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Willpower is much more then it's often cracked up to be. Whether it's willpower to eat healthy, get fit, quit smoking, only drink in moderation, control anger, be humble, not gossip, resist hidden sins, etc, willpower leads to victory. For those of us who know the Lord, calling on Him to help us packs a powerful punch to our enemy, the devil, who would sabotage our goals. "He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength." (Isa. 40:29-31a) When we are wise enough to acknowledge that God's Word has the absolute truths that may be distorted by our own perspective, we can add more power to our prayers by praying and believing, "My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word."
Diet is probably the most trivial example to use; however, in many social settings successful dieting and fitness is, by example, a colossal failure. If someone really wants to lose weight, then that must become the focus and most jokes of food indulgence and no time for exercise need to bite the dust in favor of long term genuine effort. Just replace any other more serious matter (admittedly by culture's standards) and insert the efforts, excuses and failures that we laugh about with diet and fitness, and you will agree it is an area whose successful example potential is largely a loss to offering any kind of real example to the harder areas such as serious addictions, hidden sins, etc. In most social settings, we acclaim the one laden with food dripping with grease and loaded with carbs rather than the one with any kind of dietary willpower.
I belong to some online social support systems for the food lifestyle we have adopted (Trim Healthy Mama). On these sites, as on other similar food lifestyles, members are encouraged to post prayer requests, pictures of progress, etc. The comment strands of encouragement are usually too long to read them all. The support I have gained in other online Christian women support groups is also amazing. We are lifetime friends and constantly lend each other strength with our prayers and words. There are many other noteworthy types of support groups (both online and otherwise) that lend strength and foster willpower, such as for homeschooling, sports, writing, marriage, parenting, debt reduction, recovering alcoholics, grief support, widow groups, and on and on. Some of these support systems can be found within churches or church small groups as well.
As believers, we have an added boost to will power (or perhaps the other way around) in our conscience. Oswald Chambers said in his 5/13 Utmost devotional, "God always educates us down to the scruple. Is my ear so keen to hear the tiniest whisper of the Spirit that I know what I should do?…The one thing that keeps the conscience sensitive to Him is the continual habit of being open to Him on the inside. When there is any debate, quit." If it seems we can't find our way, we can pray about what, if any, counsel God would have us seek. When we are truly seeking counsel for our own selves and not using the seeking of counsel as a cover up for gossip; and in fact, are refraining entirely from gossip, then our efforts will be blessed. "Where there is no guidance a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety." (Prov. 11:14) C.S. Lewis said, "The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are." Hopefully, we will have ample opportunity to offer good counsel, not just receive it. "One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked lead them astray." (Prov. 12:26)
To have supportive friends who help strengthen you with their words and prayers is good. Even better is to have a friend or a few friends who are close enough in proximity to put action to their words and hang in there with you through a period of your life when you need strength. "And Elijah said to Elisha, 'Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.' But Elisha said, 'As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.' So they went down to Bethel."
What areas of your life do you need strength and willpower in to make it through? What support are you seeking for that? Are you listening for the tiniest whisper of the Spirit? Who around you needs to lean on your strength for a season and are you able to give it? Are you able to inconvenience your own plans in support of a friend?


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Chiropractic is about getting and keeping your mind and body performing at their very best. No matter your age or current health, everyone who has any type of stress in their life should be checked for subluxations. Chiropractic will help you to not only overcome challenges in health and life, but give you the edge to excel beyond what you might think is even possible!
Top professional athletes are using chiropractic to give them and their family the winning edge. Research shows that chiropractic can improve reaction times and coordination over 16% in just a few weeks. Imagine the results in your life if you improved in every area by 10%!
Here are what some famous athletes have to say about their chiropractic experience.
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"If not for chiropractic, I would not have won the gold medal! You obviously can't compete at your fullest if you are not in alignment. It is essential to me in my training routine. I really think chiropractic is essential in running."
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"I have found that going to the chiropractor helps my performance. I have to have my adjustment before I get into the ring. I once drove 20 miles to get my adjustment before a fight." -Evander Holyfield, Former Heavyweight Champion
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"There is really no better profession than chiropractic. You really helped me…. I depend on chiropractic and so does my whole family. I found it was better to go to the chiropractor before you get injured. Chiropractic is truly one of the few professions that really helps people in a straightforward way with no monkey business, like some of the other professions promise to help, but this chiropractic is the real thing." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Going Metric (Part One)By Skip Williams
So, you enjoy the D&D game, but you hail from a place where the metric system rules minor little things such as weights and measures. Well, you could buckle down and learn the good old English system. After all, it was developed in the Middle Ages, and it reflects a medieval approach to numbers. The system lends itself to division by halves, thirds, and quarters, which can be pretty handy if you're an illiterate peasant who lives in a cash-poor society where most personal transactions are accomplished through barter. So, using the English system will give you a more authentic medieval setting.
Okay, so you're not so dedicated to an authentic medieval setting. You grew up thinking metric and you'd like to have a better idea of what the game's measurements actually represent. The table below shows some common English units and their metric conversion factors.
1. One league equals 3 miles 2. US measure 3. Short ton (2,000 pounds)
Converting Tactical Distances
The basic unit of distance for all tactical movement and combat in the D&D game is 5 feet, which is the size of one square. Also, all ranges are given in numbers evenly divisible by 5. The conversion table shows that 5 feet is about 1.525 meters (5x0.305=1.525). The number 1.525 isn't a very practical one for gaming, so let's say that 5 feet equals 2 meters for game purposes. Why 2 meters? First, an even, whole number is more convenient to use than something that's closer to the mark, such as 1.5 meters. Also, other d20 games that were designed from the beginning using metric measurements, such as the Star Wars game, already use 2-meter squares.
It's important to make all our distances conform to this number rather than trying to convert them directly. For example, a character with a speed of 30 (feet) has a speed of 12 (meters) in the metric game (not a speed of 9.15 meters). In either case, the character travels 6 squares in one move action.
