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Back when we had no internet a couple of weeks ago, the Wee One and I made fabric bowls, based on a tutorial from Buzzmills' blog. It was a lot of fun and a great way to use up scraps I haven't wanted to part with. The Wee One loved picking out his fabrics to work with.
(We made this project before his haircut. I can't believe how different he looks!)
Here they are done! Aren't they beautiful? I love them, and so does my little guy.
He uses his bowl for little toys and things he collects.
It is a great project and I definitely suggest you make some, too! I am thinking of making some with seasonal themed fabrics for various holidays– definitely ones for Christmas (would be great gifts!), perhaps a big one for wrapped Halloween candy, and maybe something Thanksgiving themed for a new set of Thankful Stones.


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Locally, John has designed at the Arden, the Wilma, People's Light, and the Walnut Street Theatres, 20 operas for Opera Company of Philadelphia, and over 100 ballets for Pennsylvania Ballet. Nationally: design staff New York City Opera, Lighting Director at New York City Ballet, and designed for Luciano Pavarotti, Spoletto Festival, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Folger Shakespeare, Cleveland Playhouse, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. Film: Center Stage. Awards: 2005 Independence Fellowship, two Best of Philadelphia Awards, five Barrymore nominations with Awards for Sweeney Todd (Arden) 9 Parts Desire at the Wilma Theater, a Helen Hayes nomination for Measure for Measure (Folger), two "Rockie" Awards, and a Prix Millennium Award for Capuleti et Montegue (Opera Company of Philadelphia). Recently, his work was shown internationally on PBS (Pennsylvania Ballet at 50) and was a design consultant for PlayPenn new play festival.
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text: AgencyBloc Holiday Family Gatherings Explained by Movie QuotesBy Kelsey Rosauer on December 22, 2016 in Life at AgencyBloc Photo credit: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation How would you explain your family holiday get-together? We asked the team to describe their family gatherings for the holidays using one holiday movie quote. Here are their responses! Adam Lewis Partner There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. —Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Cory Schmidt Partner Blast this Christmas music! It's joyful and triumphant. —The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas Greg Engelkes Software Engineer We're kicking off our fun old-fashion family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel-drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select that most important of Christmas symbols. —Clark Griswold, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Erica Kiefer VP, Sales & Marketing And the angel said unto them, 'Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.' And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.' —Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Christmas Sara O'Brien Marketing Campaign Specialist You'll shoot your eye out, kid. —Santa Claus, Christmas Story Tasha Fitzgerald Client Success Specialist Folks, my firm's done a tremendous amount of marketing research and we've discovered two critical things, one; most Americans feel that Christmas is a time for family. Two; most Americans feel that in order to stand being around their family, for even one or two days, they need to swill as much alcohol as humanly possible. —Drew Latham, Surviving Christmas Mike Ivory Marketing Operations Specialist Clark: Catherine, if this turkey tastes half as good as it looks, I think we're all in for a very big treat! Eddie: Save the neck for me, Clark. Clark: Okay Eddie... —National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Allison Babberl Marketing Content Specialist Mr. Parker: Aaah! Fra-GEE-leh! It must be Italian! Mrs. Parker: Uh, I think that says FRAGILE, honey. —A Christmas Story Becky Cox Web Developer Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. —Clark Griswold, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Steve Ogden Sales Manager Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. —Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz Molly Schulte Client Success Specialist It's Christmas Eve. It's the one night a year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. —Frank Cross, Scrooged Michael Relph Sales Specialist This place reminds me of Santa's Workshop! Except it smells like mushrooms and everyone looks like they want to hurt me. —Buddy, Elf Tori Heerts Client Success Specialist It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more. —The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas Quentin Dietrich Product Experience Analyst You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here. —Buddy, Elf Gary Marr Client Success Specialist Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead? —Clark Griswold, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Kelsey Rosauer Marketing Brand Specialist We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup. —Buddy, Elf Jen Warne Product Manager My dearest friend, if you don't mind. I'd like to join you by your side. Where we can gaze into the stars. And sit together, now and forever. For it is plain, as anyone can see. 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My good friend's sister is about to have an adorable baby girl and she wanted a little teeny pair of purple booties for the top of the baby shower cake.
I used the Garter Stitch Silk Slipper pattern from Erika Knight's Simple Knits for Cherished Babies. This is a favorite old standby pattern for me. Its easy, knits up super fast, and the results are fantastic.
I used some Koigu Kersti Crepe Marino in a pale, pale, pale lavander. They seemed a little too plain so I rummaged around in my box of sewing goodies and i found a pretty purple rickrack.
Done! I can't wait to see how cute they will be on top of that cake!


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As school based speech-language pathologists, our end goal for articulation treatment focuses on helping students use clear speech in the general education classroom. Ultimately, this carryover of skills during classroom activities affects our students' academic success.
As the start of the school year draws near—or has already arrived of some of us—I offer five tips on articulation carryover that I always share with teachers and other faculty. These easy approaches will help teachers—and also families—support generalization of articulation skills:
- Model clear articulation: The more the student hears a sound correctly, the more likely they'll say it correctly. Look for opportunities to model target sounds, especially during small group activities. When modeling for a student, say the sound clearly and naturally.
- Focus on speech sounds: Emphasize the sound a letter makes rather than the letter itself. For example, remind a student to say the "shh" sound, rather the "s" "h" sound.
- Give specific feedback: Give students' specific feedback for saying sounds correctly. For example, "Wow! I heard TWO sounds when you said the word "spot!" I heard "ssssss" and "puh"! Avoid criticizing a student for saying a sound incorrectly in front of other students. Speaking with confidence is important and providing too much negative feedback—especially in a large group—can make them overly self-conscious.
- Ask for repetition: Asking a student to repeat teaches them that speaking clearly is important without putting them on the spot to say a specific sound correctly. For example: "I didn't understand, can you say that again?" "What you have to say is important, can you repeat that?" If you still can't understand the student, encourage them to use a communication strategy like saying the word in a sentence to give context or writing it down. Honor the communication even if articulation is incorrect.
- Highlight target sounds: Underline or highlight the target sound in advance for read aloud or homework activities to reinforce the student's awareness of the sound in context. This is also a great carryover activity for older students to complete independently.
Everyone at some point needs to work on clear articulation and speaking. It takes practice for children and adults to use precise language in academic and professional settings. Which strategies do you find most helpful? How do you support carryover of articulation targets in the classroom? Please share your ideas in the comment section below.
Kylie Grace Davis, MS, CCC-SLP, is a school based SLP in southwestern Colorado. Her previous clinical experience includes skilled rehabilitation services, mobile modified barium swallow studies and tracheostomy management in long-term acute care hospitals in Denver. email@example.com


