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September 20, 2013 by rebelwithalabelmaker
We'll start at the beginning… Trip #1 was to the Canadian Unitarian Council national gathering. Mick generously offered to drive there with me, which is good because he is all about the logistics*, and someone has to be.
Mick: So, when is the conference exactly, so I can book travel?
Me: The Victoria Day weekend.
Mick: What date is that?
Me: You guys don't have Victoria day?
Mick: [Long rant about something to do with how we need to get the Queen off our dollar bill**]
Me: So, you're telling me you don't even know any of our holidays? That's unreasonable. I know when your Independent Day Holiday is. If you're going to be truly multicultural, you should learn when our Victoria Day is.
Mick: So, you're saying you don't know when it is either. I'll go look it up.
The conference was in Calgary, which is seven hour drive west of Saskatoon. Four and a half, if Mick is driving. I taught the boys how to brace for impact on command.
Unitarians, just to catch you up, are best described as a "multi faith religious group", kind of. We generally form Churches, but they're very diverse–including Atheists, Agnostics, Buddhists, Christians, Pagans, and lots more. We don't have a set of beliefs, but we do affirm and promote seven principles, which you can skim quickly:
- The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
- Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
- Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
- A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
- The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
- The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
- Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
So, off we head to be all Unitarian-ey. We had good intentions. We lost an average of one principle per hour.
Me: Kids, this is a great opportunity to learn about other cultures. You see how Mick drives differently, because he comes from another country. In some cultures, you drive on the other side of the road.
Mick: I was passing a truck.
Me: Right. In Canada, we usually wait until there is no oncoming traffic to do that, but whatever…
Mick: Stop criticizing my driving.
Me: I wasn't criticizing, I was honouring our cultural diversity. Also, did you know that miles and kilometres are not the same?
I was a little worried that the boys would be anxious with all the bickering, but they were rapt with attention. When they weren't bracing.
Me (checking my smartphone): Hey! There is a post here on Facebook about how your driving is not that bad! Do you understand that posting to Facebook while driving kind of proves my point?
Mick: We were at the rest stop when I posted that.
Me: What did you mean by "Ironically, at about the halfway point on my Canadian road trip, I have changed my views on gun control 180 degrees"… ?
That said, it was fun to share the Great Canadian Road Trip experience with Mick. It differs in a few subtle ways from the Great American Road Trip experience.
Mick: Oh look, it says a "point of interest" is coming up.
Me: Um, that means a different thing in our culture. You are thinking Grand Canyon. We are thinking a wheat field and a plaque.
Eric: Also a garbage can. There's usually a garbage can.
Mick: But I want to stop and take pictures at some point.
Me: We'll take pictures at Alsask.
Mick: But there's a beautiful sunset right now.
Me: The sun will still be setting when we get to Alsask. It's only a couple of hours away. No stopping yet.
The tourism highlight of to the drive to Calgary is definitely Alsask. We counted sixteen signs counting down to it. I hyped it up thoroughly, counting down with the children, who intuitively understood the joke.
Me: Okay, you can pull over now.
Mick: I thought we were going to wait for the city of Alsask.
Me: This is it.
Mick: Where?
Me: That house over there. I'm pretty sure the guy who makes road signs lives in it.
Me: Technically, I didn't say it would be interesting. I said it would be the tourism highlight of the drive. This is an accurate statement.
Eric: There's also all the dinosaurs in Drumheller. It's a great learning exp–
Me: –Inh. They're not even real dinosaurs.
So, we pulled over and took a picture (Note: Sun still setting)…
Mick: You didn't take a picture of me giving you the finger, did you?
Me: Can't talk now, posting to Facebook.
Mick: Wait, are you posting from my phone?
Me: You aren't even using it. You are supposed to be paying attention to your driving. Besides, everyone on Facebook has said they could tell it wasn't even you talking within the first three words of your status update.
Mick: How long have you been posting from my phone?
(At this point, the boys started debating about whether people have to be married first in order to get a divorce. I explained that in Mick's country, gay people don't all have the right to get married, and Mick said that he was having trouble remembering why he even wants that right in the first place).
We did get there in one piece. Gary rushed out to meet us at the hotel, relieved to see that we were in one piece. When he asked how the trip was, of course, there was much complaining. "Bickering the whole time" "Always asking how much further" "At one point, there was hitting. I had to remind Mom that it is not safe to whack someone on the head while he is driving. She said it was an accident."
My kids are so whiney.
* "About the Logistics" means he got our oil changed before we left. Also, he updated our plates, and made a really big deal about how they were expired which is kind of melodramatic because they had been expired for months and nothing bad had happened.
**The Queen is not on our dollar bill. We don't have a dollar bill, we have a coin which is, I kid you not, called "The Loonie". The Queen is on that. The only bill that the Queen is on is our twenty. Our twenty also features topless women. True story.
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Dr. Adam: It's not a big deal, Bill. Marriage is hard and people get bored. It is to be expected that your wife might fantasize about a better life with a stranger. Try to understand.
EliteEllen: My husband used to be an adventurer. We traveled to exotic places. Now, we go nowhere, because he refuses to leave his computer.
Dr. Adam: Get thy family to a therapist.
SuperDad: Dr. Adam, I bought smartphones for all three of our children and they spend hours locked in their rooms, texting people. My wife thinks this is not good, but I like it, because now I can communicate with them by text and don't actually have to be with them.
