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So, I Finally Met My Boyfriend's Black Friend*…
I'm going to do this anonymously. If some of you think hard enough, you may be able to figure out who I am. I may even show up in the comments. But the reason I won't put my name to this officially will become clear after I explain.
My boyfriend, (we'll call him "Honey") talks about a really funny guy he met in a seminar once. This guy is more of an acquaintance than a close friend; one whose Facebook posts are often so hilarious, Honey shares them with me. Honey and this guy go for drinks, and party together now and again. We'll call this friend, who happens to be black, "Homie".
Saturday afternoon Homie calls to invite Honey out for drinks. I was like, "Cool. Have fun". As he walked out the door I asked, "Is Homie single?"
"No. He's married. Very happily, in fact," he says.
"Well tell that mofo he can't live vicariously through you!", I joked. Honey laughed, and went out the door. I logged on, intending to catch up on back episodes of the American version of "The Voice".
I'd barely watched 2 episodes, when Honey was back. He and Homie had run into a mutual friend (a fashion industry guy I'm quite fond of), and that friend had invited them all to a party. He left Homie in the bar to come home and ask me if I wanted to go too. "I'd like to," I answered cautiously, "but I don't want to mess up boys' night. I mean, do you really want me to come?"
He rolled his eyes. I taught him well.
"Why would I come all the way back here to invite you if I didn't want you to come?"
As I was getting ready, the doorbell rang. It was Homie. "Oh! This is the girl from New York!!," he smiles up at me. He was…amusing. A teensy little guy with a big personality. Also, he had used that alone time in the pub to knock a few more back. "Sorry I'm so drunk," he apologizes. In between small, get-to-know-you talk, he commented on how "clean" my locs were, and on what cute kids Honey and I would make. We laughed and accepted the compliments like you would a gift you don't know what you'll do with.
My first cause for alarm was in the car. "Have you read Franz Fanon?". Homie was referencing the late writer and freedom fighter from Martinique, whose work on Algerian independence, decolonization, and the psycho-political effect racism has on blacks globally greatly inspired me as a young literature student in England. I even taught Wretched of the Earth to undergrads as a PA (professor's assistant). "I'm offended you would even ask," I answer, only partially joking.
Partially joking, because like so many other black race men, Fanon was married to a white woman. The only time this ever came to mind was while reading, (and re-reading, and re-reading) Black Skin, White Masks, a book largely about internalized racism. The chapter on "The Woman of Colour and the White Man" still makes me want to fight the air. For a man so brilliant, his logic in this chapter–and his intention in writing it at all–never made sense. Predictably, he alleges that black women 'pursue' white men (yes, because that's what we do) because they want to be white. "It is because the black woman feels inferior that she aspires admittance to the white world," writes Fanon, in the most obvious case of projection ever. Here was this little alcohol-soaked small fry asking me if I ever heard of Franz Fanon. Nothing good could come of this conversation. Did I mention Homie's wife is white, too?
So, we reach the party. 90's pop rings out in the old East German-style hall, and it feels like a high school reunion. Sweet! Except it isn't long before Homie's funny drunk is annoying. Honey answers my, "Where's your friend?", with, "I don't care. We should stay away from him."
If only Homie had stayed away from us. We're dancing together, Honey and I, when someone approaches from behind, jostling him, and spilling his drink all over hands. It's Homie. Honey, pissed, goes off to wash his hands. I'm holding both drinks, still swaying to the music. Homie is dancing near me. He leans in and says something. I don't hear it over the music, so naturally I ask, "What'd you say?"
"I said," he draws the words out, "If you were mine…".
"I get white bitches for free," he continues, like I just walk around with extra f*cks to give.
"You mean 'white bitches' like your wife?"
Honey comes back before he can answer. I hand Honey his drink, and cozy up under his arm. Homie slinks off. Right here, right now typing, I wish I was making this up.
An hour passes and we're enjoying the vibes so heavy that I almost forget about the fact that I've been involuntarily cast as Matahari in this man's own personal race treason spy drama. But then Honey goes off to get us fresh drinks, and I'm standing alone against the wall.
"I'm leaving soon". Mon petite faux Fanon back. I don't even look at him.
"Cool. Peace."
"Dance with me one more time".
"Come one, just one more dance."
"Nig–", I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and put some bass in the next, "NO."
He comes in close and tries to pin me against the wall with his body. No one told this fool that massive ego does not count towards body mass. I stick my elbow in his miniature chest, push, and send him stumbling backwards into a few partygoers.
"Ok," he concedes grandly. "Goodnight."
He walks off, and turns back seconds later to say, "You're a good girl." Mercifully, (for him) he goes for real this time.
Honey returns a few minutes later. "Have you seen Homie?"
I pause. Honey is a big sweetheart but goes alpha male monster over shit like this real quick. I simply say, "he left."
That was a week ago. I still haven't said anything. Hence the "anonymity". I'll have to spill these beans eventually, but I do not look forward to it. Homie was really lit. And evidently, HE HATES HIMSELF. Does he really need to get punched in the face on top of it all? His poor mixed children. And his poor wife…
I don't know. What would you do? I mean, I have to tell Honey what happened…right?
*I should say "one of my boyfriend's black friends", but it isn't as pithy.


