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Monday, September 26, 2016
Just 80 Minutes: Part Two
Change of Plans! Strangely enough, on Tuesday night when the Guild came to the Bee Blocks part of the agenda, dear Cozy was Queen Bee and she asked for a pair of pickle dish blocks. With lots of paper piecing. And [shudder] curved piecing. Paper piecing and curved piecing in one block. Ye gods.
1. There are many ways to make a mistake on a pickle dish arc. I will not enumerate them.
2. One can rip out on paper piecing. But only one time per seam.
3. When attempting curved piecing of paper pieced arcs, one must remove the paper first.
4. There's a rhythm to it.
Cozy's recipe calls for bright colors for pickle dish bases and inside points on both arcs, light colors for the smaller arc, dark colors for the larger arcs, lightest colors for the shoulders and gray (not pictured) for the center to which all four components eventually will be affixed.
I'm getting the hang of it, though this morning I found the words to "A Boy Named Sue" running through my head, i.e., my next project will not be a pickle dish!
Posted by Nancy Near Philadelphia on Monday, September 26, 2016 7 People are saying: Links to this post
Friday, September 23, 2016
Back to Italy, Part One
We knew Star Flyer would be waiting for us in Rome on Wednesday, but decided to go a day early to begin to adjust our timing.
Our hotel had a nice rooftop bar and deck where we met a nice couple from Argentina. I was able to use my very bare-bones Spanish to offer to take a picture of the two of them without sparking an international incident. I also took these pictures before we went out to Piazza Navona for our dinner.
I have a major passion for risotto and always order it if it's on the menu. Especially in Italy. It's more of a northern Italian dish than a southern one, and in the area where we were it was hard to find risotto other than a shellfish type (I have a shellfish allergy). We found this fantastic mushroom version for dinner that night and I was happy as the proverbial clam!
In the small piazza outside the Pantheon were gathered interesting people, including what seemed to be a drawing class. The weather was lovely and we just enjoyed being in Rome.
We stopped in at a nearby church and on the way out, Joe was inspired to comment, "That must be a REALLY important church. It has TWO beggars!"
And then it was time for lunch, a couple of errands, and the ride out to Civitavecchia, the port where Star Flyer was waiting for us.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
On Display!!!!
So, on Sunday afternoon, despite the jet lag (I promise the travel post is coming soon!), I really, really
wanted needed to go over to the Mancuso show at Oaks. My Guild had a special exhibit at the show, and two of my larger quilts along with my Paint Chip Challenge had been juried in. Joe was happy for me and although the shipboard head cold had begun to impact him, he accompanied me. What a thrill it was to see my quilts on display! This was a first for me.
|Fewer Than Fifty [Shades of Gray]
|Gato Limpio; Joe's in the photo because he was of immense help with the design.
Posted by Nancy Near Philadelphia on Wednesday, September 21, 2016 6 People are saying: Links to this post
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Just 80 Minutes: First Check-In
Next week I'll do more of these.
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Monday, September 19, 2016
Just 80 Minutes: Introduction
About three weeks ago, someone posted a question on Facebook: "What could you do if you dedicated 80 minutes a week to learning a new skill, worked on a project, or dedicated your time?" The writer is a teacher of gifted students at the high school level; some of her students are also her FB friends and with school starting up soon, she wanted to get them thinking about the upcoming semester. Now, I'm not officially one of her students (though over the years I certainly have learned from her), but I was going through an insightful period when I read the post, and it spoke to me. I suggested she start a Facebook group dedicated to this question and that we each invite Likely Suspects to join. Well, she did, and I did, and the group is thriving!
At the time, I was recovering from a back spasm, resettling refugees and getting ready for a nearly-two-week trip (more about which very soon!), so I committed to beginning today. I'm fortunate to be in a position to dedicate my 80 minutes in one go, and despite my early and continued resistance to paper-piecing, each Monday beginning at ten o'clock, I shall work at paper piecing until I reach the point of being at ease with the technique. Stay tuned for my weekly updates.
Does this sound like something you'd like to do? Already we have women doing these things: quilting projects, Bible study, scrapbooking, sermon writing, renewal of cooking interest. What could you do if you dedicated 80 minutes a week? If you're on Facebook and are up for the challenge, search for the public group Just 80 Minutes and ask to join. And we're off!
At the time, I was recovering from a back spasm, resettling refugees and getting ready for a nearly-two-week trip (more about which very soon!), so I committed to beginning today. I'm fortunate to be in a position to dedicate my 80 minutes in one go, and despite my early and continued resistance to paper-piecing, each Monday beginning at ten o'clock, I shall work at paper piecing until I reach the point of being at ease with the technique. Stay tuned for my weekly updates.
Does this sound like something you'd like to do? Already we have women doing these things: quilting projects, Bible study, scrapbooking, sermon writing, renewal of cooking interest. What could you do if you dedicated 80 minutes a week? If you're on Facebook and are up for the challenge, search for the public group Just 80 Minutes and ask to join. And we're off!
Official Group Description: What could you do if you dedicated 80 minutes a week to learning a new skill, worked on a project, or dedicated your time? My Themes in Literature students work on a project every sixth cycle day for approximately that amount of time. Some have started businesses, written and recorded songs, built miniature models of houses, learned to play instruments, created workout plans, or refined artistic skills. Others have researched history, interviewed family, or worked in genealogy. Join this group, tell us about your intention, and start working! Report in once a week, or 6 day cycle, on your progress.
I really recommend reading THE FIRST 20 HOURS by Josh Kauffman, as you consider this challenge.
Posted by Nancy Near Philadelphia on Monday, September 19, 2016 5 People are saying: Links to this post
Saturday, September 03, 2016
Back to Quilting!
It feels like a long time since I posted a quilt picture on this blog.
Late in September each year, my church holds an Oktoberfest to benefit Lutheran Disaster Relief. I usually donate a baby quilt to the silent auction. This year, after I finished the lavender and rose elephant quilt for my coworker I decided to make another one in gender-neutral colors for the Oktoberfest. I really do enjoy hand-buttonhole stitching and these elephants were a joy to play around with.
Late in September each year, my church holds an Oktoberfest to benefit Lutheran Disaster Relief. I usually donate a baby quilt to the silent auction. This year, after I finished the lavender and rose elephant quilt for my coworker I decided to make another one in gender-neutral colors for the Oktoberfest. I really do enjoy hand-buttonhole stitching and these elephants were a joy to play around with.
Posted by Nancy Near Philadelphia on Saturday, September 03, 2016 6 People are saying: Links to this post
Friday, September 02, 2016
Hospitality to Strangers
Note: Sections of this post that are in green are from the liturgy at my church on August 28. You'll see why.
It started on August 14, when an announcement was made that a group was meeting at a social service agency the following night to talk about resettling a refugee family. I didn't know anything about that kind of project and I decided to attend, just to see what it was all about. I invited my sister, a member of a different church to come along.
It turned out that there were three congregations -- Quaker, Lutheran, and Swedenborgian (or New Church) -- interested in sponsoring a family of seven people. This group was traveling with another group of four extended family members, but the agency was going to handle their resettlement. We only had a husband and wife, their four children (9, 7, 5, and 3) and their 18-year-old niece. There were three attending from my Lutheran church and the youngest of us, a guy named Ken who I hardly knew, made the commitment to lead the effort. The other two churches -- along with my sister's Roman Catholic group (she'd invited two of her friends to come along) signed on. I took the attendance sheet home and created an email list.
Hymn 526: God is Here!
God is here! As we his people
meet to offer praise and prayer,
may we find in fuller measure
what it is in Christ we share:
Here, as in the world around us,
all our varied skills and arts
wait the coming of His Spirit
into open minds and hearts
meet to offer praise and prayer,
may we find in fuller measure
what it is in Christ we share:
Here, as in the world around us,
all our varied skills and arts
wait the coming of His Spirit
into open minds and hearts
It was three days later that we got the word that "our family" would be arriving on August 31! A second meeting at the agency was called for the evening of August 22. I took out the materials we'd been given and saw a list of what needed to be provided for the family in terms of furnishings and knew that the way that had to be done was with a table, so I began a two-column document that I thought I'd hand over to whoever would be taking that responsibility.
Fewer of us came to the second meeting than the first. As my husband pointed out, next to Christmas, the two weeks ending with Labor Day is the worst time to try to get a group to do something. But for me, it was the best possible time: The school where I work was closed for two weeks.
The agency director said the most pressing need, of course, was housing. A place for them to live. A place for seven people including four young children to live. A place with four bedrooms because the family was hoping eventually to be approved to be foster care providers for two additional minors. Ideally, Our Family was to be within easy visiting distance of the Other Four. Julie knew some people who had purchased a repurposed convent and Ken knew of a four-bedroom house in his neighborhood. They became the Housing Team, with another couple of people.We didn't have a lot of other ideas.
We moved on to identify participants for the other ten teams. When the Furnishings Team was mentioned, I felt my hand go up and heard myself say, "I'd like to handle that. And I'd like someone from another church to work with me." From across the room, came a voice, "I'll do that." I spent two minutes with Donna at the end of the meeting, just enough to exchange emails.
The next afternoon, the welcome news came. The owners of the former convent had agreed to rent the property to our refugees! And it was big. It was so big that there would be room for the Other Four to live there with Our Family. The property became known as The Nunnery and we began thinking in terms of Our Big Family.
Psalm 112:
Light shines in the darkness for the upright;
the righteous are merciful and full of compassion
. . . .
They have given freely to the poor, and their righteousness stands forever
I cannot tell you how many emails flew back and forth between Donna and me during the next eight days. Nor can I tell you how many additional emails came into play, how many generous people responded to the need. I can't tell you how many miles I drove. Nor can I tell you how many hours how many other people spent doing all manner of things to get The Nunnery ready.The women's organization from my church gave me $800 to spend as I needed. My own Circle handed over $150. Donna and I shopped and begged; a young man from her Swedenborgian congregation, Clayton, became the third member of the the team. We put notices out to our respective congregations, we told our story to local thrift stores who slashed their prices and in some cases just handed things over. My Circle sisters passed around a list and many needs were met through their generosity. I met a gravelly voiced guy called "Vic the Mattress Man," who gave me rock bottom prices for what I needed. Near the end of the week, the alliteratively named Tina Shema, manager of a thrift shop, said, "Just give me a list of what you still need and I'll have it there."
Sure there were snags. There were moments of frustration. We operated on adrenalin and little sleep. Donna and I discovered, though, that temperamentally we were twins who had been separated at birth. Our work together was seamless.
A Reading From Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Let mutual love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.4 Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers. 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you." 6 So we can say with confidence,
"The Lord is my helper;
I will not be afraid.
What can anyone do to me?"
7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
15 Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name. 16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
And it came together. As we somehow knew that it would. Among other things, we located ten beds with the necessary linens (including two blankets per bed), couches, loveseats, comfy chairs, dining tables and chairs to seat 11, a couple dozen bath towels, hand towels, and wash cloths; dishes for 20, drinking glasses, pots and pans, cleaning supplies, end and coffee tables, nightstands, dressers, lamps, trash cans, paper products, toiletries, kitchen utensils, curtains, backpacks, school supplies, area rugs; truly everything a family of eleven would need. Oh, and five soft, cushy teddy bears, perhaps the most important thing. I made each of them a bow from my scraps.
I am a person who, despite a seminary education, does not have the kind of continual deep awareness of God's presence that many other people seem to have. I have times when I know God wants me to do something or another, but I seldom have that visceral, deeply emotional connection with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. But on Sunday, August 28, all Three were working overtime. I was in tears through most of the service. The lessons aren't chosen by the pastor; they are appointed through the Revised Common Lectionary. Each Scripture reading, each hymn, even the sermon by our vicar tied into the not-quite-a-week I had just experienced. A week where Lutherans and Swedenborgians, Quakers and Roman Catholics, most of whom had never met until a few days ago, by God's grace, were making Something Happen.
The Gospel: St. Luke 14
13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. 14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."
And then came August 31. Snags had dashed our hope of having everything ready with a day to spare. The Food Team was arriving at 3:00 with our guests due around 4:00. I got to The Nunnery around 2:00 and started making beds. A young Quaker, Cherie, appeared out of nowhere and began pulling new bedding out of plastic, then ran around plugging in lamps and checking lightbulbs for functionality. I was panicky and hot and tired. But we pressed on.
Hymn No. 710 Let Streams of Living Justice
Let streams of living justice flow down upon the earth.
Give freedom's light to captives; let all the poor have worth.
The hungry's hands are pleading; the workers claim their rights,
The mourners long for laughter, the blinded seek for sight.
Make liberty a beacon, strike down the iron power.
Abolish ancient vengeance. Proclaim your people's hour.
The dreaded disappearance of family and friend,
The torture and the silence – the fear that knows no end.
The mother with her candle, the child who holds a gun,
The old one nursing hatred – all seek release to come.
Each candle burns for freedom, each light's a tyrant's fall.
Each flower placed for martyrs gives tongue to silenced call.
For healing of the nations, for peace that will not end.
For love that makes us lovers, God grant us grace to mend.
Weave our varied gifts together: knit our lives as they are spun.
On your loom of life enrobe us till the thread of life is run.
O great Weaver of our fabric, bind church and world in one.
Dye our texture with your radiance, light our colours with your sun.
Just as I finished the last bed, Joe came over. He hadn't seen The Nunnery since the day he'd measured it. We toured the first floor. Wonderful aromas from the Welcome Meal that the Food Team was preparing filled the kitchen. Then we went upstairs. I wanted him to see how the bedrooms had all worked out. It took a while.
When we came downstairs, the living room was full of people I'd never seen before, tired people who had been traveling for two days, beautiful people dressed in wonderful African-print clothing. I stopped, speechless, stuck in the doorway, my eyes filling once again.
I had the same feeling as when I first laid eyes on my first grandchild:
I was witnessing a Miracle.
Hymn 805 Lead On, O King Eternal (last verse)
Your city's built for music: we are the stones you seek.
Your harmony is language. We are the words you speak.
Our faith we find in service, our hope in other's dreams.
Our love in hand of neighbour. Our homeland brightly gleams.
Inscribe our hearts with justice, your way – the path untried:
Your truth – the heart of stranger, your life – the Crucified.
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Thursday, September 01, 2016
This is a National Geographic picture of a refugee camp in Tanzania.
I don't know if the one where "my" refugees lived looked like this. I could have been even worse.
At least three of them were born in a place like this.
For eleven people, today is the first day of the rest of their lives.
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I was wearing this outfit and realized it reminded me of the fancy girls being at the party talking about the other girls' outfits and being fabulous and rich and whatnot. So, hey, put a martini and a cigarette in it and you've got that girl. Sometimes it's fun to be someone else. But anyway, this dress is adorable and it's from Gotzsche at Vintage Fair. It's got multiple sizes and an alpha layer and all of that. There are other colors too if you don't like the pinkish pallet. *Cough* Isabeau *Cough*
HERE. The pack includes options for dimples, cleavage, eyebrow colors, 6 lipstick tattoos and 6 eyeshadow tattoos on top of the skin itself! That's a lot of awesome. I am wearing the palest tone but there is a tone darker than this available as well. If you want more details on the drink in my hand from Circa check out my Free*Style post HERE.
Dress: Gotzsche @ Vintage Fair
Drink: Circa, gacha item, gacha drinks available for 15L-30L
Nail Polish: RezIpsa Loc
Hair: Fashionably Dead
Earrings: Ben's Beauty, free for Avenue Readers group members in the store
Cigarette: Moq, can't find at the moment
Skin w/Tattoo Makeup Included: Adam N Eve @ Vintage Fair
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Only King could mis-spell a LETTER.
Yep. I think the only party in the MP/DT situation that hasn't moved on is DTF.
Don't let them steal an inch more of your hair than you want them to. Your hair is so nice. Don't let them change it too much.
The best thing you could have done was go to a respectable salon (not just a 'Hair Cuttery' type place). Before you sit down in the chair, talk with your stylist and tell them exactly what you want. Let them give you recommendations based on what you tell them.You will be fine.
Good luck! I'm sure it'll turn out awesome I know the feeling, a little bit. When I was 15 I had longish hair, and when it all came off I thought it looked stupid for ages. Now it's back though ... it's not coming off again until I graduate and need to look smarter to get a real job
Quote from: BlobVanDam on May 12, 2009, 08:44:01 AMDon't let them steal an inch more of your hair than you want them to. Your hair is so nice. Don't let them change it too much.This. I still fantasize about your long locks being wrapped around a bedpost while....................nevermind. Good luck!
What I got:
Quote from: VFS on May 12, 2009, 08:40:36 AMWhat I got:Hot.You should get that haircut again.
Pics. Nao.But I have that same anxiety about haircuts ever since 2 years ago when that one person decided to cut my hair on a part. Luckily it was finally at a point where it looked good for my wedding. I haven't cut it since then though.
Every 3 months?! My hair grows really thickly so I have to get it cut about every month/month and a half.
What kind of school do you go to?! It sounds kind of strange/strict.
Quote from: acidrainlte on May 12, 2009, 04:55:15 PMWhat kind of school do you go to?! It sounds kind of strange/strict.Its a catholic school. Strange and strict indeed.
I felt its length in quite a few places.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Quote from: emindead on May 12, 2009, 04:22:30 PMPIIIICS!this. Come on don't leave us in the dark like this Jen!
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Forever Grace by Holly Hall
In the aftermath of a tragedy, twenty-six-year-old Blake Kendall has found it easier to all but swear off relationships. However, her resolve is not as strong as she thinks when she meets the enigmatic, captivating owner of a charitable bookstore called Forever Grace. Landon Farrar is callous and blunt, and shows just as much reluctance to share anything about his history as Blake does. As much as he pushes her away, Blake is drawn to him for both obvious and unexplainable reasons, and despite Landon's hesitance to grow close to anyone, a physical connection soon develops between them. As fate would have it, their connection runs more than just skin-deep.
As Landon reveals more and more about his past and Blake realizes just how alike they are, she's torn between the decision of whether to come clean or to stay quiet and salvage the semi-relationship they've found. Turns out, you can't control fate, the past doesn't always stay in the past, and the things that connect two people can often tear them apart.
Pet's $0.02
I've never read anything by Holly Hall before, but I love to give authors I'm unfamiliar with a chance. I liked Forever Grace, but I can't say that I fell in love with it.
I really liked the friendship between Blake and her two best friends. Her mother was funny and her father was definitely her champion. I appreciated that she had an active social life and a career as an ER nurse that gave her purpose. I even get that she hasn't opened herself up for a relationship after her last one ended so disastrously. She had a lot of guilt to get over and didn't feel like she deserved to be that kind of happy.
I also liked Landon. Everything about him is admirable, even if he was closed off and kind of an ass. He's incredibly talented as a photographer, he's a active and generous philanthropist and he's still dedicated to the memory of his fiancé. He's also right up front with Blake about the only thing he's interested in offering is a friends with benefits relationship.
Neither of them wants entanglements, so it seems like a perfect set up. Right?
It's not that it's a bad story. There were a few times I was totally invested and there were even a few times I got misty… What I didn't do was lose myself in it. There were a couple of times that I wanted to prod them along. They just seemed to coast and I found myself starting to lose interest. Seeing where the story was going fairly early, I was ready for them to get to how their lives intersected and the slow pace just ended up irritating me. Now, you might like a book that takes it's time building the characters the way this one did…and if you do, you'll love this book for that reason alone. When they finally do figure out how their pasts connect, I was just looking for resolution. What I did not expect was how either of them handled the fallout. Frustration ensued…
Again, this book has a lot to recommend it. The writing was incredibly clean and Hall's descriptions created images that were engaging. Forever Grace just didn't hook me like I had hoped and the things I really liked about it we're offset almost equally by the things I did not.


