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Listened to what I wanted, set up a budget up front and stuck to it, and produced something better than what I could have envisioned.
I've worked with Eric on many projects for clients in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market, across the United States, Europe and the Far East. As a business owner and Producer I hire Eric because I know with his skills as a Graphic Designer and Art Director my projects will be well thought out and designed. He has consistently exceeded the expectations of my clients. Eric always brings a fresh look, new ideas, and his brand of enthusiasm to our projects and is not afraid to push the limits of creativity to create memorable and effective designs. I highly recommend Eric for any graphic design project that looks to bring fresh creativity, professionalism and fun to the table. Just don't hire him when I need him!
Eric is someone I know I can rely on. Whether it's sharing his valuable ideas regarding a marketing opportunity, producing high quality design work on short notice or ensuring that everything we produce stays within brand, he's someone I know I can rely on. In advertising, there is nothing more valuable than having a team member that you can rely on.


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in the grim night
hills framed with fog
moon supported with skeletons of gods
howling dogs, one by one were silenced
by a chill, a gentle whisper
beyond the grave:
"Eiridh tonn air uisage balbh"
I felt chills running down my spine
as if a nail was scratching my vertebrae
with an ancient chanting
all the gates broke loose
spirits set free
to settle the debts
voices from the other side
an echo of past wars
heard through the valleys
sailor songs thundered once more
against the stirring of the waves
the air fumed
with the spilled blood
breaking loose all the horrors
souls carry into the gates of eternity
from the misty shadow
a once familiar face appears
like a long forgotten love letter
sings me a song of his sorrows
and how it's meant to be
no victory in death he found
stone cold hands grab me
kills me one last time
we return to the bonfire lit a decade ago
Written as a poetry prompt for poets united - link. 've been wanting to write something like this anyway. Most interesting time of the year begins for me, and I again am somewhat sick, a bit delirious from throat pain and the menthol bonbons. Now, that's a horror story ;)

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An Official Announcement
I'm pleased to officially announce the upcoming publication of my first book!
THE IMPROV HANDBOOK FOR MODERN QUILTERS: A Practical Guide for Creating, Quilting, and Living Courageously by Sherri Lynn Wood is a comprehensive guide on the process of improvisational patchwork quilting, which includes 10 project scores, innovative sewing techniques, tips for accessing intuitive color, and mind tools for creating with fearless spontaneity. Scheduled to be published by Abrams Books under the imprint of STC Craft / A Melanie Falick Book in Spring 2015.
How The Improv Handbook Came About
I began working with a literary agent in November 2013 on a detailed book proposal.
In March 2013 we submitted the 50 page proposal to a handful of publishers. I was thrilled to have phone interviews with a majority of the editors representing the publishing houses and received several offers. The most exciting part of this process was hearing how each editor would emphasize different aspects of my proposal to fit the publisher's mission of reaching it's particular audience.
Once the offers came in it was really a tough decision to choose one, but ultimately I decided to work with Melanie Falick at STC Craft. She designs some of the most beautiful craft and lifestyle books on the market today. Melanie edited my friend Sabrina Gschwandtner's book KnitKnit, and Denyse Schmidt's latest book Modern Quilts, Traditional Inspiration. In the next couple of years I know that STC Craft will be publishing books with Spoonflower, Kristine Vejar at A Verb For Keeping Warm, and Heather Jones. STC Craft creates books that highlight the unique visions of their authors.
The Improv Handbook Concept
Improvisation is a fundamental process at the heart of every great creative endeavor. Music, dance, theater, painting, drawing, design, cooking, conversation, relationships, play, life and even the discipline of science benefits, survives, grows, transforms and innovates through the flexibility of mind that improvisational process engenders.
The Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters provides a comprehensive framework for fostering improvisational skills through the discipline of patchwork quilting.
The 10 patchwork projects featured in the book are organized as "scores" or "games" rather than as patterns. A score or lead sheet, common to improvised musical traditions such as jazz, is a set of notations or parameters within which the improvisation is free to take shape. In the discipline of improv theater a game defines the set of limits in which an improvised and unscripted scene unfolds.
Each quilt score is designed holistically to illustrate a) approaches and methods from different improvisational disciplines, b) innovative sewing techniques particular to improvisational patchwork, c) design considerations and exercises, and d) mind tools for fostering fearlessness, presence and curiosity.
For instance one project asks the reader to think about doodling as a method for improvisation, by introducing the techniques for building a quilt with simple shapes, while also encouraging a mindset of acceptance. Another project will get you thinking about the design element of rhythm by posing a puzzle to be solved, while teaching skills for ruler free measurement.
My goal for the Improv Handbook is to teach improvisational patchwork in a way that encourages authentic expression. To this end, along with my interpretation of each score, the book will feature one or two quilts by other people to illustrate the infinite range of possible outcomes that improvising from a score allows.
As an example the Mod Mood Quilt is written as a score to interpret, rather than being presented as a pattern to follow, and you can see a range of interpretations of the Mod Mood Quilt score here.
Participate! A Call for Test Quilters
Here's how to participate
- January 1 - Register to participate as a test-quilter.
- February 1 - Open registration to participate closes. Scores sent out to test-quilters.
- March 1 - Information about contributor quilt submission process will be sent to test-quilters.
- March 25 - Images of finished quilts based on the scores provided are due and will be considered for publication in the book. Submitted quilts will be reviewed and chosen for publication by me and the editorial staff based on how well they illustrate an alternative yet recognizable interpretations of the quilt score provided.
- April 1 - Makers of the chosen entries for the book will be notified.
- April 15 - Chosen quilts will need to be quilted, bound, shipped to and received in Oakland by this date, for photography. The publisher will pay for round-trip shipping by USPS Priority Mail to Oakland, CA.
- Makers of the chosen entries will be completely acknowledged in print, and will receive a complementary copy of the book.
- The makers of non-chosen quilts will be entered in a drawing for complementary copies of the book and other thank-you prizes hand-made by me.
- There will be an online forum showcasing ALL of the test quilts with the release of the book in Spring 2015.
- There may be exhibition opportunities for the test quilts, but there is nothing on the calendar at this time.


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A new study indicates a more normal gastrointestinal tract for C-Section birthed babies is possible.
A vaginal birth promotes normal gastrointestinal bacteria in the newborn as it is inoculated by mom's bacteria on its way out while C-Section birthed babies seem to have a bacteria profile that is similar to what is found on our skin. The differences in the profiles can affect how the gastrointestinal tract functions for the life of the human as our gut bacteria are vital to metabolism, the immune system, and even the production of vitamins and hormones. A recent study done gives hope for C-Section delivered babies so that they may have more of a normal gastrointestinal bacteria profile; again, similar to what vaginal birth babies have.
In the study, babies that were born via C-Section were swabbed with their mother's vaginal bacteria after it was born. A gauze was placed in mom's vagina for an hour prior to the C-Section then this gauze was rubbed on baby after it was born. A limitation of the study was that only a small number of babies were treated this way with the fluids, and they were only monitored for a short period of time after the fact. However, these babies had a gastrointestinal profile that was similar to vaginally delivered babies, but it still was not fully the same. In short, what we do not know is what the long term effects on the gauze wiped babies will be.
In the future, I hope we continue to study the gastrointestinal bacteria profiles, and see if there are ways to better support C-Section babies gastrointestinal bacteria. As a Naturopathic Doctor, the gastrointestinal tract is the foundation of health for my field, and the healthier it is then the healthier the person is going to be. If we can support C-Section newborns to have a more normal gastrointestinal bacterial profile then we might be able to lower their risk of certain diseases that seem to be more common in C-Section babies including type 1 diabetes, obesity, and asthma.
Using probiotics later in life does not seem to alter the innate profile of bacteria. After taking antibiotics, the microbiota goes back to our birth bacterial profile. Thus C-Section babies will go back to their skin-like profiles, and we can only continue to support more of a natural bacterial profile with the addition of probiotics. I hope more research and study is done on this subject as ways to help support C-Section babies bacteria profile is an important issue.
Source: Medical Daily
Image Credit: Day Donaldson (Flickr) CC 2.0


