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Today is the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing. Jason Kottke has a nice roundup of all things Apollo 11-related on the web. The New York Times has a cool photo/video slideshow of all the amazing things that happened in 1969 pop culture. And our friends at TreeHugger ask if the Apollo project can teach us anything about what we should do about today's environmental problems.
Image by Mark Weaver.
July 20, 2009
Space Race
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Published: Kelly Elliott, 2012
503 pages, Paperback (2 edition)
Source: Purchased through Amazon
Synopsis (from Goodreads):
Verbally abused by her mother for years, 18 year old Ellie Johnson always believed she would never be loved or wanted by anyone. She focused all of her attention on her grades and getting into the University of Texas to start a new life away from her mother.
The last thing Ellie expected was to fall in love with Gunner Mathews, a starting linebacker for the University of Texas football team and not to mention, her brothers best friend.
Gunner only had two passions in his life, football and his grandfather's ranch, until he falls for his best friends little sister. He will stop at nothing to show Ellie how much he wants her, even if it means he has to move faster than she would like.
Gunner knows they are meant to be together forever, but Ellie keeps denying her feelings out of fear of being hurt again. Every time he gets close to winning her love, something pushes her away again. Will Ellie ever be able to let go of the past and let him into her heart and will Gunner be patient enough to wait for her?
What will it take for them to realise they are all each other have ever wanted?
My Review:
First thing is first Kelly Elliott I give you 2 thumbs up and 5/5 starts for Wanted. This is Kelly's first book and she did an excellent job with the minor mistakes...I thought that the story line was awesome and her characters were well developed. I just loved how Kelly alternated between all characters point of views throughout the story, so we could see exactly how they feel and see things through their eyes. Ellie grew up with a dunk for a mother and was mentally and emotional abused by her mother on a daily basis. Ellie was told bu her own mother that she would never amount to anything and that nobody would want her...
Jefferson, Ellie's older brother is attending the university of Texas and has a best friend named Gunner (what a nickname, My first thoughts were HOT, SEXY MUSCLE man). Jefferson is very protective of his little sister like all big brother should be, but never knew the extent of the verbal abuse their mother was inflicting on Ellie.
Ellie needs to learn at her own pace how to love herself before she can allow someone to love her. Ellie needs to know that she is wanted and open her heart to love. Gunner is a total sweetheart and falls hard for Ellie the moment he laid eyes on her (It was like BOOM instant love at first sight). Gunner will do everything in his power to show Ellie that she is wanted.
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
The rain had fallen, the Poet arose,
He pass'd by the town and out of the street,
A light wind blew from the gates of the sun,
And waves of shadow went over the wheat,
Although the Victorian poet laureate Alfred Tennyson was a household name in poetry, Tennyson's poetry received mixed receptions during his lifetime.
In May 1842 The Examiner harshly criticised Tennyson for making 'Greek compounds out of homely Saxon phrases' ; and later in April 1847 an article in the The Hull Packet and East Riding Times still described Tennyson as a poet with a 'peculiar but undoubted talent' .
Tennyson's catholic imagery, the poetic preoccupation with death, illness, and fate, may not have been to every reader's taste, nor the Burns-like of accents such as 'Wheer 'asta beän saw long and meä liggin' 'ere aloän? Noorse? thoort nowt o' a noorse: whoy, Doctor's abeän an' agoän' of the Northern Farmer. Tennyson's name was even parodied by W.G. Gilbert in 'The Rival Curates' as the 'lamb like' Reverend Lawn Tennison.
However with the publication of poems such as The Charge of The Light Brigade, The Lady of Shallot and Ulysses, and others containing lush descriptions of English countryside – including the victorian sentimental take on medieval literature and stories [Old Sword! whose fingers clasp'd thee Around thy carved hilt? ] Tennyson became a household name.
There are a number of resources available which give an insight into the poetry, plays and prose of Tennyson and the times he lived in. Loughborough University Library holds over 140 books on Tennyson and his works as well as online poetry journals such as Victorian Poetry and Victorian Literature and Culture, which cam be accessed via MetaLib English and Drama databases etc.
Literature Online integrates over 300,000 works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th to the 21st century, and contains over 500 poetical works of Tennyson, plus over 90 selected web texts, prose, references and critical texts.


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Cottle had this jem posted up on the Wasted Youth page. Amusing.
And go ahead and donate you fuckers. We still have a long way to go and less than a month to do it!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Kids in Cali
Danny and Justin are in Cali for the next few days with Eric Beckman. They are making the trek back from there with him starting tomorrow. Hopefully I get some wild ass pictures from some wild ass places. I expect stories galore....most of them better involve sexual exploits and drunken retardation, cause I don't give a shit about where they get to ride on this trip.
Still working on this donation thing! Help us out by clicking here...
Still working on this donation thing! Help us out by clicking here...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Sam Downs threw together this wicked HotHead/Hyper/717 Family edit together of Danny and Steve ripping it up. Enjoy!
And while you're at it and if you like watching shit like this please donate so these dudes can have a sweet mini for everyone to come enjoy!
Hothead Bmx - The Dan & Stevie Edit from Hothead Bmx on Vimeo.
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Help Us! Donate Please...
ATTENTION! Skate-it is closing and we are feverishly working to raise enough money to purchase the mini. Danny and Steve are paying for a large majority of it because it is going in their yard; however that still leaves $1000 to be raised by friends in the Lancaster scene. Their place would be a great place for us all to come together for BBQ's and BMX jams for years to come. I have decided to create a donation page thru PayPal. Please...EVERY little bit helps. If you can only spare $5 its better than nothing. If there is even the slightest chance that you'll ever be in the Lancaster area and want a place to ride and meet great people and have an awesome time please help out. With as many people as I know ride in the Lancaster area, there is no reason we shouldn't be able to raise this money. Help make a scene stronger. And I promise if this thing goes in that I'll be talking to Steve about building some trails around it...maybe even into/out of the mini! Check it out...simply click DONATE and pick the amount you wanna leave!!!!
Here is a quick look at the backyard set up...fire pit, pond, and all!
Here is a quick look at the backyard set up...fire pit, pond, and all!
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The Heathens
These guys are what BMX is all about and have what appears to be a pretty sweet scene happening up in the Lock Haven area. They are apparently having a jam July 30th so check that out and shred some great woods with what I'm sure will be an awesome group of people.
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Sunday, December 21, 2014
Special Delivery Santa Claus Christmas Gift Tags
Here is a freebie! These are tags that you can use for your Santa Claus delivery tags...so your little ones won't recognize your handwriting! Enjoy!
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Christmas Gift Tag
Just a quick hello and a Christmas gift tag freebie! If you're looking for a quick and inexpensive way to thank the people who you appreciate here is a cute little gift tag to put on a bottle of hand sanitizer!
Have a great night!
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
S.T.E.M. in Kinder
I feel like I just might *maybe* be getting the swing of this school year?! Finally, 50 days in...BTW where is the time going this year?
I've never had a year go so fast.
I digress...
I really, honestly think that I just might have the sweetest bunch of kinder babies ever! Seriously, y'all! They are caring and thoughtful!
So I've been working really hard on making my stations memorable, fun, and integrating S.T.E.M. into their literacy stations.
So here is what we've done this week...
In our Science/Engineering Literacy Station we are designing a tepee. Seriously! This station has been a favorite station amongst the group! I just put the materials out that I thought they could design and engineer with and let them at it! Of course it was beside my life size tepee for an example to since their actual schema of what a tepee is made of is limited...BTW if you need an engaging, purposeful and extremely fun center for Thanksgiving for your lil' kindergarten students...this has hands down been the easiest and most self directed center I've ever had...
You can see their little tepees! Presh, I tell ya! They are so proud of them! They also drew their blueprints in their science journal but somehow I forgot to take a picture of those...#busynewmama!
We've also been introducing some new technology into our lil' kindergarten classroom.
Here are the two newest ones we've used...
Dance Dance Revolution for the PC
this is all my own opinion and I'm not being compensated in anyway for this...
