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This photo is of the "original" Old Layman Cemetary on Joachim Lorentz Layman's homestead in Grayson Co., Kentucky. In this copse of trees there are approximately 24 graves. All the headstones have deteriorated beyond readability.
James Abner Layman James Abner's wife - Susan Jane Byers
Confederate in Civil War
Anthony Layman Anthony's wife, Rachael Kimble
George and Alice Campbell and Family
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Leander James Wilson and wife, Mary Layman
John Ward Layman of Pulaski Co., MO
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He looks distractingly terrible at every stop...You never forget that you are watching John Travolta playing John Gotti every time.
Gotti tries too hard to cram too much information into a small space, and you come away learning almost nothing about the man, other than the filmmakers feel he was a pretty stand-up guy.
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Gotti is a connect-the-dots disaster -- the don's greatest hits, so to speak -- without discernible theme or cohesive narrative.
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The John Gotti biopic has become somewhat notorious because of its 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, not that this is the first film to hit that dubious mark. It is bad, though not quite 0% bad. The biggest crime of this movie is that it at no point solidifies a reason why we should find John Gotti interesting. As played by John Travolta, he's a ruthless leader who beat so many prosecutors that he was nicknamed the "Teflon Don." He's also really really boring, spouting stereotypical bromides about the importance of family, never giving an inch, never turning on your family (both capital F and lowercase f). It's a cock-eyed worldview I'd expect, however, at the very end of the movie, the movie itself adopts this cock-eyed justifications, presenting the federal government as the real villains and inserting interview footage of real people eulogizing Gotti, saying he made their streets clean and cared about his community and was, essentially, a hero. It's amazingly misguided, like director Kevin Connolly ("E" fro HBO's Entourage) has suffered Stockholm syndrome from his lunk-headed, murderous criminals. That same sense of misjudgment is never more adamant than in the musical score by pop star Pitbull. Read that again. There's a sequence where Gotti goes out on furlough and is escorted to kill an associate, and the musical score is jaunty and uptempo. There were several moments where the score just took my breath away, so tonally disjointed was this mostly modern-day musical score. The movie is structured as an ongoing series of interviews between Gotti Sr. (Travolta) and his adult son, with choice flashbacks interspersed. We don't even get a rise-and-fall sort of formula. It never provides sufficient evidence why Gotti was interesting at all and worth a big screen biopic. The dialogue feels like it was written with all exclamation points. Nothing is subtle or left to the imagination here, and that extends into the scenery-chewing acting as well from a bunch of unmemorable stock roles. There is also a 1996 TV movie about John Gotti starring Armand Assante. Sight unseen, it must almost assuredly be the better movie and more worth two hours of your precious time. Nate's Grade: D+
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OG&E today filed an application with the Arkansas Public Service Commission seeking approval to recover costs for the installation of smart meters and related smart grid technology for greater electricity efficiency across the company's Arkansas service area.
Smart meters, when supported by in-home tools and time of day pricing plans, will give customers opportunities to make energy-use decisions that shift demand away from hours when electricity costs are at their highest, to lower-cost times of day, saving money on their monthly bills and helping OG&E delay the need for the costly addition of more generating capacity.
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Computer simulations are now an integral part of contemporary basic and applied physics and computation has become as important as theory and experiment. The ability to compute is now part of the essential repertoire of research scientists.
Since writing the first two editions of our text, more courses devoted to the study of physics using computers have been introduced into the physics curriculum, and many more traditional courses are incorporating numerical examples. We are gratified to see that our text has helped shape these innovations. The purpose of our book includes the following:
discoverphysics in a way similar to how physicists learn in the context of research.
The major change in this edition is the use of the Java programming language instead of True Basic, which was used in the first two editions. We chose Java for some of the same reasons we originally chose True Basic. Java is available for all popular operating systems, and is platform independent, contains built-in graphics capabilities, is freely available, and has all the features needed to write powerful computer simulations. There is an abundance of free open source tools available for Java programmers, including the Eclipse integrated development environment. Because Java is popular, it continues to evolve, and its speed is now comparable to other languages used in scientific programming. In addition, Java is object oriented, which has become the dominant paradigm in computer science and software engineering, and therefore learning Java is excellent preparation for students with interests in physics and computer science. Java programs can be easily adapted for delivery over the Web. Finally, as for True Basic, the non-graphical parts of our programs can easily be converted to other languages such as C/C++, whose syntax is similar to Java.
When we chose True Basic for our first edition, introductory computer science courses were teaching Pascal. When we continued with True Basic in the second edition, computer science departments were experimenting with teaching C/C++. Finally, we are able to choose a language that is commonly taught and used in many contexts. Thus, it is likely that some of the students reading our text will already know Java and can contribute much to a class that uses our text.
Java provides many powerful libraries for building a graphical user interface and incorporating audio, video and other media. If we were to discuss these libraries, students would become absorbed in programming tasks that have little or nothing to do with physics. For this reason our text uses the Open Source Physics library, which makes it easy to write programs that are simpler and more graphically oriented than those that we wrote in True Basic. In addition, the Open Source Physics library is useful for other computational physics projects that are not discussed in this text, as well as general programming tasks. This library provides for easy graphical input of parameters, tabular output of data, plots, visualizations and animations, and the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. It also provides several useful data structures. The Open Source Physics library was developed by Wolfgang Christian, with the contributions and assistance of many others. The book, Open Source Physics: A User's Guide with Examples by Wolfgang Christian, is available separately and discusses the Open Source Physics library in much more detail. A CD that comes with the User's Guide contains the source code for the Open Source Physics library, the programs in this book, as well as ready to run versions of these programs. The source code and the library also can be downloaded freely from www.opensourcephysics.org/sip.
The ease of doing visualizations is a new and important aspect of Java and the Open Source Physics library, givng Java an advantage over other languages such as C++ and Fortran, which do not have built-in graphics capabilities. For example, when debugging a program, it is frequently much quicker to detect when the program is not working by looking at a visual representation of the data, rather than by scanning the data as lists of numbers. Also, it is easier to choose the appropriate values of the parameters by varying them and visualizing the results. Finally, more insight is likely to be gained by looking at a visualization than a list of numbers. Because animations and the continuous plotting of data usually cause a program to run more slowly, we have designed our programs so that the graphical output can be turned off or implemented infrequently during a simulation.
Java provides support for interacting with a program during runtime. The Open Source Physics library makes this interaction even easier, so that we can write programs that use a mouse to input data such as the location of a charge, or toggle the value of a cell in a lattice. We also do not need to input how long a simulation should run and can stop the program at any time to change parameters.
As with our previous editions, we assume no background in computer programming. Much of the text can be understood by students with only a semester each of physics and calculus. Chapter 2 introduces Java and the Open Source Physics library. In Chapter 3 we discuss the concept of interfaces and how to use some of the important interfaces in the Open Source Physics library. Later chapters introduce more Java and Open Source Physics constructs as needed, but essentially all of the chapters after Chapter 3 can be studied independently and in any order. We include many topics that are sometimes considered too advanced for undergraduates, such as random walks, chaos, fractals, percolation, simulations of many particle systems, and topics in the theory of complexity, but we introduce these topics so that very little background is required. Other chapters discuss optics, electrodynamics, relativity, rigid body motion, and quantum mechanics, which require knowledge of the physics found in the corresponding standard undergraduate courses.
