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© Myfanwy Phillips 2015. Lincoln NH. With my friends, Lois Henson and Camille Roy.
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This photo was taken on Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana by Billy Hathorn. It's a favorite of mine.
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For a short time I lived in Chelsea. The Rolling Stones were sometimes the band at the Town Hall on a Saturday night - that is, to say - before they hit the big time. Back then they wore black pants with pink shirts and ruffles. Marianne Faithfull was 'the girlfriend' and she was the reason we looked the way we did, and still do. After hours we would go down to Scotts of St. James, a club owned by Michael Caine and Peter Sellers. Peter had a maroon colored Rolls Royce parked outside the front door. The house band there was Eric Burdon and The Animals. We danced... we danced all night long. In 1966 I moved to Toronto for some particular good reason, and there I danced again, on the stage of the O'Keefe Center. I danced with the wicked Wilson Pickett, he of 'InThe Midnight Hour' and '6345789, That's My Number.' I hoped that he'd give me a kiss at the end of the song, but he only took my hand! At the Rock and Roll festival (I'm in the Pennebaker movie for about four seconds, not my fifteen minutes of fame I'd say) I'm dancing again, listening to Jerry Lee Lewis sing 'You Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog:" That's me, in a still. John and Yoko were there.
Chuck Berry sent down an emissary to invite me out after the show. I surely would have gone, but alas, I had someplace else to go.
Jerry Lee Lewis. The Story of Rock and Roll. A film by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus 1991.
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When I was seventeen I went up to London to work. I made these drawings a couple of years before. They are (loosely) based on myself and the clothes I used to wear. Dolly Birds we were. Our territory was the King's Road. 'Twiggy' time; 1961.
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... has been cancelled this year. However, they're out there, the fishermen, the afficianodos. They know how it goes and they are unafraid of the elements. "We're New Englanders", they say. As for the fish, they're tiny - but such love and persistence do they they inspire!
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Meeting new cousins !!
Today cousins we never met, came from VA to Idaho. What a thrill..........hope we all have the same chance several times over. He is the gg grandson of Conrad and Antionette Glade. And my husbans 2nd cousin. Genealogy has brought them together
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Do you owe library fines? Get Amnesty now!
Library users with overdue fines can bring in cans of food to donate to Second Harvest food bank which will in turn eliminate library fines! To participate in amnesty day, bring your overdue item along with a can of nonperishable food to any library location. Up to $50 of fines can be forgiven per account.
There are restrictions, so check out full story including library locations and hours for amnesty day at http://www.cityofknoxville.org/Press_Releases/Content/2010/1110.asp
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The Woodrow Wilson Foundation Leadership Program for Teachers 2000 Summer Biology Institute on Biodiversity lists these 10 common weeds:
Milkweed - An important nectar source for bees and other nectar seeking insects, and a larval food source for monarch butterflies and their relatives, as well as a variety of other herbivorous insects. It is not the most beautiful flower in the world, but it serves an important function in the environment.
Mullein - The down on the leaves and stem of the common mullein makes it burn quite readily when dried, so it was used for lamp wicks before the introduction of cotton; therefore, an historic name for the plant was "Candlewick Plant". Today, a decoction of the flowers is still used as an emollient and treatment for ulcers, wounds and hemorrhoids and for relaxation of the digestive tract and mucous membranes. It also sooths the liver and gallbladder. The leaves have exhibited strong anti-inflammatory properties.
Plantain - Current use of plantain is the commercially significant extraction of its mucilage – a carbohydrate fiber that is used in gentle laxatives. Mucilage also acts as an appetite suppressant and reduces intestinal absorption of fat and bile. It reduces LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood. Plantain is commonly used as an astringent; its juice, when rubbed on an insect bite or bee sting, immediately sooths the area and begin the healing process. It can also stop poison ivy from blistering and itching if applied to the skin immediately after contact.
Dandelion - were actually brought to the United States from Europe to provide food for honeybees. Various clinical studies have demonstrated the legitimate use of dandelion as a diuretic, a bile production stimulant, a mild laxative, and an excellent source of potassium. Dandelions are still used as food; many enjoy the dandelion leaves boiled like spinach or mixed in salads. Baby dandelion leaves are often found in haute cuisine. The root, when dried, has been used in coffee substitutes.
Queen Anne's Lace - Queen Anne's Lace contains flavonoids, essential oils, vitamins B and C, pectin, lecithin, glutamine, phosphatide and cartotin, a vitamin A precursor. Chinese research has confirmed the function of Queen Anne's Lace seeds as an abortifacient; other research has shown the plant to be a bactericidal, a diuretic, a hypotensive, and an effective treatment for parasites. It is said to have been named after Queen Anne of England, an expert lace maker. When she pricked her finger with a needle, a single drop of blood fell into the lace, thus the dark purple floret in the center of the flower.
Red Clover - Studies are being done in the use of red clover for combating AIDS, diabetes and the increased cardiovascular risk associated with menopause. Red clover is a member of the legume (pea) family. These are a group of plants that are able to take nitrogen from the atmosphere and make it biologically available to other plants. Nitrogen fixation is of critical importance in protein production in plants and makes the legumes a critical player in agricultural planning.
Red Clover - Studies are being done in the use of red clover for combating AIDS, diabetes and the increased cardiovascular risk associated with menopause. Red clover is a member of the legume (pea) family. These are a group of plants that are able to take nitrogen from the atmosphere and make it biologically available to other plants. Nitrogen fixation is of critical importance in protein production in plants and makes the legumes a critical player in agricultural planning.
St. John's Wort - St. Johnswort is undoubtedly one of the most heavily researched herbal remedies. People use St. Johnswort in capsule and tea form to elevate their moods. Research has verified its efficacy as an anti-depressant, antibiotic and anti-inflammatory. Other studies have shown it as a potent anti-retroviral agent, making it a possible treatment for AIDS. It may also prove to be useful against other viral infections.
White Clover -A member of the Leguminosae family, which includes red clover and other plants such as peas, beans and peanuts that are nitrogen fixers. Native Americans used whole clover plants in salads, and made a white clover leaf tea for coughs and colds. It makes excellent feed, pasture, hay, and silage for livestock and poultry. Once established it serves excellently as a cover crop and in stabilizing soil and reducing erosion.
While it is true that there are some truly unwanted, unloved, and uninviting weeds in the world perhaps we should change our perception a bit. By educating ourselves and identifying noxious, invasive weeds, we might begin to see the beauty (and uses) in some of our wildest flowers.
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Please not that I used the term syntactic schema for a very specific reason. There are some members of W3C Staff that believe that HTML could be considered a "schema" language. Hence why I used the term "syntactic schema". This has come up in the TAG discussions on what could/should be retrievable from a namespace URI. Cheers, Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]On > Behalf Of Christopher Ferris > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:37 AM > To: wsawg public > Subject: D-AC010.1 discussion points > > > D-AC010.1 > "Each new architectural area is representable in a syntactic schema > language like XML Schema." > > MSFT: Change "is representable in a syntactic schema language > like XML Schema" > to "has its representation normatively specified in XML Schema". > > CVX: I'd rather have just the more general D-AC010 and leave > specifics like this unspecified. If > representing architectural areas using schema is a good way > to implement D-AC010, fine. > > W3C: What if the architectural area has an abstract model, > and a logical > way to do this is to model data with an RDF Schema? > > I would propose the following: > > Each new architectural area is representable in a schema language. > > PF: If an "architectural area" is something like "security", > "reliability", etc.. then I don't say > how they can be represented in XML. > > >Received on Tuesday, 21 May 2002 18:48:26 UTC
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The VMware Certified Associate Data Center Virtualisation September 1, 2013Posted by vbry21 in VMware blogs, VMware Training.
On Friday night 30th August 2013 I sat my VCA-DCV exam and passed.
The VCA-DCV stands for VMware Certified Associate – Data Center Virtualisation
So, here's how I prepped and passed the exam.
The training material is available free of charge from VMware's education website.
The course is called VMware Data Center Virtualisation Fundamentals and is a self-paced 2.5 hour web delivered course.
Once through the course, the next step is to register and then sit the exam.
The exam is available via Pearson VUE (costs £80 plus VAT £88, but book now and get 50% discount, comes to £48), but is delivered direct to your browser, the exam lasts 90 minutes and consists of 50 multiple choice questions.
Good luck.
- 1. davehope - September 12, 2013
Aside from the online 2.5 hour course which seemed to just describe the VMWare products, did you need any additional knowledge?
