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Sunday, March 08, 2020
From the first richly layered harmonies of Dvořák's Cypresses, the Aizuri Quartet held the March 8th audience at Mt. Tamalpais Methodist Church in thrall. The church was more than half full, a good crowd considering present anxiety about the spread of the coronavirus. Taking precautions, the M...
Choral and VocalCOLORFUL BORN BACH AT AGAVE BAROQUE'S SCHROEDER HALL CONCERT
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Friday, February 28, 2020
Bach's obituary records that "Johann Sebastian Bach belongs to a family that seems to have received a love and aptitude for music as a gift of Nature to all its members in common." Agave Baroque presented their Feb. 28 concert, Born Bach, as a partial musical story of several generations in this rem...ECLECTIC VIOLIN AND PIANO WORKS IN VIRTUOSIC MILL VALLEY RECITAL
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Sunday, February 23, 2020
Blending virtuosity with sublime artistry, violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky and pianist Wu Qian gave the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society audience many thrills February 23, performing four muscular and soulful works by four composers from four countries: de Falla, Schumann, Stravinsky, and Grieg. T...PREMIER OF KAIZEN AND DRAMATIC MOZART HIGHLIGHT ECHO CHAMBER CONCERT
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Sunday, February 16, 2020
As concertgoers took their seats in San Anselmo's First Presbyterian Church for ECHO Chamber Orchestra's February 16 program, they were surprised to see at center stage two bass drums, a tom-tom, bongos, high hat and cymbals. It was the occasion of the world premiere of "Kaizen," composed and perf...BEETHOVEN'S VALENTINE'S DAY GIFT IN RAC SEBASTOPOL RECITAL
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Friday, February 14, 2020
Continuing a season of Redwood Arts Council successes, the Kouzov Duo performed an eclectic Valentine's Day concert in Sebastopol's Community Church before an audience of 125. Beethoven's charming Op. 66 Variations on Mozart's "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from the opera the Magic Flute was a bouncy ...LUSH BACH PERFORMANCE IN DENK'S WEILL HALL RECITAL
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
Memorable artistic interpretations of musical masterpieces are often at extremes, and with the Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (WTC - Book I) that Jeremy Denk played in Weill Hall Feb. 13, the pianist was only sporadically at unique or ebullient musical ends. But his playing wasn't exactly at opposite...BROWNE, PAREMSKI HEAD STELLAR CAST AT SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY CONCERT
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Sunday, February 09, 2020
The Feb. 9 performance by the Santa Rosa Symphony offered a healthy dose of 21st century music firmly bound to the 19th. Matt Browne's first symphony, "The Course of Empire"—based on a series of five paintings by Thomas Cole, who founded the Hudson River School of American painting in the 1820s—emp...FRENCH ORCHESTRAL MUSIC A FIRST FOR THE SO CO PHILHARMONIC
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Sunday, February 02, 2020
Over many years the Sonoma County Philharmonic has played little French music, but perhaps this oversight was corrected Feb. 2 in a splendid all-Gallic program Feb. 1 and 2 in the Jackson Theater. Classical Sonoma reviewed the Sunday afternoon concert. In his eighth conducting season with the So C...POLISH MUSICAL WORLDS GLOW BRIGHT IN NFM WROCLAW WEILL PERFORMANCE
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Saturday, February 01, 2020
The NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, with conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, gave a concert of enormous energy and emotional impact on Feb.1 to a small audience in Weill Hall. This orchestra has been a major cultural force in Poland since 1949, playing under many renowned conductors and has been committed to pr...EXTRAVAGANT ARIAS IN NEXT GENERATION TENORS GALA VALLEJO CONCERT
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Saturday, February 01, 2020
"Beautiful, strange, and unnatural…" said orchestra conductor Thomas Conlin when speaking of the tenor voice. One of the coveted voice types of the opera world, the tenor voice is known for it's piercing tones and soaring, unnatural high notes. The iconic image of the Pagliacci clown (in the famed...
RARE MAHLER QUARTET AT MILL VALLEY CHAMBER CONCERTby Abby Wasserman
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Piano quartets are relatively rare in the classical literature, and there are only about 40 compositions for the combination of piano, violin, viola and cello, mostly from the Romantic period of the mid to late 1800s. It therefore was special March 24 to hear three great works of this medium, performed by the Fauré Quartett from Germany in Mill Valley Chamber Music Society's season closer at the Mt. Tamalpais Methodist Church.


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This year, we've already see the commercial comebacks of artists like Justin Timberlake, David Bowie and Destiny's Child. Some acts never officially quit the game, while others bid adieu only to make a big splash upon their return.
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This photograph was just provided to me this past week. I think it is a fascinating photo, the lady was not sure if it was related to us. The Eames name immediately caught my attention as did the English design of the home and the lady's clothes. I did a little research and this is what I know.
This grocery and provisions store was on High Street in Alperton, Middlesex, England. Thomas Eames is the brother to my Emma Eames Stoker.
Thomas Eames lived in Alperton/Wembley, Middlesex, England his entire life. The 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, and 1901 censuses each have him living within the same square mile. The majority of these years were all on High Street, west of the railroad. He was a laborer and carpenter by trade. In the 1871 Census it shows his wife is a general shop keeper. I have a suspicion they took over a shop from his wife's family. By 1881 he had become a postmaster and was running that within the store as well. In 1891 he was still the postmaster but he had turned the shopkeeping business over to his son, John Eames. By 1901 Thomas no longer worked but still lived next door, or in the same house, as his son John. The censuses do not make it entirely clear to me if these are separate households in separate homes or separate households within the same home. Most of them appear to be living in the same house.
I do not believe this building is still present. The stretch of High Street in the censuses are all to the west of the railroad. Much of this street has been modernized. Working down the street on Google Maps does not provide any buildings with the same design or brick pattern over the windows.
Thomas had a home named Vine Cottage. As shown from this document, it was registered in 1937 and was located at 332 Ealing Rd, Wembley, Middlesex.
We know some of Thomas and his family. He was born 28 June 1826 in Harrow, Middlesex, England to Thomas and Elizabeth Eames. We really do not know a whole lot more about his parents. I suspect he was actually born in Alperton, just that since Harrow was the name of the civil parish Alperton is within and that explains why it shows as where he was born.
He married Harriet Shettick 31 January 1847 in St Mary's, Harrow on the Hill. She passed away at some point with no known children. He remarried to Christiana Leader in 1853. They had five children, Thomas (1854), Christiana (1856), Alfred (1860), John (1861), Emma (1864). Christiana passed away in 1896. He again remarried to Annie Clayton in 1896. We don't know anything more about her and doubt any children were born to this marriage.
I know some more of some of the grandchildren, but I think I will leave that for another time. If anyone is related to this Eames line or knows anything more, I would be glad to hear from you.
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Here's a simple house rule I'm using while running The Cleansing of Cameth Brin (see elsewhere on these forums).
The S&W Core Rules give characters a chance to hear sounds, force open stuck doors, find secret doors and traps, etc. The rules assume the use of 1d6 and the chances are expressed as x-in-6. In Cameth Brin, some secret doors and traps are easier or more difficult to discover than normal. I simulate this by using "variable task dice", as follows:
Easy... 1d4
Normal... 1d6
Hard... 1d8
Very Hard... 1d10
Extremely Hard... 1d12
For example, when a secret door is described in the text as "Hard to find", a character who is searching in the right area has a 2-in-8 chance to find it, not 2-in-6. (An elf's chance becomes 4-in-8 if searching, or 1-in-8 if not searching.)
