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A mere 2 minutes and 19 seconds in length, the video Are Black British Youth Obsessed with Light Skin/Curly Hair. Or is it just Preference?" is a compilation of snippets from "person on the street" interviews, conducted in the environs of two shopping centers and a commuter railway station in east London (more on this later). The documentary also goes onto mention how some black youth's are trying to use skin lightening products, you can read more about top skin lightening cream reviews here.
The interviewer is a roving Internet reporter going by the handle of VanBanter, whose YouTube channel boasts over 85,000 subscribers. VanBanter is a tall, svelte, black Briton of around 16, himself light skinned, whose voluminous hair in the clips is either styled in cornrows, or pulled back in a low Afro puff, the black version of the "man bun."
The interviewees are black boys, ostensibly between the ages of 12 and 17, of a wide spectrum of skin colors and hair textures. The single question VanBanter asks all of them is, "What kind of girls are you into?" On occasion, he phrases it as, "What type of girls do you slide into?" Two token girls are asked the same question about boys. All interviewed say they like "light skins." Some add "curly hair," clearly meant as a qualifier in opposition to "kinky," not straight, hair texture. Hence, palpably, one can infer that light-skins are more favoured than any other colors at the place. You might not want to miss an opportunity to keep the skin clean & hygenic, and totally appealing with just a tad bit use of products which are easily available at places like Amaira Skincare. Most of the interviewees are filmed standing in pairs or small groups of friends who support their responses with interjections, gestures, or general glee.
The video was first uploaded on June 1st to the Facebook page of Black British Banter. Over that weekend, it received a million views, over 6k likes (2.6k neutral thumbs-up expressing interest, 1.2k crying emojis, 1.1k angry ones, 546 laughing ones, 467 wows, and 62 loves), 5k comments, and 8,000 shares.
I myself could not stop viewing it. The comments far outstretch the bounds of personal preference, to which we all have an undisputable right. Instead, they defend a centuries-old global regime of negating not only the beauty, but very humanity, of people with dark skin, especially women. "No black t'ings, like my shoes n' shit!" says one very dark-skinned boy, luminous in red track suit and fresh fade. "Light skins, always light skins, man," says another boy hubristically, he himself light of complexion. Surprisingly, his mate, a much darker boy, steps forward into the frame of the shot to pat him approvingly on the shoulder, then retreats with a satisfied smirk on his face. "All o' dem!" responds a third speaker, who looks to be around age twelve. Goaded on by his surrounding posse of friends, the boy continues. "Curly" – which he pronounces "queely" – "hair, light skin, all o' dem. No dark skins, no dark skins!"
I must have replayed this entire video twenty times or more. Each time, something new shot forth to astonish, inform, infuriate, dismay, perplex, even amuse and impress, but, regrettably, raise little hope in me from the mouths of this Black British youth, minors, all of them.
Impressive is the boy who is the companion of the one who says he keeps his shoes and his women separate. Addressing the camera directly, he lyrically traverses two or more generations and thousands of geographic miles in just one comment. He starts out delivering his reply in a vernacular London tongue, not quite Cockney, but close to it, dropping his t's and adding the emphatic "yeah" at the end of his sentence: "Light skin, big back, big ti'i, yeah" ("Light skin, big behind, big titties."). He then deftly code switches to Jamaican-inflected patois, eliding the "nt" in the word "want" with a subtle exhalation, and substituting, as in most Caribbean creole languages, "to" with "for": "Wah fi tek wood. Dem gyal deh." ("Want [or, it might be one] to take wood. Those kind of girls." Wood is penis). All this he delivers with an emcee's flow, synching his posture and hand gestures to his speech. Beautiful in sound and adept in motion! His is the most performative delivery of a speech pattern that all the youth, the interviewer included, communicate in.
London Multicultural English, or MLE, as it has come to be termed, is a patchwork of vocabulary, syntax, and inflections woven together from a multitude of language families transported to London by regional and international migrants over the course of centuries. In years closest to ours, the dialect's four decided grandparents are Cockney English, Caribbean creole or patois, languages from former British colonies in, chiefly, the Indian Subcontinent and West Africa, and "learner varieties," the in-between states of fluency formed during any process of second-language acquisition. If you listen closely to this crowd of youngsters, you'll hear from the Cockney grandparent a lot of "innit," "know wha' ah mean?" and elisions of the double "t" in words like "butter." From the Caribbean forebear comes the pronunciation of "them" and "that" as "dem" and "dat," the erasure of the final "g" in gerund words ("cleaning" becomes "cleanin"), and the practice of teeth sucking, a catch-all method of dismissing or objecting to a circumstance or expressed opinion, used throughout the African diaspora, as well as it's onomatopoeic cousin, the short non-word "Chuh!", which is more specific to the Anglophone Caribbean. There is also a cousin once-removed, Hip Hop Nation Language, hailing from African America.
When I watch and listen to these kids, I think to myself, thence came Grime music and a host of art forms, past and current, that have infused British popular culture. But, then, the horrifying thoughts crowd in. What are the stakes of social mobility and political inclusion for kids like these whose mother tongue is MLE? Is London, or all of Britain, hurtling towards the same trials and tribulations vis-à-vis the state and public education that the U.S.A. has faced with Ebonics? And, is that deft youth's flow the spontaneous rehearsal of some other boy's or man's rhyme he's heard elsewhere, maybe on somebody's Grime track. Worse yet, given its noxious sentiments, is it part of a rhyme scheme he's producing for mass consumption? Either way, the thoughts he poeticizes can and do travel through popular music, literally becoming soundtracks to these young people's lives.
My generation inherited and in turn passed down a fair share of those soundtracks. Remember Buju Banton's "Love me Browning" from 1992? The refrain went, "Me love me car, me love me bike, me love me money and t'ing. But most of all, me love me browning" – his light-skinned girlfriend. The song topped the charts in Jamaica and was appreciated worldwide by enthusiasts of Jamaican dancehall music, which basically means the Jamaican and pan-Caribbean diaspora. I couldn't help but get an echo of Banton when I heard one of the interviewees say, "I like my light skins." This is an intergenerational playback loop. In 1994, the Notorious B.I.G., one of the most heroicized martyrs of the U.S. Hip Hop Nation, born Christopher Wallace in 1972 in Brooklyn to Jamaican parents, released the track, "One More Chance," whose opening rhyme goes as follows,
First things first: I, Poppa, freaks all the honeys
Dummies, Playboy bunnies, those wanting money
Those the ones I like 'cause they don't get Nathan, but penetration
Unless it smells like sanitation
Gar-bage, I turn like doorknawbs
Heartthrob never, Black and ugly as ever
The Notorious B.I.G. was describing himself. Or, more accurately, women's reactions to him. For years, I have used this track in one of my classes in media studies to trace the history of sampling, configured as it has been by discographic nostalgia in the creative imaginations of the artists. "One More Chance" is one of a whopping twenty-six tracks produced by different artists between 1991 and 2011 that have sampled various elements of the same song, "Stay with Me," by the 1980s RnB group Debarge. Every time the part in my lecture comes where I play Biggie's installment, I nervously hold my finger above the space bar to avoid playing that "black and ugly as ever" line to my students, who are predominantly young people of color. Yes, they, unlike the youngsters discussed here, are legal adults, and have not only heard the line times immemorial – Biggie is a music icon for the ages – but had more life experience to process its message. But, how many times do they have to hear it, even in an institutional setting of higher learning, before it becomes taken-for-granted common sense, before we can all agree to delete it from our ideological playlist? The "Are Black British Youth Obsessed with Light Skin/Curly Hair. Or is it just a preference?" video could, it strikes me now, help suppress my trigger-finger anxiety. It's a great tool to use to reflect, in any arena, on how not only rhymes and rhythms, but attitudes, get sampled through time and space. This, I believe, was its creator's main intention, given his choice to make the final voice in his editing of the video that of a dark-skinned boy with a relaxed stance who says, "not ligh'ies, not lig'ies." This is not to praise the speaker for simply inverting the hierarchical order of skin-tone preference, for that would be equally unsatisfying, if indeed that's what he does. We do not, in fact, hear him express an adoration for dark-skinned girls. It's his self-possession in assuming a position contrary to the one solidly occupied by all the speakers who came before him that is significant. I remember back when Bobby Brown cast as lead actress in his video for the song "Every Little Step" a dark-skinned model, the one who leads the posse of much lighter-complected beauties and gets Bobby in a bathtub in the end. It was actually a point of discussion among my friends because this was so uncommon in the casting of video vixens.