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ph/Official Stromae
Stromae - who's real name is actually Paul Van Haver - is probably one of the best things to come out of Belgium lately. His tunes are catchy and the lyrics invoke topics such as divorce, unemployment, dept and the financial crisis. His music is realistic and that is exactly what he intends it to be. Recently the NY Times did a great piece about him and his work, definitely worth a read if you have five minutes to spare.
Currently two of Stomae's most popular songs and my personal favourites are "papaoutai"and "formidable" (videos below). Enjoy. What are you currently listening to? Anything I should know about


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You oaf Aaargh Cup
Well that was almost an unmitigated disaster. Thanks to the magic of Gilberto. Brazilian, in case you've forgotten. And a defender, allegedly. 6 games since joining about a year ago and he will be best remembered for being half-time substituted thanks largely due to his ridiculously bad impacts on the game.
One ball, two players, neither go for the ball, the Russian squeezes in and makes it a threesome, and oops, there it goes under Gomes body for 0-1. Total football. Totally laughable football, and this time you can hardly blame Gomes, although you'd think one of them would say 'ITS MINE'. In Brazilian you'd think.
The second goal (scored again by Dzjuba, a lively tricky little player) is worth mentioning for the way he ghosted pass Zokora to slot after rounding Gomes. 0-2. Goodbye Europe. But along comes half-time. Good old trustworthy half-time. And off goes Gilberto after his not so Braziliant cameo. And from Harry's post-match comments I doubt we'll ever see him again in a Spurs shirt. Maybe we can box him up and send him first class to Monaco. I'll pay the sodding postage if you want.
Second half was about 100% better, in our favour. Enter Lennon and his accompanying Mazy Run™ resulting with a cut-back and Modric (finally) scoring for Spurs. Dzjuba should have got a hattrick from a wonderful Zokora pass, but didn't. Enter Bale and a more than decent cross and a stunning Huddlestone header. 2-2. With NEC scoring a couple, this was a lucky escape, as defeat would have meant the end. We finished up second in the table and now face Shakhtar Donetsk, which is no easy task. And if we somehow manage to fluke past that we've got to contend with either CSKA Moscow or Aston Villa. Tasty. Shakhtar have six Brazilians in their squad. Maybe if we re-direct that package from Monaco to the Ukarine......
Anyway, lowest attendance of the season at the Lane for this wont-be-appearing-on-dvd Cup game. Shame on us. We'll be mistaken for Newcastle next. 28,000 or so in a 55,000 stadium (looking ahead) is Sunderlandesque. I guess to get the glory hunters on board we need to get into the Champions League. And the chances of that with this paper-thin squad is 0%.


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Welcome to the pics and vids section! Guess what you'll find here... c'mon, guess...
Ok, no dragons. Although Jessica has been called The Dragon Godess of Comedy! *
(*No one has said that in the history of EVER)
But if you want to check out pics like this, click HERE.
If you're interested in watching stand-up and sketch videos like this, click HERE.
And if you want to check out some comedy memes like this, the place for that is HERE.


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Zhuhai - A city in the Pearl River Delta with "air so clean that it could be bottled and sold to other countries"
This afternoon when rereading Rem Koolhaas' text on the Pearl River Delta I was taken aback by this impressionist statement of the late 20th century (Originally from 1997, the text was published in Mutations (Actar, 2001)). What always strikes me about Rem's texts is their frankness; ultimately his ability to address an urban situation with the clarity of an overseas correspondent condensing a complex domestic situation into a three-minute recorded monologue. Explicitly, it is about finding keywords; in the case of his PRD Project on The City research, seventy-five of them.
Below are some of my favourite extracts:
"As a city, it represents nothing more or less than the coexistence of a number of apparently unconnected buildings which, by the simple fact of sharing a certain proximity, form an urban condition and which is inhabited without apparent anxiety."
"In China, curtain wall is sometimes pronounced "curtain war", and this has become one of our copyrighted terms: "The competition between architectures using the maximum variety that the glass-panel allows".
"Between the design of Central Park and our image of it, at least a hundred years went by. In Shenzhen, it only took seven."
"What does it mean to become Singapore? Here, above all, it has meant clearing unbelievable sections of ground in an orgy of tabula rasa where it seems as if the act of clearing becomes an act of faith. There is an apparently sacred pleasure in creating void spaces where tabula rasa is no longer an anticipation, but almost an autonomous condition."
"If China is destined to become a market economy, today it is only speculative and addressed to the rich. It is unthinkable that in the foreseeable future it will adopt certain things that we traditionally associate with the market economy, the first of which is profit. Here it is only a matter of speculation in terms of a future condition, linked perhaps to the incredible speculative energy of a communist system that always explained and amnestied the present with regard to an ideal future condition."
I cannot help but wonder what conclusions would be made if Rem and his research team returned to PRD ten years after (at least) these clear-cut statements and readdressed the situation. What predictions were correct? My impression is that most of the observations still are spot-on, while leaving a few of his comments on the speculative nature of the Chinese economy without further comment.


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Here we are at week two of the Five on Friday Project! This week I thought I'd share a few iPhone photo apps you need to try. Especially in light of so many folks signing on for the 365/Grateful Project. It's super easy to document your grateful moments with your camera phone, because generally it's either in your purse, your back pocket, in your hand or on your desk most of the time (if you're like me!). FIVE ON FRIDAY | My Favorite iPhone Photo Apps
1 | ShakeIt Photo my heart goes pitter-patter when the shutter sounds. Reminiscent of a vintage polaroid! Shaking your phone isn't necessary for the photo to "develop", but it is absolutely 100% required for fun. :)
2 | Shake It which is different than ShakeIt Photo. I love it because it offers a more authentic white "frame" or back, and the processing is a little softer (the way I like it), but lately it's been a bit slow on my iPhone... not sure why. Still love it though, and use it all the time.
3 | Hipstamatic + all the fun films and lenses. Try these lenses: Kaimal Mark II, Helga Viking, and Roboto Glitter. SO much fun. Fave films are Ina 1969, Pistil, and the BlacKeys B&W.
4 | Tilt-Shift Generator mimics the super fun tilt-shift lens with your iPhone photos. Love, love, love the effects of this app!!
5 | Camera Bag's "Instant" selection has more muted processing than some other "polaroid" apps. And the "Helga" (Holga) option is fantastic.
And just because I can't stop at five today... I recently discovered CrossProcess and PictureShow. MillColour also looks promising.
This one was taken with the default camera on my iPhone 3Gs and ran through CrossProcess.
Now go check these apps out, and have fun playing! And if you have any favorites of your own, please do share in the comments! I'd love to find a few more outlets for my obsessive-compulsive iphoneography addiction. ;)


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Briar Rose Creamery is a small team of cheesemakers, crafting award-winning cheeses in Dundee, Oregon. Everything is made by hand, from start to finish. We love making great cheese that we want to eat every day and share around the table with others.
Proprietor and Cheesemaker Sarah Marcus is a Bay Area native and started making cheese in her kitchen. In 2005 she took a chance and got a job as a cheesemonger at Cowgirl Creamery in San Francisco's Ferry Building selling some of the world's finest cheeses. It was there that she fell in love with the world of cheese and developed her palette. It was love at first bite. The owners of Cowgirl Creamery gave her an internship at their cheesemaking facility in Point Reyes Station, California. From there her feet were firmly planted on the path to making her own cheese. Her cheesemaking studies took her to England, Spain, North Carolina, and Vermont. In 2008 she and her husband moved to Dundee, Oregon with the intention to build Briar Rose Creamery. When she's not making cheese, she's likely to be watching birds, or photographing her cats.
Co-owner Jim Hoffman is the other half of Briar Rose Creamery. Jim is the Utility Infielder, and you'll usually see him helping out around the creamery on weekends, working at farmer's markets, or selling cheese at special events. During the week he wears other hats including his full time job as a copy editor for CBS Interactive. He has a particular fondness for the National Pastime.


