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Spring time approaches. Halle-effing-lujah. As always, nuptial frenzy accompanies its advent.
I'm in a wedding in a few weeks — an untraditional one. The ceremony consists of a play co-written by and starring the bride and groom and featuring 22 of their closest friends.
The affianced couple recently asked me to read something about love and marriage at their engagement party. Initially, I was stymied. I write about parenting. And beer. Then I remembered that I've been married for almost 13 years, which is longer than I've been parenting, but not as long as I've been drinking beer.
Therefore, I do have a few things to say about the institution of marriage. So here's what I wrote. Imagine I'm reading this to you:
To my mind, there are two reasons to get married. One, it saves money. Typically. You get a tax break, which rocks.
Two, marriage legitimizes any offspring you might have. Not that legitimizing offspring matters as much as it once did, but given how many other rude names your kids are going to be called on the playground, giving them a break from "bastard" is kind of a nice thing you can do for them.
Then, there's a third reason to get married. Weddings are really fun. Except when they're not. Which doesn't happen very often.
In honor of Chall and Lucia's impending fun-as-hell nuptials, I gathered a few telling quotations about marriage. I typically try not to give unsolicited advice, but every once in a while I just can't hold back. Like when someone gives me a microphone after they've given me beer.
First quote. Someone said, "Marriage does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."
In my marriage, I've found we spend most of our time looking together at weird rashes on our children's bodies. We also spend an inordinate amount of time looking together at dirty laundry.
My advice — don't ever look at Google images of weird kid rashes together. You'll regret it.
Here's another quote about marriage I like: "Forget couples' therapy: Hire someone to help clean your home." The person who can give the correct attribution of that quotation wins a big smooch from me. Actually, I wrote that in a column a couple years ago.
Therapists say that couples mostly fight about money, sex, and how to raise their kids. But in my experience, the biggest fights are about cleaning the damn house. I think the best use of any extra money you might have as a couple, particularly after you have a kid, is to pay for cleaning help. Then you have a clean house to hang out in while you fight about all that other stuff.
Here's another quote I like, from someone I've never heard of, named Rita Rudner: "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
That, to me, is the essence of marriage. You get to learn just how to annoy that special person, just how to push their buttons, and you get to do it whenever you want. There's something so lovable about having that one person who knows you so, so well. When my daughter complains about how annoying her brother is, I remind her he's the only brother she has. Of course, you may have more than one marriage, but usually you don't go into it thinking it'll be a repeat performance. That would kind of negate the reason for doing it in the first place.
So, Chall and Lucia, I'm glad you've found that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your lives. Have fun on your big adventure. Remember not to Google kid rashes, to pay for home cleaning help, but mostly to enjoy annoying the hell out of each other. Best wishes for a long and fruitful union.
Anne Fitten "Edgy Mama" Glenn writes about a number of subjects, including parenting, at www.edgymama.com.


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Donors: Discusses customized report requirements and provides understandings on all customized financial reports; Provides support to resolve all finance related queries of Donors.
Auditors: Coordinates during organization audits, understands information requirements and seeks clarification in same. Provides requested information and liaises for resolution of the queries.
Monitoring & Evaluation: Shares requested financial reports with P&D and resolves related queries. Liaises with accounts & M&E for timely resolving all invoicing issues.
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Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF) is a not-for-profit company set up under the Companies Ordinance 1984 by the Government of the Punjab in collaboration with Department for International Development UK. Established in 2010, it is a GBP 50 million training fund set up with the objective of financ ...Read More

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Saturday, 15 October 2016
Goodbye Lizzie
18 comments:
- cuilliesocks said...
Aww Lorraine so sad to hear this news, what a beautiful puss, it's a lovely photo of her. Such a long time for her to share your life with and so much part of the family. So hard to say goodbye, been there and it broke my heart, but you have lovely memories of her little quirky was, hugs Kate x
- 8:03 pm, October 15, 2016
- meg said...
So hard to lose a loved pet Lorraine, I hope the happy memories sustain you at this sad time.
- 8:03 pm, October 15, 2016
- Diane said...
She was a beautiful cat Lorraine and she was loved.......
big hugs,
Diane xx
- 8:10 pm, October 15, 2016
- Christine Harrop said...
Oh Lorraine, how sad. Hopefully you will remember all the good times with your beautiful pet and it will help eventually. Big hugs! Christine xx
- 8:25 pm, October 15, 2016
- cotnob said...
I'm so sorry to hear your sad news Lorraine, she was a beautiful cat.
- 8:34 pm, October 15, 2016
- dutchess said...
Oh Lorraine a sad sad day.....thinking of you xxxxxx
- 8:48 pm, October 15, 2016
- Carol S. said...
So sorry for you and know just how you are feeling. I won't have any more cats, as I can't cope with the sadness you are having now. Sending you a big hug, Carol S.xx
- 9:27 pm, October 15, 2016
- Karen P said...
Aww Lorraine you and your family have my sympathies hun. It is so hard when we lose one of our family members, because that's what I think our pets become, part of our family. Big hugs sweetie xx
- 9:54 pm, October 15, 2016
- Erika said...
Sorry to hear of your sad news Lorraine, thinking of you.
Hugs Erika. X
- 10:02 pm, October 15, 2016
- Sarah said...
So sorry to hear this news Lorraine. She looks a real character. R.I.P Lizzie xx
- 10:11 pm, October 15, 2016
- crafty-stamper said...
aaww so sorry for your loss Lorraine beautiful pic and cat
Carol x
- 11:16 pm, October 15, 2016
- Tracy said...
So sorry Lorraine. It's never easy to lose a pet, especially when you've had her that long. Sending hugs.
- 1:15 am, October 16, 2016
- Karen said...
Oh Lorraine, I am so sorry... this post brought tears to my heart. Furbabies become a very real part of our family and the love cannot be denied. I am sending extra love and prayer your way, sweet friend. I hate that you're enduring this heartache but am grateful Lizzie received your love for so many years. **hugs**
Hugs and blessings,
- 5:15 am, October 16, 2016
- Brenda said...
It's so hard to lose our little furry loved ones...I'm so sorry for your loss, but happy your had so many lovely years with her. She's a real beauty. (((Hugs)))
- 10:26 am, October 16, 2016
- Marianne's Craftroom said...
Oh what a sad day for you but at least she had a lovely life with you xx
- 12:37 pm, October 16, 2016
- Gina Knott said...
I'm so sorry to read this Lorraine, our pets are such a big part of our families. Sending you a big hug.
Gina xx
- 5:56 pm, October 16, 2016
- Barb said...
A lovely photo of your dear Lizzie Lorraine. I'm so sorry that you had to say goodbye to her. Sending Big Hugs, Barbxx
- 5:48 pm, October 17, 2016
- Eileen said...
Each time over the past 32 years when I have had to make the decision that keeping them would only be for my benefit I just look back at the joy and happiness they have brought into my life and knew it was the right decision. The pain for us is fortunately a short lived thing, the happy memories last forever.
My thoughts are with you Lorraine x
- 1:49 am, October 20, 2016


