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share your love for the swapp family
Part of cultivating a good life is mourning with those that mourn.
I'm not sure I will ever forget the moment I learned the news. So many of us have felt shock and sadness over what has happened to the Swapp family in these past few days. Heidi and Eric Swapp's 16-year-old son Cory (that handsome kid behind her left shoulder in this picture) passed away very unexpectedly… and there are almost no words.
[ obituary ]
Except, sometimes, I believe that words can mean something. Words of comfort and love and hope and support. Which is why we wanted to put something together for the Swapp family that may, in even the very smallest way, bring comfort over the coming weeks, months, and years. Nothing can take away the sting and the sorrow that they must be feeling, but to know that they are so very loved is indeed a help to Heidi and her family during this very tender time.
In Heidi's own words: "I don't know how my heart can be so broken, and yet so full. The last couple of days have been the saddest of my whole life. I don't know how I can possibly thank you ALL for the TREMENDOUS OUTPOURING of LOVE, and hope and faith and compassion for me and my family. I could not be more grateful. It's so humbling. I could't possibly respond to all the messages – but I have read them, and I have been touched, and strengthened. In this darkest difficult time, I do have HOPE in my Savior. I trust. We feel the LOVE for sure. Life is so precious. This boy was loved so deeply by so many. Again, I thank you humbly."
At Cory's viewing and funeral this week, we are putting 4×4 cards out for loved ones to write messages to the Swapp family and then we'll compile these into an 8×8 album (or however many albums we fill). But instead of limiting this "group hug" to just those in attendance, we wanted anyone, anywhere to have the opportunity to contribute to this. The idea is that the Swapps will have something tangible to hold in their hands. Something they can flip through as they read messages upon messages of encouragement and love from family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and even strangers. Basically anyone and everyone who wants to express their condolences.
what you can do
1. Write your message on a 4″ x 4″ card or piece of paper. Share a quote or scripture or message of hope / encouragement / faith / whatever you feel in your heart to share. Be sure to include your name somewhere on the card and even your city and state/country if you'd like.
2. Mail this 4×4 card, as soon as you are able, to:
Becky Higgins LLC
8514 W. Deer Valley Rd.
Suite 110
Peoria, AZ 85382
Simple as that! We will combine all of the cards we receive at our office with those that are from the viewing and funeral this week. We will certainly allow time for your cards to arrive over the next couple weeks, and we know some of you will be sending them from outside the U.S. We will give the 8×8 album(s) to the Swapp family to keep forever, with a prayer that these messages will bring some bit of comfort to each one of them.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for participating and contributing. This community is incredible. I know so many of you admire and adore Heidi. I love her dearly. We had an instant connection when we met so many years ago and we've enjoyed collaborating in our creative work with product development, but more importantly — she is a woman with a heart of gold. She's the real deal. A wonderful wife and mother and friend. And a beautiful example to me. I know in my heart of hearts that Heidi's faith in Jesus Christ is very much significant in what will carry her through this deepest trial. I share that faith as well and am so grateful for the knowledge that families can be together eternally. Death is not the end.
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Mine is written and will be sent from Australia tomorrow. What a beautiful idea Becky and co. xxxxxxx
Hi! Our condolences from Spain. The mail here is very difficult and we thought to send our and the cards from our collegues together, but could be arriving next week..is possible?? For sure there be a lot of spanish people that would be participating
Next week is just fine. There is no timeline on this. :) ~ Toni at Becky Higgins LLC
My heart hurts so deeply for Heidi and her family. Our small farming community is still mourning the loss of two teens this past school year. It's such a devasting loss and leaves so many feeling helpless. I love that you've found a way for all of us to reach out to them. Thank you for organizing this act of love and kindness and allowing us to share in it.
Thank you for ncluding us in this beautiful gesture of friendship and love to Heidi and her family. Our hearts are broken and sadness knowing another's loss. Much love to our wonderful friend! WE LOVE YOU HEIDI
Thanks for sharing this, Becky. I have signed the online condolences list but doubt I will be able to get a card to you in time for inclusion in the albums. What a lovely thought, though, I am sure that Heidi and her family will be very touched.
Thinking of them all at this difficult time. I wish we had an answer to the question of why do bad things happen to good people. Love to you all.
Just so you know, there is no timeline on this. So if you want to mail something, feel free to do so! Or, you can email your card to us at email@example.com and we can print it. :) ~ Toni at Becky Higgins LLC
sending this week. My heart aches for them.
Se que la pérdida de un ser querido es terrible, pero tratándose de nuestros hijos es peor, pero el tiempo, y dios derramara en tu familia todo el amor y fortaleza para poder llevar esta terrible pérdida, Mi querida Heidi te mando todo mi cariño, mi amor, mis oraciones, un gran abrazo y mis condolencias, ánimo hermosa tienes otra lucha con los demás y tus hijos y familiares te necesitan.
Been thinking about the Swapps all weekend. Praying for them, and thanking God that Becky is spearheading such a loving community-wide response. Oh, God, please wrap this family in Your love and grace. Whisper to them daily that they will someday be reunited with their beautiful son.
My heart just hurts for her and her family. Don't know what to say, it just hurts…
Thank you Becky,
having gone on a scrapbook cruise with both you and Heidi back in 2006 , I felt like we had a connection. I wanted to let her know my heart breaks for her and the family. I am sending my card today.
Even though your heart is heavy with sadness from your great loss may the memories of your beautiful son fill you with some peace! So sorry for your loss!
Mis más sinceras condolencias para Heidi y su familia, debido a los duros momentos que están viviendo. Un abrazo muy fuerte para todos.
I am sending my condolences card tonight from Canada. My heart goes out to this beautiful family and I have kept them in my prayers. As a mom, I cannot imagine and I want to reach out and give my heart.
Thank you for organizing this so that we can somehow give her strength somehow.
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My condolences to the Swapp family! After a loss it is very hard and my thoughts are with you. As a Mom also I cannot even begin to imagine what it is like. I am reaching out and will get a 4 x 4 card out tonight.
Bea Hale
Beautifully written and what a beautiful treasure you are helping to create for the family. I will definitely send in a card. Thank you for YOUR beautiful heart too, friend. Continuing to pray for the Swapp family.
What a beautiful idea. I had a pleasure to meet Heidi almost 2 years ago and my heart aches for her as mom to mom. Sending a card very soon. xo, Marian
I am sitting here reading your beautiful words with tears about to spill down my cheeks. Tears of sadness for a family with extreme pain with their loss and tears of joy that their hope is in Christ and this is not the end. Thank you. Will send my card in the next few days. God Bless You for this effort of abounding love!
I think this will be very helpful to them. I lost my oldest son a little over 4 years ago, just before he would have turned 30. A good friend of his set up a memorial FB page that I read quite often. The comments, stories, pictures that his friends post, have helped me tremendously since he passed. I was shocked by the number of people our son knew, and how many lives he touched. We stood for hours at the funeral (a viewing wasn't possible) and listened to the stories of how our son helped others. The funeral home had to stay open even longer, to allow his military buddies time to arrive, as well. I'll never forget how many people he touched, and continues to do so til this day. I'm sure the Swapp family will be touched by many as well. Even though Cory was only 16, I'm sure he meant so much to so many people. They may not read the books right away, but when they do, it's going to help them so much.