Dr. Adam: Your wife is living in the past, SuperDad. Perhaps she can join you in family therapy.
Vince: Dr. Adam, with all due respect, aren't you overdoing it with all this talk of addiction?
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Vince: Don't get me wrong, Dr. Adam. I agree that some people can't handle alcohol or gambling. But for the vast majority of us, might we not be making some excuses?
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Vince: When I was a kid, we used to call most "addictive" behavior slothful behavior. Most people who overindulged at the expense of their families and responsibilities were being inconsiderate at best and rude at worst. Nowadays, nothing is anybody's fault.
Dr. Adam: Ah, you are a Republican. Like so many closed-minded people, you are a square who is addicted to living in the past. You need to get to a therapist.
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Age 69, of Gaines, died Saturday, January 4, 2014 at McLaren - Flint. Services will be held 2 PM Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at Sharp Funeral Homes, Miller Road Chapel, 8138 Miller Rd., Swartz Creek. Interment will follow at Evergeen Cemetery, Grand Blanc. Visitation will be held 3-5 and 6-9 PM Monday and 12 PM until time of service Tuesday at the funeral home. Those desiring may make memorial contributions to the Humane Society of Genesee County. Mr. Moody was born May 26, 1944 in Bragg City, MO, the son of Connie Floyd and Ada Rachel (Millner) Moody. He married Judith Thorpe on November 22, 1963. Mr. Moody retired as a Millwright from General Motors in 2006. He was a lover of guitars and music, enjoyed painting cars and was an amateur videographer recording many concerts of his sons' band. Surviving are: wife of 50 years, Judith; six children, Rayann Moody (Amanda Pruitt) of Burton, Lyn-Marie Richards of Swartz Creek, Lori (Stephen) Church of Dickson , TN, Denise (Scott) Endicott of Howell, Larry Floyd (Laura) Moody II of North Branch, Tim (Rufina) Moody of Flint; 12 grandchildren, Jimmy (Devin), Lanie (Spencer), CeCi, Zach, Brittany, Ricky, Courtney, Sammy, Robert, Ralph, Raquel, and Phoebe; great-granddaughter, RyleeAnne; two sisters, Connie (Ed) Wyatt and Patricia Lackey; many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Barry Moody. Friends may share an online tribute on the obituary page of www.sharpfuneralhomes.com.
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I think I love you!! Grabbed both episodes. I was not too impressed with the first ep but it's always wonderful to see Takki and hopefully the show will get better! ^^Thank You so much!
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bon-chan~ *GLOMPS* that's a virtual one hehe, i'll give u a real one when we meet again ne~~ i'm still trying to regain all my energy, but glad to be back! ^^
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Thank goodness Karl Rove has no influence in the White House any longer. Here is his idea of "thinking strategically" about Iran:
But if he thought about Iran strategically, he would have backed Iran's Green Revolution after the stolen 2009 parliamentary elections. He would also not have sabotaged chances for a U.S. military presence in Iraq by insisting on parliamentary approval of a status-of-forces agreement. A U.S. presence in Iraq would have reduced Iranian influence in Baghdad and diminished the likelihood of sectarian conflict in Iraq.
A lot of this relies on the same exaggerated view of presidential power that afflicts so many pundits writing on failed domestic legislation. Rove's argument boils down to saying that these things would have been done and they would have been successful if only Obama had been willing to do them. All of this is tied to the fantasy that Obama's Iran policy has been anything other than the cruel, unwise continuation of his predecessor's Iran policy. In fact, each of these claims is wrong on the merits, and none of them would have changed a thing about Iran's nuclear program had U.S. policy been different.
I've explained many times that backing the Green movement wouldn't have resulted in the movement's success, because the U.S. has virtually no constructive ability to influence events or opinion inside Iran. Indeed, public American backing for the movement could very well have hastened its demise. According to most of the critics that have made this charge in the past, "backing" the Green movement meant nothing more than offering stirring speeches on their behalf. That was the main criticism: Obama should have "spoken out" more forcefully. Funny how Rove dredges up this example just a few sentences after he complains about Obama's habit of mistaking speeches for policies. Regardless, a successful Green movement would not have produced an Iranian government that was more cooperative on the nuclear issue. The leaders of the movement didn't and don't disagree with the current leadership over the nuclear program, and they certainly weren't about to capitulate to the U.S. when the Iranian public also supports the program. However, the main problem with this tiresome, oft-repeated argument is that it invests American administrations and presidents with magical powers to direct the course of events in other nations simply by exercising more willpower.
If Obama had kept a large residual force in Iraq over the objections of most Iraqis, he would have made them targets for Iranian-backed militias and Sunni insurgents for the foreseeable future. Far from increasing U.S. influence, we would have seen a resumption of even worse violence, and an increased Iranian role in internal Iraqi politics. There would have been intensifying Iraqi resentment, because most Iraqis would continue to see our soldiers as an occupying force, which is what they would have been. It is doubtful that a U.S. military presence in Iraq would reduce the likelihood of sectarian conflict, but if it did it would be because armed Iraqi groups would be directing their attacks against Americans instead. Instead of liquidating a bad, costly commitment, remaining in Iraq would have allowed Iraq to continue to bleed the U.S. with more casualties and waste countless billions of dollars. That's some clever strategy, Rove.