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Najee Ali Baker, a defensive lineman on Winston-Salem State University's football team, was fatally shot at a party on Wake Forest's campus early Saturday morning.
Baker was pronounced dead at a local hospital after being treated on the scene, officials said.
Winston-Salem police said they were alerted to the shooting at around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning. It followed an altercation, according to authorities, at a party attended by students from both Winston-Salem and Wake Forest. The two universities are roughly five miles apart.
Both schools later confirmed details of the incident, and Baker's death. "We are deeply saddened by this loss of young life," Winston-Salem chancellor Elwood Robinson said in a statement. "Mr. Baker was a promising young man. It is truly a tragedy that his life was cut short in an act of unnecessary and senseless violence."
Baker, 21, had transferred to Winston-Salem last year from Dean College in Franklin, Mass. He joined the football team as a walk-on, and sat out this past season while redshirting.
Police are investigating the incident. No arrests have been made as of early Saturday afternoon.


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How Low Can Best Buy Go?
Shares of Best Buy (NYS: BBY) hit a 52-week low on Friday. Let's take a look at how it got there and see whether cloudy skies remain in the forecast.
How it got here
Best Buy should be sending thank-you cards to companies like Research In Motion and Chesapeake Energy, because without them, it'd be the laughingstock of Wall Street.
Best Buy has been suffering from both internal problems and a struggling business model. Internally, former CEO Brian Dunn is under investigation for having had an improper relationship with a company intern and allegedly misusing company funds. That's a damaging blow to a management team that put their full faith behind Dunn just weeks after he unveiled a plan to turn around the company's ailing business.
The company's big-box business model is also at risk. Consumers are basically using a Best Buy store as an electronics showroom and then using deals on online retailer Amazon.com (NAS: AMZN) to buy those same products at a discount. Also hurting Best Buy has been its reliance on television sales (specifically 3-D TVs), which are seriously dragging down margins. Sony's (NYS: SNE) eight straight years of losses from its television segment should have been a clue for Best Buy to diversify its business better.
Best Buy has planned to close 50 of its larger stores in favor of 100 smaller, mobile-oriented locations in an effort to reduce costs and maximize employee efficiency. In addition, employees will soon be incentivized with sales bonuses, which I suspect will have a positive impact on sales -- however, many of my Foolish colleagues disagree.
How it stacks up
Let's see how Best Buy stacks up next to its peers.
Clearly, Amazon has been the runaway winner among electronic retailers, with its price-cutting deals and convenience being deciding factors in driving its sales higher.
Price/Cash Flow
Forward P/E
5-Year Revenue CAGR
|Best Buy
|Wal-Mart (NYS: WMT)
|Conn's (NAS: CONN)
Source: Morningstar, author's calculations. CAGR = compound annual growth rate.
Don't fall over, but that is indeed correct: Best Buy is outpacing Wal-Mart in revenue growth. In fact, outside of Conn's, which has only recently turned its operations around, Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Amazon have all grown sales in each year over the past decade -- no small task considering that we experienced our worst recession in 70 years three years ago. What investors are having the toughest time with is in realizing that Best Buy is no longer a growth company; it's a value play. At just two times cash flow and roughly five times forward earnings, Best Buy investors look to be getting a legal five-finger discount (aka a steal).
What's next
Now for the real question: What's next for Best Buy? That question is going to depend on whether it can smoothly transition into a smaller-store business model and if it can truly compete with Amazon.com. It is ramping up its Internet efforts, but "Will they be enough?" is the question still to be answered. Even if Internet sales grow to $4 billion as management expects by 2016, it will still likely represent 8% or less of Best Buy's total sales.
Our very own CAPS community gives the company a dreaded one-star rating (out of five), with 20.9% of members expecting it underperform. In my usual contrarian fashion, I've been one of the few vocally optimistic Fools to rally in support of Best Buy. My current CAPScall of outperform, though, has gone in the opposite direction and is currently down 35 points. But don't look for me to close that call anytime soon.
Best Buy does have its fair share of problems; there's little denying that. But it'd be wrong to ignore that Best Buy is strongly cash flow positive and valued far below its sector peers, who arguably aren't growing that fast either (Amazon excluded). Best Buy is gearing its business to focus on higher-margin mobile and tablet products, which should help it maintain the very tight margins that make its dividend and cash flow so predictable. Throw out the Circuit City comparisons because these two businesses aren't even remotely alike, and consider Best Buy a great value play going forward.
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You prayed for me, didn't you? you prayed about our schooling situation, right?
I know you prayed for me, because you keep asking me about the school down the street.
and I know you prayed, because our meeting with the principal went so well: better than I could have imagined. We got a tour of the school grounds; we peeked in on kids working diligently at their desks; we saw the amazing pool facility; we spent a solid hour with the principal, dialoguing about what we would need to do to sign our kids up for the next school year.
There was a rough patch in the meeting - after the principal scolded us for the fifth time for doing something as ridiculously irresponsible as homeschooling - when I bristled and tried to explain for the the fifth time that my kids schooling had indeed been legitimate and . . . and Joshua's hand slid over to my knee and firmly, gently squeezed it. (Do you know this love squeeze? the warning love squeeze? the "whoah, settle down and I'll take it from here" love squeeze? It's a life saver for me.)
And then there were those ten minutes on the sidewalk outside of the school building when I cried the ugly cry, and Joshua held me close and reminded me tenderly that my value is not dependent on what people think about our schooling choices - that my value is firmly rooted in being created in God's image and being loved by Him - things that no one can take away.
But, I told you the meeting went well, didn't I?
It did.
It looks like the school - despite its full school roster - is willing to open their doors to the Smith family. We were given a verbal commitment that the school would make space for all three of our kiddos. We will take them in the day before school ends (mid July!), when they will be analyzed for grade placement.
That kind of freaks me out.
Now we're frantically preparing for the placement tests. . . in spanish.
On my best days, though, I'm honestly pretty excited.


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David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46.
Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the department, said Wallace's wife called police at 9:30 p.m. Friday saying she had returned home to find that her husband had hanged himself.
Wallace, who had taught creative writing at Pomona College since 2002, was on leave this semester.
Times book editor David Ulin was in New York City for a National Book Critics Circle Board meeting Saturday.
"What was a party is now a wake," Ulin said as the news of Wallace's death circulated. "People were speechless and just blown away.
"He was one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years," Ulin said.
"He is one of the main writers who brought ambition, a sense of play, a joy in storytelling and an exuberant experimentalism of form back to the novel in the late '80s and early 1990s," Ulin said. "And he really restored the notion of the novel as a kind of canvas on which a writer can do anything."


