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08.14.13: dinner (omelette aux fines herbes as a tortilla, part I)
I had high hopes for this tortilla, and while it was delicious and did a pretty good job of matching the idea of the final product that was in my head, there's also much room for improvement. But that's how cooking goes some days. The key is, of course, is to crack a few more eggs and try it again.
My initial vision was to make a Spanish-style tribute to one of the best omelettes I've ever had: the omelette aux fines herbes at Pastis.* It's enormous and fluffy and comes with a side of frites, and paired with a good French 75 it's my platonic ideal of brunch these days. While the dish as-is would be a wonderful dinner, I'm not one for making frites at home, much less on a weekday. Here's where the Spanish inspiration came in: crumble in some high-quality potato chips (in our case, the house-made chips from Fairway) along with the herbs into the eggs, and cook it all as a tortilla, served with a big salad.
Because really: if really tasty potato chips are good enough for both Feran Adrià and José Andrés to make the tortilla process a little faster, then they are good for all of us. While the resultant tortilla was tasty, it wasn't perfectly cooked: the middle was a little runny while the exterior was just a touch too done. This didn't bother me personally as I like runny eggs, but I'd really like to master the balance of exterior to interior doneness and make a tortilla that is as pretty as it is tasty one of these days. I've read that smaller pans are best, so I've placed a smaller nonstick on my birthday wishlist and hopefully in a few weeks I'll be able to report on my success or lack thereof.
So let's call this the "before" photo, and the "after" will come when I have less pan to work with and the same number of eggs. Pending that experiment, a recipe will soon follow.
Stay tuned!
*I wasn't into eggs, much less an omelette, until a few years ago and therefore I have a very limited data set for reference. Feel free to instruct me on where to find better omelettes in the comments.
06.30.13: Argentinian-inspired dinner, as a consolation following a Confederations Cup loss.
I have all of these posts in mind with all of these wonderful salads and drinks and the like in mind, but all that occupies my mind right now is the savage beating my beloved Spanish national team endured at the hands of the Brazilians. To be frank, the latter deserved the win; I don't really understand what Vincente del Bosque's strategy was during the match, particularly when it concerned not playing Cesc Fabregas at all and David Villa only a minimal amount of playing time. It will certainly make the qualifying matches much more interesting to see what he's trying to do this time around, at least, but at least this Confederations Cup final has me intrigued by Neymar but I'm also very much waiting for him to be an overdramatic diver. Meanwhile, it was particularly horrific to see a great side completely fall apart during this game. I mean, who approved Sergio Ramos to take a penalty kick?? Xavi spoke for all of us with his facepalm:
One stat that popped up at the end noted that the winners of the Confederations Cup never go on to win the World Cup, but I feel like Brazil winning this and then hosting the World Cup next year is all but setting them up for a triumphant return to global football supremacy. I'm optimistic Spain can put a big old wedge in that plan, but in the meantime I should stop bitching about football and instead talk about the fantastic meal we made ourselves during the course of the match. Read More
05.26.13: dinner (lobster soup with "shredded" spaghetti, or spaghetti tagliuzzati con zuppa di aragosta)
Lobster and pasta: it sounds so simple, doesn't it? And doesn't it sound like the epitome of the springtime or summer meal, something to enjoy after a nice day at the beach, perhaps served with a refreshing beer or glass of white wine?
Oh, were it so simple. The truth of the matter is that this is a dish that demands patience. Not only does it take some work to get all of the components ready, but it's one that requires you to wait until the ingredients are in season because anything otherwise would result in a less-than-stellar meal. I knew this when I first saw the recipe in Made In Sicily months ago, so I abstained from even thinking about it. But then Memorial Day weekend came, and Michael was home after a long week in England, and Fairway had lobster on sale. Even the tomatoes smelled delicious, despite it not quite being peak tomato season just yet in our neck of the woods.
In short: I waited long enough to have this, and to borrow a phrase from Alton Brown, my patience was going to be rewarded. Read More
04.17.13: dinner (pan-fried striped bass with pancetta and parsley)
A few months ago, right around Valentine's Day, one of my coworkers asked me for some advice on making paella, and if I'd mind lending him a cookbook with a recipe in it. That night found me pulling my various Spanish cookbooks and reviewing the paella recipes contained therein; I wanted to give him one that was authentic but presented in an accessible way. I ended up bringing in my copies of The Barcelona Cookbook and Made in Spain for him to peruse, and between the two he was able to cobble together a recipe that would work for him.
My point of this story? When I went and pulled all of those cookbooks off the shelves, I realized I had upwards of at least fifteen dedicated to Spanish and//or Catalonian cooking. And that only counts the books we keep downstairs–the less-often used go upstairs in our loft "library."
Common sense, recollection, and this blog's archives tell me that I shouldn't be so surprised by this, but I am all the same. Read More
MAMSM: Basque-style mussel and white bean stew.
I know the first post in this series was for an agua fresca, but I should make it clear that juicing is not something we do at all, but every once in a while I'll crave something sweet and light and that fresh drink mix does the trick nicely. But then I see things like this interview and I'm kind of boggled by anyone being satiated by only drinking a few juices during the day and waiting until the evening to eat a meal of solid food. Then again, there's no way I could do what I want to do powered simply by juice, because you can't lift heavy or lift in volume on what appears to be a very limited amount of calories, particularly in the protein realm.
Because that's the thing about doing things like barbell deadlifts and squats: for me, I need to feel like I have some serious fuel in the tank to get over the mental hurdle that is pulling a series of heavy triples in a row, or doing a circuit that calls for ten to twelve rounds of pressing sixty pounds over my head and squatting it on my back, all the while feeling confident that every time I do so I'm completely in control of the barbell in my hands. Fueling those pre-workout dinners with something that's both filling but not stuffing can prove to be a challenge, but I find a nice balance with seafood, especially when I pair it with beans or quinoa. Read More
El sabor de soledad, Michael in England edition.
It was with very mixed emotions I said goodbye to Michael a few Saturdays ago—I was off to Pennsylvania for some early-birthday celebrations with my family, while he was getting ready to head to England for a near-week-long trip. This wasn't the longest he's ever been away, but it is the furthest, and not having him handy when I was cooking, even remotely, meant that I was really on my own when it came to meal planning that week. And unlike the last time he was away for a long stretch, I wouldn't have nearly enough time as I have in the past to plan my meals; after all, there was a Clásico to watch, and a barbell to lift, and groceries to buy on Sunday once I returned home from the Stamford train station. Fortunately, I was wise enough to ask for Made in Sicily for my birthday from my family, so I had a quiet ride on the Keystone to flip through its sizable pages.
It's a pretty exhaustive tome on all things Sicilian that's heavy on the vegetable, pasta, and seafood dishes, and it made me wish a few times at least that my birthday was a little earlier on the calendar so I'd have more time to take advantage of the many delicious tomato dishes on display. Other recipes definitely intrigued me until I realized the called for bottarga or uni (i.e. sea urchin roe), two ingredients that aren't exactly cheap here in the U.S., but perhaps if I'm feeling particularly adventurous (and flush with cash), there may come a time to treat myself if only to try it in the future. I settled on a recipe that I had seen before, but never made from this book: a pesto trapanese that was exactly what I wanted: a fresh sauce made thicker by the inclusion of almonds and more refreshing with a healthy addition of mint. It may not need the processing I put it through via the blender, but I prefer a blended pesto over a very rustic one, and I loved how it coated every strand of the bucatini. Read More


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We went to Nuvali today to hang out and celebrate Mother's Day with Ate, Kuya, Daddy and of course, Mommy. When we're on our way to Batangas, we saw a sign that says, "University of Santo Tomas Sta. Rosa Campus" and I think it's somewhere near Eton City. I googled and wiki-ed it and found out it's almost thrice as much as the size of the Manila Campus! UST is also planning to establish a campus in General Santos, Sri Lanka and as well as Mongolia.
