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August 09, 2011
All watched over by machines of loving grace
The London Riots have got me in the mood to watch some Adam Curtis documentaries, so I googled him and I just found out he brought out a new documentary called ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE - Insta downloading it and here's the trailer
I would seriously recommend anyone to watch all of his documentaries. They can change your whole perspective on the world..
update: watched the first episode. Its fucking sick... the shit that hit asia described in this episode, well that is gonna hit the UK and the US too... it is inevitable. they took huge loans (think QE2) then the bankers got their investments out, the people footed the bill and Asia had a HUGE crash in the 90s (I have seen it for myself in Japan; my friend Yuki came from an upper middle class family and her dad owned a load of night clubs and radio stations in downtown Kobe, JP. Anyway the asia crash cost them a helluva lot and they lost their big house and 2 apartments from this shit, so it is definitely scary and also very real). Its inevitable this is going to happen in the west too, because the investment class are going to cover their asses and put this heat on the average man on the street, just like they did in asia in the 90s, just theyre gona do it in the west.
wow i LOVE his docs... its gonna hit us hard though.. soon
I cant recommend this documentary enough (trnt)
related stuff:
watch this movie if you can - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(film)


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The families of University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee students Pin-Hsuan and Chu-Juan Hsu were more than 8,000 miles away in Taiwan on Sunday while the two students were serving food to 900 guests at USF's 23rd annual Brunch on the Bay.
The students, both in the school's popular College of Hospitality & Tourism Leadership, told their parents that one of the benefits they would get from coming to Florida from their universities in Taiwan on an exchange program is that their English would improve.
But Pin-Hsuan and Chu-Juan Hsu may have still been a bit confused Sunday about the exact meaning of the English word "yum" when delivered with different intonations.
Sometimes it was said quickly by brunch guests and sometimes stretched out with the "m" held a long time.
"Our parents are excited because they feel we are learning more English and improving ourselves," said Pin-Hsuan, who goes by "Betty."
Yums in all variations were popping up all over the place with chefs from 21 area restaurants preparing an interesting and scrumptious brunch menu this year for the strolling guests along the bay.
Pier 22 in downtown Bradenton made capicola eggs benedict, and nearby Cafe L'Europe had chicken empanadas, and then there were gourmet cupcakes and cookies from Cakes by Ron.
Pin-Hsuan and Chu-Juan Hsu helped serve coffee at Seabreeze Coffee & Tea, which was featuring a variety of delightful types of coffee from Katy's Coffee, a new business owned by Bradenton's Katy Kopstad in only its second presentation to the public.
Pin-Hsuan and Chu-Juan Hsu both enjoy caring for others, serving them scrumptious meals, making sure their sleeping quarters are comfy and finding them fun things to do on holiday. They have come to USF Sarasota-Manatee to turn this character trait into a lifelong career.
"I want to work in a hotel as a manager," Pin-Hsuan said.
"I want to travel the world," said Chu-Juan Hsu, who goes by Jessie.
Hospitality a solid career field
For people who feel they are suited, hospitality can be very fulfilling financially and lead to job opportunities all over the world, said Joe Askren, director of the Culinary Innovation Lab, which is part of the the College of Hospitality & Tourism Leadership.
Askren and the dean of the college, Pat Moreo, brought 24 students at the brunch, including Pin-Hsuan and Chu-Juan Hsu, to team with chefs to learn from them and help the event go smoothly.
Manatee County residents Joshua Anderson and Melanie Wallace were among the 24 placed with Pier 22 and Michael's On East respectively. Anderson served eggs benedict, and Wallace marinated flank steak with homemade steak sauce.
"My plan is to be an event manager, someone who oversees events and does catering," Wallace said.
Anderson was soaking in every word from Greg Campbell, the chef from Pier 22.
"There's going to be a thousand people coming through here," Campbell told Anderson. "You get hit. You get pounded. You have to be ready. We are of the opinion that you show up, you go big or you don't go at all so we don't bring anything pre-done or pre-cooked. We bring an oven. We have water boiling. We will be poaching 1,100 eggs today."
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Barbeque Restaurant:grille by Yu-ngok Lo, Aia, Leed Ap
Yu-ngok Lo, Aia, Leed Ap Spotlights The Grille Barbeque Restaurant
Yu-Ngok Lo, AIA, LEED AP, the maker of the highlighted work Yu-Ngok Lo, AIA, LEED AP's Grille Barbeque Restaurant points out, The project turned an existing rundown motorcycle repair shop located in the northern part of Macau into a brand new artisan Barbeque Bistro. The biggest challenge of the project is to satisfy the client's aggressive programmatic need in such a small space with a very tight budge. The design progress began with figuring a way to fit 40 seats in the 44 m2 dining area. A total construction budget of HK$320,000 was set at the beginning of the project. Our solution was to maintain the industrial aspect of the space by minimally finished the walls and ceiling with a "raw and unfinished" texture..
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week 3 post:
September 20, 2006
hey again everyone;
first off; some more definitions of a the term BLOG:
1) from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/b/blog.html
n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
2) http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/blog
a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
3) from www.wikipedia.com
"The modern blog evolved from the online diary where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers"
notice that all three of these definitions (there are many more definitions and most, if not all) mention the word PERSONAL. This is why I find multi-user blogs or corporate/departmental blogs to be somewhat of an oxymoron… perhaps i am just wrestling over an issue of semantics again (WEEEE BLOG vs WEB BLOG)… but i really don't think so.
The original intention of a blog was to free personal journals from their paper tombs and release them into the digital world for all to see. Note again the term PERSONAL; maybe you're thinking to yourself "but randy, who cares if they were originally intended for personal use… can't thing evolve and change…?" well, yes you stickler :D, they sure can. But it still holds true that some avenues of communication are better fitted for certain tasks. for example, imagine if you will that instead of getting served a court summons by registered mail or courier, that you were EMAILED or INSTANT MESSAGED by the lawyer. It is certainly plausible that the lawyer could use either of these other modes of communication just as easily to transmit the court summons, but other modes are more 'accepted' for this sort of communication.
same goes for blogs i argue; blogs are meant, as their definitions suggest, for PERSONAL communication. because of this intent, it is expected that their language be colloquial, informal, and conversational.
in Schneider's Posting, she attacks librarian bloggers:"
Every blog produced by librarians, no matter how casual, represents librarianship to the world. We are the standard-bearers for accurate, unbiased information. Blogs filled with half-baked "facts," misrepresentations, copyright violations, and other egregious and unprofessional problems do not represent us well.
No cop-outs, either. I despair of librarians who blog "information" gleaned from rumors or "he-said/she-saids," only to later brush it off with, "It's only a blog." That's up there with saying, "It's only a reference question."
