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July 29, 2011
By: Solomon ComissiongAmerican led military operations rage on from Afghanistan to Libya, and many places between. US bombs have indiscriminately destroyed the dwellings of civilians, while ripping the life away from countless men, women and children. The US military machine is a monster that devours the lives of innocent civilians without remorse or regret. Global conquest, imperialism, and securing "strategic interests" for the corporations that influence the American political landscape, are among the real reasons this serial killer roams the planet.
Much of the world sees the US military for what it really is—a monster, while tens of millions of obedient Americans remain oblivious to these facts. Americans are continually programmed to serve as cheerleaders for an out of control "Frankenstein" that has perfected the art of murdering, maiming, and massacring. War and killing are glorified throughout America, from video games to the big screen. The US propaganda machine is not only effective; it is a master of creating lies to support its global endgame.
War for "humanitarian reasons" is a prominent lie within the Pentagon's arsenal. This lie is routinely fed to the sycophantic corporate media. The lies run throughout their digestive system in the same manner harmful fast food does within the intestines of millions of Americans. The capital driven media ultimately defecates poisonous lies upon the unsuspecting collective consciousness of innumerable Americans. Americans rarely question the reasons why "their country" goes to war, until it is usually much too late. The invasion of Iraq is a prime example of this— a war built upon mountains of lies. Most Americans were so bloodthirsty for vengeance after 9/11; they cared little about who their government said was responsible—they wanted death.
Most Americans did not even think twice about the hundreds of thousands of potential civilian murders that the US military would ultimately cause —the hypocritical actions were nowhere within their radar. The fact that roughly the same numbers of innocent civilians were killed in the US's initial strike of Afghanistan, alone, as were killed on 9/11, meant nothing to most Americans—-nor was it anywhere within their realm of consciousness. Innocent civilians being killed is something that many Americans seldom think of when their country decides to bomb another nation, especially when the nation is replete with people of color. Americans think what the media and their government tell them to think, which is why US involved wars are not protested by the tens of millions. When the wars begin to drain the economic resources from US taxpayers, amoral politicians (and their constituents) use that as a reason to stop their country's death campaign—rarely do they use the reason that wars are killing innocent civilians. The killing of innocent civilians should always be the number one reason these wars should stop, and never start in the first place.
In a country so dependent on the exploitative system of capitalism; why would we think these politicians might be motivated to do the right thing—if money is not factored in? However, let's just say, for one moment, that the bombing of countries, like Libya, was for so-called humanitarian reasons (which it wasn't). And let's say we believed the US government's lie that they began the war in Libya to save its citizens from being killed by their own government. If that lie were actually true, then any critical thinker should ask the question, "but who will intervene on behalf of Black people in America"?
The previous question is a most legitimate query given the fact that Black/African people in America have been catching hell for the past 400 plus years. In 2011 Black/African people in the US continue to be gunned down by America's state sponsored police force with regularity. America's police shower terror upon Black and Brown communities with virtual impunity. They have even been known to murder seven year old black girls as in the case of Aiyana Stanley Jones. In 2010 this little Black/African girl was fatally shot by a Detroit police officer when he and his thug colleagues burst into her home and began shooting with reckless abandon. These things simply do not happen to little white girls in America, and if they did the punishment would be swift. Aiyana's murderer still walks the streets, with his job intact. Who will intervene on behalf of little Black/African girls trapped within America's stolen borders?
Police in America have grown accustomed to killing Black/African men, and subsequently getting away with it. America has a virtual laundry list of Black/African men it has systematically assassinated. Names include, but are not limited to; Sean Bell, Adolf Grimes, Timothy Stansbury, and Trey Joyner. And in cases where the evidence is overwhelming the police officers get little to no time at all.
Oscar Grant was murdered, unarmed—execution style, by an Oakland police officer. This heinous crime was caught on camera—and still the murderous cop served little more than one year of jail time. If the roles were reversed, the black man would face capital punishment. There is no justice in America for the Black/African man—none. Recently a 19 year old Black/African man was shot at least 10 times in the back by San Francisco police officers. Numerous eyewitnesses reported that he, too, was unarmed. Video of the aftermath can be seen here. Where is this young man's justice? He was gunned down as if they were hunting wild game. To quote street poet, Monte Smith, "the darker you are, the more hunted you are". Who and what country will intervene on behalf of Black/Men in America?
The United States reigns supreme when it comes to incarcerating Black/African people. No other country comes close. The US even incarcerates more Black people than South Africa did at the height of Apartheid. This incarceration trend has been referred to as "The New Jim Crow" by scholar-activists like Michelle Alexander, however, in reality—Jim Crow never ended. Black/African people within America are disproportionately preyed upon by the American criminal "justice" system, and therefore disproportionately incarcerated. Black/African people are seen as a commodity in America—they are a valuable labor force within the reprehensible prison industrial complex. Some call it "modern day slavery", this author calls it "America".
Unequal practices, predicated on race, are not restricted to incarceration in America—they can be found in almost every sector of within the empire. Black/African-Americans control 10 cents of wealth for every one dollar of wealth that a white family does. And Black/African people earn approximately 60 cents for every dollar that whites earn in the US. If these inequalities existed in a country like Libya, the US government, as well as its corporate media, would highlight this and utilize it as an additional justification for waging war on the African nation. However, within America's manufactured borders, Black/African people languish with no end in sight. There is certainly no intervention, on their behalf, from a government that routinely says it is bringing democracy and humanitarianism to some country it is about to bomb into the Stone Age. No intervention for the millions of Black/African youth who are asked to learn within vastly separate and unequal public schools, as contrasted to their white counterparts. Who the hell will intervene on behalf of these children within this Apartheid state?
The US is a fork tongued hypocrite and global serial killer. America has mastered the art of waging war and destroying civilian lives abroad. Fredrick Douglass was spot on in 1852 when he said, "Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival…."
The US has mastered its art of global destruction by practicing on the lives and communities of Black/African people within its own illegitimate borders. Torture, brutality, and murder are things we know have been done to people within US detention camps like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib; however many of these crimes have historically been inflicted upon America's people of color. Despite America's track record of committing crimes against humanity on Black/African communities no country has charged the US or threatened to take it to the selective International Criminal Court—they seem to only wish to indict African leaders. The US deserves to be prosecuted by the real international community for its crimes against its own Black/African citizens. Where is the United Nations? Where is England, Norway, France and all the other NATO countries that are currently bombing Libya? Why aren't they speaking out against America's crimes against Black/African people—crimes that pale in comparison to the allegations they accused the Libyan government of as a pretext for war? Where is the damn coalition of countries demanding the US end its inhumane policies against Black/African-Americans? Who will intervene on behalf of Black America, thus demanding equality and justice for all Black/African people in America?
That justice, equality and right to self-determination that Black America needs will only come from those same people. It won't come from the disingenuous white liberals nor will it come from the US government; it will have to come from the will of African-Americans to demand those things. The African Diaspora and Internationalist community can play a supportive and strategic role, however it will have to be Africans within America organizing, mobilizing and thus leading the way toward real freedom, justice and equality. Black people in America will have to establish their own national agenda, one that is free from the involvement of poverty pimps and frauds like the Democratic Party, and certainly not the white nationalists on the Republican side. Blacks/Africans in America will have to work in solidarity and protest for however long it takes. We must look to start and/or build upon strong political organizations whose focus has our interests as top priorities. Egos will have to be shed and a critical mass of Blacks/Africans will have to be willing to play strategic roles within this movement where consistency must be paramount. These things must be done if relief is ever to reach Black/African communities in America—there simply is no other tangible alternative. The intervention we, as Africans in America, seek—must come from our collective interests, unity, and struggle.
Solomon Comissiong is an educator, community activist, author, public speaker and the host of the Your World News media collective (www.yourworldnews.org).


