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What To Do In Corolla
Corolla has a full plate when it comes to seaside offerings. Boredom is not possible! The climb to the top of the lighthouse and the wild horse herd alone will mesmerize guests. Add festivals, wine tastings, concerts and the sheer natural beauty of the village and seashore, and you will discover a mix of happenings that appeal to all of the eclectic tastes in your group.
What to Do in Corolla:
■ The county-owned Currituck Heritage Park is a culture hotspot bringing together three major attractions: the Whalehead in Historic Corolla, the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education and the Currituck Beach Lighthouse. Restored in the 1980s by the non-profit Outer Banks Conservationists, the historic Currituck Beach Lighthouse is one of the only three Outer Banks lighthouses that can be climbed. Scaling the 1875 tower's 214 steps is well worth the effort. The view from the top is spectacular! Souvenir gifts and books can be purchased at the Museum Store, a small assistant keeper's house that has been restored.
■ A short stroll on one of the park's many paths – there are boardwalks and nature observation areas with interpretive signs– will bring visitors to the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education. The facility features 5,000 square-feet of educational displays, including an 8,000-gallon aquarium and stunning antique decoys. Watch a movie on the fascinating history of the Currituck Outer Banks. The center is a true cultural experience!
■ The extraordinary Whalehead in Historic Corolla is a clubhouse that was lovingly restored by the county in 2002 and is open for numerous daily tours, ranging from a docent-led tour to a self-guided audio tour. There are even ghost tours! Built in the early 1920s, the art nouveau-style mansion once served as a vacation home for a wealthy couple from the northeast. The grounds host weddings, musical performances, Fourth of July fireworks, concerts and a fantastic art festival. See our calendar of events (on page 20) for a full-bodied line-up sure to tickle anyone's fancy!
■ The best way to see wild horses is by taking a guided off-road tour through natural preserves that also are home to numerous wild birds and other creatures. Self-guided tours behind the dune area are no longer permitted. Numerous commercial services provide tours in off-road vehicles, but be aware that the tours book quickly in-season.
■ Hike along a boardwalk to the Currituck Sound on the Currituck Banks National Estuarine Research Reserve Access Trail on the north end of Corolla village. At two-thirds of a mile, it's a lovely walk through maritime forest and marsh. And it gives nature-lovers a way to see birds and a view of the water without getting wet!
■ Or you can rent a kayak, a bicycle or even a Segway to enjoy Corolla from a different perspective. The sound offers quiet beauty for kayakers looking for serenity, and pedalers will appreciate the charm of bicycling around Historic Corolla Village and having an open-air view of Corolla's wonders off numerous trails.
■ Take advantage of Corolla's breezy conditions and fly a kite from the beach. Stunt kites and kites of every design and size are available to purchase at several locations. Hey, the Wright brothers knew the Outer Banks was the place to go for wind beneath their wings!
■ All proceeds go to the care and preservation of the horses when you visit the Wild Horse Museum (1129 Corolla Village Road) and the Wild Horse Museum Store in Duck's Scarborough Faire Shopping Village (1177 Duck Road). Both stores offer wild horse books, videos, clothing, jewelry, arts and crafts and toys. Children's programs are offered during the summer. The Duck store offers weekly "Mustang Rides" where you have the opportunity to ride a formerly wild horse. It's a perfect way to support the animals while also picking up a souvenir of the iconic creatures of the Currituck Banks.
■ Go fishing! With the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the wide Currituck Sound on the other, there are plenty of fishing options! Check with the local bait and tackle store to find out what's biting and where to go. Don't forget, North Carolina requires the purchase of a recreational fishing license before you go fishing, whether you're throwing a line in the surf, or looking to hook a tuna off a charter boat.
■ How about fun in the sun! Enjoy beachcombing on Corolla's gorgeous wide beaches, voted one of the 20 favorite beaches in 2014 by Coastal Living magazine. Or try catching a few waves on a body board or a skim board. If you're feeling ambitious, take a few surfing lessons from the local surf shop pros and rent a surfboard! Or try your hand at Stand Up Paddling, or SUP, the latest craze that has taken off on the Outer Banks.
■ Why not relax at a spa, whether for an hour or a day? Full-service spas offer luxurious amenities equal to any top-class resort. What better way to rejuvenate? Treat yourself to a facial, a new hairstyle and a pedicure or a massage. Get a little pampering on your vacation!
■ How about a family portrait at the beach? Immortalize your down time in a vacation scrapbook! Professional photographers can make the most of our beautiful scenery and find the best setting for a memorable vacation photo of your family and friends. Images of a couple, the family pets, your children, or you alone can be this year's Christmas card photo or added to a business portfolio. Nothing says 'comfortable in your own skin' better than a beach portrait!
■ Take the dog to the beach. Four-legged friends are welcome on Corolla's ocean and sound beaches as long as they're leashed. Almost every dog loves the beach, but be careful to keep your dog from getting overheated. Please don't forget to bring water for Fido, and clean up his mess! For extra fun, look in gift shops for an Outer Banks souvenir collar or doggie scarf. The dogs back home will be jealous!
■ Rainy day? Too much sun? Spend the day shopping! There are many retail stores with beautiful merchandise that go beyond tourist souvenirs, such as galleries where you can purchase handcrafted jewelry, paintings and pottery created by local and regional artists. There is never a shortage of delightful beach buys for fun souvenirs or unique gifts to show appreciation for your friends and family back home!
■ Dining options range from seafood raw bars and gourmet burgers to Tex-Mex and Italian. And of course, fresh Outer Banks seafood, whether steamed, fried or grilled, will be delicious because it's caught locally and prepared by the best. Ice cream and bakery treats are also available throughout the village to satisfy the sweet tooth.
■ You can always go to the movie theater or play miniature golf or arcade games. You'll be guaranteed happy kids if you take them to drive go-karts or bumper cars. There is also a 5,000-foot concrete skate park that the young skaters can enjoy. Lessons are even available for those who want to learn new, active sports such as Stand Up Paddling (SUP) or surfing.
■ Corolla has an active live music scene at many outdoor eateries and venues. Check online for regular updates on fun activities such as lip syncing and children's fun days. ■