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The Sacrament of Reconciliation is for our spiritual healing. According to the Gospels, after the Resurrection, Jesus appeared to the apostles, breathed on them, and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." (John 20:22-23) That's why Jesus left this sacrament, to heal our spiritual wounds, which we call sin.
Catholics must confess all known mortal sins to a priest. By doing this, we put ourselves in the state of grace necessary to receive the Holy Eucharist. Any venial, or minor, sins we have committed are forgiven by receiving Holy Eucharist.
Telling our sins to a priest isn't as scary as people think. Most people tell sensitive, delicate and confidential information to their doctor or lawyer, so why not your priest? The priest is bound by the most absolute secrecy and confidentiality known to humankind. Not even the pope can get a priest to reveal who they heard confession from, or what they said.
What are the times for Confession at St. Angela Merici?
The Sacrament of Reconciliation, or confession, is held every Saturday from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the church. During Lent and Advent a Communal celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation may be celebrated. Please check the bulletin for more information.
Private confession is available by appointment with any priest.
It's been a long time. How do you go to confession today?
- First, we examine our conscience by reviewing the Ten Commandments and identifying those that we have broken. And we must have perfect contrition for these sins; in other words be truly sorry for them and resolved to not repeat them.
- We enter the confessional and greet the priest. We say, "Bless me Father for I have sinned, it has been (x days, months, years) since my last confession."
- We confess all our mortal or serious sins and answer any questions the priest may have.
- The priest will give you a penance. A penance is some action or prayer to remind ourselves of our desire to change.
- When we have finished confessing we say an Act of Contrition. There are different kinds of the Act of Contrition, the priest will help you if you no longer remember it.
- The priest will say the prayer of Absolution to absolve you of your sins.
- We then leave and immediately perform the penance given to us.


