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I apologize for the lack of posts last week! I just got back from a two week trip to Iran and Dubai and the jet lag has been a bit much to get over! I've finally gotten around to uploading all 1700 pictures from my trip and sorting though things in order to share all my adventures and blog about it.
My sister, mom, and I traveled to Iran for my cousin's wedding and in addition we did some traveling while we were there. We managed to explore Tehran, travel to Kashan, and Masuleh. In addition on the way back we stopped by Dubai for two nights.
In the next few weeks I will be blogging all about the fun things I did, saw, ate and much more! This week I'm sharing all my adventures in Tehran!
The first stop of the day was Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. There is a back story to why I wanted to visit this museum – a few weeks ago I saw an Instagram post of a few Andy Warhol photos hung at the museum. The museum has a huge collection of famous paintings from Warhol, Van Gogh, Monet, Jackson Pollock etc (read about it here). I convinced my sister that we had to go see these paintings because I'm a huge art nut. We got to the museum – which is completely out of the way – walk through the entire space and there is no Warhol paintings. My sister nearly lost it and I was contemplating if I brought us to the wrong museum. A few screams later we find the museum administration offices and pop our head into the Public Relation coordinator's office. I give him my whole spiel and he enthusiastically replies "yes of course we have Warhol along with thousand of work famous paintings at this museum!" So I naturally ask where they are because I want to see them and his response – "In the museum vault with no access to the public." My jaw dropped because I knew I wasn't crazy when I saw the Instagram picture of the paintings hung. He confirmed that I wasn't crazy and the museum had temporarily brought out a few of the paintings however it was only for a week and occasionally the museum will display the paintings every 3-4 years. He proceeded to tell me there is a book I could purchase in the gift shop with all the forbidden photos in the vault – which I obviously purchased – and now makes for a great coffee table book in my apartment. Moral of the story – Instagram lies.
After our much disappointing morning we headed for lunch. We had the most delicious aash at Nikou Sefat Aash in Meydan Enghelab. Since we couldn't decide on which aash to have we ordered one of each: Aash Reshteh, Aash Dough, and Aash Shole Ghalamkar. This place was super jam packed and insanely busy – for good reason – because the aash was delicious!!!
In the evening we went to Tabiat Bridge – it recently opened in late 2014 and was high on my list of places to visit while in Tehran. I read about the bridge in a news article online (here) and it instantly reminded me of The High Line in NYC. Even though it was a Wednesday night when we went the bridge was packed with families, kids, and pretty much everyone. There are a ton of coffee shops, restaurants, and lovely views to take in! I definitely recommend a visit to the bridge and just walking around and enjoying the scenery. It also makes for some great people watching 🙂
The night was topped off with delicious street food corn! I'm a huge street food fan and I just couldn't pass up the chance!
Check back again tomorrow for more of my adventures in Tehran!
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James Harden scores 28 against Hawks, 30-point streak ends
HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden isn't exactly lamenting the end of his impressive scoring run.
Harden had 28 points, snapping his 32-game streak with at least 30 while the Houston Rockets beat the Atlanta Hawks 119-111 on Monday night.
He's glad it's over, too - especially since he had no expectation of matching Wilt Chamberlain's 65-game streak, the longest in NBA history. Harden's stretch with 30 or more points ranks second.
"Yeah I am. It was cool but I knew I wasn't going to get to No. 1," Harden said before walking away chuckling.
Houston overcame a scoring outburst from Hawks rookie Trae Young, who set career highs with eight 3-pointers and 36 points.
Harden returned after missing Saturday's win over Golden State with a neck injury and missed all 10 3-pointers he attempted.
"This was the first time I was able to move it since a few days," he said. "So it kind of felt good to go out there and just move it and run around. I hadn't really done any movement or working out. I've been in bed really."
He got to 28 points with 23.3 seconds left and had the ball on Houston's last possession but did not attempt a shot from half court with the game in hand. When asked if the injury affected his shot he said: "I don't care. Made shots, missed shots, we won the game."
Harden last came up short of 30 points in a Dec. 11 win over Portland, when he had 29. During the streak, he scored 50 or more points four times, including a career-high 61 in a win at the Knicks on Jan. 23.
"Eventually it was going to have to end one of these days," coach Mike D'Antoni said. "He's unbelievable. He'll start another one."
Chris Paul added 20 points, and Eric Gordon hit four 3-pointers for 16 points.
The Hawks cut the lead to five on a basket by John Collins with about 2 1/2 minutes remaining. Harden missed his 10th 3-pointer seconds after that, but Harden was fouled on a 3-pointer on the next possession and made all of the free throws to make it 115-107.
Atlanta scored the first nine points of the fourth quarter, with five points including a long 3-pointer from Young, to cut the lead to one. P.J. Tucker got the Rockets going again when he made a 3-pointer to make it 98-94 with 8 1/2 minutes remaining.
Young's hot shooting continued after that when he made his seventh 3 to cut the lead to one again.
Harden made four quick points later in the quarter, but Young was at it again after that, sinking his eighth 3-pointer to cut the lead to 107-102 with about five minutes left.
Young said he couldn't appreciate his big night since the Hawks came up short.
"For me, I've grown up with a dad who raised me that winning is the only thing that matters," he said. "So for me, of course you want to play well, of course you want to do well in the game and help your team, but at the end of the day I don't feel good about it."
Vince Carter got the Hawks within one with a 3-pointer later in the third quarter before Houston scored five quick points, capped by a basket from Harden to make it 82-76 with about four minutes left in the third.
Alex Len added a 3 for Atlanta after that but the Rockets padded the lead to 90-79 with an 8-0 run.
The Hawks got within seven late in the third, but Paul made a shot while being foul and completed the 3-point play to leave Houston up 95-85 entering the fourth.

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Bunratty Castle and Folk Park
The Kilmurry Lodge Hotel is just a 20-minute drive from this loved local attraction, which happens to be one of Ireland's top visitor attractions, making us the perfect place to stay during your visit!
A day out at Bunratty Castle and Folk Park is a must see on your exploration of Ireland. This medieval castle was built in 1425 and restored to its original splendour in 1954, transforming it into the ideal location for a trip back in time. Enjoy the sights, sounds tastes, scents, of this enchanting place as you stroll from house to house or around the charming village street complete with school, post office, doctors house, hardware shop, printers and of course McNamara's pub!
As well as tours of the castle grounds, there are medieval banquets available to book for a night of feasting, festivities and fun! There are two sittings at 5.30pm & 8.45 pm, both promise to be an experience you won't forget. Only 20 minutes away from the Kilmurry Lodge Hotel, Bunratty Castle & Folk Park is the perfect place to make wonderful memories.
The gardens of the park have been restored to their former glory and can be explored at lesuire or you can opt to join a guided walking tour. Facilites at the park include parking, cafes and eateries, gift shop and on-site children's playground. A day trip to Bunratty is a must for a family day out in Limerick.
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Do you use Overtone conditioners to keep the color bright? I am going tomorrow to get my hair bleached so that I can go MAGENTA. WOoOO! I'm so excited. it's something I've wanted to do forever!! My stylist won't work with the bright colors so she's doing the bleach job and I'm coloring it myself. I'll take any advice you can give me!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Truth and Consequences
Mortenson, Krakauer and the Three Cups of Tea controversy
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In November 2008, Greg Mortenson flew down to Santa Fe from his home in Bozeman, Montana, for a fundraiser that Outside had helped organize to benefit the Central Asia Institute (CAI). The event took place in conjunction with our publication of "No Bachcheh Left Behind," a feature about Mortenson and CAI in that year's December issue. I met him for the first time in the lobby of our offices, at around 11 in the morning on the day of the event. Mortenson had just finished a local radio interview, and after we introduced ourselves, he gave an impromptu presentation to our assembled staff about his recent school-building efforts in Afghanistan. Afterward, I drove Mortenson to Santa Fe High School to speak to a group of students. I remember him scarfing down a sandwich in the back of my car, finishing just in time to hustle to our appointment.