Further along in the video, we encounter a boy in his later adolescence, perhaps 17, with a medium-brown complexion and tight cornrows. "Obviously, it's gonna be them light skins, they know how to…" he begins by saying. The video cuts to him attempting to clarify his statement by outlining a tension he has observed between pursuer and pursued in this color-coded game. His is analysis missing from all the other speakers, and if there is a modicum of hopefulness to be found in this video that all these boys will in time mature into reflective men, here's where it lingers. "Dhy-dhy-dhey're stressful," he stutters out about light-skinned girls. "But, they're confident." With this, he turns his palms to the camera, as if to say, in resignation, "that's just the way it is."
Is it any wonder this pre-adult perceives "them" as stressful and possessed of a confidence level that rises to threatening, given the cultural feedback loop that plays and replays, mixes, remixes, and mashes up the message his peers, all barely on either side of puberty's threshold, are parroting? It's not just the pervasive degradation of dark-skinned femininity that these comments reinscribe, although that is nuff damage. It is the way in which they mark out positions in a gender war where female agency gets reduced to skin color (the lead signifier in an armament of preferred traits), and male potency (laying "wood" the chief maneuver) to the measure of one's ability to circumscribe that agency, make it work for you. The speaker's halting pronouncement shows that this world of meaning he helps stabilize with his own words he does not inhabit with ease. It is a world that will not always yield to him, may often be outright cruel, and it does so in accordance with the terms he himself has set. Anyone who has watched even one episode of the reality television series, Basketball Wives, or She's got Game, and taken note of how the female cast looks, and what the male storylines consist of, will taste a kernel of the speaker's despair over his prospects for a fulfilling relationship.
I said there are two female interviewees. One is a pretty, pretty, pretty girl, who is bubbly and holds one hand up to her face as she takes in VanBanter's question, "What kind of boys are you into?" She doesn't skip a beat in responding, smiling sweetly. However, her answer is so very troubling, given that this sweetheart, who cannot be older than 14, has a deep dark-brown complexion. "Light skins have long hair," she says. Now, here's what I hear: this girl is so conditioned to follow "light skin" with "long hair" as a possession that she doesn't even edit the mantra to more accurately fit the question. It is Pavlovian. For she and so many. The industry in hair weaves and extensions that reaps billions a year in pounds, dollars, euros and multiple other currencies throughout the world owes a healthy portion of its fortunes to this self-generating discourse. It's enough to make you bombaclot upset, in the words of the Brummie rapper Lady Leshurr, both of whose parents migrated to the UK from the island of St. Kitts. In the video for Leshurr's track Upset, she is joined at the conclusion by her friend and sometimes collaborator, Paigey Cakey, an emcee and actress from Hackney of Jamaican and white English parentage. The two are shown in an outdoor market and have both donned wigs that have a rasta-colored tam on top with long, fake dreads sewn on inside, which cascade down past the wearers' shoulders. "Bombaclot twelve years fuh deeze dreads, y'see, ee," Leshurr says to the camera, flipping up one of the fake locks. Cakey chimes in beside her, "A-me mixed-race, y'knuh. De dreads grow five years, y'knuh. Bombaclot years!" They're having a laugh, and it is funny. But, what they are also doing is spelling out a pervasive anxiety over natural hair growth patterns and length in the wide variety of Afro hair that can find black girls just out of puberty covering up their healthy heads of hair with wigs.
Location: these interviews were conducted in the environs of commercial and commuter hubs in Stratford, a district of east London whose population, according to the 2011 UK census, is 21 percent black. The census categorizes Stratford's demographics as "Multicultural Metropolitan: Inner City." The mixed-race population here is sizable – just scrutinize the collection of children in this video – because there has been considerable miscegenation between working-class Caribbean immigrants who began settling the area as early as the fifties and the resident English and Irish working class they met there. All over England such has been the case. In 2009, Samir Shah, former chairman of the Runnymede Trust, a think tank on issues of racial equality, wrote a controversial cover story for the Spectator, "Race is Not an Issue in the UK Anymore," in which he stated, "Today, almost half of all children of Caribbean heritage have one white parent. Earlier this year, a report by the Institute for Social & Economic Research at Essex University said that the Afro-Caribbean community will 'virtually disappear' — dissolving into the white mainstream."
That is a stark forecast on many fronts. One is the vista through which the mixed-race woman who is half-black and half-white has been a constant figure in Britain's music and pop culture scene from as far back as the fifties when Shirley Bassey debuted on the airwaves. A classic chanteuse in style and vocals, Dame Bassey was followed in the late seventies and early eighties by intentionally grittier Pauline Black and Rhoda Dakar, the two female vocalists most readily associated with the British Two Tone Movement. Black's and Dakar's interracial heritage symbolized their musical subculture's message of racial harmony and cultural syncretism inside Thatcherite Britain. Sade emerged later, in the early eighties, giving an international profile to British neo-soul. Later, when UK hip hop started to attract international recognition, its female emcees were led by Ms. Dynamite. Rolling into the 2000s and the televisualization of vocal performance, Leona Lewis shot to prominence when she won The X Factor in 2006. Other artists continue to make their mark, among them Corinne Bailey Rae, and Emeli Sandé. All of these women are the daughters of Caribbean or African men and English or Scottish women. And, as most have expressed publicly at one point or another, being mixed-race in Britain has for them been a mixed bag of opportunities and setbacks. In 2014, the singer Tahliah Barnett who goes by the name FKA Twigs played her heritage in an interview with a journalist who brought up the media's habit of classifying her as "alt-R&B," overlooking the plethora of influences in her music.
"It's just because I'm mixed race," FKA Twigs said. "When I first released music and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before, it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later, now she's an R&B singer. I share certain sonic threads with classical music; my song Preface is like a hymn. So, let's talk about that. If I was white and blonde and said I went to church all the time, you'd be talking about the 'choral aspect.' But you're not talking about that because I'm a mixed-race girl from south London."
Returning to the youth in the video, it seems for them mixed-race is a status beyond question. Viewed from a governmental perspective, this is ironic. The category of "mixed race" was made a box on the UK census in the year 2001, following, as political scientist Debra Thompson notes, near unanimous support for the proposal from government departments. Ironic, then, that an act of government undertaken with futurist ideals about inclusion has interbred with a hierarchical conception of (feminine) attractiveness and desirability, one that is antiquated and racist. One boy, for example, distracted in an exchange with his mate as he absorbs the question being asked him, leads with the astonishing preface, "Obviously, mixed-race girls." What's obvious about it?
As for the only other girl interviewed, a sentimental smile crosses her face when she replies in a croon, "Chocolate ones and light skin ones." From this girl's appearance, it seems highly likely that she herself is mixed-race. So, what harm, then, in desiring one's mirror image? None at all. Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, both the children of one black and one Jewish parent, were one couple that did. But, then the girl's face turns from placid sentiment to hateful scowl when she concludes with a warning to all watching, "Don't be dark, doah!" (pronunciation of "though," another MLE-ism).
What, I wonder, was the sequence of steps taken in and by British society as a whole, from the turn of the millennium, around the point that this girl's mum and dad were drawn to each other, to now, when their daughter thinks nothing of going on social media to denounce the dark side of her provenance?
In July, 2014, the Office of National Statistics issued a cross-analysis of its most recent demographic figures, "What Does the 2011 Census Tell Us About Inter-ethnic Relationships?" The report provides interesting findings on such topics as "patterns of inter-ethnic relationships," "differences between men and women in inter-ethnic relationships," "dependent children in multi-ethnic households." However, it does not offer any insight into attitudes towards racial background or racial appearance among inter-ethnic or mixed-race youth, and the wider implications of such attitudes. I am confidently hopeful that this needed research is either available or currently underway at governmental agencies, universities, and think tanks.
This past holiday season was the tail end of a sabbatical year I took to complete a book on interracial attitudes and relationships in Britain between blacks and a more recent wave of newcomers: the now roughly 1 million Poles who began settling the country after 2004, when Poland joined the border-free European Union. My mother spent the holidays with me in London. One afternoon, she and I visited the sprawling Westfield Stratford City shopping centre, one of London's most ostentatious recent commercial developments, opened in 2011. Some of the interviews in this video were conducted there, as well as around the less flashy 1970s-built Stratford Centre, and the Stratford railway station, both not far away. I am always happy to get my mother to London. She spent many formative years there, beginning in 1946 at the tender age of 19 as a student-nurse from what was then British Guiana, now Guyana. My mother's stories of post-war London recount a society coming to grips with the chromatic diversification of its citizenry. She has, since the 1980s when she began making return trips to visit her many relatives and friends who settled permanently in the city, been describing the sea change she notices in the demographic makeup. "London is black," she would often say. To her, it is a city far unlike the one she traversed in the late forties, fifties, and sixties, where, on one memorable occasion, a white Englishman in Holborn tube station, infuriated at the sight of a young West Indian man and English girl showing PDA on the up escalator, bellowed across the cavernous tunnel from his down escalator, "Bloody well go and find your own kind!"
