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|The Conway Scenic Railroad
If you're not familiar with my history with Railroading Enthusiast magazine*, here's a brief recap: They've been stalking me since 2009.
Apparently, they really want me to love trains. And no matter how many times I request it, and how many times they claim they've done it, they just won't take me off their mailing list. They're like some kind of maniacal Avon lady determined to make quota.
And I can't scare them off with my abnormally large German shepherd.
Yesterday marked the beginning of the latest "You've Got To Be Kidding Me!" mail cycle. So in honor of this event, I am re-posting the following letter (first posted in 2009):
Dear Railroading Enthusiast Magazine**,
Please, please, PLEASE, stop sending me renewal notices telling me that my subscription is in danger of running out. I do not care if my subscription is in danger of running out. Mostly because I DO NOT HAVE—nor never have had—a subscription to your magazine. This, I realize, has not seemed to discourage you from sending me your magazine on a regular basis.
I thought this would have been taken care of last November when I first received a subscription renewal notice. The November issue would be my last, you threatened, if I did not send in payment. I did not send in payment and yet—and yet!—another issue appeared in my mail the following month. And the month after that and the month after that.
I do not want your magazine. No offense. I think trains are nice. I think trains are swell. I wave to the weirdos on the Conway Scenic Railroad when they wave to me and I'm stuck waiting for them to pass. I even took a train to New York City once. It was fun.
But I am not a railroading enthusiast so I do not want your magazine. To answer the questions in your leaflet, I do not savor the glory days of steam railroading. I am not a die-hard fan of early diesels (but I am a fan of Die Hard). I am not interested in reading thrilling tales from real railroaders. Nor am I interested in the exciting pamphlet concerning great train stations.
Also, I do not want the special commemorative coin commemorating your magazine. Nor do I want the classic trains DVD series or the special commemorative coin commemorating the classic trains DVD series. I do not want the classic model trains magazine nor the classic model trains catalog. And if there's a special coin commemorating either the model trains or the catalog, I don't want that either.
I'm sure somewhere out there is a railroading enthusiast who would be genuinely enthusiastic about all of these things. It's just not me. It never has been me and never will be me.
So please stop the insanity. You're getting to be as bad as another magazine that shall remain nameless. They awarded me with a one year subscription back in 1994 that didn't run out for ten years. I do not want your magazine for the next ten years. I don't even want it for the next ten months or weeks or days. One issue was a fluke, the second was funny and now you're just stalking me.
Please stop it.
Yours Truly,
*— Not its real name.
**— Still not its real name. And, as far as I know, not the name of any magazine anywhere. But if there is a Railroading Enthusiast magazine out there and someone from that magazine is now reading this post and scratching your head wondering what the hell is going on, rest assured that I'm not talking about you. But please don't take that as an invitation to start sending me stuff, 'kay?


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We regret to inform our Marvel Heroes fans that we (Marvel/Disney) have ended our relationship with Gazillion Entertainment and that the Marvel Heroes games will be shut down. We would like to sincerely thank the players who joined the Marvel Heroes community and will provide any further updates as they become available.
The game shutdown has been scheduled for the last day of December this year (2017).
After this closedown, I don't think there are very many superhuman games left.
Champions Online is still active, but their latest major content/gameplay update made the game mechanics untenable for the casual player, so I wouldn't consider that an acceptable substitute.


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"Happiness is not ready made. It comes from your own actions" - Dalai Lama
I will be the first to admit that I embrace negativity like a duck to water. Anything negative that comes my way I take it in and give it right back with negativity.
I hate knowing that something so trivial can affect how I think and feel but it's something that I'm learning to control thankfully.
I've noticed that I smile for no reason at all but because I am Happy.
I am able to appreciate the good in people because I am Happy.
... and what's more important is when I'm faced in a difficult situation that gives me a chance to act out - I breathe and let it go - because sometimes it's easier to smile and walk away.
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Got some great news which I will share with you next month - yay yay yayness!
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Back in April 2010, Leonard Fullerton was a panelist at a conference set up to talk about flaws in the criminal justice system.
Fullerton, then 24, knew the subject well. A young black man from a "priority neighbourhood," he'd been stopped often and arrested several times by police, but had zero convictions.
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"My peers, a lot of people I grew up with, have charges and stuff like that. With you being with them it normally draws you down, too," Fullerton told the gathering.
Even as he spoke, police were secretly listening in on some of his phone calls as part of the city's most recent major gang project.
Within a month, heavily armed tactical officers crashed through the back door of his mother Ruth's quaint bungalow in a 5 a.m. raid. According to police, Fullerton, who lived with his mom in the Weston-Mount Dennis area, was a "significant associate" of a notorious street gang.
Just after 4 p.m. on Oct. 30 this year, at a street corner just a five-minute walk from that house, the 26-year-old walked away from an argument with a man who then pulled a gun and shot several times. Fullerton staggered, then collapsed, dying of gunshots wounds to his torso.
He went down in the books as Toronto's 47th homicide of 2012, a victim of a "public execution" by persons unknown.
How did this popular young man end up a stark statistic?
Did he deliberately choose this path, one that police have suggested involved drug dealing, and thus had a good chance of ending on a patch of cold concrete?
Or was he cast onto it, defined by a postal code, failed by the schools and pegged, from a young age, as a bad guy by a justice system that doesn't see shades of grey?
"These young people have to work 10 times harder than their counterparts to just stay out of trouble," says Lekan Olawoye, executive director of For Youth Initiative (FYI), the organization Fullerton participated in as a teen before he landed a contract as a basketball coach and mentor.
To his family and many friends, Fullerton was a cherished, baby-faced joker who had blossomed into an exceptional youth worker. Everyone called him Curlz, a name he gave himself for his love of curly French fries.
A memorial video made after his murder and played at his packed wake shows clips of Fullerton dancing gleefully to reggae while power-washing his car, and reciting improv rap lyrics, dressed up in an Afro wig. "Your teeth are so mouldy, they look like ravioli," he says on the video as thunderous laughter erupts in the background.
Nearly 1,000 people filled the church for his funeral.
"He had a following of young people who looked up to him," says Kristie Wright, a social worker who first met Fullerton as a teen, when he was a program participant at FYI. "We had many conversations about his role as a leader in the community and what that meant and the expectations that puts on you."
Wright and several others submitted letters nominating Fullerton for a City of Toronto community youth worker of the year award, which his father accepted earlier this month.
"He promoted healthy youth development and through his actions contributed to increasing community safety across the city," she wrote.
But police say there was another side to Leonard Fullerton, a not very admirable one.
Days after his death, homicide Det.-Sgt. Frank Skubic told a news conference that an examination of Fullerton's clothing found "substances suspected of being narcotics, which included marijuana and crack cocaine," as well as a "sum of money."
This "leads me to suspect he may have been dealing drugs in that area," he said.
Skubic added that while Fullerton was "not a carded member of any gang, by way of association and affiliation with known gang members he, I guess, places himself in a high-risk category."
That characterization has angered Fullerton's family, who are adamant he was not a drug dealer or gang member. "I know my son," says a grieving Ruth, sitting in her tidy living room last month, surrounded by framed photos of Leonard as a child on the walls and sitting on the coffee table.
The "sum of money," she says, was $300 she gave him to pay a traffic ticket.
"Most of the time he's asking his mom for money," says his aunt, Marvia Creary, a TTC bus driver. "What drug dealer do you know who's broke?"
When Olawoye begins to talk about Fullerton, whom he hired, he references Jay Z's "Do Anything," a catchy anthem that riffs off the chorus from the musical Oliver Twist.
"I know mama, your little baby
But these streets raised me crazy
Product of my environment, nothing can save me."
