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Okay. "Clap App" may not be what they call it. But they totally should. Let's call a thing a thing. Poke a little fun at your current sitch after unprotected poking. Because what's more hilarious than someone who has an app on their phone dedicated to furtively Fed Exing chlamydia kits (gonorrhea too!) to your personal residence? Let's just think about this for a moment. Why do you have the.. Read More
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Joan Holloway Harris
Born February 24, 1931.
Originally from Spokane, Washington. Mother Gail Holloway. Son Kevin Harris, born approximately March 1966.
Her roommate, Carol McCardy, whom she met in college (Kate Norby) was in love with her.
Also has a childhood friend Kate, who works for Avon.
Wears Shalimar.
Had 2 abortions prior to 1964, one performed by Dr. Emerson, one performed by a woman claiming to be a midwife.
Joan had a brief first marriage to "Scotty".
Married to Dr. Greg Harris from approximately Christmas 1962 through early 1967.
–Was dating Greg from at least February 1962
–Became engaged around May 1962
–Kicks Greg out July 1966
–Is served by Greg with divorce papers December 1966
–By October 1970, Greg has married a nurse with whom he has twins, and is ignoring Kevin.
By March 1960, an affair with Paul Kinsey is already over.
Dr. Emerson, her gynecologist, implies they've slept together.
Has a relationship with Richard Burghoff from June through October, 1970.
Roger Sterling:
–in Bablylon (May, 1960), it is implied they have been having an affair for about a year
–in Waldorf Stories, though, flashbacks to approximately 1955 show the beginning of their affair
–the affair ends in September 1960, following Roger's first heart attack
–following a mugging, Roger and Joan have sex one last time in July 1965, conceiving Kevin.
Kevin Harris
Conceived July 1965, Kevin's biological father is Roger Sterling, but Greg Harris is the father of record.
Roger Sterling rewrites his will in October 1970 to make sure Kevin inherits a large portion of the estate.
By 1960 is the Office Manager of Sterling Cooper, which includes supervising the secretarial staff and running traffic meetings.
Joins Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce as Office Manager at its founding in Decemeber 1963.
October 1965 is given the title Director of Agency Operations.
Is made a partner of SCDP with a 5% voting interest in January 1967.
In August 1968, begins accounts work, wooing Avon as her first client.
Is officially made an Accounts person, with no more Operations duty, in February 1969.
After SC&P is purchased by McCann Erickson, Joan accepts a 50% buyout of her partnership in September 1970.
Forms Harris Holloway Productions in October 1970.
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43 West 12 St, 4C
New York, NY
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 140
About 43 West 12 St., NY, NY:
Zillow.com Estimate: $7,367,500 (as of 08/08/2008)
A spacious home in New York, New York. This 4 story home, built in 1901, measures 2,600 sq ft on a 572 sq ft (0.01 acre) lot.
Greenwich Village
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Jeez … hope she held on to that apartment.
Only if she bought out the other units, it's now a single family home.
I find it strange that she lives in the village. I need to find out more about Greenwich Village in the early 60s, but I'm pretty sure it was already kind of artsy, and Joan cares more about appearances than that. (I mean, she might as well live in Newark or something.)
Joan lives in the west village which has the nicest apartments. This is also where there's a large gay population. The Stonewall was located there.
I know. I have no issue with Christina Hendricks living there, but Joan is not exactly dipping her toes into the pool of the counter-culture.
She's on West 12th Street, lotta nice brownstones up there, and not the hotbed of the Village, even though technically the Village.
But you have to go above 14th Street to get a decent screw. It's like, known.
I dunno, I used to screw this guy on Sullivan Street…
Whew, must have been rent-controlled back then, because even office managers in 1960-1962 made jerk sheep.
hmmm Im thinkin at the corner of 14th and Sullivan there is an inside joke
If she's 140 pounds, I'm a monkey's uncle. That's more like 160 pounds packed into a 140 pound girdle, if you ask me. Tatas aren't filled with air, ya know. And WHAT A BOOTIE!
If I recall correctly, Christina Hendrick is, herself, a size 8.

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when I was 1st married-husband said he'd like some cabbage rolls,-asked around-was told it was "like your mom's spanish rice wrapped up in cabbage w/tomato sauce over it. so totally cooked S.rice wrapped it in raw cabbage, & simmered it, totally fell apart. ADDED TOOTHPICKS,still too loose. someone said add an EGG as a binder. cooked the rice mix, cooled it, added an EGG, still had no luck rolling.THEN I got a HUNGARIAN landlord, who invited me down so I could figure out what I was doing wrong.Imagine my surprise to learn the meat& rice were raw & the CABBAGE was cooked! --made adding that EGG alot easier!That was 40 years ago- alot easier to make now! Don't cook the rice anymore, either! LOL!!-needless to say I grew up hillybilly & we didn't make those!
sounds so good, i have not made cabbage rolls in years.
