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Another Year Has Begun……
February 20, 2010 § 2 Comments
I can't belive it has been so long since I last posted. Christmas and New Year came and went, and before I knew it I was back in the kitchen baking again. I have been coming to terms with the less exciting side of running a business, sorting through the the pile of paperwork, reconciling my accounts, creating recipe spreadsheets and all that stuff. Which once you get started you really wonder why you had been putting it off for so long.
I now have two new customers! This is exciting, but time management is now much more important, no more cups of tea as I wait for a batch of muffins to finish baking. I now have to be working on to the next process or preparing for the following day. This is starting to feel like a real business.
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Hi fellow Cake-lover. Wow, starting your own baking business? How exciting! All the best on your journey. Paperwork is very tiresome 😦
I run The Cake Mistress and I'm in the midst of compiling a list of Australian Baking and Dessert bloggers. I'd love to add a link to your site to the list.


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The announcement of "Supergirl's" upcoming nine-week hiatus has anxious a lot of fans, but The CW president Mark Pedowitz said that viewers should not read anything into the fact the show will be off the air from February to April. Pedowitz stated, "We had a moment where they had some production issues". "We figured OK, let's give it a rest, put Legends on, have iZombie come on with it in February".
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Some writers seem to confuse the liability in matters of love to
deception or disappointment with the larger question of a
metaphysical illusion in Schopenhauer's sense. To some extent
this confusion perhaps exists in the discussion of love by
Renouvier and Prat in _La Nouvelle Monadologie_ (pp. 216 _et
seq._). In considering whether love is or is not a delusion, they
answer that it is or is not according as we are, or are not,
dominated by selfishness and injustice. "It was not an essential
error which presided over the creation of the _idol_, for the
idol is only what in all things the _ideal_ is. But to realize
the ideal in love two persons are needed, and therein is the
great difficulty. We are never justified," they conclude, "in
casting contempt on our love, or even on its object, for if it is
true that we have not gained possession of the sovereign beauty
of the world it is equally true that we have not attained a
degree of perfection that would have entitled us justly to claim
so great a prize." And perhaps most of us, it may be added, must
admit in the end, if we are honest with ourselves, that the
prizes of love we have gained in the world, whatever their flaws,
are far greater than we deserved.
We may well agree that in a certain sense not love alone but all the
passions and desires of men are illusions. In that sense the Gospel of
Buddha is justified, and we may recognize the inspiration of Shakespeare
(in the _Tempest_) and of Calderon (in _La Vida es Sueno_), who felt that
ultimately the whole world is an insubstantial dream. But short of that
large and ultimate vision we cannot accept illusion; we cannot admit that
love is a delusion in some special and peculiar sense that men's other
cravings and aspirations escape. On the contrary, it is the most solid of
realities. All the progressive forms of life are built up on the
attraction of sex. If we admit the action of sexual selection--as we can
scarcely fail to do if we purge it from its unessential
accretions[67]--love has moulded the precise shape and color, the
essential beauty, alike of animal and human life.
If we further reflect that, as many investigators believe, not only the
physical structure of life but also its spiritual structure--our social
feelings, our morality, our religion, our poetry and art--are, in some
degree at least, also built up on the impulse of sex, and would have been,
if not non-existent, certainly altogether different had other than sexual
methods of propagation prevailed in the world, we may easily realize that
we can only fall into confusion by dismissing love as a delusion. The
whole edifice of life topples down, for as the idealist Schiller long
since said, it is entirely built up on hunger and on love. To look upon
love as in any special sense a delusion is merely to fall into the trap of
a shallow cynicism. Love is only a delusion in so far as the whole of life
is a delusion, and if we accept the fact of life it is unphilosophical to
refuse to accept the fact of love.
It is unnecessary here to magnify the functions of love in the
world; it is sufficient to investigate its workings in its own
proper sphere. It may, however, be worth while to quote a few
expressions of thinkers, belonging to various schools, who have
pointed out what seemed to them the far-ranging significance of
the sexual emotions for the moral life. "The passions are the
heavenly fire which gives life to the moral world," wrote
Helvetius long since in _De l'Esprit_. "The activity of the mind
depends on the activity of the passions, and it is at the period
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I woke up this morning to let the dog out. I hopped in the shower, and when I came out, guess what I found? Duke on the couch!! I think his hip meds are working for him. He hasn't voluntarily climbed anything bigger than a step in the last 6-8 weeks. This is AWESOME news!!
Enough about Duke, what's new with me?
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Ragnar Relay is January 6-7, and I'm going to be a high-mileage runner for my team, so I know my motivation for that will carry me through to taper!
Winter Cycling:
Not riding as much as I'd like, but I'm trying to settle into a routine. I KNOW this is where I can make larger gains for next season, so I just need to find the time, motivation and interest to get myself on the trainer during the week, or the roads on the weekend. Or, better yet, both!