This text is written so that the physics drives the choice of algorithms and the programming syntax that we discuss. We believe that students can learn how to program more quickly with this approach because they have an immediate context, namely doing simulations, in which to hone their skills. In the beginning most of the programming tasks involve modifying the programs in the text. Students should then be given some assignments that require them to write their own programs by following the format of those in the text. The students may later develop their own style as they work on their projects.
Our text is most appropriately used in a project oriented course that lets students with a wide variety of backgrounds and abilities work at their own pace. The courses that we have taught using this text have a laboratory component. From our experience we believe that active learning where students are directly grappling with the material in this text is the most efficient. In a laboratory context students who already know a programming language can help those who do not. Also, students can further contribute to a course by sharing their knowledge from various backgrounds in physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, biology, economics, and other subjects.
Although most of our text is at the undergraduate level, many of the topics are considered to be graduate level, and thus would be of interest to graduate students. One of us regularly teaches a laboratory-based course on computer simulation with both undergraduate and graduate students. Because the course is project-oriented, students can go at their own pace and work on different problems. In this context, graduate and undergraduate students can learn much from each other.
Some instructors who might consider using our text in a graduate level context might think that our text is not sufficiently rigorous. For example, in the suggested problems we usually do not explicitly ask students to do an extensive data analysis. However, we do discuss how to estimate errors in Chapter 11. We encourage instructors to ask for a careful data analysis on at least one assignment, but we believe that it is more important for students to spend most of their time in an exploratory mode where the focus is on gaining physical insight and obtaining numerical results that are qualitatively correct.
There are four types of suggested student activities. The exercises, which are primarily found in the beginning of the text, are designed to help students learn specific programming techniques. The problems, which are scattered throughout each chapter, are open-ended and require students to run, analyze, and modify programs given in the text, or write new, but similar programs. Students will soon learn that the format for most of the programs is very similar. Starred problems require either significantly more background or work, and may require the writing of a program from scratch. However, the programs for these problems still follow a similar format. The projects at the end of most of the chapters are usually more time consuming and would be appropriate for term projects or independent student research. Many new problems and projects have been added to this edition while others have been improved and some have been eliminated. Instructors and students should view the problem descriptions and questions as starting points for thinking about the system of interest. It is important that students read the problems even if they do not plan to do them.
We encourage instructors to ask students to write laboratory reports for at least some of the problems. The appendix to Chapter 1 provides guidance on what these reports should include. Part of the beauty and fun of doing computer simulations is that one is forced to think about the choice of algorithm, its implementation, the choice of parameters, what to measure, and the results. Do the results make sense? What happens if you change a parameter? What if you change the algorithm? Much physics can be learned in this way.
Although all the programs discussed in the text can be downloaded freely, most are listed in the text to encourage students to read them carefully. Students might find some useful techniques that they can use elsewhere, and the discussion in the text frequently refers to the listings.
A casual perusal of the text might suggest that the text is bereft of figures. One reason that we have not included more figures is that most of the programs in the text have an important visual component in color. Black and white figures pale in comparison. Much of the text is meant to be read while working on the programs. Thus, students can easily see the plots and animations produced by the programs while they are reading the text.
As new technologies become available and the backgrounds and expectations of students change, the question of what is worth knowing needs to be reconsidered. Today calculators not only do arithmetic and numerical operations, but most can do algebra, calculus, and plotting. Students have lost the sense of number and most can only do the simplest mathematical manipulations in their head. On the other hand, most students feel comfortable using computers and gathering information off the Web. Because there exist programs and applets that can perform many of the simulations in this text, why should students learn how to write their own programs? We have at least two answers. First, most innovative scientific research involves writing programs that do not fit into the domains of existing software. More importantly, we believe that students obtain a deeper understanding of the physics and the algorithms themselves by writing and modifying their own programs. Just as we need to insure that students can carry out basic mathematical operations without a calculator so that they understand what these operations mean, we must do the same when it comes to computational physics.
The recommended readings at the end of each chapter have been selected for their pedagogical value rather than for completeness or for historical accuracy. We apologize to our colleagues whose work has been inadvertently omitted, and we would appreciate suggestions for new and additional references.
Because students come with a different skill set than most of their
instructors, it is important that instructors realize that certain aspects of
this text might be easier for their students than for them. Some instructors
might be surprised that much of the code for organizing the simulations
hidden in the Open Source Physics library (although the source code is freely
available). Some instructors will initially think that
Chapter 2 contains too much material. However, from the
student's perspective this material is not that difficult to learn. They are
used to downloading files, using various software environments, and learning
how to make software do what they want. The difficult parts of the text,
where instructor input is most needed, is understanding the physics and the
algorithms. Converting algorithms to programs also is difficult for many
students, and we spend much time in the text explaining the programs that
implement various algorithms. In some cases instructors will find it
difficult to set up an environment to use Java and the Open Source Physics
library. Because this task depends on the operating system, we have placed
instructions on how to set up an environment for Java and
Open Source Physics at opensourcephysics.org. This web site also contains
links to updates of the evolving Open Source Physics library as well as other resources
for this text including the source code for the programs in the text.
We acknowledge generous support from the National Science Foundation which has allowed us to work on many ideas that have found their way into this textbook. We also thank Kipton Barros, Mario Belloni, Doug Brown, Francisco Esquembre, and Joshua Gould for their advice, suggestions, and contributions to the Open Source Physics library and to the text. We thank Anne Cox for suggesting numerous improvements to the narrative and for hosting an Open Source Physics developer's workshop at Eckerd College. We are especially thankful to students and faculty at Clark University, Davidson College, and Kalamazoo College who have generously commented on the Open Source Physics project as they class tested early versions of this manuscript. Carlos Ortiz helped prepare the index for this book.
Many individuals reviewed parts of the text and we thank them for their assistance. They include Lowell M. Boone, Roger Cowley, Shamanthi Fernando, Alejandro L. Garcia, Alexander L. Godunov, Rubin Landau, Donald G. Luttermoser, Cristopher Moore, Anders Sandvik, Ross Spencer, Dietrich Stauffer, Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann, Daniel Suson, Matthias Troyer, Slavomir Tuleja, and Michael T. Vaughn. We thank all our friends and colleagues for their encouragement and support.
We are grateful to our wives, Patti Gould, Andrea Moll Tobochnik, and Barbara Christian, and to our children, Joshua, Emily, and Evan Gould, Steven and Howard Tobochnik, and Katherine, Charlie, and Konrad Christian for their encouragement and understanding during the course of this work. It takes a village to raise a child and a community to write a textbook.
No book of this length can be free of typos and errors. We encourage readers to email us about errors that they find and suggestions for improvements. Our plan is to continuously revise our book, so that the next edition will be more timely.
Harvey Gould
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610
Jan Tobochnik
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295
Wolfgang Christian
Davidson College
Davidson, NC 28036-6926


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'side dyno' or 'foot slip?' You be the judge!