Thanks for the tip. We love cabbage rolls in the winter. I cook totally different for the summer months.
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I was not aware there were civil war re-enactments at Neshaminy, pretty cool!ReplyDelete
Rebecca, What a phenomenal way to view history! If only every child in America could be exposed to history this way--what an impact it would have on them. Most interesting post. Mickie :)ReplyDelete
Your pictures are wonderful!! Such an educational experirence. A few years ago we took our nephews to a civil war re-enactment at a state park. It was amazing. I originally thought it would just be a bunch of soldiers on a field. Had no idea it would also be the entire camp, including the women. It really was an amazing day for all of us.ReplyDelete
I've never been to one but now you've piqued my interest.ReplyDelete
What an excellent collection of images!!! The monochrome conversions really take you back to the period. That said, if I may make one suggestion: Noise. Back in the day the film and paper used had a lot of grain in them. Modern conversions are for the most part grain free. While I like the grain free look for all my color work, if I am going for nostalgia I always add grain back in to the mix. Thank you very much for sharing!!!ReplyDelete
Fantastic clarity in these pictures!ReplyDelete
That is a wonderful group of pictures you took, Rebecca. It must have been a fun outing too.ReplyDelete
We talk about such things but never go. We did visit Gettysburg for a day one on the way to New Jersey. That was nice withou a reenactment. We could visualize the battles.
BTW, Mr. Linky counted me but didnt post my link or name. I will try again but I might end up with two. Sorry.
Great photos telling history - I'll come back later this week to see more :)ReplyDelete
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Gained so Much Weight
I was diagnosed Bi-Polar in 2001. Before that, I was Major Depression. With all the different drugs (and even recent ones), I have put on many pounds. I don't live a normal life anymore. I have a cpap-machine and take BP medicine. I was pre-diabetic until I went on Atkins. I lost 15 pounds right away and then stalled. My therapist said people like me don't lose weight. That made me depressed. She blamed it on all the medicine. I asked my psych doc. She said 2 meds make me gain. I just now got stable on my meds.
I don't see her again for 3 more months. I don't recommend this, but I've decided to cut my meds in half. I can't go on not losing weight. Hopefully, I'll stay semi-stable and drop below my plateau.
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I was diagnosed in 2003 and the meds I was put on caused me to rapidly gain weight. They made me so hungry, it was like I was starving. I put up with this for about six months until I'd gained almost 80 pounds. My doctor refused to change my meds (he had me on 8-psych drugs and drugs to counteract symptoms of the psych drugs). I finally switched doctors who took me off ALL of that medication but one and prescribed me something new which worked for me. Now I only take two psych meds and they don't make me gain weight.
Are the drugs just causing you to gain weight or causing you to eat more? Either way, maybe you can talk to your doctor about switching your meds or change doctors? You really shouldn't cut your meds in half, that could be bad for you.
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He came this morning and seat on the fence. I came close and realize that his mind was full of thoughts. I graze nest to him, enjoying the freshness and the sun. I listened his thoughts and agreed with each word.
At a time where politicians deny the right of nature to exist and the right of peoples to have a decent life, the first man who orbited the planet earth wrote, "We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other". (John Glenn, 1921-2016)
The problem is that politicians run agencies protecting nature as well as agencies destroying nature. Napoleon wrote, "In politics stupidity is not a handicap" and when inanity prevails, destruction overwhelm protection. The only chance for nature as well as humans is individual initiatives of decency, ethic, empathy and respect. We have created a forum directed by Elearnor Roosvelt thought; "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss peoples." Members discuss ideas, submit videos for analysis. There is great empathy and mutual support. It is about learning from the horse's nature and from each other experience. There is no judgement because the nature of the science of motion is encouraging both the horse and the rider to think. Carl Jung wrote, "Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge."
"Seek the truth or hide your head in the sand, both require digging." Andrew Nolan. When I talked with Dr. Michele Obstrom PhD, about differences in the way women and men interpreted the same words in terms of rider position, Michelle studied the problem form a scientific perspective. She made several discoveries, from the shape of the vertebrae, to the angle of insertion of main muscles, which explain why a language that has been developed over centuries of war and battles involving mostly men, is not adapted to women body. Michel discoveries allow explaining to women rider how their vertebral column have to be coordinated soundly and pain free and influence efficiently the equine thoracolumbar spine. Without the benefits of scientific researches, women have to discover within confusing formulas written for men bodies, how their own body should be coordinate while riding.
Horses face the same dilemma and suffer from ignorance the same way. Susan Jacob warns against the "dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberated gullibility." (Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason). Her observations apply word for word to the equestrian education. For the purpose of gain, the equestrian peripheral industry is dumbing down the equestrian education. It is easier and more prolific to sell a bit less bridle than teaching the rider how to seat, injecting the hocks instead of identifying and correcting the source of the kinematics abnormality stressing the hocks, driving the horse onto the bit and redefining balance instead of educating the back muscles to properly convert the thrust generated by the hind legs into horizontal and upward forces, which is the fundamental of balance control.