"Being a product of your environment is such a powerful statement," he says.
He pauses.
"It's not as simple as how people take it."
Fullerton was born in Toronto to Leaford and Ruth Fullerton on Sept. 26, 1986.
"He was like a gift-wrapped kid," says Leaford, a tall, dignified man who looks a decade younger than his 65 years. "We gave him everything he needed to make him happy."
For 19 years, Leaford worked as a parking enforcement officer for the Toronto police. Ruth worked at a factory before going to nursing college and taking up a job caring for the disabled. Both had left Jamaica to immigrate to Canada in the late '60s.
By all accounts, the couple — who divorced when Leonard was a teen but today remain "best friends" — raised their only son in a supportive and loving environment. Like many other Toronto boys, he played baseball and football and competed in track and field events.
When Leonard was 11, the family moved to Craydon Ave., in Weston-Mount Dennis, now one of Toronto's 13 "priority neighbourhoods," identified by city hall as areas that are impoverished and underserved.
His parents were particular about which high school their son would attend. "I think at the time (a) Catholic school was the best school to go to," says Leaford.
In 2001, Leonard enrolled at St. Basil-the-Great College, part of the Toronto Catholic District School Board. But Leaford's high opinion of the Catholic system changed after Leonard was involved in an altercation outside, on school property.
It was the same year Ontario implemented its Safe Schools Act, a "zero tolerance" approach to bad behaviour that took kids out of school.
Police alleged Leonard confronted a student and punched him. Leonard, then 14, told his parents he was trying to break up a fight.
"I think a teacher was accusing him of doing that, which he said he didn't, and I defend him because I know his truthfulness," says Leaford. Ruth was upset the school didn't call her instead of police.
Charges of assault and causing a disturbance were withdrawn after Leonard signed a peace bond, but he was suspended from school. His father lodged a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission. When he received a letter that a hearing was scheduled in Windsor, a four-hour drive away, "I let it go," he says.
"If we go back to the time he (Leonard) was arrested in school, that was the beginning," says Olawoye. "The numbers are staggering in terms of young people in priority communities who have become known to police through the schools."
In 2008, the province ended "zero tolerance," widely criticized for being a blunt tool that was having a disproportionate effect on racial minorities, particularly black students. Still, Olawoye says he continues to hear stories of police being called instead of parents for things like schoolyard fights.
Fullerton spoke of his experience at the 2010 panel. "It was very hard for me," he said, explaining how he bounced around to different schools after his suspension.
Where he found a sense of belonging, though, was in his neighbourhood, a place, like many across the GTA, where daily struggles bind the community.
It wasn't in his nature to shun the people he grew up with, no matter their circumstances.
"He took his friends to school and picked them up from jail," says Andrea Zammit, a friend and mentor.
"You and this person grow up from Day 1," says his aunt Marvia. "You're not just gonna walk away from them and you're still in the area, on the block, as we call it."
In 2005, two of Fullerton's friends, also For Youth Initiative program participants, were shot to death. Seventeen-year-old Jamal Hemmings was gunned down while getting into a car near Marlee and Eglinton Aves. About a week later, Amon Beckles, 18, was shot at Hemmings' funeral when he went outside for a smoke. Fullerton was at that funeral.
A picture of a teenage Fullerton, posing alongside the pair and another young man, paints a bleak picture. Three of the four have been shot to death.
By the time he was in his early 20s, Fullerton had been arrested 20 times for various pettycrimes including drug possession, but he was never convicted of any of them. Over the years, Toronto police filed some 100 "field information reports (FIRs)" tracking his "interactions" with officers who had approached him, often for no special reason. Police say they stop people and "card" them, taking down personal details, because the information helps them solve crimes.
A recent Star analysis found that while blacks make up 8.3 per cent of Toronto's population, they accounted for 25 per cent of these reports filled out between 2008 and mid-2011. In each of the city's 72 patrol zones, blacks were more likely than whites to be stopped and carded, the Star found, leaving many feeling they're being targeted unfairly.
On one occasion, Fullerton was driving a friend's car and police pulled them over to make sure they had ownership and insurance papers. In other words, says the friend, "for no reason."
Olawoye says Fullerton was stopped by police nearly every day on his way to work.
In August 2009 , police commenced Project Corral, ostensibly to investigate several unsolved homicides in northwest Toronto dating back to 2004.
It was the city's seventh large-scale, anti-gang operation, which once again flooded court dockets with hundreds of cases handled by the 64 Crown attorneys and dozens of support staff in Ontario's guns and gangs task force.
The subjects this time were the Falstaff Crips, Five Point Generals (5PG) and Shower Posse. Police alleged they fit the definition of criminal organizations as defined by the Criminal Code.
The 5PG, whose territory runs along Weston Rd. between Lawrence and Eglinton, first came to public attention after Akiel Eubank was charged with first-degree murder in the 2007 death of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown, caught in the crossfire of a gunfight. Eubank, who had 5PG shaved into the side of his hair, and a co-accused were acquitted in 2010.
Project Corral investigators identified 17 people as full-blown members of the 5PG, all young black men with street names such as King Oz, Slabboy and Ghost. They called 19 people "significant associates" of the 5PG. Fullerton's name appeared on that list.
After police conducted surveillance and obtained a "dialed number recorder" (DNR) warrant — used to record incoming and outgoing phone numbers —Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer signed a second warrant to allow police to begin intercepting the private communications of "primary" targets. Fullerton was not one of those targets.
The cops began listening on Jan. 28, 2010. From thousands of calls, Fullerton was heard on the other end of the line on a few occasions. On May 4, police executed more than 100 search warrants across the GTA, including one at Fullerton's mother's house, located in the middle of 5PG territory, where members are alleged to carry guns, commit robberies and sell drugs.
Fullerton was sleeping in the basement. "They went downstairs and take him out and search my house and break up my bed," says Ruth.
Police charged Fullerton with possessing cocaine — 3.2 grams found on top of a bathroom cabinet — and two counts of breaching bail.
They also charged him with participating in a criminal organization, which the Criminal Code says can be as few as three people whose main activity is to commit offences for the benefit of their group.
In total, the costly operation resulted in 71 people arrested and 457 drugs and weapons charges laid, none of them for murder. The Attorney-General's office won't divulge how many of the cases have been dropped, but about 25 remaining accused are set to stand trial in the new year.
Fullerton sat in custody for more than 100 days before he was released on bail in September 2010. At the time of the raid, he'd been going to school, taking classes in building inspection. He never went back to class after being freed.
In July 2011, Fullerton and four others had a preliminary hearing at Old City Hall in front of Justice Ramez Khawly.
During his colourful submissions, defence lawyer Selwyn Pieters argued that from the outset of the investigation police viewed Fullerton through a "criminal lens."
"Race, class and where people live is at the heart of this case," the lawyer said. He accused police of racial profiling and said they misused field information reports to ensnare Fullerton. He highlighted several court decisions where judges questioned whether FIRs should be used to issue warrants.
Fullerton had no gang tattoos, Pieters said. He also questioned how Fullerton "bobbing" his head in the background of a "poor quality" 5PG rap video, made in a public place — a restaurant — made him a member of a criminal organization. Where were the serious crimes, such as armed robbery, weapons trafficking, kidnapping or high-level drug distribution?
"It can't be the intention of Parliament that this is what is caught in the net," he continued.
Pieters also mocked one of three secretly recorded calls between Fullerton and a purported 5PG leader involving an alleged $30 drug transaction. "The most you could make about it is that Mr. Fullerton is an opportunistic two-bit drug dealer," Pieters told the judge. "What this shows, if you believe it was him on the call, (is) that few opportunities exist for the persons speaking."
