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Homespun BOM Block # 1
So we know there is a brand new 'Block of the Month' that began this month in Homespun magazine. Kathy Doughty, of Material Obsession, and Kaffe Fassett have collaborated in this project where Homespun will publish a block pattern each month in their magazine for the next ten months. Here at Hettie's Patch, we have the boxed Kaffe Fassett fabric pack for the quilt top ready to go, and a few February editions of Homespun magazine left to get you started. Below is block number one. Love a good project!


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Menu Plan for the week of June 21, 2013: Friday's Recipes
Tomato, Caper and Herb Salad
Grilled Trout, Stuffed with Lemon and Thyme
Barley with Chives
Sautéed Chard with Feta and Olives
Cooking time: 35 minutes for menu Cooking schedule: see below for instructions
We're celebrating herbs with this dinner.... And summer. You can use any whole fish in place of the trout.
Tomato, Caper and Herb Salad
Total time: 10 minutes
Salad at its simplest: a few fresh ingredients tossed with vinegar and oil and served on fresh lettuce leaves.
- 12 cherry tomatoes
- 12 Greek or other olives
- 1 tbs capers
- 2 tbs fresh basil leaves
- 1 tbs fresh thyme
- 2 tbs fresh chives
- 1 tbs white Balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbs good olive oil
- 2 tbs shredded Parmesan
- 10 - 12 nice lettuce leaves
- Cut cherry tomatoes in half.
- Pit olives, if needed, and cut in half.
- Snip herbs.
- Put tomatoes, herbs, olives and capers in a bowl.
- Add vinegar, oil and stir well to mix.
- Shred or shave Parmesan
- Arrange lettuce leaves on 2 plates.
- Spoon salad into the center.
- Top with Parmesan and serve.
Grilled Trout with Lemon Thyme and Lemon
Total time: 25 minutes
If you have a basket for the fish it will hold them together nicely. If not, tie them with kitchen string.
- 2 whole trout - or whole fish of your choice, cleaned
- 1 lemon
- 1 bunch lemon thyme - if you have it or can get it, regular thyme if not. Substitute 1 tbs dried
- Slice lemon.
- Put lemon slices and thyme inside the fish - as much as you can stuff in.
- Either put fish in grill basket or tie securely and use a grill mat.
- Cook on barbecue grill over medium heat about 7 minutes per side or until done, turning once. Can also be baked or cooked under the broiler. Times will vary according to the size and thickness of the fish. When done the flesh should be opaque.
Note: I skinned each fish and took out the back bone, lemons and thyme before serving but it also makes a nice presentation served whole.
Barley with Chives
Total time: 20 minutes
Barley is not just for soup! It's a hearty, nutritious grain; easy to cook and flavorful. I get the quick-cooking barley which takes about 15 minutes. Cooked in chicken stock and finished with a bit of oil and fresh herbs, it's chewy texture is a fun change from rice or pasta.
- 1/2 cup (2.8oz, 80gr) quick-cooking barley
- 1 cup (8oz, 240ml) chicken stock (or more, depending on type of barley)
- 3 tbs fresh, snipped chives
- 1 tbs fresh, snipped basil
- 1 tbs good olive oil
- Cook barley in stock until done, stirring occasionally. If all stock is not absorbed, drain.
- Stir in olive oil, herbs and serve.
Sautéed Chard with Feta and Olives
Total time: 20 minutes
Chard, or Swiss Chard, is a slightly bitter green, reminiscent of spinach. Mine is 'Rainbow Chard', thus all the colors. We added feta and Greek olives for a Mediterranean flavor.
- 7oz (210gr) chard or Swiss chard
- 1/2 large onion
- 1.5oz (45gr) feta cheese
- 1/4 cup Greek olives about 10 olives
- 1 tbs ketchup
- 1 tbs Balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbs fresh oregano
- 2 tsp olive oil
- Wash the chard and trim any bad bits.
- Stack the leaves together and fold over, the long way. Slice into thin strips, about 1/2" (1cm) using both leaves and stems.
- Roughly chop onion.
- Snip oregano leaves.
- Heat oil in a large skillet. Add onion and sauté until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add the chard stems and stir-fry over medium heat 3 minutes, then add the leaves. Stir and turn until the leaves wilt and it all fits into the skillet.
- Add the ketchup, vinegar and stir well to combine.
- Reduce heat to low and cook until chard is tender, another 4 - 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
- To finish:
- Crumble feta or cut into small cubes.
- Slice olives.
- Remove chard from heat, stir in feta, oregano and olives. Serve.
Cooking Schedule: 35 minutes for menu
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Izhevsk. With the help of SAFMAR foundation opened the Central Mosque in Izhevsk. The Fund, founded by the famous Russian businessman and philanthropist Mikhail Gutseriev, has allocated funds for the completion of construction and work on the exterior of the building.
Moscow. SAFMAR has allocated funds for the improvement of the material base of the institutions for children-orphans – School for orphans "Nash Dom". The Fund will be purchased the things necessary for a comfortable stay of children for learning and sports, leisure and cultural development. School was opened in Moscow in 2001 for children in dire need of help, whose parents for various reasons are unable to educate them at home.
28.07.2016SAFMAR supported the rural kindergartens and schools of the Orenburg region in preparation for the new school year
Orenburg region. SAFMAR has allocated funds to prepare for the new school year 2 rural, 2 children's schools and preschool educational institutions in the districts of Orenburg region. Pupils of a kindergarten "Rodnichok" in the Aleksandrovka district received a new bedding sets and accessories for daytime sleep, other necessary items of clothing and lifestyle from SAFMAR foundation. And in the kindergarten "Berezka" in the Sakmara district the Fund will get a new fencing around the site, which will provide children with the necessary security, because the garden is located near the roadway. Fresh renovated rooms, updated, yard area – also a gift from the foundation.