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My goals for the year were to change a habit each month. January I gave up pop, February I decided to exercise, March I wanted to try to get up on time, for April it is to stay in touch with my people.
Right up until April my goals were going great. Then busyness set in and the rest of my goals went by the wayside. I started drinking pop because I needed it to get through the day, or so I thought. I stopped exercising because I lost free time both with work and with having a baby. Getting up on time has stopped happening because I don't stick to a schedule and routine of going to bed on time and having enough time for relaxation. Now I am so busy trying to keep on top of customers that I don't know what is going on with some of my team.
I need to get back in a routine and start to focus. To get past things you need to focus and have a plan.
To stop drinking more pop: Don't buy it at home and take a jug of water to work and make sure that is the only thing you drink.
Exercising: Schedule 3 days a week to do some exercise. Don't try to overdue it. Just start slowly.
Getting up on time: Stay on a schedule of going to bed on time and have a routine to start your morning.
Keeping in Touch with my Team: Put them as an action item on your to do list. Have things written each day to talk to each of your team members about.
Sorry this post was so me focused. But if I cannot live out what I am talking about here I am just another blathering idiot. I will get back to you on how this is going.
Do you always wonder how to make work more fun? Or anything more fun for that matter.
Don't you remember when you were a kid (or even now) to pass the time while driving you would play the ABC game or you would play Zip or some other game like that. Your goal at the end was getting to your destination but you needed some tools to make the journey more fun.
I love to transfer childhood lessons learned to leadership and business.
Today at work I was going through everything I ordered and also thinking about my goals for the year. I was thinking to myself I need to give myself a jump start to get excited about selling things and talking to people. I talked to one other person and we decided to make a game of greeting people and keeping track if we sell to them. No this game isn't all about sales. It is more about making conversation with people. I want everyone who comes to my business to get talked to by at least two people.
This is how my thought process worked:
- I thought of my goal: My goal was to sell 10% more than last year.
- A main step in getting toward the goal: Making sure every customer who comes in gets talked to and made to feel welcome.
- Come up with 3 ideas of how to achieve: Make it a policy, make it a reward, or make it a game.
- Think of how to implement your idea: Keeping track of how many customers you talk to and how many end up buying.
- Enlisting Others: Talked to another person at work about the idea and we decided to make it a game with lunch as the reward.
- Leaving room for change: Be willing to change how to keep track and different ways to make the game more interesting.
What is the use in playing games if you don't keep score. Quit making it easy and basing it on numbers. Anyone can create a game like that. Be a little more ingenious.
It is a lot easier to measure sales, ROI, and other things. But the tough things to measure like your employee morale and customer satisfaction are the lifeblood of your business. They are a lot harder to measure but are worth the time and effort to find them out.
What are the things your business measures?
We had Reggie McNeal speak the other day in Orange City about how the church needs to have a different scorecard. He talked on how the church measures people in church, how much money got taken in and other things. He gave the story of how one church's goal was that no one in their county went hungry. Now that's a goal to work for!
Instead of making a certain sales number your goal:
- Why don't you measure how many people you can make smile in a day.
- How many questions or problems over the phone you solve.
- Ask your employees what their goals are for the year both professionally and personally and see if they accomplish them.
The best things to measure are the hardest. Numbers are easy to measure people are harder to measure. So go out of your way to find out what things you need to measure that make the biggest difference.
Do you have systems in place to make sure you stay on track? Or do you just fly by the seat of your pants following some mission statement or vision?
Matt from What's Best Next had a post you should check out on Systems.
I love systems and are a big part of the fabric of what I believe. I am around too many people in life that have great intentions but have no systems to harness their ideas. The most creative people need to have systems so they can get the most of their abilities.
The greatest intentions are only as good as the most basic systems.
The best people and businesses are the ones who do the simplest things with excellence.
So what should you have systems for in your life?
- Your Daily Routine: You should be pretty close to clockwork on each day to be the most efficient.
- Your Ideas: All of your ideas should have a place they get recorded so you don't forget them.
- To Do List: Have a system whether it is over the internet, on your computer, a paper system or a combination of them. Have a way to keep track of things you need to get done.
- Goals: Review goals weekly or monthly and have a reminder of when to review them.
- Encouragement: This should flow naturally but maybe set aside a certain time each day or once a week to write notes or tell people what they are doing.
I just became a dad for the first time 2 months ago and it is amazing how a system is way more effective for babies. I don't think we really change that much with age.
What type of systems do you use?
Matt at What's Best Next had these Five Questions in a recent post:
- What will be the center of my life?
- What will be the character of my life?
- What will be the contribution of my life?
- What will be the communication of my life?
- What will be the community of my life?
These questions made me start to ponder what I want my life to look like. Much of my life has been spent just going from one thing to the next without really looking ahead and doing some planning.
Here are some questions I am asking myself about what I want the end of my life to look like:
- What do I want people to say about me at my funeral? Do I want them to say he knew how to make money or that he cared for others? I think I know what I want to be said about me.
- What legacy do I want to leave for others to carry on? Who am I going to invest my life in to make this place better: my kids, coworkers, others I come in contact with.
- Do I wish I would have worked less or more? Think about what you want out of life and if you want to invest more time in your work or in other things.
Take some time to think about what you want out of life. Many times we go through life without really thinking because we are so busy.
Why after awhile do we start relaxing, getting lazy, and forget what got us to where we are? Do we think we have arrived?
It is so easy to go and go for a goal and then when you finally reach it you take it for granted and lose it. You work for something and once you accomplish it you forget about it. When I was in college I remember an experience that relates well to this. I was on the JV basketball team. I was probably the 3rd guy off the bench and played around 8 minutes a game. I wanted to play more so I decided to play defense as hard as I could. Pressure my guy, get in passing lanes, and do all of the little things. Once my minutes started going up I stopped doing the little things and all of the sudden my minutes went drastically down. At the time I blamed it on other things but looking back I realized I became complacent.
How you keep from being complacent?
- Don't forget where you came from: Don't forget how far you have come and what you had before.
- Keep pushing yourself: Try new things all the time don't settle into such a routine.
- Stay Focused: Stay focused on your main objectives and don't go on bunny trails all the time.
- Do the Little Things well: Don't stop doing the little things that got you where you are. Keep doing them but keep doing them better than before.
Complacency is easy to get into after working really hard. Enjoy successes but don't make success an excuse to stop improving.
Dan McCarthy always has good things to say but this article I thought was exceptional on 1 on 1's. Here is the list he had on there:
1. Schedule them out for 6-12 months, either weekly or bi-weekly, for about an hour each. Don't wait for them to happen, because they won't. Make it your employee's responsibility to schedule them, but set the expectation and hold them accountable. It's not an option.
2. Don't cancel them. Yes, things come up – so reschedule if needed. If you're always canceling them, you're sending the message that they aren't important.
3. Shut your door, don't answer your phone, turn your cell phone off, and give 100% attention. If you don't have an office, then use a conference room or other distraction free area.
4. Always let your employees go first. Clear their agenda first – it's their time. Then cover any items on your list.
5. Make sure you don't just discuss performance goals, metrics, quotas, or project updates. Save time to also talk about their development, job satisfaction, and yes, even a little time to get to know your employees as people.
6. At least once a year, set aside an entire meeting to have a career and development discussion. Review individual development plans on a quarterly basis.
7. You don't need to follow the same rigid structure for every one of your employees. Tailor meetings to the needs and style of each employee. Some may prefer informal with no agenda – others may prefer agendas and formality. It doesn't matter what you prefer- 1 on 1 are all about them, not you.
8. Like many of you, I've learned a lot about effective and ineffective leaders from my own managers. One manager gave me this piece of wise advice I'll never forget: "How do you measure the effectiveness of your 1 on 1s? Take a look at your employees when the meeting is over. Are they leaving energized, enthusiastic, and motivated? Are they smiling? Or are their shoulders sagging, eyes glazed, and dragging themselves out of your office? That's your scorecard as a leader."
9. Kind of a follow-up to #8; don't make your 1 on 1s feel like a complete physical exam (with prostrate check) to your employees. They shouldn't be interrogations under a bright light.
10. Don't accumulate a to-do list for each employee, and then use 1 on1s to unload your list. There's nothing like leaving a meeting with a two pages of action items and wondering how you're going to fit all the extra work into your week.
11. Be a barrier remover, not a gatekeeper. When an employee comes up with an idea, don't shoot it full of holes (another fine "coachable moment", right?), add so many of your own ideas to the idea that it's no longer your employee's, it yours; or add extra steps so that it takes longer to implement. Think about that last one… I just learned this recently, and it's challenging. Instead of adding steps to your employee's ideas, challenge yourself as a leader to remove steps, or barriers, so that the employee can implement the idea even faster.
12. Save some time to just talk. It's OK to spend a few moments just asking what's new, how's life, how's the family, etc….
13. Ask for feedback, opinions, input to important decisions, and advice.
14. Always try to end on a positive note – let your employee know how well they are doing (if it's genuine); and how much you appreciate their efforts.
This was a great and comprehensive list that I am for sure going to use in my reviews with people. The main thing I got from all of these was that you need to do more listening and evaluating of what they are saying. Stop always trying to talk and get your agenda across. Listen and help them achieve their goals.
Stop focusing only on the numbers! Stop focusing so much on numbers that you forget about what got you here in the first place. As a leader you need to work hard on putting the vision out there for everyone to strive for. In the process of this you need to use numbers in some ways but don't make them the fuel that drives the car.
Why do we focus on numbers so much? Because that is the easiest thing to measure and we as humans would rather take the easy answer than work at finding the best.
If you focus on doing your best work the numbers will come. You need to encourage people along the way with numbers but don't make them the focus. Make the right behaviors and actions the focus. Try to find different metrics such as notes or comments that people have given you or your company. Getting encouragement that way means a lot more than any number ever will. In the same sense your employees need to know how you as a company are doing. They need to know the score so they know what to strive for. Just don't make the score all about numbers.
Don't get me wrong budgets, ROI, and Sales are all important. But if you forget about the customer and the relational part of the business everything else will suffer.
Here is a related article I read by Steve Farber that is great
The other morning I heard a song and the lyrics went:
"I don't want to spend my whole life asking, what if I had given everything? Instead of going through the motions."
I have really been thinking about this statement lately as I have reflected on my life in the last year. These are some of the things I did in my life to make sure I wasn't going through the motions:
- Cancelled My Cable: I know this might be a little extreme but I needed to do it so I could spend more time being productive than being entranced by that box.
- Started Reading: After not reading throughout college and out of college I decided to start reading. I decided to jump head first and read 40 books in a year. I have absolutely loved it!!! This past year I started reading blogs also.
- Joined a Bible Study/House Church: Got together weekly to discuss scriptures we read throughout the week. I have learned a ton and really stretched myself and my beliefs.
- Started Eating Right and Exercising: Although this does go through spurts I have been way more disciplined in doing this than in the past. It gives me a lot more energy and helps me feel way better.
- Being Deliberate with Conversations: Talking to as many people as I can and finding out what is going on in there life. It is amazing what you can learn if you just care!
- Writing Things Down and Staying Organized: I read somewhere that if your desk is a mess on the inside you are probably the same way. So I have made a more concerted effort to keep everything more organized around me so I know where things are. I write anything I can down so I don't forget. I have come up with an organization that I can trust way more than my memory, which seemed to fail me a lot.
- Started Blogging: It hasn't been that long but I have committed to doing this because I love writing and I love sharing what I have learned. It is a great release to write about anything I want to.
I look back and see how much I have gone through the motions already and I am making a concerted effort not to have that happen anymore. How are you working at making sure life doesn't pass you by going through the motions?
Why are we so afraid of failure. Don't we know that true success only comes from failure first.
Parents raise their kids as to protect them from failing. Leaders in business don't let their team make decisions for themselves because they don't want them to fail.
The best leaders in business give their people freedom. The live by the mantra:
"Fail the first time you make a mistake shame on me, but make the same mistake twice and shame on you."
Give your people freedom to make decisions and don't insult them by letting them set the bar too low. But that starts with you. Put the bar as high as you can. Don't worry about failure. If you do fail: analyze it and figure out how to succeed next time.
I don't know about you, but the best accomplishment in the world is setting the bar so high others say "They can't do that." Then you go about your business and go above and beyond where the bar was set.
Set the bar high. Surprise some people. Then ask them to follow suit.