As we go through Rove's list of what Obama should have done to "think strategically" about Iran, we find that he recommends doing the most foolish, irresponsible thing in each case. For instance, he also thinks the U.S. should have quickly moved to collapse Assad's regime. A collapsed Syrian regime might be a setback for Iran, but it would be a nightmare for Syrians and their neighbors that could be far worse than their current suffering. Rove's recommendations for "thinking strategically" are all short-sighted and suggest that neither he nor the Republican hawks that he stole them from have been thinking very seriously about any of these problems.


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On Sunday, July 19th Pacem in Terris will eature 17th-century music from Italy and England, performed by mezzo-soprano Justina Golden, Nathaniel Cox, playing both cornetto and theorbo, Alice Robbins, viola da gamba, and Gregory Hayes, organ. The program will feature the performers in various combinations, playing variation sets by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Diego Ortiz and others, as well as songs by Giulio Caccini, Claudio Monteverdi, and Henry Purcell, and organ works by Michelangelo Rossi and Orlando Gibbons.
All of Sunday's musicians are based in western New England, and Nathaniel Cox and Justina Golden are performers new to Pacem in Terris audiences. Nathaniel began his music career as a trumpet player, earning bachelor degrees in trumpet performance and Russian literature from OberlinCollege and Conservatory in 2008. After a brief period of baroque trumpet playing (winning the historical category at the National Trumpet Competition in 2007), Nathaniel was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study cornetto (a curved wooden instrument of the 16th century, capable of virtuoso display) with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. He started playing theorbo (a large fretted instrument of the lute family) while in Basel, and is now in demand both as a continuo player and a cornettist. Since moving back to the United States in 2014 Nathaniel has performed with some of North America's leading early music ensembles, including Apollo's Fire, The Toronto Consort, Ensemble Caprice, and the Dark Horse Consort.
Mezzo-soprano Justina has sung, taught and conducted through her Profound Sound Voice Studio in Florence, Massachusetts for twenty nine years. Justina's singing career spans contemporary folk music, early music, Celtic, jazz and classical music performances. She is a member of the Illuminati Vocal Arts Ensemble, The Wilde Irish Women Repertory Company, and is on the staff of Umbrian Serenades, a summer program that brings professional and talented amateur singers to Spoleto, Italy to perform choral programs under master conductor Joseph Flummerfelt. She is a graduate of Amherst College, B.A. cum laude and received her Masters in Voice and Opera from the Yale School of Music.
Returning to Pacem are viola da gambist Alice Robbins and keyboard player Gregory Hayes. Alice has performed widely on baroque cello and viola da gamba in ensembles including Concerto Vocale, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Boston Camerata, Handel & Haydn Society, Washington Bach Concert, and the Oberlin and Boston Consorts of Viols. She was a founding member of Concerto Castello, an international quintet specializing in the music of the early seventeenth century, and currently performs with Arcadia Players and Opera Lafayette. She teaches at Smith and MountHolyokeColleges in the Five College Early Music Program.
Gregory Hayes is a busy chamber and orchestral musician, playing various keyboards with the Albany, Vermont, and Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestras, and with the regional period-instrument ensemble Arcadia Players. He has participated often in the New England Bach Festival and on the Mohawk Trail Concerts series. Mr. Hayes has taught piano and occasionally harpsichord at DartmouthCollege since 1991. A graduate of AmherstCollege and the Manhattan School of Music, he is longtime music director for the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence . He has played at Pacem in Terris annually since 1976.
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Ahmed's performances grabbed the eyeball of the selectors and he was selected for the India A team. It was his promising performances in West Indies and New Zealand that experts began to take note of.
"For 2011 and 2012, his performances in the domestic circuit for Bengal and East zone have been very good," said Dasgupta. In his career of 15 First Class matches he has taken an impressive 27 wickets and has come up with a five-wicket haul thrice. Along with it, he has taken 14 wickets in List A cricket, where he has taken four-wicket hauls twice. He averages 24.67 and 21.42 in first class and List A bowling respectively.
After making his national debut in 2010 against Assam, the young pacer has taken huge steps in such a short span. The selectors also need to be congratulated for a gutsy selection of the player who was brought into the team with an experience of not more than two years in the domestic circuit. The player is no mug with the bat, as the player played an important hand in helping India A win a Test match scoring unbeaten 27 runs in West Indies by partnering with Cheteshwar Pujara for the last wicket.
Lalchand Rajput was the coach of the Indian A team then. He was all praises for Ahmed after his performances with the ball. He managed to take 13 wickets during the West Indies A tour. Rajput even sent a report to the BCCI stating that the bowler could be a fine prospect for India and it has indeed come true at this hour. He also said that the bowler should be given a break in the Indian team. "He is sharp and bowls at a consistent pace. He consistently bowls at around 140km/h. He should not curtail his pace. With experience other things will follow," Rajput said.
After his ODI debut, Rajput, like cricket fans around the nation was extremely pleased with Ahmed and praised the player for his skills. "He had an excellent debut. He wants to do well in the game and he has the killer instinct," Rajput told this citizen journalist .
But, after his impressive debut, he needs to be consistent while representing India at the topmost level. His next immediate test would lie against the touring English side in the ODI series starting from January 11. With this talent potential, it is not 'if', but when will the player be a world class prospect threatening batsmen all over the world.
