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Milton Avery (American 1885-1965)
Milton Avery's roots lie in the conjunction of American regionalism and European and American impressionism. While Avery began as a relatively traditional painter, his style quickly ran counter to the social realism of the time. He combined elements of American impressionism with the simplified shapes of Matisse to forge a unique style that became increasingly abstract later in his career. Yet Avery cannot be judged by the later abstract masterpieces alone. His tendency to resort to multiple stylistic approaches is illustrated in his later work (see Barbara Haskell's comments on Sea Moon and Stars, 1960, vs. Sand Sea and Sky, 1960, in Portfolio, Sept/Oct 1982)
As early as 1905, Milton began attending the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford, where he remained an occasional life drawing student through 1919. After 1911, he listed his occupation as artist according to Hobbs' biography of Milton Avery. In 1915, he had his first public exhibition at the Annex Gallery of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford; Hobbs indicates the current location of the painting exhibited there is unknown. During 1918 he transferred to the School of the Art Society in Hartford, CT. It was at this point that he began nearly annual visits to Gloucester. In 1926, he married Sally Michael; in 1928, Bernard Karfoil exhibited two Avery paintings in The Opportunity Gallery group show that also featured Mark Rothko (another of the important color field painters). In 1929, Duncan Phillips purchased the first of many Avery paintings to enter museum collections, Winter Riders for the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington. After this date, Avery had a widening circle of museum and gallery exhibitions and an increasing number of friendships with artists such as Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and, later, Barnet Newman. Milton also became close friends with another unique American modernist, Marsden Hartley. Their mutual friendship lasted until Marsden's death in 1965. Milton Avery had profound impact on the other painters he befriended, on American color field painting and on the evolution of modernism in the last half of the 20th century.


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Thursday evening July 7th the waxing crescent Moon will be within 1-2o from the star Regulus in Leo the Lion. Then over the next 2 days the Moon will move further east and pass by the planet Jupiter near the star Denebola, the tail of the lion.
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MADISON HEIGHTS — The budget for the new fiscal year met with unanimous approval at the Madison Heights City Council meeting May 9.
There weren't any notable changes from the budget previewed at council's workshop in April. To recap, that means no new taxes. It also means that while the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) is charging the city more for water, the increase won't be passed on to taxpayers.
The 5.6 percent increase in water rates from the GLWA has been balanced out by improved efficiencies in the system, including water main replacements and better leak tracking. In addition, the slight increase in the storm runoff rate charged by the county will be more than offset by a decrease in the sewer treatment rate.
As for the overall budget, as previously reported, the city is expecting property values to rise in FY 2016-17, with residential values rising by 13.7 precent, commercial by 0.8 percent and industrial by 5.9 percent, for an average overall increase of 10.3 percent.
However, the Headlee Amendment and Proposal A continue to limit increases in taxable property values to 5 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less, meaning city revenue will only increase by the inflationary factor of 0.3 percent.
In other words, the city will receive only a fraction of the value from recovering property values.
While the recovery won't be quick, members of council were optimistic. Mayor Brian Hartwell praised his fellow council members and the city manager for preparing a balanced budget.
"What I'm excited about as a first-term mayor is residential property values will rise 13 percent. What that means is we will see … a rejuvenation of our neighborhoods with new homeowners and new families coming in. So how do we as a city plan for this? We're marketing ourselves region wide to attract and retain the residents and businesses we want. And our budget is a useful tool to express our values and our goals."
The numbers
The city tax rate for FY 2016-17 is set at 23.0150 mills — a very slight increase from the current fiscal year. A mill is equal to $1 for every $1,000 of taxable value.
The only millage that will increase is the fire stations bond millage, which will go up by roughly 0.05 mill. This will bring the fire stations bond millage to just over a half-mill, which will help cover the city's debt service payment.
The overall budget totals more than $47.9 million — a 0.2 percent increase from the current fiscal year. The general fund portion is nearly $26.7 million, a 1.4 percent increase.
Of the overall budget, nearly $40.8 million is for the operating budget, a 2.3 percent increase from the current fiscal year. The capital budget, however, sees a 10.4 percent decrease, clocking in at less than $7.2 million.
Capital projects in the coming year include the first district of a citywide water meter change-out program, and Year 9 of the neighborhood road construction program under the Proposal R-2 millage, which expires in FY 2017.
The proposed budget contains a planned use of fund balance in the general fund totaling about $1.07 million. As of June 30, 2015, the general fund unreserved fund balance was nearly $7.2 million. The fund balance is expected to total nearly $5.3 million, or 19.7 percent of expenditures, come June 30, 2017.
Not counting the use of fund balance, there is about $25.6 million budgeted in general fund revenues — a 0.4 percent increase over the current fiscal year.
One police officer position has been budgeted for overtime in order to participate in a federal task force that will address crime in area hotels.
It's not a new position, but it does move the city one step closer to fulfilling the undercover work once done by the Special Investigations Unit, which was disbanded years ago to save money.
"The foundation of our goals is public safety, and I'm going to continue to fight for the return of the SIU," Hartwell said.
The city will eliminate one vacant full-time building official — now outsourced — and one vacant full-time Department of Public Services equipment operator, the result of contracted grass cutting.
One part-time DPS office assistant position will replace a shared part-time position with the City Clerk's Office. A part-time office assistant shared by the clerk and DPS will now move 100 percent to the city clerk.
The mayor said he wants to make sure the current employees are happy.
"We need to retain the best talent, like any organization, and over the last five or six years, many of our departments have been cut so thin that our employees are overworked and stressed, and that is going to impact the delivery of services," Hartwell said. "So we need to work with them, in every city department, to make sure they have the resources they need to get the job done."
In an email, Madison Heights City Manager Ben Myers noted that the city continues to make its contributions to pensions in the new fiscal year, as well as a planned contribution to Other Post Employment Benefits (OPEB) in the amount of $6.6 million.
Council has also taken the step of approving Pension Obligation Bonds (POB) that will convert 95 percent of the city's unfunded liability for general employee pension to a 16-year debt service amortization.
The city expects to sell the bonds and receive proceeds by the end of the current fiscal year. POB financing provides budget relief through a fixed payment schedule over the terms of the bonds, and is projected to save the city around $4 million over the 16-year period.
"The FY 2016-17 budget continues the city's emphasis on prudent financial management by prioritizing and balancing major spending needs with available resources," Myers stated in an email. "Although we expect conditions to improve long term, the fact that our overall budget remains basically at status quo with a 0.2 percent increase, when the regional economy is doing better, reflects that Michigan's municipal funding model is still broken.
"Despite stagnant revenues, though, we were able to reinstitute a city goals process this year and undertake several important infrastructure projects," he added. "So we're hopeful about the future and being able to meet the challenges that lie ahead."
Council reactions
Mayor Pro Tem Mark Bliss had one concern with the budget: namely, $14,000 budgeted to replace 28 chairs in the council chambers and conference rooms at City Hall. The current chairs date back to 1998, and many do not function properly.
"It's $14,000 — that's with three zeroes — to replace chairs. In the workshop, I railed against this heavily, not just because I think it's an absolute waste of money, but there are alternatives I threw out for the use of funds," Bliss said. "We could replace that $14,000 line item in the budget with a paid internship position that would help manage the city's social media channels and write grants for all of the other programs that we need — someone to communicate with the residents and all of the grant facilitators to get us money for different departments. That's a return on investment — a good move.