Holiday Bootie-Buster Challenge:
Amanda at Run To The Finish (http://www.runtothefinish.com) is hosting this challenge. The tweets tagged with #HBBC got me off my butt on Saturday. After the long vet's appointment, the news on Duke and my IT band hurting, I didn't want to do ANYTHING… but I got up, did some yoga, and did my FULL knee routine from physical therapy. Then, I knocked out 5 miles (half of my long run) pain-free on Sunday. Better than nothing, right? So, THANK YOU, HBBCers!
I got to spectate this weekend!! My boyfriend did the Muddy Buddy with a friend – it was fun to watch! I Sherpa-ed gear around the race site, dropped everything off at the car, snuck in a two mile run, and was there with plenty of time to watch the bike during last-minute port-a-potty stops. I took pictures of their start wave, and headed out for three more miles. I hit the car, grabbed towels, flip-flops, camera and water and headed to the finish line. A few minutes after my arrival, Patrick's teammate came running in – maybe two minutes later, Patrick came in on the bike. They scaled a wall and crawled through the mud pit! I almost forgot how much fun it is to watch and take pictures!!
My next race is Tough Mudder on December 4th. It'll be long, but the point is to have FUN! I'm sure my competitive side will come out a bit, but I'll be searching for running buddies between obstacles. This will be a camping weekend, too! My wave is at 10:30am on Saturday, so it's a GREAT time. We can camp Friday night, pack up, get to the race, race, party, and head to the next campsite for some relaxing! Patrick will be the one deserving of the finisher's medal, because for three hours, he's going to be watching the dog at a crowded race.
Unfortunately, this year, I won't be headed North to hang with the family. But, I'll be celebrating here with a few close friends. I'm REALLY excited for Christmas, because me and the dog will be road-tripping our way to and from Pennsylvania!!


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First off I'd like to say I'm not a fan of amusement parks such as Sea World and zoos. Although I have been to zoos in my life I have always struggled with the idea of animals behind cages and not being able to fully live in their own natural habitat. So when I heard there was a documentary that exposed Sea World and their nasty little secrete about the Orcas and the number of incidents surrounding their aggressive behavior.
Blackfish tells the story of Tillikum the biggest Orca Whale in captivity weighing in at 12-thousand pounds. This guy is massive and his strength and girth is very visible from the moment you see him.
To truly understand Tillikum issues you have to go all the way back to the moment he was captured back in the 70's for a park called Sea Land in British Columbia. Tillikum was 2 years old when he was ripped from his mother and is family unit and taken into captivity at Sea Land. Sea Land had no business what so ever being in business. Sea Land trainers even referred to the habitat as a swimming pool with whales. Tillikum's issues started the moment he was dropped into this small pool with two female Orca's. Tillikum's first trainer decided the best way to train the new Orca was to pair him with one of the older females. The problem was when Tillikum didn't perform as instructed the trainer would withhold food from him and the female. This lead the female to get extremely aggressive with Tillikum raking her teeth across his body causing cuts and scratches all over. Tillikum was abused from day one and all three whales where forced into a small inclose with no light for hours and hours unless they were out performing. It was at Sea Land the first attack by Tillikum happen. When a trainer's foot slipped into the pool and Tillikum grabbed on. The two other female whales followed suit and as the trainer screamed for help witnesses said she was heard screaming "I don't want to die." It was reported that no one knew for sure which whale actually took ahold of the trainer's foot and the blame fell on the two females. Shortly after the incident Sea Land closed and Sea World was more than happy to snatch Tillikum up.
Tillikum made his way to Sea World and trainers who worked with him and a number of other Orca's say they were never told the truth behind the first attack at Sea Land and were in fact told it was the females who instigated the attack. This was the beginning of a new chapter for Tillikum and it wouldn't be the last time his aggression would come back and cause issue. But in truth Tillikum isn't the only Sea World Orca to attack someone. Other trainers have had their legs snatched and dragged down to the bottom of the pool. There is video of trainers being body slammed by the giant creatures. In fact one incident caught on tape show a trainer riding a whale as another whale comes out of nowhere and throws his body on top if the trainer. A former Sea World trainer said the only thing keeping that trainers body together was his wetsuit and today his body is put together by a ton of hardware. But that incident that video was never shown to new trainers. They were never warned something like this could happen.
This documentary is heart breaking. Tillikum was basically bought for breading purposes. There are two births highlighted in the film. When Orcas have calf's, mom and baby are inseparable. This behavior didn't work for Sea World and was in fact found to be a distraction. So the babies were taken from the mothers and given to other parks. Watching the mothers cry out for their young was unbearable to watch. Orca behavior is extremely similar to human behavior, in fact Orca whales live the same life span as human beings. The film points out Sea World trained their staff to tell visitors that these creatures lives for 25-30 years in the wild, but in captivity they live longer because they have access to veterinarians. This is not true and Orca researchers will tell you this is a bold face lie.