25.07.2016With the support of SAFMAR Foundation established a new iconostasis at the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Aleksandrov, the Vladimir region.
Vladimir region. Foundation SAFMAR supported the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Aleksandrov, Vladimir region. With the support of the Foundation was replaced the iconostasis in one of the three chapels of the Cathedral of the Nativity – Christmas Central aisle. Pre-existing iconostasis was made of plastic, placed on it the icon did not match the canonical style.
21.07.2016With the help of SAFMAR started the summer health campaign at the Children`s center Rovesnik
Saratov. Under the three-year charitable program "Rovesnik makes the dreams come true" Foundation SAFMAR supported the preparation and conduct of the summer health campaign in 2016 for children-orphans, children from large families and children in difficult life situations.
18.07.2016The final stage of the All-Russian children`s handball league conducted with the support of the SAFMAR foundation, held in Moscow and the Moscow region
Moscow. The final stage of all-Russian children's handball League, held under the auspices of the handball Federation of Russia and with the support of the SAFMAR started on July`10 in the capital's sports club "Glance" and the rest of the month will be held in Moscow and the nearest Moscow suburbs.
11.07.2016Mikhail Gutseriev was awarded the gratitude for the realization of charitable project «Mother will find me» by the Mayor of Moscow
Moscow. Businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Foundation SAFMAR Mikhail Gutseriev was awarded the Gratitude of the mayor of Moscow for the realization of charitable project «Mother will find me» This award is a significant recognition of the broad charitable activity of Mikhail Gutseriev and the significance of specific social projects aimed at improving the situation of orphan`s children and children left without parental care in Russia, prevention of child abandonment and promotion of the foster family institution.
20.05.2016In the Jewish Museum and Tolerance center with the support of the SAMAR foundation will host the «Night at the museum»
Moscow. May 21, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance center with the support of the SAFMAR Foundation will take part in the international action "Night at the Museum". Annual Museum nights bring together people interested in culture and art, attracting the attention of a wider audience to the Museum expositions, promoting the trip to the Museum as an entertaining form of entertainment.
Moscow. Foundation SAFMAR and the Foundation Philanthrop in the framework of the joint charity program "Book as a gift" is carried out in the parks of the capital of a charity action to collect books. The objective of this event is to extend the life of books and give them new readers, and wards of orphanages, boarding schools and rehabilitation centers – new books.
Moscow. SAFMAR and "Bureau of GOOD deeds" started implementation of the joint programm "Window to the world" which aims at social adaptation and professional orientation of pupils of the 12 children's homes and specialized educational institutions in Moscow, Tver, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Astrakhan, Saratov, and Kostroma regions.


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Traveling Morocco as a Woman
Traveling Morocco as a Woman
Traveling Morocco as a woman - are you out of your mind?
Morocco: when you think about this country a lot of images come to your mind. A land far far away, oriental with sandy beaches, a beautiful oasis, a hot desert, colorful markets and incredible mountains. However, what sadly also comes to one's mind is terrorism, the suppression of women inevitably: danger. But how is it really to female travel Morocco?
''What? You want to go to Morocco? Alone as a woman?'', this is what hit me from my family and friends. ''You know that Morocco is dangerous? Especially for women!'' Yes, I heard that a lot before. To be honest, I would have probably told my friends the same thing if they had planned to go on a trip to Morocco with just a group of three girls, but now that everybody had told me I started to question it. Was it really that dangerous for women to go?
Even if I had decided for myself that it was too dangerous, it would not have mattered at this point. Naïve and adventurous as I was, I had already booked my flight to Morocco. 70 Euros with Ryanair from Marseille. How amazing is that? Bless the budget airlines of Europe! My friends and I were so excited to experience something so different and special.
Marrakesh at first sight
We did some research online about what to do, what to wear, and what to respect when traveling as a woman. The tips were mostly: don't be alone in the dark, dress properly, and pay attention at the markets! We packed long skirts, jeans, scarfs, long sleeves, and jackets. Then we were ready to start our journey. After a two hour flight, we reached our destination: Marrakesh.
There I was, far away from home, in an oriental city with a different culture, ready to experience every piece of it. The sun was shining brightly as we were catching the first impressions: crowded markets filled with incredible lamps, colorful scarfs, and a huge amount of leather bags. Morocco at first sight - interesting, different, and overwhelmingly beautiful.
The Medina - a labyrinth of streets
We walked through the narrow streets of the Medina, the old city center of Marrakesh, which was full of people from all over the world. The women were dressed in long skirts or dresses and the native men wore long trousers and hats. Even the tourists mostly tried to fit in and dressed appropriately.
Watch out for people demanding money to show you the way
The medina is known for its confusing structure: once you enter a street, you can get easily lost. You might get overwhelmed by the all the different products and streets. The first instinct in this situation is to ask someone to show you the right way. But in Marrakesh you have to be careful. The people are using the confusing structure to make money. They are kindly offering you to show you the way and later you have to pay your ''tour guides''. But not just in the streets of Marrakesh this happens: also at the so-called ''Tanneries'' where the leather is produced, we were getting in a similar situation. We asked for the way and suddenly we were part of a big chain: first, we were showed around by several people, they offered us a mint to cover the smell of the leather and after they wanted to sell us leather bags. After the ''tour'' we had to pay 10 Euros, which we gladly did without any questions, to not get in trouble. However, we soon realized that we had been tricked.
Traveling Morocco as a woman
You are probably thinking by now: I would never go to Marrakesh alone as a woman. What would have happened if we had not given the money to the guys who tricked us? But I can assure you it is not as dangerous as you might think. As a couple of web pages suggested, I would not recommend for any woman to roam the streets at night by herself. In addition, I would dress appropriately for cultural reasons. You might also feel strange with shorts when everyone else is wearing long trousers, anyway.