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Welcome to .ext e n s i o n, the electronic arm of Flagpole's Homedrone blog.
E+E is the name by which Virginia based artist Elijah Crampton is currently making music. The project incorporates hypnotic keyboard playing, both minimal and wildly obtrusive sampling, millennial pop vocals, and poly-ethnic rhythm tracks. While an amateur stew of these elements might end up in a predictable dance dish, Elijah's work is imbued with a more affecting tone. From behind a uniquely textured curtain of Latin-commercial and backwoods-thug aesthetics, E+E is able to exude sound with ample room for you to reconsider your emotional preconceptions and generally feel more. Whether the elements originated as such or not, their product finds them melted into trance-inducing modern masterpieces.
Elijah works to seat truth at the front of each new piece. Which is to say, you may not get real worked up listening to Jeremih or The-Dream sing, but it's practically unavoidable to be moved by how much he does. This sincere appreciation, illustrated by his compositions, allows the listener to get a different perspective and hear things anew. When love is true, it is creation. If one is willing to truly accept something, say Pop, this itself is a new form—a lens with the lover's eye. Through it, we can see what he sees: beauty. Perhaps deeper levels of the content existed previously and one was simply not privy, but that's not necessary. Sincere love itself is art. When Elijah finds warped melody in the crushing, lazer-laced, meta-masculine voice that pierces your ears between phrases of monster truck commercials, I get a contact high.
Flagpole caught Elijah on a trans-Atlantic flight to Virginia. He took the time to write us back these thoughtful words on his cell phone.
Flagpole: Where are you from and where have you lived since then? Where are you at now when you're in the states?
E+E: I was born and grew up outside of Los Angeles, CA in the inland empire, moving to the countryside outside of Monterrey, Mexico—my family moved back and forth between Cali and Mex while my dad was attending theology school. Out of school I moved south to Tennessee, and then back to Los Angeles for a while before moving to Virginia, where I live now. I've basically lived all over the US, but those have been the places I've managed to stay the longest.
FP: How does it inform your work?
E+E: Moving around has had a big impact on my work, with one thing always informing another. It's beautiful and I usually just go along with the process without taking time to dissect what's happening. I'm like a dung beetle constantly rolling shit into this growing ball. For example, I've gotten into using a lot of Angolan drum tracks in my live set. At the same time I've been trying to emulate all these medieval style woodwinds I've been listening to lately, but my live keyboard playing is still very much in this Cumbia-jam style I picked up in LA. So this amalgam of Latin keys over African drums became another by-product of moving around.
FP: Has music brought more travel into your life? Do you feel a difference in cultural evolution from place to place? Does it make you think twice or inspire you to think anew about certain ideas or approaches?
E+E: I've always felt most like myself moving around, like I don't question much when I'm leaving someplace. I think also because I'm a mutt (half Bolivian half American) I've never associated or felt like I had to cling to one culture in particular- I don't think I ever really belonged to one distinct culture other than what i created for myself.
It's always been my natural motion to move depending on my spirit and what I feel I'm called to do by God, but more recently, moving around to perform, getting payed to go here or there, is a new dynamic I'm still working out. I mean, when I worked as an escort, I traveled a lot, but traveling for music is a whole different game. I'm not sure what to think of it yet. I just got back from a long trip to Europe last night, actually. It's really good to be back in the States. Lately I've been overcome with this feeling like I don't belong to anything anymore or like I never did. It's been liberating and abysmal at the same time. I don't know the full significance and weight of the issue yet. For now, I'm just thankful I can take a break from myself.
FP: How long ago was it that you were an escort? How'd you like it?
E+E: It was great. I was my own boss, and sometimes it felt like social work, like i was really helping this specific portion of the population. That was years ago when I lived in Los Angeles. I was a lot more selfish then and coming of age, trying to be true to myself, follow my own heart, but deal with all my shit and just try to survive on my own. It was kinda like Pretty Woman sometimes. There's a photo of me walking down Rodeo Drive back then, somewhere on the Internet.
I was in and out of rehab and ended up spending almost a year at this Scientology-based center, where I really learned how to meditate. I'd sit there staring into space, alone, for days, months. I actually came to understand it (meditation) as a real state of being, as a new form consciousness. It changed who I'd become. When I was done after that year, I tried coming back to my life in L.A., but I had already become a new person, and the "old clothes" didn't fit- I ran away to Virginia. Virginia has been a wonderful place for me. A new world—city life really doesn't suit me anymore.
FP: Much of what you do has a very spiritual feeling to me. Are you religious? Do you ever work with religious content as a device, or is it simply a part of your life that comes through?
E+E: I guess I am. I've always been really close to my spirituality, I think largely in part due to my mom's side of the family, which has a strong history with that sort of thing. Being raised Adventist in the '90s, there was a big emphasis on end-time prophecy and the Apocalypse. I was raised to pay attention to my dreams and that apocalyptic flame will always burn inside me.
It was just this year that I feel I was truly born again though. Not just brought to a new outlook on God, which happens, but ultimately reconciled to Jesus, to the blood of Christ. It happened with a visit to Paradise, CA earlier this year. It's this place in northern Cali where the Sierra Nevadas meet sequoia forest and olive groves. It was like Gethsemane, I can't really explain it—a true revelation. My life was changed for good.
As far as using my religious beliefs as a tool, I think that is something I'm still working out because my understanding of God is always changing and growing. Music is definitely tied in deeply with my concept of and relationship with God. Everyday I pray that I might create something beyond myself, somehow answer to a will beyond my own within my work; fulfill something beyond what I set out to do. I rely constantly upon God's grace to flow through my practice, which has required faith, humility and diligence on my part.
FP: Does sexuality play an intentional part in the work?
E+E: I think sexuality naturally does that without any effort on my behalf. There is so much difficulty just being human in general, I try to hold myself to a standard of individuality based in honesty, freedom, purity of heart. I try my best to be an example in this regard, especially now that I'm getting older.
FP: Some of the source material you use really gets me in a trance. There is a level of what ends up feeling like modern classical to me. Can you tell me about some of it, and your goals in using it?
E+E: In the past months I'd been moving further into this free-for-all, collage style of composition, but recently with performing live again, I started moving back to more regular performance-based work, so it's like now I'm arriving somewhere between these two methods of writing music, finding a workable median.
I grew up studying classical piano. I still notate some of my work if I find it necessary to save it that way, but my abilities are pretty rusty now and it takes me a while just to hand write a small amount of sheet music. I also grew up playing in garage bands; it's where my real love for music came apart from the classical studies. I just had so much freedom to experiment and do what I wanted while playing my own music.
FP: Do you ever use humor in your work?
E+E: I think I do. I was talking recently with a friend of mine who shares a lot of aesthetic similarities with me and he described what we're doing as romantic comedy. I've always liked that as a genre for music, as a way of explaining what I do. Because there is a natural sense of humor attached to the work, in spite of myself.
FP: I identify heavily with parts of your visual aesthetic. Some of the lifestyle brand imagery may come across as ironic to some people, but I sense you have a more real relationship with this type of imagery. Do these things relate to your personal identity?
E+E: Yea, I've always been chronically serious, always believed that there was an innate seriousness to everything. The things I love and appreciate, it's natural for me to approach them with a certain degree of reverence. I never really understood irony—I think because genuine understanding and meaning were so important to me. I was a pretty humorless kid. But humorlessness can be pretty funny in and of itself.
FP: How do you approach the combination of elements in your work? You seem to be able to incorporate a very wide spectrum of harsh culture.
E+E: With balance, its a matter of design, like all art. And the goal for me has always been, "How deeply can I elaborate my own world?" I feel I've been working with the same palette for years, but it's my techniques that I've sharpened in order to better detail my own language with the music. It's a process of concrescence that requires time and endurance, belief in an ultimate beyond. Ellen White described heaven as being "a ceaseless approaching unto God" and I think that is the ideological basis for my compositional endeavors.
FP: How do you feel about the Internet in social and artistic terms? Do you like the mystery it can provide?
E+E: Well, in my work, I wouldn't be able to accomplish the things I do the way I do them without it. It's kinda like air or water or fire—you just use it according to your own will and try to work the best you can with it.
I think it's really absence of Internet that provides the mystery—the Internet is like water or blood trying to fill the veins of the invisible at all times, it creates its own space and reality this way. I guess I've managed to utilize some of that huge idea in what I do with music. I mean, the way I've been writing, I'm like a grave robber stealing limbs from here and there to throw them on this slagheap and muck them into a new beast- and that less than noble task can become something beautiful or uglier or truer or simply more naked, which demands to stand singularly and new, separate from the original crypt that housed it. The limb or segment or torso, etc., and I believe I can take credit for this new beast. I mean, I'm sure Dave Grohl or Mafiaboy or Rihanna couldn't see him in the trashcan, but I could—he was mine, like I am God's, he (the creature) belonged to me. I think it's important that people know I work and deal with the drain hole of the mortician's sink. Golgotha is my business and my workspace is the trash bin. Beyonce, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Steve Reich, whatever—it's all fair game to me when I'm digging through the trashcan.
FP: How did you meet Ashland Mines and how much do collaborations like that impact E+E? Are there other people you've been collaborating with recently?
E+E: We met a while ago when I was living in L.A. He was homeless and I had just quit school, and we both didn't drive, so we were on the street a lot. I'd wanted a real percussionist for my band, one that could effortlessly blend the styles of drumming I was so in love with at the time—Huayno, Reggaeton, Kuduro and Cumbia, to name a few. We actually never wrote much work together, and most of what was started remained preliminary and conceptual. He's become my brother, still a big inspiration for me of course. With collaborators, I've kind of organized my own team over the years. I've brought everyone together again to help me on a new EP I was asked to do. I'm very excited to work with them again, they're my secret team.
FP: You've performed on bills with an array of interesting artists recently. The only common thread, which I guess applies to any "party," is dance. I love the rhythmic work on your recent recordings. How do you connect with dancing in your life? How do you feel about that party or club zone?
E+E: Although I'm influenced by elements of club music, I find myself less and less interested in the whole notion of parties and club culture. It simply isn't my arena. When I was a little boy, I'd play out stories by moving my body to the actions and shifting gazes in my mind. It wasn't until years later that I realized what I was doing then was a form of dancing. I've noticed the older I get the less dancing in the standard sense—moving one's body, etc.—appeals to me. I've found myself returning to something altogether more basic and elaborate. Music composition itself has become a new dance for me, perfect in that its formulation comes unbound by the limitations of my physical form.