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Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren, "with a straight face" talks about how the FED can affect the economy with nominal interest rates at zero:
I've called this talk "How Should Monetary Policy Respond to a Slow Recovery?" My answer to that question is: vigorously, creatively, thoughtfully, and persistently, as long as we have options at our disposal. And we do have options, despite having pushed short-term rates to the zero lower bound.
We think the FED's options have been whittled away like the Black Knight's in the Monty Python Movie:
Robert Prechter writes (emphasis added):
Economists hint at the Fed's occasional impotence in fostering credit expansion when they describe an ineffective monetary strategy, i.e., a drop in the Fed's target rates that does not stimulate borrowing, as "pushing on a string." At such times, low Fed-influenced rates cannot overcome creditors' disinclination to lend and/or customers' unwillingness or inability to borrow.
We would add some thoughts to this simple concept. Prechter has emphasized credit expansion, but there is more to it than that. First, there is a difference between customers who are unwilling to borrow and those unable to borrow. Those unwilling to borrow are also likely unwilling to spend. While those unable to borrow are likely to have few assets to sell to feed their desire to spend. So… suppose the government bought all bonds, public and private, for (newly created) cash. Those who would spend but who had no assets to sell would receive no new cash and would not spend more. Those who had assets to sell will have received new cash in return for their bonds, but they didn't want to spend in the first place. Any one or more of those individuals could have converted their close-to-zero yielding bond assets to cash and spent at any time, but chose not to. Will one who is unwilling to borrow and spend suddenly become more inclined to spend and thus make prices rise, simply because the makeup of his portfolio was changed – against his will- from close-to-zero yielding bonds to absolutely zero yielding bonds? The answer is unclear, particularly, if he expects prices to fall. The FED might want to take a survey of these folks…
Look at the photo of a dollar below:
See where it says "Federal Reserve Note" and where it says "This note is legal tender…"? Dollars are notes or debts, that is, obligations of the Federal Reserve. When the Federal Reserve buys US Treasury Bonds from the open market and pays for them with dollars (a process some refer to as "monetization" or "printing money"), it and the marketplace has simply exchanged one form of debt for another. The supply in the hands of the market of one kind of debt (dollars) increased while another (Treasury Bonds) decreased. Long before the Federal Reserve got involved to exchange dollars for Treasury Bonds – when the Treasury bonds were first created and sold to the public – that's when the notional value (that is, the proceeds) of those Treasury Bonds was attached to goods and services. Increases in government debt, as well as increases in private debt (net), are inflationary. But not the monetization of the debt by the Federal Reserve.
At present, we have a situation where private debt is being reduced faster than government debt is being increased so that, in aggregate, total debts are declining – this is deflationary.
Technically, the total supply of debt can increase in an amount equal to the amount which society saves each year without inflation. Conversely, total debt (including new equity shares) must increase by the amount of savings each year, or… we will have deflation.
You don't have to be a bank to inflate or deflate.
Jimmy Songwriter sitting at the bar has a flash of inspiration and quickly writes down a new song. His somewhat inebriated friend, Joey Songsinger hears the song once and enthusiastically offers to buy it for a price equal to "whatever it takes – even if it's the whole income of the United States". Jimmy Songwriter, as a joke and to teach his friend a lesson, tells Joey he will sell the song for $13 Trillion and that he would finance it and Joey signs a note to Jimmy for $13 Trillion. This single transaction goes on record as the highest price ever paid for a song… drives up the average price of all songs by a factor of thousands…and doubles nominal GDP and the average price of all goods and services in the United States. The next year at Christmas, when the note comes due, Jimmy sends his friend Joey an email offering to "settle" the note for $500. Joey gladly agrees. After all they both knew that's what the song was truly worth …and what Joey could pay. That year, nominal GDP falls from the previously inflated level by roughly 50% with a 50% deflation in the price level as there are no more songs sold (and financed) for such exorbitant prices.
1. We didn't need banks or the Federal Reserve to create the price inflation or the price deflation which followed. All we needed was debt creation and then the subsequent de-leveraging and return to "normalcy".
2. Neither Jimmy nor Joey had the legal power to "print" or coin "money" and they did not need it to affect the price level.
3. Most importantly, what Jimmy and Joey do can offset and overwhelm whatever the Federal Reserve and the banks do.
John Mauldin is in the "mild" inflation camp, while Bill Bonner is in the deflation camp. Mauldin cites the elements resulting in a tendency toward deflation as rising unemployment, massive wealth destruction, decreased final demand, low capacity utilization, massive deleveraging and a very weak housing market. But, then he bravely argues that our powerful, benevolent Federal Reserve will allow neither Bonner's deflation scenario…nor large rates of inflation as posited by Peter Schiff:
The Fed is going to do what it takes to bring about inflation (in my opinion). But they will not monetize US government debt beyond what they have already agreed to. If they need to "print money" to fight deflation, they can buy mortgage or credit-card or other forms of private debt, which have the convenience of being self-liquidating. Read the speeches of the Fed presidents and governors. I can't imagine these people will recklessly monetize US debt. You don't get to their level without having a stiff backbone.
Mauldin's apparent blind faith in an effective, competent, and non-captured FED seems out of character. It's probably not naivete' , but whatever else it is, it's dangerous advice to bet on a potent FED in these times. For our own part, the elements supporting deflation, as listed by Mauldin, are outside the FED's control. If they were within the FED's control the FED would never have allowed them to begin in the first place.
A recent article in the WSJ talks of "China Nurtur[ing] Futures Markets in Bid to Sway Commodity Prices":
Chinese leaders are concerned that their nation's enormous economic expansion is becoming an excuse for foreign suppliers to inflate commodity costs. So, they hope to use their three futures exchanges to fight back.
Government officials say the country is positioning its futures markets to be major players in setting world prices for metal, energy and farm commodities. By letting the world know how much its companies and investors think goods are worth, China hopes to be less at the mercy of markets elsewhere.
Its easy to see why China would want to protect itself from recent large fluctuations in commodity (mainly oil) prices, when they spent $180 billion importing oil last year. They won't have a very easy time doing it, however. China is still a communist government and they do not have a legal system in place to support futures contracts. None of them would be enforceable. There is also a huge policy bias towards large state-owned enterprises like China Oil. The Shanghai Futures Exchange won't be an open, competitive, and effective market until small players in the exchange can get equal rights. The authoritarian Chinese Government policy makers (dictators) only allow the economy cake to grow on the condition that the largest piece is received by their friends in high positions at giant state-owned enterprises.
Unfortunately, just as the Chinese economy is manipulated by a small group of people, the US (and world) economy is manipulated in the same manner by the FED and entities like Goldman Sachs. China should be setting it's sites on getting rid of Goldman Sachs instead of setting up its own pitiful exchanges. There is not much of a link between the HUGE fluctuations in oil prices and China's steady increase in demand for oil (and other commodities). The true culprit and beneficiary behind these things is (government sponsored) Goldman Sachs. GS manipulated who would be rescued by with its immense amount of government cronies in Washington, successfully killing off its competitors, and then rode the energy curve up and down gaining huge rewards in the mean time.
If China's goal is control and manipulate the biggest economy in the world (it is), all it has to do is take a look at the US's Federal Reserve. We do it much better here in the states! We set up an authoritarian entity, claim that its "private" and separate from any form of oversight, then let it freely give out trillions of tax payer dollars to support whatever manipulative policy it desires! All without any of its skeletons coming back to haunt any elected officials.
The WSJ reports that the minutes of the August FOMC suggest a FED determined to put a bright outlook on a very uncertain situation. Basically, the "recovery" depends on an increasingly unemployed consumer deciding to spend more to take the place of federal programs.
This "blurb" from the minutes (emphasis added) as quoted at Calculated Risk shows the FED recognizes that a "recovery" is based on little more than "hope" that consumers will become more willing to spend as a result of their recent "increase in wealth" from all the bank-manipulated stock market gains and some other things the consumer could care less about:
The new estimates of real disposable income that were reported in the comprehensive revision to the national income and product accounts showed a noticeably slower increase in 2008 and the first half of 2009 than previously thought. By themselves, the revised income estimates would imply a lower forecast of consumer spending in coming quarters. But this negative influence on aggregate demand was roughly offset by other factors, including higher household net worth as a result of the rise in equity prices since March, lower corporate bond rates and spreads, a lower dollar, and a stronger forecast for foreign economic activity.
The August FOMC minutes could as easily read something like: "The Federal Reserve believes that a substantial case can be made that the consumer will win the lottery and go on a spending binge later this year"…
According to Rassmussen Reports, 75% of Americans support auditing the Federal Reserve. In contrast, only 9% of adults surveyed were against the idea of a FED audit. In the face of all this support, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is continuing to push back against the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, that would give the Comptroller General – the head of the Government Accountability Office – the power to audit the central bank.
Economist Dean Baker, who's been a vocal critic of the Fed, recently commented:
"The country now has almost 25 million people who are unemployed or underemployed as a result of the Fed's disastrous policies. Millions of people are losing their homes and tens of millions are losing their life savings. The country is likely to lose more than $6 trillion in output ($20,000 per person) due to the Fed's inept job performance."
The Federal Reserve Transparency Act MUST pass in order for our economy to recover for the long term. Contact your representative TODAY to show your support for the bill!
Please read William Greider's article in The Nation in its entirety. Here are a couple of pastes to wet your whistle:
This awkward reality explains the dilemma facing the Fed. It cannot stand too much visibility, nor can it easily explain or justify its peculiar status. The Federal Reserve is the black hole of our democracy–the crucial contradiction that keeps the people and their representatives from having any voice in these most important public policies. That's why the central bankers have always operated in secrecy, avoiding public controversy and inevitable accusations of special deal-making. The current crisis has blown the central bank's cover. Many in Congress are alarmed, demanding greater transparency. More than 250 House members are seeking an independent audit of Fed accounts. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi observed that the Fed seems to be poaching on Congressional functions–handing out public money without the bother of public decision-making.
A few months back, I ran into a retired Fed official who had been a good source twenty years ago when I was writing my book about the central bank, Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. He is a Fed loyalist and did not leak damaging secrets. But he helped me understand how the supposedly nonpolitical Fed does its politics, behind the veil of disinterested expertise. When we met recently, he said the central bank is already making preparations to celebrate its approaching centennial. Some of us, I responded, have a different idea for 2013.
"We think that would be a good time to dismantle the temple," I playfully told my old friend. "Democratize the Fed. Or tear it down. Create something new in its place that's accountable to the public."
The Fed man did not react well to my teasing. He got a stricken look. His voice tightened. Please, he pleaded, do not go down that road. The Fed has made mistakes, he agreed, but the country needs its central bank. His nervous reaction told me this venerable institution is feeling insecure about its future.
It's time – once and for all – dismantle the FED. The bank's power must be castrated.
Below is a copy of Hank Paulson's prepared testimony for tomorrow's (June 16th) hearings which will cover the assistance that FED's provided to Bank of America (thanks Zero Hedge):