Horses suffer because their nature does not function the way traditional equitation want us to believe. By using tradition as an umbrella against pertinent scientific discoveries, the classical education exposes dysfunctional horses to performances for which their physique is not properly developed and coordinated. Instead, by upgrading the wisdom of our predecessors to actual knowledge, we can teach piaff to horses that "cannot do piaff," and soundness to horses which "cannot be sound." The dirt thickens when instead of lifting the head out of the hole, conservationists dig deeper in their hole. Socrate wrote, "When the debate is lost, slanders become the tool of the losers." Instead of slanders, marketing strategies use fake news, false promises, fake science, and even intimidations, "You will not win if you do not buy a better horse, or a saddle, or a lunging system." The debate is lost because instead of applying advanced scientific discoveries to better train better horses, loosers submit better horses to antiquated riding and training techniques and need ways to justify their resistance to knowledge. Instead of better education, emphasize is made on better rehabilitation. A rider/veterinarian succinctly described the situation saying, "Too many therapeutic options and not enough balance." (M. L. Stanton, DVM PhD, December 2002)
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you 'll be criticized anyway" (Eleanor Roosevelt) Our heart and our brain work on the same frequency. For gain and glory, or power, humans disconnect their brain from their heart finding ways to justify their actions. They are as disconnected and unhappy in their brain than a dysfunctional horse winning in the show ring with a disconnected body. The race for happiness at the expenses of the horse soundness leads to teaching movements without concerns for the athletic demand of the performance and the ability of developing and coordinating the horse physique for the athletic demand of the performance. This race only lead to the collection of ribbons and lame horses. The heart and the brain can work at the same frequency when the aim is preparing the hose physique for the athletic demand of the move. This equitation is intelligent, efficient and respectful. This equitation leads to happiness, the joy of having a horse performing soundly and efficiently, the joy of enjoying the definition of muscles when taking care of the horse after work, the joy of being able to discuss about the ride and ideas with others without unhealthy competition.
He jumped down the fence, came close and huge me with his arms around my neck and I remained perfectly still. Not because I am obedient but because I loved it.


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I noticed a cute guy in some of my gym classes and am trying to befriend him. He seems really shy and quiet. We have 2 mutual gym friends, so I added him on facebook and he accepted. After that, i started saying hi and waving at him whenever i saw him, and he reciprocates, but he never initiates. He's usually near me in the class, and I try to talk to him, but he doesn't really talk. So, I was pleasantly surprised when he wished me Merry Christmas by posting on my wall. He didn't do that with our mutual friends. I think he's starting to warm up to me. Is it possible that he is starting to like me?
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America blamed for daffodills blooming early
Spring comes far too early nowadays and it is the Americans' fault. This was the view of many people drinking coffee yesterday morning in the Orangery cafe at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
A management consultant condemned the Bush administration for refusing to sign the Kyoto treaty on climate change. "I think it's profoundly irresponsible," she said.
Brigitte Flock, a retired teacher, strongly endorsed the findings of the Woodland Trust, reported yesterday in this newspaper, that spring was happening earlier. "My daffodils were out at Chinese new year, Jan 22," she said.
"This year the non-frost hardy pelargoniums even flowered in January and last year I saw a willow tree covered in bees in February.
"The Americans have four per cent of the world's population but use over 20 per cent of the world's energy. I hate them for it."
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Pressly McCance, from Williamsburg, Virginia, who worked for 38 years for the Aluminum Company of America, said: "I don't believe the climate is changing that much."
His friend, Bob Wilmot, a retired research chemist, said: "There could be a difference of opinion because our National Academy of Sciences has come up with a report which says it's real."
"If you can believe it," Mr McCance's wife, Jane, said.
Mr Wilmot responded with: "Once the climate goes awry getting it back again is almost impossible. We need to wean ourselves off our dependence on oil which pumps so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It's in our national interest to do so."
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But he lamented that no nuclear power stations had been built in the United States for 25 years. "I think it was bad that we stopped," he said. "The government put so many controls on it that it's no longer economic to build one."
The only other people to challenge the idea of global warming were a party of schoolgirls.
Nina Kline, 17, said: "I think everyone's taking it too seriously, jumping the gun. It's just a theory.
"I just think so many scientists don't believe it. It's just a blip. It might not happen."
Laura Dunsford, 17, looked through the windows of the Orangery at the cold, wet weather in the gardens outside and could detect no sign that spring was coming earlier.
"It snowed yesterday," she said. "And it doesn't look very springy today, does it?"
But Juliet Claxton, a mother of three young children, was sure that the first signs of spring were coming earlier than they did.
"I've started my yearly battle with the ants," she said.
"They just come into the kitchen foraging. I have to buy ant powder earlier and earlier. I also go round with a silicon gun, sealing them in."
