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12 on the 12th {February}
01. Watched a bit of BBC's Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren with my morning coffee (thanks to Netflix & my Keurig).
02. Breakfast in the form of a chocolate Shakeology smoothie (they're really quite yummy).
03. Driving to church while putting on my lipstick & lip gloss (isn't that what rearview mirrors are for?)
04. Tried something edgy: boot socks with my dress (my personal style jury on this is still out).
05. Self-portrait with Annelise.
06. Lunch at La Madeleine (spinach salad for me, breakfasts for Scott and Annelise).
07. Quick trip to the mall to get new eyeliner (I love the creme lash liner by Buxom in Leatherette) and an impulse purchase of some new perfume (Calvin Klein Euphoria). I seriously cannot go into Sephora unsupervised. Or at least I shouldn't.
08. Who could walk by Godiva and ignore it? Not us.
09. Looks like the mall wore out our little person. Or maybe she's just a really good possum impersonator?
10. Annelise finished up her mail-out valentines and wrote a few notes (and yes, we hang plastic shopping bags and other odds & ends on our chairs, don't you?)
11. I love it when she digs out my old (antique? vintage?) Fisher Price Little People sets and plays with them all afternoon. Heart swells.
12. Tex-Mex supper after evening church. Oy vey. Er...I mean ole!
(I really don't know how I'm going to make my 12x12 grids once all the ants eat up Picnik in April. Do y'all have any suggestions? And just so you know, Photoshop Elements has been known to make me cry.)
And that, my friends is a little peek at our twelfth. How was yours?
I'm linking up with Amy, be sure to pop over there for more 12 on the 12th fun!
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sounds like a great day!! awesome pics...love the 12 on the 12th concept...great idea~I spent the day with broken water pipes and carpet cleaners,...did get pics and the plumbers even posed for me!...can;t wait to see your next posts!ReplyDelete
My 12th was unexciting. Highlight was dinner out after Mass, an unexpected treat.ReplyDelete
Looks like a fun day! And yes, we hang plastic bags in our kitchen too. Haha!ReplyDelete
i seriously miss the way i used to celebrate valentine's. being a kid makes that holiday ten times better. ohhh my i feel the same way about picnik! i use them for EVERYTHING including my 12 on the 12th grids! i already have anxiety over the end of that site.ReplyDelete
I am so SO sad about Picnik, too. I've been rushing to try to get some projects done before they close. :(ReplyDelete
I haven't taken the time to check out any of these, but I ran across a post listing some alternatives to Picnik. Hopefully one of them will work for all of us Picnik lovers!
What a fun day.ReplyDelete
I use picasa to make my 12x12 collage.
thanks to valerie for the post on picnik alternatives. I have a jewelry business on etsy (oak hill designs) and I use picnik ALOT, so I was getting nervous! I messed around for a short time on befunky.com and I think I like it better than picnik!ReplyDelete
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Your Pee May Soon Be a Deliciously Refreshing Beer
Turning water into wine is so passe.
Scientists at Belgium's University of Ghent have figured out a way to turn urine into drinking water, which pales in comparison to their other accomplishment: turning urine into beer.
Before we get into the science of beer emanating from your pee, it's important to know how water comes from it, first. According to Reuters:
The urine is collected in a big tank, heated in a solar-powered boiler before passing through [a] membrane where the water is recovered and nutrients such as potassium, nitrogen and phosphorus are separated.
Now, researchers have their eye on a bigger prize than just H2O.
Sebastiaan Derese, one of the brains behind this operation, says, "We're planning on brewing a beer from it. There's a project...called From Sewer to Brewer."
Yeah, they want to take your urine and make it into beer, which is ironic, considering when you drink beer you wind up having to pee. Why not just cut out the middle man and drink your pee when hit the head during a night at your favorite watering hole?
It's just a little something to think about the next time you're drinking. Or, to put it more accurately, the next time you knock back a cold one it might be from going number one.

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Cleansed, a drama in twenty scenes, is Sarah Kane's third play. Set in "an institution designed to rid society of its undesirables", according to the cover of the first edition of the playtext, "a group of inmates try to save themselves through love." Using four interweaving storylines, Kane explores the theme of love, testing her characters by putting them in a concentration camp where they are subjected to horrendous atrocities. The main story is about Grace's search for her brother Graham, an addict who's been murdered by Tinker, a sadistic guard or doctor at the institution. Grace wears Graham's clothes, dances with his spirit, makes love to him, and finally – after receiving a penis transplant – becomes …
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'Gener8' United Youth Pilot (2015-2016)
The United Youth Pilot Project, Gener8, was a good relations programme that provided flexible, high-quality, young-person-centred opportunities for 18–24 year olds who are not in education, employment or training. It was a key commitment in the Northern Ireland Executive's 'Together: Building a United Community' Strategy.
Gener8 offered 24 marginalised, unemployed 18-24 year olds, across cultures, from disadvantaged areas of Greater Belfast an opportunity to set their own agenda i.e. themes, content and solutions, in relation to their learning. Aligned to Hart's Ladder of Participation, Gener8 provided a foundation development (adult-initiated, shared decisions with young people) including co-design planning, (young people lead and initiate action) in preparation for development and implementation of a youth-led programme (young people and adults share decision-making).
Programme establishment focused on group formation and one-to-one work where young people identified individual needs/hopes/expectations. With staff support and within a broad framework, during the Foundation Phase young people led the co-design of an integrated learning framework. During the Youth-Led phase participants led their own learning within:
(1) Personal and social education where they examine attitudes, beliefs, values and behaviour and explore new ways of thinking and engaging.
(2) Diversity education, participants developed a programme to support understanding of identity, impacts of prejudice, relationships with communities and the value of diversity, underpinned by educational visit to Auschwitz, Poland
(3) Self-selected delivery vehicles to raise awareness of citizenship/positive community participation.
(4) Participants decided how to enhance employability and select areas for masterclasses.
Throughout the programme, one-to-one mentoring took place, with external support as needed. Participants also enjoyed the opportunity to take part in residential trips and informal activities.
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The availability of technology has enabled organizations within the enterprise, including non-IT professionals, with the knowledge and capability to take key IT decisions.
Traditional software development and delivery process used to require complicated development environments, with programmers being involved to develop code in languages like C++, .NET or Java. Hiring such skill sets can be expensive and time consuming. Organizations are now looking for a solution platform where applications can be quickly built with reduced cost of resources. Prominent software companies are providing cloud-based low-code platforms for rapid application development or prototyping, which does not require very deep programming skills. Implementing business process automation, specific permission based workflows, knowledge management, access rights; CRM, analytics etc. can be built on low-code platforms in very short turnaround times. Additionally constant user involvement allows developers to receive instant feedback to avoid any misunderstanding of the requirement. Increased interaction results in final product that has greater quality. The final product is more likely to satisfy the user's desire for look, feel and performance. However, at times limited focus on a prototype can distract developers from properly analysing the holistic objective. This may lead to attempt of converting a limited prototype into a final system when it does not have an appropriate underlying architecture.
A recent Forrester report says, the low-code platforms market generated at least $1.7 billion in revenue during 2015 and will grow to approximately $15.5 billion by 2020*. This increase can be attributed to these platforms' ability to improve operational efficiency, business agility and employee productivity. According to Forrester, only 27% of today's businesses are ready with their digital strategy. Gartner says however, that 125,000 large organizations are launching digital business initiatives now and that CEOs expect their digital revenue to increase by more than 80% by 2020.
Enabling a digital future requires smart capital investment. Right strategic investments can be selected in organic or inorganic way which ensures routes to growth. The key question is, can corporates build capabilities to succeed in the brave new world — or do they need to buy?