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Who are we?
The Yew Chung Alumni Association (YCAA) was founded in 2002 and was later registered under the HKSAR Societies Ordinance on the 19th November 2004. The original objectives of the YCAA are to strengthen the bond between all Yew Chung Alumni, to embrace Yew Chung Spirit and to serve the community. Today, these aims are extended to accommodate all alumni from Yew Chung International Schools, Yew Wah Schools, and Yew Chung Community College.
As a major step forward of our commitment, the Alumni Relations Office was set up in 2008 to provide enhanced support to the YCAA and to bring new energy in reconnecting with our alumni. In the past years, regional gatherings were organized in the U.K., U.S. and in Hong Kong, and much effort was also put into building this new alumni website for better communication.
From now on, you will be able to get the most up-to-date information on all our latest events, development highlights, and much more in one central location. We will also try our very best in bringing you the best networking opportunities in both personal and career-related regards. So come visit us often and make the most out of your alumni experience! We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you very soon!
About this website:
This website is the result of a new project of the Alumni Relations Office, and represents the effort of 14 student interns from Year 10 and Year 12 in the academic year 2014-15. We acknowledge the effort and contribution of the following student interns:
Chan Ka Kei (Kirstie)
Chan Kei Hang (Stephen)
Chan Ling Sum (Atticus)
Cheung Ho Yiu (Kenneth)
Chu Chun Kit (Samuel)
Lee Shing Hei (Geselle)
Leung Chi Ling (Tiffany)
Qi Lerong (Ray)
Tong Michael Kin Hay
Tong Nicole
Tsang Ho Him (Joshua)
Wu Bang (Cody)
Wu Chun Yiu (Sunny)
Yu Royce Ming
These interns joined the Yew Chung Alumni Internship Programme in mid-February, working closely with the Alumni Relations Office on the preparation of the content, visuals, design, promotion, and testing of this website. We are grateful for their support throughout the project and are glad that they have acquired experience of working in an actual work environment.


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I Do: Teresa & Matthew
This past weekend I had the extreme honor of shooting the beautiful wedding of Teresa and Matthew. I've known Teresa since I was two and seeing her transform into the princess that she's always wanted to be was an absolute joy.
Seeing the love that the two of them share simply took my breath away! Having endured a deployment, this wedding was even more sweet for everyone involved.
Matt's first view of her elicited the most beautiful reaction!
What a gorgeous church!
It's official!! The newest Mr. and Mrs. Smith!
It truly was a Cinderella fairy tale.
That's some serious hang time!
Look closely, those are their ring fingers!
A simply beautiful reception.
This party really knew how to get down!
Mother and son!
Such beautiful rings!
It was such a mravelous, perfect day. I am honored to have been able to capture the fairy tale coming true!