Like most kids I though swimming with the Dolphins and Whales would be the coolest job ever. But I was always under the impression he trainers had to have degrees in marine biology and understand the behavior or such animals. Turns out that's not so much the case at Sea World. I can not speak to other places since this file focused on Sea World. But apparently to be a trainer at Sea World all the skills you need is a great ability to swim, be physically fit and have a personality that can entertain the masses. So basically anyone can train these giant animals regardless of your background.
As I watched this film it struck me. This a great case for nature verses nurture. These animals are caged in spaces that are too small. They have no where to go. In the case of Tillikum, form the time he was introduced to humans he was beaten up and treated like he was just a tool to make money. It's no wonder there were several cases where he lashed out.
After the incident in 2010 where Tillikum attacked and killed his trainer, Tillikum is kept in isolation. You can see video of him alone and depressed. It's almost as if he don't have the will to live. According to Sea World, Tillikum is still performing and gets to interact with the other Orcas. Who know much of that is true. It seems that when ever there's an incident in which a Sea World Orca is involved the problem is never the animal, but the fault of the trainer. The truth is both are to blame. You have people who love these animals and have deep connections with them, but they have no business getting into the water with them. They know nothing of the species and how the function and how the respond to issues. And you have the corporation who only sees dollar signs and doesn't seem to really care who gets hurt in the pursuit of money.
Places like Sea World have no business being in business. It makes me wonder how safe are the whales and dolphins at the Shedd in Chicago or the other nationally recognized aquariums around the world. I can only hope this move opens the eyes of world and we stop using these animals as entertainment. I'm all for rescue and sanctuaries but this is a clear example of exploitation.
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text: Under writer, director, and producer Theresa Helburn, the Theatre Guild became famous for producing great plays, regardless of their commercial viability. Helburn headed this pioneering group at a time when female producers were not common in the professional theater. She joined the newly formed company in 1919 as a play reader. "A year later," Helburn remembered, "I was made executive secretary pro tem, a job that not only I didn't want but that no one wanted. So started a career of theater production to which I had never given a moment's thought, which had not interested me, and which I would have regarded in any case as beyond my capacities."1 She went on to become the company's Executive Director, a title she held for some forty years. She worked on the first productions of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), The Philadelphia Story (1939) by Philip Barry, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals Oklahoma! (1943) and Carousel (1945). Of Helburn, Oscar Hammerstein wrote: "A producer is a rare, paradoxical genius—heard-headed, soft-hearted, cautious, reckless, a hopeful innocent in fair weather, a stern pilot in stormy weather, a mathematician who prefers to ignore the laws of mathematics and trust intuition, a realist, a practical dreamer, a sophisticated gambler, a stage-struck child. That's a producer. That was Theresa Helburn."2


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It seems like I should document a normal day so that next month, when newborn crazy town arrives, I can look back and laugh or cry at my idyllic, restful, scheduled life.
So. Ev generally wakes up around 8:52, give or take 30 minutes. I plod up the stairs (usually groggily) and then make her the exact same breakfast she's consumed for almost a year now: banana and oatmeal. She then plays around while I make myself the exact same breakfast I've consumed since December: egg, bacon, toast, large glass of cran-raspberry juice. I just bought six jugs of the stuff because it was on sale. Variety may be the spice of life but I guess not at breakfast time.
We putter around together for a bit but usually around 10:22 she's ready to hit the hay again. Depending on diaper situations, she'll be upstairs in her crib until 1-2:30. I kept going up to check on her yesterday because of the loud singing and every time I'd peak through the door, she'd be rocking her baby or swinging it up in air. I finally changed her diaper around noon and didn't see her til 2:40.
While she's upstairs, I spend the first bit of the time in my bedroom and the kitchen picking up, doing dishes, and these days, a bit of baking or cooking for after baby. Once the kitchen's clean, I make my way into the living for 20 to 30 minutes of prenatal pilates. You guys. It's been almost five dedicated weeks of exercise. I've missed three days. Basically, I am a rockstar…still with no muscles but at least with better balance. I actually really like it. (I just added the 2 pound weights 10 days ago so that could be why no muscles have appeared).
Then…ahh. My iced coffee with a piece of hard bottomed coffee cake. I seriously go to bed dreaming about my coffee cake and can't wait for the morning to come so I can partake again.
Ev eventually wakes up. And eats a string cheese, egg, and fruit. Always. Sometimes we split a smoothie in addition.
And then we play. The last couple days have been marvelous and we've spent our afternoons outdoors. Yesterday after lunch, I opened the back door for her, raced downstairs to switch over the laundry, then raced back upstairs, made my way to the back door and began peering out in the yard for her, wondering why I didn't immediately see her.
She hadn't quite made it that far. Speedy gonzales, she is not.
She has started letting us help her walk a tiny bit more in the yard and stands up more and more by herself. She still thinks she's pretty cool by performing this trick.