His day was only starting. Mortenson spoke at two more local schools before dinner. I met him again at seven that evening at a large theater in downtown Santa Fe, where I introduced him to a sold-out crowd. He spoke for an hour, recounting his well-known story about getting lost after an attempt to climb K2 and wandering into the Pakistani village of Korphe, exhausted and alone. The locals had nursed him back to health, and in gratitude, he told the hushed crowd of nearly 1,000, he promised to return one day and build a school. The presentation ended with a standing ovation, and Mortenson signed books in the lobby for another two hours. Most of the people in line had brought their own copies of Three Cups of Tea. When he was finished, only a few new editions had sold, which must have disappointed the owners of the local bookstore that had supplied the books for the signing. Sensing this, Mortenson bought the remaining copies. He asked that they be distributed to the local homeless shelter and nursing homes. Then, presumably, he went back to his hotel and went to bed.
All of that is true. All of it, that is, except for the details of Mortenson's visit to Korphe and, perhaps, his motivation for buying those books. Ever since 60 Minutes aired its Mortenson exposé and Jon Krakauer published his exhaustive CAI takedown, "Three Cups of Deceit," through Byliner.com, it seems like everything that took place on that day three years ago is in question. After all, those reports did more
than raise a few doubts about CAI and its founder. They bludgeoned Mortenson, documenting numerous falsehoods in Three Cups of Tea and outlining the disturbing use of CAI funds to promote his two bestselling books. The book's fabrications were cited in a class action filed in May. The alleged misappropriation of funds, meanwhile, is the subject of an ongoing inquiry of CAI by the Montana attorney general's office.
The legal proceedings will take a long time to sort out. Until then, we're left with what appear to be two diametrically opposed narratives. We can continue to believe in the mission of CAI, excusing Mortenson as a charismatic visionary who, alas, is also a disorganized dreamer who was unequipped for CAI's meteoric rise. According to this narrative, he was brought down by a pair of mean-spirited journalists, one looking for TV ratings and the other for a big scoop to launch a new publishing venture. If we believe this version, the exhausting day I spent with Mortenson demonstrates his sincere and tireless effort to raise money for his cause and educate Americans about CAI's mission to build schools.
The other option: to believe that Mortenson's entire body of work is a sham. He fabricated his visit to Korphe and embellished countless other details in Three Cups of Tea—about his climbing résumé, about his kidnapping—because he knew the stories would help drive book sales. Those sales, in turn, created an ingenious feedback loop that bankrolled a perpetual donor-funded book tour that fed his "insatiable hunger for esteem," as Krakauer wrote. In this story, the day I spent with Mortenson was all about selling books and burnishing his image, not informing the public about the need for educating girls in the developing world. The fact that he bought the remaining copies of Three Cups of Tea at retail after the event is proof that he was manipulating bestseller lists and, assuming CAI paid for those copies, diverting donations into his own pockets.
If it seems like I'm distorting the two sides, visit our Facebook page or Outsideonline.com. Since we began covering this mess, we've received hundreds of comments, and nearly every one of them can be neatly placed into one of these two camps. So which is it? Is Mortenson a saint who must be protected from apostates or a sinner who must be brought to justice?
Given this magazine's long relationship with Mortenson, determining the answer hasn't been easy. Well before he was a philanthropic phenomenon, Mortenson served as an unofficial Central Asia fixer for Outside when we were reporting stories in the region he'd come to know so well. In 2001, Mark Jenkins wrote a Hard Way column about Mortenson's work, the first look at CAI in a national magazine and one of the first published accounts of his origin myth. Two years later, longtime Outside contributing editor Kevin Fedarko (the author of our 2008 Mortenson profile) wrote a story for Parade that put CAI on the map and yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. In other words, we're longtime believers in Mortenson's mission. In 2009, I wrote a letter in this space about my plans to run a 50K to help raise money for CAI. Outside readers donated more than $6,000.
All of these factors undoubtedly contributed to Mortenson's decision to grant an exclusive interview—apparently without telling his PR handlers or his lawyer—to Outside editorial director Alex Heard on the same weekend 60 Minutes dropped its bomb on CAI. And they most certainly contributed to the impression many people had—on both sides of the debate—that Outside was defending Mortenson, no matter how probing our questions were. That opinion only hardened when we ran a follow-up story on our website about Mortenson's K2 climbing partner Scott Darsney, who took issue with how he'd been quoted in Krakauer's report.
The next day, we ran another story, "Can't Get There from Here," which detailed our conclusion that Mortenson's Korphe account was "geographically implausible." That was followed by a post examining CAI's donor newsletter, Journey of Hope, which had published a defense we found thin. Given Outside's long history with Krakauer, it was only natural that people now speculated that we were shilling for a contributor. Acting CAI director Anne Beyersdorfer forwarded us an e-mail from a supporter who'd written that she was canceling her subscription to Outside and implied that our close relationship with Krakauer was clouding our reporting.
The problem with that logic: we don't have a close relationship with Krakauer. While it's true that "Into Thin Air" and "Into the Wild" are seminal pieces in the Outside canon, he hasn't written for the magazine in more than a decade. My only communication with him during the past five years has been through phone messages. I received the last one on the day we published the Darsney story. Krakauer was so incensed by the way we had edited Darsney's quote that he demanded his name be removed from our masthead.* (He'd been listed as an editor at large since 1998.) I've been a fan of Krakauer's writing since I was in college, but given how nasty he was to a colleague who was just doing his job reporting on Darsney, I was happy to grant his request. You won't find his name on page 24.
So we seem to have found ourselves in that journalistic sweet spot—the one where both sides hate our guts. Which is appropriate, since our instinct has been that the truth about Mortenson may lie in the middle ground between the two narratives. There is no doubt that he embellished and, at times, entirely fabricated parts of his creation myth. Krakauer's reporting on this is comprehensive, and Mortenson himself admitted to Outside that he'd stretched the truth in Three Cups of Tea. How far? We still don't know. I was stung by Mortenson's continued insistence in our interview that he had traveled to Korphe in 1993. I've been more troubled, however, by CAI's lack of transparency and the use of donations to advertise Mortenson's books. These matters need to be fully addressed.
What I'm not ready to buy is that Mortenson is a con artist who intentionally hoodwinked us all for profit. Krakauer quotes a former treasurer who says Mortenson used CAI as his "personal ATM." And the class action, which used "Three Cups of Deceit" as its foundation, states that Mortenson made up his Korphe story as part of a grand plan to rook donors out of their money. (In 2006, after James Frey's memoir A Million Little Pieces was outed as a fabrication, his publisher, Random House, paid $2.4 million in legal fees and reimbursements to readers to settle a similar class action.) Intentionally or not, those accusations imply that Mortenson enriched himself with millions—we just need to follow the trail. The problem is, that trail leads us to these other things we know to be true. We know he still lives in a modest house in a middle-class neighborhood in Bozeman. We know he spent nearly a decade toiling in obscurity and scraping together tiny donations to build schools in Pakistan. We know he built dozens of those schools and that many of them, according to our own reporters who visited them on the ground, are a success. Mortenson is indeed a flawed individual with a troubling relationship with the truth, but the work he has done remains admirable and inspiring. And should he one day come clean about all the allegations, it would be tragic if he couldn't continue on with it.
Three Cups of Tea and "Three Cups of Deceit" both reveal something about their authors and the uncompromising beliefs that have fueled their incredible careers. One was written by a man who lied to promote a cause he believed in fervently, the other by a man who would stop at nothing—even potentially wrecking an imperfect institution that nonetheless does noble work—to uncover the truth. I don't know how this battle will end, but here's hoping it leads to positive change rather than simple destruction.