Despite her battle with the ants, Mrs Claxton can see compensations in an earlier spring.
"I know sometimes one should worry about the Pacific islanders but I quite like it warmer," she said.
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"Zuštiak creates no movement that looks like dancing for its own sake. It becomes a statement of identity, a task to be completed, an urge to be satisfied." – ARTSJOURNAL, Deborah Jowitt,
Pavel Zuštiak is a choreographer and the Artistic Director of Palissimo Company, a NYC-based performance company. Established in 2004, Palissimo Company's mission is to attain artistic liberty in pursuit of communion and interchange with audiences through live performances, research, and teaching. Palissimo's evening-length, multidisciplinary works for stage and public spaces have been recognized for their sophistication, piercing emotional content and abundant surrealist imagery that explore "the darker shades of human behavior" (The New Yorker).
His Bessie nominated dance, The Painted Bird Trilogy Cycle (Bastard, Amidst, Strange Cargo), has been performed in part and its entirety at Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava, Slovakia (2014); La Mama, New York City (2013); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2012); Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York City (2011); and PS122, Cathedral of Saint John, New York City (2012). His work has also been shown at New York Live Arts, Abrons Art Center, the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 92nd Street Y, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research, Chashama, Dixon Place, HERE, and internationally at Archa Theatre, Akcent Festival, KIOSK Festival, Slovak National Theatre, and State Thetre Kosice, among others. His fellowships include the Princeton Arts Fellow, 2015-17 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, (2010) and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Fellow (2010-2011). Zuštiak received a B.F.A. from Amsterdam School of the Arts, School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam, Netherlands and a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Economics, Czechoslovakia.
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Give examples of Iago's two-faced behaviour. How might an actor convey this?
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Iago is "two-faced" at almost every moment in the play. We see him lie outright to practically everyone in the play; in fact the only people who hear the unvarnished truth from Iago is the audience. The audience is in a very uncomfortable position: we see Iago, we hear him lie, and then he turns to us and conveys the simple truth – and then he turns back to the other characters and starts lying again. We see both of his faces at all times, though the characters don't. Any audience member who shouted what she knows about Iago could stop the play in its tracks…but no one ever does. We are in a way complicit in his behavior, and almost admire his ingenious way of giving legitimately good advice to people in a way that still entraps them.
As far as an actor's performance, one of the great traps of playing Iago is conveying too strongly how two-faced he is. If Iago seems obviously duplicitous, scheming and stroking his beard in the shadows, then all the other characters suddenly become stupid. An Iago who is obviously scheming and manipulative derails the play, because we wonder why anyone trusts someone so clearly slimy. Better to make Iago the most helpful, most kindhearted person on stage, and let the knowledge of what he really is be shared only with the audience and only when he's otherwise alone. The mustache-twirling villain isn't scary, but the best friend who literally stabs his buddy to death at a party sure is.
Iago managed to deceive each of the major characters at some point in the play.
Firstly, I would use Act II scene 3 where Iago dupes Cassio into drinking himself beyond sense. The actor playing Iago would be able to indicate to camera his contempt for Cassio's confessed weakness-
…I have very poor and unhappy
brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy would
invent some other custom of entertainment
As the carousing continues it would be possible for Iago's duplicity to be demonstrated by the actor feigning intoxication for Cassio and the others, whilst showing how he is clearly in control to the audience as he engineers Cassio to his downfall.
As Cassio fights with Roderigo, Iago as catalyst for the battle could be portrayed in the 'darkness' of the scene – the audience may clearly see Iago provoking the action he then reports to Othello.


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She has spoken at the ISA National Conference twice, in 2006 and 2010, with lectures on appraising sports and entertainment memorabilia. In 2010 she developed an 8-hour workshop for ISA appraisers, "The Wild and Wacky World Of Appraising Sports And Entertainment Memorabilia".
In 2016 Leila will address the ISA National Conference, speaking on "Issues in Archives".
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ISA's membership is diverse and collegiate. Our members include many of the country's most respected appraisers, consultants, curators, scholars, gallerists, estate liquidators, auctioneers, and dealers. We pride ourselves on a strong national network of appraisers who draw on highly specialized knowledge, skill and experience, serving as a resource to our fellow members in a spirit which is unparalleled. Our four main divisions are: Antiques and Residential contents; Fine Art; Gemstones and Jewelry; and Machinery and Equipment.
Personal property appraising is an evolving profession and the ISA courses continue to advance, reflecting the most sophisticated knowledge and technology available. Additional courses are in the process of development, including a state-of-the-art, comprehensive online learning platform.


