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Several combined decades of farming between Keith and I and you would think we'd seen it all. Not even close. The unusual on our farm often starts with a phone call from husband to wife.
Keith: "You got time to come look at a calf?"
This is not good news. Once when he asked me to come "look at" one of our goats, she had a compound fracture (bone protruding through the skin) after jumping over a fence. Another request to "look at" a goat resulting in him holding her upright, upper limbs in his arms, bottom in my face, while we delivered triplets. It was very cold that day and I almost lost my wedding rings inside that caprines uterus.
Last evening the request to "look at" an animal turned out to be a calf with a third eye.
Yes, the well known third eye phenomenon present in the early stages of Clostridium Tetani bacterial infection, better known as Tetanus or Lock Jaw. Of course it was not well known to me until about 16 hours ago but now I can say the Third Eye and I are well acquainted. Intimate, even.
Keith had found the 4 month old calf standing inside the barn alone, looking not right. Moving him out into the sunshine the calf was able to walk but very stiffly, his tail held out from his body, his head low. The most obvious symptom for us was his "locked jaw." Literally frozen shut.
And then there was that third eye thing, which is the third eyelid located in the corner of the eye, protruding partially across the eye. It looks as if the calves eyes are just rolling around in its head. As Quint said in Jaws "Y'know, the thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes."
Anyway, back to the ranch...Phone calls to the vet proved unhelpful as everyone was gone for the day and the emergency numbers given resulted only in voice mails as well. Even the large vet clinic at the University of Illinois had phone issues and disconnected me three times. It is so rare for us to need our vet that I did not have his number in my phone, Keith however had it in his head.
Knowing time was of the essence I turned to my good buddy Google, learned what I could and after a few more phone calls to find the drugs we needed I set off to Pontiac in a rush before the local farm supply store closed at 8pm.
Once back home, with the calf isolated in a well bedded, quiet and dark box stall I gave him IM injections of Penicillin and Tetanus Antitoxin. Yes, that's right we gave an antibiotic to an animal whose life was in danger just as the National Organic Standards tell us to do. The calf was able to drink a small amount of water, still able to move his lips and did try to eat some hay.
When I got back inside our vet did call (felt very bad he'd been in a meeting, I really do love our vet) and confirmed our initial diagnosis. He also told me we needed to really increase both our antitoxin and penicillin dosages but even so death was very likely for this animal. Seems that Clostridium Tetani Bacteria is very virulent. Once it enters an animals blood stream and grows, it releases toxins that affect the animals entire central nervous system.
Within just hours the creature, if untreated, will be laying on its side , limbs out straight, bloating because the rumen freezes up and spasming until death. I told myself I'd euthanize that calf before I'd witness that level of suffering.
So how did our calf get Tetanus? We think it went down like this. We purchased this calf about a month ago from another Certified Organic Dairy. He's been healthy all along but he had not yet been castrated. Not a huge deal, a little later than we normally do but not terribly so. Keith did band his testicles a week after we brought him home and in normal circumstances over the next few weeks those dangling participles will shrivel up, die and fall off, leaving a very nice well healed and closed wound.
But, we were running six smaller hogs with a few of these calves and we believe that dangling package was just too tempting a toy and piggies, running under the calves, may have nibbled on said package. So of like shiny red and green Mistletoe twinkling from up above...hard to resist. This area was injured, opened to the environment and when the calf laid outside on dirt where Clostridium Tetani live, the bacteria had a great opportunity to enter the calves blood stream. On inspection of our calves nether regions we did see a reddened edematous tissue where the testicle had been. Portal sight confirmed.
At 4am Keith said the calf had improved. Lying down but upright. No sign of the third eye and neck muscles more relaxed.
At 8 am this morning his condition declined and we were back where we were last evening when we first discovered him. No worse but no better than 14 hours ago. Another call placed to our vet. Another trip for more meds. Another 2 IM injections of the Tetanus Antitoxin and another 2 IM injections of Penicillin.
12:45 am. Calf looks better. Moving his neck more. Less of the freaky third eye thing. Not standing (would YOU feel like standing?) but sitting upright and chewing his cud. Jaw muscles looser but still doesn't open. Sometimes he can be heard grinding his teeth. Sensitive to sudden movements, light , noise all due to the CNS irritation.
2:00 pm Keith able to get calf to stand. Very weak, wobbly and stiff but able to suck down another 2 quarts of warm water with electrolytes. Less third eye.
He might just make it. We'll see. If he does we'll raise him for our own supply of beef on The Poor Farm next year.
Lessons learned
1. Do not run pigs with calves immediately after calf castration by banding.
2. Be vigilant in checking calf band castration sites for appropriate healing.
3. Keep Vet numbers, other emergency Vet Numbers in the barn, on our phones.
3. Keep large doses of Tetanus Antitoxin on the farm ( at least 6 of the 5ml vials, 1500 units /5ml)
4. Keep large multi dose vial of Penicillin on the farm ( at least one 100 cc vial, 300,000 units per cc. for life saving only)
5. Document all Tetanus signs and symptoms seen and treatments given for future reference.
6. Be prepared to euthanize animal if symptoms progress.
Cost of Care so Far
8 total vials of Tetanus Antitoxin
3 at Big R (5 ml/1500 units per 5 ml) $8.97
5 from Vet Office (same as above) $35
2 Vials Injectable Penicillin
1 from Big R (100 ml/300,000units per ml) $9
1 from Vets office (same as above) 11.50
Syringes and needles from Vet for 7 days of PCN treatment $8.80
Since we'll need to give the PCN for 7 days our total cost of treatment will be about $75 vs the potential loss of meat (at our cost) for our own table of about $1000. All the meds will have over a year to be excreted from his system even though federal law states for conventionally raised beef they can be injected with antibiotics and tetanus antitoxin up until 21 days before slaughter.
Now before you get all bent out of shape about the vets markup on the Tetanus keep in mind, he has staff to pay, and lots of overhead. Plus he returned my call twice and because he knows us and our skills well (Keith, the very experienced dairyman and me the RN crone) he is comfortable ordering the meds, giving us instructions to treat animals ourselves rather than charging us a $75 visit fee. He offered to come but we were comfortable with the injections/treatment based on his advice. In addition his office is only 10 miles from our farm vs the 35 miles to the farm store. Saves gas and time.
So, will we now vaccinate all our calves with tetanus to prevent future occurrences? No, we won't. In the 30 years that Keith has been working on dairy farms he has never seen tetanus in a calf. We will however change our fairly new practice of running pigs with calves until AFTER any castrated calves are well healed.
Always living, always learning.
Future calf care (keep in mind mortality rate is 80% ) will include daily injections of PCN, lots of extra fluids, with electrolyte replacement plus good hay, to keep him hydrated and maintain nutritional status, helping him get up to keep circulation and digestion operational, keeping the stall quiet, dark to avoid more CNS insult, lots of dry bedding and as our vet suggested... "Prayer"
Have I mentioned how much we love our vet?


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Applications are invited for the recruitment of Multi-Purpose Extension Officer Posts in Sri Potti Sreeramulu Nelluru District Agriculture Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh. Eligible candidates apply through online. Other details like education, age, fee and how to apply are given below…
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Name of the Post: Multi-Purpose Extension Officers
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Seated high in the stands with a disapproving look, Sir Alex Ferguson became a defining image of David Moyes's reign.
In less than a year, Moyes took the 2012/13 champions to seventh place, all the while failing to emerge from his predecessor's shadow.
Due to his seismic ego and impressive track record, Louis van Gaal has remained unperturbed by such a personal legacy, however; as the boos rang across Old Trafford following last week's stalemate with PSV, he too is beginning to feel the weight of United's history.
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For more than two decades, United fans were spoilt on a yearly basis with regular silverware, delivered in an exhilarating fashion. As 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League crowns were won - an unshakeable philosophy, inspired by the Matt Busby era, was ingrained into the club along with an expectation for entertainment.
United fans have to an extent, just reason to gripe: Manchester's working class character as a city has been reflected in their play - dating back to the Busby and Jimmy Murphy era, with hard-working players expected each weekend to temporarily alleviate the concerns and worries of their fans.
This expectation to entertain has been intensified with rising prices for season tickets: they now range between £532 and £950 for adults along with United's consistent success throughout the Ferguson era.
Van Gaal's stifling style has attracted significant criticism this season with his consistent use of two holding midfielders often under the spotlight. Bastian Schweinsteiger has been valuable in closing out games since his summer arrival, however, neither he nor Morgan Schneiderlin are trusted to break forward and join United's attack.
Dominance in midfield is often crucial in determining results at the highest level, but in a home game against PSV, where a win would have guaranteed qualification for the knock-out rounds of the Champions League, required a more daring strategy.
Schweinsteiger did pose a goal threat at Bayern Munich, scoring 34 goals in 130 league games, and one must be trusted to act as a conventional No.8 playing box-to-box against the weaker teams. His goal against Leicester on Saturday demonstrated how the World Cup winner can contribute in the final third.
