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Trout fishing Tasmania – South Esk River map
A quick note for Tasmanian fly fishers one and all, I've just added the 5th map in our series of fly fishing maps, this time covering the South Esk River. Whilst most of the locations are quite public and well visted, each one of them provides good fishing on the right day. Have fun!


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Dear Guardians,
I will be giving the Annual State of the School Report on Monday November 19th in the gym at 7:15p.m. There will be Parish Religious Instructions that evening but they begin at 7:00p.m. so there should not be a parking problem if you plan on attending.
Thank you
Mrs. Janet Curry

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Editor's note: This article was co-authored by Chris Micheli and Michael Daft. This article was originally self-published by the authors and has been republished on IVN with their consent.
California voters on November 8 approved Prop. 64, which is an initiative statute that legalizes marijuana and hemp under state law, with specified limitations. The ballot measure designates state agencies to license and regulate the recreational marijuana industry and it imposes a state excise tax on retail sales of marijuana equal to 15% of the sales price, as well as state cultivation taxes on marijuana of $9.25 per ounce of flowers and $2.75 per ounce of leaves.
In addition, Prop. 64 exempts medical marijuana from some taxation and establishes packaging, labeling, advertising, and marketing standards and restrictions for marijuana products. The ballot measure allows local regulation and taxation of marijuana. Additionally, Prop. 64 prohibits marketing and advertising marijuana to minors and it authorizes resentencing and destruction of records for prior marijuana convictions under specified circumstances.
According to the fiscal estimate prepared by the Legislative Analyst Office and Director of Finance, the enactment of Prop. 64 will result in "net reduced costs ranging from tens of millions of dollars to potentially exceeding $100 million annually to state and local governments related to enforcing certain marijuana-related offenses, handling the related criminal cases in the court system, and incarcerating and supervising certain marijuana offenders.
"Net additional state and local tax revenues potentially ranging from the high hundreds of millions of dollars to over $1 billion annually related to the production and sale of marijuana. Most of these funds would be required to be spent for specific purposes such as substance use disorder education, prevention, and treatment."
According to the official ballot arguments, a YES vote on this measure meant: "Adults 21 years of age or older could legally grow, possess and use marijuana for nonmedical purposes, with certain restrictions. The state would regulate nonmedical marijuana businesses and tax the growing and selling of medical and nonmedical marijuana. Most of the revenue from such taxes would support youth programs, environmental protection, and law enforcement.
"Prop. 64 creates a safe, legal system for adult use of marijuana. It controls, regulates and taxes marijuana use, and has the nation's strictest protections for children. It provides billions for after school programs, job training, drug treatment, and cracking down on impaired driving. Fix our approach to marijuana."
A NO vote on this measure meant: "Growing, possessing or using marijuana for nonmedical purposes would remain illegal. It would still be legal to grow, possess or use marijuana for medical purposes.
"Proposition 64 purposely omits a DUI standard to keep marijuana–impaired drivers off our highways. California Association of Highway Patrolmen and Senator Dianne Feinstein strenuously oppose. Legalizes ads promoting smoking marijuana, Gummy candy and brownies on shows watched by millions of children and teens. Shows reckless disregard for child health and safety."
According to a summary prepared by the independent Legislative Analyst Office (LAO), marijuana is generally illegal under existing state law – either to possess it or use it. In 1996, voters approved Proposition 215, which made it legal under state law for individuals of any age to use marijuana in California for certain medical purposes. Individuals must have a recommendation from a doctor to use medical marijuana.
In 2003, the Legislature legalized medical marijuana collectives, which are nonprofit organizations that grow and provide marijuana to their members. As a result of 2015 legislation passed by the Legislature, the state is currently adopting new medical cannabis regulations. Local governments will continue to have the ability to regulate where and how medical marijuana businesses operate in this state.
The LAO notes that, under federal law, it is illegal to possess or use marijuana, including for medical use. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that federal agencies could continue under federal law to prosecute individuals who possess or use marijuana for medical purposes even if legal under a state's law.
Currently, however, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) chooses not to prosecute most marijuana users and businesses that follow state and local marijuana laws if those laws are consistent with federal priorities. These priorities include preventing minors from using marijuana and preventing marijuana from being taken to other states. More than half a dozen requirements must be met under the DOJ's Cole Memo.
In addition to California, voters in Nevada, Maine and Massachusetts also passed ballot measures to legalize recreational use of marijuana. Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska currently allow its limited use. Medical marijuana was also on the ballot in four states this year where it passed in all four states.
Due to the voters' enactment of Prop. 64, California now (1) legalizes adult nonmedical use of marijuana, (2) creates a system for regulating nonmedical marijuana businesses, (3) imposes taxes on marijuana, and (4) changes penalties for marijuana-related crimes.
Specifically, Prop. 64 changes state law to legalize the use of marijuana for nonmedical purposes by adults age 21 and over. As a result, adults age 21 and over will be able to purchase marijuana at state-licensed businesses or through their delivery services (effective January 1, 2018). Businesses can generally not be located within 600 feet of a school, day care center, or youth center, unless allowed by a local government. Proponents claim that marijuana will have limited access and that these are the strongest protections for youth of any other states' measures.
In addition, Prop. 64 changes the name of the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation to the Bureau of Marijuana Control and makes the Bureau responsible for regulating and licensing nonmedical marijuana businesses (it is obviously already handling the regulation of medical cannabis in this state). In addition, the ballot measure requires other state agencies to regulate and license different parts of the nonmedical marijuana industry (including Department of Food & Agriculture and the Department of Public Health). These state agencies will have responsibilities similar to the ones they currently have for medical marijuana.