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Featuring 50 NBA All-Time Greatest Players, 989SportsOnline And Revolutionary Voice Recognition Technology
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Archives of 'The Young and the Restless,' 'Days of our Lives' and 'As the World Turns' Now Packaged in Best-of Bundles for Download and Viewing on Your PC
Oct 23, 2003
Although Sales and Profit in the Game Segment Declined, Electronics Began to Recover
Oct 22, 2003
World's Smallest Five Megapixel Camera Packs Performance and Style
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College Hoops Sensation Nick Collison Signs as Cover Athlete For NCAA® Final Four® 2004 by 989 Sports®
National Player of the Year and First-Team All-American for the Kansas Jayhawks Will Front the Highly Anticipated College Hoops Videogame
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Sony Computer Entertainment America Announces the Availability of Highly Anticipated Jak II™ Exclusively for PlayStation®2
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:58:52AM -0500, John Stracke wrote: > "Roy T. Fielding" wrote: > > > Accept headers are a bad idea. They have always been a bad idea. > > A better solution is to provide the client with the primary content > > choice and a means of obtaining the new content. > > But, in this case, the content is an error message; this approach would > require > that the error message be stored on the server for a time, available at (say) > some other URL. That's kind of an unpleasant requirement--especially if the > error that's being reported is "disk full". That is why my message had more text than what you quoted above. I currently do not believe that any error extension mechanism is necessary, but even if it were to be necessary there are many ways to include it that would only cost the application a couple bytes on the response that would be ignored by anything not prepared to handle it. Therefore, generating a new standard for XML content that describes an extension mechanism for status codes is not only the equivalent of using a bazooka for domestic rodent control, it also needlessly ties HTTP to XML responses. ....RoyReceived on Wednesday, 20 December 2000 21:13:41 UTC
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Bliss Table Top Digital Model with Knob:
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2: Set the temperature by turning the Knob as desired.
3: When the light turns off it means the unit is ready for use.
Digital Model with Key:
Up & Down Key is for increasing or decreasing the temperature. Power Key is to On the unit or to make it on Stand By mode.
Press Up & Down key simultaneously to change from degree Celsius to Fahrenheit or vice versa.
1: Turn the unit on. Press the Power key the temperature now on screen is 310 degree Fahrenheit.
2: You can Raise or Lower the temperature by pressing up and Down arrow
Key at any point of time.
3: Once the temp. Is reached you will see a green light starts blinking indicating that unit is ready to use.
Models only with knob & No Digital Display
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Q. I just want to know if someone who has never even visited Alaska in their entire life, could make a good living from the get go? -Junior
A. Well, we surely did! We were a family of bookworms and got interested in Alaska while living in Alice, TX. We read everything on the Alaska shelf and when we finished what could we do but come? We brought 5 of our 8 kids with us, and later another son joined us. We have never been sorry. Those 6 kids are still in Alaska today; although, sadly, one of them is buried at Delta Junction.
We were poor as church mice when we came. In Alice, TX Jim was making $6./hr (he was a carpenter.) Came to Alaska and immediately was making $18.00/hr, so we tripled our income. Even with the increased cost of living, we were much better off. Our freezer/cupboard certainly was, because of the hunting and fishing. I canned lots of jam, & pancake syrup from the plentiful wild berries. I can still see, in my mind's eye, those jars, like shimmering, gleaming red jewels lined up in rows on my pantry shelves, just waiting for a stack of sourdough hotcakes. Yum!
I guess, Junior, the answer to your question is yes, it is possible. It really depends on your motivation and your creativity. You didn't say what trade you follow. If you are in construction, for instance, you have to be prepared for periods of no work in the winter, but if you know that, you can sort of plan for it. You work like the dickens in the summer, when the days are long and light, and then live frugally in the winter. It can be done.
A good website you can access to see what kind of jobs are available is www.jobs.state.ak.us Also, you can read the Anchorage Daily News by going to www.adn.com That will give you an idea of grocery prices, apartments, and jobs. Good luck, hope to see you up here sometime. -BJ


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FIT 14.4: Web Accelerator Update
This release brings a performance update to the "rear side". When communicating with an origin server, a TCP connection needs to be established. This comprises multiple round trips. For encrypted connections (HTTPS), an additional TLS handshake is necessary to setup parameters for secure communication. Depending on the network latency this adds up to a significant amount of waiting time in the critical path. Furthermore, the throughput of a freshly established TCP connection is limited. Only after a number of network packages have been exchanged, the throughput increases.
With 14.4, we start recycling TCP connections to avoid these performance penalties. This reduces connection overhead and improves request performance. The savings are especially high for TLS backends and (very) remote origins. On our production systems we have seen average speed-ups of up to 20%. But even in low latency environments with plain HTTP there are some milliseconds to scrape. Check your
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Please note that this major release includes deprecations and removals.
In the Beta section we have introduced a page cache for PPL: When navigating back and forth in the browser history, no HTTP request or HTML parsing will be required. Instead, the previous pages' DOM objects may be reused, resulting in much faster and less interruptive history navigation.
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Contractworks is a solution that streamlines contract management across all industries. We serve small-to-medium sized companies as well as function as a departmental solution in large organizations.
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ContractWorks makes executing, storing, and tracking corporate agreements easier. With quick implementation, an easy-to-use interface, and low, flat-rate pricing of $600/month for unlimited users and documents ContractWorks makes contract management software accessible to businesses and teams of all sizes. In addition to the features you need to manage your agreements, you'll get a team of dedicated support professionals to help your business get the most out of your contract portfolio.
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Efficient, effective, and well worth the money
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Pros: ContractWorks allows users to efficiently upload and maintain a substantial amount of contracts at one time. The software spits out the contract in a readable/editable PDF form and has allowed out company to save an incredibly amount of time when it comes to contract storage.
Cons: Not really a con, but if it had the access to integrate other readers and/or allow other software to utilize some of the features, it would enhance the product.
Overall: Our business includes several functions that require contracts, in bulk, to be read, understood, and implemented. ContractWorks has allowed us to utilize their features and become extremely efficient with the storage and facilitation of these critical documents.
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Pros: It is effective, serviceable, and extremely user friendly. very easy to implement. You can maintain all contracts vs agreements in a safe place.
Cons: while the advanced functionality to explore is a challenge initially but changes with practice and they have good support.
It's a no brainer. You'll pay peanuts for a premium product and you won't look back.
Comments: If you're looking for a sophisticated, cost-effective solution to manage your documents, this is it. ContractWorks is a an easy, secure, intuitive product, and it will do wonders for your internal processes. The most compelling part of the platform is being able to generate reports that indicate which contracts/docs are due to expire within a specific time (eg 90 days), along with the ability to pre-set email reminders prior to a document's expiration. This is insanely helpful in capturing these time sensitive elements before they slip through the cracks. If you're familiar with SecureDocs, ContractWorks is the little gem that is a natural extension to their SecureDocs product and it fulfills the exact need we initially sought them out for. By continuously refining the product, actively listening to customer feedback, and providing an incredible support team at your disposal 24/7, the ContractWorks team have created a beautiful, premium product at a budget price. It really is a no-brainer. You'll pay peanuts for a premium product and you won't look back.
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Pros: Loved being able to make changes easily, and maintain data already entered.
Cons: Inability to network with other software (i.e. Salesforce or any ERP).
Overall: I am a consultant who was hired to find and organize over 300 contracts for a small firm. Luckily they chose ContractWorks as their tool! In less than 4 weeks, I was able to create the data entry fields, upload the files, tag, change the tags, set notifications, change dates, rename fields, reorganize the file structure, and create reports, all without help from IT! The software is a dream to work with and when I had a question, I got the answer within hours. Thanks for such a great tool for those of us with limited SQL knowledge but a great need to organize documents.