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What with deadlines approaching for holiday shipping (this Saturday 12/21 is THE deadline for getting a deck shipped in the US in time), we figured this would be a great opportunity to talk about some of the latest tasty treats from the Bustin workshop (we're like, next door to Santa, sometimes the elves come over to hit the ramp, it's awesome). Whether you need ideas for a skater on your gift list, or you've got some holiday cash to spend on yourself, these are the most recent releases from the Bustin Labs!
First and foremost, is the extraordinarily limited holiday release of the Ratarang deck. We only made 100 for this run and we've got like, 10 left so they may be sold out by the time this blog drops (I hope not, go run and check!) This beast was made from the brain waves of a couple of our team riders. Will Royce got us thinking about a double sided Ratmobile, and when Dave Aparicio started riding his Ratmobile backwards, we got hooked on the idea. We wanted something uniquely new and different from the original Rat, so we retouched the concave (steeper is steezier), added some elliptical w (ya'll been eating it up on the 2013 Ibach), and threw in some subtle wheel flares (what wheel bite?). End result, freeride / downhill madness.
Take it back a couple of weeks to the re-release of the biggest DK that matters, the BGDK. We asked what you thought about this large piece of wood, and the general response was that it was too large to be enjoyable. So we listened! We took off a little of the length (.5″) and a touch out of the girth (.375″) to make it easier and more enjoyable to ride. These modifications make the BGDK easier to pop and trick, while the sharp rails maintain a steep, DH / Freeride concave.
Last on today's list of new new to check out for the holiday season is our latest wheel offerings, the Five-0 Sniper series. We took the well-loved urethane from our wildly popular Five-0 wheel, and put it into a slightly off-set, square lipped shape. The result is a wheel that slides as buttery smooth as the original Five-0's with a little more grip at speed and a LOT more life to them! The wide contact patch gives these wheels a much slower wear pattern than their round lipped counter parts, which still dumping the same amount of consistent thane that you've come to expect from Bustin Five-0 wheels.
Last series I'll touch upon today is a re-envisioning of our past, our history, our Bustin Culture. We started Bustin Boards with the idea that longboarding should be for everyone who wants to! And while we've tried to keep up with the competitive portion of the industry (talk about fast growth!) we also like to return to our roots from time to time. This is what inspired our 2013 cruiser / camber line-up. We brought back the Cigar in 2 new sizes and added the new Mission deck. All equipped with a more balanced camber in order to give a ton of life and spring in the board's step. If you're looking for a tight, springy cruiser to slash around campus, check out the 31″, for board-walking down to the beach, the 38″ and the new, drop-through Mission deck are where it's at!
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The Troubadour Central Coast proudly presents The Stiff Gins!
CWA hall in Woy WoyThe Boulevard is located on lovely Brisbane waters just as you drive into Woy Woy. It's just opposite Fisherman's Wharf
The Boulevard
Floor spots available
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Entry: $10 , $8 & $7
A rare and great experience
The Stiff Gins are Nardi Simpson & Kaleena Briggs. In the 7 years since their first meeting at the Eora Centre in Redfern, Stiff Gins have performed at cultural institutes in New Caledonia, Vietnam, Spain, been part of cultural exchanges to Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Egypt & Cyprus, played festivals and shows throughout Canada, the US, Ireland and performed extensively throughout Australia. Stiff Gins are through harmony & song, reclaiming a derogatory term for Aboriginal women, instead declaring its meaning as proud, passionate & talented.
Nardi Simpson - From the Yuwaalaraay people with roots in Sydney's inner West and country NSW, Nardi Simpson began musical study in high school and is proud to carry with her both formal training and oral musical tradition from her family. Majoring in voice for her HSC, & after 2 years of a Bachelor or Arts degree at Sydney University, Nardi then enrolled at the Eora Centre in Redfern where she met Kaleena & started Stiff Gins. Here, Nardi continued on to study a Diploma of Contemporary Music, after which she then returned to uni to complete her Bachelors degree in 2003. Outside of music Nardi loves nothing better than listening to the cricket (she used to play competitively & even played a season in England in 1993 !), fishing & is starting to dabble in short film making. Earlier this year Nardi recorded with AUNTY WENDY'S MOB, helping to release children's album 'Happy to be Me', the second from Wendy Notley & AUNTY WENDY'S MOB.
Kaleena Briggs - Kaleena is from the Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta people, southern NSW & northern Victoria peoples, was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1979 and resides in Marrickville, Sydney. Kaleena began musical study at high school, actively involved in school bands & vocal groups and continued that study through to her graduation in a Diploma in Contemporary Music at TAFE in 2000.
Kaleena was a featured vocalist on YABUN, Voices with a Beat, a joint Gadigal Information Services & Koori Radio produced CD released in 1999 & performs the vocals to the opening credits of the ABC's Message Stick Program. A highlight for Kaleena was performing in a 'Welcome To Country' for the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000.
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Being vegan and eating out can be hard. Maybe you ask the waiter if the tomato soup is vegan, he says 'obviously', and then it turns up with six dollops of cream. Or maybe for the office dinner someone picks a place with vegan 'options', that turns out to be one sad superfood salad with extra lettuce. Because you're vegan, lettuce is your staple, right? Hemp is your messiah, no? Or maybe, just maybe, you're sick of leaving early to eat three boxes of oreos after a complete stranger overhears 'vegan' and asks you about your iron levels. Again.
That's why we've made this guide. So that you can eat out without having to worry about options, play another game of menu detective, or utter the fateful words, 'please can you leave the cheese off that'. Again. Here are the best places to eat in London if you're vegan.
The Spots
Stretch too suddenly in Mao Chow and you may take someone's eye out, or if you're lucky, you may accidentally find another table's dumpling in your hand. Because what this tiny Hackney spot lacks in space it makes up for in flavour. The menu is a selection of seven or eight all-vegan Chinese dishes, like oyster mushroom bao or sesame dan dan noodles, and all of them have got good things going on. You'll want to get there early if you're with more than one other person as it's no reservations, but it's worth the squeeze either way.
Andu Café in Dalston is one of the easiest choices for a vegan meal in London for every good reason imaginable. Firstly, you can only order one thing: a six dish platter with injera or rice. Secondly it's as cheap as chips (£7 for one, £12 for two) but with a lot more flavour than chips. And, thirdly, it's BYOB.
Fitzrovia's Rovi is all about vegetables, fire, and a celeriac shawarma that'll bring you some serious joy. This Ottolenghi spot does serve meat but there's plenty of vegan options on the menu, excellent cocktails, and a bar we'd happily spend a decade at.
Pachamama East
The menu at this Peruvian restaurant in Shoreditch is split into soil, sea, and land, which means that from the moment you sit down you can just direct your eyes to the soil section and know you're in safe hands. They've also got a full vegan tasting menu for £30 per person, that involves dishes like mushroom ceviche, caramelised aubergine, and chilli mayo. It's a casual, cool place that's perfect for a catch up with friends over brunch, date night at the bar, or swinging by for a plate of brussels sprouts with wild rice after work.
Dishoom King's Cross
There are five Dishooms in London, all serving up excellent Indian food. And importantly, Indian vegan food too. They have everything from The Vegan Bombay full breakfast, to small plates like chickpea curry, to vegan lassis, and a whole host of other options. Unless you're rolling with a group of six or more, dinner at Dishoom operates on a walk-in basis, but the King's Cross site is often your best bet for beating the queues.
Ethos is an all day restaurant in Fitzrovia with an… ethos. And that's meat-free, plant-based food with a self-service, pay-by-weight system. As well as vegan classics breakfast menu, a vegan Sunday brunch menu, and plenty of takeaway options, they also do a vegan afternoon tea. Basically, whether you're after a grab and go lunch or a sit-down dinner of barbeque seitan ribs, Ethos has got you covered. Plus, eating here is like being in a forest designed by organic, fashion-loving pixies, which is fun.
In the beginning, there were vegan burgers, hot dogs, and tacos. That's the story at Genesis, an entirely plant-based diner on Commercial Street. It has a long menu of quick comfort foods, think everything from a seitan shawarma to an ice cream sundae. Will you resent paying £45 for dinner for two with counter service? Yes. Will the jackfruit hoisin taco make up for it? Absolutely.
The food at Cook Daily mainly consists of Thai dishes like jungle curry, pad thai, and noodle bowls. The food at Cook Daily also happens to be vegan, cheap, and really excellent. It's a very lowkey dining situation under a railway arch in London Fields, but with some of the best vegan food in London available you probably won't care that the seats are a bit basic. Be warned, this place has a pretty astounding following so expect queues, and a packed restaurant.
The Gate
This restaurant's slogan is 'plant based pioneers established 1989', which sounds like a truly horrible collaboration between Taylor Swift and Alan Titchmarsh. But, this Islington spot (with branches in Hammersmith and Marylebone) really does have a lot of experience when it comes to creating tasty animal-product-free food. It's one of those places where you'll find flavours from across the planet on the menu, including everything from cauliflower with smoked paprika tahini to a beetroot cheese burger. They also serve a vegan roast on Sundays.
Mildred's have been serving vegetarian food since a time when the general public probably thought quinoa was a musical instrument. These days most of their menu is vegan friendly, and as well as bean burgers there are dishes like tandoori mock chicken, dumplings, and Sri Lankan curry.
Wulf & Lamb
Okay, we hear you. Wolves are not generally known for their vegan lifestyle. But, as soon as you get past the name of this casual all-day Chelsea spot, you can appreciate their menu of burgers, pasta, pies, wraps, and importantly, a dairy-free cheesecake. Everything here is vegan, and although it isn't the most atmospheric place on the planet, if you sit upstairs you can have an alright sit-down experience. Otherwise swing by for one of their grab-and-go options at the counter.
Voodoo Ray's
Full disclosure: this place only serves one vegan dish. Which yes, means it probably, technically, shouldn't be in this guide because otherwise we're submitting to your uncle's logic that you can go to a steakhouse because he's 'sure the side salad is vegan'. But, crucially, the one vegan dish at Voodoo Ray's is pizza, and there will obviously come a time in your life where you're in east London and need a pizza. It's inevitable. The Queen Vegan is covered in artichoke, green olives, sun blush tomatoes, red onion, and is covered in their green sauce. Plus, you can either get it as a whole 12-inch pie, by the slice, or delivered. Lovely.
Stem And Glory
Stem And Glory is quite a dramatic name for a casual, lowkey vegan restaurant in the City, but, having tried their meatballs, we'll let them get away with some theatrics. They serve things like rainbow bowls, kimchi pancakes, smoothies, blue corn tacos, and a bao burger that's entirely worth getting jackfruit down your t-shirt for. At the weekend they're open from ten and do a full brunch menu including a 'VLT' (see what they did there), but if you happen to work nearby their takeaway menu is prime lunch food.
Martello Hall
Finding a good, vegan pasta dish at a restaurant is like finding a unicorn. A beautiful, parmesan and butter free unicorn. Martello Hall in Hackney only has two vegan mains on their menu but one of them is a handmade beetroot gnocchi that's very decent. They've also got their classic red chilli Vegan Viking pizza, plenty of distilled spirits and beers to choose from, and are open until three on Friday and Saturday.
By Chloe
We're not big fans of this spot in Covent Garden but for the sake of utility and some decent beetroot ketchup, we're going to tell you about it anyway. By Chloe is an entirely vegan fast-food, counter restaurant that attempts, and often fails, to make vegan versions of British classics. Why is it in this guide then, you ask? Because like sales shopping and an all you can eat buffet, By Chloe needs a very specific game plan to work. Stick to dishes like the spicy Thai salad that aren't pretending to be anything else, expect it to be busy, and prepare your corneas for the fluorescent 'Guac Save The Queen' sign.


