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Perpetual Novena to Sto. Nino de Cebu
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
SING: (kneeling)
O salutaris hostia
Quae coeli pandis ostium,
Bella premunt hostilia,
Da robur, fer auxilium.
Uni trinoque Domino
Sit sempiterna gloria.
Qui vitam sine termino
Nobis donet in patria. Amen.
O Señor Santo Niño, *You are our king and our God, *We worship You, You are our strong Defender, *We turn to You; You are the Patron of Cebu and the Philippines, *We come to you;*You have made extraordinary wonders *through Your Miraculous Image*in these chosen Islands, *remember us. Look down at this poor soul *that comes to You for help. Lead us with Your wisdom, *discipline us with Your Truth, console us with Your Tenderness, *protect us with Your Might.
We consecrate today *our thoughts to You, *only with You *shall they be occupied; *our words, *only of You *shall they speak; *our sufferings, that wemay endure them *for your sake. We beg You, *Señor Santo Niño, *illumine our understanding, kindle our will, *cleanse our body, *sanctify our soul. *We wish what you wish, *because You wish, *as You wish, *as long as You wish.
Grant us, Señor Santo Niño, *that we may feel *love toward You, *be stricttoward ourselves, *be zealous toward our fellowmen, *and rightly despise *the things of the world. Help us *to overcome sensuality *with strict discipline,*avariciousness with generosity, *anger with gentleness, *indolence with zealous
industry. *Make us wise in counsel, *courageous in danger, *patient in adversity, *humble in prosperity.
Teach us, *dear Santo Niño, *how worthless is the world, *how sublime is heaven, *how brief is time, *how long is eternity. *Grant us, lastly, that we may remember You, *adore You, *love You, and serve You *here on earth *that we may be happy with You *forever and ever in Heaven. Amen.
SING: (standing)
Holy God, we praise Your name.
Lord of all! We bow before You;
All on earth Your scepter claim,
All in heaven above adore You;
Infinite Your vast domain,
Everlasting is Your reign.
Hark! The loud celestial hymn,
Angels choirs above are raising;
Cherubim and Seraphim
In unceasing chorus praising,
Fill the Heav'ns with sweet accord
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord!
Recite three times Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father in honor of Santo Niño.
(Ask Señor Santo Niño the favor you want to obtain in this Novena.)
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus, hear us.
Jesus, graciously hear us.
In every need let us come to You with humble trust.
Santo Niño, help us.
In all our doubts, perplexities, and temptations.
Santo Niño, help us.
In hours of loneliness, weariness and trials,
Santo Niño, help us.
In the failure of our plans and hopes,
Santo Niño, help us.
In disappointments, troubles, and sorrows,
Santo Niño, help us.
When others fail us, and Your Grace alone can assist us.
Santo Niño, help us.
When we throw ourselves on Your tender love as our only Refuge,
Santo Niño, help us.
When our heart is cast down by failure,
Santo Niño, help us.
When we are ill, and our head and hands cannot work and we are lonely,
Santo Niño, help us.
When we feel impatient, and our cross irritates us,
Santo Niño, help us.
Always, always, in spite of weakness, falls and shortcomings of every kind.
Santo Niño, help us.
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world; Spare us, O Jesus
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world; Graciously hear us, O Jesus
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world; Have mercy upon us, O Jesus
Jesus, Hear us
Jesus, Graciously hear us.
O Santo Niño, *who has said, *"Ask, and you shall receive; *seek, and you shall find; *knock, and it shall be opened unto you," *give, we beseech You, *to us who ask, *the gift of your divine love, *that we may love You *with our whole heart, *in word and work, *and never cease from showing forth Your praise.
Make us, O Lord, *to have a perpetual fear and love *of Your holy name, *for You never fail *to govern them whom You do solidly establish *in Your love; *through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Indulgence of 7 years, No. 114).
E. Perez S. Ezcurra
One day to these Islands *As gift and in pledge *God sent You to us *O beloved Child *And always You have been *The light of our souls *The guide of our people
*The flame in our hearts.
Señor Santo Niño, with Your scepter
Guide our people who hail You king
Forever, Filipinas is Your kingdom.
Señor Santo Niño, in Your hand
The world finds its rest; proclaim Your
Truth and justice, bring to men Your
Peace and love.
The ship you were sailing *Arrived at our shores *to conquer this land, *The Pearl of the seas; *But You had decided *to stay in this soil *To conquer our people *And give us a name.
The queen and the rajah, *Accepting the faith, *Received You in their arms *and fell on their knees; *They welcomed Your presence *And called on Your name *To ask for Your blessing *and help in their needs.
More ships in the Orient *With soldiers arrived; *And searching for gold, *They found You instead; *Legaspi, Urdaneta, the rajah, the queen, *Their subjects, our people, *Proclaimed You their king.
Now one as a nation *We pay You respect *Our people did pledge *A long time ago.
*We ask You to hear *The prayers of all: *The sad and forsaken, *The poor and the sick.
O miraculous Santo Niño! *prostrate before Your sacred Image, *we beseech You*to cast a merciful look *on our troubled hearts. *Let Your tender love, *so inclinedto pity, *be softened at our prayers, *and grant us that grace *for which we ardently implore You. *Take from us *all unbearable affliction and despair. *For Your sacred infancy's sake *hear our prayers *and send us consolation and aid *that we may praise You, *with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
SING: (kneeling)
Tantum ergo Sacramentum
Veneremur cernui;
Et antiquum documentum
Novo cedat retui;
Praestet fides supplementum
Sensuum defectui.
Genitori, Genitoque
Laus et jubilatio,
Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Sit et benedictio;
Procedenti, ab utroque
Compar sit laudatio. Amen.
V. Panem de coelo praestitisti eis.
R. Omne delectamentum in se habentem.
Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man.
Blessed be the Name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most Holy.
Blessed be her Holy and Immaculate Conception
Blessed be her glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste Spouse.
Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints.
SING: (kneeling)
O Sacrament Most Holy
O Sacrament divine,
All praise and all thanksgiving
Be ev'ry moment Thine,
Be ev'ry moment Thine.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.


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"Robots, vending machines and touch screen kiosks are increasingly replacing human workers." (LA Times March 2011)
"The person who is making most sushi of the sushi of the revolving conveyor-belt sushi restaurant is "Sushi robot."! (Rie Hara, Japanese Element Symbols. 2009)
Did technology play a significant role in the 2007 subprime meltdown and the subsequent global financial crisis and recession? How fast can we expect technological change to occur in the coming years and decades?
Which jobs and industries are likely to be most vulnerable to automation and offshoring?
Martin Ford, the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm, employs a powerful thought experiment to explore the economy of the future in his book "The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future". An imaginary "tunnel of lights" is used to visualize the economic implications of the new technologies that are likely to appear in the coming years and decades. The book directly challenges conventional views of the future and illuminates the danger that lies ahead if we do not plan for the impact of rapidly advancing technology. It also shows how the economic realities of the future might offer solutions to issues such as poverty and climate change.
Check also out the video below from September 2011 future tense event with Slate technology columnist Farhad Manjoo and a panel of experts explored questions about opportunities and risks with robots.

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I guess this is Aerosmith's 5th album, and when it came out in 1977 I had already decided that they sucked– I don't remember why exactly, because I never DIDN'T like the two earlier records I had– though I never liked "Dream On" from their first record. I remember when "Rocks" came out, I just hated it– I don't remember why– just because of the cover with the diamonds. Or did I actually hear it? Anyway, I don't recall ever hearing any of this record, or ever being much aware of its existence. I think when I got into punk rock I just really cut a lot of stuff out of my world.
It starts out almost sounding like the Aerosmith I remember and liked so much. The second song, "I Wanna Know Why" is pretty good– it actually sounds a lot like something from the first solo David Johansen record from almost the same time. It goes on for too long, though, and has too many elements– and the record just goes downhill from there. Though the Joe Perry song is kind of weird; it really reminds me of that Klark Kent (Steward Copeland) song, "Don't Care" which came out about the same time.
The first song on side two, "Kings and Queens" just totally reminds me of everything that went wrong with rock music in the 1970s and why we (punk rockers) rejected all of it. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry will be the first ones to tell you that they did too many drugs, but I don't want to presume that drugs are the reason this sounds so bad. Maybe it was too much touring, or too much eating at Taco Bell. At any rate, most of this record is like an aural representation of constipation.
The cover, a pathetic caricature of the band by Al Hirschfeld is just really… sad. It pretty much says "end of the line." They probably should have called this record "End Of The Line," or R.I.P. But I love Aerosmith! I'm glad they didn't OD and die, and I'm even glad they kept playing and recording. I just never want to see or hear this record again.


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Here we are chatting before the show begins, with lots of coffee. Big thanks to Dell for the coffee!
Very small attendee. Could be a hobbit. I did ask a parent for permission to take the photo; his name may be Bilbo.
No teleporting from the venue in case of earthquakes! James gets us started; he is the official cat-herder for the day.
Actual questions during the Q&A – speeches are for SkeptiCamp only! Nice rule to have.
Dr Pamela Gay begins the day, with the null hypothesis. How does this relate to reality? The lack of relationship between gas giants being near stars – it wasn't disproven.This is where we get into types of errors and the kinds that exist – errors by ignorance of statistics; type one errors (false positives); type two errors (false negatives).
"We think with our stomachs, our hearts – more often than we should".
We have a choice to believe or not believe in things that are not testable. What does it mean for something to be testable? Must test the sources and the people whom we're getting the information from. Where we are is nothing special – we have no special vantage point on the universe. We can't understand why certain parts of the our current understanding of the universe, but learning more all the time. "String theory -not testable. How many books, films, documentaries on string theory? It's not science – it's pretty math" – is it predictive? Is there underlying theory? Can it be tested? She's going to Tweet an example of a Daily Show episode that reflects attitudes towards peer review, and how misunderstanding of it threatens science. We need multiple lines of evidence, models and instances to know if a prediction is true.
"Who do we trust? One thing above everything is the miracle that we have the ability to understand this universe, using the scientific method – to make testable predictions that explain our reality, from the big bang to today. It can be understood." A very inspiring and rather wonderful talk.