Looking at the exam blueprint document they provide, it lists stuff not covered by the course.
- 2. Bishnu - October 8, 2013
Is there any other materials other than vmware elearning to pass the exam?
Which exam i will take first i.e.VCA-CLOUD OR VCA-DCV ?
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The players were in sweats and shells as they began preparation for the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5. Quarterback Tom Brady was in attendance, while tight end Rob Gronkowski was the only player on the 53-man roster not present at the practice.
Gronkowski, who suffered an ankle sprain against the Ravens, has not been absent from practice very often; this is the first practice since Aug. 9 the Pro Bowl TE has not been present.
Practice squad TE Carson Butler was also not seen during the media portion of practice.
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My parents don't like me.
I know this because if they truly did, they would join facebook and spend the next several hours scrolling through every mundane post I've ever made, clicking "like" under each one. If they loved me, they'd even respond to each post with typed words.
My grandparents don't like me either. Especially the three dead ones. Surely they have the ability to click "like" from beyond the grave without even joining facebook, but they're not doing this.
For those of you who aren't facebook savvy (I use term "savvy" because it sounds so much more distinguished than "obsessed"), under each typed comment one enters, exist two little blue words: "comment" and "like." If you click on the "like" button, a tiny blue thumbs up icon appears, next to the words "You like this." It's a head nod to the writer of the comment. A "this made me smile" or "I agree!" or "I will now show my affection for your written skills by displaying a thumbs up for you."
I have become a like button whore.
The number of people in the world who actually like me fluctuates daily, as I see it; all contingent upon how many little blue thumbs up icons I see upon logging onto facebook, which I do more often in a day than I sneeze, use the bathroom, and brush my teeth- combined. At this very moment, I am liked by three people: an ex-student, a guy I haven't seen since 6th grade, and a girlfriend who was recently a house guest. She may feel obligated to like me at the moment, but the other two are perhaps the real deal.
A group of friends could show up to take me out to eat. They may knock on the door, greet me with flowers, and exclaim, "Bridget! We've come by to show our love and appreciation for you, good friend! Let us treat you to dinner!"
"Just a moment," I'd say, closing the door in their faces with a gentle click of the latch, as opposed to an angry slam. I'd scurry over to my laptop and log on. Upon navigating my way to my facebook wall and subsequent comments, I'd check to see if any of these bizarre 3-D people I've left on my front porch had actually liked anything I said. I'd close the laptop and return, suspect of their sincerity, if not merited by little blue thumbs ups left on my computer screen.
Once I post something, I prepare myself to receive your admiration or your indifference. Indifference equals hate, by the way. You probably didn't know this.
Bridget Maret would like to teach the world to sing...in that perfect off-key way that makes everyone just a little bit irritable.
4 minutes ago * Comment * Like
Enter. Poof. It's on my wall. Is it on the newsfeed? Click. It's on the newsfeed. Are people online? Click. People are online. Look at the little world icon. Any response? No response. Maybe that was only funny in my head. Is it still on the wall? Click. It's still on the wall. Is the Coca-Cola commercial reference too vague? Dated? I should have attached a youtube video of it. Let's watch the youtube video. Click. Type. Enter. Click. Oh, I loved that video. I'm a moron for not attaching that. Wonder if anyone's responded. Click. Check the world icon. Nope. Is it still on the newsfeed? Click. It's there. That was a stupid update. Makes me sounds like an asshole. What kind of asshole would want to make everyone irritable? Are you even like that? Not really. You're a pretty mellow and easy to get along with kind of person. Now you're a liar. Nice going, asshole. Check the wall. Click. There's your post, all hanging out there by itself. Unliked. You're an unlikable poster. You should delete it. Delete it right now. Check the world icon. Nothing. Delete it. Hurry, before people read it and see what a lying asshole you are. Check the newsfeed. Click. There it is, totally unliked. Oh, the humiliation.
This is what I've become.
On the flipside, I can wake up defeated, stumble over to my laptop, log on to facebook and be greeted by the equivalent of presents bursting from my Christmas stocking. Notifications! So and so likes your status. So and so commented on your status. So and so likes your status. So and so likes your status. Suddenly, I am Sally Field at the Oscars: "They like me! They really like me." I hug my laptop close to my chest and turn circles on the kitchen floor. Circles which evolve into pirouettes, really. Pirouettes that take me across the livingroom and out the front door. "They like me!" I sing, as I pirouette my way down Old Bonhomme Rd, blowing kisses of gratitude to the good people driving down the street. "Want to friend me on facebook?"
I hope to never see the day when technology advances in such a way that little hologram "like" buttons float near each person, about at belly-level. Here, in the midst of a conversation, one could virtually "like" what was being said. They could truly multi-task, paying bills yet reaching over to "like" their kid's description of a day at school or their wife's story about the funniest thing ever that happened on the way to get a manicure! Looking down and seeing a floating thumbs up would certainly boost the confidence of the speaker. But, think of the flipside.
In the meantime, I go to my facebook wall like a herion addict goes to his dealer. I know there's a genuine world waiting for me out there, full of people who assume they're liked by others just because there's no reason to assume the opposite. But until then, I'll be waiting for you to like me. Click.


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Tuesday, June 14, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM
4210 Holden Street,
Emeryville, CA
Join Monique Darling, Peter Petersen, Kelly Guava and other local pleasure revolutionaries as we co-lead a question and answer portion of the evening. YOU bring the questions... We will do our best to answer each and every one. What are you dying to know about dating and relationships? About life? What has you super curious, but there never seems an appropriate place to bring up your inquiry? This event is your chance! Ask away! And allow some authenticity and vulnerability when we sex geeks use our life's journeys and wisdom and courage (balls) to answer anything you throw our way.
Come and explore with us how to hold difficult conversations, understand the different love languages you and your loved ones might have as your filter of giving and receiving love, learn to communicate what is not being said in a way that will empower and connect you with others better. We will explore different modes of communication, verbal and nonverbal... and different relating styles, open relationships, agreements, flirting, transparency -- taking off your masks so that you can REALLY relate. Interspersing our favorite tools, and taking questions from the audience.
For all of you longing for more touch and cuddles......
We have got you covered....
Cuddle Party is a 3-hour workshop experience where participants engage in communication exercises, explore touch in a non-sexual space, experience personal exploration and intimacy, and have fun with likeminded friends from the community.
Nurturing and consensual loving touch is good for maintaining healthy blood pressure, a strong nervous system and a balanced emotional health. One's ability to connect with and develop greater trust in others is emphasized during the group exchanges during Cuddle Party's. Self-care is a cornerstone of Cuddle Party experience.
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Why are all my favorite bloggers quit blogging?? it's preposterous.
I miss all of them ( ´_ゝ`), they were great bloggers, they inspire me a lot and I enjoy reading all of their blogs.
Its just depressing that they don't blog anymore :( Even though I sometimes don't leave a comment! I DO READ YOUR BLOGS! ( ´д)ヒソ(´Д`)ヒソ(Д` )
anyways, today is the end of my 3rd term and luckily i passed math whoop!! Next term, I swear im going to try my very best!! and i don't want anymore 7:30 in the morning absurd classes and i'll leave a break time before my math classes so i have time to study for the quizzes or whatever.
It was a mistake on my part that my schedule is messed up last semester. I had 2 Math classes and I have no break time and some more had to wake up in 5am in the morning to get ready for my 7:30 class... I'm not going to make that same mistake again.


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I will not say much, but here's the link to the wiki in which I feel can compete with the Creepypasta Wiki!
http://spnpasta.wikia.com/wiki/Scare-FactorRead more >
Hello Everyone, My name is Perturbed Maverick! Proud owner of the Scarypasta Wiki!
Let's cut to the chase!
A Friend of mine has a remarkable Idea for a new pasta!
Here it is WORD FOR WORD.
1. 87 Cyber Criminals from New York City Establish a "Local police station" and infiltrate the NYPD Contact board, In which the 9/11 calls actually go to THEM instead!
2. After a mother and 5 kids have been Robbed at home By 2 men, The mother decides to call 9/11......
3. The Cyber Criminals, Posing as The NYPD Operation Team, Answer.
4. *snickers* "Hello, This is the NYPD, what is your emergency?".
5.After the Mother answers, and tells these Men where she was Calling from, The Cyber criminals come to her house and Murders Her and her Children.
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Aloha, Creepians! My Name Is Perturbed Maverick, and I Proudly Present a BRAND NEW WIKI in which was Established upon The Forgotten Corpse of The "Spinpasta 2.0 Wiki"!