Another call captured Fullerton asking for some "blunt," a street term for pot. "That doesn't make him a gang member," Pieters said. "It could happen anywhere in the city of Toronto, even in Rosedale or Forest Hill."
A common complaint from the communities targeted for gang suppression is that too many peripheral people are swept up, leading to increased tensions between law enforcement officers and community members who feel police are targeting the wrong people.
Defence lawyer Marco Sciarra describes it as the "black G20," referring to the infamous weekend that happened about six weeks after the Corral raids.
"They're kettling all these innocent people mixed in with gangsters the same way they kettled innocent protesters mixed in with the black bloc." He represented one young black woman who eventually had her charges withdrawn.
University of Toronto criminologist Scot Wortley says many gang members talk of having lots of friends who aren't in a gang, which poses a challenge for police. "It's pretty difficult to disentangle who's involved in the lifestyle and who's not."
On July 14, Khawlycommitted Fullerton to stand trial for possessing cocaine — the 3.2 grams — and two counts of failing to comply. (The phone recordings indicated he was in breach of bail conditions to not possess narcotics or a cellphone, for a previous drug trafficking charge, an incident his mother says resulted from Fullerton giving a ride to a friend who was selling drugs. "He said, 'Mum, the friend offered me $20 to drop him there,' " says Ruth.)
The judge dismissed the criminal organization charge. "There is not much here," Khawly wrote of that evidence. He concluded the intercepts only showed that Fullerton may buy drugs from a 5PG member who "has difficulty recalling who Curlz is, as evidenced by one of the calls."
The judge also cast a critical eye on the Crown's case against the five defendants, two of whom he discharged entirely. "This case is illustrative of the elixir of suspicion, convincing rational human beings that what looks, acts and talks like suspicion is somehow magically transformed into evidence."
When asked about criticisms that gang raids can result in collateral damage, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair replied, "Danzig is collateral damage," referring to July's mass shooting in Scarborough that left 23 with bullet wounds and two dead. The worst mass shooting in the city's history has been connected to two gangs: the Malvern Crew and the Galloway Boys.
"Those (gang) investigations, there's a good deal of time, a great deal of investment," he continued, noting police don't get warrants or lay charges without evidence. "There's rarely any dispute from those communities about the people we have taken out."
He adds that police are also mindful that when "the doors go down," it can be traumatic. Trained officers are sent in to "reassure, connect and engage" neighbourhoods.
On July 18 last year, Fullerton pleaded guilty to one count of possession and failing to comply. He was credited for time served in pretrial custody and put on probation for a year.
Zammit advised him not to plead, aware of the difficulty created by a criminal conviction. But Fullerton was restless and tired of his onerous bail conditions, she says.
"He pled because he didn't want to sit down anymore." Like many young men, Fullerton had a taste for the fast lane. He amassed a slew of speeding tickets, usually while behind the wheel of his mother's car, and enjoyed the company of women. By his 25th birthday, he had fathered two children, a girl, now 7, and a boy, now 2, while still living with his mother.
After Project Corral , Fullerton struggled.
"I looked into his eyes and knew that his experience had changed him," wrote Samuel Egonu of 180 Change St., an organization that works with young people who have been locked up.
"He was now part of the marked society."
He applied for a contract at For Youth Initiative and was hired as a basketball coach and mentor, but the funding ran out by the end of the year. From January to June 2011, he worked at an auto body shop as part of an employment program that targeted at-risk youth.
But friends and family say Fullerton believed his charges and label of gang associate had crushed his dream of becoming a child and youth worker — more so after this spring's Eaton Centre shooting, when it was revealed that alleged shooter Christopher Husbands, who was out on bail, had worked with kids at a City of Toronto after-school program. A policy change quickly followed requiring new hires to provide a criminal record check before they do any work for the city.
Funding for the community youth sector, meantime, was drying up after the surge that followed 2005's Year of the Gun. "He (Fullerton) was like 'What now?' " says Zammit. "There was apathy."
"How do you think you'd feel?" asks Kristie Wright. "How does anybody go back after that and do something positive for the community." But she says Fullerton wasn't angry.
The week before he died, every morning he was calling one youth he mentored, to wake her up for school. "There's so much beauty in these communities," says Zammit.
Meanwhile, says criminologist Wortley, if you look hard enough you realize that the things going on in Weston-Mount Dennis are going on elsewhere.
"If you want to see some of the areas in the city with the highest level of drug trafficking you should visit a university fraternity or sorority house . . . but you're not going to get a Project Corral targeting students."
Fullerton could also have been one of those students.
"If he grew up in another community, Leonard would have finished school because he wouldn't have been arrested," Olawoye contends. "He would have gone to university or college and gotten a good job."
"How many others are out there just like Leonard?"


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Richard Jenkyns
- A History of Greece: From the Time of Solon to 403 BC by George Grote, edited by J.M. Mitchell and M.O.B. Caspari
Routledge, 978 pp, £60.00, September 2000, ISBN 0 415 22369 5
George Grote was one of the most remarkable minds of the early Victorian age. But although he has never been forgotten, other Victorian intellectuals less wise than he, less strong in judgment, more erratic, more colourful and perhaps more imaginative, have enjoyed a fame and a following that he has never quite achieved. This is partly because he sought to be a scholar rather than a sage, partly because his work has not been easily accessible. Routledge's reissue of an Edwardian abridgment of his 12-volume History of Greece, prefaced with an illuminating new introduction by Paul Cartledge, provides the best chance that there is likely to be of bringing him to a modern readership.
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Smile when it goes right. Smile when it goes wrong. You might get wrinkles but they will be happy ones and whatever the outcome a smile restores the soul.
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Chocolate Tea For You
So here's a picture of the box. Pretty eh? And a tea cup I cut from one of these boxes! The inside of the box is beautifully printed. Crafters heaven. Each box also has interesting information on each side and a yoga position. The one on this box is a breathing exercise for mental clarity. Well, we could all do with a bit of that. Also, each teabag has a little tag with a saying on it. A bit like fortune cookie teabags!!
I took a piece of Prima Craftsman patterned paper and used gold embossing paste and a chevron stencil. I also applied some of the paste around the panel edge using my finger. I cut three Cheery Lynn Tiny Rum Punch Doily from gold card. I cut the cup freehand frm the box, inked the edged with Walnut Stain and covered it with glossy accents.
I wanted to put a chocolate tea bag in my cup so I mounted it on some foam. Unfortunately the teabags are a bit big for my cup so I made a vellum bag and added some foil hearts. They go well with the teabag tag sentiment ' The Beauty of the heart cannot be stolen'.
There seems to be a lot of giving on this hop so I thought I do a little bit as well. If you would like the chance to try some of these teabags leave a comment saying you want to try chocolate tea and I will send this card and 6 choco teabags to one lucky commenter. I will post worldwide.
Joining the fun at
Coffee Loving Card Makers Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 174 - Doilies
Virginia's View Challenge 13 - Embossing
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Thanks for dropping by. Hugz
40 comments:
The cup is beautiful. Love how you embellished around it. TFSReplyDelete
What a beautiful cup of coffee...love it.ReplyDelete
I LOVE, Love, Love this card! And I never heard of choco tea before! Does it actually taste like chocolate? Like you are drinking a cup of hot chocolate? Anyway, your card is beautiful! I love how you recycled the box and that tea bag tab is great! Also like the heart filled tea bag!!ReplyDelete
Oh, this is awesome!ReplyDelete
Yes, would love to try chocolate tea! As I was reading your post, I was wondering why I haven't seen this tea here in Nova Scotia, Canada. We do have some Yogi teas, but not this flavour. Is it a black tea or an herbal tea? I like that it's organic. I drink one called Chocolatey Chai, it's a supermarket brand here in Canada (PC Organics) and it's my favourite. Anyway, getting back to your card LOL, I like it a lot - it has a mixed media feel to it. Your coffee cup looks amazing and I love how you made your own little teabag! I enjoyed visiting today!ReplyDelete
Great card!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous cup! I love the teabag with it as the sentiment!ReplyDelete
Pretty card, Gail, I love both cards and your tea cups! Happy Thursday and happy hopping!ReplyDelete
What an awesome and fun card! ♥ReplyDelete
Chocolate tea, eh? That's one flavor I've never tried.