Recommendations to other buyers: For a quick solution to any sized organizational needs to manage legal documents with multiple users, ContractWorks is the answer!
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Pros: Intuitive and easy to use; amazing customer service; tagging feature allows for quick and efficient searches.
Cons: At times there seem to be a few extra steps required to save documents from a search result. Have brought this to the attention of their support team and feel comfortable that they are working on improving this.
Contract Database Up and Running for 500+ Contracts in less than a month.
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Comments: It took me less than an hour to get the hang of entering a new contract and uploading the important pdfs. The contract renewal options (auto renewals) are simple and effective. processing over the internet is fast and reliable.
Pros: Ease of use. Speed of up and downloads. Custom report writing. Renewal options. Daily renewal and expiration reminders help make contract monitoring simple and effective.
Cons: Too easy to accidentally sign off the system by closing the browser. Takes a little practice to overcome bad habits.
Customer Service At Its Best!
Comments: Aside from the fact that the software tool is incredibly user friendly and easy to learn the customer service experience with ContractWorks is top-notch! They will spend as much time with you as you need to get trained so you can get comfortable with the software. You can also contact them anytime and get a question answered quickly with a comprehensive response. We are a relatively new user and still working on uploading agreements to the tool, and along the way they have added additional functionality which has been incredibly useful. They are willing to listen to suggestions for additional functionality and have already implemented one of my suggestions! They care about their business on a personal level and are continually working on improving their product to reflect the customers needs.
Excellent, easy to use software!
Comments: We love ContractWorks! We've been using it to manage a large number of licenses, each with different start dates, expiry dates and renewal fees. I love being able to create a template tag set so I can easily enter all the relevant data for each document - and reports so we can easily see which licenses are expiring next. The ability to get an email (to multiple people, whether or not in the dataroom) a set number of days before an expiry date is such a huge benefit to keep track of everything. Customer service is the best - always so quick to reply and so helpful. Highly recommend ContractWorks!
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Comments: ContractWorks is making a material impact on our company's operations. Even though we're only beginning to scratch the surface of its functionality, ContractWorks is already proving to be a valuable tool for streamlining knowledge workflows and increasing cross-team efficiencies. ContractWorks' robust document management layer allows us maximum flexibility in the construction and operation of our database while its intuitive and easy-to-navigate interface has made it simple (and fun!) to implement the system across our organization. On top of all that, their customer service can't be beat!
Growing with ContractWorks!
Comments: I work for a company that is growing rapidly, and we needed a documents management system that can accommodate our needs and our growth. We have attempted to put a contracts management system, with storage and intelligent search and tickler capability, into place. We were unhappy with our previous choice, which was glitchy, slow and over-complicated. ContractWorks is a robust system that is easy to use, and provides the security we need as well. Sales, engineering, training and support are really good. I recommend them
Great tool, easy and intuitive, saves us a lot of time
Comments: I simply love it! it fits exactly our needs and what we have been looking for for a long time! The setup and use is very intuitive and the team is just great in responding and further developing the features. We are handling so many different contracts in our company and since using contractWorks it is so easy to keep track of contract details, deadlines, history. It saves us a lot of time that we previously spent ineffectively by searching through documents or static excel lists.
I can 120% recommend it.
ContractWorks is quick to learn, easy to use, and very functional!
Comments: Uploading by folder makes migration quick and easy. I received hands on training until I got the hang of the system. I was up and running in about half an hour. The system gives us all the flexibility we need for our contract management. The Customer Service team is very responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful. The price couldn't be beat for what we needed. I couldn't ask for a better platform.
Perfect tool for the job
Comments: ContractWorks is extremely user-friendly and impressively affordable. Rolling it out to the company has been a breeze due to its simplicity. Everything is organized exactly as it should be; it all just makes sense.
Pros: Affordable, user-friendly, well organized, fast.
Cons: Honestly doesn't have any off the top of my head. Would like to see some 3rd party integrations.
Great for Managing Vendor Contracts
Comments: Most contract management systems have too many features; they're designed for a full bore contracting process. I was looking for something simpler, to manage my company's portfolio of vendor contracts. ContractWorks is simple and intuitive to use, and provides me what I need (database, controlled access, reminders) without a bunch of extra bells and whistles.
Useful software
Comments: Contractworks/Securedocs is an excellent portal for small companies who have historically managed documents and their associated data through lists and spreadsheets. generating reports is easy and automatic deadline tracking is helpful. having all the documents accessable through a single database assures visibility and to make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
ContactWorks is a cost effective valuable tool for contract management.
Comments: ContractWorks functions effortlessly as our primary contract management software. It is effective, serviceable, and extremely user friendly. Their customer service is exceptionally responsive, and supportive, to any and all questions or concerns. It is truly a secure, and cost-effective solution for storing all of your contracts/documents.
My experience with ContractWorks has been amazing. It's efficient and straight forward to use.
Comments: Pros: It is a really reliable software product to use. It is also very fast and easy to use. It's awesome that the customer service is excellent and always very helpful
Cons: It would be great if the search bar would list the most recent documents first and the older documents near the bottom, instead of all over the place.
ContractWorks Works
Comments: ContractWorks has been so beneficial to our company. The benefits I have experienced from using this system are the 1. Ease of use, 2. Drop and drag features, 3. Simplicity of tagging documents and 4. Security features. I would recommend this to any business big or small that has a need for a Contract Management System.
Simple Solution to complex problem. Easy to use
Comments: Organizing and keeping track of all our business contracts was a daunting task in which we were relying on everything from calendar reminders to sticky notes, and sometimes just hoping the other party was keeping track somehow. Contractworks provided an extremely simple and easy to use solution to these issues.
ContractWorks is Winning
Comments: ContractWorks is great because it allows visibility and access to otherwise out of sight and out of mind documents and associated terms. The ease of use is a breath of fresh air, as well as the commitment from the ContractWorks team to hear customer feedback and use it for ongoing functional improvement.
Excellent Product - ContractWorks Rocks
Comments: We have set up our Legal Database in contract works, and everybody loves it. It is very easy to use and find the way around, with a lot of very useful features. You can tag documents, set alarms and create individual reports.
... and the support is also very helpful!
Great Product
ContractWorks - It's Awesome!
Comments: ContractWorks is incredibly intuitive and easy to use. We've been able to train people on how to use it in 30 minutes or less. I love how easy it is to get started on and the reporting and tickler capabilities are a huge help to our business. I would highly recommend this software!
ContractWorks - Hopedale
Comments: We utilize the software to maintain contracts in one accessible location and set reminders for contractual terms. This software has been easy for staff to get comfortable with and allows access from anywhere with an internet connection.
Easy To Use Contract Management
Likely Extremely
Pros: ContractWorks is easy to learn and to use. We've been able to train others on how to use it in 30 minutes or less. The team at ContractWorks is very helpful and great to work with.
Cons: I think that the advanced search function is a little complicated
Recommendations to other buyers: Make sure that the software is easy to use and intuitive. User adoption is always difficult so having an easy to use product is key.
Great customer support!
Comments: ContractWorks brings simplicity to the sometimes daunting task of file organization and management. The product is intuitive, and customer support has been an excellent resource.
good product
Comments: Simple and easy to implement and use. Can accommodate all variety of contracts and has easy user and admin. controls. Very flexible reporting as well.
ContractWorks for our Legal Dept
Comments: We love this program - it's easy to use and intuitive, and the customer service is excellent.
Simple to use basic contract management system
Comments: Very easy to implement, and good if you are looking for solid basic functionality.