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Author Notes: This blue cheese and honey soufflé was amazing! My husband loves blue cheese and we were having company for dinner and I want to add something else to our steak dinner. I decided an hour before our guests were arriving to make this soufflé and it was a huge hit. Everyone put it on their salad plate with their salad (I added blue cheese to the salad too). —Cindy Anschutz
Serves 6
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour or gluten free all-purpose flour
- 1 cup warm milk
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 5 large eggs, divided
- 3 tablespoons organic honey
- 1/2 cup blue cheese, broken apart or crumbled
- 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
- Cooking spray or 1 tablespoon melted butter
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Coat the inside of an 8-cup soufflé dish with cooking spray or melted butter.
- Use small sauce pot over medium-low heat add butter to melt. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 1-2 minutes. Move away from heat then whisk in warm milk, salt and pepper. Reduce heat to low low heat and whisk constantly until mixture becomes thick. About 1-2 minutes.
- Remove from heat and one at a time whisk in the egg yolks, honey then add in blue cheese and combine well.
- In a medium mixing bowl add egg whites and cream of tarter. Mix using electric mixer until eggs become glossy and you see stiff peaks.
- Slowly fold the egg whites using a spatula into the cheese mixture until all combined. Pour into your prepared soufflé dish. Using your spatula draw a circle around the soufflé. This will ensure that it rises evenly.
- Bake for 28 minutes and do not open the oven. When done the top will be nice and brown!
- Serve immediately.
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Once in awhile, Hai and I decide it's time for a change and want to try some "foreign" food. So, we venture into Saigon's tourist district where more upscale restaurants offer a variety of non-Vietnamese foods to suit the taste of international travelers and Vietnam's emerging middle class.
One of our favorite's is Lac Thai – hidden deeply down in a small alley in the center of the tourist district. Set in a traditional Hanoi-style house, the classic Thai food here is mouth-watering and a few true gems are on the menu!
The Curried Soft-Shell Crab is "Over-the-Top"
During the many years that we have lived in Vietnam, Hai and I have searched daily for the best Places to Eat in Saigon and have uncovered some of the best Street Food and hidden restaurants available in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).
Early in 2012 we will launch "Eating Saigon" and post our daily blogs as we re-visit and describe some of our favorite Vietnam dishes, restaurants, eateries, and street food vendors ~ And we'll be continuing our daily eating adventures to discover new places to eat and share with you!
In the meantime, if you find yourself in Vietnam before our website is fully launched and wondering Where to Eat in Saigon, please trust us when we rate Saigon's "LAC THAI" as:
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Geography Awareness Week online seminar… tomorrow!!!
November 1, 2011
I'm giving a webinar tomorrow for NCGE (7pm EDT) on Mission:Explore and Geography Awareness Week. Here are the details. It will be great if you can make it…
Your mission if you're willing to accept it… The heart of this year's Geography Awareness Week (GAWeek) will revolve around a series of "missions" that encourage individuals or teams of students, families, or friends to explore their own communities through geographic eyes, and challenge them to look at things from a geographic perspective. Join us as we explore the theme for GAWeek 2011, "Geography: The Adventure in Your Community". By completing a varied series of missions, individuals or teams can earn "badges" in the four sub-theme categories: photography, storytelling, mapping, and taking action.
Daniel Raven-Ellison of The Geography Collective, a UK partnership of geography teachers and educators and National Geographic Education's (NatGeoEd) content partner for GAWeek 2011, joins us from London! Daniel will describe the GAWeek activity and the Mission:Explore project along with explaining the theory behind mission-based learning and guerrilla geography. Preview the NatGeoEd Mission: Explore resources by going to www.GeographyAwarenessWeek.org. Learn how to make the very most of the GAWeek resources to support geo-literacy and learning in any classroom. Are you willing to accept the mission?
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I've been obsessed with anything with a palm print for about two years now, and when I saw this plus size floral skirt from Asos Curve in this adorable pink and palm print last week, I snapped it up so fast! I firmly believe that you should wear things that make you smile, and whenever I see the island-inspired florals and palms against this lovely light pink skirt, I smile from ear to ear!
We have had record-breaking, unseasonably warm weather here in Chicago, and I'm already pulling out the spring fashions. I know we are going to pay for this gorgeous weather with like 3 more months of winter, but I don't care! I'm obsessed with this Forever 21 Plus Palm Print Plus Size Bomber Jacket (looks like bomber jackets are here to stay for at least another season!). I paired it with this nude bodycon tank dress and some fresh white kicks for a totally cool, summery casual look.
I never knew that Lord & Taylor had a plus size section* until I attended a fabulous event there during Full Figured Fashion Week in New York. Not only was it a great event with a fun little fashion show…but I went crazy shopping there because they had some amazing plus size lines/brands that I don't see other places. One of those awesome brands is Modamix! Every single thing I bought that day from Lord & Taylor was Modamix. But today, let's talk PALM PRINT! I literally swooned when I saw this Modamix Pink and Green Palm Print Skirt and this simple little White Lace Cap Sleeve Top!