The table below shows common tactical speeds and their metric conversions:
Coming in Part Two of Going Metric
Skip covers thrown and projectile weapon ranges, spell ranges, and spell areas.
About the Author
Skip Williams keeps busy with freelance projects for several different game companies and has been the Sage of Dragon Magazine since 1986. Skip is a co-designer of the D&D 3rd Edition game and the chief architect of the Monster Manual. When not devising swift and cruel deaths for player characters, Skip putters in his kitchen or garden (his borscht gets rave reviews).


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The AgMIP Climate Team is tasked with collecting historical climate information, generating climate sensitivity experiments, producing consistent climate scenarios, and performing agro-climatological analysis for regions modeled as part of AgMIP. AgMIP Climate Team activities are designed to place climate data in ready-to-use formats to facilitate applications by agricultural modelers around the world.
Station observations of daily maximum and minimum temperatures, rainfall, and solar radiation spanning 1980-2010 are the gold standard for baseline climate, and are also fed into geospatial weather generators to produce additional iterations that will more broadly capture seasonal variability. As many regions lack high-quality meteorological stations or have substantial gaps in recorded observations, the AgMIP team is developing a global gridded climate product to estimate any complete time series over the 1980-2010 historical baseline period. This s-MERRA climate product integrates data from weather stations, weather balloons, satellites, and various ship and airplane observations to form a physically consistent climate series with reduced biases for agricultural applications at specific points or even on global grids.
Sensitivity tests will be designed in consultation with the AgMIP Crop Modeling Team to test crop models on key sensitivities to temperature, rainfall, and carbon dioxide concentrations. These include the imposition of heat stress to correspond with critical stages of crop development and the characterization of the response to changing frequency and intensity of rainfall events. The AgMIP Climate Team is also playing a leading role in the Coordinated Climate-Crop Modeling Project (C3MP), which examines crops' core responses to carbon dioxide, temperature, and water changes.
Future climate scenarios are based upon the observed baseline climate and changes simulated by an ensemble of general circulation models (GCMs) from the Third and Fifth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3 and CMIP5). Scenarios include changes in mean climate and embedded climate variability, may utilize dynamical and statistical downscaling methodologies, and are designed to facilitate the quantification of climate change uncertainties in integrated agricultural impacts assessments. Geospatial weather generators will again be used for in-depth investigations of climate variability and extreme events.
The Climate Team is working with the AgMIP Information Technologies Team to streamline the use of climate datasets in agricultural modeling, and also to produce IT tools that facilitate quality control of historical climate series and the generation of future scenarios across a range of platforms and mathematical processing programs (e.g., Excel, Matlab, R).
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This week I finished writing my script for the short we are filming in August. It is basically a short slasher movie, although it has more suspense than horror in it. It's about a number of campers, who get decimated by something/somebody unknown (unknown until the end, where it is revealed what is happening of course). There is no gore in it (unfortunately), just a blood splatter on the camera in the end.
I contacted some actors and send them the script and divvied out the roles. As it is holiday time I haven't had a reply from everybody yet, but two thirds of the roles are accounted for. One of the replies though had me gutted. It was literally like my heart was being cut out when I read it. Had I really been so uncaring and blunt in my writing?
I studied my script again and could see what this person was seeing. But only after I read my script though special glasses; negative glasses. When I put on my glasses, positive glasses, I saw that what I had written was doing good, not bad.
Nevertheless it was a blow to my confidence. Heaven knows I know how this feels and I certainly don't wish it upon other people, and certainly not through my doing. But after lying awake for a couple of nights about it, I concluded that you just can't please everybody all the time. Sometimes you just have to let go.
Life is too short to be serious all the time and we all have to accept who we are and what we can do with our lives. Sure, life seems hard when you are young and you think the world is a magical place and you don't like people being not-perfect. But, hey, nobody is perfect and life sucks for different people in different ways. As my life is spanning nearly half a century now, I have met some very colourful people along the way. Some have had the luck of a happy life. Most, however, have not been so lucky and they all deal with it in their own way. Some waddle their whole life in their unhappiness, some jump out of bed every morning and turn the other cheek and move on. Who am I to say how they should handle things? I can't even handle my own life…
So what have I learned from this episode? That life sucks, that life is what you make it, that you can't please everybody, that life still goes on, and that I need to improve my scriptwriting 🙂
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Judy C. Chang, MD, MPH
Associate Professor Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, and Internal Medicine, Assistant Dean of Medical Student Research
In general, the Chang research group focuses on the intersection between women in the context of their lives, sociocultural influences and interpersonal relationships and the health services used, offered, and needed. A key aspect of our research is patient-provider communication. In particular, we have been examining patient-provider communication in obstetric care. Our overall objective is to identify and promote communication styles, approaches and skills that facilitate positive behavioral change to improve the health of the pregnancy, mother and baby. For example, our recent work has focused on smoking cessation counseling and patient-provider screening and counseling communication regarding perinatal substance use.
Additionally, Dr Chang has worked in the field of intimate partner violence (IPV) as a community advocate, educator, women's health provider and researcher for over 20 years. While much of this work has focused on health care screening and interventions for intimate partner violence victims, she has expanded her scope in this field to explore interventions for both male and female perpetrators of IPV and develop primary prevention interventions for high risk children and youth.
Dr Chang has developed expertise in qualitative research methods, behavioral interventions, methods of communication analyses, and patient-provider communication. She has numerous ongoing collaborations with community advocates; investigators in the fields of medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, nursing, and public health; and faculty from fields such as anthropology, linguistics, and computer science. In addition to being a practicing clinician, Dr Chang teaches and supervises numerous nurse practitioners, physician assistants, residents, and students. Her knowledge brings clinical relevance and legitimacy to all projects under her care. As an Assistant Dean of Medical Student Research, she assists medical students in learning about scientific inquiry and the various approaches used to answer research questions.