Under the ballot measure, cities and counties can regulate nonmedical marijuana businesses. For example, cities and counties can require nonmedical marijuana businesses to obtain local licenses and restrict where they could be located. Cities and counties can also completely ban marijuana-related businesses. However, they cannot ban the transportation of marijuana through their jurisdictions.
The ballot measure imposes new state taxes on growing and selling both medical and nonmedical marijuana. The new tax on growing marijuana will be based on a dollar amount per ounce of marijuana, and the new excise tax will be based on the retail price of marijuana products sold.
The measure will also affect sales tax revenue to the state and local governments. While the fiscal impact of Prop. 64 could be large, taxation (like licensing) will not begin until January 1, 2018.
After initial spending, revenues will be allocated as follows:
- 60 percent for youth programs—including substance use disorder education, prevention, and treatment.
- 20 percent to clean up and prevent environmental damage resulting from the illegal growing of marijuana.
- 20 percent for (1) programs designed to reduce driving under the influence of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs and (2) a grant program designed to reduce any potential negative impacts on public health or safety resulting from the measure.
In addition, Prop. 64 imposes packaging and labeling requirements so that all marijuana sales will include a standard warning label. Labels on edibles will have to include safe portion sizes and warning about allergies. These cannot be targeted towards children and packages must be child-proof. While Prop. 64 allows for the advertisement of marijuana-related products, it cannot be targeted toward children.
Prop. 64 also changes state marijuana penalties. And, under the ballot measure, individuals serving sentences for activities that are made legal or are subject to lesser penalties under the measure will be eligible for resentencing. And law enforcement can no longer use the smell of marijuana or the presence of paraphernalia as a basis for broad searches and seizures.
Despite the enactment of Prop. 64, employers in California can still maintain a drug-free workplace. As such, employers will still be able to enforce workplace rules against the use of marijuana. Note that this provision was not contained in the prior legalization ballot measures, which caused the California Chamber of Commerce, among other business groups, to oppose those previous measures. So employer policies that relate to drug possession, use, testing and impairment are not impacted by the voters' adoption of Prop. 64.
According to the proponents, "Proposition 64 finally creates a safe, legal, and comprehensive system for adult use of marijuana while our children. Marijuana is available nearly everywhere in California—but without any protections for children, without assurances of product safety, and without generating tax revenue for the state.
"Prop. 64 controls, regulates and taxes adult use of marijuana, and ends California's criminalization of responsible adult use. How Prop. 64 Works:
- Under this law, adults 21+ will be allowed to possess small amounts of nonmedical marijuana, and to grow small amounts at home for personal use. Sale of nonmedical marijuana will be legal only at highly regulated, licensed marijuana businesses, and only adults 21+ will be permitted to enter. Bars will not sell marijuana, nor will liquor stores or grocery stores."
"Child Protections:
- Drug dealers don't ask for proof of age and today can sell marijuana laced with dangerous drugs and chemicals. 64 includes toughest-in-the-nation protections for children, requiring purchasers to be 21, banning advertising directed to children, and requiring clear labeling and independent product testing to ensure safety. 64 prohibits marijuana businesses next to schools."
On the other hand, opponents of Prop. 64 argued the following: "Flaw #1: Doubling of highway fatalities. Flaw #2: Allows marijuana growing near schools and parks. Flaw #3: Will increase, not decrease black market and drug cartel activity. Flaw #4: Could roll back the total prohibition of smoking ads on TV. Flaw #5: Proposition 64 is an all-out assault on underprivileged neighborhoods already reeling from alcohol and drug addiction problems."
Prop. 64 as a practical matter allows adults aged 21 or older to buy, possess or transport small amounts of marijuana for personal use. They can also cultivate up to six plants as long as it is not visible to the public. They cannot sell it. The ballot measure also provides extensive state licensing schemes based upon the work currently being done by a number of state agencies that are charged with implementing the medical cannabis laws. The ballot measure establishes standards for marijuana products and it allows local government to regulate and tax marijuana.
Major concerns from opponents of marijuana legalization have focused on the advertising restrictions and whether enough will be done to protect children; the failure to include a DUI standard (Prop. 64 provides funding to the California Highway Patrol to undertake the determination of this standard); and whether so called "on-demand delivery" will be permitted (which the proponents claim is prohibited).
Keep in mind that, despite the enactment by the state's voters of Prop. 64, marijuana remains illegal under federal law because it continues to be classified as a Schedule I substance under the federal Controlled Substances Act. Both federal and state laws require government contractors to maintain drug-free workplaces.
As a result of the enactment of Prop. 64, state agencies will be tasked with creating a regulatory program for both medical and recreational cannabis usage in this state. Local jurisdictions will have to decide whether they want marijuana-related activities to be sanctioned within their jurisdictions considering the societal and revenue impacts of the products. And the state may be looking at $1 billion annually in new state revenues as a result of Prop. 64.
The following is a summary of the key provisions of Prop. 64:
Regulatory Framework
- Enacts the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act).
- Legalizes marijuana for those over 21 years old, protects children and establishes laws to regulate marijuana cultivation, distribution, sale, and use, and protects Californians and the environment from potential dangers.
- Changes the name of the "Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation" established in Section 19302 in Chapter 3.5 of Division 8 to the "Bureau of Marijuana Control" housed in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
- Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation will license medical marijuana distributors, transporters, testing facilities, and retailers.
- Department of Food and Agriculture will license and regulate medical marijuana growers.
- Department of Public Health will license and regulate producers of edible marijuana products.
- State Water Resources Control Board will regulate the environmental impacts of marijuana growing on water quality.
- Department of Fish and Wildlife will regulate environmental impacts of marijuana growing.