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Carolyn Anderson
Carolyn's heart has been with Body & Soul for many years, with her first tenure on the Board in the 1980s. Carolyn is an attorney, most recently teaching international lawyers in the LL.M. program at Georgetown Law. Through the years she has been involved in leadership in education, in outreach through church and missions in Central America and China, and as an organizer for a community build in South Carolina. Carolyn and her husband Jack are blessed with three adult children, two daughters-in-law, a new grandbaby, and nine chickens. Aside from Body & Soul, Carolyn loves hiking, kayaking and biking.
Jeannie Blocher
Jeannie is the President Emeritus and Director of Spiritual Impact of Body & Soul Fitness. She and her husband Roy founded Body & Soul in 1981. She is an author and speaker, who treasures first her role as wife, mother of three and grandmother of eight. She enjoys speaking on behalf of Body & Soul, sharing the message of faith & fitness. She is a certified fitness professional and presenter for the American Council on Exercise and has spoken and led fitness workouts for the IDEA Health and Fitness Association, and at numerous women's conferences around the U.S. and the world. She has been a guest of Focus on the Family, Janet Parshall's America and numerous radio talk shows.
Roy Blocher
Roy is the co-founder of Body & Soul, a businessman and IT professional. He has worked as a sales executive, President of Body & Soul Ministries (1981-89), trained exercise instructors for certification, has owned a franchise, freelanced as a computer programmer and database developer, worked for the federal government in IT management, and markets health products. He has a degree in economics and has done extensive graduate work in economics, exercise physiology and computer science and held a certification as a Database Administrator. He served more than a decade as deacon and elder in his church. He was honored with the US Attorney General's Award for IT Excellence, won a sales rookie of the year award at Xerox and has been a guest on Focus on the Family and Janet Parshall's America. He has been married to Jeannie for 47 years, is a father of three, and a grandfather of nine.
Anita Czajkowski
Anita earned her bachelor's degree in International Studies from Moody Bible Institute. She is married to Steve, who is the senior pastor of Community Church of Greenwood in Greenwood, Indiana. They have three teenagers, all born in Williamsburg, Virginia, which is where Anita was introduced to Body & Soul as a student, then became an instructor. She knows how challenging, yet important, it is to take care of your body and your soul. She is everyone's favorite accountability partner, she is pleasantly persistent, and is a gifted encourager. She is the owner of a small business that specializes in cleaning and organizing.
Ruth Ann Dreyer
Ruth Ann is Regional Director for the South Central region of the US and co-Program Director for our Gold program. She is approved to teach all six Body & Soul programs and currently teaches Cardio/Strength, Gold, Dance Blast, and Power Strength/Flexibility Fusion at five Oklahoma church locations. Dr. Dreyer is retired from her position as Vice Chancellor for the Oklahoma Higher Education System. She has and continues to serve on several nonprofit boards and committees including the Board of Development for Oklahoma Christian University. Her home church is The Springs in Oklahoma City.
Stephi Fisher
Stephi, a Virginia transplant from the West Coast, has been a Body and Soul student, off and on, since the early days of the ministry. When she moved from Northern Virginia to Williamsburg, she shared a Body & Soul video with Amy Stafford and joined the first Williamsburg class when it began in 2001. Stephi was actively involved in Crown Financial Ministries, with her husband Ron, from 1986-2006, where she served as an administrative assistant, trainer, budget coach, teacher and mentor to staff wives. Mentoring women as been the specific call on Stephi's life for over forty years. She enjoys traveling (especially visiting any of her 23 grandchildren), taking long, long walks, Amy's exercise classes, pickle ball and watching women come alive through the study of Scripture.
Amy Stafford
Amy is the President of Body & Soul, teaches continuing education courses as the Director of Fitness Programs, and serves as the Power Strength Program Director. She is certified by the American Council on Exercise as a Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor, having worked in inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation clinics, private practice training studios, public gym facilities, and owner of a personal training LLC. She has taught Body & Soul classes for 15 years, to include Cardio Strength, Power Strength, and Boot Camp programs. Amy has been married to Steve for 25 years and they have one daughter, Jordan. Amy's church family and the host location for her classes is the Williamsburg Community Chapel.
Steve Stafford
Steve currently serves as an Ex-Officio member of the Body & Soul Board. He is married to Amy, and they have one daughter, Jordan. Steve has served for several years on various interdenominational local not for profit boards and one international advisory board. He has also held various leadership positions in his volunteer work including the position of treasurer and chairman of a private Classical Christian school, as well as an Administrative Elder and Chairman of a local church's Elder Council, now in his sixth year. Professionally, Steve is a registered Professional Engineer, employed by the College of William & Mary as the Senior Civil/Structural Review Engineer for the Code Review Team.
Anne Walchshauser
During Body & Soul's first year of ministry, Anne, a busy pastor's wife and mother of four children, became a student. The next year the rapidly growing ministry recruited her as a teacher. The years that followed found Anne in the position of Master Teacher, taking the very first ACE certifying exam, working in the Body & Soul administrative office, writing devotionals, working behind the scenes on the production of two Body & Soul exercise DVD's, and serving on the Board of Directors for many years.


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Chuck Schumer is in a panic – and we can certainly understand why.
New York's senior senator is terri.ed that, come next February, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers will wake up one morning to discover they can no longer receive a signal on their TV sets.
All over-the-air TV signals are going to become digital-only on Feb. 18. So anyone with an older TV set who doesn't subscribe to cable or satellite service will need a special converter box to receive a signal.
Now, you probably know this already – given that warning announcements to this effect have been airing for some time; many folks see at least one a day.
But that's not enough for Schumer: He wants Congress to .nd funding for even more public-service announcements, in order to make absolutely certain that no one, and we mean no one, will have to sit and stare at a blank TV screen.
Is anyone really surprised that Chuck Schumer has decided to seize the reins on this issue?
After all, about the only TV image more frequent than those announcements about the upcoming conversion to digital is – well, Schumer's Sunday press conferences.
Now, presumably, we can all rest easy: With any luck, and an infusion of federal cash, not a single New yorker will have to miss an episode of "Sunday on the Tube with Chuck."


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Westside schools:
West students collect for Care and Share
Students from Phil Hutcherson's Discovery class at West Middle School will sponsor Project Moving Truck Friday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. A
moving truck provided by Two Men and a Truck will be parked in front of King Soopers, 3250 Centennial Boulevard, to collect donated food, money and other
non-perishable items.
All proceeds will go to the Care and Share Food Bank. For more information, call 328-3985.
Jackson Elementary will host its Spring Carnival Saturday, May 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets bought in advance will be 5 for $1; on the day of the event, they will be 4 for $1.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Money raised from the carnival will support various school activities. For more information, call 328-5832.
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The Plot Thickens
So…it's now March 22 so I have been working on my blog or a whole 3 weeks! I am committed to learning and have not only been learning WordPress…slowly but also I'm trying to learn as much as possible about the online space. I have worked in the online arena before developing the theonlinebusiness.com.au and I recommend taking a look at that site but things move so quickly…. in a week there's a million new developments. How to catch up?! The key is… to take it one day at a time. I will also talk about new developments in my business but we'll get to that.