Beautiful!! :-)ReplyDelete
What a fun card, love the pocket!ReplyDelete
Cute card! Love the idea of recycling the cup for your card!ReplyDelete
DELISH! In every sense of the word!!!ReplyDelete
Such a cute cards and chocolate tea never heard ofReplyDelete
How clever...awesome upcycling! Love your project, it's beautiful!ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining in the fun♡
What a beautiful cup of coffee!! Definitely makes me want to try Chocolate Tea!!ReplyDelete
Oh this is so pretty!!!ReplyDelete
How awesomely cool is this?!! Love that you've repurposed the inner portion of the box for this magnificent card! Fantastic design. And thanks for the tea info - I'll be looking for it at our supermarket on Monday. Sweet! BevReplyDelete
Love this great tea cup! And the pocket of foil hearts is awesome!ReplyDelete
Yes, please! I could stand a dose of mental clarity here! Love your art today, Gail! Your free-hand cutting of the tea cup is as good as if you had die cut it! Another talent from my friend Gail! This is perfection at all levels!ReplyDelete
How neat, I love that you cut the cup from the box! I've never heard of this tea, but I'll look for it now.ReplyDelete
Super cute, and the tea looks delish.ReplyDelete
Love the exotic look of your card, Gail!! Wow...you cut that cup freehand....color me impressed!!!! I can't do "anything" freehand. Ugh. The gold accents on your card are so gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for the chance to win some of this intriguing tea!!! I love tea (and chocolate) and would love to try some!!!
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I had to sit out this hop, but your card is so fantastic, Gail! I must say you are a clever bunny and a perceptive one to notice the design elements all around you! Your sweet vellum bag o' hearts is also clever as a replacement for the fat teabag! Hugs, DarnellReplyDelete
Such a fabulous ornate card, Gail!ReplyDelete
Brilliant use of the box and the teabag sentiment is perfect!!ReplyDelete
Fab that you could repurpose the box... it's gorgeous! FAB teabag, too!! Chocolate tea?! Who wouldn't want to try it?!!! Count me IN!ReplyDelete
Really beautiful and I love the vellum packet of hearts!ReplyDelete
How creative!! Love how you substituted the hearts! I would love to try this tea! (Just added it to my Amazon wish list too lol) Adore everything about your card and your story makes it that much more special!! :)ReplyDelete
These are beautiful. And oh boy would I loVe to try some. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
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Gail what a fun and imaginative card. Love your little tea bag with the hearts. Good luck and thanks for joining in on the fun at Cheery Lynn Designs challenge.ReplyDelete
Awesome AND clever!!ReplyDelete
Love the hearts on bag. So cute!ReplyDelete
Great card, thanks for sharingReplyDelete
How pretty! Love how you used the packaging, and no wonder; it's beautiful.ReplyDelete
What a super card- love you've repurposed the packaging and CHOCOLATE TEA?! Wow!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous design!! Love the gold and embossing! So glad that you join the fun over Virginia's View "All Things Embossed" Challenge!ReplyDelete
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Frank Anthony Wilczek: a childhood tale.
Today, I was at the Kuala Lumpur Innovation Forum 2011. There, I met an academic from the USA, who had an interesting tale to relate to me. The subject of my son, Ainan, came up in conversation and he, by association, told me the tale of another precocious boy, he knew as a teenager: Frank Anthony Wilczek.
Wilczek was in the American academic's classroom in school. In fact, they sat next to each other, since the students were arranged in alphabetical order and my new acquaintance's name began with W. Now, you may think this is not particularly remark worthy. Yet, it is for a couple of odd facts. Firstly, the classes in question were AP Physics (Advanced Placement) and AP Calculus. These were, by American standards, tough classes. Thus, one could expect that the students in those classes were the brightest in the school. So, my acquaintance had been quite bright as a child. Yet, Frank Anthony Wilczek stood out in these classes – for he was, according to my informant, just 12 years old at the time. Wilczek had been a child prodigy, of sorts.
Now, I was told, everyone in Wilczek's class was awed by his intelligence. My acquaintance said that he knew, just KNEW, that no matter how many extra hours of work he put in to his Physics and Maths, that he would never be able to be as good or as bright as Wilczek – it just wasn't about the work, Wilczek really had something the others did not. Indeed, the common view in his class, at the time, was that, one day, Wilczek would win the Nobel Prize. Rather uncannily, Wilczek did just that, for work he had done when he was a graduate student in 1973 – "the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
The tale of Wilczek's precocious childhood and adult success, is one that struck me as worth knowing more widely. Some people believe, really believe, that child prodigies only shine in childhood. Such people dig up cases of child prodigies who went astray as adults – such as Sufiah Yusof – and use that "evidence" to bolster their case that prodigies do not become adult geniuses. Well, the truth of course, is rather more complex. Some prodigies do, in fact, become adult geniuses – like Frank Anthony Wilczek. Many prodigies become respected experts or performers in their fields – and only a minority, I would say, a very small minority, ever go astray so magnificently as Sufiah Yusof did. In fact, she is the only example I know of her kind – so she is hardly typical of the life outcome of prodigies. On the other hand, there are rather many prodigies who became very distinguished adult geniuses...others include Norbert Wiener, the father of Cybernetics, John von Neumann and even Richard Feynmann, who had aspects of the child prodigy about him, particularly in his areas of interest – Physics and Maths.
What particularly struck me about the Wilczek story was that the other kids in his class were able to see, instantly, for themselves, that Wilczek would "win a Nobel Prize one day". That was their assessment of their classmate – and funnily enough, he went on to do just that. So, intellectual promise is evident in childhood. It is quite possible to look at a young child's manner of thought and make fair estimates for their future. Should that future not come to be, I rather think it has nothing to do with their quality of thought or ability, but would be due to the random obstructions that are encountered in many lives. Should such a child not live up to their promise that is not because the promise was illusory – it is because life can be hard, unfair and obstructive. Quite simply, life can get in the way of the promise of any child, prodigy or not. If, however, there is enough "luck" in life, of the young prodigy, such that their obstructions are not overwhelming, then, it is clear, that such prodigies can grow to be very special adults indeed.
I wonder what Frank Anthony Wilczek, who is still alive at just 60 years old, would think if he knew what his fellow classmates thought of him all those years ago? They saw his future before he had lived it. I wonder, did he see it himself, as clearly, or was his ultimate success a pleasant surprise?
Young prodigies should be nurtured carefully, for if looked after, they, too, can become as successful as adults, as Frank Anthony Wilczek is – and many others like him.
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Konstantin Svitnev: 'IVF in Russia should be free of charge'
General Manager of Rosjurconsulting Konstantin Svitnev was invited as an expert to the popular Russian talk show "Pravo Golosa" aired on October 18, 2012. The topic was the demographic situation in Russia. Mr. Svitnev stated the necessity for 100% public funding of at least three IVF programs for every Russian citizen under the age of 42 who is willing to have kids.
'Public funding of ART will be one of the most effective means to overcome the demographic crisis giving the country at least 100,000 additional births a year,' said Svitnev.