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I'm busy reviewing (at my own pace) for www.alternative-read.com. I'm also going to be the horror editor over at www.thedeepening.com (at my own pace). With all my marketing, networking, blogging and health issues, this is going to leave me little time for promoting some of the authors I've selected myself. So, as this is a blog about the writing life, here's a review of a book that taught me more about the middle-east than any history professor ever did. I'd recommend it to anyone, especially those who like historical fiction.
The Janissary Tree
By Jason Goodwin
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May, 2006
Istanbul in the year of 1836. This mystical city, known in earlier times as Byzantium, Constantinople, even the second Rome, is brewing a revolution. You can taste it in the air. The Sultan, an aging man fond of drink and certain western ideologies, is about to issue an edict that will force the modern world upon his people. A valued collection of Napoleonic jewels has been stolen from the palace. In seemingly unrelated incidents, a young woman about to become a full member of the harem and an officer, one of four missing members of the New Guard, are found murdered. Someone has left a disturbing poem on the Janissary Tree—that infamous landmark the vanquished Old Guard once hung their enemies upon. And Russia, anticipating more turmoil, is preparing to advance on the city.
The valide, the Sultan's mother, who has thrived in the violent world of Ottoman politics, suspects a coup is underway. Her son's seraskier, the head of the armed forces, is only concerned with putting on a good review the day of the edict, with showing people that the backbone of the empire is unbreakable. The Sultan? He's keeping his opinions to himself but has sent for a man named Yashim Togalu.
Yashim is called the lala, the guardian. This is a title of respect given to men who have been charged with the responsibility of caring for families and households of rich and powerful people. These men are trusted with women and children because they are all—without exception—eunuchs, men who have been castrated at an early age.
We are told that an ordinary lala is something between a butler and a housekeeper, a nanny and the head of security. But Yashim is anything but ordinary. He's unattached, a free lance. Yet he moves through streets and palace hallways with equal and anonymous ease. An accomplished linguist, a man who knows how to gather information with quiet efficiency, and someone who truly understands the power structure of the world he inhabits, this unusual eunuch is the perfect spy.
Immerse yourself in Jason Goodwin's The Janissary Tree as he peels back the skin of the Ottoman onion to give us an exquisite taste of the complicated soup it was. Already an acclaimed historical author, Goodwin brings the 19th-century Turkish Empire alive in a most visceral way. When Yashim prepares stuffed mussels, I'm there. Descriptive visits to the Janissary Tree, the market district, the Soup Maker's Guild and various other destinations make both the city and the Janissaries seem so real I begin to imagine these elite soldiers are waiting around every fascinating corner. And the people! Here is a book with a cast of characters so intriguing the last page is turned with sadness.
Jason Goodwin has written a great novel. In particular, Yashim the Eunuch helped me to experience a culture so intimately I was at once appalled, enticed and intrigued. He also managed to forever change my perception of the Turks.
I want more.
copyright © 2006 Clayton Clifford Bye
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In defiance of
snow's solemnity,
a crow digs
a hole in the sky.
Dark water
out of the river.
Trees refuse
to step
aside or even
spread their wings
outside the closely
guarded gates
of ordinary things.
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Kate Terricciano Sirignano
Meet the Team
Kate, an award-winning entrepreneur, is the founder, owner and president of Image Marketing Consultants. A successful marketing and public relations strategist, national public speaker, and philanthropic leader, Kate started the company in 2007 after leading multiple marketing teams for national brands including General Motors, Marriott, and CocoKey Water Resorts. In her career, she has negotiated multi-million dollar contracts with entities such as Radio City Music Hall, the NY Jets, Lincoln Center and many more.
Under her leadership, Image Marketing has been one of the most sought-after lifestyle marketing agencies in New England for the last ten years, consistently cited as an industry leader by such entities as the Hartford Business Journal and Connecticut Magazine. The firm celebrated its 10th anniversary in March 2017 and employs ten full-time professionals on its PR Agency team. It has been named a Top 25 Advertising and Public Relations agency in Connecticut every year since 2011.
In addition to her role at Image Marketing, Kate has been a member of the executive board of the Southington Chamber of Commerce for five years and currently serves as the Chairman. She also served as President of her local Rotary Club, is on the Board of Directors for the United Way and Junior Women's Club, and is active in many industry associations and trade groups.
Kate was honored as one of Connecticut's "40 Under Forty" winners in the Hartford Business Journal in 2011, and again by Connecticut Magazine in 2016. She has been featured in numerous articles on marketing entrepreneurship and regularly makes TV appearances for her clients.
Kate attended Clark University, where she studied American Government and Organizational Communications.
Monday Survival Tip at IMC: Rock your favorite pair of heels to start the week off right!
Fun Fact: Kate loves to travel and has visited 30 countries over the past 12 years.
Jenna Hart
Creative Manager
Degree: Double Bachelor's in Digital Media and Studio Art with a concentration in Graphic Design from Marist College.
Job Description: As the Creative Manager, Jenna leads the visual direction for every project the design team produces. Her detail-oriented personality ensures that every design is sent with her stamp of approval. She can be found catching up on the latest design trends, swatching colors on InDesign, or organizing her clients' priorities for the week. Jenna believes in encouraging idea sharing and vows to keep her creativity standards high.
Monday Survival Tip at IMC: Working-from-home: the comfort of your couch can inspire you.
Fun Fact: She is the go-to DJ of the office Spotify playlist and frequently lets Disney tunes and Celine Dion enchant the IMC walls.
Edyta Jezewska
Graphic Designer
Degree: Bachelor's in Graphic Information Design from Central Connecticut State University
Job Description: As a Graphic Designer, Edyta carries a strong appreciation for all things "visual". Her knack for website frameworks and coding assist in bringing the team's visuals to life online. She is happiest with a camera in hand, using her eye for aesthetics to hone in on the perfect shot. The sky is the limit with her multi-media capabilities, whether designing signage, editing web banners or working tediously in Photoshop.
Monday Survival Tip at IMC: The best morning work is most often done post-turbo shot.
Fun Fact: She is an advocate for casual office environments, frequently producing quality work with her feet propped up on her desk.
Erica Ostrowski
Junior Graphic Designer
Degree: Bachelor's in Graphic Information Design from Central Connecticut State University
Job Description: As a Junior Graphic Designer, Erica is happiest when she is in her creative element. She loves taking on the challenge of re-branding a new client's logo or brainstorming sketches and digital mock-ups for a new web layout. Her hunger for knowledge (and kale) are ever apparent in the office; you can find her brainstorming with the design team, asking questions on a new design tool or taking direction from fresh ideas.
Monday Survival Tip at IMC: A little bit of dance hall music before everyone arrives in the office goes a long way.
Fun Fact: She's present in every square inch of the office; usually you'll hear her unmistakable laugh before you even see her.
Alexa Orban
Social Media Coordinator
Degree: Double Bachelor's in Public Relations and Entrepreneurship from Quinnipiac University
Job Description: As the Social Media Coordinator, Alexa spends time getting to know clients on a personal level to revamp their image on social platforms. She is motivated by growing a client's follower base and showing them how to polish their reputation within their community and industry. Alexa's keen eye for visuals and small details pay off when designing social media posts that appeal to followers and convey the brand properly.
Monday Survival Tip at IMC: Cuddle your kitten until 8:58am before you head out the door.
Fun Fact: She takes pride in being recognized as the office desk dancer and knows a quality selfie when she sees one.
Sara Pizzuto
Degree: Master's in Print Journalism from Quinnipiac University
Job Description: As a Copywriter, Sara aims to spell out personal narratives for clients that will capture their demographic. Improper grammar and typos don't stand a chance when the pen is in her hand. Sara writes for a wide spectrum of industries and brands, from articles on machinery to blog posts on gardening trends. Her main priority is producing relevant content that readers will find enthralling, relatable and helpful.
Monday Survival Tip at IMC: Recap the weekend's events in vivid detail to keep team members up to date with her current life happenings.
Fun Fact: She appreciates the art of word play and thinks that all puns should be intended and recognized for their beauty.