- Department of Pesticide Regulation will regulate pesticide use for growing marijuana.
- Imposes new state tax on growing, both medical and nonmedical, at $9.25 per ounce of dried marijuana flowers and $2.75 per ounce of dried marijuana leaves.
- Imposes new state retail excise tax, both medical and nonmedical, at 15% of retail price.
- Existing state and local sales tax affects nonmedical marijuana only at current tax rates.
- Existing and future local taxes apply to both medical and nonmedical marijuana and be subject to local government decisions.
Personal Use/Possession
- A person 21 years of age or older can legally process, possess, purchase, obtain, or give away marijuana for personal use as described.
- Any marijuana or marijuana products are not deemed contraband, as long as they conform to the personal use exemptions, and cannot be subject to search or seizure.
Medical Use
- Must possess a physician's recommendation and, beginning January 1, 2018, all identification cards issued need to be supported by a physician's recommendation.
- Prop 64 does not alter Prop 215.
- Physician recommendations must conform to MMRSA standards and current medical marijuana legislation.
Advisory Committee
- Bureau will convene an advisory committee formed from representatives from the marijuana industry, labor organizations, state and local agencies, public health experts, and subject matter experts, including the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
- Advisory committee will publish an annual public report beginning January 1, 2019.
- Licensing authority can suspend or revoke a license after proper notice and hearing and inform the bureau.
- Local governments can restrict or prohibit any type of business licensed under the act.
- However, they could lose grant funding if they prohibit retail sales or cultivation, including outdoor personal use cultivation.
- All licensees must be California residents as of January 1, 2015, with a sunset clause of December 31, 2019.
- A person over 21 years of age can cultivate up to six plants and possess the marijuana at their personal residence for personal use.
- No more than 6 plants per residence, but does not apply to medical users who can have up to 100 ft2 of growing space, per MMRSA.
- All plants and harvested marijuana in excess of one ounce must be (1) kept at the person's private residence, (2) in a locked space, and (3) not visible from a public place.
- Violations of (1) or (3) above are punishable as infractions with a maximum $250 fine.
- Cities and counties can restrict personal use cultivation, but may not completely prohibit cultivation inside a private residence.
- Cultivators must comply with conditions set by Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and State Water Resources Control Board for environmental laws.
- California to establish an organic certification program and standards for recognizing regional appellations of origin.
The Dept. of Food and Agriculture will regulate marijuana as an agricultural product.
- Consumption is legal to smoke or ingest marijuana except in any public place, besides a licensed dispensary when authorized.
- Violations of this are subject to a $100 infraction.
Smoking Restrictions
- Smoking is prohibited except in specified tobacco smoking areas.
- "Smoking" includes use of an electronic smoking device, vaporizer, or any other device used for the purpose of circumventing the prohibition of smoking in a public place.
Use in Vehicles
- Consumption or possession of an open container of marijuana or marijuana products is prohibited while driving or riding as a passenger in a motor vehicle.
- Consumption in the passenger compartment of vehicles specially licensed for on-site consumption is permitted.
Driving with marijuana is legal up to one ounce for personal use.
School Grounds
- Consumption is forbidden within 1,000 feet of a school or youth center while children are present, except on residential property.
- Possession or use on school grounds, youth center, or day care center is banned while children are present.
No licensee shall be located within 600 ft of a school or youth center, unless a state or local licensing authority allows.
- Unlicensed manufacturing using volatile or poisonous solvents are subject to heavy felony penalties.
Employment Rights
- Prop 64 does not interfere with employer rights to discriminate against marijuana users, medical or otherwise, both on and off the job.
ID Cards
- Patients who obtain ID cards are exempted from the 7.5+% sales tax currently imposed on marijuana sales.
- Identifying information in the ID cards is subject to the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act.
- The cost of the state patient ID card is limited to $100, or $50 for Medi-Cal patients.
Child Custody
- Qualified patients may not be denied child custody rights merely because of their status as medical marijuana users.
Large Cultivators
- New category Type 5 cultivation licenses will begin being issued on January 1, 2023 for farms over the MMRSA limit of ½ acre indoors and 1 acre outdoors.
- New category Type 12 microbusiness licenses are established for small retailers with farms not exceeding 10,000 ft2.
Vertical Integration
- Prop 64 does not prohibit vertical integration of licenses and does not prohibit direct farm-to-consumer sales.
- A licensee may hold any combination of licenses, with the exception of Type 5 large cultivators, who may not hold distribution or testing licenses.
- Unlike MMRSA, Prop 64 does not prohibit licensed distributors (Type 11) from obtaining other kinds of licenses, except for large scale Type 5 cultivation licenses.
License Conditions
- Licenses may be denied based on competition or monopoly power, perpetuation of the illegal market, encouraging abuse or diversion, posing a risk of exposure to minors, environmental violations, or excessive concentration in any city or county.
- No marijuana licensee can also hold a tobacco or alcohol license.
Bureau must investigate the feasibility of creating nonprofit license categories with reduced fees or taxes by Jan 1, 2018.
- Licensees are barred from price fixing, restraint of trade, price discrimination between different locations, and selling at less than cost to undercut competitors.
Adult Use Facilities
- Licenses for Adult Use Facilities are distinct from those for medical facilities issued under MMRSA.
Existing Operators
- Licensing priority will be given to applicants who show they have acted in compliance with Prop 215 since September 1, 2016.
- Bureau will establish standards for types of vehicles and qualifications for drivers eligible to transport commercial marijuana.
- Local government cannot prevent delivery of marijuana on public roads by licensees in compliance with the Act.
- No separate license category for transportation between licensees, as defined in MMRSA.