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Good morning,
Pressure is mounting on President Donald Trump as he battles allegations that he pressured former FBI director James Comey to drop the investigation into links between then National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russia before he fired Comey unceremoniously from the job last week.
Speaking in Connecticut yesterday, Trump played the victim: "No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly."
Were he alive, Nelson Mandela may well have had something to say about that.
Meanwhile Democrats were delighted when the deputy attorney general named Robert Mueller, a former FBI boss, as special counsel to oversee the inquiry into links between the Trump campaign and Russia.
And so the distant prospect of impeachment continues to hang over Trump's presidency with Congressman Al Green – the US Representative from Texas' 9th district – now calling for Trump to be impeached for obstruction of justice.
It's all very well for a junior congressman from the opposition party to call for impeachment, but to get to that point, it will require not only the Democratic leadership but large segments of the Republicans to follow suit.
After that, it's an arduous process involving investigation by a congressional committee, reports and debate, before the full House of Representatives votes, with a simple majority required for a trial to be conducted in the Senate. At that stage, a two-thirds majority is needed to remove the president from office.
It's worth remembering that only two presidents – Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson - have been impeached and both were acquitted. In addition, Richard Nixon resigned before impeachment went to a vote. In all three of these cases, the president in question was facing a hostile Congress.
Trump on the other hand would need his own party to turn on him in order to be told: "You're fired".
The Conservative's general election manifesto entitled "Forward Together" will be launched today. Some policies have been pre-briefed to the media including a commitment to bring net migration down to the tens of thousands, the means testing of winter fuel payments and new funding mechanisms for social care all expected to be included.
The UK will "pay a price" – such as goods being kept in storage for checks at the border - for stopping the free movement of workers in Europe, Angela Merkel warned yesterday. The German chancellor was answering a question from Frances O'Grady, head of the Trades Union Congress, at an international labour conference in Berlin. Merkel insisted that this "is not malicious, but I cannot have all the good sides and then say there is a cap of 100,000 or 200,000 EU citizens, more are not allowed into Britain".
Brexit has paralysed the NHS and general practice is on the "brink of collapse", according to Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chairman of the British Medical Association's GP committee. Dr Nagpaul is set to speak at an annual medical conference where he will highlight concerns surrounding understaffing and accuse politicians of turning a blind eye to the needs of health and social care systems in England.
Business & Economy
Wage growth fell behind inflation for the first time since 2014 during the first three months of 2017, according to the Office National Statistics. This resulted in real terms pay cut of 0.2% and hitting spending power. This is despite the unemployment rate falling to 4.6% - its lowest level since 1975.
Profit margins at SSE have risen to their highest level in eight years, boosting group profits at the UK's second largest energy supplier to £1.5 billion. Despite losing 190,000 retail customer accounts in 2016-2017, a reduction in wholesale costs allowed the FTSE 100 listed company to generate more profit per household.
Royal Mail has posted flat annual revenues of £9.7 billion. The UK is posting fewer and fewer letters, with revenues in this section of the business standing at £4.3 billion – down 5% on last year. However, the growth in online shopping boosted Royal Mail's parcel business and General Logistics Systems – the overseas division – also performed strongly, leading operating profit increasing by a fifth.
FTSE 100 shares fell yesterday after ending at a record 7,522.03 points on Tuesday.
At close of trading, the index was down 18.56 points, or 0.25%. at 7,503.47.
Lloyds Banking Group was up 2% following news that the the government had sold its last remaining stake, thereby returning it to the public sectors.
Fresnillo, Tesco, Kingfisher and Randgold also performed well.
However, shared in British Land were down 3.3%, despite the property investment trust posting a 7.4% increase in full-year profit.
Ashtead Group, CRH, Hikma Pharmaceuticals and Rolls-Royce Holdings were amongst the other fallers.
US stock indices had their worst day of trading in eight months due to concerns that political turmoil in Washington could derail President Trump's growth stimulation policies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index ended the day down 372.82 points at 20,603.93, whilst the S&P 500 fell 43.25 points to 2,356.71, and the Nasdaq was down 158.636 points at 6,011.23.
On the currency markets, the pound was up 0.22% against the dollar at $1.2945 but fell 0.33% against the euro to 1.1616 euros.
Bloomsbury Publishing, Booker Group, Burberry Group, Dairy Crest Group, Elektron Technology, Experian, 3i Group, Investec, Land Securities Group, Mothercare, National Grid, Royal Mail
Euromoney Institutional Investor, Marston's, SSP Group, Thomas Cook Group
Trading Announcements
Balfour Beatty, Cineworld Group, Greggs, Hargreaves Lansdown, S&U, Wilmington
Balfour Beatty, Cineworld Group, Great Western Mining Corporation, Hiscox Limited (DI), Next, Prudential
UK Economic Announcements
(09:30) Retail Sales
International Economic Announcements
(07:00) Wholesale Price Index (GER)
(13:30) Continuing Claims (US)
(13:30) Initial Jobless Claims (US)
Columns of Note
Writing in The Telegraph, Allister Heath warns that Theresa May's interventionism could threaten job creation. He argues that the liberal, free-market approach initiated by Margaret Thatcher in 1984, which has created a jobs boom, is an extraordinary achievement, and urges her embrace free markets rather than retreating to the economic certainties of the Sixties.
In The New Statesman, Stephen Bush looks at why the Liberal Democrat recovery has stalled. On paper, the opportunity is there – the Conservatives have abandoned its liberal strand that David Cameron pushed, whilst Labour is controlled by the hard-left and bitterly divided. However, Tim Farron's proposal for a second referendum is unappealing to the vast majority of voters, and many of those who are pro-EU do not believe the Lib Dems can halt Brexit.
Did you know?
It does not actually make a difference whether you add the milk to your cup before or after you pour your tea. The tendency to pour the tea first stems from a time when china crockery was still used. Poor-quality cups were inclined to crack when subjected to hot liquid, so pouring the tea first was a status symbol and a sign that you could afford higher quality china.
Parliamentary highlights
House of Commons
In dissolution. The House will next sit on Monday 19th June.
House of Lords
In dissolution. The House will next sit on Monday 19th June.
Scottish Parliament
General Questions
First Minister's Questions
Scottish Government Debate: Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE)
Scottish Parliament
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Mary's Maple Brewery Brunch
Brooklyn Brewery
Saturday, February 25, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (EST)
Event Details
Celebrate the maple syrup starring in our latest Brewmaster's Reserve with an all-you-can-eat brunch spectacular at Brooklyn Brewery!
All inclusive tickets gain you:
- Waffles - unlimited Belgian waffles from Waffles & Dinges topped with Mary's own Maple Syrup
- Bacon - the best stuff on earth, piled high
- Beer - free-flowing taps of Mary's Maple Porter & other fine Brooklyn beers
- Coffee - bottomless cups of Brooklyn Roasting Company coffee
Have questions about Mary's Maple Brewery Brunch? Contact Brooklyn Brewery
When & Where
79 North 11th Street
Saturday, February 25, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM (EST)
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Does your brain seize up when you start trying to decipher all the different dress codes that exist? Have you ever been to a black tie affair? How about white tie? Highly unlikely. If you were invited, would you know how to dress? We've got you covered with a simple breakdown of various dress codes that will ensure that you're always dressing the part, as opposed to dressing as a schlub.
In the casual realm, anything goes. You could show up in your pajamas and you'd still be welcome at the door. We don't recommend wearing your pajamas, though, and we certainly don't recommend basketball tank-tops without an undershirt — regardless of how chiseled your cannons are. Hats, jeans, sneakers: A-OK.
If you want to take your casual style to the next level, consider personalizing and accessorizing your daily get-ups. The example on the right may not be something you'd ever wear — I wouldn't — but notice how the dude looks completely… casual. That's the point. Be comfortable. Dress to your personality.
Smart Casual
What is smart casual? Well, it's smarter than casual. Honestly, if you're looking to make an impression and sell yourself as someone who takes pride in their appearance — especially if there are ladies present who you're hoping to impress — smart casual is a good way to go.
It's best to keep smart casual fairly neutral. In other words, no flashy logos. Avoid all denim except for dark denim. Up top, go with a collared shirt of the button or polo variety. Layer up with a light sweater if it's cool outside.
For smart casual, you'll need a jacket. We're talking about blazers here, not parkas. If you don't know where to find a great jacket, start at a thrift store. This is especially true if you live in an urban environment. And always — no exceptions — have your jacket tailored to fit. It's not very expensive to do and it's worth every penny.
Avoid sneakers if you can. If you're a hipster, you can ignore that last sentence — you gotta do what you gotta do. Boots, loafers, deck shoes and casual dress shoes are all acceptable.
Business Casual
Business casual will depend on the business you're in. If you work in the legal field, obviously you're strutting into the office a little differently than if you work for a record label. Therefore, you can break this category down into business casual corporate, or business casual relaxed.
For business casual relaxed, you're pretty safe with the smart casual look and dress shoes. You might opt for a Henley if you can pull it off well. If you feel that you're overweight or you don't pull off a Henley well, stick with the collared dress shirt (and avoid French cuffs). Also, do your best to avoid denim.
For business casual corporate, never wear jeans. You'll need a high quality trouser matched with a collared, button-down shirt. You may also consider a sweater, tie or jacket, depending on the season. If you're not sure about the tie, slip it into your back pocket and you can always throw it on quickly in a restroom.
Remember: The shoes make the man. Choose wisely.
Informal / Black Tie Optional
O.K., gentlemen. This is where it gets a little tricky. You hear informal, and you immediately think casual. No. Not even close. This distinction is crucial. Informal is suggesting that you can be comfortable at an important event at a nice location. What does this mean? Suit and tie. That's your best option.
- Collared shirt. White is safe. French cuffs, cufflinks
- Matching jacket and pants — vest is O.K., but not necessary
- Tie
- Dark socks and shoes — shoes should be lace-up
Black Tie / Semi-Formal
From the informal base, we're gonna take it to the next level. A black tie event means tuxedo. If you're going to attend several black tie/semi-formal events, invest in a tux. Otherwise, it's okay to rent.
You'll need:
- Tuxedo jacket
- Formal pants
- Satin tie or satin bow-tie (preferably black or very dark)
- Vest or cummerbund — the pleats face up. (Yes, you've been calling it "cumberbun" for years. It's O.K. — now you know.)
- Tuxedo formal shoes — or an impressive, lace-up alternative. Avoid toe-caps and ornate decor
Long ago, it was customary to wear a hat for black tie affairs. It is still quite acceptable, but it can be tough to pull off for anyone who isn't really, really stylish. Consider a Bowler, Homburg or Fedora for evening events — if you think you can do it without looking dumb.
Accessories can be omitted, or modified, for black tie events as necessary: Studs, French-cuffs and cuff-links are preferential to buttons. If an overcoat is needed, the classic Chesterfield coat is the way to go.
White Tie/Formal
Chances are, you'll never attend one of these events. However, if you're ever elected President of The United States, or are invited to an Inaugural Ball, you'll want to be sure you get it right. In regards to the traditional rules of white tie, the one thing you absolutely must get right is wearing the pique white tie. A perfect example of white tie dress: Fred Astaire in Top Hat.
- White button shirt — single cuffed and winged
- White cotton pique bow tie
- White pique vest
- Black jacket – swallow tailcoat cut
- Black formal pants – traditionally with two satin seams along the pant leg. No belt loops. Worn with suspenders or inner adjustment
- Black socks
- Black formal shoes
- Traditionally, you'd also arrive in cloak and top hat