Hearts around the world ache with just imagining what Heidi and her family are going through. I pray that God holds each of their hands very tightly indeed.
I sit here reading the comments with tears running down my face. I know the hurt of losing both parents and almost losing my son at the same age as Heidi's. The hurt is there and hopefully, years will help Heidi and her family get over this horrible lose. Thank you Becky for your hard work in organizing the albums for the Swapp family-I am sure they will appreciate it.
I hope and pray for you and your loved once that God be with you and comfort you.
Be blessed i'll keep you in my prayers.
With love,
Eveline from the Netherlands
May the Lord Bless you and give you peace during this difficult time. You have a very handsome family .Jesus is surely rejoicing to welcome your son back home. I lost a son when he was 29, I am so thankful for the allotted time God let him be with us on this earth.
Blessings to each family member. keep your memories close and recall them often.
Respectfully yours, Evelyn from Oklahoma
It just breaks my heart to hear of this. I'm sending my deepest condolences to Heidi, her family and all of those that were blessed enough to be a part of and touched by the life of her son. May God overwhelm them Comfort, Strength and a Peace that surpasses all understanding.
And thank you Becky and team for this wonderful idea. My card will be in the mail tomorrow. They will be able to look back on these albums in the months and years to come, and prayerfully be comforted and strengthened by the outpouring of love from those known and unknown.
With love and my deepest sympathy,
Marcy from Illinois
I too can't stop thinking , hurting, and crying for this family tragedy since I heard the news last Thursday.
I've also lost not a kid but someone who was (is) the most important person in my life, after my kids (only losing one of them could be worse), and know how much it hurts, how words don't help and, sometimes, they make us feel more alone and not understood. People have good intentions, for sure, but unless they've gone through the same kind of loss (which is absolutely different to any other loss) they cannot understand nor help. You need to be listened, and allowed to cry. You don't have "to be strong" for your kids, you have the right to feel whatever you feel, and act as you want to or need to. Twelve years on and I still cry, and still count the months since his passing (151 yesterday). It's not a matter of time. But you, slowly, learn to cope. And you learn that you must enjoy everything you still have even more because now you know how it feels to lose them.
When asked:"How can I help you?" I answer: "Can you bring him back? No? Well then you can't help me. Just be by my side and let me talk and cry. Please, don't say anything".
I hope Heidi will read the "Bill of Rights" for grievers in the obituary's website. It's excellent.
She's already been through tough times with her youngest boy who suffers from Sensory Processing Disorder, and now she must face this tragedy. My heart goes to her and her whole family.
Ellan, from Florida
I forgot to thank you, Becky, for giving us this space, and for the wonderful cards idea.
I've read all the comments and they are all so filled with love for this family that if/when they read them, they will surely feel the outpouring of sympathy the whole world is sending them.
P.S.: Sorry, as you can see, I'm awful at making long stories short.
What a wonderful idea, Becky, and thank you for including all of us! I took a couple of classes from Heidi when she taught at Scrapbooks Etc. in Mesa, AZ several years back now, and found her to be such a wonderful person. I'll be sending my card soon. My heart aches for her and her family; my daughter is 15 and I can't imagine how much they must be hurting right now. If you and your team need some help in assembling what I imagine will be many books, I am just across town and would be more than happy to help out in any way I can.
Gilbert, AZ
I am so so sorry for your loss. Please find comfort in any way you can. Jocelyn
Thornburg, Ontario
I don;t know Heidi I am new to SU and have not really done Project Life but the fact that she is part of SU then she is part of a great Family. I am from Florida and I send my condolences to the family a loss whether expected or not is still a loss that you can't conceive. May the Lord watch over you and your family at this time of sorrow. Know that everyone is surrounding you all in their Love and strength. I will be sending my card out.
I met Heidi in Vegas some years back and she was a sweet person. She took the time to have her picture taken with me and my friends. This is very sad to read this. My son died 27 hours after he was born during heart surgery. This was 25 years ago this week. My other two children filled my life and gave me something to live for. Although, my heart will always have a empty space in it, which will not be filled again until I meet him in Heaven. My prayers to Heidi and her family and wishing them peace during this very sad time.
Thank you so much, Becky, for giving those who have been touched by Heidi's wonderful nature a chance to give back just a tiny bit for all she's given. I appreciate the opportunity!
I'm grateful for eternal families too and I'm so glad you are doing this for them! I've been praying for them.
This is a good idea, Becky… I would like to stay close to Heidy at this time… I'm writing from Italy, my card will start next week… I hope that you will receive it in time.
Only a question: 4*4 inch, correct?
My heart grieves for the Swapp family. I will send my card from India but it might reach after 15 days. I hope that's ok. Thank you for taking this initiative.
condolences from Indonesia. this was the 2nd sad news I received last week. I'd love to join this. thank you for allowing some time for the cards outside USA to arrive. hope my card won't be too late.
So very sorry to hear this news. It's been on my mind for days. You are doing such an awesome thing for your dear friend. Heidi has been an inspiration to many in the papercrafting world. Hugs and prayers.
My heart is so sad and I can imagine how Heidi's is as I lost a baby years ago. It's the worse feeling in the world. This craft community is a family of love and strength, together as one. I love that. Thank you, Becky, for doing such a huge task to share our love and support with Heidi. God will see us all through this and we will be that much stronger and closer. Sending mine today. Thank you again.
You're a good friend, Becky. I will be sending my card this week. Bless you for reaching out in this way.
That's such a great idea for the Swapp family. Mine will be sent today from Australia.
What a wonderful friend you are to do this for the Swapp family. I am sure it will be greatly appreciated by them. I will send my card in the mail.
Thank you.
What can one say ~ it beggars belief! I do know that families are forever, though, and your boy must have been very special for his life here on earth to have been so tragically cut short. I hope your family can draw strength, courage & comfort knowing that he has a more important work than on this earth & that you will be reunited to hold him in your arms once again one day. I don't know you but, as a mother, I share in your grief. I don't live even in the same country as you but the world becomes a smaller place because of the need I (and many others) feel to reach out & comfort you. What can I say? I feel words are inadequate but I hope knowing people care helps in the difficult days ahead Xx
Caroline Louth, Scotland, UK
A beautiful idea and wonderful tribute.
Thank you for doing this. In our community as fellow scrapbookers we have come to know and care for one another and I am so thankful to walk this journey with all of you.
Thank you for putting this together. I mailed mine off this morning.
My heart aches for the Swapp family. I pray the love of God enfolds them in peace and comfort during this time.
I know… there is no words to comfort you and your family in this moments… but you must put your faith on God… He will give you the support …. the strengh and all the love you nee in this moments…
I will be in your sorrow
A hug
Cynthia Bamberger
Praying for you along with so many of your friends during this more than difficult time. You are loved!
Hi Becky
Thank you for putting this together. The Italian girls will contribute to this wonderful action. I will collect the cards and send to you.
xoxoxo BA
Keeping the family in prayer for God's comfort and peace as the go through this time of mourning.