Amanda Koch
Digital Marketing Coordinator
Degree: Bachelor's in Communications with a concentration on Advertising from Endicott College
Job Description: As the Digital Marketing Coordinator, Amanda leads website redesign projects and is the liaison between software developers and clients. She strives to make each brand shine in their industry via online marketing initiatives. Her positive outlook and friendly personality make her the perfect fit for handling clients and communicating with teams. She loves helping clients achieve their brand's potential.
Monday Survival Tip at IMC: Stay on top of your planner and you can do no wrong.
Fun Fact: She recycles almost everything (even plastic forks, beer caps and straws go in the recycling bin).
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I'm on a roll! I've actually created some finishes. Yeah!!! Once that pesky BOM got ripped out and I got past needed to re-sew the entire thing! My sewing-block was lifted. Though, my sewing room has never looked nicer and more organized. :)
I'm now getting into the whole 'sewing binge before travelling'. Only 6 weeks and counting. Gulp.
There are sooo many things I want to finish before I leave....
1) Mormor's blommar
2) A wall hanging for my granddad
3) Journal covers for everyone
4) Bags for the girl cousins
5) Dolls for the cousin's children
6) Candies for everyone
7) My travelling companion (Owloysious )
And then there are the things I have to finish before I leave, like the next block in the round robin and the next BOM block.
hmmm. Oh darn, I guess I just have to sew and can't do any more house work... :)
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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- Floss Quilts said...
Wow, that a long list, do you think you will get it all done in time.
- June 29, 2007 at 9:58 AM
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Tagged by Ms Christine Tanie
Entry 331
touching up on an assignment and got distracted ! Lol
well im doing the TAG which my great lil sis tagged me !
I'm just gonna talk bout the people i was with last weekend..
makes life easier LOL !!
1. My crazy wacky sister.christine tannie (that's what she calls herself :P)
2. Jac Kee
3. Kian Chee
4. Gan Fiona
5. Prassan
1. How did you meet 1?
Lived together under the same ROOF !!
2. On a scale of 1 - 10, how would you rate your friendship with 1?
100? hahaha
3. How long have you known 4?
since primary school... more than 10 years i would say!
4. How do you know number 3?
from Taylor's College while studying SAM .. we were in the same class LOL !
5. Where's 5?
somewhere in Melbourne if he hasn't ran away from there :P
6. A fact about number 1?
She is my sister ... and we don't look alike !!!
7. Who is 4 going out with?
hmm.... mmhhm..... still thinking hahahahhaa ....
8. What does 1 do for a living?
go to school, eat, sleep and chill at home !! home nice !!
9. Would you live with number 3?
hmmm..though question LOL ... if i have my own bedroom LOL .. hahahaha
10. What do you like about number 2?
she is the super, nicest, funny person :P
11. Do you miss number 5?
hmmm... yeah he is like my uncle !! hahahaha
12. Would you make out with number 4?
nah .. no way man.. im straight !
13. What's your opinion on number 2?
she's an awesome friend and person!
14. What's your favourite memory with number 5?
play squash with him and almost died lol .. hahaha
15. What will you do if number 1 and 2 were going out?
it will never happend !! coz both is straight..
this tag is asking weird questions lol)
16. Ever had a long conversation with 5?
Yeah...my uncle..so sure got heaps to talk rite?! :P
17. Have you ever slept at 2's house?
Yeah just last week..for five days..hahaha intruded her house and crashed there..
thanks heaps wei..
18. Do you hang out with 3 a lot?
Well during college days yeah.. but not anymore coz he is in Canberra LOL!
19. Who have you known the longest?
Gan Fiona !
20. What will happen if number 1 and 5 have a relationship?
it will be weird ! nah it will not happen!!
21. How often do you talk to 1?
As often as i can !!
22. What about 2?
sometimes :P
23. Have you ever thought 3 more than a friend?
hmm...u mean good friend? hahahahaha
24. Would you go on a date with number 5?
hahahaha maybe as a uncle and niece :P
25. Do you dream about number 2?
Nopes !!
26. What did no.4 did to you that you can never forget?
hmm...heaps of good stuff ?! hahaha
27. What have you done for/to 1 that the person never forgets?
have a heart to heart sister talk!! and random notes :P
28. What's 3's hobby?
Being sacarstic ?!
i tag >>>
kian chee
gan fiona
and whoever who wants to do this tag !
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Test your legal history knowledge by trying to answer our legal history quiz questions, which principally focus on common law and Asian jurisdictions.
The questions have been prepared by Douglas Clark, Barrister. Suggestions for quiz questions to appear in next month's journal are most welcome.
1. What year was the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong signed?
2. Sir Anthony Mason, former Non Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal was formerly Chief Justice of which country?
A. New Zealand
B. Canada
C. Australia
D. South Africa.
3. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom was established in which year?
4. Which of the following countries has a common law legal system?
A. Egypt
B. Libya
C. Israel
D. Afghanistan
5. Which American state has a (predominantly) civil law legal system?
A. Louisiana
B. New Mexico
C. Vermont
D. Florida
6. Government Leases in the New Territories are (in general) due to expire on what date?
A. 31 December 2046
B. 1 January 2047
C. 30 June 2047
D. 1 July 2047
7. Which President of the United States also served as Chief Justice?
A. William Jefferson Clinton
B. Theodore Roosevelt
C. William Taft
D. James Adams
8. How many circuit courts does the Supreme People's Court of China have?
A. None
9. The British Court for China sat in which city?
A. Canton
B. Shanghai
C. Peking
D. London
10. The Macau Court of Final Appeal has first instance jurisdiction.
A. True
B. False
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To be eligible to win a bottle of Ch. La Croizille 2007 from Global Vintage Wine Centre, please send your quiz question answers to email@example.com. The first reader to respond with the most correct answers, with no more than 3 incorrect responses, will be deemed the winner. The decision of Thomson Reuters regarding the winner is final and conclusive.
We would like to congratulate Patrick Jiang, The University of Hong Kong, PCLL candidate, the winner of our Legal History Quiz #21.
Answers to Hong Kong Legal History Quiz # 21
1. C. The American constitution came into force in 1789.
2. C. The Basic Law was enacted in 1990.
3. B. & D. Japan (Art. 9) and the Philippines (Art. 2, s. II) have renounced war in their constitutions. Costa Rica does not have an army but has not renounced war.
4. D. The current Constitution of the PRC was enacted in 1982.
5. A. B. C. & D. (quarter points for each). The Magna Carta was signed by King John in 1215 and re-issued by his son Henry III in 1216 and 1217. He issued a new version in 1225.
6. B. Australia does not have a Bill of Rights.
7. B. The Japanese Constitution was drafted in English by the Allied occupation forces and then translated into Japanese.
8. C. The PRC enacted its first Constitution in 1954.
9. A. The United Kingdom has an unwritten constitution.
10. A. True. The current constitution of the Republic of China makes provision for the election of delegates from Mongolia to the National Assembly.


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I'm Becky. Sweet 'n' sassy redhead and writer of this here bloggy blog. I'm 26 born in Calgary and I have a wonderful life. My family is crazy, my friends are entertaining and my boyfriend reminds me of Dean Winchester. Like I said, I have a wonderful life. I'm a vegetarian living, reality show loving, yoga doing, smoothie making girl. Sarcasm is my weapon of choice and I adore the color pink. My family & friends mean the world to me and I have the most wonderful boyfriend in this world. Really. My boyfriend is much more better than yours.
I've been through ups, downs, even played chicken with a semi truck and lost once. You'll hear all about that, other things that have happened in the last year and some randomness via my blog.
I hope you enjoy the words of a feisty redhead and if you don't, well that's fine too. My boyfriend is still better than yours.


