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The Game is working hard on his new album 1992 which is expected to hit stores on September 30th and feature no guest artists.
After releasing the music video for his first single 'All Eyez' featuring Jeremih a couple of days ago, Game has unveiled the official artwork for the album today. The cover is created by famed artist Joe Cool, who was responsible for the iconic artwork for Snoop Dogg's Doggystle album. The image has symbolic references to the year 1992.
Game explained the concept for the artwork in a lengthy Instagram post:
Hoodmorning (no typo) #1992 cover art [FOR GAME FANS ONLY] by @jo2cool_the_artist is inspired by what was going on in my life, my city & the world when I was 12 years old coming into my teenage years: The Los Angeles Riots, Michael Jordan & the #DreamTeam featured above on my shirt won Olympic Gold… Crips & bloods were both pulling me in both directions & joining one of the gangs was almost a normality for a young African American male growing up in Compton & the surrounding areas of Los Angeles County….. Rodney King getting abused by the cops was an unforgettable incident & caused mass hysteria worldwide & the famous OJ Simpson car chase/trial was a huge worldwide televised situation that racially divided a country…. So these are some of the many topics based around my childhood touched on in this album Thst I wanted to include in the artwork….. I thank @jo2cool_the_artist (most known for doing @SnoopDogg's 1st album cover #DoggyStyle) for pulling off my ideas & putting them into a dream sequence for me…….. I know my REAL FANS have been asking for album artwork & I know you'll all appreciate this as I finish up album & prepare to tour the world & see all of your faces !!!!!! I love & appreciate y'all & im happy to bring this cover to you guys today !!!! #1992 #NOFEATURES #TheBlackWallStreetRecords #eOne #5thAmmendment #BloodMoneyENT
"Crips & bloods were both pulling me in both directions. Joining one of the gangs was almost a normality for a young African American male growing up in Compton & the surrounding areas of Los Angeles County… Rodney King getting abused by the cops was an unforgettable incident & caused mass hysteria worldwide," he continued.
If you missed it earlier, listen to his latest, controversial song 'The Sauce' here.
UPDATE: Reposting the artwork today, Game has announced that the album will release on October 7th.
UPDATE 2: Check out the official track list here.


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Above, left: Peruvian master musician Tito La Rosa performed the artifact instruments in 2008, demonstrating an impressive range of sounding techniques for these ancient shell horns.
Above, right: Dr. Perry Cook led systematic acoustical measurement sessions in 2008 at the Museo Nacional Chavín.
Video: Cobi van Tonder; Photos: José Luis Cruzado Coronel.
In September 2008, we made acoustic measurements of the Chavín Strombus galeatus marine shell horns, also known as "pututus", excavated from the ceremonial center at Chavín by Dr. John Rick and teams in 2001.
"Acoustic Analysis of the Chavín Pututus (Strombus galeatus marine shell trumpets)"
Perry R. Cook, Jonathan S. Abel, Miriam A. Kolar, Patty Huang, Jyri Huopaniemi, John W. Rick, Chris Chafe, John M. Chowning
Invited paper presented at 2nd Pan American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancún, Mexico, November 2010.
In 2001, twenty Strombus galeatus marine shell trumpets were excavated at the 3,000 year-old ceremonial center at Chavín de Huántar, Perú, marking the first documented contextual discovery of intact sound-producing instruments at this Formative Period site in the Andean highlands. These playable shells are decorated and crafted for musical use with well-formed mouthpieces created by cutting the small end (spire) off and grinding/polishing the resulting opening. The shells are use-polished, and additionally modified with a v-shaped cut to the outer apical lip. We present an acoustic analysis of the measured response of each instrument, to a variety of excitations, at microphones placed in the mouthpiece, player's mouth, bore, bell, and surrounding near-field. From these measurements we characterize each instrument's sounding frequencies (fundamental and 1st overtone where possible), radiation pattern, and impedance, and we estimate the bore area function of each shell. Knowledge of the specific acoustic capabilities of these pututus allows us to understand and test their potential as sound sources in the ancient Chavín context, whose architectural acoustics are simultaneously studied by our research group.
October 2011: Dr. Perry Cook and researcher Miriam Kolar discuss measuring and studying the Chavín pututus.
"Pututus, Resonance and Beats: Acoustic Wave Interference Effects at Ancient Chavín de Huántar, Perú"
Miriam A. Kolar
Presentation in Session 4pAAa:
"Architectural Acoustics and Speech Communication: Acoustic Trick-or-Treat: Eerie Noises, Spooky Speech, and Creative Masking", at the Acoustical Society of America 168th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, 30 October 2014.
Acoustic wave interference produces audible effects observed and measured in archaeoacoustic research at the 3,000–year–old Andean Formative site at Chavín de Huántar, Perú. The ceremonial center's highly–coupled network of labyrinthine interior spaces is riddled with resonances excited by the lower–frequency range of site–excavated conch shell horns. These pututus, when played together in near–unison tones, produce a distinct "beat" effect heard as the result of the amplitude variation that characterizes this linear interaction. Despite the straightforward acoustic explanation for this architecturally enhanced instrumental sound effect, the performative act reveals an intriguing perceptual complication. While playing pututus inside Chavín's substantially intact stone–and–earthen–mortar buildings, pututu performers have reported an experience of having their instruments' tones "guided" or "pulled" into tune with the dominant spatial resonances of particular locations. In an ancient ritual context, the recognition and understanding of such a sensory component would relate to a particular worldview beyond the reach of present–day investigators. Despite our temporal distance, an examination of the intertwined acoustic phenomena operative to this architectural–instrumental–experiential puzzle enriches the interdisciplinary research perspective, and substantiates perceptual claims.

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Yes, Saint Jack is back, just in time to coincide with the 30th Anniversary of the film's commercial release, and as Ben Slater puts it,
almost exactly 30 years since Warners innocently sent a copy to the Singapore Censorship Board for a look-see.
Heh, guess we all know by now what came out of that.
In any case the film's already unbanned, and there has been a couple of past screenings, such as this one some 3 years ago. The Australian DVD is also available at HMV and I think you may just find some stray copies still on the shelves, but nothing beats having to watch it on the big screen on what's possibly one of the best prints out there to be hunted down for exhibition, and shown where else but at the National Museum Gallery Theatre.
Mark the dates of 26th to 28th November on your calendar, because not only cast and crew will make an appearance during the screening, there will also be a bus tour called the Jack of Hearts Mystery Tour where you get to retrace the steps in the scouting team's effort in location finding, offering a unique look into Singapore's past, hosted by Ben Slater (Author of Kinda Hot: The Making of Saint Jack, an excellent, must-read book on the making of Saint Jack) and Tony Yeow (Unit Manager on Saint Jack) who will serve as guides.
So what are you waiting for? See you there!


