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Thursday, June 29, 2006
Jesse James's Hideout
We spent the biggest chunk of our vacation time with my mom's parents, the ones whose home I'd grown up in. Their house was right by the campus of what was then known as Southwest Missouri State Teachers College, and, for as long as I could remember, my grandparents rented spare rooms to college students.
That particular summer their only roomer was a young student whom I'll call "Larry." Larry had just finished his freshman year, and college had been tough on him. First of all, he was away from home for the first time, and secondly, he had such a bad stutter that it was difficult for him to carry on a conversation. All in all, he was kind of a lonely boy.
From Missouri, we were going on to Kentucky to visit my stepdad's family. Our trip would take us through the outskirts of St. Louis, where Larry's family lived, and midway through our stay in Missouri, it was decided that we'd give Larry a ride home.
Bear in mind that this was in the days before cars were air conditioned, and we were traveling in July or August. The two adults, two adolescents, and two-year-old boy who had arrived in Missouri made room for a 19-year-old stranger for several hot, sticky hours.
Looking back on that trip, I can't believe our parents let us be so rude, but poor Larry had to sit in the middle of the backseat, between my sister and me. When she and I had the backseat to ourselves, we'd get mad at each other if somebody's foot strayed across the invisible center line of the car space, so once Larry was plopped down between us, his feet on the hump over the driveshaft, we each scooted over to our separate windows and didn't even attempt to have a conversation. We were hot, tired, bored, and irritable.
Mother and Daddy weren't talking much either because my little brother was sleeping, so we drove in relative silence. About halfway to St. Louis, we started seeing signs that announced the number of miles we'd have to drive until we reached "Jesse James's Hideout." The first sign was mildly interesting, but as we continued on our way, we started seeing them so frequently that each one seemed to be just one more annoying blight on the landscape. After miles and miles of uninterrupted silence, Larry broke the ice and won our hearts when he suddenly spoke up from his perch in the backseat: "J-J-Jesse J-J-J-James' Huh-huh-huh-hideout," he stammered. "N-n-n-n-no wonder they f-f-f-found him!"
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That is too funny! How did parents, or kids for that matter, ever survive long car rides without gameboys, nintendos, or portable dvd players? I remember my parents told us 5 kids to count how many different license plates we could identify, and how many "slug bugs" (voltzwagons) we could spot...it kept us from fighting for, oh, about 10 minutes.ReplyDelete
that is ok, the signs are still there.ReplyDelete
Funny! He had a sense of humor!ReplyDelete
Did you go see it?
What a great story. I remember those long hot car trips too...ReplyDelete
I don't even remember that boy's name, but I wish he knew we'd still be talking about his funny comment all these years later. Nice boy!ReplyDelete
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Status: Ongoing
Alternative(s): ばらかもん; บารากะมอน เกาะมีฮา คนมีเฮ (Thai)
Manga Summary: As a punishment for punching a famous Calligrapher, young handsome Calligrapher Handa Seishu is exiled on a small island. As someone who has never lived outside of a city, Handa has to adapt to his new wacky neighbors, like people traveling on a tractor, unwanted visitors who never use the front door, annoying kids using his home as a playground, etc. Can this city guy handle all the crazy hardships? Find out in this wacky island comedy full of innocence and laughter!

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Great! I do hope the Oriental Orthodox Churches continue to grow together in unity, realizing the fulness of the Orthodox faith rather than viewing our Churches as mere ethnic clubs.
From what I unnderstand they'll be showing it on CYC (http://www.cycnow.com) eventually.
ONE 1st annual oriental orthodox churches gathering day soon on CYC
The second video on this page is a 5 minute clip of the event where each of the Priests and Deacons introduce themselves.
Title: Fathers of the Oriental Orthodox Youth Conference
One of the most pleasantly surprising things I've noticed is this is in a way a change in His Grace Bishop David's stance on the Indian Orthodox, accepting them equally as a sister Orthodox Church in the family of the OO Church.
QuoteOne of the most pleasantly surprising things I've noticed is this is in a way a change in His Grace Bishop David's stance on the Indian Orthodox, accepting them equally as a sister Orthodox Church in the family of the OO Church.
Did the General Bishop have another stance on the Indian Church?
Does the Coptic Church have an official position regarding the schism in India, or is it left up to each bishop, even if it is an individual like David of the Bronx, to decide?
The Orthodox Church in India declared itself autocephalous in 1912, though conflicts with the Syrian patriarchate continue.
We pray that the conflict between the Syrian Patriarchate and Malankara Church will be resolved soon.
Doesn't this communique mean that this issue will be totally resolved soon?
Doesn't this communique mean that this issue will be totally resolved soon?
Unfortunately it doesnt. Actually this makes it even worse.
This is not the website of a canonical Oriental Orthodox Church. A Syriac Monk based in Europe with the name 'Gurgan' was expelled for indiscipline. This Syriac Monk then approached the Indian Orthodox Synod. The Indian Orthodox Church ordained him as a Bishop (with the name Mor Severious Moses) and installed him as the primate of a new church called Syriac Orthodox Church of Europe. He then later changed the name to Antiochian Syriac Orthodox Church and has been using that as his letter head. The only church they were in communion with was the Indian Orthodox Church.
You can read about it from this old post:
http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,13828.0.html (http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,13828.0.html)
Later this expelled monk, now Bishop ( Mor Severious Moses), showed his true colors to the Indian Orthodox Church as well. A couple of dissatisfied monks from the Indian Orthodox church approached this primate of this new church (which was established with the full support of the Indian Orthodox Church) and got themselves ordained as Bishops. When the Indian Orthodox Church saw this attitude from Gurgan, they revoked the communion with this new Church.