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The COLLABORATION: This is where it all started, Pop-Up Art Event was born out of one conversation and a vision. Juliet Silva Yee (PUAE) and Veronica Ibarra (Photo above, in header of "Pendu Girls"), were working on a french Opera doing makeup. Veronica shared her latest photographic series with Juliet- who was blown away by Veronica's visual stories and decided she had to share Ms. Ibarra's work with their extended peer group. "Celebrating Beauty + Art + Fashion" Pop-Up Art Event was born, with the help of Colleague/ Celebrity Makeup Artist, D'angelo Thompson.
THE CREATION: a unique blend of 950 + creatives from the international arts, entertainment and fashion came together for an evening of interactive arts and entertainment, in celebration of the launch of NYFW on February, 09 2012. Our friends at Lazzoni offered their (7k sq. ft showroom) with ample wall space for 7 Artists including; VERONICA IBARRA+ ELIZABETH YOUNG + KEENA GONZALEZ + WESLEY NAULT + EMMETT MCCARTHY + GINA SHIAPPACASSE + RON CADIZ with the help of our friend/ host Darian Darling + DJ Luis, we decided to raise funds to benefit the non-profit NYC Salt with the help of our community partners Makeup Forever, VMV Hypoallergenic, Balance Water, Layla Joy, Alicat and Lazzoni who provided thousands of dollars worth of raffle prizes. (photos taken by NYC Salt graduate Daniel Martinez & Wendy Plogger of Guest of a Guest).


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Nothing, and I mean nothing, interesting happened today. I played a bit of Pokémon Pearl on my DS, but nothing else major. I got some reading homework in English, which involves reading a book called Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. It's a very, very old book – in the publishing info page, it says reprinted in 1988! I have to read an hour of it by Friday, which should be fairly easy; I like reading!
Tomorrow, I have ICT twice and then Media – that should be fun. I should point out that I don't know whether it's Core ICT or Digital Imaging, seeing as my timetable just says ICT or ICT GCSE each time, but either are good!


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Join us for the second reception of They Come in Gold by Philadelphia artist Monica O. She is exhibiting her woodburn images of iconic Philadelphia buildings and themes. And Little Baby's Ice Cream will be here serving their handmade, super premium yumminess!
The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, August 30.


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In September 2013 I wrote a post on Crowdoptic, a start up that exploited Google Glass to broadcast live events through the "eyes" of many viewers.
Now I stumbled onto another news related to Crowdoptic announcing that the start up has created a new application that can let one person, wearing Google Glass, look at what another person, also wearing Google Glass is see in, like seeing through somebody's else's eyes!
The application has been designed in cooperation with the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center having in mind having in mind the training of residents.
When performing a surgery the operating field is so small (you don't really want to open up a patient any more than what is absolutely necessary) that only the surgeon operating sees what she is doing. This makes training difficult. By wearing Google Glass both the resident and the experienced surgeon the experienced one by looking at the resident operating can see the operating field exactly as the resident is seeing it and therefore can comment and give guidance.
The interesting feature is that you only need to look at someone else and automatically what is seen by that person GGlass is routed to your GGlass. Alternatively, by looking at a specific point you can ask to see that same point as if you were wearing the GGlass of another person looking at that point. The ensemble of these two features is what makes this application unique. It is not just like routing a video stream from one GGlass to yours, it is doing so automatically depending on where "you" look!
I have to say I would never have thought about this kind of application! And I bet many of you wouldn't have either. This just shows how a technology can find application in many fields, most of them unexpected.
It also tells us that even a specific technology may become an enabling tools for a variety of fields, that in turns will be stimulating further ideas of applications in a positive spiral. This ought to be true for several of the activities being carried out at EIT ICT Labs, where by being immersed in a broad multidisciplinary European market they can hit the intended target and then spread thorough-out the ecosystem possibly creating more value than the original target is actually doing.


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Strength: 40%
Size: 70cl
For maximum enjoyment: serve over ice, outside on a warm summer's day. Perhaps with a good book to hand?
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DAMASCUS, Syria — Their money gone, Iman Faleh and her family packed their belongings to reluctantly return to Baghdad — a journey they said was like going to "death row."
The religiously mixed family — Iman is a Sunni Muslim, the others are Shiite Muslims _ fled their home in a mostly Shiite part of east Baghdad in July and took refuge in Syria, joining an estimated 1.5 million other Iraqis here.
But in early fall, they became part of a growing wave of Iraqis leaving Syria for home, not because they are confident of Iraq's future, but because they ran out of money.
Others are returning because the Syrians have made it more difficult to stay. Most Iraqis cannot work legally in Syria and survive on savings or handouts from relatives.
"Going back to Baghdad means going to `death row,'" said Iman's 27-year-old son, Zaid, as he hauled luggage from the family's US$1,200-a-month apartment in Damascus. "But we have no money left that could allow us to go on living here."
From their old home in Baghdad, Zaid said Friday that the family was trying to cope. "When we first got here we could not sleep for the first couple of nights because of the blasts and all-night-long shooting, but now it had become a routine," he said.
Zaid said they mostly stay inside "because it's not safe to go out." And they are trying to collect money to return to Syria — a goal made more uncertain by new visa requirements imposed by Damascus.
Around 1,500 returning each day
No figures are available on how many Iraqis are leaving safe havens in Syria, Jordan and other Arab countries to return to an uncertain future in Iraq.
At the border station at Tanaf, a Syrian immigration official estimated late last month that up to 1,500 Iraqis were returning to Iraq each day.
Just a few weeks ago, about 20,000 Iraqis were entering Syria daily, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not supposed to speak to the media.
The number entering Syria has dropped sharply in recent days, however, since the Syrian government began requiring Iraqis to obtain visas first. Most visa applications from Iraqis are denied.
Those who came to Syria before the new rules took effect must leave when their three-month permits expire, unless they have been officially recognized by the United Nations as refugees — a process that can take months.
That leaves many people with the grim choice of returning to the dangers of Iraq or lying low and hoping Syrian authorities won't deport them.
Pride takes a battering
Even those who can scrape out a living in Syria find life difficult. Pride takes a battering when Iraqis find themselves in countries where they have few rights and opportunities.
Bassam Meshrif, who shares a Damascus apartment with four friends, said he has decided to go home to Iraq, too, because he is "so fed up with all the humiliation" of life as a foreigner.
Before fleeing Iraq, the 28-year-old software engineer worked for the Ministry of Finance. Now he is the foreman of a cleaning crew in Damascus.
"I know I'm putting my life in danger if I go back. But I've had enough and my savings are gone," Meshrif said. "It's hard to go, but it is harder to stay. With all these obligations, everything just became too much to bear."
Others fear they can't hold out much longer.
"Although we know that we cannot settle here, we can't go back now, it's too dangerous," said Shatha Mohammed, a widow and mother of three who lives in Damascus off money sent by her mother in Sweden.
"I just pray that I will not see that day coming soon, because there (in Iraq) I have no support and no protector," she said.
'We have no choice'
For many Iraqis, including Iman Faleh, her widowed daughter, son and granddaughter, that day has come.
"We have to go back, although we don't want to. We have no choice," said Faleh's daughter, Zainab, 25, whose husband was killed this year in a car bombing in Baghdad.
Holding her 3-year-old daughter in her arms, Zainab sobbed and cast her eyes skyward as the family prepared to go back to Iraq.
"May God protect us and all other battered Iraqis from any evil," she sobbed.
As Zainab wept, her mother was negotiating with a taxi driver to take the family to Baghdad _ an arduous 600-mile journey across the desert. The driver wanted US$600. Eventually, Iman promised to give the driver the cash when they reached Baghdad.
"It's so very expensive, like we're going back to heaven. But we still have to pay $600 to go back to hell," she said.
The driver, 37-year-old Udai al-Ani, said that during the summer, he made good money driving Iraqis to Syria. Now, he finds more fares headed in the opposite direction.
"Last week I traveled back twice to Iraq with my car full of passengers. Most of them are returning because they were broke," said al-Ani. As he spoke, the Faleh family got in his taxi and the group headed back to Iraq.
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M.A., Ph.D in Political Science (UCLA)
M.A., M.Phil in Political Science (JNU)
Political Thought and Theory, Democracy and Constitutionalism, Gender Studies
Professor, Centre for Political Studies, JNU, 2013-
Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, JNU, 2003-2013
Assistant Professor, Miranda House, DU, 1995-2003
1. "Dilemmas of Community: Reflections on Transmigrant Working Women in Qatar", Gerlach Press, forthcoming.
2. "Democratic Constitutionalism in India," Seminar, February 1, 2013.
3. "When Citizens are a Minority: Managing Cultural Diversities in the Arabian Gulf States," in G. Mahajan, ed., Accommodating Diversity: Ideas and Institutional Practices, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.
4. "Rights versus Representation: Defending Minority Interests in the Constituent Assembly," in R. Bhargava, ed. Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.
5. "Representation and its Epiphanies: A Reading of the Constituent Assembly Debates," Economic and Political Weekly, September 25, 2004.
Western Political Thought – from Plato to Marx, New Delhi: Pearson, 2010.