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I was driving home from the Friends of Animals Ranch today when I ran across quite a few deer. Jasper was disappointed that he didn't get to give chase.
It led me to wonder why people think of hunting deer as sport. I stopped the car, rolled down one window for me and another for the dog. I got out the little camera and took a few shots. Jasper stared at the deer who simply stared back at Jasper. I'm pretty sure I could have taken a deer down with a shotgun full of bird shot. Is that sporting?
Maybe it is like how I golf. You can call it a sport, but it needs to be done on a sunny day and with beer?
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Why is hunting hard?
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So it's been confirmed that 3.2 will be applied during the downtime tomorrow, and it wasn't really a surprise after the Frenchies leaked all over the place. There aren't really any interesting warlock changes to boot, none that will change our dps rotations or whatnot. In a way I'd rather there was at least some very minor change that would leave us with something else to do. It'll probably get boring doing the same things we did in Ulduar all over again in the new raid. I actually haven't seen much of the PTR live streams, so I don't know what they're like, but I'm hoping that it won't be the same mechanics over and over again.
The most game affecting change from what I've heard is the resilience one and what it's gonna do to warlocks. I've seen various people starting to whine about how awesome we're gonna be in PvP, and it wasn't worded like that, it was more like "omg you killed me in 1v1 after I've been owning you for the past 7 months, nerf". It's definitely gonna make me try out some battlegrounds again, and by battlegrounds I mean the new Isle of Conquest.
I've been a fan of the whole vehicle combat thing since the release of Wrath. Malygos P3 was awesome. I think FL would be one of the funner bosses in Ulduar if he wasn't so easily tuned. The way they seem to have integrated ground combat with the whole vehicle thing in the IoC seems to be an act of genius and it's probably because one of the developers plays a warlock. How else would you explain it?
The first thing I'll do tomorrow is go to the Alchemy trainer and get the new transmutes, and after that try out the new 5man. We'll be doing the new raid that evening as well, seeing as Wednesdays are raid days for us. Realm Firsts will be out of reach, as I'm sure those 'awesomer' (recruit a billion players at the start of wrath and have 100 people sitting out every night. Yes I'm exaggerating but it's mostly true) guilds will be trying to log on as soon as possible. And there's probably gonna be some more photoshopped screenshots.. like anyone cares.
That's all I have to say really. To all you raiders, good luck in the Crusaders' Coliseum, I'll keep you updated on our progress.


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While Roger Federer's opening match against Alejandro Falla had us all wondering if the six-time champion would still be on the roster long enough to meet the Queen and John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played what has without doubt become the most famous tennis match ever, David Ferrer and Jeremy Chardy kept the crowds entertained after playing the 27th five-setter of the tournament on Court 12 yesterday.
On paper this match belonged to Ferrer, who before yesterday held a 3-1 advantage in previous meetings over his French opponent, and with the world No 11 two sets up after little over an hour, a straight set win seemed inevitable. Not so.
Chardy found his form and after smashing 13 aces at an average speed of 125 mph, he was back in contention and 4-2 up in the decider. Ironically it was the Frenchman's serve that let him down.
A series of double faults handed Ferrer a 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 7-5 victory and a lucky escape from adding more misery to what has become Spain's worst performance in a grand slam since 2008.
It does not stand to get any easier for Ferrer who will meet Robin Soderling in the next round after the Swede beat Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil 6-4, 6-2, 7-5.
"It will be a very difficult match," Ferrer said. "Soderling serves really well and he plays very fast. I need to be very focused." Elsewhere in the men's draw there was some good news for French tennis fans after Julien Benneteau and Jo-Wilifred Tsonga booked their places in the next round with victories over Fabio Fognini and Tobias Kamke respectively.
Somewhat bittersweet however is that the French pair now have to play one another for a place in the quarter-finals.
In the ladies draw, third seed Caroline Wozniacki took little over an hour-and-a-half to claim her place in the fourth round with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Yet to drop a set this tournament the Dane was made to work hard for the victory. Broken in her opening service game of the second set, the teenager saved two-break points to avoid gifting her Russian opponent with a 3-0 advantage.
Wozniacki re-grouped and the win sets up a meeting with unseeded Petra Kvitova in the next round after the Czech caused huge upset by beating 14th seed Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 6-0.
Also progressing to week two is Agnieszka Radwanska of Belarus whose 6-3, 6-1 mauling of Italy's Sara Errani set up a fourth round tie with China's Na Li who beat Australia's Anastasia Rodionova 6-1, 6-3.


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Anuko Time Tracker is an open source, free web-based work time tracking system. It is simple and very easy to use. It allows you to create user logins and organize them in teams, create and modify projects and activities, input work time, generate reports and invoices and send them via e-mail....
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Openchange project intends to provide an Open-Source implementation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 under Unix Platforms. The Openchange Project is developed in C language under the BSD license, and will primary work on NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux platforms. The project time line has...
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ManicTime will allow you to use automatically recorded past events to accurately track how you spend your time on your projects. With ManicTime you'll be able to monitor the PC usage and track the most often used applications.
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Quick2Do is a fairly simple to do list application. Quick2Do offers you a fast and simpler method of recording your to do list. Its automatic coloring feature helps you easily recognize your task priority and status. Quick2Do also allows you to sort your task entries based on entry sub-classes....
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"Damsel in this Dress is going to be in Seattle!" my wife exclaimed.
A week later, we attended the Seattle Mythic Worlds convention with no knowledge of the attendees or events other than the wonderful woman from Salt Lake City who makes the corsets would be there, and the one day pass was reasonably priced.
Mythic Worlds was definitely smaller and more intimate than the mega-cons I've been attending recently, like Emerald City Comic Con. ECCC in particular is so packed that I liken attending to being squeezed through a toothpaste tube. By comparison, Mythic Worlds was a joy to attend. My wife and I spent a fair amount of time in the Damsel booth browsing for new corsetry and getting personal attention from Michelle and the others in the booth. It was something that would have been impossible or at the very least very difficult at larger conventions.
We browsed through what the rest of the convention had to offer and found a lot of cosplay gear and tchotchkes in the booths, and some great writing guest speakers. The pricing was astounding… this stuff was priced to move! The people were friendly, the crowd was manageable enough that I never felt hemmed in or that I should rush so that I made space for the people behind me. It was one of the most positive and welcoming convention experiences I've ever had. Besides Damsel, we made some great new connections with Fae Built Inc, Elysian Pearl, Harry Caldwell IV, Faerie Crowns, and a lot of others!
As an attendee, the experience was so positive it makes me question whether I want to attend the big cons anymore, unless I'm going as a vendor. I'll be keeping my eye open for more small cons in the future.