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Over the past year I have decided to grow a beard. I have made this decision many times, but after dealing with the itchy phase for a month or so I have always given up on it. This time has been different. I let it grow for about six months and it was coming in nicely when one morning I looked in the mirror and said to myself, "Self, I'm not sure I like this beard". So, I got out the scissors and razor and within a few minutes, no more beard. I looked back in the mirror and addressed myself once again, "What have I done?!" That was five months ago. I haven't shaved since and I don't plan to.
I now find myself faced with the decision of how to control this facial fur? How do I sculpt it into the look I'm after? What is the look I'm after or better yet, am I even after a look? There are so many styles of beards that I have been overwhelmed in trying to make my choices. Do I let it grow wild and simply never do anything with it? I could keep it short for that rugged 5 o'clock shadow look that so many are sporting today. Then there is the meticulously trimmed and gelled look of the hipster. I examined this option a bit and found that you can actually purchase beard grooming templates to get those perfect lines. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
A major problem that I am confronted with when considering the hipster look is that my hair is way too curly to grow it out and do the man-bun thing. It would look more like a puff-ball stuck to my head. For some of the same reasons the undercut would simply look ridiculous. In my late teens and early twenties, I let my hair get fairly long. Well, allow me to correct that. My hair really doesn't get long, it gets big. I'm talking afro looking big. It was out to there and below my shoulders. I could even walk around with a hair pick stuck in it. Since I was much thinner in those days I kind of looked like a Brillo pad with legs.
Then there is the perfectly styled wild and unkempt look. A bit of an oxymoron I realize, but there it is. This seems to be the style for those who want to look like a wild man of the wood but not actually be one. The kind of look that says I spend my days out in the yard chopping wood or hunting deer without ever getting my boots dirty. I can't imagine how much time and effort it takes to perfect this one.
There is always the Duck Dynasty look. You know the one. Let it grow long, scraggly and wild. The kind of beard that sasquatch would be proud of. While I don't want to spend the better part of my morning tending to my beard I also don't want it to be too extreme. Somewhere in there I must find the bearded middle way.
To add to my dilemma there is a plethora of men's grooming products. All the gels, balms and goos are as much a mystery to me as women's grooming products. So, I really have been at a loss. The internet doesn't do much good as everyone is trying to sell their own product. They often tout how theirs will end all of my hairy woes and bring peace to the Middle East. I tried a few creams and lotions that helped through the itchy phase which was worth the effort it. Then a friend suggested a beard balm. Blissfully ignorant I purchased said balm and matching beard comb, rubbed a bit in the palm of my hand and smushed it into my beard. I then manipulated the oddly shaped comb to shape my facial growth into the perfect beard. Once the waxy substance hardened in place my beard was set. I mean really set, like concrete it wouldn't move. Much to my dismay I soon discovered that every time I touched it I ended up with the balm all over my hands and like a wayward booger nowhere to wipe it off. What was worse is that my beloved wouldn't come near me for fear of being balmed herself.
While I'm on the subject of grooming products, I'd like to digress for a moment and pose a question to you dear reader. There are so many things in this world that don't seem to make sense to me. Take for instance perfumes, aftershaves and the other smelly stuff we splash all over ourselves to attract the opposite sex. If we assume that stereotypes are true and that men are into manly things like carpentry, machines and diesel engines why do women wear perfumes that smell like flowers? Wouldn't something like eau de motor oil or fragrance of chainsaw make more sense? In the same vein shouldn't men be wearing frilly and flowery eau de toilette? I'm not sure, but this may be a marketing strategy for some clever perfumery.
Back to the beard quandary. With all of my musing and research on this subject I have found some helpful guidance with the old school barber shop here in town. This is the kind of barber shop where, along with a good haircut for 16 bucks, you can catch up on the local news and get a fairly accurate fishing or hunting report. The lone barber chair in the shop is well worn from many years of use. The cushioned metal framed waiting chairs are lined up against a paneled wall. The 70's style wood panel has a broad darkened shadow where thousands of heads have brushed against it over the long years. I've been going to this place for a long time now and prefer it over the many sport cut and discount places that have popped up. I have found that TV's and sports themes don't provide a better haircut and the conversation is often a bit forced. On my last visit to the City Barber Shop I mentioned to Donny the barber my dilemma and asked his opinion. His answer was quite simple. "Let's give it a trim and shape it a bit then see where it goes." Pretty sound advice I thought.
My beard dilemma is just like so many things in life. We have a tendency to overthink and stress about things when often the simplest solution is staring us in the face. I'll let the beard go and keep it trimmed, but not fanatically. I'll skip the goo, gel and balm and keep it clean using a bit of lotion now and then. It turns out that for me the bearded middle way is finding the balance between wild-man and hipster.
The reasons a man grows a beard are as varied as the beards themselves. It is literally and figuratively the face we choose show to the world. Just like how we dress, style our hair and speak; it tells those we meet a little bit about us. So perhaps it's an identity thing, a means of projecting how we see ourselves and want to be seen. When my teenage niece said to me recently, "I like it. It makes you look like a world traveler." I knew that I would keep it for a while.
I'll let you know how it grows.
William C. Judge 2018