You can read about that from this old post:
http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,26634.0.html (http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,26634.0.html)
Now this new church has come back and said the Indian Monks that they have ordained as Bishops will be placed under the Catholicate of the Indian Orthodox Church, there by trying to mend fences.
This whole thing has nothing to do with the canonical Syriac Orthodox Church under H.H Ignatius Zakka I.
It will be interesting to watch the next move of this non-canonical Syriac Bishop Mor Severious Moses (aka expelled monk Gurgan) based out of Eurpoe; especially if things go really bad in a post Assad Syria and when H.H Zakka I passes away and a vacancy is created at the Patriarchate of Antioch.


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This shed on Cockatoo Island is the film location for X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2008. Down below are the forges and foundries where the heavy equipment, lathes and stampers, generators and turbines, mostly supplied after a long and arduous sea journey from England around the Cape of Good Hope, are stored. The shed stands idle and empty. There remains the lingering smell of diesel and machine oils and it is easy to imagine the whirr and rumble of large overhead gantries, like spiders with steel legs clasping big bits of metal. Now it is all silent and largely bare, some industrial detritus left behind like droppings, signs that once these now rusted and shop-soiled 'bits' had been integral to what this place once was, and the work that was done. The Wolverine Shed is available for filming once again.
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Happy Saturday! Today we have another great CSI:Color, Stories, Inspiration challenge. Here's the case file:
Pink is one of my less-used colours, but I love how it looks together with grey. Here's my layout:
From the evidence items I used: sequins, something sparkly, musical notes (stamp) and something sweet (strawberries). Testimony: I used a song as my title and also journaled from the angle of the song. It is a Swedish summer song that is sung at the last day of school before summer (when the photo I used was taken). I journaled about my memories about the song and about the last day of school before the summer holiday and about the clothing me and my sister is wearing on the photo. Strawberries, sunny weather, the freedom of summer holidays, the nights being light etc. I also wrote about the porcelain doll which is in the parcel I am holding. I won it in a lottery in the class, it was first prize and I had it on a shelf above my desk for many many years.
I found a ledger patterned paper in my stash with a velvet swirl at the one side, and it fit well for the case file, so did the flower paper with the grey paper at the back, from which I cut two circles. I stamped flowers in two shades of pink, musical notes in grey and a summery silhouette stamp in grey on the background patterned paper. The strawberries and clef were stamped with Vermillion Archival Ink.
This page needed some flowers, so I cut a bunch of flowers from natural canvas using the Tattered Florals die. They were coloured with Distress Stains, smeared on my craft sheet. I misted the flower before dragging it through the ink and lifted some of the colour off with a paper towel from the flowers that were too dark. For the light pink flowers I used Spun Sugar, for the darker ones Victorian Velvet and for the grey ones Black Soot. I liked the grey that I got from the black Distress Stain – I misted them again after dragging through the ink and then dabbed off ink with a paper towel to get the right shade of grey.
I cut three pieces of Vintage Lace from white eyelet patterned paper and inked them a bit with Spun Sugar. The felt hearts were cut with two sweet little heart dies. I particularly like the smallest one.
The journaling is typed on two tags tucked behind the photo. After cutting the tags out, I inked them lightly with Distress Stain Spun Sugar, dried with a heat gun and then stamped the music note stamp on them using the same ink. On the first tag, I printed the song and on the second one my journaling.
The title was stamped on the background ledger paper with the Weather Wane ink.
Thank you for visiting! I hope you can play along with us this week. I'll be back later today with my Card Patterns card.
Supplies: Hero Arts stamps: Musical Clef CG279; Dancing with Flowers CG266, Large Solid Flower CG248, Small Solid Flower CG251, Small Open Flower CG250, Farmer's Market CG384, Old Letter Writing S4878; PSX and EK Success letter stamps; Beeswax bird stamps; Sizzix Tattered Florals Bigz die, Tag & Bookplates, Vintage Lace Sizzlits, Hearts Movers & Shapers; Distress Stains: Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Black Soot; Distress Ink: Spun Sugar; Jenni Bowlin ink Weather Wane, Chewing Gum; Ranger Archival ink Vermillion; Memento Angel Pink; Making Memories and Fancy Pants patterned papers; natural canvas; felt; Kaisercraft rhinestones; sequins; brads.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
The time of flowers is here: CSI #16
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This is one of the most beautiful pages I have ever see. I love to stamp also. You are a wonderful artist.ReplyDelete
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Vilket fint foto på er två, undra var klänningarna finns ...Kram mammaReplyDelete
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Cali killed it again. While the rest of the US hibernated for December, the greater SoCal region rose up for one of the biggest shows in 2011—Automotive Connection, or AutoCon for short.
We thought it would be some dinky gathering since the date was so close to Christmas, but we ended up running out of time and sunlight at the end of the day. 500+ strong rolled into El Toro Field including drift, stanced and street cars. Interestingly, we noticed AutoCon was a show more for the enthusiasts without all the gimmicks and fancy performances. It had a grassroots feeling, was very laidback and we enjoyed spending our Saturday afternoon with some of the West Coast's finest.


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5 tips for effective school ministry
Is your church preparing for "back-to-school"? This time of year offers incredible ministry opportunities — if you do it right. Here are five important tips for excelling at school outreach.
