lines I do -- how to surprise and delight your guests with special touches that are meaningful to you and your fiance.
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Notes:Though this character's comic life has been most featured in Ewoks, he does have another facet, closer to the filmed original. The more serious Ewok shows itself in work not directly aimed at kids.
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Games 160-161-162 will be played this weekend and there are plenty of things up for grabs. The quick list:
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AL Central/AL West -- The Tigers and A's have already clinched divisions and will meet in the division series for the second straight year if the Red Sox finish with the best record.
AL wild cards -- Tampa Bay (90-69) leads Cleveland (89-70) by a game, with the Rays in Toronto and the Indians in Minnesota. Texas (88-71) is a game back and hosting the Angels.
If Tampa Bay and Cleveland finish tied, the Rays would host the wild card game by virtue of their regular season record. MLB announced the following scenario today if all three teams finish tied: The Indians would host the Rays on Monday, with the winner getting one berth. The losing club would then play Tuesday in Texas, with the winner of that game getting the other wild card.
A big developing story from the Indians is that bedraggled Cleveland closer Chris Perez has apparently lost his job, with reporters in Minneapolis saying former staff ace Justin Masterson said before tonight's game he may be part of a closer-by-committee solution. Manager Terry Francona was non-commital to Perez after the Twins got four ninth-inning runs off him Thursday night. Perez is 1-1 with a 7.52 ERA and three blown saves since Aug. 1
NL divisions: The Braves (94-65) and Dodgers (91-68) have clinched while the Cardinals (94-65) have a magic number of 1 heading into tonight's home game against the Cubs. They would also clinch if the Pirates lose at home against the Reds. Atlanta owns a tiebreaker edge for homefield and it's a huge difference because the Braves enter tonight an MLB-best 54-24 at Turner Field.
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Cowboys list Dez Bryant as doubtful for Sunday's game
The Cowboys left a sliver of hope that Dez Bryant will return to the lineup this week, but after not practicing all week, the star receiver likely misses his fifth game.
Bryant worked on the side during practice this week, rehabbing his fractured right foot. He has never practiced with new quarterback Matt Cassel, acquired in a Sept. 22 trade with the Bills.
The Cowboys list Bryant as doubtful for Sunday's game against the New York Giants, officially giving him a 75 percent chance of not playing.
Bryant fractured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot during the season opener against the Giants. He had surgery, which included a bone graft, on Sept. 14.
The Cowboys gave a 6-8 week timeline for his return.
Two weeks ago, Bryant traveled to Colorado for a procedure in which bone marrow stem cells from his hip were injected into his ankle to speed his recovery.
Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said earlier in the week that Bryant is running and cutting. But Bryant has yet to return to practice.
While the Cowboys, who are on a three-game losing streak, need Bryant, they also want to make sure Bryant is fully healed and in football shape. He missed all of the offseason while seeking a new contract and missed much of training camp and all of the preseason games with a hamstring injury.
Tight end James Hanna, who was limited in practice all week, is questionable with an ankle injury. He has been inactive because of injuries for two games this season.
The other five players on the team's injury report, including defensive ends Randy Gregory and Greg Hardy, are probable. Hardy returned to practice Friday and was a full participant after an illness kept him out Thursday. Gregory, who has missed the past four games with a high right ankle sprain, practiced in full all week.


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SD22 Teachers Win Premier's Awards for Excellence in Education
October 07, 2019
On Friday, October 4, Superintendent Joe Rogers and Gen Acton, Board Vice Chair attended the Premier's Awards for Excellence in Education ceremony held at Government House in Victoria. Sheila Monroe, Brendan Robertson, and Al Gee were nominated by their peers for the awards. The awards were launched last year to...
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Student Reporting is Changing at School District 22 We are moving from reporting TO parents to communicating WITH parents on an ongoing basis. There will be more focus on growth and progress. The goal of reporting and communicating student learning is for students to be more involved with their learning...
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I am a design student from Chelsea, Quebec. I have a diploma from Heritage College in the NewMedia and Publication Design program. I am now furthering my studies in a bachelors of graphic design program at University of Laval in Quebec City.