Additionally, I have house ruled Thieving Skills, ditching the percentages and using 1d6 (default) to resolve skill checks. The Hear Sounds column of Table 10: Thieving Skills gives the chances for all Thieving Skills except Climb Walls, which starts at 5 in 6. This makes thieves better at their job (a good thing in my book) and is compatible with the variable task dice rule described above.
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Sorry I've been crap at blogging lately. I'll try to be better. Here's a short one to keep things ticking over… recommendations always appreciated.
Yuck – 'Yuck'
Very taken by Yuck's album… like The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, it's totally derivative but the songs are GREAT. Bits of the Pixies, Pavement, Sonic Youth… and a great name for a band, too.
Jonathan Safran Foer – 'Eating Animals'
Only about halfway through, but it's very good so far. This guy wrote one of my favourite books in recent memory, but this is a non-fiction account of how and why he decided to become vegetarian when his son was born. It's not preachy in the slightest, but let's just say that some of the cold hard facts about the ins and outs of the meat industry makes me extra-glad I'm a veggie.
Primavera Sound 2011 – can't bloody wait. Belle & Sebastian, PJ Harvey, Interpol, Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes,
Going to see Spamalot for the first time. Should be good!
The new series of The Apprentice started last week on BBC. Goodbye, life.
Morrissey – 'Very Best of' on vinyl
€29.99 on vinyl in Tower Records! €29.99!! *weeps* Come to me, payday.
Game of Thrones [HBO series]
My boyfriend is in the midst of the series of books that this new HBO series is based upon, and says despite the premise (it's set on the fictional continent of Westeros in medieval times, with a lot of gory head-choppings, mythical demons, fancy suits of armour, incest, bonking and inter-dynasty politics), it's not something that a World of Warcraft obsessive would watch. With the added fact of Aidan Gillen starring, that's good enough for me. Just three episodes in and it's simmering quite nicely. Christ, even Sean Bean is good.
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Beef stroganoff with herby pasta
If you usually serve beef stroganoff with rice, try it with pappardelle pasta instead - it works beautifully with the creamy sauce
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Freeze the beef for 45 mins before you begin, slice as thinly as you can, then season.
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Make it spicyFollow recipe up to the end of stage 2, but instead of pasta, boil 300g basmati rice. Soften the shallots in butter, then stir in 2 tbsp curry paste, the tomato purée and flour, then fry for 1 min. Add stock and bubble as before, then stir in crème fraîche or use natural yogurt instead. Serve with rice, and scatter with chopped coriander.


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Bergen County Players Kick Off 2013 Second Stage with THE AUTOGRAPH HOUND, 1/26-27
Currently celebrating its 80th consecutive season of producing quality local theater, Bergen County Players present The Autograph Hound at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell today, January 26th at 2pm & Sunday, January 27th at 7pm. Tickets are priced at $10 and can be purchased for this limited run online at www.bcplayers.org, by calling 201-261-4200, or by visiting the box office at 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell during regular box office hours.
The Autograph Hound, by James Prideaux, is a sharply humorous and inventive play which takes a revealing look at a wife who is an obsessive celebrity-chaser, a resentful husband who takes serious action against her compulsion and their young adult daughter who is caught between them.
Directed and produced by Jacqueline McElroy-Poquette and Ray Poquette, respectively (Westwood), The Autograph Hound stars actors Helen Boyadjian (Saddle River), Kelly Camp-Force (Wayne), and Frank Osmers (Haworth).
The production team includes Jacqueline McElroy Poquette (Director), Ray Poquette (Producer; Lighting & Sound Design), Margie Druss-Fodor (Assistant to the Director), Victoria Buchner (Assistant to the Director), Marisa Dolkart (Stage Manager), David Arts (Lighting Operator), Frank O?Leary (Sound Operator), Nina Lionetti (Properties), Bunny Mateosian (Costumes), Katie Weigl (Publicity), and Kathie Robitz (Member-at-Large).
All performances of The Autograph Hound take place at The Little Firehouse Theatre, 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell, home to the Bergen County Players since 1949. Performance times are Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 7pm.Tickets for The Autograph Hound are $10 for both performances, and can be purchased online at www.bcplayers.org, by calling 201-261-4200, or by visiting the box office during regular box office hours. Visa, MasterCard, and American Express cards accepted. Those interested in group sales of 20 or more tickets may call 201-262-0515.Discount tickets for students age 25 and under with proper ID are available as a $5 walk-up, rush ticket (cash only) starting 30 minutes before curtain.
Parking is free at the Park Avenue municipal lot across the street, one half block north of the theater.
The Bergen County Players has grown tremendously from its roots as a small community theater when it was founded in 1932; today, nearly 300 volunteer members, working on and off stage, make possible the nine productions presented each season.


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Chris Bryan, the amazing slow motion videographer, used a Phantom camera to capture surfers riding humungous waves in Teahupoʻo, Tahiti in super slow motion. It's terrifying to see the sea monster known as the ocean so huge and intimidating and hungry. Seriously, the waves were so big the day Bryan filmed the French Navy issued a double code red warning and threatened to arrest people that went into the ocean.
But of course, surfers still went in. Kelly Slater, surfing legend himself, said "witnessing this was a draining feeling being terrified for other people's lives all day long, it's life or death." After watching this video, I agree. These guys are CRAZY. [Colossal]


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Flights to Spain with Qatar Airways
Saying 'Spain' immediately conjures up images of bull-fighters, Flamenco dancers and sun-soaked beaches. But these merely scratch the surface of a fascinating country with a long and rich history behind it. The remains of past civilisations are everywhere to be seen, especially in the south of the country, where the old Caliphate was based in cities like Seville and Granada. Travel to Spain with Qatar Airways and a country full of natural and cultural riches.
Spain features a compelling combination of the antique and the modern. Despite being a thoroughly modern country, its colourful history is evident in each of its corners and shine across its colourful regional festivals and wonderful historic monuments. It is also a great centre of the arts and home to many cutting-edge artists, designers and chefs. It's a passionate, vibrant country that emits its vivacious character through its music, culture and cuisine.
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The link for the Union of Concerned Scientists' "The A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science" doesn't work anymore.
Here's an archived version at the Wayback Machine:
And here are some current relevant pages from the UCS website:
How Corporations Corrupt Science at the Public's Expense (2012)
Abuses of Science: Case Studies [2004-2010]
any nurses out there?
Hey All
Great to meet other medical professionals who dont believe in fairy tales.
Newest book that looks worth reading, from one of my favourites, Ben Goldacre: Bad Pharma.
Something any non science-trained atheist needs to understand: Science is not immune from corruption and political manipulation by big corporations. Without scientific training or scientific research skills, it can be quite difficult to know the difference between truthful and science and lying science. This table might help a bit:
by the Union of Concerned Scientists
can't tell you how many time the sky fairy gets the credit for MY work.
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How do you leave a child in a hot car? It's a question every parent has asked at one time or another -- usually sparked by a headline about a child dying in a vehicle somewhere in the United States. Lyn Balfour has asked the question too. She's asked the question about herself.
The 13-year veteran of the US Army, member of the Army Reserves, and mother of five -- including three children 6 and under -- left her son Bryce in her car on March 30, 2007. By the time she realized her mistake, her 9-month-old son was dead.