I tried to get a picture of the pad and the screen...you don't need an actual SmartBoard to use this, just a projector for your PC. I just happen to project my projector onto the SmartBoard. #needbiggerwalls
Anyhoo...you actually create the games with this software. So for the game my kiddos are playing I wanted them to work on beginning sounds. I uploaded the letters I wanted them to work on and the clipart with the beginning sounds and it creates an interactive center that they L.O.V.E! They get to move and get their energy out and they actually stay in their station! I'm working on a game for this dance pad for them to practice sight words!
I may be a little behind but there is a listening device called the Playaway...the books are already loaded to it and you just plug in a set of head phones! What? Easiest listening center EVER! Hands down! Our sweet librarian recently bought several of them! My kiddos think they are the coolest thing ever!
And my own sweet boy goes to this wonderful S.T.E.M. campus...now he is all about designing and working on science.
Here is what he did after school today!
Have a great night!
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Sunday, October 26, 2014
Trick or Treat...Freebie!
Happy Halloween...Here is a little treat for you! I have put up a new free print and go homework or morning work printable! Click
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If you like this freebie...check out the full
Have a great week!
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Monday, October 20, 2014
Hello..is anyone there?
Hello all! I know it's been a l.o.n.g. time since I posted...but I've been oh so busy!
So...did I tell y'all I'm teaching kindergarten at a S.T.E.M campus this year? It is so fun...and I'm learning SOOOOOO much! Seriously! Everyday those kiddos surprise me with what they're retaining!
Day 1: we ACTUALLY did a real, honest to goodness science journal entry!
Day 2: Glitter Germs Science Exploration...
I seriously LOVE this quote..."Do You Speak Science?"...I smile each and every time I see this in my room!
Y'all this is hands down the best book for introducing your young readers to the theory of S.T.E.M...if you haven't seen it you need to get your hands on it!
I also made a cute little
Veteran's Day Emergent Reader
that is perfect your young kindergarten readers...It introduces your kindergarten readers to the five branches of the military...if you're interested in it you can find it
I have so much awesome stuff coming to share with y'all for S.T.E.M. Check back this weekend to see it all!
Sweet Dreams!
Brandy K.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014
Back to School FREEBIE
I can't believe that August is already here and that I start back to work on TUESDAY! AHH! Where did the time go? Did I mention that I haven't even set foot inside my classroom yet?? Yep. That's right! The school is under construction and we aren't allowed to go in yet...but hopefully soon! Which is ok, because the kiddos don't start for another two weeks...
So I've busied myself by creating two new projects...
Scientific Method Anchor Charts
I made this precious little
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Friday, August 1, 2014
Back to School Sale...
So it's back to school time! My lil' man's clothes & supplies are bought...I had the little sweet princess at the beginning of July...so we are set to have an awesome year! As for my classroom, well I'm changing school districts and moving to a school so much closer to home! I am beyond excited! So I decided to do my classroom in a "burlap & birdie" theme! Y'all it is so cute & it goes with turquoise and chicken wire! So very shabby chic! Check out this TpT set from
I.LOVE.IT! She even made it editable!
So I know that I will be reading a Pete the Cat book for back to school and I created this little emergent reader to work on tracking/color words/sight words and fine motor & coloring skills... (
click here if you're interested
) to keep my little kinders engaged the first week of school...
Check back next week...I'm working on some burlap shabby chic center signs and an emergent reader to compliment David Goes to School...gotta love a little boy who LOVES trouble! Oh yeah...TpT is having a sale and
is 20 percent off plus the additional discount TpT gives ya!
Are you ready for Back to School?
Have a great summer!
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Thursday, June 5, 2014
End of Year Student Gifts...
So today was my little man's last day of kindergarten! Bitter sweet! We are now on SUMMER VACATION people!
So this post is VERY short...
I didn't have much time to prepare an end of year gift for his class so this is what I made...
Here is the tag if you're interested...
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
Sunday in the Sun...
Good Sunday Morning Y'all!
Today is supposed to be a sunny, gorgeous day...and it's our LAST.WEEK.OF.SCHOOL for the year!
If you're anything like me than you'll spend a few weeks relaxing, but then quickly fill your days with getting ready for back to school errands/shopping/preparing!
So I just wanted to quickly post my FAVORITE kindergarten
Back To School
FREEBIES on TpT!
To go and grab these just click on the picture and it will link you to the teacher's TpT store!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a great end of the year...and remember, these teachers would LOVE and APPRECIATE it if you leave positive feedback on their FREEBIES!
See ya later!
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Thursday, May 29, 2014
Top 10 Things I Want To Do This Summer..Linky Party
I am so excited about this summer! I have so many new things planned for next year! So you know what that means as a teacher...I will be VERY.BUSY this summer gearing up and creating new things for next year! I have started designing my new "theme" for my classroom. I am going to go for a nautical, shabby chic theme! I am so excited to get it all finished! But until I do get it finished I can "pin" my dream classroom and all the new and exciting things that I have planned for next year! My area of concentration to find exciting things for is MATH! I would love to see any ideas you have or any units you've created on TpT! Let me just say that my basket on TpT is mighty full!
I'm excited to link up with
Mrs. Jump's Linky Party
, so...
Here are my Top 10 Things I Want To Do This Summer...
10. Get this Baby Out!
Did I forget to mention on this lil' blog that I am preggo??That's right...I only have about 4 weeks left! We can't wait to meet our little girl! Brett is so excited to be a big brother!
9. Go to Canton, TX Ok...I LOVE Canton! It is crazy fun y'all! It is the first "flea" market in the US and it is always a good time! The hubs and I went last summer and it was so much fun! I've started making a list of the things that I *need* for our home!
8. Finish the house...
So we moved into our newly built house in January and we still have a lot things to do! See my #10 as to why...
7. Get my classroom super.mega.crazy organized!
I love cleaning and organizing...so I can't wait to get all of my "stuff" out and start sorting and purging!
6. Finish designing my new "theme" for the classroom...
It'll be nautical/shabby chic. Think navy blue, lime green and white! Can't wait to show y'all pictures when I get it all done!
5. Swim!
We have a pool and I've only been in it once...'Nuff said!
4. Go on a lil' family vaca...
Not sure where but hopefully somewhere that we can be tech free!
3. Read!
2. Start running again...
I haven't been able to run since I've been "preggo" because it's just too hard when I'm tired! But this summer I can't wait to get my run on!
1. Relax!
Check out my
math pinterest board
...I really am looking to fill this board with exciting ideas! Brandy
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Monday, April 21, 2014
Teaching Organization...
Teaching kiddos to internalize and take responsibility for organizational skills is probably the most important life lesson that we teach each day.
When you look into their little desks you know which kiddos know how to organize their materials and keep up with their work. It seems that those sweet little babies who need help getting organized are also the same kiddos who need help "remembering" to turn their work in.
I came up with a simple solution that can grow with kiddos as they go through elementary and is very simple to create! I simply took all the different strategies/modifications that we normally use and put them ALL.INTO.ONE.LOCATION!
Crazy simple!
Y'all...hands down one of the simplest and efficient strategies I've ever done!
The front of the binder is simply what "reward" will they get for finishing all of their work. Each time they complete an assignment than they earn four minutes of "play time" at the end of the day. They can earn up to 20 minutes per day. Half the picture represents only two minutes were earned...this is a cheat for me to calculate the time! So on this binder the kiddo earned 18 minutes of dinosaur "free play"!
The inside of the front cover is where I store the pictures that are "to be earned"....
Inside the binder I have one folder for each subject area that I monitor for the student. I put the work for the day on the inside pocket that is labeled "work to be completed" and they are responsible for moving the work over to the "finished" side.
When they finish one subject assignment I check the assignments on the "finished" side of the folder. If they have finished the work in the allotted amount of time then they earn a "sticker" for the front cover.
At the end of the day I calculate their time and discuss with them all of the work they completed. The VERY END OF THE DAY is when they earn their "free play time" activity.
I plan to put a zipper pouch in the very front of the binder. If a student has a picture schedule as an accommodation/modification that requires a picture schedule I could/will also put it in the binder...the binder will STAY AT SCHOOL. It will not be used as a communication log for school and home. I want to think of it simply as a "portable desk"! The front will have the materials that they will need FOR.THAT.DAY.