Schneider is arguing for a code of ethics for library bloggers since, when blogging, they apparently are "representing the entire profession"… i think this is a pretty extremist view. isn't this what we would call PREJUDICE? letting the actions of one person be extrapolated and applied to the whole of the group? "All construction workers make cat calls at women when they walk by… Chinese people are bad drivers, italians are all mob-bosses"… we don't stand for these generalizations for other groups, so why does Schneider feel that a librarian's blog need be placed within a rigid framework of rules to protect the sacred image of the librarian?
if i were to have a blog when i was a librarian, and i always dropped the F-bomb on it, would you extrapolate that to mean that all librarians swore too much? i should hope not… I argue that this rigid structure being suggested by Schneider and blood is COMPLETELY contrary to the intended purpose of a blog: to be a PERSONAL journal for PERSONAL reflection and opinion.
as for CORPORATE BLOGS/Departmental blogs… while not the intended purpose, blogs have been used for such things as dry news feeds and event listings… but these uses are INFORMATIONAL and by and large NOT replete with personal commentary (although, they may be OPEN for commenting, the commenting is not provided by the BLOGGER in these instances… it is provided by those who attended the event, or passer-by's)….so you can see that although BLOGS are used by departments and corporations, they are not (typically) being used in this manner according to their initially intended purpose as a PERSONAL journal.
my 2 cents
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September 21, 2006 at 11:04 am
From Blood's article: "The weblog's greatest strength — its uncensored, unmediated, uncontrolled voice — is also its greatest weakness." Could one not say that journal, newspaper, magazine, etc. "journalism's greatest strength – its censored, mediated, controlled voice – is also its greatest weakness?" To a large extent I agree with you, but I will say this: a library blog is inherently a representation of the library, simply because the library is associated with it. But – and here's the crux of the matter – I seriously doubt that the large majority of library blog visitors expect to encounter "professionalism" when they read library blogs. Thus, library blog casual-ness is not a problem and it definitely shouldn't be frowned upon.
September 22, 2006 at 8:53 am
Good point about library blog visitors expecting to encounter "professionalism" or a "relaxed professionalism" when they read library blogs. However, if they don't know it's a blog, they won't be judging it in that context – and there still are many out there who don't know what blogs are and don't understand the relaxed "etiquette" of blogs. I would argue that a library blog must be professional as it is a representation of the library. If libraries decide that the language of their blogs can be different than regular corporate / institutional communications, they may need to let their patrons know that this is the case – explain what a blog is just like we explain what an RSS feed is.
September 22, 2006 at 9:44 am
At first I felt a little insulted that Schneider felt the need to lecture librarians about a library code of blogging ethics. One would think that the professionalism that one exhibits in a job should carry over into a blog quite naturally. Even given that the tone of a blog is quite casual. However, I did come across a couple of instances (can't remember where now!) where I was surprised at the personal nature of the information available. It occured to me that I now know far more about that blogging librarian that I do about the person at my local library that I see almost weekly. So what is it about blogging that encourages people to share information that they never would within a face-to-face conversation? And is that appropriate for a library blog?
September 22, 2006 at 3:02 pm
There's a history of weblogs not represented in most definitions but that really helps with the understanding of corporate/multi-user blogs. Of course, I wouldn't have known this without reading the follwoing blog post by Rochelle:
When you read her history of blogs and where they came from, multi-user blogs makes sense.
September 23, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Hi Randy – yes, most of the current definitions of the term "blog" all point to their nature as "personal" (usually followed by the word "journal", which I also object to), but I think that mostly reflects the fact that these definitions have not evolved enough to capture the various ways blogs are being used today. Regardless of how blogs started (and there is some contention on this as well), they are no longer just "personal journals" and they are no longer just written by individuals! Simple fact.
I do appreciate your point about Schneider's generalization in her article. As I've mentioned on some of your classmates' blogs, the whole "blogger code of ethics" idea might be a little extreme, but a lot of it is common sense stuff that anyone who speaks in a public arena should follow (cite your sources, identify your biases, etc.). But making every library & librarian blog stand as a reflection on the profession? Perhaps a bit much!


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Just remove the drawers and replace with vintage suitcases and boxes!
Probably one of the best repurposing ideas I've ever seen!
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The black kitchen is almost invisible!
I love the drum as a nightstand in this guestroom.
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When your Apple Music does not work on your iPhone/iPad/iPod after updating to iOS 11, try the following tricks to fix the problems.
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...I am getting there.
Or so I would like to believe.
So much for not letting things get to me.
I hate my job. It is plain and simple.
Undervalued, overworked. Underpaid, unappreciated.
I start work early in the morning. 6am. That means being up at 5.
I'm not the best at sleeping. I get around 4-5 hours.
So when they ask me to come two hours early? Really?
Let me break it down for you.
I take relative pride in my work.
I don't like doing a job badly, I don't like leaving things half done.
But I will. I am not paid enough to care that much.
I also don't enjoy my job anywhere near enough to go that far out of my way to do extra time.
There is no over time pay, just regular pay.
'Think of your bonus.'
This mantra pisses me off. I do not work for my bonus. I work for the money I get each month.
Now, I get that management think differently... I mean, why wouldn't you?
My bonus = around £200 after tax. Which is pretty nice.
But we already hit the maximum it can get for the year 4 months ago.
My bosses bonus = 22% of his salary. So around £9900, before tax.
I can see why you'd work towards that.
I don't give a fuck about your bonus, and honestly, I don't really care about mine.
If I didn't get one, I'd still work the same job.
'We really need to straighten out the store.'
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Putting my sofas up for adoption
I actually busted into tears when I put my sofa on Freecycle. It's part of a matched set that belonged to my grandparents. They're brown/yellow plaid and wood and probably not attractive by human standards, but I still love them. I think they're kind of cool and vintage. I get teary-eyed thinking of parting with something else of theirs. I miss them both. All I can think about is the covers they both were covered with, brown and tucked neatly under the arms. No wonder the bigger one is in worse shape, it was right in front of the tv and got sat on more. There was also the brown one with the weird cushions that grandma would take off to make the couch a better bed when I slept over. I wonder where it is now.
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Here he is: My new baby brother! Yep that's right I'm now a big sister for the 7th time. After 1 1/2 years on the adoption waiting list Mom and Dad are currently in Texas with little Wes in their arms. They jus have to wait for the finishing paperwork to clear before they can come home. Hopefully they'll be able to come home quick.
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Original article from: http://www.m-magazine.co.uk/genres/jazz-genres/featured-artist-poppy-ajudha/
Who? Poppy Ajudha.
What? Timeless soul meets 21st century jazz.
From where? South London.
What's the story? Although Poppy's only been uploading her music to SoundCloud for little over a year now, she's no stranger to the performer's life.
Since the age of five, the singer songwriter has been immersed in the jazz, soul, rocksteady and roots of her dad's Paradise Bar in Deptford, London.
Drinking in the fusion flowing from its stage and DJ booth, she's since found her own sound, steeped in the stoic self-awareness of Amy Winehouse and Gil Scott-Heron.
Her latest release, Love Falls Down, is a shimmering slice of R&B and jazz loveliness – her sassy vocal hooks primped by retro sax refrains and organ flourishes.
It's a huge calling card, that's pricked the ears of everyone from Red Bull to Jazz Standard and now PRS Foundation, which announced last week that she's among the latest recipients of its Women Make Music fund.