So the online space… I eventually want this blog to be choc full of content…. to look professional and be a great resource guide and community for women in business. So…I have committed my time to the blog and online tutorials. I am working towards doing a course in website development but by the time I start it (June) I may (A) Have enough info under my belt to get lots out of it or (B) Not feel it necessary I'll deal with that when it happens. In the meantime I'll share my experiences. What a difficult task I have set myself. Anyone that has dipped their twinkle toes into online tutorials and education knows what I'm talking about. My friend Libby spent 9 months! Nine months teaching herself all she could about social media platforms and then went onto work in social media so it's great to chat to her about her experiences. I am using WordPress tutorials to learn a beginners guide to html and I'm already stuck! So I'm delving into online support forums I feel like an obvious fish out of water…. but who cares you have to just start! The other reason I want to educate myself in the online space is that even though I have worked online before I don't really know how to do much? I can tell you what your website should do, and know how a good website should look and operate but I can't actually do any of it. SO…to add to my skill base and because it's relevant to me and my bsuiness I'm going to learn as much as possible…helping myself and my business in the meantime. Imagine the savings being able to build your own website and the income you can generate building others.
The Business Development:
So I always seem to attract people who would like to start a business or who are at the very beginnings of their business. They come to me for advice and moral support. I'm not a business genius by any means but I have done a business course and I have gone through a very detailed business plan process. Couple this with my generous helping of common sense and practical thinking and I'm good at doing for others what they can't do for themselves…. "see the forest for the trees" it's easy for me to step back take a look at their 'idea' and after talking with them and going through progress to date I can come up with a business 'timeline' for them. I have a good head for marketing, I'm progressive and most importantly I want to help. I want to see others succeed.
So… I've realised I need to make a sort of timeline template that I can input each business pathway into. It's great fun…you get to research these different ideas and markets and you learn lots in the process. So that one new development for my business that I've stumbled upon…. now to develop and create. Remember it's not that easy doing this for your own business…. so each new find is an exciting step in your own development.
Today I also learned how to add the below video to my blog…. take a look, it's informative and will lead you off on an interesting online adventure of discovery and information prospecting!
Remember "smarter not harder"
Tips and Resources
One of the things I really wanted to do when starting this blog was to share online tips and resources with you. The reason being is that A. most of us struggling start-up business women have nigh money for (luxuries) like beauty up-keep skincare, make-up. I recently went makeup shopping at a couple of chemists on my street even though I knew I could get it cheaper online but i was desperate and couldn't wait. The point being…I'd waited sooooo long to replace said dead makeup due to finances that it was do or die time. Ok die might be extreme but you try leaving the house at night sans no mascara, eye shadow, eyeliner, self esteem…. ANYWAY I digress. So anyway I want to share with you all my little finds and these finds will hopefully cover way more than beauty products. ANYTHING worth mentioning, any bargain I can find I will share….and I'd like you…when YOU start reading this blog to do the same. The other part to this post is resources…. I'm always pointing people in the right direction to do this or that, this is the right organisation they have the best…..you get the picture. So I will also share resources with you…and I'd like you to do the same. I read somewhere on wordpress about a new widget or feature they introducing where users can start interacting with one another on a blog and sharing this kind of thing, the idea was to start a community….when I'm ready that will be on this blog and we'll get the SWB community happening. Anyway the tip today is http://au.cosmeticsclub.com/ this site is the Australian Edition of the (probably US brand) but what I did like about it is that when you join you get a $5 voucher to shop and the will do all the hard work for you buy lisiting all the brands and great sites you can shop on. With just a little research you can find the cheapest deal…. hey it all helps!
I'm going to ask my super talented friend Nicole to start posting some beauty tips and more online shopping guides for you cos she is the discount queen!!! She has a ebay store called ship hot prices and boy does that girl know how to spot a bargain and get value for her dollar! She also is well versed in all things beauty and has never sent me a stray yet!In fact I can safely say that she was doing the online shopping thing way before it was trey cool AND she always looks great!
Till next time SWBers remember smarter not harder……
So where to now…..2012
So today's date is March 6th 2012 and what's happened to our SWB idea and what are each of us doing as of….now? Well Emma the pocket rocket is still doing great guns with her business Wildseed and is on her (i've actually lost count) upteenth trip OS to restock her Wildseed range. Which she then sells at various markets across Melbourne. I'm hoping she get's her online store up and running ASAP and puts more energy and finances into this….remember smarter not harder…. but she's doing very well. Libby after spending some time unemployed and discovering what it is exactly she wants to do with herself, decided on Social Media…. pretty much trained and taught herself as much as humanly possible and now works as a Social media Manager for an online store….and is doing very well. I have one very valued client and have been contracting to a company I used to work for to supplement my income. I hate working for that company and I really need to find something else and have been meaning to start this blog since last month.
Here's the thing…. personally I have had a bit of a trough with my business since getting off to a great start last year…. but I want to talk about it cos I'm certain I'm not alone.
I think in hindsight my passion or need to quit my job, get some control in my life and find out what it is I really want to do with my life was also probably heavily tainted with me needing a rest. The last 3-4 years of my life have been emotionally draining and physically demanding with working fulltime and being a single mother to a teenager who has had more than his fair share of difficulties. Thankfully for now things are looking up and said teenager is now a young man of 21 and getting his life together. Couple this with bad relationship breakdowns and debt you start to get a little weary…..
I think to be honest when you lose this kind of control in your life you need some time, some how to stop for a minute take a breather and re access. Unfortunately my trial by fire decision (see Serena Star leonard, How to retire in 12 months) to quit my job…. meant quitting with no savings…. or very little, plus a credit card…. not a great start! In truth had my level of passion and drive continued I probably would have been okay however finding more and more time on my hands kind of meant I gradually slumped into a kind of a funk where I was guiltily loving the time and resenting having to do anything about getting more money coming in…couple those things with my increasing uncertainty of what it is exactly I'm doing and want to do… I haven't exactly continued my great head start! So for the first time in my life that I can remember I suddenly find myself bereft of any real direction and just surviving….getting by AND taking the kind of work I HATE and quit in the first place just to 'survive' arrgghhh square one!!!
So here I am. I did have a plan and that plan meant starting this blog late Jan early feb so I'm a little behind on that one but more importantly it meant continuing with the SWB meetings…. this hasn't happened. We've tried but it's been difficult with everyone's schedules…. that's something that really needs to change. I also have an opportunity should it come to fruition to start a secret women's business online TV show with eyeworld tv I contracted to them as a producer with Playing The Game hosted by Wayne Carey and Mick McGuane not long after quitting my job. My pitch to them meant getting this blog up and running first so i could have a foundation and audience for the show. Still a great idea and opportunity but a fair way off yet.
For now I'm just glad that I'm getting my mojo back. I still have uncertainties and am not 100% certain that I'm on the right track but I am feeling better just doing something. I have a lot of resources and tips and ideas for this blog that I"d like to share. I think it's very worthwhile to help others and lend assistance where ever you can. It will take time to build this blog to level that I see…in my head…the visionary but in just 2 days I've done quite a bit already.
The motto for this post is this….. even if you lose track and well meaning friends and acquaintances are bogging you down with advice and ideas sometimes you just need to ride it out. It's not possible or even good for you in my opinion to be always on the go always chasing your finances and dreams whilst coping with day to day living esp when that living gets hard, as it does….. but if you are the sort of person that is willing and able and has in the past being proactive and creative you will eventually find your way out of your slump and will be those things again. So here goes hopefully my journey through this and getting back on track one ay at a time might also inspire and help you. Perhaps we'll learn a little about ourselves on the way.
Remember….smarter not harder.
Till next time sweet people.
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Secret Women's Business: The beginning….
It's Saturday morning the 30th of July 2011, I've just texted my friend Libby this message…."I'm watching TV, writing my word doc, responding to Facebook comments and texting you! She wrote back "welcome to my world"
In a nutshell this is possibly the best example of how we live our lives these days and also an insight into how and why we… being Libby, Emma and I started Secret Women's business.