Here joeho attempts to tackle the mighty 'Tissue Tiger.' I was happy to have my finger on the trigger at just the right time to catch this shot. A moment later and the shot could have been lost. Now, the story behind the photo goes something like this: Joe was powering through some moves half-way up the climb and had to traverse to the right about a metre. He hesitated for a moment, looking rather pensive, and then his body shot out sharply and he grabbed a jug in the photo with his right hand. The movement looked so clumsy and accidental that I asked Joe if his foot had slipped as he moved. His response was, "No, that was the 'side-dyno.'" I'm not sure whether to buy his response, but either way it made for a unique shot.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Review: His Ownself (2014)
Way back when, anyone who wanted to be a sportswriter didn't really want to be a sportswriter. The wish list was more specific than that. They probably wanted to be Dan Jenkins.
The veteran writer is one of the legends of the business, but in a different way that names like Red Smith and Jim Murray. After spending time at Texas newspapers, Jenkins joined Sports Illustrated just at the time when the magazine was transforming into something special - New Yorker for the jock set, in a sense. And Jenkins was the superstar, who not only could write better and funny than almost anyone else but who seemed to have a helluva time doing it.
He took notes along the way. "His Ownself" is something of a cross between an autobiography and a memoir, meaning it covers most of his life but doesn't go into every possible detail along the way. Reading it, you'll get to see what the fuss was all about.
Jenkins grew up in Fort Worth and moonlighted his way through college there before turning pro full-time after graduation. He was part of some good staffs back then, and Jenkins is kind enough to share some stories (both printed and verbal) from those times. But he specialized in golf, in part because he played the game quite well, and in part because he got to know the legendary Ben Hogan. It seems like an odd pairing from a distance, the determined Hogan with the fun-loving Jenkins, but somehow it worked and they stayed friends for the rest of Hogan's life.
The relationship between Jenkins and golf lasted longer than most marriages. He is still on the beat today for Golf Digest, and has seen just about every major tournament for the past half-century or so. No wonder he's in the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Jenkins' other love was college football, a byproduct no doubt of the days before Texas got pro football for good (pre-1960), and the collegians seemed larger than life. As Jenkins puts it (more eloquently than this), in college, a fan roots for the school, the classmates, the memories. In the pros, a fan roots for a business. Not much romance in the latter.
Along the way, Jenkins tried his luck with other forms of writing. He hit the jackpot with "Semi-Tough," which many consider the best and probably the funniest novel ever written about football. It probably sold more copies than any other in that class. Jenkins points out that it paid for a New York City penthouse, among other benefits. Best-sellers and movie rights can do that.
As you'd expect, there is plenty of Jenkins' style on display here. He not only quotes old leads from past stories that he composed, but comes up more than a quota's worth of laugh-out-loud lines that the rest of us could never match. There are also funny lines by others. Mix that in with some name-dropping and other stories accumulated over a lifetime, and you have an entertaining book.
There's one drawback to the book: it reads "old," which has two separate meanings here. It probably could have been written 25 years ago, and mostly it goes back to stories from a previous era in which smoking, drinking and expense account stretching are at the least bystanders. Today's athletes and personalities don't receive much mention, with the exception of a brief rant about Tiger Woods and circumstances about the end of his marriage. There's very little here about today's athletes. Let's face it, to anyone under 35, Arnold Palmer is only that guy who takes the first ceremonial swing at the start of the Masters.
In addition, once in a while Jenkins comes off as the cranky grandfather type - perhaps not surprising for a man in his 80s. He saves some nasty lines for unions and hippies, and says that Fox News is the only news outlet around that doesn't hate America. Jenkins often sounds like the stereotyped adult of the early 1960's; all that's needed is complaining that the Beatles' hair is too long and that band members look like girls. I guess he deserves a little credit for presenting an honest picture of himself, and it covers a very small percentage of the material. But still.
Even with the unvarnished opinions, Jenkins still is a treat to read. If you are getting the idea that "His Ownself" is mostly for the over-50 crowd, that's probably close to fair. While practically everyone will enjoy the way Jenkins puts together a sentence, those who recognize the names in the story will get an extra burst of satisfaction from this book.
Four stars
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Friday, February 21, 2014
Review: Baseball Prospectus 2014
I believe I'm just about out of comments, and more importantly complaints, about "Baseball Prospectus 2014."
This series has been coming out for 19 editions. I haven't bought all 19, but I've come close. They quickly became the successor to the Bill James Baseball Abstract of the 1980s, filled with good information mixed with a slightly smart-alack attitude.
The format, for those new to the book, consists of an essay on the entire team, followed by capsules and projections about every single player who is likely to make any sort of impact on the major league team, as well as a few others. There are a few essays and a list of the top 100 prospects at the end, but it's the player descriptions that are the meat and potatoes here. I believe I've describe this as phone-book size, and this again checks in at more than 500 pages.
The deadline pressures must be enormous on a book like this. They do have a large writing staff; this is the first time that the authors have gotten a byline. It is interesting to see the mix of people on the payroll. I'm sure there are some mistakes; there always are in a volume this massive. But I can't say I've seen any reported in reviews or noticed any personally. By the way, several people have gone from this book to employment for teams, as the race for analytic information becomes more intense each year.
If I had to make a comment that's a bit negative, well, the manager descriptions aren't particularly helpful - they basically recite a few statistics about tendencies such as bunting and stealing. That's pretty minor. I'll make the annual warning, too - while there are good projections for fantasy stats, there probably are better sources for that sort of information elsewhere.
If you are interested in knowing what might happen in the 2014 season, "Baseball Prospectus 2014" is the obvious starting point. It's been a long winter up north, so its appearance in the bookstore this month was particularly welcome. Those who want to be a smarter fan who aren't intimidated by some relatively new statistics should definitely pick this up if they haven't already.
Five stars
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Monday, February 10, 2014
Review: Twenty-four Years to Boston (2013)
Books about running come in the usual categories for the most part. There are the usual histories and biographies about great men and women participating in the sport. There are instructional volumes, telling everyday people how to get faster if they follow a specific training program. There are a few philosophical books as well.
My guess, though, is that there are more inspirational books in the running section of the bookstore than in many other areas, especially in sports. After all, a kick in the pants, so to speak, is sometimes necessary to get people out the door and on to the streets.
Jim Brennan's book, "Twenty-four Years to Boston," falls in that latter category. The Philadelphia-area runner decided to take a second kick at the can at running during the course of middle age, and thus is something of an example to others in that sense.
This is a rather straightforward story. Brennan ran the 1981 Philadelphia Marathon - one for the proverbial bucket list - and didn't give the sport a great deal of thought for close to decades. But as 2001 approached and his life had gone through changes, Brennan became caught up in the idea that running the same race again - hopefully with a similar time to the first time around - could show that he had kept Father Time at arm's length. That's in spite of the fact that he vowed after the first one that he was done with marathons.
There were some bumps in the proverbial road, but Brennan worked himself into good condition, took part in several training runs and races, and made it to the finish line in the Philadelphia Marathon. That's a pretty good accomplishment (it takes up the first half of the book), but one that left him feeling "what's next?" It took a while to set a goal, but he found one: qualifying for the Boston Marathon.
Brennan obviously made it, as you could guess from the title of the book. The story continues through the next four years, as he qualifies for Boston through a race in Scranton and then turns up for the fabled race in Massachusetts.
Brennan deserves plenty of credit for this accomplishment. For our purposes, though, there's another question that has to be answered: How is the book? The answer comes back - all right.