A dose of reality is also required for the Old Trafford faithful. Although Ferguson forged an established identity in his 26 years, his era has ended and so has United's swashbuckling style. 4-4-2 is no longer a widely-used formation whilst the great Glaswegian was unique in his ability to consistently deliver both trophies and excitement, as evidenced by the 11-year gap since Arsene Wenger last lifted the Premier League trophy.
Football is a notoriously fickle sport and many would do well to remember performances such as the 2-0 defeat to Olympiakos or the 3-0 hammering away at Everton under Moyes.
Though Van Gaal's measured approach may fail to entertain, United have no divine right to success and under the Dutchman they are building solid foundations, Chris Smalling and company have kept 12 clean sheets in all competitions this season.
United's evolution into a behemoth of football owed much to their expansive style of play, but top level sport is determined by success.
Though, in an ideal world, Old Trafford will once again host performances characterised by ruthless attacking, but for now, fans of England's most successful club should retain faith in Van Gaal's methods in the knowledge that in a results business, the Dutchman will keep them in the hunt for silverware.


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On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Chris Beer <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > True - should get a mention. Open standard too so no issues there. Example use case would be good too. I agree. JSON is another good example of a widely deployed web standard for data (RFC 4627) that really ought to be discussed in the context of best practices for web access to egov data. Some of the folks involved in data.gov.uk effort have worked specifically on using JSON to provide more familiar access to pools of RDF made available at SPARQL endpoints [1]. """ For some web developers the need to understand the RDF data model and associated serializations and query language (SPARQL) has proved a barrier to adoption of linked data. This project seeks to develop APIs, data formats and supporting tools to overcome this barrier. Including, but not limited to, accessing linked data via a developer-friendly JSON format. """ //Ed [1] http://purl.org/linked-data/api/projectReceived on Friday, 26 November 2010 03:10:13 UTC
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Henley Chiropractic Center
2804 Forum Blvd, Ste. 1A
Columbia, MO 65203
Email: henleychiropractic2gmail.com
Phone: (573) 446-4949
Website: www.henleychiropracticcenter.com
CategoriesChiropractors, Acupuncture Clinics
About Us
We are a holistic Chiropractic office. We offer Acupuncture,both Needle and non-needle technique. Therapeutic Massage, both deep tissue and relaxing massage. Nutritional work up and recommendations. Detoxification foot baths, and Allergy elimination technique. Dr Christy Henley has been in Columbia for 25 years. and is dedicated to help difficult and chronic cases improve with a mufti disciplinary approach.
Sport's injuries, auto accidents, and acute or chronic pain syndromes. Migraines, GERD, sciatica, neck pain, low back pain, all treated gently including muscle therapy with each chiropractic treatment.
Specializing in fibro-myalgia, and chronic pain syndromes. Woman's hormone issues as well as infertility.
We treat all ages from the young child who is having sleeping difficulties , to the child who has chronic ear infections. We do not use drugs but treat the body with proper nutrition, gentle l Chiropractic and energy balancing techniques.
Seniors respond well to gentle chiropractic care as well. Dr Henley has a special fondness for seniors and is always amazed as to how well they do and improve their quality of life under her care. Her oldest patient is 97 years old.
Acupuncture also helps seniors come out of those chronic pain syndromes that don't seem to respond to anything else.
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Ceramic Tiles
Alternatively, tile can sometimes refer to similar units made from lightweight materials such as perlite, wood, and mineral wool, typically used for wall and ceiling applications. Less precisely, the modern term can refer to any sort of construction tile or similar object, such as rectangular counters used in playing games (see tile-based game). The word is derived from the French word tuile, which is, in turn, from the Latin word tegula, meaning a roof tile composed of baked clay.
Tiles are often used to form wall and floor coverings, and can range from simple square tiles to complex mosaics. Tiles are most often made from ceramic, with a hard glaze finish, but other materials are also commonly used, such as glass, marble, granite, slate, and reformed ceramic slurry, which is cast in a mould and fired.
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Here is a little tip for FileZilla users. If your operation system's language is other than English, your FileZilla installation will "speak" same language as your OP. Some of us could have issues with that:
- you might have purchased your computer in another country and not understand the default OP language (I hate it!)
- most of us are used to using English when it comes to computer terms. It's the only time we prefer using English over our own languages.
- You are learning something new and most tutorials and demos use English.
To fix the problem, uninstall your Filezilla, restart your computer and install FileZilla again here but this time make sure to UNCHECK "Install Language Files" in installation wizard. You will get English only version.
If you need more help with Filezilla, you can find it here – How to Use FileZilla to Upload Files to Your New Host.


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—Brian Lin, Carnegie Mellon University, First Place Winner, 2015 TMS Best Paper Contest, Graduate Division
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Awarded to sophomore or junior undergraduate students majoring in metallurgical and/or materials science and engineering with an emphasis on manufacturing from product design to production, integrating process control technology into manufacturing, and basic and applied research into key materials technologies that impact manufacturing processes. This scholarship is eligible for the Battelle Matching Scholarship Program and the Battelle Materials Graduate Student Award.
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Atlassian Sourcetree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Windows.
Atlassian Sourcetree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Mac.
This is the repository that the yt Project's blog is held in.
How to Add a Blog Entry
Simply create a new .rst file in content/post/, with the extension .rst. The file doesn't need to have any prefixes; the old blog entries do simply because that helped organize them.
Then, submit a pull request.
How to Add an IPython Notebook
First, download the nbconvert repository from the IPython project. Place that directory in your path.
Then, from the root of this blohg directory, run:
python2.7 blohg_converterer.py --post-name "Your Post Name" /path/to/notebook.ipynb
This will upload a copy of your notebook to the Hub as well as converting it to ReST, along with all of its attachments. Then to add it to the blog, with its files:
hg ci -A
which will add any new files that are found in the repository's path.
What Manages The Blog
This blog is managed by the software blohg ( blohg.org ) which handles versioning in a mercurial repository. On top of that, it uses Shining Panda and Amazon's S3 to automatically publish new entries that get pushed to the main repository.
How Do I View My Blog Locally
First, ensure you have blohg installed:
pip install -U blohg
Once you have committed your new file to the repository, run:
blohg runserver
and go to the URL it spits out. This will show you your new blog entry.


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Daily Snapshot: August 17
Rafael Nadal of Spain during singles play. (Bloomberg)
STAR ATTRACTION: Mula Lee looks to continue her rise as she goes for gold in the women's 100 meters. Can Rafael Nadal (above) add a gold medal to his French and Wimbledon titles?
NBC and NBC HD
10 a.m.-6 p.m. Women's Basketball - USA vs. New Zealand (LIVE); Beach Volleyball; Women's Volleyball - USA vs. Poland; Cycling; Women's Table Tennis; Rowing; 7 p.m.-Midnight Gymnastics; Track & Field; Women's Diving; Rowing - Eights Gold Medal Finals; 12:35-2 a.m. Track & Field; Men's Beach Volleyball Quarterfinal; Women's Triathlon
CNBC and CNBC HD
Midnight-2 a.m. Women's Beach Volleyball; Women's Weightlifting; 3-7 p.m. Boxing
USA and USA HD
2 a.m.-2 p.m. Women's Beach Volleyball; Men's Tennis - Singles Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Women's Tennis - Doubles Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Cycling; Women's Handball - Russia vs. Germany; Men's Table Tennis
5 a.m.-5 p.m. Softball - USA vs. Netherlands (LIVE); Women's Wrestling; Women's Table Tennis; Badminton; Men's Fencing; Men's Badminton; Men's Weightlifting 94kg Competition; Women's Basketball; Women's Volleyball; Women's Water Polo
4 a.m.-2 p.m. Swimming - Gold Medal Finals; Women's Volleyball; Women's Diving - Springboard Semifinal; Track & Field Gold Medal Finals; Women's Beach Volleyball; Baseball; Boxing; Gymnastics - Trampoline Competition; 6-7:30 p.m. Women's Beach Volleyball; Midnight-1 a.m. TBA
24-hour MSNBC, & CNBC HD Simulcasts and Coverage
2:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Women's games
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Olympics bloggersLook for updates, news, analysis and commentary from the following reporters:.
- Dan Egan, Boston.com blogger
- John Powers, Globe staff
- Shira Springer, Globe staff
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On this episode, the ladies of NYAC talk with Gbenga Olatunji, healthcare consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)about the healthcare system in Africa. The discussion covers everything from the gaps in the healthcare system to the ideal role of the government in the health sector.