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BOSTON (CBS) – So are you a member of the Over the Hill Gang? What constitutes membership? Who are they? How old do you have to be before they will let you join?
I Googled "Over The Hill Gang" and my research produced an old cowboy movie with very old actors, a travel club for individuals over 50, an antique car club with cars that predate 1949, which makes them at least 63 years old.
To be eligible for Medicare you need to be 65. The earliest you can collect Social Security is 62 unless you are widowed. The oldest of the Boomers are already on Medicare. To withdraw funds from your retirement plan you must be 59½. So let's round it up and conclude that anyone over 60 belongs to the Over the Hill Gang.
Ten thousand people turn 60 every day. So this is not going to be an exclusive club once you make it! You are going to have lots of company!
Recently I went to a 4:30 pm movie with some friends. We were asked did we want the senior discount or the matinee price at the movies. The very, very young cashier who looked to be about 12, sheepishly said, "The senior discount saves you an additional 50 cents."
Now I have had gray hair since I was 30, just like my mom and grandmother before her, but this was the first time I have ever been asked if I wanted the senior discount. I smiled and said "of course". Fifty cents is 50 cents. So I am a Wannabe member of the gang.
So if you are a charter member of the Over the Hill Gang or just a Wannabe like me you need to start planning for retirement. Number one thing on your planning list is to figure out if you have enough money to retire. Then you can figure out when you can retire. Everyone wants an early retirement but few can really afford it.
There are some good websites out there where you can find financial calculators to help you figure out if you have enough saved for retirement or if you are saving enough for retirement. One I like is the Employee Benefit Research Institute's Choose to Save. Also, your retirement plan provider should have good information on their website as well.
You really do want to start retirement debt-free if possible. So you need to plan to have the mortgage and the school loans paid off before the retirement years begin.
You can hear Dee Lee's expert financial advice on WBZ NewsRadio 1030 each weekday at 1:55 p.m., 3:55 p.m., and 7:55 p.m.
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The FlyThru, which fits widescreen laptops up to 15.4″, is priced at $59.99 in the United States.


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Al Sharpton Tweets Old Photo With Then-Friendly Trump After 'Conman' Tweet: 'Different Tune Now'
Sharpton and Trump traded barbs on Monday morning
Sharpton and Trump traded barbs on Monday morning
Do you see why she earned Howie Mandel's golden buzzer?
"I cannot be thought to be afraid of Bill O'Reilly or anybody," Waters tells MSNBC's Chris Hayes
"As I have said many times, I respect Congresswoman Maxine Waters for being sincere in her beliefs," O'Reilly says
Harlem talent show gets two hours in December and another 60 minutes early next year
CNN media reporter says that Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones are a "truly deplorable basket"
Actor who plays Morgan on AMC series joins cast led by Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford
Tom Hiddleston, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke and Zoe Saldana are latest among the hundreds of actors who've tried playing musicians on screen
TCA 2016: Sean McManus tells TheWrap his group has a leg up in the ongoing bid process, but isn't necessarily the "frontrunner"
"Adventure Time" and "Doc McStuffins" are among the children's shows to be honored at the 74th annual Peabodys on May 31
Actress and activist Victoria Rowell says the time is way overdue for Hollywood to address race and closing the wealth gap in the entertainment industry: "Where is the inclusion?"
The comedian and actor returned to the long-running NBC sketch show for the first time since 2013
"If you've been raped- plz do NOT shower, go to police IMMEDIATELY, have a rap kit done. GET EVIDENCE," the singer tweeted
Instead, the network will devote the first 30 minutes of the broadcast to commentary on the domestic violence revelation
Alex Gibney directed the feature-length project about the Godfather of Soul
And nails it
Who would have thought that the director behind the cloying "The Help" could turn the story of the Godfather of Soul into something this cliché-defying?
And then the Godfather of Soul threatened to beat up Bill Murray
The Rolling Stones frontman talked with NBC's "Today" show about how he's coping with his girlfriend's tragic death
Concert film from Bjork and Alex Gibney doc about Brown join a lineup already heavy with music films
"Unorthodox Jukebox" artist is joined by James Brown in spirit, shirtless Anthony Kiedis and Flea in body
Huggins slides into Michael Rosenberg's former position.
Film will now premiere in time for Valentine's Day
In a time of "disposable music," rock icon Robertson revisits a 40-year-old album he never liked, and writes a children's book about musical legends
Go behind the scenes of Roger Corman's cult classics and "The Fog"
Summer must-reads include Frank Langella getting frisky, Superman and Sonny Corleone's early years and the truth about restaurants from a NYC eatery king


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UPDATE: ABC posted the segment on What Would You Do's YouTube channel. Check it out below!
This week, I'll be gracing the small screen on two, that's right TWO, consecutive nights. First tune in on Thursday 12:35am for Nightline's feature on ABC's hit show "What Would You Do" with host John Quinones. It'll take a behind the scenes look at how the show gets made with actor/producer interviews.
Then, tune in to the main event, on Friday, Aug 14 at 9:00pm ET, What Would You Do on ABC to see me and some fellow actors throw a curveball scenario at some unsuspecting bystanders. Add it to your calendars on your iWatches people! I made it easy for you here jeeeeez cahmaann. Thanks for all the support and love! It's about to get interesting...