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Scarcely a day goes by when we don't read or hear something about networking. When the economy went bad, we were told that networking was the answer. And then there is the constant discussion about mentoring. But how do we combine the two? Many older, more experienced lawyers simply do not have the time to intentionally engage in mentoring relationships. Yet we run into these more seasoned practitioners on a daily basis. Whether it is at the courthouse or a bar association function, we interact with other lawyers all the time. It has been this relatively new lawyer's experience that everywhere I go there are experienced lawyers who are more than willing to offer a helping hand. We simply need to combine the two: Networking + Mentoring = Personal Board of Directors.
When I began my solo practice less than a year ago I was smart enough to know that I wouldn't be able to pull it off on my own. I would need the wisdom and experience of others who went before me in order to find my way. If a big business has a board of directors, why couldn't my business, too? So I decided to form my own "Personal Board of Directors."
First I determined what areas of law I would practice. Second, I went back through all those connections I made networking throughout law school, summer clerkships, and legal jobs. From those I carefully selected one practitioner from each of my major practice areas. For me that meant one attorney from family law, bankruptcy, guardian ad litem, criminal law, and estate practice. Third, I contacted each of those attorneys and asked if he or she would be willing to serve on my Personal Board of Directors. Each gladly accepted and was in fact honored to be chosen. I explained to them how I valued their opinions and expertise. I knew I would need assistance and these men and women are people who share my view of law practice, people whom I highly respect.
The whole point is to avoid over-burdening one particular lawyer. Certainly each member of my board is equipped to handle queries from a variety of practice areas; however the idea is to not burn out a resource. By limiting my questions of each board member to a particular substantive area, I spread the phone calls and emails amongst a number of people, never becoming a burden to any one attorney.
Lastly, I acknowledge my board members when they do help me. It doesn't take much, but a simple acknowledgment of the time they have invested in me makes them even more willing to assist in the future. After all, everybody likes to be appreciated. I recommend the simple act of writing thank you notes to those attorneys who offer their assistance and advice. It really only takes a moment of your time, but the gesture is quite meaningful. For example, I met a judge at a bar association function while in law school. I spent about 20 minutes asking questions and seeking advice. Once I returned home I immediately wrote a simple thank you note acknowledging the time he and his wife spent speaking to me. I didn't see them again for about a year, but when I did we exchanged greetings and he mentioned having met me at the same function a year earlier. He then told me that he regularly looks for my name in the local newspaper's legal section. I honestly had no idea what he was talking about, but he told me that in all his years in practice and on the bench he had never had anyone write him a thank you for his time. He said he looks for my name in the newspaper because he expects great things from me as evidenced by the simple fact that I wrote him a thank you note.
There is a wealth of information, knowledge, and experience all around you. You simply need to tap in to that resource. By carefully selecting attorneys whom you have met (networking), and asking for assistance in a particular practice area (mentoring), you, too, can form your own Personal Board of Directors to help you become a successful solo practitioner.
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Numbers are about challenges and dreams. Challenges to fulfill the dreams mostly for ourselves. Especially in diving the failure in fulfilling a dream has almost always tragic consequences. We always have looked for numbers presented here in actual, updated and concise form. For the first time we can find them in one place where length and depth of the nature is confronted with human determination. Thanks to all divers we can carry on with presenting and documenting the challenges the bravest amongst us had undertaken.
Since 2009 we have tried hard to combine all available sources to create the ultimate lists of the deepest scuba dives ever. The lists – the deepest sinkholes, the deepest scuba dives under 200 m, the deepest cave dives under 100 m are constantly updated. The backbone of the lists we have published was data gathered over the time by Martyn Farr, Nuno Gomes, Bret Gilliam and Caver Bob. We filled the blanks with places, dates and christian names and divided what was already available into three tables. Once "the longest" became also important we linked Caver Bob resources and that's how the fourth table materialized.
We try to verify the data we gather taking into account computer measurements, video clips and reports by independent witnesses. If any result is doubtful we search for inconsistencies in available data and seek advise from divers with proven record. That's probably why our list is not consistent with Wiki. In case of ultimate achievements we think that once the world record is beaten not only the pretender has to prove its claim using preferably Guinness World Record standards but also the new record should be recognized by the diver who held it before. Once it's done, there is not much room for false claims.


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Please check out my new and expanded version of looking at libraries as sponsors of literacy, or more specifically, transliteracy. This talk is being delivered today, April 13, at the Alabama Library Association YASRT/CSLD Preconference. This presentation is rooted in my previous studies (you can see my papers and readings from 2005 on my Slideshare page under "documents") in the work of Dr. Deborah Brandt. I am very interested in replicating her ethnographic study with a focus on an expanded definition of literacy.
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Lucy Young flicks through an album of photographs taken from before she bought and renovated her Shanghai terraced lane house. There was a concrete slab floor and a grimy kitchen shared by three Chinese families who spent their days crowding into a series of dark rooms. When they bought the house, Young says, cats lived in the closet.
"Friends said: 'This is going to be a money pit, you are crazy!'" says the Chinese-American designer, speaking from the home, which she now shares with her husband and two children. Tucked away down a residential enclave, the two-storey house was built in 1930 on a street originally named Rue Ratard in the former French Concession, located in downtown Shanghai.