Reading/Watching/Listening to:
– Atul Gawande's Complications (Book)
– J.Cole's High For Hours (Music)
– Kehlani (Music)
– Luvvie Ajayi's I'm Judging You (Book)
– Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction(Book)
– Anderson Paak's Malibu (Music)
– NBC's This is Us (TV Show)
– ABC's The Bachelor (TV Show)
– Amazon Original Series: Good Girls Revolt (TV Show)
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I've been to Cheng Du in Westborough a couple of times now, and I've been impressed by both the food and atmosphere. It's an upscale restaurant featuring higher end Chinese food, and a sushi lounge. I've only tried the Chinese menu so far, and of course the Mai Tai's!
I love that the standard apps like the peking ravioli and pupu platter are offered, but Cheng Du steps it up a bit with fresh ingredients and nothing overly greasy.
I've always wanted to try lobster with ginger scallions, and finally decided Cheng Du would be the perfect place to try it! Sadly they were out of it until next season, but the ginger scallion shrimp was excellent.
I definitely plan to go back to try the sushi and the lobster!


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Friday August 8, 2008
I got together with Lulu Shur-tzy Hou who was an Asian Cultural Council Taiwanese grantee and a photographer dealing with Taiwanese women's issues. She took me to Taipei Artist Village and introduced me to Jill Yang, who is the Manager. We toured the gallery and met a Korean resident artist from Kwangju.
Lulu also took us to It Park Gallery. The Director and Eve Wu, Administrator, invited us to sit down for an informal chat and offered us beer and a bite to eat.
We also stopped in at Very Temple and VT Salon, an interesting alternative art space.


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Kibana, Disqus at SF Python Project Night
At the #SFPython Project night earlier this week, Disqus gave us access to a pipeline of their data. Their data is composed of conversations (posts, comments, and votes) taking place throughout the web. As one of the largest blog (the largest?) blog comment-hosting services, they have a large amount of data.
The Data
The data we had to work with was streaming JSON. Mostly we were there for beer, food, and socializing, but in between sips we managed to make some efforts in tinkering with it.
Rob Scott of Inkling was only there for about 20 minutes, but he had enough time to throw together a sweet recursive python script that made it easy to parse out fields in the streaming JSON data. https://gist.github.com/rbscott/6694512
I wrote a script to examine documents in the stream and conditionally add an event to one of several time-series. I was planning to use the stream to populate time series for things like "Votes", "Posts by Users with n+ followers" "Comments by female users", "Likes by Users in South America" etc. Then I hoped to use some existing time series anomaly detection libraries. I abandoned this effort in favor of a different idea…
Bobby Manuel of Shoptouch walked by and suggested using ElasticSearch + Kibana, which works very well with JSON data. We all agreed this was a great idea. It is also exactly the kind of thing that's great for a hackathon — a pretty impressive output for a very small amount of work.
Elasticsearch + Kibana, very quickly
There wasn't much time left when Bobby shared his idea. I had to start from scratch, installing Elasticsearch and Kibana, so I took several shortcuts. Instead of working with the JSON stream, I piped a few seconds of the data to a file, indexed it via bulk import in Elastic Search, and setup a Kibana dashboard.
The following are a few screenshots of the results. The first shows a breakdown of events in the pipeline by Message Type (Vote, Post, Threadvote, etc).
The second is what Kibana calls a "histogram" — I would find a different name — showing counts of events in buckets of 100 milliseconds. The interesting thing here is that Kibana easily parsed the timestamp once I specified the field. I was also able to filter by time ranges.
There were some other interesting screenshots that I will not post here since I don't actually own this data. but I was starting to explore the actual content of the data and users. A simple query revealed that "LOL" is more common than "ha". The Disqus API allowed me to look up user details by the user id in the stream, so there is potential for augmenting the data stream in various ways.
This didn't take much time; the biggest time-suck was what I thought was an encoding/unicode related error during the bulk import. If I had had more time I would have liked to work with the actual JSON data stream rather than a small segment of it.
One step would be to ease resource constraints by using something better than my little laptop. An EC2 instance would be enough, I think for a hack it would be just fine to stick ES and Kibana on the same box.
The second step would be to find an easy way to continually index the stream in Elasticsearch. One approach would be to use the pipe input API in Logstash (http://logstash.net/docs/1.2.1/inputs/pipe). I was already using curl to pipe the data stream to stdin, so this would be a straightforward proof-of-concept. Easy trumps robust for hacks. Alternately, I could have writen a script that catches the incoming JSON documents, adds the necessary metadata, and XPUTs them into Elasticsearch. I explored neither of these approaches, and had another burrito instead.
I'm almost embarrassed that the Elasticsearch family of tools wasn't already in my tool-belt for exploratory data analysis. They are now. It takes much less time that I had expected to set up and get useful results. They are flexible with various types of input. And the above hacks barely scratch the surface of what is possible to do with ES.
These tools aren't just for finely tuned production environments to deliver specific functionality around search. Give them a try for data exploration and quick results … and hackathons.
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Can't believe it's almost the end of June! Our summer home-school session starts next Monday, the 24th!!! Crazy! I've gotten all our curriculum, made our lesson plans and gotten stuff prepped for the first week or two. I'm very excited!!
For those curious about what we're using, here's a rundown:
*Saxon Math: 1 for Eli and Saxon Math 3 for Harrison.
*Five in a Row for overall curriculum for Eli. I think it's a tad young for Harrison, but I think that he will enjoy doing it with us, especially the crafts. I really like this program because it takes a book and they read it every day, (hence the five in a row), which really reinforces the points in the story..it's how I like teaching literature.
*Apologia Science: Flying Creatures of the 5th Day. I think this will be too advanced for Eli, who's a Kindergartner, but he can listen in or he can just do the experiments with us.
*Story of the World: This is a great classical history curriculum that again may be too advanced for Eli, but he can listen in from time to time, and do the activities with us. I plan to incorporate Harrison's love of Minecraft into this, giving him the task of creating worlds to match what we are studying.
We will add Spelling and Geography for Harrison and Phonics for Eli in the fall. There are a ton of other little things we do that I don't talk about like adding words to our Word Wall, arts, Legos, educational apps on the Kindle and Ipad, etc. They resume PE in the fall as well.
I think we are slowly getting used to the idea of homeschooling. We are getting more used to being together ALL the time. They've had their ups and downs of attitudes, behaviors and getting along. I'm reevaluating how I deal with the children and how I allow myself to react to their behaviors. I know we'll get on each other's nerves, I know they'll have bad days, I know there will be days where the house looks like it exploded (okay that's ever day...) but I hope they enjoy learning at their own pace, and really, truly absorbing what we study.
Thanks for coming along on our journey!~~
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Getting ready....
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Tuesday, October 04, 2016
SMOKE to be released at the 2016 DETROIT ART BOOK FAIR!!!
I spent weeks drawing pictures of smoke. Everywhere I went I looked for smoke and studied it so I could add it to my sketchbook...I studied all kinds of smoke every day. There were so many drawings. The drawings had to be edited down to just 40 perfect
pages. Please come to the 2016 DETROIT ART BOOK FAIR and visit me and WAR at the TIMESTEREO table!!!
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Beissoul & Einius
Beissoul & Einius – a known name for the electro-soul music lovers in Europe.
Sometimes, when you least expect it, artists appear out of the blue, seemingly becoming permanent fixtures in a blink of an eye. Since 2013, this is definitely the case for Beissoul & Einius. «Black man's voice inside a white man's body», «fashion icons», «freak-duo», "extraterrestrials from another planet" – these and more other descriptions fit electro-soul duo Beissoul & Einius pretty well.
Both members are Lithuanians, although within their career path and their frequent residence in Ukraine, they could be considered Ukrainian musicians as well. More important than their origin is their approach to the genre and their spectacular sound and on-stage attitude.
Melting electronica, soulful vocals and cutting edge dance rhythms into their unique style, this duo has turned into one of the best live bands around. Since the very first day, their live performances became more ecstatic and free, moving into pure blend of energy, choreography and fashion, making Beissoul & Einius into unmissable live act.
Their complex, richly textured and highly seductive sound worked well and opened doors for stage-sharing with names like Roisin Murphy, Gus Gus, Hurts, Blue Foundation, The Hardkiss and many more.In 2013 Beissoul & Einius released an album Laikas Paikas (Silly Time, en), in 2015 – EP Chamillion. Duo restlessly continues working on new material for up-coming tour and a new album, to keep their vastly growing audiences satisfied.
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By Zonya Foco, RD, CHFI, CSP
Why is it that some very happy and healthy people have chronically-demanding lives, yet the daily stress is like "water off a duck's back" to them? Meanwhile, others with similar stressors suffer overtly with anxiety and even depression, often leading to more colds and flu, high cholesterol and blood pressure – not to mention aging faster too. None of uswant any of that! So, what is it that successful stress managers know, and how can we get some of that?
I will be sharing seven Habits of Highly-Effective Stress Managers in my STREZZ-FREE presentation at the 7th Annual Greater Fort Wayne Workplace Wellness Symposium on April 14, but would like to start by first imparting this central core habit: Effective stress managers eat right, whether they are stressed or not.
How? By having certain rituals or habits in place that carry them through time-crunched, stressful moments.