As what the UST Hymn says, we're Imbued with Unending Grace!

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New York in the flashiest of flashes
Last week was dominated by a frenzy of midtermish things and gross amounts of ADD on my part, and to be honest my little fingers couldn't type as fast as the looks came up here and there. However that is not to say that I didn't take note of which collections, and even more narrowly, pieces I appreciated. While I hate to say this, I only choked and gasped for air a few times, however I did not die for any collection. I am still living. The following are the pieces that did make me reach for my inhaler.
Proenza Schouler, Band of Outsiders, DVF
These pieces struck my color heart strings. Color, modern clean lines, and fall-season warmth all over. Awesome geometric lines and whimsical patterns are a real eye-catcher too.
Alexandre Herchcovitch, Alexander Wang, Cynthia Rowley
Three looks that do amazing yet different magic with textures: Herchcovitch makes a very clean cut look seem quite feminine and dressed up, Wang adds sex appeal with a slit in his skirt but keeps it real with a baggy upper-half, and Rowley's dress is feminine-the way the fabric is highlighted is quite sexy.
Naeem Khan, Calvin Klein, Fabiola
Three neutral-colored looks that I think will dominate stylistas this coming fall. Khan uses a flapper skirt with an Egyptian-esque neckline… and that beading. GASP. Inhaler needed. Klein's collection was O.T.W. (out of this world, get with) and I can smell some belted leather in my future. Fabiola's feather-skirted dress looks like a dramatic ornament that I would slip my body into before you could say "squak".
Honor, Lela Rose, Lela Rose
I am really feeling the girly whirly fun in these three looks. Business woman-gone-SEX in Honor's look. That yellow peaking out of black lace in such a conservative silhouette is so right. Lela Rose's two looks go from sexy-work woman to evening angel. Me likey.
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Operation Stencil The Subfloor: Complete
Remember when the floor in our master closet and vanity area looked like this?
And then we ripped up the carpet to reveal the subfloor and they looked like this?
Well, five hours and $24 later, it looks like this!
Our actual bathroom has tile (where the shower/tub/toilet are), but this is a separate vanity area along with an adjoining master closet – which both had old carpet that we couldn't live with for one more day. So we yanked it up and decided to have some fun with the subfloor until we're ready for a full scale renovation down the line (eventually we'd love to knock down the wall that divides the vanity from the rest of the bathroom and retile/renovate them so they're one big spacious master bathroom).
We briefly debated peel and stick floor tiles or buying a large seagrass rug and cutting it to lay it wall-to-wall in both spaces for this interim step, but we decided that a stenciled and sealed floor (possibly with a few area rugs) will serve us well in the short term without being a whole lot of money/effort that we'll later end up undoing.
And since our future tiling plans will require us to rip this stuff up and put backer board in its place anyway (you can't tile over particle board since it's not a secure base) there's no harm in slapping some paint on it in the meantime.
My favorite thing about temporary (and affordable!) afternoon updates like this are that you can have a little fun and do something a little bolder than you might do if you were selecting something more permanent (like tiling a floor that you'll have to live with for a few decades). Oh and don't mind that vanity, we're going to either stain it a deep ebony or charcoal tone or paint it a subdued dark color, so it should fit in a lot better with the rest of the tones in the space.
But let's rewind a little bit (back to when the floors looked like this) and tell you about the process and some of the things we learned along the way.
To prep our subfloor, which is particle board (a very smooth and almost chalky surface) we used wood filler to make the seams between the different particle boards sheets less obvious. There were only three so it went pretty fast. Once dry, we sanded them down. It wasn't perfect, but it was better.
Then we primed it all with Aqualock water based primer (it was low-VOC but not no-VOC so John got that step done while I was outside playing with Clara). The purpose of the primer was to help the paint grab on for the long haul and block any stains/bleed-through that might occur from painting over such a porous surface like particle board.
For paint, we grabbed two $12 quarts of semi-gloss paint in the new no-VOC Olympic Icon line, matched to two Benjamin Moore colors: Revere Pewter for our base (same as the wall) and Gargoyle (for the darker stencil pattern). For the last few years we've mostly stuck with Benjamin Moore paints, but for temporary upgrades it's nice to save a little money since we'll be ripping out this floor in a few years and tiling anyway. We didn't use an outdoor porch and floor paint (as you usually would in this scenario) because they're all pretty fumey (usually oil-based) we wanted something no-VOC (this one's for you, fetus) – but we think the combination of a good primer, some semi-gloss paint, and a nice thick coat of sealer will keep them in good shape for the next few years. We'll definitely report back with photos over time to share how the floor wears.
With the primer dry, we could apply two coats of the base color. Since this was a no-VOC step, I could cut in while John rolled the rest (we just had to be mindful to paint ourselves out of the space). You can see from the picture below that the color matched Revere Pewter on the floor didn't really turn out to match the real RP color on the walls as we planned (that's always the risk that you take when you color match one brand to another), but it was still in the same color family, so we didn't mind. We're going for some pretty high contrast interest on the floor, but we thought it would stay sophisticated if we kept the palette sort of subdued (especially with a bold navy-ish tone in the bedroom along with a colorful rug/headboard/pillows/etc) so we were just glad they didn't clash and still felt like they went together, even if they didn't match perfectly.
Stenciling the floor is SO MUCH EASIER if you have two people on hand to tag team it. I did the office stencil project alone for the most part, and it took forever and I used a method I'd never use again (more on that in a minute) but this time around we both tackled it and it was a much simpler task. Oh and stenciling a floor is even easier than stenciling a wall since you're not fighting gravity (a few pieces of painter's tape hold it in place and then you can roll it without worrying it'll slip down the wall like it might on a vertical surface).
If you'd like to see the rolling in action – with a few live-action tips in the mix – we made this video while applying another stencil to the wall for a book project back in 2011.
Since you usually want your pattern centered in the room, we started our first stencil to be right in the middle of the vanity. Here you can see what a single repeat of the pattern looks like. It's the Suzani Silk Road stencil from Royal Design Studios. It's $49, but we had actually ordered it back in 2011 to use for our book (but that project ended up getting cut), so we just had it sitting under the bed in our guest room for a few years, waiting to be used.
But back to that much easier stenciling method that I mentioned before. We learned back when we were shooting that wall-stenciling project for our book that applying a small amount of paint with a foam roller (not too much, or it'll get gummy/bleedy) results in just as clean of a line as dabbing everything on by hand, which I did when I stenciled the office, and ended up with claw hands and lost 14 hours of my life. This entire thing only took us 5 hours and was SO MUCH EASIER thanks to a small foam roller with a nice thin application of paint. Hallelujah!
Once again, when using a large stencil like this, it's so much easier with two people. Each stencil has registration marks around the outside that you line up with the previous stencil so you know where to place it, and if you have someone on hand to help you line up the registration marks and slowly lower it down onto the floor (especially when they're large) you should have a lot less of an issue with smudging, which can happen if you place it and then slide it around to match the registration marks instead of using four hands to slowly lower it into the right place off the bat (one hand for each corner just seems to work best).
This room's biggest challenge was that so many walls and corners meant lots of partial stencils, which meant lots of stencil bending (it's made from flexible plastic that bends, but doesn't crease, easily) and smooshing the roller into tight spots. We kept some spare cardboard handy (i.e. cereal boxes) to protect the wall from getting paint on it when we had to bend the stencil and it would have rested against the baseboard/wall. Between each placement of the stencil, John also held it up with two fingers with the back facing me and I used a folded paper towel to dab off any excess paint on the back so that the next time we placed it no leftover paint was lingering on the back (this can result in sort of a ghosted double outline, so the quick wipe down between each placement really seems worth the time).