After being charged with his death and later being found not guilty, Balfour has became a fierce advocate for educating parents on these accidental tragedies. She spoke with The Stir about the day her son died, and what kind of mom leaves a child in a hot car:
Can you walk me through that day?
This particular week, my husband had accidentally backed into my sister's car in the driveway, so her car was in the shop and she was using my husband's. So, he was riding with me to work, and I was dropping him off first and then the baby ...
This particular week, my son Bryce had been really fussy. He had a bad head cold, wasn't sleeping well because he couldn't suck on his pacifier at the same time, so he kept waking up.
The first three nights of the week, I had gotten up with him the majority of the night, and I was exhausted. That last night, my husband agreed to get up with him, but then he couldn't find his pacifier in his bed. Bryce went ballistic, woke up completely, and then I got up, was up with him for another hour and a half to two hours.
That was about 5 o'clock in the morning. I had to be up at 6:30 in order to get ready for work. I didn't actually get up until 7:15 because I was exhausted.
The initial thought in my mind was just to call in, stay home with Bryce because he was just very lethargic, he wasn't being normal because he was really tired too. But I had appointments that day -- at the [Judge Advocate General school in Charlottesville], students were graduating and I had no way to call the students that I had appointments with. I was like, you know what? It's Friday, I've just got to get through today and I can sleep tomorrow.
That particular morning, Jarrett got Bryce ready. He went to get in the vehicle, but before I came outside we were talking about a spare car seat that we could not get into the car correctly. He had been in the car seat for a couple of weeks, but it just wasn't sitting as secure as we felt it should be so we took that car seat out and put it in his old car seat.
That particular day, he said, "When are you going to get the car seat put in?" I said, "Put it in the car today, and I will go to like the fire department and get them to put it in correctly at lunch time."
He put the spare car seat in the car behind the front passenger seat in my field of view, and that car seat was empty. The other car seat, which is the car seat Bryce was in, when he put him in he put it behind my seat, the driver's seat.
On the way to work ... we don't remember hearing him. We don't remember talking with him or him cooing or anything like he normally would. We just assume it was because he was really tired.
I dropped my husband off, and shortly after that I got a phone call from work, from a co-worker. It was the first sergeant of the school very upset because we were honoring a fallen soldier from Iraq, his family was supposed to be coming in from California and the tickets had not been purchased through the travel agent that the military uses.
That was my area of responsibility -- I was transportation officer for the JAG school. I immediately got on the phone, started making phone calls, called the family that was waiting at the airport, talked to the gate agent, said please don't let the plane go, this is very important for this family to get on the flight.
Is this while you were still driving?
Yes, when I was on my way to work.
In my mind, I'd already made a stop, baby's dropped off. I passed right by where I would normally turn left to drop Bryce off to daycare.
Before I got to work, I got things resolved. I got ahold of the travel agent, they paged the tickets, everything.
I got to work, got out of the car and went into work like normal...
I get a phone call about 10:30 in the morning from the babysitter asking how Bryce was doing that day. The problem was I didn't get the phone call because she called my personal cellphone because the Friday before she had gotten a brand new cellphone and didn't have any of my work contact information in her phone.
That was communication failure number one.
The second thing was that in her file in her home she had all our contact information, my work cellphone number, my work office number, my husband's work office number but she just naturally assumed -- because it had happened in the past -- that I stayed home and he wasn't feeling well.
She didn't think to continue to communication, not thinking that he was accidentally not dropped off.
What time frame was this when she made the call?
10:30 in the morning.
I wasn't in the office when she called, but around 2 p.m., I pulled my cellphone personal cellphone out of my purse and I saw a missed call from her.
She had called me twice that morning. She called that first time and left a message and then she called again. It said missed call, but it never told me there was a message available.
At 2:30, I saw the missed call, I called her back, and I left her a message. She'd taken her other daycare kids to McDonald's as a treat, and around 2:30 she was still out ... So, I called and left a message ... she called me back when she saw a missed call from me at about 10 to 4.
I was just walking out of my office because we'd been given an hour out early. She asked me how Bryce was doing, and I was like "what do you mean?"
I didn't understand. I said, "Did Jarrett pick him up early?" not thinking that he didn't have a car because I had dropped him off.
She's like no, he's not here. She began to panic because I was so adamant that he was there.
Then, she turned around and she's like, "No Lyn, you didn't drop him off."
The whole morning flashes through my mind, and I can remember dropping him off. I can remember having a conversation with her. And that memory never happened. That conversation never happened.
At this point, I panic. I ran to the car because I couldn't believe there was a possibility he could still be in the car and then I saw him in the car.
When you found him, what did you see?
He was in the backseat, he was hooked in, and he was not responsive. He was not breathing.
What did you do?
I started screaming and said, "Please somebody call 911!" And then -- even though I was extremely hysterical -- it's kind of hard to explain but my military training kind of took over.
I unhooked him, pulled him out of the car, ran around to the other side of the car, laid him on the ground, and started CPR.
What was the temperature that day?
The high that day was 66 degrees.
Do they know what that translates to in the car?
I don't recall specifically what the temperature was in the vehicle -- they took the measurement at 4:30 in the afternoon, but I think it was around 100 degrees. It was too hot for the child to be in the car, obviously.
It was only 39 degrees when we left the house that morning ... he probably passed away later in the morning or early afternoon because it was so cold that day, but on an 80-degree day, a child can die in 30 minutes or less.
The degrees once you turn off a vehicle can go up 10 degrees every 5 minutes, and children under a certain age do not have the type of temperature control that adults have.
Obviously you're very educated about this now, but before this happened, did you know any of this?
No. And the thing now, which is why I'm an advocate, is because when they told me they couldn't save him, I said to myself, "How can I forget my kid? I can manage $47 million for the US military with every penny accounted for, and I was awarded a Bronze Star for those efforts, but how can I forget my kid? How can a loving, responsible, detail-oriented parent forget him, something so precious, something so valuable?"
I started educating myself and doing research on why it was possible and how it was possible.
The more research I did, the more I learned ... we have educated ourselves on babyproofing our home, but we do not educate ourselves on babyproofing our vehicles and that's what we need to do.
Unlike some parents I was absolutely blessed to have the opportunity to hold my son one last time and tell him goodbye, and I made a promise to him that no matter how painful it would be to go through my story over and over and over again if just one parent listens and understood about the dangers and educated themselves and took the prevention measures for vehicles ... his death would be worth it.
It would be worth losing a child to save 100. No parent wants to feel like I do every day, to be responsible for your own child's death.
While you were there holding him, who responded?
The police and ambulance arrived.
What happened then?
They took over; they're more professional than I am.
They wouldn't let me ride in the back of the ambulance while they were working on him, but I rode up in front with the driver, and I called my husband and told him he had to get to the hospital right away because there was an accident, I forgot him in the car.
He didn't really understand because I was hysterical.
They took him into a room and were working on him while I was in the waiting room of the hospital and one of the doctors came in and said it wasn't looking good. I started praying to God to just take me.
Then maybe about 10 minutes later ... it seemed like a lifetime ... they came in and told me they couldn't save him.
I was hysterical, and all I could think of was how am I going to tell my husband that I killed his son?
What happened when your husband did get there?
The first sergeant of the school told my husband the news. She is a pastor at a church, and she was probably the best person to be able to tell him.
He came in and he was really upset and he was crying. I told him I was so sorry I forgot him.
They probably would not have let us see him and I don't even know if I would have been in the state of mind to ask to hold him one last time, but my husband said, "I want to see him, I want to see my son."