Some of those practiced and automatic fueling habits look like this:
- They hydrate with water (or diluted juice) first thing in the morning before having tea or coffee. They do this not just "when they are dieting" and not just "when they have time," but automatically, every single morning. Their "detoxifying ritual" might be to drink:
- a cup of hot or cold water with lemon while their coffee brews; or
- a shaker glass of water with an Emergen-C packet (containing 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C) and a scoop of "greens" powder – plus a teaspoon of chia seed. (This is my routine.)
- They (without measuring anything) throw together a nutrient dense-breakfast that they actually enjoy, like the following:
- Two eggs and one cup of baby spinach scrambled in a cup, then microwaved one minute, with salsa and maybe leftover cooked rice or quinoa added. Eaten with a banana, orange or pear.
- A bowl of oats microwaved with water, cinnamon, raisins, nuts and/or frozen blueberries – plus any combination of a super food, like chia, flax or hemp
- A single-serving carton of Greek yogurt (like Siggi's, which has more protein than sugar per serving) mixed with Grape-Nuts, oats, flax seed, fruit and nuts
- If they do visit a drive-thru, it's oatmeal with fruit and nuts, or an Egg McMuffin and a piece of fruit brought from home.
- They have a tried-and-true repertoire of nutrient-dense lunch options from which to choose, such as a salad with dark greens; stir-fry; vegetable soup and half a sandwich; or a bowl of chili and fruit.
- They stock their fridge at work with a bag of baby carrots, broccoli, cauliflower and celery.
- They carry with them a bottle of water in addition to almonds, dried fruit, fresh fruit (grabbed from the fruit bowl prominently displayed on their kitchen counter) or smart granola bars like the low-sugar "Kind" bars.
- They know how to make quick dinners using their George Foreman Grill or their wok by making stir-fry in minutes flat from bags of mixed frozen vegetables, jarred sauce and quick-cooking brown rice. Or they whip up a super simple "pita pizza" by using whole-grain pita bread, spaghetti sauce, chopped ham and vegetables plus one-fourth cup of mozzarella cheese and a sprinkling of parmesan. They even know how to supercharge flavors and nutrition by making a spinach pesto pita pizza with artichokes and pineapple.
- Even if they succumb to ordering pizza for dinner, they are practiced at "diluting" the meal by snacking on baby carrots and an apple before the pizza arrives so that having just two slices is no problem. And bingo, the meal is high fiber and nutrient rich too. (Not to mention deprivation-free!)
- They understand that sugary, processed foods don't in reality reduce stress, but instead create more stress in their bodies by elevating insulin levels, which causes a cascade of negative metabolic changes that create stress from the "inside out." With this knowledge in hand, they have learned to appreciate fresh fruit as their dessert of choice, paired with an occasional ounce of 60% cocoa (or higher) dark chocolate, which they enjoy more than "too sweet" milk chocolate.
- Instead of coping with feelings of stress or anxiety by attempting to "change their state" by reaching for comfort foods like cake, cookies, candy and milk chocolate, they "change their state" by stepping outside for a minute, doing stretches, drinking water, crunching an apple, sipping tea, playing with a pet or listening to music.
Can you see yourself evolving into this kind of highly-successful stress manager? Adapting these habits so they are your own and "automatic" no matter what comes your way takes practice. Say yes to picking one or two to work on for a week or more and keep at it until it's instinctive. Before you know it, you too will be a Highly-Effective Stress Manager!
Zonya, host of Zonya's Health Bites on public television, is the author of the best-selling cookbook Lickety-Split Meals for Health Conscious People on the Go (which is the ultimate stress fighter) as well as numerous other books and DVDs on nutrition, exercise and DIET-FREE weight management. Visit www.Zonya.com for more tips, recipes, videos and simple solutions to de-stressing and balancing your life.


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by Tony Vidler.
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) just gave every NZ adviser a happier Christmas with an excellent piece of guidance to the entire financial services industry. Give them a bow, and throw a bouquet - they just got a big deal very right.
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) just gave every NZ adviser a happier Christmas with an excellent piece of guidance to the entire financial services industry. Give them a bow, and throw a bouquet - they just got a big deal very right.
The industry has been seeking guidance on a number of issues since the advent of new regulations, which came into effect July 2011. The main piece of legislation governing advice is the Financial Advisers Act, supported by the Code of Professional Conduct ("The Code"). Both are largely "principles" based, as opposed to being overly prescriptive and full of "thou shalts" and "shalt nots". A laudable and eminently pragmatic approach to creating lasting legislation generally - though it tends to get a bit awkward to apply in its early stages. The key problem is the very people it applies to are initially left to try and interpret how a principle works and what the regulators or judiciary might think it means somewhere in the future.
In time, a principles based regime tends to be more robust and better able to cope with an evolving society. On one of the more problematic areas for all market participants is understanding how a theoretical principle applies in the real world however. Principles don't always translate easily into the day to day actions of human beings, continually changing their minds or wanting things done, like, yesterday. But theory is grand. In the theoretical world bumble bees cannot fly. But they do. So much for theory.
So today the FMA issued a Guidance Note on the difficult issue of "analysis before recommendation". First big thumbs up is for issuing a well laid out and very clear guidance note. The second - and way more important big thumbs up - is for the approach taken in interpreting the law and the Code.
It is practical. It recognises how the industry actually works in interacting with clients. It recognises that it is about agreeing to what the client wants. It places responsibility fairly where it should be when external professionals take on part of the work in research. In fact on this point, it is more reasonable than anyone expected.
It is a great piece of work. Incidentally, as an industry we have been quick to criticize the regulators. As an industry we should be equally quick to congratulate them on a very useful and timely piece of work that indicates they have been paying attention and understand (at least some) of the issues advisers and industry are grappling with.
Let's cut to the chase on this particular piece though. Code standard 6 says that the AFA must "make recommendations only in relation to financial products that have been analysed by the AFA to a level that provides a reasonable basis for any such recommendation...." Collectively we have tried to determine the extent of analysis expected, and what evidence would constitute a "reasonable basis". We have been guided by rulings in foreign jurisdictions, and drawn conclusions from those.
A school of thought had evolved - and been blatantly promoted for commercial gain in some sections - that this meant the AFA must exhaustively analyse every possible product choice in the universe that might be a viable solution for clients. A ridiculous interpretation - it was never going to be applied that way. That would logically lead to paralysis through analysis. Nobody would ever conclusively finish their research and clients would have died of impoverished old age waiting for the research and analysis to determine suitability. As silly as this line of thought was, it was gathering momentum in the absence of better information.
The more rational industry commentators focused on elements such as a product needing to be "suitable" or "fit for purpose". This is effectively precisely where the FMA have drawn the appropriate line.
Better yet, they have recognised that what is suitable for one client is dependent upon the scope of service agreed to with the client, and the nature of the adviser-client relationship (para 17; Guidance Note). This is a really significant point. It provides context around what is considered to be reasonable work by the adviser, in each individual client situation.
They go on and provide some certainty regarding the positioning of independent research, or legal documents provided by issuers. The responsibility for the veracity of the information provided by those documents sits firmly with the issuers, precisely as it should. They have pragmatically considered the situation for dedicated adviser forces - those in dealer groups or aligned distribution channels - and determined that it is actually reasonable for the adviser to rely upon the technical assessment done by other and more suitably qualified professionals specialising in that work. Hooray on that point.
FMA: you have hit a home run here in my view. Do more of it. Provide more Guidance Notes on how you think the law should be interpreted and applied. Especially do more if you maintain this pragmatic and thoughtful approach to making it work to promote and develope fair markets that engender confidence by all stakeholders.
Advisers: Read this guidance, and digest it. It is very helpful and should provide assurance that if you do diligently do research and know your products, and use them in a manner that is fit for purpose and suitable for your clients, then you have little to fear. You can legitimately rely upon other professionals assessments of products, and you can trust that the information put into legal documents by issuers is accurate. This frees the adviser up to actually focus on being excellent in their field of knowledge and focus upon the client.
That will do me for a positive message at the end of a challenging year, and hopefully set the tone for 2012 and beyond.
Merry Christmas one and all.
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HUB IN THE HOOD: Scarce Halloween: Even Scarier
Scarce Halloween: Even Scarier
At our house, Halloween is second only to Christmas. The kids and I start planning for Halloween the way a middle school girl with a crush starts planning her fantasy wedding. We'll be on our way to the city pool on a hot day in June and my son will say, "I was thinking about a zombie…" Immediately we all know he is sharing his ideas concerning his choice of costume for All Hallow's Eve. Once last spring we were sitting in a dark matinee, watching an animated flick when my daughter leans over and whispers, "Now THAT would make a great costume…" We made notes for future reference.