! Yes,this will require a little extra work...but I will have a check sheet for them to keep track of what they are supposed to have inside that pouch for that day. It's a process that has to be taught!
I'll post more pictures as I "perfect" the binder!
The goal is for them to be INDEPENDENT LIFE LONG LEARNERS! This will be a very beneficial skill for them for the rest of their life! To me, that's a win!
What strategies do you use for teaching organizational skills to your kiddos?? I'd love to hear about them!
Lots of Love!
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
Brett's Battle...
So for a few months I haven't had much interest with blogging...to be honest, I haven't had much desire to do anything. I originally started blogging because of my graduate classes...shortly after I discovered that I really enjoyed it and that I was able to meet some pretty amazing "friends" through blogging!
Before I start...I have to be honest, I've debated sharing this story with others. My husband and I have prayed about it and prayed that it wasn't true. I now feel that I am at a point where I can share this story. I have accepted that it's happening and have decided to use this as an outlet.
Usually, when I'm down or not wanting to do something I use the motto: Suck it up, Buttercup!
my sweet, sweet angel has been having his own battles. In March, we noticed our little angel's hair had "thinned" slightly. So we took his little angel heart to the pediatrician...
The pediatrician did some lab work and sent us to a regular dermatologist. Nothing! They said his hair would stop falling out because it was at the end of the cycle.
At the beginning of April his hair still hadn't stopped falling out! We were dumbfounded at this point and returned to the doctor. We told them other strange behaviors we notice...excessive thirst, EXTREME hair loss, constant complaining that he was hot, excessive irritability, easily tired...still they said he's fine!
Mid April we went to a pediatric dermatologist...who is a saint in our eyes! She immediately said this was NOT normal! She immediately told us that someone his age shouldn't not be having these symptoms and that these were signs of an autoimmune disease...she documented his hair loss and all the other symptoms. Took photos and then sent us to get his head shaved (what little there was left)...so that she could document growth and changes in his hair growth cycle. She was so sincere and honest...even when what she had to tell us wasn't the best of news to deliver. We are now working with a pediatric dermatologist and a pediatric endocrinologist...hopefully soon we will have answers. Until then all we can do is pray! We are so blessed to have this little man in our lives!
Thank you to all of you who have continued to follow my lil' blog and to those of you who have joined while I've been on my hiatus. I am so grateful for all of you! Hopefully, now that we are working with such amazing specialists we will have answers and I can continue to blog!
Lots of Love!
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Freebie Story Bird...Have Ya Heard??
Have you heard of a digital story telling site called Story Bird?? Well...you need to go there (after you read this post :o))! It is a site that allows you to create your own "books" using photos they have. It was soooo EASY! Seriously! You can create your own projectable books on topics of your units of study! What a great way to teach "writing across pages" at this point in the year with your littles!?! Seriously! Check mine out... Here is a free short book that I created for projection on teaching colors to young learners using Story Bird. Please check it out!
What other great digital story telling products do you use?? I'd love to hear about 'em!
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Keyes, a product of the Ivy Leagues, has long been held aloft as some sort of intellectual of the far right. But anyone who's ever seen the wannabe Malcolms coming out of the prison talking "knowledge of self," anyone who's read Soul On Ice, knows exactly what Alan Keyes is--a highly articulate thug.
Couldn't possibly say it better. The comparison to Eldridge Cleaver is brilliant. That's gonna leave a mark.


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This is just a quick post to let you, my readers, know that in all my review posts starting now will include a link from the Amazon Associates program. If you click this link and buy the book, I will get a small amount of money for referring you. I wanted to write this post to make it clear that I do not expect or request you (AT ALL, IN ANY WAY) to buy the books I link to. But if you would have bought the book anyway, I get something for prompting that purchase. Please, let me know if you have any sort of problem with this, and I will stop linking immediately.
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Carrots are always a favorite vegetable to grow in the home garden. I have tried a wide variety of carrots throughout my gardening years from "Little Finger", "Scarlet Nates", to "Danvers Half-Long". This year I tried a variety recommended by a friend called "Mokum". Before I write more on "Mokum" let's review the some important steps of planting a good crop of carrots no matter what variety.
The key to growing good and straight carrots, is the soil texture. Carrots prefer a good light, sandy soil with organic material and deeply tilled. You should try and remove all stones and other material that may interfere with the straight line growth of your carrots. Stones and clumps of soil retard growth and cause roots to split.
As you can see by my picture I did not get all the stones out of my bed. I ended up with an alien carrot. I had a garden bed with good texture, by adding some peat moss, but I did not entirely remove all the stones. The carrot is nothing but a long taproot and if it does not have ideal conditions in which to grow in the taproot becomes stunted, forked or distorted. I know it is still summer but write down remarks how your vegetables performed, so you can correct the trouble spots prior to planting next year's garden.
Carrots require a consistent moisture level. Inadequate moisture supply can cause the carrots to crack and become distorted. After planting your carrot seeds put down 1/4″ layer of driedgrass clippings to help maintain the moisture level in the soil. As the carrots mature add more organic material, like straw, to maintain a consistent moisture level, cool the soil and control weeds.
The "Mokum" carrot seed that I planted this year I purchased from Territorial Seed Company. When they arrived I was kind of surprised. They were not your typically looking carrot seed. These carrot seeds arrived in pellet form. Being in pellet form it made it a lot easier to see what I was planting and actually plant the seed. Plant your seeds a 1/4″ deep and cover with a thin layer of soil. Plant your rows 1 to 1 1/2 feet apart. You should make succession plantings every 2-3 weeks.
Mokum carrots are crisp, sweet and juicy. They are ready to harvest in about 56 days and can be harvested as baby carrots or let them mature to 6-8 inches. They are high in Vitamin A and rich in sugars. Carrots can be planted up to 2.5 months prior to last frost. Don't be concerned if you have a lot of carrots in the ground when a frost is predicted. Carrots can be left stored in the ground as long as you have good draining soil and you cover them with between 3-4 inches of straw. When you want to harvest some carrots later, just scrape back the straw and pull out the number of carrots required and recover.
Contributed by Rich Young, Colorado Master Gardener. For answers to your horticultural questions, contact the Master Gardener Help Desk at 636.8921 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Photos courtesy of Rich Young.


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Ok ok yes I am actually blogging on a Saturday. You may not get up off the floor and continue reading. So I told you all that I had received a phone call the other day that really made my day. There are few things that I truly enjoy about being a stay at home mom and one of them is volunteering in the schools with my girls. I decided at the beginning of the school year to join the PTSA at the middle school and then was talked into joining the PTA at the elementary school as well. Wow I had no idea how much work it would be to try to juggle both of those. I have worked my tail off and had a blast doing it! Of course I am also a pretty shy person and anytime someone would say something to me about how much I do or thanks for all I do I just take the compliments and change the subject. I do love volunteering and I love the pride my girls have when they say to someone that I am their mom when I am at some event doing my job. Other then that I need no thanks and honestly don't want it. So Thursday after running around all morning volunteering I finally get home to settle down for about an hour before going to get DD2 from school when the phone rings. It is the volunteer coordinator for our area. She asked me if I had spoken with anyone from the middle school and I told her no. She then said " Well then I get the pleasure of telling you that you have been voted the volunteer of the year for the middle school" I swear I think I fainted just a bit and I know my face turned beet red!!! I was shocked and humbled and then completely terrified when she told me I would need to attend a dinner to be given my award!! Ohhhhh dear!!!! I have never been able to get up in front of a group of people without turning beet red to do anything...what am I going to do?!?!?! Yikes!!! I guess we will just have to see how it all goes...cross your fingers for me please!!
So we were supposed to bbq today with a group of friends but we woke up to rain, rain, and more rain..BOOOOOOOO!!!! I was so looking forward to just sitting around the grill talking, laughing and having a good time but now we are at a loss for what to do. We might be able to bbq tommorrow if the weather cooperates but we shall see. For now we are just relaxing and thinking and laughing. Oh what are we laughing at you ask?!?! Well as of last night we are dog sitting for some friends..Yay me!! Now we brought the dog home and watched as the dog growled at the cats and the cats hissed at the dog. There was a lot of whinig and hissing and growling last night..all of which we deeply enjoyed...for reals!!!! It is going to be a long few weeks I suspect but I really do hope that the cats will get used to the dog eventually. I still have yet to download all the pics off my camera so I will have to do that soon and share them with you.