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1. N-Acetylglucosamine 6-phosphate deacetylase and 2-amino-2-deoxy-d-glucose 6-phosphate ketol-isomerase (deaminating) (EC 220.127.116.11, glucosamine 6-phosphate deaminase) of Escherichia coli K12 have been separated by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose. 2. N-Acetylglucosamine 6-phosphate deacetylase has optimum pH8·5 and Km 0·8mm. Glucosamine 6-phosphate is a product of the reaction. There appear to be no essential cofactors. Glucosamine 6-phosphate and fructose 6-phosphate inhibit deacetylation. 3. Glucosamine 6-phosphate deaminase has optimum pH7·0 and Km 9·0mm. It is stimulated by N-acetylglucosamine 6-phosphate. 4. We propose that the deacetylase be termed 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-glucose 6-phosphate amidohydrolase (EC 3.5.1.–), with acetylglucosamine 6-phosphate deacetylase as a trivial name.
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Authorities blame organized crime and the underground economy
by Mary Beth Sheridan
L.A. Times Staff Writer
Nestor Castellanos eased his 18-wheeler onto the freeway, carefully checking the rearview mirror. Tailing him was a black minivan with two pistol-packing guards. In the seat behind Castellanos perched a former riot police officer, tear gas at the ready.
"We've got dangerous cargo," warned the driver.
Castellanos was beginning one of the most perilous journeys in late 20th century Mexico: carrying bolts of fabric to a ladies' clothing factory in the capital, about 200 miles northwest of this port.
In another sign of the collapse of order in Mexico, brigands are terrorizing the highways in a way not seen since the days of the 1910-17 revolution. Assaults on trucks have soared from a few hundred to perhaps 40,000 a year. Businesses are losing millions of dollars; some now send armed guards to escort truckers like Castellanos, much as Wells Fargo did with its stagecoaches in the Old West.
"There are no authorities. There's a void. [The highways] have become no man's land," said Luis Angel Carvallo, head of the truckers association in Veracruz.
The resurgent piracy reflects one of this country's greatest and most baffling problems-an explosion in crime.
Initially, authorities blamed the high crime rate on the 1995 economic crisis, which sent prices and unemployment skyrocketing. But officials now find that they are confronting something much more sophisticated: criminal empires that include everyone from corrupt police to street merchants. Some legitimate businesspeople are even getting involved.
"There's been a total crack in society," said Carlos Monsivais, a social critic. "Organized crime has become an alternative state."
The highway banditry problem emerged seemingly out of nowhere. Castellanos, 38, said his colleagues suddenly started being attacked four or five years ago. One wound up in a wheelchair after bandits opened fire on his cab. Recently, Castellanos' 18-year-old son was briefly kidnapped by pirates who hijacked the truck in which he was riding.
"You don't know where they'll strike," said Castellanos, easing his rig through rolling, palm-dotted hills, his eyes flitting to the mirror to check on the security van trailing him.
"Some colleagues have been robbed in urban areas. Some at tollbooths," he said. "This has grown too fast."
In fact, Alberto Villagran, damage analyst for the Mexican Insurance Assn., said reported truck robberies shot from 350 in 1993 to nearly 11,000 three years later-and the figures don't include uninsured vehicles, which constitute the majority of trucks on the road.
"People began to steal canned goods. We thought it was because they didn't have money to buy the products," Villagran said. "But with time, we realized: No. It extended to all sorts of products, even raw materials. These are made-to-order robberies."
Authorities blame the underground economy. Traditionally, the government had turned a blind eye to the informal street markets that absorbed hundreds of thousands of unemployed Mexicans. Authorities even helped the vendors in exchange for political support.
Now, authorities are realizing, many street merchants have grown into commercial Frankensteins. If they need bluejeans, color TVs or detergent, they simply turn to a gang of pirates to steal the goods for them.
"The gangs know the factories, the roads, how to do it. They have access and no fear. They have heavy weaponry and stolen cars," said
Leon Halkin, vice president of the Mexican industrialists association.
Trucks aren't the only targets of the modern-day pirates. In the first six months of this year, nearly 300 buses were assaulted on federal highways, according to the Interior Ministry.
But authorities claim to have sharply reduced raids against such passenger vehicles, crimes they say are generally committed by amateurs. In contrast, truck robbery has become so organized and lucrative that authorities are comparing it to narcotics trafficking.
"We're not talking about five or 10 people who decide in the morning to commit a robbery," said Arturo Salinas, head of highway safety at the ministry. "We're talking about well-organized groups with impressive wealth. We're talking about gangs with cars, radio communication, with enough money to buy off truckdrivers, warehouse owners and traffic managers inside businesses."
Consuelo Munoz, a Mexico City prosecutor who handles truck assaults, said she began to realize the scope of the problem in February. Her investigators, acting on a tip, went to check out a warehouse in Jiutepec, about 50 miles south of the capital. Inside they discovered a criminal emporium: 250 tons of Yamaha motorcycles, crystal, Tupperware, bolts of fabric and other goods.
"All of it had been reported stolen," Munoz said.
But the gangs' sophistication goes beyond having their own warehouses. Investigators have discovered that some pirates specialize, focusing on stealing toilet paper, sugar or tires. Others pay customs workers to tip them off when shipments are leaving ports or crossing borders.
Some robbers even reject cargo they don't need. Last year, for example, a band of thieves stopped, then freed, the driver of a truck carrying Nivea face cream, said Cmdr. Fructuoso Gamez, the top investigator for vehicle-robbery operations at the Mexico City prosecutor's office.
"They said, 'No, you're not the one we're looking for,'" said Gamez, explaining that the bandits had expected to find premium cosmetics. Authorities later discovered that the gang had a relative employed at the company who was revealing the trucks' contents, Gamez said.
The reemergence of piracy isn't due only to street merchants. The rise of the illegal economy has coincided with another key phenomenon of social breakdown - the shift of Mexican police into organized crime.
Working police and ex-cops fired in anti-corruption purges have been key participants in the drug-trafficking, kidnapping and highway-robbery gangs that have boomed in recent years, say Mexican and U.S. authorities. As the iron-fisted political system has given way to democracy, the government has lost control over its own security forces, critics say.
"As the destruction of the old way occurs, other unwritten rules disappear with it," said Pete Palmer, head of Problem Solvers, a Mexican security firm that has handled piracy cases.
In the past, police authorities controlled their subordinates through "unwritten rules" allowing the officers to participate in a limited number of crimes in certain areas. Subordinates who got out of line could be killed.
Such control no longer exists. Meanwhile, the justice system has nearly collapsed under the weight of too many cases and too few trained investigators. The resulting impunity makes crime that much more attractive.
Perhaps the most startling development in the piracy boom is the involvement of legitimate businesses and employees. Authorities estimate, for example, that 30 percent or more of truck hijackings involve the vehicle drivers themselves, who allow a prearranged "robbery" in exchange for a payoff.