After playing in Gladys' water dish, shoveling in the fountain, and swinging, we eventually come inside. Sometimes a nap. Sometimes not.
Dinner is generally a family affair where Ev stands on her chair, leans on the table (we've never had a high chair) and jabbers about the day while chewing on a piece of bread. Wes and I grin and shake our head at her antics.
More playing, often a bath with mom, bouncing on the bed with dad, standing tricks, snuggles with all and then to bed around 8:52. The biggest change in bedtime routine has happened since returning home from California. I would often hear my friends say how naptime and bedtime were the sweetest of times with their children. I'd cringe and think, 'not here'. Generally speaking, prior to 2015, we'd chunk Ev in her crib and run out the door before she realized it was now time to sleep. If you attempted any cuddling or snuggling or singing or sweet moments, she'd have none of it and holler to beat the band.
Now, she snuggles in your arms, sucks on her blanket and coos and grins as you sing, pray, whisper sweet nothings. I lay her down, and she grins up at me as I give her her baby to cuddle with. Then I blow her a kiss and she giggles.
And my heart melts all the way downstairs.
I adore these days.


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It's always difficult to make a sympathy card but I find it difficult to express my feelings aloud during these sad times and a card helps me to say the words I'm not able to express.
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The kids have threatened to get their dad the Life Is Good t-shirt that says half-full. On it is a simple drawing of a glass with a line in the middle. I'm just saying Rich's natural disposition in life can be on the half-empty side. He cares deeply and that can come across as fretting. He takes personal responsibility to a new level and that can interfere with his own engagement. As the date for our departure grew closer, his intensity grew exponentially. So I was pleasantly surprised, at how fun loving he is here in Japan. I think it is a combination of many things.
Being in a place where he is at the mercy of strangers has given him the opportunity to experience being carefree. There is so much out of his control that he can't fuss about it. The relatively small experience he has had so far is that everything will work out. We are constantly in the situation of Joseph and Mary, looking for a place to be. Each and every time, the Japanese have scrunched together and with wide smiles and energetic waving, created space for us. Then they have worked hard to piece together a conversation quilt of English-Japanese to find out where we are from, why we are here, if we are visitor. When they find out we are living here, they say, "Sugoii!! {Wonderful} They offer us their treats and their warm company.
Adventure is another reason. It awaits us each day. Riding the train, the tram or walking down the street is a navigational challenge. The Japanese use three kinds of script-hiragana, katakana, and Chinese kanji. So we cannot read anything. Some things are written in English, but this is usually nonsensical business names and advertisements. It can feel disorientating. Add to it the incomprehensible side conversations and the world is pretty exciting when we walk to the 7-11 to get more cash. We heard a dog bark and laughed that even he knows Japanese. When we step in the elevator, the kind lady says something rapidly. Just yesterday, Rich exclaimed, "shut! she said the word shut!!" His eyes were sparkly and wide. He was so proud to have recognized the word shut in Japanese.
The bar of success is very low. We feel accomplished and enjoy just surviving. Early Saturday morning we headed to the town of Iwakuni. Typically, Rich pours over maps and has a detailed agenda. On the train, I realize he doesn't have a map out. Where is the map? "I don't have one." He shrugs. He resumes looking out the window and around the train. We haven't ever gone anywhere without a map. Hmmm. We get out and follow the crowd to the gate. Nothing is familiar. I am starting to tense up. But not Rich. He is like a puppy at first snow. He walks up to the gate where the ticket taker sits. Rich gestures/asks the man. By the look on his face he has no idea what Rich is saying. Rich is learning that less is more when it comes to these situations. It is a skill to pare your idea down to the absolute most necessary words. It goes like this-"how get to bridge?" The man points us out the door. So we go. There is a map displayed but none that can be put in your pocket. I am so surprised. Rich is not stressed at all. He shrugs and comments on appreciating Hiroshima and its access. The day follows this pattern. Needing something, pointing, gesturing, and success.