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and please pray for my poor cats that they will stop feeling threatened and just all get along!!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
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- Jennifer Bowen said...
Congratulations! You, of all people, truly deserve the award. You're one of the most hardworking volunteer I know. Awesome job!!!
And yeah, this weather is awful! We were looking forward to having a beautiful weekend, but we're stuck with rain instead. =(
- March 19, 2011 at 10:04 AM
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While Stress Can't Always Be Escaped, It Can Be Managed
By Sara Bauknecht
The muscles in my neck are tightening. My heart is palpitating, and my hands are as clammy as moist sponges. I want to bury myself under my bed sheets and drift into a deep sleep. Are these feelings signs of the flu? No—they are symptoms of college stress.
College stress has grown as familiar to me as the assignments and professors that continually contribute to these surges of anxiety. During the past two years of college, taking tests, writing papers, and finding internships have become my life's main sources of stress. But it is not merely the thought of tackling these tasks that makes my heart pound like a drum. Instead, it is my determination to complete every assignment according to the high academic standards I have set for myself that causes stress to regularly flood my mind with worries.
According to the University of Florida Counseling Center, my stress and frustration are common characteristics of college life and are experienced by numerous college students. The Counseling Center considers career choices, relationship worries, and the competition with other students for top grades to be some of the causes that can lead to college stress. Although the center suggests the stress I am experiencing is normal, academic stress did not just begin for me when I started college.
School-related stress has been a part of my life for many years. Since the first grade, I have always pressured myself to pour 110% of my energy into every assignment. My relationship with stress can therefore be traced back to elementary school.
Based on my long history with stress, I doubt I will stop experiencing stress once I graduate from college. While graduation day may mark the end of college stress, graduate school stress or career stress will simply take the place of college-related anxiety. Since many potential sources of additional stress loom in the future, stress is not something that can always be escaped. As a result, the physical and emotional effects of stress must be managed before they become roadblocks on people's paths to success.
Learning to handle stress is a skill I have struggled to master over the years. Sometimes I succeed in not letting stress burden me. Other times I place so much pressure on myself to do well on a test or a paper that the stress of striving for perfection causes me to doubt myself and to poorly execute an assignment. T
hese experiences have helped me recognize that college stress, or any other form of anxiety I may encounter in the future, can prevent me from living to my fullest potential and achieving my goals. To avoid letting stress keep me from fulfilling my dreams, I have made learning to deal with stress properly a goal for my life.
The Counseling Center outlines four ways people like me who have difficulty handling stress can try to manage frustration and anxiety. Living a healthy lifestyle through eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep is one way people can minimize stress.
The center suggests discussing problems with others and using relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and self-hypnosis as two other tips people can use to help prevent stress from becoming harmful to their physical and mental wellbeing. Being aware of goals and values can also aid people in eliminating the stress often tied to unhappiness and self-doubt. Through using these four tips, the goal of striving to deal with stress more appropriately does not seem unrealistic after all.
With the future filled with unknown opportunities, the role stress will play in the years ahead remains unknown. We all like to think we will be successful at defeating stress before it defeats us, but future types of anxiety will likely bring their shares of struggles.
So the next time you feel your neck muscles start to feel as constricted as newly tuned piano strings, strive to cope with these feelings by using the tips suggested by the Counseling Center and by remembering the message my English teacher wrote in my fifth grade yearbook-—"Relax, and try to enjoy life a little bit."
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Surfset is taking over the world, The FitMonk Digest tells you more.
What is Surfset?
Surfing requires a great deal of body balance and postures, working almost all muscles. And yet it is a sport practised and embraced by a very minute population for a number of reasons, lack of access, perceived dangers etc.
Mike Hartwick, Sarah Ponn and Bill Ninteau decided to bring surfing to a larger audience. Placing a surfboard on stabilizer balls, the three introduced the concept of "surfing without water" or "indoor surfing" to the world. The massive influx of new and snappy fitness trends over the last few years witnessed a new revolutionary entrant into the market, Surfset.
India with the world's largest peninsular landform, does boast a long shoreline.However surfing has not really caught on in India although things are changing.here are few beaches on the Indian coast conducive to good surfing conditions, where aspirants could give their skills a shot.
A typical Surfset workout and its benefits.
A typical surfset workout requires one to perform a number s of exercises while maintaining their body balance atop the surfboard. While balance, flexibility and agility are a given, the workout helps tone your muscles and improve your stamina. The various postures practised helps strengthen your back, shoulders, legs and improves your core-strength.
What are some signature Surfset workouts?
There are essentially four kinds of signature surfset workouts, Balance, Burn, Build and Blend
1) Balance :- A yoga-inspired workout, Balance requires you to employ body stability and concentration in attempting carry out standard yoga-postures on the surfboard.
2)Burn :- A high-intensity workout, Burn tests your stamina and endurance with various kinds of aerobic movements carried out in quick-succession.
3) Build :- A relatively calmer workout routine, Build tests the balance of your mind, concentration and the ability to translate that onto your body postures.
4) Blend :- As the word suggests, this workout session seamlessly blends elements of all the previous 3 kinds of workouts carried out in between short intervals.
What lays ahead for Surfset?
Surfset is all about getting out of the static workout routine and testing our bodies in new and challenging ways. It essentially requires you to carry out various kinds of exercises while you fight the instability of being on a surfboard.


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On to the cushions mentioned above:
One day I'll tell you about my friend Chrisy sometime but for now: she made my Mum a quilt and I'm using the scraps to make some cushions to go with it.
This one I'm really happy with.
But...if you have a fine eye for detail you 'll see that squares are all equal, not allowing any seam allowance. I was purposely not taking hours to work things out and got my maths wrong. It was either chop the middle smaller or make other cushions with the triangles. I chose the former as I was so happy with the colours.
Cushion Two
I wasn't happy about the higher contrast of the triangles here but didn't trust my judgement and started sewing. I've now unpicked them and are thinking about using greens:
In the scraps from quilt there was only darker greens of sufficient size so I'm thinking about adding on from my stash (after all there's no rules, are there!). I'm leaning towards the one with gold and red leaves and flowers in the top left corner with the green that's in every corner (which comes from the quilt). Any suggestions?
Best go and use my study-work time to make notes for the assignment I'm writing about social work assessment. A somewhat dry topic but one I recognise as important. The main task is to not get distracted with the interesting bits in the books I ordered from the library!
Also to not get stiff cold fingers while typing in my sleepout/study
on this almost frosty morning in the Manawatu.
Blessings, Cheri


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Wire: America Better Get Ready The Communists Are Coming - China Rising
Tonight on the Wire, China seeks to replace the United States on the World Stage as Xi Jinping thirsts for global power, can the communist nation avoid the Thucydides trap? North Korea fired yet another ICBM, and this one worries all sides of the equation because according to the the regime it can strike the United States mainland. Also, Disney has been using Artificial Intelligence to creep on its customers, all that and so much more tonight on the Wire.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Parts Is Parts
Over Memorial Day weekend, my brothers and I hosted a big hoopla for our father's 90th. He lives in south-central Kansas where the air is pure, the water clean and the politics slightly right of Kubla Khan but just left of Genghis. We grew up in the same small town where Pop still lives. We are three sons of the high plains, a phrase that sounds like a B-western singing group.
Our father is still a very active camper. He is an insurance consultant (part time), a church choir baritone, an independent resident of a retirement community and a daily golfer (unless there is snow on the ground, tornados touching down nearby or steady rainfall greater than one inch per hour). As much as he ever had them, he retains all of his marbles. Part of his longevity success has been the replacement of critical body parts: knees (both), hip (left), arterial stents (couple), urinary tract mechanical sphincter (original plus replacement) and so forth. Since he has been older than 65 for the past 25 years, Medicare has picked up the great bulk of the expense associated with his renewal projects.