When doing a floor you also have to consider your exit route. In a typical square space this is pretty easy to figure out, but there was no logical way for us to both keep an exit clear and be sure we were keeping our pattern straight/centered (we wanted to start in the middle of the vanity and work out from there, so we couldn't start in the corner of the closet and stencil our way out because things wouldn't have been centered on the vanity). For that reason, we decided up front that it would be easiest to paint across two days in smaller installments. We did as much as we could easily access the first day, then let those areas dry so we could stand on them to complete some remaining spots. Picture it sort of like a checkerboard… you can do a row, leave a row clear, and do as much of the other row that attaches to something else you have already done as you can – and then walk out using the clear row. The next day, just go back and fill in those missing areas when the surrounding rows are dry so you can stand on them.
After all of the stenciling was done, I used a small craft brush to get into the spots that needed some filling in. Initially I thought I'd touch up the entire perimeter by hand with paint to make it look flush to the wall (the rolling left about a 1/2″ gap)…
… but after stepping back we realized the small gap was so consistent around the room that it almost looked like an intentional border. So rather than risk making it look worse with my by-hand touch ups, we opted to keep it that way. You can see the slight border around the baseboard in the bottom right of this picture:
As our final sealing step, we plan to use SafeCoat Acrylacq (a non-toxic poly that we have loved since my pregnancy with Clara) to seal it to give it even more added protection. So we hope to get that done and report back on how it goes as well as finishing up a few more things in there.
So far even unsealed it has been holding up well for the last few days, and we're SO much happier to see it when we walk in there to get dressed than we were to stand on that old carpet. And of course we're psyched to watch our list dwindle down to just two bullets in here (which means I get to do a budget breakdown soon – yeah boyyyy).
remove the carpet paint and hang a larger window-like mirror(more on both of those steps here) paint the trim paint the walls and ceiling replace all of the outlets/light switches(more on all three of those steps here) stencil the floors
- seal the floors and add some better storage solutions to the closet
- paint or stain the vanity, add new hardware to it, and add some built-in shelves to make the empty space under the counter on the right side more functional
Is anyone else stenciling the walls? How about a ceiling or a floor? Or furniture? Do you use a small foam roller or the claw method that I outlined here (for the love of wrist sustainability, USE A ROLLER!).
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I actually really love the vanity as is now. Looks like you had it made from reclaimed wood and stained it a deep color. It's the perfect about of rustic with the other modern updates!
How do you clean painted floors like this? I would think Mr. Clean or Pine Sol would be too harsh for paint….
My goodness, this turned out beautifully! Definitely pinning for future inspiration!
Be aware when you guys go to cover that up we are all going to cry. It looks beyond amazing.
Your floor looks great! And yay for no claw hand.
One thought on staining your vanity black, I have black furniture and it looks fantastic – when it's dusted. I am not good at keeping up on dusting and I have discovered that black is really good at showing off dust. I wish someone had warned me, so I'm just passing it along. OTOH, your area is much smaller than mine so it would take five or ten seconds to wipe it down whereas my room is a few minutes and I always tell myself I'll do it "later".
Aaaaaand there you have it, the most chic "in transition" space there ever was.
Love it! And guess what our garage steps to the back door will be getting? :P Thanks for the inspiration.
I LOVE this floor!!! Hands down one of my favorite projects you've ever done. It just has such big impact I can't get over it. Now I'm wondering which floors I can stencil – the front porch, the garage floor, both?
That turned out amazing! I love it! What a great temporary solution and sooooo much better than the carpet!
Fantastic. Looks so good. You guys are so creative.
I love the stencil! I have a question maybe you guys can help out with. I have a small kitchen floor that has sheet vinyl that butts up to refinished hardwood floors, when we did the hardwood, we had to pull back the vinyl a bit and so it is cut back a little to reveal the paper backing/glue etc. Underneath is a tile like floor consisting of peach tiles that look like the tiles you see in schools-they are very hard/durable-not sure of the material? Anyway, we have 2 options: rip out the school tile-replace the subfloor and put any floor down. Right now, the vinyl needs replaced and I would love to paint/stencil the floor in the interim(our phase 1). MY QUESTIONS ARE-do you have any experience removing the paper backing/glue from the floor? I can scrape it away…but it comes off in tiny tiny bits-but it is smooth after the paper is scraped off-do you think if I can get all the paper removed and down to the tiles that I would be able to get paint to stick/stay/endure for a year or so? I checked your forums but didn't see anything there.
I don't know how old your home is, but those old-timey tiles underneath sound like asbestos. I think from your post you're planning to leave that layer, but just be aware in the future you have to be careful/take precautions when removing the old asbestos tile. (If it is asbestos!)
Kind of an idiot and don't really comment that often, I just aimed a comment at you downstream that you will probably never read or see ;p
If your house was built before 1978, and/or the tiles are 9×9, I would seek professional advice before removing, disturbing, or doing anything else to crack or break them. When we renovated my mother's house, 9×9 asbestos tile was under ALL OF THE FLOORS. Apparently covering it over with other flooring is an acceptable abatement measure? My eyes twitch a little when I find tile under other flooring.
well I am glad I asked because after googling tiles with asbestos…the tiles look eerily similar so everything is halted. Will be planning a course of action with it…thanks for your help!
Wow- that's fantastic! Are you going to put a throw rug in front of the sink, to help protect the highest traffic areas, or just leave it open?
Simply–Brilliant and Beautiful!!!
That looks so great!
May be a solution we need for our lobby at my church!
My mother stenciled the subfloors in the family room many years ago. They've since put down hardwood floors to match the rest of the house, but the sealed paint and stencil job she did lasted 10+ years with high traffic and heavy furniture repositioning. Love the look of your 'new floor' . Its a great transition to a possible bold tile pattern when you remodel.
That looks incredible! I love that you are not afraid to try such a bold look. Great job!!
A modest proposal: When the time comes to redo this entire room, save the stenciled floor, or at least any sections of it that are still in good shape. I'm thinking a big piece or three might look nice hung on a wall in some otherwise blank space–like maybe in the unfinished storage area when it gets turned into a room.
What a terrific idea !!!
What a gorgeous floor! I'm tempted to pull my bedroom carpet out and get a little crafty…Convincing the hubby may be the hardest part. We cleaned the carpet (twice) and are still not happy with it. It really just needs to come out, but we aren't ready to put new carpetting in…the bathroom remodel is in full swing. No point in putting new carpet down to have the handy men track dirt on it!
Looks great!!!!! Have you thought about removing the little back splashes like you did with the other bathroom? That might help with minimizing the counter in there until you do the full reno.
Hi! I love the floor. Quick question on the paint- do you know if the colorants added are no VOC as well as the paint? Google is not helping me. I am also pregnant and have some furniture to paint, and am trying to decide what to use. I don't know if I love the furniture enough to splurge on Mythic but Ive heard the BM Natura line has some issues with being stinky. Anyway, I hadn't heard of Icon before so just wanted to check!
Massive improvement and a very cool design! The way you always explain pros & cons is so helpful. BTW, did you consider removing the 3 backsplash pieces and extending the paint line down to the actual sink level? That would fix one of the remaining visual clashes in the serene space you're creating. Unless you guys are both big splashers, you probably don't need wall protection above the horizontal sink level. Just a thought. :)
Love it. Really actually love the space now!
Question: Is there a tiny closet beside the door to the shower/tub/toilet area? It's in the 5th last picture. If so, are you using it as a linen closet?
Oh also fun fact: Your claw method stencil post was (I think) the first post I ever read from you guys!
Very pretty design! We removed tons of floral wallpaper from a half bathroom. It felt plain after so we stenciled the ceiling. Except gravity worked against us and we ended up tracing it with a pencil and slowly filling it in free hand. Love the results but took forever! We have plans to stencil the walls in our dining room and in a few bedrooms too. Maybe one day I'll share our renovations online.
Revere Pewter looks the same on your floors as it does on my walls, doesn't have that strong gray feel at all. So strange! I am so glad you stenciled the floor instead of vinyl tile, such a beautiful (temporary) solution!!!