So, they escorted us into the room to see him one last time.
It was completely unbelievable and shocking to have to leave that hospital without him.
When you left the hospital, did you go home or were the police already there?
I got to go home, but the lead investigator on the case, they interviewed me at the hospital. I don't remember that at all.
That was on a Friday. I didn't talk to the police again until they arraigned me. That following Monday, I woke up and my mom and everybody got down there on Saturday and Sunday. They recommended that I get an attorney. I called a couple of attorneys to see what I would need to do.
The interesting thing was the lead investigator on the case walked in to the hospital that same day and told the first responders on the case, "OK, you guys go ahead and write your statements because we're going to charge her for everything you can."
He had not spoken to me and he had not spoken to my husband when he made that statement. So he already had his pre-formed opinion that I was guilty and they were going to go after me, and he was the one who set the tone for the case....
Nobody ever gets arraigned on a Saturday unless you're slapped with handcuffs and taken to jail, but they waited until the day of my son's funeral on a Friday to tell me they were arraigning me on charges the next day. Forty minutes after my son's funeral was over, I was at my house and the attorney I had spoken to, they called her and told her that I was going to be arraigned the following day.
I was really upset, and I was just like .... we're not going to be able to put our lives back together as a family, we have to go immediately into defense mode. My son died on the 30th of March. My husband left on the 21st of June to deploy to Iraq as a government contractor for 18 months in order to cover my attorney fees which ended up being $126,000.
What was the charge?
The initial charge was second degree murder and felony child abuse and neglect. They later amended that dropping the abuse and neglect and reducing the second degree to involuntary manslaughter.
Here in Virginia, it says willful act or admission. That was not the case. I didn't knowingly do that.
How long did the whole thing drag out? Did they put you through a long trial?
He died in March; I was charged the following week. The trial was like the 28th of January 2008.
What was it like trying to grieve your child's death and on the other hand you don't know what's going to happen?
My perspective on it's a little different from other people. The thing I was worried about was my family -- my husband, my son who was at the time 14. That's who I was worried about, that's who I was stressed about it.
My husband was getting ready to deploy, my son was trying to deal with the loss of his only sibling and his mom was facing 10 to 25 years in jail.
The thing is, I've been to a lot of place in the military that a lot of people, you see and experience things, like Bosnia. You talk to war victims and people who have gone through devastating things. I've been out in the middle of the desert during Desert Storm, and I had to go to the bathroom in a hole that I had to dig and bury.
Going to jail and sitting in a jail cell with three meals a day to me is not hell, and that's what I don't think that prosecuting attorneys and them ... they don't understand.
When they punish you for a crime they think you committed, it's supposed to be a deterrent, but how do you deter someone from accidentally forgetting your kid?
This has happened to a mathematical genius. This has happened to a NASA scientist. It has happened to a pediatrician. It's happened to numerous university professors. It's happened to the poor. It's happened to rich people. It's happened to middle class. It doesn't matter.
I explain to people who try to tell me they couldn't be that irresponsible, I was one of those parents. I had heard stories about that happening, and I said that could never happen to me, I'm not an irresponsible parent, that's got to be somebody who didn't do the right thing. That cannot be me.
I have found out it absolutely can be me, and that's why I educate.
The reality is our brains don't differentiate between a child, a purse, a cellphone, a pair of glasses. It doesn't matter.
How do you tell parents to get past that though? If parents are stuck on that idea of "I'd never do that to my child," how do you get them past that and into actually being proactive?
If people say they can never do it, I give them examples:
I know plenty of people who take medication every day. If you didn't take that medication but you swear up and down that you did, it's call mis-remembering.
If that's happened to you, you can forget your child.
If you've ever driven anywhere, and you can't remember how you got there, that's a function of your brain going on auto-pilot. If that's ever happened to you, you can forget your child.
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I give these examples because people will say, "Oh, that didn't happen to me, that didn't happen to me, OH, wait a minute, that has happened to me."
If you've ever forgotten your cellphone, your pager, your wallet, your keys, your sunglasses, and you swear you know where you put them but they are not there, and you find them in a completely different location, you can accidentally forget your child.
Do you think these examples you've found out about and this research has helped you forgive yourself?
Well ... that's an interesting question. I don't feel like I need to forgive myself. I do acknowledge and have to deal with the responsibility of forgetting my son.
But I feel like parents that do this intentionally -- they leave their kids in the car and they go somewhere, like one parent, a veterinarian, she has to deal with the fact that she went into the house and got distracted on the phone and forgot her son was in the car. She has to deal with that. That to me is like I feel you have to ask for forgiveness.
But for me, when I got out of the car that day, my son was exactly where he was supposed to be.
What I have to come to terms with, and this is what is really hard for me -- because my son usually took his first bottle in the morning at the babysitter's. Because it was so cool that morning, at some point at time he woke up because he was hungry and was in the car by himself.
That's what I have to deal with -- not being there for him.
There's nothing to forgive, but I will be accountable, I am absolutely accountable for his death. That's what I have to deal with. Can you say that that's forgiveness or not forgiveness? I don't really know. But for me the problem is that I should have been the type of parent that knew about these dangers and made sure there were steps in place to prevent that.
It sucks. It sucks every day.
It's something that you have to live with.
I'm accountable every day. I miss him every day. He would be 8 years old today. I'll never see him grow up. I'll never see him graduate from school. I'll never see his children.
How did your family move on? How did things work with you and your husband?
He was angry for awhile but not necessarily at me. He was angry because our son was gone and there was nothing he could do about it.
Unbelievably he and I became stronger and talked about it and learned to work through it and he knew it was an accident. He knew I would never leave my children in the car, not even for a second.
It was hard for awhile to talk about him without crying. I do feel like it was a blessing in disguise that my husband was deployed except for coming home for the trial.
He was not home for any of that, so I feel like it was beneficial that he was out of the country so he didn't have to go through that.
How did you decide to try again, to have kids again?
Again, it's about love and trust. He knew I would never intentionally hurt one of our children and we just didn't not try.
The interesting thing that happened was he was going to be gone for a year and a half to Iraq. Originally it was just a year ... my husband is seven and a half years younger than me, so when I had Bryce I was 31, and so I wasn't getting any younger so to speak.
We knew he was going to be gone for a year, and we talked to a counselor, we talked to our pastor and said when is an appropriate time to grieve? When is an appropriate time to have another baby?
What our pastor said and what our counselors said was when you feel like you can, there's nothing wrong with trying.
Bryce passed away in March. We ended up getting pregnant with Braiden in September/October, somewhere around in there.
We talked about it, and I asked him if he wanted to try, and I think that was part of the healing process -- that he was so willing to have children with me, even though we were hurting and we were grieving the loss of our son.
That for me was the most telling part of it, that he forgave me.
I do think that Braiden's birth helped us to continue to heal because it pulled us away from the loss that we felt
By the time Braiden was born, had you been found not guilty?
Yes, the trial was only like three days.
You have different ways you talk to parents about recognizing they can be at risk, but what do you actually tell parents to DO?
The best tool that I can provide to them is to go to the Kids and Cars website, and what I tell them is to get in the habit of babyproofing your vehicles ...
Put a stuffed animal in the vehicle, and always, always, if you have one or 50 children, if there's a child in the car, put that animal up front with you or put something in the backseat that you're going to need when you get out of the car. I don't like that idea as much as the stuffed animal up front because you can forget your cellphone that you need and you remember 30 minutes later ... and you're in the same situation.