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James Clar – Interactive Lighting Design and Retail Environment
"Inside / Out" attempts to use architecture and buildings as giant, living pixels. And by taking the information from inside these pixels to control the lighting outside makes it possible to create a living canvas over downtown Memphis whose acvtive mesh and dynamic display represents the interaction between people and architecture.
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CPAs often seek IRS penalty abatement for their clients. Annual IRS penalties are staggering; the CPA Insider cites 38.6 million penalties issued in 2011 totaling over $31 Billion. Yes Billion. This post discusses penalties in general and covers personal, business and payroll tax penalties.
The IRS abates penalties under some circumstances. Here are some pointers.
General Tips from an IRS Penalty CPA
- Don't open up other issues with the request. Stay on point.
- Be current on filing tax returns before requesting IRS penalty abatement.
- Clear up past penalty issues before requesting abatement on a newly issued IRS penalty.
- Phone calls can work, but I follow-up with a letter. I cite the date of the call and the Agent's name and ID number.
- Make the written IRS waiver request professional. Don't hand write it.
- Make the request clear and concise. I try for a one page letter.
- Include relevant documentation. Try to think of this like a high school project with a hard-line teacher.
- Look at your circumstances from the IRS Agent's point of view. Which is probably cynical and rushed.
- Understand the tax issues involved. Do the background research.
- Respect the IRS timelines.
- Cite the penalty notice number and date.
- Put your name, Social Security number and address on the waiver request.
- Don't poke the Bear. Be respectful.
- Send it by certified mail.
- Don't assume they've agreed. Follow up.
"You don't always need an IRS penalty CPA to get a penalty abatement. But if you decide the dollar amount or other circumstances warrant a CPA, consider giving us a call at (910) 399-2705. We can serve you regardless of where you live."
– Gary Bode, IRS penalty abatement CPA
When do you need an IRS penalty CPA?
Well that depends, but CPAs usually earn their keep. Here are some questions to ask yourself:
- Will I open up other areas of my past tax returns to IRS scrutiny?
- Do I understand the IRS penalty or audit notice?
- Do I understand the tax issues involved?
- Is the amount demanded a big deal to me?
- Do I have adequate written communication skills?
- Can I tell my side clearly and concisely?
- Am I too emotionally involved on the process to be effective?
- Am I comfortable dealing with the IRS?
In general, it never hurts to ask for a penalty abatement unless the request pushes IRS timelines. Sometimes you must pay the penalty and try to get it back. Hope the above helps!


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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Not Today
Hopefully tomorrow. :)
7 comments:
Hope Kody gets better soon. Give him a big hug and kiss from us.
Love Mom, Pete, Crystal, Frank, Diana & Alexander.
29 right :)
- September 29, 2011 at 8:37 AM
- Kim said...
Always :)
Momma write down here about your dream so I can remember it plz. TY!!
Love, Your baby girl :)
- September 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM
It all seemed to happen in Kody's hospital room. Karl said I was not there to take Kody with me, I was there to help him. He said to Kody it is not your time to be with me. I am here waiting for everyone when it is their time. He said Kody has a long time before he comes with me. He had on a nice button down shirt on. For some reason he said Manna. Maybe he was with you Dad? If I think of anything else I will write it down.
- September 29, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Jenner said...
Glad the surgery went well. Hang in there Kody! Sending love, hugs & prayers from WI.
- September 29, 2011 at 1:06 PM
- Kim said...
Thank you Momma. Kody is so happy to hear that, I just told him. I never told anyone this but about two weeks before he died I had to know the name of the ship my dad stationed on, he was trying so hard to help me find out any info he could but without his ss number there wasn't much he could do.
Karl spent most of our marriage trying to convince me to forgive him.
I have.
Was it the same button up shirt I dressed him in at his service, the purple one?
- September 29, 2011 at 4:35 PM
No it was a very light one almost white. If you want any info on your Dad I think Mark has his papers. I know he still has his Navy dress uniform. Please tell Kody his Dad seemed very happy and had a big smile. OK pain is back and no I stayed home.
Please call me and let me know how Kody is doing. Don't print this your friends will think I am strange, ok maybe I am.
- September 29, 2011 at 7:20 PM
- Kim said...
Its OK we're all a little strange..I get it from my Momma!! :)
- September 30, 2011 at 8:55 AM


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"Aiyah, the clutch too fast again! And turning must slow down more..."
I don't have a passion for my new driving instructor. =|
Apparently, my other (and more friendly) driving instructor has a strategic alliance with another driving instructor to handle lessons with (he's like a secondary server that steps in when buffer overflows or something...), and I found that out today, after waiting 10 mins at the Esso station for the friendly guy, not knowing that the other is taking over for the lesson. And he was there waiting besides me, for me. Clarified that only after calling my original (and the better) instructor.
Let's rant about my today's driving instructor, shall I? I shall. I paid good money for it.
I think all instructors should not point out timing faults again and again, each time AFTER they are done. It makes more cow sense to point it out there and then, and give the student THEIR expected timing the next time round. It's like telling people their rhythm is wrong and not giving them the correct one. It's criminal to just say 'too fast' or 'too slow', and never say 'now turn' or 'now stop'.
And it's never encouraging to complain about people being too fast/too slow/too whatever. Instructors should never give their students a sense of hopelessness, or stupidity, for having faults in driving. I think I am entitled to faults, for I AM a learner. If I'm not here to learn to drive better, then what am I here for? To sponsor a new charitable industry?
I like my other instructor because he's the 22 yrs instructor, with the old man (been there, done that, saw everything there is to see...) kind of patience and calmness. He knows where I will make mistakes, and how I should react to them. He doesn't just point out what's wrong, but shows me how to do it correctly, at the right moment. And he's very nifty with the cane. Point here, point there, whack you (gently) if wrong. He's darn paternal.
But I must admit that I am rather adaptable for a new learner. Both complimented that I am rather comfortable in terms of adaptability and learning. Of course lah, I am paying good money to them.


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Happy Folding is a fun site with lots of other how-to origami videos. For example, maybe you need a Valentine origami ring to put in that box.
You have read this article origami / paper with the title Origami box with lid. You can bookmark this page URL http://jenkrebs.blogspot.com/2011/02/origami-box-with-lid.html. Thanks!


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Bill 47 (Amended Bill 37)
The Ontario SPCA would like to make the public aware that Bill 47 does not take into consideration what is best for the animals across Ontario.
In 2009, the Ontario SPCA Act was amended placing Ontario the front runner for Animal Welfare legislation across Canada. Even considering the recent amendments, Bill 47 would cause Ontario to hold the worst Animal Welfare legislation in Canada.
Bill 47 would result in:
• Removing the Ontario SPCA policing powers, leaving the protection of animals to be fulfilled by police services or selected government agencies.
• The Ontario SPCA no longer being able to issue orders for appropriate animal care to animal owners.
• The Ontario SPCA not being able to take immediate action when an animal is in immediate distress to alleviate suffering or to preserve life. Any action would first have to be approved by a Justice of the Peace. For example, if a dog was left in a hot car, before the Ontario SPCA could remove the dog, they would have to leave that animal in the car until permission for removal is granted by a Justice of the Peace.
• The Ontario SPCA would be expected to pay for all animal care during an investigation, without compensation from the owner.
• The Ontario SPCA would no longer be able to investigate concerns for livestock animals.
Have your say! To voice your opinion of Bill 47, contact your local MP or MPP.