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voices of hope
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Bad Dad
The other day my son (21 years old) sent me a text at 12.30am asking me if I was up. Most and if not all parents would get worried if they received a text like that from their son. It could have been anything but as parents we always expect the worst. As I was not up I couldn't reply him, so on came the morning and I text him back: "I'm up now, is everything ok?" I wasn't really worried as I knew nothing was wrong because I hadn't received loads of calls or texts. I got a text back saying "Dad watch this then call me back." There was a YouTube link which I pressed and it took me to a video. I found the video funny but it didn't really make me laugh that much, so it slipped my mind to call him back (I know Bad Dad!).
2 hours later my son called me saying "did you watch it?" Before I could answer him, he burst out laughing and he tried to tell me how funny the clip was but he could not stop laughing and I mean real hard. (To the extent I had to ask him if he was ok!) It took us about 5-8 minutes before I could understand why he found this video so funny and I mean really funny. So from 12.30am he found this funny and it was now 1pm & I mean he was in hysterics.
So this is what he said to after I asked him what was so funny...
"Well, dad my friend showed me this YouTube video last night and I couldn't stop laughing. I was laughing so hard and loud Mum, neighbours & my friend told me to take it easy".
I said "the clip was funny but not that funny?!" What he said to me after brought a tear to my eye.
"Dad the clip was not really that funny but what was making me laugh so hard, was the thought of laughing with you."
I was like WOWWW inside, then he continued to say.
"Just the thought that you would find it funny and we could laugh together was enough to set me off. We always have a laugh and we laugh so hard about things and we bounce of each other, arhhhhh dad I Love you."
That was it for me, it made me see my sons and daughter in a completely different light. I Love them to bits but I really really, I mean really enjoy laughing with them so much.
In life we worry about so many things but we never worry about when are we going to laugh next. I know that sentence sounds wrong but think about it, if we were to worry more about the next laughter outburst the world might be a better place.
I have brought my kids up to enjoy life to the max and laugh as much as they can, it's good for the soul. So if my 21 year old can find laughing with me keeps him going for over 12 hours, then that's got to be a good thing.
So, my only advice is to laugh as much as you can especially with your children. It's the simple things that matter and that last the longest.
Have a great week, from me and my children (all of them that I have laughed with, you know who you are).


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Eagleville Taekwondo Academy was founded in 1983. In 1989, Master Giamo left the active duty with the US Army and took over the Eagleville dojang. Master Giamo developed a curriculum for the Eagleville Taekwondo Academy incorporating Traditional Taekwondo, self-defense training, and Olympic-style Taekwondo sparring into a comprehensive program.
Every student is given a free introductory class to become familiarized with the atmosphere at Eagleville Taekwondo Academy. The introductory lesson covers basic warm-ups, stances, kicking, blocking and punching. Once a person becomes a member of Eagleville Taekwondo Academy, they may attend as many classes per week as they wish (a minimum of two is suggested). Each student is encouraged to train to their maximum potential and may choose to stay with the Traditional Program or incorporate Olympic-style sparring into their training. Competition is never mandatory, but it is highly recommended that everyone experience some form of competition (forms or sparring) at least once during their martial arts career. Competition sparring may be either the USA Taekwondo (USAT) or AAU Olympic-style sparring. Forms training consists of both the Kukkiwon (World Taekwondo Headquarters) Tae Guek forms and the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) Chang Hon forms.
The training at Eagleville Taekwondo Academy also includes special guest instructors from other Taekwondo schools and other martial arts such as Aikido and jiu-jitsu. There are also specialty classes offered each month such as our Flexibility & Stretching Class, Fitness & Endurance Class and our weekly Competition Poomsae (forms) Training. These seminars and classes are offered to all students. We encourage parents to become involved in their children's training through the OnMat Now smart phone app. Partents can follw their child's techincal progress, number of classes, and special events on the calendar. Eagleville Taekwondo is affiliated with USA Taekwondo, the Kukkiwon-World Taekwondo Headquaters, Chang Moo Kwan and World Taekwondo (Olympic Competition Federation).
In addition to our regular Taekwondo Program, we have a Little Ninjas Program for the 3 to 5 year old set. The Little Ninjas is a skill based program incorporating martial arts and growth skills into a bi-weekly half-hour class. Many of our Little Ninjas have continues into the children's program and gone on to achieve their Black Belts.


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Baby's Bunting
I've been trying to finish up some projects for baby as the days keep ticking by. (At this point, I'm now pregnant longer than I have ever been!)
So, here's a bunting I started working on at the end of December. It knit up fairly quickly, and I finished it quite a while ago, although it took me until this week to sew on the buttons (which are vintage shell, from my stash).
The pattern is "Frustration is the Mother of Invention" from The Yarn Girls' Guide to Kid Knits. It was really easy, although there is an error in the book on the sleeve increases. The correction is on The Yarn Co.'s website, although I found that I needed to increase less than the correction stated to get to the right width and length. So, some playing with the sleeves might be necessary if you ever end up making this.
The yarn I used for the body was KnitPicks Andean Silk, which is super-soft, but very splitty. I wanted to knit the whole thing in Malabrigo, but I didn't think my baby would get to wear it more than a few times with such a late-winter birthday, so I decided to opt for a cheaper yarn. I do think I would like the bunting better in Malabrigo, but it's still soft and super cute. The contrast ribbing is Malabrigo worsted in sunset.
Hoping that the next time I share a project here, I'll have a baby to model it. Though, I will selfishly admit that I still don't want to share my birthday (which is the 25th of this month). Hoping baby will come before then!


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I wanted to illustrate a tribute to Joanna Newsom's latest album, "Divers", but I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I've recently started using a sketchbook habitually, which I've been wanting to do for quite a while, but never actually took the time to do. That is where the illustration for "Swaying and Swooning" started. Below is the two illustrations that I had doodled without really thinking of a specific concept.
Next I spent some time listening and thinking about her album which is where I came up with the final sketch.
I tried a new method of digitally coloring the sketch in broad color tones. In the end, I felt that it didn't provide me with enough information. Next time, I think I'll try digitally doing a tonal study and then a tiny color study in gouache. I feel like I learn more about the color relationships when I can physically mix the color. It is also more satisfying to play with paints.
In the end I feel the illustration was successful and I learned so much about my process. I'm anxious to start another painting to see if I can efficiently refine my method.