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At Tom's Creek Baptist Church, we hope members and visitors alike will participate in our Sunday morning small groups during Sunday School. We offer groups for all ages, and groups meet at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday morning. Sunday School is the foundational strategy in a local church for leading people to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and for building Great Commission Christians through Bible study groups that engage people in evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, ministry, and worship.
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I found Bianca Poletti enjoying the San Diego weather while sipping tea outside Rebecca's Coffee shop in South Park. The 26-year-old recently moved to Seattle where she works as a visual merchandiser for the popular retailer, Anthropologie. She is back in town visiting friends.
Poletti wore mostly Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie items.
"Since I work at Anthro, I get a discount there, and at Free People and Urban," she explained.
Both her scarf and glasses are recent Urban Outfitter purchases. Poletti's shades are Daisy Mae Round Sunglasses that retail for $14 at Urban Outfitters online. Poletti's patent leather penny loafers are from Banana Republic. Her denim button-down shirt is American Apparel. It retails for $64 online. She wore a soft, pale purple Anthropologie cardigan.
Bianca's favorite local stores for accessories are Home and Flashbacks. She is also a fan of the vintage choices at North Park's Hunt & Gather. Poletti's silver ring was purchased while visiting Rosarito.
Poletti's least favorite trend is platform sneakers.
"They are terrible, especially when people wear them with dresses," she said with a shudder.
I spotted Aislynn Poquette from a block away thanks to the vibrant pop of color her H&M pencil skirt provided (retails for $24.99). The 31-year-old was on her way to work at the Station in South Park. She wore a screen printed American Apparel t-shirt paired with an Urban Outfitter's cardigan.
Poquette's multiple strap leather bracelet is from Home in North Park.
"Home is my favorite local store. It's half vintage and half new stuff."
More from SDReader
- More stories by Siobhan Braun
- Denim Signatures — Aug. 19, 2013
- It's in the details — June 11, 2013
- 5th Avenue Style in the Gaslamp — May 28, 2013
- Madewell opens at Fashion Valley Mall — May 9, 2013
- SDSU embraces the '80s — March 5, 2013