Shanghai's terraced lane houses, some in Shikumen style, are an unusual fusion of east and west architecture, and a legacy of the British, who had established a settlement in the port city in the 1840s following the First Opium War. Located down old longtang (lanes), the houses were built to cater for a boom in middle-class expansion. Shikumen are so called for their elaborately carved "stone gate" entrance ways, which lead to an interior courtyard.
Young started renovations on her house in 2006, and it retains some of the ramshackle charm of its neighbours. But step in through the French doors and the home gives way to sleek modern touches: wooden floorboards – reclaimed from other lane houses – line the living room. Upstairs, a glass staircase leads to the television room, once the house's terrace. A transparent bathtub is built into the bathroom floor. And when Young washes dishes in the open-plan kitchen she looks out on to a light well (a vertical shaft with a glass roof) filled with bamboo.
"To us, it's so precious," says Young, referring to her home's rich history. The family is just one of a number of expats who have rejected modern apartments and compound villas for the more challenging charms of living in an old house in the French Concession. Young's furniture pays homage to its past: an antique mah-jong table and dark polished wooden bar – treasures left with the house – now sit in the parlour room.
"Tenants pay extraordinary rents for these places and they want to feel that they've had the experience of 'old Shanghai'," says Hong Kong-based architect James Saywell, who has renovated six high-end French Concession properties. "But they want to be cool [in summer], have hot water and park their Mercedes in the garage. They don't want to have the Shanghai experience like it was in 1952."
For locals, says Saywell, these historical houses might hold a different association, as a result of the late 19th-century opium wars, when Britain forced China to open up to international trade. "For visitors to Shanghai, the former French Concession is charming because it represents this nostalgic, grand era like in the films … But that neighbourhood represents a time that not every Chinese would like to go back to. They were second-class citizens."
After the 1949 Communist takeover, the majority of lane houses were divided up, with as many as 10 families squeezing under one roof. Today, the French Concession is still home to a significant number of the city's poor, who suffer the wet Shanghai winters with scant heating and sometimes use chamber pots in the absence of plumbing.
"[Some] locals ask why would you buy an old house that was falling apart?" says Sacha Silver, co-founder of Shanghai-based A00 Architecture, who designed Young's house. Yet the area is gentrifying fast. Avenues lined with plane trees are becoming populated by cafés and boutiques. For foreigners, the French Concession's winding streets are a reminder of home. "Historically, the area is very popular," says Peter Hibbard, former president of the Royal Asiatic Society China. "Today, when you walk where all the restaurants and bars are located, it's largely expats."
Younger expats with lower budgets can also find semi-renovated flats in the area to rent for reasonable prices. But fully renovated houses with amenities such as underfloor heating and fireplaces can have waiting lists. Renovation costs have doubled in the past eight years and prices for the houses have also soared. A garden villa that cost Rmb10m to Rmb12m (£1m-£1.2m) in 2005, might go for more than Rmb30m today.
James Ashton founded JB Style in 2004 to renovate and manage French Concession houses. He says prices range from £6,000 (unrenovated) to £9,500 (renovated) per square metre for a lane house, with the most sought-after locations and properties exceeding £12,000 per sq metre.
Located minutes away from one of Shanghai's most fashionable French Concession streets is a vast 450 sq metre standalone garden villa dating from 1940. Renovations on the property started in 2008 and took three years. Now the villa is rented to a senior-level expat working in a multinational company.
The landscaped private garden at a villa in the French Concession district
Nods towards Asian tradition – a weighty wooden red front door and white carved wood lattice panels – are mixed with glitzy detail. In the open-plan kitchen and dining area a 3.6 metre-high smoked-glass ceiling is trimmed with mother-of-pearl. The living room features a 120in high-definition digital projector with six surround-sound speakers. And both rooms look out to the villa's main appeal: a landscaped private garden with high walls, a cascading water feature and mounted lights. Seamless comfort justifies the high rents. The master bedroom has a large walk-in wardrobe and en suite bathroom with a mother-of-pearl mosaic bath, shower, and double sink. A second bathroom has a brush steel gold tiled floor.
Ashton takes what he calls a "Japanese" attitude to design with no detail overlooked. Mother-of-pearl, for example, even lines the utility room's inner cupboard walls.
Saywell says: "These houses are all very handcrafted. That was how they were designed, how they were made. It is the only way you could have done them, because at every corner you turn there is a quirky little problem you need to solve."
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Re-enactors - (Men, women, children, and families portraying Civil War era personalities - Both Union and Confederate).
Genealogists - (Family history researchers - Many related to Civil War veterans).
Historians - (Veteran and novice researchers of local and national Civil War history).
Preservationists - (Interested in battlefield, cemetery, monument, artifact, and historic site preservation).
Teachers - (Area high school and grade school teachers and other educators).
Authors - (Published writers of both local and national Civil War history).
Anyone interested in Civil War history. Meetings open to members and non-members. COME ONE, COME ALL!


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Make a Photo-Roll Pencil Holder
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Your photographs are good at being held *in* things: albums, boxes, frames …
But are they good at holding things?
Put 'em to work! Transform your photos into a useful DIY photo-roll pencil holder.
It'll brighten up your desk, and make daydreaming of summer days that much easier.