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They Don't Serve (These) Waffles at the White House (Recipe):
Submitted by sarah-jane on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 13:28
I am definitely one to say "TGIF!", but truth be told, Thursday has long been my favorite day of the week. That is due in a large part to what Thursdays meant for me growing up. In my house, my Dad (pictured with me above) was in charge of breakfast, and us kids learned from him early on how important eating breakfast is. Dad would tell us that breakfast was "brain food" and would help us do our best at school each day.
We never got bored with the breakfasts that Dad made-there was a lot of good variety. But it was also comforting that we could expect some of our favorite breakfast items to show up on the menu every week. My favorite breakfast was Dad's waffles, was our Thursday morning meal each week.
During my growing-up years, George Bush was quoted as saying, "We don't serve waffles at the White House." Of course, he was referring to Bill Clinton and lies when he said "waffles." Dad thought that was funny though, so every Thursday morning he'd wake us up by saying, "They don't serve waffles in the White House, but we serve them at our house!"
As long as I can remember, I preferred peanut butter and jelly on my waffles rather than butter and syrup. So Dad served this combination for me every Thursday along with orange slices, which he always called "sunrises coming up" because the half-moon-shaped slices resemble the sun peaking over the horizon.
Since I will be spending this Labor Day weekend with my Dad and the rest of my family, I thought I would share with you my own waffle recipe that was inspired by these memories with my Dad. I think that my Whole-Grain Cinnamon Mixed Berry Waffles would make for the perfect Labor Day brunch with syrup...or peanut butter and orange slices.
Whole-Grain Cinnamon Mixed Berry Waffles:
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoon sugar
1 cup low-fat buttermilk
1 large egg
1 tablespoon canola oil
1/2 tablespoon vanilla
1 cup fresh blueberries
Then measure the dry ingredients (first 6) into a bowl and whisk together. Set aside. Next measure all the wet ingredients into a bowl and whisk to mix. Then pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir until incorporated. Fold in blueberries. Preheat waffle iron and spray with cooking spray. Pour about 3/4 cup batter into waffle iron and cook according to the waffle iron's instructions.
When golden-brown and cooked through, remove from waffle iron and top with about a tablespoon of natural peanut butter and 1/2 tablespoon raspberry (or your favorite fruit) preserves. Serve with orange slices.
Makes about 4 small Belgian-style waffles (number may vary slightly depending on the size of your waffle iron).
Serving size: 1 waffle with 1 tablespoon peanut butter and 1/2 tablespoon raspberry preserves.
Nutrition Facts per Serving: 310 calories, 13g fat, 1.5g saturated fat, 430mg sodium, 42g carbohydrate, 5g fiber, 19g sugar, and 10g protein.


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Mornings for many won't be the same
He is a big man with a big voice and an even bigger heart.
The longtime host of the Matt Mitchell show is hanging up his headphones for the last time next week.
Mitchell, the man behind the microphone on CJBQ's top-rated morning show for 28 years announced his retirement
on his show last Friday.
Thousands of people listen to Matt daily and he's become a warm and gently amusing part of their morning routines and their families.
Unlike many who go into radio, Matt didn't have a passion for it growing up as a boy, but while in college studying to become a minister he was short of cash and applied to a local radio station.
He didn't even present the station's management with a demo tape. He just spoke, and he got the job almost immediately.
After that the job offers just came rolling in.
Prior to arriving to CJBQ in 1989 to replace then morning man Peter Thompson, Matt worked at four stations, including ones in Edmonton and
His move to the Quinte region was sparked by a desire to be close to his father, who was nearing the end of his life, and he's been here ever since and intends to stay in his retirement years.
"I love this area and I love my listeners. They're like friends, like family," says the man who regularly receives upwards of 50 calls from listeners during his morning show. When he made his retirement announcement on air last week, the phone lines lit up like a Christmas tree.
"It never ceases to amaze me how folks around here help each other during emergencies and support so many charities so generously. They're amazing, and I'm going to miss them dearly."
The 62 year old announcer went on to thank and praise the Morton family, the owners of the Quinte Broadcasting Company. "The late Myles Morton
was involved when I was hired, and the family has always been good to me over the years."
Brian Decaire, no stranger to CJBQ listeners, will take over the morning show on an interim basis when Matt leaves. His last show will run 5:30 till 9 a.m. on Wednesday, July 26.


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Lessons From Iceland for the Occupy Movement
Excerpt of a Guardian article by Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a Member of Parliament of Iceland:
If the 99% want to reclaim our power, our societies, we have to start somewhere. An important first step is to sever the ties between the corporations and the state by making the process of lawmaking more transparent and accessible for everyone who cares to know or contribute.
Many have seen Iceland as the ideal country for experimentation for new solutions in an era of transformation. We had the first revolution after the financial troubles in 2008. Due to a lack of transparency, corruption and nepotism, Iceland had the third largest financial meltdown in human history, and it shook us profoundly. The Icelandic people realized that everything we had put our trust in had failed us.
One of the demands during the protests that followed – and that resulted in getting rid of the government, the central bank manager and the head of the financial authority – was that we would get to rewrite our constitution. "We" meaning the 99%, not the politicians who had failed us. Another demand was that we should have real democratic tools, such as being able to call directly for a national referendum and dissolve parliament.
I helped create a political movement from the various grassroots movements in the wake of the crisis. We had no leaders, but rotating spokespeople; we did not define ourselves as left or right but around an agenda based on democratic reform, transparency and bailing out the people, not the banks. We were just ordinary people who'd had enough and who needed to have power both within the system and outside it. We got 7% of the vote and four of us entered the belly of the beast.
Many great things have occurred in Iceland since our days of shock in 2008. Our constitution has been rewritten by the people for the people. The foundation for the constitution was created by 1,000 people randomly selected from the national registry. The new constitution is now in the parliament. It will be up to the 99% to call for a national vote on it so that we inside the parliament know exactly what the nation wants and will have to follow suit.
Having the tools for direct democracy is not enough though. We have to find ways to inspire the public to participate in co-creating the reality they want to live in. This can only be done by making direct democracy more local. Then people will feel the direct impact of their input. We don't need bigger systems, we need to downsize them so they can truly serve us and so we can truly shape them.
From conversations I have had with people from Occupy London it is obvious we are all thinking along the same lines. All systems are down: banking, education, health, social, political – the most logical thing would be to start a fresh system.


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The family reunion was a wonderful time. Since we were gathering to honor my father-in-law, we chose to play a lot of kickball. This was one of Dad's most favorite activities. He insisted that it be played at almost every family gathering. We all enjoyed it.
Picking teams was the first order of business.
Several of the youngsters opted to go swimming with Uncle Bob rather than play kickball. It was refreshing.
T-Bob did a lot of the pitching for his team.
It was nice that there was actually enough players to have a good game.
|My DH kicks a foul ball.
The Uncles and many of the Aunts all played.
Karen had good follow through.
Uncle Jon wore his work shoes to get a good kicking surface.
Thomas gave the ball a good ride ...
... and then took a good rest after scoring.
Lisa started off playing, but then had to stop as her hip was hurting.
We even had fans and observers. It was a great day and I think Dad would have been very pleased to see the fun we had and the sportsmanship that was exhibited. He would have enjoyed joining us. He played well into his 70's. He was a real game player. We sure miss him.