I developed a big interest in design after attending a week-long mini-university New Media course at Carleton University. That same year I took a journalism and media class as an elective in high school, where my passion for design developed through designing ad's and the layout of the school newspaper.
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As a copywriter, I've helped companies in the B2B and B2C space, in health & wellness industries create compelling content and devise their content marketing strategy. While I primarily work with wellness and food startups in Silicon Valley and Asia, I have also written about technical topics in account based marketing and finance.
Most recently, I've helped a16z funded Allset, create content and content strategy, and helped them gain publicity with the Huffington Post. I've also helped Home Eat To Live, a restaurant dining concept in Hong Kong, craft creative copy on their restaurant to effectively tell their story.
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Spinach contains many benefits to our health, offers an important contribution of fiber that helps regulate intestinal transit and control levels of cholesterol and blood sugar, as well as provide antioxidants and help to quickly satisfy appetite without adding many calories. But as with many fruits and vegetables, to take advantage of its benefits it is best to eat raw. If you don't know how to do it, at Dinzie we give you some options to discover how to eat raw spinach and enjoy them to the fullest.
As it is the case with any other vegetable, wash the spinach leaves properly before eating them raw. It is crucial to make sure our health and prevent the spread of stomach infections. The best thing is to buy spinach that already comes washed and ready to eat, but if you prefer to do it at home then you will have to start by cutting the stems and remove the soil.
Let the spinach in a bowl of water and a little vinegar for 5 minutes, then drain, rinse again and then you can eat it. Baby spinach is the best choice to consume raw because their leaves are small and tender, delicious.
One of the most classic and delicious ways of eating spinach is raw in a salad. This plant can replace or go with the lettuce, giving it a gourmet touch. In addition it will leave you more satisfied because of its high fiber content.
You can also add pasta, making this alternative a more complete meal. Eat raw spinach salad to take advantage of all its benefits, yet it is not the only possible alternative. This plant is widely used to prepare juices for all conditions: purifying, anti-stress or as the protagonist of the popular green juices.


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There's only one reason WCFC was created. To make the world a better place.
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After WCFC , you'll return to your office brimming with big-picture ideas, practical tools and boundless energy. This will directly lead to an increase in the amount of money available to (and people interested in) advance your organization's mission.
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Grandpa Wrestles Alligator to Save Dog
(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- How far would you go to protect your pet? Would you fight off a hungry alligator? A Florida grandfather did just that to save his furry friend.
Steve Gustafson, 66, was doing yard work on Tuesday when he heard his 9-year-old West Highland Terrier cry out for help. He turned around to find a 7-foot gator pulling the pooch into the water by her shoulder and collar.
"For whatever reason, I don't know, I just yelled, 'you're not going to get her!' and just leaped on the gator…just like you do some silly belly flop in a pool," Gustafson told the Orlando Sentinel. "The only difference was I landed on top of a gator."
He managed to wrestle the dog from the gator's grip and bring it back up to shore. Both Gustafson and the dog were a little bruised, but otherwise unharmed.
Patrick Delaney, an alligator biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said attacks on dogs are "extremely uncommon" but do occur.
"One thing we stress at the Florida Fish and Wildlife is to be proactive. Not letting your dog that close to the shoreline would be the best thing you could do, and if you're near the shore, keep your dog on a leash," he told ABCNews.com.
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Activ is the largest Australian Disability Enterprise in Western Australia with sites located across the Perth metropolitan region, Bunbury, Busselton, Albany, Geraldton and Kalgoorlie.
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Join me at the mother ship, The Washington Post, as I live blog the Olympic broadcast tonight. Yes, yes, I know. I'm completely unqualified to say a thing about the Olympics. But I do occasionally pass judgment on spectacle, and what is the Olympics if not pure spectacle. I've asked composer Peter Breiner, who orchestrated all the national anthems for the 2004 Athens Olympics to join me, for musical perspective, and other insights. Beginning 7 ish EST.
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Response in a social relationship means everything. So, as your social media connections grow, so must your ability to provide a social media response. In customer relationship management (CRM), a response could decide whether an opportunity will be a hit or a miss. With that level of impact, a strategy is required. From social media engagement to social customer care to social risk to crisis management, the real value of social media is in responding to or connecting with people.