Two days before Christmas, 2016, the Westfield Stratford City shopping centre was packed with last-minute shoppers. Members of every conceivable race and ethnicity were present, with a preponderance of Afro-Caribbean descendants. My mother and I were served lunch by an Eastern European waitress, given movie-going advice from a hijabied Somali theatre attendant with a local accent, and when we stopped for a rest in a seating area, a mischievous little South Asian baby dangled her arms over the top of the adjacent banquette as her mother and sisters debated, in an accent subtly distinguishable from what's been described, whether to get their dad the new GPS or a different gift.
My mother took it all in, looking at faces, listening to voices and their accents, eavesdropping on conversations, watching the ceaseless parade of couples pass by, their pairings of races, or skin tones within races, utterly unpredictable. We didn't talk about it then and there, but I knew what she was thinking.
Now, five months later, I see this video. I recognize the backdrops, and I realize I was right there, self-satisfied at the time that my mother was able to witness the walking, talking evidence of progress. Had we overheard the wrong conversations that day? Should I have listened with a keener ear? Would I have caught the slights and slander the youth in this video utter?
I don't have straight answers to these questions. My final thought, and I might be turning into a person of my parents' generation in expressing it, is with VanBanter, the conscious interviewer, in mind. Why are schoolboys, some barely 10, being questioned about picking up girls instead of about picking up their books?
Nicholas Boston, Ph.D., is associate professor of media studies and sociology at the City University of New York (CUNY), Lehman College.


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Archive for June, 2007
How to make RM2856/Month by just writing blog?
Do you ever find yourself thinking about blogging as a new generation of Part Time Job? If no, then you should read this post to learn up how to earn minimum of $840 / RM2586 (1USD = RM3.40) per month by just writing blog. Eventually, it will turn out to be your long-term part time job.
According to Desi, you will get $15-$30 per day by following his guide. The first step is make sure your blog meet the following requirements:
- Minimum 3 posts per day with 100-300 words per post. You may write up to 5 posts.
- Your blog must be 3 months old and above. It is not a quick cash scheme. Be patient to wait for this opportunity if your blog still young.
- Your blog must be in English. Currently, most of the advertiser only advertise on English blog. I guess other language will be supporting soon.
- You must write your own content. No Copy cat here!
- Frequent posting activity - Your blog must be updated frequently.
- No community blog - All the content must be written by you and no other author.
- Only Text Content Blogs. No video blogs.
Freelance Jobs Website Review - IamFreelancer.com
Last week, we discussed about Freelance job in Malaysia, now, we going to talk more about where to find freelance jobs. Normally, freelancer jobs are posted at forums or freelance job sites. Let's start our first review on Freelance Job Sites.
I spent 2 hours to google for "Freelance Job Sites", surprisingly, there are not many freelance job sites in Malaysia. One of the hottest site I found is IamFreelancer.com. They are pretty established and have many freelance jobs posted with them.
Apparently, the listed jobs are mostly IT-related jobs such as web design, web application development, and translation jobs. How about freelance jobs from other industry? Is it the freelance concept not mature for other industry? We will research on that in the coming post.
Anyway, cut it short. We are not going to review their jobs but their website. Here is our findings:
How can we help you?
Since we are a community to help you guys find part time jobs, we would like to know what is your expectation from us? More jobs? What kind of jobs? We need your feedback and studies on who to approach.
For example, you want to work as event organizer, we approach an events companies to ask for more jobs. If you want to work in market research field, then we approach market research firms. All we need is which field you interested, then we will approach the relevant companies to get more jobs for you. Tell us now
How much is your salary?
This is a common question in our life of employment. I am sure everybody will ask their peers and friends about their salary. What do you get from them? A very brief answer such as "between 3000 to 4000". Do you satisfy with this answer? Of course not right.
Most of the time, we don't want to let our friends or colleagues to know about our real salary. It is because salary is very sensitive and confidential. In this case, you never know how much you worth. You never know are you underpaid or overpaid compare to the market value / your colleagues.
Today, we just soft launched our sister website - AsiaSalary.com - an online community where professionals anonymously share their salary. You are invited to share your salary with the community. The community will review it and feedback on your salary.
Freelance Jobs in Malaysia
Nowadays, the industry is focusing on Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Most of the big companies are outsourcing their non-core-business to third party service providers. For example, a shoe manufacturer need a website for their marketing purposes, they not going to hire a permanent web developer to do the website for them. They rather outsource it to someone who experts in doing it. These people are so called Freelancer.
Even you want to outsource some project, but you need a market place to find the right freelancer for your project. Here is the exist of freelance website. There got a pool of freelancers who skilled in different areas of expertises such as Arts, Graphic Design, Business, Computer programming, writing, translation, etc.

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Fifth Wheel
"Fifth wheel, a horizontal plate, bent to form a whole or part of a circle, placed on the forward axle of a carriage. It is designed to support the fore part of the body while allowing it to turn freely in a horizontal plane." Today, the fifth wheel is used in coupling of trailers and towing trucks. -Whitney, 1911
axle, carriage part, coupling, device, fifth wheel, horizontal plant, pivot, trailer wheel, turning, vehicle part, wagon part
William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)


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I am excited to announce my first RE-Create Giveaway Winner is....Claire Scott. Claire gets this handmade yarn necklace made with yarns used in my new RE-Create scarves, as seen below. The fuchsia to spice red yarn was dyed years ago for a gradation dye demo I gave to sophomores in the fiber department at KCAI.
And the shade of gray tencel yarn came from extra yarn I dyed for my Lent project last year at Jacob's Well Church. You can see the gray yarn next to the purple in these shawls on the cross. For more info and photos of this project, click on this LINK. This yarn means a lot more that just yarn to me.
Make sure to check my blog and facebook, BillySue Textiles for more announcements of giveaways I will be having during my RE-Create Project.


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A big thank you goes to Lisa for organizing One World One Heart. It was an awesome ride through the Blogland that will continue for quite some time (I still have many blogs to visit...)
My giveaway # 1 (Unicorn) goes to Connie and giveaway #2 (bookmark) goes to Cat
Congratulations to both of you!
Monday, February 15, 2010
One World One Heart giveaway winners
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I am off to a stampin up stampin party tomorrow but I thought I would leave you with yet another idea I had from the new Haunted Forest SVG Kit. This one is the same size as the Jack O Lantern in the post before this one. Bring all the pieces for the Jack O Lantern onto the mat and size it so that the Jack O Lantern is about 4 inches high without the hat. This will make it fit perfectly onto the top of the Jar from Maison de Madeline SVG Kit. As I said in the last post make an octagon at 0.378 H and W, duplicate it and center one onto the bottom of the Jack O Lantern piece and one onto the insert for the Jack O lantern.
Make another octagon and duplicate it as well center each one onto the top of the lid and the insert. I use Silhouette Designer addition so that I can import SVG's into the program. Now choose your small octagon then holding down the shift key choose the outer octagon then right click and make a compound path. This will make the holes permanent in your file you can save them that way as well. It does not change the original file as it is saved as a Silhouette file.
Now here is the part I forgot to tell you before. I made a rectangular box just inside the cut lines for the bottom of the Jar. Then moved the nodes a bit to give it kind of the slanted look just like the cut lines of the box. You would double click on the rectangle and tiny boxes will show up around the edges, those are nodes. Then all you have to do is click and drag it to the shape you want. If you have never played around with those before you should try. That is how I got interested in designing. Once you have it at the place you want then just click off of it. These will be your accent pieces for the bottom of the box.
I inked the edges of the scarecrows accent pieces with a Rusty Hinge Tim Holtz Ink pad. If you don't have that any brown ink pad will work. Then I used the same ink pad on my Card Stock Vellum from Stampin up and cut a small piece to fit over the nose and mouth. I glued that to the inside once the scarecrow was all put together. I used a soft Suede Marker from Stampin up to make the tiny x's for around the nose and to make the mouth. I drew on eyelashes with the same marker. I used pearlescent chalk to make the blush on the cheeks. I didn't care for the brown vellum on the nose so I used YR07 orange maker to make the vellum orange and let it get a bit onto the edges as well. I took pieces of Raffia and glued them here and there around the top of the Scarecrows head then glued the hat down on top of that. I also used the same ink pad and dabbed it here and there on the accents of the hat.
The hat is easy make it as you would but I used a tiny flower punch to take a couple of "bites" out of the brim. Before gluing the brim to the top of the hat I warped it with my hands to make it look like a worn hat. Then take your scissors and do a jagged cut to cut off the top of the hat. Bunch some Raffia together and glue to the inside of the hat. The ribbon is a scrap I had from Stampin up that is jean material. So cute wish they still had it. Instead of tying it I crossed them on the brim and glued in place with glue dots. The buttons are from Buttons Galore, I love their buttons so so cute!