In general, foreign women are not treated differently or even badly. You might hear ''Shakira'' or ''pretty lady'' when you walk through the streets. The salesmen haggle with you and I even heard, ''You are a strong woman" quite a lot. Dressing culturally-proper should not be a problem for a couple of days, but I can imagine that you might feel a little bit unfree living there as a Western woman.
What to do in Marrakesh: an experience of Camels, palaces, and delicious food
Web pages often also warn that you should not go on camel tours in the Palmeraie near Marrakesh. But how could you visit Morocco without seeing camels? Short: we did not follow the advice and booked a camel tour and it was amazing. On the back of such calm and huge animals, the world looks different. Kinglike we marched through the desert, which is only 15 minutes away from the city center, touristy dressed in a native turban. The camels carried us till the sun went down.
The Riad - A Morrocan Palace
A very unique and definitely recommendable experience is also to stay at a Riad. It is a traditional Moroccan house or palace with a garden and beautiful and cheap housing.
What to do in Morroco
The place that you should not miss is definitely the "Bahia palace", "the Jardin Majorelle" and the "Ben Youssef Mosque". These beautiful buildings are worth every journey. They are all different as their mosaic walls are incredible. Although they consist of several different patterns, the colors create a tasteful appearance. In addition, you should try one of the dishes at the Jemaa el-Fna market. This market is unique in its own way: during the day it is nearly empty, you can only see some cobras dancing to oriental music and henna artists doing their work, but at night, it is completely transformed: crowded, full of food places and people. You cannot walk through the market without being asked in the most creative ways to come to their food place.
Henna for women's education
Typical for Morocco are the amazing and cheap Henna tattoos. A good place to combine Henna and charity is the Henna café. The place serves amazing food and you can relax here after a long day of shopping. They even have a little turtle "running around". At the same time, you support the charity work for women. For example, they are organizing educational workshops and lessons to learn a language.
Amazingly beautiful: Marrakesh
All in all, Marrakesh is a beautiful city and definitely worth a visit. In my humble opinion, it is not dangerous to travel there as a woman. Surely you have to pay attention: don't be too naïve, but also try not to be too afraid! Don't let the fact that you are a woman stop you from traveling to Marrakesh! One last advice: don't ever go to the pharmacy and ask if they have birth control. Just don't!
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Meet the Digital Artist Who Wants to Project onto the Moon
Lauren Murrow | Photo: Monica Semergiu | May 9, 2016
For Travis Threlkel, everything is a canvas.
"I want to project onto the moon and holographically raise the dead," announces Travis Threlkel, an avant-garde artist with the makings of a God complex. After viewing his work, you can hardly blame him. As the cofounder of Obscura Digital, a creative studio that produces larger-than-life video and light installations, Threlkel has projected mesmerizing works onto City Hall, the Empire State Building, and the Vatican. His art requires him to think big.
Threlkel's career path—from dropping out of high school to overseeing million-dollar art installations—was circuitous. At 21, he moved to Cincinnati for love, but quickly became bored by the Midwest. "There was nothing to do but go thrift shopping," he says. Threlkel amassed a collection of more than 100 projectors and boxes of 16mm films. It was in Ohio that he discovered his first video projector and realized its potential for immersive art. He bought a geodesic dome, arranged a slew of meetings with computer science professors, and moved back to San Francisco in 1998 hell-bent on producing his projections.
Since then, what started out as a guy with a 30-foot dome has grown into a hub of 65 animators, software developers, graphic designers, and technologists. This year, Threlkel is setting his sights higher still: He hopes to project onto the moon using a powerful series of reflections. "In the end, the impact comes from the combination of the projection and the canvas itself," he says. "When you paint something like the Empire State or the Vatican—or the moon—with light and video, you've created a supercharged, super-scaled art form."
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Its best to be prepared for potting before you unpack your tubers. In addition to a proper pot, you will simply need dirt and water. Everyday dirt from your garden is fine however if you use store bought dirt do not use potting mix, with peat or pearlite. There are specific pond soils available labeled as aquatic plant media that can also be purchased. Now that you have your pots, soil, and most importantly lotus tubers, it's time to start planting!
Once you have planted your lotus place in full sunlight and check back every few days to make sure the mud is fully covering the tubers and submerged under water, adding more water if necessary. After several days you will begin to see the shoots grow and small leaves which will lay on the water. iApproximately 2 weeks after planting the first vertical leaf or aerial leaf will appear. Now it's time to fertilize. Home improvement stores do not sell the type of fertilizer needed for your lotus, pond tabs are available at Bergen Water Gardens and Nursery which is the supplier I purchased my lotus tubers from. According to their instructions tabs should be inserted into the mud every 2 weeks for best growing results. Below are the first four weeks of our lotus life, you may notice that they were moved from the original plastic black pots in the above video and replanted into wide ceramic pots; this move was made because the black plastic pots were not appropriate, the water continuously drained out, again showing the importance of using the correct pot in the beginning.
I hope you are enjoying this journey as much as I am, if so please "like", "share", and leave a comment. Check back next month to see if the flowers begin to bud. Click here to see the Floating Lotus ring, inspired by these early leaves of the lotus plant.


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Are you tired of having your lawn or front patio area compromised by parked vehicles? 'No Parking on the Grass' signs could be used for private residences as well as commercial establishments, such as offices which have an outdoor area for visitor parking. These signs may also be seen in public places such as public parks and gardens.
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Athletes are conditioned to be strong both physically and mentally. The measure of great athletes shows how much faster, stronger and smarter they are than the opponent. But as Christian competitors, we have the game-changing advantage of being spiritually strong.