- Prop 64 prescribes specific label warnings on every package of marijuana and marijuana products.
- There is separate warning language for marijuana and marijuana products, specifically to point out the delay of effects in marijuana products.
- Marijuana products cannot be designed to be appealing to children or easily confused with commercially sold candy or foods that do not contain marijuana.
- Minors can be used by law enforcement as peace officers to try and entrap marijuana dealers.
- Misleading claims and marketing to minors are banned, and no billboards along highways, use of cartoon characters, language, or music known to appeal to kids can be used.
Additional Taxation
- All retail sales, medical and non-medical, are subject to a 15% excise tax in addition to the regular state sales tax, effective January 1, 2018.
- All marijuana is subject to a cultivation tax of $9.25 per ounce of dry-weight for flowers of $2.75 for leaves, effective January 1, 2018.
- Patients with state ID cards are exempt from the current 7.5+% sales tax, effective immediately, but not from the excise or cultivation taxes.
- Cities and counties can impose their own additional business taxes on facilities that are cultivating, manufacturing, processing, selling, distributing, providing, storing, or donating marijuana.
Distribution of Funds
Tax revenues allocated to the new California Marijuana Tax Fund will go to:
- Reasonable enforcement costs of the Bureau and other regulatory agencies not compensated by other fees.
- $10 million per year from 2018 thru 2028 for CA public universities to study and evaluate the implementation of Prop 64.
- $3 million per year from 2018 thru 2028 for the CA Highway Patrol to establish protocols to determine whether drivers are impaired.
- $10 million per year beginning in 2018, increasing by $10 million per year to $50 million per year in 2022-2023 for the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development for a community reinvestment program, 50% for grants to nonprofits.
- $2 million per year to the CA Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research for research on the efficacy and safety of medical marijuana.
The remaining funds leftover will be distributed the following ways:
- 60% allocated to a Youth Education, Prevention, Early Intervention, and Treatment Account for youth programs to prevent drug abuse.
- 20% for Environmental Restoration and Protection Account for cleanup and restoration projects.
- 20% to a State and Local Law Enforcement Account for CHP DUI programs and grants for local governments relating to enforcement of Prop 64.
Criminal Penalties
- Illegal possession of an ounce by people between 18-21 years old will be a $100 infraction.
- Illegal possession of more than an ounce by adults is a misdemeanor, punishable by a $500 fine and/or six months in jail.
- Possession of less than an ounce on a school ground during school hours is a misdemeanor, punishable by a $250 fine, or $500 plus 10 days in jail for a repeat offense.
- Illegal cultivation of 6 plants or fewer by people between 18-21 years old is a $100 infraction.
- Illegal cultivation of more than 6 plants by an adult is a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine and/or 6 months in jail.
- Felonies may be charged in the case of repeat offenders, or people with violent or serious prior convictions.
Possession for Sale:
- Penalties are dropped from felonies to misdemeanors, but allow for felony enhancements for repeat offenders, those with violent or serious prior convictions, or sale to minors.
Penalties are dropped from felonies to misdemeanors, but allowed for felony enhancements for importing, exporting, or transporting for sale more than 1 ounce of marijuana or 4 grams of concentrated marijuana.
Those previously convicted of offenses that would not be a crime, or would carry a lesser penalty, with Prop 64 may petition the court for a recall or dismissal of their sentence.
Chris Micheli is an attorney and legislative advocate with the Sacramento governmental relations firm of Aprea & Micheli. Michael Daft is a lobbyist at Aprea & Micheli, Inc. They can be reached at (916) 448-3075.
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An Interlochen Arts Academy alumnus and regional representative of the Dramatists Guild of America, Dewey has written and produced many plays, including the manic 60 second play Lovers' Quorum, a romp with the classics in Ganymede, the true story of an abdicating Gasparilla Queen, science fiction horror stories The Manatee's Tale of Extinction and The Tocobaga Bargain as well as the epic science-fiction radio series Cosmic Significance 2012 and Cosmic Significance Atlantis on WMNF. He has also directed radio theater recorded before a live audience for the Radio Theater Project at the The Studio@620 including Eugene O'Neill's Before Breakfast. Dewey is currently developing the musical Sunshine City with Tom Sivak and the comedy 3 Gay Guys with dramaturg Trevor Keller.
Here is the radio play Cosmic Significance: Atlantis
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Create Scratch Refine Repeat (2016) at Morley College
Black Dog Gold Fish at The Hen and Chickens
The Patriotic Traitor at Park Theatre
Happiness is a Cup of Tea at Vault Festival
Blood Brothers at the Churchill Theatre
Re:Home at The Yard Theatre
Botallack O'Clock at The Old Red Lion Theatre
Legally Blonde at Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Staying Alive by Blackshaw Theatre, at The Pleasance
Anita and Me at Theatre Royal Stratford East
Rotterdam at Theatre503
The Forbidden by Doll's Eye Theatre, at Canvas Cafe
Universally Speaking by Jaybird Production Company, at the Bread and Roses
Eventide by Up In Arms Theatre, at Arcola Theatre
The Christians at Gate Theatre
Madama Butterfly, part of Grimeborn Opera Festival at Arcola Theatre
Consolation by Théâtre Volière, at Bridewell Theatre
The Backward Fall by Penny Productions, at the Hen and Chickens
A Fine Line by Ronnie Dorsey, at New Diorama
To She or Not To She by Joue le Genre, at Morley College
American Idiot at Arts Theatre
Impossible at Noel Coward Theatre
The Gathered Leaves at Park Theatre
Shakespeare's R&J by Chapel Lane Theatre Company, at Tabard Theatre
Cinderella by Dutch National Ballet at the Coliseum
Modern Romance by Blue Song Theatre, at Southwark Playhouse
Until You Hear That Bell by Sean Mahoney, at Battersea Arts Centre
Bend it like Beckham at Phoenix Theatre
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An understanding of current irrigation systems, what is involved and how they work is essential if you plan to install or upgrade a system. Just as important is that you can save money by increasing productivity and efficiency of your irrigation system if you can improve the performance of the pump. This publication covers selecting the irrigation system that is best for your enterprise. It will also help you to select, operate and maintain your pumping equipment.