Perhaps it's the fact that I was a theatre major in college. Maybe it is because I spent my childhood honing my impersonations of friends and family. (my mother would say, "stop acting like so-n-so, be yourself for once!") It could be my life-long obsession with publicly lip-syncing to the music broadcast in stores and restaurants. The fact that I married a man who shares my habit of randomly breaking into foreign accents at the slightest provocation doesn't help. My daughter and I save all our false eyelashes and wear them whenever the urge hits us. The purple ones are especially nice. It is not uncommon for a leftover Halloween wig to float around the house for months. I once had a red devil wig that adorned someone's head at least once a month for a year. I even wore it to a PTO meeting.
Choosing the right Halloween costume is a cherished ritual in our family; one that demands great patience. Some folks might spend an entire month deciding on the perfect anniversary gift. We spend eleven months discussing next year's "show". My mother was a professional seamstress for years, and yet sewing never interested me. Should one of the kids need a cape to accompany the perfect costume, I am suddenly a needle-wielding wizard. For kicks, my daughter will look at costumes online. "Mom, look at this fairy – why is her skirt so short?" The selection is not what it was back in the day. Cruising through Halloween catalogs seems like cheating anyway when you could, instead, lose yourself in a veritable vortex of hot glue guns and tin foil, papier mache and felted hats, feathers and fake scabs and Lee press-on nails painted black. The thrill is in the sheer invention of the costume itself. Some people wear a costume. We become the costume. We pride ourselves on the craftsmanship of our works. We are total snobs even when we're out doing "the rounds". "Awwww….a fairy. How cute she is…that was in the catalog….I saw that one at WalMart…"
For most kids, the big night is all about the candy score. This is good for us, as well, but what other time of year can you walk the streets looking like you were just chained to Jabba the Hut, or maybe hit by an eighteen wheeler? I could actually be Sister Teresa – you know, instead of simply being compared to her. You can be anything you want! And this is where it gets interesting. Not only is Halloween as we know it changing for the worse – er, I mean safer – but the whole costume business is changing, too.
When I was a young'un, my Mom made all of our costumes. I was Princess Leia three times - one for each movie. My brother was Yoda (I'll never forget the green papier mache ears my mom made for him - and the old people cried, "Look at that ADORABLE viking!!") We were hobos, Ghost Busters, monsters, an Indian with a papoose and a quiver of arrows...the list goes on and on.
It wasn't just the parade of costumes - it was the FOOD. I knew I was a Foodie early on when I could not wait - at the tender age of 6 - to climb the endless concrete steps to Mrs. Walter's house so I could get one of her prized home-made caramel popcorn balls. She would wrap them in Saran wrap and secure the top with an orange ribbon - those popcorn balls were the size of my face and I couldn't wait to get home and eat one! And Mrs. Walter's wasn't the only kind-hearted soul who made goodies for Halloween. We racked up on cookies, candy, home-made taffy, brownies and more. NO ONE bakes for Trick-or-Treaters anymore. The Mrs. Waletr's of the World don't want to be accused of putting needles and razor blades in their lemon bars.
Enough reminiscing. Back to our present day situation, I note that our neighborhood was once the hub of Halloween-night-activity, complete with houses pumping out candy and enough giant inflatable monsters and polyester spider webs to top off a landfill. As each year passes, more porch lights are extinguished and less candy hits the bottom of our orange plastic pumpkin buckets. It's almost personal, like rejection in it's ghostly form. Those darkened porches are sending out a message that whispers, "Grow up." Not even the countless churches and their trunk-or-treats can replace the good old-fashioned feeling of door-to-door adventure on a night when you can be whoever you wanted to be.
Candy is dangerous and bad for you. Roaming the streets at night is dangerous and bad for you. Dressing up like Lady GaGa in her prison video is dangerous and bad for you…OK that one might be true. The kids and I haven't lost hope. We're ready for this year and we're going all out. With our recycled earth-friendly treat bags in hand, we will set out for yet another adventure as we pillage this year's crop of sugar-and-gluten-free candy and say hello to a dozen or so ballerinas, firemen and jaded, weary parents(my favorite costume) ready to call it a night. Talk about spooky….
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A new study has found out that one-third of US homeless people are obese probably because of cheap foods that they eat which often contain high levels of fats and sugars.
Researchers from the Oxford University and the Harvard Medical School have found that obesity is very common among the homeless as it is among the general non-homeless population.
Scientists attribute the cause of this phenomenon to the instantly satisfying food with high calorie content. Another reason could be that bodies experiencing chronic food shortages adapt by storing fat reserves.
Researchers had conducted a study on 5,632 homeless men and women in Boston. They had collected medical records at 80 hospital and shelter sites for the homeless in Boston, using data from the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which is one of the largest adult homeless study populations.
They found that just 1.6 percent were 'underweight' whereas one-third of them were classed as morbidly obese. Morbidly obese are referred to people who have 50 to 100 percent or 100 pounds above their ideal body weight.
The authors also compared the BMI of the US homeless adults with 5,555 non-homeless adults, using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. They found that obesity amongst the homeless (32.3 percent) was almost as high as among the general population (33.7 percent).
The mean BMI among homeless adults was 28.4 kg per metre squared compared with 28.6 kg per metre squared among the general non-homeless population. However, homeless women had a significantly higher percentage of obesity than non-homeless women.
This study highlights the importance of the quality, as well as the quantity, of food that the homeless are consuming.
"This research shows that this paradox may affect homeless people as well. Obesity among the homeless population could be due to the tendency to buy cheap, low-nutrient dense but highly caloric foods in the setting of limited resources. Another factor could be the physiological changes that occur in the body in the face of inconsistent food intake," said Katherine Koh, researcher at the University of Oxford, in a statement.
"To our knowledge, this is the first study to rigorously evaluate whether obesity is a problem among the homeless in the US as very little research has been done in this area. This study highlights the importance of the quality, as well as the quantity, of food that the homeless are consuming," said Paul Montgomery, Professor of Psycho-Social Interventions at the University of Oxford, in a statement.


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Implementing an enterprise imaging archive is a process requiring a great deal of planning and due diligence to best determine which vendor solution will best meet the needs of your organization in a timely, cost-effective way. While PACS are still the industry standard, the neutral archive approach is gaining traction among a number of providers.
But, will a VNA support your organization's strategy equally? When developing your image-storage strategy, you want to be certain that any enterprise imaging solution will allow you to:
- Operate within your hospital's four walls as well as communicate externally
- Plan for expansion as more and more imaging studies are presented to the system
- Migrate data from an old PACS to a new system
- Manage and retain data specific to your organization's unique requirements
Directing patient care within your own facility is difficult enough, but when you consider performing that function across numerous PACS, the outcome could be less than ideal, especially with the wrong VNA.
Hidden Costs to Implementing Enterprise Imaging
At the outset, putting enterprise imaging into operation is an expensive proposition. While many hospitals and radiology practices consider imaging to be a patient-care issue, the costs associated with transferring external media, like image CDs, can be considerable. When you factor in physical costs, staff time, courier services and the likelihood that the CD isn't compatible with the destination hospital's PACS, your hidden costs can reach six figures.
You can always implement your enterprise imaging strategy in stages, but it's crucial to prioritize which data is most important to migrate.
What's Your Enterprise Imaging Strategy?
According to market research firm, KLAS, of the providers they interviewed regarding their enterprise imaging strategy, 27% (the highest figure) stated that their implementation approach would be archive-centric. Clearly, managing legal liability is an important consideration when retaining imaging files.
The McKesson Enterprise Image Repository™ with its retention management feature allows users to define rules that are specific to their organization's retention policies. In addition, it gives hospital administrators the flexibility to set retention/purge rules per facility, depending on different jurisdictional requirements.
In the brave new world of hospital interoperability, sharing is caring. Keeping data sitting in silos is no longer an option. Quick image reads and the ability to share and manage data across all the –ologies is the new normal. Health care reform is speeding things along; coordinating care is now a mandate for reimbursements, creating a sense of urgency for implementing the right enterprise imaging solution.
Has your organization developed an enterprise imaging strategy? If so, I encourage you to share any advice for our readers, based on your experience, via a comment below.
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What do you do for helping others in your community?
I find helping others in the community at the local food pantry. I write for resources, donations, grants, sample food products, ect. and give my ideas for fund raisers at our Task Force meetings. This allows me to confidence in helping others in need, self worth, doing what the Lord ask of my talents to do. My time goes by fast as we plan for many events and fundraisers.
Also help at local in town Red Cross blood dries for several years now. Saw my old college up the street go raise above their normal goal to 114% of their goal this past April! That puts our community of blood drives to shame!
What are your feelings, your sense of community devotion, helping where you are able in community events?
I grew up in a Slovak neighborhood where we took care of our own and others who were less fortunate with food, goodies, and companionship, some one to talk with on the lonely evenings! Grandpa Bill
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Sometimes I work with the Legal Clinic for Elder & Disabled Law. I'm certified in CPR and those trained are going to be sent text messages when a person in their area is in need of CPR so that someone can be available immediately instead of waiting for Paramedics. Program hasn't started yet. I'm also going to be tutoring indigent students at Chicago city colleges through WyzAid. I tutor with WyzAnt and they are starting a volunteer group called WyzAid. If anyone is interested in volunteering with WyzAid, I can give you the contact info.