In just a few steps, you can roll your photographs into picture-perfect container.
Thanks to our pal Tali Schiffer who showed us how to make this one of a kind photo-roll box!
How to Make a Photo-Roll Pencil Holder
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Why it's cool:
This sweet lil photo-rolled box can be used for just about anything you can think of.
Sure it makes an awesome pencil holder, but would also store film, computer cords, and camera batteries quite nicely.
Show your desk some love with this quick way to spruce it up.
- Empty Box
- Colorful Tape
- Old Magazines or Photographs
- Utility Knife or Scissors
- Cutting Surface
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Glue
STEP 1: Prep Container
Start by cutting the flaps off one side of the box.
This will make it easy to stuff all the goodies inside.
Be sure the opposite end is taped or sealed.
You don't want anything spilling out of the bottom!
Step 2: Dress it Up:
Use colorful tape to line the top edge, where you just cut the flaps.
Place tape on both the inner and outer edge of the box to give a nice, finished look.
You can do this by taping both sides, or by folding the tape over.
TIP: Slit the corners of the tape to make folding over corners a little smoother.
Step 3: Measure:
Measure the height of your box, and cut your images to fit.
TIP: If you print your own photos, make sure to measure your container beforehand to make sure you have enough coverage.
Step 4: Roll:
Take one edge of your image, and wrap it around a pencil or small paintbrush.
Keep rolling the whole page. Leave 1″ at the end of the image.
TIP: Make sure you roll your image with the side you want on the outside.
Step 5: Glue:
Use a thin layer of glue on that last inch of photo.
Roll it completely, and wait a minute or two until it has started to dry.
Slide it off your paintbrush, and set aside for now.
Step 6: Repeat:
You need a lot of these suckers to cover that box.
TIP: We used about 18-20 rolls for each side of the box, but this will be different for each box.
Step 7: Stick em down:
Cover one side of the box with glue.
Lay your rolled photos on the box, starting at one end and working your way across.
Let that side dry.
Step 8: Finish 'er off:
Repeat your process with the three remaining sides.
Marvel at your masterpiece! (Well done!)
Take it further
- Make your container even more spectacular by repeating rolls to make one image.
- Why stick to pens? Use it as a planter box or store photos in it
- Make giant 3D rolled images to hang from the ceiling!


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In most places west of Manitoba, the arrival of yet another oil or gas drilling rig is cause for little notice or concern. In Quebec, a half dozen gas wells and the potential of hundreds more may be about to set off a new kind of identity crisis.
Quebec has long nurtured an image as a green-energy titan, relying on hydro and sneering at those other energy producers in the West, with their smelly, polluting oil and gas.
The image is in for a rough reexamination this fall as Environment Minister Pierre Arcand and deputy premier and Natural Resources Minister Nathalie Normandeau announced on Sunday that the government will launch an aggressive schedule of environmental review and legislative overhaul that could pave the way for a new natural-gas industry.
Thousands of metres beneath Quebec's fertile and heavily populated St. Lawrence River valley, geologists believe up to 50 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves may be locked in hard shale. The rough preliminary estimate would place the field on a short list of the largest of its kind in Canada.
Before Quebec has even drafted its first oil-and-gas law to regulate the industry, exploration companies have obtained 600 permits and are drilling a half dozen wells to test the viability of Quebec's gas reserves.
Shale gas would be the first major foray into fossil fuels in a province where the industry mainly pierces public consciousness for high prices at the pump, pollution, greenhouse gases or some distant environmental disaster.
"There is an historic attachment and identity tied up with Hydro-Québec because it was one of the first true economic engines in the province. Compared to that legacy, oil and gas companies trigger considerable distrust with the way they act around the world," said environmentalist Daniel Breton.
At Sunday's unveiling of the province's plan, Mr. Arcand and Ms. Normandeau were booed and shouted down by several dozen protesters. An aide was forced to plead for calm and respect.
"Citizens have expressed their concerns, and we've heard them," Ms. Normandeau said over a chorus of catcalls. "We have the responsibility to exploit such potential wealth ... but we will be putting primary emphasis on the environment and on ensuring the social acceptance of any development."
Many of the protesters were residents of Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, a small town about a 40-minute drive south of Montreal, where a mix of recently landed commuters and farmers have successfully stalled an early attempt at exploration by an Australian company.
Pierre Batellier, a university lecturer and leader of the local anti-drilling movement, said the town's 2,000 residents are divided between people who welcome lease payments from drilling companies and other potential economic development and those who say Quebec is rushing into the unknown.
"There's not a lot of tension in town, but it's starting to grow as houses become harder to sell," said Mr. Batellier, who teaches sustainable development at HEC Montréal, a business school.
Any oil and gas exploration would likely cause controversy in Quebec, but the "unconventional" methods used to reach shale gas promise to fuel opposition.
Exploration companies reach the gas through a recent innovation in drilling known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." Thousands of litres of water, sand and chemicals are blasted into the rock to break it up and release the gas.
Several communities in Pennsylvania, where drilling is running a frenetic pace, have complained of severe water contamination while New York state has put a hold on drilling. The industry insists the problems are isolated.
Quebec environmental groups and municipal associations have asked for a moratorium on drilling until more questions are answered.
