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15 March 2010
You make each day a little brighter
This card is actually a special gate fold card - Leann style. Leann is a very funny and talented all round crafty chic and her tutorial can be found HERE. I've been meaning to make one of these since I saw her gorgeous card. It wasn't until I had this image yesterday and decided he needed very little embellishment that it clicked that the gate fold card was perfect for it.
I've added Crystal Dimension to the ball to make it all glossy and some kindyglitz to the sand to add some sparkle.
And here it is open. I managed to find the perfect sentiment too - "You make each day a little brighter".
I coloured the image with Copics (Y38, YR15, Y35, Y21, B21, B23, B00, E000, E00, E21, YR20, Y23, R20, G40, G12, 0).
The paper is from Inque Boutique "Cabana" 6x6 stack (from Kmart believe it or not!)
White bazill for the base and Stampin Up Apricot Appeal and Soft Sky to matt.
Kaisercraft pearls.
Rafia and sun charm from my stash.
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Easy Craft Projects #8 - COLOUR CHALLENGE
Secret Crafter #74 - Anything Goes
Saturday Spotlight - You're so slick
14 comments:
Love this Kylie, it's fabulous, every aspect is great!!ReplyDelete
This is gorgeous Kylie, love everything about it,Stunning!ReplyDelete
Sue x
Oh he is just so sweet!! LOVE your colouring D Gorgeous card Kylie!ReplyDelete
Oh!! This card is fabulous. I just love the image. You are so creative. Well Done.ReplyDelete
Fantastic card Kylie!! Love the gate fold cards too! lol. You're colouring is so good and just love the touch of some raffia! Goodluck in your challenges.ReplyDelete
The 'other' Kylie xo
So well put together....stunning papers and your colouring and details are terrific.ReplyDelete
Oh Kylie - this is GORGEOUS!!!! Absolutely beautifully bodged - who needs bone folders when they have a nail??!!ReplyDelete
Ah, I keep scooting back up to look at the pics - there's just so much to love about it :D
Bug hugs x
Thanks for joining us on SCSC :)
Hugs Jane x
- AnonymousMarch 16, 2010 at 12:55 AM
Oh wow!! This is just PRECIOUS!! I adore that image, your coloring and the special shinny touches make it just come to life!! LOVE IT!! :) Thanks for sharing it with us at Saturday Spotlight this week!!HUGSReplyDelete
This is FANTASTIC!! Love this little guy and your shiny touches really bring life to the scene! Awesome! Thanks for joining us at Saturday Spotlight!!ReplyDelete
this is brilliant! colouring and lighting is fab! The glitter is the perfect touch as well as the ball. Wow. I could eat him up. :) heheheReplyDelete
Oh how cute!!I love this gate fold card!!Awesome take on the slick challenge. Thanks for joining us at the Sat. Spotlight.ReplyDelete
this is fabulous, your 'slick' is perfect! gorgeous coloring too!ReplyDelete
Blessings, Maria
AWW this is soooo precious, what a great creation! Thanks so much for joining us at Saturday Spotlight!ReplyDelete


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Time magazine had declared "You" as the person of the year, which is not entirely true. PC World had declared World's top 50 most important people on the web. According to this list, here are top 5 -
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Slightly productive
I managed to get a little bit of knitting done this week while I've been fighting my cold.
Unfortunately, the rash of fertility at work is proceeding faster than I can keep up. My friend Sydney delivered her baby a week early, and this set of booties is not for her little girl. So, she's up next in my planned bootie-knitting frenzy.
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Bumblebees buzz in middle C to make flowers release their pollen.
Bumblebees have a unique ability to make a buzzing sound that opens up flowers, National Geographic wrote this week.
Bumblebees use something called buzz pollination to get their mitts on pollen in hard-to-reach flowers, such as cranberry and blueberry plants. That buzzing sound happens to be in the tone of middle C.
"It's the 'hey' in 'Hey Jude,' and it causes the flower to explosively release pollen," Denise Ellsworth, an entomologist at Ohio State University, told National Geographic.
"[Bumblebees] wrap their legs around the flower" Ellsworth continued, and "unhinge their wings from their wing muscles and vibrate their bodies." This causes pollen to fall "like salt from a shaker."
Unfortunately for humanity, bumblebees don't use this ability to grab hard-to-reach nectar to make more delicious honey. While all bees make some variant of honey, only honeybees make the good-tasting stuff.
Because only a queen bumblebee is expected to make it through the winter — she hibernates — they only make enough honey to sustain themselves paycheck to paycheck, as it were.
Meanwhile, Rangel told National Geographic that honeybees make extra honey because "they live in places where there are seasons." They use this honey to make sure the entire colony survives through the winter.