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Another type of cell phone user
Another great type of cell phone user at the library is the person I like to call the Wanderer. The Wanderer takes a call and immediately stands up from wherever he is sitting (usually the open study area in the middle of the floor) and circumnavigates the library in search of a spot where he can talk without disturbing anyone. If he is sitting in the study area in the middle of the floor he heads to the fiction area where first he enters the reading room. He sees people reading magazines and newspapers there and then turns down into the stacks. In the stacks he sees people browsing for novels. They give him nasty looks so he heads back to the open study area. Once back there he ducks into one of the word processing cubicles and discover that is the loudest spot in the library. He then heads across the to nonfiction and has to stop short because we have a sign there that signifies that area as "The Quiet Area. No talking." Now he's boned, he's got nowhere else to go. He looks over at us at the reference desk and we give him the "you're in the library, there is no place to go talk on a cell privately." Then he does one of two things. He either tells whoever he is talking to that he is in the library or he goes downstairs and then outside.


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Without a doubt the UK is better served remaining within the EU.
We live in challenging times and it is naive to believe we can solve the problems of our times without working with our partners and our European neighbours, the UK should be leading Europe not leaving.
The UK is an important partner in the EU with 3 million jobs depending on continuing membership, by being a member we can shape the rules of the single market, if we were leave we could still trade with the EU but we would have to agree to rules and tariffs set by foreign governments. We should not turn our back on free trade agreements.
Membership of the EU secures consumer protections that deliver lower prices at the supermarkets for families and we benefit when travelling in Europe with cheaper flights and phone calls.
The EU secures working protections for UK workers, safeguarding maximum working times, paid holidays and equal pay, securing parental leave and equal treatment for part time workers.
In an insecure world the UK has used it influence within the EU to make the world safer, we have secured greater intelligence sharing for security and the use of European Arrest warrants fighting terrorism.
Environmental problems do not respect national borders, this country's membership of the EU has been a crucial factor in shaping our approach to environmental protection, whether cleaner beaches, fuel efficient cars or holding government account on air pollution.
For the reasons above I will be urging everyone to vote to remain in the EU, together we are stronger in Europe.


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Love is not complicated.
It may begin with this.
Then ultimately becomes this.
Love is this simple.
I am very far from perfect and embodied of imperfections. I know, I know, it's extremely hard to believe! I am only human. I do make mistakes on a regular basis, and probably more often than I realize. I will say things, unintentionally, that may be offensive to others, without even realizing it. I may have done something, unknowingly, that may have hurt someone's feelings. Admittedly, I know I've done someone wrong as opportunity presented itself, to where it haunts my conscience. Regardless, it's my life's story, which I hope may inspire others. Without poor choices and mistakes made, valuable life lessons would not have been learned. Hopefully, because of these learned lessons, I will instinctively know how to better handle and/or conduct myself in future situations, if and when they ever arise. Life is an ongoing adventure faced with undaunting obstacles. I have grown up having high expectations of myself. Now that I am somewhat grown up, I have learned to show myself more leniency and to be more self-forgiving. Or I can just do or think the obviously easy response to everything from now on and just say fuck it. 😊
This song will be a lifetime favorite for me. I dedicate this to a special someone who was placed in my life for good reason & purpose.
All I Ask
by Adele
I will leave my heart at the door
I won't say a word
They've all been said before, you know
So why don't we just play pretend
Like we're not scared of what is coming next
Or scared of having nothing left
Look, don't get me wrong
I know there is no tomorrow
All I ask is
If this is my last night with you
Hold me like I'm more than just a friend
Give me a memory I can use
Take me by the hand while we do what lovers do
It matters how this ends
Cause what if I never love again?
I don't need your honesty
It's already in your eyes
And I'm sure my eyes, they speak for me
No one knows me like you do
And since you're the only one that matters
Tell me who do I run to?
Look, don't get me wrong
I know there is no tomorrow
All I ask is
If this is my last night with you
Hold me like I'm more than just a friend
Give me a memory I can use
Take me by the hand while we do what lovers do
It matters how this ends
Cause what if I never love again?
Let this be our lesson in love
Let this be the way we remember us
I don't wanna be cruel or vicious
And I ain't asking for forgiveness
All I ask is
If this is my last night with you
Hold me like I'm more than just a friend
Give me a memory I can use
Take me by the hand while we do what lovers do
It matters how this ends
Cause what if I never love again?
I have always been told to "Follow your heart". I've come to the realization and have come to terms with that the heart wants what the heart wants. It just knows all. Rather than beating yourself up and being torn to pieces, just stop, then remember to just always follow your heart. It's that simple.
Life is full of surprises. People come into your life and choose to actively remain. Then there are others. Those people who are placed into your life for purpose and reason, may end up leaving unexpectedly. . . slow and easy, or like a bat out of hell! Those are the people who teach us life lessons. Either way, the experiences are what we chose to live during those moments. I'd like to consider my shared experiences as happy moments, without an inkling of regret or reservation. Those moments become memories over a lifetime. There are numerous experiences and memories that I love to share and talk about with others. Then, there are specific experiences and memories I choose to keep to myself. Honestly, I could write an autobiography that would make for excellent reading, raise an eyebrow, or turn a head! As tempting a task it may be, I refuse to put myself through tortured drama at this point in time in my life. Although, I'll never say never to the notion. There is a high probability that I will eventually, but only when the time is right. Those specific moments are my treasured and intimate memories that I choose never to be free from. They are my personal and cherished collection of a lifetime full of happy moments. Each day I keep adding to my wonderful collection.
Been hostage long enough.
Guilty as charged.
Exhausted from holding onto it.
Self-sentenced internal punishment served.
Time to forgive myself.
Time to love myself.
Time to let it go.
I accept my gift of self-forgiveness.
Thank you very much.
The months of August to January were a whirlwind of life events. First time meet-ups, new friendships, impending divorce, holidays, then marriage reconciliation. A new discovery of feelings and self-love had risen within me. Courage and strength surfaced and peaked to their highest levels. A voice that was once suppressed is now clearly heard loud and proud. I'm falling in love again and on a daily basis. It's only the beginning of my new life. Good things happen each day, and still, the best is yet to come.
(New Tattoo: My Virgo zodiac sign & plumeria symbolizing my life's new beginning )
Concealed emotions once supressed now accepted
Twenty years of silent suffering finally surfaced
A blow to the ego was never intended
Understanding and sincere apologies appreciated
Forgiveness, yes. Admittedly, this cannot be fixed
Want to give me the world you took from me
Gifts a-plenty and kind gestures galore
Too much to bare and too late to serve their purpose
Humbled by realization of past mistakes
Eager to acknowledge and validate
Ownership of blinded hurtfulness
Years of devoted loyalty wasted
Love enough to let go
Thank you for the goodbye
Time for my new hello
My eyes were open, but may as well have been squeezed closed tight. You appeared, and my eyes came into focus once again. The connection had always been there, but I had been blinded with distraction. Believe it or not, our paths have crossed in the past, but not to this extent. Naturally orchestrated, all was meant to be. Adoring pain, guilty as charged. Graciously, your affection, kindness, patience and understanding are admirably expressed. Although our paths may never cross again, I am eternally grateful, for my soul has been saved, and you don't even realize it. With my complete sincerity, thank you.
"I've read that dreaming of your own death may be interpreted as facing the end of something – career, marriage, or other life-altering change. Also, symbolizing a new chapter in life." – Excerpt from my post published July 31, 2015, Peaceful Serenity.
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Hello all! Long time no see! Like I mentioned I might in my last post, I've been taking some blog downtime this month. I thought it was just because I was tired and overcommitted, which is true, but I got some news today that made me feel a little impelled to write, so now I'm not sure my lack of desire to blog was really about having lots of other things on my plate.
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Magical Milk Pic-O-The-Week
(photo by maddecat)
7 comments:
- Troy & Tara Livesay said...
Hey Christine -
LOVE you!!!!
- February 03, 2009 8:06 AM
- dreamingBIGdreams said...
where is that taken?
- February 03, 2009 11:41 AM
- Christine said...
- February 03, 2009 11:48 AM
- Kim said...
Wow! That's quite random!
(Can I have a replica for when I open my Lactation Consulting business?)
- February 03, 2009 12:04 PM
- Troy & Tara Livesay said...
yeah, why is a jewelery store using a breast feeding woman to promote product -- does seem random. Maybe Isaac is the marketing guy for this store and he just has not told me.
Tonight I am in the middle of what I think is a deep adoption conversation with him and he seems to be listening and I say something like, "Okay buddy, whatever you feel is okay whether you miss your birth mom or not - it is okay" His response" "I really really love this spaghetti Mom!"
- February 03, 2009 7:20 PM
- Christine said...
Yup. I think Isaac may be moonlighting on you ... ya' know ... in Istanbul.
Although, I wouldn't put it past that kid.
- February 03, 2009 7:33 PM
- Laura said...
Hey Christine,
Thought you might like this PSA:
you rock!
- February 04, 2009 4:53 PM