text: Tilda ~ LemonTree ~ Lemonade Blue Tilda ~ LemonTree ~ Lemonade Blue Tilda ~ LemonTree ~ Lemonade Blue £3.40 Quantity: at £3.40 each Add To Basket ~ A gorgeous print from the Tilda LemonTree collection. Tone Finnanger, the Norwegian designer of LemonTree has been inspired by the Spring season. "Imagine breakfast under a lemon tree somewhere warm and delicious. You are surrounded by mosaic pots with fragrant herbs. Colorful dresses dying instantly on the cloths line strung brunches. The LemonTree collection was inspired by this image and the longing that comes with it." - Tone Finnanger As we've come to love with Tilda, this latest collection blends beautifully with previous ranges. Details ~ 100% cotton ~ Each Fat Quarter measures 50cm long x 55cm wide ~ For multiple FQ's purchased in the same design you will receive one continuous length of fabric: 1 FQ = 55cm wide x 50cm long2 FQ's = 110cm wide x 50cm long3 FQ's = 110cm wide x 75cm long4 FQ's = 110cm wide x 100cm long5 FQ's = 110cm wide x 125cm long6 FQ's = 110cm wide x 150cm long8 FQ's = 110cm wide x 200cm long


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Almost two weeks ago, Candy took victory at Junior Eurovision, and the ESC Insight team was there, covering the event in person for the first time. escXtra joined us, as did Radio International, ESC.Rus, and a few others.
You know, there's a lot to like in Junior Eurovision, and there were a few times we looked at each other and wondered "why doesn't Adult Eurovision do that?" For everyone who wasn't there, here's our look at some things we think belong on the agenda for Adult Eurovision to consider…
Just Get On With The Voting!
Junior Eurovision manages to announce all the votes. This is partly down to them only having thirteen countries to get through, and not twenty-four, but having every vote announced with time to digest the implications simply felt right. There was also the young announcers didn't feel the need to be witty or make a statement.
One sentence, including the words "Hello, Yerevan!" That's all they did, and that's all you need as an announcer.
How about a compromise for May. Everyone is given strict instructions on that opening sentence, and as the hosts ask for the votes, the announcer reads out the 1-7 points without the call back from Baku.
The EBU have them all in the spreadsheet anyway, so it's not like the EBU need to write them down as they come down the line. It gives every vote the chance to be heard, and trading "bad humour" for "votes" is a winning combination
The Parade of Nations
After the delights of Armenian Riverdance, we had each of the singers come out, behind their national flag, and introduced to the audience. This was lovely, and marked out that this is a contest with a truly international flavour. A parade of contestants at the adult Eurovision would look fantastic. I'm told by Juha Repo this happened back in the sixties – let's get this back. If nothing else it's a wonderful way to get a taster of what's coming up in the rest of the show.
Everyone Working Together
What was interesting, watching the interactions of the children, was that they all knew each other's songs, they were more than happy to sing them, and while some of them had a media filter when asked "what's your favourite song, Erik", the majority were honest and named another song straight away. They all partied together, supported each other and mingled in the Green Room, and it really magnified Eurovision as a show about bringing people together. Let's see more of that!
On a similar viewpoint, the press room was full of people sharing resources, news, and even helping out with content for each other's websites. Part of this was down to the simple fact that we were a small group, and it was easy to ask everyone for a spare microphone, some comments, or even a decent picture of a rehearsal, but I like to think that this could happen with the two thousand strong Adult Press room as well as it did with the twenty strong Junior Press room.
Send Someone Who Can Sing Live
We're looking at Belarus here.
If it wasn't for the pesky age rule, I'm sure that BTRC would be looking to send Lidiya Zablotskaya to Baku with the biggest power ballad that she can write. Looking at the dates, Angely Dobra might just sneak by the September 1st song deadline, but at the same time Anastasia Vinnikova is back to try to return to the Adult Eurovision Contest, and that's a singer/song combination I do not want to hear again!
Switch the Rehearsal Times Around
Bit of a technical one here, but every performer gets two technical rehearsals. At Junior Eurovision you get the shorter session first, and the longer rehearsal session afterwards. This actually makes more sense. You can get mics, lights, and sound sorted on the first slot, and focus on the show on the second one. Adult Eurovision has the longer rehearsal period as the first one, and that feels the wrong way round now that I've seen both in practice.
Getting the crowds to mingle before the show
Normally at Eurovision, the crowds walk up, queue a bit, show their tickets, queue a bit more at the merchandise stand, and take their seats. Not at Junior. The atrium underneath the main hall at The Keren Demerchiyan Stadium was overflowing with children, full of wonder, joy, and flags. It was a superb atmosphere and I'm racking my brains how you could have replicated that at Dusseldorf's Esprit Arena or any of the other venues. But it's worth investigating for the future.
Mingling in the Green Room
This was probably more obvious to the live audience on the night, but the Green Room area at the side of the stage where all the children sat before and after their song wasn't a territorial country-by-county space; everyone just mixed, chatted, hugged, and stood next to whoever they wanted to. You'll never get this in Adult Eurovision, as the competitive element is just a bit too strong, but more backstage and green room action on display would help both the show itself as well as promote the Eurovision message of cultures learning about each other.
Tweaking the language rule
It took Mairi, my seven-year old daughter, to spot this as she was always asking if the next song would be in English, but listening through the Junior Eurovision songs, rather a lot of them are in the native language of the singer. It's nice to have a Eurovision where you don't hear lyrics translated somewhat awkwardly into English and massaged to make them sound almost right. Is it time a language rule returned in some form to the Adult Contest, or would that give too big an advantage to the countries that would get away with using English?
Put the local culture on show
It was great to see an opening that felt traditional, and still managed to hold your interest. While I've got nothing against Stefan Raab's Big Band opening from May 2011, being freed from the shackles to reprise the winning song from 2010 (even though Vladimir did show up later) meant that a focus could be placed on Armenia in the opening, as opposed to a nod to the previous year. We did get the reprise, and looking at some of the recent interval acts, perhaps holding back the reprise to the middle of the three hours and promoting something local at the opening is the way forward this decade?
…and number ten?
That's up to you – what did you see or hear at Junior Eurovision that the Adult Contest needs to adopt? Let us know in the comments.
Once more, thank you BMI for their support, which has allowed the ESC Insight team to cover Junior Eurovision and fly to Yerevan.


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This morning as I was taking CC and his friend Emma to school, I overheard the cutest conversation between them. It had me smiling all day. It went something like this:
(They were playing some game about who's the biggest)CC: God's the biggest, so He wins. E: Who's God? CC: God's invisible. E: What's invisible? CC: Invisible means you can't see Him. Right, mommy? Me: That's right. CC: God created the world. That's why we're in His heart. E: Oh, I like His heart! CC: I like my monkey!
The conversation then turned to another topic, I forget what. But this little conversation I was privileged to overhear reminded me of something I was impressed with after attending a conference last month on the subject of raising our next generation for the church life, which is that we should have the view that our children can be seeds of the gospel. That doesn't mean that I expect my 4 year old to go around preaching the gospel and leading his friends to salvation (especially since he himself isn't even saved yet), but it does mean that he's not too young to tell his friends about what he knows about God, that He created the world and that we are in His heart. If our children have this habit of speaking and caring for their friends at a young age, surely they will become ones who have no shame in sharing the gospel once they do become regenerated. I was also touched to have my heart broadened; not just to care that my own children would know God, but that their friends would also come to know God as their Creator and eventually their Savior. So many times as Christian parents, we're concerned that the world will have a negative influence on our children, which is a very valid concern. But I'm encouraged to take an offensive stance instead of a defensive one; that my view in raising my boys would be not only that they would be preserved, but that they could have a positive influence on those around them. I already feel like CC has a positive influence on me. I hope I'll be as ready and unashamed when the opportunity arises for me to tell someone about the God I know. And hopefully I'll have a little more to say than that He's invisible and that we're in His heart.