Still, just because bumblebees do not make honey does not mean that they are worthless. According to Rangel, native pollinators, which include bumblebees, honeybees, and other insects such as butterflies, help produce a third of the food that the world eats via their pollination efforts.
This is a $15 billion annual value in the U.S., according to National Geographic. Globally, this pollination is worth $200 billion annually.
Unfortunately, bumblebees are on the brink of extinction. Mother Jones reports that they are hit especially hard by the insecticides that many U.S. farms use to manage their crops.
While the Obama administration placed bumblebees on the endangered species list, which would have afforded them certain protections, President Donald Trump has frozen that regulation from taking effect, potentially forever.
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Last time we saw the Governor (his cameo last week excluded) he was gunning down his own people and driving off to parts unknown. Now? It's all fist bumps and pinkie swears.
After existing off-screen as a boogieman for most of the season, the Governor made his return in Sunday's episode, "Live Bait." While a big piece of what he's been up to was filled in, we still don't know exactly how he ended up lurking outside the walls of Rick's prison at the end of last week. There's more to this story, surely, and it's not going to be pleasant.
Or maybe it will be?
The TV version of the Governor, as played by British actor David Morrissey, has always been a little more sympathetic than the out-and-out psycho portrayed in the original comic book, and this new post-Woodbury chapter in his life seems to be taking great pains to make him even more human.
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We see the Governor lose his last two followers, Martinez and Shumpert, who sneak off in the night while the Governor sleeps in his tent. We see the Governor grow an Al Gore post-2000 election depression beard. And finally we see the Governor find himself a new surrogate family, with Melody, her daughter Megan, her sister Tara and their cancer-ridden father. They're all holed up in an apartment building and somehow haven't figured out that shooting a zombie in the head is the only way to stop it.
Lucky for them, the Governor is an expert in the ways of zombie-kiling, making himself incredibly helpful when it comes to going out and retrieving stuff for this scared little family. And lucky for the Governor, the frightened little girl Megan serves as a welcome way for him to let go of his own daughter-turned-zombie Penny, who was finally put to rest by Michonne last season.
That transformation in the Governor, from a haunted soul grappling wth how to move on from the life he once knew to a man finding a new reason to live by protecting a little girl, is the crux of this episode, which doesn't even give us a glimpse of what Rick and the rest of the crew are up to. And while Morrissey is more than able enough of an actor to give the Governor all the shadings of character and nuance he deserves, we have to wonder if it really is too late for the Governor. How can we ever truly care about someone we've seen commit horrific acts? Is seeing the Governor doing a pinkie-swear with little Megan enough to make us forget (or forgive) the rest of the awful stuff we've seen him do?
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Keep in mind, the Governor's situation could completely change next week, but for now, we're existing in a world where his past sins have been forgiven, and we're supposed to be actively rooting for him to keep the girl safe from harm.
The episode's conclusion brings the Governor and Megan back into contact with Martinez from the Governor's old Woodbury days, proving that it's near-impossible to completely escape your past, even in a zombie-ravaged landscape. He knows just how awful the Governor can truly be, but will that past be brought up in front of the Governor's new family? Undoubtedly. The only question that remains is whether or not the writers of "The Walking Dead" are truly committed to rehabilitating the character or whether this episode of good samaritanism was just a detour on his eventual road to hell.
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Little Lan Krome no longer has a physical presence at Wat Opot; although his spirit and memory will always be here. His photo will soon take its place on the wall of the Family Room next to Mr. Sabon's. Lan Krome is currently the last in a long line of lives which were taken too soon; taken from the large extended Wat Opot family because of AIDS.
Lan Krome is not his given name, instead a 'nick name' of sorts that stuck. When he first came to Wat Opot as a small child in 2006, he did not want to be here. A bus had brought him, his mother, brother, and sister to this strange new place and when his mother left for a spell, he cried all the time to go back. He cried out over and over for the bus to bring him back to the home he knew. The name bus in Khmer is lan krome, so little Jon Sochea became known to all as Lan Krome and his little brother, Jon Socheat soon became known at Lan Touri - the Khmer word for a mini bus (or van).
As children do in a foreign situation, Lan Krome eventually settled into the routine at WOCC with the added advantage of having his siblings and mother always close by. HIs mother is employed by Wat Opot as a cook and feeds over 75 children, resident adults, staff and volunteers daily. Lan Krome was a sickly infant and then child but he always bounced back. In early 2011, he developed TB and nearly died, but recovered and was back to being one of the top students in his 4th grade class as well as resuming his status as a mischievous little guy. He was pretty thin and seemingly frail, so it was always with disbelief when someone would cry out "Melinda, Lan Krome 'boxing' me". I would glance at the slyly grinning Krome and have to grin back; he knew he always had the upper hand because not many would 'box' back. The teddy bear photo was taken only a few short months ago on New Years Eve, 2011.