"But as it stands, it's $14,000 to replace chairs when we don't have a lot of wiggle room in our budget," he said. "I'm open to other ideas as well. At our goals-setting session, there were nearly 20 goals that could've been accomplished with this line item for chairs."
Not wishing to hold back the budget and knowing that it can be revisited later, Bliss went ahead with the budget in its current form. He said that on the whole, the budget marks a turning point where the city is shifting out of "survival mode" and into a state where it can begin to improve things.
"I consider this a foundational budget, since this is the budget that has started our approach into a new era," Bliss said. "We still don't have a lot of money … but what we do have now is a defined system, on the staff and council level, to decide where every one of those extra dollars can and should go. The ability to spur growth in the downtown, for example, or to revisit some of our planning and zoning requirements, or to fund some of our projects to make the city safer with police and fire, with new equipment and new personnel. This is the start of that discussion — that process — of understanding where the city can go in the future."
City Councilman Robert Corbett said a big part of the city's future will be shaped by what residents decide to do with the downtown. The current Downtown Development Authority is nearing the end of its 20-year tenure. In the coming years, the city will re-evaluate the jurisdiction of the DDA and decide what can be done to give the city something resembling a proper downtown, albeit one that makes sense for Madison Heights.
"I really think the next breakout position, the next big thing for the community, will be to go from concept to design to implementation of a downtown strategy. That really is key for the next 20 years in our community," Corbett said. "It will have a positive effect all the way around if we do this. It will obviously increase the tax base. It will cement us as a destination community, both for living in and for recreating in. It will serve those two purposes.
"Because really, we need to move beyond our current identity," he said. "Right now, we're sort of a blue-collar, middle-class town, and obviously that was the model when we developed in the 1950s and '60s. But now we have to bring in new people, new energies, new attractions. That's going to be important since the tax base won't grow by virtue of appreciation — we will simply have to build and go through a new building phase in order to come up with the revenue we want, and to create the services and city we want. This means new construction, new rehabilitation and redevelopment of our neighborhoods.
"We're well-positioned to do that, with quality leadership and a quality managerial team," Corbett concluded. "I'm very optimistic."
The mayor pro tem agreed.
"We're approaching a true turning point, a wonderful fork in the road, with choices which way we'll guide the city," Bliss said. "Now we can have those discussions. I'm excited."


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So this is something that after watching a True Blood Panel at the June first event 2010 was lurking around in my mind and was originally written back in October of 2010 …. and rewritten and edited for the Vampire Loving Dorks page in April of 2011 and now here it is again, re-edited, revamped, and still very much a topic in my everyday musings.
A lot of us here would probably agree that we love vampires. Many, such as myself , find that vampire links are possible with everything … even a trip to Chuck E Cheeses! Characters appear on-screen and are referenced to various portrayals in previous vampire based shows, for example we were watching "Amy Burley" from True Blood on Fox's show "New Girl" …. I recently spotted "Spike" from "Buffy" (Or Angel) as the camera guy at the beginning of the movie House on Haunted Hill … "Daphne" from True Blood was in "CSI Miami" …. and so the list, and the connections would seem to me to be endless.
So where does the character end and the actor begin? Many who are into True Blood or the Sookie Stackhouse Novels would probably consider themselves either Team Eric or Team Bill to some extent or another, but is it Eric the character that people adore or is it the way Alexander Skarsgard portrays him??? What if the original talks had gone ahead and Alexander Skarsgard played Bill???? Would there be more Team Bill fans now with the same adoration for all things AS or does the character create the buzz???
For me its easy … I love Eric from the books and adore the screen Eric and feel that AS really embodies him but I do feel that as long as the portrayal was similar I would probably have felt the same devotion to another Eric. Would I have paid more attention to Bill with Alexander Skarsgard playing him??? Quite probably as he is certainly very easy on the eye lol but would I be a Team Bill player??? Somehow I can't see it.
My latest "Character love' is Mitchell from the BBC UK Show "Being Human" (Not to be confused with the poor attempt American copy of the same shown which had a vampire named Aiden – Possibly a nod to Aidan Turner that plays the UK vampire Mitchell?? and pale insignificant versions of the same stories … anyway .. I digress ….. As I was saying Mitchell is possibly one of the darkest portrayals of a vampire on television I have seen EVER. And yes I adore him. I love the darkness … I get excited when he vamps out and goes murdering people .. and I especially like it when he decides humanity has wronged him and along with a friend totally destroys a train full of perfectly innocent passengers in the most gruesome way you can imagine. Rather than being shocked I embrace this side of the vampire. I prefer it to the twinkling tortured "vegetarian" teen vamps or love-sick, pining to be human again creatures trying to fit in. But now that Mitchell is no more (makes me want to sob all over again just typing it) I see a lot of fans now looking to see what he is going to be in next just as many "Eric" fans watch everything that Alexander Skarsgard does. Not me …. mine is definitely entrenched in the "character love" category. It is Mitchell the vampire I am in love with and not Aidan Turner (sexy and gorgeous though he might be. If I ever met him I would only be thinking Mitchell).
This "Character love" can be applied to many other vampires such as those in the Twilight Saga. Team Edward is "alive and well" (yes I don't understand it either but just look around and you will see that it is absolutely thriving). Take my mother for example, she, who has never understood my love for all things vampyric is suddenly Team Edward in the largest way almost to the point of being delusional. She refer's to "Edward" as the main part of Robert Pattinson's being, for example a recent phone call involved her berating the English Press because of how they portrayed "Edward" in the papers as drunk and uncouth.She is constantly telling me that she is going to watch, or has watched the new film that "Edward" not "Robert" is starring in.
So when does the fictional character take over the actor that portrays them? For me it's never! I love my fantasy book vampires and whilst I enjoy (for the most part) seeing them portrayed on the screen and it certainly allows me to discuss them more with my husband, who might die rather than read one of my vampire novels, never do the actors portraying them quite match the image in my head. That is one of the best things about Mitchell from Being Human ….. he has never had to live up to an already living vision in my head. He was always Mitchell as portrayed by Aidan Turner. Even though I watched a couple of the US version episodes with basically the same character he was never him!!!
A perfect example dates back to when Interview with the Vampire was being made and Tom Cruise was cast as Lestat. I was devastated. How could this actor, whom I had never really liked (although I will confess to enjoying some of his movies), possibly play my blonde hair, blue-eyed devil? Anne Rice apparently shared my concerns but I must confess when I went to see the movie he had done an admirable job. He was Lestat, just not my Lestat, but it does however, remain my favorite Tom Cruise movie to date. Then came the Queen Of The Damned. A mish mash of the next 2 vampire chronicles with none of the actors from the first attempt and a slaughter in the casting department when it came to the lesser vampires. Stuart Townsend definitely embodied the darker, sarcastic side of Lestat but again fell short from my vampire lover from the books. This is more relevant now than ever with the question of who will play Lestat being thrust front and centre once more as the movie rights to "Tale Of The Body Thief" have recently been picked up.
So I ask you all …… are you in love with the vampires, or is it the people who play them. With many books out there waiting to hear about movie or tv deals I am sure there are more fictional vamps just waiting to be bought to life by actors who I am sure dream that their character will become such an obsession that the lines blur between the character and them, and they find themselves stalked to the point of insanity. As for me, I will keep my love affair with the vampires in my books and my new vampires on the screen, as I am lucky, in the real world I have found the one person to share my darkness and my eternity with.