Brennan is a pretty good writer for someone who doesn't do it regularly or for a living. He joined a local writing workshop, and has a friendly style that comes across pretty well. There's not a great deal of drama in the story, since we know he'll be in Boston ... and know he probably wouldn't be writing the book if he collapsed on Heartbreak Hill. This checks in at 164 pages or so, and goes by quickly.
There are a couple of drawbacks here. There are plenty of details about training runs, apparently taken from his journal along the way. It's difficult to make them too interesting to the outsider; better runners/writers than Brennan have tried and failed in that task in other books. I was at a disadvantage in one sense, because Brennan did most of his running in Philadelphia - and I'm not from Philadelphia. Therefore, the landmarks mentioned along the way will resonate mostly with those living in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
There's also the matter of timing. Brennan's running story mostly goes from 1981 to 2005 (there is an epilogue; nice to see he kept at it after Boston). Therefore, we are reading this almost nine years after the fact. While the story is somewhat timeless, it obviously throws up a bit of a red flag when there's a gap of so many years between the story's end and the book's publication. I'll bet a book or two will be coming out soon about a similar story that ends in Boston in 2013 - now remembered for the terrorist attack on the finish line. That book will obviously have more dramatics than this one, and there's nothing the author could do about that. You get the ending that you get in a effort like this.
Still, I'm not one to say that possible inspiration should be discredited under any circumstances. "Twenty-four Years to Boston" is for a very narrow niche - middle-aged runners in the Philadelphia area who need a little push to put on their running shoes. Most won't qualify. But for those that do, and if leads them to an active and more healthy lifestyle, then the book will have served its purpose. Brennan no doubt learned that writing a book requires the patience of a marathoner, and he can be very proud of both accomplishments.
Three stars
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Friday, February 7, 2014
Review: Whatever It Takes (2013)
This is a strange book. It even came to my attention in a strange way.
The author sent an e-copy to my boss, who passed it along to me. The subtitle, as you can see in the picture, is "The true story of a fan making it into the NFL."
That's true, in part. Daniel Kelly did indeed get hired by the New York Jets as a pro scout, and stayed with the team for four seasons. But "Whatever It Takes" has a much wider approach than that.
Kelly grew up in Minnesota Vikings country as a rapid Washington Redskins fan. His room was a shrine to the Redskins, he collected autographs of players and coaches, etc. He only played one year of high school football and dropped out of community college, but he always had the football bug. Kelly decided to dedicate himself to finding a job in pro football. Somewhat amazingly, he got one in 1998 - a $21,000 year scouting post with the Jets. It sounds like Kelly did a lot of grunt work, as he took people to the airport and updated files on injuries and player transactions. However, he was working in the same building as then-coach Bill Parcells and then-defensive coordinator Bill Belichick, so he was living his dream.
The dream essentially lasted only two years, when he was demoted to part-time status and told to work out of his apartment. From there Kelly had some family problems, and he devotes most of the second half of the book to them. In short, Kelly didn't have the opportunity to spend too much time observing a pro football organization, so he doesn't have many insights on the famous people in the organization at the time. That's what a book like this needs to be successful, at least to a sports audience.
Kelly also quite obviously made some key mistakes along the way with the Jets. Scott Pioli was his boss, and Kelly admits he didn't do everything he was told to do. That's not the way for someone on the bottom rung to climb out. I received a comment after this review was first published that said the book was inspiring because it shows anything is possible. To me, a lesson of the book is - if you get your chance to live your dream, do what you have to do not to blow it.
In addition, Kelly never gave up his love of the Redskins. Rule number one of employment: When you take a paycheck, you give back absolute loyalty.
The book also has one of the oddest endings I've encountered. After coming to the end of the long story about his family and his tenure with the Jets, he winds up the text with "The next four months turned out to be the most incredible four months of my life. I had gone out to New York to live my dream, but I was leaving with something far greater." What the heck happened?!? We're left without a clue about the dramatic four months and the rest of his life, except that in the author biography it mentions he's living in Arizona. A little closure would have been nice, especially about a story that essentially ended 12 years ago.
This, I assume, is something of a "vanity" project, published in an effort to get his story out on paper and out of his system. Kelly is someone who grew up with a father who probably was an alcoholic, and he took some actions (Kelly, not his father) that don't make him too likable at times. Still, Kelly had some tough luck and bad breaks along the way, so it's relatively easy to root for him.
"Whatever It Takes" isn't really of much value as a football book, even though it's marketed that way, for those who come here looking for such reading material. Still, Kelly's life certainly has had enough dramatics to hold your interest if you like a little football mixed with a real-life story.
Two stars
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Sunday, February 2, 2014
Review: Wooden (2014)
The full review of this book was written for The Buffalo News. You can find it by going here.
The short version - this wonderfully massive treatment of college basketball's best-ever coach is extremely well done. It points out his many good points, but isn't afraid to show that Wooden made some mistakes along the way - which in some cases he even admitted after retiring from coaching. The result is a very balanced but admiring look at an admirable public figure.
Five stars
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The FDA has published a list of customers who received products from the New England Compounding Center, which has been linked to the ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak. The list includes medications that were shipped by NECC and administered to patients on or after May 21, 2012.
To date, 317 patients have been infected in the outbreak, and 24 have died.
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The Beatles – Rare and Unseen (MVD)
First off, let me acknowledge that I'm not so rabid a Beatles collector that I can judge whether these clips truly are as rare as presented here. In this Internet Age, after years of rampant piracy of unreleased material by both major and minor recording artists, it seems hardly anything can remain "unseen" for very long. The best I can do is tell you what's on this DVD, and give my reaction to it.
As it turns out, my reaction to the presentation as a whole is very positive. Subtitled "The Unofficial Account of The Biggest Band In the World", this would appear to be a British television documentary, and a very good one at that. While the rare, unseen footage is consistently interesting, the main feature of this disc from my point of view would be the excerpts of interviews with a variety of people "who were there" in the Beatles' early days, supplemented by the comments of a few young Beatles fans who grew up to be celebrities in their own right.
Among the interviewees who were there, we hear from Allan Williams, Gerry Marsden (of Gerry and the Pacemakers), Tony Bramwell, Hurricane Smith (in his role as George Martin's recording engineer), and John Lennon himself, in portions of a rare 1975 French t.v. interview. But the most revealing comments of all come from the largely unheralded Colin Hanton, the original drummer for the Beatles' early skiffle-band incarnation, the Quarrymen, whose story is rarely told so well. The early fans who would later become celebrities include Phil Collins, Cockney Rebel's Steve Harley, and – of all people – "Dancing With the Stars" judge Len Goodman. Discussing the Beatles 1963 Paris concert are Mickey Jones (who was the drummer for Trini Lopez, who was also on the bill for the concert) and French star Sylvie Vartan, also on that concert.
The early history of the Beatles is given a quick, yet surprisingly thorough runthrough. However, once the band hits stardom in America, the narrative leaps ahead to the filming of "Magical Mystery Tour". One might surmise that the producers thought the mid-60's were too well documented to warrant rehashing. In any case, this sin of omission, while quite noticeable, does not seriously detract from what IS here. It is worth mentioning that there is also some intelligent analysis of the Beatles as both musicians and as lyricists, so the disc does dig deeper than the more frequently encountered "golly-gee-whiz" fan hagiography.