Current Research Support:
Project Title: Enhancing Family Planning Provider Skills in IPV and Reproductive Coercion Assessments, National Institutes of Health
Project Title: Understanding How to Help Women Using Marijuana During Pregnancy Make Healthy Decisions
Project Title: Intimate Partner Violence: Understanding Interventions for Male Perpetrators
Project Title: Communication Skills Training to Improve Patient-Provider Communication on Partner Violence
Selected Publications
- Scholle SH, Chang JC, Harman J, & McNeil M. Trends In women's health services: Distinct patterns by physician specialty continues. Women's Health Issues,12 (4):165-77, 2002. (Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize for the best manuscript published in Women's Health Issues in 2002)
- Chang JC, Decker M, Moracco KE, Martin SL, Petersen R, & Frasier PY. When health providers ask about intimate partner violence: A description of outcomes from the perspective of female survivors. J Amer Med Women's Assoc, 58(2):76-81, Spring 2003.
- Chang JC, Cluss PA, Ranieri L, Hawker L, Buranosky R, Dado D, McNeil M, & Scholle SH. Healthcare interventions for intimate partner violence: What women want. Women's Health Issues, 15(1): 21-30, 2005. (among the top cited articles from Women's Health Issues for 2007)
- Chang JC, Decker M, Moracco KE, Martin SL, Petersen R, & Frasier PY. Asking about intimate partner violence: Advice from female survivors to health care providers. Patient Education and Counseling, 59(2): pp 141-7, 2005.
- Chang JC, Dado D, Frankel RM, Rodriguez KL, Zickmund S, Ling B, & Arnold RM. When pregnant patients disclose substance use: Missed opportunities for behavioral change counseling. Patient Education and Counseling, 7(3): 394-401, Sep. 2008.
- Chang JC, Buranosky R, Dado D, Cluss PA, Hawker L, Rothe E, McNeil M, & Scholle SH. Helping women victims of intimate partner violence: Comparing the approaches of two healthcare settings. Violence and Victims, 24(2): 198-208, Apr. 2009.
- Chang JC, Dado D, Hawker L, Cluss PA, Buranosky R, Slagel L, McNeil MA, & Scholle SH. Understanding turning points in intimate partner violence: Factors and circumstances leading women victims toward change. J Women's Health, 19(2): 251-9, 2010.
- Akers A, Yonas M, Burke J, & Chang JC. "Do you want somebody treating your sister like that?": How African American families discuss and promote healthy teen dating relationships. J Interper Viol, Oct. 1, 2010. Epub ahead of print.
- Meiksin R, Zickmund S, Bhargava T, Arnold R, Dado D, Frankel R, Rodriguez KL, Ling B, & Chang JC. Now is the chance: Patient-provider communication about unplanned pregnancy during the first prenatal visit. Patient Education and Counseling, 81(3):462-7, 2010.
- Chang JC, Cluss PA, Burke JG, Hawker L, Dado D, Goldstrohm S, & Scholle SH. Intimate partner violence prevalence and screening in mental health settings. Accepted for publication, General Hospital Psychiatry.
For additional publications, see: (Pubmed or other online collection) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/16gskaysvC4Ae/bibliography/47231827/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending
Dr Chang is also a faculty member in the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Women's Health Research and Innovation (CWHRI). The mission of the CRHC is to promote and conduct exemplary health services research and was created as a place where talented investigators can transform ideas into feasible projects, work together in multidisciplinary health services research teams, establish a broad-based research agenda, and train leaders and investigators in the conduct of health services research.


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>> Thursday, December 27, 2012 – Christmas
Elizabeth was principal violinist with her Youth Symphony this fall. Her December concert was an all-Beethoven concert with Beethoven Symphony #1, Violin Concerto in C Major, and the Egmont Concerto. It was a demanding concert and she loved the challenge. Here she is in the first row!


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TEEbooks is an ingenious shelving system designed by Mauro Canfori and features a few different shelves complemented by small drawers and consoles. The fun thing about this uncommon furniture product is that when it is completely covered with books and CDs, it becomes invisible and it appears as if the stored items were free standing. The shapes that TEEbooks can take are various, from simple horizontal lines to more complicated forms. You can even design your own shape here. We think it would be interesting if someone turned this idea into a message written in books. This shelving system comes great no matter what interior it is placed in and you don't have to worry about adapting its design to the room's, because, well… it's invisible.-via Stilsucht


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Antonia & Hilmar
We have been friends with Antonia and her family for quite some time and when we received the news that she is engaged we were extremely excited. At the same time a little nervous as she was our first bride to describe her wedding in one word as 'eco-friendly'. The Bosman family are well known for their beautifully hand-crafted wines as well as their hand grafted vines. Every year we plan events not their social calendar alongside this special family in Wellington, the town we are both lucky enough to call home. Their style so unique, timeless, sophisticated and unpretentious. All this resembling their family values.
Antonia got married to Hilmar – all the way from Beaufort-West. A real farm boy with a charm that caught Antonia by surprise. When we saw them together for the first time we knew that this is Antonia's future husband and that we are going to have the opportunity to host a love celebration for this deeply in love couple! The planning was one big celebration already and with her mom being responsible for all the breath taking garden layouts on their farm we enjoyed working alongside her and her friend Mabel from Die Gieter to make sure that all flowers and plant material are indigenous and freshly picked. We had mass flowers arriving that morning of the wedding and we had a ball getting everything together! We could not have asked for a better day! The weather was perfect and the guests were in a mood to party till the sunrise. The ceremony was held in front of the historical manor house. After the ceremony we had Stanislav lead the guests towards the pre drink area with an accordion. With Antonia and Hilmar leading the group of almost 200 guests the perfect tone was set for this French inspired street march. Arriving at the main gate Hilmar entered the code and the gates opened slowly as they entered the magical gardens of Mrs Bosman [SNR] – Antonia's grandma. The pre-drinks were under the oak tree that was planted on the wedding day of Antonia's grandparents!! How special is that? The oldest son of the Bosmans performed a sabrage and the party was officially started. The guests were welcomed into the dinner area which took the form of a green house. You could SMELL the flowers when you entered the reception area! The rest of the night was filled with celebration of the love between this deeply in love couple! Antonia and Hilmar… thank you SO much for trusting us with your wedding day. We wish you years and years of happiness and love!
