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16 comments:
- Maresa said...
You know what's funny? I saw that painted wall yesterday in my reader and I immediately thought I was looking at your blog! It screamed "Gorgeous Shiny Things!" :)
- April 25, 2012 at 11:27 AM
- Laura/Hayestone/Design Share said...
OMG!!! That wall is awesomely epic! Sooooo beautiful. I am digging the big hair look....love the auburn/brunette color, blond is so hard to keep up. And those slobproof pens are genius! I'm thinkin' my life just got a whole lot easier!
- April 25, 2012 at 11:39 AM
- Ashley said...
Um, spill-proof paint pen? Talk about a perfect product for you and your murals! And glad you hear your little guy is on the mend!
- April 25, 2012 at 11:42 AM
- Kathleen said...
I'm a big fan of big hair. I guess I never outgrew my 80's teenage obsession.
I also vote yes on the brunette / auburn hair color. Auburn is hard to keep up same as blond. The root growth isn't the issue but fading is. For ease and health of your hair I'd go more brunette.
- April 25, 2012 at 2:49 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Digging that paint pen. On the hair, if you go dark you will go right back to being blonde. I know, I've done it. It is a nice change, for a second. Us blondes, we have more fun, right?
- April 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM
- Erin said...
I wash my hair at night and put the Consortium medium stick rollers in while my hair is still wet. I sleep on them all night and then I have curly/waves in the morning. Then just tease the crown a little. Super easy for busy people!
- April 25, 2012 at 6:27 PM
- Erin said...
Haha that was supposed to say Conair. Autocorrect is stupid.
- April 25, 2012 at 6:29 PM
- therelishedroost said...
where the hell was that 8y ears ago when I did decorative painting..using my little thin bristle brush was not an easy task.. I will try this for sure! Great Find!
- April 25, 2012 at 6:45 PM
- My Crafty Home Life said...
When I saw the picture, I thought it was one of the lip stain pens....they work great! Love your hair inspiration
- April 25, 2012 at 8:15 PM
- Elisa @ What the Vita said...
I think you just might have changed my life!
In more serious news, glad your son is OK :)
- April 25, 2012 at 9:54 PM
- melanie said...
I love BIG HAIR, I always have too! I have a plaque hanging in my bathroom that reads. "The higher the hair...the closer to god!" I say, Do it! What lovely inspiration pics...Glad he's doing well, Take Care!
- April 25, 2012 at 10:48 PM
- Melissa Crochet said...
That pic of the handpainted wall is crazy good and I am a huge fan of big hair. I have been a blonde all my life and recently went honey/red. Loving the change...it's just hair...I change it like I do paint colors.
- April 26, 2012 at 8:31 AM
- Sanity Fair said...
I'm Southern... there's no such thing as hair that's too big :) Go for it!
- April 26, 2012 at 12:41 PM
- Brandi@ Flights of Whimsy said...
I have "bigger" hair and I love it that way. Its easier to manage and if it gets a little messed up or windblown its no big deal. Go for it!
- April 26, 2012 at 1:43 PM
LOVE the wall...LOVE the pen...and LOVE the big hair!! Great post....that pen looks like the must have tool for murals....I will definitely be trying to get one!
- April 28, 2012 at 11:46 AM
- alicia said...
bardot hair is my favorite!! love volume and lots of teasing.
- May 1, 2012 at 5:22 PM


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Soon after confirming your intent to attend Saint Michael's, you will receive information by e-mail and mail that will provide you with everything you need to register for classes, complete necessary enrollment forms, and in general become a fully-matriculated Saint Michael's student. Your International Student Advisor will contact you to make sure you understand everything necessary and are prepared for arrival. If you have questions at any time, we will be available to answer them for you.
Upon arrival at Burlington International Airport (BTV), a Saint Michael's staff member will meet and drive you to your student residence where you will be welcomed into university life by your Residential Director and fellow students. An international student orientation is usually scheduled for the next day where students learn about their new academic home and how to succeed.
Within a day or two of your arrival, after you've had a chance to rest, you may be asked to take a language test. Later, you will meet the Faculty Advisor for International Students, who will spend some time getting to know you, and, if necessary, counsel you on any recommended language training. Students may upgrade their language skills in Intensive or Academic English programs that are offered through our Department of Applied Linguistics/TESOL. No matter what your level of English, we'll help you to achieve your goals.
Each international student is assigned an Academic Advisor, usually a faculty member in the student's major, and the Faculty Advisor for International Students, who is a faculty member in the Department of Applied Linguistics/TESOL. Both advisors work closely with the student to support them in making progress towards their academic and personal goals.
International students at Saint Michael's College are invited to participate in a variety of educational, social and recreational activities on campus. There are many events such as lectures, presentations, concerts, films, athletic events, intramural sports, wilderness programs, skiing/snowboarding, and many club activities. Trips are arranged throughout the region including visits to the cities of Boston and Montreal.
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All undergraduate students can receive valuable work experience as well as academic credit and financial compensation in the field of their choice while studying at Saint Michael's or immediately afterwards. International students on F-1 visas are also eligible for this opportunity. Saint Michael's Internship Office is expert in finding the right work placement for every student. It's not difficult because employers in Vermont know of Saint Michael's excellent standards in preparing students for the work place.

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It takes a lot of time and money to create, maintain and expand the Web site, and sometimes I wonder whether it is all worthwhile. Just when I was feeling despondent, this very special letter arrived.
Dear Judy,
I've spent quite a lot of time on your site over the past few days and I would like to thank you for being so generous with your knowledge. You've been a great help. As a beginner, it's not easy to work it all out. Please accept my small donation [$25] to your collection for charity.