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"Heaven over hospital" is the tearjerker story lots of folks have been talking about this week, with good cause.
Set in Oregon, a state with liberal euthanasia laws, the major players aren't consenting adults dying of some awful disease and who want to put a quicker end to their misery.
No, this time the major player is a 5-year-old.
The story is in two parts. Here is how the second part debuts:
(CNN) Five-year-old Julianna Snow has never been healthy enough to attend Sunday school at the City Bible Church in Portland, Oregon, where her family belongs, so most of what she knows about heaven, she knows from her parents.
They tell her that heaven is where she'll be able to run and play and eat, none of which she can do now. Heaven is where she'll meet her great-grandmother, who shared Julianna's love of shiny, sparkly, mismatched clothes.
God will be in heaven, too, they tell her, and he will love her even more than they do.
But Michelle Moon and Steve Snow explain that they won't be in heaven when Julianna arrives there, and neither will her big brother, Alex. She'll go to heaven before them because she has a severe case of an incurable neurodegenerative illness called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Her coughing and breathing muscles are so weak that the next time she catches even a cold, the infection could settle in her lungs, where it could cause a deadly pneumonia. Her doctors believe that if they can save her under those circumstances -- and that's a big if -- she will likely end up sedated on a respirator with very little quality of life.
And here comes the issue that lifts this tragic story into the news:
There's no debate about the medical facts of Julianna's condition. But there is debate about something her parents have chosen to do: They asked their daughter, at the age of 4, if she would want to go to the hospital the next time she becomes dangerously ill, or would she want to stay home, where she would die.
Julianna has said she doesn't want to go to the hospital. She wants to go to "heaven."
I am not sure why CNN felt it had to put the word "heaven" in quotes.
This is the second October in a row that a poignant euthanasia story has played out in Oregon. It hasn't been that long since 29-year-old Bethany Maynard, who moved to Oregon because of its liberal euthanasia law, died last Nov. 1 of brain cancer. Because she agreed to be a poster person for euthanasia in her home state of California and taped videos and interviews for various publications arguing that seriously ill people have a right to die when and how they wish, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill earlier this month making assisted suicide legal.
After reading the second part of the CNN feature, go back and read part one, which tells of the genetic tour de force that gave this child such a horrible disease and how she has already spent several agonizing stays in the hospital having tubes shoved through her nose -- with no sedation -- to drain her tiny lungs.
The parents, knowing her life will be short as the disease is terminal, are wondering many more times they should put her through this hell. And so they've decided to let her die in peace.
The big hole is any quotes by religious authorities on the whole child euthanasia question and whether this is akin to Belgium, where children are legally euthanized.
We know only the name of the church this couple attends (which happens to be a non-denominational charismatic church). There is no commentary from their pastor. (One possibility is that the church opposes this family's decision, which would make the story even more intriguing).
You'd think that in a two-parter on this kind of topic a comment from their pastor could have been squeezed in. I mean, they are talking about heaven, right?
The reporter does interview a one bio-ethicist but totally avoids any religious point of view. Why?
So, either the reporter didn't think to include faith content or she did include it and it was removed. We've noticed CNN excising religion from other stories, so it would not be a shock to hear it was done here as well.
Whatever the reason, it's a big hole. Around here we call that a "ghost."
Moreover, CNN, which covered child euthanasia in Belgium not too long ago left out quotes from religious leaders in that story as well. But at least the network lined up more people who opposed the practice.
This time, not so much. Why? Because, as the story points out over and over again, the kid is worn out from all these painful procedures and simply wants to die. Their headline says it: "Dying girl, age 5, makes a choice." And her parents are trying to build up her courage for the last trip she will make in this life.
Still, can any child be trusted to make that decision? Is it possible that this child is responding to her parents' suggestions that her existence would be better if she stopped going to the hospital and left this Earth? Many of us might do the same thing if our children were in a similar boat.
But there are ethical and religious issues there. At least present us with both sides of the debate. Are there other credible sources who can say why letting a terminally ill 5-year-old choose the timing her own death might be a bad idea? Is it possible the parents are asking the kid leading questions because their minds about the next step are already made?
And would too many dissenting voices destroy the euthanasia narrative that we are beginning to see again and again in the media? You know; the things we once thought were impossible or unspeakable that are now happening. There are competing narratives out there from people who were thinking of euthanasia but backed off.
Is there anyone else with the same disease as this little girl who's managed to prolong their life? The folks at CNN only need to make a few more phone calls to see if this is the case.


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There might be instances where you might need to download a Kaggle dataset to another machine, possibly in an amazons ec2 instance.
In order to download the data, you need to be logged in.
One solution is to export your cookies and tell wget to use your cookies when downloading the data
This is a chrome extension you can use to export your cookies.
And here is the command in wget to download the data
wget -x -c --load-cookies cookies.txt -P data -nH --cut-dirs=5 https://www.kaggle.com/c/diabetic-retinopathy-detection/download/trainLabels.csv.zip
So, the above command will use your exported cookies to download the file to a folder called data


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In the past, many of our neighbors could understand traditional Christian preaching even when they responded with disagreement or indifference. During the last fifteen years, however, our message is increasingly met with dumbfounded incomprehension or outrage. Until a generation ago in the U.S., most adults had similar moral intuitions whether they were born-again believers, church-goers, nominal Christians, or non-believers. That has changed.
Many have characterized the change over the last generation as "the postmodern turn." The "modern" era, we are often told, was characterized by confidence in rationality and science and the pursuit of a grand social order that would be mediated by institutions such as the academy and the nation-state. The postmodern era is marked by pluralism, a loss of confidence in the rational, a desire for experience, and so on.
Recently, however, I've been reading thinkers who believe that this way of describing things obscures much of what is happening. They say that the term "postmodern" overemphasizes the discontinuities with the recent past and fails to see the strong continuities. They propose that what we have today is not so much a departure from modern patterns of thought and life, but rather an intensification of these patterns as they have now penetrated further into our institutions. These thinkers prefer to talk of 'late' modernity or even 'liquid' modernity, and here is why.
The root idea of modernity (even more fundamental than confidence in rationality, etc.) is the overturning of all authority outside of the self. In the 18th century, European Enlightenment thinkers insisted that the modern person must question all tradition, revelation, and external authority by subjecting them to the supreme court of his or her own reason and intuition. We are our own moral authority.
Modern society nonetheless continued to be dominated by relatively stable institutions for a long time. People still were able to root their identities to a great degree in family and clan, in local civic communities, and in their work or vocation. Yet now even these institutions seem to be passing, worn away by the "acid" of the modern principle, namely individual happiness and autonomy must come before anything else. Marriage and family, workplace and career, neighborhood and civic community – none of these institutions can now remain authoritative or stable long enough for individuals to depend on them. People live increasingly fragmented lives, no longer thinking of themselves in terms of basic roles in communities ("Christian, father, lawyer.") Instead, their identities constantly shape-shift as they move through a series of life episodes that are not tightly connected to each other. They are always ready to change direction and abandon commitments and loyalties without qualms and to pursue, on a personal cost-benefit basis, the best opportunity available to them.
Here's an example. The new Christian Smith book, Souls in Transition (Oxford, 2009), profiles the beliefs of young adults age 18-23. In an interview with Ken Myers on Mars Hill Audio, Smith relates how he often interviewed people and asked them if their moral convictions (some of which were very strong) were mainly subjective feelings or really true to reality. He found that most had difficulty even understanding what he was asking.
The underlying thread that ties all this together is the inconceivability of a moral order based on an authority more fundamental than one's own reason or experience. That was the founding principle of the Enlightenment, and that is the cornerstone of the most recent generation. So how can we say the Enlightenment is over?
We can certainly use the term "post-modern" to refer to many aspects of our life in the world now. There certainly are discontinuities with the recent past. But I conclude that an over-emphasis on the post-ness of our situation can lead us to celebrate the greater tolerance, the end of "Christendom," the fall of Reason-capital-R, and the openness to the spiritual, without seeing that it is based on a kind of hyper-modernity that is perhaps more antithetical to Christianity than ever.
I am old enough to have seen both the "high modern" and the "late modern" / "post-modern" opposition to Christianity, and there are unique opportunities and difficulties in both situations. In the end, I don't prefer ministry in one over ministry in the other, for I believe the continuities between these ages are more fundamental to ministry than the discontinuities.


text: This Mother's Day why not craft sweet little teacup gardens for her to place on her windowsill, on the bedside table, or in the garden? I love to get creative in the garden. My mother in-law loves to garden but tells me she does not have a very green thumb. I keep encouraging her year after year and she does much better than she knows. These sweet teacups will be the perfect addition for her windowsill.