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MSNBC has acquired Newsvine, the social news and discussion site, for an undisclosed price. Msnbc.com is a privately run news organization started by Microsoft and NBC in 1996. The site is one of the most decorated, highly trafficked news sites on the web, serving more than 29 million unique visitors per month. Contrary to popular belief, msnbc.com is run independently from both Microsoft and NBC and even the MSNBC news channel. It is its own organization, headquartered in Redmond, and has been growing and profitable for several years now. Msnbc.com employs about 200 people.
From the Newsvine Blog: Newsvine will continue operating independently, just as it has been since launching in March of 2006. Msnbc.com is committed to maintaining and growing the community and features that have made Newsvine what it is today. In other words, Newsvine will be the same Newsvine you've always known, only stronger. Over the next few years, Newsvine technology and content will make its way onto msnbc.com, and vice-versa where it makes sense. Our users' columns and content will remain as they have been, as we work hard with msnbc.com to implement improvements and enhancements.
Microsoft, NDB, msnbc.com, Newsvine, Acquisition, Buy, Corporate News


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The book is so 'cheem'. What's it all about actually?
We're back and here's more on the recent project we published. Check it out here.
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When I 'marketed' it to my church members, I said that the book was especially for Christians who are still somewhat apathetic about the political situation in Malaysia, those who are steadfast against voting (or who haven't registered themselves), or who have decided to keep an arm's length from issues like justice, power, oppression, etc.
The Bible and the Ballot hopes to remedy the above mindset by approaching politics from different angles and perspectives, all of which have one objective in mind: To sensitize the reader to the problems Malaysia is experiencing as a nation, the abuses committed by the incumbent government, and issues Christians need to engage with.
Basically, each of us in our own way set out to think about Christian involvement about politics.
The Bible and the Ballot is about what it means to engage Malaysian society today, as Christians, in a very politically charged environment. We explain what motivates us. We share our thoughts on current events and we speak about the people who challenge, inspire and guide us.
Hahahaha… Actually, it's the other way round. A reader told me that The Bible and the Ballot is notcheem enough; in his words, it "lacks depth"!
All the same, I would say that it is not so much that the content is too in-depth, but it is perhaps foreign. What I mean is that the issues discussed in the book are not what the majority Christian community in Malaysia are usually exposed to. Churches in our country do not often teach about these matters. So the book is meant to create awareness that Christian discipleship at certain times in history includes socio-political engagement. And we believe that the present is such a time.
But if you have been following this sort of conversation for a while (like the person who said that the book is not cheem enough) then the book wouldn't be so foreign.
'Cheem'? Really? Then again the authors are writing authentically from their own unique experiences and reflections. Overall, it's a book about how Christians are critically thinking through their choices in the light of so much that's been happening in Malaysia. Furthermore, it's also about how one wrestles with drawing from Biblical wisdom in the midst of challenging circumstances in today's complicated world.
It's not a one-size-fit-all book; it's more like "here's what some of us have done, and we offer it as one way of living our Christian faith today", or "this is how we've thought through this, and we hope it will encourage you to reflect with a Christian mindset". Of course, my own hope is that the readers will be encouraged to "act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God" in both our personal and public lives!
Posted on April 17, 2012, in Bible, Book, Christianity, Ethics, Islam, Malaysia, Philosophy, Politics, Prayer, Religion, Society, Theology. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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It is official: J.R. Sweezy is an absolute beast on the Seattle Seahawks offensive line. Sweezy, a defensive lineman for North Carolina State University, was drafted by Seattle in the seventh round of the 2012 NFL draft with the intention of moving him to other side of the line. Now in his third year learning the right guard position, it is paying off in a big way for the Seahawks. A very big way.
Sweezy has the athleticism every coach and general manager gush over for a man his size. He is 6-foot-five and around 300 pounds, and he has bone-crushing speed for a right guard. The only question for Sweezy was when, if ever, everything would "click." Learning a new position is no easy task, especially when you are up against the game's very best. Lucky for Sweezy, and the Hawks, he got to go against the league's top-ranked defense on a weekly basis. Well, Sweezy's improvement has been on full display this preseason, and any doubt that may have been left was wiped away the moment Sweezy ran upfield and destroyed Chicago Bears CB Kelvin Hayden during a designed pass to RB Christine Michael. Kudos to Hayden for eventually getting up, because I would literally be dead if it were me.
The Seahawks' offensive line is looking much improved from last year. Rookie RT Justin Britt, perhaps the biggest question mark on the line, looked solid once again. He has his moments when he makes a mistake, but you know he is only going to get better. James Carpenter has been a nice surprise thus far, no doubt, but Sweezy gets me the most excited. We already know what Russell Okung and Max Unger are all about, but we are just now seeing the true potential of Sweezy. He is a big, strong, fast and absolute nasty guard that is going to crush defenders.
The Seahawks' offense has been impressive over the past two weeks. A lot of that has to do with Percy Harvin and Russell Wilson, who has been flawless. But a lot of it also has to do with the offensive line, which has allowed the Hawks to have success running the ball and has also allowed for Wilson to do his thing. Sweezy has not just been the most impressive offensive linemen on the Seahawks, but in the entire league. The jump he has made from last year to the level he is playing at now is incredible, but not necessarily surprising. Sweezy has been steadily improving since his rookie season, but now, in his third year, it would appear as though he has put all the pieces together.
Opposing defenses will now have one more thing to worry about when they are playing the defending champion Seattle Seahawks, and it will not be in another form of a wide receiver, running back, or even tight end. Instead it will be No. 64, an athletic right guard that will be running all over the field with the sole purpose of taking you out. No defense wants to see a man that big, with that much speed, coming down on them with the intense look of seek and destroy in his eyes. But hey, who's going to stop him?
Tyson Sweet is a Seattle Seahawks writer for RantSports.com. Follow him on Twitter @The12thDude, like him on Facebook, or add him to your network on Google!


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Are you an iced-coffee fan?
An iced-cappuccino fan perhaps?
Are you finding yourself spending more money than usual on your iced coffee beverages since the temps have started to soar?
If you've answered yes to any of these questions, this recipe is for you. 😉 Like most of my recipes, this is extremely simple to put together, so there's no excuse not to try it!
Blended Vanilla Iced-Coffee
What You Need:
- coffee ice cubed (brew coffee and freeze in an ice-cube tray)
- vanilla syrup (we get this at Home Sense or Winners)
- milk of choice
- water
- blender
What You Do:
– couldn't be easier – blend everything together! The amount of milk/water/vanilla syrup you use will depend on the consistency and taste that you want. Also, depending on how powerful your blender is, you may want to limit how many ice cubes you crush at one time. I used 9 ice cubes total to make enough for two.
I like using coffee ice cubes because when it melts, you won't find your drink getting watered down like it would if you used coffee in liquid form and water ice cubes.
Being someone who REALLY loves iced-coffee, I promise this tastes just as good as anything that you'd get at your local coffee shop. The best part is that it's easy on your wallet all while tasting amazing! 🙂


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Girl to Conquer NBA?
Posted by -edz- on 11:28 PM in important people, sports
Although more and more women are now playing professional basketball, the stereotype that such sport is better of for men still exists. Well, think again because 12-year-0ld, Jamie Nard, is conquering and dominating the courts of both female and male basketball. As her teammate said,"Her greatness, it like sprinkles off and goes unto us and it kinda makes us better as a player too." Well with a height and skills like that, her dreams are closer to her reach than what she thinks.