Proving that the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, I am having a brand new titanium and stainless-steel left hip inserted into my-own-fruity-self on June 1. The surgeon appears to be no older than 17 but he assures me that he is fully qualified, certified and insured. The good news for you readers who still pay taxes is that I am not yet old enough for Medicare to pick up the tab.
As some of you already know, if all of the Baby Boomers were asked to line up based on birthday and year, with the oldest at the head of the line, I would be right up at the front with the other January 1946 (year one of the 18-year generation) geezers while Barack would be way, way back in the 77,000,000 person queue. This line of Americans will begin to depend on Medicare for replacement parts starting year after next. I could have waited until then but my intake of Advil during that time would likely pickle my liver, yet another medical expense to present to the taxpayers. That, plus I am a sensitive, altruistic guy who wants to get back to pole vaulting soon, my exercise of choice.
New body parts are expensive. Multiply "expensive" by 77 million and you get a truly impressive number. How impressive, you ask? Let's see now, multiply the 7, carry the 2....hmmmm. Yowzer!
Medicare money, which comes out of the government's general operating budget, has a projected shortfall of $80 trillion. How big is $80 trillion you ask, your eyes glazing over like they always do when very large numbers are presented? Here's a nifty comparison: all of the personal property in the U.S., houses, land, office buildings, cars, mink muffs, Rolex's, lawn tractors, art, iPods, Wii's, etc. is valued at $50 trillion. Everyone in the country could sell everything that they own (to foreign buyers because we can't sell it to each other else we would still own it) to pay for Baby Boomer Medicare expenses and we would still be $30 trillion short. Sorry Barack, your new hip is on hold because the guys at the head of line used up the money.
The entitlement shortfall is not a problem that can be tweaked to a solution. Trimming around the edges, paring a few hundred million here and there, extracting a $2 trillion pledge that "we promise (but don't guarantee) to do better over the next 10 years" from the hospitals, doctors, big pharma, medical equipment manufacturers and insurance companies amounts to chump change. It's akin to asking the 800 pound gorilla to trim down to 768 pounds knowing that we don't have room for a gorilla of any size.
Here's one solution, immediately increase payroll deductions for Medicare by 134%. Don't care for that one? O.K., hows about we immediately decrease Medicare benefits by 53%? Not to your taste either? We could ask every other Baby Boomer to off themselves prior to their 65 birthday ("Ask not what your country can do for you..."). I'm sorry, but you and your elected representatives (those unique mammals that mysteriously lose their spines upon arrival in Washington) will have to make a selection from this list or come up with some combination of the three that equates to the same outcome.
Oh, wait, I forgot the fourth choice, reigning in medical cost inflation from its current rate of about 7% annually; perhaps, you know, keeping it in line with actual cost-of- living increases which are currently 1.3% per year. Heck, we should probably allow for 3% annual health care cost inflation just to keep the industry happy. What, you don't think that the health care players would be happy with revenue inflation of more than twice the rate of the actual cost-of-living increase? Why not? Greed? Wall Street demands? Stupidity? The public demand for Rolls Royce health care for the price of a Kia and leave the grand kids to pay the difference? These are, as some of you have likely noted, rhetorical questions, each of them containing a kernel of truth. This begs the question, why do we pronounce "kernel" and "colonel" exactly the same? Very odd, that.
Dealing with health care cost inflation is the biggest piece of the Medicare liability puzzle; not all of it but the largest by far. The solution(s) for what is best for the health care of all U.S. citizens at prices that reflect sustainable reality will be at odds with the financial interests of many in the health care industry and likely at odds with some of your self-interests. We can either (1) all dig our heels in and slowly be pulled into the abyss in this financial tug-o-war with the gorilla or (2) educate ourselves about the actual alternatives and support the ones that will work, even if we have to hold our noses, or better, make some shared sacrifice.
Observoid of the Day: Health care cost reform is not an ideological problem, it's a math problem.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
God and Me
I had not intended to bring this topic up because of all the possible attendant media hoopla, but circumstances prevailed. So here's the revelation, I talk with God. It is not your standard, on your knees or at the dinner table, one-way communication either. In fact, it's a Jerry Falwellian type of connection. There is routine repartee. I didn't always have this communications channel; it presented itself when I changed cell phone carriers recently.
Somehow, the combination of AT&T on my office line, mixed with Sprint on the cell phone created this phenomenon. It only works when I use my cell phone within three feet of my office phone. I'm not sure whose network is responsible.
A few weeks back I misdialed my urologist's number (I can't say what that number is for obvious reasons). A pleasant and gender-neutral voice answered but it was not the receptionist at the doctor's office because she is definitely not gender-neutral, if you get my drift.
"Thank you for your call, it is very important to us. God is either away from the phone or on the line with another entity, please hold. Your expected wait time is less than 3 minutes." This was followed by music that sounded suspiciously like Jim Morrison and the Doors as covered by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Well, the "God" reference got my attention, so I hung on instead of up.
As you might expect, the actual wait time was less than three minutes but only by a hair. God apparently follows the dictum of, "If you can't be on time, be early." I like that.
"God speaking," came another pleasant and gender-neutral voice, except that this voice had a slight reverb, but less reverb than a Julio Eglesias recording.
"How can I help you, Bruce, or do you prefer 'Boots'?"
I was taken aback that the speaker knew who I was without introduction (probably caller I.D.) but the voice also knew that some in my family call me 'Boots' (caller I.D., not!). It was the first of several clues that eventually convinced me that I was really, actually, sure 'nuff, talking with God.
I explained that I hadn't been trying to call God and that it was an accident.
"That's often the way it works," said God. "In any case, you've reached me, so perhaps we can talk a bit and maybe learn some things. There are a number of things, for instance, that I would like to know about you."
Well, if there's something that I always spark to it's talking about myself, so I agreed.
"Why do you shave your head?" God asked. "After all, I arranged for you to have a full head of hair with only modest male pattern baldness occurring after you reached 40, but you razor it off every day or two."
I explained that the growth pattern--thin on top and back, thick on the sides--plus the aggressive graying, made me look a lot like Slobodan Milosevic, the unpopular Serb. I added that Slobodan wasn't with us anymore.
"He's not with me either." said God.
Well, anyway, I continued, now I look a lot like Ben Kingsley.
"Oh, he's the one who starred in "Gandhi", said God. " Great actor; loved him in 'Sexy Beast'. Speaking of Gandhi, now there's an interesting guy. He followed the Hindu path during his temporal years. I see him often. He tells great jokes; a real ham."
So, I observed, it is the Hindus who have the secret to eternal life.
"Well, they get lots of it right," said God, "but miss a few elements here and there. I can't fault them. They make a legit effort. And they certainly treat their cows better than most of the other earthly sects."
I asked God if this meant that there were other religions represented in heaven, or wherever God was.
"Oh sure,' God said. "We're an equal opportunity destination."
That begs the question, I continued, if it's not the specific religion that gets one there, what is the secret?
"That, I'm sure you will understand, is classified information," said God. "While this is our "Help Line" we don't offer that much help. You will have to determine the answer on your own. If we just gave out THE ANSWER willy-nilly, all of the heavy lifting of spirituality would be eliminated. After all, mental heavy lifting is the journey and the journey is the point."
This line of thought was getting a bit too circular for me so I changed the subject. I asked God if "God" was a real name or just something created by the King James translators.
"My real handle is a series of energy bursts, interspersed with dollops of space-time continuum but that doesn't translate well into any existing language. The Greeks tried but gave up and went back to nature worship," said God. "I've always been fond of 'Yahweh', 'Shaphat' and 'Jehovah' but don't care much for 'Elohim', 'El Shaddai' or 'Hupsistos'. Some of those early Jewish writers went a little overboard. 'God' works fine; I use it for autographs."
"Look," said God, "This has been instructive, Bruce, but I've got some other calls to take so let's have one more question each and pick it up another time."
I agreed and let God ask the next question.
"Why is it," asked God, "That your are so good at lag putts but miserable at anything between two and five feet?"
I said that if I knew the answer to that one that I would be a slightly wealthier man. I opined that it probably had to do with some repressed childhood trauma.