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Misses and Mister are fragrances designed for the Incredibles brand. Drawn from combination of inspiration from The Incredibles concept art and high-end perfume designs, Misses was created from conception, rendered in Solidworks and 3D printed, sanded and painted.
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Workflowy is actually one long document at a high level, however you can zoom (click) to each of the bullets/levels and they will appear as their own zoomed page view. So just create as many bullets as you wish at the top level, then each one of them will be it's own virtual page after you click on the bullet to zoom in. The new "Starred Pages" feature lets you create bookmarks to zoomed items/pages.
Can I create seperate "pages" in Workflowy?Follow
Workflowy is actually one long document at a high level, however you can zoom (click) to each of the bullets/levels and they will appear as their own zoomed page view. So just create as many bullets as you wish at the top level, then each one of them will be it's own virtual page after you click on the bullet to zoom in. The new "Starred Pages" feature lets you create bookmarks to zoomed items/pages.
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You really need to rethink using the term "page" and "pages".
You guys can't even make up your mind on what to call them. "Pages" definately doesn't fit, especially when you say "Workflowy is actually one long document..."
If you're communication isn't clear on it how do you expect your customer base to intuitively figure it out?
When you see that you can "Show starred pages" you're given the idea that there are separate pages, so looking for the way to "create a new page" which you can then "start". is frustrating.
Think about the way all your videos talk about "pages" - start with your welcome video.
The first words out of your mouth "When you first start using workflowy you'll just have a blank page. I'm going to show you what I recommend doing with that blank page. First I would create two items."
Already you've told us that the main thing you see at the beginning is a page, and you're not creating new pages with those items, you're just creating items.
This view is pervasive throughout your communication.
Until you get to "stared pages." Suddenly now you want to try to redefine all your terms.
I recommend you developing the ability to have separate pages for the following reasons:
1. "Pages" gives people a clear way to separate different lists. That's how people view things. They think they'll have one page for work, one for personal, etc.
2. When you share a "page" there's a certain amount of discomfort that "I'm actually sharing just a portion of this one 'page' with others, I hope nothing from my personal part of this 'page' ends up in the shared section and others see it. Or worse, that sharing this section ends up getting translated into sharing the entire page."
The change I'm recommending shouldn't be difficult. Just (a) take your high-level items as the names of the documents/pages and (b) create a "view pages" similar to the "view starred" that lists those documents with a filter for started/not started (maybe even text search). And (c) when someone opens a page there isn't a "home" link that takes them back to the top-level, because now the top level for a page is the page name item, not "home".
I think your back end would be able to work the same, it's just different with how you present it to the user in a few areas.
+1 for this being unintuitive, took me a while to find out how to have multiple pages (though the feature is really handy) I think it does come down to the naming, bookmarks or something like that would have made more sense.
I think pretty much everyone in here is basically freaking out because they hear pages and then think they can have discrete pages.
They are forgetting that the power of Workflowy is that everything is one document and you section the document with sublists (the whole point of the software/the core difference from other systems).
Which is causing ludicrous requests that dont fit the vision of WorkFlowy at all.
∴ Should probably change pages to something else :)
This article was intended to help people understand the "one document" structure of Workflowy, and help them see that there are methods to narrow the view (zoom) to one list, which can sometimes be considered a virtual "page". Since this discussion has come up, I had sent Richard's post as a support ticket to our team for feedback. Here's a reply that Workflowy Developer Jacob sent to Richard....."Richard,
We are currently working through some UI redesign which may result in something that more resembles pages. Currently though the metaphor is pretty much one of a single page with an infinitely nested outline. Thanks for the suggestion and I hope that you continue to enjoy WorkFlowy!
A contrarian opinion here. I understand the concerns. I for one like the simplicity and vision of Workflowy, including the metaphor, use, and terminology.
Sean - you certainly can create separate outlines for different projects and zoom to display only them as discrete pages.
Workflowy is not a corporate product that has several UI and back-end programmers, a thousand features, a major update every 6 months, and charges a big fee. It's a small scale development, which limits its features but also allows it to be free. (Nice to see the Pro version, still waiting for font color)
It's the differences that make it appealing compared, for example, to a wiki and it's discrete page organization. Like Neil wrote, there is a learning curve. You do need to open yourself to the concept and Workflowy's implementation of an infinite outliner. Once you do, it's easier to appreciate why it's designed this way.
Marc, one area I think we can find agreement is on the clean up of terms. Either it's one page or it's not. Using "one page" and "star a page" is confusing. Clearing this up may be as simple as saying "you only have one page" and "you can star a segment of your one page".
Your thoughts?
I would love to see the option for actual "Pages" or "Documents" or "Books" or "Files" on the left, that would allow completely separate, even Pin-code protected workbooks.
This would allow for personal thoughts to be kept apart from work notes.
It would also be nice to be able to "Share" outlines with others, either for editing or viewing. Currently, many at my work use Workflowy, but anytime I want to share something, I have to copy and paste into an email. Additionally, a sharing option would further promote Workflowy. If I share my outline to a coworker not using workflowy, I would use their email address. They could then view the outline in the email, or through a link, without being required to signup for workflowy. However, should they wish to edit, they would need an account. Either way, this increases exposure.
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Michelle Obama sure knows how to bring modern to the White House. In her recently-released official portrait, she donned a black shift dress by Michael Kors, a simple double strand of pearls and a Cartier Tank Francaise watch. Yes, the look is simple, but the sleekness of the outfit is what feels so fresh. No bulky skirt suit; no overpowering makeup; no hairdo that looks as though it could stand up to a wind tunnel.
The Tank is an interesting Cartier model because it has had several evolutions since the original was released in 1917. The Tank Francaise is only 13 years old, and it is marked by a square dial held by a rectangular case. The bracelet itself was created to look like the tracks left by a military tank. Although retail prices for this model usually start at $3,875, Portero has a selection of Tank Francaise watches with opening bids as low as $2,520.
Obama also knows that you can't go wrong with pearls. I love the size of these pearls and the weight of the necklace. It's not over-the-top, but the stones are substantial enough to feel luxurious and stylish. If you're wondering how to pick pearls that aren't outdated, here are two wonderful suggestions available right now on Portero:
Rachelle Epstein Japanese Gray Cultured Pearl Aquamarine Rondelle Bead 9-Row Necklace. Yes, it's dramatic, but it's also terribly chic. Gray is the color of the moment and the aquamarine beads in-between each pearl are both playful and sophisticated.
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Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller rolled out tough new drug laws that changed the way we think about crime, punishment and justice:
America went from being a society that locked up relatively few people to the nation that locks up more people per capita than any other country. These policies have affected millions of lives, transformed whole communities in ways that no one really understands.
In an hour-long documentary that will air on public radio stations nationwide, we'll capture that change in the lives of the people who were most deeply affected by it.
From a man standing in front of Attica Prison, staring into a fifteen year sentence for possession,
to the former assistant DA who prosecuted him,
to the mother sitting at her kitchen table, remembering the moment her son went off to prison.
In January of this 40th anniversary year of the Rockefeller laws, we started asking the hardest, toughest questions we could about what this era of mass incarceration has meant.
We're asking if America's prison system is putting the right people behind bars. We're tackling these questions by traveling the US, talking to prison guards, former inmates, people who are currently incarcerated, judges, husbands and wives.
By the end of the year, we'll produce a feature-length radio documentary that puts all the pieces of the puzzle in one place to tell this chapter of the American story.
It will air on public radio stations nationwide, be available online, and play at public listening events inside school classrooms, community halls, and prison libraries.
Who we are and why we need you
We live and work in northern New York, one of the landscapes changed forever by America's prison-building boom. There are a lot of dairy farms, quaint small towns and gorgeous mountain summits.
But really the economy here is driven by nearly twenty local, state and Federal incarceration facilities. Locking up people is what we do here.
We're based at North Country Public Radio, and that's where all of the stories we're producing over the course of this year are airing. And we're working on this series in partnership with some cool folks and big players like NPR and WNYC.
They're willing to air our stories once they're produced and ready, which is amazing.
But they don't have the dollars to help us do the reporting and interviews and deep research that this project requires, and most importantly: they also don't have the cash to help us create the full-length documentary.
That's where your $1 or $10 or $100 comes in.
Remember, we're not just telling one-off stories about prisons and drug dealers. With your help, we're making connections, starting a nation-wide conversation, trying to help people think more deeply about the ways that these policies and ideas have changed us.
Sample stories
The Drug Laws That Changed How We Punish: What led us to the passing of the Rockefeller Laws.
Fifteen to Life: The story of a man sentenced under the laws before most people had even learned about them.
Prison for Sale: What happens to prisons and correctional facilities when there aren't enough inmates to fill the jail cells?
New York's last state prison nursery: Why are the numbers of mothers in the prison nurseries going down when there are more women in US prisons than ever before?
And thank you!
Risks and challenges
Talking about America's prison system is painful, controversial and complex.
Already, we've struggled to gain access to some prison facilities and to find key sources.
We've already begun sorting through the complicated and often difficult-to-find archival history that explains the context for our era of mass-incarceration.
Some of the stories we've wanted to tell have eluded us so far. Investigative journalism is like that. There's a lot of shoe-leather and sometimes you hit dead ends.
This Kickstarter project won't guarantee that every story will get told, but it does allow us to keep digging.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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Sometimes I am blown away by how fast time flies. The other thing that blows me away is how quickly things change. The combination of these two facts of life had me thinking about our recent home purchase and how much it would have changed if we had just waited four more months to make the same exact transaction.
The prices of houses in our neighborhood haven't changed much over the last four months, so the real change that has occurred is the rise in mortgage interest rates. In the last four months, rates on a 30 year mortgage have gone up approximately 0.75%, or 3/4ths of a point. Below, I take you through a couple of scenarios of houses at different price points so you can get an idea of how much of a different mortgage interest rates matter.
$200,000 House with 20% Down Payment
Four months ago, 30 year fixed interest rate mortgages were priced at roughly 3.75%. The purchase of a $200,000 house with a 20%, or $40,000 down payment, would result in a monthly mortgage payment of $740.98. This is just the principle and interest on the loan and does not include any escrow payments such as homeowner's insurance or property taxes.
In the last week or so, interest rates on 30 year fixed interest rate mortgages were hovering around 4.5%. They were even higher a couple weeks ago. It blows my mind how fast interest rates went up. Anyway, back on track, the monthly mortgage payment for the same exact loan today would be $810.70.
The difference of waiting four months would have resulted in a mortgage at the higher interest rate which results in a monthly payment that was $69.72 more per month, $836.64 more per year and $25,099.20 more over the full life of a 30 year loan! CRAZY!
$150,000 House with a 20% Down Payment
Many would consider a $150,000 house a much more modest house, so I thought I'd run the numbers for this situation as well. A 20% down payment on this house would run $30,000, leaving $120,000 that would have to be financed with a mortgage.
Using the same interest rates in the example above, four months ago we would have gotten a 3.75% 30 year fixed rate mortgage. The payment on this mortgage would have been $555.74 a month.
Fast forward to today and interest rates are again 4.5% on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage. This would result in a monthly payment of $608.02 a month or $52.28 more a month, $627.36 more a year or $18,820.80 more over the full course of the 30 year mortgage.
Assumption Made In These Scenarios
I did have to make a couple of assumption in these scenarios. First, there are no extra payments whatsoever made toward the principle of the loan. You just make your normal monthly payment every single month. I wouldn't want to pay it off any faster though because interest rates, even at 4.5% are still at a historic lows.
The second assumption I made was that you'd own the house for 30 years and actually pay the mortgage off in 30 years. Most people live in and own their homes for much shorter periods of time. If you only own your home for 5-7 years, the difference won't be as big. The problem is, if you buy another house afterwards you'll have to get another mortgage and who knows where interest rates will be in the future!
Were you surprised at the huge difference 4 months and a 0.75% change in interest rates makes?