As to the unseen footage, what we are offered are amateur, home-movie clips, all of them silent. The question as to whether they were originally shot as silent films, or if the music is missing due to the inability to secure rights, is left unanswered. But the footage is worth seeing, in any case. We have the earliest known footage of the Beatles on stage, Liverpool, February, 1962; the only surviving footage of their first tour of Scotland; home movies of the boys having fun on holiday in the Channel Islands; the aforementioned French concert (courtesy of Mickey Jones), and home movies shot on film sets. If you're a hard-core fan and you haven't seen this material before, consider it significant. Otherwise, consider it a bonus to go along with the documentary interviews.
The "extra features" consist of longer chunks of the interviews excerpted in the main body of the documentary itself. The Colin Hanton segment is particularly important when heard in this longer format. There are also fascinating details about the reaction to the Beatles' visit to Tokyo.
I have to confess I've seen some pretty shoddy, almost worthless Beatles' DVD documentaries in my day. "Rare and Unseen" definitely stands out above the crowd, as one that is well worth seeing.
Friday, March 19, 2010
The Beatles: Rare and Unseen (MVD)
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I remember watching AbFab while living in Paris and thinking that it would be impossible for a show to be that crazy good … many years later I still feel the same way. I do not think I have loved fictional characters more than those two.
I cannot wait for July 22 for the movie ot be out. I haven't been in theaters for months now but I will make an exception for Absolutely Fabulous. I mean what's the point to go and see a movie in theaters now? First I cannot stand being next to someone who is eating pop corns and before you know it those movies are available on iTunes … not to mention my lack of interests for movies like Batman vs Superman. It's pretty much the same for me as Hello Kitty vs Barbie.
As always trailers show way too many things but I am so excited that I do not care, I am so ready to watch this movie. Also part of the movie takes place in my sweet south of France. Enjoy the Absolutely Fabulous trailer below:


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Coolidge Corner, general view, Brookline, Massachusetts, 4 of 7.Floyd, Margaret Henderson.
Exterior view of a shoping area in Coolidge Corner. Coolidge Corner is a neighborhood of Brookline, Massachusetts, centered around the intersection of Beacon Street and Harvard Street. The neighborhood takes its name from the Coolidge brothers' general store. (Source: Wikipedia) Slide 4 of 7.
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The Pomegranate phone looks too good to be true. It's a phone that does just about anything, from brewing your morning coffee to translating your conversations into any language, sending emails, making calls and even playing the harmonica. Now honestly, this is too good to be true.
The Pomegranate phone is a clever social media marketing campaign designed by the Bristol Group to lead people to the Come to Life campaign, a tourism website for Nova Scotia. This is a great method of enticing an unsuspecting target audience to a website and the initial 'wow' factor of the imaginary product will definitely get people talking about the campaign.
Fake Tourism Products
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Cell Phones With 5 Touchscreens
Chewable Cell Phones
Kinetic Cell Phones
The YoYo Concept Cell Phone By Shaik Ridzwan
3D Touchscreen Cell Phones
The Made Up Pomegranate Phone Entices People to a Tourism Website
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References: yourworldtoday & pomegranatephone
References: yourworldtoday & pomegranatephone


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"Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant." - John Muir
So take someone out to your favorite hiking spot, your favorite view, whatever! Just take them out there. Because the guide, and lead them out to meet the world :)


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Old school but it works: suck on a piece of hard candy and you don't feel like a furnace is drying you out on a hot day. I do this mostly because it keeps me from mouth breathing 😉 Bonus points for great tasting candy! (And not stealing stale candy from your grandma's candy dish….)
Bali's Best Latte Candy is a long favorite of mine, they also make a coffee and espresso flavors.
It can be sourced at Cost Plus World Markets for around $2 a bag. Hard, crunchy, full of coffee-goodness. Even better melted into your morning cup of joe as well!


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Let me start this post by saying, the last few weeks for me have been exceptional. It's been so good that I made a list of everything that's happened just so I wouldn't miss it or let it be overshadowed by the one thing that might feel less than amazing.
Like the fact that a page in your book is missing.
Like the fact that the first 5,000 of your printed books will also have that same page missing.
For a moment there, a mistake like this on years worth of work could easily overshadow all the other incredible things happening. It really could, right? But it shouldn't. And that simply comes down to a decision, a choice to see this experience in a different light.
If so many areas of my life are going well, and this happens right smack in the middle of all the amazing I choose to interpret it as something that's also going right.
And this is why. In life, have you noticed that the one negative remark stands out over all of the positive ones, or the one mistake trumps all of the other things that have gone right. Why do we do that to ourselves? Just like in the news, the tiny percent of bad news trumps all of the incredible good news that's happening on our planet everyday. We just take all of the good for granted and then when one thing seemingly goes wrong, everything else goes down with it. Or maybe I'm the only one that does this?
I'm not doing it anymore. And honestly this experience with a missing page in my book is kind of what sealed the deal for me on that.
Don't get me wrong. It's a big mistake. A mistake that I don't think anyone thought could happen. I was super disappointed when I found it, talked to my publisher about it and learned that for the first printing, nothing would be done to fix it. The perfectionist in me had a hard time with this, and so did the entrepreneur and person who wants everything her customer gets to be just right. And yet the business owner in me also understood, that a publisher probably wasn't going to just eat the cost of 5,000 books with one page missing, especially for a new, relatively unknown author. Because believe me, I asked if this would happen to John Grisham? or J.K. Rowling? :) Also because the rest of the book is all there and beautifully printed.
So I had a choice, I could take years with of work that I'm incredibly proud of and celebrate it or I could whine and carry on about how my first book had one page left out. I could let one page overshadow all of the other pages.
The irony {or perfect coincidence} is that I write about mistakes in the book. In fact I'm sure I've mentioned my philosopy of mistakes many times here on my blog. In my chapter "Redefining the Role of Perfection" I talk about how 'mistakes' happen and how I've learned to embrace them because they always add to the piece, always making it better. This is harder to say on this one because I feel like part of my art is missing, and it is. So how does a missing page make this creation better?
I've been thinking for weeks now about the best way to share this with you and I thought this is it. This is the best example for me to walk the walk. Embracing the mistakes and celebrating all of the rest. A chance for me to make a new choice. If I genuinely approach this experience with understanding, honesty and grace then maybe it can set an example for all of us to do more of this in our lives. And if that happens, then the mistake in my book has just become something way more relevant than the page that is missing.
Because really do we want to spend all of our energy frustrated with what's not working or what's gone wrong or be serious about focusing on what is working and all that is right, and love our life more. I want to love my life more. As I've mentioned, I made a new commitment to myself at the beginning of 2012, and it has made all of the difference.
And without getting too carried away with the 'tragedy' of a missing a page, I say that with sarcasm. It's only a missing page, that's all. It's not the end of the world. And in light of what so many are experiencing on the east coast this past week, I mean really. Nothing's gone wrong at all. It's awkward to even write about this now, but my books are getting ready to ship soon and it feels right to share this with you today.