I think the unpredictability of our life gives Rich energy. When we got back from Iwakuni, I thought we would go get something to eat close by. But no, we ended up at a place advertising pizza. Well, it was not Flying Pie. It was more like a tortilla topped with ketchup and basil leaves. It had a patio so we didn't mind our weird pizza. Afterward, as we stepped onto the sidewalk, a familiar, meaty, aroma overwhelmed us. Rich unabashedly put his nose in the air like a hunting dog and making big sniffing sounds and "Ohhh mannn! oh mannn!" all the while walking stridently to the origins of the smell. A young man is manning a hibachi made of bricks. Sticks of meat are on the grill like little bridges. Rich walks right up and to my horror points and says, "I want two." With the intensity of a New Yorker ordering on the streets of the City. Such brandish behavior is not considered polite or rewarded. The griller ignores him, turning the meat and adding sauce, which makes the smoke thicker and yummier. Now the dog is on point, eyeing the meaty bridges and their caretaker with intense eyes. Luckily, a Japanese couple show me that you have to order on a little piece of paper. It is only now that I can get the dog to break point. The help continue to ignore us. The lady advocates and gets our order to its destination. The dog is on point again. Rich is intrigued by the hibachi and what the griller does. Finally the yakisoba come. Rich says, "Itedakimasu"! {This is a very polite way to begin eating.} The griller cracks a smile. Rich takes a bite. "Oishiii, oishii, oh man this is so good, this is so good!". Now the griller is smiling at us and speaking Japanese to the couple. I am now explaining in my broken language that we are here to live. The couple comments on my Japanese and apologize for their English. "Sauce, (Rich is pointing), more sauce" I cringe. The griller is scrambling, getting out the wasabi. "Oshouyu, kudasai" pops out of my mouth. Immediately the griller grabs a squirt bottle and dabbles sauce on the meat, Rich's hands rotating to mean more, more. The Japanese husband it laughing and so is the help. Before we know it we are offered edemame, beer, and a small dish of prosciutto (I hope that is what it is) cheese and cucumbers in a light sauce. Rich is asking the griller questions and complimenting him on his cooking. There is no tipping in Japan, but we have learned that taking their picture is a huge compliment so we do. He takes our picture with the couple that helps us and then we say good bye, see you next week!


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Organic Chemistry International
Volume 2011, Article ID 360810, 5 pages
Synthesis, Antimicrobial, and Anticoagulant Activities of 2-(Arylsulfonyl)indane-1,3-diones
1Post Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry, Sri Paramakalyani College, Alwarkurichi, Tirunelveli 627 412, India
2Department of Natural Products Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai 625 021, India
Received 7 April 2011; Accepted 7 June 2011
Academic Editor: William Ogilvie
Copyright © 2011 Malaichamy Jeyachandran and Penugonda Ramesh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to Cite this Article
Malaichamy Jeyachandran and Penugonda Ramesh, "Synthesis, Antimicrobial, and Anticoagulant Activities of 2-(Arylsulfonyl)indane-1,3-diones," Organic Chemistry International, vol. 2011, Article ID 360810, 5 pages, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/360810.


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In this section of the French News Online "Lifeslyle"
Section, professional gardener Michael Alexander, takes us, gently,
through those tasks you should be tackling in the garden this
Healthy, abundant fruit -
the product of proper pruning
Even the most optimistic of glossy garden magazines is recommending
building bird houses and sitting in front of a cosy fire with
a pile of the latest seed catalogues. As a working gardener I
am not sure that many of my clients would feel they were getting
value for money if they found me, feet up, in front of their poele,
cup of tea in one hand and seed catalogue in the other surrounded
by a small lotissement of bird habitation. In order to be really
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Pruning Apples and Pear
All is not gloom and doom however and this is a month for getting
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to wait for one of the brighter days this can be a really pleasant
and rewarding task. The late Geoff Hamilton used to like to get
his apples pruned by Christmas, but I find that here in France
we can have some really hard frosts so I tend to leave my pruning
until into the new year so the buds that develop after pruning
will have a little less harsh weather to face.
I prune back by about 30% on last years
French Disapproval
I always start by cutting out dead and crossing wood before opening
up the centre of the tree. Only then do I prune back about thirty
percent of the previous years growth to leave myself with a neat
healthy tree for the coming season. This system works well for
me but frequently earns me disapproval from the French who tend
to prune much harder than I dare to. I have even lost clients
over this, with people thinking they have not had their pound
of my flesh until the tree looks like a military recruit, even
though it is often harder to prune softly than it is to cut whole
branches hard back.
Hard pruning encourages the tree to push out more growth, frequently
in the form of rapidly growing straight branches that quickly
dominate the tree and don't produce any fruit. The gentler approach
is more in alignment with nature, I feel, than a more aggressive
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If the weather is not too harsh, spike the lawn with a garden
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walking on the damp soil.
There is often snow around at this time of year and it really
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basis of future monthly columns.
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When I was 18y/o there was an incident that occurred that drove a greater wedge between me and my mama than the wedge that already existed–and the existing one was already quite wide.
She actually created this incident by not communicating with me something that I REALLY needed to know. As I scrambled to find a way to correct the mess she'd created without her help, she told me something that summer of my 19th birthday that I will never forget.
My mama told me that I had to find my own way in life and work it out.
I remember being so upset with her that I vowed that day that I would never ask her for another thing for as long as I lived. I remember saying these exact words to my Granny: "I don't care if it's burning up outside and I don't have any shoes, I won't even ask that woman for a pair of socks!"
Of course, Granny tried to diffuse the situation as only a grandmother could, but I was too upset, felt too betrayed, and was yet once again, too let down by my own mother, to be consoled or calmed.
Years went by and I kept my word. I didn't ask my mother for anything. She'd ask me what I wanted for Christmas, or my birthday, or whatever, and I would just come up with something…but nothing too much. I didn't want to have to hear about it later.