Venue: Bosman Family Vineyards
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You might want to add a virtual serial port to a virtual machine to make devices such as modems and printers available to the virtual machine. You can also use virtual ports to send debugging data from a virtual machine to the host system or to another virtual machine.
Select where the virtual serial port sends output.
If you selected Output to named pipe, configure the named pipe.
To connect the port to the virtual machine when the virtual machine powers on, select Connect at power on.
Click Finish to add the virtual serial port to the virtual machine.
(Optional) On the Hardware tab, select the new serial port, select Yield CPU on poll, and click OK.
This option is useful if you are using debugging tools that communicate over a serial connection. If the serial port in the guest operating system is being used in polled mode rather than interrupt mode, you might notice performance issues. This option forces the virtual machine to yield processor time if the only task it is trying to do is poll the virtual serial port.


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The Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for Burnley, Pendle and the Ribble Valley as heavy rain and strong winds have been forecast.
The warning, issued this morning, states that rain will become heavy and persistent over the high ground of North Wales and parts of northern England during Monday evening, before clearing eastwards overnight.
The public should be aware of the risk of localised surface water and river flooding.
An active frontal system will bring a spell of heavy rain to parts of North Wales and northern England during Monday evening and into the early hours of Tuesday with 20 mm of rain falling widely in the warning area and as much as 30-40 mm in upland areas exposed to the strong westerly winds.
Westerly winds will become strong across many parts of Northern Ireland, southern Scotland, England and Wales during Monday evening and night, with gusts of 50-60 mph and isolated gusts of 65-70 mph in exposed locations. The wind will become northwesterly by Tuesday morning and, although easing for a time, it will become very gusty through the day, particularly near showers.
The public should be aware of the risk of localised damage from these winds and for minor disruption to travel.
A deepening area of low pressure will move east across northern Scotland during Monday evening, bringing strong westerly winds to many parts of Northern Ireland, southern Scotland, England and Wales with gales and locally severe gales in places.
A cold and showery northwesterly airstream will become established for Tuesday, with powerful gusts in and near showers, particularly over Northern Ireland, southwest Scotland and Northern England.


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Chesterton Tribune
Changing of the guard on WPL board: Hokanson and Robbins retire
By PAULENE
The Westchester Public Library Board lost a combined 45 years of experience
Thursday with the retirements of long-time members Rick Hokanson and Sharon
Hokanson has served a total 29 years on the board and Robbins 16 years.
Library director Phil Baugher presented each with a large, matted frame
containing updated color photos of Thomas and Hageman libraries, the Library
Service Center and the historic Brown Mansion in which the WPL-operated
Westchester Township History Museum is located.
"Sharon, Rick, you were responsible for much of this," said Baugher in
making the presentation.
Addressing them, member Drew Rhed said, "Between the rest of us, we have
about half the years you've put in. We should give them the tribute they're
due." The board plans to host a private farewell dinner for Hokanson and
She was known as the board's official grammarian, and as the senior member
it was Hokanson's role to move to adjourn each meeting. "It's bittersweet; I
move we adjourn," he said Thursday.
One of the two vacancies on the seven-member board has been filled. The
Duneland School Board recently appointed Kathy Cochran of Porter, who
attended the meeting but will take her seat next month. The Porter County
Council's appointment is pending.
During annual reorganization the board unanimously elected Nick Tilden
president, Rhed vice-president, Michele Corazzo secretary and Abbe Trent
Alarm project
The board accepted the $21,962 proposal of Kone, WPL's current
elevator-repair contractor, to install fire-alarm interface and fire-recall
software on the 1975 Thomas elevator. The project includes installation of a
hands-free emergency elevator phone. Urban Elevator at $23,400 was the only
other firm to bid.
The work is tied to the new fire alarm system in all WPL buildings that is
active and tested. Additional fire drills will take place soon.
The alarm system is part of expanding technology at WPL on several levels.
A new video security system has been installed and an internet-based
telephone system is planned. Web links were added to the WPL website, and
the integrated library computer system is scheduled for an April upgrade.
Tablet readers loaded with newspaper and magazine links will be placed in
the Thomas reading room soon.
Baugher said at some point WPL will need to expand its IT staff beyond
information technician Mike Acsbok and his assistant as patrons will require
greater access to electronic resources, more classes, more hours of
assistance at help desks and more instruction how to use new technologies.
Use at WPL of its wireless internet, web page hits and online content jumped
substantially in the first two months of 2013. Overall circulation of
materials through February increased less than 1 percent.
Unusual meeting
Baugher reported a new evangelical group requested the use of the LSC
meeting room for a program called Snakes Alive involving nonvenomous snakes
as part of a ministry outreach. The group plans to continue use of library
facilities on a regular basis after the reptile program session.
"It's not for us to judge what's going on there as long as it's legal, and
it's legal," Baugher told the board. "It's not like it's poisonous-snake
serpent handling, and there are snakes in the Bible." WPL attorney Terry
Hiestand recommended the group provide WPL with a certificate of insurance
naming the library an additional insured for an aggregate amount of $2
Thomas branch manager Leea Yelich advised she hopes to launch WPL's new
reading tutoring service the week of April 1. About 11 people have
volunteered and an initial orientation will take place.
The board later adopted a library-director succession policy and designated
Yelich to be the interim director in the event of the sudden loss or
interrupted service of the director.
Baugher said late this year and into 2014 the library could see significant
changes to its employee health-insurance plan due to implementation of the
Affordable Care Act. The director said he's begun gathering information and
will monitor the situation closely.
Distributed were the patron conduct policy, the problem patron manual and an
emergency policy for review and approval next month. April 17 both the
Chesterton and Porter police departments will be invited to discuss with
staff when authorities should be called for assistance with an emergency or
problem patron.