1. Timing is everything
Stepping in with an offer to help at the wrong time can be more of a burden than a blessing. That is particularly true at the beginning of the school year. Steer clear of the campus for the first week! The first week of school is one of the most stressful for everyone involved.
If you want to get a jump on outreach, try reaching out to the teachers the week before classes begin. Consider catering a lunch while the teachers are getting their classrooms in order. Ministering to teachers doesn't have to end there. Check out these Back-to-school outreach ideas!
2. Revise your offer to "help wherever needed"
Pastors and church leaders often make blanket offers to help and then lament that they are never called. School staff often don't have the time to think about who might be able to help them. They definitely don't have the time to call everyone who offered to help to see if they can borrow a folding machine.
Rather than leaving the offer open-ended, develop a list of equipment and other resources that your church has to offer that a school might need (a sound system, a portable projector, a meeting room, etc.) and take it to the office. Say, "We would love to help you however you need, and wanted you to know the kinds of things we have available for you to use."
3. Volunteer in the office
If you want to learn the needs of the school and be seen as a true partner, volunteer to make copies, run errands and provide other help in the front office. If you've done the mental work to create your resource list, you will be ready to offer assistance when needs arise.
4. Meet other needs
Teachers and administrators want to make a difference in the lives of students. Providing an environment that is safe and conducive to learning is a massive task alone. Add to that the list of real needs students bring that extend far beyond the classroom, and they are beyond what each educator can fulfill. Schedule time to talk with the principal of the school (which will be easy when you're volunteering in the office). Ask about the biggest needs in their students' lives that the school can't fully address. Take those needs back to your church and make a plan to meet them. For some advice on where to start, read ABCs of back-to-school outreach.
5. Support, don't control
When strong leaders see a need, they are tempted to take control. In school ministry, that desire needs to be squelched. Do your best to maintain a support role and not take charge. Defer to the administration and always seek to support their initiatives. If you are asked to take the reins on a project, make sure that you do it in such a way that the school — not you — gets the credit.


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Numbers shake into existence
by Edwin
We know of solar-powered calculators, but here's a unique proposition as it uses Faraday's Principle of Electromagnetic Energy to power itself. All you need to do is shake this primitive number cruncher from side to side, enabling the magnet within to slide through the copper coil in order to generate electricity for your calculations. Should the numbers on the LCD display start to dim, just pick it up and shake it a few more times. Definitely a distraction in exam halls nationwide, but hey, if it helps save the earth, what's forking out £9.99 for one of these?


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Over this past December, I had a chance to take a look at two works by the late Louisiana architect A. Hays Town (1903-2005) in my hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana.
Town's work is unique not just because his career was so long (Town was active in South Louisiana for nearly eighty years before he died in 2005 at the age of 101). Town's renown also comes from the fact that he had two careers, the first as a prominent mid-century Modernist architect of prominent Gulf Coast commercial and institutional works, the second as the architect of residences that seemed to altogether reject Modernist principles and instead embraced the vernacular of South Louisiana.
Town's career spanned almost the entirety of the twentieth century and his work reflected the century's changing tastes in architecture. In the 1920s, Town was an architecture student at Tulane University in New Orleans just as the Modern movement was picking up across the Atlantic. In his early architectural career, Town was a dedicated disciple of Modernism, becoming one of the American South's most-respected practitioners of Modern design.
But in the 1960s, A. Hays Town appears to have switched course. Instead of holding firm to Modernist ideals, he began to look back at the traditional architecture of his home state for inspiration. Town's work took on a distinctly regionalist tone that focused on interpreting (and in some cases recreating) Louisiana's architectural past.
I've taken a took a look at two buildings in Lafayette, Louisiana, by A. Hays Town which, though only three blocks and fifteen years apart, show the great breadth of Town's career.
The first was the Lafayette Oil Center, begun in 1952 and designed as a low-rise office complex for Lafayette's growing oil industry.
Town worked on the Oil Center complex for decades over many phases of growth. But it is probably this first phase of the Oil Center, with its attempt at marrying the needs of the automobile with attractive human-scaled architecture, that best expresses Town's mid-century modernist optimism.
The Oil Center was conceived as an expansive campus of single-story office bars built with warm-toned common brick. These office bars are accessed from covered galleries that circle wide paved auto courts.
Town balanced the automobile-focused site planning with opportunities for natural landscaping. Town adjusted his design in order to incorporate several existing live oak trees which today have become sculptural centerpieces of some of the Oil Center's landscaped mid-block courtyards.
The sometimes uncontrollable infiltration of the wild landscape strikes a great balance with Town's rigid and rational Modern office blocks.
Three blocks away from the Oil Center is A. Hays Town's University Art Museum built in 1967 for what is now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
No Modernism here. Town's University Art Museum is a simple translation of the architectural type that Louisiana is most famous for: the Greek Revival style antebellum plantation house. Though Southwest Louisiana rarely saw antebellum homes constructed on this scale — the plantation mansion type is more likely to be found in southeast Louisiana along the Mississippi River Road between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — Town's art museum used a traditional architectural language that was more familiar (and more popular) than the Modernist style he espoused in his earlier career.
For his plantation-style museum design, Town looked to the main house at Hermitage Plantation in Darrow, Louisiana, completed in 1814 and believed to be among Louisiana's earliest examples of Greek Revival plantation architecture. Town's museum replicated several elements of Greek Revival plantation design including its 24 Doric columns, its hipped roof, and its traditional construction materials of wood timber, brick, and stucco.