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Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics220
The Laboratory aims at getting meaningful results in economic theory and empirical research. It is based on a new class of models of market systems with free entry. The main tasks:
- study of new possibilities of monopolistically competitive markets under conditions of the removal of restrictions on the constant elasticity of substitution between goods in consumption;
- extended analysis of the model of monopolistically competitive markets by including it in models of endogenous growth and multi-product output;
- study of the nature of asymmetric solutions agglomeration model of core-periphery type;
- empirical study of Russian interregional and international trade accounting for heterogenity of firms, sectors and trade flows;
- development and testing of computable general equilibrium models in the regions.
Academic Advisor: Kristian Behrens, UQAM (Canada), HSE
Leading Research Fellow: Jacques-François Thisse, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, HSE and CEPR
Head: Sergey Kokovin
International Laboratory of Mirror Symmetry and Automorphic Forms220
The International Laboratory of Mirror Symmetry and Automorphic Forms was created in December 2016 in the framework of the Russian Government megagrants programme. The lab plans to create a new global research platform that combines the efforts of mathematicians from different domains of mathematics and theoretical physics working on the problems related to mirror symmetry, derived and non-commutative geometry, automorphic forms, and number theory.
Academic Superviser: Ludmil Katzarkov, Professor, University of Miami
Head: Valery Gritsenko
Center for bioelectric interfaces220
Research conducted by the Center for bioelectric interfaces focuses on developing information technology for bidirectional communications with the human brain. It combines the electrocorticographic (ECoG) interface and modern multidimensional data analysis methods with somatosensory feedback provided by direct electrical stimulation or sensory substitution.
Academic Supervisor: Mikhail Lebedev, Senior Research Scientist, Duke University
Head: Alexey Ossadtchi
International Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioural EconomicsHSE
The laboratory has been created in 2009 by a group of academics and students at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Some of us were among the first researchers who conducted economic experiments in Russia, some others are students interested in this new and exciting field of economics and interdisciplinary research in human behaviour in the various social contexts.
Academic Supervisor: Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Guest Researcher at bonneconlab at University of Bonn
Head: Alexis V. Belianin
International Laboratory of Financial EconomicsHSE
The goal of the International Laboratory of Financial Economics (LFE) is to support academic research in finance at best international standards in Russia, particularly but not exclusively with a focus on emerging financial markets.
Academic Supervisor: Christian Julliard, Associate Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Head: Vladimir Sokolov
Laboratory for Economics of InnovationHSE
The key objective of the Laboratory is the development of a theory for the economics of innovation and elaboration of the applied instruments and concepts for evidence-based innovation policy.
Head: Ian Miles, Professor of Technological Innovation and Social Change, University of Manchester
Academic Supervisor: Leonid Gokhberg
Laboratory for Science and Technology StudiesHSE
The LST research entity aims at conducting pioneer studies on evidence-based science, technology and innovation policy. The balance between solid scientific work and user-oriented projects for various stakeholders on the national and international level is another crucial factor of success which guarantees the Lab a unique advantage both in Russia and worldwide.
Head: Jonathan Linton, Full Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
Chief Research Fellow: Alexander Sokolov
International Research Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic ReformsHSE
The Research Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms (LIA) brings together faculty, post-graduates and students from the HSE departments of Economics, Sociology, Public and Municipal Administration; their professional interests are focused on institutional analysis of different markets and sectors of the economy. The Lab's researchers engage both in their own research and LIA-wide projects, including Economics of Education, Economics of Bureaucracy, Institutional analysis of Banking and Economics of NGOs.
Academic Supervisor: John Nye, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Head: Maria Yudkevich
International Laboratory of Decision Choice and AnalysisHSE
The Laboratory's main research and development areas are: theory of individual, social and multicriteria choice; mathematical modeling and empirical analysis of decision making in various economic and political institutions and institutional systems; game-theoretical models and methods in economics, political economy and political science; data analysis (methods of clustering, pattern recognition etc.)
Head: Fuad Aleskerov
Chief Research Fellow: Eric Maskin, Adams University Professor, Harvard University, Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 2007
International Centre for the Study of Institutions and DevelopmentHSE
The International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (CSID) brings together Russian and foreign experts in economics and political science to conduct cutting edge research. Current projects for the period 2011-13 examine the career trajectories of regional bureaucrats in Russia, the impact of police reform in Moscow, and the influence of legality and violence on company behaviour.
Academic Supervisor: Timothy Frye, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Director: Andrei Yakovlev
International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural ResearchHSE
Major activities of the Laboratory include investigating the impact of culture (cultural values and socio-cultural context) on socio-economic development; investigating socio-cultural conditioning of economic consciousness and behavior; developing a unified concept of cultural dimensions that would integrate existing concepts and approaches; developing new methods for socio-psychological and cross-cultural research.
Head: Nadezhda Lebedeva
Deputy Head: Klaus Boehnke, Full Professor of Social Science Methodology, Jacobs University Bremen
International Laboratory for Educational Policy AnalysisHSE
The Laboratory aims to carry out research in education through the use of modern methods. The laboratory works in cooperation with leading international researchers on projects related to evaluation of education quality, the economics of education and educational policy.
Academic Supervisor: Martin Carnoy, Vida Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford University
Academic Supervisor: Isak Froumin
International Laboratory for Applied Network ResearchHSE
International laboratory for Applied Network Research was launched in 2014 as a result of a tender of three-years projects. General aims are development and testing of new network data analysis methods in different fields (branches of science). As much as network researches are multidisciplinary we involve researchers in mathematics, statistics, education, sociology and management.
Academic Supervisor: Anuška Ferligoj, Full Professor of Statistics, University of Ljubljana
Head: Valentina Kuskova
International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical PhysicsHSE
The main objective of the laboratory is to develop a common approach to a variety of issues at the interface between the theory of integrable systems and representation theory of quantum and infinite-dimensional groups and algebras.
Academic Supervisor: Andrei Okounkov, Samuel Eilenberg Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, Fields Medalist
Head: Boris Feigin
Center for Language and BrainHSE
Center for Language and Brain researchers study language as a product of human brain functioning in its complex interactions with other cognitive functions. Working on these problems they apply experimental approach and use such tools as eye-movement tracking, magnitoencephalography, fMRI, and ERPs.
Academic Supervisor: Roelien Bastiaanse, Professor in Neurolinguistics, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Head: Olga Dragoy
International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences HSE
Established in 2010, the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences aims to develop academic studies in the field of history and sociology of World War II and the Holocaust and disseminate research results by publishing historical sources and secondary studies.
Academic Supervisor: Michael David-Fox, Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Director: Oleg Budnitskii
International Laboratory of Stochastic Algorithms and High-Dimensional InferenceHSE
Russian and international researchers work at the laboratory at the intersection of numerous mathematical disciplines, including modern statistics, optimisation, probability theory and theory of computation. Its main aim is to develop new probability and statistical approaches to current problems in the field of data analysis.
Academic Supervisor: Eric Moulines, Professor, Télécom-ParisTech
Head: Alexey Naumov
International Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and its ApplicationsHSE
The team of the international laboratory gathers together researchers from various countries (Germany, France, Russia, UK) and from different schools but linked by close research interests. The lab has an initiative group from HSE (V.Konakov and V.Panov) and four invited professors with international recognition (E. Mammen, S. Menozzi, D. Belomestny, A. Veretennikov). The team was created on the basis of a long collaboration history, and research interests of all members of the group are quite close to each other. The general aim is to improve theoretical background and to develop practical methods for different stochastic models, to combine and share knowledge and ideas of leading international researchers to advance in several directions of the modern stochastic analysis.
Academic Supervisor: Stanislav Molchanov, Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Head: Valentin Konakov
International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and MotivationHSE
The research projects of the laboratory address engagement, meaning, motivational regulation, concordance of goals, and other constructs using instruments developed by the laboratory members as well as validated Russian versions of established measures.
Academic Supervisor: Kennon Sheldon, Professor, Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri
Head: Dmitry Leontiev
International Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Structural AnalysisHSE
The ISSA Lab is focused on some mathematical models of artificial intelligent and it's software implementation. Laboratory staff participate in all academic activities on tree levels: bachelor's programs, master's programs, and postgraduate schools (for dissertation preparation).
Head: Sergei Kuznetsov
Leading Research Fellow: Andre Scedrov, Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the HumanitiesHSE
The work of Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (Russian acronym – IGITI) is carried out in several key research areas – the history of ideas and the sociology of knowledge, the history of studies of language and text, the university studies, and the analysis of contemporary cultural trends. In these areas, the Institute focuses on the following issues: the status of theory in the contemporary humanities and social sciences; traditions and classicist influences in the evolution of the humanities; the social context in which scholarly knowledge operates; the history of institutional forms of knowledge production; the internationalization of national academic communities and the formation of transnational orders and hierarchies of knowledge.
Director: Irina Savelieva
Deputy Director: Elena Vishlenkova
Laboratory of Theoretical Computer ScienceHSE
The Laboratory of Theoretical Computer Science was created in December 2015. It is a part of Big Data and Information Retrieval School of the Faculty of Computer Science in HSE. Research topics of the laboratory include computational complexity, Kolmogorov complexity, algorithmic statistics, combinatorial optimization and algorithmic game theory.
Head: Nikolay Vereshchagin
Laboratory for Condensed Matter PhysicsHSE
The Condensed-matter physics Laboratory was established in June 2016.
The focus of the laboratory is on fundamental physics research at the top level. Development of a modern educational center is also part of the laboratory's mission. The laboratory brings together leading Russian physicists from research centers of the Russian academy (Landau Institute fro theoretical physics, Kapitza Institute for physical problems, Institute of solid-state physics, Institute for Spectroscopy, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute)
Academic Supervisor: Lev Ioffe, Professor of Physics, Rutgers University
Head: Yuriy Makhlin
Centre of Deep Learning and Bayesian MethodsHSE
Centre of Deep Learning and Bayesian Methods is established on the basis of Bayesian Methods Research Group. The group is one of the strongest scientific groups in Russia in the area of machine learning and probabilistic modeling. The laboratory researches the neurobayesian models that combine the advantages of the two most successful machine learning approaches, namely neural networks and Bayesian methods.
Academic Superviser: Novi Quadrianto, Assistant Professor, University of Sussex
Head: Dmitry Vetrov
International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual DialogueHSE
Laboratory mission lies in promotion of the idea of intellectual dialogue between Russia and Europe and in implementation of philosophical studies, which are united by this topic within partnership with leading (mainly European) research-educational institutes and centers. Laboratory activities will help to promote the HSE in international academic environment by participating in research and educational projects of faculty of Humanities, as well as by creating intellectual public platforms in order to improve HSE's image and its recognition as a leader of modern education in the humanities and international scientific and cultural cooperation center.
Academic Superviser: Leonid Luks, Professor, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Head: Vladimir Kantor
International Laboratory for Population and Health StudiesHSE
International Laboratory for Population and Health Studies develops new and existing public health research methods, and conducts studies on population health and mortality based on them. Our main priority is to address the issues of population health and mortality in Russia, including: factors of excess mortality at working ages, health of elderly people in aging societies, impact of socioeconomic inequalities on population health status, regional mortality differences.
Academic Superviser: Vladimir Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Head: Evgeny Andreev
International Laboratory for Supercomputer Atomistic Modelling and Multi-scale AnalysisHSE
The research agenda of the Laboratory is based on three pillars: 1)Development of new mathematical methods and algorithms for atomistic-based multiscale modelling and simulation. 2) Implementation of these methods using novel supercomputer technologies. 3) Using these tools to solve actual interdisciplinary scientific and technological problems: water-based biomolecular systems; minerals, clays and cements; gas hydrates; filtration processes in porous media; glassy and amorphous states; polymer materials; radiation damage of materials etc.
Head of the Group: Genri Norman
Deputy Head: Vladimir Stegailov
International Laboratory for Linguistic ConvergenceHSE
The International Laboratory for Linguistic Convergence opened in 2017. It focuses on processes of convergence in the history of languages, i.e. the processes by which common features spread among languages due to contact between their speakers. The laboratory aims at modelling processes of convergence and developing tools to study these phenomena using data from electronic corpora of spoken language.
Academic Superviser: Johanna Nichols, Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley
Head: Nina Dobrushina
International Laboratory for Macroeconomic AnalysisHSE
Lab's research covers various issues in macroeconomic policy and macroeconomic dynamics that could be provisionally divided into four broad topics: Sustainability of public finance; Information and macroeconomic policy; Empirical issues in macroeconomic modelling and forecasting; Political economy of growth and development.
Academic Superviser: Hubert Kempf, Full Professor of economics, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Head: Sergey E. Pekarski
International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New RegionalismHSE
The International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism is an integral part of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs. It aims to fulfil its members' research potential in the study of international politics. The Laboratory is headed by Alexander Lukin, PhD., ScD., Head of HSE School of International Affairs. Furthermore, University of Kent's Richard Sakwa, PhD., is a leading foreign researcher at the Laboratory.
Head: Alexander Lukin
Leading Research Fellow: Richard Sakwa, Professor, University of Kent
Centre for Labour Market StudiesHSE
The Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS) at the HSE was formed in 2001. Over these years, the Centre's reserchers have become one of Russia's leading research teams on the labour market. And in September 2018 the Centre was reorganised into the International Laboratory – the Centre for Labour Market Studies. The mission of Laboratory is empirical research in labour economics and evidence-based policy advice with the focus on labour markets in post-transition countries.
Director: Vladimir Gimpelson
Leading Research Fellow: Hartmut Lehmann, Professor of Economics, University of Bologna
International Laboratory 'Russia's Regions in Historical Perspective'HSE
Lab aims to provide a comprehensive look at the social and political development of regions within Russia from the 18th to late 20th century. The research team examines a range of issues, including the existing geographic positioning, the rise and transformation of imperial/Soviet/Post-Soviet historical and geographical entities, cross-border developments and exchanges, land cultivation, social engineering, regional administrative practices and the creation and growth of human capital.
Head: Ekaterina Boltunova
Leading Research Fellow: Willard Sunderland, Professor, Department of History, University of Cincinnati
Saint Petersburg
International laboratory of Game Theory and Decision MakingHSE
The subject of Game Theory is central to the mathematical modeling of the economic situations of conflict and cooperation. The HSE's Game Theory and Decision Making laboratory aims to develop new bridges between the models of non-cooperative behavior, and the normative concept of cooperation and fair division, in particular in their algorithmic and asymptotic dimensions.
Academic Supervisor: Herve Moulin, Donald J. Robertson Chair of Economics, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
Head: Александр Нестеров
Co-Head: Anna Bogomolnaya, Professor in Economics, University of Glasgow
International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy - Saint PetersburgHSE
The Laboratory aims at discovering phenomena of economic agents' behavior under uncertainty in the knowledge economy. The HSE-Perm research group together with their international partners focus on intangible-intensive organizations, with the emphasis on special features of public corporations, privately-held companies and organizations in sport industry.
Head: Elena Shakina
Leading Research Fellow: Angel Barajas
Nizhny Novgorod
Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis220
Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis (LATNA) was created in October, 2011 at the Higher School of Economics. It is an independent body of researchers and teachers, under direction of Professor Panos M. Pardalos (University of Florida, USA), funded from a grant by the Ministry of Science of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the laboratory is scientific research and the establishment of international relations in the field of algorithms and techniques on algorithms and technologies for networks analysis for fundamental and applied research.
Academic Supervisor: Panos Pardalos, Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
Head: Valery Kalyagin
International Laboratory of Intangible-driven EconomyHSE
The Laboratory aims at discovering phenomena of economic agents' behavior under uncertainty in the knowledge economy. The HSE-Perm research group together with their international partners focus on intangible-intensive organizations, with the emphasis on special features of public corporations, privately-held companies and organizations in sport industry.
Head: Elena Shakina
Leading Research Fellow: Angel Barajas
220 Laboratories established under implementation of the Decree No. 220 of the Government of the Russian Federation 'On the measures to attract leading researchers to Russian higher education institutions'
HSE Laboratories financed from the HSE funds