She's also found fans in Gilles Peterson, BBC Radio 1's Phil Taggart and Jamz Supernova, and with a debut EP in the pipeline, Poppy is set to be one of the biggest breakthroughs in UK jazz this year. With one of the genre's strongest generations set to graduate in 2017, this is high praise indeed for a songwriter with just three singles under her belt.
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Must hear? Love Falls Down –
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The Tasmanian Breakfast selection is a beautiful gift for those who like to enjoy their start to the day with a Taste of Tasmania. The Tasmanian Breakfast Tea produced by the Art of Tea south of Hobart is a blend of Yunnan and Keemun tea leaves. The Hobart Wildflower Honey is produced by the award winning Wellington Apiary and is collected from clandestine hives scattered across Hobart. This raw honey displays characteristics of all our seasonal wildflowers. Olde Spikey Bridge Peanut Butter is homemade using the finest ingredients and contains no emulsifiers, added oils, and is gluten free. To complete the Tasmanian Breakfast is a whisky marmalade produced by artisan jam maker Rocky Gardens Fine Foods made with a good Tasmanian spirit.
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Full Souls
by Pastor Steve Wilkins (President of the Geneva board of directors)
Geneva Academy was started because we saw a need for a type of education that wasn't being offered in our city, or region –a classical Christian education.
It's important, however, that we be clear about what we mean by "classical Christian education." "Classical" education has become something of a fad in recent years as many schools look for ways to beef up their curriculum and make it more academically challenging. To hear some people talk about it, classical education means any curriculum that teaches Latin and makes students read Sophocles, Aristotle, and Plutarch's Lives.
Let's be clear on this point: Geneva Academy has a rigorous academic program. It is a program structured around the Medieval Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric). Our students will graduate having read more of the foundational ("classic") literature than the vast majority of college graduates in our day.
But classical Christian education means more than simply having a rigorous academic environment – our goal is much bigger than that. We seek to equip our students to live lives of joy and fruitfulness. Our goal is to see them growing not only in knowledge but in the fear of God – so that they will not only be equipped with the tools of learning and have a solid foundation for academic success – but they will have a foundation that will serve them well throughout their lives.
We want our children not only be successful academically, but to be able to live lives of peace and joy; to be men and women who understand that they are here not to get rich off of others, but to enrich others. We want our students to know that they have been given life in order to serve and to make their communities more joyful, peaceful places.
We want our students to become faithful husbands and wives, devoted fathers and mothers, useful citizens and laborers. So our vision certainly includes academic rigor, but every teacher, every classroom aide, every employee is dedicated to being an instrument in God's hands to equip our students to live lives of true blessedness. And everything that is done in the classroom is focused on this goal.
This means that every teacher teaches every subject with a self-conscious submission to the infallible revelation God has given us in the Bible. This means that we must be serious about being distinctively Christian in the way we teach every subject and in everything we do. Everything we teach is taught in the context of loving God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength.
We want our students to do well academically – and we've been pleased to see all of graduates do very well in colleges all around the country. Most of them have earned scholarships, most of them have been on dean's lists and won academic awards.
We're thankful for this, but we also understand that being Phi Beta Kappa and graduating Magna Cum Laude is nothing if you don't love your neighbor and desire to do good and not evil.
And it's this conviction that has made our school what it is. We have gifted and able teachers, but they are teachers who love their students. They pray for them and seek to do everything they can to see them grow up to be faithful men and women.
Thus, a classical Christian education is defined not just by the curriculum. Its goal is not merely academic excellence. Rather, a classical Christian education insists on academic excellence in the context of glorifying God and enjoying Him forever.
It seeks to engrain in the student a sense of privilege and gratitude so that they graduate understanding that they have been given a great honor. They have been given a top notch education so that they can be faithful servants in the world around them. "To whom much has been given, much is required."


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It has a few little signs of playing but nothing serious. In excellent condition with a strong woody and balanced tone as you might expect from this excellent builder!
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Land Between the Lakes, the Daniel Boone National Forest and other National Forests in the Southern Region are waiving campground fees for those displaced by Hurricane Harvey.
Land Between the Lakes Public Affairs and Social Media Specialist Janice Wilson said the public lands are open for those who need help.
"If we can offer them a campsite as a chance to get their feet back under them, we're going to try to do that. We're going to accommodate as much as we can just to help out. We know they're going through hard times and we'd like to help," she said.
Wilson said the Southern Region forests made a similar offer following Hurricane Katrina.
Displaced people will be determined on a case-by-case basis by staff at the campground gatehouses.
Daniel Boone National Forest in eastern Kentucky is also waiving fees. Forest Service Spokeswoman Kim Bonaccorso told WEKU News a campground in Kentucky might be an option for displaced Tennessee families. "Even in Kentucky some areas are going to receive probably more than four inches of rain in the next 24 hours, so there could also be some Kentucky residents who would be interested in taking advantage of this offer also," she said.
List of forests offering campground waivers, according to the LBL website:
- National Forests and Grasslands in Texas – (936) 639-8501
- Kisatchie National Forest – (318) 473-7160
- National Forests in Mississippi – (601) 965-1600
- National Forests in Alabama – (334) 832-4470
- National Forests in Florida – (850) 523-8500
- Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests – (770) 297-3000
- Ouachita National Forest – (501) 321-5202
- Ozark-St. Francis National Forests – (479) 964-7200
- Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area – (800) 525-7077
- Daniel Boone National Forest – (859) 745-3100
- Cherokee National Forest – (423) 476-9700
- National Forests in North Carolina – (828) 257-4200
- Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests – (803) 561-4000
- George Washington and Jefferson National Forests – (540) 265-5100


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Letter: 'I'm loving your podcast'
Sustainability, Trump and shrimp provoke strong reactions.
(Editor's note: The following letter was sent to IntraFish by Maureen Berry, sustainable seafood advocate and cookbook author.)
I'm loving your podcast!
There is much to discuss on the seafood front.
Couple of thoughts about Episode 8.
Sustainability is Dead. Not so fast. Chefs will be and are focusing on food and the environment, specifically, transparency and social responsibility. Food Trends for 2017.
A big focus at the 2016 Sustainable Foods Institute at Monterey Bay Aquarium included transparency, specifically regarding the shrimp industry. Maybe the term sustainability, and the abuse of eco-labels (which I agree are too many), are becoming passe, but the concept of sourcing and knowing who is catching/raising fish is thriving.
Seafood Watch pocket guides may not be as prevalent, but I would be surprised if the SW app is not still widely used among Chefs and consumers.
Trump and Import Tax Wow. This is a scary one. Twenty percent border import tax will indeed have a terrific impact on the US seafood industry! And I can see why the audience was silent at the NFI conference.
The unknowns and uncertainties are hard to swallow. But from a healthy perspective, don't we need less imported antibiotic-tainted fish in our market? Specifically shrimp. Especially after listening to Bloomberg Businessweek podcast regarding the deception on the import/export business side of shrimp, plus what I already know about the imported shrimp farming industry. I don't eat imported shrimp, nor do I advocate it, unless that shrimp is sourced from a sustainable farm, which is harder and harder to determine as mentioned in the BB shrimp podcast.