The Quebec Oil and Gas Association - created just last year and led by former Hydro-Québec president André Caillé - has predicted the industry could create thousands of jobs and drive down the price of natural gas, which is nearly twice as expensive in Quebec as it is in Alberta.
The province and industry have promised a major public-relations campaign this fall to tout the benefits of gas exploration while environmental groups say they will mobilize opposition.
"This fall will be the hottest in Quebec on the energy file since the 1960s" when hydro installations were nationalized, Mr. Breton said.
The province has asked the environmental review agency to complete its work by Feb. 4. New legislation promises to be in place by the end of the spring session.
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"Oscar's Friends" Candy, Lobster and Lagoon take a last gulp of fresh air before being zipped into the bag ready to travel to London on Saturday where they will be making their debut at CRAFT at Olympia.
Getting ready for a trade show is always stressful and I have been busy folding leaflets, making sample cards and the designing stand for the past week. Nothing ever runs as smoothly as you hope, but fingers crossed it all comes together in the end. I do have some lovely new shelves made by a local furniture designer which I am sure will last longer than the IKEA ones I have been using.
I will let you know how the show went when I get back next week!


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Vinnie Colaiuta
Carlos Benson, Director of Drummers for Jesus, interviews Vinnie Colaiuta at the Christian Musicians Summit
CB: With all the religions in the world, why Christianity?
VC: Wow, that's a great question. One thing that I'm apt to think is that God came to me and sought me in a sense. Because see, I grew up in a Catholic background, although I was not what you might call a "GOOD, PRACTICING" Catholic, it seems as though in my younger years of childhood growing up I believed in Jesus and what I knew about him. Of course there was no scripture teaching so that was all really a mystery to me. And as I grew into adulthood I remember, I would like to say, for maybe ten years, I'm just throwing a wild number out there, before I got saved in 1998, that I had gradually found myself seeking spiritual answers, reaching out to spiritual values and higher values and spirituality and had sort of racked my brain philosophically and coming up empty. I found myself bargaining with God and I realized a lot of things. Wanting to know answers. It's real easy for us to come up with answers to satisfy ourselves and appease our curiosity. After a lot of questioning and searching I think that God had engineered these circumstances providentially to bring me to him and that led up to me going to Switzerland [where friends of Vinnie would lead him to Christ]. So, it wasn't like a situation where I was "SHOPPING" and looked at a laundry list: "Buddhism, Hinduism, etc, oh Christianity – that one looks good."
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Koichiro Genba spoke after a new explosion hit one of the earthquake-hit nuclear plants, sparking fresh fears of a catastrophic reactor meltdown.Scientists and technicians have been battling to control two overheating reactors at the 40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi facility after cooling systems were knocked out by Fridays quake
Originally posted by boondock-saint
No Chernobyl possible huh ???
yea right
and I got some ocean front property
in Kansas I wanna sell ya too.
there are already confirmations by the US Navy
that there is a leak. And other Japanese news
agencies reporting fuel rods exposed and pumping
in sea water to keep it cool.
How much more garbage disinfo are we suppose
to believe ???
Originally posted by boondock-saint
No Chernobyl possible huh ???
yea right
and I got some ocean front property
in Kansas I wanna sell ya too.
there are already confirmations by the US Navy
that there is a leak. And other Japanese news
agencies reporting fuel rods exposed and pumping
in sea water to keep it cool.
How much more garbage disinfo are we suppose
to believe ???
As it is now, it's more equivalent to the Three Mile Island incident.
TOKYO, March 14 (Reuters) - The key to averting a nuclear disaster at the quake-stricken Fukushima power complex in Japan is ensuring the thick protective walls around the reactor cores remain intact.
So far that is the case.
* A hydrogen explosion on Monday at the number 3 reactor raised concern that the crisis is escalating, but experts insist a Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster can be averted.
* Three units at the Fukushima Daiichi plant suffered loss of coolant to their reactors following Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and the tsunami it triggered.
* So long as the thick containment walls shielding the reactor cores remain intact, even a meltdown of the nuclear fuel would not lead to a major escape of potentially dangerous radioactive clouds into the air.
"Everything I've seen says that the containment structure is operating as it's designed to operate. It's keeping the radiation in and it's holding everything in, which is the good news," said Murray Jennex, of San Diego State University.
"This is nothing like a Chernobyl... At Chernobyl (in the Ukraine in 1986) you had no containment structure -- when it blew, it blew everything straight out into the atmosphere."
* Low-level radiation has been detected outside the plant but at very low levels. These levels would need to rise something like a thousand times before real fears are justified, experts say.
* Every day without a major release of radiation increases the odds of a good outcome. Once a reactor is shut down, there is a lot of decayed heat that needs to be gotten rid of, with the first four-to-seven days critical.
Jennex says Japan, at three days out from the quake and shutdown, would likely "be OK" if another day goes by without a major radiation release.
* Some of the fuel rods in the Fukushima Daiichi power plant's reactors are exposed, so raising water levels around the rods is critical and will help cool them down. Pumping seawater into the reactors is a last-ditch measure, because the reactor may not be able to be used again, but it can be effective. Again, the key is keeping the reactor container intact.
* A release of plutonium at the number 3 reactor would be a real sign of trouble because it is the only one using plutonium as a fuel. This would signal that the fuel cladding had melted and ruptured, and that a meltdown was in progress, experts say.