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Pressing the Restart Button
We move through our days and weeks. There are times when things just aren't working. Do you know what I mean? Our thoughts are negative. Our stress is sky high. Our organizing systems that used to work "just fine" are not functioning well. We're not eating healthfully, sleeping well, or taking care of our emotional well-being. We're kind of a mess.
So here's an idea. Computers have a restart button. Why can't we have a fresh start button? Let's begin simply. Fill your mind with encouraging ideas. Build from there.
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It's Computer Science Education Week. Our goal is to share the fun of coding with kids. Learn about algorithms and binary code and take home a fun craft. For ages 6 to 12.
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Should We Blame White People? | Debunking White Guilt
Ignorance and over-generalization results in bad policy and inaccurate beliefs. Educate yourself and don't jump to conclusions not supported by the facts. Especially don't let your emotions blind you to the facts. This is a repost, but it's worth reposting... thanks ergot!


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Annual, biennial, perennial herb (rarely shrub, tree), often from taproot
Stem often ± scapose, generally ribbed, hollow
Leaves basal and generally some cauline, generally alternate; stipules generally 0; petiole base generally sheathing stem; blade generally much dissected, sometimes compound
Inflorescence: umbel or head, simple or compound, generally peduncled; bracts present (in involucres) or not; bractlets generally present (in involucels)
Flowers many, small, generally bisexual (or some staminate), generally radial (or outer bilateral); calyx 0 or lobes 5, small, atop ovary; petals 5, free, generally ovate or spoon-shaped, generally incurved at tips, generally ± ephemeral; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 2-chambered, generally with a ± conic, persistent projection or platform on top subtending 2 free styles
Fruit: 2 dry, 1-seeded halves that separate from each other but generally remain attached for some time to a central axis; ribs on each half 5, 2 marginal and 3 on back; oil tubes 1several per interval between ribs
Genera in family: 300 genera, 3,000 species: ± worldwide, especially temp; many cultivated for food or spice (e.g., Carum, caraway; Daucus; Petroselinum); some highly toxic (e.g., Conium). Underground structures here called roots, but true nature remains problematic. Mature fruit generally critical in identification; shapes generally given in outline, followed by shape in X -section of 2 fruit halves together.
Perennial, taprooted, generally glabrous
Stem generally 0 or short
Leaves mostly basal, membranous to subleathery or fleshy; blade oblong to widely ovate or round, palmately or pinnately lobed to 12-pinnately or -ternate-pinnately dissected or compound, segments or leaflets linear to obovate, entire to variously lobed, generally spine-tipped
Inflorescence: umbels compound, generally terminal, scapose, open to spheric, dense, peduncled; bracts, bractlets conspicuous and scarious (or rarely 0); rays fewmany (rays and pedicels sometimes ± 0)
Flower: calyx lobes prominent to 0; petals oblong to obovate, white, yellow, or purple, tips narrowed; projection atop ovary 0
Fruit oblong to ovate, subcylindric to compressed front-to-back; ribs subequal or unequal, marginal and some or all others thin- or corky-winged, or rarely some or all wingless; oil tubes per rib-interval 1several; fruit axis 0 or divided to base
Seed: face flat to longitudinally concave or grooved
Species in genus: ± 50 species: w North America
Etymology: (Greek: wave wing)
Reference: [Mathias 1930 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 17:213476]
Generic boundaries fluctuating.
Some species outside CA are TOXIC to livestock.
Plant 1015 cm, glabrous
Stem 0
Leaf: petiole 310 cm; blade 25 cm, round, ternate, leaflets wedge-shaped, deeply 3-lobed, lobes again lobed
Inflorescence: peduncles > leaves; bracts 0; bractlets small, chaffy; rays, pedicels ± 0
Flower: corolla purple (rarely white)
Fruit 67 mm, wedge-shaped to obovate, hairy; ribs unequal, marginal winged, others not; oil tubes minute
Chromosomes: 2n=22
Ecology: Sandy soil
Elevation: 10001600 m.
Bioregional distribution: s High Sierra Nevada, s East of Sierra Nevada, n Desert Mountains
Distribution outside California: Nevada
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Six Months, 4 Weeks.
Short one this week—I don't have much time left in this nap! (Speaking of naps, they've lengthened. The mornings, anyway. More if they stay consistent...)
We've been so busy! Stuff going on every day. We started a music class on Tuesday mornings, which is great fun. Tucker was fascinated by the older kids dancing around and by the guy with the guitar. He liked patting rubber balls and shaking maracas and tambourines.
A few times over the last couple months we've gotten calls from Developmental Studies labs at Harvard and Children's Hospital here in Boston. Apparently the labs get birth information from city hall; we got letters from several after Tucker was born. I figured that participating in studies would be fun, so I signed up, and it's been a hoot. We go in and Tucker looked at videos of people talking or making faces and they observe his reactions for various experiments (figuring out how babies react to various differences in people or music, etc.) He gets to pick out a toy at the end, and I'm just really interested in all these studies. They use normally-developing children to provide a baseline, and hopefully our contribution will help with future research on autism and other developmental issues. This week at Children's Tucker got to wear one of those nets of sensors that measure brain activity—he looked hilarious. If you live near a research hospital or university it's worth seeing if you can get involved!
The prize he picked out (I'm not making that up; we walked into the toy closet, he grabbed it and tried to put it in his mouth, and I figured that was a good sign) is from a new "Earth Brights" collection of wooden toys from Sassy. It's a very abstract cherry tree with a bird in it, and he spent about 45 minutes yesterday playing with it—sucking on the knotted cord, chewing on the leaves, hitting it on the floor to make noise, and using it as a tool to pull other stuff closer to him!
He's been all over the place lately, rolling to and fro and really getting into things. He'd really outgrown the crib comforter I used on the floor as a play space, and was ending up puling a lot of fuzz out of the carpet when he rolled off. We have a big open space on the wood floor in the living room, and the nice people at Skip Hop were kind enough to send us a set of their PlatSpot floor tiles to try out. I'd been concerned about that recall on puzzle mats due to a chemical off-gas called formamide, and a local parenting-class-and-kids-store queried a few manufacturers and Skip Hop was the only one that had a really satisfactory answer, with tests showing that the levels of formamide were the lowest possible reading.