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Homeless man stabbed in Milford cemetery
A homeless man from Milford is recovering this evening after police say someone attacked him with a knife in a cemetery.
Officials say Dennis McPadden was living in a tent inside the Milford Cemetery and a woman with a knife slashed him at around 2 a.m. this morning. He says the woman told him that she was doing him a favor by killing him.
McPadden says he never saw the woman before and that he recently started living in the tent after he was kicked out of a nearby homeless shelter for drinking.
Police say the suspect is described as a white woman in her early 20s with straight, shoulder-length brown hair.
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Front View of Edwin's Gallery Building
Edwin's Gallery stands upon a 2000 m2 piece of land in the hip Kemang area of Jakarta. The gallery was established in 1984. The primary aim of the gallery is to provide a meeting ground for artists and art lovers, and to give an up-to-the minute picture of what is happening within the discourse of contemporary art in Indonesia and the world.
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Fort Mill falls to Greenwood in the first round of SC state basketball playoffs
For the second straight year, the Fort Mill High boys' basketball season ended in heartbreaking fashion as the Jackets missed a three-pointer near the buzzer and were edged by the Greenwood Eagles 51-50 in the first round of the 5A boy's basketball state playoffs.
The Jackets were led by All-State player Ryan Heriot, who scored 19 points. Fort Mill rallied in the fourth quarter after the Jackets found themselves down by five at the end of the third. Heriot hit a 3-pointer to put the Jackets up 43-42 as they started the final period on a 7-1 run.
The teams battled back and forth throughout the quarter and were tied at 45 with about two minutes left in the game before trading the lead back and forth for the remainder of the game. Fort Mill finished the season at 14-9.
Fort Mill and Greenwood started the third quarter trading 3-pointers. The Eagles used their height to get inside along the block and battle for the high percentage shot. Fort Mill opened its offense and took its time finding the right shot as well. The offense for both teams slowed during the early part of the quarter as Greenwood continued to chip away at Fort Mill's lead. The Eagles would tie the game at 36 with about 1:15 left in the third. The Jackets struggled with turnovers in the quarter, losing the ball eight times.
"We went through a spell there and they made some plays," said Fort Mill head coach Dwayne Hartsoe. "We had 20 turnovers in the game and you can't do that and win. It was a great season. We had a great year. I am proud of our seniors."
Fort Mill hit just four second-half field goals, two in each of the third and fourth quarters, while it was the team's shooting at the free throw line that aided the Jackets in the second half as they went 10-12 from the stripe. On the other hand, Greenwood was 10-for-19 from the field in the second half.
The Eagles would come back in the second quarter opening the period on a run of its own to cut the Fort Mill lead to four with about six minutes left in the half. Fort Mill turned the ball over several times during the second quarter allowing Greenwood to make a game of it. Greenwood's defense cut the lane off from Fort Mill not allowing the Jackets to drive as often to the basket and forcing them outside.
Greenwood's ability to penetrate the lane helped to keep the Eagles in the game in the latter portions of the second quarter. Fort Mill was able to find gaps in the paint as well, which opened their offensive effectiveness as they took a 29-23 lead into the locker room at the half.
Fort Mill opened the game on a 9-0 run and contained Greenwood to one shot per possession to start with in the first quarter in the early going. Greenwood missed its first five shots before Messiah Carter drained a 3-pointer, only to have the Jackets' Heriot answer with a 3-pointer of his own. Heriot would score eight of those 18 points in the quarter.
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The "Ulyanovsk – City of Literature" program office was established under the Department for Culture, City Administration of Ulyanovsk, and is controlled by the Head of the Department.
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Ralph Manheim was one of the world's foremost literary translators.
He translated German and French fiction and belles-lettres into English. Since the publication of his first major translation, Mein Kampf (1943), Manheim translated novels by Hermann Hesse, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Günter Grass, Peter Handke, and Erich Maria Remarque, among many others. He also translated the letters of Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung as well as texts by Bertholt Brecht, Karl Jaspers, and Paul Klee. His work also includes various plays, short stories, and poems.
Manheim's awards included the 1961 PEN Prize (for Grass's The Tin Drum), the 1965 Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for Grass's Dog Years), the 1970 National Book Award (for Celine's Castle to Castle), the 1975 Goethe House PEN Prize (for Handke's Sorrow Beyond Death), and the 1979 Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for Grass's The Flounder). He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1971). He also received the Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation from the PEN American Center (1988) for his body of work.
Manheim received an A.B. (1926) from Harvard University, and did graduate work at Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Vienna, and the University of Munich.
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DUST TO DUST by Margaret Duffy
More like a spy thriller than a "typical mystery", this latest tale involving Patrick Gillard and his wife Ingrid Langley, has them involved in solving the murder of Richard Daws, the 14th Earl of Hartwood. Daws, a senior official at the National Crime Agency, is killed at his home, the highly secure Hartwood Castle.
Gillard, an adviser to the NCA, is soon on the trail of Nicholas Haldane who once tried to kill him. When Marcia Lindersland, Daws' replacement at the NCA goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Gillard must work out how her disappearance fits in with Daws' murder. MI5, MI6 and the Metropolitan Police are right behind Gillard's every move as he gets closer to solving the murder.
Filled with the dry humour that the British are famous for, I found this fast-paced thriller to be just that. Not having read the previous books in this series left me with a slight disadvantage as there was a fair bit of back-story to the characters.
Nevertheless, it made for an enjoyable read and some good laughs.
HER NIGHTLY EMBRACE by Adi Tantimedh
Don't be fooled by the title of this book – it's not a romance novel.
Nor is it a true "mystery", in my opinion. What we have here are the first four cases that Ravi Chandra Singh, Private Investigator, has been handed by his bosses at Golden Sentinels, a London PI and security company. Ravi gave up his studies as a religious scholar and his job as a high school teacher and since then has been visited by Hindu gods, in his times of stress. Between being a PI, paying off his mother's gambling debts, and paying for his sister's upcoming wedding, Ravi is under a LOT of stress. The gods are everywhere!
Working with an oddball group of colleagues, Ravi deals with a politician who believes he's being haunted by his dead fiancé; sorts out who's doing what to whom in a case of rival authors; searches for a Pakistani girl who has run away to escape an arranged marriage; and has to solve a murder involving a high-powered banker.
Be prepared for lots of profanity (a bit much, I thought), some humour, and an attitude of "anything goes". Not my cup of tea, but a perfect libation for other readers, I'm sure. This is the first in a trilogy and is soon to be a TV series.


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For the ATLAS experiment at CERN we are building a hardware interlock which cuts power to the TRT electronics if thermistors indicate a cooling system failure.
A breadboard version of the "compare" board was tested:
A printed circuit version has been built:
64 copies have been installed in the
detector at
Currently under construction is a "Logic Box" which receives signals from all the compare boards and cuts power to the front end electronics if the thermistors indicate a cooling system failure. The box contains 2 copies of the "receive" board:
The surface mount components on these printed circuit boards have been installed using a selective assembly robot made by
This robot dispenses solder paste, places components, and reflows the solder with infrared lasers.
Here are some movies of the robot in action:
Note that the CCD image sensors in the camera are very sensitive to infrared; the "welding torch" appearance when soldering is an artifact.
Here is a picture of the receive board with front and back panels:
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Thursday September 21 and September 23rd
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(Shihtienfeng being).