Warm regards,
Robyn S. [for privacy I won't show her surname]
Isn't that beautiful?! Robyn could not have imagined how much her letter would mean to me.
If you have heard about the Genealogists for Families project, you will know that $25 is the exact sum needed to make a loan through Kiva, a non-profit microlending organisation. The borrower I chose to support with Robyn's donation is Vilma in the Philippines. She is 39 years old, separated, and has nine children. Her shop sells canned goods, snacks and beverages. Next year when Vilma repays the money, I will lend it to someone else. That will happen over and over again, and Robyn's $25 will do much more good than a one-time donation!
Right now our 'Genealogists for Families' Kiva lending team has 91 members in 9 countries, and we are helping 147 small family businesses all over the world. The numbers are growing rapidly, and our small loans are making a big difference to families in low income areas. Please join us!


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Is there any place with good documentation about tunneling and spoofing port connections through a firewall to the internal NAT'd network? Say for instance the firewall routes http requests to an internal ip, is there a way you can tunnel say telnet or ssh though port 80 to allow you to connect to the webserver while folling the firewall? Or have I just seen 1 too many hacker movies?
Lets say the firewall is a linux box running iptable rules, and the webserver is also running linux.


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Maisy was at preschool and I really needed to figure out something to keep Mina occupied for a little bit. I have a bunch of old mini stamp pads and a set of rubber stamps I picked up at the dollar store a while back so I let her figure those out. Yes it was definitely messy, but boy did she have fun.
At first she just wanted to stamp the little stamp pads right onto the paper, I think she tried every single one. She tried stamping dry stamps onto the paper (no ink) and wasn't too pleased with it. I had to show her that the stamps needed to be pressed onto the ink pad before applying them to the paper.
So she tried the stamps a few times with the ink, but then went right back to the plain stamp pads.
She even found one stamp pad that had come unglued from the base. Oh boy, that made her giggle.
She loved stamping her hand print onto the paper.
She definitely had a good time - reminds me that it's the process, not the product.
I would love it if you'd click and vote for me!


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Review: Sumi Robata Bar
702 N. Wells St. 312-988-7864
Rating: 3 (out of 4) Off to a good start
Ten years ago, all eyes were on chef Gene Kato when he and his business partners opened a massive, opulent riverfront restaurant on the edge of River North. You might have heard of it: It's called Japonais.
Kato remembers serving 700 to 900 people on weekend nights. "To do that kind of volume is unreal," he said. While the restaurant became known for celeb-spotting, Kato was praised for his prowess preparing both impeccable sushi and contemporary cooked dishes.
Japonais added locations in New York and Las Vegas, the latter of which needed a touch more drama. "There needs to be a show for everything [in Vegas]," Kato said. The solution was a robata grill, a Japanese-style barbecue that uses smoke from fragrant white oak charcoal to flavor meat, seafood and veggies. It was then that he first thought of opening his own restaurant focused on robata.
This winter, Kato did just that with the debut of Sumi Robata Bar. With just 35 seats and a minimalist look, Sumi ("charcoal" in Japanese) couldn't be more different than the flashy spectacle that is Japonais. Wondering how Kato would fare in such a different setting, I stopped in to warm myself near the grill on an especially icy night.
Prepare to order a lot
For two people, my server recommended two to three appetizers to share plus five robata items each.
Because it was too tough to choose from the lineup of more than 20 hot and cold apps, we opted for more apps and less robata. Kato said he avoided rich ramen, tempura and rice-heavy dishes so that diners could have room to try a lot of different dishes; his only noodle dish, for example, is a restrained portion of chilled udon with soy dashi and ginger salad ($10). The upside is that all the flavors are light and clean—even the fried chicken ($8), is airy as a feather, brightened with a squeeze of lemon—which plays well with the robata-grilled meats and seafood. The downside is that without a lot of carbs to fill you up, is it will take more dishes (and more cash) to satisfy big eaters.
Expect a little dinner deja vu
If you think the slices of New York strip steak sizzling atop a hot stone at the next table look familiar, you're right. That's the ishi yaki ($12) a signature dish that Kato served at Japonais, and before that at Ohba, a restaurant and sake lounge in Wicker Park. Back then, Kato said he remembers being criticized for making customers cook for themselves. We didn't see anyone complaining; however, the dining room does get smoky when more than one table orders it at the same time.
But this isn't a mini-Japonais
Though Kato brought one signature dish with him, there's plenty of originality here. Maguro ($12) takes the pleasing combo of raw tuna and avocado that's so often found at sushi bars in maki and tartare and turns up the volume by adding yuzu juice, white soy and crunchy fried shallots. From the robata grill, smokily delicious head-on shrimp ($5) impressed more than textbook teriyaki salmon ($7). To preserve its juiciness, Kato grills wagyu ribeye in one big chunk instead of slicing and skewering it. At $12, it's two to three times more than some of the other robata items, but it was one of my favorite bites of the night. For dessert, "no-crust apple pie" ($6) sounded fun. As it turns out, fishing slippery caramel-coated apples out of a cellophane pouch with a tiny wooden spoon was not so fun after all.
The slider lives on, even here
"Everyone who orders one usually orders two," my server said of the beef tsukune slider, a miso mustard-dressed link of ground beef in a bao-like bun that looks like a miniature hot dog. At $4 a pop, it's a more filling option to counter pricier picks such as king crab ($16) and that amazing ribeye.