Town's 1967 structure is today part of Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum and is flanked by a new gallery building designed by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple completed in 2003. Though the two museum structures are generations apart in style, they are closer in age than first glance might suggest.


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Happy Earth Day!
There are so many ways to live a "green" conscious lifestyle, one of those being using cloth diapers. Today, Babyville Boutique has a special GIVEAWAY to help celebrate and support a Happy Earth Day!
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Bib is made from a repurposed tshirt! Front of the bib is soft knit tshirt material with. The back of the bib is a coordinating color of terrycloth, which allows it to be very absorbent. Neck opening measures 13" and the bib closes in back with a single plastic snap for easy-on/easy-off.
Baby bibdana is cotton patterned material on one side, and coordinating soft knit shirt material on the back. This means it is reversible - BONUS! Neck opening measures 16". There is a single snap closure lined with sturdy interfacing in the back for easy-on/easy-off.
Cloth shoes are 3-6 month size (4.25 inches from toe to heel) and made with a combination of tshirt material and cotton fabric. This means your baby will be matching from head to toe! The sole of the shoe has interfacing between two pieces of fabric, making it sturdy like you would expect the sole of a shoe to be. The inside seams are done with a serger, giving them a finished look. Everything is machine washable, but I would recommend hand washing for preservation purposes.
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Firstly, unstructured problems though"recognizable", cannot be "defined". Secondly, in problems in human activity systems history always changes the agenda. The contents of such systems are so multivarious, and the influences to which they are subject so numerous that the passage of time always modifies the perception of the problem (such problems really do sometimes "go away"!). Such perceptions of problems are always subjective, and they change with time. This is something which the research had to take into account. In fact a number of studies have been completed which are successful in the sense that they are judged so by both client and systems analyst but in which "the problem" was never defined throughout the whole course of the work.
In formal terms the research proceeds on the basis of the following definition of the word "problem".
A problem relating to real-world manifestations of human activity systems is a condition characterised by a sense of mismatch, which eludes precise definition, between what is perceived to be actuality and what is perceived might become actuality.
In the early stages of the research it was accepted that whereas the definition of structured problems implies what will be accepted as "a solution", unstructured problems – the concern of the research – must not be pressed into a structured form but must somehow be tackled in the absence of any firm definition of them. They are conditions to be alleviated rather than problems to be solved.
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05/01/2012 12:35 pm EST
Focus: STOCKS
The leading private-label card issuer and direct marketer is delivering the goods, while its steadily climbing stock remains a bargain, writes MoneyShow.com senior editor Igor Greenwald.
Treacherous times like these demand not just good stocks, but great stocks. We need growth and value and, ideally, something that's been popular of late…but not scalding hot.
As you know, it's May, and so we've been told ad nauseam to go away, after the first not-great month in the last four. And though the entire market sells at just 14 times apparently bulletproof earnings, and might just be taking a hard-earned rest, we've almost tricked our worried selves into stuffing cash under the mattress.
I took this problem to the stock screener over at finviz.com, and it turns out there's at least one name out there worth investing in. Actually, my screen returned ten names based on the following metrics:
- Revenue growth of 20% in the most recent quarter
- A forward price-to-earnings ratio below 15
- A price-to-free cash flow ratio below ten
- Price above the 200-day, 50-day, and 20-day simple moving averages
- Relative strength index below 60 (described by finviz as "not overbought")
I would have asked for a pony as well, but a deep-pocketed private equity group paid a 30% premium to ride it straight to the glue factory.
Old friend CF Holdings (CF) was one of the names to pop up on the screen, but I've already discussed its advantages. Today, I want to focus on another stock that made the cut: store credit-card and loyalty program marketer Alliance Data Systems (ADS).
It was put together by a private equity group in 1996, via a merger of J.C. Penney's (JCP) transaction processing subsidiary and The Limited's private-label credit-card bank.
Private-label credit cards remain Alliance Data's main moneymaker, accounting for just under half of revenue, and Limited Brands (LTD) cards still provide 18% of the business in that segment. But ADS has also branched out to run Canada's largest air miles customer loyalty rewards scheme, as well as Epsilon, which specializes in e-mail marketing. Each of those units brings in just over a quarter of corporate revenue.
E-mail marketing and data analytics have become fashionable with speculators of late—witness the success of such recent initial public offerings as Exact Target (ET) and Splunk (SPLK). The latter helps companies mine every byte that travels through their computer systems for nuggets of potentially useful data.
Exact Target is an e-mail marketer more comparable to Epsilon. Over the last 12 months, Exact Target had less than a quarter of Epsilon's revenue, but it now boasts more than a quarter of the valuation—not just of Epsilon but of the entire Alliance Data Systems. (Which didn't stop several analysts from heartily recommending ET this morning.)
Still, shed no tears for ADS. The stock has been on a relentless march from less than $24 a share at the market bottom in 2009 to the recent record high of $130. It's up 24% year-to-date and 39% from its late-November low.
Quarterly results reported two weeks ago showed a 20% sales gain (boosted a bit by an acquisition). Net income rose 33%, and what the company considers "core earnings" rose 30%. Income per share was up a mere 19%, because of dilution with "phantom shares" tied top convertible debt maturing over the next two years. These shares don't represent an economic claim on earnings, and in the meantime are masking Alliance's earnings gains.