When he wasn't well, Lan Krome could be found laying in a bed in the kitchen where his mother could keep an eye on him. He would move from the bed to the cool tile when it was hot. In early February this year, he started getting sick again and had very bad stomach problems. He was taken to the hospital where they assumed there was scarring in his intestines due to the TB last year. That problem was supposedly taken care of, but then they found another problem which no one seemed to be able to translate to English, but we were told it was with his brain and that they had given him 'brain medicine'. Cambodian hospitals are not the most equipped nor are they the necessarily the best place to go when you are sick.
A couple of weeks ago, Lan Krome was brought home with his sister (who was in the same hospital because of a broken arm). We were told there was nothing the hospital could do for him and that they didn't know what was wrong. He had wasted away to practically nothing; but he had done this before and came back to his former self. This time, though he didn't seem to be recovering, he could barely make it to the kitchen to rest while his mother worked. Lan Krome was 10 years old, but was now as light as a toddler. He had lost his toothy smile, he didn't respond much either. You could see he was still there in his head, but his body just was not fit to move and sometimes his eyes just looked dark. Still, he had come 'back from near death' before…no reason to believe he wouldn't this time as well.
This photo was taken of him as he rested on the cool tile floor, three days before he died.
At 3:00 in the morning on April 26th, Wayne knocked on my door and said that Lan Krome was dying. I jumped up and quickly dressed and then thought "Do I want to go?" My first response to that question directed at myself was "No, I do not" but then I had to ask myself why. I was able to be in Kansas a year ago when my 95 year old grandmother died peacefully in her home. I know life gives you challenges and you either learn from them or you don't...so I prepared to find out how I would emotionally deal with this child's death. I knew a little what to expect from the natural death process. How the breathing changes, how the body reacts.
When I walked into Lan Krome's home, Wayne was sitting on the hard floor holding one of his tiny hands, while his mother held the other. His siblings were sleeping in the bed next to them. I sat down and just watched and waited. I saw Wayne as others before me have seen him; gently rubbing the hand of a person while gazing into their dying eyes. Patiently waiting for that last breath. Wayne commented on the Watopotian, Brang Chhang's death saying "We sat there quietly waiting for what none of us wanted...but all of us knew would come" This is how it was for Lan Krome as well. As he laid on the floor surrounded by his toy cars and other personal belongings, the residents of Wat Opot stopped in. The children sat and watched for a bit before they were chased off to school; for all this was not their first experience - I was the exception.
At 7:00am Lan Krome took his final breath - even though I knew it was going to happen, nothing can prepare you for the finality of that. The waiting to see if another would come, the thought that he would start to breath normal and would get better. The next breath didn't come and as his mother quietly sobbed and said her last goodbye's, Wayne began to prepare the body for the cremation service which would happen later that morning.
The crematorium on the Wat Opot property is made up of 3 rooms, the first is a place to hold the body for viewing, the middle houses the crematory and the third is the family room where Wayne holds nightly prayer for those who have left this world. The children feel comfortable in the room and can name most of the deceased. They are happy to show you their parent(s) photo, or the parent of one of their friends, or one of the babies' photos.
Some staff prepared the bamboo mat which would hold the body in the crematory as Wayne carried Lan Crong to the viewing room, as always, surrounded by the children in his care.
As in other ceremonies, the addition of flowers seem to beautify the occasion. The little ones who were not yet in school were anxious to help me and one of our child care staff, pick them. We have been trying to grow lotus flowers for awhile and once they finally started to bloom, strict instructions - DO NOT PICK THE BEAUTIFUL LOTUS were put into place. For Lan Crong we made an exception and the little ones happily waded in and plucked the biggest one.
Lan Touri helped pick some beautiful white ones for his brother, Lan Krome, who was soon decorated.
The Monks from the adjacent Buddhist temple came and prayed over the body and while we waited for "the old man" to come (some kind of elder that's higher than the monks) the children watched over the body. Srey Po and Heang, who had lost their father a few months before were more comfortable this time as they joined the others in looking, touching and rearranging the flowers or feeling the toy car under the sheet that was wrapped around his small body.
There was good natured chatting and joking about that toy car, but also mental processing what was happening.
Finally "the old man" arrived and started the service by pinning a emblem on cloth. On the emblem was written Lan Krome's name along with other family members who have passed before him. A first-class ticket to his next life so to speak, so he will know who to call upon when he arrives. He then administered blessings and Lan Krome's body was placed on the bamboo mat and then into the crematory.