Consider the sake
At other Japanese restaurants, the sake selection is so vast (I'm talking to you, Roka Akor, and your book-sized menu) that I don't even bother. Sumi makes ordering sake approachable with only a dozen or so bottles split into categories such as "bold and rich" and "aromatic." If cocktails are your thing, consider bottled drinks ($12) such as The Sad Flute, a mix of bourbon, ginger, grapefruit and yuzu, a Japanese citrus fruit. The idea to bottle cocktails arose out of necessity—there's no room for a service bar upstairs, Kato said, so these drinks are made in advance and stored—but the advantage is that they arrive at your table lighting-fast.
Anyone for an underground nightcap?
If you're not ready for your night to end when the check comes, ask your server if any of the 11 first-come, first-served seats at Charcoal Bar are free. While Sumi's dining room is bright and blanketed in blond wood, it's a different world downstairs. Cloaked in black and dark grays, Charcoal Bar is the yin to Sumi's yang. Behind the bar is the familiar face of Matthew "Choo" Lipsky, whom you might remember for his killer cocktails at Morso, a fantastic but short-lived Lincoln Park restaurant. After a stint designing the cocktails and managing the bar (or rather, four bars) at labyrinthine lounge Untitled, he's chucked the Vegas-style earpiece and looks more at home at this tiny lair, where he'll dutifully craft you a drink based on your favorite spirit or flavors. My date dug the mezcal creation Lipsky mixed up for him so much that he ordered another. I zeroed in on the menu of winter cocktails ($13-$18), which felt like a breath of fresh spring air with its flowery names. I tried the Rhododendron, a pear-honey-herb concoction with barrel-aged gin, as well as the citrusy Hydrangea with pisco and jasmine. Both were both balanced and delicate. P.S. If you're a "Downton Abbey" obsessive (or you just love a good story), ask Lipsky about his butler gig in England.
Bottom line
Kato said his guiding force for Sumi and Charcoal is takumi, the Japanese word for an artisan or craftsman who "focuses on one thing solely his whole life." With him grilling away upstairs and Lipsky hand-chipping blocks of ice downstairs six days a week, it's clear they both are dedicated to their craft. And unlike Japonais, which served well for a flashy special-occasion dinner or a girls night out, Sumi and Charcoal have the potential to be the kind of place you'd come back to again and again.
Reservations: Accepted for dinner from 5-11 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and 5 p.m.-midnight Thursday through Saturday. Charcoal Bar is first come, first served and stays open later if busy.
Sit: At the robata bar for a front-row seat to the grilling action. To lean back and relax, request a table. Downstairs, the two dramatic high-backed chairs would be great for a date.
Expect to spend: $75 per person. Both appetizers and robata items are small and light, so you'll want to order quite a few.
Loved it: Free coat check, so your puffy jacket doesn't hang off the back of your barstool.
Hated it: "I'm surprised they don't have nicer chopsticks," my date said as he pulled apart the throwaway wood ones waiting on the plate. True, an upgrade would be more in line with the price point.
I'll be back for: The 6-hour cold-brewed Sencha Fukamushi tea ($7), which I couldn't handle ordering on a 10-degree night. In the summer when Sumi adds tables outside, sign me up.
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I read this and thought folks here might be interested:
Nose cell transplant enables paralysed dogs to walk
'Scientists have reversed paralysis in dogs after injecting them with cells grown from the lining of their nose.'
with this as the key point for us:
'Partial repair
The researchers say the transplanted cells regenerated nerve fibres across the damaged region of the spinal cord. This enabled the dogs to regain the use of their back legs and coordinate movement with their front limbs.
The new nerve connections did not occur over the long distances required to connect the brain to the spinal cord. The MRC scientists say in humans this would be vital for spinal injury patients who had lost sexual function and bowel and bladder control.
Prof Geoffrey Raisman, chair of Neural Regeneration at University College London, who discovered olfactory ensheathing cells in 1985 said: "This is not a cure for spinal cord injury in humans - that could still be a long way off. But this is the most encouraging advance for some years and is a significant step on the road towards it."
He said the clinical benefits were still limited: "This procedure has enabled an injured dog to step with its hind legs, but the much harder range of higher functions lost in spinal cord injury - hand function, bladder function, temperature regulation, for example - are yet more complicated and still a long way away." '
It turns out that my NS here in London is involved in olfactory cell transplant research, as well as seeing clinical patients. He's considered the syringomyelia go-to guy at the NHNNS in London, so someone who knows SM is working on this. I did ask him once about the applications of his research to human patients and he just shook his head and said its a long way off. But you never know, the future has a way of rushing up on us...


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The Road Less Traveled
The Road Less Traveled
2015-03-11 - With four children, little money and a car that pre-dates modern roadway infrastructure, the Zapp family still manages to make traveling look easy. Lauren Comiteau spoke to father of the clan Herman Zapp about life on the road—all 15 years of it.
When Candelaria and Herman Zapp left their steady jobs and the house they'd been building for three years to take a road trip from their Argentinean home to Alaska in 2000, escape wasn't on the agenda.
"We weren't escaping at all," says Herman Zapp of the couple's pursuit of the travelling dream they had shared since childhood. "We didn't leave anything behind, but went for everything."
Fifteen years, five continents, 250,000 kilometers and four children later, their dream to travel the world is still alive and well and currently being pursued in Africa. Far from escaping life, they are making sure that life doesn't escape them.
"Follow your heart," is Zapp's motto, who adds that the most important part of any dream is simply to start it. Although leaving behind everything they knew for the uncertainties of life on the road has been the most challenging part of their journey to date, "once you feel freedom, you don't want to go back," says Zapp. "We want the freedom to go anywhere. Real life is at every curve."