We serve a strong God, and we are called to be like Him in every area of our lives. God calls us to be solid in our faith, to fight the good fight with perseverance, and surround ourselves with a firm support system in order to finish strong. With Jesus Christ and His Word transforming us daily, we can be strong 24/7!
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This course is for people considering or owning yachts as a brush up or introduction to basic parking and manoeuvring skills. We will go through the proper use of rovers, fenders, spring lines to useful knots and ways to tie up a yacht under different conditions and moorings.
You will have the possibility to go through the practical side of parking under the supervision of a professional.
We also discuss different ropes, the right size of fenders as well as crew positioning and short hand parking.
If time allows we will also do other manoeuvres pre parking and the strategies and preparations of approaching dockside as well as other useful practical tips.
This course is a four-hour package with a high degree of "hands on tutorial".
Welcome next year!
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Michael Baxter & Associates Commercial Real Estate & Property Management will present a seminar on market trends, how to structure an offer, examples of non-traditional/creative sales and showcase "seller motivated" properties. Commercial lenders will also be in attendance.
The seminar will be presented 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 11, at the Terraview Facility of Stroudsmoor Country Inn, Stroudsburg. Call (570) 421-7666.
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When I was a kid, for five or six years I was mad for science fiction. I read Dune, Stranger in a Strange Land, the Foundation trilogy. I read Anne McCaffrey and Poul Anderson and Harry Harrison and Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury. I subscribed to a pulp magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact. I was member of the Science Fiction Book Club, which sent me cheap editions of new and classic novels for a few dollars each.
Then I lost interest at around age 16. Moved on, read more literature, more narrative journalism, more class assignments like Antigone and Catcher in the Rye. In my undergraduate years, I think I read only one book that could be classed as science fiction: Slaughterhouse-Five. Read it in a Philosophy 101 class, so how cool was that TA?
Decades went by before I discovered William Gibson and found that cyberpunk was to my liking. That led to me sampling other authors—Neal Stephenson, China Miéville, M. John Harrison, writers who displayed expansive imagination, intelligence, and willingness to grapple with immense ideas. It was exciting. I tried Blake Crouch's Dark Matter and thought it was brilliant. I watched the film Arrival and through that found the extraordinary short-story writer Ted Chiang. I finally started on Ursula K. Le Guin and was beguiled. Admired the nerdy spectrum-tinged virtuosity of Greg Egan. I didn't care that academics and critics and literary tastemakers disdained sci-fi—the genre's scruffy, outsider, punk vibe made it more, not less, appealing. I had no trouble following an Alice McDermott novel with Phillip K. Dick, or reading Saul Bellow's Dangling Man and then plunging straight into Kraken. I became a fan of the Blade Runner movies, and of The Expanse and Counterpart and the most recent Battlestar Galactica.
In my office, off to my right on the shelves next to my writing desk, you will find every book written by William Gibson, five of them in hardcover. I've assembled a good assortment of Miéville and Egan and M. John Harrison and plan to buy every one that I don't already own. I'm buying the Library of America editions of Le Guin as fast as LOA can issue them. I'll throw down 20 bucks for anything by those writers with no anxiety.
But devoting attention to a raggedy bunch of outsiders means wading through a lot of meagre work. I have learned to sample even acclaimed contemporary sci-fi books and authors only when Amazon offers a Kindle edition for $1.99. What got me excited for the second time about science fiction (or speculative fiction or weird fiction or transrealism or call it whatever you want, I don't care) was the work of a subset of exceptionally smart and skilled artists like Gibson, Miéville, and Le Guin. I ended up with an overestimation of the genre's current practitioners; so much of what I've found in a deeper dive has, I'm afraid, reinforced its bad reputation. It is just bad—emotionally vapid, clichéd, poorly reasoned, populated by two-dimensional characters who engage in stilted, banal dialogue that makes me wonder if the authors have ever paid attention to how people actually speak. I get no further than six or eight pages and delete the book from my iPad.
Case in point: a young man with more than a half-dozen published novels to his credit and a growing reputation among the sci-fi cognoscenti, an author I'll call LR. I'd been reading about him for a while when Amazon offered one of his novels for the magic $1.99. Last night I finished Elisa Gabbert's The Word Pretty and decided to give LR a trial read. Fifteen minutes later I put it down, probably for good.
The novel begins
"Dag Calhoun sipped his third macchiato and considered that fickle bitch, power. The creamy sweetness of the steamed milk cut the earth acidity of the espresso. A solo bassist plucked jazzy scales in the cafe behind him. A balmy spring breeze ruffled Dag's thick brown hair, the gust an unexpected blessing in this country ravaged by the twin specters of drought and violence.
Oh dear.
Really, "that fickle bitch, power"? The sentence reads like the author has taken to heart the hack advice that the first line of a story must grab the reader. (Advice to new writers out there: never grab readers; it is impolite and likely to be misconstrued.) The clichéd tough-guy tone invites derision, and embodies another sort of derision best avoided unless you have a very good reason to invoke it.
Okay, so what does the improbably named Dag make of this fickle bitch? Hard to say because he seems mostly to be considering his macchiato, and considering it in the bland, flat prose of consumer food magazines. That solo bassist plucking "jazzy scales"? There's no such thing as a "jazzy" scale—scales are the same in any music. You can employ them to create jazzy riffs or jazzy melodies, but the wording here tells me the writer doesn't know when he's out of his depth, which does not bode well. Dag's thick brown hair ruffled by a breeze? Can't happen. A breeze will barely move thick hair, much less "ruffle" it. And a breeze doesn't gust—if it gusts, it's wind, it's not a mere breeze. By the time I got to "this country ravaged by the twin specters of drought and violence," I was groaning inside. A specter is either a ghost or a frightening prospect, neither of which, I would maintain, could do much ravaging, even in a stiff ruffling breeze.