Add the raffia to the top of the box and then glue the "head" into place. Add the buttons for the shirt and adhere the battery operated tea light to the inside of the lid just like you did on the Jack O Lantern. The light goes through the octagon holes you made in the bottom of the scarecrow and the lid of the box. That was it. I didn't use any emboss folders this time but I think he turned out pretty cute and will be the perfect hostess gift for my Stampin up Demonstrator tomorrow. The bottom of the box is empty and perfect for filling with a goodie or another gift. This way they have a lantern and you can fill it with something extra! Thanks so much for stopping by again and Happy Craftin Y'all!!!! Blessings Sharalyn
SVGCuts Kits Used:
Haunted Forest SVG Kit
Maison de Madeline SVG Kit
Supplies Used:
Graphic 45 French Country Collection
American Craft Card Stock, Straw, Pomegranate
Bazzill Card Stock, Arctic
Tim Holtz Rusty Hinge Ink Pad
Stampin up, Card Stock Vellum, Soft Suede Marker, Jean Ribbon
Pebbles Pearlescent Chalks
Buttons Galore Buttons
UPDATE: I gave it to her and showed her what I had filled it with, later she noticed that it lit up. She was thrilled! Also had a blast and saw people I hadn't seen in a while! So fun to get together with Crafty friends! Blessings Sharalyn


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In normal color printing, different semi-transparent inks are applied on leading of each other to produce the various hues of a picture. Due to the great teamwork by Dr. Wang and Tim Canter of Frontier Environmental Technology Barry White of SBTDC and Steve Hargis, Allen McNece and Anne McClay with the City's Public Performs Division, the grant application was completed with significantly less than 3 weeks notice. Nominated by their instructors, they had been selected for their demonstrated, outstanding aptitude and interest in information technology and computing, solid leadership capability, excellent academic history and plans for post-secondary education.
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This is probably not the first piece of tape that safety Shamarko Thomas wanted to add to his NFL resume. But, in spite of the technical difficulties he suffered at the end of his 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine, he still managed to run a 4.42, which was best amongst all safeties. That face plant had to hurt, though.
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Back into those hills south of Yakima - this time for a success?
Continuing west from the previous expedition for a Multihash.
I followed highway 14 west along the gorge. I've driven this route a few times but always over on the Oregon side. Crow Butte state park was pretty, and in general the river was nice to see. Very windy, as you would expect.
Peeling north, I followed E road to minimize the dirt roads and possibility of car trouble. Many miles from anywhere, who would come get me? Would I even have cell signal?
More pressing, is the geohash achievable? Parking the car, I can see that it will be. This land is scrub, unfarmed and likely unclaimed. Oh, sure, the roads are there for some reason - probably accessing farm or grazing land elsewhere. Or more recently, windmills.
Walked to the geohash point making sure to avoid holes in the ground and varmints. Found the spot, marked a big X, and snapped a few photos. Success!
As I hopped back in the car, someone else hopped in with me. No, I'm not bringing you back to Seattle. Out you go!
| Thomcat earned the Multihash Achievement
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Classroom Secrets: it's all work, work, work
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BBC1 programme Classroom Secrets is a clever idea: stick some cameras in a Year Four (eight and nine year olds) classroom and invite the parents to watch the results. Maybe we should do this for every child. It was interesting how one set of parents thought their moppet would be quiet and diligent in class. He wasn't. And how another believed their daughter was probably being led astray by other children. She wasn't.
I can't count the number of times in the past when I've said I was deputy head of a primary school and had the response, 'Oh how sweet! That must be fun. Not like working with teenagers.'
No, not like teaching teenagers (I've done both) but different. In the past, along with other colleagues, I've taught small children who have bitten, screamed, sulked, ran off, hidden and kicked and it's not always easy to get the parents to support their children.
One aspect of behaviour that emerged in the programme was that fact that children came into school tired on a Monday morning and not able to concentrate. We're then shown a child eating a croissant slathered in Nutella for breakfast in front of the TV. That's an awful lot of quick release sugar for a child's breakfast resulting in a peak of energy followed by a dip and lack of concentration in class.
But these are issues that every school has to deal with. It's important to engage parents and children in learning about healthier lifestyles. This includes the importance of a good balanced breakfast based on the eat-well plate and why sleep is so important (the NHS recommend ten hours a night for a nine year old child.) It's also important for schools to support parents in how to manage their child's behaviour. Parents can't be expected to know all the answers. Unless children are well rested, healthy and safe they will always struggle with their Latin. Are you listening Mr. Gove?
And the outcome? The parents were able to see exactly what their children were like at school and they and the teachers began to understand each other better. The teacher changed her behaviour management style in class and the parents put their kids to bed earlier. Result all round.
Ps I'm not commenting further on the teaching and behaviour management of that schools as I'm sure there will be enough comments elsewhere…but please stop going on about work, work, work.


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I was intrigued by the idea of a yogurt tart…and imagined something like a lighter ricotta pie or much lighter cheesecake. The recipe, from Baking With Julia, calls for berries, but also suggests other fruits such as stone fruits, apples, or pears. I found these plums at a local farmers' market, perfectly ripe, on the day I was planning to bake. Although we've had some unseasonably warm weather and a lot of rain, I'm pretty sure plums aren't in season here yet. But however these plums made it to the farmers' market stand, I thought they'd be a good choice for this tart, and I was right.
The tart crust is a basic flaky pie dough made with butter and shortening that makes four crusts. Since I don't do shortening, I used all butter and made half the recipe, for two crusts, saving one for another use. I also substituted whole wheat pastry flour for half of the all purpose flour.
I've noticed that most yogurt is now thickened with pectin, perhaps because of the popularity of Greek yogurt and the taste for a thicker textured yogurt. I've always liked moister yogurt and look for brands that don't have added pectin. There are a couple of local producers that don't thicken their yogurt, but all of the national brands seem to do so now. I bring this up, because for the filling I used a nonfat yogurt that did have pectin, and I thought that the resulting texture was a little thick and dry (although the plums helped to add juiciness.) Besides yogurt, the filling has eggs, sugar, flour, and vanilla. I'm thinking that the amount of flour can be reduced to account for a thicker yogurt.
I mentioned that the filling contains vanilla, actually a lot of vanilla – two tablespoons. Many dessert recipes, no matter the other flavors, have a teaspoon or so of vanilla added, and I'm not sure why, although there's probably a good reason. I wasn't crazy about the exaggerated vanilla flavor in this tart. I think some lemon zest or almond extract would have been more to my liking. Cinnamon might have been nice with the plums.
In the end, I had mixed reactions to this tart. I like the combination of buttery crust, creamy filling, tart and juicy plums, and crunchy toasted almonds. The filling didn't quite make it for me, for the reasons mentioned above. I'd like to give it another try with either less flour or a pectin-less yogurt and different flavors. I refrigerated the leftover tart – my daughter and I each had a chilled slice the next day and preferred it cold.
The recipe is in the cookbook Baking With Julia. You can also read about other bakers' experiences with this recipe on the website Tuesdays With Dorie/Baking With Julia.


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Her birthday party was held at her own school, The School for Academics and Arts (TSAA), not far from our house in Makati.
There was a painting workshop conducted by my wife's friend, Amiya Velasco. All the kids have the same materials, and they would paint different things.
Amiya, standing right, and her buddy Deo, standing on the left, of Maharlika Artists and Writers Federation (MAWF).
Elle's painting. And her birthday cake.
My wife Ella also brought some of her students Faith and 2 others, and former student Enzo, to help out.
With teachers LJ and Fran, and school Directress Cherry Fernandez. Cherry was a friend way back in the mid 80s in UP Diliman.
Our family portrait. Bien did not attend her afternoon class so she can join her Ate Elle's birthday celebration. She was moving around the room but in this photo, she hid her face. Hoy, anak :-)
Elle said she enjoyed her birthday party. Thanks to the classmates and teachers of Elle at TSAA. Below, a stolen shot of Elle by Amiya, taken a few days before her birthday, at a MAWF event at Intramuros.
Elle is simply beautiful. Thanks Amiya.
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Elle Marie is 7, Bien Mary is 3, October 06, 2013
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with multi-organ involvement. Arthritis is one of the major clinical findings in SLE reported in up to 90% of patients [1-4]. Similar to other diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), arthritis has a considerable effect on disease burden and imperils quality of life [5, 6]. The majority of arthritis lesions in SLE are non-erosive and non-deforming [7, 8]; however, there is a tendency to develop erosion in RA arthritis [9]. In less than 5% of SLE patients, erosive arthritis develops; this is known as rhupus [10-12]. Erosive arthritis in SLE has a prognosis and clinical course similar to that of RA [13]. The risk factors for the development of erosive arthritis are not fully understood. Recent studies have challenged the concept of non-erosive arthropathy featured in SLE. In some cases with erosive lesions, it may be difficult to differentiate SLE from RA, and many SLE cases are initially misdiagnosed as having RA [14, 15]. Erosive lesions more strongly debilitate and affect the quality of life in SLE patients [16]. Regarding the difference in particular outcomes, it is helpful to use a serological marker to distinguish them at the onset of disease.
Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies are highly specific and sensitive measures in RA diagnosis and predict the prognosis of disease [17]. Moreover, in a number of non-RA inflammatory conditions such as SLE, positive Anti-CCP is detectable, which demands careful interpretation [18, 19]. A number of previous studies have proposed an association between anti-CCP and erosive or deforming arthritis in SLE and related complications [20-22]. However, the association is not adequately addressed in the literature. The current study evaluated the prevalence of anti-CCP various subsets in SLE patients.
The clinical records of 300 patients visited between January 2006 and February 2007 were studied. The studied population comprised 300 SLE patients (271 females and 29 males). This demographic study was conducted in the connective tissue diseases unit of the Rheumatology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). It was approved by the TUMS Ethical Committee. This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles outlined in the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
Patients who fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for SLE were eligible to be enrolled in the current study. The availability of clinical records and radiological exams were other inclusion criteria. Patients with concurrent comorbidities which warranted additional treatment were not eligible to participate in the study.
Data regarding recent complete blood count (CBC), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), rheumatoid factor (RF), anti-dsDNA, fluorescent antinuclear antibody (FANA), complement component 3 (C3), complement component 4 (C4), complement total hemolytic (CH50), anti-cardiolipin (IgG, IgM), creatinine, urine analysis U/A, and urine protein were extracted from the participants' files.
Ten milliliters (ml) of whole blood was collected from each participant, and anti-CCP antibodies were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) (first generation anti-CCP1-test; Euroimmun, Lübeck, Germany). An anti-CCP level > 5 RU/mL was considered positive. Recent clinical and laboratory findings such as alopecia, leucopenia, photosensitivity, discoid rash, anemia, thrombocytopenia, and raised creatinine (>1 mg/dL) from the patients' files were studied.
Patients with chronic arthritis (more than 6 weeks) had radiography performed on the involved joints to detect the presence of erosive arthritis.
To address the correlation between anti-CCP and arthritis, patients were divided into two groups, those with and those without arthritis. Patient serum levels of anti-CCP and other data were compared in the two subgroups.
Chi square and Fisher's exact test were applied to compare the two subsets. A p-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. All statistical analyses were carried out with the SPSS software, version 21 (Chicago, IL, USA).
The demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with SLE are shown in Table 1. Positive anti-CCP was detected in 14 out of 300 patients (4.7%, CI: 2.6-7.8). All anti-CCP positive patients were female. In patients with positive anti-CCP, the mean level was 33.96 RU/mL. There was no statistically significant difference in age, gender, or disease duration between the anti-CCP positive and negative subgroups (Table 2).
Arthritis was present in 170 SLE patients (56.7%). From SLE patients with arthritis, 163 patients (95.9%) had transient arthritis, and 7 (4.1%) had chronic arthritis.
Table 1. Demographic, clinical and paraclinical characteristics of studied patients
Anti-CCP positive subgroup
All Patients
Duration of disease (years)
14 (100)
Mean age (years)
10 (71.5)
Chronic Arthritis (6 weeks)
1 (7)
7 (2.5)
CNS Involvement (history)
38 (12.7)
Renal Involvement (history)
3 (21.4)
Photosensitivity (Recent)
4 (28.6)
105 (35)
Malar Rash (Recent)
29 (9.7)
Oral Ulcer (Recent)
2 (14.3)
23 (7.7)
Discoid Rash (Recent)
12 (4)
Alopecia (Recent)
49 (16.3)
Arthritis (Recent)
25 (8.3)
Leukopenia (WBC<4000)
51 (17)
Anemia (Hb <10mg/dl)
40 (13.3)
16 (5.4)
Creatinie > 1
15 (5)
Increased ESR
8 (57.1)
Positive CRP
50 (16.6)
Positive RF
18 (6)
Positive FANA
7 (50)
120 (40)
Positive Anti-ds DNA
6 (42.9)
Positive anti-Cardiolipin (Ig G)
24 (8)
Positive anti-Cardiolipin (Ig M)
21 (7)
Low C3
62 (20.7)
Low C4
50 (16.7)
Low CH50
Proteinuria <3500 mg/24hours
44 (14.6)
Proteinuria >3500 mg/24hours
5 (16)
Low dose prednisolone <15mg/day
198 (66)
12 (85.7)
Moderate dose prednisolone 15<<30 mg/day
47 (15.7)
High dose prednisolone 30<mg/day
210 (70)
9 (64.3)
16 (5.3)
35 (11.7)
10 (3.3)
2 (0.7)
Overlap with Scleroderma
4 (1.4)
Overlap with Polymyositis/ Dermatomyositis
Table 2.The relation of anti-CCP with sex, age, and duration of disease
Positive anti-CCP
Negative anti-CCP
P value
14 (100%)
257 (89.9%)
29 (10.1)
Age (year)
Duration of disease
Positive anti-CCP was noted in 11 patients with arthritis (6.5%) and 3 patients of the non-arthritis subset (2.3%). The difference in anti-CCP positivity between the two subgroups was not statistically significant (P-value= 0.09) (Table 3). Mean anti-CCP titer was 39.35±15.05 RU/mL (mean±S.E) in patients with arthritis and 14.23±4.72 RU/mL (mean±S.E) in those without arthritis (P-value=0.41).
Table 3. The relation of Anti CCP with Arthritis and its characteristics
Number (%)
Yes (n=170)
11 (6.4)
No (n=130)
3 (2.3)
Chronic Arthritis
Yes (n=7)
1 (14.3)
No (n=163)
10 (6.1)
Yes (n=1)
1 (100)
No (n=6)
Eleven arthritis cases with positive anti-CCP comprised 10 cases of transient arthritis and one of chronic arthritis. The patient with chronic arthritis had erosive joint damage confirmed by x-ray imaging (Table 3). The prevalence rate of anti-CCP positivity among chronic arthritis cases was (14.3%), while 6.1% of transient arthritis cases were anti-CCP positive (Table 3).
Positive RF was reported in two patients with positive anti-CCP (14.3%). RF-positive cases included one patient with transient arthritis and one with chronic arthritis. There was a significant relationship between anti-CCP and RF in this study (P=0.004).
The anti-CCP-positive subgroup had a higher rate of anti-ds DNA and FANA. However, in comparison with the total studied group, low complement levels were less frequent in anti-CCP-positive cases.
The concept of non-erosive lupus arthropathy has recently been challenged by innovative radiological techniques. Some studies have postulated that erosive arthritis develops in a higher percentage of SLE patients [23, 24]. However, this debilitating complication has not been amply discussed in the literature. The underlying pathogenesis of erosive arthritis is not fully understood [11]. The predictive value of serological markers in the development of specific lupus complications such as erosive arthritis has been the subject of an ongoing dispute [20]. A review article by Budhram et al. revealed anti-CCP as a predictor of erosive arthritis in SLE [25]. There is growing evidence that suggests a higher prevalence of anti-CCP expression in rhupus in comparison with SLE patients [26]. However, SLE patients with deforming arthropathy demonstrate clinical features comparable to cases of rhupus [27]. Lower levels of complement components (C3, C4, and CH50) were less common among anti-CCP-positive cases in comparison with the whole cohort. This notion may be partly due to the limited number of anti-CCP-positive cases in this study.
The prevalence rate of anti-CCP positivity in sera in this study was similar to that in some previous reports [28, 29]. The prevalence rate of positive anti-CCP and the level of antibody expression were higher in the arthritis subset than in the non-arthritis subset; however, the difference was not statistically significant. This might result from the small number of patients with positive anti-CCP.
Radiographic evaluation of patients with chronic arthritis showed erosive arthritis in only one patient. This patient was the only case with positive anti-CCP among all chronic arthritis cases. The current study did not demonstrate any significant association between anti-CCP positivity and the development of erosive arthritis in the SLE population. This result was in contrast with those of a number of previous studies which have indicated a meaningful association between anti-CCP and erosive arthritis in SLE patients [13, 29]. This lack of association must be cautiously interpreted. The limited number of enrolled patients, the small number of cases with chronic arthritis, and specifically the single case of erosive arthritis may have partially affected the results. Qing et al. have proposed the role of ethnic and geographical variance in the expression of anti-CCP antibodies in SLE patients [21]. Similarly, ethnic and geographical variance may have influenced the results of the current study.