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We can still see the road, but it's heaps better and I have no doubt in a few months time, we'll barely be able to see through the fence at all. We do have other areas of the garden we'd like to make more private, in particular where we'll be adding a new french door and patio area. We'd really like a little more privacy from our neighbour whose back door and patio is on the other side of the wall. adjacent to ours. There is reed screening on their side, but it's not great. We don't want to be planting climbers near the house and we certainly don't want to plant anything that's going to cause our neighbours a headache with pruning either, so we've opted for some bamboo here. I love love love bamboo, it think it has a slightly tropical edge, it's evergreen, completely hardly and its bushy appearance is perfect for adding a touch more privacy. The bamboo wont poke through the fence onto our neighbours side either, it'll simply stand against the wall. I picked up two giant pots of bamboo (seriously, they're taller than me!) from Homebase at just £25 each. This was a MEGA bargain because I had initially bought one from crocus.co.uk which was about 15cm tall for the shocking price of £20! Homebase certainly offered WAY better value for money here.
I intend on building another raised bed to put these in, but I'm hoping this area of the garden will become a lovely little spot for a small table and couple of chairs when we finally have some decking in place. I'd quite like some more lighting around this area too but I think this is where most of our work in the garden is going to happen this year, so I'm sure they'll be some mega changes soon!
At the back of the garden, the rendered brick raised bed needed some spring care and attention as it had been enveloped with weeds...
I also picked up a couple of other plants and extended the bedding area around the pallet seating. The mower was really struggling to cut close to the wood and I was getting lazy with doing it by hand, so I decided to simply extend the bedding instead. It now looks much neater and the two new plants add a little more colour too. We actually owned both these plants in our old house, the pink bushy one was my absolute favourite, so I'm pleased to bring it back into our new garden too!
Having spent so much money at Homebase, I managed to picked up some yellow primroses for absolutely free, so I've added these around the edge of the bedding. I know you're meant to mix-and-match with these and have quite a few clumped together, so mine probably look a little sparse, but hey - they were free.


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Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard-working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town — riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle.
Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds — against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. It will transfix readers everywhere.
Hello TTT Ladies,
"Half Broke Horses " a True Life Novel by Jeanette Walls
will be facilitated by Leslie on 27 May 2014
We will discuss this novel at the " The Boll Weevil Cafe"
located at 10 9th st, Augusta, GA 30901
Thank you for your support and commitment to TTT Ladies Book Club


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Compeer for Seniors
Become a caring friend to a senior! Compeer volunteers demonstrate that friendly encouragement and caring support can truly enrich a lonely life. Many Compeer seniors are often lacking the supportive friendships that so many of us take for granted and are struggling with loneliness and isolation. All Compeer seniors are aged 60 plus.
We currently have close to 80 volunteers, of all ages, in the older adult program who are making a huge difference in their friend's lives. We also have over 60 older adults who are waiting for a friend like you!
Spend just a couple of hours a week, or month and change a lonely life!
Flexible – you arrange your own times and visits.
Make a difference – Our volunteers help in so many ways – some in little ways, some in big ways. This social support helps our seniors stay independent much longer.
What are our Compeer friends are doing in the Senior Program?
- Shopping
- Having lunch
- Talking
- Visiting
- Garage sales
- Learning the computer
- Joining reading groups
- Playing board games
- Helping with bills
- Helping with small household tasks
- Going for rides
- Going to museums
- Learning new crafts
- Walks in the park
- Compeer activities
- Making new friends
- And so much more!


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City Gate Columbia
Prayer, Mission & Justice
City Gate Columbia is a place where all are welcome. As Christians, we are called to prayer and to actively care for our fellow man. This new space will be open for those who want to come and pray, to help with the free meals, to be creative with music and art, or to simply just sit awhile with a cup of coffee, and a book or a friend. We are a non-profit that is dedicated to giving back to the community around us and to making a difference in the lives of those who come across our path. Jesus' earthly example is our guide.
Luke 4:18... "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed..."
Matthew 25:40..." And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."
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Last week, as Publix prepared to open its doors to the good people of Asheville for the first time, a crew of farmworkers and allies from Immokalee also made the long trek to join Ashevillians in welcoming the Florida-based grocery chain with the message of Fair Food!
Bright and early last Wednesday morning, a stalwart group of local allies joined CIW member Julia de la Cruz outside the store's grand opening. With banners, flags, and flyers in hand, the group positioned itself alongside the larger-than-life inflatable green grocery bag heralding the presence of Asheville's newest supermarket.
As the inaugural customers turned into the parking lot, many of them stopped to ask about the campaign, expressing dismay over Publix's refusal to join the Fair Food Program. Local residents took part in a delegation to meet the new manager and deliver a letter, explaining that Asheville consumers would continue to organize alongside the CIW until Publix decided to "do the right thing." Publix, of course, offered up the well-worn, well-refuted 'labor dispute/put-in-in-the-price' combo response that they so often give to Florida residents.
The rest of the day was spent in the classroom, sharing the latest Campaign news with students and professors at Warren Wilson College. On campus later that evening, students and Asheville community members gathered for a screening of Food Chains. The closing credits were met with robust applause and, after a wave of questions about both the expansion of the Fair Food Program into North Carolina and Publix's confounding refusal to be part of the transformation in Florida's fields, all the movie-goers committed to taking action.
The Immokalee crew returned to Publix on Saturday in true Campaign for Fair Food fashion -- along with over 60 Asheville allies, including members of Nuestro Centro, COLA, the Western North Carolina Workers Center, and buses of students from Warren Wilson College -- holding a high-energy picket full of art, accompanied by chants for justice over the beat of a tomato bucket drum.
Members of the manager delegation took with them a printed response to Publix's misinformation about the Fair Food Program. CIW's Julia de la Cruz explained that the Program has never been a labor dispute, but is instead an unprecedented collaboration between growers, farmworkers and major retail buyers — and that the penny is, in fact, in the price (a point the CIW first published back in 2011, which Publix has readily ignored).
At the protest, Bruno, a 15-year Asheville resident, expressed his astonishment at Publix's resistance to the FFP, saying that he and many others wouldn't be visiting the new store until they saw a change. His sentiment was shared by one of the many Warren Wilson students who joined the delegation, one of whom shared that although she'd only just learned of the Publix campaign after seeing Food Chains, she felt fully committed to standing up for farmworker justice.
The question voiced by many as the picket wrapped up captured the energy and excitement of a community ready to take up the Fair Food banner in the Publix campaign: "What's next?"
In the words of the day's final chant, "We'll be back!"
With unyielding actions taking place all across the Fair Food Nation, from Nashville to Asheville, we're communicating that Publix cannot dream to win the loyalty of consumers in North Carolina without first making the commitment to human rights for farmworkers back home a reality.


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By Xinhua Writer Ding Yi
China's top legislature is mulling draft decisions to legislatively establish two national memorial days related to the Japanese aggression during World War II.
The motions propose that September 3 and December 13 be recognized as national days respectively to commemorate the 1945 victory of China's anti-Japanese war and mourn the victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre.
The unprecedented move is solemnly appropriate. It demonstrates China's increasing awareness and respect of history, and, more importantly, embodies its firm resolve to prevent any repetition of those dark days, preserve the post-war world order, and protect the future of mankind.
Designating special days to reflect on history is an internationally established practice, and it is a universal consensus that history should never be forgotten.
In 2005, the UN General Assembly designated January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many countries also observe their own Holocaust memorial days. Budapest has recently designated 2014 as the Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year.
Remembering history is not to cling to historical hatred. As UN General Assembly President John Ashe said on this year's International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the commemoration is to make sure that "such unfathomable horror and unspeakable cruelty" would have no place in the world.
In Germany, historical reflection has led to anti-Nazi education and laws, and has prompted the German government to take sincere measures to compensate Holocaust survivors.
Germany's reflection and response have won worldwide recognition, including Israel's. During German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ongoing visit to Israel, the two countries agreed Tuesday to prepare for a great celebration in 2015 for the 50th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations.
Things are quiet different with Japan, another WWII fascist country. It has just emerged that at least 265 copies of "The Diary of a Young Girl" in more than 30 public libraries in Tokyo were vandalized recently.
The book, written by Holocaust victim Anne Frank, is the most widely read record of the Holocaust, and the vandalization has sparked further concerns about Japan's historical education and attitude as well as the rampancy of its rightist elements.
History tells that those who refuse to reflect on and learn from history are doomed to repeat their past mistakes and jeopardize their own future.
That is a message from history that Tokyo needs to heed.