So in one short graph, LR has convinced me he does not pay attention. He does not pay attention to language, he hasn't paid enough attention to music to write about it, he doesn't pay attention to tone, and he doesn't pay attention to what he has his protagonist doing.
The third graph leads with the banal, "History was badly plotted and written by committee." Am I supposed to be impressed by this insight? Then we learn that when Dag visits this particular part of Mexico, it "never failed to remind him of the delicate, capricious cascade of events that had shaped the geopolitical fortunes of the Americas." Oh really. Well, Dag is one deep, if overly caffeinated, fellow, isn't he? We learn in the next sentence that Dag is here to "rest a finger on the scale." So I gather he is a professional cliché-monger.
Perhaps LR really is in control of these sentences and means to send up young Dag, set him up as a shallow, self-impressed twit on his way to a fall. But the author does nothing in the next few pages to convince me that he's a writer in sufficient command of his prose to be deliberate in what he's done so far. Nor does he present anything to suggest he's an observer worth my attention. An elderly woman at a nearby table, half of an elderly couple, has "lustrous skin and elegant features that hinted at Mayan heritage." Huh? I've no idea what the Mayans looked like, and I'm not convinced that LR does either, so what does that say, exactly? What am I supposed to see? "Trust emanated from the couple like scent off a rose." Oh, please. Dag somehow dips a toothpick into his macchiato and draws on his napkin—mind you, draws on a cheap paper napkin with coffee for ink—a sketch that "lacked mimetic detail" but "captured something essential about their rapport." Yeah. I see that all the time in Starbucks.
And what of Dag's consideration of that fickle bitch, power? Beats me. He seems to have forgotten all about it. At least the author has. Three pages in and I am now convinced that life is too short for any more of this.


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Societies governed strongly by tradition keep their collective wisdom alive through storytelling, says Baylor University literature professor (and TAC blogger) Alan Jacobs. So why are contemporary conservatives so lousy at telling stories?
In Jacobs's view, conservatives have "done what other Americans have done: they've off-loaded the responsibility for storytelling to the mass media.
"And as, thanks to the upheavals of the Sixties, the mass media shifted further and further Left, conservatives found themselves stuck with stories told by people who didn't share their beliefs," he continues. "By the time they began to realize that this was a problem, they had lost the habit of making their own culture, and had no cultural institutions they could draw upon to train up their young people in really thoughtful and culturally serious ways."
What's more, says Jacobs, having gone through two or three generations in which serious storytelling, across all media, has been associated with cultural liberalism, the right faces a situation in which its creative children are offered a choice: serious culture or conservatism.
I get this. As a bookish kid struggling to find a place in a world of hunting, fishing, and athletics, I was offered refuge in art, literature, and music my ninth-grade English teacher. She was quite liberal, but she was the only person I knew who shared the passion for creativity awakening inside me. I came to believe that all people who were serious about art were naturally liberal—and I became liberal too, for years. Over the years, I've seen that most of my conservative friends who are artistically inclined became so in spite of their conservatism—that is, despite the fact that the right-wingers they knew disdained the arts as effete and impractical. A love for art and literature was not part of the conservative story, as they received it.
Micah Mattix, who teaches literature at Houston Baptist University, also gets this. That's one reason he's launched Prufrock, a daily e-mail newsletter compiling links to worthwhile writing on art, literature, and ideas, hoping to awaken fellow conservatives to the good within contemporary art and storytelling. It is, one imagines, a hard sell, given the prejudices today's conservatives inherit from historical experience. Mattix explains that as long as anyone today has been alive, artists have often associated their project with the goals of progressivism and radicalism.
"Other than Futurism, most art movements in the 20th century have been sympathetic to the Left," Mattix says. "There's this idea that you see in Picasso, and a number of poets, of using art as a 'weapon' against tyranny and war—these things being embodied by Franco, Hitler, Mussolini. Though his poems weren't very political, Frank O'Hara used to refer to some of them as 'bullets' in this sense."
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My mother-in-law recently shared a news article with me about decorating with books. Books are apparently the new candle. If you think about it, it's sort of genius.
You have people over, and immediately the books that line your coffee table or mantle instantly become a talking point. "Oh, I've only read the first book in this series. How are the sequels?" "I didn't know you read Dostoyevsky?!" (Who does, really?)
In my home, my books mainly hang out in their books shelves, or in drawers when the bookshelves get overloaded. I do, however, use books as decorations under my glass coffee table and under my TV stand.
Some other suggestions are to:
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In looking up information about this post, I saw a picture that showed a fireplace stuffed with books! I thought that was really creative! Although if you actually live in a state where you need to use your fireplace, 100 books stuffed in your fireplace might be kind of annoying.
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A concession stand is available. You can buy snacks, cocktails, and non-alcoholic beverages, all of which can be taken back to your seat and consumed while you watch the show.
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Do you have your own idea for jewelry? We can do start to finish design and production of jewelry in your individual style. We'll help you put your ideas on paper, and our craftsmen can create the piece of your dreams in the metal of your choice. Start to finish design and production of jewelry in your individual style
Whether you want to customize your own engagement ring, redesign a piece of jewelry, or create a one of a kind piece of jewelry, no job is too big or small for us.
You may think custom design is an expensive process, but not at Bryn Mawr Jewelry Company! Come in and let's discuss what you are looking for. You will see the process is quite affordable and simple!
We can draw a rough sketch of your idea. From there, we will use this sketch to make a CAD drawing. What is a CAD drawing you ask? It is a computer-aided design of exactly the sketch. It is made to scale and shows you multiple angels of the design. Your CAD will be emailed to you for approval. If you prefer to make any changes, this is easily done. Once approved, the jewelry will be cast in the metal of your choice. Any stones that need to be set, are set in house, by Scott himself. Then, voilà, your custom design is finished!