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Get Booked
Big names and newcomers delight in this collection of recent releases
Reviewed by Monica Riese, Fri., Dec. 20, 2013
Whether you're still shopping for friends and family or desperately looking for a small literary escape from the hustle and bustle of holiday travel and too many family get-togethers, you'll find something worth exploring in this group of fall releases. May your biggest struggle be deciding whether to gift it or keep it for yourself.
For our complete collection of present suggestions, visit austinchronicle.com/giftguide.


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Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. They had been best friends since they were six, spending hot Minneapolis summers and cold Minneapolis winters together, dreaming of Hogwarts and Oz, superheroes and baseball. Now that they were eleven, it was weird for a boy and a girl to be best friends. But they couldn't help it - Hazel and Jack fit, in that way you only read about in books. And they didn't fit anywhere else.
And then, one day, it was over. Jack just stopped talking to Hazel. And while her mom tried to tell her that this sometimes happens to boys and girls at this age, Hazel had read enough stories to know that it's never that simple. And it turns out, she was right. Jack's heart had been frozen, and he was taken into the woods by a woman dressed in white to live in a palace made of ice. Now, it's up to Hazel to venture into the woods after him. Hazel finds, however, that these woods are nothing like what she's read about, and the Jack that Hazel went in to save isn't the same Jack that will emerge. Or even the same Hazel.
Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," Breadcrumbsis a story of the struggle to hold on, and the things we leave behind.
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Battlefront recently released houses for the Italian/Mediterranean Theater. This was particularly good news for me as I could use these building with my WW2 Flames of War games as well as Napoleonic games since I focus on the "Peninsula" for that period.
The code is BB180 "Italian Houses."
Like the previous single level houses offered by Battlefront, these come packaged in pairs. Each house has a different door location and other subtle differences but they do look very similar.
The finish on the buildings is very good including the interior floor, though you'll have to paint the interior walls if you want to go to the next level of detail.
Like the previous Battlefield in a Box small buildings, each house will accommodate two medium Flames of War bases.
At about $13 US each, these Italian Houses seem to be a good value and I'm looking forward to getting good use out of them for multiple periods of history. The only negative issue I have with these is that they are so similar and limited in design that it would be hard to build a convincing village out of these. Hopefully Battlefront will expand the Italian building line and add a few other types to go with these, and especially a non-ruined version of the Italian Monastery!
Tom has been playing wargames since the late 70's, and Flames of War since 2007. He maintains a gaming website www.battlevault.com for the BattleVault Gamers of Kentuckiana and posts and moderates WWPD as Iron-Tom.