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Writers make uncomfortable kin. Not only do they shut themselves off from family in what the novelist Jamaica Kincaid calls "the infernal room" from which their stories come, but, worse still, those stories are quite likely to deal one day with the dreams, terrors, tics and moral lapses of their loved ones. There's a reflex in every writer that trumps even the maternal instinct, a part of her that, even while her newborn suckles at her breast, is cold-eyed, choosing words to describe the pit-bull clamp of its gums, the crusted globe of its skull, with the same dispassion with which she might describe fellow passengers on a bus.
The intimate treachery, the permanent duality that this entails (seeing "now" then, and "then" now), are lucidly examined in Jamaica Kincaid's latest novel. "See Now Then" portrays a nuclear family living in a charming New England village whose domestic idyll cracks apart when "the dear Mr. Sweet" dumps "the dear Mrs. Sweet" for a younger woman. This subject — what the poet Sharon Olds describes as the "Left-Wife Bop" — is as old as Euripides' "Medea," but Kincaid has the gift of endowing common experience with a mythic ferocity.
Born Elaine Potter Richardson in 1949 in the then-British colony of Antigua, Kincaid is one of our most scouringly vivid writers. In both her memoirs and in what she describes as her "very autobiographical" fiction, she has brought to life the primal dramas of her West Indian upbringing: her "great love affair" with her mother, a harsh proud "saint" who fed her daughter with meat she had first chewed to a cud, outfitted her in little-girl versions of her own dresses and trained her to become a prizewinning Sunday-school prig. This complicated paradise, which merged starched hand-embroidered linen and potions from the obeah woman, was shattered by the author's own emergence into sharp-tongued independence. Shipped off to New York as a teenager to work as an au pair, Kincaid, freed of both her mother and her colonial homeland, dared to remake (and rename) herself as a writer.
In the early 1970s — almost six feet tall, with bleached blond hair and shaved eyebrows painted blue or green — she began writing Talk of the Town columns and publishing her fiction under the legendary editor of The New Yorker, William Shawn.
In 1979, Kincaid married one of the boss's sons, the composer Allen Shawn, and they later moved to Bennington, Vt. She has spent nearly three decades teaching, raising two children and apparently becoming a rather more flamboyant version of the domestic paragon her mother had in mind, publishing horticultural texts that — in one scholar's words — use the garden "to ponder the history of slavery, the privilege of wealth and the arrogance of the ruling classes." The woman who describes her resentment at being made as a schoolgirl to recite Wordsworth's "Daffodils" to an auditorium of people who had never seen such a flower — and whose 19-year-old protagonist in the novel "Lucy," when first shown a glade of daffodils by her well-meaning white employer, wants to take a scythe and slash them all down — now plants Mount Hood daffodils in her own garden and evinces a fondness for Wordsworth.
Yet Kincaid, it seems, can never breathe easy. "See Now Then," her first novel in 10 years, examines the hidden fault lines of a happy family that might be seen as an allegorical version of her own. Composed in incantatory prose, a "Mrs. Dalloway"-like loop of multiple viewpoints, including passages quoted or imagined from Kincaid's other books, the novel examines — in strains hurtling from satire to fairy-tale innocence to raw pain — the faulty nature of perception.
Mr. and Mrs. Sweet have two children, "the everlasting, deeply harmonious, beautiful Persephone" and "the young Heracles," who loves ball games and snow plows and his mom. Mr. Sweet sits in his studio above the garage, composing nocturnes. Mrs. Sweet writes books and cooks crab soufflés, attends town meetings in the local firehouse and knits her children stockings.
Everything is perfect, and yet everything is the opposite of perfect. Mr. Sweet — "such a small man, sometimes people mistook him for a rodent, he scurried around so" — fantasizes about butchering his son and serving him up poached or as a "saddle of Heracles with lemon and thyme" to his "overly well-fed" wife, "that horrible bitch who arrived on a banana boat." Mr. Sweet also fantasizes about transforming Mrs. Sweet's Laura Ashley nightgown into a noose and garroting her, or coming home to find her decapitated head on the yellow Formica kitchen counter.
Mrs. Sweet's children jeeringly rejoice when their father informs them that deer have eaten all the tulips their mother planted the previous autumn. They are sick of Mrs. Sweet's garden and sick of her cooking and, above all, sick of her "writing about her goddamn mother" and the "stupid little island on which she was born." They want to burn down her writing room with her in it. And even "the dear Mrs. Sweet" is rude to waiters and foul-mouthed to strangers who steal her parking space, which is part of why her husband is leaving her for "another woman with whom I have been taking ballroom-dancing lessons and we talk about Mozart."
"See Now Then" is not an easy book to stomach. Readers may balk at the many ingenious ways the narrator finds to let us know that "the young Heracles" has been prescribed Adderall. We may wince at hearing Mr. Sweet described one more time as tiny and rodentlike or feel uneasy when we relish the description of "the hair on his beautifully pear-shaped head disappearing in a calculated way, as if it was being harvested for a purpose unbeknownst to human imagination." But Kincaid's force and originality lie in her refusal to curb her tongue, in an insistence on home truths that spare herself least of all.
In her novel "Lucy," the teenage narrator, soaking in the "pleasant" scent of her employer's yellow hair, reflects, "By then I already knew that I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense." That powerful odor is the legacy of Kincaid's woundedness, her reminder that the world is less forgiving than most of us want to acknowledge. If revenge is a dish best served cold, "See Now Then" is a baked alaska in reverse, chilling on the outside, screaming hot at the center.


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Remember the big band era? The jazz music of Basie and Ellington? It's still alive in Colorado! The Community College of Aurora's jazz band will perform a free concert on Friday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Larry D. Carter Theatre on the CentreTech Campus. The Theatre is in the Fine Arts Building, 16000 E. CentreTech Parkway. Seating is limited; guests are encouraged to arrive early.
CCA's jazz band meets on Wednesday evenings and is made up of CCA students and community members with all levels of ability.
For more information about the concert or about the band, contact Rich Italiano, music coordinator in the college's Department of Performing Arts and Humanities, at (303) 361-7425.