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Lee Gamble is a London-based producer. A founding member of the CYRK collective, he is best known for his releases on PAN - be it 2012's pair of jungle and techno deconstuctions, or this year's "Kuang" and "KOCH". His experimental approach to club music is rooted in his past as a pirate radio DJ and fascination with radical computer experiments, resulting in a beautifuly detailed sound somewhere between techno and ambient.
Visuals for Lee Gamble's show will be prepared by Dave Gaskarth.


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Makelight wins $100k support from Google
Folks! Some great news today. Emily and I are super pleased to let you know that today Makelight has been accepted onto the Google Cloud Platform for Startups program.
For the last few months we've been busy building a set of Instagram tools as well as our own online learning platform that we run our courses on.
Sometimes people are a little surprised that Makelight is still only such a small team - Emily and I are full time (very full time!) and we have a wonderful group of people around us who pop in for special projects and support. To be able to offer everything that we do via Makelight, we rely on a lot of tech from some great services.
Behind the scenes at Makelight there are lots of moving parts. One of those parts is Google Cloud Platform. We use it to hold on to the millions of images we have flowing through the Makelight Insights and Hashtag Library tools. The more images, the more it costs, so it could get expensive pretty quickly while we're building these tools.
Today we've just heard that our fledgling startup business suddenly has some awesome backing from Google. We've been granted $100,000 in credits to spend with them, plus 24/7 Gold support, workshops with Google engineers, a full review of how we've designed Makelight from a technical point of view, and lots more. The money sounds exciting, but I reckon the real value is in having some really really smart people help us to improve how we're designing and building Makelight.
This is all really positive, and is great timing for us on the back of the great reception we had for our new Makelight Insights "Year of Colour" reports. We've been generating thousands of them since Christmas, so if you've not yet tried it, sign in with Instagram over here and see what the fuss is about.
This is a super positive way to start the year! I can't begin to tell you how excited we both are about what this means for what we'll now be able to build for the Makelight community. Useful stuff coming your way in 5...4...3...
P.S. The image at the top of this page is an auto-generated pattern based on Emily's most recent Insights report.


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Recently, the Hammock two-person bathtub with Kaldur tap by bathroom specialist Clou was awarded the prestigious and highly prized Red Dot Award: Best of the Best. The organization received 5,214 submissions from manufacturers from 57 countries for the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2016. The decision by the 41-member jury was unanimous: this is the very best of design! Ground-breaking products in the world of international bathroom design that deserve the title Best of the Best.
The innovative combination of the two-person bathtub and the Kaldur freestanding bathtub mixer impressed the jury. Professor Peter Zec, president of the Red Dot organization, stated that, 'Clou's entry has elevated it to one of the best brands in the design industry this year.' Clou's director, Math Meertens, responds enthusiastically, 'We continue to invest in the development of innovative bathroom products including this Hammock two-person bathtub and the new Kaldur taps by designer René Holten. We are a unique producer here in the Netherlands. I'm therefore even more delighted and proud that this international jury has confirmed this with the award of the highest possible prize for product design.'
Red Dot Gala, exhibition, and design yearbook
Clou will be presented with this award at the Red Dot Gala in Essen, Germany, on 4 July 2016. The laurelled Clou Hammock two-person bathtub with Kaldur freestanding bathtub mixer will then have the honour of holding the label for the Red Dot Award: Best of the Best for internationally recognized exceptional design. These prize-winning products can be seen until 31 July 2017 at a special Red Dot design exhibition in Essen and will also be immortalized in the 2016 Red Dot Design book.
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Math Meertens, CEO: T. +31 (0)45 524 56 56
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About this prestigious prize: Red Dot Design Award
Since first being awarded in 1955, the Red Dot Design Award has become one of the world's largest design competitions. The competition is organized by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen and prizes are awarded for three categories: product design, communication design, and design concept.
About the company: Clou
Since 2000, Clou has developed and produced its own brand of bathroom and toilet products. The intensive cooperation with a team of nationally and internationally renowned designers such as René Holten has resulted in a well-balanced collection that represents our passion for beauty, shape, and perfect function. We pay close attention to achieving the perfect balance between price and quality. The Clou range includes not only designer washbasins, hand basins, baths, and toilets but also complete bathroom furnishings in a range of colours and manufactured from innovative materials. The Clou range is completed with matching accessories such as taps and mirrors. Minimalistic, exclusive, stately or intimate: whatever look you are aiming to create in your bathroom or toilet, Clou would be happy to provide the inspiration. Clou products start their life in the Dutch province of Limburg and travel on to different countries within and even outside Europe. Clou now also has customers in Russia and Japan.
About the product: Hammock two-person bathtub and Kaldur bathtub mixer
Sleek and angular on the outside, fluid and organic on the inside; the free-standing two-person Hammock bath is as well-balanced as a sculpture. It is minimalistic yet distinctive. Design, functionality, and ergonomics go hand in hand thanks to the contrast between a sleek exterior and a soft, undulating interior. The generous dimension (length; 200 cm; breadth: 140 cm; depth: 50 cm) of this bathtub make it a true two-person bathtub allowing you to stretch out next to one another or enjoy a playful bath time with the kids. The free-standing Kaldur bathtub mixer mirrors these soft, fluid forms. In short: chic integration that elevates wellness to a new level. The Hammock bath features a slender, elongated overflow and a stop-go plug. With a diameter of just 25 mm, the Kaldur bathtub mixer is elegant and refined. The bathtub mixer is made from polished chrome, with a coloured shower head that adds a refreshing twist. With a smooth, soft-touch finish, this shower head fits particularly well in the hand. The Kaldur bathtub mixer emerges like a free-standing high-rise next to your bath. The products by Clou have been designed by Dutch product designer René Holten.
Come and see the Hammock and Kaldur for yourself
The Hammock two-person bathtub, Kaldur freestanding bathtub mixer, and many other beautiful products can be seen and purchased at the Clou store located on Avenue Céramique 185 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. You can also visit one of our Clou dealers. http://www.clou.nl/en/
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Hello!! Happy Sunday! I hope you've had a great week wherever you are.
Some interesting things happened to us this week.
- You'll all know about the Geek socks of course. I'm totally amazed to see a finished project out there already!
- The young boy said "There are balloons in the sky!" one morning. This is what we saw, appearing out of the clouds:
So cool!!! They were actually very close (damn my camera!) and you could hear the burners being blasted. The balloons were doing a mass ascension as part of the Wairarapa Balloon Festival – with balloons travelling from all over the world to participate. It was pretty awesome seeing the early morning sky filled with balloons. Unfortunately, for various reasons, we missed out out on participating in some of the public events, but I look forward to next year! The young boy was very happy – they visited his school, and they got to hear all about the balloons, how they are made, what it takes to fly them, and see one up close.
3. I was listening to some very unusual and musical bird call while cooking supper one evening. The cat, ever attentive, suddenly looked very alert and sprang on to the windowsill. I ventured a peek out the window, and there, on the lawn, was a little grey cockatiel, the source of all that pretty calling!!
The young boy and I sat on the deck watching him for a bit – he was happily waddling around on the grass eating all the dry grass seeds and things he found in the lawn. It occurred to me after a while that he must have escaped from someone's house, and perhaps the owner might like to see him again? So the young boy tempted him with sunflower and more grass seeds…
and we managed to get hold of him and put him into temporary lodgings. The cat, who likes to go out in the evenings, was put outside, and we brought little birdie into the house, where we allowed him to fly free…
Here he is, happily perched on the curtain railings.
I haven't been able to find any trace of someone who has lost this wee cutie. I have rung the SPCA and the local vet, looked on Facebook and petsonthenet, posted flyers and put up a notice in the local supermarket. He is absolutely adorable, and now I want one!! However, given the fact that I don't have the right cage for him, and that fact that my Ginger Terror loves to dine on bird, I had a very stressful two nights, worrying that "someone" may have got to him in the night. The very lovely girl in the vet offered to look after him, as she has had birds in the past, and so I happily took her up on the offer. If you know of someone who has lost a little grey cockatiel, do let me know!
In the course of looking for the grey cockatiel's owner, I had the excuse to call on more neighbours and say hello. There are some sheep on my street, and I admire them immensely every time we go past. I haven't got a picture, but they are very similar to these:
The ones in the neighbour's paddock are pure dark chocolate and what I could call golden oatmeal. I found out that they are Pitt Island sheep. Their owner mentioned that she has bags of their wool in the shed, and cannot get rid of it – the wool is hard to spin, but felts beautifully. The Pitt Island sheep, having reverted to ancient genes, has guard hair in the wool, which interferes with spinning. Having said that, I cannot but help think of Icelandic Lopi that has both the guardhair (tog) and the undercoat (thel) spun together into yarn. I wonder how much it differs to Icelandic wool?? I'm quite interested to know. I also wonder if perhaps they haven't shorn the sheep at the right time, and the natural breaks in the wool may have interfered with spinning nice yarn as well. Just wondering.
Now I also understand more about Pilana yarn, which comes from Pitt Island sheep, and the challenges they would have faced to turn the wool into yarn!
If you are interested in obtaining some of my neighbour's Pitt Island wool, she is very happy to give it away – she'd rather do that than burn it, which is what is currently happening. I suspect that it would be an issue to send it overseas, as it is raw fleece, but anywhere in NZ should be fine.
Interesting what happens when you find a lost bird in your garden! 😀
4. The last part of this week has been happily filled with knitting.
Here is the sleeve end of the Mattingley Jumper, which will be finished in the next couple of days – I was beginning on the collar (the last part) when I took this picture.
I also took the young boy to attend a friend's birthday party, and decided to start a plain vanilla sock so I could talk and knit at the same time. I managed to finish the leg and most of the heel. I got a bit more done this morning. Just a small part of the foot and toe to do. I love how plain vanilla socks are so satisfyingly quick to knit. This one is in an Opal Smile colourway.
I hope you all have a brilliant week ahead of you. My thoughts are with those who will be affected by Cyclone Pam. It does not sound like good news for parts of the country, although for the Wairarapa, it should bring much needed rain. Stay safe everyone!