Beautiful! I can't believe you got this done in 5 hours … painting always feels to me like it should take "a few hours" and then a week later I'm ready to jump off a bridge because I'm still nitpicking things!
I am now noodling this for our bathroom, which currently just has the plastic sheet floor (linoleoum? vinyl?). Please (pretty please?) let us all know how it holds up, even though it is, for you, a stop-gap solution!
Love it! I told my husband that I was painting our powder room floor and he thought I was crazytown. But this is exactly what I had pictured! So much better than living with something ugly while you work your way down the to do list to get to that space for real. I've never regretted an interim project. But I've certainly regretted NOT doing them when I've lived with the ugly space for years.
Ooo lovely! Bravo!!
I LOVE THIS!!! This looks amazing! Nice job!
Love it! What an awesome temporary fix. Gotta love these quick transformations that make such a huge impact – now that's some DIY motivation right there!
I absolutely love this! What a great idea and beautiful idea to hold you over until you can do a major reno of the bathroom! I painted a diagonal tile pattern (with the use of vary narrow painters tape to make the 'grout lines')on a laundry room floor but never thought of using a stencil pattern. Love everything you guys do and how you explain in detail and give the cost breakdown of every project!
That stencil is amazing! (And looks even better on the floor!….now if only I had a floor to stencil…possibly hubs's woodshop!?! Don't think it'll be very appreciated though haha)
I absolutely love this! It looks great. I will definitley being doing a stenciled floor at some point in the future.
Also- I just saw your new "updated due to reader feedback"- great idea. I was really horrified to read some comments a person made about photoshopping and your privacy re. baby announcements. Keep the trolls away! :)
This looks amazing! I love it so much! great idea.
Holy Moly! That looks amazing! Are you sure you don't want this to be the final step? I'd hate to tile over something so pretty!
To Erica M – if your house was built before 1978, be VERY cautious before removing those tiles. From renovating my mother's house, which was built in the 50's, we learned that a lot of times, old asbestos tiles are considered a non-issue if they're covered over. Makes my eye twitch now, just a little, when I see tile under other flooring. They're pretty commonly 9×9, which is apparently a big "DANGER" sign for older tile.
WOW!!! I LOVE that ~ ~ and wouldn't tile over it. I also like the vanity as is too. Great job guys!!
I LOVE IT! I don't want you to cover it up! It seriously looks fantastic. I'm desperately trying to think of a room I can stencil now!
As usual, wow!
xo Kylie
Looks great! Would love to see a shot from the bedroom looking in so I can see it hanging out with the darkish walls!
Love, love, love it. Really gives that space some personality!
Super super gorgeous!!
You specifically can't color match Benjamin Moore paints because they overall begin with a way different base mix than any other paints on the market.
I wrote about it on my blog http://53rdst.blogspot.com/2012/10/lesson-learned.html
Seems tho overall the matching was far better then what I've ever experienced trying with Benjamin Moore paint.
Megan,thanks for posting that. In my limited painting experience, I found it to be totally true that you can never get a true BM color match in 'cheaper' paints. Not saying you can't be happy with the coverage or color, but it just won't be the same, no matter how hard HD or Lowes or whomever tries.
Well now you have a little insight as to why. ;o)
If I LOVE the BM Color but not the price tag, I try to cross it now in a compatible paint chip by Sherwin Williams or Glidden etc etc. Saves the headache I went through prior.
Your bathroom looks 100% cleaner! :)
Oooh la la!! Me gusta mucho!! That floor is baller! Fist bumps all around!
This looks so pretty!! I love the stencil you used! Gorgeous!!
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I love the mirror! Did you buy it framed that way or did yall make the frame around it??
Have you ever thought of doing countertop paint on your yellow counters? I've always been curious about how good they really work.
I have to admit that I was rather skeptical when I heard about the stencil plans. However, this blew me away! Kudos.
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!! Beautiful!!! You guys are amazing!!
I LOVE it!!! Oh my gosh!! I have to admit when you said you were stenciling the floor I wasn't convinced it was a great idea. But holy moly it's amazing!!!! Don't you love a weekend project that has that much bang!! and for $24!! Woo Hoo!!! Just saw a pic of you and Katie on instagram. You guys visiting?? When do I get to be BFF's with you guys? haha
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The NIKEiD version of the KD 6 just got quite the upgrade. You can now craft your own colorway of the sneakers featuring the "Chroma" touch, a color-shifting option that gives them an incredible metallic appeal. Of course the only pairs that we've actually had a look at just yet were the ones done by KD himself and those captured in the NIKE Inc post that introduced the option. With that being said, we're excited to see what the likes of you can come up with making the best of the choice (Which notches up the price tag by $20). See some examples below then make your KD 6 pair on NIKEiD now.
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Edith Ackerman on the ways in which our kids are transformed by our times #nysaisahdh
Edith Ackerman on the ways in which our kids are transformed by our times #nysaisahdh
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When to Learn: Time
Leaders: Grant Lichtman & Bo Adams
Can we actually create more usable time during the day? Participants will consider the systemic daily and annual use of time at their schools and how it does, or does not, align with essential learning objectives. Participants will use examples from their own schools to ideate alternatives and opportunities for school schedule.
My dilemma …
How do we balance a collective agreed on desire to move to a transdiciplianry curriculum centered around a topic/issue where the disciplines are lenses for inquiry with the tension that certain grade level focused subject specific skills and content will not fold into the inquiry? In creating a more open-ended less time bound structure where do the other pieces of the curriculum live.
So imagine a structure focused on inquiry where students come together in flexible groupings for certain agreed upon amounts of time with the teacher who us most relevant to the direction of their inquiry at that moment. The teacher may also convene a group to explore an idea, concept or skill relevant to the inquiry. Where and how do the other parts fit?
Last weekend, I was fortunate to be able to attend EduCon2.5. Educon is a conference and a conversation hosted by Science Leadership Academy (SLA) a progressive public high school in Philadelphia. The guiding principles behind EduCon, which resonate with many of our core LREI values, include the following:
On Sunday, I attended a conversation hosted by SLA's principal Chris Lehmann that aimed to dig deeply into the value of inquiry as an organizing principle for our work in schools and beyond. The conversation mined a rich vein of thought some of which is captured here in the #educoninquiry twitter hashtag. In reflecting on the various conversations that I had with a number of participants, the following are a few ideas that continue to resonate with me and that I hope will continue to inform the evolution of our program and learning community.
As I wander through classrooms and engage in conversations with students and teachers, I am always struck by the depth of engagement in our learning spaces when dialog is being driven by an assortment of "why," "what if," "could we" and "how about" questions. These questions move us past single nodes of understanding towards a web of interconnected ideas and possibilities. They are generative and force us to challenge assumptions; they move us into areas where we are not always so comfortable. At the same time, they also allow us a freedom to move towards learning that has personal and collective relevance As Grant Lichtman notes in the Falconer:
Questions are waypoints on the path of wisdom. each question leads to one or more new questions or answers. Sometimes answers are dead ends; they don't lead anywhere. Questions are never dead ends. Every question has the inherent potential to lead to a new level of discovery, understanding, or creation, levels that can range from the trivial to the sublime.
One of our tasks then is helping students and ourselves to not only recognize the trivial from the sublime, but to use inquiry as a pathway towards the sublime and the significant.
Inquiry calls on us to be engaged with and in the world. It is not simply a pathway to knowledge acquisition; it is rather a pathway to experience from which real and lasting knowledge can be derived. Absent the authentic experience, what often gets called inquiry is really no more than the following of a set of pre-determined routines. These are routines that often leave little room for exploration and for bumping into the unexpected. As a faculty, we spend considerable time thinking about how to move beyond engagement that is grounded simply in activity. The goal is to develop engagement that is grounded first in a meaningful question or problem for which there may be multiple avenues for exploration and a variety of ways in which understanding can be demonstrated. A additional goal for us is to continue to find ways for this work and the related demonstrations of understanding to be shared beyond the walls of the classroom with a wider and more authentic audience so that the work of school becomes something more than just schoolwork.