Some drivers "even have the telephones of representatives of the gangs in different areas. They call them, inform them what kind of merchandise they're carrying, and set a price," said Miguel Quintanilla, head of the national Mexican truckers association.
Some bigger businesses are involved too. Mexico City police investigators have discovered wholesalers who buy stolen goods and mix them with legitimate groceries. There are hijackings of products that could be useful only to industrial clients - things such as chemicals, newsprint, cheese curd.
"People realized it was easier to earn money through crime," said Arturo Gutierrez, coordinator of stolen-vehicle investigations at the Mexico City prosecutor's office.
The hijackings have exacted a heavy financial toll on companies. Halkin, of the industrialists association, estimates that Mexico is losing $500 million a year in potential foreign and domestic investment because of the transportation risk. Grocery, clothing and other companies have had to raise prices 5 percent to 10 percent to compensate for their losses and extra security expenses, he said.
Insurance payouts for cargo robberies jumped 50 percent in a year, totaling about $100 million in the 12-month period ended June 1996, according to the insurance association. Companies subsequently slashed the number of policies they issued for truck cargo, from 350,000 in 1996 to 60,000 currently, said Villagran, the damage analyst.
So many U.S. multinationals have suffered assaults that U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow has complained to the Mexican government. Palmer, the security expert, said some American companies are losing a truckload a day to thieves.
"It's a financial hemorrhage," he said.
Mexican authorities are now trying to crack down on the pirates. Six central states and Mexico City have set up a joint program to share information and stop trucks that appear to have been robbed. Tellingly, the program is called Serpico - after a New York police officer who battled corruption in law enforcement ranks.
The federal government has boosted the budget for security and is investing in a reorganized, better trained highway police force.
Authorities say such efforts are producing results. The Mexico City prosecutor's office reports that robberies in the sprawling capital, the final destination of many trucks, dropped from 28,589 in 1996 to 19,417 in 1998. Salinas, of the Interior Ministry, said assaults on national highways dropped from 427 in the first half of 1998 to 267 in the first half of this year. But security and insurance officials say those figures represent only a fraction of the total, since victims report the heists to different offices or sometimes not at all.
Palmer, the security expert, estimated that the number of truck robberies nationwide has surged to 40,000 a year, ranging from hijackings of tractor-trailers to robberies of goods from delivery trucks.
Villagran believes that the number of robberies continues to rise. "The authorities haven't done their job," he said.
For Castellanos and other truckdrivers, piracy has transformed their work from a secure occupation into a life-threatening one. Truckers groups have appealed in vain to the government to call out the military to patrol the highways, or to let the drivers carry guns. But their only defense is caution.
Occasionally, Castellanos has the luxury of traveling with armed guards on the freeway, as he did on this recent trip from Veracruz to Mexico City.
But providing the guards can double the cost of transportation for the clients. Like most Mexican truckers, Castellanos generally travels alone at night on poorly lighted local roads, since his company can't afford to pay the expensive freeway tolls and remain competitive.
When he arrives safely at his destination, he breathes a sigh of relief. "I commend myself to God. I go always with him," Castellanos said.
"What else can we do? We have to go on working."
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April 2, 2009
Softie designing dilemmas,
15 comments:
- Dolci Fusa said...
How cute!
I've noticed the deletion on Flickr, very disappointing thing.
- April 3, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- andrea said...
Oh my,I guess I'd better check my flickr account,I don't know if it's linking or not.
Anyway- I love your patterns and your blog-I've been reading it for awhile...
I have been trying to get a 'stuffed bird' done this week for Easter presents,and it's just so different going from drawing to stuffed animal and I'm not having any luck.It's not as easy as it seems:)sometimes drawings don't quite work out the way we, or at least I want them too.
Love the badger btw...
Have a great weekend-
- April 3, 2009 at 3:40 PM
- Laura said...
It shows how creative you are that you even thought of doing a badger! I think he is adorable!
- April 3, 2009 at 4:25 PM
- Whosies said...
i too have just jumped into the pattern making thing. i love how you speak of the publishing and sharing of patterns to others. i find it hard to 'share' too. i was in the duldrums for a bit, but now the interest is back again. love the badger and the thought of the fox, i can only imagine. for me- it is hard to determine my style. who am i and what do i like in the things i make and portray. realistic is a hard things because we compare so much and are judgers, but then the cartoon-stylish ones get the same treatment. is there really a happy middle ground? still trying to find it.
- April 3, 2009 at 5:48 PM
- Kitty said...
I love Mr Badger - he is just right. Gorgeous.
Pleased that Flickr seem to have done a small *something* to make amends. Doesn't make up for all the images and contacts you (presumably) lost though, does it? :-(
- April 3, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- tam said...
He is adorable!Thank you for the ispiration to create! Glad to hear you got your flicker back, and congrats on the magazine article too! have a fun weekend~Tam! :D
- April 3, 2009 at 7:24 PM
- smileybella said...
I adore the cartoonlike features of your creatures, and the fabrics you choose are just divine. I also love your stitching. On the issue of colour, don't you find you are not only drawn to colours for certain creatures but are also drawn to colours depending on the season, the year? I used to hate orange. I can't get enough of it now. Interesting...
- April 3, 2009 at 10:22 PM
- i cant sew said...
your designs are unique to you, just like a thumbprint or signature. you can spot your work a mile away which i a good thing. you should be able to do that with most artists think about it if picasso changed his images to be more realistic???? wouldnt work would it? love your work
%*_*% rosey
- April 3, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Chrissy's Creations said...
Ohhh it's ADORABLE!!! TFS
- April 4, 2009 at 6:36 AM
Thanks for the info about Flickr. The badger is adorable. Just looked at the issue of UK Handmade- your project is adorable. Keep up the good work...
- April 4, 2009 at 8:02 AM
- Olugbemisola (Mrs.Pilkington) said...
love the badger -- so much personality! I'm glad Flickr made some sort of amends, what they did was ridiculous.
- April 4, 2009 at 8:18 AM
- Helena said...
He's gorgeous! I love him! :)
- April 5, 2009 at 12:51 AM
- ClaireP said...
Your badger is just so cute! :)
- April 5, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- Indigo Blue said...
Some of my images on Flickr are linked to my blog. I do not remember seeing anywhere in the Flickr sign-up rules that said you could not. You are not selling from your blog, your blog gives more detail about your pictures than can be said on Flickr. Sounds like an over zealous person at work at Flickr.
Love your owl, that ius how i found you.
- April 6, 2009 at 10:38 AM
- craft said...
so cute.. :)
- April 17, 2009 at 3:40 AM


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We're always on the hunt for text editing tools to replace Apple's feeble TextEdit. Bean is good as a general word processor, while Scrivener is great for large, research-driven projects. But we still need a text editor for readme files, notes and quick coding jobs. Enter xPad.