Hi1 This is a geat post. We can all benefit so much by reaching out to others. I think that when we focus on the needs of others, we take our mind off of our own problems, and we may actually feel better in the process. And when we give, we also receive. Thanks for this!
I love to do volunteer work in the community…makes me feel good and sets the tone of my day. I work with the Food Bank, for a number of years…work with local Christian orgization that helps with food, clothes, medicines, etc; volunteer work at my Church, once a month…hospital auxiliary…It is kinda like a pay back for all that has been done…
I volunteer at the local library once a week. I've taught some sewing at the local Boy's and Girl's Club. I belong to a local quilt guild and twice a year, we make and donate around 80 quilts at a time to the County Sheriff's Department to distribute to people that need them,(e.g. given to both children and adults who might have been in accidents or been burned out of their homes, or children taken into custody for various reasons etc). These quilts are called "Cruiser Quilts" because they are carried and distributed from the police cruisers. I've worked with the ADA on their Walk for Diabetes and worked on fund-raising for our county hospice. This retired life is busy and I love it. In helping others who are less fortunate, it helps us count our blessings. I'm thinking of getting involved with Literacy Volunteers…just need to find a convenient time slot!
It's a good feeling to know you have helped other in time of need! God Bless, Grandpa Bill
I was a volunteer firefighter/first responder for 6 years, had to move and quit the department. In the fall and winter of 06 I helped with the AWANA group at our church until my disability said no more. Through the grace of God I am able to get around a bit better again so last Sunday I went with members of our church to help with the Sunday Service at our local convelescent center. It was awesome again to feel useful again.
Bill as far as cats go I did not volunteer for it but ended up with some abandonded cats, 1 ferall and a couple strays. Cat hair tons I think I have problems with hair balls too. Cough Cough.
I was very active at the Matthew House till she found out I had neuropathy, was not allowed to volunteer there since. Was turned down at our local hospital red coat volunteers due to me using a wheeled walker - liability issue! Shame to waste the talent I had working with others!
Bill, I think that you have forgotten something really BIG! You come here to learn and also To Help Others. If you post 1000 times and only once what you say helps to improve or save 1 life your volunteering here has paid for itself a thousand fold. The knowledge you have is invaluale. Never forget how awesome you are.
God bless you,
I volunteer with two local woman and child shelters. A group of us try to make it a
more friendly place by providing afghans,quilts,small personal items such as slippers,
hats,shawls and so forth. These go with people as they move into apartments or are
relocated by Salvation Army. Another sister group provide suitcases,backpacks and so
on. I help with the serving of meals at two local churches which serve a supper meal.
There are always ways to donate time and energy.
I encourage everyone to look into volunteering.
That is great Spiritwalker, God Bless You, Grandpa Bill
Well as someone that needs to use the local food pantry to supplement the small amount of food stamp money I get, I just want to say thank you to all those that volunteer. You have no idea how much it means to me and my family. If everyone was so kind this world would be a better place >>hugs
We all need to share with others as the early Christians did in Acts. Grandpa Bill
I work with Basset Hound Rescue-you would not believe how many hounds get turned in to us or just abandoned. They are such cute puppies with long ears and big eyes, but then they grow up to be large stubborn hounds who drool everywhere and pretty much do what they want most of the time (unless you bribe them with food!) and then people don't want them and give them up. So we find them good homes.
My house is wall to wall hair and slobber, and I love it!!
We got cat hair from a Mane Coon Cat, all black and gray over te kitchen table and dinin room table too! He loves me to pet him wihle I read the morning paper! What a survivor, he lived ouitdooors for 2 1/2 winters before he stepped into our home just before Christmas this past winter! We fed him al that time, 2x a day., loved and purred to us! Was like God sent hiom to us as a Christmas gift! Now he loves all who come into our home, for this is his home also! God Bless, Grandpa Bill
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For those that didn't see my facebook link to pinterest, here's my very favourite pallet inspiration photo's. I really love the rustic aspect of them, with crisp whites and greys, gorgeous. Also, if you're looking for more home inspiration, other than online, Holly Becker (from decor8 blog) has just released Decorate Workshop, a companion to her fabulous book, Decorate.
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I went to see "The Devil Wears Prada" after work last night and it was good. I'm so glad I read the book first.
As soon as I got home, after calling Capt of course, I finished reading "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen. That is an amazing novel....surprising, funny and poignant. I cried. But I'm not sure if I cried because of the amazing way the story ended or because of the fact that I never had any grandparents while growing up. They all died rather quickly before I was 5, so I only have a few memories of them. The book is about an elderly (93 year old) man reminising about how and why he joined a traveling circus in his 20's. I've never had anyone in my life that was elderly and full of interesting memories, and if I did, I would cherish him/her.
Well,next week I start vacation and I plan on reading more bestsellers. I'm starting off by going to Capt's house to take care of his children while he takes a course all day Saturday. Em, my neice is coming with me. On Monday, Vacation Bible School starts out by him, so I signed Em up and I will be helping out after VBS.
PookieBear wants to learn how to cook during that time. When I asked her exactly what she wanted to start with he asked me to show her how to make Tuna Helper....ugh! PookieBear and Boy are picky eaters, I'm not used to that. They both love canned ravioli and spaghetti-os yet eat lots of healthy stuff too. Maybe I'll teach her how to make sloppy joe's from scratch. Maybe she will get excited about doing a little gourment cooking as well. Hey, I can dream, can't I? I love gourmet cooking....it's very relaxing to me.
Then on Thursday I have a flight to SC to visit Mom and Dad. I can't wait to see how much Mom has improved. I leave them on Sunday.
But in order for me to take the week off, I have to work twice as hard as usual to get everything done. That means getting to work early and leaving late, no lunch breaks and more stress. I need to get out of this line of work. Really.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Oh Yeah, I Saw the Movie and Read the Book
I went to see "The Devil Wears Prada" after work last night and it was good. I'm so glad I read the book first.
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- Oh, The Joys said...
Funny - my parents call me Pookie Fritz!
- MugwumpMom said...
Getting out of "this line of work"...yeah, I can relate. Being in the middle of courses and training to attempt to change career's mid life only has me chomping at the bit even more...need....patience....now!!
Hope you don't get too busy and stressed and have a great vacation. Will be able to get online while you're gone?
- theresa said...
Rena: Yes, I will be able to get online. Capt not only has online access, his whole house is wireless everything. I can even print from my laptop without plugging into anything. And when my laptop enters his house I'm networked with all his computers. Capt's a techno geek. As for my parent's condo in SC. I pirate someone else's wireless, there's usually 6 or 7 to chose from. Am I admitting something bad here? I have no clue.
- Caryn said...
You just reminded me that I received THREE new books today from the library. Special orders that all came in at once.
And thanks for the tip on reading The Devil Wears Prada first. I usually do read the book first, but I was thinking of skipping it this time since it seems like every single movie out now is based on a book. It's ridiculous!
- Monica said...
Boy have I been busy. I had to catch up on my reading of you!
I do lament your not having had the full grandparent experience. They are truly a joy. My father's mother was my best friend. But I suppose the next best thing is to BE a grandparent and that one you can relish when it's your turn. You're too young right now!
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There's no question that the No. 3 Mount St. Joseph boys basketball team has revolved around the All-Metro guard tandem of Kameron Williams and Phil Booth the past two seasons.
But behind them has been a steady group of contributors.
In Monday's 42nd Baltimore Catholic League championship game against No. 6 Archbishop Spalding, Mount St. Joseph's contributors stepped up in an even bigger way. Senior forward Charlie Jones, junior forward Kyle Doran and junior guard Jaylen Adams all made big baskets and other important plays. And when Booth and Williams got fully on track in the second half, the Gaels had comfortably found their way to a second straight BCL crown with a 73-56 victory over the Spalding at Loyola University's Reitz Arena.
Jones finished with a game-high 17 points to lead four Gaels in double figures. Williams finished with 14, Adams had 12 and Booth, who was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player, scored 10 points. Doran did his work early with three baskets to keep his team in control. Joining Booth on the All-Tournament Team was Williams, Spalding's Earl Potts and Jourdan Grant, Mount Carmel's Corey Groom and John Carroll's Kimbal Mackenzie.
"We came out as a team and played real well, everybody contributed in every way. We did what we had to do and we came out with the win," Booth said.
It's the fifth BCL tournament championship for Mount St. Joseph under 21-year coach Pat Clatchey, who reached the 500-win mark in the semifinals and added an even bigger one on Monday. Spalding, which got a team-high 16 points from Potts, ended its season 22-12. The Gaels got more good news after the game, learning they had received an invitation to the prestigious Alhambra Catholic Invitational tournament next month in Cumberland with St. Frances also earning a bid.