text: "Uh, I'm fucked", said Central State quarterback Jason Utah. The 22 year old has always believed that he would, someday, play in the NFL. But as the draft concluded without his name being called, Utah began to realize that he had completely blown a free college education and has absolutely no applicable skills or knowledge of anything, really, other than drinking, nailing freshman cheerleaders and playing football. He and his permanently disappointed father began combing the internet for public schools hiring PE teachers.


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Project History
The Crown Mountain project area has been subject to limited exploration drilling in 1969 and 1979. Crow's Nest Pass Oil and Gas conducted exploration over the property area which included the drilling of 11 percussion holes, trenching and geological mapping in 1969. Shell Canada Resources Ltd completed 7 reverse circulation drill holes, trenching and bulk sampling from 1979 to 1981.
Detailed mapping by the British Columbia Geological Survey in 1985, identified 87 coal outcrops, from which 10 samples were collected for reflectance determinations. There is limited historical coal quality data.
Jameson Resources entered into an option agreement to acquire the Crown Mountain Project in April 2011. The British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines issued tenure May 2012 and the exploration approvals in June 2012. Jameson Resources completed an extensive exploration program in 2012 which included 40 reverse circulation drill holes for 5,707m, down-hole wireline geophysical logging, trenching, property wide geological mapping and coal quality test work.
Jameson Resources released its maiden resource estimate of 90 million tonnes for the Crown Mountain Project in February 2013. The preparation of the Coal Resource estimate was undertaken by Norwest Corporation ('Norwest") of Calgary Alberta. Jameson engaged Norwest to undertake a Preliminary Economic Assessment which was completed in March 2013.
The Preliminary Economic Assessment confirmed the Crown Mountain Project has robust economics showing potential to be a low cost coking coal mining operation. An indicative pre-tax NPV10 of US$845M, US$544M and US$233M at 60%, 50% and 40% plant yields respectively was determined.
The exploration drilling program at Crown Mountain commenced in mid-2013 and was focused on the North and South Blocks of the project area. The drilling program was designed to gather information required to quantify the coking characteristics of the coal and to allow a more accurate estimate of wash plant yield.
At the end of 2013, Jameson awarded the Prefeasibility Study (PFS) for the Crown Mountain Project to Norwest with an authorisation to commence work immediately. This decision was based on evaluation of results from the 2013 drilling program. PFS execution is expected to take approximately six months and be completed mid-2014 with data collection continuing in several areas as Jameson prepares to commence the Environmental Assessment process pending a positive PFS.