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It's really frustrating when you read a novel and the characters are all introduced at once or have such similar names or such confusing names it's difficult to differentiate them. I don't like to keep going back to a list or a family tree, and if there's an index of names that can be muddling too with minor characters in among the main ones… it really is up to the writer to be aware of the reader, and aware of the difficulties.
I'm working on two novels at the moment; one contains a story line about an investigation into a historical incident involving a number of girls of a similar age. I start off by them being described by an adjective:
- Cheeky
- Anxious
- Steady
- Snooty
- Unhappy
- Confused
- Determined
- Steadfast
- Lonely
- Very sad
- Disappointed and cross
- Ready
Only gradually are they identified by name and I hope it's clear which is which and how they figure in the plot, but also giving the reader little reminders… 'Poor Marjorie killed in that bizarre accident', 'little Marjorie who died beneath the old tree' etc.
In my other novel, the story is about a family of six cousins, their wives and children. That would be far too many people and relationships to take in all at one (even though John Galsworthy did it in the Forsyte Saga) So, I have a character come in from outside who has never met any of them before and it's through her eyes the reader is introduced. To simply things still further,, the character, Emma, has been involved in a car accident where she ended up in a freezing pond on a December night, and was rescued by some of the cousins. She has lost her glasses and sees everyone through a blurry haze:
Afterwards Emma was barely able to work out what had happened. She had been carried up the snowy bank by Orson Welles' younger brother, although later she knew of course that was part of the lingering hallucination. She was wrapped in rugs and stowed in the back of a large, warm car. Now, bathed and warm and wrapped in other people's clothes and soft blankets she felt elated and alive! She had been carried into this house wet, no doubt filthy, bedraggled, her hair a mess, her make up gone, but alive!
"How are you feeling? Another cup of tea?" the woman with blond hair asked. There'd been names but Emma saw the warm candle-lit world through a haze, barely able to distinguish faces, voices, or even what was said to her.
"No thanks, I'm awash with tea," her voice was rough and gravely as if snow had burned her throat and lodged there.
Even without her contact lenses and eyes sore from cold and wind and snow, Emma could see that the woman was very beautiful, her blond hair held back with a blue band, falling over her shoulders.
"What would you like to do, Emma?" the woman had a young friendly voice. "Go to bed? Or would you prefer to come down to join the family for dinner."
"I think I'd like to meet everyone." She needed people. "It's all a very hazy, I can't remember what happened and I'm sorry but I can't remember your name."
"I'm Alison, I'm Alex's wife."… like Alice in Wonderland, the blond hair, the blue hair band.
Alex was a cousin, had he been among the rescuers? It was a blur, the snowmen and Orson Welles. She'd only stopped hallucinating when she was upstairs with the kind women, warm and dry and in borrowed clothes.
The door opened to the other two women… their names came to her, Ruby and Carla. Ruby in a high-necked red sweater with auburn hair, easy to remember Ruby in red, and Carla in jeans and a sweater, her cropped hair and slim figure gave her a boyish look so the name had stuck, Carl/Carla.
"Dinner's ready, are you going to join us, Emma?" asked Carla briskly. A cousin, or a cousin's wife?
"Yes, I want to say thanks to my rescuers, I kept hallucinating that they were snowmen."
Ruby laughed; even half-blind without her lenses Emma could see her ready smile, an easy person to like.
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One of the million or so things that interest me is the question of how the brain actually accomplishes anything. This is relevant to linguistics because, well, that's sort of obvious. A prevalent model of neural computation tells us that the brain computes by passing information among various neurons, and that these neurons encode messages in sequences of action potential 'spikes' by a mechanism known as "spike timing."
A new book by Aur and Jog challenges this whole paradigm. It carries the strangely ungrammatical title Neuroelectrodynamics: Understanding the Brain Language and the grammar between the covers is no improvement, but it is very provocative and enticing to those of us who think that the current state of understanding in neuroscience is extremely poor.
The authors first demonstrate that neuron 'spikes' are not uniform or stereotypical, which itself goes against a main tenet of the spike timing model. They then outline a new scheme by which a new quantity of spike 'directivity' is encoded into the charges in movement during an action potential. Empirically, the details of dendritic arbors and axonal branches significantly modulate the extracellular action potential. Axons themselves cannot be approximated by linear cable models.
In the authors' charge movement model, different charges or groups under an electric field have distinct movements. To apply independent component analysis (ICA), the action potential is assumed to be the result of several independent sources, generated by charges that move. For recorded action potentials, blind source separation (a known signal processing technique) can be performed using ICA. The charge localization is obtained from triangulation and a point charge approximation. Singular value decomposition is performed for the matrix of charge coordinates. A 'spike directivity' can be described by a preferred direction of propagation of the electric signal during each action potential, and approximated with a vector. This is shown to be a much more effective means of encoding information and computation than spike timing. Details of the spike directivity are said to be published in other papers by the authors, which did appear in major neuroscience journals.
It is interesting to see how the current paradigm in neural computation could well be founded on nothing. The authors' ideas may not be proven, but they certainly have some interesting empirical findings which defy explanation otherwise, and it seems clear to me that the brain can't be doing all its work with spike timing.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Road to Reality
This summer I've been reading one of those few books that can change your life, The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose. This is basically all of modern theoretical physics, including the mathematical fundamentals starting from first principles. I have finally gotten through all the initial mathematical chapters, which include a quick rundown of Riemannian geometry and differential forms on manifolds. Why is it that mathematical physicists make the best math teachers? I also changed my life a few years back by reading Lectures on Mathematical Physics by Robert Geroch.
I suspect that this approach to geometry could be useful for a new approach to semantics and cognitive science (see previous post on the musings of Fenstad).
Geometry is so crucial to our understanding of reality (i.e. physics), it should not be surprising if it turns out to be crucial to our understanding of language and cognition as well.
I suspect that this approach to geometry could be useful for a new approach to semantics and cognitive science (see previous post on the musings of Fenstad).
Geometry is so crucial to our understanding of reality (i.e. physics), it should not be surprising if it turns out to be crucial to our understanding of language and cognition as well.
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The Les Brown Story
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Edinburgh, UK: Black & White Publishing, 2005.
In the study and teaching of criminal justice, it can often be helpful to look at the real life experiences of men and women who make up the criminal justice system. These accounts can put a human face on the successes and failures of the system, and move our understanding from how things are 'supposed' to be done to a more pragmatic understanding of how things 'are' done. Glasgow Crimefighter: The Les Brown Story attempts to summarize the highlights of Les Brown's career moving through the ranks of the Glasgow Police Department.
Former Detective Brown is cavalier in his description of both his adventures and misadventures during his time on the force. With a remarkable evenhandedness, he relates both his personal successes as well as his public fiascos. Brown provides some insight into the decisions made during his career as well as an explanation for his own failure surrounding the Tracy Main case in 1980.
Unfortunately, this inclusion of his failures as well as successes is insufficient to make this a truly interesting book. The book seems disjointed with characters and tidbits of stories that are never fully developed. It feels as if this work was simply edited from a much larger body of text. Characters described in detail are never heard from again and new personalities are introduced as if we should already have an adequate knowledge of their relationship with the author.
The most interesting portion of the book, the aforementioned Tracy Main case, concerns Brown's failure to properly follow police procedure. In this incident, a key suspect in the murder of a 13-year-old girl had all charges dropped against him because Detective Brown failed to document that he had fully cautioned the suspect prior to the questioning. While this is an unpleasant tale to recount, it does provide a very real example of difficulties...
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ISRO to Integrate Human Angle to Long Haul Space Flight in Upcoming Human Test
Now that manned deep space explorations programs are in the works, experts from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is injecting the human angle to their test flight. The agency will conduct a human test to see how the crew can survive if anything happens to their spacecraft.
The test's main mission is to study how astronauts will be able to eject themselves inside a spacecraft to abort a mission that endangers their safety. However, the rescue does not stop there, as the agency will also have to consider staging a plan to retrieve ejected crew to another spacecraft.