Some people harden their hearts when tragedy strikes; Wayne's heart only grows larger, which has to make the pain all the worse.
Some family members and I had just discussed about how having a compassionate heart is a blessing and also a curse. As Wayne gently slides yet one more body into the crematory, his signature black Wat Opot shirt says it all.
Dear Lan Krome, you little goofball,
You have joined all the others who are forever in my heart.
Love always, Melinda


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Stress Busting for Parents – Healthy Living Forum & Children's Sports Party
June 18, 2017 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmFree
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Being a parent can be stressful. Competing demands make it hard to take time out to take care of yourself. Join us for an afternoon focused on busting stress and living well with HIV. You'll hear from a number of speakers who will give you strategies and tools for managing the demands of parenting whilst looking after your physical and emotional wellbeing. Expect lively discussion and the opportunity to connect with other parents living with HIV. Afternoon tea will be provided.
Children aged 5 to 15 are welcome to enjoy a sports party with soccer, a jumping castle and afternoon tea. After the forum swimming passes will be available for families who want to enjoy the fabulous facilities of the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre.
The forum is free of charge but registration is essential. Please register at https://www.trybooking.com/PYJF. The passwords are LPV, Forum or Aquatic. If your child is too young for the sports party and you need assistance with childcare to attend please call 9863 8733.


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6-8 May, 2016 - The novices from St. Meinrad pay us a visit
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In the late spring for many years now the novices from St. Meinrad have paid us a weekend visit. This year we were pleased to welcome (left to right in black) Fr. Guerric DeBona, who is the novice director, Novice Joshua Leeuw, Novice Tony Wolniakowski and Fr. Thomas Gricoski (front row). Our own novice and postulants joined them for this photo (left to right, in white), Postulant Chris Bender, Postulant Ian Arbuckle, and Br. Matthias Meyer (front row)
We were able to spend some quality time together particularly on Saturday afternoon out at the hermitage.
|St. Meinrad's Benedictine Archabbey is located in Indiana, north-west of Louisville, about 2 hours drive from Gethsemani.


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Coach Education Clinics & Events
Each season, WSSL is committed to providing coaches with "feet on" training sessions with professional coaches. Sessions take place in an indoor gym on weekday evenings. Clinics for are run by New York Red Bull Training Program Professional Coaches.
- Information on dates/times for Fall 2016 to come soon.
See WSSL's Calendar for dates, times and locations and Coach Resources for the curriculum, video and lesson plans from the clinics and our partners!
Personalized Coaching Jackets Recognize Commitment to Excellence by WSSL Coaches
Coaches who complete two training clinics will receive a fabulous, navy Adidas coach's bag courtesy of WSSL from Upper 90. Coaches who complete four training clinics will receive a fabulous, personalized coach's jacket (see below for front and back sample).
To be eligibile, coaches must sign in on-site at the actual course.


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This brown cowboy boot magnetic needle holder is another creation I made. The tall boot is finished in a glossy brown glaze, the top of the surface is smooth. Please keep in mind each one is hand made and has its own individual characteristics.
The brown boot needle holder measures:
A Neodymium Magnet is attached to the back, the Neodymium magnet has a smooth chrome-like finish and is over 10 times more powerful than any other similar size ordinary magnet. A magnet friendly disk is included with the needle minder.
Use a needle minder on your fabric whenever you want to park your needle.
|My hand made needle minders were featured in the November 2013 issue of Cross-stitch & Needlework magazine FabFinds section page 8. Fabfinds features accessories stitchers will love to add to their stash.
This magnetic needle minder or needle nabber is a must for anyone that does any type of beading, sewing, stitching, quilting, needlepoint, petitpoint, bargello, crewel, embroidery, cross stitch or hand work of any kind. Each needle minder is hand made in the USA.


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The worst thing about spending an evening out in the woods? The harrowing, deafening blackness of the all-encompassing night. The second worst thing? Not being able to stream House of Cards for three hours straight.
Conquer both these conundrums with the BioLite NanoGrid—a portable system of outdoor lanterns that will also charge your USB enabled devices, on the road, off the grid, and everywhere in between.
The main lantern emits a steady 200 lumens of all-around light in normal mode, and 250 lumens in directional torch mode. The system also comes with two SiteLights, providing an additional 150 lumens of brilliance.
The most notable feature of the NanoGrid is its ability to become a portable power plant, able to charge any device with USB capabilities (which narrows it down to pretty much everything).
The NanoGrid setup will set you back $99, but that's a small price to pay for a full lighting system that'll stay on way after the fire's gone out and you have nothing left to stream.


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By volunteering you can make a real difference to both your own life and the lives of those around you. With over 40 organisations within ACFA: The Advice Network, we're confident that one of them will have a volunteering opportunity which is right for you.