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From F. E. Abbot 20 August 1871
Office of The Index, | Toledo, O.,
Aug. 20, 1871.
Mr. Charles Darwin:
Dear Sir,
Your two very kind letters in response to mine, enclosing your photograph and also three dollars and a half for the "Index," were duly received, and before this you must have received the papers commencing with the first number of the year.1 I feel so grateful for these favors, which are high honors in my estimation, and so deeply gratified by the flattering opinion you express of my Boston lecture and "Truths for the Times", that I beg you to accept the accompanying bound volume of my paper for 1870 (the first volume).2 If I may be so bold, I would invite special attention to the series of essays in the first seven numbers.3
If I rightly understand your great theory of the origin of species, it contains nothing inconsistent with the most deep and tender religious feeling. It certainly conflicts with the popular notion of God, but it seems to me to harmonize thoroughly with the enlightened ideas concerning him held by all highly cultured minds of today. In fact, the belief in a God working in Nature by immutable laws of such surpassing sublimity as those whose workings you have traced with unequalled scientific genius, "ennobles" indeed, as you well phrase it;4 and for one I feel that you have done a vast service to true religion by your labors. It is the great aim of my life to show my fellow-men that Science must shape their ideas of God, his laws, and his activity, and that in so doing—in making thought free as air—it is exerting an incalculably beneficent influence over all human society, character, and life. I have never yet received a cent for my editorial labors, but from my inmost heart desire to see them help my fellows to better lives. This is the aim of the Index—to raise mankind to a higher level of thought and life: and the great stream of letters I receive from all parts of the land shows me that I have struck a deep chord in the popular heart.5
Now I have been invited to deliver a lecture on the Origin of Man before the Toledo Society of Natural Sciences.6 May I be so bold as to beg the favor of a little note from you, to be read on that occasion, setting forth your own view of the influence of your theory on religion? Such a note would greatly, very greatly, aid me in my work. The little word "private", prefixed to your first note, I scrupulously respected, and only quoted one of its sentences anonymously in my paper;7 and as I supposed the same prohibition really covered your second note, though not repeated, I have not used it in print. It would be a great delight to me if I might print just so much of these notes as relates to my lecture and tract; but without your express permission I shall not dream of doing it. Even in a good cause I would not do a dishonorable act.
With most grateful sentiments, I am| most truly your, F. E. Abbot.
Thanks CD for interest in FEA's work and for money for Index. Sends 1870 volume of Index.
Praises CD's services to free-thought.
Asks for CD's view of the influence of his theory on religion, to use in lecture.
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- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Index , Toledo, Ohio
- Source of text
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Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, "Letter no. 7912," accessed on 20 February 2019, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-7912
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Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron M. Glazer
An in-depth look at the influence of fans—society's alpha consumers—on our lives and culture.
As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given organizations—from traditional businesses to tech startups—direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it's easy to forget that this access flows both ways. This is the new "fandom-based economy": a convergence of brand owner and brand consumer. Fan pressures hold more clout than ever before as audiences demand a say in shaping the future of the things they love.
In Superfandom, Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron M. Glazer explain this new era of symbiosis. For producers, it can mean a golden opportunity: brands such as Polaroid and Surge, preserved by the passion of a handful of nostalgic fans, can now count on an articulate, creative, and, above all, loyal audience. Yet, the new economy has its own risks—it's also easier than ever for companies to lose their audience's trust, as Valve did when it tried to introduce a paid mod system for its Skyrim video game.
Examining key cases that span a wide range of consumer markets, Fraade-Blanar and Glazer explain why some kinds of engagement with fans succeed and some backfire. Throughout, the authors probe fandom's history, sociology, and psychology. From the nineteenth-century American Alice Drake, who bribed her way into the houses of her favorite European composers, to Hatsune Miku, the Japanese virtual celebrity whose songs are composed entirely by fans, the dynamics of fandom—the activities we perform to show we belong to a group of people with common interests—may be as old as culture itself.
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SAN ANTONIO – City leaders want your input as they work to improve animal welfare, starting with an ordinance proposed Wednesday that would outlaw using chain link to tie up pets.
The problem is widespread, as we found when we drove through neighborhoods.
There was the dog tied up with a rope; much of the slack, tied around a pillar. Another, with a rope connected to its leash.
Then we saw a dog chained to a tree, followed by another dog that was also chained as it sniffed a Bill Miller cup.
Down the street, a dog was chained while taking a nap. Yet another was chained inside its house.
We spotted all six dogs in just 30 minutes.
"It's not pinpointed to a certain area of town. It's pretty much all of San Antonio," says abuse investigator Aimee Decontreras. "The chain's either too heavy for the dog's body weight [or] no swivel knot, so the dog gets tied up with the chain."
Councilman Roberto Trevino says that sort of treatment does not reflect our city's values.
"It breaks my heart, quite frankly," Councilman Trevino says. "You can see the sadness in their eyes. Sometimes they're left out in the weather. Sometimes they're left out with no attention whatsoever."
He's backing changes to city ordinance. His proposal would outlaw chain-link tethers and make it illegal to tether sick or injured animals, and puppies.
The proposal would require tethered animals to have at least 150 square feet of unobstructed space to roam and put a 14-hour limit on tethering.
Decontreras hopes the plan will spark a citywide conversation about proper ways to keep dogs.
"We want to start making people realize: pets are not just alarms," the investigator says. "They're there to be part of our family and companionship."
You'll get a chance to weigh in this spring when Animal Care Services holds several meetings to ask the community which animal laws should be changed.
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The Between: Couple Forms, Performing Together
Deadline: October 1, 2018
Guest Editors:
Olivia Michiko Gagnon, PhD Candidate, Performance Studies, New York University
James McMaster, PhD Candidate, Performance Studies, New York University
This special issue of Women & Performance invites co-authored submissions that seek to explode that stalwart object of queer and feminist analysis: "the couple form." Typically regarded in its normative instantiation as that sexual, romantic, and social unit of relation that sits as a colonial imposition at the core of the bourgeois nuclear family, the couple form is tied to well-worn fantasies of the good life as well as to the violent suppression of other forms of kinship. In calling for a proliferation of coupled collaborations, however, this special issue—by way of a movement from "the couple form" to couple forms in their infinite variation—asserts that the couple form is neither a known quantity nor an exhausted entity. What modes of intellectual practice, erotic exchange, political work, and aesthetic experimentation happen uniquely within couple forms, in their most capacious and non-self-same iterations? What queer and feminist work can they do? How might they function, to use poet Catriona Strang's (2017) term, as "structures of possibility"? But also, what might they foreclose or disallow? What, in other words, is possible in the infinity between one and two?
Honoring the inextricability of form(s), content(s), and method(s), "The Between: Couple Forms, Performing Together" resists academic siloing, models of individual authorship and originality, and calcified conceptions of mastery, which lead to masculinist and colonialist fantasies of invulnerability (Singh 2018). This resistance takes its inspiration from recent interventions in critical theory—most notably Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman's Sex, or the Unbearable (2014) and Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013)—which are exemplary in their performative interweaving of form, content, and method. It is our hope that a sustained attention to what Moten (2015) describes as the "intense interaction that comes with playing with others"—to writing and other forms of aesthetic production "in which [...] one composes in real time with other people[,] [...] where one is discomposed in real time"—will open out onto other ways of writing, living, and working, animated by what Sara Ahmed (2004) calls "feminist wonder" (182): an openness to what might be, to our capacity to be affected, and to the dawning of new feminist futures.
We invite a variety of couples—significant others, friends, (critical) duets—to submit scholarly essays ranging in length from 3000–8000 words. Experimentation is encouraged. Topics may include but are not limited to:
Ruminations on and performances of friendship, particularly female, femme, and/or queer friendship
Sovereignty and nonsovereignty from perspectives as varied as affect theory, psychoanalysis, and indigenous studies
Aesthetic Couple Forms: duets, improvisations, collaborations, etc.
Couple forms of particular relevance for minoritarian feminisms
Caring relations
Non-Normative Space-Times of Coupledom
Temporalities of coupledom (i.e., the one-night stand, the date)
Distances/Proximities of coupledom (i.e., the epistolary, the long-distance relationship, roommates)
Pedagogical scenes and scripts: accounts of advisor/advisee and teacher/student relations
Dissonant Duels: the break-up, the falling out, the divorce, the feud, and other antagonisms
Discourses and practices of (non) consent
Inhumanist and Posthumanist Pairings: dog & owner, lion & tamer, gardener & garden, host & parasite
"Posthumous collaboration" (MK Gagnon 2014): ghosts, ancestors, archives, transmission
All submissions and any inquiries can be directed to the co-editors at firstname.lastname@example.com
For additional submission guidelines please click here
Ahmed, Sara. 2004. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Berlant, Lauren and Lee Edelman. 2014. Sex, or the Unbearable. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Gagnon, Monika Kin. 2014. "Unfinished Films and Posthumous Cinema: Charles Gagnon's R69 and Joyce Wieland's Wendy and Joyce. In Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada, edited by Gerda Cammaer and Zoe Druck, 137-58. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press.
Moten, Fred. 2015 "An Interview with Fred Moten." Interview by Adam Fitzgerald. Literary Hub. August 5.
Moten, Fred and Stefano Harney. 2013. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. New York: Minor Compositions.
Singh, Julietta. 2018. Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Strang, Catriona. 2017. "'Constellations and Contingent Networks': Nancy Shaw's Structures of Possibility." Introduction to Shaw, Nancy. The Gorge: Selected Writing, edited by Catriona Strang. Vancouver: Talonbooks.
James McMaster is a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. His dissertation, Minor Respite: the Performance of Care in Queer and Feminist Asian America , argues that a just arrangement of caring relations requires a conceptual and political movement beyond normative forms of care's distribution such as the nation-state and the family. James has previously worked as the Managing Editor for TDR: The Drama Review and is currently the Book Reviews Editor at Women & Performance, where he has also published. At present, James serves as the Co-Political Chair of GAPIMNY, a New York City-based organization dedicated to empowering queer and trans Asian Pacific Islander communities.
Olivia Michiko Gagnon is a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. Her dissertation, Archival Entanglements: Re/Encountering History in Contemporary Feminist, Queer, and Decolonial Art & Performance, explores how the archive is taken up in contemporary feminist, queer, and decolonial art and performance in ways that enact modes of feeling historical and historical feeling predicated upon entanglement. She holds an honors BA from the University of Toronto in English Literature and Drama, and an MA from Performance Studies at NYU. She is Managing Editor of Women & Performance, and Managing Editor of HemiPress at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.


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Many factors are included in the evaluation of these requests. All donation requests will be reviewed within two weeks of submission. Every year, we receive a large volume of requests for donations and unfortunately cannot fulfill them all. In response to the high volume of requests received, we have established guidelines to assist with these requests. The organization requesting the donation will be contacted by email, regardless of whether or not the request is approved. The decision to make a donation is at the discretion of the Tri-City ValleyCats.