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Fern House Cafe
We took a trip to Avoca Kilmacanogue on Saturday. First we had a bite to eat at The Fern House Cafe which is a beautifully bright and airy space. It was a gorgeous hot day so we took advantage of the heat and sat with the tall sash windows opening out to the paved terrace. Built in the style of a Victorian fern house, it's spacious and plant-filled - including orange & lemon trees. We had a selection of the dishes to share including the vegan super-food salad, half rotisserie chicken and the fritter plate with pitta bread. The vegan salad was particularly tasty with lots of interesting flavours and ingredients including bee pollen, goji berries and edible flowers. The plate was so colourful!
We followed it up with a wander around the avoca store. There is so much to browse you could loose yourself for a few hours looking through all the cute household bits, books and treats. There is also lovely authentic food spots within the store including; Roberts of Dalkey fish shop, Michie Sushi, Poulet Bonne Femme Rotisserie Chicken & a Cheese Shop.
There is plenty to see and do near Avoca Kilmacanogue. Powerscourt Gardens are very near and would add to a lovely day out!
Fern House Cafe:
Mon - Sat: 9.30am - 4.30pm - Sun: 9.30am - 5.00pm
Fish Shack Dun laoghaire
With weather like this you just have to make the most of it and get out and about whenever you get some time off work. It was a Friday evening after a long week! The weather was absolutely gorgeous so we decided to dine alfresco! We picked up our appetite with a walk on the pier and a bite to eat while we were there. Stephen decided on fish of the day (Haddock) & chips, I went for the crab roll salad & chips & our bill was €18 in total. The wait was short, maybe 4/5 minutes before we had tasty looking fish & chips in our hands.
We found a spot on one of the little benches and watched the world go by! It was a super relaxed yet tasty meal so we'll definitely be doing that again!
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Ouzos Fish Shack | Dun Laoghaire East Pier
People's Park Farmers Market
Every Sunday there is a fantastic farmers market in Dun Laoghaire. Its one of the best markets we have been to. We used to have a stall here for a few years when we started business with our gluten free bakery - Pure foods. Its full of fantastic authentic local suppliers with top notch quality produce. The Park has been open to the public since 1890 and features great examples of Victorian architecture with the Gate Lodge and the Tea Rooms, a bandstand featuring the original gaslight standards and a playground. The market is a very popular spot and this weekend there was an amazing crowd, it felt like festival was on! Over 50 vendors trade each Sunday selling a wide range of products including delicious hot food, baked goods, art and crafts, artisan food products and seasonal fruit & veg!
There are some fantastic Irish food producers there every week so you can buy everything you need. We have started to get our weekly shop here, its a much more pleasant trip that having to face the aisles of your local supermarket! We love the organic fruit and veg stall as well as the organic meats and fresh fish from Howth. We also bought a sample box of Irish cheese including goats, sheep and cows cheeses from Cooleeney cheese.
People's Park Market, Dún Laoghaire
Sundays 11 am – 4 pm.
The Happy Pear
We ventured out for a cycle on Saturday from Blackrock to Greystones. With this glorious weather and a day off from the shop we decided to get out and enjoy the sunshine! We finally reached Greystones and had worked up quite the appetite. A stop at the Happy Pear has us fuelled up in no time. We both had the paprika and coconut veggie stew which was so delicious I was dreaming of it the whole cycle back. We'll have to buy their cookbook to see if the recipe is revealed!
We polished it all off with two coffees made by fantastic barista Mike (who we trained over at Bear Market!) All in all a great feast for two hungry cyclists.
The Happy Pear
Greystones, Co Wicklow
The Market Canteen
Just off the main street of Blackrock, there's a little lane that leads to Blackrock Market. On a Thursday evening, you can follow the lane past the stalls, closed for the night, that usually house businesses such as Kiddy Knits, Fish Shop and The Bean Bag Shop. Following the lane, you turn a corner and are greeted by a little bistro inviting you in for a bite to eat.
This is Canteen at the Market, run by Soizic Humbert and James Sheridan. They open for lunch Wednesday through to Saturday and welcome evening patrons on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights for dinner. Humbert and Sheridan both count Thornton's among their Michelin Star-spangled resumés. 'When we found this premises, we took it on the basis that we could garner the experience and build a reputation,' Sheridan explains. 'Markets are, after all, incubators for small business.'
What once was a greasy spoon now serves as a cosy setting for a set tasting menu. There are four courses for €42 and the menu changes weekly. It's hand-written in large letters on a brown piece of paper that hangs in the middle of the restaurant. Tonight the menu reads well; we're to have scallops, brill, venison and raspberries.
The scallop starter is rather impeccable. I can't think of where I've had scallops better cooked. The perfect sweetness of this marine delicacy was cut through perfectly by pickled raisins and astringent vinaigrette. The accompanying florets of beautifully blackened cauliflower and crunchy chicory made this a delectable starter that was a proud celebrant of the turn of the seasons.
The main course of venison is similarly relished, the pink meat sprinkled with a walnut crumble. Sweet pears, softened, work well with the venison while roasted Jerusalem artichoke add their usual earthiness to the proceedings. A moreish sauce is drizzled over soft gnocchi dumplings and a dehydrated sliver of pear topping the whole dish off. Dessert comes in a delicate little glass so that we can see tiny donuts, pieces of crunchy cake, meringue and raspberry granita mingling with beautiful Irish raspberries.
There was a little bump in the road throughout all of that success. The brill, braised with ceps, butternut squash and fregola (a lovely couscous style pasta) promised all the joys of autumnal cooking; big, fat mushrooms on top of the glistening fish, cosying up to the moist and plump fregola. But this dish just didn't quite deliver. Though a touch of self-applied seasoning helped somewhat, the subtle depth of the other dishes was sadly missing in our second course.
Coffee and macaroons add €3.50 to the bill but they're worth it; my macchiato is a great combination of creamy and tart while the toffee-hued macaroons are gooey and crispy in just the right way. With a bottle of sparkling water, two glasses of wine and four courses each, the total bill comes to €105.45.
Sheridan tells me Canteen at the Market is a "pilot project" and the pair clearly have their eyes on the future. It feels a bit special to catch this team's journey as they serve their ambitious food in this sweet, informal setting. These two are definitely ones to watch.
Canteen at the Market
Blackrock Market, Blackrock, Co Dublin
Credit: http://totallydublin.ie/
Photography: Mark Duggan
Sister Sadie
It's always exciting when a new lunch spot opens near the office. But, the initial novelty of something different lasts only so long, and then it's back to the humdrum. However, with the opening of Sister Sadie on Harrington Street (in the site of the former Tiesan cafe), I don't think there's going to be any ennui anytime soon..
Sister Sadie comes from the people behind the acclaimed Brother Hubbard (Capel Street), who currently hold the title of Best Sandwich in Dublin, awarded by McKennas' Guides for their pulled pork creation. The cafe is set back a little from the street, with room for outdoor seating in finer weather. On the day of my visit, autumn was definitely in the air, with golden leaves swirling on the ground. Inside, the style is clean and bright with simple square wooden tables and bench tables along the window.
Sister Sadie serves breakfast until 11.30ish (taken from their menu), after which it switches to lunch service. The team have continued to work with their established Brother Hubbard suppliers for their new menu. Soups, salads, flatbreads and of course sandwiches all feature with a definite Middle Eastern flavour going on. Most dishes come with a side portion of one of their homemade salads, making each plate a substantial affair. Cannellini beans in a thick, lightly spiced tomato sauce came with pulled pork and a soft fried egg (€9.95). A gentle citrus note added some zing to the sauce, partnered by a little scattering of sumac across the top. The pulled pork was top notch, not too soft or wet and based on this, it's easy to see why the Brother Hubbard sandwich has won the accolades.
Sister Sadie is open from 7.45am to 5pm Monday to Friday, and there are plans for weekend brunch soon. The new location is sure to be a winner with potential to catch both the office crowd and the local residents. This winning mix of healthy, tasty food, coffee and sweet treats is bound to be as popular on the southside as it has been on the northside.
Sister Sadie, 46 Harrington Street, Dublin 8
URL: brotherhubbard.ie/sistersadie
Twitter: @sistersadiecafe
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Yediah Zipporah Bracelet - Turquoise
Yediah Zipporah Bracelet - Turquoise
Yediah, meaning 'God is my Salvation' in Hebrew, is a collection that represents Miriam's Christian faith. The figure of 8 shaped swirl represents eternity and the hope of Jesus Christ. This delicate jewellery set will bring real elegance to any outfit.
Featuring turquoise gemstones, the Yediah bracelet measures 7.5 inches long by 0.25 inches wide. The Yediah design is also available as earrings and necklace to create a matching set.
Sterling silver is the most popular of the world's silver alloys. Made up of 92.5% silver combined with copper and other metals, sterling silver is a beautiful bright white colour, durable and hardwearing.
Turquoise is a blue-green coloured semi-precious stone found in dry and barren regions of the world. Here, acidic and copper-rich groundwater seeps downward reacting with mineral that contain phosphorus and aluminium. Translucency and colour of the gemstone may vary.
Turquoise is the birthstone for the month of December and the gem of the eleventh anniversary.
(Gemstone information from GIA Encyclopaedia)