Brigstowe Project
The Brigstowe Project is a front-line, responsive charity based in Bristol. We provide free confidential support, information and advice to people in and around Bristol living with or affected by HIV. We have the following opportunities available:
Peer Support Volunteers
Can you listen and share experiences with people who have just been diagnosed?
Can you support people who are struggling with their diagnosis?
We are looking for positive people who can listen and share experiences with others. You can build your confidence, learn skills and gain a Peer Mentoring qualification as well as enjoying the feeling of making a real difference to someone's life.
We are asking for applications to be submitted as soon as possible! Full training will be given from from the 15th to the 18th September.
For more information or to request an application pack please get in touch.
Publicity Volunteers
We are looking to recruit a small team of publicity volunteers to assist Brigstowe in publicising our services and raising awareness about HIV. Initially this role will be focused on having a presence at public events such as Pride and Refugee Week but we will also meet as a team to discuss other ways in which we can publicise Brigstowe.This role is best suited to someone who is sociable, creative and wants to get involved.
For more information or to request an application pack please get in touch.
Hosting Volunteers
We would also like to recruit a small team of volunteers to host REACT! events.
This position would include welcoming people that are new to the group, assisting with feedback forms and other administration. This role would suit someone with good people skills and is only open to people who are HIV as the REACT! events are just open to HIV positive people. Please note that we would require you to come to a few REACT! events to get a feel for them before you would be able to host.
For more information or to request an application pack please get in touch.
Pennywise Project
Pennywise is a local money management project supporting Bristol residents to make their money go further. Through one-on-one support, group activities and events we empower people to take control of their finances.
We're looking for people to join our volunteering team and have new roles to advertise:
- Administrative support - to support the day to day running of the Pennywise office, and to support with workshops and event preparation.
- Referral co-ordinator - to support our referral process, helping our advisors to get really good quality referrals.
- Online communications - to continue our website development, so that we have as much low-cost local information as we can.
The closing date for applications is 5pm on Monday 15th August and we'll be holding interviews on Thursday 18th August, but if you cannot make this date that's OK, we'll find an alternative.
Volunteering with us will give you experience of working within a small charitable project, and a large busy office as we sit within Places for People. Pennywise is a small, dedicated team of 8 employees and 3 volunteers, and we'd love you to join us!
West of England Centre for Inclusive Living (WECIL)
For details of current opportunities with WECIL, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Hazel Conibere by email or telephone 0117 947 9911
Avon & Bristol Law Centre
Currently looking for new Trustees with skills & experience in the following areas:-
- Social Welfare Law
- Legal Aid
- Legal Practice Management
- Voluntary Sector Management
- Voluntary Sector Governance
For further information and an application pack, please contact Clare Carter by telephone, 0117 916 7710, or email
North Bristol Advice Centre
At North Bristol Advice Centre we offer a range of varied and interesting volunteering opportunities from advice support to marketing, from admin to IT support. All our volunteers receive full induction and training appropriate to their role and are welcomed within the team. For information on current opportunities canbe found here or you can contact Helen Stone by telephone 0117 9515751 or email.
2 quotes from volunteers at our last Volunteer celebration event:
"I have gained enormous satisfaction from helping people to gain precious IT skills. It has given me great pleasure to see their progress and their increasing confidence over time."
"Volunteering at NBAC has, genuinely, made a huge difference to my life. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to get involved."


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If any of you happen to be in the NYC-area tomorrow morning, June 3, for Internet Week, then I suggest you head on over to the Roger Smith Hotel for Social Media Breakfast NYC. HubSpot is sponsoring, which means attendees will be chowing down on yummy breakfast fare on our behalf! But hurry up and register - tickets are limited!
The fifth installment of #SMBNYC will take place from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Lexington Avenue. The theme? "The Social Enterprise | Change the World 2.0," based on the idea that social media has the power to connect us globally to each other and develop relationships which strengthen the opportunity to affect change.Charity: Water, SM4SC: Social Media for Social Change's Matt Knell and Gradon Tripp, and Toby Daniels of Twestival and Camp Interactive. Each speaker will share how his organization has engaged community on a global, local or in a personal way to make large and small changes.
The Social Media Breakfast was founded in Boston by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share and learn. The breakfast series, which has now grown to cities throughout the United States and around the world, invites all marketers, publicists, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new media disciples and online social networkers to attend.
Tomorrow's Social Media Breakfast NYC is produced & organized by Selina McCusker. Please click here to contact her with any questions.
Register for #SMBNYC 5 on Eventbrite.
Won't be in NYC tomorrow? Panman Productions will be livestreaming the breakfast at http://rogersmithlife.com.