We've started a campaign called Look Before You Lock, so you ALWAYS get in the habit of opening the back door and looking before you lock the door.
How do you deal with the criticism and with being so public?
Because I made him a promise, and nobody can judge me more than I do myself. Nobody. It doesn't matter what they say, the harsh things. I've been told you need to be locked in a hot car and allowed to die the same way your son did, you need to have your uterus ripped out, you should never be allowed to have children again, the list goes on and on.
But none of them know me. They don't know anything about the type of person I am, what type of a mother I am.
If you don't know the type of person I am, how can you judge me?
Do you take extra steps to protect your kids from being left in a hot car? What do you do?
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It's not Portia Iversen's Strange Son, although my post about that is what sparked my thinking about this book. This comment and this comment made me think about it even more.
The book is Everybody Needs a Rock, a children's book by Byrd Baylor. Here are some excerpts:
"Everybody needs a rock. I'm sorry for kids who don't have a rock for aIn two scenes toward the end of Strange Son, Portia Iversen talks about the rock that her son Dov carries with him. In both scenes, Dov loses his rock and becomes visibly upset and dysregulated. Dov needs his "special rock;" it grounds him. It is his own, very literal, touchstone.
"Not just any rock. I mean a special rock
that you find yourself and keep as long as you can - maybe forever."
"If somebody says, 'What's so special about that
rock?' don't even tell them. I don't. Nobody is supposed to know what's special
about another person's rock."
I've been thinking about Dov and his special rock for the past couple of weeks because I've noticed that Bud has recently had a tight grip on a metaphoric touchstone of his own: the Teletubbies.
Bud has been a fan of the Teletubbies since he was a year old. We don't know why the Tubbies are so special to Bud; we only know that they are. In his early years, Bud was consumed with the Tubbies. His earliest language and his earliest echolalic scripts drew heavily from Tubby-style baby talk. The rest of us had a love/hate relationship with the Tubs - or "the guys," as Bud calls them. We hated their slow-paced repetitive sequences, their infantile words, the banality of their plot lines; we loved how happy they made Bud.
In recent years, Bud's passion for the Teletubbies has come in waves, with each wave seeming to lessen in intensity as the Tubby tide appeared to be going out. In recent months, especially, Bud's interest in other shows and other characters has continued to grow, and while he still played with Tubby characters, the books and the movies sat untouched as Bud seemed to be moving on.
In the past couple of weeks, though, the Tubbies have made a comeback, and life is once again All Tubbies, All the Time. The Tubby movies are in high rotation, the Tubby toys are the only ones getting attention, the Tubby books are strewn throughout the house. I found myself feeling discouraged by their reemergence, and regarding it as a setback. I started wondering if Bud's peers would start to tease him - this seven-year-old who likes baby things. I started to bristle when I saw Bud engage in Tubby-play.
Then I read this post on AutismVox, in which Kristina draws a parallel between the Tubbies and the other "Fab Four" from England: The Beatles.
And that helped me regain some perspective.
What I remembered is this: The Beatles in general, and Paul McCartney specifically, have played the same role in my life for the past thirtyish years that the Tubbies have played in Bud's for the past six. They have grounded me. They've been my rock.
The Beatles didn't really make my first car run smoothly. But as I drove away from the dealership having made the first significant purchase of my adult life, I flipped on the radio and heard the opening strains of "Drive My Car," and I was certain that it was a sign that I had purchased well.
Perhaps Paul McCartney didn't intend to write a song that would make me feel close to my children. But when I listen to his album Flaming Pie, and I hear him sing "It was written that I would love you from the moment I opened my eyes...I'll hold you for the rest of my life," I am certain that he did.
And I know that The Beatles didn't really get me out any faster when my car was stuck in a snowbank last week. They didn't keep Bud and me from being an hour late to school and work. But, even so, as we sat waiting for rescue with the engine running and listened to the radio play "Help me if you can I'm feeling down, and I do appreciate you being 'round," I felt strangely reassured.
My connection to the Beatles hasn't kept me from branching out. I listen to lots of different music. I have a wide range of interests. But despite that, the Beatles always lurk on the periphery of my life, and now and then - especially in the midst of challenge - they take center stage.
I imagine, though I wouldn't ask (because "nobody is supposed to know what's special about another person's rock"), that the Tubbies provide the same sort of comfort, shelter, and sense of home for Bud. In that context, I can see clearly why the Tubbies came back in full force during what probably felt to Bud like an extended period of upside-down: a week of too-sick-to-go-to-school, followed by a week of school vacation, followed by a week of Nana-and-Papa-are-on-vacation-and-every-day-is-a-little-bit-different-from-the-last. Though Bud has been revisiting the passion he's had since he was a baby, he is not reliving his infancy. He is approaching the Tubbies as a seven-year-old: working with me to add his Tubby books to his Library Thing account, reading their stories out loud to me, inviting me to help him create elaborate Tubbylands on the kitchen table, playing Director as he makes his characters act out the scenes on the videos he's watching, filling pages with gorgeous abstract art in purple, green, yellow, and red.
He's not talking like a baby. He's not "retreating into his own world." He's not regressing.
He's grounding himself.
And we all do that in some way, don't we? Sometimes the things that ground us are actually made of stone. Sometimes they're fuzzy and they play movies in their bellies. And sometimes they just sing silly love songs.
But everybody needs a rock.


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The days of Alec Baldwin's Twitter rants are over. So says the outspoken actor, 55, in a new interview with Vanity Fair. Baldwin made headlines recently for lashing out at a Daily Mail journalist who alleged that the star's pregnant wife, Hilaria Baldwin, was tweeting off-topic messages during funeral services for James Gandolfini — but he claims he'll never make that mistake again.
Asked whether he plans to revive his Twitter account — which he deleted after the June 27 tirade — Baldwin gave a very definitive answer. "Never. No. I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter," he told Vanity Fair at a party on Monday, July 1, celebrating his curation of a collection of 30 photos of music and film legends at Gallery 151.
"Jimmy Gandolfini was so beloved as a person, and he was so admired as an actor, and he didn't give a f–k about social media," the 30 Rock alum continued. "I really learned a lesson at the funeral. I said to myself, 'This is all a waste of time.' Meaning it's fun sometimes, but less and less, and less. It's just another chink in your armor for people to come and kill you. I stopped and said to myself, I'm going to try where I just don't do this anymore."
But Baldwin doesn't want to just back away from Twitter. If the Emmy-winning star had his way, he'd disappear from public life entirely.
"I'm having a baby. And everyone has seen how certain things have played out with my daughter [Ireland], which as been very painful — it's been really unpleasant," he said, referring to the infamous voicemail he left for his now 17-year-old daughter in 2007, in which he called her a "rude little pig."
"That has consequences, and I do not want that to happen with my next child," he told VF. "I have one dream in my life and that is that this daughter I'm having — she comes to me about seven or eight years from now, she has a friend, and she's at her house and she says, 'Daddy, Susie's mom says you used to be on TV. Daddy, is that true?' She has no knowledge of me as a public person. That would be heaven for me."
"I'd love to [quit acting] if I could, yeah," he added. "That would be the greatest thing in the world."
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Okay so, the last few… ugh, months, really, I've been having a hard time finishing any tracks. I've got some plans for original albums, small vgm remix albums, and of course finished the project tracks I've promised ppl. Ugh, promises.