The Unofficial Name for This newly Established Wiki, Is The "Scarypasta Wiki".
As Corny and super duper cheesy the name of the site sounds, it is a great achievement for Me and a few other Admins who had helped reach Our Ultimate Goal of creating a Site Dedicated To The Works of Fiction/Non-Fiction Horror! There are quite a few Renditions To The Wiki aswell , in which diffrentiates from The "FlagShip Wiki"(Creepypasta Wiki) in many ways! One Of Those Changes, Being that Chat is now up and running! The staff for the wiki Are programmed to treat members Kindly.
EX: Our Quality…Read more >
Explain to me why There are TWO Creepypasta sites! I am of course, Referring to This site, and Creepypasta.COM.....Just, Why?Read more >
Does the Creepypasta Wiki Have ANY Forms of competition from other wiki's? Or is this the only wiki for Writing Horror-Based Stories? If so, Where can I find them?Read more >


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After extensive testing and debriefing, the Acolytes are given medical care and recovery time, until being summoned to a land-train platform at the very edges of Hive Sibellus.
On this train they are met by Interrogator Nero and Aristarchus the Seer, and briefed on their next assignment. They are to infiltrate the Upper Echelons of the Tantalus Combine, with the intention of discovering any information of the whereabouts or motivations of Sybas Moran, the escaped heretical ringleader from Coscarla.
To accommodate this goal, Merica was set up as a younger member of House Strophes, of the Machenko Dynasty. They also worked closely with Laurent Strophes, the head of the family. With the acolytes of Cell Σ-03 posing as a young noble and her retinue, the investigation into the Tantalus Combine could begin in earnest.
It was discovered that the Combine was disintegrating rapidly after the loss of the Coscarla district to rioting and chaos, and all but a small number of the noble families had abandoned the company. Merica was able to influence a younger member of this house into an invitation to an important meeting of these houses to discuss future plans.
At this meeting, it was discovered that Sybas Moran had been working with these nobles on a plan which was supposed to elevate them to gods. This clearly heretical plan needed to be stopped, and Pistol Ruby attempted to contact the local Arbites to assist in the purge of the house. This contact was detected, and the house was sent into lockdown.
In an attempt to reopen communication, and ensure that Moran was taken alive for interrogation, Cell Σ-03 attempted to access a cogitator inside the home, but was attacked by a mysteriously augmented woman.


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I'd also like to thank my girl and the ultimate jack of all trades, Mazie. She has helped in every facet of the business and made my job much easier. Her help has been invaluable. Last and certainly not least, I wanna thank my brothers of Me Phi for being the best friends anyone could ask for. Without you guys none of this would be possible.
On To The Next One
Posted by Derek On Monday, February 01, 2010
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who came out and kicked it with us for the Grand Re-Opening. Me, Javon, and the rest of the Me Phi crew appreciate all the support you guys give us and can't thank you enough. Special shout out to the staff - Grizelle, Mo Fresh, Mario, and Curtis for all their help getting the store ready. We'd also like to thank The Fresh Fiends - La, Summer, and Christina, David Lewis, Jeremy Green, and DJ Chill for helping make the event a success. Below is a couple pics from photog Lamar Langston who was nice enough to come by and shoot the event for us. You can see more at his site - www.lamarlangston.com.
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3.2 Middle of Monday Night, 3.5 Middle of Last Night
Not exactly the kind of wake up call I like.
Despite being in the light to moderate category, both were centered about 3 miles from our home so they felt pretty significant. Hate these things and they scare the living daylight out of me.
Flashback to 6.7 Northridge quake in 1994 – I have this huge antique armoire that is adjacent to my bed. 4am and the earth is falling apart. I can't see a damn thing and can't hear anything beyond the tremendously loud rumble until the sound of a massive crash on the side of my bed, that misses me by a hair. Armoire down. Holy Crap I could have been crushed. Since that quake, I've had it bolted to the wall in most of our places, but in our current home, it's not secure and if it falls, I'm toast.
What do you think happened last night?
Nope, didn't fall.
I am so g-darn terrified of that thing that I leapt so high out of my side of the bed that I practically landed on the other side of the Mr., crushing him. Probably a bit reactive, but I am completely and totally terrified that I am going to lose the battle with that thing next time. Time to pin it to the wall. stat.
The weird thing about earthquakes is that they are one of the few natural disasters that you don't see coming. Hurricanes, Floods, Tornadoes, Heatwaves, Blizzards…for the most part, you get a bit of a heads up they're on their way. Earthquakes don't warn you, they shock you {usually out of your sleep}.
A few years ago I decided it was time to prepare for the unknown. I had one of those moments where I said to myself, you're an idiot if you don't prepare the best way you can for something you don't see coming — that could, by the way, be pretty destructive. So I put together an earthquake kit that the Mr. and I have gradually added to and refreshed over the years.
It includes:
- 2 Gallons of Water
- Water Purification Tablets
- 2 Aluminum Water Bottles
- 2 Dozen Cliff Bars
- 2 Emergency Blankets
- Ponchos
- Light Sticks
- Plastic Sheeting
- Duct Tape
- First Aid Kit
- Work Gloves
- Swiss Army Knife
- Toilet Paper
- Flashlight
- Radio
- Batteries
- Extra Clothes
- (100+) $1 bills
One of my friends gave me the brilliant idea to break our cash into the lowest common bill. In the event of an emergency, it is highly unlikely that someone is going to make change for us…and it is likely we'd concede to paying above and beyond for something if we didn't have smaller bills. We didn't have 100 $1 bills lying around, and who has time to actually go inside the bank these days, so we made a pact to put all of our $1 bills in a jar at the end of each day and within a matter of probably two weeks, we quickly made it to $100 for our earthquake pack.
The other thing we've done is establish a meeting place in the event that phone lines shut down and we don't have the means to connect with one another. The Mr. and I work on two opposite sides of town and my Dad and his wife live and work in the middle. We all wanted to ensure that if anything were to happen, we'd know where to go (no matter how many hours it took us to get there) to reconnect with one another.
As hard as it is to imagine and plan for a disaster, I have a sense of relief in knowing that we have a plan. The reality is that for all of our best efforts to prepare, we may not be really prepared for something, but at least I can say that we tried.
For those of you who have an earthquake or disaster plan, what are we missing? How can we better prepare?
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Amtel-Vredestein said Monday that it has held discussions with Germany's Continental AG CON, -1.49% over possible areas of cooperation in Russia. These discussions are at an early stage and may or may not lead to any agreement, said Amtel-Vredestein, adding that it made the statement after speculation in the Russian press. Amtel-Vredestein operates in the Netherlands and Russia and is one of the largest tire manufacturers in Europe.
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If you're in the health care industry you will know that sometimes it's a bit hard to find a good looking outfit for work. Most of the standard uniforms issued are boring and downright ugly. Not to worry, you can go to work dressed in fashionable scrubs with Katherine Heigl Scrubs available at ScrubsAndBeyond.com where you can find all the best looking scrub tops and pants so you can still look good at work.
Check out the latest arrivals of Medical Scrubs by Peaches Uniforms. The colors are bright and cheery and that's how going to work should be. There are also trendy pants to match those stylish scrubs and available in both men's and women's sizes. There are also some Nursing Scrubs and lab coats for both genders and while you're there you must also check out some of their other products like Halloween scrubs for kids and stethoscopes. Place your orders today and just pay a flat $5.50 for shipping.
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So, Politics doesn't effect you?
We have currently lost over 2,000 soldiers in Iraq. Countless others are pulling double and triple duty. Others who had enlisted as National Guardsmen/women are being called up for duty. Inactive duty soldiers are suddenly active. How many thousands has this happened to and how many more before these people are affected by Politics? In all reality, they're just blind and not paying attention. Politics effect you.
In California, politicians would like to outlaw incandescent light bulbs. This won't effect you, you say. They would also like to outlaw spanking children under the age of two. This won't effect you, either. There are myriad laws out there. Not one of these effects you, I suppose. You live in a politics-free environment. Bulley for you. But when that rug is pulled, you will be clueless as to how to stop it. And I can hear you asking now, "How could this happen? Why did no one stop this from happening?" Well, it's because you were too self absorbed.
Remember that when your son or daughter is called up, or killed, or effected by legislation and politics. I guess all I'm asking is that you wake the hell up.