It's a simple text editor with very basic formatting functions. A floating font window takes care of typeface selection, sizing and weight. You can also highlight and strikethrough areas of text, which is handy for editing. Grammar and spelling tools are included, as well as search and substitution features.
xPad's real strength is in its organisational abilities. Any document you import is added to a pop-out drawer at the side of the application. The default category for these is named Documents, but you can create new categories to make a bespoke filing system. You can even colour code categories. This is the feature that makes xPad a viable TextEdit alternative. Use it to store and easily find snippets of code, to-do lists, research, recipes and so on.
There are some cons to all this simplicity. Though xPad offers document word counts we had to search for it. There are no character or section counts. Also, we spent a good few minutes looking for a way to open old documents using the menu, before realising that the correct command is Import.
xPad has replaced both TextEdit and Stickies on our system. As a free download, there's no reason why it can't do the same on yours.


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Criticism mounts of Egypt's NGO raids
Dec. 30 - Egyptians protest against military rule a day after prosecutors and police raided the offices of 17 pro-democracy and human rights groups. Nick Rowlands reports.
A few on the egyptians hold a protest against -- fuel and climbers toughest work. A -- off the prosecutors and police raided the offices of seventeen pro democracy and human rights groups. Had to -- from Human Rights Watch says the -- reflects the number of the political space for critical voices in the country. The radius is a very very serious escalation and an unprecedented move this that it didn't happen under Mubarak you know. Every now and then that -- on one Ngo. But this kind of ruled sweet looking at the international egyptians is it's an extremely serious movement and of course the decision to close some of them down and for the moment also. Debates on those they often -- and included three prominent US backed Foreman organizations. This mobile phone footage obtained by Al-Jazeera shows the off them off of debate on the offices of the national democratic constituents. The state news agency said the groups have been such as part of an investigation into -- funding. Want some activists claim Egypt's ruling military council is deliberately stoking xenophobia. To deflect attention from its own funds. The crackdown on foreign funding is not without support. Independent presidential candidate -- got. -- and my personal opinion is that they reject any organization that takes money from a broad any organization that takes even one pound from the group. I -- moment to be close we shouldn't vote rule except that anyone -- us in order to run our country we have -- in our own country. And he wouldn't -- -- with a little enhance any organization that takes money from a -- even an Egyptian pounds and considered it and that's just out. It probably a spokeswoman for the State's department said the US is deeply concerned that the -- We call on the Egyptian government to immediately. And the harassment and he has Ngo staff return all property and resolve this issue immediately. Civil society groups have become increasingly vocal in criticizing what they -- the army's heavy handed tactics in dealing with street unrest in Egypt. Nickelodeon's. Voices. It.


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Carino's Italian is a United States-based chain of Italian food casual dining restaurants. It has more than 170 restaurants with branches in about 30 states. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the concept is owned by Fired Up, Inc., which was founded in 1997 by partners and former Brinker International executives Norman Abdallah and Creed Ford. Prior to 2006, restaurants were called Johnny Carino's Country Italian, Johnny Carino's Italian then changed to Carino's Italian Grill.
Asiago Smashed Potatoes
Carino's Asiago Smashed Potatoes
Copycat Recipe
5 lbs red potatoes
1/2 cup olive oil
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons black pepper
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh chopped rosemary
Sauce (per portion)
1/3 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon Asiago cheese
Prepare a batch of roasted rosemary potatoes: Thoroughly wash potatoes under water. Cut potatoes into 1-2 inch sized wedges. Toss all ingredients in a mixing bowl and place potatoes evenly on sheet trays. Roast in an oven at 350 Degrees F for 30 minutes or until potatoes are tender and have a golden brown color. Make sure to stir the potatoes halfway through the cooking process. Remove from the oven and set aside.
Mash the potatoes and add sauce: (this part of the recipe is for one side portion) Place 1 cup of the the roasted potatoes into a zip-loc bag. Smash all of the potatoes in the bag with the heel of your hand to break up all the bigger lumps. To a heated saute pan, add potatoes and cream. Make sure that potatoes are fully heated. Fold in asiago cheese. (thickens quickly at this point).
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A Seminar with Carole Joy Seid
Upcoming Seminars
Seminar speaker & consultant, Carole Joy Seid is a veteran home school mother who has a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hamilton College and a master's degree in education from S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo. She has taught in both public and Christian schools, has spoken at numerous conventions and works as an educational consultant with families across the country.
Attention CCA moms! We will be carpooling down to Irvine on Saturday October 17th for Carole's seminar "A Literature Based Approach to Education."
Carole's seminars are life changing and will bring a peace and a breathe of fresh air to your homeschool!
Click on the "Upcoming Seminars" link above to sign up/pay for the seminar and then e-mail the school office to sign up for your carpool spot. We will be bringing a packed lunch.


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Wisconsin LB Russo has gone from Iraq to Rose Bowl
Badgers reserve spent two tours of duty overseas
Madison - Greg Russo plans to cherish this holiday season.
Spend Christmas Eve in Lake Mills with his parents. Drive to Green Bay on Christmas Day to watch the Packers host the Chicago Bears. Fly to Los Angeles on Monday with his University of Wisconsin teammates to continue preparations for the Jan. 2 Rose Bowl.
"What better way to end the year than to be in the Granddaddy of them all?" Russo, a senior reserve defensive end said after a recent practice. "Ringing in the New Year with these guys. . . . I couldn't think of anybody else better. All of my friends on the team now. . . . the coaches.
"That's OK with me."
You won't find a UW player who isn't excited about UW's second consecutive trip to the Rose Bowl.
Yet you might not find a player on the roster whose excitement level surpasses that of Russo, who does not expect to play in the game.
When you've twice spent Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's in a war zone as a member of the Wisconsin National Guard, your appreciation of freedom and football changes.
"I think it adds some perspective," said sophomore linebacker Chris Borland, who sat out the 2011 Rose Bowl after undergoing shoulder surgery. "Greg has been through more than anybody on the team, it is safe to say.
"I think guys understand where football comes in and really when you compare the struggles you have in the game of football compared to what Greg has gone through, you gain perspective."
Russo's story isn't a secret.
A 2003 graduate of Lake Mills High School, Russo attended UW-Whitewater for one year (2003-'04) but didn't play football. He joined the National Guard and eventually served two tours in Iraq, for a total of nearly 21 months. His assignment was to provide security for the base and convoys that often entered hostile territory.
Between deployments, Russo took classes at UW-Whitewater and Madison Area Technical College.
He returned home from duty in January 2010, began working out, enrolled at UW last winter, joined the team as a walk-on for spring ball. Originally ruled ineligible to play by the NCAA, Russo won an appeal and was able to play in the closing minutes of the regular-season finale against Penn State.
Russo spent Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day in Iraq in 2005-'06 and 2009-'10.