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DSK-Benelli may have had a dream run since its India debut late last year, but both parties aren't taking things easy. At EICMA 2015, Benelli has unveiled five interesting new prototypes, of which at least three will make it to India by next year.
First up is the Leoncino, a nameplate Benelli plans to bring back from the dead with this new-age scrambler. Re-imagined by CentroStile, Benelli's new design arm, the Leoncino draws inspiration from one of its most celebrated motorcycles, blending with new-age tech with retro styling, giving birth to a modern-day scrambler. At the heart of the new Leoncino lies a new powerplant from Pesaro: a twin-cylinder, liquid-cooled 500cc motor that will make its presence felt in many new products to come. In the Leoncino, the motor develops 47hp and 45Nm of torque, teamed with a six-speed gearbox. There's the signature steel trellis frame, upside-down 50mm forks upfront and a monoshock at the rear. The scrambler also sports aluminium wire-spoke rims 19-inch at the front, 17-inch at the back. At the unveil, Benelli said "The all-new Leoncino represents an authentic and pure hearted design concept that rediscovers the style and accessibility of the original, all while delivering a contemporary motorcycle that provides a sporty and exciting experience. Original." And, this scrambler will be a part of the Benelli brigade at the 2016 Delhi Auto Expo, with launch expected to be scheduled in the second half of the year at a price tag of close to ₹5 lakh
Next up is the gorgeous Tornado 302, a faired version of the TNT300, powered by the same twin-cylinder 300cc motor found in the naked. But, the similarities between the two end there. Benelli is pitching the Tornado as an entry-level sportsbike that can be used for daily commutes and at the same time, be fully exploited on racetracks as well. And for that, the engineers have made significant changes to the platform. Take the chassis for instance. It's different from that of the TNT300, and "can better cope with the challenges it will face on a racetrack", says Benelli. It's lighter, the handlebar is placed lower, it'll be offered with ABS as an option, and has a lower centre of gravity, thus making it dynamically superior to its naked twin. The wheels are lighter compared to the TNT's, and they're wrapped in sticky Metzeler rubber, something enthusiasts will appreciate. Plus, changes to the ECU will make sure it suits a sportsbike better. And, if you think 35hp and 27Nm doesn't cut it for you, Benelli will offer performance kits to spice things up. Expected to be priced at around ₹3 lakh, the Tornado 302 will be launched at the 2016 Delhi Auto Expo.
Benelli also plans to offer something to those looking for a small-capacity adventure tourer with the TRK 502. Off-road tyres, a 20-litre fuel tank, optional 19-inch aluminium wire-spoke wheels, USD forks upfront and a monoshock at the rear with 150mm of travel, higher ground clearance, angry-looking beak and the tall visor state its adventure touring credentials in a rather shouty manner. It will be powered by the same 500cc twin-pot, pumping out 47hp and 45Nm of torque, with a 6-speeder sending the power to the rear wheel. The 502 will be showcased at the 2016 Delhi Auto Expo, and we expect it to be priced under ₹4 lakh when it is launched around May 2016.
Next up is a motorcycle, which, according to Benelli, can make city transport fun. The Tornado Naked T is a 125cc motorcycle that sits on 12-inch wheels. Yes, 12-inchers. Benelli says that will bless the T with great agility and stability on the road. It will be powered by a single-cylinder, 125cc (135cc option available), with 11.7hp and 10Nm of torque. The Naked T will be showcased in Delhi, but DSK is still evaluating if it would be feasible to launch it in India.
The last one is the BX 250 Motard, a motorcycle Benelli thinks will cater to the 'young and dynamic riders with no limits'. Powered by a single-cylinder 249cc motor, the power output of 18hp and 21Nm sounds generous for a motorcycle that weighs in at 135kg (dry). Will it make it to Indian showrooms, is doubtful. Well, like the Naked T, this one, too, carries a 'tentative' tag. But, if DSK finds enough takers for these two motorcycles, it would only be more than willing to launch them in the second half of 2016.
DSK-Benelli isn't stopping at this. There are four more products in the pipeline (in the 200cc-600cc range) and are expected to be launched by the end of 2016. So, its clear that by the end of next year there should be some prominent sportbike companies creating their own space in India.
A range of exciting all-new products, these products should debut in India over the next 18 months.
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AMD Launches New Processor Expanding Data Center Solutions
By apacciooutlook | Monday, December 03, 2018
FREMONT, CA: AMD launches New Opteron A1100 System-on-chip (SoC) processors, targeting organizations that mainstream ARM for data center workloads. The latest solution offers scale-out performance, energy efficiency and reduces total cost of ownership.
The AMD Opteron A1100 Series SoC is a 64-bit Advanced RISC Machine (RISC) Cortex-A57-based platform that offers choice and scalable performance in servers, embedded networking and storage applications. The series offers a balanced total cost of ownership for storage, web and networking workloads with its ARM Cortex-A57 processors that provide high-speed network and storage connectivity, and energy efficiency.
The AMD Opteron A1100 SoC processors enable service providers to simplify infrastructure deployment and management through Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and eliminate the dependency on customized software stacks.
The ARM based solution provides up to eight high-performance Cortex-A57 cores with 4MB shared Level 2 cache and 8MB Level 3 cache with full cache coherency. AMD Opteron A1100 SoC offers flexible and high performance memory with two64-bit DDR3 or DDR4 memory channels with Error Correction Code (ECC) and supports up to 128GB total system memory.
The solution comprises of two 10Gigabit Ethernet , fourteen SATA 3 ports with a data transfer rate of 6Gb/s and 8 lane PCI Express Gen 3. The hardware is supported by a comprehensive, open software stack spanning OS, virtualization, database and programming languages.
The collaboration of AMD with ARM builds an ecosystem that is conducible for the introduction of new technologies such as 64-bit processors in the data center environment, thereby reducing the cost and risk associated.
AMD is collaborating with ARM to develop a broader ecosystem for Data Center environments, helping reduce the cost and risk of introducing new technologies such as 64-bit ARM processors. A broad ecosystem coupled with choice encourages accelerated time to utilization.
The AMD Opteron A1100 SoC powers enterprise-class systems from SoftIron with its Overdrive 3000 systems for developers and software-defined storage solutions.
AMD's collaboration with Silver Lining Systems (SLS) integrates SLS' fabric technology in dense server design featuring the Opteron A1100 Series that aims at streaming, web and storage workloads of cloud and hyperscale data centers.
"The ecosystem for ARM in the data center is approaching an inflection point, and the addition of AMD's high-performance processor is another strong step forward for customers looking for a data center- class ARM solution", says Scott Aylor, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Solutions, AMD. "The macro trend of convergence between networking, storage and servers is an important catalyst in this evolution. Customers now have access to 64-bit ARM processors from the only silicon provider that also has decades of experience delivering professional enterprise and embedded products".