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I moved into my first real apartment about two and a half years ago, and right after I moved in I bought my first real set of living room furniture. I got it off of craigslist, and the set came with a couch, chaise lounge, and coffee table for only a hundred bucks! I really liked the burnt orange color of the couch and chaise lounge when I bought it, and the coffee table was gorgeous. They all went with my color scheme that I had in my living room!
But, the thing I didn't like was that the corduroy fabric on the seat cushions had started to wear away from years of use. At the time, it wasn't a big deal - I just bought a floral blanket in the colors of my living room and wrapped them up so the couch looked newer and un-worn. That worked great for a while!
Right after I got the set, though, I adopted two kittens, Zeus and Oliver. They are my babies, but they also loved the couch as much as I did...so much that they wanted to literally be inside of it. After a few months of using the couch as a cat toy (unpreventable at this point because I was working a lot and they would do it while I wasn't home) they pulled the left side of the couch open and used it as a hiding and sleeping spot. I didn't mind much because I am pretty sure I bought the couch knowing that I would end up redoing it when I moved - and if I didn't it would just get chucked in the trash. It was an old couch and I knew it.
In December 2013 I started looking for new apartments because I needed to move closer to my job. And when I started doing that, I started getting ridiculously crafty and planning these huge projects to completely make over all of my furniture. I started planning colors and buying supplies in January 2014. My first victim was the coffee table - and you can read about that tutorial here! I restained and refinished that in March. I took a couple weeks off from projects to move, then once I got into my new place in April I started the couch.
Now, I would like to iterate that every couch is different and you won't be able to follow this tutorial exactly, especially if your couch has more detailing than mine did. Plus, if you're a beginner like me you are bound to make mistakes. I made many - and you might have to improvise some extra detailing in the couch to cover up your mistakes (which I had to do...a LOT)! But, to help prevent mistakes, I've included my thoughts on my first project as well as videos that I used from professionals that show you how to do certain parts of the couch. I hope you find this useful - enjoy!
Things to Know Before You Get Started
- This is NOT a one-weekend project if you work full-time or have multiple jobs. But, if you have the time and your couch is the right structure, you could probably do it in five or six days of eight to ten hours a day straight working on it (depending on the detail, how the couch was put together before you got it, and your level of comfort with reupholstery projects).
- Be prepared to pull a lot of staples. Which means wear shoes so you don't step on any pieces of metal that might go flying and you don't see them.
- It is generally a good idea to completely over-estimate the amount of fabric and batting you will need. I overestimated for my project, but I still didn't have enough, so I had to go back and get several more yards of fabric.
- Be willing to plan your project first before you get started.
What Supplies Will I Need?
1. A notebook/pencil, for measurements and notetaking before and during the project
2. A flexible measuring tape and scissors that you only use for fabric
3. Your choice of fabric, but it needs to be durable fabric meant for reupholstery projects. In fabric stores, this is generally the fabric on the huge rolls rather than the little darts. I used Signature Series Home Decor Fabric in True Red from Jo-Ann Fabric Store (this place is awesome - I highly recommend buying your fabric here! They always have AWESOME sales and coupons to help you save money on your project!)
4. Enough batting or foam to cover the padded parts of your couch - I used Soft n Crafty Polyester Batting - 8 oz.
5. A staple gun and staples (which you can pick up at Home Depot or Lowes). A regular non-electric staple gun is fine, and cheap. Choose one that feels most comfortable in your hand. But as a note - your hands will hurt for a while if you use it continuously, which is what I did. If you have access to a pneumatic staple gun, use that - for the sake of your hands!
6. Pliers for taking out staples
7. A rubber mallet
8. Rigid tack strips - I reused the ones from my couch because they were still in good condition, but in case you need to buy some new ones you can get them from Ebay or Amazon, or your local reupholstery store.
9. Curve-Ease - this is like a flexible tack strip - it's not mandatory but will make your life so much easier and your lines more even when you are putting on the sides and back of your couch!You can get it from eBay. I'll detail how it's used below.
10. Cording, like this from eBay
11. Heavy duty thread in the color of your fabric you are using for your couch
12. Dust cover fabric for the bottom of the couch, such as this, but I wanted to save money so I used an extra sheet I had laying around for this.
13. Extra fabric used for the parts of the couch nobody sees, such as under the seat cushions - This is primarily a money-saving thing, but you will notice if you lift up the cushions on your couch there is an extra piece of fabric underneath the cushions that covers the springs, but it's not the same fabric your couch is in. That's what I'm talking about. I used an extra sheet for this too rather than buying fabric for it.
14. Pillow stuffing - I used Poly-fil 10 lb Premium Polyester Fiber in White.
15. A regulator, which is a thin flat metal tool that you can buy, like this one from eBay. I didn't have one so I just used a flathead screwdriver as my regulator (probably not recommended by professional reupholsterers).
Optional Supplies
1. New legs and anchors for your couch! Mine didn't come with any.
2. Foam for new seat cushions - After we took the covers off of the old seat cushions, the foam was still in great shape so we just reused it.
Total Cost of The Project (Specific Products I Used at Prices I Paid, as Well as Where to Get It)
Where You Can Get It
Upholstery Fabric (Signature Series Home Decor Fabric in True Red), 18 yards
Jo-Ann Fabric Store
Soft N Crafty 8 Oz Polyester Batting, 12 yards
Jo-Ann Fabric Store
Staple Gun
Home Depot, Lowes, Ace Hardware
1/2 inch steel heavy duty staples, 2 packs
Home Depot, Lowes, Ace Hardware
10 Pc. Rigid Tack Strips
Curve Ease/Pli-Grip (100 feet)
12 yards 8/32" Cording, 2 pack
Jo-Ann, eBay
Heavy Duty Red Thread
Any craft store
4 Foster Decorative Millwork 2-3/4 in. Pine Taper Bun Feet
Home Depot
4 Heavy Duty Top Plates (for the legs)
Home Depot
Total Cost of Project
279.95, plus tax
Now You're Ready to Start!!
Now you have been advised what you need to do the project, how much it's going to cost, and how much time it's going to take. Now, here are the steps to taking apart the couch and putting it back together!
1. Plan your project.
The very first thing you will need to do before you do ANYTHING else is plan your project. To adequately plan, you will need to first take measurements of EVERY piece of visible fabric on the couch. You have three types of fabric you will be using:
- Outside couch fabric
- Cambric (dust cover)
- Inside Seat Fabric
Here's the way that I did measurements. Make a table with eight columns. Label each column as the below example from my couch. In the first column, put the name of each piece you have to measure. Then fill out the rest of the table as you go.
Remember - the measurements you are taking are only the parts that you can actually see. There's more fabric hidden on the inside that you can't see where the fabric is stapled to hold it in place. So to compensate for that extra fabric, you have to add an allowance to every piece of fabric. I read a tutorial that said only 2 inches on every side is necessary, but I started doing the project and found out that for me it wasn't enough - so when I went back to get more fabric I made sure to add 4 inches on every side just to make sure.
Just to clarify - 4 inches on every side means you're adding 4 inches of fabric to the top, bottom, left, and right of each piece, so that your length becomes 8 inches longer and your width becomes 8 inches wider. For some pieces that was overkill but having a little extra fabric is not a bad thing - especially when you will end up cutting each piece to fit as you start stapling everything on anyway. The extra length will come in handy for the outside arms and the outside back - that's where I needed it!
Your cut size will be the total amount of fabric you will need for each piece. For the batting, each couch is different. The way I figured out how much batting I would need was by feeling around the entire couch - any part of it that felt padded I counted as a measurement for my batting. For my couch, this included the inside arms, inside back, and inside seat(over the springs but under the cushions). For the batting I found that I did not need as much allowance, so I only did 2 inches on each side as opposed to 4.