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Guild Minutes: August 12, 2017
In Attendance: Margie McConaghy, Lindsey Doolittle, Marilynn Clarke, Virva Porcelli, Hannah Woods, Janice Johnson, Syrus Beck, Heidi Ericson, Nicole Kelly, Nancy Pryor, Kendra Iwahashi, Gina Caudillo, Alyce Brown and Myah Dressback, Doris Woloszyn, Judy Wells, Sandi Steele, Sue Gottschalk, Angela Alter, Julie Svoboda, Tricia Harris, Jo Van Winkle
Treasurer's Report: As of June 9, 2017, we had 30 members. We received dues for 3 members, dues for 1 member for 2 years, sold 3 spindle kits, traded an indigo dye kit for 1 member's dues, received reimbursement for Vendor space for the Maker's Fair, and sold 3 more spindle kits. We paid out monies for 2 Easy-Up canopies and 2 DVD's for the library. We currently have 35 members.
Old Business: Our next meeting, our Spinsters Retreat will be at the Davis Creek Campground. The site will be open for campers at noon on Friday, Sept. 8 and our meeting will be at 11:00 on Sat., Sept. 9th. We will have a potluck lunch and Shibori dyeing with Gina Iwahashi as a Learning Tree. Check out time is 11:00 on Sunday.
The Celtic Fair will be held on Oct. 7-8th at Bartley Ranch.
Convergence will be held at the Peppermill in July of 2018. Nancy Pryor and Marilynn Clarke will keep us updated. General volunteers will be needed.
Virva Porcelli and Doris Woloszyn have participated in the Gold Discovery Days, the 3rd weekend in July at Plumas Eureka State Park, Johnsville by Graeagle and the Plumas Sierra County Fair, the first full weekend in August at the Quincy Fairgrounds and wanted to invite everyone else who is interested! The sheep show is held on the Thursday before.
New Business: We have been invited back to participate in the Nevada Day event at the Nevada Historical Society on Oct. 28 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Marilynn Clarke and Nancy Pryor informed us about Lilly's Place, which will be opening in the Reno Rails Building on 4th St. in Reno. It will be available to rent out for workshops, etc. They will keep us informed of the progress and let us know when volunteer help is needed.
Hannah Woods let us know she will be teaching a 2 day workshop and Art Retreat on Spinning Luxury Fibers at St. Mary's in Virginia City. She will keep us updated.
We discussed having Sheep-To-Shawl practice for Convergence as Learning Trees at our January, February, and March meetings.
We will set up our Learning Trees for the year at our November meeting as well as nominate officers for the coming year.
Nancy Pryor is doing research in order to find a storage unit for all the Guild equipment, she will keep us updated.
Our next meeting is at Davis Creek Camp Ground for our annual Spinsters Retreat this September 9th.
Our next meeting is at Davis Creek Camp Ground for our annual Spinsters Retreat this September 9th.


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(See previous posts from 14th Jan and 18th Jan)
We took delivery of the Monty snuggle seat for the second time since ordering it back in October.
This time it also turned up in the wrong colour and, this time, damaged and with no feet!. Humm, do you think if Hercule Poirot were here he would be able to figure it out?
They have now set it upon themselves to sort this out.
|The damage to the snuggle seat
|The delivery man clearing glue from the hole so he could fit the feet
|The swatch showing the colour it was meant to be , and the actual colour of the chair... yes the swatch is attached.


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Yes, I'm a 'bit' behind on the Crazy Quilt Journal Project, but here is my latest work on this piece.
Green, is the colour for this block, although my camera has not captured the right bright greens properly.
All the crochet pieces were entirely stitched freestyle with no patterns. The seam treatments will have more embellishing eventually.
I love the paisley design. I might have to 'chart' that one and share on Ravelry.
So that is my April block started. The neutral naked block is hand pieced.
Oh it's good to be back stitching. I'll give you an update on how our home moving is going on later in the week perhaps.
Happy Stitching.


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Local Python script for critical machine - after exposing threats against ARP, here is a Python defensive script helping to protect against MAC Address spoofing on ETHERNET network. Ideal for critical system.
Originally written by Alan Reed, Jon Weber and Sam Cappella; the script was adjusted by Marc-Andre Heroux (ex.: syslog alert).
Simple command: ./defendARP.py -a 10.0.0.1
(if router Internal IP is 10.0.0.1) Http download | Original on GitHub
See also this corporate Solution from Colasoft Capsa:
Quick detect ARP poisoning & ARP flooding