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Building height in historic districts and view corridors the focus of Planning and Sustainability Commission work session on the Central City 2035 Plan
On September 27, 2016, the Planning and Sustainability Commission (PSC) held the first of several work sessions on the Central City 2035 (CC2035) Plan Proposed Draft. At that meeting they discussed appropriate heights in historic districts and how some of the Central City's iconic views should be protected.
Height limits for new buildings in historic districts
Proposed new regulations include reductions to allowed building heights in historic districts to ensure new development is compatible with the character of older structures. The Proposed Draft also removes the option to achieve bonus height in all historic districts in the Central City.
Here's a breakdown of the PSC decisions.
Height in west side historic districts
- Generally, public comments supported reducing heights in New Chinatown/Japantown and NW 13th Avenue historic districts.
PSC Action: In response to testimony, the PSC supported the proposed recommendations to reduce heights, with a small amendment to allow an additional 25 feet of height in the NW 13th Avenue Historic District south of Hoyt Street.
East Portland/Grand Ave Historic District
- Public comments were mixed about the Central Eastside's East Portland/Grand Ave Historic District, where current height limits of up to 275 feet could be reduced by 75-115 feet.
- The PSC expressed concern that the reduced heights might not allow property owners to make full use of the development potential of their land (measured in floor area ratio, or FAR).
PSC Action: The PSC asked staff to return with more information about whether the same amount of floor area (FAR) of buildings allowed today could be built with reduced heights.
Protecting the scenic views of the Central City
The CC2035 Proposed Draft includes an update of the decades-old regulations to protect scenic resources in the Central City. The draft includes proposals to adjust building height limits to maintain some views. Staff are also proposing to add new height limits to protect a few new views. The PSC discussed the three views that attracted the most testimony.
View of Mt Hood from the Japanese Garden
- Since the Japanese Garden was first established in the West Hills in 1971, trees have grown and hidden parts of the view of downtown.
- The Proposed Draft does not call for re-establishing the entire historic view of downtown, but it does allow limited tree removal to preserve the view of Mt Hood.
- Some commenters asked for the historic view to be restored by allowing trees to be removed.
- Other commenters felt preserving the trees on the steep slope below the garden was more important than the view because the trees provide important functions like stormwater management and wildlife habitat.
PSC Action: Support the Proposed Draft. Do not restore the historic panoramic views of downtown. Allow limited tree removal to maintain the current view of Mt Hood.
View of Vista Bridge from Jefferson Street
- The Proposed Draft designated Jefferson Street from the I-405 overpass west as a view street to the Vista Bridge. It also increased height limits along Jefferson from the existing 30–45 feet to 40–60 feet while still protecting the view.
- Some residents of Goose Hollow wanted to keep the existing height limits along Jefferson Street. Other commenters asked for heights to be increased to allow for redevelopment in the commercial corridor and suggested adding a new viewpoint closer to the bridge.
- As a result, staff recommended amending the Proposed Draft by adding a new viewpoint at Collins Circle, with actions to develop the viewpoint and improve pedestrian access. Jefferson Street would remain designated a view street, but heights would increase to 75 feet to support redevelopment.
PSC Action: The PSC supported allowing more building height along Jefferson Street and creating a new viewpoint closer to the bridge.
View of Mt Hood from Salmon Springs
- Today, there are five locations from the west side of the Willamette River with views of Mt Hood. New development in the Central Eastside could block these views if no height limits are put in place.
- The Proposed Draft included height reductions to protect a view of Mt Hood from the Salmon Springs fountain in Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park. These height limits would significantly affect redevelopment within the view corridor.
- Many comments asked the PSC to remove the height reductions due to the impact on property owners. Other testimony supported protecting this view because of its importance to tourism and because views of Mt Hood are iconic and part of Portland's image.
- As a result, staff recommended narrowing the view corridor to affect fewer properties.
PSC Action: The PSC gave this topic considerable thought and made the tough decision not to support staff's proposal to maintain the view of Mt Hood from Salmon Springs by reducing building height in a narrower corridor.
Watch the first work session and read the decision packets.
What's on the agenda for November's work session?
At the November 16 PSC work session, the Commission is expected to discuss:
- Height limits in the East Portland Grand Ave Historic District (continued from September).
- Other height requests (originally on the September agenda).
- Parking code (originally on the September agenda).
- River and environmental topics.
PSC Work Session on CC2035 Plan
Wednesday, November 16, 4 p.m.
1900 SW 4th Ave, Suite 2500A
Please check the PSC calendar to confirm time and location prior to each work session.


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Last night the San Diego Padres extended their season best winning streak to seven games as they beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3 in the 13th inning. In the 12th inning, Will Venable made a game saving catch that stole the game-winning hit from Juan Perez. Some players are even saying it is the best catch they have ever seen. Moments later in the 13th inning the winning rally began when Alexi Amarista hit for a single. Then he went to third on Chris Denorfia's single. That's when pitcher and pinch hitter Andrew Cashner came up and hit a bunt single to mark his sixth career hit and second RBI. Cashner said he has never had a game winning RBI and that it felt really good to do that. San Diego added some more runs when they were walked with the bases loaded. With the loss, the Giants drop to 35-34 and fourth place in the NL West, the firs time since April 8th. With the win the Padres advance to 36-34, and third place in the NL West. They are only one game back from first place and have a .514 winning average. The Padres and Giants will continue their three game series with a game today and tomorrow. If you are a Padres fan, make sure you get on http://www.Padres-Tickets.net and get to a game! Now is your chance to watch the Padres sweep San Francisco and move up the rankings in the NL West. While on the site check out the easy read game schedule and social media fan hub. You can connect and interact with other fans about your favorite team.


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Volume 4 closes with an issue on "dialogue and interpretation." The Latin etymology of the word, interpretari, already contained elements of what we usually mean nowadays by interpreting something: clarifying, explaining, understanding, or even translating. Of course, interpretation also came to designate the transmission, expression, or embodiment of meaning found in messages of all kinds; the artist can interpret the world as much as the musician a piece of music or the actor a play. To interpret, in other words, is not always about ascribing meaning to something at a distance; it can also be about incarnating the meaning of the world, a musical piece, or a play. Depending on schools of philosophy, cultures and historical periods, emphases have fluctuated between the objective, subjective, and experiential natures of interpretation. Each of these different emphases has been determined by how the interpreter relates to the interpreted and, needless to say, by the ethical validity individuals, communities, systems, ideologies, cultures, or periods see in the act of interpretation. In any case, whether interpretation incarnates the revelation of being or attempts to retrieve the alleged original meaning of messages or the true nature of things; whether interpretation is a means by which the interpreter expresses his or her subjectivity or relives the experience of the world of the interpreted, interpretation is inherently relational. In that sense, interpretation is not only an essential element of conscious life; it shapes the way we relate to worlds, whether in space or time, whether human or natural. By doing so, interpretation shapes self and worlds. I interpret therefore we are. The relevance of "interpretation" as a theme to Culture and Dialogue is therefore self-evident: the act of "inter-preting" involves "between-ness."
Each contribution in this issue of the Journal discusses, analyses, describes, or provides examples of the fundamental of interpretative "between-ness" at work. Nicholas Davey's opening essay draws critically from Hans-Georg Gadamer's conception of the "in-between" to formulate an understanding of hermeneutics as practice "between faith and reason." Laura Di Summa-Knoop discusses a form of "missing dialogue" between contemporary art and philosophy by focusing on three interpretative aspects of artistic experience today: its "enactive accounts," the "ethical content of artworks," and the influence of "the art market" on artistic appreciation. Alexander Naraniecki bridges science and art by showing how Karl Popper's "later writings on evolutionary epistemology and theory of objective knowledge" can renew our understanding of artistic creativity. Inspired by Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's "improvisations" from his reading and understanding of classical Indian texts and thought, Daniel Raveh provides an example of interpretative "in-between" at work by "interfering creatively" with Milan Kundera's novel Slowness through the lens of poets and thinkers from ancient and contemporary India alike. Jonathan Day questions the relevance of Immanuel Kant's account of judgement of beauty to understand the inherently ineffable nature of aesthetic experience as found in interpretative practices such as Zen writing, composition, musical improvisation and jazz. The two last essays of this issue of the Journal explore in different ways the metaphysics and ethics of translation as interpretation. Yong Zhong provides a detailed analysis of how the concept of "discourse" was introduced and translated into Chinese. The ensuing problems of interpretative inadequacy, Zhong argues, can only be addressed by adopting "an informed strategy" when it comes to translating such Western critical cultural concepts in the Chinese language. Validity in types of interpretation is also what Takeshi Morisato tackles by introducing the thought of Kyoto School philosopher Miki Kiyoshi on translation and understanding in the context of modern Japan. Morisato also offers the first English translation ever of Miki's text "Disregarded Translation." Finally, Robert Clarke reviews the recent publication of another form of interpretative journey, that of Stephen Pax Leonard in The Polar North: Ways of Speaking, Ways of Belonging (2014).
As usual, I would like to thank again my editorial colleagues, Martin Ovens and Loni Reynolds, as well as all the scholars who accepted to review the contributions that make up this issue, and the members of the Board for their continuous patience, support and trust.
Gerald Cipriani
Gerald Cipriani
225 Hermeneutics: Between Faith and Reason
Nicholas Davey
246 Art Today and Philosophical Aesthetics: A Missing DialogueLaura T. Di Summa-Knoop
263 Karl Popper on the Unknown Logic of Artistic Production and Creative DiscoveryAlexander Naraniecki
283 A Short Improvisation on Milan Kundera's SlownessDaniel Raveh
301 Jazz, Kant and Zen: The Philosophy of Improvisation
Jonathan Day
317 Becoming Equivalent: Tracking the Chinese Renditions of "Discourse"Yong Zhong
338 Miki Kiyoshi and Interpretation: An Introduction to "Disregarded Translations"
349 Book Review