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A preface to this story: About 5 weeks ago, our assistant Ambaye slipped in our driveway and broke his pinky finger. We did what we could to splint it here and gave him some ibuprofen, then took him to the hospital in Debark. This was on a Saturday, and we found out (much to our chagrin) that the hospital is CLOSED on the weekends! What the heck? Luckily our friend Shif knew one of the doctors, and knew that he was watching the soccer game at a local restaurant, so we were able to get Ambaye some care once the soccer game had finished. They set and splinted his finger, but apparently did not tell him he had to leave the splint on. We came back a few days later from our trip to Bahir Dar and he had already taken the splint off. Of course, his finger wasn't healed and we ended up having to take him BACK to the hospital about 10 days ago. I accompanied him on that occasion, and got to see the Ethiopian medical system first hand. Very little sanitation or hygiene of any sort (there was a biohazard trash can with a piece of tape on it that said "Infectious" sitting open in the "emergency room" waiting area, for example), and not the best care. They didn't even bother to x-ray Ambaye's clearly broken finger, they just gave him ibuprofen and told him to go home. *sigh* So that was that.
Then a few days ago, we overheard one of our other assistants, Eshete, talking about how he had gotten a stick stuck under his thumbnail a week or so before, and now his finger was swollen and his arm was hurting. We immediately confronted him about his injury (which he should have told us about!) and found out that he had a high fever, pus coming out from under his thumbnail, and what sounded like the start of a serious systemic infection. We knew he needed some antibiotics STAT, but we didn't have any in our house to give him. After our experience with Ambaye at the hospital, we decided that maybe it would be more effective for one of us to try and get the antibiotics instead of Ambaye. At least we could tell the doctors what exactly we wanted, and it seemed like we would be more likely to get good care since we were white. I had a cut on my hand that was mostly healed, but looked passably infected with the application of some chapstick to the wound. So armed with a tube of chapstick and my most pitiful "help me" expression, Ali and I headed to the hospital. After various half Amharic-half English conversations, I managed to get a registration card (4 birr, and it said my name was Caitlin Paul John) and directions to a general waiting area. Ali and I sat there for about 15 minutes while all the other patients stared at us. We were the only white people anywhere in the building, so I guess we were worth looking at! Eventually, we got called into an exam room with a doctor who spoke a fair amount of English. I showed him my hand and explained that it was an injury from a stick that had gotten infected and that I needed some antibiotics. The funniest moment was when he asked how the injury had occurred. In reality, I cut my hand on a nail that we use to hang potholders on in our kitchen, but I sure as heck didn't want a tetanus shot in a sketchy hospital, so I said it was a stick. At the same time, Ali said "a nail"! Luckily the doctor didn't seem to hear her, or our bluff would definitely have been called. He proceeded to ask me if I had a fever or swelling or anything like that and I proceeded to answer with Eshete's symptoms. In the end, I guess I was convincing enough because he prescribed me two oral antibiotics and an antibiotic topical cream to put on my cut. 70 birr and several confused conversations later, we headed out of the hospital triumphantly! What an adventure.
We've been giving Eshete the antibiotics for the last few days, but they didn't seem to be helping. He came over this morning to tell us that his whole arm hurt, and his heart, and that there was a lot of pus. He was also running a pretty high fever, so Julie drove him to Debark instead of going to work. At the hospital, they prescribed him the same things they had given me, after much pushing from Julie. When she explained that those weren't working, they grudgingly also gave him a shot and some additional pills. Poor guy - he now has to take three pills four times a day! He's such a trooper. You can tell he is in serious pain, but he doesn't complain at all. We are keeping a close eye on him and hopefully he will start improving soon. What a scary situation though! And it makes me sad and scared for the people in this area that don't have knowledgeable white people to advocate for them at the hospital. I'm been super careful to not get injured because I definitely don't want to have to spend any more time in that hospital than necessary!
Outside of the medical drama, there has been some monkey drama as well. One of our oldest, most thoroughly studied units, the C group, started to fission into two units a couple of days ago. The unit had 8 adult females and two adult males - one, Webay, was the former leader male who became follower when he was taken over by the other male, Tequila, about 9 months ago. Apparently Webay decided he'd had enough and took back three of the adult females. So for the last couple of days, there has been lots of fighting, chasing, displaying and noisy mating. Very exciting! Both Tequila and Webay have sustained some pretty serious injuries - Tequila broke his wrist and Webay got his ear and head torn up. Two other males, another leader male Dikos and a young adult male Tangle (who I am following in my study) also joined in the fighting and got injured.
We thought things were pretty settled - Webay had successfully taken Coco, Carmen and Cee, and Tequila had the rest of the females. However, the situation got even more interesting today. Some bachelors showed up (the Condiments group - Ketchup, Relish, Sauerkraut and Onion), noticed the chaos, and decided to capitalize on the turmoil. Apparently, one of them was able to take over Tequila's part of the unit! I didn't actually see that happen, just heard the fighting and saw it from afar, but Ambaye said Tequila had disappeared by mid-morning and that now Ketchup was the leader of Tequila's females. It will be interesting to see if he can hold on to the unit. Apparently a few months ago, Ketchup successful took over a different unit (the Ks) but lost it with a couple of days to another male. I think the injuries the males had acquired before definitely caused problems.... Tequila was the one with the broken wrist, and he apparently couldn't defend his unit very well! It is definitely fascinating to watch. A little scary too, when a bunch of males are chasing each other and run right next to you at top speed! It's neat to see the whole takeover process, particularly when it is with a unit that we know so well! I am curious to see how the juveniles in the C group react and fare over the next few weeks. They are pretty much all past the age when infanticide is a concern, but who knows?
Speaking of infanticide, we had one in another unit earlier this week. The situation started out similarly to the C fission - the M group split into two, with the leader taking part of the unit and the follower taking the rest. However, one of the females with a newborn baby stupidly went with the male that had NOT fathered her child. He killed the baby, and the mother has been carrying the corpse around with her for the last few days. So sad! Very interesting though - I wonder what made her decide to go with that particular male instead of the other male (who was the father of her baby)? Fascinating, but very sad.
Another exciting thing happened today - I got interviewed for Ethiopian television! A small film crew wandered up to me while I was working, and asked if they could ask me some questions for a program they are making about the Simien Mountains. I said sure, and they filmed me and Ambaye! I don't know if it will actually make it onto the tv, but it was a pretty random and funny experience!
That's the news from up here! It's hard to believe that it's already December. I've been here for three months already! In less than two weeks, my family and Sam and Ruth will be arriving and we're going on vacation for a few weeks! I can't wait. It will be a nice change of pace from working, and a great opportunity to see some more of Ethiopia! Happy December to all of you - hope the holiday season is off to a good start back home!


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Sorry I've been quiet lately. There's been drama. It doesn't help that Blogger has been all hosed up today. Every time I've tried to post, I've gotten a Google error message. And now it's not letting me do pictures.
Stranger and stranger.
The girlies are doing just fine. We went to the park with a picnic tonight for dinner. It was HOT. The heat index here was around 100. When are we going to get back to the nice weather we had in July?
My God, I'm talking about the weather. Most Boring Blog. Ever.
Allison is coming back tomorrow! Happy days are here again!


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In his typically penetrating and thorough style, Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad tackles the topic of accessing the Holy Quran. He methodically analyzes one simple phrase from the Holy Quran, and uncovers multiple layers of meanings, applying his knowledge of Quranic exegesis to not only the apparent, spiritual meanings of the verse, but also to some of its less apparent scientific implications. This is essential listening for any English-speaking Muslim, especially those with knowledge of the material sciences.