The Indian agency is determined to fully succeed in their human test before sending manned missions in the near future. ISRO is also looking at the possibility of astronauts to land on Earth after successfully ejecting from a troubled spacecraft.
ISRO will conduct the test as part of the Human Space Flight (HSF) program and the scientists are hopeful that the government will grant support for the program to push through. The agency is taking a cue from the movie "The Martian" that presented how a stranded astronaut survived on Mars. "We are getting ready for the pad abort test and it will happen soon," A.S. Kiran Kumar, Chairman of ISRO said in a statement.
In order to do this, most India space capsules will need to have the safety ejection module. The mechanism and control should also be perfected first before the agency would be able to send humans to space missions. The agency will also need to check the viability of current spacesuits and if it will allow ejected astronauts to survive in space.
Aside from the safety of the crew for ISRO's manned mission, the agency together with Defense Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) is also preparing the food for the Human Spaceflight Programme, according to the New Indian Express. This will provide astronauts will viable space food for future missions.
The human angle will be incorporated the design and testing of India's most powerful rocket the GSLV-III. The spacecraft will include the said angle to improve its safety mechanism in preparation for a manned flight in 2020.


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I am guessing that some observers will think that this could become a turning point as the outrage could be used to both rally the public opinion in favor of a more vigorous policy against Syria and to pressure Russia and China to change their recent Security Council veto.
I understand the rallying pblic opinion bit. Apparently, 106 journalist have so far been killed in Syria (link in French), but since all but one (Gilles Jacquier) were non-Westerners, we never even heard about them. Now two Westerners dying in one day will attract a lot of attention and the cynical element behind it notwithstanding, I understand why it might indeed give politicians more leeway.
The only problem with this is the fact that, these politicians do not want more leeway as they have no desire to start a military intervention in Syria. Libyan example and their victory there (albeit a Pyrrhic one) should not be seen as a relevant case to analyze Syria. In Libya, European powers were jockeying to get their hands on oil and they had a willing militia on the ground doing the actual fighting. And the vast majority of Libyans were very happy to be able to get rid of Qaddafi. There is no such prize in Syria. Its meager oil reserves would not justify even a halfhearted effort. Nor is there a sizable ground force capable of going against Bashar's army.
As for putting more pressure on Russia and China, I doubt that it would achieve the desired result. Some analysts tried to explain Russian veto with a Cold War-like desire to hang on to their naval supply base in Tartus. But I find such speculations puzzling. For one thing, they put too much value on Tartus. Secondly and more importantly, everyone is aware (save perhaps for al Assad and his entourage) that there is no way the current Syrian government can stay in power even in the short run. Trying to keep a naval supply base by schmoozing an about-to-be-overthrown-government strikes me as utterly stupid. And I don't think Russians are even slightly stupid.
I tend to believe that what motivates Russia is to remain a major player in the region. Through its seemingly intransigent stance on Syria, Kremlin is making sure that (unlike Libya where it acquiesced too quickly to find itself out of the loop) there can be no Syrian solution without Russia's active participation.
If my assumption is correct, then, despite significant human suffering and loss of life in the near future, (and if Russia acts rapidly and decisively after its upcoming elections,) this might turn out to be a positive arrangement.
There are several reasons for this. A violent overthrow of the al-Assad regime by the Free Syrian Army is impossible due to the weak and disorganized nature of FSA and the substantial support al-Assad regime enjoys in many parts of Syria. Increasingly, FSA fighters sound like Sunni fundamentalists and this has to scare the living daylights out of Alawites and Christians. These groups will resist a fundamentalist Sunni army in any way they can because they know that life under them would be no picnic.
As for a foreign intervention by a regional power like Turkey, Colin Powell's "Pottery Barn rule" is such a massive deterrent that I seriously doubt that Turkey would even consider it. It can be done militarily but the contradictory expectations of religious and ethnic groups would make a transition to a democratic government an arduous and costly task. With FSA growing more radical every day, it would be difficult for Turkey not to appear like the army of Sunni imperialists. Nothing good can come out of such a move.
But, as everyone knows there is no way to go back to status quo ante in Syria: after 7,000 civilians dead a Rubicon of sorts has been crossed. Moreover, with the exception of Iran (and to some extent Nouri al-Maliki's government in Iraq) all regional and global players want al-Assad gone. Neither Iran nor Iraq are in a position to save this Syrian government.
So what will happen next and why do I assume that current Russian position might lead to a positive end result?
My guess is that the most important element in the denouement will be the economy. One of the axioms we easily lose sight of is the fact that no army can continue to fight without money. The Syrian economy severely contracting under the strain of sanctions and its foreign currency reserves are dwindling. While Iran is said to provide some financial assistance this is not going to be nearly enough. A leading Syrian businessman by the name of Faisal al-Qudsi said that they might have resources to fight maybe for another six months:
He said the uprising had destroyed tourism and the sanctions on exports of oil and other products had dramatically reduced the gross domestic product.
"So, effectively the foreign exchange reserves of the central bank have come down from $22bn (£14bn) to about $10bn and it is dwindling very rapidly," Mr Qudsi said.
He said the military phase against protesters could only last another six months "because the army is getting tired and will go nowhere".Actually, I find his six months prediction a bit optimistic. Since early on many Syrian businesses moved their capital abroad and by now all economic activities must have come to a complete stop. With no new income and a shrinking taxation base, the government will run out of money soon. But more importantly, faced with that situation, even those who are fearful of a regime change will turn against the government.
The key will be additional pressure points (like the water threat I mentioned) and additional sanctions to hasten the demise of the economy. Interestingly, in the last six months Turkish government announced such sanctions many times but never implemented them. I suspect, this will change after the Russian elections.
Simultaneously, a determined diplomatic effort should take place to convince al-Assad that unless he goes right now, his future will be very bleak. I have always thought that he was the weakest link and he would have taken the exile option left to his own devices. It was the thugs around him who were reluctant to give up power as they feared that they can never survive a regime change. So the same effort should involve these people as well.
A third element would be to reassure Syrian minorities that a new regime would protect them and would give them a voice and a representation. I am not sure how this can be done but this is one of the reasons I find the FSA and its Saudi patrons unhelpful in all this. Without their Sunni Jihadist rhetoric, a lot more Syrian people would have turned against al-Assad. One interesting aspect of that need to reassure minorities will be how Turkey will handle its Kurdish minorities through this process as it will have an effect on its credibility in the eyes of the Syrian Kurds.
In any event, if my analysis brings together all the necessary carrot and stick elements, then it is clear that to integrate Russia into this process would significantly increase its chances of success. For one thing, Syrian regime change will stop looking like a Sunni conspiracy as the current government claims it is. Russia is a known entity to Syrian people and its presence at the table would go a long way to reassure Syrian minorities.
With Turkey in a position to provide most of the "stick" elements (like water and ensuring the viability of sanctions) the combined package might just be able to effectuate regime change without breaking the pottery.
This is clearly a speculation around logical options and a best case scenario. But there are several unknowns that could prevent its implementation.
First, how will the US react to a major Russian involvement? Second, at what stage the Iranian crisis will be when all this is supposed to take place? Third, how will Iraq react to this?
And most importantly from my perspective, how this outcome will affect a Kurdish homeland.


text: So, yesterday, about 0900ish, the watch cart calls in to base, and tells them there is a pig cavorting with a dog. Watch Commander Ronan asked somewhat tenuously, real animals? Well, yes, 'fraid so. It took over an hour to round them up,and load them into a cart for transportation... I don't know if the owners were ever found! Ah, Pennsic, it is unique!


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> Still haven't tried an Arby's -- you recommend their roast beef?
It's the only roast beef I'll eat -- I hate it usually. Of course, it all depends on the restaurant too; here in Clemson, you take your chances in regards to the quality and taste. Arby's has a pretty diverse menu, really. Their chicken (fried and grilled) sandwhiches are top-notch, I think. And desserts...yum. Go for the Jamocha shake, if you like coffee....and if Oreos are your thing, try the Oreo Polar Swirl.