* This sentence was changed from the following to more accurately reflect why Krakauer was angry about our reporting. "Krakauer was so incensed that we had dared to question his reporting that he demanded his name be removed from our masthead." Click here to see the original Darsney piece and how we addressed Krakauer's complaint.


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What's inside our Y-valve? We don't really get asked this question very often but it's pretty cool inside (well, to us anyway). This video shows you how to take apart the valve, shows you what's inside and talks about the service kits. If yours has been used and you want to take it apart, don't forget to take protective measures against the bio-hazards involved with a marine sanitation system.


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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Happy New Year!
Yes, it's been a bit of an art-free zone around here the last week or so. That little cold finally got to me (something about goofing around in bad weather with bighorn sheep gave it the upper hand) and I've been feeling decidedly sub-par. HOWEVER, I can still feel virtuous because I've jump-started my 2009 goals.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's true.
I am upgrading my database.
It's not the most exciting way to end a year, that's for sure, but it's going to feel REALLY good to have it all up to snuff. For the last four days I've been sneezing and coughing and drinking echinacea tea in front of the computer... testing demo software and making decisions and spending money in between naps on the sofa. (sigh) I'm way overdue for this task. I had perfectly functional files until two years ago, when I upgraded my computer system and, of course, rendered half of my previous life obsolete. The old mailing list data went "temporarily" and imperfectly into a spreadsheet, where it has languished all this time. Same thing for my artwork records. I'm almost embarrassed to admit it, except that the new year is less than 8 hours away and I'm determined to start it on a positive note.
We'll be keeping a low profile again tonight, and tomorrow I think we'll spend a little more time fine-tuning our goals for the year ahead. I gave up on the whole "resolution" idea years ago, but I always find it helpful to spend the time between winter solstice and the new year reviewing my accomplishments and sketching out a course for the months ahead. I always have WAAAYYYYY more ambition than energy to get it all done, but a least I feel a little bit focused.
So.... from our house to yours, we send our very best wishes for the new year. Is it gonna be challenging? You betcha! But hey, at least I'll be organized.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The envelope, please....
Katherine Tyrrell over at Making a Mark has gone to enormous and thoughtful effort to compile and create a lovely series of awards for art and artists in the blogosphere. I am quite touched and honored to have been mentioned in the "Going Greener" category.
Do stop over and see her collection of great ideas, links, and information. Quite honestly, I don't know how she keeps track of it all, but I'm glad she does!
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Feeling sheepish?
Christmas Eve we had a lovely dinner out with friends, and Christmas Day we spent bundled up in the house making such a feast for two that we have leftovers to tide us for at least a week.
Oh, yeah. We're slowing-moving non-vertebrates, alright.
It's a good thing I had our penance for this time-squandering and caloric indulgence all lined up.
Each winter the local Division of Wildlife baits bighorn sheep in order to administer lungworm meds. Alfalfa hay and apple mash are put out each day... think holiday cookies for sheep. Once a goodly number of sheep are coming in to the site, meds are added to the apple mash and voila! Everyone gets dosed without the stress of trapping or darting.
We're fortunate here in our area, because volunteers are allowed to help with this daily "chore," and I've been able to participate in the project for several years. This year I was really excited to be able to bring the DM along A) to have the experience and b) to help.
Yesterday was our first scheduled day to bait, so of course when I got up it was snowing and blowing and miserable. It's a 25-mile drive up the valley to get the truck, the hay, and the apple mash... so just GETTING to the site might prove challenging. (sigh) Not precisely what I had in mind for the DM's first bighorn adventure, but whaterya gonna do?
The weather stayed, in the DM's words, "funky" all morning. A little ice, a little snow, a lot of wind. In places we were driving through 18 inches of untrammeled snow, and twice I got us nearly stuck. A little digging, a little swearing, a little calculated effort and we made it back out to the main road. Whew!
But, hey.. it was worth it. I was delighted to see 14 lambs among the 46 sheep that came in to the Chalk Creek site, and 2 more among the 18 sheep at Cottonwood. It's still pretty early in the season, so probably more sheep will come down in the next few weeks. I've got my eyes peeled for one in particular: a young ewe I helped tag two seasons ago. Could be she's gone off to new territory, could be she's gone off to the great sheep herd in the sky.. but could be she'll stop by for a bit of nostalgic apple mash tippling and we'll get to catch up on the news.
Monday, December 22, 2008
We must be living right
Remember I said the forecast for yesterday's Salida Christmas Bird Count called for a low of -5 F and a high of 14 F?
Imagine everyone's surprise when we got up before 6:00am and found it was 24 F! I checked first online (there's a Weatherbug station at the local middle school*). Didn't believe it. Hit the refresh button three or four times. It still said 24. So I groped around in the dark until I could find the temp gauge for outside the house. It said the same thing!
(*When school isn't in session, the site often defaults to the Monarch Pass station, 3000+' higher than town. Not useful unless you're going skiing.)
Probably people who get to do their CBCs in places like Florida and Texas shake their heads at those of us who are happy for start temps below freezing... but I think this might have been the balmiest start for us, ever. The lowest point of our circle is at about 7000' elevation, and parts of it are probably at about 10,000'. (Methodist Mountain elevation is over 11,000' at the summit, and we have a hearty team who hike the Rainbow Trail across its northern face for the count each year.) Teams in the higher elevations still had cold and wind, but NOT like we expected. Hooray!
In all it was a good day. I haven't run the numbers yet, but it looks like we had 74 (*nope, 77!) species, which is typical for our count. A couple of interesting birds new to the count: Lewis' woodpecker and two species of Rosy-finch. Finally! We knew the little buggers had to be here somewhere! My dear friend Tony found them and got some pics... hopefully I'll get him to send copies. In the meantime, a nice Lewis' woodpecker shot by Randy Hancock....
Many thanks to our local Division of Wildlife office, which sponsors lunch for our counters and whose officers participate in the count (often driving volunteers into hard-to-access areas of our forest-ridden count circle).
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Ritual insanity
It means that at oh-dark-hundred tomorrow morning, when the forecast calls for a balmy -1 F, bundled and binoculared crazies will gather to crawl over stream and under shrub in search of feathered wonders.
Yup. Salida Christmas (Solstice) Bird Count is tomorrow. Get out your woolies and your insulated hot beverage container.
Tick tock tick tock
Probably those readers in the southern hemisphere aren't NEARLY as excited about the upcoming solstice as we are in this house. Even so, I wish a little more light (in all its varied meanings) for everyone in the approaching new year.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Overdue thanks and kudos
1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and that also contribute to the blogging community, no matter what language.
2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his/her blog to be visited by everyone.
3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her/him the award itself.
4. The Award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte Y Pico" blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5. To show these rules.
And.... the Brillante Weblog Premio!
Since this one is dated 2008, I'd REALLY better get the lead out. Not too many days left in the year!
* Put the logo on my blog.
* Add a link to the person who awarded me.
* Nominate at least 7 other blogs and add links to those blogs on mine.
* Leave a message for my nominees on their blogs.
My Arte y Pico nominees are: Colors Outside the Lines, Have Dogs Will Travel, Dr. T's Teaching Blog, Paintings, Prints and Stuff, Soulsong Art, and The Illustrated Garden. Oh. And John Steins' Art Journal. And let's give Brillante Awards to Rural Chatter, Community of the Land, Hurricane Art, Making a Mark, A Snail's Eye View, and Visualizing Evolution. Probably that's too many for one and not enough for the other, but surely that gives everyone enough to read for a while, eh?
Sunday, December 14, 2008
One more week!
We just have to get there from here.
Yesterday was No-Rest-for-the-Wicked Day for the DM, who had two gigs back-to-back. Can you find the Chapman Stick player in this crowd at Apogee Studio (DM gig #2)? It's like "Where's Waldo?" for musicians.