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With its undeniable popularity, there's a strong chance that you've heard of little company called Amazon.com (unless you live under a rock & this rock has no internet connectivity for some reason). In fact, it would be no exaggeration to say that Amazon has become a household name synonymous with online shopping. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, with initial start-up capital coming from his parents, Amazon originally started out as an online bookstore. Modest ambition? Hardly. Bezos envisioned a diverse world of e-commerce the likes of which no one had seen; 19 years later his dream has come to fruition as Amazon.com has grown drastically in both size & breadth. In fact, it has grown so much that it has become the world's largest online retailer. While they still sell books, Amazon now sells a huge variety of products — games, electronics, clothing, music, toys, groceries, and just about everything in-between.
Physical goods are not the end of it, however — Amazon boasts a significant presence in digital goods & next-ggn cloud services: its own online music & app store, video streaming, S3 online storage, EC2 cloud computing & much more. Amazon also offers a huge selection of ebooks for quick & easy downloading. It even produces its own consumer electronics, including the increasingly popular Kindle Fire.
Not a buyer? If you're more interested in selling products, Amazon will let you set up your own storefront at minimal cost. If you're not a professional seller (for example, if you sell only 40 items per month or less), Amazon takes a very reasonable $0.99 per sale. Professional sellers, on the other hand, can expect a hefty $39.99 per month fee. Amazon even has content creation covered, allowing people a platform to distribute their own publishing material. If you're an aspiring author and can't afford to produce your own books, Amazon could provide you with a great avenue to start making money by selling your material in e-book format.
Amazon's versatility in product & distribution means that they hire only the best & brightest talent, in a variety of different job positions. With its ever-growing popularity and large range of services, it's safe to say that Amazon will remain a household name & powerhouse employer for the foreseeable future.
With Fashion Week kicking-off this week, all eyes are on NYC. For creative women looking for exciting careers that showcase their flair & style, the city that never sleeps unquestionably has a lot to offer.
If you're a woman living in (or thinking of moving to!) New York, here are 4 of the hottest companies to work for today.
Gilt Group
Often referred to as the "Amazon of Luxury", this NYC online fashion and lifestyle retailer has changed the way that people shop. Relying on a membership-only flash sale business model, its massive userbase make a mad dash to their computers everyday at noon to browse time-sensitive deals on stylish luxury products, which include popular fashion brands as Prada, Botkier and Derek Lam. Their mission statement is clear:
"Create the most exciting, curated shopping experience that helps our members express their style in life."
Gilt Group has some uniquely named roles (buyers are called "curators"), whose qualifications include "a passion for fine food, wines, arts, culture and city life." This unique fashion retailer creates an exceptionally inspiring working environment for the right candidate. (http://www.gilt.com/company/careers/jobs)
Moda Operandi
Moda Operandi brings the once-exclusive couture trunkshow to the masses. This premier fashion website redefines shopping in style, offering clients "looks straight from the unedited runway collections of the world's top designers–months before they are available anywhere else."
Founded by exceptionally talented & accomplished Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (Icelandic superstar whos pedigree includes HBS, McKinsey, and a law degree). The company's organization chart reads like a fashion magazine: where will you fit in? Roles include Trunk Show Producer, Editorial Assistant and Photographer, among others. (http://modaoperandi.com/careers)
AHAlife describes itself as the discovery shopping destination for curated lifestyle products that span design, technology, fashion, media, food, beauty and travel. Each product is carefully selected by company curators, established names and experts in each of its selling categories. Its website features a carefully editorialized "stories" page, which sets it apart from your usual, run-of-the-mill e-commerce site.
Innovative, fashion forward and full of style, AHAlife currently has open positions in engineering, design and buying. (http://www.ahalife.com/jobs/)
Conde Nast
Conde Nast is a world-renowned publisher with magazines that span a wide scope of topics—including food, travel, fashion and style—and a wide range of brands—including GQ, Vogue, Conde Nast Traveller, Style.com and Vanity Fair.
It's one of the oldest, too. But if you think that its traditional or boring, think again. People who work for Conde will tell you that its work environment is dynamic, inspiring and fast-paced; all made possible by the tremendous level of talent. And did we mention that about one-third of its employees are women?
Conde Nast is currently looking to fill positions in advertising, editorial and corporate. (http://www.condenast.com/careers/career-opportunities)
Reverse mentoring is just a fancy name for a relationship where a seasoned employee learns from a younger employee. You may already be doing it today.
Source: ROI of Reverse Mentoring
How many cows are there in Canada? How many tears are shed between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. in the southwestern United States? If you think these are just any old brain teasers, guess again. These are actual questions asked of Google applicants in the early stages of interviewing. They are likely on the "ban" list, but you'll be sure to find equally diabolical ones during your interview.
Insanely difficult? Probably, but the best approach is to remember that they're only partially judging you on your answer; how you answer these questions & your thought process behind it is infinitely more important.
If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?
Source: Answers To 15 MORE Google Interview Questions That Made Geniuses Feel Dumb
People have compared DIY haven Etsy to everything from "a crafty cross between Amazon and eBay"
to, more humorously, "your grandma's basement." Either way, the website strives to put the "personal"
back into e-commerce and effectively close the gap between producer and consumer — making it
possible for struggling students and stay-at-home moms alike to run successful online storefronts from
the comfort of, well, anywhere.
Wares include everything from handmade and vintage clothing to jewelry, artwork, and bath and
beauty products. There's often special emphasis on environmentally-friendly creations that use recycled
materials, and quirky, one-of-a-kind items that offer distinct counterpoint to predictable, mass-
produced commercial goods. It costs less than a quarter ($0.20) to list an item, and Etsy takes 3.5% of
your final sale.
Ex-CEO Robert Kalin named the site Etsy because he "wanted a nonsense word [to] build the brand
from scratch. I was watching Fellini's 8 ½ and writing down what I was hearing. In Italian, you
say 'etsi' a lot. It means 'oh, yes.' And in Latin, it means 'and if.'" First launched in 2005 and primarily
promoted via word-of-mouth, Etsy has since become home to over 875,000 sellers who have brought in
over $525 million in sales.
Kalin saw Etsy "as a cultural movement that could revive the power and voice of the individual
against the depersonalized landscape of big-box retail" (Wired). In other words, there's a very strong
emphasis on community and helping one another, sort of like a giant, friendly online craft fair. Or
as it's explained on their official blog, "when you buy a gift from a seller on Etsy, you're directly
supporting people in local communities all over the world while giving something uniquely special and
meaningful to someone you care about."
Currently positions are open in communications, operations, and software engineering… and if you're
still not convinced that this is the place for you, better check out the cozy corporate offices in Brooklyn.