That is not to say all imported farmed shrimp/fish is bad. Also, I champion the US wild shrimp industry. Can they produce enough shrimp to supply the demands of the US shrimp market? Hell no. I think all seafood industry people can agree with that. But they do deserve our respect and the ability to earn a decent wage which is harder and harder for them to do with the glut of antibiotic-laced commodity shrimp on the market.
I don't think it's a dangerous topic to discuss.I think it is much needed. Hopefully, we will see an increase and affordability in tech solutions (think fewer carbon emissions for land-based aquaculture) to help move the needle on shrimp/fish farming in the US.
I am a big fan of farmed raised seafood. When done right, it will help sustain our growing global population and hunger for all things seafood, while also taking the pressure off wild fish. That's it, just wanted to say hello and share my thoughts.
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Connor Rihyad is a gargoyle, one of the offspring of a village in France who made a deal with a priest to become warriors for Christianity in exchange for driving out a dragon named Gargouille. The priest implied that he would drive out the dragon himself, only to get the villagers to change from Pagans to Christians. When he had their agreement, he brought together the beasts of the field and forest and infused the village men with parts of the animal's spirits so that they could kill the Dragon themselves.
He charged the men to multiply and to look out for humans, but after hundreds of years and the honor of having their images watching over cathedrals everywhere, the gargoyles fell out of favor, and although many of them still watch over humans, humans have long forgotten about them.
Connor has been sent to infiltrate a group of Gargoyles that have decided to lord it over humans instead of helping them. With human reaction to Gargoyles more frightened and freaking out rather than thankful or respectful, many Gargoyles have lost their lives helping humans. Even though they are simply reborn, the hurt feelings tend to linger, and this new group of Gargoyles have been kidnapping human women and impregnating them simply to add to their numbers and build an army.
Needless to say, the gargoyles who remain faithful to their mission view this as little better than enslavement, and Connor pretends to be fed up with the old way of doing things to join this new group. But they set him a test- to kill the leader of his old nest, Nathan Cross, and bring them the body. He does, and gains entry to their group, tossing his old leader's body into a frozen river.
That night, he meets Mara Kincaide at the group's residence. Mara has been a captive for a while, but she hates all the men holding her captive equally- she's even convinced the women to escape, while she stays behind to look for information on a friend of hers, Angela, who was also caught and enslaved. But Angela isn't with the women in the house, and she can't find any information on her in the office.
Earlier that night, Connor saved Mara from a beating at the hands of the other Gargoyles, and now he saves her again when she is caught snooping and the other women retrieved from where they fled. Connor drags Mara upstairs to his bedroom and pretends to rape her so that the other gargoyles will leave her in his hands. When he doesn't actually rape her, Mara begins to believe that he's a good guy, but she still doesn't really trust him.
He tells her part of his true mission, that he's there to find out what the men are up to, and he helps her by keeping the men from raping the women, making them pretend to be sick from sleeping in the basement. She finds him handsome and attractive, but she doesn't find out what he really is until she catches a glimpse of the men coming back in gargoyle form one night. Never having seen them before, she is convinced they are monsters. He takes her upstairs and tries to use his mental powers on her to persuade her they were just a herd of deer, but is unable to persuade her because of her strong will. He confesses the truth about what he and the others are, and even transforms to show her.
She's horrified at first, but slowly comes to see his form as wonderful. She caresses him, only to have him tell her to stop, because it's too easy to arouse him in his beast form. Shortly afterwards, they become lovers, first in a dream, and then in real life.
But the Wizenmot, or leader, of the Gargoyle groups of Minnesota calls the group Connor has joined to his home, Connor goes because he wants to find the women that the Minnesota groups have been kidnapping, and figure out what they are up to. But within the home of the Wizenmot lurks not only Angela and the other stolen women, but an age-old foe set to conquer the world at the head of an army of Gargoyles. Can Connor and Mara overcome this deadly foe, and survive to have some sort of relationship afterwards? Can Mara survive the taking of a male baby that the Gargoyle society requires?
I'd read the first Vickie Taylor Gargoyle romance, about Nathan and his love, Rachel, when it first came out almost 5 years ago. I hadn't known that it was going to be a series, nor that another book had been published, so coming across this one was a very nice surprise. I liked this book even better than the first- the characters are in danger from the moment that you meet them, and the danger causes them to grow attatched to each other even more quickly- from the first meeting to the time they become lovers is less than two weeks.
Part of the conflict of the book arises out of Connor's feelings. Connor doesn't agree with Nathan making Rachel part of the Chicago council, even though her powers are strong, arising from being the child of one of the first generation Gargoyles from Rouen. He doesn't think women should have that much power- Gargoyles are only males, so females should only be discarded after they are impregnated- a state of affairs he comes to question after falling for the brave and courageous (maybe even foolhardy) Mara.
Mara was foolish for what she tried to do. From her personal bravery, going into the same situation that swallowed her friend Angela, you'd think she was a policeman or firefighter- something that requires bravery and the ability to take care of oneself in the line of duty. But no, she's a social worker. Admittedly, that takes bravery as well, but going into a situation like that without backup was sheer folly. On the other hand, she always keeps on trying to escape, and never capitulates to her captors, which gains the reader's sympathy and admiration.
I found this to be an interesting a intriguing series, and well worth my money in buying this book. I also liked that this isn't a paranormal romance/urban fantasy about an overdone type of hero like a were, shape-shifter or vampire. Reading how Gargoyles came about is interesting, and the villain harkens back to that origin and those days. I can't wait to find the third book in the series and read it. Recommended.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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- Vickie Taylor said...
I'm glad that you enjoyed FLESH AND STONE. Connor and Mara will remain in my heart forever. Not only is it part of a series, but the 3d book, LEGACY OF STONE, was released in December.I hope you'll look for it. It is Levi's story, Rachel's long lost little brother. The 4th book, tentatively titled RUNESTONES, will be out late 2010 or early 2011.
Hope you enjoy them all!
Vickie Taylor
- Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:33:00 PM
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This got me thinking. I think I am going to play a song each week that aligns with one of my students' words. A theme song for their 2014!
Friday, January 10, 2014
2014 Theme Song of the Week: Brave
This past week, my students reflected upon 2013 and chose their ONE WORD for 2014. One of my students chose BRAVE and set a goal to take more risks and try new things this year. Immediately it got me thinking about that new Sara Barelles song, Brave. This afternoon, I came home and watched the video for the first time. I have been trying to search for songs that fit with each of my students' words. The music video made my night! I am definitely going to play it for the kids next week.
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Friday, January 3, 2014
New Year... New Outlook... My One Word (Well, actually two)
I decided a few days ago that 2014 was not gong to be a repeat of 2013, which is usually a trend that occurs every year. I always begin each new year with the same old itinerary of goals or resolutions. By February... those goals are out the window and I am already thinking about next year and deem yself a failure. This year, I have decided to move beyond this cycle and experiment with something called My One Word. It is a concept one of my collegues introduced me to as a great activity idea for our students. Not only am I going to run with it in my classroom, but I am going to practice what I preach and hopefully seek a bit of change in my own life this year.