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Program Teaches Elementary and High Schoolers About Personal Finance
We've all said it or thought it at one point or another. For us left-brainers, it was likely while staring at the infamous "x" in a mathematical equation. Or remembering ourselves, sweaty-palmed, trying to conjure up the name of a triangle whose one angle was greater than ninety degrees. When will I ever use this, we thought. When?
Luckily, those word problems and equations became the patchwork of our ability to problem solve, but still, there's been a deficit according to Beth Huguet, a business teacher at Hellgate High School. Her voice joins a harmony of others who have noticed a lack in understanding of personal finances, something sure to show up in the futures of our children. Five years ago she came together with the Missoula County public schools and wrote a personal finance curriculum. Inspired by the wish to fill a gaping hole in the real-world education of students, their sights are aimed on eventually making personal finance a graduation mandate.
"There are fewer and fewer families sitting around the table and having these discussions," says Huguet. She was part of a large group in Missoula County who took the initiative to seek resources for financial education. A monthly group meeting became a growing conversation about financial literacy and the way in which it could change the immediate future for students after graduation.
"When we look at our students that are here for four years, within a year or two they're transitioning out to being on their own and they have no understanding of how to manage or protect their own finances, which is scary." Her dream, she says, was to not only teach personal finance but offer advanced courses as well.
"They can get an overarching understanding of finance or they can go even further and delineate a specific pathway that they want."
She stands proudly, gazing up at a chart that illustrates the several paths students can navigate within the financial academy set forth this year. All students who opt into the academy start with personal finance as a foundation class and either branch off into banking, accounting or financial planning for more in-depth knowledge, and also to reinforce the basics learned in the foundation class.
In accompaniment to the personal finance class, students also take part in the 6- to 8-hour computer-generated Financial Foundations/EverFi program sponsored by First Security Bank, encompassing and reiterating the material learned in class through real-world situations.
The program, altered to appeal to younger students, is also in place at Franklin Elementary. Alison Boone, the library media specialist, chose her fourth grade class to be the first participants after being approached about launching the program at Franklin last spring.
"The program is really phenomenal," says Boone. "It's designed to give the students these financial skills that will eventually lead them to be savvy money managers." By way of a gaming format, the program covers complex topics like applying for credit, spending and saving, getting insurance and choosing a career.
"I was really proud of them because I think, if that gave them a leg up…for their future spending and saving, that's something that's completely worthwhile," says Boone.
"At the end [of the program] we had a celebration, which was really touching because students got up and spoke about what the program meant to them and what they think it will mean to their future[s]." The students showed confidence and excitement when they spoke about their futures and they made finances a personal matter. A $200 check was granted to the students who participated in the program by First Security Bank and they're the ones who will get to decide how it will be handled.
"I really want them to drive the decision making," says Boone.
Years ago it seemed like taboo to talk with your children about money. That's changed in recent years, and for good reason. All too often, and by no fault of, parents are forced to work long hours to support their families. By some unfortunate measure financial literacy remained an unspoken reality too late realized for young adults nationwide, until now.
"I think we always have to remember that students are so capable. I think sometimes we think they can't rise to challenges because of their age or perhaps because of their circumstances but they can and I'm surprised each and every day by my students and what they can accomplish. This was just another example of that," says Boone.
The financial literacy program at Franklin is set to begin again in the spring with a new crop of students and the academy at Hellgate will journey onward toward the dream for the program to one day be a graduation mandate.