"Yeah, right," said God.
It was my turn. I asked God if the earth was really created in six days.
"I get this one all the time," said God. "Time is a relative notion. Look how far that simple concept took Einstein; Austria to Harvard with a visit to Oslo thrown in. By the way, he and Gandhi have become pals here but I, as I so often do, digress."
"Anyhow," God continued, "you have to bear in mind that eternity is really quite a long haul. Most humans have trouble with the concept. Some perspective helps. Imagine yourself sitting through an entire beginners' piano recital at Madame Eloise's School of Music. Eternity is longer than that."
For me, this was a "Wow" moment.
"Earth days," God continued, "Are merely a construct determined by the earth's rotation speed. While I was creating earth, you may recall, I was also putting the rest of universe together. Some of my other trillions of orbs rotate much faster and some much slower than earth, so the definition of 'day' gets all cockeyed once you venture out past your little patch of the Milky Way. Let's just say that the Old Testament writers did the best they could with the information that they had at the time."
"They aimed for the perfect metaphor but sometimes missed," God said. "That can be a problem, especially when interpreted too literally. For instance, I really need to spend some time resolving this snake handling business. The snakes are on my case big time."
"Well," God was obviously wrapping up the call, "It's been real, Boots. I hope you don't mind that I use the family nickname. I feel we've connected at a familial level, especially regarding the hair issue, which I fully understand. I think that you should re-evaluate the cause of the putting woes. Give my best to Mimi and the pets. Let's do this again."
I've decided not to take advantage of this communications coup by calling God weekly, although I do have many more questions. I don't want to be a pest. Even so, from time-to-time, I plan to ring God and schmooze a few minutes. When I do, I'll post a de-briefing on the blog and share it with my little corner of earth man and womankind.
Observoid of the Day: You can watch yourself wink but you cannot watch yourself blink.
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My name is Lia Veenendaal-Selck and I am the ANC commissioner for 6A08. The DC government would like some constituent input on what the government of DC should see as its budget priorities. The survey should take less than five minutes to complete, and input will be used by the Gray administration to help determine the direction the administration decides to take. I'd really like to make sure that our neighborhood's views and perspectives are well-represented, so if you could complete the survey, that would be very helpful.
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
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3 Bd, 2-0 Bath Open, Bright, Airy, Remodeled Home with private view offers headache free and comfortable living! Cathedral ceilings, split bdrm floor plan, 3 huge walk in closets! You will love this property! New SS appliances! Pool Community! Convenient to 75/71, shops/restaurants! Owner-Agent Open SU 2-4
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This morning we had our Pre-Settlement meeting with our project manager. This meeting took exactly two hours and we were given a LOT of information during that time. Information such as specifics about appliances, the AC and heating, hot water tank, fireplace, warranties, who to call when, what specific cleaners to use on what, etc. As we walked room-to-room, we noticed a few more things that needed to be touched up and our project manager was happy to say he'd get right on them and they'd be fixed by tomorrow. They were all minor things, such as:
- A little paint on the carpet of the master closet
- A chip in the door trim on the inside of the master bathroom
- A smude of paint on the handrail on the stairs
- Etc.
A couple things that I learned we need to do that I didn't realize, for whatever reason:
- Concrete sealant. We have to apply a concrete sealant to our driveway, garage floor, walkway to front door and front stoop. This is to keep away the absorption of water. It is very important we do this before freezing season begins. I have no idea what this will cost, but do know that you simply roll it onto the concrete with a paint roller.
- Grout sealer. I had just assumed this would be done by Ryan homes, but it isn't. It isn't a huge deal and I plan to head to the house tomorrow night and do this myself while my husband is handling larger jobs. We need to seal the kitchen, morning room, laundry room, and master bathroom. Not a huge deal.
All in all we are absolutely, 100% thrilled and content up to this point. I cannot believe that this is OUR home. Even today I kept trying to convince myself of that, but kept falling back into the feeling that I was simply walking through a model or someone else's home. I cannot wait to start getting our things moved in and settling down - just one more day until that begins to happen!
This afternoon we will drive out to the mortgage office and sign our papers. Tomorrow, early afternoon, we should receive the call that our keys are ready to be picked up! At that point we'll head directly to the house (with both cars already loaded) and start getting some little things unloaded and the painter will meet us there as well to get his work started. On Wednesday we have several deliveries lined up as well as Dish Network coming out to install a new dish and set up our cable.
It is really taking all of my will power not to try and convince my hubby to go to Home Depot and rent their $19.95 truck so that we can grab our mattresses from storage and just camp out in the new house prior to our formal move-in of this Friday!!
I took a lot of pictures today - some of which will probably look like repeats - so please bear with me.
Morning room.
Living room
Living room, into dining room
Looking down the upstairs hallway.
Upstairs full bath.
Master bedroom.
Master bathroom.
Basement, looking into playroom.(In the Florence model this is typically unfinished storage, but Ryan Homes allowed us to do some minor customization by finishing the area and adding the French doors. We still have a LOT of storage space left!
Basement, looking into playroom.
Basement full bath.
Basement, looking back at full bath and under-stair storage.
Playroom, looking into additional storage.
Playroom! (I am DYING to get my hands on the setup and decorating of this room!)
Playroom, looking out into living room.
This pretty much sums up how we ALL feel - so excited that we want to do somersaults!


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Our first Brokeback Backlash
But first, a little background.
There is this guy that comes in who must be at least 300 pounds and 40-something but looks like a morbidly obese child. The only thing that could better complete this picture is if he were licking a big wolly pop. This is probably due to his innocent, cherub-like cheeks and that, oh I don't know, he comes into the store decked out in full Boy Scout uniform all the time.
When I first started working at The Wave he was not only the most bizarre but also the scariest customer because he was really mean to me and he reminded me of a fear I've always had of being molested by Boy Scout leaders and/or enormously fat men. I honestly saw him as a nightmarish pedophile stereotype, and I'm not sure if his decided stance on the "values" of a film like "Brokeback Mountain" do much to ensure this assumption.
So he asked me if "Crash" was good and like a good trouble maker I said "it was OK but it didn't deserve Best Picture. What a rip!".
So he asked me what I thought should win, to which I replied "Munich"... but if not that, "Brokeback Mountain".
That's when he paused, got silent, looked down and said "Oh? yea... I am glad it didn't win, it's not my kind of movie". Ok, no biggie there... yet. So I asked him "well have you seen it?" and then, like most people who speak out against it, of course he said "No, I never will. It conflicts with my moral values".
Then Drew piped in from across the counter with "What values are those? LOVE??".
I giggled a little bit, the 300 pound 40 year old dressed in the boy scout uniform didn't find it funny.
I think he said something like "No, it just isn't what I view as natural and moral".
Thankfully for him he approached the issue in a calm and rational manor and didn't say anything disrespectful, per se, although everything he said was offensive. For this reason, we had no grounds to attack him, even though Drew is constantly looking for good ways to publically ridicule any conservative or fundamentalists.
The point is that this guy didn't have to say anything about it at all. Not only did he not know if we cared what he thought or not (because we don't), but he had no idea if we were gay or, like so many people think, if we are a gay cowboy couple. Drew and I get pretty close and often bump and grind with eachother, even at work.
He had no idea how offensive his statements could have potentially been, but like most conservative religious folk who are outspoken against movies about the human condition which they refuse to see, he just had to open his mouth and put his point out there.
I expect for more of this to pop up when BBM actually comes out on DVD, so stay tuned.
For more on BBM, see What The Balls?


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The Celts had a wonderful name for the Holy Spirit. They called Holy Spirit 'The Wild Goose'.
The Celts looked at nature and saw God revealed in all His glory and they understood God best when they took symbols from what they experienced. The Holy Spirit was symbolized by the wild goose. Doves were docile and delicate, but the wild goose was untameable, free, and unpredictable. Instead of a soft coo, the wild goose was noisy and raucous. And it seemed always to be on the move—on a pilgrimage ordained by the Lord Himself. [i]
Holy Spirit calls us to a new flight path. We must follow the tail feathers.