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Itty bitty robots demonstrate swarm behaviors.
A game of life, anyone?
June 21, 2011
Itty bitty robots demonstrate swarm behaviors.
A game of life, anyone?
May 22, 2011
All right, I'm in no way connected to steampunk stuff (although I have read a few of the authors). Albert was talking about the French postcards of the future I posted a few months ago, and I ran across this in FB. It looks like it's happening this very weekend.
Now, I don't even know this person, to be linking to their pictures in FB, but what I find so very intriguing is the coded uniformity of the costumes. Note the special goggles – steampunk is all about visions of an alternate future, usually starting from an actual historical past. Note the bullets – dangerous stuff, exploring new worlds.
May 12, 2011
Here's a lovely way to spend five minutes thinking about the representation of data. Ben Greenman made a bunch of charts that question the function of charts. For example, here is a chart representing the ink left in the pen… he used to make the chart.
April 27, 2011
For our last official discussion, I'd like to propose a research project. We've talked about capture and surveillance, simulations, representations and conceptualizations of space, dynamic systems, altered and augmented realities, performance and identities real and virtual. We've talked about the fuzzy line between reality lived and reality represented. Our own attraction/repulsion for new technologies and our own negotiations of their impact on our daily lives has been a recurrent theme, a constant questioning of the role and identity of the individual within the context of a flow, a stream or a system.
I'd like to have each of us revisit a place from our past as it exists in the present online. It should be a place that has strong associations for you, a place about which you have a personal definition. Using google street view, wikipedia, google images, local web pages (monuments, historical society, photo archives, associations, tourist information), explore past/present definitions and representations of this location, before, during and after the time in which you lived there.
There are a number of art works online that provide a useful framework for thinking about this assignment. One of the most compelling is "Welcome to Pine Point" by Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge. This site is a media essay funded by the National Film Board in Canada. It takes between 20 and 40 minutes to explore.
Jon Rafman and Michael Wolf are among a number of artists who have trolled Google street view for very temporal images; images that map not only a specific location, but also a specific moment in time. Obviously this is true of all Google street view images, but Rafman and Wolf and others hunt down examples where it is conspicuous.
Rob Hewlitt and Ben Kingsley have taken a different approach to Google Street View; they've manipulated what is captured, rather than found what occurred spontaneously.
April 7, 2011
I thought this image was an interesting representation of the idea of capture. It's a series of long-take pictures by Alexey Titarenko from the 1990s, an "army of shadows".
More here.
March 30, 2011
March 29, 2011
I'm looking at Albert's material and thinking about trains in the 19th century. Here are some figures and texts about early perceptions of the railroad. First, a few figures about how long it took to travel from one place to another in 1814 vs. in 1897. Then a poster advertising Paris-Bordeaux in 8 hours. Then finally a text (my translation) by an anonymous train traveller from 1837. Note the "blind men describing an elephant" aspect of the text – the observer is listing a series of definitions of what it means to be travelling that are overturned by this first experience in a train (i.e. speed comes only with effort or movement, travelling allows you to observe and interact with things and people you pass).
Similarly, we've talked about how technology has expanded the limits of what is "near" or "far" in personal relationships; that the people one interacts with on an intimate or daily basis may not even be in the same time zone.
|Time to travel
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|Paris – Brest
Paris – Marseille
Paris –Toulouse
Paris – Strasbourg
|87 h
112 h
104 h
70 h
|11 h 14 mn
12 h
12 h 05 mn
7 h 20 mn
M. Colton, P. Delfaud et alii, Nouvelle histoire économique. Le XIXè siècle, A. Colin, 1976.
In Bordas, Terres d'Histoire. Histoire. Cycle 3 CM, 1997, p. 99.
From Paris to Saint-Germain by rail: "Each of the travellers in our car was expressing their impressions after their own fashion. Over here, a fellow was expressing his astonishment that, despite such incredible speed, he had no more trouble breathing than if he were walking slowly; over there, a fellow exclaimed at the fact that he felt as though he weren't moving at all, as though he were sitting in his room; another fellow observed that there wasn't time enough to make out an insect the size of a bee, just a few feet away, or to recognize the face of a friend; yet another was delighted by the surprised look on the faces of the country people at the sight of this column of smoke and long line of wagons with no horses, gliding along with a low rumble, and disappearing almost at once in the distance. Other, more serious voices proclaimed incalculable the benefits of this invention. "
En chemin de fer, de Paris à Saint-Germain: « Chacun des voyageurs du wagon où nous étions assis exprimait à sa manière ses impressions. Celui-ci s'étonnait que, malgré tant de rapidité, il lui fût aussi aisé de respirer que s'il eût marché sur terre à pas lents ; celui-là s'extasiait à la pensée qu'il ne sentait aucun mouvement ; il lui semblait être assis dans sa chambre ; un autre faisait remarquer qu'il était impossible d'avoir le temps de distinguer, à trois pas, sur le sable, un insecte de la grosseur d'une abeille, ou de reconnaître les traits d'un ami ; un autre enfin se réjouissait de l'attitude étonnée des gens de la campagne, au passage de cette colonne de fumée et de cette longue traînée de voitures sans chevaux, glissant avec un léger bourdonnement, et disparaissant presque aussitôt dans le lointain. De plus graves déclaraient incalculables les bienfaits de cette invention. »
Réflexions de passagers recueillies par un rédacteur anonyme dans un train de la ligne Paris – Saint-Germain (1837). From Nathan, Gulliver. Histoire. Cycle 3, 1997, p. 160.


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Although this is a finished object, it's been dominating my creative space for the last few days, so I think it qualifies.
Meet Mr Crumples
I love him now he's done but I'm afraid I have a confession. Mr Crumples should be a bear. He's based on the bear pattern from Issue 14 of Sew Hip, but I just couldn't get it to work. Part of the problem is that I put the ears on wrong – they should be out towards the sides, not sticking up from the middle like antennae – and part of the problem is that I couldn't get the feet on properly.
He's made from flannel and corduroy, both bought from the lovely Lizzet at The Fabric Loft
While I think he's come out well considering, and I'm sure he'll be loved no matter what, I think I may be forced to admit that sewing toys isn't really my thing. I'm reasonably pleased with the results, but the process was maddening and I had to keep concentrating on the end product to get him done.
He's going off to a friend's little boy, possibly with a small explanatory leaflet, that he was meant to be a bear, came out like this, and would like to be loved (and/or chewed) anyway.
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To make your reader experience more enjoyable (and to make my job posting a lot easier:), I've decided to add the following categories to ME. Each week, you are guaranteed content in these areas and can easily search my blog for your favorite categories. And the nominees are:
Monday Madness
Monday's are always crazy for ME. I'll post some fanastic accessories to get your week off to a great start.
THIS or THAT Tuesday
Here I'll feature a high-priced accessory and it's budget friendly counterpart. It'll be up to you to tell the difference. I'll reveal the results in my Frantic Friday section.
Wild Card Wednesday
Here I'll select a topic of my choosing to write about. Will it be the newest TV show, the latest IT bag or some celebrity gossip? Stay tuned.
FROM ME TO YOU: Deal of the week (Thursday)
You asked for it...So here it is. I'll scour the internet, read the newspaper and use my retail connections to find the latest deals. I'll post my findings here.
Frantic Friday
I'll reveal the the results from THIS or THAT Tuesday and post some fabulous accessories to get you ready for the weekend.
As an added bonus, I'll include Styl'd to "T" to feature my rants and raves as a stylist. Although this category is not guaranteed weekly, it's a great way to gain insight into what happens behind the lens. I've started my 1st post below.


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The Container Store
And we're all a-twitter about it.
Now, those of you non-Charlotte peeps may not be very excited about this, probably because you live in a three horse town that already has a Container Store. Those of us in Charlotte can only imagine your bliss.
But we're comin' up in the world and come next Spring, our stuff is going to get organized.
Just. Sayin'.
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Whole Foods and The Container Store in one week! What else does Charlotte need? (I celebrated the arrival of Trader Joes and Create and Barrel too)ReplyDelete
Well, right off the top of my head, I'd love to get a Room and Board. But that's just a pipe dream.ReplyDelete
We don't have one here in Richmond...I wish we did though. My friend in Boston took me to one there but it was right before we were heading to the airport - what cruelty! I drooled and then took a catalog and drooled some more on the plane. It's like every neat freak's dream come true.ReplyDelete
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My weekly piss-and-vinegar-fest.
1. Why hasn't Dillinger Four put out a studio album since 2002. It's been four years, guys. I'm dyin' over here. Feel free to mix in a west coast tour while you're at it.
2. Dane Cook. Dude is just not that funny. He's good for a laugh here or there, but it's mainly style over substance. He's a second-rate, vulgar version of Brian Regan, and can only dream about having the nuance and edge of a David Cross. So why is he so popular?
3. Napkin Nights/SacScene. You're over 21, you can afford alcohol, and you have friends. WE GET IT. We don't need photographic evidence of it. Are you that insecure? Oh, and no matter how you wish it were different, Avalon is located in Sacramento, not L.A., not New York, not Las Vegas, but Sacramento. Get over yourselves, scenesters, you're not auditioning for Entourage.
4. Guys insisting on driving cars they do not own. When we took her car, my ex insisted that I drive, because she was a "nervous" driver and didn't really like to drive. But I would never insist on driving her car because I'm "the guy", yet I've known many guys who had this attitude. Needless to say they were all douchebags.
5. Why Homeland Security is such a pathetic joke. Federal anti-terrorism funding to New York has been cut, because "New York has no national monuments or icons, according to the Department of Homeland Security form obtained by ABC News." The Empire State Building is just a "tall office building", the Brooklyn Bridge is just a bridge, and the Statue of Liberty, the United Nations, Stock Exchange, Rockefeller Center, New York Public Library, Times Square, City Hall, The Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum and The Museum of Natural History? Eh, you can find that kind of stuff in Anytown, U.S.A.


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