The gains are coming from the accelerated spending within Alliance's private-label card portfolio, alongside sharply diminished credit losses. Changes in the Canadian loyalty program's redemption terms may have provided a temporary boost, while Epsilon continues to be pitched as a story for 2013 and beyond.
The company comfortably topped profit and revenue estimates, and is forecasting a further 22% core earnings gain this year. Several analysts subsequently boosted their price targets into the $145 to $150 range, though nine of the 20 following the stock still rate it as only a Hold.
The private-label cards business figures to remain a real cash cow as consumer spending and borrowing recovers from the Great Recession. And Alliance's close relationship with many of the leading retail chains should give its budding data-analytics business a leg up against more specialized competitors.
As for Canadians, they're a good bet to continue earning and cashing miles no matter what happens to global growth.
Add it all up and you have an inexpensive stock and a company growing fast in a promising field where it already has scale and plenty of sales leads among its current customers.
It's probably best not to stuff that mattress with cash just yet, while stocks like this are still around.
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The Greenwich Audubon, http://greenwich.audubon.org
is celebrating May in style with a series of events that will be fun and educational for lovers of nature.
On two Wednesdays, May 15 and May 22, there is a bird walk from 7 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. at Fairchild Wildflower Garden on North Porchuck Road. For this free event RSVP to 203-869-5272 x230 and don't forget to bring your binoculars and camera
On Saturday, May 18 and May 25 there will be a bird walk at the Main Sanctuary on Riversville Rd. from 7 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Morning bird walks are a spring tradition at the Audubon and participants are asked to RSVP to 203-869-5272 x230 and to meet at the Greenwich parking area on Riversville Road.
Also on Saturday, May 18, the Audubon is hosting a program from 2 pm. – 3:30 p.m. called Fast Food Feasts for Songbirds. As neo-tropical migrants return from their wintering areas, emerging insects and other invertebrates provide them with essential foods. Participants will search for feeding birds visit local plant life in search of insects, spiders, and other creatures that make quick treats for spring's hungry avian travelers.
To finish up the month of May, on the 25th the Audubon Greenwich is hosting Turtle Time with Ted Gilman from 2 p.m. – 3:30. Participants will learn about turtle natural history, nesting behavior, how to help protect turtles, and meet some of our local turtle species. The program is finished with a hike to Mead Lake in search of nesting turtles. This program is appropriate for all ages. Please. RSVP to 203-869-5272 x230.
When visiting the Audubon, don't miss the Birds of New England now on display in in Kiernan Hall at Audubon Greenwich through July 16th. While in New England and the North Atlantic coast, John James Audubon observed many, possibly hundreds of species of birds that lived or migrated here. Audubon painted many of these species, 52 of them while actually on location in New England, and 34 prints are included in this exhibition.
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Hi! I am doing research on collabrorative caching. I want to build the structure as follows: Jigsaw server | ------------------ | | Jigsaw proxy Jigsaw proxy There may be 1-32 proxies there. I want to modify some algo in ICP(e.g., use data mining to predict the where(proxy/server) the obeject is in.) So pls give me some helps : 1)which part of the Jigsaw source I should focus on? 2)I want to measure the performance(e.g., hit rate), which part I should focus on? David btw: how can i generate client requests? using Amaya or sth else?Received on Tuesday, 7 September 1999 04:14:19 UTC
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Now I only need Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hofstadter and Rajesh Koothrappali ... and I'm complete. I got from my daughter Micky Puck van Dartel for my birthday this vinyl 'doll' Howard Wolowitz (love the belt). She bought it for me at Animecon in The Hague. I love it. I want the whole series complete.
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I had to present on dowry laws in India. 20 minutes later, I asked the class comprising of 15 boys and 3 girls, would you ask for dowry. Silence.
Okay. "Would you accept it if it was given willingly?"
Most guys said they would.
This wasn't as disturbing as what was to come next. I asked the girls if they would walk out if the guy asked for dowry at the last moment. Only 1 of the 3 said that she would walk away. The other two would actually through the wedding. These are smart women doing that PG and no less than criminology and yet, they would adhere to a social norm so devious.
It is disturbing to think that people actually have to put thought into whether they would accept/give dowry. Why? Why do men think they are so incompetent to support themselves and their families on their own merit? Why do women associate their worth on the money that they are given in a day and age where women work, earn and fend for themselves?
This is probably because (as my prof pointed out) we leave most of the decisions pertaining to marriage to the parents. We accept our families to accumulate wealth for us and hand it down once they are gone. We live in a society where we decide our worth on money earned for us by someone else. WHY?
Imagine a marriage that begins on demands, rather it is based on it. Where does it end? First it is a car, then a flat, then a bigger car, this much gold, this and that. When does it stop?
In conversations about this on twitter, two important points came up. Pooja tells me that a highly educated girl would need an equally or more qualified boy and hence, has to pay more dowry.
Somehow this goes against what I would have believed to be the reason for the custom of dowry to have begun. The other point that came up was made by Suraj who rightly says that it now just tickles down to the fact that people want to show off. It is just an excuse to show the world their spending capacity.
A marriage, a union of two people and in most cases, of two families that can be so special and precious is being sold in market like any other commodity. Pooja tells me they is actually a term called going rate used for grooms.
Well, the way things are going, the husband mall might not be that far away.
If you want to know more about dowry laws in India. Read this.
Thank you, Girish and Aditya for actually making me write this and not die like a rant's death on twitter.