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Pep Guardiola discusses his team's performance in the knockout stages so far
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Registering with the Practice
29th September 2016
There is a national shortage of GPs and so far we have been unable to recruit any suitable candidates to replace GPs that have left the practice. We are refreshing our current recruitment campaign and will continue to look for a further GP. In line with most other local practices, we are also looking to employ other Healthcare Professionals to assist with clinical care such as Paramedics, Nurse Practitioners and a Pharmacist. This is consistent with the recently published NHS England Five Year Forward View which examines way to help the increasing pressures on primary care.
In the meantime, the escalating workload means that, with regret, we have to announce an Informal Closure of our Practice list until such time that our GP/staff numbers are back to an adequate level. This action is essential to protect the safety and quality of service provided to patients currently registered with the practice
Every application that is declined will be given a statement from The Partners explaining our lack of capacity and the reasons for this action. Initially the period of closure will be no less than three months and this will be reviewed on a regular basis.
To view our Statement - Click Here
New born babies and adopted children
To register new born babies and adopted children of currently registered parents please visit the practice to complete the registration forms or telephone the practice on 01732 849980 for more infomation.
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I know I haven't been posting as regular as usual. Let me just give you an update. We are in the middle of a remodel project so our household is rather disoriented at this point. Our plans include finishing half of our basement off to include a family room and a bedroom. Also we are converting a bedroom on the main floor to be a bathroom and a laundry room. So it's very exciting, but a lot of work. And a lot of disorientation, but that's okay because it will be worth it when it's done!
But it's Christmas and I just can't pass the season without sharing with you a delicious and wonderful no-sugar holiday treat. These Honey Caramel Candies are easy to make and melt-in-your mouth delicious. They would make a great addition to stockings or a gift to give the neighbors. I like to keep them around when I am craving a treat, but don't want to cave to the sugar. Remember how I shared this recipe I discovered this fall for Honey caramel apples? Well you might recognize these honey caramel candies because they are very similar, just a few little changes to make them work as candy.
Honey Caramel Candies
Printable Recipe
1 Cup raw honey
1 Cup heavy cream
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS:Lightly butter a 8x8" or 9x9" square pan and set aside. In a heavy saucepan over medium heat, combine honey, heavy cream and salt. While it is heating, whisk together the mixture until combined and then bring to a rolling boil. Reduce heat until the mixture reaches a simmer (it is still bubbling but not splattering all over). Stir and scrape sides of pot down occasionally. Turn down heat slightly if mixture starts to scorch on the bottom. Keep heating until the temperature on a thermometer inserted in the sauce reaches 240-245 degrees (this may take about 20-30 minutes).
When temperature is between 240 and 245 degrees, remove from heat, add vanilla extract and stir to combine. Pour caramels into prepared pan and let sit at room temperature for 2 hours or until cool and set.
When cool, remove the sheet of caramels from the pan and cut into pieces using a large knife. Wrap each caramel in a piece of wax paper, twisting the ends to secure.
Recipe Source: healthyfamilycookin.blogspot.com
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Honey Caramel Candies
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Sending you my heart
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Si cathy ni kangen bf ya :) cantik sekali kartunya...suka liatnya..smoga menang ya :)ReplyDelete
Wow, these are fabulous. Love your coloring and the clean and simple look. Beautiful color choices too!ReplyDelete
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They are absolutely gorgeous Cathy, you've made good use of the white space. Love the way you used the stamps.ReplyDelete
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Both cards are sooo cute! I especially love your 2nd card. Very creative. Thanks so much for joining us at Wee Memories. :)ReplyDelete
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Loving your creations.
Both are gorgeous but I particularly love the second one.
You always use such bright and beautiful colours!!
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Two really gorgeous cards!!
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Cable Cardigan (with a hood no less)
Her mother-in-law has knitted so many gorgeous cardigan's for her little girl (which I'm always rather envious of) so I was very excited to get 'the' knitting book shipped all the way from my homeland (England.) For anyone that knows the short history of my knitting skills - clothing has not been something I have explored very much. I made a little rose cardigan for baby bunny before she was born and I recently gave up on a potentially gorgeous cable cardigan (for the more grown up size of person.) So this would be only the second piece of clothing I have ever managed to complete.
I asked baby bunny to model for me. The modeling shoot went something like this ....
... rather a lot of blurry photos because (drum roll please) ... on Saturday baby bunny decided she could walk. She has been walking from piece of furniture to furniture for a while now - but now she has really taken off. ALL she wants to do is walk - until she is so tired she sits down with a whimper. It is a whole different ball game with her on her feet. This morning I have already found one plastic cup, a toothbrush and a bar of soap in the toilet. She is so quick ... I didn't even know she had been in the bathroom!
The cardigan was very easy to knit - but like any good amateur knitter I decided I knew best and amended the pattern slightly. I joined the seams of the hood as I knitted instead of sewing them together later ... ... and I knitted the ribbed trim all in one piece - rather than in three ... ... of course I feel like my amendments were a success! Baby bunny certainly looked mighty cute modeling the cardigan. I think I'm going to have to start knitting her some jumpers for this winter.
And my favorite bit? the homemade label! I really hope baby Nicholas enjoys his new cardigan.
11 comments:
- sue said...
It is so very cute and the color even suits your little girl! Maybe the bathroom door will have to be closed now she has figured out what to put in there, lol! Does the new book have more intricate patterns in it as it looks a lovely book.
- March 30, 2010 at 8:01 PM
- Sue said...
Oh boy, you thought you were busy before. Now that she's on her feet, you'll be running after her constantly.
The sweater looks lovely even on the blur.
- March 30, 2010 at 8:58 PM
- hetty said...
Ahhh. A bunny with spunk! That's what I like to hear! Good thing she hasn't learned how to flush yet. The sweater looks great. And baby bunny on the run made me smile!
- March 30, 2010 at 10:09 PM
What a beautiful cardigan! I remember when my daughter started to walk - it is amazing how quick they are. She preferred to post things into the video machine, just as well dvd's were invented!
- March 31, 2010 at 1:20 AM
- LizzieJane said...
Oh my now she is on her feet life is going to be a lot more exciting! My goodness it just seems like yesterday that she was born. Where does the time go. Love the cardigan Rachael, and your little model!
- March 31, 2010 at 1:22 AM
- Kelly said...
my son had a cardigan just the same as that one, i loved it, such happy memories,
- March 31, 2010 at 4:45 AM
- Alice said...
Beautiful and the changes you made make it look totally professional--plus the label, wow!
- March 31, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- periwinkle said...
there'll be no stopping her now lol. Love the cardie
- April 2, 2010 at 4:57 AM
- A Spoonful Of Sugar said...
Brilliant cardi! I can see you making more of these now - looks so sweet on your little one.
- April 2, 2010 at 10:19 AM
- Ally Johnston said...
It is a beautiful cardigan. Well done to you and well done baby bunny on her walking achievements. It's all go now!!
- April 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM
- Sarah said...
The cardigan is adorable, as is the model!
Hugs, Sarah x
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But it's time to get down to business, students. It's time we tackled some Weird Al original songs.
First thing we discuss after going over the syllabus is that half of Al's songs are not parodies. Every other song on every album is a song he wrote the music for. These are, usually, "style parodies," written to sound like a particular band or maybe just to fit into a genre.
Let's begin.
Would you care for a song about an internal organ, written in the style of the Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys? Of course you would. ("Pancreas," 2006)
How about a song written only in palindromes? ("Bob," 2003)
Al admits that "One More Minute" (1985) is about a real breakup--I don't know what it says about me as a person that I think that makes it funnier.
"Truck Drivin' Song" (1999) may not even be the best original song on Running with Scissors, but it's the only Weird Al song (I can think of) that features steel guitar.
Finally, if I had to pick a favorite Weird Al song, this is it: the "Generic Blues." (1989)
Good job today, class. See you next time.


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I'm ashamed of my love for Little Debbie's Swiss Cake Rolls. I rarely buy that kind of thing but when you need Swiss Cake Roll, you NEED a Swiss Cake Roll. We just moved a few weeks ago and that little roll of chocolate goodness is the only thing that got me through the mountain of packing and work that moving involves.
What is your must have kitchen tool or appliance?
I tend to be a minimalist when it comes to most things, kitchen gadgets included. I have to say that I good set of knifes is worth the money and will be used over and over again. I literally own four knives including a bread knife, but they are used every single day.
What blog post/recipe are you most proud of?
I posted The Ultimate Chocolate and Peanut Butter Sundae recipe this year and I'm so so proud of it. Food photography is something that I've worked really hard at to improve over the last 18 months and when I looked at the pictures from this recipe I finally felt like a "real" food blogger! The recipe is awesome and the picture do just what they should - make you want to have it. Now.
Our blogging community is full of inspiring bloggers. My reading list grows almost every day. Are there a few blogs you think we all must check out ?
I love this question! You, Carrie, are a favorite for sure (and no, I'm not sucking up... I just love you), and these three ladies are just as impressive as you.
Back to Her Roots - Cassie is a fellow Hoosier (though I live in Utah now) and her blog is just SO much fun to read. She's amazing and inspiring.
Cooking Classy - Jaclyn has amazing pictures and I want to make every single recipe she posts. Her sugar cookie bars are delicious.
One Lovely Life - Emily makes your day better because she's so very positive while keeping it real, and she's a quiz in the kitchen to boot.