I did all I could do in this past year to get this book 'perfect' for you. What I approved and sent back to my editor did not have a page missing. Yet, at the end of the day we are all human and mistakes happen. There may even be more tucked into this book that we haven't found yet?{shoot, there were at least 5 mistakes in this blog post when I went to publish it} And I say 'we' because clearly writing a published book is a collaboration. It's a huge collaboration, one that has many check points and many eyes overseeing the process, and everyone in that process {well almost everyone} is hoping to get the best product made and out in the world. Yet even with all of those check points in place, one person can accidentally upload the wrong page to the printer. So really, in all of our combined attempts to get it just right, what can you do? Nothing. Other than...
We can strive to do the best we can and then we have to let it go, so it can become what it needs to be in the world. This is applicable to so much in life and relating to today's topic, this is especially true of our art.
I'm sad that the first books you will receive are missing one of my favorite pages, another irony or {perfect coincidence} "Know Yourself". But beyond the momentary sadness, I am still so proud of this book and cannot wait for you to have it. I hope it will bring you joy and inspiration, in fact I know it will.
So here's how it works when a page is missing. {Actually you get page 92 twice. It seems that page 92 was uploaded a second time, where page 82 was supposed to be} Apparently mistakes in books, especially when it comes to the sewing and knitting pattern worlds are quite common? What a publisher does is put what's called an 'erratum' where they post the missing page online for you to download. And for those of you who have ordered your copy directly from me, I will be including an actual print out of the page in your order. If you happen to get one of the first 5,000 copies, you've actually got a limited edition ;)
I'm so sorry this has happened, and that is all.
Now let me close this post by remembering my original intention to writing a book. To add a little bit more joy to the world in the best way I know how, through my art and my words and encouragement for all of us to keep living a life we love. And be more creative {of course!}
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First! thank you so much for the book congratulations. I'm still taking it all in, especially since last Thursday a copy of the actual book arrived. It's a pretty amazing feeling to see years worth of work compiled so beautifully in one place. I'll be sharing some photos here, with more peeks into the inside of the book, when I return from Quilt Market which is where I'm headed this week.
This weekend I will also be having my first two book events at Quilt Market, with a Schoolhouse Presentation on Friday, October 26 at 11- 11:30 am in room 372D. On Saturday I will be having a book signing from 3 - 3:30 pm at the F & W Booth.
Made a new, much larger "Bunnie" with The Red Thread, featured above, and sent him off to spend some time in the Andover Booth.
So if you are headed to market too, I'll see you there!
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It's time! for me to release this book!!!!
Rather than tell you all about it in an email or this post, I decided to make a book trailer {be sure to watch all the way to end to see my favorite part ;)} So proud of this and super excited to share it with you. A culmination of years of creations and the original intent of Creative Thursday, to inspire others to be more creative and life a life THEY LOVE!
Now available for pre-order at my shop and on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Published through NorthLight, a division of F + W Media, the book will be shipping at the end of November 2012. The first 100 pre-orders at my Etsy shop will also receive a free print of the cover art "Always Cheering You on"
For those of you here in Los Angeles, save the date December 1 for a book launch event with more details to come!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your support over the years. My family, my friends, my customers, my blog readers, my editor ~ All of you who have been with me on this journey, you encouraged me and inspire me to keep going and creating {always}. I wrote this book for you. xo
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It's official! I'm writing a book through F + W Media, and it will be available under their North Light title September 2012.
Since I shared the signing of my fabric line contract with you, I thought I'd continue the tradition and share the signing of the book publishing contract too. Almost a year + a lifetime in the making, it's crazy exciting.
*deep breath* *i'm writing an entire book by myself* *i can do this*
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i believe in Love
always have,
always will.
this is my love letter to all of the people who encouraged and supported
this realization of a dream come true, a life as an artist, a life I love. thank you.
I've always wanted to put together a book of my favorite paintings.
In light of recent events, this time of year, my complete over use of the word "love" in my blog, in my life, and the often hard to miss, re-occuring theme of love in my work, I decided to let LOVE inspire this first volume featuring a collection of my paintings from 2005 - 2009
Measuring 7" x 7", this is a 32 page full color hard cover book including 24 illustrations, some of which will only be available in this printing. I will also be numbering and signing the first 100 copies. If you want to see what the books will look like, they will be the same format as my children's book.
You can pre-order your copy right here at the shop.
Intended to be a timeless addition to your art collection, I know this would also make a special Valentine's gift for someone you love - So if you are wanting your copy in time for Valentine's Day, please let me know and I will do my very best to get it to you in time. Below is small sampling of the paintings included in this collection.
I hope you, too, will LOVE this new addition to Creative Thursday!
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You could call this my newest obsession.
Although it's not really new. In fact I think I've had several of these books you see pictured in this post, close to ten years now. What's new about it is how this time, the concept of living a simple life is resonating so profoundly. After years of making attempts to put this kind of living into practice, it's here to stay. Maybe it's the many attempts of doing it other ways, only to find myself frustrated and out of balance once again, that I am finally, finally understanding what it means to have consistent balance and peace in my life. And I'm going to tell you it's not how the majority expects you to do things. But somehow these authors caught wind of this kind of living over a decade ago. They had the foresight to see where things were headed, the exact place we landed this year. For many of us, at least in this country, the "recession" has brought profound, albeit forced, reflection in the way we live; from everything to how we treat this planet to how we treat ourselves and others, to how we want to live going forward from here.
This is the post I referred to in my last video. I want to let you in on where I've "been" the last six weeks or so. I know I've still been here, but not quite in the way I usually am ~ because for the one of the first times in the past five years, since Creative Thursday truly began, I've been turning my attention back to my personal life. And I've been immersed among the concepts in each one of these books.
It all started with a much needed re-organizing and re-hauling of my studio this summer. Well actually it all started, as you may remember, in January 2008 and then as often happens as a self-employed person or just any kind of person at all projects get going, life gets going and before you know it months have passed by and you never fully finished the end of "your re-organizing your life" list.
The re-organizing of my studio, led to a re-organizing of all my books which led to me opening up Elaine St. Jame's book "Living a Simple Life". I blame Elaine. And that was it. What do they say the definition of inertia is "the tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion". I'm beyond motion now. In fact I think I'm way down the rabbit hole. Care to join me for a moment? Read on.
If I leave with you anything from this post, it's that taking the time to re-organize your life is highly underrated. This includes seriously de-cluttering and simplifying your life too.
If you don't already know this about me I've managed to move almost every 2 years, my entire adult life. Due to this mostly unplanned pattern in my life, setting up, keeping and clearing house has become relatively easy for me. And well, we're about at the 2 mark point in this house so I probably should've seen this coming. Although we're not moving...yet...we did decide that we want to be "lighter" going forward, free to make the choices we want, unencumbered by disorganization, too much stuff and unfinished business. Even with all my ease around this kind of change, this time, clearing house has been taken to a whole new level.