Phonetic: She-te-en-fe-e-ah.
Named By: C.-C. Young and H.-K. Yeh - 1963.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Anapsida, Procolophonia, Pareiasauridea, Pareiasauridae, Pareiasaurinae.
Species: S. permica (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: China, Shansi Province - Shihtienfeng Formation.
Time period: Wuchiapingian of the Permian.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains.
Shihtienfenia is one of the first pareiasaurs known from China, and one that raised a few eyebrows. Most known pareiasaurs have four sacral vertebrae (the vertebrae that are housed within the pelvis), but Shihtienfenia has six. Unfortunately the skull of Shihtienfenia is still unknown, so it is still uncertain what other differences may have been present. Shihtienfenia is named after the Shihtienfeng Formation where the first remains were discovered.
Further reading
- On a new Pareiasaur from the Upper Permian of Shansi, China - C.-C. Young and H.-K. Yeh - 1963.


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Offering a great layout that opens out to the balcony area and garden, the breezes and ambient light in this unit ensure your next home will be a pleasant and peaceful place to relax and enjoy the Maleny lifestyle!
* Open plan living and kitchen with new stove & oven
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Great River Arts juried exhibition "Collective Visions" will be on display July 12th - Sept 1st.
Throughout the months of July and August, they will have a voting station for the "People's Choice" award which will be given at the close of the exhibition and announced on social media.
My pieces "Woman and Heron" and "Lady Yellowstone Trout" will be on display and available for purchase.


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Latest Additions October 5, 2015Posted by Dori in Fiction.
Tags: Fiction, Latest Additions, The Reading Room
Welcome to October, my favorite month of my favorite season! The weather, the colors, the food, the light, the legends, it's just a lovely month. It's also a great time to cozy up with a cuppa and a book, including the selections below, the latest additions to the Reading Room. Or if these aren't your cup of tea, stop in and we'll help find you find the perfect match.
Circling the Sun by Paula McClain
A Lesson in Hope: a Novel by Philip Gulley
Dietland by Sarai Walker
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore
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Auckland is New Zealand's largest city. Nearly a third of the country's population lives in Auckland. Many Americans retire in Auckland, New Zealand, and it continually ranks among the world's most livable cities.
Art and Culture
If the easy-going Kiwi culture lures you into Auckland, you may never look back. Auckland's culture is perfect for the fun-loving retiree. It's a cosmopolitan city, and its residents come from all over the world.
Auckland has a larger Polynesian population than any city in the world. Visit the Auckland War Memorial Museum for a sampling of Polynesian Art as well as military history exhibits. In addition to the War Memorial, the museum houses one of New Zealand's most impressive collections of art. Visitors can see everything from Maori art and performances to foreign contemporary art exhibitions.
For a true taste of Kiwi culture, spend your Saturday morning at the Otara Market. The multicultural market opens at 6 a.m. every Saturday, and vendors all nationalities and cultures vie for your business. Traditional crafts, foods and novelty items are integrated with work from emerging local artists and designers.
Retirees new to Auckland can get acquainted with the city on one of its many Heritage Walks. They take a few hours, but participants receive a comprehensive history lesson as they explore different neighborhoods.
Activities for Retiring in Auckland
Ecotourism is a major industry in New Zealand, and Auckland is no exception. Nicknamed the City of Sails, maritime culture is the backbone of Auckland's society. Charter options are available for everything from fishing to diving.
If you're looking for volunteer opportunities in your retirement, consider volunteering at the Atuanui Restoration Project. The project helps preserve native plant and animal species in the forests around Mt. Auckland. Volunteers perform a number of tasks, from technical assistance to research, maintenance and pest management.
One of Auckland's most popular attractions is the Stardome Observatory and Planetarium. Displays and exhibits are free, and shows are usually about $15. Features include exhibits on the history of the universe and how the Maori used the stars as their navigation system.
For another museum full of Maori culture and history, travel to Northland, Waikaito and Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.


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Time to catch up on some interesting snippets from the week: 1. Electronic skin for an electronic generation
A new breakthrough in medical science has lead to the development of electronic skin that could help amputees achieve a better sense of their surroundings. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has a established a way for amputees to not only sense touch, but humidity and temperature as well.
2. Coke-Spotify packaging unveiled
Coca-Cola has included Spotify in their packaging for the first time in their branding for their new slim cans. Branded with the Spotify logo and showing a link to coca-cola.com/playlists, the new 250ml cans add to the growing list of packaging designs that the company have produced.
3. e-David, the Robotic Painter
Whilst it can be thought that creativity cannot be taught or programmed, German programmers are seemingly proving that wrong with e-David, the independent robotic painting sensation. The University of Konstanz, Germany, equipped a robot with a camera, sensors, and painting supplies and after some initial instructions from a programmer leaves it to create it's own artwork.
4. Vogue-asaurs
The Vogue website has recently been overrun with dinosaur fashionistas, displayed only after typing the Konami Code. This video game cheat will display the pre-historic creatures adorned with some rather fancy hats. It's been heard that Vogue isn't the only one to be infiltrated, GQ, Wired and Easy Living also having some cyber friends hiding among their pages. Whether this is a hack or marketing ploy, we're certainly having fun with it.
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Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library invites applications for the position of Preservation Librarian. The library seeks to build its professional staff by recruiting talented, energetic librarians interested in shaping the future of Tulane University and New Orleans
The Preservation Librarian is a detailed- and team-oriented librarian who works closely with Tulane's main library collection, offsite storage collection, and special collections including the Louisiana Research Collection, Hogan Jazz Archive, Latin American Library and Southeastern Architectural Archives. Reporting to the Director of Technical Services, the librarian will organize and maintain a comprehensive preservation assessment program for a broad range of physical collections, seek outside funding including grants, establish goals and objectives to develop a conservation lab and for the conservation of aged and damaged materials, advise on climate control as needed, advise on preservation issues including disaster preparedness, and conduct awareness programs for staff and users. S/he will contribute service to library committees and task forces as well as to professional associations.
Required: ALA-accredited MLS with a focus in preservation; understanding of library preservation and conservation issues, standards, trends, and best practices; ability to see the library as a whole and understand how preservation activities relate to its core mission; demonstrated concern for and expertise in handling physical collections; ability to work as part of a team as well as independently; excellent problem solving skills and attention to details; ability to be flexible and adapt to rapid change; excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills; and a valid driver's license.
Preferred: The candidate should have two years of work experience in preservation or conservation, or equivalent hands-on training; experience with grant writing and funding; experience with climate monitoring and control; experience supervising staff; experience with disaster preparedness documentation.
Salary/Benefits: Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Librarians are academic appointees; librarians do not have tenure or faculty rank, but in other respects receive the benefits of faculty members; generous benefits including a choice of health plans, tuition waiver for self, and undergraduate tuition waiver for dependents.
Environment Tulane University is an AAU/Carnegie Research Institution and ranked by U.S. News and World Report among the top fifty national universities in the United States. The university is located in beautiful uptown New Orleans where it borders the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line and Audubon Park. Howard-Tilton Memorial Library is the University's main library with an ARL research collection of more than four million titles.
To Apply Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled with an expected start date of April 1, 2012, or earlier. To ensure full consideration, applicants must submit a letter of application, résumé, and names with full contact information of at least three professional references via email to Andrea Bacino (firstname.lastname@example.com) or mail to:
Tulane University
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Attn: Andrea Bacino
7001 Freret St. 2nd floor
New Orleans LA 70118
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City Farm celebrates opening of new expanded facilities
Members of the community, local dignitaries and representatives from Childs+Sulzmann Architects all joined a celebration recently to mark the official opening of the extended and refurbished facilities at Windmill Hill City Farm.