The Cavaliers had a 22-16 lead with just under four minutes left before halftime before Mount St. Joseph grabbed hold of the game. The Gaels dominated the final minutes at both ends — beating the Cavaliers down the floor for some easy points, getting consecutive basket from Jones and hitting four straight free throws. When Adams hit a 3-pointer with 17 seconds left, the Gaels had completed a 13-0 run that gave them a 29-22 halftime lead. Of the 29 first-half points, Williams accounted for only six and Booth had yet to score.
"We tell our guys a lot of times that not everybody can be a star but everybody gets the chance to shine once awhile and the role players stepped up and got the job done for us tonight," Clatchey said.
The Cavaliers would stay close for much of the third quarter behind Grant and Potts. When Potts drove the lane and finished off his second dunk in as many possessions, the Gaels lead was at 43-36 with 2:24 to play.
But Jordan McNeil answered with consecutive baskets to start a 6-1 run that gave the Gaels a 49-37 lead going into the fourth quarter and then Williams and free throws (19 of 22 for the game) closed out the win.
"This definitely means a lot to us. Two years of hard work have come with both of them. It's been a struggle at times but it's been a process coming together as a team and definitely rewarding to finish it off with another championship," Jones said. "There was no one guy that carries us, so to have multiple guys step up and fill their roles was great. Everybody just played real well.'
After a competitive opening quarter from his Cavaliers, Spalding coach Derrick Lewis said his team got away from doing the things that got them to the title game.
"They had a good season, but the way they got here was by being unselfish, playing together and playing as a team and we didn't do that today. We didn't deserve to win — that's a good team down there [Mount St. Joseph] and you can't play that way and beat a good team," he said.
The tournament was turned upside down in the quarterfinal round when Mount Carmel upset top seed and then- No. 1 ranked St. Frances, 59-50, in the quarterfinal round last Thursday. The Cougars became only the second eighth seed to knock off the favorite in the tournament's 42 years.
St. Frances had dominated the regular season — going 13-1 — and had soundly defeated Mount St. Joseph in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship, 75-62, on Feb. 17 at UMBC. With the Panthers eliminated at the start, the BCL tournament was wide open with Mount St. Joseph taking advantage at the end.
Boys basketball
BCL Championship
(at Loyola University)
3 Mount St. Joseph 73, 6 Spalding 56
S – Grant 11, Jefferson 11, Potts 16, Meiklejohn 8, Harris 8, McRoy 2. Totals: 20 10-16 56.
MSJ – Adams 12, Jones 17, Doran 6, Williams 14, Barnes 8, Booth 10, McNeil 6. Totals: 25 19-22 73.
Half: MSJ, 29-22


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As is the case for many American families, my grandparents immigrated to the United States with very little knowledge of the English language. My dad's father worked as a laborer for the city of Berlin, N.H., keeping the streets clean. My mom's father worked in a pulp and paper mill – dangerous work that cost him his eyesight in one eye. My mother became her high school class valedictorian. My father used his G.I. bill benefits to earn a two-year business degree and worked for a single employer – General Electric – for his entire career.
One of the most important threads linking the generations of our family is the unflagging belief in the power of education to create better futures. Schools were the bedrock of the communities in which we were raised. Teachers were respected, even revered. Even though she currently lives with Alzheimer's disease, my mom, who can no longer remember all of her grandchildren, can vividly recall sweet stories about the teachers who inspired her as a girl.
For me, witnessing the decline of public education in North Carolina, and especially here in Alamance County, is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. More than any preceding generation, our children and grandchildren will require a world-class education to survive in a global economy. They will compete for jobs with people from Bangalore, Shanghai and Zurich. A young person entering today's workforce will hold an estimated 29 different jobs over the course of his or her lifetime, and must be prepared to adapt to breathtaking technological changes to come.
Excellent teachers are at the very center of great schools, and yet we have allowed teacher pay in North Carolina to slip to 46th place among the 50 states. Alamance County is well below the state average on that critical measure. My parent's generation supported bond referendums to build new school facilities when they were required. In Alamance County, well over 1,000 students have a trailer as their classroom. We must do better.
Here are some ideas that I believe our community needs to talk about:
Each of us has a stake in making things better for the next generation. It is a responsibility for which the "greatest generation" sacrificed, and we owe it to our children and grandchildren to emulate their selflessness.
Leo M. Lambert
Leo Lambert is the president of Elon University. His daughters are graduates of Williams High School.


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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Duct tape anyone?
6 comments:
- Anne Carlson said...
I'm glad I'm not the only one in the family not feeling up to par. You are a little young to be falling apart, though. That usually waits for 40...
- June 24, 2008 at 10:28 PM
- 209Mike said...
Wow, we are in the same boat on the knees. It's so funny you mentioned the other meanings for "Fire Down Below" - When I put that down on the blog I was specifically thinking that you and I would be the dirty thinkers.
- June 24, 2008 at 11:12 PM
- Victoria said...
Um, thanks... I guess... ;-) I suppose that means my true personality is comes through my writing here. Which could be seen as a decidedly mixed blessing...
- June 24, 2008 at 11:15 PM
- Kevin said...
Ahhh, take it easy, you'll rid yourself of the need for duct tape in no time. I am very impressed with your swimming abilities. I can swim very well, but I've never tried to swim 3,000 meters.
- June 25, 2008 at 6:44 AM
- P.O.M. said...
I wish Duct Tape would fix everything. Would be so nice.
- June 25, 2008 at 11:49 AM
- GB said...
I would sink if I tried to swim 300 yd let alone 3000. And I wish I had your enthusiasm for 400s! Hope that knee gets better soon.
P.S. I've decided to forego any summer or fall ultras so I can devote training for a sub 3 marathon. But I fully intend on doing Ohlone again in May. I love that race!
- June 28, 2008 at 9:57 PM


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Since I had given the one I made earlier to Arlene for the HBT Summertime Exchange, I made this heart again to keep .... or ... to give away again?...
There are however, slight differences between this and the one that I made for Arlene. The long chains on the sides gave me some problem and had to be blocked into shape.
Monday, 13 October 2008
Two Hearts Entwined
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What a beautiful design!ReplyDelete
Jon, this is an absolutely exquisite intertwined heart design! I love how all your patterns are always so appealing to the eye! It captures the beauty of tatting in a most aesthetic way. I cannot say that about everyt "intertwined heart" pattern I've seen in tatting.ReplyDelete
This is gorgeous, Jon! Will a new book be in the works including this pattern?ReplyDelete
Thank you, thank you.ReplyDelete
It is growing to be one of my favorite heart design.
Tattingchic, I enjoyed the last visit to your blog - hilarious.
Tattycat, if I were to start a count, I don't how many designs that I have come up with that are still waiting for the patterns to be written or charted, *sigh*
This is really pretty Jon!ReplyDelete
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Sunday, October 8, 2017
Spelling Bee Sew Along
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What a fun quilt. You have made great progress.ReplyDelete
Your Bee Happy quilt is so adorable! I love the pumpkins! Looks like the Spelling Bee one will be quite an accomplishment, too. Have fun stitching today!ReplyDelete
Wonderful quilt. This looks like a lot of fun!ReplyDelete
Your blocks are coming along quite nicely on your sew-along. That is going to be a fantastic quilt!ReplyDelete
Enjoy your secret project... love your "a" letters and your quilt top you are working on too!!! KathiReplyDelete
Love those sampler quilts, what great patterns.ReplyDelete
I can't wait to see your secret project!ReplyDelete
Sampler quilts are so fun. Enjoy the QAL!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, that is just gorgeous. Love the sunny pictures. I will go check out the spelling bee quilt along. Visiting from Freemotion by the River.ReplyDelete
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Wow, some exciting news - sewing for the Fat Quarter Shop. Can't wait until you can share with us! I love the sew along with Lori's pattern. I will check that out - I am a fan, too, and have the book . . . I might as well sew along, right?! ~smile~ Roseanne
Super cute! I have my eye on this book, so I'm excited to see what everyone else stitches up.ReplyDelete
Good luck with all the letters. And lovely to see your block progress on your quilt, too.ReplyDelete
Love the fabrics you have to play with.
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JIM LEE Teases Justice League, New 52 at Arkham City Launch
DC Entertainment co-publisher Jim Lee was one of the featured guests at the Batman: Arkham City launch event at Toys R' Us in Times Square Monday night, and spent some time with Newsarama talking games, comics, and everything in-between.
A gamer himself, Lee was very excited about the game finally coming out. He told us how the Rocksteady Studios development team worked closely with DC Entertainment to make sure the game was authentic.