I first began by reflecting upon last year and the kind of person I was. I realized I was unhappy and stressed most of the time during the year. This obviously had negative impacts on everything in my life (relationships, teaching, not to mention my health and well-being). Next, I followed these steps from My One Word:
Determine the kind of person you want to become
Identify the characteristics of that person
Pick a word
I had a difficult time settling with just one word, so being the over-ambitious person I tend to be, I picked two (I know, it kind of defeats the purpose of "My One Word," but for me this is a huge sign of progress). My two words for 2014 are BALANCE and LIVE.
I have always struggled with balance. I think if you study the everyday lives of most teachers, your will find that that is not an uncommon problem. I am dedicated to teaching. Perhaps too dedicated. Teaching has, in the last few years, become my whole life. Everything else has kid of drawn the short end of the stick in my prioritization. I realized that if I am going to shake off the unhappy and constantly stressed person I have become, I need to achieve balance in my life. After picking this word, my next step will be to create an action plan, similar to setting SMART Goals. I will share my plan soon.
This word kind of goes along with the last one. I need to enjoy life in the moment. I tell my students at the beginning of each year, to "Work Hard, Take Risks, and Make It Count," but I don't think I have ever lived by my own perscription. In 2014... That's going to change.
I am going to have my students follow the same steps I did above and they will all choose one word to reflect how they intend to improve their lives in 2014. Even though I teach 5th grade, I think this is an activity suitable and easily adaptable for any child or adult. The most important thing to remember and share with your students is to keep their words POSITIVE. I think it will also help to share your own personal journey through this process. I think it is important that they see the value in this and the fact that this is something ANYONE can do each year for the rest of their lives.
Good luck!
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Egypt-Gaza Border Infiltrated
This from Haaretz:
Getty Images: Gunmen probably Hamas members.
Palestinian militants forced open a border gate between Egypt and Gaza on Friday, wounding an Egyptian officer before letting hundreds of people who had been trapped on the Egyptian side of the border to get into Gaza.
Armed militants stood by as people carrying suitcases crossed into Gaza. Some walked through on crutches while others walked or ran through the gate.
Egyptian police Capt. Mohammed Abdel Hadi said masked Palestinian militants firing guns broke into the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, clearing the way for the trapped Gazans.
Getty Images: Gunmen probably Hamas members.


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7325 Jewella Avenue
Shreveport, LA 71108
Phone: 318-686-5489 Fax: 318-688-7802
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1. Westwood is a TOP GAINS School for the State of Louisiana.
2. Westwood is a LIVE UNITED school.
3. Westwood is the 1st school ever in history to win the "LIVE UNITED" Award
4. Westwood acheived a +17.8 point gain on state assessment ~ State goal 8pts
5. Westwood received a proclamation from the Mayor of Shreveport, proclaiming October 23, 2014; Westwood Top Gain Day for the city of Shreveport for being a Louisiana Top Gains School
6. Westwood is known for its unity and 100% buy in to the "VISION" for systemic transformational change
7. Westwood incorporates many practices adapted from the Ron Clark Academy. Over 1/2 our TEAM has visited the Academy in Atlanta, Georgia and are SLIDE CERTIFIED!
8. School wide PBIS lessons with embedded Essential 55 rules as the foundation of the school
9. Westwood's TEAM is 100% KAGAN trained.....YEE-HAW!
10. Westwood is praised for its "Buy In" among ALL Stakeholders
11. Westwood had over 1,000 attendees for our Back to School Night 2014-2015. Thank you to ALL stakeholders for your support! EXTRA YEE-HAW to over 200 Deputy Dads.
12. Westwood opened its doors as a neighborhood school on Jewella Ave in 1960.
13. Westwood is a Title I school.
14. Westwood is a school that believes in the TEAM approach, Together Everyone Achieves More, shared leadership and visionary thinking.
15. Westwood is the proud home of cowboys and cowgirls. We are the BEST in the West!
16. Westwood has an innovative Discoveries Academy for our academically gifted students.
17. Westwood has 14 male TEAM members on staff.
18. Westwood received a donation of 8,000 reading books for our cowboys and cowgirls.
19. Westwood is a school with high expectations, rigor and accountability for ALL stakeholders.
20. Westwood has computers in every classroom including all enrichment classrooms.
21. Westwood has Master class on Tuesday & Thursday after school and on Saturday morning.
22. Westwood incorporates Math University for 3rd -6th grade students.
23. Westwood has an after school feeding program that feeds over 250 students and community members daily through their community grant.
24. Westwood received 100% on our PBIS program review.
25. Westwood has been featured on the news and local newspaper over a dozen times.
26. Westwood has[ap1] been recognized as on of the distinguished schools in Caddo Parish for our Box Top Drive.
27. Westwood's new administrative team practices shared leadership.
28. Westwood believes in speaking positivity into existence at all times.
29. Westwood's marquee is changed twice a week with current events, keeping all stakeholders informed.
30. Westwood supports "No TV Tuesday."
31. Westwood sends home Tuesday Folders, every Tuesday for parent review.
32. Westwood welcomes parents. Parents are the number one teacher and we support them.
33. Westwood has an open door policy for parents. Our red barn doors are always open.
34. Westwood publishes a full color quarterly newspaper, showcasing every grade level, event, and activity; along with a calendar of events taking place at the new Westwood.
35. Westwood achieved 100% on our SET evaluation in 2013!
36. Westwood teachers won grants from Walmart, Arms of Love, and Rotary Club to name a few.
37. Westwood was featured in the PTSA newsletter with the Arms of Love backpack program.
38. Westwood TEAM members (teachers and staff) are 100% active in PTSA membership.
39. Westwood TEAM members took part in the five week "Best Practices in Teaching Mathematics" course.
40. Westwood TEAM members have fully furnished classrooms that include mounted Smartboards.
41. Westwood was invited to participate in the national "Reading is Fundamental Initiative" for our 3rd-6th grade students. Our students were involved in writing essays and participated in a spelling bee. RIF is sponsored by the Delta Lambda Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
42. Westwood TEAM members keep portfolios on every child.
43. Westwood received 100% on the Safety Red Zone Test from Caddo Security, ensuring that ALL our students and staff are secure and safe at all times.
44. Westwood TEAM members plan instruction based strictly on DATA.
45. Westwood prides itself in keeping communication a key focus between home and school. Parents receive weekly J-Calls informing them of the daily activities happening at Westwood.
46. Westwood follows a PBIS matrix lunch system that promotes positive student interaction.
47. Westwood maintains three state of the art computer labs with over 100 computers.
48. Westwood teachers have earned bachelor's degrees and ½ of our teachers have master's degrees and plus 30.
49. Westwood Deputies have received the Red Apple Award and the "One Class at a Time" Award.
50. Westwood hosts weekly training for parents - the Principal/Parent Posse.
51. Westwood participates in Pizza Day in coalition with PBIS.
52. Westwood has community partners who come daily to support the school in various ways.
53. Westwood has received the Project Green "Beautification Campus Award" for over five years in a row.
54. Westwood has the support of our community, enjoying the involvement of over 60 businesses that continuously support our school.