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Alternate history - understandably fascinating, understandably speculative. What would historic versions of modern super cars look like? A Polish artist
decided to transport the Bugatti Veyron back to 1945, and other than the VW Type 1 headlights being a too-obvious touch, the result is … well, at
least thought-provoking. Is it convincing? All I can say is, I'd love to see other recent high-performance hardware transformed into retrospective
masterpieces. Hey rc82, can you do a series?


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The benefits of combining USB storage with a business card are obvious. For one thing, it will get you noticed and make your card less dispensable. Second, it is a convenient and logical means to deliver important information to prospective employers and clients. Unfortunately, no one has truly succeeded in this endeavor (and simply printing your information on a thumb drive doesn't count). At the very least, this concept piece from designer Abhinav Dapke offers something approaching a solution.
Basically a flap on the rear of the card can be used to attach different memory sizes, and a pair of slits can be used for the USB adapter. To be honest, it doesn't amount to much more than taping a USB drive to an existing card. Still, it is a fairly elegant approach to the problem —but it might make more sense to develop a thin all-in-one usb drive that is specifically designed to hold business cards. So, my guess is that this concept will have to go back to the drawing board a few times before a viable product can be developed. [Coroflot via Core77 via DVICE]


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From the book about North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills
Life Through the Eyes of a Child
Submitted by Gail Mckinney of Bakersville, North Carolina
Born 1934
This is a story of life through the eyes of a child in a mountain county in North Carolina that borders on the state of Tennessee. By today's standards, I suppose we could have been called poor. However, we never considered ourselves poor. We had food, heat for the house, and sufficient clothing to keep warm. We had food that was mainly homegrown, heat from a big ol' wood heater in the living room, and clothing, either handmade, or if we really lucky, ordered from a mail order catalog. We were also filled with more than enough love to go around, so we didn't feel a great need for anything else.
There was a certain routine to mornings. When the Old Big Ben clock rang, Daddy would get out of bed, start the fires, and put a teakettle of water on to heat. When the water was warm, Mama would go to the kitchen to start breakfast. I would drag my little red rocking chair close to Daddy's straight back chair where he sat and told me stories. Some were funny and some were scary. But when I consider the horror movies of today, Daddy's stories weren't scary at all. How I wish those stories had been written down! I can only remember very little of them.
Winters could be long and hard. There was no inside plumbing at our house. I remember a winter when the snow was so deep that Dad had to shovel a path to the outhouse. When I walked that path, the snow on each side was so high I could barely see over the sides.
I had an older brother that had the art of teasing a little sister down to a science. Mama kept a bushel of potatoes on the upstairs landing in winter to prevent them from freezing. My brother was teasing me one day and I ran up the stairs and started throwing potatoes down at him. I stuck my head through the banisters and couldn't pull it back out. I began to yell, and so Mama came running and managed to get my head out. I got a pop on the backside for throwing potatoes, and my brother got a big laugh out of the whole thing. However, he was sure particular about that wind up record player he had earned enough money to buy. Oh, he was so proud to have such a thing; I was not allowed to touch it. I watched and waited patiently for him to leave the house. When he did, I pulled a chair up to that record player and climbed upon it. And of course, my brother picked that moment to walk back in. That's the fastest I ever moved, trying to get out of that chair, but he caught me anyway. That's the last time I tried that.
Our water supply came from the coldest spring you can imagine. It also supplied water for all our needs, such as cooking, bathing, and laundry. The spring was also used for cooling milk and butter. Milk from the morning milking was taken to the spring and brought back up for supper. It seemed so cold; it would hurt your teeth.
Mama did the churning and making butter. I still have Mama's churn. The part of the churn we called the dasher is worn to one third of the original size, all because of that continual up and down motion in the process of making butter. But oh how good that butter was! Daddy would not have none of that newfangled margarine. Once my older sister tried to con him into eating margarine that had been formed into squares in Mama's butter press. He was not to be fooled. He knew immediately and was having none of it.
This was about the time of the middle of World War II. Because everything went for the war effort, electricity was unavailable until the war ended. Oil lamps were used for light at night. Mama kept the wicks trimmed and the globes washed clean. But even before electricity was available, there was still good times, such as making ice cream in an old wooden churn. Daddy would bring home a bag of ice in a cloth bag. I remember the mixing of ingredients that went into the churn—the ice and salt packed around the combiner and the turning, turning, turning of the handle. The handle would become harder and harder to turn until it was impossible to turn it any further. Then the ice cream needed to sit for five or ten minutes before the container was opened. I thought that was the longest period of time in my life.
A watermelon was another wonderful part of summer. Daddy would bring home the biggest watermelon he could find. After several hours in the cold spring water, it would almost hurt your teeth to eat it. It was that cold.
Neighborhood kids and a grape vine swing. With that combination, not much could be more fun or more dangerous. At the top of the mountain above our house was the grandest grape vine swing in all creation. At the highest point before the swing returned to the starting point, we must have been approximately 20 feet off the ground. School started in the fall, leaving us little time to think about going to the swing. But after a hard day in the classroom, one beautiful fall day a group of kids headed up the mountain. Imagine our disappointment after a hard climb to find the grape vine swing cut off at the top of the tree! Who would do such a thing? Years later, Daddy confessed. He was afraid someone could be badly hurt on his property. He didn't fess up sooner because he didn't want a bunch of kids mad because he cut it down.
Church was an important part of our lives. We didn't consider it any hardship to walk to church every time there were services, come rain, or come shine. We walked to church as a family, but when services were over, a group of kids would walk back together. We would laugh and sing and have a great time.
The family would begin to prepare for church on Saturday afternoon. Since at that time there was no indoor plumbing, our baths were taken in a number three washtub. Then we would polish our shoes to a fine luster. It didn't take long to choose which dress to wear, since I only had two to choose from.
Sunday lunch was always special. Mama would start preparation on Saturday. She always had plenty of chickens in the lot and could kill and dress a chicken with no trouble. Also, there were always plenty of homegrown vegetables, fresh in summer and canned in winter. There was a table full of food to feed the family and any guests, either expected or unexpected. No one left Mama's table hungry.


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Alliance Leisure Services Ltd was specifically established to respond to the changing development needs of the public sector, education and growing leisure trust market.
The Company's core business is the provision of facility development and support for local authorities, educational establishments and leisure trusts that want to improve or expand the leisure products and services they offer. This is achieved via the company's two divisions: Facility Development and Client Support.
The Facility Development Division's objectives match those of our partners – to deliver the right scheme at the right price. All project requirements are packaged into a fixed, single monthly payment. The facility development product has been created to be totally off-balance sheet and conform to all financial regulations.
To date, Alliance has carried out over 100 leisure developments and invested nearly £150m in the UK leisure market. Read about some of these developments in our news section.
The Alliance Support Division works with over 250 leisure centres to provide sales, marketing and retention services and training. Within this division Alliance Impact provides sales teams for when a centre requires a boost in sales or is launching a new activity or facility. Alliance Digital also provide digital marketing training and products to assist operators with sales, lead generation, customer insight and service excellence.
Alongside fixed-cost support packages Alliance also offer an income-share arrangement where payment is not made until pre-agreed financial targets have been met. This mechanism reduces the risk to the client and removes any upfront fees.
"I am very lucky to work in a fast-moving and inspirational industry, with some of the most professional and experienced people available. Our aim is to provide the best service, the best products and the very best financial solution for our clients, and our unique offering and off-balance sheet funding was devised specifically to adapt to the changing needs of the leisure services industry." Sarah Watts, Managing Director
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Physical Education
Physical Education classes are provided to the students in Kindergarten through 5th grade twice a week for 30 minutes each session, and the Middle School students meet twice a week for 40 minutes.
During Phy-Ed class, the goal is to increase the student's overall physical development while participating in fun and physically-active activities. The program stresses body awareness, basic motor skills, and hand-eye coordination.


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Setting a default value for a record
If you want the same text to appear in a particular field you can set a default value.
For example, you may want the county name 'Limerick' to be set as a default value in each record in an employee details table if most of the employees live in Limerick.
- Go to the Design View of the table.
- Select the relevant field – e.g. County field.
- Go to General tab in the Field Properties section of the screen.
- In the Default Value section type the relevant text e.g. Limerick.


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What time is it?
It's time to order your spring bulbs and plant them when the frost warning is over. Which I'm hoping for sanity sake will be soon.
One of the bulbs that I like to plant in my spring cutting garden are gladiolus. They're great for tall containers and vases that I own that require tall stems like these ...
You can learn more about planting gladiolus here and here. You can purchase the bulbs here or at your local garden center. When planting bulbs you need to know your planting zone ... you can find that here.
This is a quick shot of how I used them this weekend.