"Our campaign then was called the surge," Russo said of the first deployment. "We were on a lot of missions. We were in harm's way pretty regularly."
Russo, 26, doesn't share with his teammates the details of his duty overseas, but he knows men who died.
"That's not something that we talk about," he said. "You kind of put that aside. You understand the bond you (soldiers) have with each other."
Talk to his teammates and they'll tell you two things:
They rarely, if ever, faced danger growing up. They can't imagine what it must be like to have to carry an M-16 for protection.
"Growing up in South Florida, I hung around with the preppy kids," redshirt sophomore linebacker Conor O'Neill said, grinning. "I didn't find myself in (rough) neighborhoods. I've been fortunate that I haven't been put in any of those situations. . . . We played ding-dong ditch and had water balloon fights.
"You see it talking to Greg. He is above and beyond. He came into the program last winter not knowing if he would get a chance to play. But you see his drive and his motivation.
"I can't imagine the things soldiers go through. You have to be a different individual. People in the military . . . that's something I honor and respect. I can't thank them enough."
Russo explained another reason he doesn't share many stories from his time in Iraq.
"I don't want to sit and preach about my time overseas," he said, "If somebody is tired I can remind them what being really tired is."
In Iraq, tired was going 72 to 96 hours without sleep because the mission didn't allow it.
"You might sleep on the floor . . . wherever you were," he said. "I've slept in Humvees. I've slept in crawl spaces. I've slept in tents on a bed of rocks with a little carpet on top. You sleep when you can."
And you deal with the heat. From June to September the range is about 115 degrees out of the sun and up to 150 in the sun. Then when the temperature plummets at night you adjust.
"There is nothing comparable to that," redshirt junior offensive tackle Ricky Wagner said. "I have a lot of respect for him. To a lot of people football is hard. I can't imagine what going over there would be like."
Russo was back home last January when UW fell to Texas Christian University, 21-19, in the Rose Bowl.
He watched that game on TV and struggled to control his nerves.
"I was on edge," he said. "It was not fun to watch that game."
He'll have a better vantage point this time as ninth-ranked UW (11-2) tries to upset No. 6 Oregon (11-2).
"If it is anything like standing on the sideline here at Camp Randall, I'm going to be on edge," he said. "I'll be the one on the sideline, right up to the line, just about falling onto the field."
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I couldn't convince anyone from the first party to join me, traditionally they always go to a typical Izakaya 居酒屋 restaurant. Nothing says Halloween better than that. Heaven forbid they should try something different and help out a charitable organization at the same time. A dozen of them ended up at Bar Isn't It but those are doors through which I refuse to enter.
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Good day again SNUBA Divers. your pictures have been posted on our website. Please visit our galleries and download them for free.
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The Private SNUBA Tour with our two guests was awesome and the pictures that were taken are now uploaded to our website snubasxm.com
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I Decided to investigate the visibility with my drone this morning, so after the pre flight checks, sent the Mavic into the sky and headed out to oversee Great Bay and the harbor.
Today we seem to have three cruise ships in of which two Royal Caribbean with which we have contracts. And although we only have a few guests this afternoon, it is really good to see this all happening again.
The Christmas Winds, as the locals call them, are blowing vastly. Three weeks late for Christmas of course, but well… everything is late in Sint Maarten, so no surprise there.
As you might be able to see in the pictures, the visibility is clearing up nicely now, I can see big patches of the bottom, even from a height of almost 200ft / 60mtr up in the air.
There is not much going on yet in Sint Maartens' capital, Philipsburg. Everybody is still waking up, drinking their coffee or finishing their preparations. Soon, it will be one of the busier days since September 4th, 2017. I live a ten minute walk from Philipsburg, but it could take over 20 minutes by car when this all starts happening. amazing!
Looking forward to a good day with nice guests and dives.
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See you all one day for your SNUBA Experience with us in Sint Maarten, Caribbean.
On January 2, 2018 we finally went out with our brand new boat and for the first time in 3 months, 3 weeks, 1 day and some change, we enjoyed SNUBA with a two great groups of people. The boat behaved nicely and we hadn't forgotten our diving and entertaining skills yet. What an awesome day we had! And although the Hurricanes have handed devastating blows to everything above and under water, we can see everything restoring nicely. Keep finding us…. things will be better and better.
Next stop would be the rebuild of our platform. I have decided to make it nearly identical to the one we had before, but this time it will be only a foot and a bit above the surface, instead of 4 feet. It is going to take a while before that is realized because we do still need to climb out the hole, but we should get there somewhere in the next feet months.
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Wednesday evening (May 23rd), was able to catch some of the action in the openers for the night on Fields #1 and #2. On Field #1, it was 11-12 yo Sumner Communications hosting Caldwell. SUTV is coached by Jimmy Thornton.
It was a close, back and forth battle throughout. Tied, going into the final inning 6-6, Caldwell bats exploded putting up 5 runs, SUTV couldn't answer this time around. Great game by both squads. In the end it was 11-12 yo Caldwell 11 SUTV 6
Over on Field #2, another close battle, featuring another Caldwell team, the 9-10 yo group, being hosted by Brownlee Heating & Air, coached by Chad Bannister. BHA jumped out early on the visiting boys in blue, but tenacity prevailed in the end for the visitors, in a game called because of "time", it was 9-10 yo Caldwell 11 Brownlee Heating & Air 9 - close game, well played game by both squads!
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When Maria Dismondy asked if I wanted to join her on her book tour, I jumped at the opportunity. Her books are wonderful and always offer an important lesson that needs to be shared, talked about and or addressed. This book is no exception.
Chocolate Milk, Por Favor! as the title suggests, celebrates diversity with empathy and a situation that many of our young students might identify with.
Here is the book synopsis to get a better idea of what this little gem is all about.
Johnny is a big fan of school but that all changes when the new kid, Gabe arrives. Gabe doesn't speak any English, and that doesn't stop Johnny from going out of his way to be unkind. But what will Johnny do when Gabe starts to make new friends? Will he join in the fun of making a new friend or turn the other way? Johnny realizes a powerful message in this story where student differences are celebrated. Read to find out how chocolate milk plays a major role in the discovery of the real universal language.
Instead of talking about a character lesson, I am going to look at the book like I look at all the books I review, what reading skills and strategies can I pull out of this book so that I can use it for more than just character lesson.
So here is what I came up with...
Reading level: 3.1
Theme/subject: Diversity, empathy
Genre: fiction
Suggested vocabulary/phrases: delicioso, smacked his lips, trying to master, motioned, beamed, something clicked, actions speak louder than words
Reading skills and strategies:
- Asking questions – these are possible questions or wonderings from either the student or teacher
- Before
- I wonder what the story is going to be about.
- I wonder what chocolate milk and soccer have to do with each other.
- I wonder why Johnny was being so mean to Gabe.
- I wonder what Gabe thinks of Johnny.
- I wonder why Johnny won't be nice to Gabe.