# of Piece Needed
Length (inches)
Width (inches)
Cut Size
Outside Arm
4 inches all sides
Inside Arm
4 inches all sides
Outside Back
4 inches all sides
Inside Back
4 inches all sides
Front Foot of Couch
4 inches all sides
Seat Cushion Walls
4 inches all sides
Seat Cushion Top/Bottom
4 inches all sides
Back Cushion Front/Back
2 inches all sides
8 inches
Fabric for Cording
8 inches
Cambric Dust Cover
2 inches all sides
Inside Seat Fabric (Spring Cover + Outer Fabric
4 inches all sides
Batting - Inside Arm
2 inches all sides
Batting - Inside Seat
2 inches all sides
Batting - Inside Back
2 inches all sides
Now that you have planned the measurements, it's time to draw the pieces out so that you can figure out how much fabric you will need all together. This just needs to be a rough estimate of how all of the pieces will be cut into your roll of fabric, so you know how much to get. It will also help you identify how to cut your fabric, like a pattern, so that you do not cut awkward shapes and end up losing useful fabric in the process. Before doing this, make sure you know how wide the roll of fabric is that you picked out. Mine was a 54 inch roll. Here's a little sample of what my drawing looked like:
2. Buy Your Supplies.
Now that you've measured out your project, you know what you will need. Using the supplies list above, make sure you get all of the supplies you need including staples, fabric, and batting. I ended up having to go back for more fabric because initially I only bought 13 yards - I miscounted on my first measurements and forgot to include the seat cushion and back cushion fabric. I had to go back and re-draw my plans to see how much more fabric I would need, and ended up with about 18 yards of fabric total. If you're skeptical about your measurements, it's ok to add a few more yards of fabric on to your measurements just to be safe if you have the money to do so.
3. Start Deconstructing Your Couch In the Order it Was Constructed.
You will learn a lot about how to put your couch back together by taking it apart. Follow the below steps to start deconstructing your couch.
1. Generally, the first step for all couches will be to turn it upside-down and take the legs off, then take the cambric dust cover off.
2. Then, begin by removing all staples with your pliers around the bottom of the couch, so you can start figuring out which piece you need to take off first. This staple removing will probably be the most time consuming portion of the staple removing - so make sure your hands are prepared and someone to help you so it takes less time.
3. Identify the piece that needs to be taken off first. make sure you are taking notes and pictures the whole time so you remember what order to put them back on in! For me, the first part to remove was the outside back. I removed all of the staples, and found that the short sides of the fabric were held in by tack strips. to remove a tack strip, insert your pliers into the fold of the fabric where the tack strip is and gently lift up, like in the picture below. Repeat for the length of the tack strip. I had to do this for both sides - then to get the last side of the fabric removed, I had to remove more staples.
4. TAKE NOTES ON EVERYTHING YOU DO. This is not a one-day project so you will likely forget how you did things. Take notes on how pieces were put on the couch (which sides were stapled vs. tack strip, etc) what side of the piece was put on first, and what order you take the pieces off in. This will be good to refer to when you are putting the couch back together. Take pictures if you need to of how pieces were constructed to help you remember how to put it back on.
5. Remove the rest of the Couch Pieces.
This step will depend on how your individual couch is constructed. Take notes on how you take pieces apart, and if you need any of them to remeasure the new fabric with to make sure you got the right measurement, save it so you can do so at that point. Here are some pictures of my couch as I deconstructed it.
7. Start Replacing the Parts with the New Fabric.
For my couch, the first step was to re-staple the fabric that covers the springs, because the old fabric was ripped and had rust stains. I used an old purple sheet for this because I had one laying around and nobody will see that fabric unless they take the couch apart again.
Then after I applied the purple sheet, I had to put on a layer of batting to make the area with the springs a little softer.
I also applied a layer of batting to the foot of the couch, as this part would also be covered with fabric at the same time as the seat.
Then I started measuring my fabric to work on the first part of the couch that I had to put back on - the foot of the couch. This required some sewing, because I had to sew the corners of the couch into the foot piece. I also had to sew the inside seat fabric to the foot so that it was one continuous piece. I used an old blue sheet for my inside seat fabric, so that I didn't have to use the expensive suede fabric for this part.
After getting the foot of the couch on as well as the batting for each arm, my next step was to do the arms. First, I started by getting my cording ready. The cording is really easy to do - I hand sewed the fabric around the cording, however you can use a machine for this (mine was broken.)
Cut your cording into the size of pieces you will need, then sew the fabric over it to match what you will need for each piece. For me, I needed five pieces: one for each front of arm, one for each side of arm, and one spanning the top back of the couch.
The arms in general are in my opinion the most tedious and difficult part of the entire couch. I actually had to look up tutorial videos in order to make sure I was doing it in the easiest and fastest way possible. For my couch, I had to do the inside arms first, and then the outside arms.
To do the inside arms, I laid the fabric flat on the arm and pinned it into place. Then, I cut it to fit the area, leaving a few inches for stapling. Then, I tucked the fabric in where needed, and stapled all around. After that, I laid the cording next to the edge with the extra fabric facing towards the outside arm, and stapled it about half an inch away from the cording.
Below you will find an extremely helpful video from Kim's Upholstery if you need a visual on how to install the inside arm! She does it a little different than me, but that's the style of her couch too. Every couch is different!
Covering the Inside Arms - Kim's Upholstery
I actually had a pretty difficult time finding Curve Ease after I watched these videos. I found some on eBay, and you can use the link below to purchase some of your own!
Curve Ease seriously made my life easier!! It is basically a flexible metal L-shaped strip with holes in one side for staples to attach it to the frame of the couch, and teeth in the other side to grip the fabric.You can cut it with regular scissors to fit your piece. (though I don't recommend using your fabric scissors so you don't dull the blades). All you need to do is staple the Curve Ease onto your couch, apply batting to the outside (but not too close to the teeth as you want the teeth to catch the fabric and not the batting), then apply fabric and cut to fit, leaving about an inch of fabric on the edges. After the fabric is on you use your regulator or flat head screw driver to tuck the edge of the fabric into the Curve Ease. Then you pinch it shut, and use a rubber mallet to seal it in.
My couch's original upholstery did not contain any Curve Ease - it was all stapled, and even after taking the couch apart I could not figure out how to get the outside arms back on. I was incredibly frustrated, until I discovered the video below from DIY Upholstery Supply on using Pli-Grip, or Curve Ease, to put it on.
I used Curve Ease along the top edge and the front vertical edge of the arm, and staples on the bottom and back vertical edges. I do not recommend doing this as the fabric on the couch will be less stable and more likely to come undone. As I learned doing my couch, Curve Ease is really meant only for the top edge of the arms and the back of the Sofa.
After I had already done my arms I was too pooped to go back and fix it, so I left it as is with the Curve Ease, and I have every intention of putting in a tack strip later. But, to prevent you from having extra work, I recommend using a tack strip for the front edge, curve ease for the top edge, and staples for the back vertical and bottom edges - this will help your fabric stay in place the best. I found another video from Kim's Upholstery which helps show you how to install the outside arm of the couch using a combination of staples, curve ease, and tack strips, which is the second video.
How to Use Ply-Grip (Curve Ease) - DIY Upholstery Supply
How to Upholster the Outside Arm on a Chair or Sofa - Kim's Upholstery
After the arms were done, most of the tedious work of covering the frame was over. I then covered the inside back, using two layers of batting instead of just one because I thought it needed more.I applied the cording to the top edge of the couch, then put the outside back of the couch back on. I used Curve Ease along the top edge next to the cording, then used one tack strip on the left and right vertical sides, which covered the edge of the fabric and staples from my outside arms. Then, I stapled the piece all the way shut on the bottom wooden part of the frame.
At this point, I stopped doing the frame to get the cushions done. My sewing machine was broken and my boyfriend's mother is really awesome at sewing, so she helped me use the old pillow and seat covers to make new back and seat cushions for the couch. First we deconstructed the covers and used them to cut pieces of fabric that were about the same size (with a few extra inches of room on each measurement just to be safe). Then we installed zippers into the back wall of the seat covers to make it easy to take them off and wash them if needed. After the zippers were installed, we pinned and sewed the walls of the cushions to the cutouts of the seat cushion tops and bottoms.
To make the back cushions, we measured the length and width of the old back cushions, sewed brand new ones from the new fabric, and stuffed them with the Poly-Fil stuffing. We closed them up and all the cushions were done! It took us about 10 hours of work to get everything done - or two very late weekend nights. If you are not a good sewer - make sure you have someone who can help you put the cushions together, because aside from the arms of the couch this is the most difficult part!!
8. Finish your Couch.
The last step in the process is to put the finishing touches on your couch. This includes stapling on the new cambric dust cover and attaching the legs. To save money, instead of buying a new dust cover I used an old purple sheet. I tipped the couch up, and with the help of my boyfriend stapled the new dust cover onto the couch and cut it to fit. After that, I affixed the brackets for each of the new legs. I spray painted the wooden legs with a hammered metal spray paint to match the rest of the black metal accents and fixures in my living room. I screwed in the legs, put the cushions on the couch, and was finally DONE!