I spoke to Herman Zapp from Kenya, where he was waiting for his family to join him after two weeks apart, the longest they've been separated. "Families are meant to be together," says Zapp of their 24/7 lifestyle, where the rewards, he says, outweigh any obstacles. When the family arrives, they will make their way to Ethiopia. After that, it's either north to Sudan or east to Oman, a decision they'll make democratically on the road—most likely over a game of Rock-paper-scissors"
"Whatever happens, we'll just go for it," he says.
There were naysayers from the start, with many people questioning the wisdom of travelling with no money and cautioning against the dangers of the road. "No one said go for your dream, people will be there for you," says Zapp. "But they are. And that's why we keep travelling." In addition to camping, they've been guests in over 1,000 homes, and it's all the people they've met along the way that keeps them moving.
"You can visit 1,000 cities, 1,000 beaches, 1,000 mountains," says Zapp, "but in the end, one more is just one more. People, though, will be different, each with a story to tell."
Perhaps unexpectedly, it's their unlikely choice of vehicle that has gained them entry into so many worlds. Their 1928 Graham-Paige, decked out with a picture of their car circling the globe and the words "Going Around Home," was a happy accident. The car, that takes them places at about 50 km/hour, was towed in on a flatbed truck and offered to them. "I fell in love when I saw it," says Zapp, whose wife needed more convincing. "There was no plastic, no electric parts. It was more curvy than any woman. People said the car will give you trouble, but it's been such a door opener. We make friends because of the car."
Not that there haven't been challenges on the road: They've run out of money; been denied visas at border crossings (it probably doesn't help that their kids have three different nationalities); navigated the Amazon River on a raft and in Tanzania, they got stuck during the rainy season.
But in an infectious optimism that's apparent from the first contact with the Zapps, they seem to turn every possible obstacle into an adventure: they live mostly off the proceeds from the book they self-published about their adventures, Atrapa tu Sueño (or Spark Your Dream), and during their rainy season mishap, they were invited to stay in a five-star hotel in Dar es Salaam. "My kids complained," said Zapp. "They wanted to camp and get back to the adventure side of things."
Their four children, ranging in age from five to 12, have been "road-schooled," say the Zapps, following an Argentinean program but with a twist: biology lessons are supplemented by roaming elephants on Tanzania's plains and geography lessons have been held at the base of Mt. Everest. And far from being the Luddites that their car implies, the family is very "connected," says Zapp, with Skype, PayPal and Google Maps making travelling easier and allowing them to stay in touch with their family back home.
But the journey as they know it may soon come to a bittersweet end as their oldest son Pampa reaches his 14th birthday in two years time and they will return to their Argentinean home. That doesn't mean, though, that their travelling days are over. "I want to go around the world sailing," says Zapp, who says he still has to convince Candelaria. "But if I convinced my wife to go in this car without money and have four kids, I can convince her to go sailing!"
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Now that I have all the time in the world, I've been up to other things, like my next project, a skateboarding set.
I had to make the poly count low on the shoe since I had to make straps, a tongue, and everything,
so they're not quite as high-quality as they maybe should be, but still decent none-the-less...
These shoes have been updated so that they should work for everyone now.
Download here: http://uploadingit.com/file/bbaz0rjdc0c520bj/Jasumi_SupraHighTops_BaseGame.zip
Morphs: Fit, Thin, Normal
Poly-Count: 4,004
Age: Young Adult
Sex: Male
...there's like two other colors I didn't show you..
I made jeans for these shoes since any other pair would obviously clip unless they were skin tight...
Skin: Subaxi/Watermelon | DHV-A Non-Default | MCV Non-Default
Eyes: Escand | Oh My Tiffany ||| Tifa | Eye N31 ||| Leamonleaf | Clear Eyes
Eyebrows: MissBonBon | 15 Eyebrows for TS3 ||| Subaxi/Watermelon | Eyebrow15MF ||| Haru | Eyebrows


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Wadiyan dictator General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) has more patience than you'd expect--he won't launch a nuclear weapon until it has a pointy top--but that doesn't mean you have to be patient to see "The Dictator."
Head to AMC River East tonight for one of a few sneak previews offered for the comedy, which has several hilarious moments in a film I ultimately found pretty juvenile and disappointing. Anyway, you can judge for yourself at the 9 p.m. show (no, it's not free), where a press release indicates that the General's Virgin Guards will be there to greet ticket buyers with free small popcorn and pop. A limited supply of T-shirts, posters and photos will be distributed as well.
To sweeten the deal, a teaser for "Anchorman 2" will appear before "The Dictator," despite the fact that the "Anchorman" script is reportedly nowhere near completed.


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For more than a decade ROCKRGRL Magazine was the first and foremost print magazine for women musicians, revealing the secrets of success of women that play rock – from Le Tigre and Sleater-Kinney to Aimee Mann and Lucinda Williams. Gender is NOT a genre and ROCKRGRL proved this in every issue.
Although ROCKRGRL magazine ceased print publication in 2005, this site will update fans on the latest news from influential female rockers.
ROCKRGRL Magazine (1995-2005) – was a highly influential publication for women who played music. Many artists interviewed very early in their careers went on to enjoy mainstream success (Tegan and Sara, Sleater-Kinney, The Donnas).
ROCKRGRL started out as a 14-page, black-and-white photocopied zine. Its first issue, which hit stands in 1995, featured Gretchen Seager on the cover along with articles about that dog, the Go-Go's, Queen Latifah, and Au Pairs. In 1999, ROCKRGRL became a full-color glossy bi-monthly magazine.