As Ken Robinson observes:
What these things have in common is that kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. Am I right? They're not frightened of being wrong. Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original — if you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way.We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems wheremistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this — he said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately, that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
Through inquiry, students are regularly challenged to be curious and to see beyond the artificial distinctions that separate subject matter. They work to identify connections within and between subjects, between individuals and their varied experiences and across time. Inquiry also makes the same demands on teachers as they work individually and collaboratively to structure the optimal conditions for learning.
An orientation to inquiry demands and develops an ethic of hard work and values the disposition of resilience. It does this through the teacher's purposeful structuring and scaffolding of the learning experience. The inquiry classroom is an intentional place; it is one where the student encounters a level of challenge that is just comfortably out of reach. It is as the psychologist Lev Vygotsky defined it in the zone of proximal development, which is:
The inquiry classroom's essential character is iterative. Students move forward by navigating through, over and around obstacles that are both concrete and abstract. They fall down along the way, pick themselves up and/or are helped up by others, examine the causes of their stumble, chart new paths and try again. Sometimes the going forward is slow and in other moments the learner takes larger leaps forward, but always they are reflecting on how they got to where they are and where they need/want to be. All of this takes place alongside other learners so that insights, observations and understanding can be shared and woven together to create a richer and more detailed map of the learning journey.
When we open ourselves to inquiry in our schools, it's impact is not limited just to the classroom. It works it's way into the very culture of the place. It changes how we relate to each other and what we value as a community. A community that moves forward on the basis of asking questions is one that seeks to understand the diverse set of perspectives that its members represent. Itis no surprise then that is a key goal of our advisory program, which seeks to foster caring and advocacy through inquiry. Last week, we held our annual MLK Assembly and were joined by teacher and diversity trainer Rosetta Lee. Rosetta led us through a series of interactive experiences that challenged us to claim our various identities, learn about others, and commit to the inclusion of everyone, no matter who they are. She also invited us to explore how the middle school world mirrors the larger world and what students can do now to train ourselves to be the adults they want to become. For the adults in the room, it was also a chance for us to explore the same questions related to our only slightly longer journeys towards an understanding of ourselves and others.
I left Educon feeling energized about much of what we do at LREI, but also excited to explore how we can push this work ahead even further and with a clearer sense of purpose connected to our school's longstanding vision for learning. What kinds of inquiry are you engaged in and how is it moving you forward as a learner?
As we ask students to do all the time, the members of the middle school faculty regularly engage in reflection and inquiry related to their practice. We also meet together as learners to explore how best to realize our progressive mission and best meet the needs of our middle school students. These conversations touch on many topics including curriculum, assessment, advisory, diversity, program design and implementation and our own individual and collective professional growth. As we move through this innovation cycle, we regularly examine how our ideas evolve into specific actions and we then make little or large adjustments based on the feedback we gather as we are implementing them.
It is exciting and demanding work, but also helps us to understand what the learning experience is like for our students. As we enter into a new innovation cycle and explore a variety of ideas and possibility, I wanted to share with you a framework for thinking that guided our most recent conversation. The image below, which captures a process developed by the folks at SYP Partners who do interesting work connected to teamwork, business transformation and leadership development, is a compelling one. I also think that it is resonant with many of our core values.
As part of our initial brainstorming activities at this week's divisional faculty meeting, we also used an iPad tool that SYP Partners have developed called Unstuck. While primarily intended for individual problem solving, we used it to frame some small group work. We think that it may also have some interesting uses with our seventh and eighth graders to support goal setting activities in advisory. If you're an iPad user, check it out and let me know what you think. Below are some quotes from the app that we used to frame our initial work about engaging in change efforts. What change efforts are you currently undertaking? Maybe these quotes will provide some inspiration.
On other fronts, the return from Winter Break signals the return of the National Geographic Society Geography Bee. Our Geography Bee, which began before the break with preliminary competitions in each homeroom, culminated with the School Championship that took place last week in Middle School Meeting. Representing their respective homerooms were fifth graders Aditya and Maisy, sixth graders Beckett and Monica, seventh graders Lauren and Lola and eighth graders Davis and Halle. After several rounds of competition, the group of eight was reduced to three. Beckett emerged as our third place winner and Maisy and Monica moved on to the championship round, which was ultimately settled after several tiebreaker rounds with Maisy answering the fifth tiebreaker question correctly. Maisy will now move on to take the state-level qualifying exam. Well done and congratulations to all of our participants!
It has been an exciting week in the middle school with the Winter Concert, the Young Composers and Improvisers Workshop concerts for 5th and 6th graders where close to 80 new pieces were premiered by the Metropolis Ensemble and our Seventh Grade Colonial Museum. All of these events and the associated work that led up to them provide clear evidence of the rich and intellectually demanding life of our middle school students. No where has this commitment to purpose been more clear than in the efforts of one of our eighth grade social justice groups that has chosen to focus on gun control issues.
Please support this effort and let others know about it as well. Tomorrow, we will convene as a preK-twelfth grade community for our annual Winter Assembly and buddy group will eat lunch together. I hope that you have a restful winter break and I look forward to the exciting work that lies ahead in the new year.
Ideo Fellow Bob Sutton recently blogged about the Kurt Vonnegut poem "Joe Heller" whose theme was resonant with the just passed Thanksgiving holiday. In the poem, Vonnegut writes:
And Joe said, "I've got something he can never have."And I said, "What on earth could that be, Joe?"And Joe said, "The knowledge that I've got enough."
At our recent Thanksgiving assembly I talked about the meaning of Thanksgiving in the context of privilege and the need for us to develop a more empathic connection to others and to the world around us. We talked about wants and needs and how for those struggling to meet their basic needs, finding thanks on Thanksgiving can be complicated. We talked about the famous line from To Kill A Mocking Bird that our eighth graders read, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." So how do we move towards this state of empathy in our lives and in our school?
As writer and education activist Sam Chaltain observes in commenting on the work of Emotional Intelligence author Dan Goleman and behavioral scientist Paul Ekman:
As it turns out, there's a formula we can use to explain how people master empathy, even if no one's ever described it that way before. And best of all, it's got a familiar ring to it:
E = EC².What Goleman and Ekman mapped out — in a little-read blog post from 2007 — was three different ways a person can convey empathy. The first is "cognitive empathy," or the act of knowing how another person feels. This is the first stage of becoming empathetic, and while it may be helpful in motivating people or running for elective office, it also has a dark side if it exists in isolation: narcissism and sociopathic behavior, to name a few.The second is "emotional empathy," or the capacity to physically feel the emotions of another. As with cognitive empathy, however, emotional empathy can have troublesome consequences if applied in isolation. As Goleman writes, "One downside of emotional empathy occurs when people lack the ability to manage their own distressing emotions can be seen in the psychological exhaustion that leads to burnout. The purposeful detachment cultivated by those in medicine offers one way to inoculate against burnout. But the danger arises when detachment leads to indifference, rather than to well-calibrated caring."That leads to the third and final part of the formula — "compassionate empathy", which is what occurs when we combine the previous two in the name of acting upon what we think and feel.
This is a powerful idea and one that is closely aligned with the core elements of the LREI experience. However, we can be more intentional in the various ways that we cultivate this habit is our students and in ourselves. In thinking about empathy, gratitude and the spirit of Thanksgiving, I'm compelled to offer thanks to the members of the middle school faculty for their dedicated, passionate and purposeful commitment to our program, your children and to each other as colleagues.
At our opening faculty meeting in September, I asked faculty members to consider the following questions posed in a blog post by Erin Paynter:
Their responses, which follow below, are grounded in profound sense of empathy and affirm Vonnegut's notion that true meaning can be found in "the knowledge that I've got enough."