About the Author
Victoria is a 22 year old obsessive DIYer, living in the beautiful city of Charlotte, North Carolina with her two cat babies, Oliver and Zeus. She loves the outdoors, writing, and swimming. A year and a half ago she started an addiction by taking a Scuba diving class through Scuba Schools International, and now she can't get enough of it and has obtained her advanced certification, with more classes to follow. She is also am very interested in home décor and love to experiment with color. Another huge area of interest is gluten free cooking.
Check out some of Victoria's other hubs:
The Complete Guide to Refinishing a Coffee Table (Especially if You're A Beginner)
Cooking: Almond Crusted Chicken With Garlic Lime Sauce & Brown Rice (Gluten Free)
Nails DIY: How to Create Marbled Nails
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Reupholstering a couch is by far the most difficult, but most rewarding, project that I've done to date. It really is something else being able to tell guests, "I did that!" For anyone looking for a challenging and fulfilling project, I definitely recommend this project for you!
I love what you did to your sofa:).
Hi Tori. Another first class hub.Your ability and easy to understand style is excellent.
voted up and all.
Great job! Awesome hub. I'm impressed.
Wow! You did a great job and this is a useful tutorial. If only I had this a few years ago when I tried to reupholster my old couch. I used staples and regular black material but the result was a disaster! It was a standing joke in the family.
I do not think that I have the courage to attempt another reupholstering myself but if I do I know which tutorial to follow.


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Sunday, September 9, 2012
The Perfect Dressage Test
It has been a long summer full of lots of riding, schooling and showing (yes I consider 5 shows a lot!), oh and also a big wedding too... Our dressage is slowly improving. We are now past the point where I want to hang on for dear life and now into more of a compromising situation - you give, I give. My hands have gotten much more softer, my seat much more stable and my core more stronger yet more supple. That's a lot to achieve in just one summer and I wouldn't have achieved it without my amazing coach who is nothing but encouraging (I don't learn well when I'm told I suck - lesson #1 find a coach who teaching methods best suit you). Unfortunately, I am still at the point where I ride best when I'm being instructed, left independent of my coach, my riding tends to go backwards. Hence why I always feel that my dressage tests don't reflect my true potential - but hey, Rome wasn't built in a day! Someday, I will stop over-worrying about remembering the test and start concentrating on the art of the perfect test (bending in the corners, straight lines, acceptance of the bridle, balance and that forever craved but not yet acheived "uphill" motion). Someday.... *sigh* Perhaps a swig of Baileys before my test will help?
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Sunday, 15 June 2014
Just More of the Same...
.... but good fun anyway. As you know, Sunday is a very lazy day in my house and today was no exception. My humans just did lots of 'footering' with little things. 'Footering' is one of my MH's favourite words and she footers quite a lot just doing wee bits and pieces.
I usually get a visit, and a great big cuddle from my friend S., but she wasn't able to come to see me today so I am sending her a big purr from me. Well, it would be from me, wouldn't it 'cos nobody else in my house purrs! Doh!!
Me and my DH went into our greenhouse and I helped my MH hang out her washing and of course I had to have a play on the clothes poles and I am sure that the mummy cows were smiling at me. I only hope the baby cows don't try it 'cos I don't think my humans would be best pleased. I took my MH into her wee gym and it was while we were there that she told me some not very good news.
They are going away to leave me again! my MH told me that they were going on their holidays at the end of this month and I can't go. I am not too sad that I can't go 'cos it would mean I would need to go in cages on the boat and then on the big aeroplane and I would be in a strange country where I wouldn't know what all the little animals were saying. Plus, I would miss all my own little animal friends, but I will miss my humans a lot. My friends J. and A. are coming to stay with me and I know we will have very good fun and they look after me nearly as well as my MH, so that is OK. Nearly!
I had a wee look at the map to see where they were going and it is away very, very far, but my MH has promised to bring me a super, duper present, so I will be excited all the time they are away just wondering what they will bring me home again.
And of course, I shall tell you what it is.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
2008 - What a year
Then summer began and things were not much better. As anyone who knows us probably know that we have a son that is bipolar and as are about 75% of all bipolar people, he is also an addict. And if you have never had or have never known of anyone that has this terrible disease, you have no idea what a life it can produce and believe me it is not good. Anyway, he totally lost it this year and around the latter part of July, for reasons too long to go into, he was incarcerated in Tuscaloosa for 50 days and then went to Montgomery for some treatments. All was going well there until a misunderstanding resulted in him and four other men being discharged early. He was back here for two days and has since been in Walker County jail. There again that is much too long to go into the details. And believe me when I tell you that Walker County jail has to be the most terrible place in all 67 counties. But I will not go into that either. A jail of this sort is definitely not where a person with bipolar (or anything else) needs to be. It appears we may be making progress to get him out shortly. Oh, did I mention that the legal system moves at the speed of a dead turtle? And that is on a good day.
Well, we managed to get through the holidays best as we could. Of course, it just isn't the same when any of the family isn't around. Thanksgiving was spent eating out, just the two of us. We spent Vest Christmas in Hartselle as we have for several years. When Trina married John, we got a bargain in that we got another family. John's family is so wonderful to include us every year. It really means a lot to us. They feel like "real" family. But as far as Christmas day, we stayed home and once again ate out together. Then just as we thought we were seeing the end of '08 Joe has one last doctor's visit. Do you want to guess what the doctor told him? Yeah. Back to the hospital. It seems he had blood clots on his lung. So for New Years Eve, he drank his IV and the pups and I sat up until 2009 got here and then bedded down. He got out on the 4th or 5th. Then on the 19th he had to go to Princeton for an arteriogram and wound up having a stent put in so he spent another night in the hospital. For a man that had only been in the hospital once in his life (1955 for an appendectomy) he has made up for lost time. This was his fifth stay in about the last two years. I sure hope he has caught up.
2009 is here and I am most definitely looking for better times. I am going to try to get more organized, especially my sewing room. And I have got to stop buying more sewing projects until I get caught up. I have heard that God will not take you until you get all your projects completed. If that is the case, I will be here A LOOOOOG TIME.
We had our first fellowship meal at church for this year. We will have three more. This is something we have been doing for several years. I don't know why we do it this time of the year, but it seems to work well. Lasagna was on the menu tonight and it was good. Next week is chicken casserole. Yummy.
Have a good Thursday people.
2 comments:
- ♥Trina♥ said...
You and Dad stay just as busy as you can because I want you two to hang around for a LOOOONNNNGGGGG TIME!
You have a new follower in Karen, so you need to make sure you're posting more. :)
- February 4, 2009 at 10:24 PM
- STILLMAGNOLIA said...
Wow...what a year and I feel your pain....Trina knows my saga...lets just say in 2005 my parents came to stay with us for 4 weeks...while my dad recouperated from a serious bout with pneumonia...they are still with us....and we have now been through COPD, prostate cancer, pneumonia twice more...a stroke and the beginnings of altzeimers(my mom), a pacemaker (which resulted in the erasure of his short term memory function), two stints in the heart....and now lung cancer finished off 2008 and began 2009 for us....and to top it all off....my favorite aunt(who should have been my mom)....was also diagnosed with stage three cancer about the time my dad was. I have to find humor in some of this....or I would sit down and be miserable. Poor Trina hears the saga....alot. Have a good weekend....and I will keep you and Joe both in my prayers.
- February 5, 2009 at 10:28 PM


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On March 15, 1781 not too far from here, one of the bloodiest battles of America's war for independence took place. We know it as the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Though the British troops would claim victory in the battle, the substantial losses they sustained here led to their ultimate defeat just a few months later in Yorktown. The battle was fought with such intensity and bravery that the British commanding General Cornwallis said, "I never saw such fighting since God made me. The Americans fought like demons." The Americans were fighting for independence, and for at least one American soldier, that independence was something more than a national ideal. Sometime before this battle, William Kitchen had deserted the Colonial Army and rather than facing charges for desertion, he made use of a provision that allowed him to enlist a substitute to fight in his place. Kitchen purchased a slave by the name of Ned, who had taken on the surname of his master, Griffin, and enlisted him as his replacement. Kitchen promised Ned Griffin that if he would fight in his place, he would grant him his freedom at the end of his duty. But, when the war ended and Ned returned to Kitchen, he violated his promise and instead of granting Ned his freedom, he sold him to another slave-owner. In April of 1874, Ned Griffin petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly for his freedom on the basis of the promise he had received. The Assembly intervened and declared that Ned Griffin "shall forever hereafter be in every respect declared to be a freeman: and he shall be, and he is hereby enfranchised and forever delivered and discharged from the yoke of slavery."