And, hm... someone a while back noted (gently) my tendency to post less-than-clear photos if my mug is present. It's my personal manifestation of mid-life crisis: I generally hate photos if I'm in them. But here we are, in front of a lovely quilt by Lori Isenberger, at her exhibition opening at the Paquette Gallery (DM gig #1).
I, of course, spent both gigs schmoozing with friends and eating entirely too many holiday sweets. But, OOOOOOH! Look what I got:
This lovely box is by Betsey Downing. The lid is covered with hollyhock, piñon, maple, and mountain mahogany seeds. Delightful! I was all set to acquire it for myself when my dear friend Jacque intervened and made it my holiday gift. Sneaky, she is.
Supporting local art ventures was still on my mind, though... so I also brought home this nifty little "mini screen" by Fay Golson. (sigh) I love having good stuff around, don't you?
Friday, December 12, 2008
After the goofing off - the reckoning
Now that we've all wasted more time playing around than we care to admit, can I prove my earlier assertion that online slacking can lead to productivity?
Here's one of my many "Make-a-Flake" creations. It was simplified for its application to a 3"x3" lino block, but it's definitely where this whole mess started.
For a change I cut out the black lines of my design, instead of the spaces in between. This messed with my head in all sorts of ways, but this was the first result.
It was okay, but I wanted to give it some more depth, so I chopped out the background and printed again, this time with the graduated ink roll-up going in the other direction. I liked the way that looked, and printed it on all kinds of stuff: Hosho, some black scarpbooking paper, some dark blue handmade paper, Canson paper, tracing paper, glassine... if it was lying around, I smooshed ink onto it.
I even printed it into the new little Moleskine that arrived for Art House's sketchbook project. This might not have been a great idea, because it's taking a lot longer to dry on the Moleskine paper than it is on everything else. Oh, well!
And, of course, since the original idea was to give depth to the first print pass, I printed the second version over the first. In the end I couldn't decide what I liked best for a potential Winter Solstice greeting... so I put them side by side and...
I think that'll do, don't you?
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Blame Jeff
More soon.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Bring it on! Or - how to turn online slacking into a productive evening
Must be the streetlights that make everything look so strangely orange.
(And then I walked across the street to take this picture of our house in the snow and dark. Those are my footprints. My feet are wet now.)
I am SO relieved to have this snow, since we are at less than 50% of our usual precip for the year and it makes me a little crazy to have to think about watering the trees in December.
The funny thing about this is that I decided this afternoon to do a little linocut experimentation. What am I carving? Tiny 2.5-inch snowflakes, of course. A coincidence?
This is the first pass... I carved a little more on the plate tonight and we'll see what happens next. As usual, no real plan here... but also no real goal. I spent a fair amount of time dinking around with ink additives today, so there aren't many matching prints.
But here's where the online slacking part comes in: Last year I stumbled across this "Make-a-Flake" site, which lets you use virtual scissors to cut virtual paper snowflakes. AND you can save the files. Which I did. Several times. Guess where this design came from?
So go make yourself a cup of hot chocolate and play with virtual paper snowflakes. (You can drink chocolate and cut flakes at the same time this way, because it only takes one hand to work the scissors AND hold the paper.)
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Look beyond the headlines and towards the light
So I grumbled at Susan about it. Silly me. Her response? "I just thought it was cool that there was a photo of the café with your art on the walls."
There was?
Sure enough, in the slide show that I didn't look at because I was grumpy about houses (and gray weather with no snow and darkness at 4:00pm and holidays and....) there's an image about which I can now say with only slight exaggeration, " My work has appeared in the New York Times."
So let's see if the link to the photo works, here. (And if that link goes away, the permalink to the entire slide show is here. ) And let that be a lesson to me to not let December get the upper hand. Only two weeks until the Winter Solstice and it all starts getting lighter from here.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The Linocut Jig
As promised, some pix and descriptions of my high-tech, highly evolved registration system.
When I first tried to make a linocut of more than one color, I used a simple paper registration system: Trace the block squarely onto a sheet of paper, draw some registration marks on the bottom sheet AND on the print paper, line up the marks and drop the paper on the inked block. Okay on unmounted lino, but there was a lot of lip-biting and swearing involved. So....
#1 - The development of the trusty jig. The base is 1/4" masonite. Two pieces of 1" x 2" pine have been attached at a right angle in the lower left corner. (I also do my inking-up here, as you can see. Probably once per edition I drop the brayer. Oops.)
Originally this was the extent of the sytem. I aligned the bottom edge of the paper with the bottom of the 1x2, and used pins on the left edge. It required making holes in the print paper and then reinforcing them with tape. It was a passable system, but the pins were prone to popping out or twisting at the exact wrong moment.
Somewhere along the line a friend suggested affixing corner molding on top of the pine boards. Seemed a reasonable idea, so....
# 2 - A closer view of the L-shaped corner molding on top of the pine boards. The little gap on the left is just a function of being too lazy to miter the corner. It doesn't matter, paper stops just fine where it is supposed to.
#3 - The highly important box of shims in a variety of widths. These are just 3/4" plywood, I think the thinnest is 1/8", the widest is 1". These slide into the lower left corner of the jig to create the desired paper margin.
#4 - Like this. These are the shims I used to create the paper margins on "High Tide Detritus." The shims are the same height as the block on which I mount the lino. This means the lino stands slightly proud of the shims- enough to help keep the paper edges clean if I have an ink smudge, but not so much that the paper bows over the block.
#5 - You can see with the print turned right-side-up how the margins are defined by the shims. (Funny, the lower edge of everything looks bent in this photo. It's not, I promise. Blame the photographer.)
#6 - More shims, fatter margins. Just make sure you get the same ones every time, and that everything is snug to the corner before you put the paper down.
#7 - The paper! It was challenging to get a useful photo of this step, but here's how I do it:
Holding the paper in both hands and suspended above the inked plate, slide the bottom edge until it butts up against the corner molding.
Still holding the paper up, gently slide it to the left until it butts the corner molding on the side.
You can see here that I'm holding the paper a few inches from the bottom. I think by now I have an automatic point at which I grab the paper to keep it off the inky plate as I slide it left. When I'm confident that the paper is snug to the corner molding in both directions, then I lower the paper the rest of the way. There's a definite "feel" to it... a sort of point at which everything feels solid and square.
#8 - So here we are, paper down in the corner, flush with both edges. Typically I put a piece of tracing paper over the back before I start rubbing the print.
With a fairly narrow margin like this one, it can be tricky to get even pressure along the edge as I'm rubbing, so I often slide the block-and-paper sandwich out of the jig corner to work the edges. This can be dangerous! If the paper is going to slidge and smudge across the plate, this is where it will happen. It's imperative to be sure your paper has good contact with the wet ink and that you are delicate about moving everything if you try to move away from the jig.
I generally have really good success with this system. In "High Tide Detritus" I mis-registered one print when I wasn't paying attention to shim position (oops), and one I bent just as I lowered the paper. It's not even off by 1/16", but it's enough in a complex piece like that to make your eyes go funny.
I typically use Hosho paper, which has deckle edges, but I do not usually have a problem, as long as the "feel" of the paper is right each time. I want the paper to feel firm and solid, but not moshed against the jig. Using a paper with cut edges would probably be divine in this system.
So that's it. None too technical, and I hope a least a little bit clear! Now go make one yourself and pull some prints!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
It's done!
'Tis the Season
Ever since I moved to Salida (working on seven years ago now!), I've felt that one of the most lovely days of the year has been the day after Thanksgiving. No crush of people flinging themselves headlong into stores at dawn HERE, thank you very much. Instead, we celebrate our post-gluttony day in true small town style.