Once, while talking with my youngest auntie, I learned that my mother would, on purpose, get me…let's call'em "not so expensive" gifts because she thought that I didn't take care of my stuff. Yeah, I guess.
(I won't mention that there was a ring that I'd purchased her that I had to argue with my then-husband about every time I paid the lay-a-way bill on it that she no longer has thru her OWN means of getting rid of it….. LOL I won't detail it then.)
And then, there did come a time when I did need to go to my mother for help with a bill. She helped…that time, but she made sure I wouldn't be too long in paying her back.
Fast forward to now…………………………….
The relationship continues to be a bit strained, but as we're supposed to do, Mama and I try to work at it. It's at once more difficult and easier to do because she lives in Arizona and I in Texas. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder…" but, let me add…"only when that absence is understood.
I titled this blog as "Lessons Learned" because I have learned quite a few very important lessons from my mother. You can't help but learn if you pay attention. And since I have a 12, almost 13, year old daughter, I want to make sure that those lessons get passed on with the right message attached.
- From my mother I learned how to take care of me first.
But, I also learned that when you have kids, ME first doesn't exactly begin with MY personal self. First, you've got to make sure that your child(ren) are straight first, and then get to YOU.
- From my mother I learned that you've got to make yourself happy; no one else is responsible for your happiness but you.
And you cannot assume that just because you go out of your way to make others happy that they're going to turn around and look out for you in that regard. (I learned that the hard way…thru watching her and thru my own personal experience.)
- From my mother I learned the most important lesson of all…NO relationship is going to prosper if you don't have a solid relationship with God, our Father, first.
You can do all the things that look good, feels good, sounds good, and is so called "appreciated" by those you're in a relationship with, but if your relationship with God isn't straight,, everything else is going to be crooked.
My mama taught me how to stand on my own two feet and take care of myself. She taught me that I had to find my own way in life and work it out. She only indirectly taught me how to work it out, though. Sometimes, I resent her for those lessons, as they were not easy to learn; they were difficult life experiences, with her around and without, but I praise God that He put her there to somehow teach me the lessons that I needed to learn.
One thing else I learned (not that these are the only lessons I've learned) is that life keeps going.
Sometimes, it's easy.
Sometimes, it's difficult.
Sometimes, it's downright hard as heck!
But, it never stops.
Life keeps going, and somehow, some way, you've got to keep going with it. If you stop, you just might get run over.
Life keeps moving and you've got to too. Pause, take a break if you've got to, but keep going.
To all mothers out there: Happy Mother's Day and don't skimp on passing on YOUR "Lessons Learned."


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Zbrush was always a program that i wanted to get into, i'm glad i had the opportunity to use it this year, this project gave me a good opportunity to begin to learn the basic and get a good workflow going for making game assets.
The program itself seems to have a high learning curve but over the space of the project i managed to get the hang of it. It took a while to get the workflow right for sculpting but now i have a good routine.
I will bring the model in combined if its a complex part, split it in the subtool menu, dynamesh each part with a high enough resolution to get a good amount of detail, then merge them again, autogroup them so i can work on them individually while seeing them all combined, then set a morph target and continue to set new morph targets and i get further through the model. This worked well throughout the project and the models turned out very clean but very high poly. I then messed around with decimated the mesh, it lowers the poly count a lot but it leaves the topology very messy.
For sculpting i had a set routine with what brushes i would use to achieve the hard edged blizzard look that i was aiming for. To get this look I used the trim dynamic brush, it gives a nice sharp rock like surface to the mesh. I also downloaded the orb cracked brush set for zbrush, this allows for some really nice clean sharp cracks in the object that look natural or like sword strikes.
After sculpting everything high poly and being happy with the result this is when i would start baking them down into normal maps.


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post about the unveiling of the Patil portrait back in March... when the family got their first glimpse of the portrait I'd been working on for a very long time. I wrote in that post that I had a few tweaks to make and that the Patil's were very happy with their family treasure. Pluto and Goofy -- the family pets -- needed longer hair and I still had some areas of the portrait that I wanted to work on.
One of the comments Sherrie McGraw made (in the workshop I attended last week) when asked how long she might spend on a painting is that she's never anxious to be done with a painting. She stops when she's accomplished what she set out to do. She has a relationship with the painting that she's sorry to see end.
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- Elizabeth Seaver said...
Jill, this is fabulous. You should be so proud of it. I'm sure they are over the moon about it. It shows them relaxed and comfortable and you've created a dynamic composition. Lovely.
- May 3, 2010 at 7:14 AM
- Jill Banks said...
Thanks, Elizabeth. It was a feat ... but such a wonderful portrait to paint.
- May 3, 2010 at 10:43 AM
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Luke turned 5 last week, and the occasion was marked with many celebrations.