A significant association between serum RF levels and anti-CCP positivity was observed in SLE patients. This finding was similar to previously-described findings in patients with rheumatoid arthritis [10, 11, 12, 13, 21-23]. In contrast, another study of SLE, rhupus, and RA has negated the significant association between anti-CCP levels and erosive or non-erosive arthropathy [27].
Overall, erosive arthritis was confirmed in only one patient of the current study population. Larger studies on SLE patients are warranted to show a possible correlation between anti-CCP and erosive arthritis.
The current study had a number of limitations, namely, the small sample size and the lack of therapeutic information on arthritis.
This study did not show any association of anti-CCP with erosion in SLE patients with arthritis. Future longitudinal studies are needed to further investigate the correlation between erosive arthritis and anti-CCP positivity in SLE.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
The authors would like to thank the patients who confided in us for their cooperation with this study.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.


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Just to confirm our meet this Saturday. Are you all looking forward to it?!
My number is below but the bar should be easy enough to get to (see link to map below), so please don't leave yourself to the mercy of my skill in giving proper directions in London.
See you all there from 6.45PM onwards. If you expect to be very late please drop me an email with your ETA but I really recommend everyone gets there early-ish so we can chat a little before it starts to get busy. Also, if you are going to have a companion not accounted for earlier, just let me know.
Come to the reserved area at the back. There should be signs saying XLRI in Polish*.
* I know this will confuse some people, so I should point out that this was a joke. The signs will simply say "XLRI". For those curious (for some absurd reason) about how to say XLRI in Polish, try DSPI (Donovan Stosunków Pracy Instytutu)


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The Lledoner Pelut is a very old grape variety dating back to the middle ages and was probably imported from Spain by pilgrims on their way to Saint Jacques de Compostelle.
It is a very rare grape variety in Tuchan but there was a peak in the 70's and 80's when planting Grenache Noir was restricted in favour of the Lledoner Pelut! This was an attempt to limit the production of a wine called Rivesaltes.
Rivesaltes is a very sweet, mainly red dessert wine made from Grenache Noir. The name comes from a village in the Roussillon but Rivesaltes can also be made in Tuchan. In fact in all villages that produce Fitou.
Growers in Tuchan planted Grenache Noir to produce Rivesaltes but also Fitou, their traditional red wine. Sales of Rivesaltes slumped so to try to stabilise the market the Union of Rivesaltes Producers and the INAO in Paris limited planting rights of Grenache Noir but were more generous with planting rights for Lledoner Pelut. Lledoner Pelut – the poor cousin of Grenache Noir - couldn't be used for the production of Rivesaltes, only Fitou.
Lledoner Pelut didn't really take off with the growers in Tuchan. It was from the same family as the Grenache Noir but it had hairy leaves which made it particularly attractive to tiny red spiders. It easily became infested causing the leaves to dry out. It was later ripening than the Grenache so needed to be left on the vine longer to ripen but was also more susceptible to grey rot - not a great combination! The potential alcohol is also less - meaning if you are in a Cooperative you get paid less. So all in all not a storming success!!
|The name hairy Grenache comes from these hairs
on the back of the leaves which spiders absolutely love
The Union of Rivesaltes Producers soon realised that this small measure of replacing Grenache with Lledoner wasn't enough to regulate the over supply of Rivesaltes so it was abandoned a couple of years later – much to the delight of growers in Tuchan who consequently ripped most of it up!
We wait with great anticipation (and a little fear) to see what our first harvest of low yielding Lledoner Pelut will bring!!


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You will receive information regarding Commencement by both email and U.S. postal mail. It is important to make sure your address is up to date in Cardinal Station. Comprehensive information will be available on the Commencement website.
A link to the Oak Hall (regalia vendor) webpage is here. You may also visit the CUA Bookstore to purchase regalia, announcements, diploma frames, etc.
To order a class ring, visit the Class Ring website, where you will find information on how to order online as well as dates that representatives from Balfour will be in the Pryzbyla Center.
The graduation fee is used to underwrite the cost of processing candidates for graduation, Commencement exercises and related activities. Participation in the University and/or school exercises is afforded at no additional cost to graduates and their guests. The fee does not cover academic regalia. It is recognized that not all students will use the benefits made available by the fee, but the services supported by the fee are available to all graduating students. The fee applies to all students who graduate from The Catholic University of America and will be applied directly to the student's account during the term they anticipate graduating.
The Honors Convocation recognizes students elected to membership in national honor societies, students that have completed at least one track in the UHP curriculum, and those who have achieved individual honors in their specific disciplines. Students in one or more of the aforementioned categories and their families and friends are invited to attend the ceremony. Students should wear their gowns, but they should not wear their caps or hoods.
Baccalaureate Mass is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The student procession for the Baccalaureate Mass will form at 3:30 p.m. in front of McMahon Hall and move promptly down "senior walk" at 3:40 p.m. Candidates for degrees will not genuflect in the aisle as they will be directed to their seats by ushers from the Division of Student Affairs. In case of inclement weather students proceed directly to Memorial Hall, lower level of the basilica, to form the procession. Students are asked to wear their academic gowns, without hoods and caps.
It should be noted that the Baccalaureate Mass is typically standing room only, so parents and friends who plan to attend should take their seats as soon as possible after 2:30 p.m. No seating will be allowed in the Basilica for the Mass prior to 2:30 p.m. in order to accommodate those attending the Honors Convocation for Undergraduates.
Please go to the Instructions for Commencement page to find instructions on where you should be and when you should be at the designated location for the processional. Your academic school also should have emailed this information to you.
Before graduating, tassels should be on your right. After graduating, tassels should be moved to your left.
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Melbourne, FL—Fifth Avenue Art Gallery member artist Jini James is exhibiting in a solo show for the month of April. James has created all new works in oil from her "endless list" of visual inspirations from the Chesapeake Bay, the American Southwest, Central America, Paris, and Iceland. Her first painting trip was to Honduras, loaded down with a heavy French easel and at least 30 tubes of oils, plus canvases. "The exploration of Mayan ruins in Copan, Central America was a life-changing experience," says James. "Through art, I realized how cultures survive. It was the artists who recorded Mayan history in stone. I also learned that with each subsequent trip, I packed lighter and lighter until watercolors and mini sketchbooks took the place of the oils, canvases, and an easel. My watercolor studies, along with photographs, translated into oil paintings when I returned to my studio," says James.
In her artistic endeavors and travels, James has received numerous awards and signature memberships in the art world. Her training began in her teens when she studied privately with a well known New York Illustrator and progressed to study at Moore College of Art and The Pennsylvania Academy. Her passion for life long learning includes workshops, "for that once or twice a year tune-up". "I am a believer in craftsmanship and preserving reality while allowing the viewer to see the painterly strokes that are laid into the piece. These are story paintings."
James will also discuss her work at the gallery's Second Saturday Art Talk on April 13 at 2 p.m. Thoughts about painting on site as well as creating a good composition will be discussed along with a painting demonstration. Arrive early as seating is limited.
Fifth Avenue Art Gallery is located at 1470 Highland Avenue in the historic Eau Gallie Arts District.
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I am so sorry for being so behind on updating her blog! I will try to get it fully updated this week!
In front of a giant dinosaur at the mall. It was so random and it moved. They are apparently all over the place.
Oh my goodness, check this out: Tomorrow (March 17th) i will have been out on my mission for 3 months. That is insane to think about! I don't feel like I've been out that long at all. In fact, I've almost been in Japan for a month. WOW! I just love being a missionary, it's the greatest thing ever. Here's what we have done this week.
Monday: We visited with the K family. We talked about he importance of scripture study and prayer, and it went well. The scriptures are so important. If you aren't already, please start reading the Book of Mormon again. I've started again since I've been in Japan and it is just great. I have learned so many things already. Sister P. was also getting sick, so we tried to keep it low key and did OYM (Open Your Mouth).
Tuesday: We had a zone conference with President Yamashita in Fukutoku, which is about 30 minutes out of our district. It was an adventure to go outside of the zone. The conference was really good, and it lasted most of the day. Elder J. went home, so we are minus an elder in our district. Now we just have Elder B. and Elder F., who are both really old missionaries and are going home in about two months. We had a meeting with that teenage girl we met on Sunday who was totally prepared to hear the gospel, but her parents are honti (which is Japanese for against, or something like that) so we can't teach her. It's quite unfortunate, but the Lord will provide for her. It was also SNOWING on Tuesday, which was really fun to bike in.
Wednesday: We went finding. OYM is fun, i actually really enjoy it. I feel a lot like a missionary when we OYM, even though I can't really do it and the look at me really weird because I do not speak Japanese. Japanese people are funny. They don't really talk to people on the streets. At all. The trains are super silent. So when we stop them, you can see the panic expression on their face: "Who are these gaijin and what do they want and how do I stop talking to them." But they are actually great to talk to when they open up. We had eikaiwa and Y, Chan came. We basically speak English in the class, and she doesn't know any English. So we sat there teaching each other our language. It was really fun.