The tiles are great. We're currently using 12 of the 20 and the space is plenty big, but it would be easy to add on the other four when friends come over. Tucker likes hitting his hand on the tiles, too--they make a satisfying sound. The middle dots are interchangeable, so you can make the pattern more subtle or more fun—we're going with subtle for now.
Speaking of rolling around, he's started flipping in his crib and then getting furious and refusing to roll himself back over. I've had to go flip him back to his back a few times. Do they outgrow it as the novelty wears off? He also scoots all over the crib, and it scrunched into the lower corner when I go in to get him after a nap or in the morning. Plus he's gotten more aggressive about tossing the pacifier and his little doll overboard, always on the wall side so I have to move the crib out, climb into it, and reach alllll the way down to fish them back out. Thanks, sweetheart! Nicely done!
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The previous Sassy Saturday post can be read here: Sassing Death Gods
The context for this post: Eric has been targeted by Samael, a death god who reports directly to Death himself, because of what he did to another reaper in Looming Shadow. In order to save him Tasio made a wager with Samael that Eric couldn't clear a local dungeon without relapsing into monstrosity. Annala is helping him do this.
Monsters lay dead and bleeding at the cage's boundaries. Their bodies were burned, electrocuted, or simply broken. Others sat and stared at the bars. Only an odd tail or abnormal limb marked them as anything but human and Eric knew this to be only superficial. He himself had, or could have, a monstrous appearance, but he was still human on the inside. However, the monster was also inside him, so it stood to reason that they would have monsters too.
"Hello," he said and waved.
One of them approached the bars and mimicked him. She was a woman as tall as Basilard with long orange hair and skin with the consistency of sandstone. While her clothing was worn and torn, the gems embedded all over her body gleamed.
She smiled and asked, "Can you open the gate?"
"Yes, I can. Were you trapped in here?"
"Yes. Queen Kasile the VI thought it was more humane than killing us. It is difficult for us to make a living here." She sniffed and her bright eyes welled with tears. "Please let us out."
"Right away!"
He pulled out his Dragon's Lair badge, but Annala grabbed his hand.
"This is obviously a trap."
"This is obviously injustice. They've been imprisoned here for years, ever since Kasile's mother sat on the throne. Just a month was enough to make me stir crazy."
"Exactly, and so they must work for Nulso. Gruffle chose this spot for a reason. They're going to attack us as soon as you release them."
"They're victims of Nulso! He ruined their lives with his 'treatment.' That could be me in there. How long until it happens again?"
"Eric…Think about this…"
"You don't think I have?!"
He pulled his wrist away and slammed his badge against the gate. Its lock flashed and the many runes and spells warding the entrance shined briefly as they deactivated. A crowd of monsters gathered behind the gate with the crystal woman at its head. The gate opened before them and they filed out in an orderly fashion.
"Thank you for freeing us. Now we can eat to our heart's content."
"You'll have to wait until the stores open in the morning."
"Why wait when there's food here?"
All the gems on her body flashed and bombarded Eric with the spells they unleashed. Caught off-guard, he took the full force of all of them. Only Annala's spell shield, Mana Guard, prevented instant death, and even then, he was stunned. Two wolf-like monsters came from the crystal woman's left and right and extended foot-long claws from each of their four arms with which to cut him up.
"Targets acquired," Annala muttered.
A complex magic circle with many sub-circles rotated beneath her feet. In her eyes, she saw a bull's-eye's eye over every monster outside the facility.
She released her arrow and it split into a dozen energy duplicates. The real one soared for the crystal woman while the others targeted her minions. Six of them found their targets and killed instantly while four more injured. The only ones to avoid the barrage entirely were the crystal woman and the knife wolves by using the bodies of others as shields. Then the solid arrow radiated sound that cracked many of the woman's gems before she smashed it.
By now, Annala had fired a second arrow, which created just as many duplicates, and now they only had three targets. The monsters dodged acrobatically but the wolves were ultimately impaled by three each while the original found its mark in the crystal woman. Again, it produced the gem-shattering frequency and reduced her body to dust.
"Don't underestimate elf tech!"________________________________________________________
Mana Mutation Menace, and the rest of the Journey to Chaos series, is available for purchase at Amazon
To learn more about the heroines of Journey to Chaos, visit the Tvtropes character sheet.
The next Sassy Saturday post is Spider in the Brush
Brian Wilkerson is a freelance book reviewer, writing advice blogger and independent novelist. He studied at the University of Minnesota and came away with bachelor degrees in English Literature and History (Classical Mediterranean Period concentration).


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Best Stained Glass Soldering Iron
Top Performing Soldering Iron
Your stained glass soldering iron is one of the most expensive items in your kit. And so it should be!
It's a false economy to buy a cheap stained glass soldering iron and find that it doesn't solder properly. There's nothing more disheartening and it may put you off stained glass forever.
On this page you'll find:
- helpful reviews of the best soldering iron around to help you choose wisely
- the important features to look out for before buying one
Best Stained Glass Soldering Iron
The Hakko FX-601 Soldering Iron
Starting at the top, we have the Queen of stained glass soldering irons, the Hakko FX-601. This ticks all the must-have and wish-list boxes. I waited quite a while to buy mine but now I absolutely love its heat retention, adaptability and lightness.
- Not only is the temperature thermostatically controlled, it combines the latest highly efficient ceramic heating element
- This ceramic heating element enables these soldering irons to reach temperature very quickly and to maintain it consistently over prolonged periods. The light flashes when it is ready to go.
- This avoids the annoying 'cold' spots that you sometimes suffer with other stained glass soldering irons when they attempt to recover heat.
- The new ceramic heating technology is also cheaper to run than soldering irons with the more conventional temperature controlled tips.
Easily Adjustable
- Handy built-in control that can be adjusted to 6 different temperatures. For regular foil soldering tasks I use 410. For leading projects I reduce down to 360.