Image via Flickr.


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Hubert Dalwood (1924 - 1976)
Icon (1958)
Aluminium Sculpture
Purchased by the Leeds Art Collection Fund in 1960 and now on display at Leeds City Art Gallery.
Hubert Dalwood was an A-List British Artist born 2 June 1924 in Bristol. He trained as an engineer with Bristol Aeroplane Company 1940 - 44, then enlisted into the Royal Navy 1944 where he served until 1946.
His works are experiencing a renaissance within the art-world, with many recent exhibitions. His family and particularly his daughter Kathy Dalwood not least amongst those keeping his works alive. Kathy who is also a sculptor wrote in her blog that the family have been looking after Hubert's works . That he was a very influential figure within the world of contemporary sculpture during the 1960s and 70s.
Dalwood was indeed a highly regarded world art-world figure in the sixties and seventies, teaching and exhibiting widely. He studied under Kenneth Armitage who treated him as a colleague between 1946 - 1949, at Corsham, Bath Academy.
In 1964 he won a Professorship to the University of Illinois, where he was able to expand his repertoire with new inspirations.
His interest in different cultures won him international recognition, he was commissioned to carry out projects in both the Arab world and India.
Dalwood imagined his sculptures as though they were ritualistic objects or artefacts from a forgotten civilisation, making them deliberately mysterious.
In 1953 he was awarded the Gregory Fellowship at Leeds University, then in 1962 was selected to display at Venice Biennale and he was soon recognised prominently amongst the leading post-war British sculptors of his time. Henry Moore, just one of many fellow artists who collected his works.
Dalwood won the John Moore's prize in 1959 with his work 'Large Object' and in 1974 he was appointed Head of Sculpture at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
Dalwood died at the young age of 52 following an unusual reaction to a skin hardening illness that infected internal organs.
Art critic: William Packer, said of Dalwood: "One of the best artists of his generation, a man who could have civilised and enlivened our cities and fired our imaginations."
Following his death, a retrospective of his work was shown by the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Article By: Dave Roberts.
First Published: 10 February 2010.
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Hubert Dalwood | Sculpture | Leeds Art Collection Fund
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It's all about Charles Dickens at the moment: biographies, statues – even a coin. This, though, is taking an early position as my favourite way to celebrate the great man's 200th birthday: a recording of his great grand-daughter Monica Dickens reading A Christmas Carol.
The audio has never been released in the UK before: Bloomsbury heard about its existence when talking to Monica's niece Mary Danby, who manages her estate (it's been republishing her books through its new ebook arm Bloomsbury Reader, something I've expressed my excitement about before). Monica had recorded the reading for the Samaritans in Cape Cod in 1984 (she'd founded the Samaritans in the US in 1977, having been a Samaritan in London before moving to the US).
"I got goosebumps when I first heard this," says publisher Stephanie Duncan. "It's like listening to Dickens himself reading, since Monica heard it from her grandfather who in turn heard it from Charles Dickens himself." I've had a listen to the beginning, and she's right: hearing Monica intone that classic opening, "Marley was dead: to begin with", is an experience that shouldn't be missed.
Bloomsbury is publishing the audio as part of an enhanced ebook for Christmas, with half of the proceeds going to the Samaritans. It comes with a fabulous interview with Monica – I'd not heard her voice before, and hearing it makes me even more of a fangirl – in which she gives a bit of family history behind the novel's creation.
"He was loaded down with debts," she says of her great-grandfather. "His family were always borrowing from him. His mother and father were always touching him for a loan. His children – not my grandfather I hasten to add – were rather profligate, and he was on his beam ends." So he wrote the book, and ended up publishing himself, making "something like £1,000" and "God knows how many millions of pounds and dollars it has made since".
This is the goosebumps part, though. "All the family sat and Dickens would read the Carol to them when they were children. When we were children, my grandfather sat and read the Carol to all of us. I got the feeling that since he had listened to his father reciting he was giving us a pretty good imitation of Charles Dickens," she says.
Hearing her, in her turn, read it is the closest we'll get to hearing the man himself: have a listen to an extract here (the interview is free too) and see what you think.