We don't know much else about Ned Griffin except the few details that are preserved in State documents. Were it not for these few references, his heroic fight for freedom would be lost to history altogether. As it is, we do not know how he came to be a slave: was he brought to America as a slave, or was he born into slavery? We may never know. Regardless, we know that his life as a slave must have been filled with hard labor, difficult conditions, empty promises, and disappointments. And had someone else not intervened to set him free, Ned Griffin would have died in that bondage.
While we would never want to crudely compare our life circumstances to the hardships experienced by Ned Griffin, his physical circumstances depict the spiritual circumstances of all of humanity. We are born into the slavery of sin, and it is a life filled with hard and futile labor, difficult conditions, empty promises and much disappointment. And were it not for the gracious act of another who intervened on our behalf, we would die and perish in that bondage to sin.
The language that Peter uses in these two verses finds many parallels with the descriptions of slavery in the ancient world. In those days, a slave could be set free by the payment of a ransom, or price for redemption. And Peter says to us that we have been set free, ransomed, REDEEMED, thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ who paid the price for us. And in these verses and the surrounding context, Peter answers three questions concerning the aspects of our redemption. 1) We have been redeemed, but from what? 2) We have been redeemed, but by what? And 3) We have been redeemed, but for what? Or as I prefer to say, We have been redeemed, but so what? It is to these questions that we turn our attention now.
I. We have been redeemed, but from what? We have been redeemed from our former way of life. (v18)
It is a law of physics that objects in motion tend to stay in motion until they are acted upon by an outside force. We call this the law of inertia. You prove this law to be true every time you are riding a car and come to a sudden stop. Both you and the car are both moving forward at 60 miles per hour, and suddenly the car comes to a stop, but your body is still moving forward at 60 miles per hour. Your seatbelt and your own energy are the outside forces that stop your forward progress (hopefully) and prevent you from going through the windshield. This is not only true in the world of physics; it is also true spiritually. We are born in motion, moving away from God in sin. And we are going to keep moving in that direction of spiritual rebellion until we are acted upon by the outside force of God's saving work. For those who are in Christ, God has brought that forward progress to a halt through His divine work of conviction, regeneration, justification, and sanctification and put us on a path that is moving toward Him in faith and obedience. He has redeemed us from our former way of life.
Peter says that you have been redeemed from a way of life that you inherited from your forefathers. The Greek word he uses here is a relatively common one in the ancient literature though it only occurs here in the New Testament. The Greek-speaking world used this term to refer to traditions conveyed from one generation to another. Typically, this is regarded as a positive influence in society. Jews and Gentiles alike venerated their traditions as the basis of a stable society. Indeed, in much of the world today, entire cultures are built on the values of inherited traditions. In many societies, the ancestors are worshiped as deities because of the high value placed on tradition. Disregard for heritage and tradition in those cultures merits the highest shame. In America, we do not go so far as to declare our ancestors deities, but there is a strong sense of doing what we think bygone generations would have us do. We have ways of thinking, ways of speaking, ways of acting, that we attribute to our heritage. Even in churches, things are done for no other reason than the tired reasoning that it is the way we have always done it.
Peter's point here is that it does not matter if you came to Christ from a Jewish or Gentile background; both cultures were futile. It does not matter if you come from American culture, Chinese culture, or African cultures, our traditional systems are futile. The word means vain, meaningless, or empty. We don't feel like our family traditions are meaningless do we? We find a rich sense of identity in this heritage and take pride in it. So in what way is it empty and meaningless? It is empty in the most important way possible! Peter is saying to us here that our cultural heritage is meaningless when it comes to making us right with God. In addition to our family traditions and our national history and our cultural heritage, we have all inherited from our forefathers going back to Adam a nature of sinfulness that separates us from God. What can your family tradition do to make you right with Him? How can your patriotic zeal remove your sin? How can the values of our culture make us holy? Following these things blindly may in fact only add to our guilt before God.
In the Old Testament, this idea of futility was applied to the worship of idols. The New International Version renders Jonah 2:8 this way: "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs." Isaiah 44:9 says, "Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit." And those who blindly and uncritically march along to the drumbeat of their family traditions, their national and cultural customs, their religious heritage, have elevated those things to the place of a worthless idol. This happens when we read something in the Bible and say, "Well, I don't believe that, or I don't think it applies to me, because my people have always thought this, or said this, or done this." It happens when we justify our sin by offering up some cultural or inherited inclination as an excuse. And every time that happens, we elevate our meaningless traditions over the revealed truth of God and have become idolaters. Stand before God in judgment and offer that! He says, "What about your sin?" And you say, "Lord, I am an American, and this is our value system." Or say, "Lord, this is how my people have been since my great-grandfather's day." Or say, "Lord, this is how the postmodern generation, or the builder generation, or my people group, looks at things." Do you see how ridiculous that seems? How can those things remedy the disease of sin that infects us all?
And we must be warned, lest we think, "Oh this does not apply to me. I am from a church-going family. I have been a Christian since the day I was born! This is what my people do … my people are Christians and my people are church-people." Friend, please receive this in love, but we must understand that no one is born a Christian. Everyone is born a sinner. Christianity cannot be inherited through DNA. This is why Jesus said that we must be BORN AGAIN. Our natural birth is not sufficient, there must be a new birth, a spiritual birth. Even church-going may be a strong family tradition, a highly esteemed cultural value and a part of the fabric of our society; but if there is no personal faith and trust in Jesus Christ, dare I say it, even church-involvement can be an idol that we trust to save us, and it will not.
Jesus Christ is our only hope of redemption. And Peter says here that He has redeemed us from or out of the futile way of life we inherited from our forefathers. No longer do we simply belong to our family tree. No longer do we belong to the tribe, or the culture, or the society, or the nation to which we were born. We have been redeemed from those things. They will not save us. They cannot rescue us from our slavery to sin. We must be redeemed, and Christ is our Redeemer. I have recently had to rethink how I talk about multiculturalism in the church. I think that Peter is saying to us here that church is not multicultural. We do not come into the family of God, bringing all of our own cultural tendencies and preferences with us. Those things are futile. Every human culture is fundamentally flawed and built on rebellion against God. The church should always be multiethnic – made up of men and women and children from every background imaginable, but it is monocultural. Christ is our culture. And this culture is not native to any of us. The Holy Spirit is calling us out through these words, bidding us to leave behind our earthly ties and enter into a new family, a new nation, and a new culture. The former things we inherited from our forefathers are meaningless and have no real spiritual value. They offer us no eternal hope. Christ is our only hope. He has redeemed us out of our individual backgrounds and brought us into the culture of Himself.
II. We have been redeemed, but by what? We have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. (v18-19)
The very word redemption implies the payment of a price. It means "to purchase release by the payment of a ransom." Perhaps you have seen some Hollywood thriller in which someone is kidnapped and held for ransom. There is a note pieced together with letters from various magazines and newspapers that says "This person will be set free if you pay the price." I heard of a little boy once who so desperately wanted a bicycle for Christmas that he took the figure of Mary from his family's nativity set, and left a pieced together note that said, "Jesus, if you ever want to see your mother again, you better bring me that bicycle." Here's the thing, as we have already said, we are enslaved to sin. We are sinners both by nature and by choice and our only hope is that someone will come and redeem us, pay a ransom for us, to set us free. But who can do that? We can't redeem ourselves, and if every human being is under the same bondage, then we cannot look to another person to redeem us. They have their own slavery to deal with. The fact is that if God doesn't redeem us, then we have no hope. But He has, in the person of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ paid the ransom for our redemption from the slavery to sin into which we were born and have chosen to remain. At what cost? Do you remember when Jesus said in Mark 8:36-37, "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" He seems to be implying here that the value of your soul is greater than the whole world. Can you put a price tag on it? One hundred dollars? One thousand dollars? One million dollars? Often times people with a guilty conscience will given generously to a charitable or religious organization as if their generosity might somehow assuage the guilt that plagues them. They are like Simon the Magician in Acts 8. When he saw the power of God at work through the Apostles, he offered them money, saying, "Give this authority to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit." But do you remember what Peter said to him? He said, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!" Silver … perish … with you. The unredeemed soul and the silver will both perish. Notice the similarity here with what Peter says in verse 18: you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold.