This document was supposed to be a blueprint of ideas that we jot down each week or day or whenever, that map our journey towards our blog for Secret Women's Business or SWB. But I'd also like to map our story as it happens…after all what's a blog without a great story!
So…SWB what is it? It's three groovy chicks, all of who are superbly talented in various ways and all of who are sick and tired and totally OVER working for others and have taken the plunge to start their own business…doing what they love.
Who are we?
Emma…. The Facilitator.
I met Em in about 2004 on the original music scene in Melbourne, we are both musicians who play and write our own material but right from the start we both exhibited a head for business and organisation…rare in artists, both sides of the brain actually working….
Libby… The ideas girl.
I met Libby in 2006 when we were both doing the same Neiss course in Melbourne. Neiss is a government funded Small Business Training course… Emma did the course not long after we'd finished, I encouraged her to do it to. Libby had just come back from living abroad with her boyfriend. I had just gone through a relationship break up, Libby was about to and before you knew it a lasting friendship was born… primarily out of the partying we did to celebrate and cope with our newfound singledom… the rest would follow.
Me well I guess after reading the above…I'm the glue?! The 'connection' would be more accurate but I'm prone to flights of fancy… I know it's brief but after reading the above you've got somewhat of an idea of who we…all three…are.
So having being friends for years we had all worked in various fields, we had worked together, for others and had quite a few different roles between us. The most important part however is that during these years of 'research' we were forming each of us our own identity, goals, skills, ideas, passion and dreams. But here's the thing, we all came to the same conclusion…we don't want to work for anyone else we want to carve our future by being masters of our own destiny's whatever they may be.
I had recently rather spontaneously quit my high paying corporate sales role and started…lurched out on my own, Libby was trying to set her self up in the incredibly competitive world of Social media and Emma had Wildseed her clothing business and had recently set up her supplier lines overseas and was busy working the grueling world of street markets while slowly establishing herself online.
So all in all we were doing our own thing and trying to support and encourage each other however we could. One day, chatting to Emma on the phone she recommended we get together for a lunch, where we could talk business and brainstorm each other's issues be supportive and generally hang out and have a good time. The idea was that at the end of the lunch we'd take some photos for Emma showing off her clothing line… Libby and I being the models… the studio my flat.
Improvise with what you've got!
The lunch turned into drinks at my flat that evening and the brainstorming session…thanks to Emma (the facilitator) turned into the first ever Secret Women's Business (the name was Libby's idea) meeting.
So here's the forum…
A gathering for like-minded women to support and nurture each other through the steps towards or during the set up of their own business. Freedom.
How does it work?
The facilitator:
Emma with notebook in hand set our meeting up like this…
Step 1
Each of us was to take 5 min to explain what our business is. The idea behind this is that it is very important for you to be able to succinctly describe your business in 5 minutes. If you don't know what your business is how will others? The facilitator is last and takes notes on the others stories. We estimated that it actually averaged out to 3 minutes, which is even better if you can do it.
Then the facilitator told our five minute story back to each of us. The idea behind this was to help to solidify and clarify what we each do. One of the other girls took notes on the facilitator's story.
Once we had each gone through the above processes we then moved onto the next step.
Step 2:
Here we each took another 5 minutes to outline how we got to this stage, why and what motivates each of us and what our goals are. We did this by outlining our short term, mid term and long-term goals. This is where we discovered we were all pretty similar. As women we found that we are motivated by…achievement and fulfillment not money. Time for family, pursuits and ourselves were paramount. Being able to work from anywhere factored heavily as did security and happiness and giving. Women are naturally altruistic in business by nature.
We found that in this last step we needed 5 minutes each at least but it is good to put a time limit on things…we are only just beginning after all, there's more to do!
Step 3:
Now we had question and answer time, this is very important because once you have listened to stories and ideas so close to your own you will want to make suggestions and get involved. However… we all have different personalities and are at different stages so rather than giving suggestions and over whelming each other possibly we found it was better to ask questions. For instance… I asked Emma if she's ever consider taking sewing lessons or would she like to eventually design her own range or part of? This in turn created a pro-active discussion rather a re-active response. I still recommend this. And don't woffle on, this is important…try to not to sound like an expert on everything and your ideas will in general, be more easily accepted.
Step 4:
At this stage we were getting to the end of the meeting, we had brainstormed ideas and worked through issues, and generally inspired each other. Now we came to the natural conclusion and we decided to give each other goals to achieve before the next meeting, which we decided, would be monthly. The importance of the goals is to not make them too big or unrealistic and the person whose goal it is must think it's doable and is something within their natural working style…fluidity is important. Important to note is that the goals came out of the meeting, from listening to each other and what was needed…for instance mine was to get a back up hard drive of some description…due to all of my work being on my laptop. Emma's was to apply to a market she had been meaning to but hadn't and so on.
Step 5:
The barometer…
Each week at the end of the meeting ask each other this question…how did you pay your rent? This is your barometer; this is how WE choose to measure our progress not our success.
Once you have been through your meeting there will be various things that come up for you that you might like to add to your forum. It's important that everyone agrees. We decided to invite one new participant each meeting and to have one meeting a month. We also decided that they must be like minded…no power pussies here.
We also discovered our motto "Smarter Not Harder" what's yours?
Welcome to our Blog…Secret Women's Business! We hope you enjoy reading about our journey as much as we enjoy sharing it… I'm going to hand the next stage over to one of the other girls so that you might get an insight into how we all think and differ… so that you might take something from, learn or just laugh at each of us as we stumble through this crazy journey of self discovery, success knowledge and happiness! Good luck and remember our maxim….
"Smarter Not Harder"
From… Libby, Em and Lill….


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There is a duality to Jesters Incognito, on at the Hamilton Fringe Festival this summer. On the one hand, it's a silly, sometimes insane one-man comedy show, featuring a series of widely differing street jesters. On the other hand, it's a brief look into the mental and physical hurdles in the life of Harrison Wheeler, the man behind Jesters Incognito. This duality is strange at first, but there is a clear connection established between the mental and physical health issues that plagued Wheeler and the show that he has conceived.
In Jesters Incognito, Wheeler tells the story of a dystopian city where all entertainment and media is controlled with an iron fist. Any entertainment not approved is punishable by death, and born out of this restriction is the Jesters Incognito, an underground group of street jesters available for hire in secret. They entertain even in the face of death because it is their nature. In the show, Wheeler takes on the personas of several of these jesters, entertaining the audience and telling their stories of how they joined the underground troupe.
In between these performances, a screen displays comic strips, photography, art, and text (all created by Wheeler) to explain the place in his mind that all this has comes from. When you read his story as it is told in bits and pieces on the screen, it is sad and borderline depressing to take in. However, when you are pulled out of that story and drawn back into the world of the underground jesters, you begin to understand how this gloomy tale of mental and physical adversity helped pave the way for rejuvenation. It makes the humour that much more intense and real, not just because it is funny (and it is definitely funny) but because you have seen the journey that has led Wheeler here.
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A Polish artist who goes by the name Calabarte has made waves on the internet when he released these stunning images of his hand-made lamps. He carefully carves African gourds to create lamps that transform rooms into whimsical synchronized realms of light and magic. Unfortunately, he doesn't have any lamps for sale right now, but I'm sure the demand is high. I'm sure he'll have some in the works before too long. Check him out on Facebook and Deviant Art too.
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My mornings alone with Drew are slowly winding down. His days at home for a few hours with just me are soon to end. At the beginning of the school year, I was in a business meeting and I told someone that I couldn't commit to a certain task. I explained to them that I've spent good quality time with all my children at home, and although it seems easy to drag the last child around, or find places for him to go, I wanted to be committed to him. I have been. Although Drew has been dragged around with me, or babysat by others plenty of times, I have spent so much quality time with him. I have no regrets.