Thursday: Sister P. was really sick. She's an awesome example, because she still wanted to do a bunch of stuff. We decided to go to M. San's lesson and then come back so she could rest a little bit. It was a cool lesson. I had no idea what was going on, which is pretty typical. But our tachiai (member) started saying something, and I felt the spirit so strongly. It was cool because I was just like 'i have no idea what youre saying, but i know that she is feeling the spirit because I am, and I hope she is being taught by the spirit.'
Friday: District meeting. It was in Ogaki, which is out of our district, so it was another adventure on the trains. Elder B. started talking with a bunch of high school kids. Our elders are SUPER good at OYM. Apparently the kids/young adults LOVE it when we speak english, and then are really impressed when we can speak japanese too. That's something i've noticed a lot: the people do NOT expect you to be able to talk to them in Japanese. We actually met two girls who were majoring in english during OYM. Then we had an appointment right after and so we stopped by a McDonalds for lunch. It was really good, much better than America. We met with K. San. I had NO idea what was happening at all with her, but apparently they started talking about World War II and Nazis. Then we had game night, which was also really fun.
Saturday: The ward started with things called Benkyokai which is like a study hall for the youth and ward members help them. We can too, but not that effectively. Only two youth showed up. But it was fine. I passed off the Ninja book with a member. I LOVE being with the members. Honestly, i see how valuable with members are in missionary work. And they are simply amazing. So go help the missionaries! I keep thinking about two elders we had a while back when I was in Utah that came by our house a ton, and how involved they were in our ward. That's honestly how missionary work needs to work. We need the members to help! It's not nearly as effective to street as it is to receive referrals. Just love the missionaries, because they love you! And if you ever need something, call them! We love to help our members, i'm sure the ones in Utah love to as well. We had a lesson with the K. family. I tried to help with a lot of it, but it wasn't as successful as I would have hoped. But it was fine. Then we went housing. I love people. We talked on a kekko box with one lady, told her we were missionaries, and she says "hold on one second." then she comes to the door and goes "I'm not interested in you message, I'm Buddhist, but you guys are so great and I just love you, here's some candy. Good luck, be safe." Apparently that happens quite frequently in Japan. We then went to the Eki, but there were tons of drunk people, and it just wasn't very inviting. So we updated records and made cookies for our neighbors.
Sunday: Church. Church is probably the hardest part language wise. It is 3 straight hours of zero comprehension. But members are fun. Then we went tracting and visited members. We also brought cookies to our neighbors. We have one neighbor we met the other day that was like 'we live over there if you ever want to come visit us.' We visited them to bring them cookies, and they said to come back some time around noon and we could come in and talk to them. We haven't even brought up gospel stuff yet. So hopefully they will be fun. They are an older couple, and they lived in the US. Then we came home and made delicious Japanese food: tonkatsu. It's basically deep fried pork. We also made deep fried tofu. It was great.
So that's the week! Now for some spiritual thoughts.
I've been reading in Mosiah this week. I LOVE Mosiah 4:10-12. It's about repentance, and we use it a lot in lessons. i love verse 10, because it says if we believe these things, we need to do them. That's a problem we have with both of our investigators – they think they believe it, but they are afraid to act on that, which i can understand. But acting is a part of having faith. I love a mormon message by elder bednar about faith and light. Go find it and watch it, there are three mini movies. but he talks about how sometimes we are given just enough light to take a step into the darkness. He compares it to being in fog. You can see just enough in front of you, but you can't see everything. But if you step just a few steps forward, you can see a little more. A lot of times, that's how faith works. But it says in D&C 50:24 that as we receive light (and act on light) we receive more light, and that light grows brighter until we understand. Also in Alma 32 it talks about how our faith becomes unshaken in that one thing as we strive to develop and act on our faith in that thing. When i hear that, i always think how we should use that process for every aspect of the gospel, until our faith becomes unshaken in everything!
It also talks about how as we repent (vs 11) we have an amazing promise (vs 12). We can always rejoice and be filled with the love of God, retain a remission of our sins, and grow in the knowledge of God. I LOVE this promise! It shows how valuable and necessary repentance is.
I also read Mosiah 13:3-4, about abinadi! He tells them to stop because he hasn't finished delivering his message. I thought about how when we are called to something by God (in my case, a missionary, but anything really) God gives us divine help for us to accomplish that calling. He provides a way for us to serve and finish purpose in that calling. That was really comforting for me.
Now for random facts:
Bikes are a blessed form of transportation. They have all the mission benefits of walking, but so much faster.
My Japanese name is Taira (Tyler) which is pronounced (ty – ee- ra) and it is a super common Japanese name here. So it's funny when i tell people, and they are totally sold on me being Japanese for a split second, until they remember that i'm not. Then they want to know what it is in english, and they can't pronounce it because of the L. So that's fun.
I hope you all have an amazing week! Any questions about Japan? Missionary work? It's amazing you know. And the church is true!
Sister Kyleigh Ann Tyler
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Here are some hair setting tips from HairDo April-May 1961. If you trying to create hairdo from the 60s, where could you find better instructions than in an article written in 1961? (As always for a bigger view, right click with your mouse on the image and select View Image, then left click).
Thursday, May 22, 2014
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Memory Boxes are unique, creative gift that can be made as quirky or as tasteful as you like. There is no template from which I follow in how each memory box is designed. The lid, the underneath of the lid and the underneath of the box can be designed.
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I'm finally feeling well enough to incorporate some activities into my life – first stop – Yellowstone National Park! Yay! I'm happy enough to be able to do some short hikes and manage some car camping, nothing too spectacular, it's enough just to be able to be in that glorious place, that slice of heaven. While I'm dreaming and scheming, I thought I'd share some advice to those folks that are looking for some inside information when visiting the Park.
I worked in Yellowstone Park for 6 seasons, 1978-1982 and then again in 1989, during that time, I was the front desk manager of Canyon Village Lodge, so I think I can speak as some sort of expert. I have several considerations for you as you plan your trip through the Park. To begin, it's important to realize the scale of the Park – it is huge – as an example, from the Northeast entrance to the South entrance of the park is approximately 102 miles. When you imagine that you're travelling through mountain passes, curvey roads and then mixing with "bear or bison jams" (cars stopped to see wildlife), just driving from point to point will take a great deal of time. But don't lose heart, the park is one of the most beautiful places in the world – you won't mind the traverse. Here's a great link to Yellowstonenationalpark.com that has the distance map as well as a huge array of interesting information: http://www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/maps.htm
The large distances also create a wonderful opportunity to see the park in "portions". Consider staying one or two nights in a couple of different locations within the Park. There are countless more lodging options outside the Park borders, but the driving distances involved really prohibit touring the entire Park comfortabley if you're planning on staying several nights near one of the Park entrances. I recall while working in Mammoth Hot Springs that the drive to Old Faithful would take nearly 2 hours, and this was during the off-season, meaning no traffic to speak of.
Each of the Park's 8 lodging locations have plenty of nearby attractions, all will have various wildlife wandering about and the grocery and gift shops offer a wealth of kitchey souvenier goodies. For activites beyond sight seeing, I recommend the "Scenic Cruise" on Lake Yellowstone – it's a fun hour guided boat tour of the lake and inexpensive. Horseback riding is also available in 3 locations: http://www.travelyellowstone.com/dates-of-operation-rates-1724.html#horseback
Bike rental is also available from Old Faithful Snow Lodge: http://www.travelyellowstone.com/Bicycle-Rentals-5498.html
Make reservations early! I started planning our trip more than a week ago, and most of the park lodging is sold out into August. We were lucky to arrange reservations for Xanterra's campgrounds: http://www.travelyellowstone.com/camping-250.html The National Park Service also operates several RV and Tent campgrounds in the Park, but these are not available for reservations, they are first come, etc. and typically fill up by 11am during peak season. There's always a mad rush to the next location in the morning, where everyone is driving around in madness trying to capture that night's campsite. Kind of a bummer when you get caught in that rush. Also, anticipate that you may be in a campground with hundreds of other campers – expect uneven tent sites, the possibility of nearby RV generators, loads of campfire smoke, people playing music and generally being annoying 🙂
Also, Checking In for whatever camping or lodging in the Park can be a real hassle – If you have the patience, wait until after dinner time to checkin to your room or reserved campsite – this way you'll avoid standing in long lines and driving yourself buggey.