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2012 Will be the year that.../
Return to Italy for our Honeymoon! Andiamo in Roma, Positano, Capri!
Lauren began Undeclared Panache in 2008 as creative diary, with hopes that others would find inspiration in her everyday musings. She is lover of glitter, vintage clothes, dogs, paper goods, Italy, confetti, pizza and parties. Lauren is a handbag designer by day and moonlights as a blogger, maker and DIY queen to channel her enthusiasm for fashion, interiors, entertaining and more.
Undeclared Panache is an ever-evolving journal of all the lovely things Lauren chronicles from her daily life in the New York City fashion industry.
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July 16, 2019
Playing for Keeps: Fraudsters Targeting Virtual Worlds and Online Gaming
Posted September 5, 2017
The gaming sector's good fortunes are making it a prime target for the kind of sophisticated cyberattacks once reserved for online banks and retailers.
Propelled by advances in mobile and virtual reality, the burgeoning world of first-person shooters and massively multiplayer online awesomeness will score more than $100 billion in revenue this year.
But it also finds itself struggling with a whole new level of fraud that could sink individual properties—as well as the publishers behind them.
Hacking for Fun and Profit
In what's quickly becoming the summer of cyberattacks, ransomware from WannaCry to NotPetya are generating the lion's share of global headlines.
So perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that attacks in the virtual worlds of gaming get overlooked, despite the fact they threaten an otherwise booming industry.
Today, more than 700 million people play online games. In most cases, publishers use a freemium model that generates revenue through in-game purchases for items that enhance gameplay. And that adds up to irresistible opportunity for cybercriminals.
The objective: steal user credentials as well as in-game items, cheats and currencies, and then sell them to others online.
Of course, to pull that off means fraudulently accessing and manipulating games right from under publishers' noses—a situation one of our engineers, Caleb Moore, knows all too well.
Power Play
Before coming to ThreatMetrix, Moore developed games for the Chinese market, where he discovered that determining whether a player was really a legitimate user was one of his most frustrating challenges.
"Unfortunately, non-real, non-unique users are extremely common, diverse—and destructive," he said.
According to Moore and others in the industry, key online attack modalities include:
- Phantom registrations: A form of ad fraud where publishers pay for leads, only to discover fraudsters have created accounts that will never generate revenue
- Sock puppets: Hijacked game or forum accounts used to harass players through threats or rumors
- Fraudulent malvertising and phishing attacks: Old standbys used to lure players into entering their user credentials
- Remote Access Trojans (RATs): Malware for grabbing credentials and in-game items while the player is logged in
- "Gold farming": Specialized bots that repeatedly perform in-game actions to earn currency or exploit in-game promotions to win prizes
- "Sybils": The act of assuming multiple fake identities by simulating presence in different geographic locations in order to engage in gold farming and other malicious activities
- "Glitching": Creating a seeming glitch within a game to fool players into buying the same item over and over
The more popular and competitive the game, the more of a target it becomes.
Survival Mode
Still, why does any of this matter?
While exact numbers are hard to come by, it's been estimated that for every legitimate virtual item sold and downloaded within games, there are 7.5 lost to fraud. In China, it's as high 273 fraudulent virtual items for every legitimate one.
With average spending on in-game items pegged at $50 per user per game, that could represent publisher losses starting at $260 million in potential revenue per year—with the real figure likely many multiples more.
With that kind of money in play, it's no wonder there are now 5,000 new types of malware targeting online games every day, and 50,000 instances of phishing-based redirects pointing to imposter game sites, according to Gamasutra.
In all, this has enormous implications for publishers, including:
- Lost revenue opportunity from fraudulent sales of in-game items and currencies
- Costly credit card chargebacks and other fees resulting from purchases made with stolen credit cards—which represents 70 percent of attacks.
- Increased churn as players lose trust in transaction security and grow increasingly irked by bot activity that can ruin gameplay
- Reduced shareholder confidence and investment
It also means increased costs for customer support and fraud prevention.
And, since more than half of an average game app's users do not open their app again after the first day, if it takes you one week to respond to a security threat, your mobile game is already past its prime. Developers must have security figured out on day zero or risk losing advertising residuals.
Identity is the Key
Stopping this kind of fraud requires user authentication that goes far beyond login credentials that can be faked or stolen. But as Moore pointed out, solutions can't create user friction, either.
"With customer acquisition costs going up across the industry, even a small attenuation in new users can lead to huge real-world costs," he said.
In fact, these challenges are exactly why he was inspired to come work at ThreatMetrix.
Through our Digital Identity Network, the ThreatMetrix solution collects and analyzes hundreds of different data elements and correlates them with anonymized, global threat intelligence to provide a confidence score for each user in real time, without violating privacy.
Legitimate users simply breeze by, without even knowing this level of security is in place. And friction can be reserved for instances when extra precaution is needed.
"I realized that this was the product I most needed from the moment we first started accepting player registrations," said Moore. "Today, I work to make it even better, in hopes that no one will have to face the same challenges I did."
In other words: Game on.


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About Sunborn
Sunborn is a 40 year old, privately owned company based in Finland, with decades of experience in the hospitality sector. Our focus is on
- property development in Finland and internationally with a portfolio of over € 0,5 billion
- development and operations of luxury spa and yacht hotels and restaurants
- ancillary services including e.g. catering, event production and marketing.
Sunborn is present at the moment in Finland, Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, Malaysia, and Gibraltar. Operations vary from spa resorts and residential communities to hotels and yacht hotels, restaurants, and catering operations in the best locations.
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The Seattle Erotic Art Festival is known worldwide for its comprehensive collection of international fine art celebrating the diversity of human sexual expression. The incredible creativity with which artists approach the subject of erotica is captured in all manner of visual media: painting, photography, sculpture, assemblage, prints, mixed media, and more. The Seattle Erotic Art Festival, now in its 16th year, is more than just an art show; it's an interactive experience with lectures by amazing educators like Bettina Judd and Ms. Briq House, art tours with festival artists, a class on flirting skillfully with fans, and a myriad of ways for patrons to experience art. And remember, observation is a valid form of participation and consent is always respected.
World class performances await you, both on and off the stages. Local performance luminaries Luminous Pariah, Namii, Lowa De Boom Boom, Alyza DelPan-Monley, and San Francisco's Shay Tiziano as the festival's guest curators will blow you away with their exciting stage shows!
Interactive performance art at the Festival breaks the 4th wall by using the entirety of the festival space as the stage, as well as offering patrons a chance to become part of the performances. Interactive performers engage directly with our guests, creating an immersive environment.
We are proud to present world-class erotic art that is rarely seen in mainstream culture and redefines boundaries in exciting new ways. Get your tickets now to experience our delightful world of erotic art!


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Apple has now pulled its iOS 8.0.1 software update from circulation, after a ton of reports hit the Internet that said the first update to iOS 8 crippled Touch ID and cellular service on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
While the iOS 8.0.1 update was supposed to fix a number of bugs that had been discovered in iOS 8 since it launched a week ago, the code apparently is causing more problems than it solved for all those new iPhone 6 owners. Other iOS devices such as the iPad and older iPhone do not seem to be affected.
If your iPhone 6 device still shows that it is available for download, it is highly recommended that you do not download the software. If you have already downloaded and installed iOS 8.0.1, we have a way to restore your device to iOS 8.