- I wonder why the other kids were being nice to Gabe.
- I wonder why it took Johnny so long to be friendly to Gabe.
- I wonder if Johnny is feeling how Gabe felt when he sat alone at lunch.
- I wonder what "actions speak louder than words" means.
- After
- I wonder if Johnny and Gabe are now best friends.
**Remember to have your students answer/reflect their questions.
- Author's point of view – Third person
- Author's purpose – Entertain/Inform
- Evidence – The main character learned an important lesson about being a friend. The cover shows a boy standing on a wave of chocolate milk.
- Beginning, middle, end – the most important event from each
- Beginning – Gabe started a new school and Johnny thought he was a crybaby.
- Middle – The other kids started including Gabe which made Johnny feel left out.
- End – Gabe helped Johnny do a soccer move that he was having trouble with.
- Cause and effect
- Why did Johnny think the new kid was a baby? Because he was crying.
- How come Johnny didn't smile when his teacher introduced the class to Johnny? Because he didn't like crybabies.
- Why did Johnny finally talk to Gabe? Because Gabe was doing a tricky soccer move that he had been trying to do by himself.
- How come Johnny was able to finally do the tricky soccer move? Because Gabe spent time showing Johnny how to do it.
- Why did Johnny finally get how Gabe must have felt? Because Johnny was so frustrated trying to learn the tricky soccer move that he wanted to cry.
- Why did Johnny bring chocolate milk to Gabe? Because Johnny knew it was his favorite.
- Why was it going to be a great day? Because Johnny finally understood that to have a friend is to first be a friend.
- Classify - New students at a school
- Categorize
- Ways to make them feel accepted
- Ways to make them feel sad and lonely
- Johnny and Gabe
- You and Johnny
- You and Gabe
- Johnny and another classmate
- Gabe and another classmate
- Text-to-self
- Being new to a school
- Feeling sad on the first day of school
- Someone calling you a crybaby
- Helping a new student
- Feeling left out and alone
- Being someplace where you didn't know the language
- Any of Maria Dismondy's books
- Text clues – Gabe was friendly to the other kids. He smiled and waved and he kept trying.
- What I know – I know that it is important to be friendly to new kids because it can be scary starting a new school when you don't know anyone.
- My conclusion – I think the other kids were being nice to Gabe because Gabe was being friendly to them and they wanted Gabe to feel like he was part of their class.
Do you have to speak the same language to be friends with or have fun with someone?
- Text clues – Gabe didn't understand when the kids asked him to play soccer with them, but he did understand when they waved their hands inviting him over.
- What I know – I know that people can learn and figure things out by watching. I also know that hand gestures and facial expressions can say as much as words.
- My conclusion – I don't think you have to speak the same language to be friends with someone because being nice and playing doesn't require words.
- Main idea & details
- Main idea – The story is mostly about a new boy at school named Gabe and a boy Johnny at school that doesn't like Gabe because he doesn't speak English.
- Details
- Johnny calls Gabe a crybaby.
- Johnny won't share his book with Gabe.
- Johnny doesn't understand why the other kids ask Gabe to play when he can't even understand English.
- What do you think the story is going to be about?
- What kind of day do you think Gabe is going to have?
- Do you think Johnny and Gabe will be friends?
- Do you think Johnny will ever be nice to Gabe?
- Do you think the other kids will be like Johnny?
- Do you think Johnny and Gabe will become best friends?
- Problem – Johnny is treating Gabe unkindly because he does not know how to speak English and because he cried on the first day of school.
- Solution – Gabe doesn't let Johnny's unkindness keep him from becoming friends with the other kids and being nice to Johnny. Even though Johnny hasn't been nice to Gabe, Gabe shows him how to do a tricky soccer move.
- Gabe starts a new school and is crying as he says goodbye to his mom.
- Johnny thinks Gabe is a crybaby.
- Johnny won't share his book with Gabe.
- Gabe sat alone at lunch.
- Johnny watched Gabe do a tricky soccer move and wondered how he did it.
- The classmates invited Gabe to be on their team while Johnny sat out by himself.
- Gabe kept trying new things.
- Johnny sat alone at lunch.
- Johnny asked Gabe to show him how to do the tricky soccer move.
- Johnny finally got the trick and figured out how Gabe must have felt starting a new school.
- Johnny brought Gabe some chocolate milk the next day.
- When Johnny called Gabe a crybaby – Think about how you would feel if someone called you a crybaby. What would you say to Johnny about his actions?
- When Johnny wouldn't share his book with Gabe – Think about a time when you might not have shared something with another person, how do you think you made them feel? What would you say to Johnny about his actions?
- When the classmates asked Gabe to be on their team – Think about a time when someone asked you to play unexpectedly, how did that make you feel? What would you say to the classmates for asking Gabe to join them?
- When Johnny was sitting by himself feeling all alone – Think about a time when you were left out of an activity or game, how did you feel? What would you say to Johnny about his actions?
- Someone - Gabe
- Wanted – wanted to fit in at his new school
- But –but Johnny was making it hard for him
- So – so the other classmates finally asked Gabe to join their team
- Then – then it was Johnny not fitting in and
- Finally – finally Johnny figured out how Gabe must have felt at the new school so he started to be friendlier to him.
- To have a friend you must be a friend first
- Actions speak louder than words
- Gabe was a new student that didn't speak English. Johnny wasn't nice to Gabe because he didn't speak English. Visualize what you would do to help a new student in your classroom that didn't speak English.
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I have been a patient advocate already for a couple of years.
Now I also hope to make a broader contribution to Inspire2live as an organization and its reach through the communication team. I look forward to successfully conveying our message in our communication strategy.
Our message is one of knowledge, passion and drive. To turn our experience either as patients or as family of patients to getting cancer under control. In understanding what it means to go through this hard experience, is that we understand the power, insight in the care systems and the ability to change it that each of us has. This is all driven by love and life. Sometimes we loose in the outcome; when we have to say goodbye to the ones we love far before their time. Let's make sure we always win and may we all live happy and healthy lives until we at least reach the wonderful age of 87 years old.


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In 53 BC, a Roman army was slaughtered by Parthian cavalry in the desert east of the Euphrates River, and the shadow of that defeat lies even today over the legendary Silk Road. Barely 700 miles into his own trip along the Silk Road, British travel writer Colin Thubron stopped in Yongchang, a country town in central China, lured there by reports of a statue of a Chinese mandarin, flanked by a Roman soldier and a Roman matron.
Thubron found the statue, and also met a number of townspeople with distinctly Western features. Standing with two such men amid a crowd with more typically Chinese faces, he writes, "I imagined us three Europeans." And when he leaves to continue his journey, one of them says in farewell, "My people were Romans."
History and DNA testing confirm those family memories, for the survivors of that long-ago battle became mercenaries guarding the Parthians' eastern borders, and reports of them appear in ancient Chinese annals and place names.