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I have been honoured with The Versatile Blogger award...WOWZA! Made my month...Thank you so much to Mrs Geary at Light a Candle. Here are the rules:
- Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post.
- Share 7 things about yourself
- Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs.
7 Things About Myself:
1. I love reality TV shows. It's kinda like my guilty secret...Roseanne's Nuts is my newest fave (f.u.n.n.y) ...the judge shows also fit into my reality love affair. Especially Judge Judy-she says the things everyone is thinking.
2. I am slightly addicted to online shopping. EBay & Amazon to be exact...I have bought most of my teaching materials/resources from these two stores. I have also saved a mint buying Christmas gifts through Amazon.
3. I think Adam Lambert should have won American Idol. He's just so darn talented and cute. Even with black eyeliner...which suits him. So I like it, too.
4. I enjoy doing housework on Saturday mornings while listening to 80s power ballads. Yes, I sing along...I have been known to dance along. I also love disco, soft rock, pop...pretty much anything.
5. My 8 year old son plays safety in football. I am his biggest fan but don't understand a thing that is happening.
6. I LOVE writing essays (English major) the most of any form of writing. I am hopeless when it comes to writing narratives...they seem to go on and on and on...
7. I have a fairly new obsession with nonfiction and fiction books that are about the Tudor period. I also like to share the facts I read about with anyone who will listen. Whether they want to know or not. Even if they run away.
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Job Description
Our client are one of the UK's most recognised brands and are looking to create a digital world that enables great things to happen. They're in the process of growing out all parts of the business, with the aim of connecting to more customers.
I am searching for an App Product Manager to drive the full end to end product and lifecycle management of our client's products. This role has a huge opportunity to make a big impact as you'll be expected to plan and prelaunch the app within the first 6 month of starting.
Furthermore, your role will see you work closely with the Mobile Digital team to build a great plan across App and Web to help protect and grow revenue, increase efficiencies and to enhance customer relationships.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a product design approach working closely with the Brand team to ensure app experience guidelines are aligned to overall UX approach
- Work with the Commercial and Marketing teams to define opportunities for the app to deepen customer engagement through revenue growth and revenue protection
- Develop business cases, investment cases and input for Budget/LRP decks
- Use reporting and feedback from customers and customer-facing teams to implement improvements to the app
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve costs, product performance and service experience
- Working with Apps delivery teams, establish plans to cover user research, customer journey maps, develop wireframes & designs, copywriting, user testing, build & delivery.
- Understand customer behaviour, market trends and competitor landscape through insight and research
About you…
- Full App product lifecycle management, from development & delivery to in-life adoption and optimization
- Large project management and delivery, from inception to in-market launch
- Understanding of web analytics packages including Adobe Analytics, sessions tools and user testing would be very helpful
- Good experience in a digital app product management with a sizeable customer base, Telecomms/Media experience is not essential
- Proven experience in online product management
- An uncompromising focus on user-centric design
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Investment Philosophy
Preservation of capital, and conservative growth based on regular income generation
Preserving investors' capital is BQIM's highest goal. Portfolio Management performs rigorous, bottom-up analysis on each target asset to model the probability of returning its capital in whole, and also interest income, in a timely manner and in different scenarios. Our team seeks value opportunities across every part of the domestic credit markets, and focuses on income-generating assets to provide our investors with stable cash flow. We also assess each asset on its secondary market liquidly in certain scenarios. Modelling mark to market volatility of the assets, and spread duration of the portfolio is key to building and managing a portfolio against the individual strategy's liquidity profile.
Detailed Due Diligence of all Portfolio Assets
We approach asset selection using both a top-down perspective, and a bottom-up fundamental credit analysis selection process. The portfolio management team is focused on the fundamental value of each asset, based on its ability to meet coupon payments and return capital. Sourcing secondary market liquidity is key in the investment process. Portfolio management seeks regular secondary pricing updates from the market. The aim is to observe whether pricing is far from recent trading marks, and monitor developments across all liquidity providers. Regular communication with issuers, market makers and other key investors is essential to this process.
Our team undertakes detailed due diligence on target assets. Once an asset is selected for a particular strategy, we continue monitoring that asset to ensure it's performing as expected. Importantly, assessment of the credit worthiness of any asset is carried out without relying on external or third party analysis from rating agencies or research. If an asset is found to be underperforming, further due diligence will take place with the issuer/servicer to overlay its performance against downside micro and macro scenarios. For each asset, key credit triggers are set at purchase. If the asset doesn't meet certain hurdles, portfolio management will endeavour to sell or hedge it.


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"The artist I made this drink for is Kaye the Beast. He's a local rapper in the up-and-coming phase, but I've seen him a few times around town and he's super-engaging, really energetic; an inspiring hustler. At first he comes across as escapist, but in recent months he's started to comment more on social issues that surround the poor communities of New Orleans. He also has a few really great music videos that have come out recently. When I think, who's the voice of the New Orleans community, I think of people who both know how to enjoy life but also don't shy away from some of the worse aspects of the city, aren't afraid to comment on what goes on—inequality, police violence, things like that. Kaye is very cognizant of that and it comes through in his music, but at the same time, other parts of his music is all about enjoying a party, meeting people and engaging with the community in a more positive way.
For this drink, I used a ghost pepper–infused tequila from Mexico. What really comes through on the palate is bright berry with a little bit of heat at first, and then the traditional tequila vegetal flavors—which works really well, because what we're doing is using a jam made by our kitchen that's raspberry and jalapeño. You get the sweet and the heat, and I add a touch of lime for acidity.
When you taste it, it's almost like salsa on the front end, and then the umami-vegetal flavors, and then you get the pepper. It all fades into something really refreshing.
[Speaking of Kaye the Beast's second album, Salt, from 2017…] It's interesting how a little bit of salinity affects a drink. It takes the citrus and brightens it. It also offsets the astringency of booze in general and gives any drink a bigger mouth feel. Salt is amazing! Realizations like this continue to expand the drinking pantheon—we're not done yet. For example, one of the drinks on our menu here is a Caribbean sidecar, using allspice and pear brandy, and the rim is equal measures salt and sugar. It's very good.
Can you believe it—lately, I've been dealing with, of all things, cat scratch fever. Not a music joke… It's a bacterial infection caused by cats scratching you. It starts in the skin and moves through the lymphatic system—my throat is still a bit closed up because of it, so if you can't hear me from across the bar—sorry. Last week, I had this large rash and swelling on my face.
It was my own cat, too!"


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While it's true that users often object to change of any type – even improvements
That's key. Users hate change, and in a lot of cases prefer (or say that they prefer) a clunky and suboptimal site that they are familiar with to a better site that they have to think a bit more about how to use, to start with. How many times has Facebook been completely slated for the changes it has made … but who among us would go back to the early days?
For me, the user testing is one of the big deals. If a site that worked and was at least adequate before is revamped and relaunched and the new design doesn't work properly, there's no excuse for that. Different aesthetics, different functionality, different process – those are all things that we can argue about and then get used to when we realise that actually the new ones aren't that much worse than the old ones, they are just different. But to replace something that works properly with something that doesn't just is not good enough. And yet we see it happen time and time again.


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Harvey Weinstein resigned from the Weinstein Company board of directors on Tuesday following a series of sexual misconduct allegations against him. The board of directors also ratified its decision to fire Weinstein.
"The Board today ratified its decision to terminate Harvey Weinstein's employment with The Weinstein Company," a statement from the Weinstein Company board of directors read. "Harvey Weinstein resigned from the Board."
The Hollywood executive was originally terminated from his CEO position on Oct. 8. The Weinstein Company board of representatives released the following statement to E! News at the time:
"In light of new information about misconduct by Harvey Weinstein that has emerged in the past few days, the directors of The Weinstein Company—Robert Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar—have determined, and have informed Harvey Weinstein, that his employment with The Weinstein Company is terminated, effective immediately."
According to TMZ, Weinstein told the board, "I have a real problem," and then apologized for the "trouble and confusion" he caused the company.