Konstantin Svitnev also noted the inadmissibility of the situation when abortions are compensated from the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund.


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There has been a lot of coverage in the media about a mismatch between the kinds of skills employers are looking for and the skills people searching for work have to offer.
The issue has ignited a debate about the value of a university education and, in particular, a bachelor's degree in today's increasingly specialized world.
Some would pit universities against colleges and polytechniques, which is wrong headed because there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to postsecondary education. Students have to determine for themselves which institution will help them reach their full potential.
For students with the interest and aptitude, a university education remains the best investment these young people can make for themselves. Bachelors' degrees in arts or science provide the basic foundation
on which careers and lives are built. It allows for greatest flexibility for students to plan their next steps, be it to continue on to receive an advanced degree; pursue a particular skill at a college, or a decision to go immediately into the work world.
For those who choose to work, a 2012 Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities survey of undergraduate students found 87 percent were employed within six months and 93 percent were working within two years of graduation.
Statistics Canada reported the number of job openings that required a university degree grew by 700,000 net new jobs between 2008 and 2012. The Association for Universities and Colleges of Canada estimates that number will grow by 2.1 million jobs by 2020.
There have been a lot of media reports on the shortage of college-trained skilled workers, but we are also facing a shortage of university-educated people including engineers, physicians, dentists, dieticians, psychologists and management in the mining, oil and gas industries.
The vast majority of students who come to university do so to prepare themselves for a career, but what they come away with is far greater than an expertise in a particular field of study. Universities teach people how to be creative thinkers, how to assess a situation and how to find creative solutions to problems. They learn how to collaborate and communicate effectively, all skills that will be increasingly required in our complex world. And what we offer at Western goes beyond even those skills.
There is a uniquely Western spirit that reflects a balance of intellectual, cultural, and physical opportunities for our students.
Our campus environment provides a safe place where students can hone their leadership skills. It is here where they develop a network of friends from around the world that will last a lifetime. We intend to increase the opportunities for students to grow. Among our fundraising goals is a priority to ensure 10 per cent of our students spend part of their education learning outside of Canada, which will help them succeed in our increasingly global society.
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TAVARES — Investigators for the state Educational Practices Commission are expected to arrive in Lake County today to look into misconduct allegations against Eustis High School football coach Steve Brown.
Superintendent Freddie Garner, who has suspended Brown with pay until today, is asking the school board to continue the suspension until the commission issues its findings. The board will meet tonight.


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Keep Your Home Warm and Healthy in the Cold
Posted by Royal Sundaram on 03 Dec 2013
Winter is here; a season during which most of us worry about catching a cold and being down with the flu. Keeping your home warm and dry can go a long way in ensuring your family's health. Cold and damp houses breed germs and often lead to health issues, especially among babies, small children and the elderly.
How to Keep Your Home Warm
- While it is a good idea to use a heater during winter, it is equally important to keep the heating low. This is not only to save on electricity bills, but to reduce the dryness caused by heating so as to prevent skin issues and respiratory problems.
- Instead of heating the whole house, heat only the room in which you will spend most of your time. Avoid overheating the room. Instead, try and maintain the temperature around 21 degrees centigrade. When you go to bed, dress warmly. Keep the heater in a open space, rather than behind some furniture or cabinet.
- The most important room to keep warm is the bathroom. This can be done quite easily by keeping it dry and blocking any area through which cold draughts can enter. For this, make sure to seal any gaps below the door and in between window panes.
- Use thick curtains to prevent your home from losing heat. Windows tend to get very cold during the night and thick curtains will ensure that your room stays warm. You can opt for curtains with a thermal lining, which would be the most effectively in keeping the cold out.
- If you are blessed by a sunny day, draw your curtains and open the windows. Sunshine will not only keep you warm, but keeps dampness at bay and prevents diseases.
- Closed door prevent the house from cooling down too much. So, if there are certain rooms that are not being used, keep them closed. Stop as much air circulation as possible to keep your house warm.
- Keeping the floors covered with carpets can also warm your home. This, however, needs a great deal of maintenance and can trap dust and cause allergies. So, you will need to take a call regarding whether you can have the carpet cleaned often enough.
Just by using these simple tips, you can keep your home cozy and welcoming. It does not take a lot of effort to prevent diseases. And, like the popular saying goes, prevention is better than cure! Keeping your home warm and moist will protect against common ailments and keep you and your family healthy during the cold winter months.
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I made an autocratic decision… (actually that is an exaggeration, but I like to be provocative.) Last year, the volunteer committee decided that we would ask everyone to change their user names to their real names, rather than a coded name. The reason for this? It is very hard to find people in the Timebank when you know their name is James, but their user name is "deathstar1000" … it is VERY hard for certain coordinators to give timedollars to people, or to renew accounts after membership dues have been paid under these circumstances as well. In fact, with the Timebank membership hovering around the 200 member mark, it has become impossible to remember all of these idiosyncratic names. I asked people twice last year to make this change to their account on their own, but few did. Last week, I went in and made the change myself. But what does this mean for you? It means that when you log-in, you should use either your real name as your "username" OR your email address (that works too.) Your password has been left unchanged. If you have any trouble at all, please don't hesitate to email me and I will help you get back into your account. firstname.lastname@example.com
And you should log-in! Why? Because a new feature has been added to the Timebank software that will radically alter your ability to get your needs met within the Timebank. Yellow Pages have been added. What is that? It is a feature that allows you to search the talents of the entire Timebank community for skills. For instance, say you need help with a sewing task, but no one has an offer on the Timebank for sewing. Instead of paying a tailor for the service in the money economy, you can now search the Timebank community for someone with sewing skills through the Yellow Pages feature, and email them directly and ask if they would like to do this work for you for timedollars. See how great that feature is? But the Yellow Pages success, however, is only as good as the number of people who put in skills, so please do so. It is really important. Take a moment and go to this link to fill in your Yellow Pages listing.
The January Volunteer Meeting has been confirmed and will take place on January 31st in the Parlor Room at the Community Center from 6 pm – 7 pm (directly before the Transition Book Club gathering, which of course you are invited to attend.) I will be holding the Seven Stones drop in social on Wednesdays at Seven Stones up until that week, and then this meeting on Friday will replace the Timebank weekly gathering and the Seven Stones meetings will be discontinued. I know a few people are gathering tomorrow night (Wednesday the 15th) at Seven Stones at 7 pm. If you'd like to meet some fellow timebankers or just have a coffee with me and chat for awhile, please feel free to join me there.
And finally…this just in — Timebanking will be featured on ABC News with Diane Sawyer next Wednesday at 6:30 pm (EST). There will be faces you recognize in the piece (Stephanie Rearick and Edgar Cahn among them.)
In gratitude,
The abundant heart does not consider service a punishment or sharing a burden. Rather, it sees the unmet needs of the community as if they were those of a loved one and acts to meet them. –Stephen Shirk


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We published a blog a few months ago highlighting the reasons why parents should not instruct from the sidelines at their children's sports events.
The blog attracted plenty of comments in support of the idea that parents should leave the instructing to the coach.
It is also a fact of life in youth sports that some parents go way too far when it comes to their interactions with coaches, other parents, referees and even opposition players. Abusive language and threatening behaviour can be commonplace in some sports.
Such conduct from the sidelines is not acceptable, make no mistake. But the considerations below may just go some way to explaining why some parents behave the way they do.
1. Parents care
They may have a funny way of showing it sometimes, particularly if it is their own child who is the focus of their criticism, but parents, on the whole, care. They've seen their child grow up, they've seen them choose the sports they want to progress in, and they've done the hard miles when it comes to ferrying them to training and matches. Parents would not be at their child's events if they did not care. Sometimes this care and dedication can manifest itself in a negative way.