I don't save all the papers the children bring home from school, but there are some that I absolutely have to immediately file away. This was one of them, except it stayed in the kitchen for longer than usual papers, because it was so fun to look at! I love the name Joshua gave himself, the wrinkles, and the long beard. Oh to have the imagination of a child!
(The old bike trailer he transformed into a trailer last summer, now became a children's ride when he tied a lawn chair to it. Helmets were a definite requirement to ride!)
A fifth grade field trip chaperone. A loud and bumpy bus ride, other people's children, and 4 hours at an aquarium. Need I say more? Those aren't exactly any of my favorite things. Except for Ellie is, so that's why I did it.
I love little boys and cars. Drew has more Hot Wheels, cars and trucks than any little boy needs, but he plays with them all the time. They make Mike crazy, but not me. It's one of those little things, I can't help but love.
I'm not exactly sure what was going on with a slew of photos like this on my phone. I think Kinzey and Ellie were attempting to illustrate some books they were writing, with pictures. Makes me wonder what the books are about??
(Joshua, Drew, Kinzey)
Joshua turned 8 recently. And he was given the CHOICE of whether or not he wanted to join the Cub Scouts at our church. (We view the involvement in BSA as an "extra-curricular", even though really it is a default activity by virtue of being a member of the LDS church.) Please, I beg you. Don't get me started on this subject.
But I will quickly say, I wore all of my PATHETIC Mother's Pins that I've never seen another mother EVER WEAR besides me. I wore/wear them to all of Luke's Pack Meetings and Courts of Honor, and here I go again with Joshua. What a complete and utter waste of money. Like I said, don't get me started.
(The only reason I took this photo was to send to my BFF. She's the only one that truly appreciates it.)
The girls spent far longer than they should have coloring plastic cups and then melting them in the oven to fun shapes and designs. No practicing of instruments or homework was getting done, but their giggles and camaraderie were not anything to put an end to.
Last Friday (my 18th wedding anniversary), Luke was diagnosed with strep throat AGAIN. This time I had to take a doctor note to school to excuse his millionth absence this school year. Lucky Luke ended up being a lunch date for me to a place of his choosing, DQ for a milkshake for his sore throat.
And that's about that for now. I could go on for hours sharing all the silly photos the children take on my phone, but we'll stick to these highlights for now.


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Skull & Crossbones Tea Infuser
This is just too cute for words. Who knew such a little thing could make me so happy? This will be what makes me stop using tea bags once and for all. Get yours here.
This is just too cute for words. Who knew such a little thing could make me so happy? This will be what makes me stop using tea bags once and for all. Get yours here.
Need a little scare to wake you up in the morning? I know I do. You can get these cups and other designs from this very cool shop on etsy called Carrion Creations here.
These cute little guys are sugar skulls. No, they are actual sugar molded into skulls not just the skulls with pretty designs to celebrate the Day of the Dead. These are all ready to throw into your coffee, tea or anything else you want a little sweeter even dissolving one into absinthe if that's the way you roll. If you promise not to only use these during the Halloween season you can get them here.
Well, this is an idea. Not sure it's a good one, but hey who knows, right? I mean maybe it'll catch on and be a thing. Or not. I think it's cool to have displayed on a shelf, but I can't imagine drinking out of it on a regular basis. It looks really uncomfortable and the fact that the "cup is not intended to sit in a damp area for a prolonged time" sounds to me like it wouldn't make a good cup. Plus at $66 each it's a pretty expensive cup to not get wet when that's pretty much the job of a cup. Just sayin'. You can get your very own Teeth Cup here.
Check out these awesome Creepy Cups. Wouldn't it be great to be drinking your coffee/tea in the morning only to find one of these cute little fellas lurking down at the bottom? I think they should make the spider one in a more brownish color so you could really play tricks on people. That's one way to get rid of a houseguest. You can buy one here.
Okay, I admit it, I'm stupid. Surprised? Thought Scary Jane was perfect in every way? Me too! Actually I used much more colorful language when I was yelling at myself earlier today. Want to know what caused me to turn on myself? Well, here ya go. A few days ago I went into a Ross near my house. I pick up the weirdest stuff in there sometimes, so it's worth a peek now and then. Unfortunately this time I was not finding much that caught my attention until I wandered into the mug isle. There on the shelf was a beautiful Skull Mug. In fact there were four of them. As you may remember I broke my favorite skull mug a long time ago and I have been searching ever since for a replacement. There are hundreds available out there, do a Google search, but none of them were as cool. These were not like my old one, but I just knew that it was the one for me. I looked at the price and they were ridiculously cheap at $3.99 each. Since I didn't have a basket I left them there and continued looking through the store with every intention of coming back to get them. It was about 2pm and I was getting really hungry since I hadn't had lunch, so I started going through the store a little faster. I didn't find anything else I wanted and started to go back to the mugs when I saw the huge checkout line. I knew my stomach couldn't wait much longer to be fed, so I decided (for some dumb ass reason) that I wasn't so sure about the mugs anyway and I should just sleep on it. That night I realized that I should have just bought them. They were awesome and they were cheap. The next day I was just too busy to get over there. Today I was really excited about them and determined to go back. I got to Ross after lunch this time and went straight to the mug isle. I'm sure you've guessed by now, but they were all gone! I asked the lady that was stocking the shelves if there were more, but of course there weren't. She then suggested I try other Ross stores. I got out to my car and tried calling all of the stores anywhere near me and no one had them. I spent the next 15 minutes yelling at myself in the car. Calling myself every horrible name I could think of and even made up a few new ones. I have searched endlessly online to no avail. I have decided that I am not talking to myself for a few days, so I can cool off. I mean how stupid can one person be? Learn from me. Never ever pass something up just because you don't want to stand in line. You'll regret it and never forgive yourself. This ends today's lesson.


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Obama Signs Martial Law Bill: NDAA Now Law
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President Obama who pledged to veto the National Defense Authorization Act has signed it. Of course his promise was only for public consumption. After all lying to your enemy is what invading corporate takeover army's do. It was the Obama administration all along that demanded the indefinite detention provisions be added while at the same time telling the America people he was fighting to protect their rights. This is treason on parade,in your face all out despotism!
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Here's a list of the tope 3 girls in each weight class:
48- Kelly Rexroad, Rachel Churchward, and Gina Guide
53-Sarah Davis, Sarah Cowels, and Rachael Bommicino
58-Amanda Sandoval, Jackie Berube, and Riselyx Rivera
63-Natalie Burgener, Holley Dombrovski, and Megan Kranz
69-Danica Rue, Sarah Bertram, and Brianna Barnett
75-Erin Wallace, Rachel Crass, Jamia Jackson
75+-Sarah Robles (that's me,) Chioma Amaechi, Holley Mangold
(...sone of the athletes were in two different weight classes so forgive me if you find different results)
World Team Members:
Kelly Rexroad
Amanda Sandoval
Natalie Burgener
Danica Rue
Erin Wallace
Rachel Crass
Sarah Robles
Muscle Milk Pancakes:
In my pancake batter I like to dump in 2-4 scoops of Muscle Milk powder (chocolate is my favorite) and cook it up. I like to mash up strawberries and put them on top instead of syrup. This tastes pretty awesome. Try it yourselves.
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- Sarah and Jessica
- Jessica is our 2016 Olympic Hopeful and Sarah is our 2012 Olympian in Weightlifting. We're setting out to be "Pretty Strong" and we encourage you to do the same.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Rankings, World Team Members, and a recipe
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- Lillian said...