The community farm is a much loved Bristol institution that has been so successful over recent years that the trustees decided it was time to grow. They wanted to provide a larger, more modern, facility that increased the farm's capacity to educate people about food, farming and the environment and to develop their reputation for good organic food.
Childs+Sulzmann re-configured the existing café area and designed the 150m2 extension that includes a multi-use function space. The brief specified that the family friendly, simple, farm-related ambiance of the café, with lots of natural light, was to be retained. Mike Cox, Director of Childs+Sulzmann, (pictured left, with colleague Orsolya Kapus, right) attended the opening event and reflected, "We have created an open, airy space that makes you feel like you are in the farm yard!"
Childs+Sulzmann's designs maintain the ethos and context of the farm by making substantial use of natural materials and include a wide range of sustainable features.


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Welcome to the Divine Consign Furniture Store App. With this app you will be able to view our inventory, Shop via our online store, See what new products we have in store. Get push messages when we have specific items in stock, view our social media feeds streamlined and much more.


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A Podcast for Today's Wild Land Firefighters, produced by the Health and Human Performance Department at the University of Montana, Missoula.
Season 2, Episode 10: CISM
Charles Palmer, Heath Cota, and Asad Rahman
This is it, the tenth and final podcast of Season 2. Critical Incident Stress Management, or CISM, is a process designed for helping those who have experienced traumatic events be able to share their perspectives with others, learn about common stress reactions, express emotions, and ... Read More
Season 2, Episode 09: Senator Jon Tester
Charles Palmer and Jon Tester
After a somewhat lengthy Season 2 hiatus, "On The Line" is back with a brand new podcast. United States Senator Jon Tester from the state of Montana joins the program from Washington, D. C. to talk about the importance of funding for wildland fire, what ... Read More
Season 2, Episode 08: Jose's Bag 2.0
Charles Palmer, Charles Dumke, and Luke Alford
The original Jose's Bag podcast had such stellar and rave reviews (fake news?), that we are back with another installment. In Jose's Bag 2.0, Luke Alford from the University of Montana's Health and Human Performance Department steps in for Jose, and he is joined by ... Read More
Season 2, Episode 07: Smart and Smarter
Charles Palmer, LLoyd Queen, and Carl Seielstad
Prodigious friends Drs. LLoyd Queen and Carl Seielstad from UM's National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis stumble across a suitcase full of questions posed to them by podcast host Charlie Palmer. The pair, who live dual lives as both fire scientists and fire managers, have ... Read More
Season 2, Episode 06: Sharkey
Brent Ruby and Brian Sharkey
As a wildland firefighter, if you don't recognize the name Brian Sharkey, you probably should. The author of twelve books, developer of the pack test and work to rest guidelines, and some of the earliest examinations of woodsmoke exposure around, you name the topic and ... Read More
Season 2, Episode 05: Nutrition 2.0
Brent Ruby
Eating the proper foods at the appropriate time is an essential component of recovery, especially for tactical athletes like wildland firefighters. Dr. Brent Ruby from the University of Montana's Center for Work Physiology and Exercise Metabolism re-joins the podcast for a follow up to his ... Read More
Season 2, Episode 04: Jose's Bag
Charles Dumke and Jose Pena
University of Montana Health and Human Performance Department graduate student Jose Pena joins the podcast to discuss over-the-counter, alleged performance-enhancing products. Jose is a Chilean who came to the U. S. to play collegiate soccer, and has been involved with UM's wildland firefighter research. While ... Read More
Season 2, Episode 03: Decision Making & Cognitive Function
Charles Palmer, Charles Dumke, and Michael Williams-Bell
Wildland firefighting represents a high risk occupation, and exposes those who engage in it to a significant amount of danger and uncertainty. Decision making and cognitive function take on added importance as firefighters attempt to manage these risks. Canadian researcher Dr. Michael Williams-Bell from Durham ... Read More
Season 2, Episode 02: Seasonal Alterations
Brent Ruby and Trey Coker
Never before have wildland firefighters been assessed for physiological changes over the course of an entire fire season. Until now. Dr. Trey Coker from the University of Alaska Fairbanks teamed up with our own Dr. Brent Ruby to investigate seasonal alterations in a group of ... Read More
Season 2, Episode 01: Pack Test
Brent Ruby, Matthew Bundle, and Charles Palmer
The Work Capacity Test, otherwise known as the pack test, has been in use for nearly 25 years. Designed as a measure of muscular strength and aerobic capacity, the arduous version of the test entails hiking three miles on even terrain while carrying 45 pounds ... Read More
Season 1, Episode 10: Maclean
Brent Ruby, Charles Palmer, and John Maclean
Maclean. The name is synonymous with many things: great writing, fishing, and fire to name just a few. On this, the tenth and final episode of season one, author John Maclean joins the podcast, along with University of Montana researcher Brent Ruby and host Charlie ... Read More
Season 1, Episode 09: Suicide
Charles Palmer, Annie Sondag, and John Sommers-Flanagan
About 42,000 Americans take their own lives every year. While no known research has looked specifically at suicide prevalence rates within wildland firefighters, it appears to be a major concern within our population. Studies looking at structural firefighters indicate that they are three times more ... Read More
Season 1, Episode 08: Forty Something Years of Fire: an Interview with Wayne Williams
Charles Palmer and Brent Ruby
Few people can claim to possess a fire career that spans over four decades. From being a first year firefighter with the California Division of Forestry in the 1970's, to thirty-four years of smokejumping with the Forest Service, and ending with a final six year ... Read More
Season 1, Episode 07: Hydration
Charles Dumke and Brent Ruby
Dr. Chuck Dumke and Dr. Brent Ruby from the University of Montana re-join the podcast to discuss this vital component of performance. Hydration plays an important role in firefighter safety, and yet at times its significance has been over-emphasized. "Hydration is not a rescue from ... Read More
Season 1, Episode 06: Tactical Nutrition
Brent Ruby
Firefighters can expend upwards of 6200 calories per day during rigorous operations. Therefore, what they eat, when they eat, and how much they eat become extremely important factors that must be taken in to consideration by not only the firefighters themselves but also fire managers. ... Read More
Season 1, Episode 05: Wood Smoke
Charles Dumke and Tony J. Ward
Not only are firefighters exposed to wood smoke as a part of their occupations, but so too are millions of humans across the globe who must contend with this byproduct of combustion in the places they live. In this episode of "On the Line", University ... Read More
Season 1, Episode 04: Recovery
Matthew Bundle and Patty O'Brien
In this episode of On the Line, University of Montana biomechanist Matt Bundle and clinical psychology doctoral student Patty O'Brien join the podcast to discuss the concept of recovery and how it relates to wildland firefighters. Some of the science behind recovery is examined, and ... Read More
Season 1, Episode 03: Injuries in Wildland Firefighters
Charles Palmer and Valerie Moody
Although thousands of wildland firefighters are employed every year, and despite the fact that many of them sustain injuries while on the fireline or preparing themselves for the rigors of the job, very little is known about wildland firefighters and injury from a research perspective. ... Read More
Season 1, Episode 02: Rhabdo
Charles Palmer, Charles Dumke, and Brent Ruby
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Rhabdomyolysis, or rhabdo, is "a medical condition associated with heat stress and prolonged physical exertion, resulting in rapid breakdown, rupture, and death of muscle. When muscle tissue dies, electrolytes and large proteins are released into ... Read More
Season 1, Episode 01: Heat Related Injuries
Charles Palmer, Charles Dumke, and Brent Ruby
In this debut podcast of "On the Line", moderator Charlie Palmer, along with University of Montana professors Dr. Chuck Dumke and Dr. Brent Ruby discuss heat related illnesses/injuries (HRI's) for wildland firefighters. HRI's fall along a continuum of severity, with heat cramps being the mildest ... Read More


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A night of music in Lichfield will transport the audience back in time to the sounds of Gershwin and Cole Porter.