ROCKRGRL billed itself as, "a real departure from the condescending and patronizing tone found in other "women in music" magazines and web sites. No beauty tips or guilt trips here — just shop talk with fascinating artists."
Throughout its lifespan, many famous and influential women appeared on the cover, including Shirley Manson, Chrissie Hynde, Yoko Ono, Veruca Salt, Tori Amos, Johnette Napolitano, Courtney Love, Kathleen Hanna, Joan Jett, Kat Bjelland, Tegan and Sara, Jessicka, Aimee Mann, Sleater-Kinney, Jenny Lewis and Marianne Faithfull. ROCKRGRL also gave Sleater-Kinney their very first cover.
Due to changes in the economy and the growing demand for free, web-based content, ROCKRGRL published its final issue – #57 – in November, 2005 to coincide with the ROCKRGRL Music Conference.


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A sad 'farewell' to my wonderful Pointer boy "Cut" - V.I.P. Natural High. Sire: FC/NGDC Covey Up Johnny, Dam: Maple Valley Starlight. Cut was an amazing bird dog, taught many young dogs the ropes of finding and pointing birds staunchly, and truly had one of the most kind and loving personalities of any dog one could meet. Many thanks to handler Jim Heckert for taking care of Cut over the years, and running him in both AKC and AF trials with nice wins in both Gun Dog and All Age stakes. Rest in peace, dear one!
APC National Championship Derby winner:
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There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.
Stanislaw Lem – Fiasco (1986) [Ch.1, tr. Michael Kandel]
A loose rock tumbles slowly down a slope in a lonely valley on Mars. The hill of its origin seems unfamiliar and alien – it is more crimson and notably steeper than any rise on Earth due to Mars' oxidizing environment and lower gravity. A loose conglomerate of ruddy scree, it seems completely devoid of life. The rock, idle in its elevated resting place for perhaps eons, now dislodged by a chance landslide caused by a violent Martian windstorm, rolls to a stop in a new location in the dry valley below. No human eyes have ever seen this boulder, no one has sat atop it to survey the panorama of the valley where it sat, or pounded it with a rock hammer to determine its composition, or crudely scrawled their initials into its surface in an attempt to immortalize a teenage love affair. What purpose, if any, does this boulder serve? Life cannot shelter beneath it or break it down for nutrients because no life exists on this frigid, desiccated planet. It inhabits an exclusively abiotic world, and whilst it will be shaped by powerful winds into exotic and unfamiliar forms, it will eventually be blown to dust by the continual onslaught of sandstorms, dissipating gradually, grain by grain, into the chaotic atmosphere. The universe seems no richer for its passing.
Desolation is a ubiquitous feature of the solar system. From the barren, scorched and pockmarked surface of Mercury, to the icy solitude of the gas giants, and out to the lonely minor planet Pluto in its long, dark trundle around the Sun, these are entire worlds devoid of life and the patient sculpting of natural process we are so familiar with on Earth. Their terrain is of great interest scientifically, but it is obvious that these are worlds very different to our own. They lack a certain something, an inherent dynamism that it seems only biology can imbue. They seem alien, and they are in some sense, but this feeling of other-worldliness issues forth from the unfamiliar landforms and empty horizons, broken here and there by topographies of pure abiological physicality. Nothing about these geographies serves a 'purpose'. The craters of Mercury, or Mars, or any of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn, stand magnificent in their grandeur, but alone in the emptiness of space: many will never be explored, never investigated, chaotic in their form and distribution, but ultimately meaningless in their existence. It is my expectation that if we were to find another planet on which life had a foothold, that world would seem somehow more familiar to us, if undoubtedly exotic and bizarre, than a planet entirely devoid of biology.
This lack of purpose, of meaning, is obviously an inherently human concept, and whilst it results in an obvious planetary dichotomy (as illustrated by the quote above), it is this contrast that should provide us with perspective on our own planet and a greater appreciation for even the smallest action borne from the ancient, intimate dance between life and our world, choreographed by natural selection and honed by a run lasting billions of years. For if we consider these alien features to be meaningless and purposeless, it follows that the only 'purpose' that exists is that which began on Earth, and which emanates now ever outwards, shaping, and in some cases, biasing, our view of these barren worlds. Meaning is a concept that we as humans can and do impose upon desolate landscapes. We name features on distant planets, we photograph their lonely surfaces and seek explanations for their existence, but only as an aside in our quest for a greater understanding of our place and purpose. Even here on Earth we occupy the least biologically productive environments, sometimes for science, or for economic gain, or just for the challenge, but by our very presence in these once vacant landscapes, we provide a center of purpose. The once empty environment now provides a backdrop to the human drama, an extension of the boundless stage on which we carry out the acts of our lives; a silent witness to hours, days or years of collective human strife and trivialities. But is this really all meaning is? An inherently dichotomous characteristic of place that only exists relative to biology's insight or attention?
In searching for a word to convey this sense of emptiness, of this abiotic 'nothingness', the limitations of terrestrial linguistics shaped by our Earth-bound experiences and history are revealed, and the true magnitude of the desolation – often global, near complete – remains difficult to comprehend and to express cogently. A world without any 'meaning', any direction, any sense of teleological drive. An environment surrendered to entropy and shaped by chaos and the haphazard actions of an abiotic 'nature'. This is a nature unbounded by the necessities of life, in which soils and rocks remain untouched by biology but are instead molded, as clay in the hands of an inanimate potter, by purely physical processes: wind, fluids, irradiation and planetary tectonism. It seems that these are the environments most favored by the universe as they litter our solar system, and almost certainly exist around billions of other stars in our galaxy and beyond. Can it really be that an entire galaxy could exist in this state of meaningless stasis? Barren, empty reaches awaiting the arrival of life to imbue meaning upon the void?