That got me thinking… I sometimes write better just because someone inspires me. I wrote my Bionic Commando track by listening to Rebecca Mayes' take on the new Bionic Commando game. Which reminds me, the remix isn't actually done yet, I was gonna redo the drums. *sigh*
I always thought I was a bit of an asocial person, but I'm generally more energetic and inspired when I'm around ppl a lot. Maybe it's cuz my mind wants to run away from the impersonal crowd and into something personal, like music. Or maybe I'm motivated ad inspired by ppl.
So, I need a muse. And a job. 😀
Maybe I should just pick some random person that I know or know of and see where that takes me. maybe I can finally finish that memory-hogging process-clogging time signature experiment for the BadAss project. lol. To think I considered finishing it for bLiNd's tribute album. It's _still_ not done. I need more memory for Omnisphere.
Also, I made it home from England without much of a problem. It cost my dad a bit to rent cars tho. Fortunately, I'm not paying. Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of money anyway. Anybody with money and who need music for something interested in hiring me for something? Anyone? Hello?


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Hello! In my beginning Java class, our teacher gave us the assignment to ask the user for the radius of a circle and then to output the area and circumference based on their input. Well I wrote this code, thinking it was what he wanted, but he gives me feedback saying "No, expand it more." But we've only gone over what's in the code below. We haven't gone over 'if...else if' or anything else more advanced than what's below, so any ideas on what he wants? Because I have looked at it and don't know how he wants me to expand it or put more code in there. Thanks in advance!
import java.util.Scanner; public class LUCKYCAAAAT { /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner QWERTY = new Scanner (System.in); System.out.println("Let's calculte the circumference of the circle."); System.out.println("Enter the radius of the circle."); double radius; radius = QWERTY.nextDouble(); System.out.println("You entered " + radius); System.out.println("Now calculating circumferece..."); double circumference; circumference = 2*3.14159*radius; System.out.println("The circumference of the circle is " + circumference); System.out.println("Now let's find the area!"); double area; area = 3.14159*radius*radius; System.out.println("The area of the circle is " + area); } }


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1. Everyone who bike commutes is special and righteous, no matter whether they ride 10 miles or 2 miles, or whether they've commuted for 15 years or seven months.
2. All commute cyclists have one common goal: to get to where they're going.
3. You can wear whatever clothing you want to bike commute.
4. You can ride whatever bike you like to bike commute.
Yes. You don't need a special kind of bike to be a bike commuter. Sure, some bikes have advantages over others that might prove beneficial for the task at hand, but you can ride to work on any bike and shouldn't let your not having the "perfect" commuter bike get in the way of your choosing to ride. That said, I'd recommend commuting on a bike with a rack for carrying stuff and fenders for keeping road wet and grime off you, your bike and your fellow commuters. Or you could be like one of those people who doesn't cover his mouth when he sneezes.
5. You can carry your crap however you prefer when you bike commute. Panniers. Backpack. Messenger bag. Milk crate. Carradice. Whatever works.
6. Eye contact with other cyclists is rare, even at long stoplights. The dynamics are similar to being in an elevator with other people.
I don't know. Depends on the person who's doing the looking and the person you're looking at. Sometimes I'll make eye contact at someone riding in the opposite direction on a two-way cycle track or a trail, mostly to make sure that they see me and aren't planning to ride into me. I will withhold eye contact from a person riding the wrong way down a one way street. THEY DO NOT DESERVE TO SEE MY BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES. They are committing a major wrong and deserve ostracism, which I believe means getting beaten up by an ostrich.
7. Verbal greetings are also uncommon, as are conversations with other cyclists. (That's what Friday Coffee Club is for!)
8. If you say hello or attempt to converse with a fellow commuter, do not be surprised if they do not immediately respond. If anything will start a conversation with another cyclist, it's saying "nice bike."
9. Shoaling, i.e., budging in front of someone at a light instead of waiting behind them, is a no-no.
10. Audible indicators for passing, either with a bell or saying "on your left" are not mandatory, but they are nice gestures and help with predictability.
11. Passing another cyclist on the right is not cool, no matter where it happens. Even in the bike lanes!
12. Commute racing is undignified, yet fairly common. You never know when it will happen, only that it will. (Well, sometimes you can guess, as certain stretches of road set up well for commute racing. Not that I would know.) The finish line is arbitrary and almost always unknown to the parties involved. If you unwittingly find yourself in the middle of a commute race, you have a choice: do nothing (oddly, sometimes hard to do) or race back (always silly).
13. A slew of new riders join the commute every spring and fall, and year-round commuters should prepare themselves accordingly for these times of year. These newbies do not know yet know the bike commuter code.
14. Special rule for those areas with Bikeshare programs! Empathy and patience must also be exhibited when encountering the big red CaBi bikes. You should also slow down for good measure. Anything could happen. The person riding it might be an experienced cyclist or commuter, but they could also be a tourist unfamiliar with the city or an inexperienced rider new to urban cycling.
15. A little tolerance goes a long way. Like it or not, we're all in this together.
That's the bike commuter code in a nutshell. What do you think? What did I miss?


text: Giles 1 Posted September 18, 2012 via: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/18/polaroid-xs7-xs20-xs100-hands-on/ Polaroid may not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of adventure-friendly video cams --Contour and GoPro own that space, with Sony now making a heavy push of its own -- but the insta-film maker turned camera manufacturer now has a rugged lineup of its own. First off the assembly line is the XS7, a $69 cam that packs a waterproof housing (rated to 10 meters), 720p video capture and a 2-inch touchscreen. This model is as entry level as they come, and Polaroid reps said to expect to see it in stores like Toys 'R' Us. If you're slightly more serious about image quality, you might opt for the XS20, which packs a "professional" CMOS sensor, 720p shooting, a waterproof housing (20 meters) and a battery that's rated for up to 3 hours of use. all these adventure lines sure are making for interesting segment in the underwater photo/video line .. GoPro has been a huge hit there is obviously money in there, these don't go quite as deep for the same price, but the demo pic is even attached to a mask so the intended useage is being made fairly obvious. Just thought it was interesting to see someone else getting into this game. Any chance all of this will help to bring about cheaper prices for entry to an expensive hobby ... maybe they already have !! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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January 09, 2014
By Charlene Muhammad
LAWT Contributing Writer
Residents, community activists, clergy and peace keepers marched for peace throughout Watts on January 4.
Their theme was "Stop the Violence! Stop the Killing!" They aimed to set a tone for peace in 2014. Ultimately, they hope to help eradicate 'Black-on-Black" violence, organizers said.
Reverend K.W. Tulloss, president of Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network's L.A. Branch, and co-organizers said they would also take the march to other communities plagued by senseless killings.
"Ultimately we pray that 2014 will be a year of peace and violence will come down if just a little bit through our efforts. Every life matters. If it's just one person that we save through this march, it matters," stated Rev. Tulloss.
Following prayer and a 10 a.m. press conference, peaceful demonstrators marched from Bethel Missionary Baptist Church to each of Watts' four housing projects - Nickerson Gardens, Imperial Courts, Jordan Downs and Hacienda Village.
Speakers included Rev. Dr. Reginald Pope, pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Betty Day, community elder/leader (of the Watts Gang Task force), Carson Councilmember and State Assembly candidate Mike Gipson, Elder Michael Cummings, Andre Christian (Watts gang intervention specialist), Pastor Shane Scott, activist Najee Ali and Perry Crouch (Watts Gang Task Force)
Vicky Lindsey (Project Cry No More), Reverend Benny "Taco" Owens (Detours), and Skipp Townsend (2nd Call) represented the Southern California Cease Fire Committee. Michelle Chambers of Congresswoman Janice Hahn's office and representatives of Councilmember Joe Busciano also attended.