Mandy Huffman Clemson, SC


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Doris J. Albright, age 90, passed away on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, at her residence. She was born in Chicago, IL, on January 17, 1923, daughter of the late Henry and Daisy (Nee: Blakeman) Siegwart.
Surviving are her children, Douglas (Robin) Albright of Winnebago, IL, Diane Albright of Racine, Mark (Robin) Albright of Oak Harbor, WA; six grandchildren, Karen Bernhardt, Robert Kingery, Danielle Albright, Michael Albright, Mark Albright Jr., Sara Beth Albright; great-grandchildren, Christine Bernhardt, Carole Kingery and Doris Kingery; other relatives and dear friends. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her brother, Richard Siegwart.
A memorial service will be held Tuesday, May 28, 2015, at 1 p.m. at Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, 322 Ohio St., with Reverend James Barsch officiating. Relatives and friends may meet Tuesday at the church from noon until time of service. Memorials to Hospice Alliance have been suggested.
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Our office is equipped with a laboratory and blood drawing station. Simple tests are done in our lab, such as urine pregnancy tests and urinalysis. Blood drawn for testing goes to quality reference laboratories, such as Quest Diagnostics Lab or Grossmont Hospital Lab. You can call this office at (619) 644-6500 during normal business hours to request lab orders from your physician, if not already arranged at your office visit.
If you call ahead we can have your lab orders and all necessary paperwork ready. The Nurses and Medical Assistants are not able to order your lab tests. They must be ordered by your physician.
Quest Diagnostics has many locations. Please go to www.questdiagnostics.com to find the nearest location to you. The closest one to Grossmont Family Medical Group is located at 5565 Grossmont Center Dr., Building 3, Suite 463, La Mesa, CA 91942.
The Grossmont Hospital Lab is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and can serve you when we are closed. It is on the first floor of the hospital. You can reach them at (619) 740-4492.
If you come to the office just for lab work, you will still need to check in with the receptionist, who will give you an encounter form. Then go directly to the lab.LAB POLICIES:If you bring a lab specimen in to the office, please take it directly to the lab. You will need to let the lab technician know you are leaving the specimen. Please do not leave the specimen unattended.If your doctor orders your lab to be done on an emergency basis, then it will be done within hours. Any critical lab result is immediately called to the doctor, who will contact you right away if the situation requires immediate attention.Please wait two weeks before calling the office for results. It is likely you will hear from us before that time.


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- No & yes. I'm actually a tad heavier and definitely wider through the hips and tummy. Though my cardio and muscling has improved lately and I can last longer without taking a break - so fitness is better.
- Yes, I totally did this AND kicked butt doing it. See my post with those results: Pies and Jars
- Nada last year, and only a few times this year, so very late in starting this one.
- Not at all in 2012, but have been doing that over the last month and can w/t/c bareback, YAY!
- BAWAHAAHAHAHAHAHA. Yeah. I over-estimated, WAY over-estimated how awesome I am. I'm just this month consistently schooling 2', which last month was still scary.
- Yes, I did go and do this and decided it's not for me. Not right now. Too scary. I like hunter pace.
Not too shabby, many came this year instead of last year. I'm still ok with that.
So this weekend will be the 1/2 way into the year mark. A pretty good time to set some goals for the rest of the year.
Goals, 2nd half 2013
- Successfully show 2' hunters by end of season. (not counting the 2' show earlier this year when I fell off)
- School 2' 3".
- Lose inches off my hips and tummy - enough to nicely fit back into my size L FITS Bekas that were too tight this time last year. Still wearing the XL Bekas I bought after I saw photos of me in the larges o0.
- Break in my tall boots all the way so I can actually show in them.


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Monday, August 12, 2013
New Place
Hello Friends!
I have a new place now,
so join me
to see what's happening in my art world.
Make sure you hop over to
the moon from my attic
the sweet and talented Alex Colombo has shared her interview of me.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Make Art Thar Sells - an e-course
Make Art That Sells...what a course. WOW!
5 intense weeks
followed by a two week period
to create a piece of art for the
Global Talent Search
The course was amazing.
My portfolio grew and will grow with at least 3 new collections.
This was my first assignment. I drew everything, painted it, scanned it and created the layout in Photoshop. Things got a little distorted, but now I know how to do it. One lesson learned.
This is one of the layout's with handwritten lettering and a light chocolate background.
I really liked the cream colored background. I think it would make a nice kitchen towel and I like the clean font.
I played with Photoshop and created the pattern from the spots on one of the mushrooms.
While working on the pattern I also played with colorways...another lesson learned!
One more pattern from the peas.
This was in my comfort zone, but not something I would have ever dreamed of painting. Acrylic on canvas board.
This one a favorite. I love collage. I love the intuition it takes to create such a piece. This will grow into a 4 piece collection. Mixed media on 24x24 wood panel.
This one was just fun! 100% Photoshop. I went through my pictures and chose some colorful pieces, cut them out from the backgrounds and collaged them together. This will also become a collection. After I submitted I realized I had made a mistake. The word bubble should come from one of the other animals. I have a special place in mind to submit this collection. I hope they like it!
Another fun piece.Every week I wanted to incorporate my chickens into a piece of art, but they never fit the assignment. Finally, I got to fit them in. Would make a great journal cover, huh?
This will also become a collection of four. They will be perfect for a set of dinnerware.
Here is the link for Make Art That Sells with Lilla Rogers.
Hugs! Kim
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Represented by Lilla Rogers
2 year deal with
Lilla Rogers
What a Dream!
The contest deadline is Wed June 26 @ Noon EST.
Although my art is completely different than that of Lilla's Artist, I'm still going for it....
with All my HeART and Soul!
Join in on the contest.
I BeLiEvE it will change your life!
There are several surprises that go along with it!
So GO!
Check out
The Search.
Global Talent Search
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Make Art That Sells an e-course with Lilla Rogers
Make Art That Sells
an e-course about Licnesing
and I am taking it!
The course is in two parts.
We are in the third week of Part 1,
but don't worry it begins again on October 7.
Part 2 begins October 7 as well.
Be sure to click the link above to read all about it.
Peas and Mushrooms
My Portfolio is growing!
The class is awesome. Definitely pushing me out of my box. I drew the mushrooms, peas and bowls. Colored them in by hand, but changed the colors in Ps. Then laid them
out in this pattern. All new to me.
The Peas and Mushrooms was my first assignment. Don't get excited now....the next class Part 1 will have different themes. I loved the creamy background of the first one, but agreed with friend
Deb Velasquez
that the darker background made the icons 'pop'. I am such a beginner with Photoshop, I can do a little, but as you see...my layout is a little squished.
Above on the first pattern I played with
. It began as red, but for my assignment I used more of an orange which reminds me of candy corn. All created in Ps except the little circles. I took them from the mushroom cap shown at the top of the blog.
My second assignment was Pods...flower pods in a circular design. This one stressed me out a little, so I went to the studio and painted this Passion Flower on Mulberry paper. This was my finished assignment. Several friends thought it looked like needlework...hum...great idea! I am in licensing discussion with a needlework company. I think I'll share it.
My art is being viewed by Lilla !
and many top companies anyone would love to be licensed with.
Connect with me on
to see all the little doodles.
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Monday, April 15, 2013
How did I make it on the front page of the Surtex site?
What did I do to get on the front page of the Surtex site?
Well, I'm not sure how that happened, but I'm thrilled about it. I can tell you what I did to prepare my booth for my first time at Surtex.
First I found out the size of my booth walls and how many panels with measurements. This is how I found the dimensions.
* www.surtex.com
* Artist/Agents/Licensors
*Set-Up Manual/Exhibitor Kit
Click here to view the Exhibitor Service Kit by Category and download individual forms.
* Exhibitor Information
* Booth Descriptions
I chose to have banners printed to fit my panels.
I bought all the industrial strength velcro squares I could find.