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|Syzygium Campanulatum : Beautiful Plants
Common Name: Brush Cherries
Scientific Name: Syzygium Campanulatum
Height: 36-48 inches (90 - 120 cm)
Span: 36-48 inches (90 - 120 cm)
Growth Rate: medium
Sun Tolerance: Full Sun
ABP Index: 2.0 (Aesthetics 2.0, Solidarity 2.0)
Syzygium Campanulatum common name is Brush Cherries also known as Lillipillies. It is mainly native to East Asia Pacific Region and found growing wild in mangrove forests. The dense leaves and colorful pinkish-red shades from young shoots and pyramid-shaped canopy makes it a choice plant for narrow avenue planting; also planted along waterways, parks and home gardens. Plant is commonly grown as a hedge and provide extensive landscape when sculptured into nice topiaries. It is a small tree but rarely grown to be one.. Most species are evergreen, shrub Tree. It also plans as ornamental plants for their attractive glossy foliage, and a few produce edible fruit that are eaten fresh or used in jams and jellies. Flowers are red. The fruits look like Barry those are eatable and cherished by birds.
|Syzygium Campanulatum
|Leaf of Syzygium Campanulatum
|Syzygium Campanulatum Flower
|Syzygium Campanulatum : Young Leaves with Flowers
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|Syzygium Campanulatum : Red & Green Leaves
|Syzygium Campanulatum : Red Leaves
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Posts Tagged rock video
Vintage Video: The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show (2/9/64)
Posted by Dr. Rock in Uncategorized on February 9, 2010
Sunday night, February 9, 1964 on The Ed Sullivan Show, television introduced the Beatles to 73 million Americans, or nearly 40% of the total population of the country at the time (by comparison, this past Sunday's broadcast of the Super Bowl, the highest rated showing of that annual extravaganza, was viewed by an estimated 106 million Americans, or about 30% of the population).
The February 9 airing of Ed Sullivan's weekly variety program (his "really big shoo") was the first of three consecutive Sunday evenings on which the Fab Four appeared on the show. That night they performed five songs in two sets, opening with "All My Loving", followed by "Till There Was You" and "She Loves You." In the show's second hour they came back with "I Saw Her Standing There" and ended with "I Want To Hold Your Hand."
Click here for an interesting side-by-side video of two versions of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" – one taped earlier in the day for inclusion on the February 23 show, and the other filmed live on February 9. For my Beatles playlists, click here.
Vintage Video: Poco (1972)
Posted by Dr. Rock in Uncategorized on October 6, 2009
Lip-synching on music shows aired from a TV studio was an accepted practice in the 60s and early 70s. But a growing trend toward "real" live performances is evidenced by Poco's rendition (click here) of "A Good Feelin' To Know" on a TV/radio simulcast with album-rock station WPLJ-fm in New York in 1972. The song was the title track to the fifth studio album from one of the longest running country-rock bands. The line-up pictured here was their early 70s version. Founding member, lead vocalist and guitarist Richie Furay would leave in a year, bassist Tim Schmit went to the Eagles in 1977 and drummer George Grantham quit in 1978. Guitarists Rusty Young and Paul Cotton continued on with various replacements in the 80s and the band continues performing to this day. Poco is in the Playlist Vault at DrRock.com and A Good Feelin' To Know is available from Amazon and iTunes.
Vintage Video: Dave Clark Five (1965)
Posted by Dr. Rock in Uncategorized on September 29, 2009
Shindig. Hulabaloo. Soul Train. Kraft Music Hall. The Midnight Special. Remember them? They're all iconic 60s and 70s TV music programs that aired on the major U.S. networks and featured the hottest bands of the day lip-synching and fake playing their way through the hits of the day. And the Dave Clark Five's appearance (click here) on Shindig in 1965 was typical of a mid-60s British Invasion challenge to the Beatles' dominance. "Catch Us If You Can" was the DC5's good-time signature song and made it to #4 in the U.S. in the fall of 1965. Shindig aired on ABC for about 18 months until January 1966 when it was replaced by a new series called Batman. Holy cow!
Vintage Video: The Turtles (1968)
Posted by Dr. Rock in Uncategorized on September 3, 2009
At first listen, The Turtles seemed to be just another late 60s upbeat pop-rock harmony band. On closer inspection, however, they were more than that. Led by sarcastic frontmen Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman and singing tongue-in-cheek lyrics with beautiful harmonies, the Turtles vamped and camped their way to the top of the AM charts for an all-too-brief time in the late 60s. And their performance of "Elenore" on NBC's Kraft Music Hall show in September 1968 (click here for the video) is ultimate Turtles: Kaylan in a lounge-style tuxedo; overgrown (in hair and stature) Volman overacting on back-up vocals; and the infectious sound and simple-minded lyrics of "Elenore" that Kaylan actually penned as a protest to the very notion of AM pop hits. Unfortunately, the Turtles were gone by 1970. Luckily for us, Kaylan and Volman joined Frank Zappa's irreverent Mothers Of Invention, then recorded five FM radio-friendly albums in the late 70s before returning to the oldies circuit in the 80s. They're still touring as The Turtles, and I recommend you see them (as I did last summer). They make for a great show. ("Elenore" appears on the excellent concept album, The Turtles Present The Battle Of The Bands, which is on Amazon and iTunes. A Turtles playlist is in Dr. Rock's Playlist Vault.)