Day and other women of Watts formed the Watts Gang Task Force after becoming fed up with countless murders in their community in 2005, Cummings said when he introduced her.
If the community wants to make any progress at peace or solving any other problems, it mustn't forget the women, Day insisted.
"You wouldn't be able to come in here now if it hadn't been for these women," said Day, pointing to Lindsey and several others standing next to her.
"Yeah, we had bats, but the crime came down and it's still down a little bit. I'm saying we don't need all that praise about what we've done. We know what we've done. We know we've still got something to do. All of us need to be working together, not some of us in spots," Day continued.
Low Down, a gang intervention and prevention specialist, urged the coalition to devote consistent attention, not just one day, to their peace keeping efforts.
He said he's seen a lot growing up in Nickerson Gardens and the peace advocates' support means a lot. "We have lost a lot of young people out here ... I have lost loved ones here, and it's not easy and it's not hard but that's what makes us work harder and continue to trust in the lord," he said.
A lot hinges on pastors, Low Down added: "You can preach all day in them four walls. You can save the church all day but we've got to save the community. We've got to come out in this community and save our people, and we can't be afraid!"
For Councilmember Gipson, the march was a fitting way to give back to the community that helped to rear him.
"I am a Watts son. I was raised here in Watts, but more importantly, I am also a father - a father whose son was killed at three-years-old, and I've said that I want no other children or family to go through what my family went through," Councilmember Gipson said.
He added, "This walk is not a political walk. It's a walk which I believe in wholeheartedly, because even though I may not know the names of the children or the young people that live here in Watts, they're my children! Those are my sons and daughters."
Charlene Muhammad, a speaker and multi-award-winning journalist, serves as National Correspondent for The Final Call Newspaper and is host/executive producer of "Liberated Sisters" heard on 90.7 FM KPFK.org and "Liberated Sisters Radio" on www.blogtalkradio.com/liberated-sisters.


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My great grandparents, Ole Martin and Malla Johnson, were wed on February 28, 1886, in Granite Falls Township, Chippewa County, Minnesota. This is a copy of their marriage certificate--beautiful, isn't it? The image may appear a bit too small to read the proverbs, so I've written them out.[1]
What therefore God Hath Joined Together, Let Not Man Put Asunder
Man is the head of the Woman
Let the Husband Love His Wife
Woman is the Glory of the Man
Let the Wife Reverence Her Husband
The Wife is the Crown to Her Husband
A Prudent Wife is from the Lord; Her Price is Far above Rubies
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The justice of the peace who performed the ceremony, pictured at the bottom of the certificate, was Eric L. Winje, the groom's stepfather. In 1874, Winje married Thibertine Johnson, Ole Johnson's widowed mother, and the couple had eight children together.
For the wedding, the groom dressed in a sack suit—the standard fashion for a modest and frugal man during the 1880s. [2]
The bride, Malla Larson, wore a two-piece dress of dark silk, which her mother probably helped sew by hand. The focus of the design was multiple layers of ruffles peaking out from beneath a top skirt and carefully draped along Malla's corseted waist. Her jacket was fitted with a matching peplum, and dark collar and cuffs, and had no fewer than 16 buttons down the front. Underneath the jacket she wore a white blouse to protect against February's chill. Her long hair, the same rich brown as her father's, was arranged in a knot on the back of her head, and her bangs had been curled tight with hairpins the night before. It was a style she would keep all of her life, though as she grew older, she found it easier to give up the fuss and fashion of curling bangs, and let them grow out instead.
Ole Martin Johnson weds
Malla Vigesaa Larson,
Feb. 28, 1886
The bride's jewelry included a bar pin that held together the collar of her blouse, and two rings that adorned her left hand: a wedding ring, and another band worn on her index finger. A locket hung around her neck at the end of a golden chain, probably a wedding gift to Malla from her parents, since it contained miniature photographs of each of them. On the left locket face was a tiny image of her father, Erik Vigesaa Larson, who had quite a dapper appearance with his large, intense eyes and full moustache. On the right was her mother, Kjersten, a plain, no-nonsense woman, who read from her bible each day.
After the marriage, Ole Johnson and his new bride continued to farm the homestead that Ole's mother deeded to him along the banks of Hawk Creek in Granite Falls Township, where the Johnsons lived until 1901.
Copyright © 2006-2008 by Chery Kinnick
Original material and images may not be reproduced without permission.
[1] Johnson-Larson marriage, 28 February 1886, Granite Falls, Minnesota. Certificate supplied by Justice of the Peace, Eric L. Winje, for Chippewa County. Copy held in 2006 by Chery Kinnick.
[2] Definition of "sack suit": a 19th century men's fashion, typically a wool suit of black or gray, with matching pants, and usually four buttons on the coat. The sack suit began as a rather baggy garment in the 1850s, but became more fitted in the 1860s and after. It was considered casual day wear for businessmen, but more formal for the average farmer or worker—something worn to church, for example. Description derived from The Gentleman's Page, http://www.lahacal.org/gentleman/sack.html (accessed 19 October 2006).


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Post subject: Refinishing my stock for my smoothbore, HELP!!
I sanded my stock down for my .62 cal Pedersoli Smooth bore and was wanting to refinish it more PC. I was told to just use linseed oil, which I did, it is a very LIGHT color. How do you get it to be a darker color? And is linseed oil the PC?
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Use wood dyes not stain and mix with linseed oil.
Dyes may be purchased at good wood working stores
Always test it before applying to your stock for desired color
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I used leather dye on mine came out the way I wanted it to just test before you you do the whole gun
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I redid my stock with BLO too. I very much think that a hand rubbed oil finish is the appropriate finish for a firearm.
Usually, you stain the wood before applying the oil, but the oil will darken over time (years, not weeks), of course this is usually due to the accumulation of grime!
It's important to apply a very thin coat - seriously thin, a wiping, no more. I redid one of those big Cookson fowling pieces and used about a tsp per application (if you put it on thick you can easily end up with a gummy mess that never fully cures right). Rub the oil into the wood, building up some heat in the process.
The old school method is to do this once an hour for a day, then once a day for a week, then one a week for a month, once a month for a year, and once a year for life. A burger joint paper napkin is perfect for applying these coats, but a bit of paper towel works too.
Remember that BLO does not dry but cures by oxidation and gives off heat. Submerge under water any rags/towels/etc. used to apply BLO. UV light is also said to help cure BLO, so be sure your stock gets some time under natural light.
This is a good off season project.
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Opie: Now that you have already applied the linseed oil, I would suggest trying to use a stain that will penetrate through the linseed oil. I would try a dark leather dye, alcohol based, which you can get at Tandy Leather. Experiment first in an inconspicuous spot on the gunstock. Then when the desired color is reached, rub on thin coats of more linseed oil, building up a heat with your bare hands. Linseed oil finishes take a long time to cure, but you will love the final look. It is also a very easy finish to make repairs through. Rub on thin coats, wipe off any excess, rub with bare hands until warm for once a day for a week, once a week for a month, once a month for a year and once a year for life... is correct! But you will love it when finished!
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And is linseed oil the PC?