Modamix Plus Size Palm Print Skirt and White Lace Cap Sleeve Top
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I'm a huge fan of Maggy London and their plus size line, London Times. Some of my all time favorite wardrobe MVPs are London Times Curve Dresses…and I'm so excited that they are having a SAMPLE SALE! So many fabulous, colorful dresses that fit perfectly and look amazing to choose from! Here's one of the adorable dresses that you can snag in today's sample sale…This plus size dress in this great pink and orange palm print with black piping is only $39!!!!
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- Samsung Galaxy S6: increases can tell some smart phone whose life is considerably longer and are charged even faster.
Thanks to the Google Nexus 6P say on the phone, which you can talk continuously for 23 hours to be in the 3,450mAh battery. USB-C can fully charge in just 15 minutes great company also introduced iOS overboard 9, which is then activated when the battery is less than 20%. this would thus adjust the phone software mode the battery to run longer because the battery can run for one to two hours.
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Some are apparently suggesting that his get up doesn't fit the era, but the argument against such a hypothesis are also believable.
The outfit could also be found 70 years ago. Being used as we are to our contemporary fashion, we look at the man and assume he's wearing a stamped T-shirt, something that would be indeed out of place (or time). But if you look carefully, you can see that he's actually wearing (or could as well be wearing) a sweatshirt. And sweatshirts with bordered emblems were not uncommon in the 1940s – in fact you can find those in other photos from the same exhibit.
The outfit could also be found 70 years ago. Being used as we are to our contemporary fashion, we look at the man and assume he's wearing a stamped T-shirt, something that would be indeed out of place (or time). But if you look carefully, you can see that he's actually wearing (or could as well be wearing) a sweatshirt. And sweatshirts with bordered emblems were not uncommon in the 1940s – in fact you can find those in other photos from the same exhibit.
Time traveler caught in 1940 photo?
Process shots of famous Grace Jones album cover
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Purdy junkbots from Andrea Petrachi
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Every comic is funnier with "Christ, what an asshole" for a punchline
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Coachella: Xeni hosting LA Times Brand X webcast all weekend
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Sinister moon landing t-shirt
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Q&A with Peter Gleick: how to be more water efficient (part 2)
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God game: SimCity urban planning taken to terrifying extreme
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Jenny Hart's art show opens May 1 in Austin
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These are drawings based on year-book photos of various students from my high school. I grew up and attended school in the same town throughout my life and went from daycare to graduation with many of the same kids from this farming town. Despite the access FaceBook offers, I have no idea where most of these people are today.
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UK LibDems pledge to repeal the Digital Economy Bill
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Interlocking Lego rings in Boing Boing Bazaar
Mark Frauenfelder on April 16, 2010 10:27 AM 7 Comments New in the Boing Boing Bazaar: Rubygirl makes these interlocking sterling silver rings by sandcasting Lego bricks. One Lego brick set rightside-up and one Lego brick set upside-down are the basis for this awesome interlocking ring set. (Please note: These rings DO fit together. However, because metal is more rigid than the original plastic pieces, they do NOT click into place.) The Lego bricks were hand cast using a process called sand casting. This casting technique is unique in that while the original … more
Talk like Sinatra
Guestblogger Bill Barol on April 16, 2010 9:32 AM 7 Comments As Cory Doctorow has pointed out here on Boing Boing, Brett and Kate McKay's The Art of Manliness is an essential resource for all things manly. Cory blogged the site's "Dictionary of Manly 19th Century Vernacular," but my tastes run more to "Talk Like Frank Sinatra." I should point out that I've done my own research in this area. In 1987, on my way to Las Vegas to write about the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon for Newsweek — a telethon at which Sinatra himself appeared, albeit on video — I spent a good part of… more
Superbrothers' Sword & Sworcery EP goes full HD
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Fabrizio Miccoli has insisted that he would be happy to return to Juventus.
Fabrizio Miccoli has insisted that he would be happy to return to Juventus.
The striker was sent out on loan to Benfica last term but his prospects for this season remain unclear.
Benfica are believed to be eager to keep him, while Juve are contemplating whether or not to recall him to the Stadio Delle Alpi.
The situation is further complicated by Juve's involvement in the match-fixing scandal sweeping through Italy, with all their transfer dealings currently deadlocked.
Miccoli has given the Serie A champions a timely boost though, by claiming that he intends to honour his contract.
"I have a deal with Juve until 2008," he said. "So I'll have to come back to play in Italy.
"Now it is only necessary to talk with the new officials to decide my future.
"We will see whether the coach will change or whether (Fabio) Capello will stay.
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Steve doesn't exist in isolation and could not do what he does without THE TEAM.
Team Members
Geoff Semon
Geoff and wife Marian have ridden on every continent except Africa and Antarctica and own 10 bikes between them. Road bikes, track bikes, mtb's, touring bikes and two tandems. He is a pastry cook by trade, an electronics nut by training and a bike mechanic by choice. Geoff mans the workshop except for when he is called to duty overseas wiring up communications for international conferences and talk fests. Geoff is a coffee nazi of the first order and one of his stipulations in working here is that he had to be able to bring his own coffee machine.