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Let us rejoice in love
Brethren, it's time to celebrate the joy of love. Let love fill your heart, soul, and mind. And yes, let every action you do portray how loving you are. God has shown us how much He loved us and the best thing we can do is rejoice in this very love. With love, we are able to ignite what we fill for each other. Let that spark of love in your heart turn into a flame of passion. Whether it's towards your neighbor, your brothers, your sisters, your parents, your better half or GOD; let love blossom and spread its wings all over the world. One thing we need to understand as Christians; love conquers all and is not choosy. Love is the greatest gift we have!
Show your love in actionThere is no better way to show love than in action. Give to those who are in need, visit the sick and those in jail, donate to the orphans, give to the servants of the lord and also help your neighbors. When you celebrate love alone, you only make yourself happy. When you celebrate it with other people, the entire community is Happy. Whatever God has blessed us with; let's use it to spread love across the world. We need to show concern for the homeless, those who have fled their countries due to civil warfare and those who are stranded and have nowhere else to go. It is only through love that we will be able to turn the world into a better place for everyone.
Love unconditionallyYou might not necessarily have people loving you in return. Do not give up! Love those who do not love you in return. After all, God has always loved us even when we never knew him. When you love expecting to be loved back, you will end up being disappointed. After all, when you love others, you have played your part. The question as to whether they love you back is not upon you to decide. And yes, loving you back works to their advantage and failure to love you back works to their disadvantage. For that reason, instead of worrying about those who don't love you back, you need to just love them even more!
Love yourself, God and others
Love yourself, others and God without being picky on who to love and who not to love. If God was to be choosy, most of us would never know love. We all have our own shortcomings. And yes, we all have our own differences. Fellow Christians, let's not allow our differences to dictate who we love and who we don't. Race, religion and political affiliation are all worldly dictated aspects which need not affect our love for each other. After all, no one chose to belong to any given race or country. You by default found yourself being part of a given race. For that reason, let's not choose who to love and who not to love, Let's love each other without holding anything against anyone. Love yourself and above all, love God!


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With 5 minutes 38 seconds remaining today, the Phoenix Cardinals extended their lead over the Giants to 19-10. The Giants' unbeaten record seemed about to crash at the hands of a 13-point underdog, and many of the 76,518 spectators started to leave Giants Stadium.
They will probably not admit it because they will not want to look foolish. The team they gave up on won the game.
With 3:21 left, the Giants scored a touchdown on Jeff Hostetler's 38-yard pass to Stephen Baker. The Giants' defense then stopped the Cardinals and the offense moved the ball on two passes. As time ran out, Matt Bahr kicked a 40-yard field goal, and the Giants scored an improbable victory, 20-19. Improbable Victory
The victory was improbable for reasons other than the Giants' comeback. It was achieved by a backup quarterback who suffered four sacks and an interception, and by a defense that did not make big plays until the dramatic final few minutes.
Phil Simms, the Giants' starting quarterback, was knocked out of the game on the last play of the first quarter when he was hit high by Cedric Mack and low by Ken Harvey. Simms was on the ground for four minutes and hobbled off, supported by an orthopedic surgeon and a trainer, with a sprained left ankle.
"He could have returned in an emergency," said Bill Parcells, the Giants' coach.
"I don't think it's too bad," Simms said.
With Simms sidelined, the task fell to Hostetler. Simms gets all the repetitions in practice, so Hostetler, a seventh-year backup, had timing problems. He also seemed to hold the ball too long rather than throw it away, and he paid for that in sacks.
But Hostetler hung in, and at the end he played like the first-stringer he considers himself. He helped the Giants raise their record to 6-0, the best start in their 66 seasons in the National Football League. The Cardinals fell to 2-4.
The Giants remained two games ahead of the Washington Redskins in their division race. They beat the Redskins, 24-20, last Sunday in Washington. They meet again here next Sunday.
Entering the game, the Giants led the league in total defense, allowing 244.2 yards a game. They held the Cardinals to 221 yards. Still, the Cardinals controlled the ball for long stretches on Johnny Johnson's quick running (30 carries for 108 yards) and Timm Rosenbach's occasional passing (11 of 20 for 102 yards).
With 23 seconds left in the first half, the Cardinals tied the score at 10-10 on Rosenbach's 1-yard pass to Luis Sharpe. The 290-pound offensive tackle had lined up as a tight end, ostensibly to block for a run.
In the third and fourth quarters, the Cardinals took a 19-10 lead on Al Del Greco's field goals of 18, 34 and 45 yards. One was set up by Hostetler's fumble and another by his intercepted pass.
"Nobody on the sideline was giving up," said Steve DeOssie, the Giants' inside linebacker. "So this game confirms a couple of things about the character of this team."
After the Cardinals' final field goal, the Giants started running a hurry-up offense. The Cardinals started blitzing.
"With that defense," Baker said, "I knew we were going to make a play. I didn't know when it would come."
It came with the Giants on the Cardinals' 38. The blitzing left Baker in single coverage, and he ran a post pattern for the corner. He beat Lorenzo Lynch, and Hostetler hit him for a touchdown.
Now the Giants needed only a field goal to win. The Cardinals needed only to run out the clock for less than three and a half minutes.
The clock was stopped twice for Giants' timeouts and once for the two-minute warning, so when Myron Guyton tackled Rosenbach on a third-down bootleg, 2 yards short of a first down, the Cardinals had to punt. The ball died on the Giants' 29.
The Giants had 58 seconds to score and no timeouts left. Hostetler started with a long, incomplete pass for Baker, then hit Ingram on a sliding 26-yard catch over the middle.
The next two passes were incomplete. Then, on a play that started with 20 seconds left, Hostetler hit Lionel Manuel for 18 yards over the middle on the Cardinals' 22.
Manuel knew the Giants were close enough for a field goal, so he curled up on the ground and the play ended.
The clock was running. The Giants ran to line up.
"I looked up," Hostetler said, "and I saw 15 seconds left. By the time I got under center, there were 10 seconds. I wanted to make sure everyone was in place and I wanted to let the time run down."
The remaining spectators were screaming for the Giants to stop the clock. Hostetler finally took the center snap and slammed the ball down, technically an incomplete pass, to stop the clock.
Only three seconds remained. The rest was simple. The field-goal team ran onto the field. DeOssie snapped the ball, Hostetler put it down and Bahr kicked the field goal that won the game.
"I was hoping we'd score a touchdown," said the 34-year-old Bahr, a free agent until the Giants signed him three weeks ago. "But a field goal didn't bother me. That's part of the job." Memories of 1986
Mark Collins, who returned to the lineup after missing four weeks with a sprained right ankle, said this Giants' comeback brought back memories of two games in 1986. In that Super Bowl season, the Giants beat the Vikings in Minnesota, 22-20, on a last-minute field goal after completing a 22-yard pass on fourth-and-17. Two weeks later, in San Francisco, they fell behind the 49ers in the first half, 17-0, then won, 21-17.
The Giants made a comeback this time against a team that did not let up.
"The Cardinals were ready," said Greg Jackson, the Giants' strong safety. "The more good plays they made, the more pumped up they were. It was like electricity spreading through their adrenaline."
But the Giants won, and there was whooping en route to the locker room.
"It wasn't pretty," said Lawrence Taylor, the Giants' All-Pro outside linebacker. "But you don't ask how to win, you just win."
"I would rather be an ugly winner," Collins said, "than a pretty loser."