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Charles, the Testator, does not mention that his son Charles is in America. The contents of his will stating that his son Charles Blake has disposed of the property he was to inherit from his father in his will does make me think this could be the will of his father. Verifying that would take time for sure but I do transcribe this will to follow yesterday's will to allow the consideration to be made that this is the father of Charles Blake whose will was transcribed on the 26th of January 2016 and placed on my blog.
A possibility is Charles Blake, son of Thomas and Dorothy Blake born 5 Mar 1637 at Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire.
Teresia Tilden, daughter of George Tilden and Teresia Blake was baptized 2 May 1707 at Saint Paul Covent Garden, Westminster. She would have been 25 when her grandfather wrote this will.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 28 Jan 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/655
Name of testator: Charles Blake, Gentleman
Place: Parish of St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 27 Oct 1732, probated 1 Dec 1732
[In margin] Tm Caroli Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I Charles Blake of the parish of St George Hannover Square in the
3 County of Middlesex Gent being of sound and perfect mind and memory
4 (praised be God the Lord) But well knowing the uncertainty of this frayle
5 life do make ordaine publish and declare this to be my last Will and
6 Testament in manner and forme following And first I bequeath my Soule
7 into the hands of Almighty God hopeing to be saved by and through the merits
8 of the bitter death and passion of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and my
9 body to the Earth from whence it came to be decently buryed in the Church
10 yard of St Pauls Covent Garden of the West and beside the place where my
11 late wives and their Children were buryed Butt my desire and intent is that
12 the whole charge of my Funerall do not exceed the summe of Twenty Five
13 pounds And as to that worldly Estate of which I shall dye possessed of what
14 nature of kind soever the same be (after my debts legacies and Funerall
15 expences are paid and is charged) I give bequeath and dispose of the
16 same and every part thereof in manner and forme following (that is to say)
17 Imprimis I give and bequeath to my son in law George Tilden the summe of
18 Tenn pounds to buy him mourning Item I give and I bequeath to my Grand
19 Son and Godson George Tilden the summe of Tenn pounds to buy him a
20 Mourning and also my Gold Watch and Chains to it Item I give to my Grand
21 daughter Teresia Baladine Sister to the above mentioned George Tilden the
22 summe of Tenn pounds to buy her Mourning and my diamond Ring and alsoe
23 to her husband Baladine the summe of Tenn pounds to by him
24 Mourning Item I give to my Nephew Charles Blake and his Wife a Ring
25 apiece valued a Guinea each Item I give to my Neice Dorothy Blake Twelve
26 pounds per annum for her life Issuing out of my Estate and alsoe Five pounds
27 for mourning my Guilt spoone knie and forke and my Coffee and Tea
28 Equipage and all my wearing linen of what nature or kind soever Item I
29 give and bequeath unto Richard Shelton of St James Westminster Esquire
30 and Robert Deale of St Georges Hannover Square Gentleman ______
31 and good friends the summe of Tenn pounds apiece and also a Ring of a
32 Guinea value to each of them Item I give and bequeath to Elizabeth
33 Howard my present Maid servant a legacy of Five pounds to buy her
34 mourning Item I further give to my above said Grandson George Tilden
35 the summe of Two hundred and Fifty pounds to be paid to him as soone and as
36 conveniently my Executors hereinafter named can pay the same Item
37 I further give to my above said Grandaughter Teresia Baladine and
38 Sister to the abovesaid George Tilden the like summe of Two hundred and
39 Fifty pounds to be paid to her as soon as my said Executors can conveniently
40 raise and pay the same and all the rest and residue of my reall and
41 personal Estate of what nature or kind soever which shall be so seized and
42 comprised of (after my debts funeral expences and legacies hereby given
43 and bequeathed are paid and discharged) I give and bequeath the same to
44 be disposed of in such manner and proportion as my late son Charles Blake
45 has by his last Will and Testament in writing or by any other deed guift
46 or Testament under his hand and seale directed and appointed And I do
47 hereby ratify and confirme such settlement and disposition thereof as
48 my said late Son Charles Blake hath by such Will deed or other settlement
49 directed and appointed And I hereby direct and appoint and it is my last Will
50 desire and intention that if any of the Legatees herein mentioned and to whome
51 I have by this my last Will given any legacy or legacies or any person or persons
52 claiming by from and or him her or they or any of them shall att any time
53 after my decease trouble hinder or molest my Executors herein after
54 named or either of them in the due Execution and performance of this my
55 last Will and Testament in any respect whatsoever either in law or Equity
56 or in the Prerogative Court of otherwise heresoever that then and from
57 thence forth the legacy or legacies bequest or bequests of him her or them
58 or other person claiming or to claim by from or under him her of them
59 so in bring arresting troubling hindring or molesting my said Executors or any
60 of them in the execution of this my last Will and Testament in any aspect
61 whatsoever or for concerning or relating to any legacy or legacies matter or thing
62 therein contained shall and is hereby declared to be null and void to all intents
63 constructions and purposes as if no such legacy or legacies had ever beene
64 given or bequeathed to him her or them so judging as aforesaid And I do hereby
65 constitute and appoint the above mentioned Richard Shelton of St James
66 Westminster and Robert Deal of St Georges Hannover Square to be my
67 Executors of this my last Will and Testament and do desire that they will
68 permit my above mentioned Neice Mrs Dorothy Blake to continue in the
69 possession of my household goods plate and belongings unto my said house
70 until my Executors thinke fit and proper and I do hereby revoke and
71 denounce all former Wills by me att any time before made and publish and
72 declare this to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have to
73 this my last Will contained in one Sheete of paper sett my hand and Seale
74 this twenty seventh day of October in the yeare of our Lord Christ one
75 Thousand seven hundred and Thirty two Charles Blake Signed Sealed
76 published and declared by the Testator as his last Will and Testament in
77 the presence of us and who at his request and in his presence sett our names
78 as witnesses hereunto George Shelton Jas Snowden John Prescott
79 Probatum fuit hujusmodi Testamentum apud London
80 prime die Mensis decembris Anno domini Millesimo Septingentesimo
81 tricesimo seconde Coran venerabili viro Edwarde Kinaston Legum
82 doctore Surrogato venerabilis et Eg edgij viri Johannis Bettesworth
83 Legum doctoris Curie Prerogative cantuarie viro Magistri Custodis
84 sive Commissary legitime constitute Juramentio Richardi Shelton et
85 Roberti Deal Executorum in dicto Testamento nominat Quibus commissa
86 fuit administration omnium et singulorum bonorum junuim et
87 creditorium dicti defuncti de bene et fidelier administrando eadem ad
88 sancta dei evangelia jurat
With 100% English Ancestry, I thought it might be really difficult to trace my ancestors back in England from Canada. Only my mother, her father and his mother were born in Canada. This Blog will talk about researching my English ancestors from Canada but also the ancestors of our son in law whose families stretch back far into Colonial French Canada. My one name study of Blake and of Pincombe also dominate my blog these days.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Will of Charles Blake, Gentleman, Parish of St George Hanover Square, Middlesex - The National Archives PROB 11/655, probated 1 Dec 1732
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By Bill O'Reilly
Nobody won. But we the American people lost. That's because the debate was boring. The same old stuff over and over. And where were the pointed questions by moderator Bob Schieffer? I mean where was the Libya stuff? The Pakistan stuff? All the questions were general which allowed both candidates to recite their talking points.
This morning on CBS, I laid out why the debates are not serving the public as well as they should be.
O'REILLY: All three of the debate moderators will not press the issue like you do on "60 minutes".
CHARLIE ROSE, CBS NEWS HOST: So, you want to see a more aggressive moderation?
O'REILLY: No. I want answers to the questions. If you are going to say we have to be Pakistan's friend as Governor Romney did, then you are going to explain how you get there when Pakistan is actively killing U.S. soldiers. Not just say "Well, we have to be their friend." Well, how are you going to do that? When you've got a scientist in prison for helping us get Osama bin Laden. Those questions aren't asked.
ROSE: Ok but the moderator is trying to get something happening here. He is trying to get the candidates to engage each other. It seems to me that the criticism you are making goes to Governor Romney not to anyone else because the moderate -- was the goal here is to get them engage each other.
O'REILLY: Can I ask you a question?
ROSE: Ok.
O'REILLY: Did you learn one thing during that debate last night? One.
ROSE: Well, I learned that perhaps Governor Romney believes he is ahead and therefore, he took an approach not to be as confrontational as some expected him to be.
O'REILLY: But that's a perception on your part, correct?
ROSE: That's correct.
O'REILLY: Ok so you didn't learn anything because I didn't learn anything. I didn't learn one thing.
ROSE: No. There was nothing there that they said about those issues that I did not know or have not engaged on this program and others.
O'REILLY: Ok, so why are we wasting 90 minutes of the American public's time if we're not learning anything?
ROSE: Well I mean, I think they probably learned something about the two candidates by watching even though it might not have been a specific point on a specific issue. I mean there is something about demeanor. There is something about temperament. There is something about how they handled themselves under the glare of that.
O'REILLY: All right well then let's have Dr. Phil interview.
ROSE: Oh, no, stop that. It's not Dr. Phil.
O'REILLY: All right.
O'REILLY: Now the key question is why did Governor Romney avoid asking President Obama about the chaotic Libyan situation? I hope I get to ask the Governor that as we are seeking an interview with him and also with President Obama.
My guess is that Mr. Romney wanted to appear benign in the debate in order to court single women voters. Polls say Romney is running behind with them. And many ladies do not like confrontation. So the Governor might have decided to take a softer approach last night knowing the President would be aggressive, which he was. The Governor hoping that women would respond positively to him. It might work. It might work.
We'll ask the "Is it Legal" ladies what they think a bit later on.
As for President Obama, the CNN and CBS snap polls say he won the debate. But what exactly did he win? The President looked "peevish", word of the day, "peevish". And certainly his foreign knowledge is not superior to Governor's. Both men seem to understand the issues they just have a different world view.
In the end the third debate was tedious, nothing more.
And that's "The Memo."
- You can catch Bill O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo" weeknights at 8 and 11 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel and any time on foxnews.com/oreilly. Send your comments to: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Back in the bad old days, Māori children were punished for speaking Te Reo at school and Māori culture had no place in the classroom. Our education system has come a long way since then. Unfortunately, Māori educational achievement is still trailing behind, but gains are being made and public schools work very hard to meet the needs of Māori students while also educating all students in tikanga Māori and Te Reo.
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today was a cookies-and-juice-on-the-kitchen-counter kinda day
Hey remember that time I was pregnant with baby #2?
Yeah, still here.
29 weeks now, I can't even believe it.
Truth be told, I think I've been far too busy this time around to really notice that I'm pregnant until the last couple of weeks. And let me tell you, now I am feelin' it.
I had forgotten how uncomfortable it is to sleep at night.
Or, as I like to call it, roll around on a pile of pillows for 8 dark hours and periodically flip through Pinterest because there is no longer any such thing as sleep.
And then nap whenever humanly possible during the day.
Which, with a toddler and a couple of part time jobs, is like, never.
I did, however manage to find a nap this morning.
Avery got me up at 7AM, I made her formula for the day, turned on PBS Kids and promptly fell asleep on the couch. I woke up 2 hours later covered in toys and paper. PEOPLE, 2 HOURS!!
1. How did I manage to actually sleep that long through unending PBS Kids cartoons and a toddler running about?
2. How on earth did the toddler not destroy absolutely everything in the family room, minus the notebook of paper?
It was a Christmas miracle, I tell you.
Albeit not one of my finer parenting moments.
And to answer the dozens of people who have asked, no I do not have any belly pics. I mean none. Not one! I don't have ANY! It's not on purpose, and I must say I suffer daily guilt about it. Poor Baby #2 has not yet been properly documented.
I will repent.