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The technological "drive" in CRM's impact on sales is found in social media manager (SMM) software—tools that generate leads by automating responses, measure results via analytics, publish and schedule content, and monitor brands across marketing and sales channels. Using an integrated CRM system, businesses can streamline processes and increases sales.
To be proactive and anticipatory, the strategy for social media responses must be enterprise-wide and preferably orchestrated by a state-of-the-art software solution with features such as:
• Multiplatform compatibility for customer communications;
• Survey-ready capabilities for generating feedback and sentiment analysis;
• Configurable e-mail target marketing;
• Autoresponders for timely responses to customer inquiries;
• Publishing capabilities for generating leads and promoting brand awareness;
• SMS texting; and
• CRM calendars that have automated alerts and notifications as reminders for customer anniversaries, sending holiday wishes, and more.
Six popular SMM software tools meet all of these criteria along with additional features. They are the choice of the world's leading brands and agencies:
• Engagor. Engagor specializes in the central management of social profiles with monitoring, analytics, and engagement.
• CampaignerCRM PRO. This system specializes in e-mail marketing as a strategic method of social media response.
• Sendible. Sendible specializes in social media, e-mail, and SMS technologies to increase customer base and sales, monitor brands, and track results.
• HootSuite. This system specializes in automating Twitter tweets and multiple social media network accounts.
• SocialOomph. SocialOomph specializes in executing features and commands offered on the most popular social networks (e.g., vetting new followers, filtering profiles to avoid spam accounts, scheduling tweets, tracking keywords, submitting social updates via e-mail).
• Buffer. Buffer specializes in sharing social media responses at the best possible times throughout the day so that followers and fans see responses more often.
The list of SMM software tools is extensive and includes open source as well as commercial products.
When selecting an SMM software solution to fit the organization, the strategy for use should emphasize transparency among the organization's CRM objectives. Moreover, CRM information typically includes the best form of contact for each customer. The strategy must also include a means of influencing customers and potential customers using specific types of conversations, such as coercion, guidance, and even encouragement.
Another strategy is to configure autoresponders to trigger based on communications and events that drive potential sales, such as a reminder of how well the business is performing or new developments available or even a friendly newsletter. Just as autoresponders trigger only to share strategic communications, so too should the CRM and SMM software track the likes and dislikes of customers, allowing the business to cater to customer preferences. After all, customer satisfaction drives repeat sales.
From acknowledgements for having received customer communications to retweets and targeted e-mail marketing, SMM software uses CRM to drive social media responses to another level.
- Learn about SMM as it covers the 50 Top Tools for Social Media Monitoring, Analytics, and Management.
- Be sure to check out the Five Levels Of Social Media Responses for more information about the social media responses' impact on CRM.
- An interesting read on CRM and social media responses is Social customer care for contact centers, posted on the Five9 Web site.
- Browse various uses for social media responses to see how the Internet community is embracing this technology at Automatic selection of social media responses to news.
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The Finnish Hospital Clowns Association Sairaalaklovnit ry is an organization that has trained clown doctors, who go around children's departments entertaining and cheering up the little patients and their families. Because of these hospital clowns, children can forget their illness for a moment and they get a permission to be cheerful, laugh freely and clown around in the middle of the everyday life in hospital.
The hospital clowns always work on the child's terms and in cooperation with the staff. A happy memory of the clowns visiting the hospital goes a long way and it also helps a child to deal with the hospital experience afterwards.
The operation of the hospital clowns is established and regular. The organization is national, and it operates in all the university hospitals across the country. You can also see us in some of the central hospitals. And the greatest thing is that nowadays you might meet a clown during your procedure! We are improving our operating so that it supports the child-centered approach in nursing as well as possible.
The clown doctors have backgrounds as professional performers and they are trained to act in the hospital environs. The same hygiene and confidentiality rules concern them as well as the other staff. Usually there are almost 50 clown rounds in a month and our activities reach over 50,000 people every year. What an awesome number of silly and funny moments together!
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