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Radu Molasar rescues Eva Cuza in The Keep (1983, d. Michael Mann):
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***½/**** Image A- Sound A Extras Astarring William L. Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Coxscreenplay by Michael Mann, based on the Thomas Harris novel Red Dragondirected by Michael Mann
by Walter Chaw Director Michael Mann's third film is the remarkable Manhunter, the second cinematic adaptation of a Thomas Harris novel (the first being 1977's John Frankenheimer-helmed Black Sunday) and the first to feature Harris's dark serial-killer antihero, Hannibal Lecter (spelled "Lecktor" in Manhunter). It is visually lush and possessed of the attention to craft and detail that has become a hallmark of Mann's work; to say that it's superior in nearly every way to the much-lauded and wildly popular The Silence of the Lambs would be something of an understatement.
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**½/**** Image A+ Sound A+ starring Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles screenplay by Stephen J. Rivele & Christopher Wilkinson and Eric Roth & Michael Mann directed by Michael Mann
by Walter Chaw The craft of Ali is every bit as dazzling as we've come to expect from its director, Michael Mann; the film is a loving coronation of fighter Muhammad Ali's myth. But at the same time, Ali is too dependent on our familiarity with its subject's life, and spends altogether too much time in slow-motion reveries of choice bouts public and personal. Reminding at times of Martin Scorsese's rapturous Kundun, the film falls far short of that razor-fine, impressionistic masterwork by aspiring to be all things to all people (docudrama, tribute, demystification)--an impulse never indulged by "The Greatest" himself.
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***½/****starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo screenplay by Stuart Beattie directed by Michael Mann
by Walter Chaw To hear Michael Mann tell it, you'd think he'd found a new way to film Los Angeles, the most-filmed city in the world. To watch Collateral is to discover that he has. I wish that there were some meat to Collateral, because even without it, it's hands-down this year's most gorgeously-directed film. If there was ever any question to Michael Mann's genius after Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, or Heat, it must be laid to rest now--he's pushing Spielberg in terms of visual gift, trumping him in terms of maturity (and courage, of course), and he's moving into an upper echelon of cinematic directors (Stanley Kubrick, for example) who, when they're on, produce tapestries so pure that you feel as though if you tapped them they'd ring like crystal.
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***/**** Image A Sound A Extras B+ starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky, Willie Nelson screenplay by Michael Mann, based on the novel The Home Invaders by Frank Hohimer directed by Michael Mann
"Look, I have run out of time. I have lost it all. So l cannot work fast enough to catch up, and l cannot run fast enough to catch up. And the only thing that catches me up is doin' my magic act. But it ends, you know? It will end. When l got this, right there, it ends, it is over. So I am just asking you...to be with me." -Frank (James Caan), Thief (1981)
"I'm catching up. On life. Meeting someone like you." -John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), Public Enemies (2008)
by Bill Chambers SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. Like the historical Dillinger, the fictional Frank was just a punk kid overzealously punished for a petty crime by a judge looking to make an example of him. Instead, he created the man Frank is as Thief begins: a master safecracker, taught his trade in the joint by fellow convict Okla (Willie Nelson, heartbreaking). As Frank recounts in a mesmerizing monologue that Caan, for what it's worth, has counted as his finest piece of screen acting, the other thing he learned in Joliet is how to create a forcefield around himself by disengaging from fear. It's not Zen detachment that he's mastered; a man of flashy tastes, he's too much the materialist to live like Heat's ascetic Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), whose Modernist house in the hills is all windows and no furniture. They are cut from the same cloth, though, in that they're acutely aware of the temporariness of their stolen lifestyles and have no qualms about jumping ship to stay ahead of the enemy.
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***/****starring Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li, Naomie Harriswritten and directed by Michael Mann
by Walter Chaw Slot Michael Mann's Miami Vice
in there alongside other millennial films about the disintegration of
society and its subsequent renewal along tribal, exclusively masculine
lines. It's a film from whose nihilism I would've recoiled just a few
years ago, but now I see that as perhaps the definitive trend of the
first six years of this brave new world (first five after 9/11, the
inciting event of this love affair with apocalyptic cultural reset) and
not entirely divorced from our reality besides. The best illustration
of how we've gone from the voodoo of self-esteem of the Reagan '80s
(for which the Mann-produced "Miami Vice" television show has become
something of a cultural roadmark) to the blasted, self-abnegating,
divided wasteland of Bush 2's America might be the difference between
the white suits and socks-less loafers of the previous incarnation to
the flak-jackets and high-velocity splatter head-shots of this one. WWI
introduced irony into our lexicon with the advent of long-range,
impersonal murder--and 9/11 deepened it in the popular culture in the
United States with an existential fatalism borne of the idea that not
only is sudden, arbitrary destruction from above a possibility, but
most likely an unavoidable eventuality.
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starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup
screenplay by Ronan Bennett and Michael Mann & Ann Biderman
directed by Michael Mann
by Walter Chaw It's
possible that Johnny Depp in a zoot suit, firing a Tommy gun from the
running board of a vintage Ford, is so distractingly perfect an image
that all other considerations are shunted to the soft
shoulder--possible for the audience to only realize afterwards that
there was nothing much of substance revealed about John Dillinger in
Michael Mann's gorgeous Public Enemies. (Possible
for Mann, too, who in the process of creating another of his odes to
masculinity and bloodshed, accidentally crafted this pedestal upon
which to worship the cult of iconic stardom.) Maybe no accident at all,
as the movie closest to this one is Terrence Malick's Badlands--right
down to a scene amongst law-enforcement officials in which our Johnny
is treated like a Hollywood demiurge of a street-thug bank robber. And
if Mann is trying to craft a film along similarly fetishistic,
Americana-informed lines, then the media is the massage as they say.