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I just wanted to share pics of my newly decorated craft room. I am starting with the closet that I utilized as storage space. This is a very small space and using the closet really gave me the extra space that I needed. I found this little storage unit at a garage sale and it works perfectly in the closet. The top shelf holds my stamps. The second shelf holds my stamp pads. The plastic containers have my 8 1/2 x 11 patterned paper. The bottom drawers hold my stickers and misc tools. The first picture is my antique picnic baskets that I use to hold my tole painting books and patterns. I luv using unexpected things for storage.
The shelving unit is one I used when I had my store. Works perfectly for tons of storage. I painted the desk, the shelving unit, the walls and spray painted the wicker baskets. I went with an aqua color and brown. In the corner is a bakers rack I purchased when I had my store. I didn't get rid of it thinking one day I would use it and I was right. It holds my printer, cricut cartridges, 12×12 card stock and my favorite craft tool, my cricut. I would like to have a rug in here someday. I'm keeping my eyes open for just the right one at a decent price. I also need to make some cute things for the walls but not sure what I want.
This is underneath my table. I keep my 8 1/2 x 11 card stock and scraps in this. All my scrap card stock is filed by color and makes it so simple to just go right to that file if I need a piece of a certain color. The file system to the right is my patterned paper pads.
This is a shot of my table and shelving storage area. The table was a throw away at a local business and it works perfectly for my room. The top was, lets say, less than pretty, so I bought contact paper and with the help of my DH, got it looking pretty awesome. I luuuv this table, gives me plenty of space to scrapbook. My sewing machine doesn't normally sit there but I happened to be using it today. I sewed up a piece of fabric for the end of the table and hung it with a tension rod. Hides the end of the table when you are looking in there from the living room. If you look to the right, I have curtain rods hung on the wall to hold my punches. Now that I am looking at it, I wish I would have hung the shelves a little higher and hung the punches underneath. Probably would have been easier to get to the punches.
This is my shelving which we purchased from Home Depot. My DH helped me hang it (actually I didn't do much but supervise hehehehe). He did a wonderful job. I luuuv it. Top shelf is for family photos. Second shelf I have my ribbon storage and my flowers are in the ball canning jars.
Third shelf is misc. stuff. The storage container on the right is a nuts and bolts storage container that I purchased at Wal Mart in the tool department, which I keep the buttons all separated by color.
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Stameen House is the original name of the period house that now houses the Boyne Valley Hotel Drogheda. It was built in 1845 in a field called "40 Acres" which gives you a sense of how undeveloped the surrounding areas were. The first owner, John McGrane was a master weaver in the local linen industry in Drogheda.
Following the death of John McGrane, there followed a period of nearly 100 years when Stameen House was owned by the Cairnes family. The House was purchased by renowned business man William Cairnes. Originally from County Tyrone, Cairnes had purchased Tandy's Brewery which was located about 2 miles from Stameen House. The house passed from William Cairnes to his son Thomas Plunkett Cairnes in the late 1860's. He continued in the tradition of trade and manufacturing with interests in Brewing and Railways and his philanthropic pursuits saw him build a wing onto the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin and found the Cairnes Housing Trust in Drogheda. He passed away in 1893.
His son William Plunkett Cairnes took ownership of Stameen House and was a director of the Great North Railway. In turn, his son William Algan Cairnes took his turn to own Stameen House and resided there when not in service with the Indian Army. Stameen House was in private family ownership throughout this period and above the main staircase you can still see the motto of the Cairnes family "Effloresco" (Burst out into flower).
Stameen House passed out of the ownership of the Cairnes family when William Algan Cairnes died in 1961. The subsequent owners, the Larkin Family opened this elegant period house as a hotel and named it Stameen House Hotel. It was later bought by Swiss hotelier Willi Widmer who changed the name of the hotel to its' present name The Boyne Valley Hotel. Over the course of his time as owner Widmer added additional 18 rooms, a modern reception and an executive Boardroom.
The Boyne Valley hotel in Louth is now a name long established with the Irish Hospitality industry. Over the years many wonderful additions have been added including the award-winning Boyne Valley Country club with swimming pool, gym and tennis courts. The extension in 2003 of 34 additional bedrooms, a bridal suite and meeting rooms.
This historic house has welcomed many visitors over the years and seen many happy occasions. This Drogheda hotel is managed by a team of hospitality professionals who pride themselves in delivering a warm friendly welcome in this heritage property. Our team hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you to the Boyne Valley Hotel Drogheda.


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>I woke up this morning thinking it was much later than it was, since the sun was shining! It's a beautiful fall day! I took this picture around 7:30 a.m. I love seeing the clouds hanging in the trees with the mountains in the background. Who wouldn't love to be up here viewing this every morning?
September 23, 2009
September 21, 2009
>Rain, rain go away!
It has been raining here in Western North Carolina for almost two weeks, off and on, and now continuously for two days. See the rain in the first picture? Every time I think it is going to let up it starts pouring again! In the picture of the front lawn and Christmas trees, you can see the fog – sometimes it is so thick I can't even see the Christmas trees. The poor dogs are going stir crazy and Cody will hardly go out to pee!