This year the DM and I went out The Morning After armed with a Forest Service tree permit, a saw, and a sense of adventure. Since neither of us owns a four-wheel-drive or high clearance vehicle, we'd secured insider information on an easy-access section of forest that's scheduled for a burn later this year. There was a skiff of snow on the ground at home, though. Who knew what the road would be like further north?
It turned out to be no big deal at all, and it was delightful to be the first vehicle to pass down a snow-dusted forest road. In short order we found a quirky little fir tree that turned out to be the exact perfect height for our front room, and we invited it to come home with us for a spell. (Later it will be part of a brush pile for wildlife.)
Decoration turned out to be a more of a challenge than we expected, especially once we decided we'd string popcorn garland. Neither of us had done this before. The only thin thread I had was transparent nylon. Our eyes are over 40.
The house still smells like popcorn and we are not finished yet. Hm.
Thankfully, by Friday evening we were forced to abandon the tree project so we wouldn't miss the Parade of Lights and the lighting of Christmas Mountain. THIS is Salida's quintessential winter event. Once upon a time the event was so small that the "parade" stood still in downtown and the people walked around to look at it, but we've since graduated to an actual, mobile procession of friends and neighbors and lights.
Our little downtown fills with people. Shops stay open late and many have cookies and gingerbread out for visitors. The Rotary club perches in the bank parking lot and gives away cider and hot chocolate. Greetings are shouted up and down the street. The parade goes by. Santa arrives to throw the switch and the iconic conical hill at the end of town becomes a ginormous lighted tree. There are two solid minutes of fireworks, and then a mass of people flows towards the river to see the memorial trees in the park. There's a jazz band and dance at the Steamplant. A concert at the café. It's a night for the community and the community embraces it with enthusiasm.
My humbugs are banished on the day after Thanksgiving. Even Ebeneezer would have to smile, just a little.
(Ooh, look. My first attempt at making and posting a little video from my still camera!)
Friday, November 28, 2008
How I spent Thanksgiving morning
Dealing with technology problems! Argh!
The tiny linos have friends! I expanded and renamed the Small Print Gallery the other day to include many of the linocuts I've done that are 4" x 6" or smaller. Somehow in doing so, all the PayPal code disintegrated and stopped working. Of course PayPal has changed their code-generating system since I originally built the page, too... so everything just fell apart. Bless my friend and web guru Mark, who was willing to pop over for a few minutes yesterday morning to help me troubleshoot. (I expect such dedication was helped by the fact that we were due at their house for Thanksgiving supper in the afternoon and that we were bringing "his" apple pie.)
At any rate, I think it's all working now... so pop on over and see what's been added.
The end is near!
The carving is finished for the last color of the shell linocut, started here and developed here and here and here. Oh. And here and here.
Geez. Is everyone sick of this thing already?
I anticipate printing tomorrow, but today we're off to find a TREE! It snowed a little overnight, so we're waiting a bit to see how the roads look before we bundle ourselves into the Cruiser. We're also going shopping for a new bed... our holiday/anniversary gift to ourselves. The one we're sleeping on now was passed on to me by friends almost 9 years ago, and it was slightly saggy THEN.
Tonight is the annual parade and lighting of Christmas Mountain. It can't possibly be that time again! Film at 11:00.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Six down, one to go!
Color #6 went down without a hitch today... WHEW! It was slow going, but no major crises. I'd like to keep going, of course... now I see places I would have liked even more color depth... but the next, darkest color will be the last for this image. I'm getting twitchy to start something else!
Speaking of starting something else... last night on a whim I signed up for the Art House Co-op's Sketchbook Project. (Because I need another thing to do, right?) Art House sends each participant a little Moleskine sketchbook, participants have until February 15 to fill it up based on a theme, and then ALL of the little books are displayed in multiple venues around the country. Sounds like fun, eh?
Part of the reason this little project appeals to me is that my own journaling/sketchbook habit has suffered a bit in the last few months. Inertia has set in, so I'm hoping the Art House project will give me a little kick in my complacency.
In other news, the Darling Man and I celebrated our anniversary this weekend with a hike on the Colorado Trail to Harvard Lakes. Hiking at 10,000 feet in November without snowshoes seems not quite possible, but there we were.
Obligatory goofy-looking camera-propped-on-rock shot below.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
The carving continues...
Keeping track of where I'm going and what I should be carving can be a little tricky, especially since I don't typically map out a color plan before I start. At this point, however, I think I only have 2 colors to go, so I can apply my tried-and-true Sharpie application method of remembering where I've been and what's left to carve.
It's SO high tech.
Basically I have a nice, fat, chisel-tipped Sharpie pen that I use to run over the sections I've carved. The contrast makes the image easier to decipher, and running the pen lightly over the raised surfaces can sometimes show where I've missed a spot. I can't do this from the beginning in multi-color prints, obviously (it would cover up all the carving-to-come), but since we're nearing the end game I can use the pen and be mindful. There won't be a lot to carve between colors 6 and 7. It's best, by the way, to NOT use a brand-spankin'-new pen for this, because all that nice, juicy ink can sometimes run down into tiny detailed carving. If the pen is a little dried out, you can rub across the surfaces and not worry about ink bleeding into the carved areas.
So here it is, ready to go. I skipped the Sharpie application in places where I still need to see delicate carving details, but everywhere else is good to go. Keep your fingers crossed....
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Back to gray
At last, however, you can finally see that there are, indeed, mussel shells here. From this point on we'll be working on the rocks and eel grass in between... the shells are pretty much done and there's no going back. I'm hoping I can do what needs to be done in just two more color passes. We'll know after the next one.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Linocut blues
I promised myself that my first priority today would be to finish the carve and printing for the fourth color on the new, insane, shell linocut. (If you missed the beginning of this printmaking adventure, you can find it here.) So here we are, all inked up and rarin' to go.
The color went down okay... but there are still some strange things happening with some sheets of this (Hosho) paper. A few of them behave as though the paper has some sort of greasy resist to it. Heck, I dunno. So far it's not entirely a deal-breaker for those sheets, we'll just have to see as the rest of the colors unfold. I've started with 20 sheets, hoping for an edition of 12-15 prints when the image is complete. So far I've wrecked one for certain: wasn't watching my registration carefully and the third color went down 1/4 inch to the right of where it should have. Oops.
Since I was on a roll (was that a printmaking pun?), I cleaned up after color #4 went down and started the carve for color #5. It's looking now like I'm headed for at least seven colors on this beast. Hmmmm. I have an idea in my head now of where I'd like this thing to go, but what I would LIKE to have happen and what actually DOES happen... one never knows.
The nice thing about this next color is that I finally get to step away from the blue shades of the mussel shells. Preserving the blue in each of the shell shapes means clearing all those areas of lino material.. and that means bigger gouges to clear larger areas and more discernible progress. Observable progress is good for morale.
I have to call it a day now, since my neck and shoulders are getting sore (occupational hazard of spending too much time bent over carving tools), but I hope tomorrow to finish this next carve. It will be a few days before the prints are dry enough for the next color, but there's plenty to do between now and then!
Friday, November 14, 2008
Blue Skies, Red Rocks
One of my favorite combinations.
Yesterday at the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs. (Perhaps you remember that I started work on an interp panel for this location last winter. It got delayed. It started again. It delayed again. At the present time it teeters on the brink of completion. Oh please oh please.)
Our Fair City
Our Fair City of Salida boasts fewer than 6000 folks and is two hours from just about anywhere, but that doesn't stop us from taking advantage of high tech AND low tech solutions to our local and global community concerns. Check out some Stuff Mark Told Me About:
The Salida Citizen : A local news blog! From the Citizen website-
"The Salida Citizen is an effort by the residents of Salida, Colorado to improve coverage of critical local issues, support smart decision-making, and facilitate positive communication between elected officials, City staff and concerned local citizens.