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A Recipe to Die For
A Witch A Willie and a Who Done It
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Lady Lydia Radcliff isn't happy about being the darling of the marriage mart, but she knows she must choose one of the men vying for her hand. Since she can't have the man she truly loves, she'll settle for one who wants her. Someone respectable, boring. However, she craves one more exciting adventure before she accepts a suitor. Knowing her final escapade must be in secrecy, she takes an alter-ego. Posing as Mr. Jamie Poole, she attends boxing matches, going so far as to mentor a young fighter in the art of pugilism. What Lydia doesn't know is the man she loves has ties to the boxing world, and when he recognizes her disguise, more than a prizefight is at stake.
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Richard Lovett, 9th Earl of Tisbury has long avoided marriage. His work as spymaster during the Napoleonic Wars, not to mention his continued work to protect the Crown and England, could put anyone close to him in danger. He's made a comfortable life out of portraying himself as a lackadaisical, country lord. When he stumbles upon the one woman he's always loved in a most ridiculous and dangerous disguise, Richard decides not only will he save her but he won't stand idly by and lose her hand in marriage to some tiresome fop.
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Take a holiday, they said. It will be fun, they said. No one will drop dead, they said.
Life in the Cornish villages of Port Merlin and Pendeen is going by at its somewhat leisurely pace, with no corpses in sight. When Gwen Dyer is given an all-expense paid trip to a luxury hotel and spa that caters exclusively to the magical set, she's overjoyed. With Millie Collins, Alfie Peabody and Paul Evans in tow, they fly off to the magical isle of St. Pellinore.
Everything is going according to plan, until the first body drops. It seems that Gwen and her friends can't even take a vacation without someone popping their clogs. Now, it's time for them to solve the whodunits at The Moonstone Hotel and Spa before they become the murderer's next victims.
A Witch A Willie and a Who Done It
Millie Collins is a witch praying for a mundane life. Thinking she's finally gotten away from finding dead bodies, she prepares for a day of enjoying herself at a Car Boot Sale, when she discovers a dead body in her trunk, landing her smack dab in the middle of another Who Done It.
Now, she just needs to solve the murder mystery, and deal with the hijinks of Paul Evans, and her Uncle Clive, as they take their pranking war to a whole new level. Welcome to Halloween in Port Merlin and Pendeen, where the strange and unusual make everyone scream.


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HISTORY. Our gateway town, incorporated in 1647, is the oldest incorporated town in Maine. Kittery guards the mouth of the Piscataqua River, boasts a rich history and, like most coastal New England communities, draws its existence from the sea and the availability of a good, deep water harbor. Kittery's early existence was tied to the sea; it developed as a fishing and shipbuilding center, a role it continues to fulfill. In the late 1600's, the area was the source of masts for the Royal Navy, resulting in much of the area being harvested. It is also home to our nation's oldest shipyard. Active to this day, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has been building ships since the early 1800's, including the 74-gun ship Washington (launched in 1815) and the Kearsarge (famous for sinking the Confederate raider Alabama during the Civil War). The Kittery Historical and Naval Museum is a virtual treasure trove of old and cherished artifacts from Kittery's seafarers – be sure to stop in!
Bordered by the Piscataqua River and the Atlantic Ocean, Kittery provides protected anchorages as well as beautiful parks, trails and unspoiled beaches. With its rural, maritime flavor, Kittery is a peaceful oasis just a few minutes from bustling downtown Portsmouth.
THINGS TO DO. Kittery restaurants, inns and shops are within walking distance or a short cab ride; access to two State Parks and historic sites are within walking distance; the historic Strawbery Banke, shops, hotels and restaurants of Portsmouth, NH are just a dinghy ride across the harbor or a walk across the bridge.
Parks, Trails & Beaches:
- Fort McClary – For more than 275 years, she has stood poised to protect the approaches to the Piscataqua River at the southern gateway of Kittery. It is a short walk from KPYY.
- Fort Foster – Located on the southwest tip of Gerrish Island in Kittery Point, Maine, it was acquired by the federal government in 1872 and consists of 72 acres featuring two hiking trails along the mouth of the Piscataqua River.
- Rogers Park – Offers several trails that run along the wooded shore of Spruce Creek. A great place to walk your dog.
- The Rachel Carson Preserve – Part of a 10-parcel system of conserved properties, extending from Kittery to as far north as Cape Elizabeth, that protect 4,700 acres of marsh and a fresh-water wetland.
- Seapoint and Crescent Beaches – Seapoint is a 550-yard sandy crescent beach. With gentle surf on the north side of a tiny peninsula, it is backed by a marsh, providing wonderful bird-watching. Nearby Crescent Beach is considered the "local" beach.
Seafaring Adventures:
- The Gundalow
- Isles of Shoals Steamship Company
- Portsmouth Harbor Cruises
- Seafari Charters (fish, scuba dive, and whale watch)
Shopping: Visit Kittery's old downtown area known as Wallingford Square. Here, you can enjoy unique jewelry, original paintings, woven goods, literary works, and pottery, all by local artisans. To fulfill more basic shopping desires, visit the Kittery Outlets on Route One. Rightfully called "America's Main Street for Shopping," the Kittery Outlets offer over a mile of famous name brand outlet stores, but don't forget to stop in at the one and only Kittery Trading Post.
Local Dining & Provisioning: Kittery, along with its neighbor Portsmouth, NH (across the river), are recognized for their historic, cultural, and scenic assets as well as their many restaurants and shopping/ supply amenities.
Closest Provisions (no dinghy option)
|Rite Aid Pharmacy
15 Shapleigh Rd, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.1 miles
|Maine Meat
(BUTCHER/select BEER/WINE)
7 Wallingford Sq, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.5 miles
|Lil's Café
7 Wallingford Sq, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.5 miles
|Golden Harvest
47 State Rd, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.9 miles
|Beach Pea
53 State Rd, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.9 miles
|Irving/Suds & More
2 Shapleigh Rd, Kittery ME
Distance: 1 mile
Favorite Restaurants
|AJ's Pizza [Kittery Foreside]
(Delivery, eat in, lunch & dinner)
68 Wallingford Sq, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.5 miles
|The Black Birch [Kittery Foreside]
(American Gastropub)
2 Government St, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.5 miles
|Tulsi Indian [Kittery Foreside]
(Traditional savory cuisine)
20 Walker St, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.5 miles
|Anneke Jans [Kittery Foreside]
(European American fare)
60 Wallingford Sq, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.5 miles
|Warren's Lobster House
(Seafood lunch & dinner)
11 Water St, Kittery ME
Distance: 2 miles
Dinghy Option: Back Channel
|Ristorante Massimo
(Fine Dining Italian)
59 Penhallow St, Portsmouth NH
Distance: 2.7 miles
Dinghy Option: Prescott Park
|Anju Noodle Bar [Kittery Foreside]
(Asian-style fare)
7 Wallingford Sq #102, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.5 miles
|The Wallingford Dram [Kittery Foreside]
(Specialty libations & small bites)
7 Wallingford Sq, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.5 miles
|Rudders Public House [Kittery Foreside]
(American, Lunch & Dinner, Cocktails)
70 Wallingford Sq, Kittery ME
Distance: 1.5 miles
Taxi Options
- Annie's Taxi – 603.531.9955
- Rockingham Taxi – 603.501.0960
- Market Square Taxi – 603.205.1788
- Blue Star Taxi – 603.436.2774
- Additional transportation and airport information can be accessed here: http://www.portsmouthnh.com/transportation/