Singer Lola Lamour will take centre stage at the George Hotel on May 19.
A spokesperson said: "Lola has wowed TV and radio audiences across the UK and she is guaranteed to bring a touch of Hollywood to lovely Lichfield."
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Senior living has been changing and so has Scottsdale Village Square. Our Assisted Living community offers residents various options of assistance provided by our caring and professional staff. That's what we offer at Scottsdale Village Square.
Senior living now includes a multitude of services:
- Extra care and attention for otherwise healthy seniors
- Coordination and supervision of medication
- Some help performing day-to-day tasks (laundry, bathing, brushing teeth, getting dressed, tidying up the apartment)
- Assistance to ensure you can participate in your favorite hobbies and continue the enjoyment of your personal interests
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Residents can enjoy our delicious and nutritious meals in our restaurant-style dining room. It overlooks the pool which is surrounded by beautiful desert landscaping. Enjoy one of our many outdoor areas where you can relax in the shade and enjoy the beauty of the mountains and the desert landscaping while you enjoy meeting and making new friends.
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Monday, October 28, 2013
World Famous Soup
I don't have a better title for this because it is not your everyday kind of soup. This is a soup that I invented many years ago that has withstood the test of time. I have made it in France to rave reviews, I have made it in England to rave reviews, and I have even made it in Edmonton to rave reviews. It's not a chowder or a bisque, although it does have milk in it, so I'm left just calling it my "World Famous Soup". Because it does not have a thickening agent, it is a light version of a broth - and that's what I like about it.
There are many variations to this soup, and if you don't like shrimp, you can leave it out. I made it without shrimp for several years before thinking about adding it. Now I add it every time. My favourite time to eat this soup is after several days of pigging out over the Christmas holidays, but it shows up on the table at least once a month during the fall/winter, which is saying a lot because I hardly ever make the same thing twice...
This soup will serve approximately 6 as a meal.
1 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp canola or olive oil
1 small white onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, diced
4 medium carrots, sliced into crescents
6 potatoes, cut into bite-sized pieces
6 cups chicken stock
2 tsp dried dill
2 tsp garlic powder
1 lb shrimp (raw, thawed, and peeled), each shrimp cut into three pieces
2 cups milk (not skim)
salt, pepper
1. Sauté the onion in the butter and oil with a bit of salt while you chop the celery and carrots.
2. Add the celery and carrots to the pot while you chop the potatoes.
3. Add the potatoes to the pot and sauté the lot for 3 - 4 minutes.
4. Add the chicken stock, dried dill, and garlic powder.
5. Simmer for about 20 minutes or until the potatoes and carrots are cooked through.
6. In the meantime, peel the shrimp and cut each one into three pieces.
7. When the vegetables are cooked, add the shrimp to the pot and cook until they are pink, about 1 - 2 minutes.
8. Add the milk and heat through, about 1 - 2 minutes. Do not boil.
9. Add salt and pepper to taste. You will probably have to add about 2 tsp of salt - it's a big pot of soup and the potatoes will counteract it. Enjoy!
Shopping Tips:
1. Although it is slightly more expensive, I buy the loose carrots and celery unless I have another recipe in mind that will use the leftovers. I find I save more money that way than buying the cheaper stuff and throwing it out.
2. I use red potatoes for this recipe, but white ones or yukon gold are fine as well. Even baby potatoes work. Don't use russet potatoes, though, because they are baking potatoes and are too floury.
3. I have tried this recipe with fresh garlic and fresh dill, but it doesn't taste as good. Usually, I am all about the fresh ingredients, but in soup, the rules are a bit different. If you want to garnish it with fresh dill as well as the dried, that would be a good idea.
1. If you don't have time to thaw the shrimp, put them in a colander and run COLD water over them for five to ten minutes.
2. You can add frozen corn to this, or even substitute the corn for the shrimp if you want.
3. If you want a vegetarian soup, you could use vegetable stock instead and omit the shrimp.
4. If you want to add flour to the butter to thicken the broth, you can, but I really enjoy the lightness of it as it is.
1. This will keep in the fridge for about four days, but it never lasts that long in my house!
If you try it, let me know what you think. Don't forget the step at the beginning about sautéing the vegetables, though. It makes a difference to the taste.
Posted by Shannon at Monday, October 28, 2013
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- Shannons MomOctober 31, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Oh my goodness! I'm so far behind in my cooking and these recipes are so enticing! I'm dedicating this weekend to catching up.ReplyDelete
I remember very well the first time you served us this soup and remember how delicious and satisfying it was even though it was more broth-like than creamy (as you know I don't tolerate creamy very well).
Thanks for continuing this blog, Shannon. I'll look forward to the day that you turn it into a book (which I will also buy)!
Thanks, mom.ReplyDelete
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Verse 1: The serpent: We are introduced to the serpent in the first verse of this chapter. This serpent is described as more "crafty (shrewd, clever or cunning) than any other beast…" Most of us have probably heard this story many times and I think it is safe to assume the snake is Satan. How can we know for sure? It has been said that the Bible is the best commentary of the Bible. We read in Revelation 20:2, 3, "And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while." Some have suggested that Satan disguises himself as a snake, and others have proposed that the snake had a Satanic presence behind him (he took possession of the snake). Regardless we are given insight that the serpent was up to something and that something was no good. Here in the beginning we see two people, a man and a woman, naked in the garden (this symbolized their innocence and purity) who have no understanding of sin and disobedience until the snake appears. The serpent is sneaky, crafty and deceptive (he preys on their gullibility and innocence) and things are about to south.
The snake approaches the woman and strikes up a conversation with her. Let me pause for a moment. This is where the story gets a little weird. I am not a snake person. I never have been and never will be. If you want to see this grown man scream like a little girl then put me in a closed quarters with a snake… Any snake… I. DO. NOT. LIKE. SNAKES. So if this conversation would have never happened with me because I would have turned and bolted out of the garden quicker than you can say, "hiss"... I digress.
The snake begins by questioning God. "Did God ACTUALLY say that you shouldn't eat of the trees of the garden?" He questions God's authority causing the woman doubt. We can learn from this encounter. Doubt is one of Satan's most powerful tools. He still uses this tactic quite regularly today. He plants seeds of doubt by suggesting God doesn't really care for you. He may say things to cause you to doubt like, "If God loved you then he wouldn't be letting you go through this difficult time of life". "If God created this thing then he obviously wants you to indulge in it." Or he may be more extreme by saying to you, "You're waaaay beyond saving. With all the things you have done God could never forgive you." Or "You don't need other Christians in your life; you can do this on your own." If Satan is good at anything he is good at causing doubt.