We are an experiment in citizen journalism, as described by Mark Glaser:
'The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others. For example, you might write about a city council meeting on your blog or in an online forum. Or you could fact-check a newspaper article from the mainstream media and point out factual errors or bias on your blog. Or you might snap a digital photo of a newsworthy event happening in your town and post it online. Or you might videotape a similar event and post it on a site such as YouTube.'
We sincerely hope that by providing better access to information we can elevate the level of discourse beyond typical party politics to make Salida (and the Arkansas Valley) a better place to live. Contact us at salidacitizen at gmail dot com."
Cool, I say. Contributors so far include City officials and department heads, the Mayor, and local citizens.
And then there's the matter of Nathan Ward, a local guy with a global outlook. Nathan lives here sometimes, but more often than not he's living abroad as a journalist/photographer. The newest adventure, in Africa, began in the last few weeks. Ice Mountain Adventure Travel is all about responsible travel, so expect some stories of mishaps and mind expansion. Nathan and his mom, Suzanne, also authored a local trail guide.
Cool again, I say.
Back to Mark, who also maintains a page that tidily keeps all the local webcams in one place, and this week he added a new cam to the collection. This time of year I am a tad obsessive/ compulsive about checking the weather (especially if we're planning to go anywhere), so a one-stop local weather page lets me check over and over and over whilst keeping my weather bookmark list to a minimum.
Last, but not least... and I'm not sure if Mark sent me here himself, or if I wandered in from elsewhere, but the Salida Mountain Trails website has a great map and information about the ongoing development of great singletrack trails just across the river from downtown. Just in case you're planning on a visit or feel a need to weild a shovel on behalf of the community.
In other Salida news: I'll be back to linocuts this weekend, I promise!
Sunday, November 9, 2008
The morning after
I rarely remember to take even one photo during show openings... the fact that I actually took TWO is some sort of record, I think.
After we closed up shop at the café, we wandered next door to the Paquette Gallery at the Steamplant for another reception (I had a piece in that show, too). Sadly, we missed the poetry reading and circus school performance, but we did get there in time for a little wine and some more munchies. Probably I would have been best served by going home to bed after that, but the DM was hungry (his fingers had been busy playing music, NOT consuming hors d'ouevres), so we went out to the local pub for something that qualified as a real meal.
Ooph. This morning we're both feeling the effects of heavy food at a late hour. We're also both feeling that we might be fighting "a little something sinus-y," and hoping desperately that we're wrong. It's a grayish day here so far this morning, so maybe it's a good day to just lay low and drink lots of tea. I'm not usually very good at taking days off... but maybe if I just start with a morning off....
Linocut in Progress: The Finish and the Rescue
In the first post about the process of this linocut I mentioned that I was distracted and unfocused during the time I worked on it... whic...
"The Linocut Jig." Sounds like it should be a piece of contemporary Celtic music, eh? As promised, some pix and descriptions of m...
I've written a couple of times about my funky little DIY print drying rack, but there's been some interest in it again so I thought ...


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Start by putting them on first thing in the morning—wearing headphones signals that you're trying to concentrate. Playing a favourite playlist can minimise the distractions of your noisy surroundings, too (When you really need to focus, try familiar music with no vocals). Whatever you're listening to, the Headphones 700's active equalisation technology makes it a rich, immersive experience. Meanwhile, the headphones' noise-cancelling technology works so well in open offices because it detects the noise surrounding you and emits an opposing electronic signal that effectively "cancels" it.
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From its modest beginnings as a neighborhood festival with an understated bohemian streak, the annual Locust Street Festival, now in its 34th year, has blossomed into one of the city's most crowded outdoor gatherings, without losing the friendly, oversized-block-party feel that made it so charming. Drum circles, arts and crafts and street food abound, but the biggest draw is still the music, of which the festival offers a whopping five stages. Performers include Heidi Spencer and the Rare Birds, Call Me Lightning, Fire on Your Sleeve, Matt Hendricks, The Vega Star, The Delta Routine, The Danglers, The Wildbirds, Keith Pulvermacher, The Championship and many, many others.
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Science Birthday Party Ideas
Science birthday parties are fun for adults and kids alike. Plus, they are gender neutral and are loved by both girls and boys. If you plan on throwing a science birthday party for your child, make sure you check out our Science Birthday Party Ideas. We offer many fun food ideas along with ways to decorate and style your next Science themed birthday party.
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ENT and Allergy Associates Adds New Voice and Swallow to Sleepy Hollow Welcomes Laryngologist Sal Taliercio, MD
06/10/2014 in news
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ENT and Allergy Associates® Adds New Voice and Swallow to Sleepy Hollow
Welcomes Laryngologist Sal Taliercio, MD
Tarrytown, NY—June 9th, 2014: ENT and Allergy Associates, LLP (ENTA) is home to over 100 of the finest otolaryngology specialists in the country. These are physicians who regularly treat ear, nose, throat, and audiology related conditions and produce successful outcomes for their patients.
The Practice, whose total of over 150 doctors serve communities across New York and New Jersey through 41 clinical locations, also recognizes that there are some medical conditions that require the additional training and expertise of sub-specialists…like otologists, rhinologists, and laryngologists. This latter class of fellowship-trained physicians treat the challenges of acid reflux, swallowing disorders, chronic hoarseness and cough, and often care for the professional voice. In fact, physicians in the Practice regularly refer their own patients to these sub-specialists when the need requires the specialized expertise they offer.
With this in mind, ENTA is always seeking to supplement its roster of sub-specialists, and is delighted to announce that a new laryngologist will be joining ENTA's Sleepy Hollow office. Dr. Sal Taliercio will begin practicing full-time at ENTA's Sleepy Hollow site, located at 358 North Broadway, beginning August 1st, 2014. Dr. Taliercio will become the newest member of the Practice's Voice & Swallowing Center, a sub-division consisting of all seven of ENTA's world class laryngologists.
Salvatore Taliercio, MD earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, MO and went on to receive his Medical Degree from Albany Medical College in Albany, NY. He completed his Residency in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School and his Fellowship in Laryngology at the NYU Voice Center/New York University School of Medicine in NYC. He has authored numerous publications including recent reviews of steroid use in Laryngology and treatment methods of laryngotracheal stenosis. His current research interests include correlation of stroboscopy with objective measures of voice.
Dr. Taliercio will obtain surgical privileges at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, NY.
In ENTA's Sleepy Hollow location, Dr. Taliercio will join Otolaryngologists Michael Bergstein, MD, FACS; Jill Zeitlin, MD; and Allergist/Immunologist John County, MD, FAAAAI. Working alongside the physicians are Audiologists Jessica Comparetto, MA and Evmorfia Tzanis, MA.
"We have worked very hard to establish the credentials of our Voice & Swallowing Center", remarked Dr. Jonathan Aviv, Clinical Director of the sub-division, "and firmly believe that Dr. Taliercio's extensive education and clinical proficiency in the field of laryngology are the perfect credentials and expertise we demand. I'm professionally and personally delighted to welcome him to the team."
Added Dr. Jill Zeitlin, physician partner at Sleepy Hollow, "We have long served the needs of those in in Sleepy Hollow and surrounding communities by ensuring they receive the best medical treatment possible. I am confident Dr. Taliercio will deliver that same level of superb care."
"The growth of our Voice and Swallowing Division has been predicated on the joinder of the finest laryngologists in the country", noted ENTA CEO Robert Glazer. "In fact, we are quite proud that our sub-specialty division offers more voice and swallowing physicians than any academic center, so we can help the greatest number of patients possible. Dr. Taliercio is exactly who and what we were looking for."
To learn more about the benefits of ENT and Allergy Associates, or to conveniently find an ENT or Allergy doctor and then easily book an appointment at the nearest New York or New Jersey location, please visit www.entandallergy.com or call 1-855-ENTA-DOC.