55. Westwood has a newly renovated campus as part of our beautification renovation project for the school transformation.
56. Westwood has a newly furnished playground.
57. Westwood has both inside and outside physical education and learning zones.
58. Westwood has a new custom-made sign donated by Willis Knighton.
59. Westwood has a weekly club day for all cowboys & cowgirls sponsored by Westwood faculty team members.
60. Westwood has a Master Class that is held after school and during the summer.
61. Westwood partners with the VOA counseling program. We have 4 full time counselors to meet the needs of our candidates' academic, social and emotional concerns providing services for families in need included home visits.
62. Westwood has ongoing job-embedded professional development - twice weekly- high quality professional development led by district supervisors, our administrative team, community stakeholders, and TEAM members.
63. Westwood has been recognized for significant TOP GAINS Growth from the State of Louisiana.
64. Westwood has an iPad technology hub for classes in pre-kindergarten - 6th grade.
65. Westwood has a highly successful "Character Counts" program practiced daily in all classrooms.
66. Westwood broadcasts the Daily Westwood Telegram, our school-wide morning meeting, led by the principal, and our 6th grade student leaders.
67. Westwood has a Monday Morning meeting for upper and lower grades.
68. Westwood has four Honors Programs each year to recognize our candidates' hard work and achievements.
69. Westwood uses the Project Wisdom program, school-wide as the foundation for positive character traits.
70. Westwood follows a rigorous PBIS program, including all stakeholders, emphasizing a proactive, supporting approach rather than a reactive approach.
71. Westwood has an in-house Old West Mercantile Store that promotes school-wide PBIS.
72. Westwood has gender-based classrooms and has spent countless professional development hours studying its effects on how our cowboys and cowgirls learn in order to maximize instruction.
73. Westwood partners with Job Corps in maintaining the beautification of the campus.
74. Westwood participates in a Reading Consortium with Higher Education, led by Dr. Williams of LSU-S.
75. Westwood has our own in-house speech pathologist, who collaborates with classroom teachers inside and outside the classroom.
76. Westwood has an in-house nurse providing services to our candidates.
77. Westwood participates in Smile Louisiana, providing dental care at no cost to our candidates.
78. Westwood TEAM members participate in cluster, data, and grade level team meetings and professional learning communities.
79. Westwood is the only school in Caddo Parish that offers parents and community members a Saturday Computer Academy.
80. Westwood has a Master Class Academy that supplements the CCSS implementation for English language arts and mathematics.
81. Westwood has outside classroom zones for all grade levels. Westwood has a state of the art pre-Kindergarten program funded by Title I.
82. Westwood has routine assemblies showcasing student work from the classrooms.
83. Westwood student artwork is displayed regularly at the Caddo Parish School Board offices and throughout local businesses around the Shreveport/Bossier area.
84. Westwood has received grants for impacting all stakeholders in our community.
85. Westwood believes in giving back to the community.
86. Westwood participates with Porters Cleaners, Goodwill, Paint Your Heart Out and the Northwest Louisiana Food Bank and Project Green to complete community projects in enhancing the beautiful city we live in.
87. Westwood is part of the Northwest Louisiana Food Bank Backpack Program.
88. Westwood collects food and donates time & money to the Northwest Louisiana Food Bank.
89. Westwood has confident, hard-working, and smart Cowboys and Cowgirls, with the most supportive parents and community partners.
90. Westwood has 5 enrichment offerings to enhance daily instruction.
91. Westwood TEAM members believe in our Cowboys and Cowgirls! They are the BEST in the West!
92. Westwood is part of a two year program as a Turnaround School working with University of Virginia: Darden School Of Business.
93. Westwood's Pre-K received a perfect score on the state evaluation.
94. Westwood has over 50 community partners.
95. 99% of TEAM members on the Westwood Ranch are Certified and Highly Qualified.
96. Westwood has had a turnaround transformation in one school year.
97. Westwood has professional development for parents and community partners.
98. Westwood has DIBELS in all grades K-6th.
99. Westwood's attendance rate is 98%.
100. The Westwood TEAM has worked on a rigorous school safety program that promotes enhanced school, staff, and community safety earning Westwood 100% on the entire school safety score.
101. Deputy Kalinda Rogers was named the Red Apple 1st place winner through the African American Chamber of Commerce.
102. Westwood serves 8 grade levels Pre-K - 6th grade.
103. Westwood has been successful in helping close the achievement gap by helping ALL cowboys achieve proficiency in their coursework.
104. Westwood was honored at the governor's mansion in Baton Rouge in recognition for our outstanding community trailblazer, Doc Voorhies. Doc Voorhies is a WW Community Resource Volunteer. His unlimited support for WW has catapulted the success of the school.
105. Westwood has developed intensive prescriptive initiatives to ensure that ALL cowboys receive a solid educational foundation.


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Adam B. Rothstein suffered from bipolar disorder since childhood, and had spent the last several weeks recovering from surgery on his foot. But the 24-year-old Parkville man was upbeat about returning to work as a security guard, his father said, and even found joy in the simple act of picking up his new uniform.
On Sunday morning, two police officers showed up at Richard Rothstein's Pikesville home to tell him that his son was dead - shot by police after he pointed what turned out to be a pellet gun at them.
"It wasn't like he wanted to go out killing people," Richard Rothstein said yesterday, in between making funeral arrangements and comforting grieving relatives at his house. "It wasn't 3 o'clock in the afternoon in a crowded mall and he decided to take out people. ... He did not want to hurt anybody."


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"Do you not know I am a woman? What I think, I must speak"
Shakespeare's little joke gets a laugh from audiences even today when Rosalind says this in As You Like It. Women are gasbags, shrews and scolds, vixens and viragos. Women gossip and tittle-tattle, prattle and natter, rabbit and jabber …. through the ages women's words have been derided, denied, and deleted.
My new pamphlet, A Public Tongue, starts by telling the story of Veronica Franco, one of the "honest courtesans" of sixteenth century Venice, women valued as much for their intelligence and delightful company as their beauty. When she openly engaged in the poetry contests of the day her witty, erotic verse caused a sensation. The Inquisition condemned her "public tongue" and, when plague struck the city, they had their excuse to silence her. Accused of witchcraft Franco defended herself and won, but was stripped of money and goods, dying soon after in poverty and obscurity.
Speaking up and speaking out can be a difficult and dangerous business, even now. It seems to me women's voices are being drowned out all around the world.
Is there anyone else out there enraged by what they see on their TV screens? Women gang raped in India; sold as child brides in Niger, and as slaves in Syria; trafficked across Europe; abducted and lost in the forests of Nigeria; made to confess to immorality for singing and dancing in Iran; shot in the head for going to school, then daring to blog about rights denied, in Pakistan?
