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Anyway…back to what the post is really about…you know what I do love about Valentine's Day - the CLOTHES! What? You don't buy Valentine's clothes for your kiddos? Well, this post is for you! I've got options, lots of options! And if you have a Valentine wardrobe, share your secrets in the comments - we LOVE comments!
First, we're going to take a quick trip down memory lane and look at the Merry Little Munsons in their Valentine wardrobe.
This picture is from February of 2010 and was taken during Annaliese's 9 month photo shoot with B4 Photography. The fun hair flair is the photographer's and the shirts are from some really fun place that I can't remember. (Sorry!) I printed this picture out and sent it with a traditional Valentine's Day card to our family.
(I didn't know about Pic Monkey back then!)
In February 2011 we sent these fun cards thanks to the talents photographer and designer Sarah Burns of Butterfly Chaser Photography. The LOVE and XOXO shirts were made by my mom, who the girls affectionately call Bebe! Aren't they awesome! Don't worry if you don't have a seamstress in the family, I have some ETSY links for you below.
And now onto the nonprofessional pics! Caroline's heart shirt is from a local store - And Sew On. You may remember them from our 12 Days of Merry. The girls have on cute knit dresses from Old Navy in the top right pic. Old Navy is always a WINNER for holiday themed clothing! In fact, in the middle picture the big girls' shirts are from there. Millicent has on embroidered onesie with Baby Legs. Check them out, there are so fun! The matching outfits are from Mis-Tee-V-Us.
Now, that's fun and helpful Cindy…but what can I buy today?!?
Well, you're in luck…I did some research and put together outfits for babies, toddlers and kids!
Baby clothing from Old Navy
Toddler Girl clothing from Gap
Toddler Boy from Next Direct
Girl from Crazy 8
Boy clothes from Gymboree
And because there's lot of different fashion taste out there, I found smocked clothing, tutus and personalized and handmade clothing for you to buy too! (You're welcome!)
Smocked clothes from Vive la Fete
Pettiskirts from Oopsy Daisy Baby
Happy Valentine's Day Wardrobe SHOPPING!
We can't wait to see your pics - post them to our Facebook page on February 14th!
We'll share the MERRY LOVE all day long!


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Manu Vimalassery on Iyko Day's Alien Capital: MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 64, 1, 2018, pp. 198-201
Excerpt: Operating in a framework that crosses the Canada-US border, Alien Capital argues that Asian Americans personify abstract value in North American settler colonial capitalism and provide a racial target for the anxieties of settlers reacting to capitalist abstraction. Day's argument hinges on the ways that settler colonial glorification of the concrete—as exemplified in whiteness and the nuclear family and revolving around settler appropriations of indigenous relations with place (in which settlers substitute themselves as native)—manifests anxieties concerning the contradictions of settler capitalism. Settlers displace these anxieties onto variously racialized aliens, violently associating Asian bodies with the domination of capitalist abstraction. Elimination and exclusion, Day convincingly argues, are interlinked modes of settler colonialism. "Asians," she writes, "are as unnatural to the landscape as Indigenous peoples are natural. This is the double edge of settler colonialism" (112). I understand North American settler sovereignty to be a reactive set of future-oriented claims articulated and levied against indigenous relationalities, which I call counter-sovereignty. Day's argument helps me understand that alien desires, as queer desires, potentially disrupt settler futurity, and given the fact and necessity of ongoing indigenous existence to the stability of settler colonialism, futurity is all that settlers can actually claim. Settler sovereignty is preemptive. Alien desires, then, potentially disrupt settler sovereignty, and anti-Asian racism anxiously lashes out in the present against the possible displacement of settler futures.
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I recently got into lifting because I wanted to be more well-rounded and stronger. I didn't expect to like it as much as I do. It's just so much fun and relaxing in its simplicity. You pick it up, you put it down.
I've already started seeing myself get stronger and now I have a new appreciation for the other lifters in the gym. I'm not intimidated by the free weights anymore, and I feel as at home in the squat racks as I do running (though I still get jokes about being so much of a cardio bunny).