About ENT & Allergy Associates, LLP
ENTA has over 150 physicians in over 40 office locations in Westchester, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, Rockland, Nassau and Suffolk counties, New York City, Long Island and northern/central New Jersey. Each ENT and Allergy Associates clinical location provides access to a full complement of services, including General Adult and Pediatric ENT, Voice and Swallowing, Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, Disorders of the Inner Ear and Dizziness, Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, Diagnostic Audiology, Hearing Aid dispensing, Sleep and CT Services. ENTA has a clinical alliance with The Mount Sinai Hospital for the treatment of diseases of the head and neck and esophageal cancer and a partnership with the American Cancer Society to educate and treat patients with smoking disorders and cancer. The Practice has also expanded its clinical capabilities to include advanced Immunodeficiency trials. Visit www.entandallergy.com for more information.
About the Voice & Swallowing Center: The Voice and Swallowing Center, a division of ENT and Allergy Associates, LLP is dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of voice and swallowing disorders and to further the understanding of voice and swallowing through education. The faculty at the Center has invented or pioneered a suite of office-based diagnostic & therapeutic procedures. The Center consists of a team of nationally recognized professionals and state of the art diagnostic technology to offer comprehensive care of patients with voice and swallowing problems.


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Michael Jackson Was a Freak -- Just Like You and Me
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, is dead of a heart attack at the age of 50. In the next few days we will be treated to endless eulogies mining the rich archive of his music, dance, videos, performances and especially his purported habits, hobbies, misdemeanors and alleged crimes. After all, what writer could resist mentioning the various critters and tchotchkes he collected: the hyperbaric, youth-preserving oxygen chamber, the Elephant Man's bones, his pet chimp Bubbles, the Beatles catalog, Neverland Ranch, Macaulay Caulkin, Elizabeth Taylor, his many noses, skin pigments and hairstyles, his one bright white glove. I certainly can't.
These mutations will inevitably be placed in the tragic narrative of his decline. We will be asked to remember Jackson in his prime--as the smiling, dancing, "P.Y.T." black child star who outshone his less talented siblings in the Jackson Five or as the pop-and-dance virtuoso who transcended Motown by bringing us "Thriller," "Beat It" and "Billy Jean." Forget the eccentricities and footnote the accusations of child abuse and molestation (he was never found guilty). Those are but sad stains on the larger spangled fabric of his life and career.
Well, I am here to say: fuck that shit. Without his extravagant eccentricities and ambiguous, obsessive relationships to race, gender, mortality and childhood (and children)--indeed without the conspicuously tenuous link he had to the category of the human itself--Michael Jackson would have been a B-list has-been. Most likely last seen on the latest episode of Celebrity Apprentice, his obit would have followed Farrah Fawcett's. In short, he'd be John Oates.
Our fascination with Whack-o Jack-o has never been only, or even primarily, with his prodigious skills. It was with the way he personified our culture's most central ambitions to whiteness, immortality, wealth, real estate and fame. Lodged somewhere between the superhuman and the alien, aspiration and disgust, Jackson was a grotesque reflection of our collective desires.
As Margo Jefferson noted in her perceptive book On Michael Jackson, the best reference point for the "Man in the Mirror" is P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth. Like the Chinamen and Arabs who peopled Barnum's circus, Jackson came to embody the space between "Black or White." Like Barnum's pygmies, giants, bearded ladies and albinos, Jackson mesmerized us with his recombinant body, the weird scale and mix of his anatomy. His animal menagerie helped too.
Like those with too many or too few body parts, Jackson was a human freak, to be pitied, sure, but also to be mimicked, always to be looked at and, in some way, to be wanted. He was a freak like me, a freak like you.


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A one-of-a-kind opportunity to see, smell, and taste every step of whisky making: from grain to glass.
Not a second is wasted as you live on-site at the Glenfiddich distillery. This is where the world's most awarded single malt Scotch whisky is made.
This whisky expedition doesn't require any previous experience - just a love of whisky!
Live and breathe whisky production at the Glenfiddich distillery
See, touch, and taste your way through whisky making and leave with knowledge that you can't gain on any other whisky tour. After seeing the entire process, you'll taste whisky you've never tasted before and discover new ways to enjoy it through expert tasting sessions.
Your exclusive whisky trip allows you to speak with Glenfiddich's experienced whisky experts. They'll provide you with invaluable, first-hand insights in to the world of whisky and share their passion for the profession with you.
Throughout your tour of the Glenfiddich distillery you'll be able to get hands-on and try a few of the new techniques you've learned. You'll experience distilling, malt your own grain, help to build a cask, blend and take away a sample bottle, and much more.
Course Highlights
We have teamed up with William Grant and Sons to bring you a truly unique and tailored whisky experience. This exclusive whisky tour allows you to access areas far outside of the public domain. You'll smell and taste your way through the entire whisky-making process as Glenfiddich harvest, malt, mash, ferment, distill, and age their whisky on site.
Course Content Overview
Participants of this exclusive whisky trip will stay in private rooms in cottages on site at the distillery. Staying at the distillery means that you'll be immersed in whisky production from morning till night. Some meals will be provided by the distillery's talented chefs and all of the cottages have fully-equipped kitchens.
You'll be surrounded by barley fields, and depending on the season, you could see the main ingredient at the sowing, growing or harvesting stage. Get the chance to malt your own grain and see the germination process transform starch into sugar. Understand how to calculate yields, test friability, measure gravity, and check the viability of yeast.
Go behind the scenes at a working distillery that has 31 copper pot stills. You'll distil your own small batch, check the copper for cracks, measure remaining copper thickness, and sip raw spirit straight from the still.
Tour different types of warehouses, see the unique Solera vat at warehouse no.8 and taste whisky straight from the cask. The site also boasts its own cooperage so you can try your hand at cask building under the guidance of master coopers. Learn why wood has such a big impact on the final flavour of whisky and why producers take it very seriously.
Develop your palate with expert whisky tasters in exclusive tasting sessions and blend your own whisky with help from the pros. Whether you're a lifelong whisky fan or you're just starting out, identifying characteristics and expanding your flavour vocabulary is key to improving how you enjoy and understand whisky.
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Yes! You'll stay for 5 nights in a private room in a cottage on-site.
No, students from all over the world attend our courses; therefore, you need to make your own way to the school.
We advise you to fly to Aberdeen or Inverness airport as these are the closest large airports. The distillery is located inland and it takes over one hour to get there by car. We offer a hassle-free airport transfer that you can purchase to get to and from the distillery.
Yes - you can book the course now and settle the payment before the course starts
Use our flexible payment option to pay for your course in 3 instalments. The first one is only 20% of the course price. The second and third payments are 40% each.
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Bradley J's "Things I Couldn't Get To On My Show"
Welcome to "Things I Couldn't Get To On My Show"
Let me begin with the Weird News I couldn't get to today "Cheater Gets Chest Tattoo Begging Wife For Forgiveness" . .
Now let's move on to new Country Music I'm listen to at the moment by Jimmie Allen, Kelsea Ballerini, Russell Dickerson & Carly Pearce . .
and finish with something I call "Getting You Closer To Your Favorite Country Stars"
Is Dierks Bentley Going To Become An Actor . . Why Jordan Davis Fell In Love With His Song 'Take It From Me' . . & Jon Pardi loves touring with Dierks Bentey and he gets a kick out of helping Dierks' daughters Evie and Jordan work on their roping skills.


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The spring of 2020 brought fear, death and grief to hundreds of thousands across the globe. In the few months that my students and I were getting to know immigrants and refugees, more than 400,000 people died of the coronavirus pandemic. More than ¼ of them died in the U.S.
As we were meeting for the first times in early April, we decided to focus our reporting on the pandemic's effect on different immigrant and refugee communities. So many Good Questions can use exploration, so we set out to answer some of them.