- Being able to change the tip temperature adds versatility and means that this iron can be used for all types of stained glass projects.
- It's very light which gives you lots of fine control over your soldering. If you're doing hours of soldering you won't get tired holding it.
It's not the cheapest stained glass soldering iron but you don't expect the best for next to nothing.
If you're NOT in the USA or Japan, you'll need a step-down converter (sometimes called a transformer) – at least 100W- to use this iron.
I bought my transformer in an electrical store – Maplins – and have had no problems at all.
The Hakko FX-601 professional quality soldering iron is lightweight, cheap to run, heats up extremely quickly and maintains temperature beautifully. 9 out of 10.
Other Stained Glass Soldering Irons
The Weller 100 Watt Iron
The Weller 100W Soldering Irons are just right for those who are starting out and who want a very good iron at a decent price. I used one for years and years until I bought the Hakko FX-601.
I still regularly use them as an alternative.
Comes with a 3/8″ 700 degree tip.
– These soldering irons reach temperature in a couple of minutes.
– Weller 100 soldering irons are easy to use for beginners as the tip is thermostatically controlled. This means you don't need to adjust the temperature while you're soldering nor do you need an expensive rheostat (separate temperature controller).
– It's the most popular stained glass soldering iron and many accessories are easily available.
– The iron is lightweight and easy to maintain.
Very occasionally this iron will experience cool spots. This is when the temperature drops and it will need to rest for a minute or two to regain its heat.
The Weller 100 is lightweight and well balanced. It works well with different types of solder. These soldering irons are great for those not wanting to spend on the Hakko. 8 out of 10.
The Studio 100 Iron
The Studio 100 Iron is great value but I'm not sure if that is enough to recommend it.
The main difference between this and the Hakko FX-601 above is price, temperature flexibility and running efficiency.
The Studio 100 soldering irons have a temperature controlled tip which has a set (rather than adjustable) temperature – normally around 750F – which the iron reaches and then shuts off.
Once heat has been lost from the tip it has to turn itself on again. This causes 'cold' spots stopping it melt the solder.
– More costly to run as the thermostat than the irons with ceramic heating elements.
– Cold spots experienced.
The Studio 100 soldering irons come with a one year manufacturer's warranty and have replacement tips in various sizes available to buy.
However, with commonly experienced cold spots I would pay the extra for the Weller 100. 6.5 out of 10.
What To Look Out For In A Stained Glass Soldering Iron
There are three key things to consider when looking at stained glass soldering irons:
First, temperature.
Your iron should have a heat capacity of between 80 and 200 watts.
– The exception to this rule is irons with the ceramic heating element, like the Hakko FX-601 above, which is a far more efficient technology and therefore needs less wattage.
– When you are soldering stained glass, you want the tip to reach and maintain a certain temperature to melt the solder evenly.
Second, weight.
You might be using the iron for prolonged periods of time, so its weight and the balance between the handle and tip are important.
Thirdly, versatility.
There are different tips and temperatures needed for various soldering tasks.
– The best irons can be adapted to suit all types of projects. – A standard ¼" tip is great for copper foil or lead came projects, whereas smaller tips are better for decorative soldering.
– Being able to adjust the temperature of your iron means that it can be set at the melting point of the solder you're using and give you perfect results.
Helpful Resources
This is a useful 2mins 30 second video explaining some of the different tips you can buy for stained glass soldering irons. It tells you which ones are best for which kind of project.
Video explaining the types of tips available for soldering irons
There's some additional information on the Hakko FX-601 on for you here if you want to find out more.
Find out about other stained glass tools for the Tiffany technique here.
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Massimo Ruberti – Armstrong (2015)
/Space music, Electronic music, Conceptual, Ambient, Kosmische Musik, Experimental electronica/
it is nice that musicians are still up to get inspired by benchmarks with regard to conquering of the outer space by the human race. Unfortunately there have been way too little space flights into the space after Yuri Gagarin and US astronauts did it. More profoundly, there is no qualitative progression to have been since then (it might be the reason why there are arising conspiracy theories about expressing doubts regarding the flight to the Moon in 1969 and thereafter, for instance). The flight to Mars seems to be very far away if not impossible altogether. Of course, it needs a huge amount of money to prepare it. On the other side, countries are rivalling with each other to spend their money to get economic, resource-related, and military advantages and the most worst one is that wasting resources and annihilating environment around us. As the human race we have no sole fist to realize our goals. By personal aspect I have no faith into it anymore. It might be the only aspect what we could realistically do for the cosmos is to protect our beautiful home planet Earth, the only genuine pearl that we have been having. The human being is way too stupid to reach it if he/she is not able to change the overwhelming economic order around him/her based on excessive, destroying consumption. The human being is still as clumsy as he/she was many deacdes ago in connection with curing such diseases as high-grade astrocytomas, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer and myeloma, for instance. This is a notch of our Mars which needs to be conquered. However,
by Livorno, Italy-based experienced electronic musician Massimo Ruberti is a pearl as well, though a sonic pearl. The titles of it reflect upon Armstrong`s stages to get into and to be in the outer space and landing on the surface of the Moon. By listening to it one could experience hyper-realistic emotions wherein dreamy,glacial-alike synth threads and glimpses used to intersect with the sounds of digital bug filled radio transmitters where the message of an astronaut coming out of it rings in a fabulous way. It is quite weird and funny that at the ending part of
Ruberti uses a mandolin induced motive that reminds of a Russian folklore ditty as if depicting Russians landed on the Moon instead of US-Americans. On the other side, maybe it is a try to consolidate two nations to have at least one goal to conquer the nearest planets. By regarding the example the Italian composer extends its scope beyond usual understanding of electronic music by using exuberant orchestrations and motives and rhythms in addition to ordinary package of electronic sounds. In a word, get this album, listen to it. Even if your optimism about space expansion will not be aroused those sounds and constructions respectively entering into your ear and brain give you a candidate for the list of the best albums in 2015.