Aside from that, somewhere down the road from today, we may look back
and wonder about the sudden proliferation late in this decade of films
centred on Robin Hoods literal and allegorical, robbing from a broken
system of fiscal governance to give to (or, at least, not directly take
from) the common guy. From our current vantage, though, what we see is
the biggest movie star on the planet playing the most famous and
admired "public enemy" of the outlaw era, 1931-1935 edition. While
there are intimations now and again of darker contextual rumblings,
they don't feel convicted; and in the end, there's left just a
collection of beautiful pictures as inert as a coffee-table book.
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starring William L. Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox
screenplay by Michael Mann, based on the Thomas Harris novel Red
directed by Michael Mann
by Walter Chaw Director Michael
Mann's third film is the remarkable Manhunter, the
second cinematic adaptation of a Thomas Harris novel (the first being
1977's John Frankenheimer-helmed Black Sunday) and
the first to feature Harris's dark serial killer antihero, Hannibal
Lecter (spelled "Lecktor" in Manhunter). It is
visually lush and possessed of the attention to craft and detail that
has become a hallmark of Mann's work; to say that it's superior in
nearly every way to the much-lauded and wildly popular The
Silence of the Lambs would be something of an understatement.
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I participated in the play dough challenge this week with Anna from The Imagination Tree. It's probably no surprise that we love play dough around here, so this was a great challenge for us!
My kids loved playing with play dough in all these new and creative ways.
Here's a wrap up of our week!
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This post was originally posted at the Petit Fours and Hot Tamales blog Monday, November 28, 2011.
From Dictionary.Com…
e·val·u·a·tion - an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
re·e·val·u·a·tion - the evaluation of something a second time (or more)
What the heck was I thinking???
December 2010 I sat down with a writing exercise. I was to make a list of things that could be different in my life. This exploded into a year of changes that have had a profound impact on mine and my family's lives.
The biggest surprise was my family's participation. Honestly, I never expected either Hubby or The Kid to want anything to do with my idea of cutting back. But Hubby was the first to jump in. Funny thing, we'd both been thinking along this same line for years but neither of us voiced our concerns.
Being the over the top kind of people we are, we started out huge and listed our "too big" house for sale. This was the very beginning of our revelation process and turned out to be the biggest obstacle. We've built and remodeled over 14 homes in the 20 years we've been married. Not once did we have a problem selling. But the economy turned what we thought would be a short process into 11 long months. Good news, we are currently in the finally stages of selling the house. What an experience this has been. I'll be blogging about it this coming year on my Live, Love, Write blog. The craziness of this process is way too long to summarize in this one paragraph.
The issue with our nonexistent budge was easily solved, we weren't able to put our attack plan of paying down debt into effect because this crazy process of needing a smaller, cheaper place to live once we sold the "to big" and expensive house. This resulted in TWO mortgages for several months and some sleepless nights. But we were able to make this (the two mortgages) work because we did have a budget plan.
The clutter that had invaded our lives and home was easy to get rid of (for me anyway). The de-cluttering process will also help once we move from the five bedroom home (2,300 sq feet) to the new three bedroom home (900 sq feet). Yikes! There is still a LOT of stuff to go through in the next two weeks (did I mention we have to be moved by December 15th…).
Our diet habits and exercise routines (or lack of) was another big challenge. We still haven't mastered a plan for this, but we do have options and The Kid and I have set up a running schedule for this coming year. He's agreed to run in a couple of 5K races with me. Now, if we can just get Hubby involved…
The whole reevaluation process has enhanced our attempts to reconnect as a family. This step is still a work in progress and always will be. But I do see that the attempt has made us more aware of the issue and has resulted in a slight increase of our together time.
My career and job choices continue to be far larger than I expected. My biggest problem seems to be which direction I want to put more of my efforts into, writing or the business angle I'm already getting paid for…
This plays into my attempt at taking back my time. Each training program takes time. Adding them into my quest for more family time and better health practices takes more time than I actually have to give. This is another area I need to work on for next year.
My search for inner peace is still going strong. I'm finding it's easier to steal bits and pieces of time here and there rather than trying to schedule it. By "stealing" time, I don't have the opportunity to reschedule something "more important." ;)
The review of a decade of life was a real eye opener and resulted in another project I'm working on for 2012. I'm hoping to combine a bunch of the activities above and turn this into another family project that will bring us closer.
Taking a hard look at my relationship with my friends was my most frustrating task. With everything I've got going, even the ideas I committed to in my friends post have been almost impossible to keep. I'm finding that the practice of "stealing time" also applies to the progression of my friendships. A definite work in progress…
Finally, facing fears and living a writer's dream turned out to be the most productive of my 2011 projections. I started writing over a decade ago and in that time I've had other things take priority. I've allowed myself to push my writing life to the back burner more often than not. Self-publishing my short story, Drool Worthy, was the most inspiring writing thing I've done. It has also pushed me harder than anything or anyone else has been able to do these past several years. I honestly see this as a much larger stepping stone for 2012.
Although 2011 is not completely over, November has always been my deadline for this blog series. As I looked back at the past year, I'm actually impressed with everything my family and I were able to accomplish. Yes, we have a LOOONNNNGGGG way to go, but I really feel like we did what this writing exercise set out to do. The exciting thing is that we have only begun to scratch the surface of what we can still accomplish in these areas.