There is a moment of truth for all of us, where we choose to trust God and set a course to the future. We will have this moment many times. Unfortunately, some prefer to focus their thoughts and prayers on worrying. They never commit to any significant change or action because they're worried about making the wrong decision.
James 1:
5-8 If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who "worry their prayers" are like wind-whipped waves. Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.
If you don't know what you're doing in God's Kingdom, please ask the Father. Whose church is it anyway? Who loves this church more than you do? God has much more invested in this flock than you ever will. So, ask God what you should do.
Some might immediately think we need to be cautious and very careful, since Paul did say to do everything decently and in order. He has a point, but gave those words to a wild frontier church filled with sinners and self-righteous people who needed some guidance.
He probably doesn't need to tell us about doing things decently and in order. We have predictable patterns and containments for most of what we do in His Name. We sometimes worship order and safety, more than we do the Trinity. Think about Nicodemus whose security rested in religion.
John 3:
5 Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
I am not a spiritual anarchist, but there is something unpredictable about the wind. Jesus is saying that if you are born again, the wild goose will lead the flock where it will. The whispering wind of God's Spirit will blow at unexpected times, maybe even the wrong times in your schedule.
Christ's Kingdom is the dreaming counter-culture restoring clear hope in uncertain times. We follow the wild goose, but at least we fly in formation, decently and in order.
Apparently God likes to hover around the chaos. That should be comforting for some of your lives. Holy Spirit wants to lead you to hover over some chaos, too. That is where God does His best work of creating and defining.


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pop [Coffee] Culture:
There's a lot of fun to have in coffee. From looking up into elevated ceilings admiring design, creating food photography warranting a jump through an iphone screen to coffee dates with waffles and comics. This weeks curation takes us to Canada, Portland, Paris, Nashville and to the world of toons.
@bestwishesmag invites us into the solitude of @coffeewithme's moment at Hush Espresso with a reminder of how sacred quiet time in a coffee shop can be,
@currentlyelise grams a photo whose elements set the stage for a melting coffee-culture pot – coffee, literature, music and style.
@ducksta says its starting a bad habit at @stumptowncoffee – bacon is involved,
@fairseason, had two coffees in one day, one was in this space at BlackTop Coffee – I see why,
@huckleberryroasters view of one long communal table in @baristaparlor's Nashville space, makes one wonder, 'how could one ever go back to working in an office, after this?
@inyali, a Montreal café opens and these white stools incite an international crossing
@onethirteen, has brunch in Palm Springs and the setup – wicker chairs and black coffee – shows why it'll probably happen again, just the same,
@shervinsworlddotcom has a seat at the coffee bar that looks like a magazine editorial and
@theteenagedream validates how fun it can be to bring out our inner child with this still life-like spread of coffee, waffles and art. Zing!


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I even tried a new way to sew on the binding in one strip.
Quilt Back
I used flannel for the front and fleece for the back.
I used 5 different flannel patterns and cut them into 5 inch strips with a 1/2 inch seam.
My goal was to have 4 in squares.
Then I sewed the strips together in the order I wanted them for each row.
Then I sewed them together and cut them into 5 inch strips which saved a lot of time cutting into individual 5 inch squares.
The only problem with this was that I needed to reinforce the ends so the stitching wouldn't come out.
After I sewed them together I laid the front onto the back and stitched in the ditch over all the seams.
I used this method <click here> to put on the binding. I made the binding from another piece of flannel.


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Discussion in 'The Toilet Bowl' started by OregonDucks, Oct 26, 2013.
had some strawberry's for breakfast with my pancakes. Get ready injuns!
Who is the one who has been shit on? FSU still goin' strong!
You must of had chocolate pudding this morning.
OD, how does Stanford's ass taste?
Not as pleasant as these.
I think OD and Richie Incognito are the same guy.
Richie is incognito as OD at hoopla.
so in addition to Florida State's ass, what other teams (if they win) have a chance to have their asses tasted by Oregon? I think Ohio State, Baylor, and Stanford are all locks. What about after that? Clemson/Missouri/Auburn are the next 3. If all those teams win, could the Ducks find themselves in the middle of a pack of tigers?
FSU looks like they will have nobody ranked ahead of them now
Good bump.
OD thread is OD
Hmm my Mariota heisman bread and this thread are relevant again.....hmm...
Greatest thread ever produced on these bds (top 5 anyway).
Welcome back OD!
Re-read and have to bump! God love you OD!
How did this thread only make it to 4 pages?
Did we ever find out if the beans OD ate were at least tasty? Did he have some good cornbread with them?
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13 November 2009
Art#1: Spatial Music, the Music of Space
What was striking about this phenomenon is that after about a minute of watching this, I clearly experienced it as music. Music without sound, but clearly having the sort of rhythmed countour of a bunch of people playing jazz with one another, or perhaps drumming together, playing a minimalist piece like Terry Riley's In C, or playing in hocket style, as in the polyphonic music tradition of the Banda, in which music a group of players who are playing instruments that can only play a small number of notes, throw their few notes back and forth, create complex polyphonic patterns.
Question: So, first: interesting to experience light as music. But second: I've watched many animated films that aspire to manifest music in visual form, e.g., the work of Oskar Fischinger, but inevitably experience this as an effort to translate music into something else, that doesn't work. Perhaps this is because such films typically have the music playing along with the visuals.
But I wonder if this might be because of the spatial layout and breadth of the installation. When watching an animated film that aspires to visually show music, one grasps one picture that is internally articulating and morphing. The experience of this sculpture is more like watching independent things in the world resonating rhythmically with one another, synching, desynching, lagging, splaying spatially and temporally. I wonder if this might have to do with the phenomenon. If there's anything right to this, I wonder what this might say about music. Does music catch us because synched up spatially distributed movements of the world--the leaves blowing and pulsing across the orchard, the grass swaying and ruffling, the kids playing, the dancers dancing, the dogs circling, the gazelles stotting and bouncing, the horses galloping with legs in counterpoint--also catch us? Might there be a music of space, a way in which we sense our way through it because of its cross rhythms? This might be conceptualized as an elaboration of the sort of affordance offered by vection of the visual field in Gibson's accounts. And something like this might be at play in the visual rhythm of the colonnade, and so on.
24 October 2009
Phenomenon #1: Digits vs. the Visual Expanse they Occupy
Description: Today I was helping a friend do a manual tally of her teaching evaluations. To do this I set up a Word document with a table. In the table there was a row for each question we were to tally, with blank boxes in the row for each score on the rating scale (Excellent, Very good, etc.--lots of excellents in fact!). The plan was to record, in each box, the number of evaluations with a given score, as she read the scores aloud. Specifically, the plan was to use the tallying strategy where you make a vertical stroke for each item, up to four strokes, and then make a horizontal stroke through the group, to count five. I thought this would make for easier totalling at the end.
But it turns out that when you're doing multiple counts in different boxes, and looking from box to box, it's hard to quickly see whether there are four strokes in the group, i.e., whether a horizontal stroke is called for. (It's very different if you're doing just one count, in which case the four vertical strokes, then one horizontal, system works well.)
18 October 2009
Experiment #1: Bilingualism & Biworldism
Consider a situation where you are asked to indicate whether the arrow in the centre of the following two arrays is pointing to the left or right: 1) »»»»» 2) ««»««. Results show that bilingual people are better at this task; they aren't as thrown off, we could say, by the arrows pointing in incongruent directions.
A recent article, "On the Bilingual Advantage in Conflict Processing: Now You See It, Now You Don't" (Cognition 113(2009) 135-149), probes this "bilingual advantage" in more detail, with experimental results that indicate that the relative advantage of bilinguals over monolinguals is apparent when tasks of the sort illustrated in 1) and 2) are presented in relatively rapid alternation ( vs. when blocks of the 1) task are followed by blocks of the 2) task). Also the advantage is more in response time than ability to perform the task. The discussion focuses on why this is the case: why does bilingualism confer this advantage? Is it based in some better ability to resolve conflicting information, or in better ability to attentively monitor situations, so as to apply the right kind of attention to it? The authors incline to the latter, although they can't settle the issue.