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Galactic Heart Meditation Intro to Unity
This meditation is purposed to support you in self-empowerment and awareness of your own lightbody connections, heart based frequencies and connections to your soul, monad/oversoul, and avatar god self highest expressions. You will learn to create a container of your own space, to support your forging a more consciously felt, permanent connection with the trinity wave forces of loving creation, or unity field intelligence, god source.
Can help support feelings of 'stuckness' in spiritual development, and particularly if you have been advised to use white light for your grounding method. This meditation is an override for astral plane white light connections, and will support you in feeling more integrated inside of your body.
May you receive the unfolding benefits of life, love and support for your life path journey in all ways.


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Looking for accredited career colleges, technical schools, and universities in Florida offering Retail Sales degrees. Successful retail sales requires knowledge in product and brand management, retail operations, merchandising, and personnel management.Florida colleges are some of the most popular in America: more than 600,000 students are enrolled in its nearly 200 post-secondary institutions. The attraction is obvious: this consistent tourist destination has 663 miles of coastline dotted with theme parks, resorts, and nature preserves. The weather is warm and sunny year-round, and students intending to make their careers in the hospitality or culinary fields should find many opportunities for on-the-job experience.
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One of the most important aspects of real estate involves appraisal. When a real estate agent walks into a house, apartment, or office space, he or she needs to quickly ascertain the market value. What is the location? How much work needs to be done? How much did the previous tenant to pay? What is the economy doing right now? What are current interest rates? In order to answer these questions, a prospective real estate agent must master various aspects of economics, interior design, construction, architecture, interior decorating, banking regulations, municipal regulations, government regulations, and so much more.
Depending on what branch of real estate one decides to enter, employment prospects can be anywhere from favorable to excellent. For real estate brokers, managers, and sales agents, there should be plenty of work available in the foreseeable future. For professional appraisers, the US Department of Labor predicts that they will enjoy faster than average growth when compared to most other occupations.
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This month we had a week long summer holiday in one of my favourite places – Cornwall. The weather was mixed (to say the least!) but we had a lot of fun.
We were mainly based in North Cornwall, staying at Coombe Mill family farm holidays. Places we visited that feature in this video include Bedrathan Steps, Lundy Bay, Constantine Bay, The Eden Project, Lappa Valley, Port Gaverne. On our drive down, we also visited Fleet Air Museum.
Blog – http://www.sorry-about-the-mess.co.uk
Twitter – http://twitter.com/mostlychloe
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Music (in order of appearance):
Craft Spells – After The Moment
Bannf – The Great Unknown
Szymon – Golden
Alma – The Lighthouse
Hiraeth – Eyre Llew
Jungle – Lemonade Lake
Skylar Spence – Fall Harder
Atlas – Son
Wild – Back to You


text: Hi guys why note keeping it simple? try (CDIContainer container = CDIContainer.newCDIContainer(/* optional map to configure vendor features */)) { CDI.current().getBeanManager().... } Not sure the point having initialize() + having shutdown = close really makes the API more fluent and modern IMO. Also to be fully SE I guess provider() method would be needed even if optional (SPI usage by default): try (CDIContainer container = CDIContainer.provider("org.jboss.weld.WeldCdiContainerProvider").newCDIContainer()) { CDI.current().getBeanManager().... } Finally I think having a kind of getInstance shortcut could be a plus for SE: try (CDIContainer container = CDIContainer.newCDIContainer()) { container.newInstance(MyAppRunner.class /* optional qualifiers */ ).run(args); } Using container to get an instance would create the instance and bind it to the container lifecycle (mainly for predestroy) avoiding this boilerplate code in all main which will surely only be used to launch a soft. wdyt? Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau http://www.tomitribe.com http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com https://github.com/rmannibucau 2015-02-26 8:32 GMT+01:00 Jozef Hartinger <jharting at redhat.com>: > Comments inline > > On 02/25/2015 05:53 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > > Sorry Jozef, your email fell into the pits of google inbox's "smart sorting" > features. > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:18 AM Jozef Hartinger <jharting at redhat.com> wrote: >> >> Hi John, comments inline: >> >> >> On 02/11/2015 06:02 PM, John D. Ament wrote: >> >> Jozef, >> >> Most of what you see there is taken from the original doc, since everyone >> seemed to be in agreement. I think the map is just a safeguard in case of >> additional boot options available in some implementations (e.g. I think >> OWB/OpenEJB have some options.. currently OpenEJB supports an embedded CDI >> boot mode). >> >> No, I am fine with the map. What I am questioning is the type of the map. >> Usually, data structures with a similar purpose use Strings as their keys. >> This applies to ServletContext attributes, InvocationContext data, Servlet >> request/session attributes and others. I am therefore wondering whether >> there is a usecase for the proposed unbound key signature or not. > > > I think that's more of a placeholder, I was assuming it would be > Map<String,Object> once we clarify everything. > >> >> >> >> We spoke a few times about BeanManager vs CDI. BeanManager was preferable >> since there's no easy way to get the the instance, CDI is easier to get and >> more aligned with how you would get it. Usually people expect the >> BeanManager to be injected or available via JNDI, neither would be the case >> here. >> >> If CDI 2.0 targets Java SE then this container initialization API will >> become something that ordinary application developers use to start/stop CDI >> in their applications. It therefore cannot be considered an SPI but instead >> should be something easy to use. On the other hand, BeanManager is >> definitely an SPI. It is used in extension, frameworks and generally for >> integration. Not much by applications directly. Therefore, I don't see how >> the container bootstrap API and BeanManager fit together. IMO the bootstrap >> API should expose something that makes common tasks (obtaining a contextual >> reference and firing and event) easy, which