September 20, 2009
>Pumpkin Kid!
Today I worked on a swap I joined at a site called Art42. You were to make a pumpkin kid ATC. I found the sparkly foam pumpkins at Michael's and I had a collage sheet of vintage kids. I thought she came out very cute!
September 19, 2009
>Handmade Book
I made this book at Keeton's at a class with Joey Long. We used a dremel to drill the holes in the spine and sewed the book together. It was very informative and fun, but I'm not sure I could do it again without Joey!
September 15, 2009
>Red Lead Swap
I joined the latest swap at Red Lead Paperworks, which is entitled "Which Red Lead Image are YOU?" You have to use a Red Lead collage sheet or rubber stamp and add your childhood picture to the image. I decided to be a butterfly girl!


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Cats, Casseroles and Controversy On Radio National
On Friday 19 May, 2017, I popped in to Radio National Drive for the 'My Feed' segment. I spoke to host Jonathan Green (filling in for Patricia Karvelas) about three topics of interest on my social media feed that week: the Twitter account Is A Cat In The Sink; how Benjamin Law's journey into culinary whiteness provoked questions about the difference between a stew and a casserole; and Alex Tizon's controversial, posthumous essay for The Atlantic, 'My Family's Slave'.
Listen to the segment here.


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* Mexico exit polls point to clear win for leftist Obrador
* China shares ease, markets count down to tariff deadline
* Euro wobbles on threat to German/EU immigration deal
* Oil off as Trump says Saudis ready to expand supply
By Wayne Cole
SYDNEY, July 2 (Reuters) - Asian share markets were burdened by fresh losses in China on Monday, while Mexico's peso firmed as exit polls pointed to a decisive victory for presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's party.
Dealers said the clear win would at least settle one source of political uncertainty. Yet leftist Obrador is also expected to inject a dose of nationalism into government and sharpen divisions with U.S. President Donald Trump.
The dollar was down 0.7 percent at 19.7686 pesos, not far from last week's trough around 19.5580.
Trump also loomed large in oil markets with crude taking a spill after he tweeted that Saudi Arabia had agreed to lift oil production by "maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels". The missive was later downplayed by the White House and Saudi Press Agency.
Brent crude lost $1.06 to $78.71 a barrel, while U.S. crude fell 94 cents to $73.21. The pullback was modest given U.S. crude rallied more than 8 percent last week, while Brent gained more than 5 percent.
In equity markets, Shanghai blue chips resumed their slide with a fall of 1.3 percent and soured sentiment in the region. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped 0.16 percent, having shed 2 percent last week.
Japan's Nikkei dropped 0.5 percent, with a survey of manufacturers showing sentiment had darkened a shade in the face of trade war threats.
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) still edged higher for June, though exports orders softened.
Tension is growing ahead of a July 6 deadline when the U.S. is due to impose US$34 billion of tariffs on Chinese exports.
"The key risk for the market isn't that Trump actually implements his trade threats but rather that a protracted period of trade uncertainty begins to weigh on economic activity," said analysts at JPMorgan in a note.
"The evidence suggesting this is happening is far from conclusive, but ominous data points are accumulating."
Two surveys of Chinese manufacturing out in the last few days showed a slight pullback in activity, partly due to softness in exports.
A slew of factory readings from across the globe are due on Monday, while the U.S. ISM report is out on Tuesday. Minutes of the last Federal Reserve policy meeting come on Thursday and the week closes with U.S. payrolls for June.
In currency markets, the euro took an early knock on reports German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer had rejected a migration deal German Chancellor Angela Merkel negotiated at a European Union summit on Friday.
The currency then bounced on news Seehofer had offered to step down as minister and as chair of his Christian Social Union (CSU) party.
The move makes the future of Merkel's government even more uncertain as her Christian Democrats party (CDU) relies on the CSU to maintain power through a coalition formed three months ago to end a political vacuum.
After all that, the euro was 0.2 percent easier at $0.1662 , having skidded as far as $1.1632 at one stage.
The U.S. dollar was a touch firmer on a basket of currencies at 94.720, having recoiled from a 95.324 top on Friday. It added 0.3 percent on the yen to 110.97 and was again testing stiff resistance above 111.00.
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Chocolate. Cream cheese. Bacon. Oh my!
I'm on a quest and I'm bacon obsessed.
Two weeks ago I bought three 3-pound packages of bacon on sale, less than $8 a package for what would normally cost almost $12. Nine pounds of delicious thick-sliced, hickory smoked bacon. Once I got them home, I divided each package into three 1-pound packages, vacuumed sealed them (love my Foodsaver!) and tossed them in the freezer.
Okay, Terri, I thought. Now what are you going to do with all of that bacon, besides making bacon and eggs?
Soups? Stews? Cupcakes? Yes, cupcakes. I saw the recipe over at Endless Simmer, pulled one of the those 1-pound packages of bacon out of the freezer and off I went......with just a few little changes.
I didn't have Dutch process cocoa powder for the cupcakes, just a box of Hershey's Cocoa Powder. It would have to do. And I didn't have any sour cream on hand, so I used Greek yogurt instead. It worked fine.
When it came to making the frosting, I was just as ill-prepared. I only had a package of low-fat cream cheese, so that's what I used. And I know when a recipe calls for "maple syrup," it means real maple syrup, not the cheapy stuff, but all I had was the cheapy stuff. In hindsight, I wish I would have used a touch of maple extract for a more pronounced maple flavor.
I liked the streusel, but I think next time I make these I'm going to decrease the almonds to 1/4 cup and increase the bacon by 2 slices. I just loves me some bacon.