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BRONXVILLE, N.Y. -- Here are The Bronxville Daily Voice's staff picks of the top three events happening in Bronxville this weekend. For a complete list of all the events happening in and around Bronxville see our expanded events calendar .
Friday, Oct. 26
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LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. (LMAT) Q2 2012 Earnings Conference Call July 31, 2012 5:00 PM ET Executives George W. LeMaitre - Chairman & CEO Joseph P. Pellegrino, Jr. - CFO David B. Roberts - President Analysts Joseph Munda - Sidoti & Company Larry Haimovitch - Haimovitch Medical Technology Consultants Presentation Operator
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I'll now turn the call over to George LeMaitre.George W. LeMaitre Thanks, JJ. Q2, 2012 featured some solid numbers. 8% organic growth, five more gross margin points and a 10% operating margin. The quarter was better than we had expected, so I leave the income statement details to JJ. I like to spend some time relating our Q2, 2012 results to the recently completed 2011 initiatives. And then I will make a few comments about our strategy and 2013 direction. In 2011, we undertook the following initiatives. Refocused our European sales force on our proprietary vascular devices, expand our geographic reach and third consolidate our manufacturing in Burlington. We are now benefiting from these initiatives. Our European operations were front and center in this transition. Looking back to 2010, 33% of Europe sales were stent grafts and many reps were stent graft only clinical specialist. Fast forward to Q2, 2012 and we now have a 32 reps European sales force focused on vascular surgery. We've also attacked on direct to hospital channels in Spain and Denmark, while increasing the number of French and Italian sales reps by 50%. As a result of our refocusing in sales force expansion, Q2, 2012 organic growth in Europe was 17%. Perhaps the key headline of today's call is the 480 basis point pick up in gross margin. While the exit from lower margin distributed stent grafts has certainly helped so too have the Italy and California factory closures, as we've now fully consolidated into our Burlington factory. And we're starting to see our new AlboGraft production lines begin to manufacture more efficiently. Product quality and questions have been answered as well. The U.K. and France rescinded their AlboGraft pro editions in July, following the successful U.K. audit in Burlington. So its safe to say, that the Italy and California transfers are now complete. From increased European sales growth to a 5 point gross margin pick up to a pair of successful manufacturing transfers, its nice to see the 2011 initiatives producing tangible results on our income statement. So what's next? Our three strategic direction should come as no surprise. Number one, we will continue to build out our vascular sales force in new countries. Number two, we will develop new vascular devices and line expansion to the R&D and finally number three, we will look to acquire vascular devices to leverage our distribution platform.
Over the last decade we've opened direct sales operations in the U.K., Holland, Japan, France, Italy and Spain. We just keep finding that our suite of niche vascular products sells best when paired with a direct sales force. We project we will finish 2012 with about 85 reps. We will continue expanding geographically in 2013, setting up a direct presence in Brazil, Canada and Switzerland. These countries ranked number 6, number 11 and number 19 in terms of GDP.In Brazil and Switzerland we will likely replace current distributors with Lemaitre reps. In Canada, which has quickly become our fourth largest entity, we plan to open a Toronto sales office and double our existing sales force to six reps. An estimate of rep head count at the end of 2013, might be 90 to 95. And this growing sales force acts like a new product catch basins. The larger becomes, the more product development opportunities it attracts and uncovers. The Q2, 2012 books show R&D grew 9%. Much of this increase was spend doubling our staff to 13 product engineers. These folks speed to market new platforms, next generation devices and product fixes. The UnBalloon and the Over-the-Wire LeMaitre Valvulotome were both launched in Q4, 2011 and sold at an annualized rate of $600,000 in Q2, 2012. On the drawing board for late 2012 launches are the silicone UnBalloon, the 1.5 millimeter expandable LeMaitre Valvulotome and the second generation Moll MultiTASC [plaque] debulker. Read the rest of this transcript for free on seekingalpha.com


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Wonderful. Very moody. This guy is very photogenic. God, I love an icy cold Corona with a wedge of lime stuck in it.
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I may have mentioned before but I am a true lover of spicy food and am always willing to try new products. This 'heat 'n sweet' skinny popcorn from Metcalfe's is a fairly new product and this bag was actually given to me by a friend who thought I would appreciate it. She wasn't wrong, I am very much a fan of the new trend of different flavoured popcorn and this one didn't disappoint. With a big hit of chilli and lemon, the level of spice won't be to everyone's liking, but with the combination of sugar in the flavouring, it helps keep a better balance – a little bit like having mango chutney as an accompaniment to your curry.
Available in both snack size (17g) and sharing bags (75g), the 'heat 'n sweet' is low in fat and has no MSG, which I was surprised about because normally snacks that pack this much of a punchy flavour usually contain MSG, so well done Metcalfe's.


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Thursday, February 21, 2008
A Pint a Day...
Last night I was feeling about as sorry for myself as possible and coaxed mom into handing over a pint of hagen daaz and a glass of wine. By coaxing I mean I of course held her at crutch point and she really had no chance. I may have the reaction time of a three-legged turtle, but take away my guilty pleasures and I'll surprise you.
This morning has found me with an upset stomach, a stale attitude and a desire to rewind two weeks and tell the surgeon I had a momentary lapse of sanity by agreeing to the surgery. Laying on my back for the majority of the day has not been good for me. Trips out of the house are exhausting and usually leave me needing a pain pill...which I actually have almost completely weaned myself off of (meaning mom has placed them on a shelf just barely out of my reach and even my handy grabber won't help me).
The good news is that my family and friends are still being patient with me, although I have a feeling this leniency won't last too much longer. I really am looking forward to this scar healing over so I can start getting in the pool without risk of infection...that and a nice long bubble bath...
Bit of good news though, I just skunked my mom at cribbage...so I've got that going for me...which is nice. ;)
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- Joshua said...
You have all, and deserve, all the leniency in the world. Can't wait for you to get in the pool as well. Doesnt Chlorine help sterilize a wound?!?!? ;)
Im hoping that your stale attitude was not exacerbated by your unsuccessful attempts to wake me of my slumber last night. I cant believe Im such a heavy sleeper. Well, NO MORE. Try it tonight, I dare you :)
2 weeks officially behind you. Be proud of yourself; you know you made the right decision.
Love you, J
- February 21, 2008 at 1:08 PM
- Denise said...
Hi Sam,
Just been catching up on your blog after many days of travel. Your sense of humor suggests you are back, and that it takes more than a PAO to keep a good woman down. As I said to your Mom on the phone on Sunday, Lauren's leg was so huge for many weeks post surgery that she named it Uber Uma. If you are wondering why the name, I suggest you visit her blog dated Dec 12th, entitled "Lift your leg, lift your leg". I'm sure that now in your post surgery phase you will really really relate to the video clip.
Congrats on peeing away 17 pounds!! Great diet :-)
All the best
- February 21, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Josh is right you have 2 weeks behind you and you will begin to see that with each day comes progress.
However feeling down, angry, bummed and any of the array of emotions that you will go through are all valid and change out quite quickly if I remember correctly. You must not forget that the drugs add to the level of emotion that you experience day to day. I was known for starting to cry randomly and it got to the point where most people no longer paid much attention to it.