the CDI class does. >> >> Plus do not forget that BeanManager can be obtained easily using >> CDI.getBeanManager(). > > > I'm not disagreeing. There's a few things I'd consider: > > - Is this mostly for new apps or existing? If existing, it's probably using > some internal API, if new it can use whatever API we give. > - I don't want to return void, we should give some kind of reference into > the container when we're done booting. > > Agreed, we should not be returning void. > > - CDI is a one step retrievable reference, where as BeanManager is a two > step reference. With that said, BeanManager makes more sense to return > here. Another thought could be we invent some new class that has both, but > that's really redundant. > > Why do you think BeanManager makes more sense here? Especially given the > assumption that application code is going to call this init/shutdown API, I > don't see BeanManager as making more sense. > > >> >> >> >> Yes, this is the container start API. Sounds like you have some good >> ideas for things like XML configuration or programmatic configuration, both >> of which are being tracked under separate tickets. One idea might be for an >> optional param in the map to control packages to scan/ignore, in that map. >> >> I am wondering whether this configuration should be something optional >> built on top of the bootstrap API or whether we should consider making it >> mandatory. Either way, we cannot add the bootstrap API to the spec without >> explicitly defining how it behaves. My implicit assumption of the proposal >> is that the container is supposed to scan the entire classpath for explicit >> or implicit bean archives (including e.g. rt.jar), discover beans, fire >> extensions, etc. This worries me as this default behavior is far from being >> lightweight, which CDI for Java SE initially aimed to be. > > > Yes, the spec must be updated to reflect the behavior of SE mode. I plan to > get that completely into the google doc before opening any spec changes in a > PR. > >> >> >> >> We didn't want to over load the CDI interface. It already does a lot. >> This is really SPI code, CDI even though it's in the spi package is used in >> a lot of application code. >> >> I would personally prefer to have it all in one place. Having >> CDIContainer, CDIContainerLoader, CDI and CDIProvider makes it more >> difficult to know when to use what. > > > The problem is that most CDI (the interface) operations are against a > running container. I think we spoke about leveraging CDIProvider at one > point (in fact, I mistakenly called CDIContainer CDIProvider not even > realizing it was there). I doubt that most app developers use it currently, > there's not even a way to get a reference to it that I'm aware of. It's > used by the implementor only. > > I don't think there's a conflict. CDI class would still only provide methods > to be run against a running container. The difference is that there would be > additional static methods to get this running container (CDI class) to you > by starting the container. > > Either way, I agree that reusing CDIProvider is a must. There is no reason > to define a new class for the same purpose. > > > I expect that my changes in the CDI spec around this will state, along the > lines of: > > To retrieve a CDIContainer to launch, do this: > > CDIContainer container = CDIContainerLocator.getCDIContainer(); > container.initialize(); > ... do work > > Once you want to shutdown the container, do this: > > container.shutdown(); > > (we may want to consider implementing AutoCloseable, an oversight on my > part) > > and then later on > > - What happens if I call CDIContainerLocator in an app server > > - It throws an IllegalStateException. > > - The container provides no beans of type CDIContainer, it is managed > outside of the CDI container. > > >> >> >> >> John >> >> On Wed Feb 11 2015 at 4:21:50 AM Jozef Hartinger <jharting at redhat.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi John, some thoughts: >>> >>> - instead of using BeanManager it makes more sense to me to return a CDI >>> instance, which is a more user-friendly API (and it also exposes access to >>> BeanManager) >>> - is there a usecase for arbitrary keys of the "params" map or is >>> Map<String, ?> sufficient? >>> - if we could move the shutdown() method from CDIContainer to the actual >>> container handle that we obtain from initialize(), that would look more >>> object-oriented >>> - what exactly is initialize() supposed to do? Is it supposed to start >>> scanning the entire classpath for CDI beans? That could be a problem >>> especially with spring-boot-like fat jars. I think we need an API to tell >>> the container which classes / packages to consider. Something like Guice's >>> binding API perhaps? >>> >>> - the proposal makes me wonder whether retrofitting this functionality to >>> the CDI class wouldn't be a better option. It could look like: >>> >>> CDI container = CDI.initialize(); >>> container.select(Foo.class).get(); >>> container.shutdown(); >>> >>> compare it to: >>> >>> CDIContainer container = CDIContainerLoader. getCDIContainer(); >>> BeanManager manager = container.initialize(); >>> manager.getBeans(...); >>> container.shutdown(manager); >>> >>> >>> On 02/10/2015 06:58 PM, John D. Ament wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> I have the updated API here, and wanted to solicit any final feedback >>> before updating the google doc and spec pages. >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/johnament/cdi/commit/2c362161e18dd521f8e83c27151ddad467a1c01c >>> >>> Let me know your thoughts. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cdi-dev mailing list >>> cdi-dev at lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev >>> >>> Note that for all code provided on this list, the provider licenses the >>> code under the Apache License, Version 2 >>> (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html). 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FaaF sessions
The Nelson-Frank team works in private individual sessions. Ms. Frank and Mr. Nelson observe how the musician uses his instrument, aligns themselves, uses their muscles, and moves. Instrument set-up is also analyzed and customized.
Treatment includes strategies and exercises to change painful movement patterns, both on and off the instrument. Clients will learn how to videotape themselves playing to help self-correct any movement faults.
The message is...
can be retrained!
Our presentation
"Don't Let This Happen to You!"
Pamela Frank's case study
Physical therapist Howard Nelson gives a one-hour presentation on injury prevention and movement analysis. He uses a case study of violinist Pamela Frank to illustrate how faulty movement habits in daily life, and while playing an instrument, can be injury provoking, and how habitual movement patterns can be retrained. Pamela is present on stage to answer any questions about her injury and recovery.
Self videotaping
The students are taught how to use video to correct observed movement faults.