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Bruce Conner: THE DENNIS HOPPER ONE MAN SHOW VOLUME III
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Susan Inglett is pleased to exhibit BRUCE CONNER and THE DENNIS HOPPER ONE MAN SHOW VOLUME III. The exhibition will run from 18 September to 27 October.
"There's a point in time when I started self-consciously gluing the world down and making it mine, putting my name on it and hanging it on the wall". In this 1990 interview with Robert Dean, Bruce Conner could as easily be discussing the genesis of his work in film, collage, or assemblage. Not one to restrict his art making to a single medium, Conner has nonetheless remained fascinated by a single act. That single act manifests itself beautifully in the wood engraving collages and subsequent etchings, THE DENNIS HOPPER ONE MAN SHOW.
Working in secrecy, the paper collages were pieced together beginning about 1959 from 19th century wood engravings which Conner had collected or accumulated. These works on paper were produced concurrent to the film and assemblage for which he had become known. Taking advantage of the public's ignorance of this new and seemingly disparate body of work, and of the technique's association with another artist, Max Ernst, Conner decided to attribute the collages to yet another artist, Dennis Hopper. The unwillingness of a dealer to exhibit the work under another's name and the unwillingness of the artist to reveal his identity, led to their relative obscurity.
It was not until the late Sixties when Kathan Brown invited Conner to work at Crown Point Press that the wood engraving collages were resurrected. Working backward, Conner returned the collages to their original printed state. The etchings, twenty six in all, were published, bound in three black leather volumes and titled collectively THE DENNIS HOPPER ONE MAN SHOW. Acting simultaneously as art work and as foil for a larger conceptual project, this series is considered by many to be among Conner's major works.
THE DENNIS HOPPER ONE MAN SHOW VOLUME III will focus on the largest and final volume of the series. Also on view will be the first of what will ultimately be eight prints taken from the re-worked plates of Volume I.
The work will be on view at the gallery located 100 Wooster Street/2 Floor Tuesday to Saturday 11 AM to 6 PM. For more information contact Susan Inglett at 212/343-0573 and fax 212/343-0574.


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Add some pretty botanicals to your decor with this easy project. Choose colors that you love or use my suggestions, then add simple stenciled designs for a great look! I'll show you how you can easily create this look in less than an hour.
This is a great way to add a little color to your mantle or a shelf, or that awkward empty spot on your wall that's too small for anything else.
First, I started with some inexpensive canvases. Mine are 4″ x 5″, which were the perfect size for the stencil that I used.
And, speaking of stencils, this is the one that I used. I bought both the stencil and the canvases from Michaels. The stencil is called Botanical Garden from Patio Paint and they are stick-on and reusable.
Simply paint each canvas in your desired colors. I used Craft Smart paint, also available at Michaels (actually, ONLY available at Michaels!) in Sage Green, Island Blue, Mustard Yellow and Golden Brown.
For the stencil color, I used Craft Smart Vanilla. Easy peasy!
Now you should go make some. :)
Stenciled Botanicals on Canvas
- Stencil brush
- 4- 4 x5-inch Canvases Artist's Loft Back Stapled Traditional Canvas
- DCPS03-K Botanical Garden Patio Paint Home & Garden Reusable Stick on Stencils
- Acrylic sealer spray matte finish
Craft Smart Paint:
- Sage Green
- Island Blue
- Mustard Yellow
- Golden Brown
- Vanilla
- Paint the canvases, one for each color, except Vanilla.
- Position stencil onto canvas, use Vanilla to pounce paint onto stencil.
- Repeat for all canvases, using one botanical stencil per canvas.
- Allow them to dry completely, then add a copout or two of acrylic sealer spray.
I originally made these canvases for Michael's Craft Stores via DecoArt. You can see the project on Michael's here.
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One night, she pleaded to God to eliminate everything and stood on the path of spirituality. She lost everything from friends, marriage to health. Her meditation helped her to find the best place in the world. She has written several books. Check her website for more details.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Day in the life of...
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- Darcie said...
sounds a lot like my life lol a boy and girl, toys, laundry (and my own laundry room finally as well!) playing outside, tickling is a must everyday activity, a little seseme street ABC's, dishes, cooking. How would I survive a real job and this life? I think it's a blessing to stay home with them :)
- October 13, 2011 at 11:01 PM
- kenzie said...
I love my laundry room too! And the pic of them kissing is kind of neat out of focus. Miss you!!
- October 14, 2011 at 5:39 AM
- Suelynn said...
Sounds wonderful! Me and my kiddies would love to spend a day like that with you and yours!
- October 14, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- Mamasita said...
I always have a candle burning as well :-) love it!
Josie is in the habit of coming and saying "I Holdie Mama?" and that means she wants to be held, and usually involves a big squeeze - she pats my back and then runs her hands thru my hair!!! It is the most dear thing and makes all of the clouds disappear.... Oh how rewarding being a mama is!
Happy Weekend friend :-)
- October 14, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- Tyler and Laura Gates said...
Being a mom is wonderful! And your bread look amazing. What kind is it and would you share the recipe?
- October 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM
- bandofbrothers said...
wish i was there to cozy and snuggle up with ya'll. looks heavenly. you are such a wonderful mama and homemaker. your family is so blessed!
- October 14, 2011 at 5:35 PM
You have a beautiful family! Love the pic of little miss pushing big bro in the stroller. I feel for you that you have to hand wash dishes. I am never going to complain about loading and un-loading the dishwasher again!
- October 17, 2011 at 8:03 PM
- katygirl said...
i love this! and i love your bedroom! what does the N stand for on your monogram pillow?
- October 18, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Purposely at Home said...
looks like tons and tons of fun to me! ;D
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Hey loves! Hope you had a great Easter weekend, and that you ate a lot of good food and spent some time with your family. My weekend was pretty much eating, playing squash and skiing, so it was so much fun. Yesterday we went skiing to Gerlitzen and it was so much fun! Even though the snow is not the best, skiing in Spring is amazing. Chilling on the sun, not worrying about cold and just enjoying. So now back to reality, studying starts today, and on Friday I will be back with new outfit post! Stay tuned <3
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