As Thubron writes in "Shadow of the Silk Road," his elegant account of a rough two years' trek, to travel it along some 7,000 miles from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian, across deserts and through mountain passes, to Antioch, Turkey, "is to follow a ghost," officially unmarked, but still vibrant with the movement, east to west and west to east, of people and their goods, and of legends.
In a bus lumbering toward the western Chinese oasis town of Cherchen at the edge of the forbidding Taklamakan Desert, Thubron muses that "over this desolation, centuries of caravans had moved. Through my splintered window I looked out on their memory with amazement. At different periods, everything on the known earth had passed this way: frankincense, rhinoceros horn, cucumbers, musk, dwarfs, lapis lazuli, peacocks. . . . Wares changed hands so often, or so distantly, that their origins became fabulous and forgotten."
But the reason the road existed, from earliest times -- even before that Roman defeat -- was Chinese silk, found in tombs from 1500 BC in Afghanistan and a princely grave of Iron Age Germany. Thubron's was not a tourist's vacation. He travelled by hard-sleeper train and peasant-packed bus , remarking that one train was "like a refugee camp on the move." One night his lodgings were in "a steel shipment container piled with the wreckage of beds and stoves. . . . packed with herdsmen and two poachers fishing the lake." What he found were wind-eroded ruins and, in Afghanistan, wrecked Russian tanks. He spent time in Xian, at the Buddhist grotto caves at Dunhuang, and, tucking his non-Muslim face into his anorak, at the grand 15th-century mosque at Meshed, in western Iran.
Thubron is a patient traveller, invariably finding someone with whom to converse, learning life stories and local legends. His accounts are brief but vivid. There is Dolkon, a Uighur youth with whom he is quarantined for several days at Cherchen because of the then-raging SARS epidemic. "There flows out of him . . . a torrent of inventions which have flowered in his head," among them a labour-saving grain sifter. He has already paid a metallurgist to make the first component and is saving up to pay for second.
And looking for shelter one night near an ancient caravanserai in Kyrgyzstan, its caretaker, Nazira, "a young woman robust in baggy jacket and trousers," has a spare yurt. She offers supper and talks of how "in summer she rode her glossy horses," and in winter with her neighbours "would drive their horse-carts across the snow, singing in the sunlight -- and that was happiness."
The book contains maps on which Thubron's route is marked, but for illustration there are only his detail-coloured accounts. Readers who would like to see for themselves can do so with the Japanese-Chinese television series "The Silk Road," filmed in the 1980s and available now (with English narration) on DVD.
This review first appeared in the Boston Globe.
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Hello everyone my name is Leo and I found out about this club from Bill.
I own a 2000 Mazda Miata 2 months ago. when I picked it up they had aftermarket headlights and a nb-2 front bumper along with the 16 inch sport Wheels.
So far since I've owned it I've gotten a used smoothline hardtop, new wheels, i have ordered new coilovers and a front lip.
I am in the Navy and have been in for almost 17 years I live in Marysville and soon will be working at naval station whidbey island.
i am 34, married and have 5 kids. Trying to get my oldest to buy a miata also she is 16.
hopefully I get a chance to meet most of you.
Hi Leo, and welcome to the club! Will you be attending the New Member's Run this Sunday? It's always a great event. Hope to meet you soon.
I just joined as well! I'm 29. I live down in the south sound in Eatonville. Fortunately its right between Bremerton and Packwood so i plan on autocrossing this year. I have a red 97 miata with some new tires and coil overs. I've gone to a couple meet ups around my area and its been really fun. The people are very nice and have great stories.
I just wish there were more events going on! I can't wait for winter to end.
Hi Joe, and welcome. I've done some autocross, it sure is a blast. You will have a lot of fun. We are all ready for this winter to end! Can't wait to get out and do some driving in the twisties. ;^]
Going to the new members meeting! Hope to see you all there!
Hi Leo! I'm new as well. I was admiring your car. I believe I was in front of you during the drive. Your car sounded great.


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Who is David Mann? The MANN who single handily defined and captured the outlaw chopper lifestyle in paint and is most well known for his prints in each issue of Easyrider Magazine, starting in issue 3 and ending in 2003 due to poor health.
The wild lure of the West Coast drew him and buddy Al Burnett so they peeled rubber to Santa Monica California. While cruising the seaside community he stumbled across Bay Area Muffler and there he discovered completely insane chopped Harleys. Dave was immediately hooked, much like the rest of us.
He returned home to buy his first bike, a 1948 Panhead. At the same time he created his first artistic creation, "Hollywood Run."
It represented the wild, unleashed, Hollywood outlaw lifestyle. Riding his Panhead with his first painting tucked under his arm, he entered the 1963 Kansas City Custom Car Show. That car show launched Dave's artistic/biker career. He had the only custom-bike entry in the show, so for his creative efforts the judges initiated a new class and trophy specifically for Dave.
In addition, a Sioux City, Iowa, club member named Tiny noticed Dave and took him under his wing. Tiny took a Polaroid of his first painting and sent it to the eccentric Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, the California custom car creator and publisher of the first chopper magazine. Dave painted several posters for Big Daddy Roth. In 1965, David went to work for Dave Poole, who taught him the precise craft that Dave has incorporated into his fanciful art for the last 30 years.
In 1971, Dave discovered a new magazine with a twist—Easyriders! It was the first full-fledged, lifestyle-related bike rag. Since the third issue, Dave has followed—and in some aspects led—the industry by capturing the essence of a changing lifestyle on the center- spreads of Easyriders. Regarding the future of custom bikes, David said, "I see many builders going the way of the full-fendered bikes, and I love 'em. But, like you, I will always be a chopper rider at heart." Sadly, in 2004 David passed but he will eternally be remembered for defining the chopper scene so perfectly.
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By Zachary Rousseas
We have a pretty interesting object this week: a rooster costume, from the estate of Laura Woodward LeFevre. This costume was worn in 1924 by Ralph LeFevre, a New Paltz resident and descendant. In 1924, the town celebrated the 246th year celebration of the settling of the village originally settled as Die Pfalz by the Huguenots. The same year was the 300th anniversary of the settling in New Netherland by the Huguenots. This celebration was kicked off with a pageant, which you can read about in the previous Object of the Week post, a parade, and many other festivities.
Unfortunately, the rooster costume and Ralph LeFevre are missing from the Pageant playbook featured in last week's post. We can only speculate how this costume could have been used back in 1924. LeFevre could have been an extra in one of the plays, or he may have worn it to celebrate the farmlands that would have been so important to the New Paltz community during its original settling, and still to this day. The Rooster costume was created from a variety of different materials: the head was created from rust wool and its red stiffened top cock was of cotton, the eyes were made of black buttons, and the hood was brown cotton with tan cotton on the underside, the beak was wooden, and the tongue was a red flannel. The materials used to create the rooster costume are especially important because of the availability of the items and how many of them would have been available in an average household.