2. Parents get carried away
Watching youth sports of almost any kind is invariably a frenetic, engrossing experience, and when you're a parent you have an even greater interest. When a parent is so deeply involved in the game and focused on the performance of their child, it can be easy to react negatively to perceived injustices. In the heat of the moment, a poor refereeing decision or an early substitution can be seen as a slight against their child. Of course, this is rarely the case, but when the adrenaline is flowing, reason can go out of the window.
3. Parents want success for their child
Which parent doesn't want to see their child achieve big things in their chosen sport? Success at youth level can lead to trials, scholarships (depending on the country), and perhaps a shot at professional sport. Even if your child isn't aiming as high, who doesn't want to see their child eke out every drop of their potential? Some parents may get angry with a coach if they see their child omitted from the starting line-up, or substituted early. In most cases, they aren't out to get the coach, but emotions can take over if they feel their child is being ignored or treated unfairly.
4. Parents want to see their child have fun
Most parents understand the correlation between taking part in sports and a child's overall happiness. Numerous studies have taken place supporting this concept, and the very least to expect from a youth sports event should be that the children are enjoying themselves. Parents want to see their children have fun, and woe betide anyone who gets in the way.
5. Parents want their child to be safe
If you see a parent react adversely to an over-the-top challenge on their child from an opponent, it's because they don't want to see their child get hurt. Sport can be dangerous and if a parent feels their child is not receiving adequate protection, they are unlikely to keep their feelings to themselves.
And don't forget…
Most parents are delighted that a coach, often on a volunteer basis, is taking time out from their weekday evenings and weekends, to coach their child's team. The same goes for referees. Without the time and dedication of both, organised youth sports would fall by the wayside.
None of the points above justify bad behaviour. But next time you see a parent berating a referee or questioning a coach, you can be pretty sure that it emanates from a deep desire to see their child flourish.


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Turtles, snakes and lizards head toward extinctionPublication: NBC News Date: February 15, 2013 View Article
Nearly one fifth of all reptiles — turtles, snakes, lizards and crocodiles — are on a slippery slope toward extinction due to loss of habitat, overharvesting and other factors, a new report says.
The study is the first of its kind to summarize the global conservation status of reptiles. More than 1,500 species were selected at random from around the world for conservation assessments in an effort to gain a representative sample.
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An Image of Human Truth for October Chillers.
Four years passed between Frankenstein and its first sequel, but the story picks up on the same savage night of the supposed destruction of the creature, in a fiery inferno sending his soul back to hell.
Then again, we 21st century media-savvy types (which is pretty much everyone, more or less) know that no creature dies in a first film, no matter how much its makers want you to believe it -- no matter how hot the burning mill, no matter how many citizens saw the structure burn to ashes. We of course know that no alien, no mummy, no Jason or Freddy or Michael will be dead when the credits have left a first film's screen. You can't have a second Creature Feature if you haven't got a creature to feature.
There is genius found in moments of Bride of Frankenstein. I love how they kept the creature alive, escaping the tormenting flames in a mote below the mill. And the final act is any film lover's delight.
I also thoroughly enjoy something as simple and fun as the opening credits, which piggyback off Frankenstein's use of "?" for The Monster, using "?" once again for The Bride. There are so many moments where Bride of Frankenstein gives its all in being just as good as the original, you've got to love it for its heart alone.
Author Mary Shelley, played by Elsa Lanchester (who also plays the impressionable Bride in the outstanding final chapter), sits cozily indoors with a couple of highbrow if not caricatured gentlemen, the wind whistling and the thunder crashing outside. One of the men, claiming the status of "England's greatest sinner," considers how warm and safe it is inside the house, while an angry Jehovah viciously thunders outside. "How beautifully dramatic," he says. "The crudest savage exhibition of nature at her worst without, and we... within..." He claims his head is unbowed to the thundering God outside. But who would fear a supposed God if kicking back by a comfy fire was all it took to protect you from his wrath?
The men talk highly of the creepy chills of Mary's original Frankenstein story. They narrate over images of the film (blogged about Here), a brief recap for the sake of the audience's memory from four years before. (There were no television premiers or TiVo in 1935.) They implore Mary to share the rest of the story, so she launches into the sequel, the story of the creation of the Bride. It's an almost perfect beginning to the film.
Almost, because as her story emerges there's an immediate disconnect from the original, quite noticeable within seconds. The medium of filmmaking changed quickly in four years, the times obviously persuading director James Whale to stuff oodles of musical score in the background. It's interminable presence is constantly noticeable, a never-ending standout out like a splinter in one's thumb. It nulls the tension so easily relayed without filler in the original film.
The writing and dialogue are so dark and crisp that seeing it 80 years later and complaining about the score seems unfair. But the problems don't end with the score. We're immediately introduced to a side character, Minnie, played by Una O'Connor, used mostly for comedic effect. She is agonizingly horrible, not funny for a moment. She brings camp to a film that wishes to reject her and her whiny voice and its shrieking screams. She is truly the most awful thing in Bride of Frankenstein, and watching her made me think the person responsible for casting her hadn't seen the original. Then I found out James Whale casted her.
There's but one line that may have worked for O'Connor as a decent foreshadowing to the rest of the story: "Oh what a terrible wedding night!" she cries, in regard to the botched wedding plans of Dr. Frankenstein and his bride. But after the brittle scream that escaped the woman just moments before this interesting sentence, all you wish is that the creature had killed her when he had the chance.
The film is a much bigger production than the original, but missteps like these keep killing it when it almost gains a foothold on tension.
Bride of Frankenstein desperately tries to deal with the same gripping religious themes the first film took on, and if these particular scenes were viewed on their own they might be as meaningful and powerful as they were there. But in the context here, with attempts at humor included (and a ridiculous scene of miniature royalty in jars, only there for a 1935 special effect), scenes of the creature tied to a stake and mocked like Jesus on the cross, or of him partaking in a sort of bread and wine communion with a blind old man he calls "Friend," are short-lived, momentary, mixing horror and camp horribly and accomplishing neither one.
Bride of Frankenstein follows two basic story lines until that final, superbly cinematic moment at the film's end. The first is the creature itself, captured and kept in a dungeon in shackles, easily escaping, and left to wander the countryside until meeting the blind old man. He's generally in trouble with all mankind until once again meeting up with his insane maker.
The parallel story follows Dr. Frankenstein, who at the beginning claimed to his would-be bride he'd had enough of trying to be a mad scientist: "I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life." But then he's lured by a colleague, the similarly crazed Dr. Pretorius, and the two carve out the ultimate plan for a race of living creations. A female version of the creature is a necessary first step, and hopefully the two will like each other.
With the grande finale culminating in the creatures, the psychosexual, symbolic gender relations and the tensions therein, I kept wondering if the film would have worked a bit better as a short film, or perhaps by simply adding this story to the original. But that is not the answer. The films each suit their length at 70 and 75 minutes respectively, and the idea of putting the bride in the original would have ruined what is already a masterpiece.
The bottom line regarding Bride of Frankenstein is that it was either over-developed, or just plain developed wrong, even though there are moments, particularly in its end, that are triumphant.
It's a mish-mash. A hodgepodge. A motley assortment that shifts between genius and utter stupidity. But it brought us one of history's most perfectly climactic moments when the Bride is finally and awfully revealed.
Sometimes you have to wade through the gunk to get to the cinematic gusto.
Reprinted from A Black and White February (2011).


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Hospital Records celebrates their 21st anniversary
And is releasing an overwhelmingly large compilation for the occasion!