God's favor cannot be purchased with money. Would we who are enslaved to sin think that we could buy our redemption with money? We don't have enough. There isn't enough money in the world. Money is insufficient for the transaction. In Isaiah 52:3, the prophet was looking ahead to Israel's captivity in Babylon, and the Lord said, "You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money." So how will they be redeemed? How will we be redeemed from our sin? Just a few verses later the prophet said, "How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation." And then he begins to unfold the plan of redemption that involves a Servant who will come and accomplish it through His suffering. Just a short number of verses after he says, "you will be redeemed without money," he says that this Servant will bear our griefs, He will carry our sorrows, He will be pierced for our transgressions, He will be crushed for our iniquities, He will be chastised for our well-being, He will be scourged for our healing. The Lord will cause the iniquity of us all to fall on Him. And He says in Isaiah 53:10, "the LORD was pleased to crush Him."
The Bible says that the wages of sin is death. Death is the price that must be paid for sin. But our own death is not redemption; it is justice. It is what we deserve, and with death, eternal separation from God as a result of our rebellion against Him. Another human being cannot die for us, for he or she must deal with his or her own sin. But what if there was one who had no sin of his own to pay for? What if there was one whose life was infinitely and qualitatively greater than our own? That one could become our substitute in death, and his life, his blood could be poured out to redeem us from our bondage. And this is what Peter says: You have been redeemed with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
Precious. This is how God views the blood that was shed for us. It was not ordinary or commonplace. It was not the blood of bulls, and of goats, and of lambs that were slaughtered by the multitudes in the Old Testament system. That blood was a shadow of the reality that was to come: the PRECIOUS blood of Christ. He is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. When John was given a vision of heaven, he saw humanity standing before the throne of God. What a terrifying picture to behold! Sinful people before the throne of an infinitely holy God! But suddenly John's attention was turned to a Lamb, a Lamb that had been slain, standing between the throne and the people. This is the eternal picture of Jesus Christ, who came to stand between us and God as He laid down His life on the cross and shed His precious blood to redeem us from sin.
Only a handful of times in the New Testament, God the Father spoke audibly from Heaven. Each time, He said the same thing. He said of Jesus Christ – "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased." This one, the Son of God, God incarnate in human form, is the only one who could ever fully please God. He was beloved of His Father. He was precious to Him. And it was His precious blood which was shed for us and for our redemption. What will a man give in exchange for his soul? We cannot afford the price. But God has paid a precious price for us … He has given the precious blood of Jesus to redeem us from sin. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life. We are redeemed by His precious blood.
III. We are redeemed, but for what?
In other words, "We are redeemed, now so what?" In the surrounding context of these verses, there are several implications spelled out for those who have been redeemed by this precious blood. God has not redeemed us only to leave us in our previous miserable state. He has redeemed us that we might be holy (vv15-16). He has removed our unholiness and given us the holiness of Jesus in a marvelous exchange – our sin for His righteousness. And He indwells us in the person of the Holy Spirit to produce this holiness in us. We are redeemed to be holy.
We are redeemed also to be His. We inherited a futile way of life from our forefathers, but we have been redeemed from that way of life and placed into a new family. We now address God as our Father (v17). He has adopted us at great personal cost. We now belong to Him. Our first and only allegiance belongs now to Him. As Paul will say in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, you are not your own, for you have been bought with a price. You now belong to God through Jesus Christ and His precious blood. You no longer belong to your ancestors, your tribe, your nation, your culture or yourself. You now belong to Him. Therefore, we live for His glory. We do not live for the expectations of others; we no longer live for the maintenance and preservation of our traditions; we no longer live for the honor of our earthly heritage. We live for God in Christ. This impacts the choices we make, the priorities we have, and the allegiances of our lives. It impacts our way of thinking, our way of speaking, and our way of acting. You are not your own. You belong to God who has purchased you for Himself at a great and precious cost. He has redeemed you with the precious blood of Christ. Why would you return to the chains that once bound you?
Someone here today may still be bound. You may find yourself feeling enslaved to the expectations of others, or the claims of your past, or to the competing dictates of any number of voices in your life. They may even be internal – the desires, the inclinations and tendencies of your life that demand their own satisfaction. If Christ has set you free, the Bible says you are free indeed. Those things no longer have any rightful claim on you. The chains have been removed, and you are redeemed. Fix your eyes on your Savior, your Redeemer, your Lord, and recommit yourself to live in the glorious freedom He has purchased for you with His precious blood.
And others are still bound because they have not personally transacted this redemption with God. The price has been paid for you in Christ. The offer stands today. Look to Him from the chains of your sin and claim that redemption as your own. Turn your life over to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and be set free forever.


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that's all she wrote folks.
Pie-off 2006 hit the ground running saturday afternoon, where K-rot, Brad and I (after putting in more than a few early morning lab hours) entertained 20 of our closer friends to the social event of the season. Burgers and corn (bought directly from a mennonite that morning, might i add!) got the ball rolling, but no less than 8 mighty pies were baked, each baker with aspirations of winning the illustrious
math Pie Master 2006 plastic GOLD medal!!
Brad, who issued the initial challenge to me, and I decided to take control of K-rot's kitchen and had an old fashioned pie off! complete with county faire-esque soundtrack! The trash talk was flung and neither of us fell for the salt in the sugar dupe.
Out of the pies, there were 3 that I was very worried could have been better than mine; a key lime that was out of this world, a fiji apple-raspberry mix that quite possibly was the greatest thing I ever tasted, and a peach pie that attained a "grandmother" level of presentation-al perfection. It would be a rough climb to the top for my ugly-duckling of a sweet potatoe pie! (Fancy looking pies are for sell-outs) Maybe it was the cinammon, maybe it was the love, maybe it was the quarter mickey of spiced rum but some how i was able to fool the judges into liking mine best.
so that's it. I've been recoginized by a panel of my peers. I'm living the dream, boys and girls.
tomorrow I've got to fill up our liquid Nitrogen containers (which takes like an hour, and I've never doen it before) and I have heard rumours that you can make ice cream if you have some half&half cream…this will require further investigating. Also, next weekend the fabled SPIDERTALK is finally being recorded!!! (fuck you's, i know you don't care)
im a big nerd!


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Hey. Your posts are amazing 😍 I was just wondering if you could do Torian Fields from VH1's "Twinning" or his brother Tre. Shit, idc, they both sexy asf 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Football pants would give that azz better justice.
Who had the pleasure of taking pictures of this beauty?
Nice ass. Baseball players always have nice behinds.
If you can tear yourself away from the rear view you'll see that he actually has a nice face too lol!
Thats like saying "the David" has a nice face, But whose eyes have ever traveled up that far?
and he can do a split!
Why do people say he has an ass like a woman's?
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Two close friends and colleagues of Oceanites and the Antarctic Site Inventory — Kim Crosbie & Jérôme Poncet — were honored yesterday with Prince William's awarding them Her Majesty the Queen's Polar Medal. Beaucoup congratulations to both!
Kim's polar career began in 1991 when she joined the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, as a research student. She initially worked in the Canadian Arctic before embarking on a PhD that focused on the ecological monitoring and management of visitor sites in the Antarctic. This required three austral summer seasons in primitive conditions at a temporary field camp on Cuverville Island in the Antarctic Peninsula surrounded by some 4,500 breeding pairs of gentoo penguins. Following completion of her PhD, Kim remained in the field of visitor management leading expeditions to both Poles primarily on board expedition cruise vessels, a role that enabled a diverse range of people to sustainably experience and work in these unique environments. In 2005, she joined the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) as Environmental Manager and subsequently Operations Director before being appointed Executive Director in 2013. Throughout she has continued to publish scientific papers, books and articles with a diverse range of scientists and non-governmental representatives. Kim's varied experience in environmental management, from research to practical application and policy development, has led to a greater understanding and cohesion across the Antarctic community, resulting in improved management techniques that help support visitation to these areas in a safe, environmentally responsible way.
Jérôme was honored for his pioneering efforts in supplying logistics in support of Polar science and wildlife documentaries for over 40 years. His intimate knowledge of these relatively unexplored coastlines and his understanding of the extreme Antarctic environment has enabled the discovery of many penguin and other breeding bird colonies and facilitated a greater understanding of animal behavior and ecology. Never one to turn down a challenge, Jérôme's work has not only progressed science but has also allowed millions of viewers around the world to enjoy and learn about the unique Antarctic environment by allowing film-makers to capture ground breaking footage. Examples include the BBC's Life in the Freezer, Planet Earth and Frozen Planet.
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