I tried sprinkling the streusel on top of the frosted cupcake, but it didn't adhere as well as I liked. So, instead, I poured the streusel on to a plate and dipped the frosted cupcake into the streusel. Way better. A good amount of streusel stuck to the frosting, which is what I was looking for.
Although I'd make the same substitutions to the recipe, these were yummy. The cupcakes were tender with a nice chocolatey flavor and the spicy bacon streusel was the perfect contrast to the creamy sweet frosting.
Chocolate Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting & Bacon Streusel
Adapted from Endless Simmer
For the Cupcakes:
- 1 cup sour cream (I substituted Greek yogurt)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup Dutch process cocoa powder
- 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs, plus 2 egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
In a small bowl, mix the sour cream (or Greek yogurt) and baking soda together and set aside.
In another small bowl, sift together the flour and cocoa powder and set aside.
In a medium sized bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar together until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add the salt to the butter/sugar mixture and beat until combined. Add in the 2 whole eggs and beat until well combined. Finally, add in the egg yolks and vanilla and beat until well combined.
Set the mixer aside and use a rubber spatula to begin gently folding in the sour cream mixture and flour mixture, alternating each mixture a third at a time, with each addition folding until just combined. Put paper cupcake liners in your cupcake pans and fill them two-thirds full. Bake in preheated oven for 20 - 25 minutes.
Allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
Makes 18 cupcakes.
For the Frosting:
- 1 - 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened (I used low-fat)
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 tablespoons maple syrup (I would also add 1/4 teaspoon of maple extract or flavoring)
For the Bacon Streusel
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cups slivered almonds
- 8 pieces of thick-sliced bacon (cooked, cooled and broken into pieces)


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Sale includes Dick Guldstrand's 1967 red Coup and the 1988 GS-80 No 9 Corvette
Price: US $365,000.00
- Location: Upland, California, United States
- Condition: Used
- Make: Chevrolet
- Model: Corvette
- Type: Coup
- Year: 1967
- Mileage: 50,894
- Color: Red
- Engine size: 327
- Number of cylinders: 8
- Power options: Power Windows
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: 2-speed
- Drive type: Automatic
- Interior color: Tuxedo
- Vehicle Title: Clear
- Options: Cassette Player, Leather Seats
1967 Chevrolet Corvette description
|This sale includes TWO Corvettes owned and operated by the legendary Dick Guldstrand:
The coup was Dick's personal driver. It is in excellent condition. The odometer shows slightly over 50,000 miles. It drives and performs perfectly, and has no issues. It is a true piece of automotive history that was owned by the man known as Mr. Corvette in the Corvette world. It comes complete with the original title as it was registered to Dick and his personal plate G DICK.
The price includes Dick's personal No. 9 1988 GS80 from his private collection where it remained since its retirement from racing. The car was specially built for Bridgestone to high-speed test its tires at the Talladega International Raceway, where it reached a top speed of 180 mph and set a closed-course speed record of over 176 mph that held for years. This is the very car that salvaged the Corvette line and forever changed the sports car hobby in America.
These cars are for sale locally and listing could end at any time.
Payment is to be by direct wire transfer only.Contact Jim for additional details. Cell 951-202-0850 Call hours 9 AM to 5 PM California.
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In all my years in corporate communication and consulting, the one inevitable—and generally unanswered—question I've heard has been: "What does the event/decision/strategy mean to me?" In workplace communication, that question is particularly important because such matters generally have an impact on people's work lives, if not their lives as a whole. In a digital culture, it is an increasingly difficult question to answer because of the impersonal nature of today's mass communication technology. Intranets, mobile devices and the like are geared to the masses, not to individual needs—which is where team leaders should come in.
Team leaders as the prime communication source
In most organizations, team leaders have been widely ignored as the human communication source that they should be. Much of that can be laid at the feet of senior leaders who either play things close to the vest or who don't trust their underlings to provide "the right answers." The result is that team leaders operate with little or no information beyond the same rumor mill that team members access.
And it's all complicated by the research findings that show senior leaders, for the most part, have low trust rates and, therefore, low credibility among team members. A retired educator friend of mine asked me in wonderment recently, "Why don't we ever learn that people will invent their own versions of reality in the absence of real information?" I tried to explain the unfathomable facts. Leaders are conditioned to talk about "the what" and give short shrift to "the why." Or they think that workers "don't care" or "wouldn't understand." Both of which are code for either leadership arrogance or ignorance about the needs of the people they lead.
After all these years of dealing with this phenomenon, I often find myself worn out by the task of advocating for greater openness in institutional organizations and tempted to despair that "they will ever learn." But then I remember that the years have seen greater progress than I sometimes credit; the old autocracies are breaking down and some notable leaders are behaving in enlightened ways that are a dramatic contrast to the bad old days of deliberately withholding information and relying on secrecy and confidentiality.
What technology can't solve
What worries me more these days is the tendency of the techno-utopians to depend on whiz-bang technology and social media within organizations to carry the freight. As wonderful as today's technological media are in delivering raw information at blinding speed, they still fail against the standard of: What does it mean to me? And employees continue to face the daunting task of connecting the dots without an understanding of the big picture and their organizations place in it—in a word the context in which the organization functions and in which they live.
Add the risk employees fear in confronting or seeming to disrespect defensive leaders equipped with fragile egos, and social media is powerless to enable the candid "conversations" that its advocates once believed would take place between leaders and workers. Its various forms may work between equals, but its effectiveness is muted in power relationships in which the powerful have the means to punish dissent.
However we go about coping with the above leadership issues, I believe that the real and most pressing organizational communication challenge remains the delivery of context and meaning in today's digital world, providing answers to that eternal question of "what does it mean to me?"