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Beam up victims with your UFO! A simple game inspired by arcade crane claw machines.
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
Expansive Poetics 32 (Walt Whitman - Crossing Brooklyn Ferry)
Fulton Ferry Boat (Brooklyn, New York), July 1890 via The Library of Congress, Washington DC]
AG: So the next one chronologically that I want to take up is Hart Crane, whom we have in our book
[Hart Crane (1899-1932)]
(Incidentally, SS [sic] gave me a good idea. (She) gave me, as a gift, one of these things where she made little stick-out labels and divided the sections into European, American, Greek, German, Russian, Eastern European. That seems to be a good way. I'll try it out for dividing up the book. I hadn't thought of that but it sounds like a good idea)
We're going to get to Hart Crane (who's under the American section) - see what year he is?
Student: 1899
AG: 1899, ok..
Student: (Born July 21, 1899).
AG: After (William Carlos) Williams [William Carlos Williams was born in 1883]
Student: Oh, before Thomas Wolfe! [Thomas Wolfe was born in 1900]
AG: Before Wolfe
Student: Yes, it's right before Thomas Wolfe..and (right) after..(Williams)..
AG: Okay, now there are two things in Crane. The section of Crane from "The River" - well, let's see. The reference in Whitman for Crane would actually be "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry".. How many know that? How many here have read (Walt) Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"? [Allen observes a disappointing show of hands] - Ah, well, I think, maybe we should do that then, because that relates to Crane. We've got enough time.
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' is (on) page 127
Student: It's in here? [pointing to the book]
AG: Yeah, page 127 in there. I actually did my homework and looked it all up last night. I actually prepared all this as a scheme.
Student [to Allen]: We're about a couple of minutes away from the end of this tape.
AG: Okay. Is there anybody here who's good at reading? Is there anybody who would like to read? - (to Student [D.P.]) Could you? Could you read it. Straight ?
Student [D.P.]: Read what?
AG: (Whitman's) "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
Student [D.P.]: Um..
AG: Would you like to try?
Student [D.P.]: Yeah, sure, I could do it.. (but).. I don't know [Student, it transpires, has a serious problem with stuttering (altho' in his reading of Whitman's poem, manages to triumphantly transcend this disability and gives an increasingly assured rendition]
[Walt Whitman 1819-1892]
AG: Try it straight, you know. Please, I just want to get it. You've read it before?
Student [D.P.]: No, not that I know of.
AG: Oh well, let me see.
Student [D.P.]: Don't worry about it, I'll just read it.
AG: Okay. It's about five pages. Do the first part and then we'll turn it on around.
Student: [D.P.] Yeah. [Student [D.P.] begins reading] - "Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!/ Clouds of the west - sun there half an hour high - I see you also face to face./ Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!/On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,/And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.."
[Whitman's first published version of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" in the 1856 second edition of Leaves of Grass under the title "Sun-Down Poem" (opening page)]
AG: Yeah, go on. It sounds right.
Student [D.P.] [continuing reading] - "..The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day,/The simple, compact, well-join'd scheme, myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part of the scheme.." - Shall I continue?
AG: Yeah. For a while.
Student [D.P.]: I'm going to start to stutter.
AG: Yeah, well, until you stutter. The first stutter you take, I'll take it away.
Student [D.P.]: Alright - [Student [D.P.] continues reading] - "The simple, compact, well-join'd scheme, myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part of the scheme/The similitudes of the past and those of the future,/The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river.."..[Student continues reading until the end of the tape].."Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shor to shore,/Others will watch the run of the flood-tide,/Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,/ Others will see the islands large and small;/Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,/A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them/Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide./ It avails not, time nor place - distance avails not,/ I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,/Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,/Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a living crowd,/Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, so I was refresh'd/Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,/Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd/ I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old,/Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,/Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow..."
tape ends here - then continues
"..Saw the slow-wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the south/Saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water/Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams,/Look'd at the fine centrifugal..."
[from "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry- An Online Critical Edition]
AG: Can I have the book?...? May I have a book? A book. Whitman. Whitman.
Student [D.P.]: "..Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water/Look'd on the haze on the hills southward and south-westward/Look'd on the vapor as it flew in fleeces tinged with violet,/Look'd toward the lower bay to notice the vessels arriving,/Saw their approach, saw abroad those that were near me./Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops, saw the ships at anchor/ The sailors at work in the rigging or out astride the spars,/The round masts, the swinging motion of the hulls, the slender serpentine pennants.."
Peter Orlovsky (sitting in on the class): A serpentine what?
Student: Pennants
AG: Pennants
Student [D.P.]: "..The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses/The white wake left by the passage.."
AG: Passage
Student [D.P.]: ...passage/ The quick tremounterous [sic]...
AG: Tremulous
Student [D.P.]: ...tremulous whirl of the wheels...
AG: "Quick tremulous" - "The quick tremulous whirl.."
Student [D.P.]: "..the quick tremulous whirl of the wheels,/The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sunset/The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the laddeled [sic] cup..."
AG: "Ladeled cup"
Student [D.P.]: Lathened [sic] cup
AG: "Ladeled cups"
Student: [D.P.] Do I have to continue?
AG: Just to the end. [end of section three] Another five lines.
Student(s): Go go go!
AG: Only five lines.
Student(s): Go!
AG: Five more lines, six more lines
[Scene At The Ferry Landing, Brooklyn by William J.Pierce 1857 (with modern tinting) via Russell Granger - Whitman's Brooklyn]
Student [D.P.]: "..the scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups,/ the frolicsome crests and glistening,/The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the grey walls of the granite storehouses by the docks,/On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay-boat, the belated lighter,/On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,/ Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow light over the tops of houses, and down into the clefts of streets...."
AG: Right. Okay. (So) the key that will come to.. that will bring us to Hart Crane is - "Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shor to shore,/Others will watch the run of the flood-tide,/Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,/ Others will see the islands large and small;/Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,/A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them" - Well, Hart Crane is "fifty years hence" from this poem, I think. That was the key part I wanted to point out in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry".
[Audio for the above is available here, starting at approximately fifty-five minutes in sixty-seven-and-a-half minutes in]
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Death Grips Not Playing Lollapalooza, Didn't Show Up to Their Aftershow, Fans Destroy Band's Equipment
Band's backdrop featured Gmail screenshot of fan suicide note
Photo by Tom Spray
UPDATE 08/04: It's been confirmed that Death Grips have canceled their appearance at Osheaga tonight, plus their upcoming dates in Boston (August 6) and New York (August 7).
Last night, Death Grips were tapped to play an officially sanctioned Lollapalooza aftershow at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago. They didn't show up. According to several reports from Reddit and Twitter, after learning that the band wouldn't play, fans proceeded to destroy their equipment, including a drum kit that was presumably Zach Hill's.
Representatives for the band
and venue have not yet replied for comment. Death Grips are scheduled to play Lollapalooza tonight at 8:45 p.m. UPDATE: The band are no longer on Lollapalooza's official schedule and have been replaced in their slot by Shaun White's band Bad Things. UPDATE 2: According to Lollapalooza's representatives, the band "chose not to arrive in Chicago" and will not play the festival.
A representative from the Bottom Lounge writes:
We are still getting bits and pieces of information but we were not aware that Death Grips was not coming until right before we made the announcement. Right now, we just want to thank all the people at the show last night who, despite being terribly disappointed that there would be no Death Grips show, were very understanding. Tickets are in the process of being refunded and people that bought tickets online will see their refunds on their statements shortly.
Charlie Glitch, who opened the show, tweeted confirmation that they didn't show up: "Great set at at bottom lounge but the main act didnt show up! death grips :/".
Before it was announced that the band was a no show, the venue played recordings of Death Grips. The stage was set up with a backdrop that featured a Gmail screenshot of a suicide note, which was allegedly written by a Death Grips fan. Reddit user jadesaddiction transcribed the full note:
SUBJECT: ready DATE: July 9
I am ready to take my own life. Many bad experiences led me to this dark void that I am locked in. Maybe by my own hands? I don't really care anymore. I just wanted to say thank you for showing me the other side. the side that is locked away deep inside a person. I am mad. Mad all the time and depressed all the time. I can't take it. I'm not afraid of dying but i am afraid that I can't hear DG in the after life if there is such a thing. I don't know, but I hope your music transcends to the unknown. A place where DG's essence exists. A place where art exists. I love art. That's the one thing that kept me alive? this long. So just to ease minds, DG didn't "influence" me to do this. this is my own fucking choice. but thanks for making my life a little better. you're my absolute fave and I will fight the gods if they don't allow me to follow DG's efforts can't see Earth. Anyways, continue doing great things. I love you Stefan, Zach, and Andy.
I will be watching.
There's no word yet from the venue about refunds, but here's footage from the scene via Reddit, which shows someone announcing that people would get their money back:
Here's a photo via Twitter of an alleged piece of Zach Hill's drum set:


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I've been fighting with my heart lately and I can't help but feel like it's all a part of this self-proclaimed soul searching journey. Or at least telling myself that makes me feel a little bit less insane. The last few months I have been going in and out of these dazes and it seems as though as the time goes by that these feelings and urges keep getting stronger and stronger.
It all started last year when I was eating dinner at Olive Garden with my family. I glanced up, saw my (older) sister drinking a lemon martini and, for some reason, I felt the need to ask her how old she was. But why? In my head I knew exactly how old she was but it felt like I had stepped out of my body and was looking at the scene from the outside in. She promptly and obviously, a bit surprised, asks me, "Ugh, WHY?!!!"… Urging for some kind of comforting answer, I asked her again. Then I cried. That's how it happened, folks. I had a quarter-life crisis right there at the damn Olive Garden. At least I had pasta + wine to cry over and give me comfort.
Want to know what spurred the cry-fest? Honestly, I think my heart was feeling conflicted. I have several personalities (emphasis on the "several") and at that exact moment I felt like I had failed miserably on exploring all of my personalities throughout my life by only living the ones that have been the main "stars" of my lifetime. The bubbly personality, the kind personality, the loyal personality, the compassionate personality, the HBIC personality, the stubborn and steadfast personality. All good traits but what about the others..the ones that don't shine so bright? Does that make sense? Like a fine wine, with age we get better...and sweeter, right? As we evolve, we learn to explore ourselves on a deeper + more terrifying level. We learn new activities / hobbies and acquire new interests, we go through our very own evolution's.
Here's what I'm saying:
I love a good designer purse but I also love power tools and making something out of nothing.
I love and adore décor but I'm a huge fan of blank space.
I love keeping a cushion in my savings account but I also live for the phrase YOLO.
I love stability but I crave spontaneity.
I love being outdoors and getting my hands dirty but I also love upscale restaurants and dressing up.
I love knickknacks but I love the art of minimalism.
I love steadiness but desire freedom.
I love owning my very own business but some days I prefer to not be bothered by any responsibilities. #YOGAPANTSARELIFE
Rad Girl's Guide to SetTING Badass Intentions
But how does one go about having it all? Living the wild + free but stable life? First, I believe it all starts with the right intentions and letting go of the need for societal validation. I know a lot of people (myself included) who have missed out on so many adventures and opportunities because they were too afraid of what others would think about them or the decisions made. Ditching the need for approval doesn't happen overnight. It's something that grows and gets better the more we feel self-assured + confident with ourselves and our decisions.
So what's an intention, anyways? An intention is a guiding principle for how you want to be, live, and show up in the world. What matters most to you? Your answer to this can craft a powerful intention that will help you align your actions as you go about your day.
How to set badass intentions:
Make sure your intentions can evolve. If you stick with the same intention week after week your mind will get bored. Think about that brand new perfume you bought. It smells fabulous for the first week or 2 but after that the scent is not as stout / fragrant.
Keep that shit positive. Think about what you want not what you don't want. Example: do say, "My intention is to invite peace and calmness within myself." don't say, My intention is to not be a hot freakin' mess."
Create goals with soul with sub-intentions. This year, one of my main goals is to hike more and complain less. So my sub-intention could be: "My intention for this week is to hike Turkey Mountain three times and practice gratitude twice a day." My intention has room to grow and evolve throughout the year while still fulfilling my main goal.
Let the universe have your back. Setting goals with soul and powerful intentions set the infinite organizing power of the Universe in motion. Don't listen to that pesky inner mean girl that says you have to be in charge and that your obsessive control is the only way to get anything done. The outcome that you're trying so hard to force may not be as good as the one that comes organically. Release your intentions with purity and then let them flourish when the season is right for you.
Example Intentions:
My intention is to feel great in my own skin.
My intention is to implement a realistic, healthful lifestyle that helps me attain my weight goals.
My intention is to radiate good vibes for myself and others.
My intention is to live a balanced life.
My intention is to learn to skills and activities to prosper in my career.
My intention is to feel love and give love.
My intention is to empower and be empowered.
My intention is to feel comfortable with money and my spending habits.
My intention is to create work that is soul-satisfying.
My intention is to feel secure.
Still need help? Think about these questions to spark a heart-felt intention:
What are you grateful for?
What matters most to YOU?
What word(s) would you like to align yourself with? (brave, courage, kind, passion, etc)
What would you like to build, create, or nurture in your life? A business? A family? Your career?
What would you like to let go of?
Who would you like to forgive in your life? Maybe it's yourself.
How do you feel when you are your happiest self?
What makes you proud to be YOU?
What fears would you like to release? (divorce, past investments ["debt"], insecurities, loneliness)
Go ahead! Create a badass intention now! You deserve it.
By the way, I find this quote to be comforting, I hope you do too:
"There is no statute of limitations on starting over. Re-invent yourself every day. Be the girl who walks barefoot and listens to the blues. Tomorrow, wear a trench coat and speak fierce truths. Be a phoenix. Be ashes. Burn down. Resurrect. Let go of the idea that you must always be who you have always been."
2017 Goals with soul
Give back to this beautiful Earth
Beef up my savings
Positively impact a life or two
Hike more
be gracious
Own less, live more
More spontaneity + less control
What are your intentions for 2017? How is this year going to be better than 2016?