Hospital Records is a D&B label well known by all the fans of this genre around the globe, therefore it might not be necessary to introduce it in great lenghts. But still, in a nutshell:
Hospital was established in 1996 in South London by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, the original London Elektricity duo, who released their first full-length album Pull The Plug on the same label in 1999. An album that has later become an absolute classic.
Since then, Hospital has released tens of releases from the most prominent and legendary names of the D&B world, the likes of High Contrast, Cyantific, Netsky, Other Echoes, Danny Byrd, Phuturistix, Nu:Tone, Q-Project and many others. Hospital has become one of the most famous Drum&bass labels in the world.
Hospital runs their subsidiary label Med School as well, aiming on the more experimental side of Drum&Bass. They are also responsible for organizing the worldwide known Hospitality parties, that have managed to win the Drum And Bass Awards price for the best club night several times. At the end of last year Hospital released their 300th release and decided to kick the year 2017 off with this huge compilation.
The double-album contains 68 tracks, offers 24 brand new exclusives including the new collaboration between Fred V & Grafix and Metrik and also contains two hour-long mixes, put together by the alltime Hospital star Nu:Tone. You can look forward to some bangers prepared by the iconic producers of the D&B scene like Noisia, Spectrasoul, London Elektricity, S.P.Y or Logistics as well as a showcase of music from exciting new talents like Urbandawn, Hugh Hardie or Whiney. It just doesn't get much better than this!
Hospital has been entertaining us for more than twenty years now and hopefully they will keep at it for at least twice as long yet.
Happy birthday Hospital Records!
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You've been sending out job applications for months, but you haven't heard back from any potential employers yet. You're starting to think you'll never get a job. If this sounds like you, don't lose hope in your job hunt — a few changes to your resume could make all the difference.
Sometimes the smallest mistakes or omitted details can turn a great resume into another ignored and deleted email. You can have all the qualifications and skills you need for the job, but hiring managers won't see it if your resume raises red flags or isn't accurately reflecting and highlighting what you have to offer. [10 Ways to Make Your Cover Letter Stand Out ]
We asked hiring managers and business owners what mistakes they frequently see on resumes and how to fix them. Before you send out another resume, make these 10 changes. You might just get hired sooner than you think.
List employment dates by month and year
"When headhunters or gatekeepers see dates on your resume that don't include months, they automatically assume something's wrong. If they suspect you're hiding a gap in employment, they'll assume the worst, and they'll view you as dishonest for attempting to deceive them. If they're busy, they'll trash the resume instead of wondering what the gaps are about." – Giacomo Giammatteo, owner and author, Inferno Publishing Company
Identify and delete irrelevant experience
"One resume mistake many people make is that they feel obligated to include every job — including part-time work — that they've had since college. For example, including that you were a 'Subway Sandwich Artist' for three months is superfluous if you're applying for a technology job, unless of course the company's technology improves the sandwich-making process. Including information like this shows laziness and a general lack of understanding." – Joshua Goldstein, co-founder, underdog.io
Get specific with data, statistics and examples
"If you're going to boast about increasing sales or improving process efficiency, support these claims with real statistics and an explanation of how you accomplished these feats. When I read 'improved department sales revenue' on a resume, I'm not convinced." – Tyson Spring, co-founder and vice president of business development, Elever Professional
De-fluff your job descriptions
"One of the biggest mistakes I have seen in resumes floating around today is people amplifying their qualifications with fancy words. They are not lying on their resume, they are just turning a task they once completed into years of experience. Once you sit down with them and utilize them in something practical, you quickly realize their resume was a lot of hot air and little practicality. [For example] being in charge of a company's Facebook page for a few months is usually relayed on a resume as 'Online Marketing Director.'" – Victoria Ley, president, FashionStork
Cut out clichés
"Words such as 'strong', 'effective' and 'motivated' are clichéd business buzz words that communicate very little about a candidate's capabilities. Candidates who use these types of words stand out for being mediocre and I quickly skip over candidates who use these words. Candidates who do not use repetitive words and have consulted a thesaurus to vary their word choice on a resume grab my attention. I like seeing candidates who have a high vocabulary and know how to properly employ their thoughts with unique distinction." – Sandra Powers, hiring manager, Lawyer Reviews
Remove or replace your objective
"A lot of people still include an objective on the resume, but having an objective can hurt more than it helps. You want to show the employer what you can do to help the company, not what you're looking for from an employer. To fix this, you can either take out your objective completely, or replace it with a brief summary of your skills and abilities that can be an asset to the company." – Sam Kim, founder, Define The Resume
Get rid of obvious skills
"Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint are no longer skills to call out on your resume. These days, employers assume that all good applicants have a working knowledge of the Office suite. Instead, use that space to highlight experience with more advanced technical tools in your sector, e.g., SQL, Google Analytics, Salesforce, Mixpanel and Adobe Creative Suite. These skills are very compelling to employers and will help you stand out from other contenders." – Maisie Devine, co-founder and CEO, Poacht
Make it more reader-friendly
"Write a resume that has a clean, neat and simple-to-read layout. Many times people try to invent and do something new, but forget that employers read hundreds and thousands of resumes and want to quickly find what they are looking for." – Hugo Pereira, product and digital strategist, Talentsquare
Add relevant keywords
"The mistake I see most job applicants make on their resume is not including any keywords from the job description they are applying to. If I have no way of matching their skills to the skills in the job description, I cannot move that person forward in the process." – Stephanie Lindquist, co-founder, The Love Your Job Project
List education information lower on the page
"When moving beyond the entry- and intern-level position, schooling, education and GPA no longer need to be listed at the top — your experience should speak for itself." – Hannah Landau, director of media, Post+Beam


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The Rocks has a new on-site brewery, bar and restaurant – in the building that once housed Sydney's longest-running colonial hotels.
Dating back to the 1800s, it operated as prominent watering hole Seaman's for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Fast-forward a few hundred years and the space is now Endeavour Tap Rooms, owned and operated by Ben Carroll and Hamish Watts of hospitality group Applejack (The Butler, The Botanist, Della Hyde). Ben Kooyman and Dan Hasting, the boys behind Endeavour Vintage Beer, also own a share.
The collaboration was in the works for quite some time. The two Bens are old friends from school. "The relationship was definitely founded off brotherly love," says Watts. It was finding the building, however, which really allowed the dream to flourish. "The venue, we really just fell in love with," says Watts. "It's got so much character, every time we find a space we generally fall in love with the character or the potential of the character."
The space has been completely refurbed by Welsh + Major, an architectural firm with accolades for transforming heritage and historical sites into contemporary spaces. "We wanted to use someone who paid homage and respect to the building's history," says Watts. The interiors are pared back and modern with art deco references. The brief was to "create a space that wasn't the same as your typical brewpub," says Watts. "The feel is classic, contemporary and understated."
The menu puts an Australian-pub spin on American barbeque, making it a "little less stodgy and sauce driven". The kitchen is headed by Sam Tingle (a former sous chef at The Butler) who is a self-confessed meat-smoking, vegetable-pickling fanatic. The Tap Rooms even houses its own Yoder smoker. "Meat-smoking nerds and barbeque geeks will find that pretty exciting," says Watts.
Of course, it's the on-site brewed beer that's the hero. There's a 600-litre brewhouse, eight tanks and, in the bar, four key lines and four rotating taps. Brewer Graeme Mahy has more than 10 years of experience under his belt and uses all-Australian ingredients.
Mahy says they thought the pale ale would be most popular but it is actually the Australian ale and other brews that are "just flying out the door". As well as beer, the Tap Rooms also serves rosé and an "Australian Negroni" on tap, using local ingredients. The locally sourced wine and cocktail lists were created by Applejack's Lachy Sturrock.