Here's what "re-organizing my life" has been for me this time around. Did I already mention? It has been immense. And since this blog is also my personal record, one of the few that's left seeing has how I've eliminated almost all of the rest, I am sharing this list as my record, so I can remember where weeks of my life went in 2009. These past weeks have included organizing and clearing out photos of my entire life, that's right entire life, transferring every home video taken in my life, courtesy of my father and my wedding videographer, to dvds, that's right every video, going through subsequent stacks, 3 years deep of favorite magazine subscriptions, reviewing every book I own, clearing out every cupboard, drawer, closet, room in our home, down to every toolbox in the garage. Oh and cleaning windows. We've also had a yard sale, {always "fun"} taken 4 carloads to Goodwill, had one truck pick-up from Salvation Army and countless bags have gone in the trash bin and, for those of you who are green, I'm happy to say the majority have gone in the recycling bin. I'd like to say that was it, but the funny thing is once you start you can't stop. As Sean was saying, it's like you get rid of something only to find something else underneath it. Eventually, {soon}, it will stop for now, and as I write this I'm celebrating the official end to the first round. Because you should know if you attempt this yourself, that once you start letting go you may become a little obsessed. Suddenly something you couldn't part with yesterday, you can't get out of your life fast enough today.
I've been here before, but something about this time is sticking in a way that it never has before. And all I know is I've never felt better.
And that's just the moving objects around. I haven't even gotten to the other part that pertains to re-evaluating everything in your life ~ a common occurrence in our family, but this time we're also taking it to new levels. All of these authors confirm that this is the by product of getting your life in order, even as it pertains to your "stuff". You are "getting your life in order". One of the reasons we all procrastinate on these types of clearing out sessions is because you will have to look at things. You will have to feel things that maybe you've been afraid to feel. I mean hey, it's bound to happen when you sort through a lifetime's worth of photos? But you know what I've found this time around, it's not really as scary as you think it is. You might actually find it more cathartic and and peaceful than you had imagined, reviewing your life, accepting and letting go of your past while moving forward in who you are today.
We've also been re-evaluating relationships in our life, and I say we in this entire story, because thankfully Sean has been enthusiastically joining in on this journey with me, including letting go of 20 years of journals he has kept, that's right 20 years of a life record. Talk about letting go of your past. We've been setting more boundaries. We've been raising the bar on what it means to be a friend and partner as well as raising the bar on the kinds of friends we want to have. We've been taking less crap from people, that's right, I said less crap. Human beings can dump a lot of mental "garbage" {that spills out from their personal baggage}, on one another as well, and well we've had enough and I'm talking to you, my next door neighbor. We've been saying "no" more. And we've been taking time for us in the very way that feels best to us as a family.
So what's this have to do with you? I like to ask and answer that question these days whenever I get up on my blog soapbox, because I always wonder if my readers are thinking "so what's she going on about now and what's this have to do with creativity or me exactly?" While you are not a belonging from my past and probably not one of my close personal friends, if you visit here regularly you are part of another world I've been re-evaluating. The part that wants to look at just how much of my life and time is going towards the computer, mainly emailing, blogging, tweeting, flickr and last but not least facebooking. Is that everything? *sigh* How and when did it get this busy online? To be honest I'm not sure yet how these changes will play out in my online world {Although now it's probably becoming clear to you just where the sentiment in my last post came from ~ which I'm happy to know made a difference for so many of you right when you needed it, just as I needed it.} As you know I like to keep those of you who graciously visit me here often in the loop. Most likely these are changes that won't affect you at all. In fact any new changes will probably be positive. Because I know the difference in the way I presently feel will allow me to show up here with more clarity, focus, and sincerity.
Besides that, I want to share this with you because I highly, highly recommend doing this in your life whenever you feel ready. If you've been a long time follower of this blog then you have certainly seen me dance this dance on numerous occasions via certain posts and podcasts. And I have to say that one of the number one questions I get from my e-course students is "how does one balance it all"? Yes, "how does one balance it all"? One doesn't. One can't. One, meaning you, me, everyone must make choices about what's most important to them and you can't figure out what's most important to you and your loved one's lives if your too busy "balancing it all".
This is the part of my blog "soapbox" where I step down for a moment and say: Please note, as the teachers and authors I am drawn to these days, continuously emphasize in their teachings ~ make these changes in your life, if and only if it feels right for you.
And speaking of teachers I have to tell you that my experience teaching both in person and online has been a huge influence in this movement for me. This is because I have refused to teach until I could walk the walk I'm talking about and it hasn't been until this past year that I've felt ready. What I realized in the same way momentum has struck in my personal life, momentum struck with the teaching. With every class, especially in my e-course I have asked more of myself. I don't think I ever realized just how much a teacher learns from their students. My students inspire me. They inspire me to ask more of myself, to step confidently and joyously into the life I am most wanting to live, into the life and creative career I am now teaching ~ which for the record, let me just say if I wasn't doing this, I shouldn't be teaching it. To my students, thank you.
I decided to share this story because again, the impact has been profound and the repercussions to these choices are only just beginning. In many ways Sean and I both are completely out of our comfort zone and yet we both feel so at home in our new commitment to this type of living. So to those of you who know us personally, you'll know where we've been, and where we're headed from here on out. We've gotten a taste of what it's like to really live a life on our terms regardless of circumstance, a life that includes more peace and contentment right where we stand. This time of relentless sorting has provided such clarity. Let's just say things have gotten as crystal clear as my newly cleaned window panes. So really, no big declarations here, just making a commitment to living a simpler life.
Links to the books that have inspired my simpler life and yes, each of Elaine's books that I've listed offers new concepts and ideas.
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"sometimes….when you are a mom….you come across *magic moments*…and you say to yourself "this is a moment i will want to remember ALWAYS*…and sometimes….if you are lucky….there will be a camera nearby…" ~ Jen Wilson
Yesterday I got an email from my friend Jen and she wrote, "You have to see the photos of Ali on my blog....I think you will like them....."
Like them is an understatement. I LOVE them. First of all Jen is one of the BEST children's photographers, ever. Her photos are beyond gorgeous. And these photos of Ali are no exception. Then I see that Ali is reading Olive. I've heard from so many of you that the story of Olive is really resonating with you and especially your children, that it is even their favorite book, but to actually SEE it ~ I'm so touched.
There's this way when you make something that means so much to you, that you hope it will be meaningful to others ~ but once you send it out, it has a life of it's own and you never really know who it's connecting with until your friend tells you to visit her blog :)
Here's me wishing you a very happy "LOVE" day ~ single or not, made up by Hallmark or not, Valentine's day is about LOVE ~ and in my world there's no better sentiment.
{photos by Jen Wilson ~ thank YOU Jen!}
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The blue bear. Love him.
And introducing a BEAUTIFUL book, both in design and sentiment curated and designed by the lovely Samantha Hahn. Her gorgeous illustration adorns the cover.
"I asked 25 artists & writers—each with a distinct style and voice—to submit a piece inspired by their idea of love, and then I published them as a book on blurb, a print-on-demand website. The contributing artists hail from around the world. I knew that each one's interpretation of love would be singular, but with some profound similarities.
Love is the ideal subject for artists to interpret. We all love, but everyone defines love differently in their minds and hearts. We all love differently and the same. We are connected through love and art.
Love is available through blurb for $16.95 for a softcover, $25.95 for a hardcover with a dust jacket, and $27.95 for hardcover with "image wrap." It contains 40 pages of incredible art including a couple of pages of amazing writing." ~ Samantha
It's always an honor to be invited in collaborations like this one. This book is truly a gift of love from Samantha and all of us who participated. Now more than ever I realize how community, especially connecting within this amazing creative community that we all share, is so important. We are the ones, together, who will keep our economy, or country, our world, moving forward regardless of what "times" we are in. It is up to us. And I couldn't think of a better symbol of this "coming together" than a book that is LOVE.