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Dr. Sorin is a diplomat of the American Academy of Otolaryngology and the Faculty of the American College of Surgeons (F.A.C.S.) He has given presentations locally and nationally, and has published articles in leading journals. Areas of interest include pediatric and adult hearing restoration, advanced nasal and sinus disease, in-office balloon sinuplasty procedures, innovative and minimally invasive management of pediatric airway and tonsil disorders and the surgical management of head and neck conditions. He is expertly trained in the use of the latest surgical technology, including microscopic surgery, lasers, coblation®, 3-D image guided sinus surgery, in-office paranasal sinus balloon procedures not requiring general anesthesia and other minimally invasive surgical techniques. Many patients are seen for "second opinions" or after failure of prior medical or surgical management for assessment, treatment or revision procedures when necessary.
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Forms are available in a variety of shapes, allowing the consumer to choose the countertop edge design. Some forms create a smooth, curved counter edge, whereas others generate a leveled staircase shape for fancy layouts. Concrete countertop forms must be thick enough to hold an ample amount of concrete during curing, and are normally about 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.5 cm) tall.
A contractor installs concrete countertop forms using screws to fasten the forms to each edge along a cabinet's perimeter. The corners should be secured with duct tape, or other strong tape, to ensure that concrete will not leak out at the joint. Concrete is pressed into the form by hand. Hand pressing allows the workers to verify that the concrete has fully coated the form's shape.
Concrete easily cracks from temperature changes and excessive vibration. As a deterrent, contractors place thin rebar, or steel rods, across the countertop's surface after applying the hand pressed concrete. The rebar is typically positioned in a checkerboard fashion, preventing cracking by providing slight flexibility to the future concrete pour.
The final concrete pour must cover the rebar and fill the forms to their top edge. Workers use flat trowels to smooth the surface, which will become the working countertop after curing is complete. Once the concrete hardens, the contractor can sand any rough edges along the concrete countertop forms with a power sander or simple sandpaper.
The forms must be removed after curing. Form manufacturers commonly use plastic that resists concrete adhesion, but it is helpful to use a vibratory tool, such as a power sander, against the form's exterior to loosen the plastic from the cured concrete. The forms easily snap off after receiving the vibrating procedure, revealing the new countertop edge.
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Alan Halsey (born 1949) is a British poet.[1][2][3] He managed The Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye from 1979 to 1997. Since 1997, Halsey has lived in Sheffield, working as a specialist bookseller and publishing West House Books.[4]
Alan Halsey founded West House Books in 1994 to publish contemporary poetry and poetry-related work. In recent years, he has managed it in partnership with his wife, the British poet Geraldine Monk.
Alan Halsey's collection of poems include Five Years Out (1989), Wittgenstein's Devil (2000), Marginalien (2005) and Not Everything Remotely (2006). In addition, his prose works include The Text of Shelley's Death (1995) and A Robin Hood Book (1996). Among his collaborative works are Fit to Print [5] with Karen Mac Cormack (1998), Days of '49 with Gavin Selerie (1999) and Quaoar with Ralph Hawkins and Kelvin Corcoran (2006). He is the author of several essays on Thomas Lovell Beddoes and the editor of the later version of Beddoes' Death's Jest-Book (2003). His graphics have been widely published and he is the illustrator of several books including Kelvin Corcoran's Your Thinking Tracts or Nations (2001) and Gavin Selerie's Le Fanu's Ghost (2006). Halsey's text-graphic work Memory Screen was shown at the Bury Text Festival in 2005.
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Two goals from skipper Ryan Moffatt helped Banbridge Town to ease into the Bob Radcliffe Cup quarter-finals competition after a hard fought 3-1 win over Lurgan Town.
Winger Ryan Gourley bagged the other as Town avoided a skid on a potential banana skin.
Manager Stuart King played his strongest available side, which included a return from suspension for centre back Stephen Acheson and competitive starts for striker Ashley Gregg and teenage keeper Andrew Cullen.
Both teams started brightly and Lurgan Town attacked with vigour, disregarding the more lofty status of the visitors.
It took Banbridge a full 20 minutes before they created their first goal. Danny Devlin, who was reprieved from suspension owing to a clerical error, crossed from the left and skipper Ryan Moffatt was on hand to finish with aplomb.
Lurgan Town were having none of it and were level within two minutes of the restart. Central Striker David Hamilton lobbed the onrushing Cullen after a neat through pass from midfield. For Banbridge, strikers Gregg and Clydesdale were lively and posed a continuous threat.
The home keeper, 15 year old Tyler Boyce, made superb saves from both Banbridge strikers as the visitors attempted to regain the lead and Gregg was unlucky to see his snap shot rebound from the post with Boyce well beaten just after the half hour mark.
Try as they may, Banbridge could not force another goal and the teams went in level at 1-1 at the break.
Banbridge resumed against the stiff breeze and began to dominate the match. The home team's attacks became more and more sporadic and it came as no surprise when Banbridge took the lead on the hour.
A ball was played into the feet of Gregg who turned his marker and was unceremoniously bundled to the ground.
Referee Mr Kelsey pointed to the spot and Moffatt made no mistake from the kick for his fifth goal of the season.
Banbridge were in total control of the match and appeared to be seeing out the game in comfort.
However, following a free kick against Banbridge in the 85th minute, Lurgan Town thought they had equalised but the ball hit the wrong side of the striker's head and the chance rebounded to safety.
To compound this incredible miss, Banbridge broke quickly and the ball found its way to Ryan Gourley whose mazy run took him past several Lurgan Town defenders into the box where he coolly dispatched his shot past the home keeper.
Banbridge now make the journey to Coagh Utd on the 24th September for a place in the semi-finals.
TOWN: Cullen, J Wilson, Thompson, Acheson, Devlin, Gourley, King (A Wilson 86), Lavery, Moffatt, Gregg, Clydesdale (Taggart 73).
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And I ain't about to apologise for it!
People have asked me recently why I've been so quiet and haven't blogged.
It isn't because I haven't had a lot to say, because I have. It's mainly because I try to be a positive person on my blog and provide information to enlighten and entertain. As of late, I haven't had a lot to be positive about. There is just too much negativity going on around me and it has been getting me down over the past few months:
- While I am enjoying the challenges of singing some of the most beautiful classical music ever written and being paid for the honour to do so, I continue to struggle with the politics of organized religion and my attempts to set aside the past wrongs and damage that occurred in my life under the guise of Christianity. I oftentimes view my Christian friends with a mixture of scepticism and envy…sceptical of their views, knowing how the power that society grants those claiming to be G*d's messenger can be abused and envious of their ability to let go and put their faith in something so freely.
- I recently applied for (and won) a promotion at work, which was placed "on indefinite hold" due to my current team being understaffed (since September, we have had 4 people leave our team due to long term disability or transfer to temporary assignments), due to a current hiring freeze.
- For the first time in five years, I requested one week of vacation time during the summer months. Of the five days I requested, two non-consecutive days were approved. So much for going on tour.
- DH continues his chemotherapy for treatment of pancreatic cancer, when he is healthy enough to have it, however the ravages of the medical poisoning have wreaked havoc on his body and he has required a blood transfusion and a number of weeks off from treatment, making his 6 month ordeal into an 8 month plus ordeal.
- Until 2 weeks ago, DH also had the looming threat of a tumour on his lungs, possibly requiring further surgery and a review of treatment. However that was ruled out when the spot they discovered on December 22nd (Merry fucking Christmas) had disappeared by February. However that provided us with almost three months of uncertainty and stress that we honestly did not need.
- Our neighbours are currently struggling with their son's health. At eighteen years of age, he caught a bad cold around a month ago, which led to a viral infection which attacked his heart. As of two weeks ago this otherwise healthy boy is now in the ICU at Toronto General Hospital awaiting a heart transplant with an artificial pump circulating blood through his body, keeping him alive. ALL FROM A BAD COLD! If I haven't nagged you enough already through other social media sites, please go to The Trillium Foundation and sign up as an organ donor.
- This same family also just had to deal with the loss of another beloved family member when they had to put their 14 year old cocker spaniel to sleep this past weekend.
- Recently a co-worker lost her baby, less than one week away from her due date. She has miscarried once before.
So mykesworld has been kind of a dark place as of late.
Don't get me wrong! A lot of good stuff has occurred in my life and I am thankful for it. I still maintain my health, I am lucky to have the love and support of DH and his continued strength as he fights the worst motherfucker of an illness a second time in his life. I have incredibly supportive and patient friends and family whom I love and truly respect. I still have a job that covers my expenses and allows me the luxury of pursuing my musical career in my own terms. I am a VERY thankful and lucky person indeed!
However it has also been a dark and introspective period for me, where I've been focusing on the folks around me, providing as much love and support as I can for them. I'm just trying to avoid bringing other people down in the meantime!


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Over the last week, I have seen wonderful improvement with Kaya. She is up and exploring the house, and very excited about going out on the porch with me (a place that used to terrify her!) She is still shy, but it isn't crippling her like it was before. She seems very at peace with being the observer in the corner. There is a sparkle in her eyes that wasn't there before! She even played a little with me the other day, and all my previous attempts at imitating 'play-bows' used to frighten her off. One of my good friends came to visit us this last weekend and before I mentioned anything to her she commented on how happy and different Kaya seemed! She has also been much more amenable to the short leash on sidewalks. She used to pull against me as hard as possible before, and while she still has her moments, she is staying much closer now. What a relief!
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