Looking to the future, Watts hopes to make the brewery more interactive. The team is planning meet-the-brewer dinners and tours, as well as "just producing some really interesting and crafty beers that will blow people away".
Endeavour Tap Rooms
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Orange is often a colour associated with summer weddings but here it is mixed with apple green and white to give a really fresh summery twist for Alex's August wedding
Alex's bouquet of mixed orange roses, ivory spray roses, pale green lisianthus, orange freesia and a little mixed green foliage.
Flower girl posy of orange rose, ivory spray rose, orange freesia and mixed foliage. Very cute and perfect for little hands. Adult bridesmaids carried a larger version.
Stunning, tall centrepiece in martini vase using orange roses and freesias, white hydrangeas and pale green lisianthus with mixed fresh green foliages and ivy trails. I love the way the whites and apple greens give the orange a really fresh summery look.
Co-ordinating low design in oranges, apple grrens and whites.
Orange chair sashes completed the look.
That just leaves me to say thank you so much Alex for asking me to design and create your wedding flowers for you, it was an absolute pleasure. Very many congratulations on your marriage.


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Keyes looks to rescue GOP, announces run for president
Former Reagan diplomat says he's unmoved
by lack of moral courage displayed by others
Alan Keyes
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – After two previous runs for U.S. president, former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes has announced he's again seeking the White House in the 2008 election, and he'll take part in Monday night's Republican presidential debate here.
Keyes told syndicated radio host Janet Parshall he's "unmoved" by the lack of moral courage shown by the other candidates, among whom he sees no standout who articulates the "key kernel of truth that must, with courage, be presented to our people."
He added, "The one thing I've always been called to do is to raise the standard … of our allegiance to God and His authority that has been the foundation stone of our nation's life" – and he decried the lack of "forthright, clear, and clarion declaration" from the current crop of presidential contenders.
As a result, Keyes said, "We're putting together an effort that's not going to be like anything before, because it's going to be entirely based on citizen action. We're going to be challenging people to take a pledge for America's revival," and elevate them from spectators in the political arena to participants.
Keyes, a columnist for WND through last year, ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in 1996 and 2000. He sought an open U.S. Senate seat in Illinois in 2004, and was soundly defeated by Democrat Barack Obama who is also currently running for president. The 2004 race was the first to pit two blacks against each other in a Senate race.
Keyes calls himself a seasoned statesman, spending 11 years with the U.S. State Department. From 1983 to 1985, he served as ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, where he represented America's sovereign interests in the U.N. General Assembly. He became President Reagan's assistant secretary of state for international organizations in 1985.
Proudly proclaiming he's a "genuine conservative," Keyes is well-known for his defense of unborn children. On his RenewAmerica website, it's noted Keyes "confronts the culture of death with compelling and inspiring reasons why abortion must be banned from our land."
It adds "Alan's stated purpose in life, like that of America's Founders, is to provide a secure future for our posterity."
As WND reported in 2004, Keyes raised some eyebrows when he came out in favor of giving descendants of black slaves an exemption from federal income tax.
"When a city had been devastated [in the Roman empire], for a certain length of time – a generation or two – they exempted the damaged city from taxation," he told reporters.
In a statement from his campaign, Keyes said his proposal "has the advantage of letting people help themselves, rather than pouring money into government bureaucracies that displace and discourage their own efforts. It takes no money from other citizens, while righting the historic imbalance that results from the truth that black slaves toiled for generations at a tax rate that was effectively 100 percent."
Continued Keyes: "I have also made it clear that while I believe that the descendants of slaves would be helped by this period of tax relief, my firm goal and ultimate objective is to replace the income tax, and thereby free all Americans from this insidious form of tax slavery."
Monday's night's Values Voter Debate in Florida is being moderated by WND Editor Joseph Farah.
The Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., is the scene of the Values Voter Presidential Debate Monday night in which Alan Keyes will be a participant. WND Editor Joseph Farah is the event's moderator.
In addition to Keyes, Republicans participating include Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo and John Cox. Candidates who declined are Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson.
The debate at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts is produced by ValuesVoter.org, a group which says on its website "Our American values are the values that existed before time and were articulated in America's founding document on her birthday, the 4th of July, 1776."
The three-hour event begins at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, and will be broadcast live on Sky Angel and Dish Network channel 262, and will also be streamed live on websites including ValuesVoterDebate.com and the American Family Association.
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Pam Rock
PAM ROCK is a pseudonym for the mother-daughter writing team of Barbara Andrews and Pam Hanson. Barbara had twenty-one books to her credit and Pam was a journalist when they teamed up several years ago.
Four of their previous futuristic romances were published by Love Spell. STAR SEARCHER was a finalist in the 1996 Affaire de Coeur Reader's Awards and the 1997 Write Touch: Readers Award contest.
MERCY'S MISSION is the pair's first e-published book, and both Pam and Barbara are thrilled to be a part of this exciting new endeavor!
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- Mercy's Mission
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Disrupted Choreographies weaves eight contemporary voices from Vietnam who propose alternate narratives between colonial histories, collective behavior, systems of class and the crumbling of ideological thought. This exhibition challenges the relationship between Vietnam and the 'global' stage, illustrating an artistic community critical of the historical consciousness that often stands in for its name (ie. the guilt of war; the tourist getaway; the nostalgic colonial).
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The Thomas Valentino Achievement Award is presented each year to an individual (this could be a rep or a staff member) who has shown an outstanding contribution and positive impact to Vectair Systems Inc. over the last year.
On Wednesday November 5th 2014, Vectair Systems held the first award presentation on their booth at the ISSA Orlando show – the inaugural and prestigious Thomas Valentino Achievement Award.
The award was set up in honor of the late Tom Valentino, who served as our Vice President of Sales and Marketing until his death in September 2014. Tom died at the age of 51 following an 18-month battle against cancer, in the company of his wife Kristie, his twin daughters Lauren and Lindsey and his close family.
Tom's attitude, perseverance and humility throughout his battle will certainly stay with us forever. This award goes someway to remembering a much loved and missed member of staff and the award reflects Tom's own characteristics and what he was known for.
We congratulate past, present and future winners.
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Friday, December 9, 2011
We will go west in....
8 comments:
- Goosegirl said...
Oh Sam!!! I am so so so excited for you!! My grandfather had an Airstream for many years and we took a few very memorable vacations in it. I LOVED it! I can't wait to see how you fix it up!WEEEEEEEEE!
- December 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM
- Renata said...
Oh my Sam~ this is amazing!! I look forward in seeing how you fix it up so wonderfully!
Any news on your coming additions to your family?
Have a wonderful weekend
- December 9, 2011 at 4:38 PM
- Cherishing My Days said...
Awesome.love the whole idea! American Pickers recently did a show where they fixed up an old Airstream.
- December 9, 2011 at 8:23 PM
- Trying Traditional said...
love, love, love vintage Airstreams!
- December 9, 2011 at 10:38 PM
How AWESOME! I know you'll be doing a great job! Can't wait to see before-after fotos. :)
- December 14, 2011 at 1:54 PM
- Candice said...
SOOOOO exciting!! We LOVE, and I mean LOVE camping!! Wish we could do it all year long :) I would love to be able to fix up a vintage airstream!! I'll follow along in your journey and dream :)
- December 17, 2011 at 4:30 PM
you can look up Magnolia pearls air stream, it is amazing, not quite kid friendly but you will see the possibilities!
- February 27, 2012 at 11:38 PM
- Melissa said...
So cool! I hope you post updates about what you are doing.
- March 29, 2012 at 10:23 AM