All the rest is mere noise and window dressing.
Written by: Roger D'Aprix. You may find the original article here.


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Although the gallop or run appears to only be a faster canter, it is in fact a different gait containing four beats. Like the canter, the gallop also has a right and left lead. The footfall pattern of the gallop on the left lead is the right hind, left hind, right front, left front. Likewise, the right lead footfall would be left hind, right hind, left front, right front.
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Understanding InflationPaul Krugman keeps telling us that we need to keep stimulating the economy in America and Europe. What he rarely says too loudly is that there is a limit to how much this can be done by borrowing. The only possible source of money for that stimulation is to print it. [Of course it isn't literally printed: it is all just numbers in computers.]
When GFC/I hit, then banks did start printing money. They called it "Quantitative Easing". They used the printed money to buy bonds, and they promised that they would later unprint the money by selling the bonds. Printing money is criticized for causing inflation. Commentators seem to have no trouble saying this with a straight face when the reality in America and Europe is damaging deflation. We can certainly agree that unprinting money at this time will add to deflation.
So why is everyone so hysterical about inflation? We are usually pointed at Germany's bout of hyperinflation in the early 1920s as a lesson in the bad things that can happen. But hang on: After their burst of hyperinflation sorted out their economy, Germany got its act together, and only 15 years later they nearly conquered the whole of Europe. Meanwhile their victorious opponents who were also basket cases in the early 1920s didn't have inflation and they were still basket cases 15 years later. So we need to understand what inflation does that is helpful. But first a foray into politics.
Listen to the debate between the stimulators (led by Paul Krugman) and the deficit-reducers (led by right-wing parties everywhere, with the left too nervous to criticize). You would think that this was a purely technical debate about how best to run the economy in the national interest. Nothing could be further from the truth. When governments act they produce winners and losers. This has the unfailing effect of bringing out the engines of disinformation on both sides. And inflation makes losers of the most powerful people on the planet: lenders and people with cash in the bank.
Inflation makes it easy for borrowers to pay back their loans. This means that borrowers come to fully own the real physical assets that were the collatoral for the loan. They then lavish care and attention on those assets and make them as productive as they can be. Consider on the other hand what happens when the economy is weak and there is also deflation. The borrowers know that they can never repay that loan. They squeeze as much value as they can out of the assets without the ability or incentive to properly maintain them. The employees who know how to operate the equipment leave. Eventually the lenders get the assets but the value of those assets is substantially reduced.
So who wins from deflation and loses from a bit of inflation? Hardly anyone. Except that this misses some important human traits. One is that we hate seeing other people get something for nothing, and there is no doubt that debtors get that with inflation. Also humans see gains and losses in relative terms: we like to do better than others, particularly our neighbors. That's why increasing standards of living don't increase happiness. So the lenders rightly see inflation as transferring real wealth from them to debtors. And the lenders are the most powerful people on the planet.
So how much inflation do we need? Our main experience since WWII is that economies run well with about 3% growth and 2% inflation. This means about 5% growth in the nominal economy (the size of the economy in dollars, without taking into account the decline in the value of the dollar). It seems likely that this applies whatever the growth rate. If the real growth rate is 10% then a 5% deflation rate won't cause any problem. On the other side of the ledger, if the economy is declining at 2% for some reason, then you need 7% inflation to keep the wheels of commerce moving. [Note that we should be taking population change into account, so that the required growth in the nominal economy is probably 3% per head of population, assuming the added people are statistically similar to the existing population. But I'll ignore this subtlety.].
Why do we need this nominal growth? Without it then people who just sit on their money, and don't try to use it to generate wealth, do nearly as well as, or perhaps better than, the people who are trying to move the economy along.
Many people think the world would work better if money was a store of value as well as being a medium of exchange. That wouldn't work. Still there is merit in society storing valuable commodities to prepare for difficult times ahead. The government could sell certificates representing a basket of stored commodities. This would act as an additional sort of money that was a store of real world value. It would be similar to the gold standard back when you really could change your notes for gold, but it would not be based on a single commodity. Certificates would be cashable for money at any time for the current market value of the commodities. When the government has less certificates than stored commodities it would sell the commodities to restore balance.
The basket of commodities would be chosen (and adapted over time) to reflect the manufacturing and direct consumption needs of society. As such it would not be a distortion of production. Compare this with people that want to restore the gold standard. This would take monetary policy out of the hands of people trying to make the economy work, and place it back into the hands of miners, alchemists and conquistadors.


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IRIS Explainer Video
Mixed media animated explainer
A taxing issue
IRIS, one of the UK's leading providers for business accountancy software, came to us with a brief to create an explainer video that incorporated both live action and 2D animation. The video would need to clearly explain how to use their accountancy software in an engaging way.
Planning the shoot
It was more important than ever that we produced a highly detailed storyboard for this project, as not only would we be creating animated scenes but we would also be undertaking a live action shoot. This meant that not only did we need to know exactly what we would be producing digitally but also details about each shot we would be filming.
Visually engaging
One of our biggest problems in the planning process was how we would actually be able to visually explain each concept of the IRIS software. We found that metaphors, for example a tape measure representing a tailored service, really helped to make the concepts more understandable to the viewer.
Animation meets live action
We believe that animation and live action compliment each other perfectly. Our expertise in lighting came in extremely handy when it came to shooting the footage as it was crucial that the lighting on the day was exactly right, especially whilst filming IRIS' product director, Steve Cox.
Branded results
The finished video professionally showcases the IRIS brand, using actual footage of the company enhanced by our 2D animation. We also incorporated the brand's colours, which resulted in a clear, bespoke and engaging explainer video.