He also won a sprint championship at the last National Penny Farthing Championships! Modestly Geoff says this was because he had the longest legs which meant he was riding the bike with the largest wheel and hence, the highest gear.
In a word; IRREPLACEABLE. Manager, organiser, motivator, puts up with Steve. Does it all.
KLF is our Saturday guy and has worked for us on and off since he was 16. He is camera shy as you can see from the pic above. He is married with 3 children and has the most eclectic work history we've heard of. After completing a degree in Sports Science and Human Movement, KLF has only had four full time jobs. Child minder, trainee F18 pilot, postman and now a senior post in an undisclosed profession.
Honorary Team Members
Mike Foster
A semi-retired, big-shot advertising exec, Mike has ridden in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. He has been a source of wise counsel, humour and (real) beer. It is not his fault that we have not always acted on his sage advice, though we have always listened to his beer recommendations. The pic above is Mike's idea of a cycling photo. His rationale is that it was taken in a bar in the evening after an ascent of Mont Ventoux.
Jason Warner
Keen cyclist Jason lives in Belleville, Illinois, works in IT and rides a custom Seven. He is husband to Bonnie and father to River and Willow. Jason is also a good friend to animals and would like you to visit this site. This website wouldn't exist without Jason. Thanks mate.
Paul Kelly
Paul is a long-time neighbour, friend and supporter. Much of what we do would not have been possible without Paul. If you look in the Past Newsletters section of Publications, you will see that Paul, who used to format our newsletter, liked to amuse himself by cutting and pasting Steve's head onto various other people and objects. This is payback. If he sends us a decent pic, we might consider using it.
Lincoln Robinson
Steve is an IT fraud. From the outside looking in, people assume that he knows what he's doing with computers. It only looks that way. Lincoln is the man who gets him out of trouble when he stuffs up or something self destructs. He's also a serious Mtb and road rider and enjoys quality beer. The pic above is of Lincoln in training.
Andrew Price
Andrew is a competent cyclist but not great at gear or beer selection. He considers most cycling problems can be solved by buying another bike; and then leaving it here until he gains enough courage to tell Mrs. Price about it. Our sometime adviser on legal matters and a long term supporter, Andrew has won many bell laps with his Premature Acceleration problem. He's not a good judge of a sprint but his movie recommendations are generally okay.
John Bosevski
John is a tool maker and frame builder who owns and operates a bike oriented engineering shop making a wide variety of chain rings and tools that are sold all over the globe. He also makes specialist low volume stuff for us. Lennard Zinn claims to be the Worlds Tallest Framebuilder and at 1.97m / 6'6″ and 79kg / 175 lbs he may be. John claims to be the World's Largest Framebuilder and at 1.95m /6'5″ and 150kg / 330lbs I'm not going to argue with him. The photo above doesn't do John justice. He shaves a bit closer than the photo suggests and his canine teeth are a bit shorter, at least when the moon isn't full. Until he provides us with a decent pic of himself, this is about as close as we can find. Postscript: John has seen the pic above and after careful consideration, feels it is a bears a closer resemblance to reality than anything a camera is capable of……………………………so it stays.


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I wanted to do something special for the first episode of the year. As you know, Michael David Anderson, Carol Kean, and Chris Fried do reviews for The Leighgendarium, but that is all you may know about them. For this first episode of 2017, I interviewed each of them for about 15 minutes each and talk to them about how they got into reading and some of their favorite books from 2016.
I hope that this helps you get to know our reviewers just a little bit better.
Michael David Anderson:
Horror and suspense novelist Michael David Anderson resides in Knoxville, Tennessee, and possesses degrees in both Psychology and English. He is the author of the Teddy Dormer novels Teddy and Wake, and several books of poetry. In addition to writing, Anderson is an avid reader, gamer, and stand-up comic. Bandit, his dog, is a German Shepherd/Retriever mix and serves as a constant distraction from his writing.
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Carol Kean grew up on a farm where books, animals, and plants substituted for a social life. She earned a degree at University of Northern Iowa in English teaching with a journalism minor. She worked as a technical writer for a bomb factory, writing progress reports for the Patriot Warhead Missile, using a very expensive, very new device known as a computer. (The bomb factory has closed permanently, but it was not her fault.)
Science fiction unites her first love (science) with her second (literature). She reads most genres except horror and chick lit, but a compelling voice gets her to read any genre . Kean is a Book Critic for Perihelion Science Fiction ezine, NetGalley, and Amazon Vine. Her reviews in Perihelion earned her second place in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll for review sites in 2015. She is happily married with three grown children.
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Good News, Bad News?
Josephine Robertson
St John's Episcopal Church
Lent 4A, 3/26/2017
Zephaniah 3:14-20, John 9:1-41
Shout and rejoice, oh people of God!
Does that seem strange for you in Lent? To be told to shout, to rejoice, to exult with all our hearts?