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We fell in love with our "new" house, because underneath the peeling wallpaper, heavy drapery, and dated fixtures, existed great bones. Plus, over five decades, the previous owner invested a tremendous amount of care in the property. With the keys in my hand, I've opened the door to endless opportunities: the chance to reveal our home's true luster.
Now that the windows are bare, the walls are stripped, the floors are refinished, the central air is installed, a few walls are knocked down, the trim is repainted, and the boxes are unpacked, I've slowly started decorating.
I firmly believe lighting makes or breaks a space. While we still have a very long way to go, replacing a few light fixtures has made a world of difference. (Unfortunately I only have before pictures, but I am ferociously working on the after shots.)
The master bedroom fixture sported energy efficient light bulbs. I'm all for going green; I buy milk in reusable glass bottles, recycle everything, etc., but those light bulbs actually offend my eyeballs.
Typically I am not a fan of flush mount lighting, but there's always an exception to the rule.
For Christmas, this sexy mesh swag light was under the tree, with my name on it! Now it's hanging in our master bedroom and it's stunning.
The previous dining room chandelier, including more compact florescents.
Do you recall this beauty?
It showed up just in time to illuminate the dining room for Christmas Eve dinner.
The light fixture in my older son's room.
Replaced with this natural oak openwork pendant.
This fixture, in my younger son's room, is proof that not all vintage mid-century pieces are created equal.
I found this nautical brass pendant in an Annapolis, MD antique store.
(Note: the walls and ceiling have yet to be painted.)
There are numerous other projects to share. Stay tuned.
"Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important."
~Albert Hadley


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disse-me que é normal isso, que faz parte...
ja nem sei que pensar, estou preocupada com isso.
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Wow, just wow. . .
It's been too long since I write in this blog. So much has happened since.
- SackRace v0.9
has been released in ovi store. Well, we released it for a while. But something happened and the game is currently under redevelopment
- A lot of projects, meeting & greetings with clients, partners and/or developers, fun times, sad moments, life goes on.
- A little bit of teaser for upcoming FlipBox Studio Labs
- New kind of product being developed. Music related. No major labels involved. You'll know soon 😀
Enjoy your life, pursue your dream. There will be hardship along the way but you won't regret it.
Thanks for reading my unclear murmur for today :))