Verses 2, 3: The woman enters into a debate with Satan and this is the first mistake she makes. Arguing with Satan is always a slippery slope. She does not see the harm in talking with the serpent. Why should she? She is innocent and the serpent is crafty but she feels she needs to defend her position. She begins to rationalize God and even adds to his command by saying that they couldn't even touch the fruit (which God did not say). Debating with the devil is never a good thing. Even Jesus himself rebuked Satan by responding with the Word of God and he did not enter into a debate with him.


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I started noticing him because whenever I see him, he's wearing these tennis shoes, cargo shorts, cream colored t-shirt, and Greenbay Packer's cap...EVERY SINGLE TIME. Yes, he is always wearing the same thing every time I see him and doing the same thing, jogging on the other side of the road towards the opposite direction with a plastic bag in his hand.
I always wondered where did he come from? And better yet, where is he jogging to? I guessed that he probably came from the 7-Eleven at the end of the street and now with goodies in his bag was running home. Nevermind the reasons why he was there on the road, I simply admired that he at least was jogging diligently so early every morning and he didn't even need to wear the appropriate gear. Good for him!
We would pass each other on my way to work and depending on how early or late I was a certain morning, I would see him jogging along different points on the road. My husband drove me to work one morning and even got to see this mysterious man. Each time I see this guy, it is like deja vu...or more like the movie Groundhog Day where I'm repeating the same day over and over again.
Then one morning...to my surprise, he was at his destination! At a bus stop nonetheless. No grocery bags full of goodies in his hand (he probably ate the contents) but ... he was wearing the same thing.
So my questions were answered. All those days, he had been running to catch the bus!
(Well, my friend, had I known why you were running and where to...I would've gladly given you a ride if I were going the same way.)


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For today's post I'm going to share with you guys how I clean my makeup brushes. Unfortunately I'm the type of girl who loves doing their makeup but hates cleaning my brushes. So this usually ends up in me putting it off for as long as possible and finding out mid makeup I have no eye shadow brushes left that aren't caked in leftover shadow. However, it is soo important to ensure you do clean your brushes regularly as they hold so much dirt and bacteria (Let's be honest you do not want to be spreading that around your face). Therefore I am all for making cleaning my brushes as easy and as simple as possible.
I only use two products when cleaning my makeup brushes as I love to keep things simple. My go to product I use when cleaning my brushes is an anti-bacterial hand wash. Now I know what you're thinking why a hand wash? They actually work so well at getting the dirt and excess product out of the brushes as they are obviously designed to clean, but also they have antibacterial properties which is great to wash brushes as this means it will kill any bacteria so you won't be putting it on your face. The one I love to use is this Carex Bubblegum hand was as it leaves my brushes smelling amazing as well as being antibacterial. The second product I use is a little silicone brush cleansing tool which you can pop on your fingers and rub your brushes against it and it helps to loosen any product in your brush which makes cleaning them way easier. I also love the fact that this is made out of silicone as it is super easy to clean and it doesn't hold dirt and germs.
So what do I do:
Step 1 ~ Gather all your brushes. (I know this seems like an obvious one but there's nothing worse than washing all you brushes and then finding a few after you have finished and put everything away)
Step 2 ~ Hold your brush under a warm tap to dampen it. (I usually run my fingers through them to remove any lose product)
Step 3 ~ Pump on that hand wash. (Or any other cleansing product you may decide to use)
Step 4 ~ Pop your silicone tool on your fingers and begin to swirl the brush on the tool. (At this point you may need to add little bits of water so the product lathers up)
Step 5 ~ Rinse! (Do this until the water starts to run clear and you think you have got rid of all the yuk)
Step 6 ~ Squeeze the bristles to remove excess water. (Make sure the handle is upright with bristles pointing down to avoid water dripping down in to the brush base and loosening the glue)
Step 7 ~ Gently pat brushes with a clean towel and then lay them out to dry. (I would recommend you let the brushes air dry as this is best for keeping your brushes soft and in the right shape)
So that's how I clean my makeup brushes a few additional tips would be to make so you wash them at a time when you don't need them as they can take 1-2 days to completely dry depending on the density of the brush, try to avoid using a hairdryer as this can dry them out and cause them to lose their shape and I personally prefer to avoid conditioning my brushes as I find that they feel amazing but they tend to pick up less product as they are so silky.
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Filed under: Dutch culture, school | Tags: food, integral design project, random
Things are moving quite quickly these days, but I thought to share my instantaneous amusement. As there are coincidental meetings and relationships between people, sometimes seemingly meaningless things in your life become prevalent by meeting each other.
Background #1: Last week, in order to make my trial cup of decaffeinated coffee more drinkable, I added some cocoa powder. I bought it last year based off of the box art, because I couldn't read anything in the grocery store anyway.
Background #2: My major project for the semester (IDP) involves re-designing the registration process so that it is smoother and the involved tools can be arranged to accommodate specific purposes. Registration in the most general sense is the introduction or the prelude to something greater: an event, a membership, a service or experience. Sometimes in registering you will have to register for other things, and you must wait for those to go through before moving on.
The Point: Mulling over this reminded me of recursive functions, when in the definition of such a function it calls on itself, and then it must wait until at some point, things are known and we can finish off the to-do list and move on. Since it's been some years since 6.001, I thought I would look up "iteration" and "recursion" before using these terms in our report. The first thing I see under recursion is my cocoa powder. It also ends up to be the name: the Droste effect.
So it ends up that my box of cocoa is kind of famous, and somewhat related to IDP. Cool.
Filed under: Delft, school | Tags: drawing, hand drawing, koos, product drawing, watercolor
I uploaded some quick shots of one of my drawing electives this quarter.
At first I was in agony over which classes to take this quarter, in particular how to spend 4 hours every Tuesday afternoon: "Drawing the Human Figure" or "Basic Colour Skills." Koos warned me the former was the most difficult drawing class offered, but basic color sounds like it could be… well, lamer.
The system here is that you have to attend the first lecture to get into the class. Both being at the same time and worth the same amount of ECTS, the ten minutes before the first class I was running back and forth between drawing rooms, trying to decide which class to take based on who else was taking it. Human figure has favorite people from Multisensory! Basic color looks… unfamiliar and sedated.
Eventually I found the teachers, also making it difficult. Human figure was taught by some guy who wore a purple sweatervest. Basic color was taught by Koos Eissen, who is if you remember, my drawing nerd crush.
So at this point, it's even. And it ends up that both classes are traditional classes in disguise. Human figure was just normal models and charcoal (charted territory, but interesting subject). Basic color was of products and watercolor (boring subject, but new media).
But just one look at the watercolor examples decided everything for me. And I'm really glad I did it. My drawings are nowhere near the quality of anyone else, but for once I think I improved a little bit during the period of the class. I've never used watercolor before as a serious medium. They were just in those cheap kits for kids, with the crappy, brightly-colored plastic handle brush with black, synthetic bristles.
And actually, today I got my drawings back from Koos, who gave me a passing mark for the class AND said "They were nice."
It ends up I had purple sweatervest guy for my other drawing elective, of which I will write at a later time.
Filed under: Delft, design, school | Tags: design, design competition
There's this design competition I want to enter, in which we design Delft business gifts. The email advert is below. It struck me as rather Dutch in that low context communication = lots of text to explicitly say all details, as well as a little of the bluntness when it talks about the deadline in the middle of the page.