I'm fortunate to be able to spend Wednesday through Friday of this week at the annual New York Association of Indepenedent Schools (NYSAIS) Division Heads Conference. It is a chance to connect, reflect and learn with colleagues representing a wide cross-section of independent schools. The theme of this year's confeence is "Global Engagement." This morning, I presented a workshop about our eighth grade Social Justice Project:
Click on the image below to view slides from the presentation:
The keynote speaker for the conference was educator John Hunter who developed the fascinating "World Peace Game." The following, which was used to introduce John, gets at the key theme's John addressed:
I'll have more to say about John's inspiring words and their relevance to the LREI expereince in a future post after I've had more time to process and reflect on what I learned. For now, please enjoy John's deeply engaging TEDtalk:
Well said, Matt! I look forward to sharing in the unfolding of these musical stories.
Creativity is nurtured by freedom and stifled by the continuous monitoring, evaluation, adult-direction, and pressure to conform that restrict children's lives today. In the real world few questions have one right answer, few problems have one right solution; that's why creativity is crucial to success in the real world. But more and more we are subjecting children to an educational system that assumes one right answer to every question and one correct solution to every problem, a system that punishes children (and their teachers too) for daring to try different routes. We are also, as I documented in a previous essay, increasingly depriving children of free time outside of school to play, explore, be bored, overcome boredom, fail, overcome failure—that is, to do all that they must do in order to develop their full creative potential.
As Children's Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity – Peter Gray
My classroom is 'ungraded.' Want to know one of the biggest mis-perceptions out there? That grades equal learning. I didn't realize it until someone blatantly insinuated that my students were just "doing stuff" and not really learning, because I don't "give grades." That conversation has caused me to evaluate and re-evaluate every single thing I do in my classroom. I've taught in a traditional classroom, I've given hundreds, probably thousands, of grades. I cringe at the thought of what I used to assign points for. Crossword puzzles. Vocabulary definitions. Doing stuff. The way I assess students now? It's far more accurate than any grade I ever assigned. When we focus on filling our grade books with points and assigning letters to define what our students know, we miss out on something. When we discuss, give powerful feedback, listen carefully, observe, interview, give them room to create, reflect, and revise, we know more. When we have a record of where they began and where they ended up in our classroom, we know more. Far more. We know them. We know their learning. Real learning? It's a messy, non-linear process. It cannot simplified into a letter or even points.
Know Their Learning, Know Them – Krissy Venosdale
My view is that we are teaching EVERY child way too much stuff, that EVERY child does not need nearly as much math or science or literature or history as we seem to think, and I believe that EVERY child loses a fair amount of creativity and curiosity in our zeal to deliver and test the all encompassing curriculum. And we do this because we think school is the only place to easily learn all that stuff, or because that's what "college readiness" is. And in our subject-based world, everyone will fight to the death against eliminating any of it.But at what cost?
What is the "Sound Foundation"? - Will Richardson
"Don't" messages are utilized quite often in the work environment. Workplace "don't" messages include statements such as "Don't be late" (for meetings or deadlines), "Don't be a jerk" (don't yell or be rude), "Don't promise what you can't deliver" and the like. By stating these messages in positive terms and describing desired behavior, better alignment to that behavior occurs. By stating, "Be on time," "Be kind" or "Be of service," these messages become much more actionable.
Build your desired culture with "do" messages – Chris Edmonds


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Hugh Douglas Leaves ESPN After Allegedly Calling Co-Host Michael Smith An 'Uncle Tom'
Hugh Douglas will no longer be a co-host on ESPN's Numbers Never Lie. The former Philadelphia Eagles superstar was reportedly fired after getting into an ugly confrontation with co-host Michael Smith at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Orlando last week.
During the public altercation, Douglas allegedly hurled a number of offensive comments at Smith, including dubbing him an "Uncle Tom." Incidentally, the slur is meant to refer to a black person who is servile to a white people or is seen to assimilate to white culture. It's a reference to the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
After the incident became public, ESPN spokesperson David Scott had released a statement, which read, "We are aware there was a disagreement between Hugh Douglas and Michael Smith on Friday. We are looking into the situation." On Tuesday, ESPN spokesperson Mike Soltys confirmed that Douglas would no longer be on the network.
Douglas, who had not appeared on ESPN following the much-publicized event, does not appear to be pleased with his departure. "I am very disappointed to be leaving ESPN," he tweeted. "And will have more to say about this situation and my future at the appropriate time."
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Egypt's Jon Stewart, Bassem Youssef, Cancels Program Amid Safety Concerns
Egypt's most potent satirist is off the air.
The impact of the Arab Spring concerns protests or by the way attempts to organize growing protest movements that were inspired by or similar to the Arab Spring in the Arab-majority states of North Africa and the Middle East, according to commentators, organisers, and critics. These demonstrations and protest efforts have all been critical of the government in their respective countries, though they have ranged from calls for the incumbent government to make certain policy changes to attempts to bring down the current political system in its entirety. In some countries, protests have become large or widespread enough to effect change at the national level, as in Armenia, while in others, such as Djibouti, were swiftly suppressed.
Protests considered to be inspired by the Arab Spring have taken place on every inhabited continent, with varying degrees of success and prominence. On 15 October 2011, the subsidiary "Occupy" and Indignants movements inspired protests in 950 cities in 82...
Egypt's most potent satirist is off the air.
Happy birthday, Facebook! It's only been 10 years, but the company that connected the world has had more experiences than most have in a lifetime. It's been the focus of a major motion film. It's played a role in multiple political revolutions. And most notably, it connects more people than any other single company ever has.
KIEV, UKRAINE -- "This is how storm has started," Kateryna Kruk, a former parliament press secretary who quit her job on Nov. 21 to join pro-European protests in Kiev, wrote on Twitter. Her tweet included a video of special Interior Ministry troops assembling en masse in the government district of the Ukrainian capital just before 1 a.m. local time on Dec. 11.
Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi just rejected the army's ultimatum with a single tweet.
Nearly half a million Egyptians took to Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday, demanding President Mohamed Morsi leave office exactly one year after he was elected. As military helicopters flew overhead, demonstrators used laser pointers to paint them in a multi-colored shower of light: Image via Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images It's unclear if the laser pointers were an act of civil disobedience or something more violent: Laser pointers can temporarily blind pilots, putting them in mortal danger.
Facebook has not handed over user data to Turkish authorities during the country's ongoing anti-government protests, the company said in a Wednesday statement. Facebook's comments follow a Turkish government minister's claim that Facebook was "in cooperation with the state" while Twitter was refusing to supply user data, per NPR.
Two years after the Arab Spring, questions still remain as to how much social media actually helped fuel and drive the uprisings that arose in Tunisia and swept across the region. But regardless of what happened during those Twitter-fueled revolutions, what's happened afterward? That's what social media analytics firm Crimson Hexagon and Sanitas International wanted to find out when it decided to analyze tweets coming out of Egypt, Libya and even Syria, where there still is a war going on.
Almost everyone in the U.S. has come to know and love (or hate) the "Harlem Shake" meme as a mostly benign, viral YouTube craze. But in Egypt and Tunisia, it's taken on another meaning entirely: It's an act of political protest. About 400 young men did the "Harlem Shake" while chanting for the departure of Islamist Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi outside the Muslim Brotherhood's main office in the Egyptian capital of Cairo Thursday night.
Matthew VanDyke always intended to fight in Libya. In February 2011, VanDyke -- then a 31-year-old aspiring filmmaker -- journeyed to the North African nation in the early throes of revolution. He had told his mother and girlfriend that he would be guarding weapons convoys. In reality, he would enlist in the rebellion, be captured, spend six months in solitary confinement and escape to fight the end of the war.
Successful and powerful people often have many enemies. The Internet isn't a person, but rather, a powerful tool for spreading information that has successfully aided in overthrowing oppressive governments. During the Arab Spring in 2011, full-scale revolutions were born and nourished on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. SEE ALSO: 9 Social Media Uprisings That Sought to Change the World in 2011 Governments around the world seem to have taken notice.