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It is often difficult in our busy lives to take the time for preventative car maintenance, but waiting until something breaks to take your car to Clarke's Discount, Inc.means being without your means of transportation until the repair is done and possibly finding that the breakdown could have been avoided in the first place. Here are the main reasons your car needs an annual tune-up:
- You car needs clean air
- Your vehicle isn't just fueled by the stuff you pump into the gas tank, it needs air to burn the gasoline. A mixture of air and fuel creates the environment for combustion that gives your car its power.
- Flushing
- You car has a lot of fluids. There is transmission fluid, brake fluid, power steering fluid, coolant and oil. Like the air filter, these fluids become dirty over time and changing them regularly not only helps your car run more smoothly, but it adds to the lifespan of your vehicle.
- Electricity
- Not everything in your car is powered by fossil fuels. You need electricity, too, and that's why it is important to have your battery checked regularly.
- Belts Could Break
- If you are like most drivers, you probably do not think about the belts on your engine. They are essential for proper operation. For example, if a timing belt snaps, your engine could be ruined in seconds.
- Brakes
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01 February 2008
Save the date finished
I have been designing my great friend Nicky's save the date. As her mind has changed where she wanted to get married so did the design of the save the date. However, she set a place and a time, I was able to come up with a design that fit her style. As she is a seamstress and will be making her own gown out of organic cotton and other raw fabrics, we decided to play on the idea of fabrics for the save the dates and invites (which I will start very soon.) The save the date is very simple letterpress Tri folded. Then wrapped in torn strips of muslin, copper wire tied and curled to represent the twirly vines in a vineyard, and a monogram wax seal to hold it all in place. It really looks beautiful.
As I am also helping her plan her wedding we will bring the torn muslin in everywhere we can in the decorations. It will really have a natural and very organic feel.
The letterpress is a rich shimmery chocolate brown and a fun copper. It is a bit hard to open but worth it!!
Posted by Flush Designs at 7:06 PM
1 comment:
- elizabeth @ elizabeth anne designs said...
gorgeous use of fabric to convey texture.
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The first one - From mom with love came to me a few years ago. At first I didn't do much with it, then I tried a couple and then another couple of things from the book. The Panchmel dal recipe is pretty good.
The author mentioned once she wrote it for her kids who grew up in the US.
The second one - Bong Mom's cookbook needs no introduction! It's by Sandeepa, who blogs at Bong Mom's Cookbook. Her blog is probably as old as mine.
The book is a collection of her memories and recipes and her writing is as evocative as her recipes. And oh la la, this book is autographed by her which makes it even more special.
This cookbook is part of a four day cookbook giveaway as our blog celebrates 9 years.
All you have to do is
1. leave a comment either on the blog (ahaar.blogspot.com) or
2. on the facebook page of the blog (facebook.com/ahaarblog).
Thank you for your love, comments, shares, likes and lessons. We learn and grow each day.


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Posted: Apr 13, 2019
BELMONT, N.C. - Senior Peyton Wilson went 3-for-4 with three runs, including a home run as the Belmont Abbey softball team swept Barton this afternoon by scores of 8-3 and 13-1. The Abbey now stands at 18-20 on the year, with an 8-10 conference record. The Bulldogs are now 16-31 overall, and 5-15 in conference play. The start of the first game was delayed 45 minutes due to rain.
How it Happened
- In Game 1, Morgan Smith singled in Melissa Neyhouse in the first inning to give The Abbey an early lead
- In the next inning, Cameron Cooper hit a home run to left field to make it a 2-0 game
- The Crusader offense exploded in the sixth. Claire Doyle hit a single that would score Hailey Gass, Cooper and Wilson
- Later in the inning, Payton Whitley hit a 3-run homer to help the Crusaders cap off a six-run inning
- Annabeth Watkins threw a complete game, with six strikeouts, for her ninth win of the season
- The nightcap was all Abbey. In the first inning, Whitley hit a double to right field that brought home Neyhouse. Wilson singled home Cooper. Katie Allison scored on a single by Gass to cap off the five-run inning
- Belmont Abbey scored three runs in third, highlighted by a Doyle single that scored Wilson
- The Abbey tallied five runs in the fifth, including a 2-run homer by Wilson to close out the night for the Crusader offense. It was her second home run of the season. She finished the night going 3-for-4
- Ivorie Maltby threw a complete game, tossing five strikeouts, for her seventh win
Up Next
Belmont Abbey head to Emmanuel on Tuesday, April 16 for a doubleheader that will begin at 3 p.m.


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Course Features
- Develops the knowledge and skills necessary to practice obstetric ultrasound to an introductory level.
- Flexible modular structure to suit participants who access clinical facilities on a part-time basis.
- Includes major emphasis on clinical experience.
- Stepwise progression enables participants to complete each module individually.
- Early Pregnancy Ultrasound module available as a single occasional module.
Course Overview
Ultrasound is now an integral component of antenatal care, a dominant technology in the daily practice of obstetrics, and is also essential in the management of high-risk pregnancies. This certificate course is particularly aimed at doctors specialising in the field of obstetrics, midwives who provide antenatal care and doctors working in general practice who provide antenatal care and is designed to confer competence, to an introductory level, to practice obstetric ultrasound.
The programme will cover the fundamental aspects of first, second and third trimester obstetric ultrasound, and more detailed obstetric ultrasound or gynaecology/fertility ultrasound scanning, through the provision of both theoretical and practical training. There is a significant emphasis on clinical experience, and the majority of lectures are delivered through an e-learning structure.
Compulsory Study Days
A compulsory study day takes place on 24th January 2020 and a second study day will be scheduled in July 2020.


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As you know, we love effortless, charming entertaining ideas here at Sugar and Charm! One of the easiest ways to add a little charm to a dessert, salad, cocktail… even ice cubes is by using edible flowers. They add a pop of color and look gorgeous garnished on food and of course you can even eat them! Most people don't have edible flowers on hand and many grocery stores don't carry them. So instead of running all over town trying to find edible flowers when we throw a party, we've decided to make our own edible floral garden in beautiful pots! Not only does it look stunning on our patio, but now I have access to the most beautiful edible flowers to use at anytime!! It's actually quite simple to do too!
1. Buy some edible flowers! There are several edible flowers you can buy, so use the chart below as a reference. Some edible flowers are seasonal, so you can replant your edible floral garden with fresh flowers that will thrive during colder months too. For this garden, we used lavender, carnations, snap dragons, roses, violas and primrose. All of them can be planted together, expect the roses.
2. Find some good pots to plant your garden in. We used a mix of white, modern pots and they look stunning on the patio, filled with flowers!
3. If your pot doesn't have drainage, add a nice layer of rocks (think 3 rocks high), to the bottom before you add the potting mix.
4. We used Miracle-Gro Potting Mix to plant our flowers.
5. Next, water your flowers! To give them a little boost, I added Miracle-Gro All Purpose and Water Soluble Plant Food, which instantly feeds leaves and roots for spectacular flowers!
I'm beyond excited about my edible garden, I even made my favorite lemon bars just to add flowers to them!! Recipe below! You can obviously do this with herbs too… how beautiful would that be?! Flowers and herbs all potted and ready to be used for cooking and entertaining! Hopefully this inspires you to make a garden of your own! It's so easy!!
The Best Lemon Bar Recipe!!
2 cups flour
1/2 cup confectioners sugar 1 cup butter
Combine all the ingredients until the dough clings together. Press the dough into a 9×9 greased pan. Bake for 17 minutes at 350 degrees.
Lemon filling
4 eggs
1/3 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice (about 2 or 3 lemons will do the trick)
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Mix the eggs together first. Then continue to mix in the rest of the ingredients. Try not to over- mix the filling… a tip would be to add the dry ingredients together in a bowl first. Take the crust out of the oven and pour the lemon filling on top. Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees. Let it cool completely before you cut into squares or shapes. Once the shapes are cut, sift powdered sugar on top and garnish with edible flowers!
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