For example: film and play back without sound to see biomechanics clearly; film and listen without looking at the image to hear if a biomechanical correction helped the sound.
LIve Demo
A musician with a physical problem plays for Ms. Frank and Mr. Nelson in front of the audience. The mechanics of their playing will be analyzed from a musical and biomechanical perspective.
Joint masterclasses
Ms. Frank teaches while Mr. Nelson analyzes the mechanics of the players. He shares his observations with the audience and can work with the musicians after the class.
Physical THERAPY sessions
Mr. Nelson also works without Ms. Frank in evaluating and treating musicians and non-musicians alike, using the principles of movement analysis. Sessions focus on rehabilitating an injury, or trying to prevent one.


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The Surf Channel takes you through all of the excitement of the final day of the Hurley Pro at Trestles 2012! The voice of surfing, Huntington Beach's Rockin' Fig, catches up with Quiksilver team manager, Chad Wells, about team rider Kelly Slater's momentum throughout the week, an exclusive season prediction with Peter Townend, and Shannon chats with contest director Pat O'Connell about the success of the momentous Hurley Pro. 11x World Champion, Kelly Slater (USA), takes the win over Joel Parkinson (AUS) as his sixth time winning the Hurley Pro event. Slater also celebrates his 50th ASP World Tour win after taking home the trophy at the event.
Music by Chrysis: http://www.soundcloud.com/chriskkblackwell
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The Wicker Man
Saturday, September 02, 2006year: 2006
directed by: Neil LaBute
written by: Neil LaBute, Anthony Shaffer
notable cast: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan
Paparelli's rating: (0 = worst, **** = best)
Disappointingly boring and predictable. The genre elements and sub-genre elements are well-known to the movie-going public, so it would suit the makers to build upon that, and to put the expectations of the audience to good use (by setting up surprising and unexpected twists). But that never happens. It's exactly as you'll guess it might be.
When compared to a similar movie that also handles well-known genre and sub-genre elements, 'The Skeleton Key', it appears that The Wicker Man fails to build tension. The whole story is told in a matter-of-fact kind of way and events simply follow eachother in a logical, almost mechanical sequence.
This lack of tension makes some scaring tactics seem silly. Several scenes reminded me of the British comedy series 'The League of Gentlemen' that caricaturizes exactly this kind of movie in one of its recurring sketches.
Where 'The Skeleton Key' not only manages to come up with an intriguing explanation, but also succeeds in creeping me out and toying with my expectations, the plot of The Wicker Man is so easily guessed that most movie-goers probably will be ahead of the story most of the time and developments in the story never come as a surprise. Sometimes it's even boring waiting for the obvious to happen.
The music doesn't help either. It's seriously flawed in the way it sets the mood for some scenes. It simply suggests the wrong kind of athmosphere according to the development of the story.
Not that bad for a night out, but nothing special either. If you have a choice of seeing The Skeleton Key, you'd better pick that.


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Was it mean of me to want to place all the links in the content page? You can only look at chapters but can't eat- read them till they're released…
Chapter 61 : Another Type of Cultivation (10)
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News Release from Jewell Stewart & Pratt PC The final rule "Retention of EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3 Immigrant Workers and Program Improvements Affecting High-Skilled Nonimmigrant Workers," was published today in the Federal Register, and will take effect 60 days later (January 17, 2017). This is notable as it will be effective before the inauguration of the new president two days later.
This rule is concerned with creating and amending regulations related to employment-based visa programs and is intended to better enable U.S. employers in retaining high-skilled nonimmigrant workers through temporary and permanent sponsorship, and to provide job flexibility and certainty to foreign workers who have been in the U.S. for some time.
Jewell Stewart & Pratt will be posting analysis on the rule next week, in the interim, the highlights are:
- Retention of approved immigrant visa petitions (I-140) and priority dates.
- H-1B extensions beyond the sixth year.
- Job portability for H-1B workers and for those who are in the final step of the permanent residence process.
- Definition of nonprofit entity for H-1B cap exemption.
- Grace periods for nonimmigrant workers.
- Employment authorization in compelling circumstances for certain beneficiaries (and their dependents) of an approved I-140 petition, as well as employment authorization automatic extensions in certain circumstances.
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Welcome to Moments of Joy
The owner of Moments of Joy has over 25 years of experience working with young children and their families, in addition to classroom experience. Ginny Turner holds a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education and a Master's degree in Early Intervention/Preschool Special Needs. Ginny has taught in the school system for programs such as Head Start and Universal Preschool. Ginny also has experience working with children with special needs and many different disabilities.
At Moments of Joy we take great pride in making sure we have qualified, educated, and trained staff. Many of our employees hold degrees in Child Development and Family Studies or one of the many areas in the education field. Some of our employees hold certifications such as West Virginia Infant and Toddler (WVIT) and Apprenticeship for Child Development Studies (ACDS).
Staff are required to write weekly lesson plans that contain developmentally appropriate activities designed to engage the children to help them develop socially, emotionally, cognitively, physically, spiritually, and academically. These activities are implemented daily in the classroom. Moments of Joy currently follows the Pinnacle Curriculum, which is Biblically based. Moments of Joy also uses Creative Curriculum, the Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS), in addition to other teaching techniques such as Reggio Amelia and Montessori to create a well rounded experience for the children.
304-906-2007 | Morgantown, WV
Open Monday - Friday 6:30 A.M. - 7:00 P.M.*
At Moments of Joy we take great care to offer quality child care, a rich learning environment, and a family atmosphere. Moments of Joy offers care to children from six (6) weeks to five (5) years of age. We offer full time and part time group care in addition to Friday care and snow day care to preschoolers in the county school system.
*Coming August 2019*
Momenst of Joy Site 2
Located on Green Bag Road inside the Brookestone Plaza
We are now accepting children for the waitlist
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