Vintage Video: New Riders (1972)
Posted by Dr. Rock in Uncategorized on August 29, 2009
The New Riders Of The Purple Sage performed "Hello Mary Lou" on the German public TV program, Beat-Club, which premiered in 1965 and went off the air in December 1972, six months after this video was taped. The song was co-written by country-pop-rocker Gene Pitney and became a hit for Ricky Nelson in 1961. The New Riders included "Hello Mary Lou" on their second album, Powerglide, in 1972 and it was a staple of their live shows and albums thereafter. (For New Riders CDs and track downloads, check Amazon, iTunes and the New Riders playlist in Dr. Rock's Playlist Vault).
Vintage Video: Paul Revere & The Raiders (1967)
Posted by Dr. Rock in Uncategorized on August 24, 2009
Dick Smothers introduced Paul Revere & The Raiders as a "group of youngsters" for their performance (click here) of "Ups And Downs" on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967, about two years before the controversial CBS program was cancelled due to its anti-establishment content. "Ups and Downs" was in the middle of the band's string of eight straight Billboard Top 25 hits between 1965 and 1968. That was the peak of their popularity, although they would chart several more singles and continue releasing albums well into the 70s. Paul Revere & The Raiders appear in several playlists in Dr. Rock's Playlist Vault.
Vintage Video: Steppenwolf (1969)
Posted by Dr. Rock in Uncategorized on August 10, 2009
Only drummer Jerry Edmonton is really playing in this June 1969 video of Steppenwolf "performing" their 1968 hit, "Born To Be Wild" (click here) on the pop music showcase program Beat-Club. The show aired from 1965 to 1972 on Germany's national TV. "Born To Be Wild" revs up the start of the cult movie, Easy Rider and is widely credited for introducing the term "heavy metal," even though the lyrics suggest it's an homage to biking on the open road as opposed to the soon-to-be-introduced splinter of hard rock ("I like smoke and lightning/Heavy metal thunder/Racin' with the wind/And the feelin' that I'm under…"). Steppenwolf is in Dr. Rock's Playlist Vault.


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Athletes of the Week
Athlete of the Week: Tangie Lyons
Tangie Lyons is a Centre Daily Times Athlete of the Week.
Lyons, who recently graduated from Penns Valley High School, delivered the key blow in helping District 6 score a 6-4 victory against District 4 in the annual Pennsylvania Softball Coaches Association All-Star Game at Penn State's Nittany Lion Softball Park.
Lyons blasted a three-run home run that cleared the Beard Field fence in left-center field in the third inning to snap a 1-1 tie and District 6 led the rest of the game.
The contest was the final fast-pitch game for Lyons, who missed most of her senior season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee.


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Instead of his usual rant, Charles Biderman of TrimTabs discusses the reality of the macro environment with Madeline Schnapp - though do not worry as the sense of sarcasm and disbelief at the government's actions and hopes is palpable. Noting that our economy is at best growing 'sluggishly' based off her real-time macro data, Biderman's right hand goes on to explain to him that inflation is running hotter than the government would like us to believe. More importantly, she hits the nail on the head with regard to what Biderman notes is the wasted stimulus money, saying that the economy needs to clear the malinvestments, not sustain them through stimulus transmission mechanisms, in order for growth to once again re-appear. Historically QE2 did manage to create some inventory restocking and pick up in wages/salaries in Q1 2011 but Operation Twist appears to have little to no impact on the real economy (outside of government statistical modelers) - which as we have said before indicates the diminishing returns to government intervention. What is clear is that, as we have noted, that post the 1971 modified gold standard, over a long-period of time it has taken an 'unsustainably' increasing amount of government debt to create economic growth - with the post-2008 insanity that we need $2.50 to create $1 of economic growth. The two end with a discussion of the debt ceiling and deficit potential for a black swan event.
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Andras Danis
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Dr. Danis received his doctoral degree in 2012 from the Vienna Graduate School of Finance, a joint PhD program of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the University of Vienna, and the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of Vienna, where he received a Diplom in International Business Administration (equivalent to MSc). His current research topics are the effects of credit derivatives on financial restructuring, the capital structure of firms, and shareholder activism. Dr. Danis teaches Corporate Finance at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics and Management Science.
Media InquiriesContact this person for expertise in: Corporate bankruptcy and reorganization; Credit default swaps (CDS); Credit risk and default risk; Corporate debt such as corporate bonds and bank loans; Corporate capital structure (i.e., the choice between equity, debt, and other types of financing).
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