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I'm Attending WordCamp Mumbai, 2017, This Weekend. #WCMUMBAI 2017 is happening on 25th & 26th of March, 2017 and I'll be among the many attendees. I am attendee of WordCamp since 2015.
I'm looking forward to meeting new people this weekend and creating new memories. I'd love to talk to you about your experiences with WordPress.


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SARC DF / Interference Receiver Project 2018
The prototype of the club project for 2018 which is a combined DF and Interference tracking receiver has been built. As per last years project the intention is to build the kit at the club where we will have appropriate test kit and construction equipment available. There will be nothing to stop you building this at home as a comprehensive set of instructions is being prepared.
The kit excluding a box, 6 AA batteries and front panel knobs is estimated to cost approximately £20 for SARC members and a few pounds more for non-members. Costs are based on building 20 kits which is the optimum price for acquiring the components.. 14 people showed interest on Friday 10th March so only a few more to make this viable.... Timeline is to have a final prototype prior to finalising things by the end of March. Components care mainly coming from eBay & distant shores so will take up to 1 month to arrive.
There will be some things like the antenna (Ferrite Rod supplied) you will need to make but the parts will be supplied.


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Edmonton Suzuki Flute and Recorder Society
Tags: Flute, Picture, Recorder, Students
Date: January 28, 2010
Image by Kathleen Schoen
Tags: Flute, Picture, Recorder, Students
Date: January 28, 2010
Kathleen Schoen has been teaching both flute and recorder since receiving her B.Mus degree from UBC in 1984. She is active in the Suzuki community both locally and internationally, as an Institute Director, Conference Co-ordinator, teacher, teacher trainer, and program administrator, and is the first Canadian flute teacher to receive the Certificate of Achievement from the SAA. She also teaches flute and recorder at the University of Alberta, Augustana campus. A performer on flute, baroque flute, and recorder, she works both as a soloist and with her chamber music group, the Schoen Duo. A Suzuki parent as well as a teacher, her daughter started in the Suzuki program at the age of 2 and is now also a trained Suzuki teacher.
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A Bible for Bibliophiles
Basbanes' A Gentle Madness Confounds the Naysayers
By William A. Davis
Author Nicholas Basbanes '65 has collected fifteen thousand books, and he knows there's a fine line between bibliophilism and bibliomania. "I don't think I've crossed it yet — but then you usually don't know when you do."
The former book editor of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Basbanes spent eight years researching and writing A Gentle Madness, a lively study of a seemingly dry and dusty subject: the "eternal passion" for books. Featuring stories of often obsessed book collectors, the book is now in its sixth printing. It's a publishing industry sleeper, selling remarkably well despite its highbrow topic, 638 pages, and $35 price tag.
The book was released in the fall of 1995 with a modest first printing of 7,500 copies by publisher Henry Holt and Company. "The first printing sold out in three days," Basbanes said with satisfaction, "and rare book dealers are now asking as much as $100 for those copies."
There are now sixty thousand copies of A Gentle Madness in print. It continues to sell so well in hardcover that a scheduled paperback edition has been put off for now, he said. Critics have hailed the book, Basbanes's first, as an impressive achievement, an engaging blend of scholarship and storytelling filled with fascinating anecdotes and vivid word portraits of larger-than-life characters. "Mr. Basbanes favors the eccentric and the felonious, who do provide colorful copy," noted the New York Times.
The book's success is a personal, against-the-odds triumph for Basbanes, 53, who staked his career and his family's financial future on A Gentle Madness.
During the writing he had two encounters with corporate downsizing (he lost his job as book editor at the newspaper in the first and a book contract in the second) and fought publishing industry conventional wisdom that books about books don't sell. "I never doubted my ability to write a good book," he said. "But one editor told me my book probably wouldn't sell three thousand copies, and another said the subject was too arcane even for a university press."
A stocky, rumpled man who never leaves the house without a reporter's notebook in his pocket, Basbanes looks like the newspaperman he was for twenty years. Much of his book's appeal, he thinks, stems from the fact that he approached his subject with a journalist's zest for colorful personalities, oddball facts, and unusual incidents.
"As a reporter I love to tell a good story," he said, "and I was lucky that a lot of interesting things happened on my watch." These included some of the largest rare book auctions of the last half century and the arrest and trial of Stephen Blumberg, the champion rare-book thief of all time.
In a twenty-year career Blumberg stole — and kept for his personal enjoyment — 23,600 books worth more than $10 million from 268 libraries in forty-five states, two Canadian provinces and the District of Columbia. "He was a case history of bibliophilia turning into bibliomania and the book lover becoming a biblioklept [book thief]," Basbanes said.
The first section of A Gentle Madness features past great book collectors such as Alexander the Great, Petrarch, Catherine the Great of Russia, and Queen Christina of Sweden. The English-speaking world should be particularly grateful to Sir Robert Cotton, who rescued many priceless manuscripts — including the only surviving copy of "Beowulf" — after Henry VIII dissolved England's monasteries, scattering their libraries. Modern collectors include remarkable characters such as Ruth Baldwin, who collected 100,000 children's books but disliked kids; Aaron Lansky, who averted a cultural holocaust by rescuing thousands of Yiddish language books; and Charles L. Blockson, who left a promising professional football career to collect books, magazines, and pamphlets about African-American life.
Basbanes's own evolution from casual book buyer to serious book collector was a gradual one. A native of Lowell, Massachsetts, he majored in journalism at Pennsylvania State. After serving as a public information officer with the U.S. Navy — including tours of duty in Vietnam — he joined what was then the Evening Gazette of Worcester in 1971.
Primarily an investigative reporter, Basbanes frequently reviewed books and began collecting books about subjects that particularly interested him, such as naval history. When book editor Ivan Sandrof, founder and first president of the National Book Critics Circle, retired in 1978, Basbanes replaced him. "As far as I was concerned, it was the best job on the paper."
Before Sandrof left, he passed on an invaluable piece of advice. "He told me that when I interviewed authors I should always bring copies of their books with me and not be shy about getting them autographed," Basbanes recalled. During his thirteen years as book editor, he said, he interviewed about a thousand significant contemporary authors and put together a collection of two thousand autographed books.
In 1989, by now a committed collector, he wrote an article about Boston's notable book collections for Bostonia, the Boston University alumni magazine.
Basbanes said his wife proposed that he expand on the Bostonia article and write a history of book collecting from ancient times to the present. "She said, `This is the book you've always wanted to do,'" he said, "and gave me moral permission to devote my time to working on it."Fittingly, A Gentle Madness is dedicated to Constance Basbanes. The book's title comes from an affectionate description of Isaiah Thomas, the Revolutionary War-era patriot and printer who founded the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, repository of early American books. "At Thomas's funeral his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Thomas, said his grandfather had been touched early by `the gentlest of infirmities, bibliomania,'" Basbanes said.Basbanes sent a detailed book proposal for A Gentle Madness to several publishers. An editor at Random House was enthusiastic about the idea and gave him a contract. He had been working on the book in his spare time for almost five years, Basbanes said, when his employer — by then called theTelegram and Gazette — did away with its book section and his job as a cost-cutting measure in the spring of 1991.
Instead of looking for another full-time job, Basbanes decided to free-lance a literary column to the Worcester paper but focus primarily on finishing the book. "I was forty-seven years old, my daughters were nine and eight, and my wife could only work part time," he recalled, "but I took a chance and shot the craps."
Most of his historical research was done at Harvard University's Widener Library. But there was also a lot of expensive and time-consuming field work, including trips to London, Paris, New York, and California to attend auctions and interview collectors. He also went to Iowa for the trial of Stephen Blumberg.
Convicted in a federal court in 1992, Blumberg was fined $200,000 and given a five-year sentence. Basbanes also visited the secret warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska, where FBI agents were sorting through the more than nineteen tons of books Blumberg had taken, trying to find the rightful owners. "Fully 95 percent of what he took hadn't been missed," Basbanes noted. "His case revealed the lack of security at most libraries."
Basbanes estimates that he traveled about 100,000 air and car miles in the course of his research. By the time the lengthy manuscript — which included extensive footnotes and a bibliography with more than four hundred titles — was finished, he had run through his advance against royalties, used up his savings, and was forced to borrow money to meet family expenses.
Just when he thought his troubles were over, it happened again: corporate downsizing. In 1992, Random House went through a major shakeup. Top editors were fired or quit and the size of the company's staff and book list — were drastically reduced.
The editor who had initially championed A Gentle Madness was among those who left. "That meant I was what's called `an orphan author,'" Basbanes recalled, "just about the worst thing you can be in publishing."
In February 1993 Random House dropped A Gentle Madness, even though the manuscript had been accepted and the book was already advertised in the company catalog. Not until thirteen months later did Basbanes sign a new contract for the book with Holt.
"To keep from going nuts that year," he remembered, "I started syndicating my column, targeting places such as university towns where people buy books but are served by newspapers that don't have book sections." The column, usually an interview with an author, now appears in twenty-two newspapers around the country.
Holt not only agreed to publish his book but told him "it deserves to be published well," Basbanes said. Deciding that the natural market was book lovers and collectors, Holt handsomely packaged A Gentle Madness. There are many photographs, for instance, along with illustrated endpapers and an eye-catching gilt-embossed dust jacket that gives it the appearance of an antique book.
Basbanes keeps his books in his North Grafton home, just outside Worcester. "I'm now concentrating on collecting books about books," he said. "My goal is to own all the books in my bibliography and I'm about 95 percent there."
Basbanes said he will shortly begin work on a companion volume to A Gentle Madness, a history of the world's great libraries and book collections. When that's finished, he plans to write a practical guide to book collecting. "Books turned my life around," he said, "and one thing I'm certain of is that I'll die a book collector."
Reprinted with permission of The Boston Globe.
Basbanes, whose classmate is Peter Gomes '65, another Bates author with a top-selling book — The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart — remembers getting his writing start as sports editor of The Bates Student, with his sports column, "Nick Naks."