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Vince Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights
Purvi Shah, Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights
Ahmad Abuznaid, Dream Defenders
Amna Akbar, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Judith Browne Dianis, Advancement Project
Leigh Chapman, National Bar Association
Monique Dixon, NAACP LDF
Iman Freeman, Baltimore Legal Defense Committee
Dorcas Gilmore, Gilmore Khandhar, LLC & Baltimore Activating Solidarity Economies
Alana Greer, Community Justice Project
Justin Hansford, St. Louis Univ. School of Law
Thomas Harvey, Arch City Defenders
Sean Hill, National Conference of Black Lawyers
Jill Humphries, Legal Worker, National Lawyers Guild TUPOCC (The United People of Color Caucus)
Meena Jagannath, Community Justice Project
Nicole Lee
Addrana Montgomery, National Conference of Black Lawyers
Naji Mujahid, Law Student at UDC School of Law
Oren Nimni, National Lawyers Guild TUPOCC (The United People of Color Caucus)
Colette Pichon Battle, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
Thena Robinson-Mock, Advancement Project
Brendan Roediger, St. Louis Univ. School of Law
Marbre Stahly-Butts, Center for Popular Democracy
An-Tuan Williams, Center for Constitutional Rights
Carl Williams, ACLU of MA


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Healthy & Creamy Spinach Enchiladas
You know what's missing from lots of delicious Mexican dishes? My fav: leafy greens.
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, I've fixed that problem for you with these delicious, veggie-powered, healthy spinach enchiladas.
Serves 4
For enchilada sauce:
- 1/4 cup avocado oil
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 (28-ounce) can crushed tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons plus 3 teaspoons chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 cup water
- Himalayan salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
For enchiladas:
- 1 package frozen chopped organic spinach (thawed)
- 1 can black beans (rinsed)
- 1-2 cloves minced garlic
- 1 medium onion (chopped)
- 1 tbsp avocado oil
- ¼ cup ricotta cheese
- 1 cup extra sharp cheddar cheese (shredded)
- 1 package burrito size tortillas
To make the sauce:
- Whisk in flour until well combined, about 1 minute.
- Stir in tomatoes, chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, and 1 cup water; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Bring sauce to a boil; reduce heat and simmer until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Slowly stir in water, about ¼ cup at a time.
Sauce can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to two weeks or frozen for use later.
To make enchiladas:
- Add ricotta and stir
- Spoon ¼ of the spinach mixture into a tortilla, wrap tightly, and place in a baking pan
- After all burrito shells are filled, top each enchilada with approximately ½ cup enchilada sauce and cheddar cheese
- Bake for 20-30 minutes, until cheese is melted
The spinach mix would also make a great burrito bowl on top of rice.
Happy Cinco de Mayo, amigos!


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I think I may not be allowed to comment on a fellow's blog anymore. I'll save this here and try again later. If it's not a technical issue it would be odd for a fellow that talks of how much he values reason to refuse to try to reason things out.
Really... you come to sit at my feet and absorb my wisdom?
I'm merely accepting your argument about all that I do not know.
I don't think there is a thing in the world you can learn from me. But you already knew that.
Your original argument was based on all that I do not know which I should know and so on, so I would think that you had some knowledge in mind that I do not know.
The old argument from incredulity revisited.
I didn't say that the use of language was necessarily all that incredible. After all, marginally intelligent people can use language in incredibly credulous ways in order to cite their own gullible credulity as evidence as many Darwinists do. On the other hand one ought to admit that some uses of codes, like DNA, are rather incredible.
You can't understand how science could say language and genetic codes could evolve without at sentient force so you don't accept it.
There is no reason to deny that codes and languages evolve, many can be observed to do so. There is reason to deny that change is the reason for reason or that meaning is some type of illusion which emerges from meaninglessness. There is reason in Aristole's philosophy when it logically leads to some type of unmoved Mover but we have no reason to try to trace cause and effect back to an imaginary oblivion.


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After an outrageous Saturday enjoy a sublime Sunday with us at the Morgan Creek Vineyards incredible Country Brunch. Revisit the revelry of the day before while enjoying a menu of fresh, unique foods suited perfectly for the surroundings and the spirit of harvest.
Reservations are strongly advised and you can make them as well as look at the country brunch menu here.


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Smart lighting is something that you will find to be continually beneficial in your life no matter how often you tend to use it. In fact, a lot of homeowners have been switching to Smart lighting because of how beneficial it can be for them and their loved ones. If you have been trying to figure out an option for you, smart lighting might be exactly what you need in order to lower those energy costs and get something that is more beneficial for the whole family. If you have never heard of Gooee Smart Lighting (https://gooee.com/applications) before in your life, you might have some questions as to how this even works and what it can do to benefit you and your loved ones.
Smart lighting enables the lights in your home to turn on and off depending on the current light situation in a room. This means that if the room is already getting a lot of natural light from a window, the light will simply turn itself off so that you don't even have to worry about it. You can also control any light fixture in your house from a smartphone or tablet that you might have so that you can turn things off if you forgot to turn them off before leaving the house. There are so many different options out there for you but smart lighting can easily be something that benefits your home and allows your energy bills to be a lot less than they were in the past.


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Because I haven't cooked breakfast in over a month, I was anxious to get in my kitchen.
I decided to go with some kind of breakfast sandwich and hashbrowns. I even juiced some oranges to top everything off.
I wanted to boost the hashbrowns with some veggies, so I added chopped fresh mushrooms, about a cup of fresh spinach leaves and some scallions.
The sandwiches were built on whole grain English muffins. Dev's had egg, bacon and cheddar. Mine had egg, bacon, avocado and cheddar (with a little mayo to moisten things up). It was a very good winter breakfast.
I think tomorrow will be garlic cheddar grits.....


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Week Three Recap
Video by JD Gravitt
Photography by Sydnee Mela
It's weekly recap time! Week three of the 18 Inch Journey was all about friendship with the Holy Spirit. Our students sat in amazing teachings with Melissa about who the Holy Spirit is and practical ways to cultivate friendship with Him. One of our biggest values at the 18 Inch Journey is imparting stewardship and sustainability. We believe that the Holy Spirit loves to help us find Him in the way we take care of what's been entrusted to us, and wants to meet us in the normal, mundane parts of our lives. Work duties is one of our weekly rhythms where students get to learn how to value and care for the land. In working with their hands, they have space to process what the Lord is teaching them and feel the reward of practically caring for something.
Check out the Week Three Recap video below and see what our students are learning about the Holy Spirit and how they're tending the land!