UPDATE 2:05 p.m. ET: According to Google's Transparency Report, there isn't currently a visible blockage. "We have received information that users cannot get access to Gmail and Google Search in Iran," a Google spokesperson told Mashable via email. "We have checked our networks and there is nothing wrong on our side." 12:02 p.m. ET: The Iranian government blocked access to Google's search engine and Gmail as the country readies a closed domestic Internet system.
Unrest sparked by a YouTube video, considered derogatory of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, spread to Yemen Thursday, leading hundreds of demonstrators to storm the U.S. embassy. Protesters in Sana, Yemen's capital, reportedly climbed the embassy's perimeter wall, set fire to a building compound and began attempting to loot equipment, before being dispersed by security forces. Some demonstrators were injured in the fracas.
As forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad clash with the rebel Free Syrian Army in the streets of Syria, Internet-savvy government supporters are fighting a parallel information war in cyberspace. Called the Syrian Electronic Army, the group has a single mission: unleash an onslaught of pro-government propaganda upon the Internet.
Social media is often credited with helping spread the Arab Spring, as activists shared messages of discontent and organized protests using Facebook and Twitter. More than a year after the Arab Spring began in Tunisia, it has become a megaphone for propaganda from both sides of the struggle in conflict-ridden Syria.
After anti-government fighters in the Free Syrian Army took control of several border crossings between Syria and its neighboring countries on Thursday, some of them posted celebratory footage to YouTube, seen above. According to The New York Times, this particular crossing connects Syria to Turkey, but other reports indicate rebel activity at crossings between Syria and Iraq as well.
An apparent suicide bombing rocked Syria's capital of Damascus and killed several top government officials amid an apparent attempt by the rebel Free Syrian Army to establish a foothold in the city Wednesday. Details of the story quickly spread over social media, which has been an invaluable tool for organizers of the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings taking place across the Middle East.
Is Internet access and online freedom of expression a basic human right? The United Nations' Human Rights Council unanimously backed that notion in a resolution on Thursday. The resolution says that all people should be allowed to connect to and express themselves freely on the Internet. All 47 members of the Human Rights Council, including notoriously censorship-prone countries such as China and Cuba, signed the resolution.
WikiLeaks has begun releasing 2.4 million emails from Syria, many of which it claims were written by government officials and Syrian businesses. The secret-sharing organization made the announcement about the emails, which it's calling the "Syria Files," Thursday morning in multiple languages on Twitter. Its main servers were shortly thereafter overloaded with either "[hacking] or popularity," according to @WikiLeaks, which sent out alternate links for downloading the data dump.
Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi has been elected president of Egypt in the country's first free election, the election commission declared. The news took Twitter to its knees Sunday. Morsi beat Ahmed Shafiq, former prime minister under ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, by a narrow margin. According the the comission, Morsi won 51.7% of the vote while Shafiq received 48.3%.
Ahmed Shafik and Mohamed Morsi are two presidential candidates who have claimed victory in Egypt's election, the results of which are expected Thursday. The process has been muddled by allegations of fraud and Constitutional Court rulings which consolidated power in the hands of the military, which has been ruling the country since the ouster of ex-President Hosnai Mubarak.
Former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, is reportedly in a coma as the country sorts out results of a presidential election that was complicated by several Constitutional Court decisions to consolidate power with the military. Mubarak, 84, was rumored to have "clinically died" last night after suffering a stroke and being moved from prison to a hospital. As additional reports spread on Twitter throughout the evening, it became apparent that he remained alive.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was declared dead by Egyptian state media, though reports are conflicting as to whether he is in critical condition on life support. News of his deteriorating health, though conflicted, comes as protesters return to Tahrir Square to protest military rule in the country. Mashable has not confirmed Mubarak's current state and is basing its report on other agencies.
Egypt has been in tremendous flux since citizens began protesting the decades-long rule of ex-President Hosni Mubarak. Late Tuesday afternoon, Egyptian state media, followed by U.S. news sources, reported that Mubarak was clinically dead. His reported death brings renewed global attention to the ever-changing narrative of Egypt's revolution. The Internet and social media played a key role in the Egyptian uprising -- many Egyptians turned to services such as Twitter to organize protests.
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court sparked a new wave of chaos and disorder in the country on Thursday by dissolving Parliament and giving a green light to the presidential aspirations of ousted president Hosnai Mubark's former prime minister. News of the decision quickly spread via social media, which protesters first used to organize anti-Mubarak protests, and has since become an integral part of turmoil in Egypt and across the Middle East.
Social media has been often touted for the role it played in the popular uprisings that have spread across the Arab world since December 2010. Despite the buzz, you may be surprised that only 0.26% of the Egyptian population, 0.1% of the Tunisian population and 0.04% of the Syrian population are active on Twitter.
Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president who was ousted from office during an uprising last year, was sentenced by a judge Saturday to life in prison for the killing of unarmed protesters during what has become known as the Arab Spring. Social media played a key role in the uprising that began in January 2011 on the Day of Rage -- a protest of Mubarak's 30-year rule.


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Brunching at Verde on Smith in Brooklyn for Anna's Birthday! I love Smith Street and all the great restaurants in the area. Have to make it out to Brooklyn more often!
Verde on Smith, 216 Smith Street Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
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Brunching at Verde on Smith in Brooklyn for Anna's Birthday! I love Smith Street and all the great restaurants in the area. Have to make it out to Brooklyn more often!
Verde on Smith, 216 Smith Street Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
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Homemade Corned Beef Hash
Making good use of leftover St. Patrick's Day corned beef. Add a gooey fried egg and you got yourself an awesome meal. Taste better than the stuff from the can. Recipe is here.
Steak and Eggs for breakfast (brunch) and live music. Then a short walk to see the beautiful Manhattan Bridge. Can't beat that!
Superfine, 126 Front St (between Adams St & Jay St) Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
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I made and ate another "Whatever I had in my Fridge" Brunch this Sunday:
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Today I made and ate a "Whatever I had in the Fridge" brunch which included scrambled eggs, bruschetta, sausage links, roasted red peppers, and cucumber kimchi! Tasty!
I put the baby bananas in the photo for decoration. =)
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I had a luxurious brunch at Prune this weekend which included oysters, grilled homemade lamb sausage, stewed tomatoes, and grilled peasant bread. I first heard about this place from watching my favorite TV show, Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations: New York City episode where he listed this restaurant as one of his favorite spots. I can only guess that this is the reason why there was a 45 minute wait.
Brunch was good, but Prune is famous for their roasted bone marrow; which unfortunately is not on their brunch menu.
Prune, 54 East 1st Street (btw 1st and 2nd Ave.), East Village
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Bubby's Brooklyn in DUMBO for brunch. Great food and great view!
Bubby's Brooklyn, 1 Main Street- Dumbo, Brooklyn
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Buttermilk Pancakes with Valhrona Chocolate Chips from tbsp
I admit, sometimes my eyes are bigger than my stomach. When I'm out at brunch I want something savory like eggs and bacon, but I also crave pancakes. I often can't decide on just one thing. I convinced my friend Matt to share an order of pancakes with me, but in usual cases, we're often stuffed before we even tackle them. However, tbsp's chocolate pancakes are too good to pass up. The pancakes are light an fluffy and the chocolate chips melt while on the warm pancakes, creating a gooey chocolate sauce. In my opinion, there is no need for syrup. Mmm, so good!
tbsp, 17 W 20th Street (btw 5th and 6th Aveunues)
Clinton Street Baking Co. & Restaurant
At 10:30AM, there was already a 1.5 hour wait. I should have taken a photo of the line outside the door. The people waiting to get a table took up most of the sidewalk. And yes, I think the wait was totally worth it. The food was great and the portions were generous. They are known to have the best pancakes in New York. I think that's why people flock here in droves to come try them. Also, it's "Pancake Month" but these special pancakes are only served on weekdays. Anyways, I think weekend brunch is usually this crazy for them. Clinton Street Baking Co. has made it to one of my top brunch places in NYC.