Hang in there. Give your body time and be patient. Enjoy the down time. I have to say that I erred on the side of getting back into the swing of things too quickly. You have a lifetime ahead of you but now is the most important healing time. Feel free to call whenever. I am here and certainly can commiserate any time you like.
- February 22, 2008 at 3:15 PM


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Who knew it would take finishing part of Brooklyn Bridge Park for Governors Island to finally begin living up to its potential as a major tourist destination.
With eight weeks left the in this year's public-access season, the 172-acre island has already surpassed last season's record of 275,000 visitors (from May 30 to October 11).
Among the prime reasons is the free ferry service unveiled two months ago at the new Pier 6 section of Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn Heights.
There have also been more concerts and cultural programs this summer on at Governors Island.
"Governors Island is one of New York City's greatest free resources, and more New Yorkers are taking advantage of it than ever before," said Mayor Bloomberg, who convinced the state this year to hand over control of both Governors Island and Brooklyn Bridge Park to the city.
The free ferry has made the island far more accessible for Brooklyn residents, who actually live closer to the island but have had to travel into lower Manhattan for years if they wanted to catch a ferry to the island.
Like the Battery Marine Terminal, the park ferry service allows visitors to bring their bikes to the island.
"More New Yorkers than ever before are taking a free bike ride, kayaking, seeing public art and listening to concerts on Governors Island," said Trust for Governors Island President Leslie Koch. "We are thrilled that so many are discovering this free place in the middle of New York Harbor."


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I woke up at around 6 this morning even though my alarm was set for 8. I usually wake up at 6:30 everyday for class without an alarm clock so I guess it carries over to the weekend. I hate this internal alarm clock I have! Well after I woke I decided to eat some breakfast and then go to the gym before church.
I got to the gym and it was perfect. There were only like 5 people there working out. So I stretched then I got on the elliptical. Today's when I got up 5 mins for the next week so I did 20 minutes. I burned 260 calories and went 1.25 miles! Then I did leg weights and arm weights. I really pushed myself this morning especially to get out of bed and come to the gym. I'm really proud of myself!
There was so much temptation to cheat today. My sister and best friend went and bought doughnuts. I wanted to get one so bad but I didnt. Then we were going to have a family dinner but what my sister was going to make has a ton of carbs in it. I decided it's just easier to cook at home and know that I'm having a low carbs dinner.
I also started to feel sick around 3 this afternoon so I hope I am not getting the flu or anything!
For breakfast I had two pepper Jack string cheese. I usually have this for breakfast everyday. Total to 2g carbs.
For lunch I had a small bag of cheese cubes and also a small chefs salad that had ham chuncks, bacon crumbles, and chopped up eggs. My lunch all together had 7g carbs.
For dinner I made a low carbs chicken Parmesan with carbonara sauce. I will post this recipe soon. Dinner had 8g carbs total.
For all my meals today I had 15g carbs which is under my goal!
I did not drink as much water as usual today even I should have since I'm getting sick. I only drank 60oz and I will probably drink one more bottle in between now and when I go to bed. So I will be at 80oz for the day.


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Hot on the heels of Premier Wen Jiabao declaring that sustainable growth was key in China's new phase of Five-Year Plans, Environment Minister Zhou Shengxian sounds the warnings that China is no longer in harmony with nature, that its environment now threatens to choke its growth. This is the first time in nearly two years that Chinese ministers has 'dared' to publish their own thoughts like this. Go here to read the speech (in Chinese). This has yet to be posted on the English version of its website – Ministry of Environmental Protection English website. For an English transcript of another one of Environment Minister Zhou Shengxian's speech on '…the [n]eed to Fight against Heavy Metal Pollution, Safeguard the Public Interests and Maintain Social Stability' , go here.
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China pollution 'threatens growth'
Source – BBC, published February 28, 2011
The man in charge of protecting China's environment has warned that pollution and the demand for resources threaten to choke economic growth.
Environment Minister Zhou Shengxian said conflict between development and nature had never been so serious.
He said if China meant to quadruple the size of its economy over 20 years without more damage, it would have to become more efficient in resource use.
Otherwise, he said, there would be a painful price to pay.
His comments came ahead of China's annual session of parliament, which opens on 5 March.
They also came a day after Premier Wen Jiabao said China was lowering its annual economic growth target from 7.5% to 7%, in part because of its impact on the environment.
Mr Zhou's comments came in an essay posted on the website on the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
"In China's thousands of years of civilisation, the conflict between humanity and nature Zhou Shengxianhas never been as serious as it is today," he wrote.
"The depletion, deterioration and exhaustion of resources and the deterioration of the environment have become serious bottlenecks constraining economic and social development."
China, he said, would suffer unless issues of air and water pollution were prioritised.
He suggested that his ministry should take on a greater role in tackling greenhouse gas emissions and that new development projects be assessed for their impact on climate change.
In recent decades, development has been prioritised over the environment, meaning that China now has some of the most polluted skies and waterways in the world.
It relies heavily on coal and is the world's leading CO2 emitter. It overtook the US as the world's biggest car and van market in 2009.
In recent years there have been numerous examples of industrial spills or dumping that have damaged waterways and in some cases harmed residents.
The BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing says that the government has repeatedly promised to tackle pollution, but then failed to enforced these decisions.
ANALYSIS // by Shirong Chen, BBC China Editor
Zhou Shengxian wants to see environmental protection become a key plank of the new Five Year Plan (2011-2015) to be debated during the annual session of the National People's Congress.
Chinese ministers do not often publish their ideas like this. (It happened nearly two years ago when China's central bank governor published a series of essays on reserve currencies and reform to the international financial system.)
The environment minister's statement is an open call for a paradigm shift away from the model of high input, high resource consumption, and high pollution, to sustainable growth to ease the conflict between economic and social development, and the environmental damage it has caused in the past three decades.
Chinese scholars say China's energy intensity per unit of GDP is at least five times that of Japan. Social stability is another factor as more people are enraged by worsening air, water and soil pollution.
It remains to be seen if his call will be translated into real action as China's economic engine roars ahead.
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Everything is still on sale for 30% off at ScrapMatters through midnight PST November 5th as we continue our DSD celebration.
I'm so excited to announce that I have not just one, but two new kits in the store at ScrapMatters! Well actually a two-part kit! I had so much fun making this kit, not just because I loved the colors and the inked-edge cardboard, but because it reminded me of my mom and my great-grandma. The kits are called Rose's Secret Garden Parts 1 & 2.
Rose's Secret Garden is partly based on my recollections of my great-grandmother Rosalie. She loved flowers and always had a garden full of blooms. I always thought it was so interesting that Rosalie loved to have a garden and passed on that love of beauty to her posterity. My mother gave me the book The Secret Garden for my 8th birthday. It was a special book that we read together and together we were transported to the romance of a secret garden. Of love that could not be forgotten, that couldn't be locked away. Both my mother and great-grandmother are gone now, but my love for them is not. Use this kit to capture those memories of loved ones, both near and far.
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