Yet, finding this rooster costume may not be as obscure as had been originally anticipated. Costumes were more common in the early 20th century than they are in contemporary times. National Geographic Magazine explains, "masquerade parties in the United States were much more common a hundred years ago, when people dressed up not just for Halloween but also for several other holidays, including Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve […]."1 Similarly pageants depicting "[…] episodes from a town's early years rather than the recent past, evident in historical pageants of the 1910s, grew more prominent in the 1920s."2 There are numerous other examples of this in the Historic Huguenot Street collections, fashion and costumes were an integral piece of society in previous centuries.
The existence of this rooster costume in our collections is telling about costumes, fashion, and party culture around 100 years ago, alongside being one of the more peculiar objects we have seen so far on this blog. Additionally, this rooster costume allows us a glimpse into how the descendants in the early 20th century viewed tradition, their history, and their Huguenot ancestors.
1 Photograph Copyright DaZo Vintage Stock Photos, Images.com, Corbis. "Halloween Costume Pictures: Spooky Styles a Century Ago." National Geographic. National Geographic Society, 29 Oct. 2010. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.
2 Glassberg, David. American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1990. Print.


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'…I knew we would go the distance, the first time he ended a text with a double xx…'
'…the night we first made love something changed within me. I knew she was better than the rest of the girls I'd slept with.
That week…'
'…we kissed goodbye at the train station after spending a night of unbridled passion, tangled in each other. He said he would call me later and off I skipped filled with anticiaption. I waited and I waited.
He came online, he went offline, and then I never heard from him again…'
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The 20+ year bull market in bonds came with tumbling interest rates.
And for years, economists, strategists, and various pundits incorrectly predicted that interest rates had "nowhere to go but up."
But rates began to rally in May, which was when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the Fed could soon begin to taper its large-scale asset purchase program (LSAP). Also known as quantitative easing, the LSAP consisted of the monthly purchases of $85 billion worth of Treasury and mortgage securities. Tapering is considered the first step on the long path of unwinding the Fed's ultra-easy monetary policy, a process that would mean higher, more normal interest rates.
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Deutsche Bank's Joseph LaVorgna and Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg each sent us long-term charts of the 10-year Treasury Note yield, which turned up sharply this year.
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text: The 3rd annual TomKat Studio gift guide just came out this week. I have to admit that this is quickly becoming one of the top 5 things I look forward to before Christmas! Once again this year I was lucky enough to get to put together "Gifts for Beauty Queens". You pretty much can't go wrong with any of the must have delights I picked out but if your aren't shopping for the beauty minded there are plenty of other gift ideas for literally everyone on your shopping list. I ended up adding several of the gift ideas to my shopping list this year. High fives to Kim for killing it yet again. Totally psyched about the party printables and recipes that were added this year as well. I don't know why I am blabbing on and on about it… just view it for yourself!


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Pip Takes The Overall Youth Crown.
Naish Sails would like to congratulate new signing to the Naish UK Pro
Windsurfing Team Pip Pardoe for taking the Overall Youth Wave title of the
2004 UKWA Triple Crown Series.
Pip aged 18 from Whitstable in Kent, battled hard in the final competition
of the Triple Crown Series recently held on the Scottish Isle of Tiree,
and although finishing the competition in 2nd place this was enough for
him to secure the Overall Crown from Chris Murray.
"This was my first experience of Tiree both on and off the water, and I
was keen to savor every minute of it." Having just signed to Naish Pip
added "I also wanted to prove my worth and appreciation in Naish's
belief in me as a sailor. What could be better than by winning a National
Richard Marsh from Naish commented "Pip has been part of Naish for a
couple of years through the Naish Opinion Leader Scheme in association
with Whitstable Windsurfing. He's a true character in the best sense of
the word who enjoys competing as well as passing on his knowledge and
skills instructing people to windsurf in Whitstable. We are please to have
been able to offer Pip the opportunity of joining the Naish Pro
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I recently composed an article about my inner competitiveness. If you didn't read it, it's okay. The thought I was trying to convey is this: the drive to be competitive dampers my quality of work. I've come to realize the deeper issue, though. It's not just competitiveness. It's a lack of mindfulness.
I'm not mindful.
I've dabbled with meditation in the past, but I've never committed to it as a full-time practice. I recently joined David Cain's Camp Calm. I'm only two days into the material, but I'm learning more about myself than I thought possible. The thought that stuck with me today is being mindful.
I'm guilty of not living in the moment.
- If I'm taking a shower, it's to get clean so that I can get to the next thing.
- If I'm fixing a bug in a codebase, it's to get it done so I can get to the next thing.
- If I'm eating dinner, it's to stop being hungry to that I can get to the next thing.
The next thing is where I have been living my life, not in the present. I'm not enjoying life's little moments. What if I did the following?
- Focus on the shower I'm taking, not the next thing I need to do. I can concentrate on the warm water and the joy I get from being clean.
- Take the time to understand, fix, and try to prevent that bug in the code. Instead of ravenously hunting it down, I could take steps to see how it got there.
- Enjoy every bite of my food and the company, if any. I could take the time to taste the food. I eat very fast, which is also a contributor to my constant weight gain.
The practice of meditation aside, mindfulness is something
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What can I say, I love this pattern! Universally flattering, easy to fit and a classic versatile design. Of course I refer to Elisalex by indie pattern makers By Hand London.
This is my third version of this dress (previous versions here and here), but my first sleeveless version.
I had a party to go to this weekend and the theme was 'Black and White Cocktail'. What perfect excuse to roll out this favourite pattern again?
Construction wise I don't have much to say as it went together just like my previous versions. Although, for some reason I had a small issue with the back gaping a little, nothing major, but enough to bother me. I didn't really want to take any fabric out so I resolved this by running a little elastic along the edge to gently pull it in. You can see in the photo below that there some small gathers, but when I am standing and moving this flattens out. I suspect some more stay stitching along this edge might prevent this in future.
The fabric is a delightful black heavy polyester blend from my favourite treasure house of gorgeous fabrics, Alannah Hill, and bought during the recent shopping expedition as part of Frocktails in Melbourne. It is a stunning fabric, but not without its woes. It was a pain to work with, frayed a lot and has absolutely no "give" at all. This has resulted in a slightly more fitted dress than my previous versions, but I don't mind this so much. Being a cocktail dress I didn't expect to be slouching around and so pretty much zero ease is ok.
The fabric is much stiffer than my that used in my previous versions and initially I found the skirt to stick out too much. After a call for help on twitter, and taking some advice from my fellow sewists, I took the seams in another 1″ on each side, resulting in the skirt being less voluminous!
I must warn you now – I have made a fourth Elisalex, which I will share with you soon 🙂 What can I say? I really love this pattern!