It's okay if you don't find it that funny. But I am interested in entering at least one idea, maybe with Alazne, so it could be nice.
Filed under: Delft, design, school | Tags: clinique, Dutch, happy, language, multisensory design, nederlands, nice, perfume, smell
We received about a dozen small jars of smell pellets to experiment with, to come up with a smell for a design brief with a partner. Mine was to be lavender, suitable for Malaysian bar soap, feminine, relaxing, and contemporary. We submitted under numbers and then rated the other smells. The smells that are closest to the design brief and liked the most win.
And guess what? My partner and I won for our brief! I received Happy from Clinique that smells more cheerful than I am on a usual basis, so I'll try to be happier to make use of it. They gave it to us in the IFF bottles, because they make the scents while the company makes the bottles. Funny how much appearance changes the perception of something like perfume.
And now, more Dutch for the soul:
"gratis monsters" = free samples
NOT "free monsters"
(I was a little disappointed.)
Filed under: Delft, design, school | Tags: form study zen
My form study class had its exhibition opening today. Here are some shots of my model in the photo studio, the exhibition, and the main area of my faculty building.
Filed under: Delft, school | Tags: form study zen
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Filed under: design, school | Tags: domestic appliances, random, web 2.0
Not all of the things here are related, but that's how internet surfing goes. Strangely, that's something I don't really do too often. Does this have to do with lack of involvement with Web 2.0 again?
Some products were found on a site called popgadget, a personal technology site devoted to women, but many seem good for either sex.


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Paris, December 25, 2016
ARRIVING in Paris early Christmas morning is the best Christmas gift I've ever given myself. Not much seems to have changed at the Charles de Gaulle airport since I was last here 15 years ago. The Buck Rogers era travelators encased in a see-through tube, crisscrossing the light-filled atrium, evokes a modernity of the 1970s. The baggage carousel too, has a yesterday feel. I suppose the French aren't as manic about tearing things up and making things new, gorgeous, and first-world the way Singaporeans are.
It is as my longtime Paris-based French friend, F, has observed: the French culture, the cuisine, the aesthetics are all so refined and elegant, the top and the best, but when it comes to transport infrastructure, why bother seems to be their abiding ethic.
And so, this very first morning, after I settled my valise in F's apartment, and zipped out with him to his patisserie on the left bank at Saint-Germain-des-Prés—there's a line of customers waiting to take home their pre-ordered Christmas goodies and log cakes—I grabbed his arm and squealed, "Oh, there's a mouse!" Yes, une souris, a mouse, not a rat, scampering along in the Odéon subway towards the sortie, as if it were running along with us.
I suppose 19 years ago, for six good ones, when I had been a denizen of New York, the mouse wouldn't have fazed me. New York, is after all, home to rodents, as well as the homeless, in the depths of its dank, dusty, rumbling subways, just like in Paris. Alas, the temperament of the Singaporean girl is all I have right now. See no evil, hear no evil, see no mice, spy no rats. I seem to forget that this is the grand city of Ratatouille.
But I have returned, ready to conquer the rats and lick the windows—lécher les vitrines, as the French would say, their sensual and poetic take on window-shopping. My first stop: Gérard Mulot, an old-school patisserie and chocolatier, founded in 1976. At the front window and the side, bûches de Noël, Christmas log cakes of various sizes, glaze, colors, and flavors, line themselves up neatly.
Inside, fresh from the kitchen sitting on the racks of a baker's trolley, are creations I've never seen before: raspberries sandwiched between almond- and pistachio-flecked meringues.
It's only about half past eight, and a line, about a dozen deep, has snaked out from a tentage set up at the back of the this forty-year-old establishment along Rue Lobineau. The line, F tells me, was even longer on Christmas eve, worming its way down the entire length of the store. If you had been on this line, you would have had the pleasure of the store window winking and twinkling at you with Christmas revelry and colors, including a tall Christmas tree fashioned from chocolate macarons just by the chocolate section.
Christmas is in the air, so send in the sweets and the goodies! No one is counting calories, just taking stock of presents and what must fill the Yuletide table.
Meanwhile, I'm busy doing the tourist thing, snapping away on my iPhone, this cake and that one and that other one—the stylish beauty decked with glazed raspberries and a yellow-on-green striped motif down its side, the shining-like-a-mirror one with the glaçage au chocolat topped with ribbons of chocolate, and the limited edition all-yellow log made from organic lemons from Menton, stamped with the prestigious A.O.P., or Appellation Origine Protegée, a mark that recognizes them as a special produce of high quality.
Snap, snap, snap! All out of sight from F, who has quickly and quietly slipped away by the back door to be with his team at the tentage, which includes his papa and maman, who has come all the way from Annecy to give a hand.
The morning is long and having slept soundly most of my way in a comfortably uncrowded non-stop flight, it was time to explore the city by foot. And at eight degrees Celsius, the stroll was pleasant, taking me from the Rue de Seine where Gérard Mulot is, down towards the Seine, the Palais de Justice, then towards Notre Dame, which was teeming with people and police checks by the barrier. No, I didn't venture in.
A savory crêpe was on my mind, and after some turns down a rue, and another, and yet another, I settled on one not far from Gérard Mulot, just outside the Odéon station, with the option of à emporter (take away), or eating in au bar (by the counter, standing), with the take-away option always cheaper. As if life weren't complicated enough, when I asked to see the menu, the wait person by the counter, a hottie with the looks of Matt Dillon and an hauteur that was somewhat annoying, he tells me, "Oh, if you want a menu, then you have to go next door to Le Comptoir." It is a sister restaurant, purely dine-in, or sur place, with all the comforts of sitting on those chic Parisian wicker chairs in salles climatisées—rooms that are air-conditioned in summer, and heated in winter. This would have been the most expensive option.
Only in Paris do you get pricing three ways. In Singapore, oddly, da-bao costs more. The hawker will charge you ten or twenty cents more for plastic takeaway containers.
I went with the Mr. Hottie option, au bar, a term I learned in my very first trip to Paris in 1994. Having the phrase float in my mind again was nostalgic, the same way I felt thinking about how I met F and his parents at their café in Annecy in fall 22 years ago, when coming out from a TGV from Paris, I was desperately hungry and looking for a quick bite. My hunger blessed me with their friendship.
Vive l'amitié! Long live friendship!


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The pool finally opened and I was so excited to take Hudson out and go swimming with him. He didn't know quite what to think at first, but after several coats of spf 60 sunscreen and his new swimming suite we were ready. The pool wasn't the warmest at first but he got use to it and started kicking under the water and loved it. I am excited for him to go swimming with his dad. After we swam for a while and his diaper was waterlogged we got out and he fell right to sleep. By the end of the summer he is going to love to swim and we are both going to be working on our tans so everyone watch out!
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Former Nigeria youth international Alhaji Gero scored a late goal for Swedish side Oestersunds to wrap up a 2- 0 win away to Ukrainian side Zorya in the Europa League.
Gero struck on the dot of regulation time to kill off any potential late comeback from the home side, who fell behind in the 50th minute when Saman Ghoddos opened scoring for the visitors.
The power playing forward who had a short stint for Lobi Stars, Kaduna United and Enugu Rangers before moving abroad has so far found the back of the net twice in 18 league games.
Last season the 23 year old scored just three goals from 22 top flight league games in Sweden, a poor return for a striker who represented the Nigeria U-20 team at the 2013 World Youth Championship in Turkey.
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