It is possible that humans are the only intelligent observer species ever to have arisen in this galaxy. If that is the case, we have a great responsibility, not only to preserve our planetary sanctum for future generations and to continue to unravel the esotericisms of the universe, but to further safeguard our existence as the fount, the point source, of absolute meaning. The universe, it seems, is indifferent to our struggles, but we can elevate ourselves above the insignificant by our individual introspection and collective scientific extrospection.
We are the Gods of Purpose, and all the universe is our Eden.


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For someone new to genealogy, they will find several different layouts for a Family Group Sheet....a.k.a. FGS. And I'm sure they, as I did, looked at each one, trying to find "the" one that would suit them best. And maybe even try to work up their own FGS, taking a bit here & there from all of the other examples they found. I know, cause I did the very same thing -- matter of fact, over time I probably made over 5 different ones & wasn't crazy about any of them that I came up with. So what is a person to do? Keep on trying...... Believe me, one day you will get something that is just perfect for you. Just remember, what works for you is not necessarily going to work for many others.
Turns out my final FGS isn't even a "sheet" but a 5" x 8" index card. I really like the index cards vs an 8x11 sheet of paper. For me they are: 1) Easier to handle, 2) Easier to take out on a research trip, 3) Take up less storage, being I can fit about 300 in a storage file box, 4) I can get quite a bit of information on it....even if it is only a 5" x 8" card
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As you can see, in this blank example pictured above, I have the vitals listed that I should be able to find/get the information on each person......hopefully. There will always be an exception here & there. :) NOTE: Yes, I did use abbreviations, but in the front of each file box, I keep a "key" listing each of them that I used.
Also, you will notice that I have a "c:" below each vital, this is where "citing" your information/sources comes in. I can't stress enough for anyone new to genealogy, to cite ALL of the information/source/records they acquire for a person. As any seasoned genealogist will tell you, yes what you might remember today for a fact, is not necessarily something you are going to remember 10 years from now & will wonder where you got that bit of information. Plus, if you ever share any of your genealogy with someone, 99.99% of the time, they are going to want to know what your sources are & how it was verified. It's all & well that great grandma remembers her grandparents got married in Your Town, State, cause as she told you, that is just where they were born & lived all of their lives. But come to find out, later on someone sends off for their marriage record & discovers they actually eloped to another town/state to get married! You just never know..... Moral of Genealogy? Citation, Citation, CITATION!!! :) Believe me, you'll be glad you did later on. For myself, I like to have at least 2 forms of citation for my vitals, I just feel more comfortable knowing I've got 2 different sources saying the same thing for a piece of data/vital. But if the only form of citation you have is what your great grandmother told you, put it down.....that is still better than nothing & you can always add any additional citation(s) that you might acquire as you get further in your research.
I'm sure some of you, as you looked over my FGCard, are wondering "Yeah, but what about listing physical traits, schooling, employment, etc.?" I agree, I would LOVE to have a sheet/card with everything listed on it....but truly, how real is that? Knowing I won't have physical traits/etc. on everyone in my family, what do I do? The answer for me is to list anything else I might have on a person in a 3 ring binder (w/tab dividers) under their name. Doing it the way I am, I will have their vitals on the FGCard to take with me for when I do research. And then I have their personal info &/or memories/stories in the 3-ring binder.
One last note here.....on the very last line, I have "Census" listed. What I use this for is as I come across a census' for this person, I list the year/state here. I don't know how many times I've been searching for someone, find them on a 1910 KY census' & get all excited. Only to find out later that I already had that particular census' for them in my files. It is just a quick reference for me to check as I'm working.
Just like I said earlier in my post.....I know the way I do my FGS won't work for everyone, but it might will give you some new ideas about your own FGS & how you do yours.
Later, Deb
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Family Group Cards.....Part 1
By Deb at Friday, August 14, 2009
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2 comments:
- Rose Mary said...
The cards are a great idea, Aunt Deb. I knew you were using them but didn't know the exact layout for them. I really love the place for the citations~one of the most important things in research. And just trying to remember where you found some info is not always reliable (at least for me, LOL!).
- August 15, 2009 at 9:52:00 AM CDT
- Deb said...
You're welcome Mary! I too, as a lot of newbies do, didn't even think about citing any of my research when I first started. Over the years I've slowly corrected all those entries that had no citations. And believe me, what a chore it was to try to remember/find what my sources were.
Later, Deb
- August 15, 2009 at 10:15:00 AM CDT
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Those Halloween hijinks reach a crescendo this weekend. There's plenty to see and do before that candy overload next Thursday. And certainly, after Superstorm Sandy ravaged last year's festivities, we're all ready to set out on some ghoulish — or semi-ghoulish adventures.
Whether you want to step back in time to celebrate Halloween the way Long Islanders did over 120 years ago, at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, stop by Molloy College's Madison Theatre for its Halloween Fun Fest or find some other scary doings nearby, Halloween lovers of all ages can partake of scary and not-so-scary thrills and chills. Here's a roundup of where to go.
A Haunted Halloween at the Mysterious Village
It certainly wouldn't be Halloween season without the annual extravaganza at Old Bethpage Village Restoration, which gives a 19th century spin to our modern-day festivities, with ghost stories, pumpkin carving, and a tour of some haunted
Those long-ago Halloween celebrations involved ghost stories and mischief making of all kinds, like removing gates and tipping over sheds and outhouses. Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans also began to dress in costumes and go house-to-house asking for food or money (which eventually became our "trick or treat" tradition). Old Bethpage Village brings back these centuries-old customs with a broad range of family-friendly activities:
* Readings of Irish and American ghost stories, including the tale of Washington Irving's * Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and its famous Headless Horseman.