I just found this blog--thanks for it! I'm going up against Jamia Jackson in the 75 kg class on Saturday at the Twin City Open (which I say jokingly--I'm sure she'll lift double what I do). It's an honor lift with someone in the top 3!
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Battalion Park
|3 November 1991
|Calgary, Alberta, Canada on Signal Hill
Battalion Park is a geoglyph site in south west Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is located on Signal Hill, overlooking the Sarcee Nation, as well as lands formerly known as Camp Sarcee and later Sarcee Training Area, a military reserve used by the Canadian Forces from before the First World War up until the 1990s. The park extends over an area of 93 hectares (230 acres), north of the Elbow River. Its heritage value is associated with its dedication to the heroic efforts of Albertan soldiers during World War I. The site contains four geoglyphs, numbered 137, 113, 151, and 51. The large, whitewashed stones, totaling 16,000 in all, form the centrepiece of the park. Arranged on the side of the hill, and visible from various parts of the city, they represent the battalions numbered 137, 113, 151, and 51.
The 93 hectares (230 acres) park on Signal Hill overlooks the Sarcee Nation.[1] It is situated to the north of the Elbow River, beside the Westhills shopping complex,[2] on the city's western outskirts.[3]
Early history
The Sarcee Indian Reserve leased a part of their land in the summer of 1914 to the Canadian militia to enable them to establish a prospective training site for military personnel. It was then known as Sarcee Camp (as it overlooks the Sarcee Nation), as it was an exclusive area in Alberta to provide training to the soldiers who were to be assigned to fight during World War I. The military reserve was used by the Canadian Forces from before World War I up until the 1990s.[1] In all, 45,000 men were trained at the military camp. With this strength, the camp was the largest military training establishment in Canada during the war time. The 30 various units, housed in tents, included trainees drawn from various parts of the province. From Fort Calgary, it took a day's ride to approach the camp.
Army engineers mapped the area. Each unit established its identity within its prescribed area by using stones that were hauled in sacks by hand from the river by soldiers as part of their training programme, over a distance of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) during off-duty hours. Several military units collaborated in collecting the stones to create the battalion numerals. They were gathered from the river and carried it to the site as part of the training exercies.[4] Among those who did so were the four battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (Members of the Calgary, Lethbridge, Central Alberta, and Edmonton battalions) who were trained in the area.
After their training was over, the battalions were assigned to war regions abroad to fight in World War I. The 151st (central Alberta) Battalion, raised in the Red deer, Battle River, and south Edmonton districts, trained at the Sarcee Camp from December 22, 1915 until October 4, 1916; Lieutenant Colonel J.W. Arnott commanded.[5] The 137th Infantry Battalion, which was composed of the men of "Calgary's Own", were trained in the Sarcee Camp from December 1915 to August 1916; they were commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George W. Morfitt. On August 21, 1916, they embarked to Europe to participate in the war. They were amalgamated with the 21st Reserve Battalion for service. Those men who survived the war met at the park, till the 1960s, to carry out weeding operations and also to re-paint the stones of their battalion number which they had erected in the past.[6] The 113th Battalion consisted of 883 men and officers who were trained at the Sarcee Camp from late May 1916 until September. The battalion used painted rocks to construct their battalion number on Signal Hill. The 51st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, under the command of Colonel Harwood, was also at the Sarcee Army Camp, in 1915.[7]
Later history
With the battalions gone, the numbers were almost forgotten, overgrown by shrubs and grass. The stones were almost obscured till a local historian found them; he found the stones prior to grading as part of a protection strategy for the hill which was subject to erosion, and to enable construction activity in the area.[1] Getting the site its present historical status involved concerted efforts by the cadets of units, particularly of the 157th Battalion, stationed in Calgary; this effort stretched to several years of pursuing with the authorities. The stones were safely kept by Stewart Green Properties Ltd until they were restored.[1] Development involved work on a gravel pit by Richmond Road, slope grading, rock replacement, and stairs construction.[8] Battalion Park officially opened on 3 November 1991.[1][9]
The 51st Battalion is commemorated in an existing reserve unit, the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. The 137th Battalion is maintained as another reserve unit, the King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC). The 151st Battalion was disbanded after the war, in 1936, and the 113th Battalion of the Lethbridge Highlanders was merged with other units on their return to England.[10]
The glyphs, which form the centre piece of the park, are large whitewashed stones (16,000 of them), arranged on the side of the hill and represent the battalions numbers 137, 113, 151, and 51.[1] The numbers, serif-type numerals, were created using 16,000 stones.[1] While the numerals 137, 151, and 51 are in a cluster, the glyph representing number "113" is further away in an undisturbed state as made in-situ initially from July 1, 1916 to August 31, 1916, but located within the park.[4][11] Number "113" is at its original location, on a high ridge, while the others had to be shifted from their original location to the present site because of the need to develop the area for roads and other economic activities. The glyph with number "113" is located on 0.265 hectares (0.65 acres) area of land on a high ridge, and each numeral of "113" measures 36.5 metres (120 ft) in length and 1.8–3.7 metres (5 ft 11 in–12 ft 2 in) in width.[4] The number is made up of white-painted stones.[12] The park consists of a walkway up the hill along paved and mud paths with several interpretative displays of the numerals and a "lookout landing".
In a homage paid by 104 cadets who gathered at the Battalion Park Monument, a plaque was erected as dedication to their ancestors who were part of the action during 1915 and 1916 in the World War I. The names of the battalions are mentioned on the plaque. On this occasion they also painted the stones which mark the numbers of the battalions. The units involved in its assembly, mentioned on the plaque, are: 85 RCSCC Calgary, 604 Moose Sqdn RCAC, 22 Undaunted RGSCC, 781 Calgary Sqdn, RCAC 1292 LdSH (RC), RCACC 2554, PPCLI CC 1955, Service Bn RCACC, Buffalo Sqdn 538, RCAC 2509, Royal Cdn Signals, CC 2137 Calgary Highlanders, and CC 52 City of Calgary Sqdn RCCA.[13]
See also
- 51st Battalion (Edmonton), CEF
- 113th Battalion (Lethbridge Highlanders), CEF
- 137th (Calgary) Battalion, CEF
- 151st (Central Alberta) Battalion, CEF
- Hillside letters
- Military history of Canada
- Fovant Badges
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Battalion Park". City of Calgary. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ Dixon, Joan; Howard, Barb (4 September 2012). Embedded on the Home Front: Where Military and Civilian Lives Converge. Heritage House Publishing Co. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-1-927051-58-0. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ↑ Bagley, Fred; Duncan, Harvey Daniel (1993). A legacy of courage: "Calgary's own" 137th Overseas Battalion, C.E.F. Plug Street Books. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-9697162-0-4. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- 1 2 3 "Battalion Numbers". Historicplaces.ca/Parks Canada. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ "About Calgary Calgary's Battalion Park, The 151st Infantry Battalion. C.E.F". Aboutcalgary.ab.ca. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Calgary's Battalion Park The 137th Infantry Battalion. C.E.F". Aboutcalgary.ab.ca. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Glenbow archives NC-6-1407". Glenbow Museum. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ Sandalack, Beverly Ann; Nicolai, Andrei (21 September 2006). The Calgary project: urban form/urban life. University of Calgary Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-55238-217-2. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ↑ "Battalion Park". Calgaryplus.ca. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ "View Trackable Log". Geocaching.com. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "Battalion Park — Signal Hill — Calgary, Alberta". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ "Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group, "The Matrix Project", 113th Battalion". Great War Research Company. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ↑ "About Calgary Calgary's Battalion Park Monument". Aboutcalgary.ab.ca. 5–11 November 2001. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
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