If you're planning on seeing Old Faithful, my advice is to see it on a sunny morning, that way you'll get this gorgeous deep blue sky behind the geyser as it kisses the pretty sky. Just for snicks, here's the live Old Faithful Webcam: http://www.the-great-outdoors.net/yellowstonewebcams.htm Same idea with viewing the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in Canyon – you'll see this astounding waterfall with that same deepest blue backdrop and the water sparkling in the sun. Viewing Norris Geyser basin and Mammoth Hot Springs is perfect for sunset times if the weather has been warm, since both of these locations can be hot in the afternoons.
If you're staying at Lake Yellowstone, try to get up at dawn to see the sun rise over the Absaroka's, the last time I did this, I heard the call of the wolves in the distance mixed with loons on the lakeshore. The pretty pink clouds turned the Lake into a rosey glowing glass sea – it was one of the most magical moments of my life. The sunset over Mt. Sheridan and the Tetons can be just as captivating as you sit along the lakeshore.
Seeing bears: In my experience, it's easy to tell when it's a real "bear jam" when the traffic has stacked up in front of you. I noticed that people get out of their cars when it's a bear or a wolf, and they tend to stay in their cars when it's a bison, moose or elk. Best to bring your binoculars too – I worked in the Park for all those years and have only seen a bear twice – one black bear, one mother grizzley and cubs, both were amazing experiences.
Swimming: Most of Yellowstone's waters are just too frigid for swimming, but there are three river locations in the park that have waters that are warmed by thermal pools further upstream. The most popular is the Firehole River. You'll see this picnic road on the drive from Old Faithful to Madison. Moose Falls, is very near the South Entrance of the Park – I haven't been to this site, but it's well known among the employees. Up North of Mammoth Hot Springs is Boiling Springs, this is a small swimming area where you can take a dip and feel the thermal springs very near. If the summer is hot, you'll also see people swimming along Lake Yellowstone's shore, but this is relatively uncommon.
My best advice: Get yourself on a trail! There are many short hikes at all the locations in the Park. Stop at the closest visitor center and ask the ranger for some suggestions. Of the 3 million visitors that come to the Park, very few get their bodies out there and experience the best of Yellowstone's experience – the wild. Some of my favorite shorties: Elephant Back (high overview of the Lake), Grebe Lake, Shoshone Lake, Wraith Falls. They're discussed here: http://www.us.national-parks.net/hike.htm
Feel free to leave a comment or contact me if you'd like additional info, I'm happy to help if I can.


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Van's Doll Treasures primarily features Barbie and other fashion dolls her size. I make and sell 1/6 scale doll furniture for Barbie and Ken. The link to my Etsy shop is available on the right hand side. I prepare dioramas and videos that feature my doll families.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
After Church (Photostory)
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Carmelia is pretty lucky to be married to Emmitt Smith. :)ReplyDelete
I've been weaning myself off of pro football, but my eldest daughter got free tickets for a preseason game tomorrow night. Too bad David or Ron can't go with us. ;)Replies
Barb - I'm not even going to tell them you have tickets. Since this is my godson's first year in the NFL, I have to do a better job at keeping up. I missed his first preseason game and he made an interception. I spoke to him yesterday as he was headed to his next game. They play tonight. I have to remember to watch. Have fun at your game!Delete
Great story, Vanessa. :) So many families together.Delete
But why is Lisa's name Leslie again? Did you do it just to hear from me? lol
Dukasha - That is the only way I know you are still there. As soon as I saw your name, I said, "whose name did I mess up this time?" I will make the correction. I must have just been typing away, and it slipped. I was so happy to get another story up so quickly.ReplyDeleteReplies
Vanessa, I really love your stories and don't read them only to find your mistakes with the characters names. :) If English was my first language or at least if I knew it better and could type in English faster I would comment much more often. But be sure: I'm always here with you and your dolls. :) I know many doll collectors in Russia and Ukraine, some of them also love to buy different doll kids and make doll families, some of them are my good friends. But among all the people I know only you have so many AA doll kids 1:6 (who are always my favorite dolls among all the dolls in the world) and AA doll families and not only have, but also make great stories about them, so I'm just happy to be here and to see your photos and read stories. I have a big collection of AA doll kids and teens also and I think it would be interesting for you to see some of them, but I never have time to make photos. Or maybe I'm too lazy. Not good at all.Delete
I have missed your stories and pictures.Delete
Dukasha - I have come to rely on you to keep me honest with the names. If you remember, I started this blog strictly to keep up with the names of my dolls. The stories and everything else, were byproducts. I have been able to see a few of your dolls on Flickr some years ago. You have a very impressive AA kid and teen collection! Please continue to keep me on track with the doll names. I'm sure there are more mistakes lurking in my future.Delete
Denise - Thanks! I've missed doing the stories regularly. Hopefully I can get some type of regularity with the stories.Delete
Really good story ,im so glad you did this.ReplyDelete
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So lovely! I adore seeing all of your dolls and all of their different lives and conversations!ReplyDelete
It's nice everyone has something going on. They're all busy.ReplyDelete
Awesome photostory! It is so good to see Darius and Nikki, Leslie, Shantavia and all of the others that has not appeared in a while. I found myself trying to remember each of their story lines. Lol!ReplyDelete
This is a very well written and illustrated post, Vanessa. There was a lot of socializing going on at Beulah Baptist after the conclusion of services. I would have been Valencia back in the day as a teen, so ready to go home while my mother continued to hug and speak to all the folks she had seen the previous Sunday.ReplyDelete
With other teens, I had already done my socializing before church and sometimes quietly during services. So I would be so ready to go home and eat the dinner my daddy had prepared for us.
DBG - Thanks. It feels good to do stories again. Valencia is probably wishing they had gone to the early service. Much less socializing at that one. If there was an early service, I always opted for that one. Freed up the rest of my day.Delete
I can tell you enjoyed creating this post as well as part 1. BTW that yellow ensemble I wanted for Dasia has sold. I will get something else from you soon along with shoes and/or something Lammily.Delete
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Hola, qué bonita colección de muñecos tienes, de todas las tallas, este diorama es tan real. ¡Te felicito por tan bello trabajo! La ropa también es tan real que me transportan a ese evento.
Hasta pronto.
Hi Vanessa!ReplyDelete
Great story! I missed seeing all your characters. They seem to be as crazy busy as the residents of Moreville! LOL :-)
Vanessa, you do such a great job at photographing these encounters, one forgets these are dolls and not people! I love the diversity of your group! BTW...love Tina's little hairstyle!!!ReplyDelete
Boy, church was crowed! I good to see everyone enjoying each other company.ReplyDelete
I like going to your folks' church. Not a whole lot of malice going on ;-)ReplyDelete
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Shares of bakery operator Crumbs Bake Shop (CRMB) shot higher after the chain announced it had made a deal with Starbucks (SBUX) to serve the Seattle chain's coffee in its bakeries. The deal, announced after the market closed, caused Crumbs shares to jump 20% to $2.46. Starbucks was also up 1%.
Given the size of Crumbs' move, investors may be speculating that the company's new relationship with Starbucks could lead to its products being sold at Starbucks outlets (Crumbs itself has only about 50 outlets). Starbucks has shown an increased appetite for carbs as it attempts to expand its food offerings -- the company agreed to buy bakery chain La Boulange earlier this year.


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About Us
Girls Gone Wilder is a blog featuring love letters to, life lessons from, and acerbic observations on the Little House on the Prairie books and TV, circa 1981.
Our main focus is the show reviews Anne wrote after watching Little House episodes when she looked like this:
(Anne at 11)
Anne Laker programs cultural events at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, doesn't have a cell phone, and was a hobo in previous life.
She has owned several sunbonnets.
(Tracy at 11)
Tracy Ball is an advertising copywriter who lives in Portland, Oregon. She proudly embraces her love of vintage motorscooters and midcentury design. You can visit her professional site at tracyrball.com and her other hobby blog at scooterswag.com.
She has never owned a sunbonnet.
The authors as they are today. The painting is "Landscape with Covered Wagon" by Asher Brown Durand (1847) at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.


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A Tree-Climbing Gun Dog Gets the Job Done Every Time
This tree climbing gun dog goes above and beyond the call of duty to recover this ring-necked pheasant.
If you want to see dedication in a retriever watch this tree climbing gun dog refuse to give up on this shot ring-necked pheasant.
Now that dog is what you call 'Bird' with a don't-quit attitude to get the game-bird and return it to its master. This is exactly the kind of qualities every hunter looks for in a gun dog; and once you find a line of hunters like this you are on to something special.
Waterfowl hunters and upland hunters all have that one story of complete dedication and drive from one of their favorite retrievers while in the field or marsh. It is incidents like these that add something special to an outing with your best hunting buddy.
For more great gun dog hunting check out Cabela's Sporting Dog Adventures and see incredible retrievers doing what they do best in field and water.
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