* Recounting the tales of the local grave-digger (who often fired his musket in the air to keep away spirits) and hearing about 19th century superstitions.
* Carving Jack-O-Lanterns, actually an old Irish custom, and scarecrow making.
* Participating in a 19th century "monster scavenger hunt" throughout the village.
* Meeting the local tombstone cutter, with an appearance by the Grim Reaper.
* A demonstration of broom making for witches.
* A tour of haunted habitats on a village ghost walk.
The fun takes place Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 26-27, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $10 adults, $7 children 4-14 and seniors. Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Round Swamp Rd., Old Bethpage. (516) 572-8400.
Spooky Fest
Creatures of all kinds inhabit the woods, and ghosts and ghouls come out to play at Tanglewood Preserve, home to the Center for Science Teaching and Learning (CSTL), in Rockville Centre. The event, now in its fifth year, has become a Halloween staple for area families.
Each year the festival offers a spirited fun-filled slate of activities on the preserve's 16 acres, with scary and not-so scary options. The wooded paths have been transformed for Halloween, with eerie lighting, special effects and characters along the way. Everything is perfectly spooky and a little scary. Creatures of all kinds inhabit the woods; the strange and beautiful will draw visitors along the eerie paths.
This time of year visitors will find that the preserve's woods are definitely haunted; those who venture along the scary walk will run into all sorts of creatures. This quarter-mile hike through the woods is not for the faint-of-heart, it will leave kids clinging to their parents legs. Every October the abandoned cemetery in the woods comes to life and a group of hikers have entered the woods against the staff's caution and have not returned. Visitors try find them, or what's left of them. The walk features an abandoned cemetery where zombies come to life and are in search of their favorite food — brains!
"Be prepared to be scared," says CSTL President RayAnn Havasy, "And for the ultimate scare, try our Maze of Madness, which has new features this year that are scarier than ever."
As always, a not-so-spooky walk — through the Magic Meadow — is offered for younger children. There are also 40 or so live animals to see (CSTL's permanent residents) — snakes, turtles, goats, and owls, among others. Eerie lights and sounds fill the exhibit hall to make it festive and spooky for this family-focused Halloween adventure. Other activities include holiday-themed arts and crafts, and the return of the Mystic Den, with a fortuneteller and face painting. And be on the lookout for this year's newcomers, those "Merry Monsters," who will be wandering through the courtyard.
A goody bag is offered to the first 200 kids visiting each night. And, of course, costumes are encouraged.
Find out what's lurking in the woods, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 25-26, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 27, 6:30-9 p.m. Admission is $15, $10 children 12 and under. Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Tanglewood Preserve, 1 Tanglewood Rd., Rockville Centre. (516) 764-0045 or www.cstl.org.
Halloween Fun Fest
Molloy College's great lawn is the setting for a fall adventure, including some all-important haunting. The community event features a haunted house, pumpkin decorating patch, corn maze and scarecrow, along with a family concert in the college's Madison Theatre.
Community organizations and Molloy's student clubs have joined forces for this enjoyable day that celebrates the harvest season and Halloween. The many activities include mask making, chalk talk, bowling, cupcake decorating, and a tribute to Elton John, performed by Empty Sky.
The afternoon features a family concert of "A Night on Bald Mountain," with young student dancers from Leggz Ltd. Dance, choreographed by Leggz Director Joan Hope MacNaughton. The dancers are accompanied by the Children's Orchestra Society, under the baton of Michael Dadap, at 1 and 3 p.m. "It's a fun piece that uses the classic music from Fantasia, involving four princesses, a cat and a witch," McNaughton said. Her troupe first performed it three years ago at Old Westbury Gardens and has revived it for this festival. "Everyone becomes friends at the end, so this Halloween-themed piece has nice happy ending," McNaughton said.
Everyone is encouraged to come in costumes and participate in the Halloween parade, Prizes will be awarded for best costumes.
Share some Halloween spirit, Saturday, Oct. 26, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Admission is $10 per child, $40 for groups of up to six children. Madison Theatre at Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. (516) 323-4444 or
www.madisontheatreny.org .


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Merry Christmas! That was fun to hear! Good end to a good day of celebration for us. Special Christmas service at church this morning. Drove 65 miles to Pierre, SD to see the Christmas Trees decorating our state Capitol. It is fabulous. Organizations, individuals, schools, Cancer and many other illness survivor groups, family farms and ranches, day care groups, and many more sponsors provide a tree and decorate it in corridors on three or more floors of the building. One floor has special activities for kids to make decorations. Otherwise, it is just a proceed at your own pace event running roughly from Thanksgiving to Dec. 26. There are days when music from individuals and groups is performed in the rotunda area. I think there wasn't any today, at least not at the time we were there. Making it even more fun was that our grandson's family, including the two great grand daughters were there, so we joined with them to see the wonder of it all through the eyes of three and five year olds!!!! It was especially exciting for them when we could look up and see trees on multiple levels when on the lowest floor and then go up the elevator to see them up close. Sure were lots of family groups taking it all in today!
We ended the outing by going to that grandsons house where there were three generations of us exchanging gifts.....and having some lively games of 'catch the ball' and stalking with flashlight beams and/or foam 'bullets' hopefully tiring the little ones enough to get a good night of sleep before the big day tomorrow.