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Apply for a business license
Businesses operating within the city limits are required to obtain a business license. If you are located outside the city limits you are not required to obtain a business license.
Visit our application forms page to access the forms and instructions.
* Business licenses for short term vacation rentals are no longer required, effective May 2018.
Transaction Privilege Tax
Note regarding TPT payments for tax years prior to 2016, and 2016 and after.
Effective Jan. 1, 2016, the Arizona Department of Revenue resumed collections of the city's Transaction Privilege Tax. For TPT reporting periods prior to January 2016 use the Revenue Discovery Systems tax form and submit with payment to RDS or directly to the city. Starting with the January 2016 reporting period use the Arizona Department of Revenue tax form and submit with payment to the Arizona Department of Revenue.
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- Model City Tax Code. The Model City Tax Code is a document managed by the Arizona Department of Revenue. It is designed to help business owners determine which items are taxed by each individual city and town, and which items are exempt from taxation.


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June 24, 2012
Artist Swap: Inspired by James Ryman
Since we had an uneven number of participates for the Artist Swap, Emily was nice enough to take on another partner. Her other partner other than myself was Chris Murray who chose artist James Ryman as one of his favorite artist. James does fantasy art and uses digital, painting, and airbrushing to create his artwork. Check out his artwork here. On his site he has two digit pieces titled, "Student Body" and "Face Food" which inspired the bowl Emily made. If you haven't guessed it, there are zombies in the artwork. My favorite from both is "Student Body." Plus, I like the clever title.
When I asked Chris to email me pictures of his Zombie bowl that he kept bragging about he stated in his email, "It's so cool. It's the best and only bowl I've ever received." It is obvious to say that Emily surpassed Chris' expectations of this swap. He is eagerly awaiting the next.
Check out what Chris made from Emily for the Artist Swap here. Chris Murray is also a creative genius; check out his blog here.
June 19, 2012
Artist Swap: Inspired by Phil Hansen
Brandon Gradillas, an Artist Swap participate, received this cool little box influenced by the artist Phil Hansen, from Maria Romero. When you see the box from afar you'll see a horse standing on grass. When you take a closer look, you'll see the horse is made up of numbers and the grass reveals the message LIVE YOUR DREAM. Maria did a wonderful job in capturing Phil Hansen style.
Check out Phil Hansen website here. I guarantee you'll find his artwork and methods cool and interesting. Thanks Brandon for sharing this amazing artist with us!
Check out Phil Hansen website here. I guarantee you'll find his artwork and methods cool and interesting. Thanks Brandon for sharing this amazing artist with us!
June 17, 2012
Artist Swap: Inspired by Frida Kahlo
Artist swap pieces are gradually arriving in the mail and I'm ecstatic to hear that Emily's participates and mine are loving what they received. I will be posting pictures of the artist inspired swap pieces and the artist who inspired the swap piece. My swap partner who happened to be Emily received her package yesterday. Emily's favorite artists are Frida Kahlo, Oliver Jeffers, Vincent van Gogh, and Margaret Kilgallen; I choose Frida Kahlo as the artist to inspire me for the swap piece. Though, I'm familiar with Frida's work, okay she's one of my favorite artist too, I did learn more about her. Like she wrote poetry too.
"The Little Deer" and her poem, "The Wounded Deer" inspired the shadow box gift I made for Emily. Frida's poem talks about her nine antlers battling nine arrows, so I painted nine toothpicks to look like paintbrushes that have become arrows. The branches are from my backyard. The arrows cause the branches to bleed. They represent the pain that Frida paints in her paintings. I added color to the photograph of Frida and her deer in Photoshop. I used a container with a lid as a shadow box and I cut a window on the lid so when closed Frida and her deer are seen through it. On the back of the shadow box I wrote an excerpt from Frida's "The Wounded Deer" poem. I love the way the inspired Frida shadow box turned out, especially since I used a container as a shadow box. I might even make one for myself.
colorful children illustration on Etsy.
The rest of the week I'll be posting more inspired artist swap pieces.
colorful children illustration on Etsy.
The rest of the week I'll be posting more inspired artist swap pieces.
June 14, 2012
Returning Victoriously
I've missed you so my blog readers but I've returned victoriously! While I neglected you, I was going to school to become a certified Phlebotomist. And, what an interesting journey it was. Not only had I been out of school for 5 years the teacher was the worst teacher I had ever encountered. He was so disrespectful, negative, and didn't even hand out work sheets or give us quizzes to prepare us for our Phlebotomy National. I have never studied my little heart out like I did for this class. Though all the headaches, fears, and countless hours of studying and neglecting my husband as well as you; I'm proud to say that I passed my Phlebotomy National with an 85% (only needed a 70% to pass) and successfully completed my 40 hours of clinicals!
There is no way I would have been able to do this without God, the support of my firefighter (my husband), and family and friends. It's during times like this that you realize who your true friends are, especially when I needed to bring in four friends to draw blood on. My firefighter who hates to donate blood was my first victim. My co-workers, who I consider my second family, were constantly encouraging me with positive words. To celebrate my huge accomplishment, my co-workers got me a delicious carrot cake with pink blood drops around it and Debbie made the awesome banner for the cake. Look at the little skull in the middle of the banner with flowers for eyes; Debbie knows me so well. Debbie makes other awesome cake/cupcake decorations too, check out her Etsy shop here.
Now, that I have returned I plan to shower you with blog posts!
It's good to be back.
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Sunscreen Film Festival Since 2005
The Sunscreen Film Festival has grown from its first festival in a local art gallery with 600 attendees in 2006. Now it is an internationally recognized event with an annual attendance of over 10,000 in St. Petersburg, FL and Los Angeles, CA. In 2013 the festival expanded to Los Angeles and now holds the Florida version in the spring and the Los Angeles version in the fall each year.
Sunscreen was voted one of the "25 Coolest Film Fests" in the country by MovieMaker Magazine in 2009 and was voted the Best Tampa Bay Area Film Festival in 2012 by Tampa Bay Magazine. Sunscreen was one of only 23 Film Fests in the country to be awarded a Film Festival Grant by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2013.
Filmmakers consistently rave about Sunscreen's hospitality and atmosphere. Filmmakers from around the world attend the fest travelling from Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia.
The Sunscreen Film Festival is an annual film festival hosted by the St. Petersburg-Clearwater Film Society Inc., a Florida not-for-profit corporation. Our primary goal is to encourage the creation, production, and exhibition of independent film in Florida through our educational programs and public screenings, thereby increasing awareness and support of local filmmaking as a cultural and economic asset. We hope to continue to consistently entertain and challenge audiences and create memorable moments for filmmakers, special guests, judges, and the film-loving public.
In its early days, in May 2006, the festival was held at Studio@620 in St. Petersburg, Fla., screening 35 short and feature films over two days and hosting two world premiers. At that event, we had standing-room-only attendance to more than 600 film lovers and filmmakers, some traveling from as far as New York City and Los Angeles.
Due to overwhelming popularity, the festival expanded in 2007 and 2008 to include the Vinoy Renaissance Resort and Golf Club. This new venue allowed us to grow exponentially, collectively featuring more than 100 short and feature films on multiple screens and expanding our celebrity guests to include actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston.
In 2009, the venue moved to the Muvico Baywalk 20, where our celebrity roster grew to include actors Patrick Wilson, Michael Rooker, Bill Cobbs, and Jeffrey Donovan. More than 70 short and feature films were screened, including the Southeastern premiere of "Passengers," starring Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson. That year, MovieMaker magazine voted Sunscreen one of the "25 Coolest Film Fests" in the country.
In 2013-2014, Sunscreen was one of only 23 film fests nationwide to be sponsored and acknowledged by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Just a few of our past guests;
actor John Travolta (Grease, Pulp Fiction)
actor Kelly Preston (Jerry Maguire)
actor Billy Dee Williams (Empire Strikes Back)
actor Patrick Wilson (Fargo, Insidious)
actor Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy)
actor Ed Asner (Up, Mary Tyler Moore show)
actor Esai Morales (La Bamba, Caprica)
actor Jeff Donovan (Burn Notice, Fargo)
actor Ethan Supplee (My Name is Earl)
actor Bill Cobbs (Night at the Museum)
actor Jason Matthew Smith (new Star Trek)
actor Alexa Vega (Spy Kids 1,2,3, Broken Hill)
actor Ayanna Berkshire (Twilight, Leverage)
actor Solomon Trimble (Twilight)
Ralph Winter (Producer, X-men 1-3, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, Star Trek 2-4)
Phil Cooke (Author, Media Consultant)
Dean Batali (Producer, Head Writer, That 70's Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Sean Covel (Producer, Napoleon Dynamite)
Doc Wyatt (Producer, Napoleon Dynamite)
Leo Partible (Comic Author, Producer)
screenwriter Timothy J. Sexton (Oscar nominee for Children of Men)
screenwriter Steven de Souza (Die Hard, 48 Hours)
casting director Lana Veenker (Twilight, Leverage)
casting director John Jackson (Descendants, Nebraska)
composer, musician Michael Tolcher, (Scrubs, One Tree Hill, ESPN)
producer Dave Anderson (Prince of Egypt)
distribution, finance, acquisitions Jamie Fleming
distribution, finance, acquisitions John Flynn