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Coming off a 2018 season that saw the Mustangs' softball team reach the California Community College Athletic Association State Softball Championships, the hopes are high for a deep postseason run.
"Last year's group was mostly freshman and they are coming back and want to get back to the state championship," said Jim Fisher, Head Coach of the Mustangs since 2009. "Their goal is to get back to the state tournament."
While the team did lose its top two in runs batted in from last season, the Mustangs return four players that last season drove in at least 19 runs each.
"If you look at Janelle Rodriguez last year compared to this year at this point in time she's not even the same person. She's a much better player now."
"Shay Trent in center is more developed mentally and getting better physically. Tawny is our shortstop and I expect her to continue to improve offensively. Gabby Olivas who was in and out of the lineup last year has improved tremendously," said Fisher.
Tawny Deerinck is the team's leading returner in runs batted in as she drove in 25 runs while hitting for a .331 batting average last season.
"Then we have some other returners that played in other places last season like Riquel Riveira, who filled in and played a great second base and we expect her to continue that at first," said Fisher.
While the offense will have a familiar look, the Mustangs will have a different look in the circle this season with Delaney Pamplin and Jenna Nauta set to start the season pitching the bulk of the innings.
Pamplin joins the Mustangs after pitching last season at Notre Dame de Namur where she led the team in innings pitched. Nauta graduated from Stockton's Franklin High School last year and won 15 games for the Yellowjackets.
Cheyenne Washington is also expected to join the rotation once healthy.
"As we go through fall and intrasquad you don't know how they are going to react when the scoreboard turns on and a different uniform walks in," said Fisher about his pitching staff. "They are strike throwers. We are really going to play defense behind them."
After a 2-7 start last season the Mustangs at one point won nine straight games on their way to finishing 18-6 in Big 8 Conference play and 28-18 overall.
"We started out 2-7 but we kept getting better and by the end we deserved it. By the time the end of the season came and we are at the state tournament we were fulfilling our potential." said Fisher.
"The first game the number one job is to compete. Last year we didn't compete until game ten, our job this year is to compete from game one."
The Mustangs' first games of the season are Feb. 2 in Visalia as they will face Cabrillo and College of the Sequoias.
Their first home game is on Feb. 5 against West Valley at 2 p.m.


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Police have arrested a 15-year-old female after a video was posted on Facebook showing a schoolgirl being attacked in an Ellesmere Port park.
The start of the footage captures the moment a girl spits in the face of the victim as a group of young people surround them.
The incident, which happened about 6.45pm on Saturday (September 8), at the entrance to Whitby Park in Ellesmere Port, then escalates out of control.
Some of the youngsters are goading the female aggressor to attack the other girl, while others film the incident on their mobile phones.
A boy who stands between them is told to 'move out of the way' by a male voice in the crowd.
The female aggressor is pushing and shoving the victim who is telling her to 'go away' and says 'Hurry up, I want to go home'. Someone in the crowd shouts before the perpetrator appears to launch a physical assault by striking her in the face with a hand, as well as kicking out and pulling her hair.
So far 522,000 people have viewed the video after it was shared by self-titled Geordie comedian and commentator Robin Armstrong.
He wrote: "This disgusting video happened in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. A girl is standing surrounded by a screaming crowd of kids laughing and egging the girl on to be attacked while one of them spits in her face to try and get a reaction so she can start the assault!
"Makes my blood boil just listening to them, desperate for her to be hit! Her excuse? Childish Chinese whispers 'she said you said'. Look at how terrified that poor girl is and with only one person trying to help! Shame on the lot of you!"
Cheshire Police spokesman Neil Bellis confirmed a 15-year-old girl had been arrested on suspicion of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. She was released under investigation.


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Faculty Advisor
Berka, Ladislav H.
Faculty Advisor
Moser, William R.
Project Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory, Sudbury, MA
The goal of this project was to provide to the field of forensic science a detailed procedure for identification of the major components present in a wide range of low explosives and their burned residues. This identification would aid in the solving of crimes involving bombs and arson that lead to maiming, loss of life and destruction of property. The methods of this project involve experimental techniques available at WPI to complement additional techniques already in use at the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory in Sudbury.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Chemical Engineering
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