We will be at the other grandsons newly remodeled home they just moved into, celebrating the day with most of our family and his wifes' family and a friend who drove up from New Mexico for the celebration. Three of our four kids will be there, and the fourth one will be with us to celebrate the New Year, so a great holiday season for us in our 'old age'! Adding to the special Blessings of Christmas is the celebration of the 125th anniversary of our ranch with the production of a commemorative album of 'then and now' photo's of activity and people, pastures, and cattle taken over the years put together by a granddaughter in law, with some help from my spouse and other family members.
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BC Sports Writer Josh Hall attended the BC Association of Broadcasters 65th Annual Conference this week and sat in on a press conference attended by some of the BC Lions including Travis Lulay and their partners with the Ending Violence Association of BC. The presser was to announce a major humanitarian award for the two organizations and Josh has the story after the jump.
BC Lions and Ending Violence BC awarded BCAB humanitarian award
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diffusion stone carbonation?
Last night I racked a great batch of ale into a keg that I rigged up with a diffusion stone. Normally when carbonating in a keg I bring the beer temp down to 40-45
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Using a diffusion stone to carbonate is the most effective method. CO2 goes into solution very easily because the bubbles are so small and numerous. You can still use the higher pressure (make sure the stone is securely affixed or it may come off) but you can cut the time down to probably less than an hour. You won't need to shake the keg either to get the CO2 into solution. It's tough to force carbonate warmer than 50 *F. You will probably have to just about double the carbonation time from what it would be in the low 40s *F. Good luck
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Industry, academia, government and other partners have come up with dual plans to help the United States become a major player in manufacturing and supply chain operations. The White House has introduced two new research institutes to encourage manufacturing innovation.
The Digital Lab for Manufacturing will research the interoperability and use of technologies, including mobile, cloud and high-performance computing, to develop new capabilities for designing and testing new produces and reducing costs in manufacturing processes. Although this $320 million institute will be based in Chicago, 25 universities in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Texas and Wisconsin will participate in the lab through a network of manufacturing research sites.
An initial grant of $70 million comes from the U.S. Department of Defense. The remaining funds have been committed by the other participants, including the education institutions and 41 industry partners, such as General Electric, Rolls-Royce, Procter & Gamble, Dow, Lockheed Martin, Siemens, Boeing, Deere, Caterpillar and Microsoft.
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The Lightweight and Modern Metals Manufacturing Innovation (LM3I) Institute will work out of a site in the metro Detroit area and be led by EWI, which develops and applies technology in manufacturing. Also seeded with $70 million from the DoD, EWI will work with nine universities in Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, as well as some 50-plus research institutions and companies that have pledged matching funds. The LM3I Institute will focus on expanding the market for new, lightweight, high-performing metals and alloys in multiple segments, including defense, aerospace, automotive, energy and consumer products.
The DoD became involved in establishing both institutes because it's a major customer of manufactured products. As an overview document explained, "The department requires complex, highly integrated systems to gain technological advantage, but it lacks the open market or volume to push costs or cycle times lower." By promoting innovations in design and manufacturing processes, the DoD hopes to speed up development of new products while reducing the expense of their production.
Both initiatives were kicked off by President Obama during a talk he gave earlier this week to announce the new institutes. "Keeping America at the cutting edge of technology and innovation is what is going to ensure a steady stream of good jobs into the 21st century," he said. "And that's why we're here today — to take new action to put America at the forefront of 21st century manufacturing."
Obama noted that most research and development is co-located where the manufacturing takes place. "So if all the manufacturing is somewhere else, the lead we've got in terms of design and research and development, we'll lose that too. That will start locating overseas. And we will have lost what is the single most important thing about American economy, and that is innovation," Obama said. "So that's what all these hubs are about. They're partnerships that bring together companies and universities to develop cutting-edge technology, train workers to use that technology and then make sure that the research is translated into real-world products made by American workers."
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Many a Christian has cheated himself out of the blessing of the Holy Spirit's inspired impulse to do something good or kind for someone else by not obeying that urge. Instead of bringing joy to someone else's life by an act of kindness, the self-centered person stifles the impulse and sinks deeper and deeper in the slough of despondency and gloom. It is one thing to get good impulses; it is quite another to transmit them into acts of goodness.
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I DNS'd the Spring Thaw Race in Pittsburgh-I did not show. The weather was dicey Friday evening, and since I had never been to the North Park before, I decided to spend my energy closer to home.
So I went to the high school track-and aborted after 1/4 of a turn around the track. I was hoping I could tamp down a path in the snow, but it was all so uneven. I knew, with trying to get a 20 miler in, it wasn't going to happen there.
So I drove home and got the hydration vest on, and headed out. First five miles on the back country road,full of ice and snow. The township plow truck came by, and I made sure I jumped well into the field away from it. The guys made sure not to hit me.
Only two of the usual four dogs came out to greet me at the top of the hill.
The back road was the most fun part of my run. I then got on the more travelled roads.I was running a normal route that I do-but the first time, in reverse. It was interesting to see new views from this angle.
I really ran out of energy around mile 14. I had turned into the wind. I needed to use my inhaler, but it was in the back pocket on the hydration vest, which I didn't feel like stopping to remove to get to the inhaler. (It always seems like a no-brainer in retrospect). So the last two miles felt like a death march (especially with a 1/2 mile hill to trudge up.)
I turned off the Garmin in my normal spot, and then started to jog down the hill, 1/8 of a mile to home. I was happy to see Uri and his sons delivering hay to their horses which are being boarded in one of our pastures. I hung out to watch my husband along with the Amish corral and halter the two mules-it was pretty entertaining.


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