Photos from top left corner: Tomato Fennel Bisque with Grilled Goat Cheese Sandwich (special), Japanese Pumpkin Waffle (special), Blueberry Pancakes with Warm Maple Butter, Crab Cake Sandwich, Southern Breakfast-(2 eggs, cheese grits, sugar-cured bacon, fried green tomato), Country Breakfast (not really pictured- 3 eggs, grilled 'cured 81' ham steak, hashbrowns, and buttermilk buscuit)
Clinton Street Baking Co. & Restaurant, 4 Clinton Street (btw E. Houston & Stanton St.) Lower East Side


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News featuring Sheryl Crow
The following news stories mention Sheryl Crow. Stories are compiled from a hand-picked selection of popular music news sites based in Great Britain, Europe and the United States. Updated less than 9 hours ago.
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Tuesday 28th October
"Sheryl Crow review: country in its glossiest, most overwhelming register"
Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Crow is energised and focused, commanding the spotlight but also able to melt into the background Continue reading...
Read the complete article at feeds.theguardian.com
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Monday 28th July
"Hilary Duff's "Chasing The Sun": Review Revue"
Hilary Duff's got us wishing we were hanging out by the beach on this Monday afternoon with her breezy new comeback single, "Chasing The Sun." While the airy, "folkier-type" Colbie Caillat-penned tune had us remembering Metamorphosis (and Sheryl Crow's "Soak Up The Sun"), we were also sort of left hoping for a bit more of ... More »
Read the complete article at www.idolator.com
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Wednesday 16th July
"Sheryl Crow wants to wed"
Read the complete article at www.contactmusic.com
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Monday 14th July
"Singer Sheryl Crow: Learning To Feel Helped Me Make Better Music"
In this encore presentation, Grammy Award-winning singer Sheryl Crow talks about her music, motherhood, love, breast cancer and what she's learned from it all.
Read the complete article at www.npr.org
'14 Jun 10 Tue
Tuesday 10th June
"Sheryl Crow To Perform At Petra Nemcova's Tsunami Anniversary Fundraiser"
Read the complete article at www.contactmusic.com
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Wednesday 4th June
"Pop Montreal Reveals Initial 2014 Lineup with Panda Bear, Ronnie Spector, Twin Shadow, Sheryl Crow"
Pop Montreal is coming up yet again this September, and today (June 4) festival organizers revealed their first batch of headliners. By the looks of things, the 13th annual event, which takes place across Montreal from September 17 to 21, may boast the fest's most diverse lineup yet. Notable acts at the festival include Animal Collective member and renowned solo artist Panda Bear, cult heroes Donnie & Joe Emerson, Ronettes' legend Ronnie Spector, veteran songwriter Suzanne Vega, Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon project and '80s pop revivalist Twin Shadow. The fest even includes a performance...Read More
Read the complete article at exclaim.ca
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Saturday 31st May
"Festivals guide 2014 listings: jazz, blues and soul"
The best jazz, blues and soul festival listings of 2014
When 26-31 October
Read the complete article at feeds.theguardian.com
'14 May 20 Tue
Tuesday 20th May
"Jeff Bridges And Sheryl Crow To Co-host Austin City Limits Benefit Concert"
Read the complete article at www.contactmusic.com
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Tuesday 15th April
"In Defense Of ... Jesse Winchester"
With the news that the singer-songwriter has passed, it's time to look back on someone Bob Dylan once dubbed 'The Greatest Living Songwriter'.
Above: Press photo. Photographer unknown. "That's it, Jesse. The show's over. You finished me off. It happened at rehearsals and it happened now." Such was sheepishly uttered from the great Elvis Costello during an episode of the short-lived television series Spectacle. The Jesse in that sentence refers to Jesse Winchester, who had just finished performing his new song, "Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding". He ran through it all by himself as Costello, the show's host, Sheryl Crow, Ron Sexsmith…
Read the complete article at www.popmatters.com
'14 Mar 25 Tue
Tuesday 25th March
"Sheryl Crow likes to 'test drive' men"
Sheryl Crow likes to ''test drive'' men.The 'All I Wanna Do' hitmaker - who has adopted sons Wyatt, six, and Levi, three - admits she struggles to...
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My bi-pride bracelet my bestie made me. <3
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Bisexual Pride Buttons available from the Bisexual Resource Center (BRC) Store and only $2 each, so buy some
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Bisexual Female Symbol by Jon-Boys
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This is what I put on my stomach for pride today! I was also COVERED in glitter. Pride was amazing :D
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I know what you're thinking. It's a new week, and with a new week comes new anxiety – namely, the fear of the Wednesday hump. All potential inappropriate jokes aside, there is a cure for your midweek melancholy. It's called Bilateral, and it's serving up a double dose of awesome every Wednesday at 7PM in the Spectrum Center.In a nutshell, Bilateral is adiscussion-based group that focuses on issues pertaining to the elusive "B" in LGBTQA. Welcome to Bilateral, we're happy to have you. Bilateral focuses on visibility and support for bi-identified individuals and works to promote understanding/tolerance in the University of Michigan community.Other than hosting weekly meetings in the Spectrum Center that are open to any and all (allies and queer folk alike!), Bilateral makes sure we all have a good time on Celebrate Bisexuality Day (every fall), throws movie nights, field trips to Kerrytown and the Safe Sex Store, as well as hosts inclusive speed dating events.WHAT.Did you say inclusive speed dating?!Correct. In fact, speed dating will be taking place TODAY, Monday February 13th, in the Henderson room on the 3rd floor of the League. Different gender dating takes place at 6:30, and same gender dating takes place at 8:30. Come for one time slot or come for both! Snag a date for Valentines Day! Snag a number! Either way, the bisexy folks of Bilateral promise you'll have an inclusive good time!Happy dating!See you Wednesdays at 7 PM in the Spectrum Center!
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If you consider yourself to any degree sexually fluid,
i.e. sometimes you like one gender and then another day you like another
or you are interested in romantic relationships with one gender and sexual with another exclusively
or you just wobble around like a goddamn sine curve
Please reblog this, it would be nice to be in good company
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newsflash by Dametora
So, I know that some women do identify as both bi and lesbian, and that's awesome - but this is an important newsflash for monosexuals everywhere.
Image: in bi pride colours on a postage stamp: a bisexual women IS NOT A LESBIAN
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New graphic: a bifeminist sign for SlutWalks
I originally made this in Hebrew, towards the Tel Aviv SlutWalk to take place on March 16th (Hooray).
Please feel free to print, distribute and of course use as a SlutWalk sign (for non-commercial purposes only!) ^_^
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Look what I just made!
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Rwanda releases U.S. lawyer Erlinder
Progressive U.S. lawyer Peter Erlinder has been freed from jail in Rwanda and may be returning to the United States within the next few days.
José Luís Centella leads Spanish Communist delegation to Cuba
As a U.S. and European media campaign, orchestrated particularly by right wing Spanish publications, reached full throttle, José Luis Centella demanded an end to the European Union's so-called "Common Position," which conditions any full European opening to the island on Cuban protection of human rights.
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Greek workers reject cuts, new U.S. base for Honduras, rights abuses in Western Sahara.
10th World Social Forum in Porto Alegre
The 10th World Social Forum opened on Jan. 26 in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre with a call for activists across the world to "unite to change the world.
Persecuted Middle East gays hope for resettlement
In Iran, there is a three to four day gap between when an individual is reported to the police for being homosexual, and when the police arrive to arrest that individual. Most flee before the police arrive, making such preparations as they can and becoming refugees. Iranians don't need visas to enter Turkey, so that is a common destination. Most refugees flee over the mountains, a grueling trek.


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I might not be as active in the education community here on tumblr as I used to be, but let me tell you, this is a beautiful, beautiful thing. heygirlteacher ain't got nothin' on you, world-shaker!
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