I also bought lots and lots of packages of Command Strips.
I also took S hooks for extra security, by hanging them over the top of the wall.
I took alcohol swabs for cleaning, but really didn't have anything to clean off.
I chose to have large prints on the banners to catch attention. I dedicated an entire banner to my main Rooster, Cuppa Joe. He greeted everyone who walked down the aisle. He received lots of compliments and brought lots of smiles and laughter!
Before the show we had a little shopping trip. I wanted to blend with my art, so we chose to wear white pants and skirts with tops matching the colors in the background. We were complimented many times for our 'look'. So I suppose that's why and how a Newbie got on the front page.
Don't miss the latest design trends at Booth #451!
Visit us in our new booth to see our latest designs. We look forward to seeing you May 19-21.
Kim Gann
KG Art Studio
New Booth #451
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Tim Sanders has a great post today titled Master Your Subject Line. He tackles the art of e-mailing-e-mailing well. In our hurried world, getting better at communicating through e-mail is essential.
Some of my former colleagues would tell you that I hated e-mail that contained three or four paragraphs. Shakespeare was right…brevity is the soul of wisdom.
Tim stays on the issue of subject lines, which is a good place to start the dialog.


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Fire Dawgs Veterans and Service Members
10 May 2017
May is National Military Appreciation Month. So, we thought this would be the perfect time to recognize our very own Fire Dawgs Veterans and Service Members. At Fire Dawgs, we are always looking to hire veterans and people currently serving in the military. Additionally, we always offer a 10% discount on all of our services to veterans and service members as a token of our appreciation. We hope that this month you will pause and show your appreciation to all veterans and service member who sacrifice so much for our freedom.
We Are Honored by Our Veterans and Service Members
John Byers
If you have ever hired Fire Dawgs for junk removal, there's a pretty good chance that you've met our amazing Operations Managers, Big John Byers. Big John always has a positive, upbeat attitude. He is an extremely hard worker, motivates others to do their best, and always does his best for each and every one of his customers. We are extremely proud to have Big John on our team.
Here is a little bit about John's service to our country. Big John currently serves in the Indiana Army National Guard (INARNG). His mos is 11 bravo ( infantry). He has served in the Indiana Army National Guard for 5 years and 8 months. When asked why he decided to join, John states "…the best way for me to move myself forward in the world was to join the guard. I get the training and have the ability to serve and be home with my family."
John comes a family that has served our country. His grandfather served in WWII in the navy, and his great uncle also served in WWII in the Air Force. His cousin Brian served in the Army, and actually encouraged John to join too. His Uncle John and Uncle Steve both served in the Army in Vietnam, and his Uncle Dean served in the Army as well.
Josh Dougherty
Josh "Bird" Dougherty is our Lead Technician for Fire Dawgs Cleaning Services. He works hard to ensure that our customers get the best service available. While Josh excels in customer service, he is also extremely knowledgeable and skilled at the services we offer. We are proud of Josh and his service to our country.
Josh currently serves in the United States Army National Guard 11Bravo Infantry (HOOAH!!), and this is his 6th year of service. He joined, because he wanted to serve his country in any way that he could. "It's the best country in the world" he states, and we agree!
He chose to join the Army National Guard with his brother and friend, John Byers. Josh says that, "Me and him (John) push each other to our limits. And then some. He's a good motivator to get you through anything. And as well to stay at home with my family. Cause without them as well I don't know where I would be." Both John and Josh state that one of their favorite aspects of the military is the camaraderie.
Josh also has veterans and service members in his family. His grandfather gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and died serving our country. His cousin Ben is also currently serving in the Air Force. We are thankful for the service and sacrifice of Josh and his family.
Bennett Grove
Bennett Grove II is the founder, owner, and CEO of Fire Dawgs. He started the company in 2011 on his off-days from Grissom Fire Department (Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base). Bennett served 6 years in the United States Air Force. He chose to join the military because:
"I wanted to serve in the military because I felt compelled to serve our country during a time of conflict. I enlisted for active duty after 9/11 and the Iraq invasion and left for basic training after finishing my sophomore year of college."
Bennett decided to join the Air Force specifically, because of its world-renowned fire protection program, and he wanted to be a firefighter. His favorite aspect of his time in the military was serving his country and doing what he felt like was his part. He states, " I remembered feeling honored and proud when wearing the uniform." Bennett's grandfather also served in the Army during WWII.
We are thankful for Bennett's service to our country and his leadership in our company. He does his absolute best everyday to take care of our customers and our team. Under Bennett's leadership, we are all encouraged to operate at a higher standard and pay close attention to detail, and that's the difference of a Veteran Owned Business.
*Fire Dawgs is always looking to hire Veterans and Service members. Learn more about job openings on our Careers page.
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Then you grow up a little, you're in middle school/high school and you think that you're "too old" for halloween. You omit doing anything for this holiday with the exception of a scary movie marathon. Not Scary Movie with Anna Faris, but SCARY movies! With deals like "5 Movies for 5 Days for 5 Dollars" [RIP Premiere Video] me and a friend went through almost every single scary movie that store had to offer.
Then you grow up some more. And the holiday becomes "who can look the skankiest?" Well obviously I win:
|Garth and Kat
|Can you tell the difference?
Of course when I wasn't standing near Garth, I looked suspiciously like a blond version of my mother.
Our Halloween was so much fun! We were invited to a house party (a friend of a friend of a friend style) and it was pretty much my heaven. This party had everything, Karaoke, beer pong, flippy cup, tons of food (including guacamole and the chicken mixed with wing sauce and ranch dressing dip that I go nuts over), a haunted house, cave men, Michael Jackson, gypsies, Garth and Kat, two referrees - a blind one and a slutty one (guess which one my husband was), Pebbles, Bam Bam and Fred Flintstone, Rainbow Brite... and I forget what else!
I thought it was great that the people that owned the house were so generous and provided beer and food and didn't even want to get money in return. When the night came to a close, I thanked the party host by interrupting his conversation saying "I'ma let you finish, but this was the best Halloween party of all time!"
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Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) (Cambridge, Massachusetts) developed a noncorrosive flow battery to store energy in organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH water.
Flow batteries store energy in liquid solutions in external tanks, with bigger tanks storing more energy. As such, they are a promising renewable energy solution. However, many of these batteries suffer degraded capacity after charge-discharge cycles, requiring maintenance of the electrolyte.
But by modifying molecules used in positive and negative electrolytes, the team engineered a battery that loses only 1% of its capacity per 1,000 cycles.
"Lithium ion batteries don't even survive 1,000 complete charge/discharge cycles," says Michael Aziz, a professor on the team.
"Because we were able to dissolve the electrolytes in neutral water, this is a long-lasting battery that you could put in your basement," adds contributing professor Roy Gordon. "If it spilled on the floor, it wouldn't eat the concrete and since the medium is noncorrosive, you can use cheaper materials to build the components, like the tanks and pumps."
Researchers say the key was figuring out why previous molecules degraded so quickly in neutral solutions. By identifying how the molecule viologen in the negative electrolyte decomposed, they modified its structure for more resilience. They then used ferrocene, known for electrochemical properties, for the positive. By functionalizing both the same way, they turned an insoluble molecule into a soluble one that could be cycled stably.
The neutral pH could lower the cost of the ion-selective membrane that separates the battery's two sides. Many flow batteries use polymers to withstand aggressive chemistry, but those can account for one-third of the total cost, the team says. But since the electrolyte is noncorrosive, polymers can be replaced by cheaper hydrocarbons.
Source: Harvard, seas.harvard.edu.


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Our challenge this week is to use stars on your Christmas Card!
I chose to use this fun elf image from Sparkle Creations, and coloured him
with Copics, then added liquid applique to the fur trim on his outfit.
Sentiment is Pink Cat Studio, stamped right below the image.
Papers are Best Creations (stripe) and MME (dots).
Stars and ribbon are from my stash.