On the day of, we had a cupcake fete at school. Harper was allowed to visit Luke's "big kid" class from her toddler room for the party.
She fit right in - not hesitating to join in on the post-cupcake dance party or game of musical chairs. Or to wash her hands many times in their sinks.
Saturday was the day for Luke's party at home - he picked a Medieval knight theme and invited his 3 best buddies to come and celebrate with an agenda he had carefully mapped out in advance.
Helmets, shields, and swords were provided for his planned "training" exercises
Daddy custom-printed stickers for the kids to use to decorate their shields
Most popular stickers? The Medieval weaponry, of course
Yes, Mommy stuck the harp on Harper's shield
The result of giving 4 little boys helmets, shields, and swords. Poor Shannon.
Harper, not to be outdone
Ready to train his charges!
Luke and Chase, reveling
Most of the action photos came out blurry because they never. stopped. running.
Up the stairs to the "secret hideout" and the "dungeon," down the stairs to attack us, the "Central Park Rangers" (see: Elf)
A rollicking game of Stick the Sword on the Knight was played
First Luke
Then Gavin (and Chase and Ryan)
Chase supervised [Harper claims she is going to marry Chase. But she spent the party declaring her love to his older brother, Tyler]
As well as an auxiliary axe cake
Luke gets his first look at the cakes
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Uncle Charlie and Aunt Sharren got Luke a Hot Wheels track - who is more eager for it to be put together here? I think it's a tie.
Harper donned her lab coat
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I'm not really a fan of the TV show "The Simpson's", but last Sunday I couldn't help feeling like Homer Simpson in the classic Simpson Halloween episode where Homer went to HELL and was given the Ironic "Too Much of a Good Thing" Punishmentt of eating an unlimited supply of Donuts ( view the link below or copy it into your browser)
The problem actually started last Friday when I umped 4 games ending at 8:45PM in 90 plus degree weather.
Not fun.
Then the situation got worse on Saturday, when I umped another a doubleheader starting at 9 AM and then played 4 games ending at around 8:30 PM.
The 3rd game was a 90 degree 9 inning marathon on 54th street "Donde Caja La Vaca" - the hottest and worse field in NYC.
My team ,The Sox, lost a heart breaker.
Of Course we lost the nightcap as well.
Ironic Softball Punishment - more playing more suffering
As an aside, the extra inning game was played using international rules.
Meaning that each team began their half of an extra frame with a man on 2nd base.
This rule is put in place to try and get the game to come to an end quickly.
This rule is fine in a one day tournament, but does not belong in a regular season game.
Anyway, the Ironic Softball Punishment - more playing more suffering reached an exclamation point on Sunday.
I had a quick turn around as I play in a fun 9 AM morning league in Central Park.
Yeah Lot's of fun - we only had 8 guys one of which was a make shift pitcher
Oh man, suffering.
It was 95 degrees and we had to play a 3 man Outfield.
Ironic Softball Punishment - more playing more suffering
I was not happy.
Of course some guy hit a shot over my head that I misplayed in the 1st inning and my hitting was pathetic against some pitcher you looked like Red Fox from the classic TV show Sandford and Son
So now I was slumping.
I thought things couldn't get worse.
I was wrong.
As my game is going on, I see a lot of my Big Apple West teammates showing up to the park and I start thinking man they are here mighty early for a 1pm game.
Turns out our game was at 11 Am.
Oh man now I had to leave these poor guys.
At least we miraculously had a 3 run lead.
Being that Central Park on a Sunday is the forfeit avoiding capital of the world, I picked up a decent guy and I was on my way to the West game.
By now I was suffering total softball burnout and not too mention heat stroke from the weather and running around.
Luckily, The head umpire (not that idiot Mister Magoo - thank god) saw that I was woozy. He had a park's attendant turn on the sprinkler for me so that I could stand underneath it and cool off. Very nice of him. That idiot Mister Magoo wouldn't do that.
OK so now I was alive.
Let's play.
Running on empty I got asked to play Left Center b/c we were also short guys.
Ironic Softball Punishment - more playing more suffering
Oh man.
Whatever, things would get worse as we got waxed 10-3.
P.S. My morning team mates came by to tell my the guy I picked up made an error and cost them the game.
The next game was a MUST WIN as we were fighting for our playoff lives.
Our ace pitcher Tom "Shooter" Murphy arrived and we were winning 3-1 into the 6th, that's when things got worse.
The best last place team I have ever seen Excelsior ( I don't mean that as a diss they are truly better than their record) rallied to tie the game on clutch hits and errors on our part.
OK gut check time. At least we were the home team.
We rallied to score 2 runs in the bottom of the sixth and the 7th looked like a lock as they had the bottom of their order up.
Not so fast, IRONIC PUNISHMENT must continue.
Excelsior fought extremely hard to tie the game and nearly won it as their lead off batter almost hit a 3 run homer over my head.
The score was now 5-5.