On their view, bilinguals who are able to switch between one language and another quickly, sometimes even within a conversation, need to develop an ability to monitor their linguistic/auditory context and attend to it in the right way, e.g., not listen to conversations in other languages that are going on in the background, listen to this conversation as in language X, not Y.
Discussion: This raises interesting questions about the relation between language, perception, and inhabiting the world in different ways. Putting aside questions of underlying mechanisms, this result and the phenomenon are interesting for several reasons.
17 October 2009
Animal #1: In the Sway of Light: Animal Machines and Activity-Passivity
Rewriting Memory, Rewriting Self
But, I wonder if that's what others do too. So my impression of the blogs as an archive of things said in the fixed past is wrong? These are not publications, like newspaper articles, but ongoing growing things?
Question: A question about memory, then. Will I remember in the future that this record I am leaving behind is one that I went back to and rewrote? There isn't any edit trail, as at WikiPedia. What will that do to my memory of who I am or more accurately, who I will turn out to have been?
Waking #2: Cantonese Ear Worm
Anyway, this appears to be a (let's say) Cantonese cover of "Killing Me Softly With His Song", the first two phrases. I think that this must have to do with the very convivial dinner I had with a bunch of friends in the Chinese Restaurant de Bonheur the other night. It's some sort of recent memory based ear worm. Significantly, at this dinner, one of my friends was speaking in Chinese with the waiters, and also saying how his Chinese wasn't very good, but I remember that at the time I was listening along with him in the way of wanting to be able to speak his language.
Question: What does this mean about the ear worm phenomenon and about our memory for song, voice, language?
15 October 2009
Waking #1: On the Spatiality of Equipment
I go back to the counter and espresso machine, pull the scoop out of the hopper. I cannot find the spatula. Where is it? Eventually I see that it is right where it always is when I reach for it in the morning, on the flat top of the espresso machine. Why can't I see it, even though it is right there where it always is, where I usually look for it?
Observation: When I usually reach for the spatula, I am not reaching for it 'where it is', either in the sense of: where it is as located in such and such a measurable position, or: where it is in the sense of: in its own spot.
This blog is devoted to the idea that the phenomenon of development is fundamental to life and human life. It seeks to explore development and related phenomena using the philosophical method of phenomenology, especially as developed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
The aim is especially to show how embryogenesis, growth, maturation, aging, the development of movement, habits and learning—and the relation of all of these to the living, especially animal, world around us—are dimensions that crucially and ongoingly inform human life. We humans are remarkable animals: we are all born 'pre-mature,' continuing our gestation outside the womb. One is always still being born. The aim here is to show how one's ongoing birth is never quite over—one is always learning to be, via one's developmental relation with one's social, cultural and natural environment.
But this is just the beginning. And the character of such a beginning, of a project on development, is that we still have to get there.


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BOYS' HOCKEYCoatta and Minnetonka skate past Chanhassen
MINNETONKA 6, CHANHASSEN 0: Senior Max Coatta had a goal and two assists to lead the Skippers, ranked No. 6 in Class 2A, to the victory Thursday. Coatta's first-period goal, the 73rd of his career, made him the Skippers' all-time leader in goals scored, assists and points.
CENTENNIAL 5, ANOKA 0: Adam Anderson scored two goals and Kenny Sinna had a goal and two assists for the Cougars, ranked No. 8 in Class 2A, against the Tornadoes.
WAYZATA 4, BURNSVILLE 3: Wayzata, ranked No. 4 in Class 2A, built a 4-0 lead and held on for the victory over the Blaze. Jack Sorensen had a goal and assist for the Trojans. Teemu Kivihalme had a goal and two assists for Burnsville, which scored its three goals in the final six minutes.
BLAINE 4, ELK RIVER/ZIMMERMAN 3 (OT): Tyler Cline's goal at 4:22 of overtime completed the come-from-behind victory for the Bengals. Blaine, ranked No. 9 in Class 2A, trailed 3-1 after two periods.
BRECK 8, MINNEHAHA ACADEMY 3: Jack O'Connor scored three goals to lead the Mustangs, ranked No. 3 in Class 1A, to the Tri-Metro Conference victory.
GIRLS' HOCKEYWingers edge Shakopee
RED WING 5, SHAKOPEE 4: Nicole Schammel scored four goals to help the Wingers, ranked No. 2 in Class 1A, fend off the Sabers. Red Wing led 4-1 after two periods.
MOUNDS VIEW 2, ROSEVILLE 1: Kathryn Larson and Bella Sutton scored first-period goals as the Mustangs, ranked No. 3 in Class 2A, held off the Raiders, ranked No. 10.
LAKEVILLE NORTH 5, EAGAN 3: Christi Vetter had a goal and two assists and Dani Sadek had three assists to help the Panthers, ranked No. 9 in Class 2A, outlast the Wildcats.
MOUND-WESTONKA 7, WILLMAR 0: Mound-Westonka, ranked No. 10 in Class 1A, scored five goals in the first period -- three by Abby Brustad -- in the nonconference victory.
GIRLS' BASKETBALLOsseo pulls away from Centennial
OSSEO 67, CENTENNIAL 47: The Orioles pulled away in the second half to defeat the Cougars, ranked No. 6 in Class 2A. Janay Morton scored 19 points for the Orioles, who led only 28-26 at halftime. Destinee Morris scored 15 to pace Centennial.
EAGAN 63, ROSEMOUNT 55: The Wildcats rallied from a 12-point halftime deficit for the victory. Bryn Parsons scored 14 points to lead Eagan (10-3), off to its best start in 20 years.
BENILDE-ST. MARGARET'S 44, NORTH BRANCH 31: The Red Knights, ranked No. 9 in Class 3A, outscored the Vikings, 30-16 in the second half to rally for the victory. Grace Coughlin scored 13 to lead the Red Knights.
BOYS' BASKETBALLNo. 2-ranked Apple Valley handles Burnsville
APPLE VALLEY 73, BURNSVILLE 44: Dennis Austin scored 16 points and Harry Sonie 14 to lead the Eagles, ranked No. 2 in Class 4A, to the victory. Freshman Brock Bertram added 10 points and 13 rebounds for Apple Valley. Star point guard Tyus Jones did not play for Apple Valley, but it was unclear why. Zach Smith scored 24 points for the Blaze.
DELASALLE 89, BRECK 67: Junior Reid Travis scored 47 points to lead the Islanders, ranked No. 1 in Class 3A, to the Tri-Metro Conference victory. Tilyn Hollis scored 30 points for Breck.
EDINA 74, ST. PAUL CENTRAL 43: Reggie Lynch, a 6-9 senior, blocked 15 shots to pace a strong defensive effort by the Hornets.
PARK CENTER 85, BLAINE 65: Quinton Hooker scored 24 points to lead the Pirates, ranked No. 1 in Class 4A, to the conference victory.
WEST LUTHERAN 70, LEGACY CHRISTIAN 42: Senior Dustin Barth scored 23 points to surpass 1,000-career points and highlight the Warriors' victory.
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and here are some good upcoming films:
Herzog and Lynch?!?! Its a cinematic nightmare come true....and yes it is true.
Their collaboration is titled MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE,
Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for a Documentary, RESTREPO.
From director Michael Winterbotton comes THE KILLER INSIDE ME.
And In case you haven't seen it, click here to see our latest video.


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As part of The Body Shop's Christmas promotion Inurface Media has designed and built a 3×3 video wall for the project.
The Christmas campaign is a bespoke, temporary project focussing on the period of Advent, running for a total of 6 weeks we have created a large advent calendar structure in the window with dynamic content each day. An interactive Totem is located on the shop floor where customers can untie a bow on a digital present to win a gift. The gifts range from small stocking fillers to tea for two at The Ritz. When a customer interacts with the Totem the content changes on the screen alerting the main area of Westfield that a customer has won a prize and which prize this is. Once the content interrupt has completed it returns to the appropriate content loop for that day.
The whole project was pre-assembled and tested in the warehouse. With our partners Harlequin, who designed the entire facia and lighting system, the colours were matched between digital and print with all the screens calibrated. The installation took place across several nights with the whole structure being installed and mounted from floor and ceiling.