Lent has traditionally been a dour season, a time to go without. We wear simpler wheat colored robes, sometimes we go without hangings at all, our carvings are veiled, often we use fewer hymns, we put away celebration language, we emphasize confession and self examination. When I was a child we had fish on Fridays and we all gave up some treat for our fast, mine was usually chocolate. This is the pattern for Lent that most of us grew up with, or if we came into the church later in life, that we have become accustomed to. It is just the way things are.
While I was doing my spiritual reading this week I came across an article written by a woman who has a very different Lent than I did as a child. She was raised Roman Catholic, but unlike the other children in her church she was extremely poor. The child of a single mother who worked two or sometimes three jobs to make ends meet. She told of sitting in Sunday school while all the children were encouraged to list their luxuries and chose something to give up for Lent.
Their ideas and possibilities were endless, there were X-Boxes, play stations, chocolate, sodas, going to the mall with friends, even their cell phones.
She found herself lost and confused because she couldn't come up with anything to give up, luxury wasn't something that existed in her life where often she went to bed hungry and cold. Finally her teacher said, you have a TV don't you, why don't you give up TV? In her house that was a little 15" unit with rabbit ears that got two channels and that she watched alone in the evenings while her mother worked her second job. Good Catholic that she was she did as she was told. She sat alone in her dark, chilly, one room apartment with that tiny TV off and she cried with loneliness. She realized only years later how wrong that Lent was.
Zephaniah's vision of rescue by God is, like the entire Bible, undeniably communal. God rescues God's people all together as a group. In the story of God's love affair with humanity one thing comes through time and again. We rise or we fall as a people, not as individuals.
Zephaniah knew what the answer was to Cain's question to God about his brother Abel: "Am I my brother's keeper?"
Yes. Says Zephaniah. Rejoice, you are your brother's keeper.
That we are responsible for what happens to our brothers and sisters is not a particularly popular message today. I suspect it never has been. We make much of individual sin because it is small, easy to grasp and feels like something we can change without really changing anything. But we carry the weight of communal sin. We are called to reform our corporate life, not just our individual lives. I suspect that is much, much harder. God rescues us together. God invented the idea that we don't leave anyone behind.
In our reading from Zephaniah today the people are called to rejoice, to sing and exult over the work of God. Over a God who would come among them as a lover, who would rejoice over us and draw us near. But most importantly who will gather the lame, the outcast, who will transform the shame of the broken and liberate the oppressed. While we focus on whether or not we as individuals are good people and remain comfortable in our bubbles God goes out looking for little girls sitting alone in the dark with empty bellies.
Lent, like the Kingdom should look very different for different parts of our world.
Lent, like the Kingdom is about upsetting the established order.
The world says: it is what it is, it has always been this way, it will always be this way. The world shrugs.
The Kingdom of God says: the way it has been is an abomination.
A child, hungry in the dark is an abomination. A man in his castle with grain stored for years and years is also an abomination. The Kingdom of God says let the one rejoice for her belly will be filled; while the other is sent away empty.
When we confess we confess corporately we say we because sin is greater than any one person. Because often the ways in which we as a people look away from suffering and do nothing because it does not affect us are our greatest sin. The sins that brought about the downfall of God's people over and over were their corporate unwillingness to live in God's way.
Again and again they fell pray to the world's logic and they settled into the comfortable system of rich and poor, powerful and weak. Because that is the way it has always been, and that is the way it will always be.
It is fairly easy for me to stand before God, or even you all and admit that I'm a bit of a control freak, a neat freak, that I can be super judgmental about other drivers, that I totally covet some beautiful handbags. Personal, private sins. What is much harder to admit is that I am where I am, most of us are where we are, because our world is built on radical inequality. Because we have been bestowed certain privileges we have not earned, and that I'm really rather afraid of what dismantling our unfair world might look like. That's the hardest bit.
It is so much easier to be the disciples today, to ask God who sinned. It is much harder to hear: this is because of your hard hearts. God's plan all along was to save us; but we fight that plan at every step because it does not sound like good news to far too many of us. God's kingdom sounds like bad news for the 1%. It is bad news for bank executives, and health insurance CEOs. It is bad news for presidents and congress-people who want to keep their power.
It even sounds like bad news to those of us slightly less powerful, wealthy folks who secretly, in our heart of hearts want to be the executive, the CEO, the political power someday. Because the Kingdom of God that Zephaniah declares does away with all that. God's salvation saves us from ourselves.
The Kingdom that Jesus proclaims sounds like bad news to those of us who can already "see," and unbelievably good news to those who cannot.
Rejoice, and exult with all your heart, o daughter Jerusalem!
Lent is a time for those who have more to taste a bit of having less. Not as penance, as practice for a world where no one has too much, and no one has too little.
We are our sister's keepers.
We are our brother's keepers.
God is calling us to start something new and radical, with God's help.