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distribution, finance, acquisitions Marty Poole
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We've looked at a few ski areas recently (namely Aspen and Taos), but as the temperatures warm and ski season begins to wrap up, it's time to return closer to home and talk about the really important stuff: bass fishing! (more…)
We've looked at a few ski areas recently (namely Aspen and Taos), but as the temperatures warm and ski season begins to wrap up, it's time to return closer to home and talk about the really important stuff: bass fishing! (more…)
A precious family of three just "bought" some major water-front property over at Long Cove: Betty, Wilma, and Pebbles!
And even better news: they are expecting!
Doug Gibbs, Director of Resident Services over at Long Cove, tells us he is gearing up for the most active spring season ever. EVER. And he means that literally because The Toy Barn — remember that? — is filling up with athletic equipment of all kinds. From Lacrosse to biking and baseball and fishing, there is enough gear in this the fanciest of "toy barns"for everyone in the family! That means at least an activity or two per family. And the golf clubs are on order.
But if athletic activity doesn't float your boat, well, the Coast Guard Auxiliary sure will.
Party Line Real Estate – Webisode 1 from Party Line on Vimeo.
Hey guys, listen up. I've finally got my own TV Show! It's called Party Line Real Estate, it's loaded with real-time Real Estate news, and you are going to LOVE IT!
I LOVE IT when Real Estate agents get together and TALK! After all, that's how they network! And we know there is no better way to network than at a party with the top agents in town, great food, a little string quartet music, and a Candy Bar! Well, we got a whole camera crew and invited Realtors to have some fun and give me the inside scoop on this crazy market. It was such a success, we are going to have a party and a Candy Bar every month! And you are invited to come and share!
I'm not the only one who is in love with my later-in-life hometown of Poetry, Texas. Author Janice Thompson even wrote a novel starring the 1800s version of this darling little town. Located just over 10 miles east of Rockwall, Poetry is a charming country community with sandy loam soil, populated almost entirely by horse owners, earning the unincorporated township the nickname "Little Aubrey."
Locals are fond of saying "Poetry isn't a location, it's a lifestyle." Less than an hour to Dallas, but it's still the country out here. The waitresses at the BNF Diner know your name and your order by heart, and the food is good enough at Richards Smokehouse that even your visiting "city friends" will approve. (Prepare to eat your weight in the just-like-grandma-made 'em rolls. Poetry may be for lovers, but it is not for the waistline-conscious.)
If you're not quite ready for a huge ranch, but want a little privacy from the neighbors and room for a few horses, the darling one-story home at 9738 County Road 2432 is the perfect transition from city to country. Built in 2005, the extremely well-constructed three-bedroom, two-bath home on three acres features flattering touches such as extra-high ceilings, crown moldings, stained concrete floors, and beautiful automatic gated entry.
The floor plan accomplishes being both open and cozy at the same time, with all rooms overlooking the white pipe fenced pasture. The third garage space has been semi-converted to an exercise room, but could be a workshop or even go back to garage use. Small "dog room" offers indoor/outdoor access to your furry family members, and yes, the back yard is safely fenced for dogs, separated from the horse pasture.
The back porch area is perfect for grilling out with friends, and enjoying the summer stars you'll be able to see oh-so-clearly out here.
Your horses will feel right at home in the treed pasture, complete with pond and freshly painted white pipe-and-cable fencing. The barn has three beautiful heavy duty steel framed stalls, with water and electric already supplied for ease of care.
Located on one of the nicest streets in Poetry, with several $500,000-plus country estates and even an equine veterinary center, this lovely horse property is offered for $339,500 by myself, Ebby Halliday Realtor Kathryn Roan.
If you'd like to move to Poetry, we'd love to have you!
"A horse is poetry in motion." – Author Unknown
Kathryn Roan is an Ebby Halliday Realtor focusing on farms, ranches, and equestrian properties. Kathryn lives in Poetry with her 7 horses. Contact Kathryn at email@example.com
Congratulations to Boot Ranch, one of the most beautiful vacation home communities in the nation, for having one of the nation's best golf ranges as ranked by the Golf Range Association of America. So exciting!
Truly, Boot Ranch is becoming a top golf destination in Texas and the U.S., with immaculate PGA-level courses as well as an executive Par 3 course. Read on for more details!
The Golf Range Association of America has again honored Boot Ranch as one of the nation's top 50 private ranges and the only award winner in Texas. Boot Ranch, Estancia Club, Hazeltine National, The Bridges of Rancho Santa Fe and Valhalla Golf Club are quickly becoming regulars within the Top 50. The award was announced in the January issue of Golf Range Magazine.
In addition to the 34-acre practice park, which includes a short game range and an executive Par 3 course, there's the championship 18-hole golf course designed by PGA legend Hal Sutton. The 18-hole golf course rises and falls along the natural ridges and valleys and makes full use of natural water features, one being the twin 40-foot waterfalls in front of the 10th green. The course measures 7,250 yards from the longest tee for a Par 71.
"As the primary location for young players' entry into golf and for players wanting to improve their overall game, a greater value is being put on practice facilities across the nation. Boot Ranch is at the forefront in meeting this demand," says Boot Ranch PGA Director of Golf Emil Hale. "A lot of qualities go in making a golf course great," he added. "In the case of Boot Ranch, players generally praise the uniqueness of holes, conditioning, challenge, length and history."
A limited number of Non-Resident Memberships are available for those who want to enjoy golf; access to the property's Club House Village, spa and fitness facilities; and the new Ranch Club featuring four separate pools, outdoor pavilion for events and parties and soon-to-be-completed sports and tennis courts. A complete list of award winners can be found in Golf Range Magazine.
Horse people are an efficient bunch. As a rule, we are much more concerned with the "creature comforts" for our animals than ourselves. Searching for property, the land is way more important than the house, and I'm repeatedly asked by clients to find them a "tiny house on a big piece of land." And, quite frankly, we do not want to clean (or pay for) rooms we just will not use.
If this describes you, the barndominium at 3363 County Road 115 in Whitesboro could be your dream property. Fronting 20 beautiful treed sandy loam acres, this barn-home combination features a modest 1,696-square-feet of living space, complete with three bedrooms and two full baths. The open floorplan is warm and inviting, centered around a traditional stone fireplace.
The opposite end of the main structure conveniently has two stalls with turnout runs, a washrack, and tackroom. Covered parking for two cars seperates the home from the barn, making access to the horses just a short walk from your bedroom.
An additional 36 x 36-foot barn currently houses portable stalls, which the seller will consider selling with the property. This barn is big enough to continue as a horse barn, or make a fabulous shop or storage building.
The pastures are an absolute horse heaven with vinyl fencing, two ponds, automatic waterers, and loafing sheds for shelter from the elements.
One of the spectacular added bonuses to this lovely property is the optional opportunity to join the neighboring Horseman's Ranch, which allows access to their 130 x 250-foot covered arena, fitness center, meeting room, and community maintained riding trails.
Everything a true horseperson could possibly want, this little slice of heaven is offered by Ebby Halliday Realtor Lisa Moden for $378,000.
"A canter is a cure for every evil." – Benjamin Disraeli
Kathryn Roan is an Ebby Halliday Realtor focusing on farms, ranches, and equestrian properties. Kathryn lives in Poetry with her 7 horses. Contact Kathryn at email@example.com.
Typically, Dallasites do not think of Grayson County as a go-to destination for vacation homes. Most of you just thought "Grayson County? Isn't that near San Antonio?" Not so, friends. Just 66 miles north of Dallas, the county seat of Sherman boasts a population of 39,000-plus and a rich historical heritage. Remember when the signs on Central said "75 North: Sherman" before McKinney got cool? That Sherman. Most areas are heavily treed, with abundant wildlife, sandy loam soil, and a real out-in-the-country feel.
The 29.06 acre ranch at 626 Owens Road in Bells, TX is no exception. The private, secluded Austin stone home beyond the lavish entrance is perfect for the weekend getaway.
The 5,057-square-foot home features a metal roof for energy efficiency, along with a truly amazing eight car garage and shop for storing all your toys out of the weather while you're in the city.
The main living area is open, warm, and inviting, with extra high ceilings, perfect for summer ranch parties.
Take care to invite friends you really like, since they may never want to leave the rustic two-bedroom, two-bath guest house.
All this pool needs is you. And a cabana boy with a bottomless supply of mojitos.
The nature lovers will appreciate the native hardwoods throughout the property, and the two stunning fishing ponds. Completely fenced with pipe-and-cable fencing and graced with sandy loam soil, this property is perfect for the family who always wanted a few cows or horses. There's just no better way to spend a spring afternoon in Texas than in the saddle, meandering through the shade of towering oak trees. Sounds like heaven, doesn't it?
If you love to entertain and have been searching for a fabulous family compound away from the hustle and bustle of the city, 626 Owens Road is your dream no frills destination. This spectacular property is offered for $679,000 by Ebby Halliday Realtor Marilyn Sanders.
"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." – Winston Churchill
Kathryn Roan is an Ebby Halliday Realtor focusing on farms, ranches, and equestrian properties. Kathryn lives in Poetry with her 7 horses. Contact Kathryn at firstname.lastname@example.com.