By itself no - the most widely used 18th/early 19th century period finish was a true boiled linseed oil based varnish with added rosin and often with lead as a dryer- it's basically the same as period violin varnishes. Many folks make their own, but you can get a close facsimile by using Tried and True Oil Varnish or the Oil Varnish offered by Jim Chambers - both use real, true boiled (i.e. heat polymerized linseed oil) and not the modern version which is a poor grade of linseed (aka flax seed) oil and chemical dryers. The difference between real boiled linseed oil and the commercail stuff is like night and day - once you use the real thing the commercial stuff is like YUUUCK!
FWIW - my comments are based on period documentation.......no gunmaker of the period could have afforded to take that long to apply a finish. The first cited reference I'm aware of to a "greased" finish (aka oil finish) rather than varnished is in 1850.
Gunmaker par excellence Eric Kettenburg for one has studied the subject in depth and has written on it.........I have a copy of his older Muzzle Blast article - it used to be on line - if not let me know and I will post it with thanks to MB.
The other documented 18th and early 19th century finish is spirit varnishes - often colored.
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Grant Wiggins is the President of Authentic Education in Hopewell, New Jersey. He earned his Ed.D. from Harvard University and his B.A. from St. John's College in Annapolis. Wiggins consults with schools, districts, and state education departments on a variety of reform matters; organizes conferences and workshops; and develops print materials and Web resources on curricular change.
Over the past twenty years, Wiggins has worked on some of the most influential reform initiatives in the country, including Vermont's portfolio system and Ted Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools. He is the co-author, with Jay McTighe, of Understanding By Design and The Understanding by Design Handbook, the award-winning and high successful materials on curriculum published by ASCD and author of Educative Assessment and Assessing Student Performance, both published by Jossey-Bass.
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Gregory H. Chu, a native of Hong Kong, is professor and chair of geography at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and editor of FOCUS on Geography, a journal published by the American Geographical Society. He earned his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Hawaii and has served as program director of geography and regional science at the National Science Foundation, on the editorial board of Cartographic Perspectives, and board of directors of the North American Cartographic Information Society.
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BrentS - here's the recipe Starting from the top down:ROTS - Capt. Antilles head comm unit, trimmed the front prongPOTF - Ceremony Leia head, darkened eyes, eyeliner, lips... also, I thought it added alot, and I'm not sure you can tell by the pics, but I sliced behind her ears, glued in the thinnest piece of plastic behind, and then trimmed off the excess. This caused her ears to stick out a bit, much like the actress who portrayed the character. If someone could post a pic of her, it'd be much appreciated.ROTS - Palpatine robe and collar carved outROTS - Aalya Secura upper torsoROTS - Padme armsROTS - Mon Mothma mid-torso skirt dremmeled downPOTF - Skirt sliced up the back and glued smaller
And that's it. As pleased as I am with the results, I'm dying to try it again and smooth out any little mess-ups.Thanks again for looking!
Thanks everyone for the compliments. I'm really glad that the figure has gotten this response. Hopefully someone else can be inspired, as the parts were pretty easy to come by. Quazar - sorry I can't post larger photos, as I'm not hosting them myself, but you can click on each to open up the full size. Also, I think that the Padme pilot head is my fav star wars female, and would look very good on this figure. However, the particular head I used is from the Ceremony Leia, which isn't that bad, as it came late in the POTF2 line - right before Episode 1. However, the way I repainted it, bored out to fit on Aayla's neckpost, and changed the ears, I think it was actually about the best choice. Also, the face is a little fuller than that of the Padmes, reflecting the actual actresses. Thanks for the suggestion though, I might try the Pilot Padme head for an alternate head?
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By Ian Boothby, Doug Moench, Len Wein, Dan Brereton
After being sentenced to serve detention in the old library in the subterranean bowels of Springfield Elementary, Bart discovers The Book of the Dead and accidentally unleashes Cthulhu on an unsuspecting Springfield. Then, Lunchlady Doris is finally fired for serving subhuman-grade cuisine and is replaced by the best the school food service industry has to offer. Soon the students are healthier and smarter than ever before, which can only lead to one thing…world domination! (And you thought we meant better state test scores.)


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Weather patterns over the Eastern Pacific may be setting up for an El Nino pattern this fall, possibly portending an end to California's recent drought, it was reported today.
The last two El Nino weather patterns saw nasty floods in Southern California and gigantic snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada. But scientists caution that some El Ninos are dry in California.
And Caltech's venerable climate expert, Bill Patzert, expressed caution to the San Diego Union-Tribune, and said he doesn't "see the white horse charging over the horizon to give us a good drenching."
Longterm forecasts generated at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography indicate that an El Nino is forming, as the conditions seem ripe for an increase in sea temperatures and ocean levels off Peru, climate researcher David Pierce told the newspaper.
"We are forecasting an El Nino this year," said Pierce. "Hopefully, it will bring a little more rain, not only to San Diego but to the entire Southwest.
"That would be quite nice," he told the Union-Tribune.
That forecast was echoed by the lead scientist at the Climate Prediction Center in Maryland, as well as the University of Washington's Climate Impacts group.
And the forecasts come as the region is in the midst of an unusual summer weather pattern, with winter-style cold pressure systems dropping significant rainfall during what is usually the driest month of the year.
El Ninos are the name given by Peruvian fishermen to a periodic migration of tropically-warm water to the Eastern Pacific, where water is usually cold because of polar flows. They have sometimes caused rainfall to double or triple from normal levels in California.
Within the past few days, meteorologists around the world have sounded the alarm about a possible El Nino. The forecasts include possible droughts in Australia, more typhoons to hit the Philippines, and a decrease in Atlantic Coast hurricanes making landfall on the U.S.
Five years of drought have left major water storage lakes in California half-full, and the governor has proclaimed a statewide drought emergency. But strange weather patterns have left full storage lakes to the east, in Arizona, and the deserts of Riverside County are green this June, when they are usually seasonally brown.
"If winds and currents start working in concert, the ocean could warm rapidly," said Nathan Mantua at the Washington school. "A powerful El Nino on the level of the 1997-98 event is possible."
Pasadena's Patzert, known for his colorful colloquialisms, wouldn't go that far, and told the San Diego paper that the chances for a big, wet El Nino are "about the same as the Padres winning the pennant."
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The first annual Father's Day Weekend Baseball, Beer, and BBQ was a great success. On Saturday prior to the dinner Cappy, Monkey, and Pat Cook traveled up to Hampton Academy in Hampton, NH to help them celebrate its 200th anniversary by doing a demo and playing students and faculty from the school. We had a great time and hope to go back there next season.
Later that night the folks at Spencer Peirce Little Farm and Mercury Brewing hosted our first beer and baseball dinner. The night was well attended with close to 100 people enjoying Tennessee BBQ, fine beers from Mercury Brewing, and a lecture on beer and baseball from Cappy. The night went great and all enjoyed their time and look forward to trying it again. We would like to thank the farm and the Brewers for hosting such a great event.
Sunday we were back at the farm for a triple header of 1861 base ball action. Members of the Essex Base Ball Club, Lynn Live Oaks, Ipswich Brewers, Bristol Blues, and NH Granite combined to play the games in extreme heat and thunderstorms. Despite the conditions a fine series of matches were played. See the attached news story from the NewburyportNews
For the weekend and our new connection with the fine gentlemen at Ipswich Ale we create tee shirts showing the connection between baseball and beer. Tee shirts are $15 and can be purchased at our games or contact Cappy at firstname.lastname@example.com