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Friday, February 22, 2013
Whitest Of Them All
Sizzix Regal Flourishes.
I also have shaded my rhinestone hearts with pink ProMarker to suit my image better. There's also some Stickles on the veil and roses of the bride.
Have a great day,
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Great card for a wedding Liva and the embossing with the added frame adds such an eleganceReplyDelete
Wow Liva, that is a gorgeous card! The embossing looks great and the image is lovely. I too like to use stamps that have been lying around for a while unused. Hugs, HannekeReplyDelete
This is gorgeous, Liva!! The image is so beautiful!! The frame and embossing are fabulous!! Have a great day :)ReplyDelete
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Consider your last venture into the bulk aisle. What were you looking for? What did you purchase? Did it feel hectic, exciting, or just a mindless part of your shopping trip? Did anything new catch your eye?
Now close your eyes and consider how you see the bulk aisle. Areyou imagining beans, rice, grains? Do you envision it as a place to find your "staples"? Do you think of it as a source for your snacks as well? Do you seek out salted nuts, sesame sticks, spices? Or does the whole aisle seem overwhelming, something you'd rather avoid if possible?
Mistakes and triumphs of cooking projects can often be traced right back to this location, hand-scooping into a bag, numbers on a tag. I often first think of the bulk aisle as a source for baking expeditions: almond meal, sugar, cinnamon, chocolate chips, yes please.
Many staff members have written extensively about our lovely bulk aisle, yet there is quite a lot that could still be said. From saving money to stocking up for the apocalypse, this humble aisle is more versatile and fascinating than at first glance. In an effort to offer some recognition to this often unsung place, I'm going to walk you through some adventures in eating and hopefully share some helpful information along the way.
Let's be honest. Many folks initially locate the existence of the bulk aisle when they are looking for something covered in chocolate, perhaps something in an open bin to reach in and (secretly) sample? Children seem especially fond of this tactic. Of course, such actions are not-quite-smiled-upon by other shoppers nor the Health Department.
However, if you or your child is ever feeling particularly tempted to give a snack a taste test, feel free to ask a Co-op staff member, and they will absolutely offer you a sample of any item.
I have a particular fondness for certain bulk snacks, namely those that are sweet and those that are salty. In a previous Reader article, "Healthy Food on the Road," Polly Sackett Westmont wrote of her own road trip snack of choice, custom-made trail mix: "I filled up several of my home-brought containers with our favorite bulk items: cashews, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, cranberries, raisins, cherries and dates rolled in oat flour. Once home, I mixed all of these items together and put it all into a large sealed container along with three snack cups for serving each child and myself." I'm a big fan of this idea, and have also found the prepared trail mixes to my own liking. Granola is one homemade snack that outshines all the commercial brands I've tried. (My favorite recipe for this is shared at the end of the article.)
A couple years ago, in an attempt to cut down my visits to the chip aisle and bakery section, I began thinking more critically about what tastes I was pursuing and how I might be able to find comparable foods in the bulk section. In place of my salty chip cravings, I began eating (more pricey but less processed) salted nuts. My sweet bakery treat cravings were replaced with dried apricots, mangoes, pineapple, and cranberries, plus the occasional chocolate-covered almonds, ginger, or raisins. A few noticeable differences in wake of this change of habit included a decrease in the amount of food I consumed, which also made it easier to pack and carry go-to snacks in my bag. Nuts remain an essential snack I frequently turn to for a quick fix.
In "The Surprising Truth About Food Miles," Megan Blodgett Minnick emphasizes an additional repercussion of eating whole, unprocessed foods: "According to a University of Michigan study, 23% of the energy used in our food system is in processing and packaging. By choosing whole, unprocessed foods, and by buying in bulk, you are cutting these steps out entirely."
In breads, pastries and assorted sweet treats, the experience of baking tends to revolve around the use of flour. However, it is important to note that flour is generally considered a highly processed version of a whole grain. When whole grains are milled and ground down, their oils begin an oxidation process. Light, air, and heat can prompt this. According to Iowa State University's Extension and Outreach, the processing ofthe grain impacts the shelf life. "Grains, because their oil is sealed in the original grain kernel and cannot easily oxidize, can keep much longer than flour."
In "Bulk Food Storage" on the website www.happyherbivore.com, Lindsay Nixon articulates some general storage guidelines. "If you plan to use your flour within a few weeks, the packaging it came in should be sufficient. However, flour takes up moisture and dries out easily, so if you are storing it for longer than that, it's recommended that you transfer it to a glass or metal container. Heavy-duty, BPA-free plastic containers can also work. Flour also absorbs odors; storing it away from strong scents is best.
Whole-wheat and brown rice flours benefit from being stored in the refrigerator or freezer, because it slows the oils in them from going rancid. If you live in a hot and/or humid climate, you may want to store all flours in the refrigerator, as storing your flour at a warm temperature increases the chance of having pests."
Beyond flour, there are spices to consider. Anything finely ground will have a shorter shelf life than their whole counterpart. One hidden benefit to shopping in Willy Street Co-op's bulk aisle is the rapid pace at which bins are filled and refilled. This ensures the products are fresher than items that may be packaged and sitting on shelves for long periods of time. We've often received positive comments about the freshness of our bulk spices; some folks even caution to use less at first, to account for the stronger flavor.
One of my favorite quick-bake items are coconut macaroons. Using just a few basic ingredients (sugar, almond flour, coconut, vanilla, eggs and butter) these gems make great secret-admirer gifts or last minute potluck contributions. Give the recipe a try!
In regards to navigating bulk aisle "staples," folks often have questions about how to build a pantry. To consider what your pantry might be comprised of, it's helpful to look at the storage lives of particular items, alongside kitchen space and frequency of use.
Dry, dark, and cool are the general rules for pantry space. Well-sealed containers are much better than bags, particularly as they serve to prevent bugs. Seasoned pantry users tend to prefer glass containers, and many people add a couple whole bay leaves, which act as a bug deterrent. Whole grains, rice, and legumes tend to store longer. Our home has a cabinet full of quart-size mason jars filled with mung beans, quinoa, chickpeas, basmati rice, brown rice, millet, black beans, red lentils and more.
Obviously, bulk dried beans and legumes are less convenient but also much more affordable than canned versions. For me, the key to making them easier to work with is. . . using a slow cooker. Soaking overnight also helps. Getting into a rhythm of preparing a crockpot full of black beans often means thinking a little in advance, using some beans immediately upon completion, and refrigerating the rest to use over the next few days. It is actually simpler than it seems, and clearly much less expensive than cooking with canned beans. After a recent article I wrote about convenient, affordable, and healthy meals, I was sent a number of suggestions by Co-op Owner Nandini Lorenzsonn. One of them was for khichdi, also called kicharee, khichuri, kedgeree or kichari which is a South Asian preparation made from rice and lentils. This has been a go-to meal for me, particularly because it is easily digestible and great to eat while "doing a cleanse" or feeling ill, weak, or depleted.
As for baking supplies, I predominantly use gluten-free flours, such as almond meal and brown rice flour, and I try to keep these in glass jars in the freezer. I also purchase them in smaller quantities and replenish often. As raw nuts have a high-oil content and can go rancid in a kitchen with fluctuating temperatures, I try to also keep them in the fridge or freezer. In our home full of bakers, we tend to keep our pantry stocked with proper supplies, including vanilla extract, shredded coconut, oats, sugars, molasses, and spices. A tip on baking powder: when it's too old it will produce hard and flat baked goods, instead of light and fluffy ones. Following a sugar craving to a home-baked sweet treat (without a trip to the grocery store to delay the dessert) is one major benefit of our stocked pantry.
Perhaps you've seen the black Forbidden Rice and wondered what it looks like when it's cooked or how it might combine with some bright orange carrots or deep red beets. Maybe you've wanted to experiment with nutritional yeast, or have been eyeing up a fancy new type of salt. One of the most endearing aspects of shopping in the bulk aisle is the options given to choose as little or as much as one wants. My own pantry expanded after I began eating millet and found it to be a very versatile grain. Most recently, I tried purple jasmine rice and volcano rice and found them both to be colorful additions to fun meals.
Ultimately, there isn't much to lose if you're curious about trying an item. Take home a tablespoon of that interesting curry powder, or find out if dried jakfruit is actually sweet or sour. If you're interested, share your new favorites with us on our Facebook page, and pass along your tips, hints, and recipes as well. As always, feel free to eat your way through the aisle!
1/3 c. coconut oil
1/3 c. maple syrup
1/2 tsp. vanilla
5 c. oats
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 c. almonds
1 c. sunflower seeds
1 c. coconut
2 c. raisins
Directions: Preheat oven to 300ºF. Combine all ingredients (except raisins) in a large bowl. If coconut oil is solidified, heat slightly on a stovetop with maple syrup, vanilla, and cinnamon. Spread mixture out on 2-3 cookie sheets. Bake in oven for 20 minutes, stirring midway through. Remove & cool completely. Add raisins and store in a covered container in the fridge. Makes approximately 9 cups.
2 eggs
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. almond flour
1 Tbs. melted butter
2 c. shredded unsweetened coconut
1 tsp. vanilla
Directions: Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Drop spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Bake in preheated 325ºF oven for 10-15 minutes. Remove cookies from pan and let cool on wire rack.
1/4 c. brown basmati rice
1/4 c. red lentils
1 c. of water
1 tsp. of salt
1 inch piece of fresh ginger peeled and sliced finely
1 tsp. cumin powder
A pinch of cinnamon powder
Optional: half a jalapeño pepper sliced or some chopped cilantro (or a squeeze of lemon)
Directions: In a medium-sized pot bring water and salt to a boil. Add rice and lentils along with ginger, cinnamon and cumin. Cover the pot and lower heat to a simmer. Stir once or twice in the next fifteen minutes. When the rice is done it is ready to eat. Serve hot with some chopped cilantro or juice from a lemon slice or half a chopped jalapeño.