You can get your copy here.
The artists and writers who contributed....some are friends I've "known" for a long time and some are brand new to me ~Now I have a whole new list of artists & blogs I can visit and LOVE. Just what I need...my blog links list is going to grow off of this blog one day :)
Hannah Stouffer, Lilly Piri, Aaron Hogg, Lisa Butterworth, Dan Funderburgh, Samantha Hahn, Erin Loechner, Jesse Breytenbach, Kate Miss, Jessica Gonacha, Kelly Lynn Jones, Yasmine Surovec, Shira Sela, Matthew and Sandy Lynn Davis (Treatzone), Maditi, Amy Sahba, Ez Pudewa, Hijiri Shepherd, Marisa Haedike (me!), Lisa Congdon, Holly Becker, Kate Neckel, Katie Sokoler & Kate Bingaman Burt
thank you Samantha ~
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...she gives fine, unaffected performances throughout and enlivens even the less...
Peter Marsh 2002
Though the cover and title are more than a little reminiscent of Alanis Morissette or even Tori Amos, Nerina Pallot is a slightly different proposition. Yes, she's a singer songwriter, and yes, she's obviously listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell, but there's a pure pop sensibility to this record that lifts her out of the 'this year's Tanita Tikaram' category. Dear Frustrated Superstar draws on elements of trip hop, Crowded House type post-Beatles pop and classic singer songwriter introversion, all topped off with lashings of strings and very little evidence of synths, drum machines or samples. Doubtless comparisons will be made with Dido, but Pallot comes across more like an anglicised Shawn Colvin, with the potential to be much more than either comparison might suggest. Quite a few of the songs here immediately jump out as singles (unfortunately "Patience", her current single, isn't really one of them)."Watch out Billie", a warning to a young female would be pop star about the perils of fame, (not dedicated to the current Mrs Chris Evans, surely) is one of those songs that bores itself into your brain and stays there for ever; "If I Know You", "Rainbow" and "Alien" aren't far behind in terms of infectiousness though.
Pallot's voice is, like Colvin's, reminiscent of her heroine Joni Mitchell and even occasionally a less quirky Kate Bush; she gives fine, unaffected performances throughout and enlivens even the less inspired songs with her delivery. The only problem with the record is that it's too long, though the closer, "My Last Tango", and the subsequent hidden track are two of the album's highlights; a more expansive, acoustic feel predominates here in contrast to the crisply executed pop of the rest of the record. Definitely a name to watch out for.


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They are not even as wide as a drinking straw
1-2cm at most
How can new life pass through them?
I am still baffled by reproductive anatomy
And in awe of the miracle that occurs
It is the 4th one
December 2006
October 2007
April 2012
July 2013
The 1st traumatic
The 2nd just shock & more questions
The 3rd physically painful and emotionally numb
The 4th the longest loss ever…2 weeks and counting
"Just take them out"
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1 friend truly understands, others try
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"Pray" they all say
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2002 Volkswagen Jetta Owners Manual – For 2002, the turbocharged 4-cylinder engine gets 30 added hp for a complete of 180, which you can few to a 5-speed automatic with Tiptronic — the 1.8T is now available for sedans and wagons. In the spring season of 2002, the Jetta GLX sedan's recommended 12-valve 174-hewlett Packard VR6 is substituted by a new 24-valve system offering 200 ponies. A six-speed manual gearbox and the aforesaid five-speed auto manual come to be provided with the new VR6. Afterwards, the GLI sedan will show up — it includes the new VR6, the six-speed and stability control without all the costly GLX trimmings and switches the manual-change GLX. Other changes consist of the accessibility of the 1.9-liter turbodiesel engine for GL and GLS wagons. The base GL trim stage is new to the wagon in 2002 — formerly, you needed to stage right up to the GLS model. A Compact disc player is now regular on all GLS and GLX models, and all-new Volkswagen cars come with an increased 4-year/50,000-distance fender-to-bumper warrantee, up from 2 yrs/24,000 mls. Volkswagen even offers a completely transferable restricted powertrain warrantee that addresses 5 years or 60,000 mls. An on/off move for auto-dimming rearview decorative mirrors, a vacation cruise manage sign light-weight, a trunk escape deal with for sedans and a new exterior color (Reflex Gold switches Silver Arrow) complete the changes.
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Car owners valued the Jetta's handling, safety features, power, and sportiness. Nevertheless, some drivers mentioned that the car continue to got quality-control problems demanding expensive fixes. The transmission and electric program have been mentioned by some drivers as being especially problematic. Maybe that prolonged warrantee wasn't this kind of a bad idea all things considered.


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Worst massage I ever had in my entire existense. We had their combination massage and the entire hour was stressfull and painful. I would never recommend this to anyone at all, my experience was just horrible. I kept on telling my masseuse politely to make her strokes lighter but nothing changed. It's been a day after my massage and let me just inform you that my entire body hurts like hell. The beddings are also "maalikabok" and you have to squeeze in yourself to stay on the bed. The slippers that were handed to us were filled with oil and their service tea tasted like dirt. We're never going to return to this place. Ever. Sorry guys, but this serves as a warning to really decide carefully where to have a relaxing massage.
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Missing Baguio and this place. My sister's and I had a very great massage experience here :) The place was so comfy, clean and smells so good. The service was extraordinary. It was my first time to try dagdagay foot massage and i really loved it. Everyone was friendly :) will definitely come back :)
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Ambiance is ok.. The place is kinda small for a spa but still good for an after-shopping and after-dining relaxation at techno hub
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It's not even close ... if Conor McGregor fights Floyd Mayweather, Muhammad Ali would've rooted for the IRISHMAN ... so says the champ's ex-wife.
"Ali don't like anybody dull, he likes everybody EXCITING," Khalilah Ali told TMZ Sports ... "He'd be a Conor McGregor [fan]. Conor McGregor's the guy."
Khalilah was married to Muhammad from '67 to '76 and has 4 children with the boxing legend.
Of course, Muhammad saw Mayweather fight ... but famously rooted for Pacquiao when they squared off in 2015.
As for McGregor ... he's gonna LOVE this video. He's praised Ali as one of his personal heroes and has said he's without a doubt the greatest fighter of all time.


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Los Angeles: Country singer Kevin Sharp, best known for his hit number "Nobody Knows" breathed his last following health complications. He was 43.
According to Sharp's website, he passed away April 19 due to complications from past stomach surgeries and digestive issues, years after battling rare bone cancer-Ewing's sarcoma when he was just a teenager, reports eonline.com
Sharp made his debut on the country music scene in 1997 with a cover of R&B artist Tony Rich's single "Nobody Knows", which topped the Billboard country charts for four weeks.
It was his battle with cancer that led him to the Make-a-Wish Foundation, which arranged a meeting for him with music producer David Foster when the organization learned Sharp was an aspiring musician.
That meeting later led to a record deal.
Months after that, Sharp found out he had beaten cancer. He also wrote an inspirational book about his experience, and occasionally toured the United States as a motivational speaker.
Sharp wrote: "If there is one thing that might be more shocking than hearing a death sentence, it's hearing that death sentence lifted. Finding your way back into life after being taken out of it for so long is harder than you might imagine."