"Paul (Dini) wrote the storyline, Carlos D'Anda was one of the designers on the game, who brought his own distinctive look into the Batman World. John Morgan, Tory Session, and Sean Kittleson from DC Entertainment also worked very closely with the Rocksteady guys to make sure that all the lore was consistent with the world of Batman, while they freely adapted the world of Batman," said Lee.First Fan & Owner
of Arkham City!He went on to point out the slightly altered looks of the villains in the game, and how it's fun to see them move into a different "slightly tweaked" style for this other medium.
The DCE Co-publisher hopes the game will bring people into comics, too, and spoke of the Arkham City comic book, which came out in a unique way.
"This was a one of a kind project. We did the Arkham City comic book that ties in the storyline from Arkham Asylum into Arkham City, and that was written by Paul Dini, and then we also had exclusive digital shorts which were 99 cents, short looks at different villains, those came out in-between the print issues. We normally would publish the hardcover many many months after the periodicals would come out, and in this instance we thought that having the hardcover edition available in time for the game would be great," Lee explained. "We really want to make the biggest bang at that moment. It allows fans to come in, check out the comics, check out the digital comics, buy the hardcover, download the collected edition, buy the game, and really experience the world of Arkham City in all those different ways.Lee Signing Copies
of the gameOf course, Lee isn't just co-publisher, he's also the artist on the flagship title Justice League of drawing Batman again in the book, he explained that it's actually quite different than his last couple of efforts.
"It's interesting, it's a different take on Batman, he has a slightly different costume. And when you draw Batman in his own book, you light him and the entire set kind of dark and full of shadows. When you put him in Justice League, it's not the world of Batman, it's the world of Justice League, so he's a little more brightly lit than you'd usually see him."
What's coming up in Justice League? Lee gave us a few little teases.
"Issue 4 has a bunch of sharks, which is awesome. Lots of people dig sharks! Every issue layers on a new character. We start with Batman and Green Lantern, issue two has the Flash and Superman. Issue 3 is Wonder Woman, and issue 4 is Aquaman and Cyborg. So, it's been a lot of fun bringing these characters in, and seeing how the dynamics change with each additional character. So to me it's not just drawing the stories, it's telling the stories with Geoff. I get a big kick out of drawing these first interactions!"But what about that strange mysterious Hooded Woman in all the New 52 first issues?
"She's a character that we obviously placed in all the books to create a sense of mystery. When we did the New 52 we wanted to put something in to tie them together without saying 'hey you have to buy every book to know what's going on.' So if you bought one book or all 52, you hopefully notice that there is this mysterious character, and it's seeding a future storyline. I think that's the right way to do it, and the storyline we have… it's a new character that's going to be added to the DC Universe, and that's the spirit of the New 52. It's really about introducing new characters, new elements, new story lines to the DC Universe, and she is one of the first!"
For more from Lee on Batman: Arkham City and what it's like to draw the Justice League, watch the full video, embedded below!
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Stash inventory continues at a slow-as-molasses-in-January pace. (That's slow as, not slow because of.) Yarn inventory is pretty much complete, but the floss contingent lags. The old way of organizing floss was to wind all the colors needed for a project around a folded-up sheet of looseleaf paper. It took a few minutes. One new method is Floss-A-Way, billed as The Instant Organizer. Ha!
Floss-A-Way is a set of tiny, tiny zip bags, complete with a write-on area to record color numbers. I got the 100 pack, so useful for all one's Embroidery Floss & Specialty Threads. So time-consuming, too.
For needles (the kind with an eye), there's the Sweetheart Needle Book. This one belonged to DH's grandmother.
As for needles without an eye, I'm experimenting with lace patterns from the magnificent book Heirloom Knitting by Sharon Miller, using peacock JaggerSpun Zephyr (50% wool, 50% Tussah silk). The center pattern is traditional, Print O' the Wave, and the edging patterns are paired Ocean Wave, shown without and with flash.
This proved remarkably difficult to photograph. Without flash, the embossed spine of the waves and other texture shows nicely, but not the structure of the lace. With flash, the graceful cresting wave shapes and zigzag trellis show well, but the silk in the yarn flares like it's radioactive, obscuring the pretty texture of the stitches. Not to mention the yarn is much more green, much less blue than it appears in either photo. Or the dye is staining my bamboo circular needle green, which is making me purple.


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Angelo Ragusa has died, goodbye to the stuntman of 'Specter' and 'Quel maledetto treno blindato'
He was 65 years old. The memory of Daniele Vicari who worked with him in various films including 'Diaz'. Castellari: "I will never forget you, thanks Caccolè".
March 15, 2018
Angelo Ragusa died March 14, 2018 in Rome, a stunt coordinator and stuntman himself since the seventies when he was a double for Franco Nero and Fabio Testi. Over the years he has worked on a hundreds films from Fratello Sole and Sister Luna di Zeffirelli up to the television production of the Medici passing through Specter of the James Bond saga and the TV series of Romanzo criminale. He was 65 years old. The funeral will be held on Saturday at 11 am at the Church of S. Anastasio in Rome.
The memory of Daniele Vicari.
Angelo Ragusa, a profession Stunt-man was a great man of cinema. When his brother-in-law Fabio called me last night to tell me he had not made it, I was about to answer him: impossible. Because for Angelo there was nothing that could not be done on the set. Even at almost sixty I saw him work for five days and five nights without ever sleeping and without losing a shred of lucidity and tranquility. Most of Diaz's scenes, with hundreds of extras and dozens of actors at the same time, who receive "real" repetitions, without detachment, have studied them in detail, understanding something that is sometimes difficult to do on set: the extreme realism that I was looking for in the staging. In some ways it's easier to blow up a car that "beating" an actor credibly without hurting him. Angelo knew how to work with the actors, giving them extreme peace of mind. His passion for staging the action bordered on poetry. For a director, a stunt like him is a priceless fortune. When Elio Germano, "disobeying" his prescriptions, during a scene in which he took many hits wounded his head against a radiator, Angelo bent over him and Elio told him: "I know Angelo, you told me." And Angelo gave him a caress like a father: "Yes, you were wrong, but do not be impressed by the blood, it's nothing".
A spring afternoon a few years ago, with my daughter at the age of twelve, we went to visit him in his riding school. Margaret was intimidated by this man with the face hard as the stone, tall and massive as a grizzly, but after five minutes he found himself with him on a horse, and when the horse crashed on the ground making "pretend" to be dead, not he was frightened, because Angelo caressed the horse and that suddenly got up nibbling. An unforgettable day for her and especially for me that I find it hard to entrust my daughter to the doctor. Angelo was apparently rude but very sweet. His love for horses was matched only by his love for cinema and his family. A simple family, very numerous and very noisy.
A true stuntman is like a dancer when he is on stage and is like a choreographer when he coordinates the scene. Enzo Castellari knows something of it, entrusting Angelo with most of his "action", making him jump down from buildings, overwhelm racing cars, blow up bombs, crashing into cars, trucks, and running trains. Exceptional actors such as Fabio Testi, Tomas Milian and Franco Nero owe to him much of the heroic aura that characterized them. And from La freccia nera to Romanzo Criminale also the TV which did not make him happy.
When I met him, I knew perfectly well who he was because Angelo (Caccola for his friends), was a living myth not just for me. Tony Smart, the stuntman of films like James Bond, The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones (and a thousand others), he considered it exactly like that. It was discovered by Walter di Francesco, another great stunt who rightly considers himself a pupil of Angelo, when he began the preparation of Ben Hur and spoke of Angelo to the English coordinator of the film, he asked Tony Scott what he thought and Scott looked at him amazed: "Angelo Ragusa is a myth".
RAGUSA, Angelo
Born: 9/10/1952, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died: 3/14/2018, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Angelo Rausa's westerns – actor, stuntman:
Keoma – 1976 (Caldwell henchman) [stunt double for Franco Nero]
California – 1977 [stunts]
Buddy Goes West – 1981 (Slim henchman) [stunts]


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Summer Learning
As most librarians wrap up the year, the prospect of summer relaxation is exciting. Cindy and I work diligently during the year to keep up with new technology, new books, and inspiring ideas. Summer is a great time to refresh ourselves and see how we can improve libraries and ourselves for the upcoming year. Here are things I have on my list of summer learning:
1. Go through all of the 10 most popular TED Ed lessons.This will not only help me, but after seeing what is out there, I can support teachers and possibly share highlights during any trainings that may come up. I have seen some of the 10, but not all. See my favorite one below....
Insults by Shakespeare - April Gudenrath
2. Evaluate all of my social networking.According to Mashable, employees who use 5 or more social networks make better employees. I want to see if that is my case by looking at all of my social networks and possibly downsizing. I thing Blythe Woolston hit the nail on the head with this tweet:
3. Learn how to make an award winning vine.I have already been experimenting with vine, but I see achievable improvement. Hopefully this article will help me.
4. Review this gallery of 10 YouTube channels that will make you and me smarter.
5. 10 Tech Resources for Kids with autism.
Well - this is enough to get me through June - I will let you know what my July list will be next month.. Later this week I will be blogging about all the books I would like to get read this summer.
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