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Q: Does the name Minnehaha mean Laughing Waters?
A: No. In his popular 19th-century poem "Hiawatha," Longfellow named his heroine Minnehaha and translated it as Laughing Water. Longfellow took most of the Indian words in "Hiawatha" from a book of Ojibwe legends, and they are reasonably accurate, but in the case of Minnehaha, he made an error. Minnehaha comes from the Dakota Sioux name of a waterfall, mnihaha (also spelled mniḣaḣa or mnixaxa... the "h" sounds are pronounced raspily, like the "j" in "jalapeño.") This means "water of the falls" or, more literally, "curling waters."
The idea that "haha" sounded like laughing probably came from an English speaker either playing a joke or inventing a meaning. It's possible that it could have been an honest mistranslation, though, since the Dakota word for "laugh" is the rather similar-sounding iha.
Hope that helps, have a good day!
Native Languages of the Americas
Further reading:
Native American names
Dakota language
Words in Hiawatha


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Shift + D.
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Delete the credit layer.
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Color Pallet:
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Background: #2f5b38
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Change the color of the template layer.
Highlight Large Circle layer.
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Copy and paste Paper 13 Into Selection.
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Give the paper layer a slight inner Bevel:
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Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.
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Copy and paste your tube as a new layer over the larger rectangle – see my tag for reference. It's alright if some of the tube is on the smaller rectangle.
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Mary Pimental Suite
Named after the last of the original owners of Pimental Farm (now Shamrock Farm) who took charge of the farm and her siblings after an early death of their parents.
She was known as Mother Mary and kept the farm in working order until her death in 1987.
This suite has a separate bedroom and sitting room and can accommodate an additional guest.
Picturesque view of St Mary's Pond. Offers king size bed, featured antiques, vintage pine floors & oriental rugs. Private bath has stunning five foot Jacuzzi bath with shower.
Fully air conditioned, equipped with small refrigerator, hair dryer, bath salts, soaps and towels.


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Sally Anne Bowman was a "lively and happy girl" who had been 18 for just two weeks when her naked and bloody body was discovered outside her home.
That night she had in her handbag, alongside lip gloss and compact, a passport to prove how old she was so she could get into a bar with her elder sister Nicole.
Sally Anne was an aspiring model who dreamed of having her picture on the front cover of Vogue and had already appeared on the catwalk.
She wanted to be the next Kate Moss – the top model who also hailed from Croydon.
Sally-Anne had assembled a portfolio of work and, according to her sister, a top modelling agency had begun to show an interest in her.
"She was convinced that she was going to be a top model," said prosecutor Brian Altman.
The teenager was the youngest of four daughters to Linda and Paul Bowman.
Her sisters described her as "single-minded and focused", as well as "warm and kind-hearted".
She was interested in music and drama and had won a place at the Brit (British Record Industry Trust) School in Croydon, which has produced a series of young stars.
Sally Anne, who gained qualifications in theatre studies, drama, maths and English, worked at a hairdressing salon called Blasts in Croydon where colleagues said she was a "lively and happy girl".
She had lived for a time with Lewis Sproston, her boyfriend since she was 16, and at other times with her mother and father, who were separated.
Before she was killed, she had been renting a room in Blenheim Crescent with Donna Sherwood, who she had met through her hairdressing work.
Sally Anne and her boyfriend had recently been on holiday to Kos to celebrate her birthday.
She was wearing a pink bracelet he bought her there when she went out on the night she was killed.
Earlier, she had been at her mother's house when she left her with the words "love you mum", thanking her for letting her stay and promising to send her a text message about how she was getting home.
That text was never received.
Mrs Bowman, 45, said: "Sally Anne was a happy-go-lucky type of girl who was not afraid of speaking her mind. She could be very stubborn and opinionated.
"Although very slightly built, she could be very argumentative and aggressive.
"She was naive and childish, as she was a teenager. She was a genuinely warm-hearted girl who adored children."
Sally Anne went out to meet Nicole dressed in a long white flowery gypsy skirt, a white cropped top, a white belt, and white high-heeled shoes.
The teenager was carrying a white Prada handbag and a white cardigan she had taken off because it was too warm.
She was anxious about her boyfriend, who had gone out with friends in Kingston.
"She did not trust him with other girls," said Mr Altman.
She concocted a story to get him to come back and pick her up, claiming Nicole had been arrested for fighting.
He eventually came back although he did not believe her and they argued in the car, each accusing the other of seeing other people.


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What's a Biker
The word "biker" means different
things to different people. Some people are
fixated on the movie stereotype with the
bad personal hygiene, low IQ, and penchant
for hitting people on the head with beer
bottles. Others in the motorcyle community
have their own rigid definitions and spend
a lot of time on "I'm a real biker and you're not" diatribes. Stinger
once asked a biker BBS for definitions and got a different answer from every biker
Since we're using the B-word in the title of our site, we figured we should take a crack at defining what it means to us.
Stinger's version:
The short answer to the question "what's a biker?"
A biker is not just one who owns a motorcycle. There are numerous people who own multiple bikes, but never ride them. A biker is someone who owns and rides a motorcycle, and not merely as a means of transportation. Being a biker means taking a motorcycle on long journeys, day and night, rain or shine. And a biker shares a certain rapport with his/her motorcycle. A biker loves being on the road and the heightened sense of their surroundings. A biker respects nature, being so close to it so often. A true biker cares less what you ride and more that you ride. A biker is an adventurer, one who transcends normal life, welcomes the freedom of open motion, and the ecstasy and peace of mind gleaned from it. A biker is a generous and respectful person, who helps those in need and believes in "live and let live". And a biker is driven by spiritual, rather than material needs.
Want the long answer?
Big Ben's version:
The best definition I ever heard was this: You know a biker by the look in the eyes as you pass each other and wave, a look that says "You ride too, and you know what I'm smiling about."
As far as I'm concerned, if you understand what I'm talking about, you're a biker, end of story.
And for you posers out there too blinded by brand loyalties to see that it's all about FREEDOM, baby, remember what my brother Carl Whitecrow said when some loser told him his CB 750 was Jap Crap:
"It sure as hell beats walking, don't it?"


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Speedway Classic of the Carolinas: Dog Show
August 10, All day
This trial is open to all dogs fifteen (15) months of age or older that are registered with the American Kennel Club or that have AKC Limited Registration, Purebred Alternative Listing/Indefinite Listing Privileges (PAL/ILP), an AKC Canine Partners listing number, or approved Foundation Stock Service (FSS) breeds are eligible to participate.
Dogs with a Purebred Alternative Listing/Indefinite Listing Privileges (PAL/ILP) or an AKC Canine Partners listing number must be spayed or neutered in order to compete. Wherever the word "dog" is used in these regulations it includes both sexes.


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The former Airport Security boss, Solomon Adelaquaye has been arrested in the United States for drug trafficking.
Adelaquaye who is Managing Director of Sohin Security was picked up with three others-two Nigerians and a Columbian for their roles in a drug trafficking syndicate which had been operating in the West Africa sub-region.
The Narcotic Control Board has confirmed the arrest.
In a statement the Executive Secretary of NACOB Akrasi Sarpong said the arrest was due to cooperation with the Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the Department of Justice of the United States of America.
The statement named the other arrested suspects as Frank Chima Moudum and Celestine Ofor all Nigerians and Samuel Antonio Pinedu-Rueda, a Columbian


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