With this success in mind, Hubby, The Kid and I sat down to put together a plan for 2012. We've decided this will be our year of giving up the bad and trying something new. Curious as to what that means? Check back in February with my first post for this new series.
I'd love to hear about your goals. Did you make any New Year's Resolutions and keep them? If so, how is that going for you? If not, why?
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Blackstar Hands-On Preview
Pocket Legends, Spacetime Studio's flagship title, had a lengthy development time for an iOS game– well over a year. But Blackstar, their next MMORPG, has been in development since 2005. It started as a PC project, but after NCSoft canceled it, the ambitious sci-fi epic was shelved, until now.
NCSoft's loss is our gain. Spacetime got to keep all the technical and design work they did on Blackstar, which means Blackstar has the production values of somewhere between a PC MMORPG and a Hollywood space opera.
We saw reams of concept art for this game, and it's beautiful stuff. The artwork was designed by David Levy, who has since gone on to design artwork for the recent Tron movie. There are galaxies with ribbons of color, bulky spaceships from the year 4011, and aliens that look like dragons living among the stars.
Concept art is great, but it's not a game. We did get a chance to actually play Blackstar, and fans of Pocket Legends will be happy to know that it's very similar. Just like in Pocket Legends, you have three classes of warriors: tank, stealth, and casters. In Pocket Legends, these were the Warrior, Archer, and Enchantress; in Blackstar, they're called Commando, Operator, and Engineer.
But this isn't just a sci-fi re-skin of Pocket Legends. Blackstar has a gigantic storyline that will unfold over months, and possibly even years after launch. It starts with the discovery of "fastgates", portals that open up the universe to exploration. Corporations are quick to jump into the fastgates, mining asteroid belts for resources and making the common mistake of bringing alien egg-pods onboard for study.
In the short instance we played, we entered the interior of an asteroid base that was overrun with aliens. Like in Pocket Legends, we encountered smaller creatures before fighting a large, bug-like boss. When we died, we had to respawn from the beginning of the level, but if you have a healer in your party, you can be revived on the spot.
Blackstar will be a free-to-download game, with optional in-app purchases for premium currency and items. In a slick move, the in-game "platinum" currency will be transferable between both Blackstar and Pocket Legends.
Though Pocket Legends is currently Spacetime Studios' flagship title, Blackstar is their baby. The amount of work that's gone into the design and development for this game is astounding, and the end result will hopefully be even deeper than Pocket Legends. Look for it in the App Store in the next few months.


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Sir John Mills' thriving career
When Sir John Mills and his wife Mary were married 60 years ago he was a jobbing actor, who had joined the army for the duration of World War II.
The Mills could not have had an inkling that they would become part of a glittering scene that includes some of the most famous names of the 20th Century.
When their son Jonathan put together a film from footage in his parent's attic in 2000, he was able to include Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Rex Harrison, Stewart Granger, Walt Disney, Dirk Bogarde in the resulting documentary.
Mills was the star of such cinematic classics as Ice Cold In Alex and Ryan's Daughter and some 109 other films.
But he started out as a lowly chorus boy in musical revue, where he was spotted by Noel Coward.
He stayed a stage actor for some years before heading for Hollywood.
Mills began his screen career in military roles and these are the ones still identified with him - films like Forever England, We Dive at Dawn and the classic In Which We Serve.
He tended to play a particularly decent and upstanding type of British military man, but as his career progressed so his parts became more complex, such as those in Ice Cold in Alex and Tunes of Glory.
He had a rewarding partnership with director David Lean, with whom Mills worked on his acclaimed version of Great Expectations and Scott of the Antarctic.
Mills has also worked as a producer and director, even directing his daughter Hayley in Sky West and Crooked.
Mills still thrives on acting, appearing in Kenneth Branagh's acclaimed Hamlet in 1996 and several distinguished television series throughout the 90s.
Any intimation of retirement has been vehemently dismissed - if a planned production of Sleeping Beauty goes ahead this year he will star with Baby Spice Emma Bunton.
So if there is anything that can top more than 70 years in showbusiness, a knighthood, a blissful marriage, an Oscar and countless tributes from your peers and the public, Sir John Mills is likely to find it.
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If you live in a city, you know that the apartments are tiny and there isn't a lot of green. That means you have to rely on the public, open spaces for a little breathing room. We <3 public space because it means we are sharing space, which means we are building a community that cares about its neighborhood. This week, we are looking back on some pretty cool initiatives, and looking forward to something immensely exciting — the OPENING OF THE HIGH LINE ON JUNE 9TH! We absolutely can't wait, look for coverage next week!
Designspotter ponders how this colorful public seating would change our perception of public space.
Re-nest reminds us that you can rent a bike for free in Downtown New York City all summer long, courtesy of Bike Around Downtown!
The NY Times covers the Bike in Style Challenge sponsored by LVMH, asking students at FIT to design activewear for urban bicyclists.
We've rather been enjoying core77's coverage of metropolitan/municipal design, especially London's Design Museum's latest exhibition which examines how interventions can be made to enhance the experience of Londoners on public streets.
Yours truly was excited to see that Treehugger supports these NYC block parties.
Core77 features this unusual and thought-provoking eye candy on the High Line.
And, what is this? Curbed reports that Frank Gehry's design for Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards is being ditched and replaced by something simpler. Read the full story at the NY Times.


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