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According to a recent study (published in Molecular Psychiatry) of bipolar patients in Indiana, molecules in the blood appear to indicate an individual's current degree of suicidal intent.
The study was done on a small sample of the bipolar population (nine patients) so is really just a preliminary sort of study, however the findings were pretty interesting.
Researchers found that there are 41 enzymes and proteins in the blood that levels appear to fluctuate based on the patient's level of suicidal risk.
One enzyme in particular called SAT1 was elevated in subjects who were feeling suicidal. Researchers also found that postmortem studies of the blood of subjects who had commit suicide had levels of SAT1 even greater than the living subjects researchers were studying.
Researchers also identified four biomarkers that may be used to indicate potential suicide risk in a patient even if the patient is not currently suicidal.
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Things and Stuff is a grab-bag of things that've been on my mind this week. In this edition: comics, Wembley, Eden, pods, eyeballs
This is going to be a fairly quick one.
Thing 1: Rat Planet
I finally read two awesome comics I've been meaning to get to for ages - Rat Queens and Bitch Planet. They are both great. Rat Queens is funny, filthy, bloody fantasy about a gang of rowdy adventurers battling trolls and trying to find out who framed them. Bitch Planet is a sci-fi dystopia about the prison planet where women are sent when they commit 'crimes' that are non-compliant with the ruling patriarchy. Both of them are NSFW and feminist and diverse. Bitch Planet particularly made me fall off my chair with horrified glee. It's not subtle, but that's kind of its charm. It takes real world sexism that we're all deeply familiar with, dials it up to 100 and throws a giant lampshade on it.
|One of the more SFW bits (c) Image Comics and Kelly Sue DeConnick
Thing 2: Hello Wembley, goodbye Birmingham
I've done my Hans Zimmer gigs. They were freaking amazing.
Until they take the videos down (and they seem to be far more tolerant this time than last time actually), you can see quite a bit of it by plugging 'Hans Zimmer Live' into Youtube or Instagram. I particularly recommend Interstellar and the Lion King! I didn't know the Interstellar music at all before we started rehearsing for this and now wow, that ending, I, wow.
Anyway, here is our sort of signature moment, a Crimson Tide medley that turns into the fiendishly hard and a+ perfectly named 160 BPM from Angels and Demons.
Sadly, my last Zimmer Live gig was the one in Birmingham on Tuesday. Happily, I'm going to have plenty more fun weird choir stuff for these posts in the next few months.
Speaking of which...
Thing 3: Rowing in Eden
The next actual CEFC concert with the full 100-strong choir which we've been working up to for months and months is finally here! It's on Monday the 18th in the Barbican Centre at 7:30pm.
|Also, bloody hell, look at this stunning thing, I kind of want this image framed to hang on my wall (c) CEFC
If you are in London, you should come. We're doing Poulenc's Gloria, which is fun and weirdly cheeky for a piece of classical music (one movement was inspired by monks playing football...), Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music which is gorgeous, and John Adams' Harmonium which is utterly amazing and strange and knocks 160 BPM into next week in terms of heart-pounding difficulty.
Thing 4: Bangity Bang, Hello to Jason Isaacs, Shut Up Phone, It's Just Us Here, What's Next?
I love the Cornell Collective.
Actually, I love podcasts in general. I have a real podcast problem: when I subscribe to a new podcast I like to listen to all of it. When it's something like the Nerdist, which seems to put out an episode every day and stretches back into the depths of history (like, 2010) this is a real problem. I've been working my way through the back-catalogue of the Pharos Project (Doctor Who and dirty jokes), What's The T with Ru Paul (drag, life and dirty jokes) and The Indoor Kids (video games and... wow lots of these podcasts are really filthy). Plus I'm obviously keeping up to date with the vital ones, your Wittertainments and Empire Movie Podcasts and Adam Buxtons and Answer Me Thises and West Wing Weeklys (Josh Malina and Hrishikesh Hirway rewatch and review the West Wing one episode at a time. No massively dirty jokes yet, but they're only on episode four, there's still time.)
The only drawback to my massive podcast habit is a) that there are so many more I will probably never get to (Song Exploder, The Black Tapes, even Serial, they're on the list, I just haven't had the chance), and b) that if I hear another advert for Squarespace I think I might rip my own ears off and feed them to the nearest podcaster. (Not that I am not very grateful to all the advertisers for providing me with more free quality entertainment than I could ever possibly cram into my brain, but... seriously.)
ANYWAY - this was meant to be a fairly simple rec entry, so let's just say one of the good things about the Cornell Collective, Paul Cornell's wonderful geeky creator podcast is that it's monthly and has been going for less than a year so it's possible to catch up. Also, it's wonderful! And geeky! And stars creators from the worlds of TV, film and comics, talking about geeky things and usually some Doctor Who! If you like these things, you should listen to it.
Here you go: http://cornellcollective.geekplanetonline.com/podcast/the-cornell-collective-01/
Thing 5: [Eyeball squick warning]
Jessie tore her cornea last weekend. It was awful. She's much better now, and I know where my local A+E is and how to get there, so that's a tiny silver lining. Just a word of advice, for anyone who is thinking of getting hit in the face with a tree branch and tearing their cornea: don't.