Ironic Softball Punishment - more playing more suffering
Thankfully, I will spare you all the painful details, but the game went 12 long draining innings where both team blew several opportunities to Win
Yes 12 innings of Ironic Softball Punishment - more playing more suffering .
Of course my day long slump continued.
All that matters is that we won the damn game. Finally!!!!!!
This was softball HELL
Monday, July 21, 2008
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- AnonymousJuly 22, 2008 at 12:30 AM
I left to go to work with 5-3 lead in 7th inning. I get to work and look for scores assuming we won because now im just looking to see what other teams did because we are fighting for our lives to make playoffs!
Scores are finally posted and i see the score is 6-5 we won and im like,what the hell!! Now i know ,thanks RICK. I even looked back from top of hill to see us get the first out in 7th innnig,haha I thought to myself, that should be good.
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A Somali Proverb
I recently came across an old Somali proverb that dripped with both ruthlessness and wisdom. It describes human behavior in stressful times, as during a famine.
"Me and my clan against the world.
Me and my family against my clan.
Me and my brother against my family.
Me against my brother."
It is not surprising that in a competitive, overpopulated world with inadequate resources, these sentiments are universal. The commonality of this savage wisdom leads me to suspect that it is more than a cultural manifestation. Most probably it is a genetic one common to all mankind.
Another African proverb confirms the first:
"When times are good the world is my family and I will share my abundance with it.
When times are hard I will share only with my immediate family.
When times are terrible, I will not share."
It's discomforting for us to think that there is any truth to these proverbs. Those of us with full bellies and large screen TVs will shrug them off as products of uncivilized minds.
Would we never act in such a manner? Would our noble spirit, our sacred morality, and loving charity save us from that kind of survival behavior? Unfortunately, lofty, self-righteous convictions flourish like delicate flowers in a well cared for garden. Without sun, rain, and dedicated care, the garden degrades in every respect, similar to drought and famine ridden African villages. The beautiful garden becomes a patch of weeds competing with each other for nutrition and water.
Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, offers a likely theory why humans are not charitable during hard times. Simply put, the selfish gene theory states that the essence of evolution is the survival and propagation of one's genes. In the final analysis, whatever it takes for them to survive will occur. Essentially, genes control the animal, and not the other way round. If a hungry fledgling bird can dominate its nest mates and get a larger share of food, it will at the expense of the others. Hungry Piglets do not wait in line for their fair share of mom's milk. They dive in and compete against their siblings for as much as they can get. The runts of a litter do not survive hard times. Hungry animals do not share when food is scarce.
That was the bad news; the good news is that there are exceptions to the "dog eat dog world." On occasion, religious and secular altruism seem to defy these basic instincts. Humans have been known to share their last crust of bread and their last ounce of water with a complete stranger. It is a demonstration that raw emotions and survival instincts can be short-circuited in the mysterious human mind. Religion plays its role in controlling human behavior with bribes, threats, and emotion. They often work but sometimes against the common good. Secular Humanism plays out its role with reason, and science usually for the common good.
Altruism has surfaced in every culture regardless of race, religion or political system. It originated in our genes due to the same evolutionary pressures that made us savage, as described by the Somali proverb. Altruistic and savage behaviors are not gifts or curses from a supernatural deity. They are the fruits of evolution. Definitive answers to looming overpopulation lie in science, not in faith.
So, why do we too often stand by and watch genocide? Why do some of us participate in it? We can blame our selfish genes as the underlying cause, but as conscious humans, we must accept the reality that we can stop genocide and human suffering. We have that power, we have the wisdom and we understand the brain better than in the past. In the future, population growth and dwindling resources will continue to challenge our love of short-term goals and pulpit morality. Survival comes first; morality will be side-lined, manipulated, and redefined to meet the greater need. The Catholic Church will have to give up its resistance to birth control. Religions and political parties must talk and compromise with each other without pre conditions. Dogma must be discarded.
Yes, there is a solution? When it comes down to the nitty-gritty, humans cannot ignore basic survival needs. Our only answer is analogous to preventative medicine. Wise planning, and population control is our only hope. It is the only way we can avoid disaster. We cannot wait any longer. We must conserve our environment now; we must control population growth; we must help the needy; we must anticipate the looming water and food shortages caused by climate change; we must ignore the idiots who proclaim, "Trust in God and all is well." Maintaining the unfair status quo between the wealthy and the poor is suicide. Religionists proclaim high and mighty ethical standards about charity but they vote against equality every chance they get. A presidential candidate recently said the less fortunate should not expect to get "free stuff" and if elected he would not give it to them. I am puzzeled how a proclaimed Christian or Mormon could vote for such a person. Altruism and charity should be the foundation of religiosity and all political platforms.
As a long time atheist all this seems obvious to me. Why can't those who call themselves religious see this obvious truth? The answer is: It is easier to follow leaders who claim they talk to God than to trust those who swear by reason and science.


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