What we came to realize is that one of the potential effects of a global pandemic is to recognize that the experiences of migration and decisions about cross-national travel may pull the U.S., willingly or not, out of its exceptionalist posture and into a more cooperative arena. We shall see.
Here are our stories on how the COVID-19 pandemic has effected different immigrant and refugee communities:
How have Chinese students handled what to do as the spread of COVID-19 limited their options to return to China? By Connie Deng
Are people turning to traditional Chinese medicine during the coronavirus pandemic? By Lydia Rivers
How have Korean Americans prepared for COVID-19? By Chloe Jeonghyun Heo
How have Indian grocery stores been impacted by COVID-19? By Rachel Baldauf
How have African refugees coped with COVID-19? By Michael Fitzpatrick
How did COVID-19 affect Ramadan celebrations in the Arab American community around Dearborn, Michigan? By Bailey Pekar
In the process of doing the series on COVID-19, we encountered a couple of extraordinary people you should know:
Glo Harn Choi: Pathways to citizenship for the undocumented can come slowly, and surely, with collective action By Chloe Jeonghyun Heo
Mamadul Hasson: A Rohingya retells his traumatic journeys to freedom that still haunt him By Jason Harward
The student reporters wanted you to know something about themselves and their inspiration for investing in reporting on immigrants unlike themselves. The stories are captured here and on the Immigrant Connect staff page:
Svati returns the favor years later By Rachel Baldauf
My mother and I break a Chinese taboo and emerge with unconditional love By Connie Deng
The life of a refugee is nothing like my life By Michael Fitzpatrick
A snip, snip, here and some family history there By Jason Harward
I realize what it means to choose citizenship – US or Korean By Chloe Jeonghyun Heo
Grandfather Gaioni's love for cooking and food are the ties to Italy that bind By Bailey Pekar
Savta shows me that tradition doesn't stagnate By Ash Ravid
My mother lived like an Ethiopian princess and left it all behind By Lydia Rivers
Ignorance or innocence? The dragons of South Africa are the real Africa to me By Channing Russell
Instructions for death can be a Chamorro woman's expression of life fully lived By Imani Sumbi


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The kind of kid I want
Disclaimer: So what if I went to a Renaissance Fair? It's not like I dressed up and spoke in ye olde English. I even refuse to spell "fair" with the extra "e". I don't need to you make fun of me, E is doing plenty of that already even though he plays World of Warcraft and has no right to call anyone a dork.
One of the shows involved two guys sword fighting while making lots of gay innuendos and off-color jokes. They warned the audience beforehand that it might be a little too PG-13 for kids. One of their scenes involved the guy with the Bon Jovi hair getting his sword stolen by the guy with the New York accent.
Bon Jovi: Give me my sword back!
New York: What's the magic word?
NY: That's not it.
BJ: Come on, dude!
NY: Not it either.
BJ: Damnit!
NY: There you go, now you remember the magic word!
Then both guys look at an 8 year old boy in the audience and prompt: Hey kid, what's the magic word?
Without missing a beat, the kid yells "PLEASE!"
I think his mother almost cried she was so proud. I cried from laughing so hard.


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The whole French Polynesian gang!
Peter and Wendy sailing with Christopher Benchley around Tahiti, which was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous with surrounding coral reefs
Wendy takes Christopher on his first diving adventure using a hookah.
Part of the magical experience of Tahiti was hoping to see the dolphins. Three magnificent beauties - all jumping in synchronized formation. Pure joy.
Peter and Christopher diving
Peter and Christopher exploring the beaches of Tahiti which is referred to as the "Queen of the Pacific"
A spectacular Tahitian sea turtle is spotted


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Q: I've been hearing the word "conversate" around my office lately. Is it a legitimate substitute for "converse"? I need your expertise!
A: "Conversate" is not legit. The proper word is "converse."
I suspect your co-workers are using (perhaps humorously) an inventive back-formation from "conversation." Although I got 201,000 hits when I googled "conversate," many were complaints about the usage.
Back-formations (new words formed by dropping prefixes or suffixes from older ones) are pretty common in English. Examples of verbs that began as back-formations from nouns are "diagnose" (from "diagnosis"), "escalate" (from "escalator"), and "babysit" (from "babysitter").
Among back-formations that are often frowned upon by American usage experts are "incent" (from "incentive"), "enthuse" (from "enthusiasm"), and "orientate" (a mid-19th century back-formation from "orientation," which itself is derived from a verb, "orient").
Another example of a humorous back-formation that's not (yet) in the dictionary is "adolesce" (from "adolescence"), as in "He hasn't finished adolescing yet."
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Identify the cause of a solar eclipse and compare with a lunar eclipse.
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In a SOLAR ECLIPSE, the moon comes between the sun and the Earth. The shadow of the moon causes the solar eclipse. Depending on where a person lives on the planet, they may see a partial eclipse or a total eclipse. See below for more information on types of solar eclipses.
With a LUNAR ECLIPSE, the Earth comes between the sun and the moon. The light of the sun cannot reflect the moon because it is in the shadow of the Earth. See the lunar eclipse worksheet at Astronomy MatchCard #4.
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This is MatchCard #6 of the Astronomy Unit Study. Find more information on MatchCard Science below.
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Borrowed Time (2012), the debut feature from Jules Bishop, is a warm-hearted micro-indie that cleanses the palate of all those overdone, dank and dull British kitchen sink dramas. It's topped off with a gleeful performance from Phil Davis as an agoraphobic curmudgeon, and Theo Barklem-Biggs (of The Inbetweeners Movie fame) as a down-on-his-luck hoodie with a heart. This character-driven drama concerns Kevin, a gormless teen living on a council estate in Stratford, who finds himself in trouble with a local drug-dealer, the utterly barmy "Ninja" Nigel (Warren Brown), having managed to lose a stash of cannabis.
Ordered to pay back the cash equivalent, Kevin decides to burgle a pensioner's house, only to find himself face to face with Philip (Davis), a blunderbuss-toting grouser, whose abode is populated with Norman Bates-style stuffed animals. Surprisingly, the pair strike up an unlikely friendship proving that, as different as they seem, they may have more in common than they initially realise. Whilst the kitchen sink drama is far from exhausted, the sour taste of seeing working-class life depicted as brutal, cruel and absent of pleasure is quickly becoming tiring. So, throwing caution to the wind, Bishop expels these concepts. and with this deft screenplay allows the tone to shift between the comic and the tragic with ease.
On of a handful of 'name' actors involved with the project, Davis certainly dominates Borrowed Time, playing as he does a retired schoolteacher who has lost his family due to a destructive bout of alcoholism. He now spends his days practising taxidermy, even picking up the corpses of squirrels off the curb, much to the chagrin of his nosey neighbours. Barklem-Biggs' clownish Kevin is an equally lonely soul whose only remaining family – his sister (Juliet Oldfield) and her son – have spurned him due to his seemingly idiotic life choices. In many ways, despite their age gap and radically different upbringings, Phil and Kevin are made for each other.
The producers of Borrowed Time looked to crowd-funding site Kickstarter in order to cover the costs of self-distribution – a sadly common case these days. Had a distributor taken the plunge, they would have found themselves with a remarkable, albeit small, British oddity that's a pleasure to watch from beginning to end. A recent advert for a well-known fast-food chain has also tried to engender the idea that young and old council estate dwellers can bond, yet the result was positively mawkish. Thankfully, Bishop's debut is anything but maudlin, having cunningly paired an established talent with a likeable rising star.
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Clint Eastwood The Good The Bad & The Ugly signed poster
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Combat Feat
Greater Weapon FinessePosted March 17th, 2012 by Arazyr
Greater Weapon Finesse
Your training allows you to use your agility instead of brute strength with most weapons.
- Prerequisites:
- Dex 15, Weapon Finesse.
- Benefit:
- You can use the Weapon Finesse feat with any light, one-handed or double weapon.
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