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If you're the former CTO of Microsoft and you're looking for a hobby, what do you do? You cook. You build your own commercial kitchen and buy every piece of equipment known to man. Maybe you write a book about it. And not just any book, a 5-volume, $500 beast of a book.
If you're not the former CTO of Microsoft and you can't build a commercial kitchen in your house, and you can't commit unlimited time to preparing and perfecting dishes, then what? What about the rest of us?
Well, there's this. Let this extra-wide, stainless steel, dildo-looking thing pop your modernist cuisine cherry.
Anova Bluetooth and WiFi Precision Cooker, $169 (was $199)
My buddy has this gizmo from Anova. He sous-vide'd an elk steak then seared it in a cast iron pan. It was amazing. I immediately wanted one of these cookers.
But $200 is still $200. Here's another way to rationalize it: it works with your existing pots and pans. Other sous vide cookers are gigantic and expensive because they're full water baths. Like the size of a cooler. That takes up a lot kitchen space and costs a lot of money. This thing, as previously mentioned, is about the size of a … well, I'm not saying it again. And it's no longer $200 … it's $170.
Anyway, I'm getting one at some point. Might be today because that price is great. You can save another $10 with the Bluetooth model. And I love me my Bluetooth.
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Brek Shea sits down on a bench before peeling off his cleats after a spirited practice. The Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder answers a couple of questions when the conversation turns to the circumstances that brought him to the West Coast.
In short, he never expected to be here.
"(The trade) was a huge shock to me," said Shea. "I wasn't very happy at first, to be honest. But now I really enjoy my team and the staff and the environment."
Acquired from Orlando City SC just before the start of the Major League Soccer season, the tattooed 27-year-old Texan with long blond hair has already had a number of highs and lows in Vancouver.
Shea was red carded and suspended for swearing at the referee in his first MLS start before suffering a knee injury in early April moments after scoring in the CONCACAF Champions League semifinal.
The Whitecaps thought he might miss three months, but Shea was back working hard at training a few weeks later and has bagged goals the last two games as a second-half substitute.
Needless to say, Shea's first 80-odd days in Vancouver have been eventful.
"I came in, one game got a red card, then missed one and then got injured," he said. "I'm starting to feel more healthy now so hopefully I can be a more consistent contributor."
The owner of 24 goals and 20 assists in 148 MLS appearances, Shea's career started with FC Dallas before he headed overseas to join Stoke City of the English Premier League in 2013.
The move didn't end up working out, and after two loan spells to second-tier Championship sides, the veteran of 34 games for the U.S. national team returned to MLS with Orlando two years later.
"Fantastic teammate, great professional," said Whitecaps midfielder Andrew Jacobson, who played with Shea in Dallas. "He's naturally very gifted, physically very gifted."
While Shea is rounding into form on the pitch, there's also no denying the ability he possesses off it. His website Left Foot Studio sells his vibrant paintings and artwork to raise money for charity.
"It's just a hobby of mine," said Shea, whose wife and daughter have joined him in Vancouver. "I always enjoyed art when I was young. My mom was very artistic. It's just something I really enjoy to do off the field."
In the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando last June that left 50 people dead, including the gunman, Shea created some pieces to help the survivors, including rainbow-painted cleats.
"That was a huge tragedy," he said. "I just wanted to contribute as best I could. That was one way I could contribute."https://twitter.com/JogaBonitoUSA/status/860703688284930049
Back on the field, Shea has come as advertised when healthy. He scored the game's only goal off the bench two weeks ago against the Colorado Rapids before getting one back in last Friday's 2-1 loss to the Houston Dynamo.
Whitecaps head coach Carl Robinson recalls tangling with the six-foot-three, 195-pound Shea — a finalist for MLS MVP in 2011 — at the tail end of his playing career.
It wasn't an enjoyable experience.
"He was a nightmare," said Robinson, who sent Giles Barnes the other way in the deal with Orlando. "He's athletic and strong. You think you can get the ball as a defender, and you can't."
The owner of various creative hairstyles through his career, Shea played predominantly at left back with Orlando, but Vancouver brought the designated player across the continent to ply his trade further up the pitch off the wing.
"I did the (defensive) role I was asked to do in that situation, but even in that role I enjoyed going forward," said Shea. "I think my strengths are going forward and trying to create an attack or be a part of it."
The Whitecaps (4-5-1), who host Sporting Kansas City (5-2-4) on Saturday following a four-game road strip, hope that continues.
"He's got two goals in a row," said Jacobson. "I've been on the field with him before.
"When he catches fire he can be one of the best in the league."