Similar signs from the other two reactors would be a release of uranium-235 or maybe cesium. Cesium was detected on Saturday, but the level remained low. The cesium released could also have been due to contamination from old fuel issues, not a meltdown.
* If the containment wall is breached, the level of radiation would rise sharply. * At one point on Monday, levels at the stricken plant were around 751 microsieverts, a dosage similar to a stomach x-ray, Japans' nuclear authorities said. A fatal does of radiation would be more than 7 million microsieverts.
* A sharp rise in radiation would be measured in millisieverts, rather than microsieverts, as it has been up to now, which would be potentially a thousand times higher.
* An explosion within the reactor vessel itself could damage the container, but no signs of that have been detected yet. The containment vessel also is designed to channel any melted fuel to separate areas, which will help keep heat from building up.
* Additional warning signs would be a total evacuation of the plant area or the wind dispersion area. (Reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by Mark Bendeich)
Originally posted by Alina
Also, even if there actually is a meltdown, it still could not deal the same damage as Chernobyl.edit on 14-3-2011 by Alina because: (no reason given)


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Congress has pulled a Fred Goff.
Let me explain what that means.
About 1000 of my fellow junior high students were gathered in the auditorium listening to our principal. He called for a moment of silence. Fred tipped to one side and let out a trumpet-like sound that rocketed around the auditorium.
Fred instantly turned to the boy next to him and reared back as if the kid was radioactive. All eyes fell on the kid and all hell broke loose. The kid was yanked out of his seat, marched to the principals office and forever branded. Fred escaped.
Congress has just done this with our gas and oil problems.
The high prices are being trumpeted all over the country. The blame for them is, above all, Congresss. Yet Congress stuck the blame on the oil companies. It Goffed big oil.
It dragged big oil executives before its committees. So that congressguys could line up before the cameras to jab fingers at them.. They lashed out at them for our high gas and heating oil prices. They called them greedy. They threatened windfall profit taxes. They demanded the companies do all sorts of loony things.
They were as dishonest as ol Fred. And their hot air had the same fragrance as his.
No group of people have pushed up the price of your fuels more than Congress.
By not allowing more modern refineries, Congress has denied the industry various efficiencies. We have not had a new refinery built in America for over 30 years. The limits on our refining have nudged our prices higher.
By halting drilling in non-park federal lands, Congress has brought higher prices. By prohibiting more drilling in federal lands in Alaska it has pushed gas prices upward. By keeping drillers from tapping oil off our coasts Congress has added to gas prices. By keeping oil companies from converting oil shale it has made sure gas prices rise.
Congress has gone out of its way to make sure Americas production of oil is severely restricted. The non-shale areas hold well over 600 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas. This is enough to heat 60 million homes for the next 100 years.
The non-shale areas hold over 100 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Enough to fuel 60 million cars for 60 years.
Beyond this, the oil shale areas may hold as much as two trillion barrels of oil.
America has oil and natural gas, and plenty of it. Congress has no courage, none of it. The seats of Congress are filled with cowards. They are too afraid of green pressure groups to stand up for the truth.
The truth is that solar and wind will help. But they will not bring down gas prices for many years. The truth is that ethanol - which Congress forces us to create - is a dud. The truth is that nuclear power - which Congress does nothing to allow - will save us enormous amounts of oil.
The truth is that if we opened up our lands to drilling OPEC would shudder. Prices would fall.
The truth is that Congress hits our oil companies with extra taxes. These discourage production. If Congress gave our oil drillers tax-breaks it would encourage more production. Extra production would add to world inventories and help bring down prices. Extra production would make us less vulnerable to world oil supplies.
The truth is that if you seek a culprit for the high prices you pay for fuel, the culprit is the Congress of the United States. Its book of rules includes one from Fred Goff. When caught, dont turn the other cheek. Blame somebody else.
I wonder if Fred became a politician.
From Tom ... as in Morgan.
For more columns and for Toms radio shows (and to write to Tom): tomasinmorgan.com.


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Interior waterproofing is really water control. Water in your walls is drained and directed under the floor before it enters the room. This option is frequently called for when outside additions or structural elements are in the way, or a less expensive alternative to outside waterproofing is desired. Sometimes there is a need to remove water which is trapped below the floor that an exterior system cannot evacuate.
Water entering the basement is usually most obvious at the joint along the bottom of the basement wall or along expansion joints. Water beneath the floor can also push concrete upwards as the soil below swells, cracking the floor and then flowing into the room. Interior floor cracks and open joints can also allow radon gas to enter the home. A sump pump is almost always installed to collect the water and pump it outside. A battery backup pump is a good idea if you ever have power outages so your basement won't flood. This method of water remediation is our second choice most of the time, but works well to keep the interior floor dry, and is a good lower cost option, especially when selling a home. Often a white plastic panel is installed over the wall to direct surface water into the floor, hide any wall damage or discoloration and dress up the walls with a maintainace free bright surface.
Once the problem has been diagnosed and the repair plan agreed upon, your work will be scheduled after permits are secured. (if required).
Normally 5′ to 6′ is generally needed to be cleared away from the walls by the customer before work can begin. Starting against the wall we remove around 18" of the concrete floor with jackhammers. This continues along the entire length of the wall to be waterproofed. We then hand excavate this trench down until we reach the bottom of the footing. The concrete and dirt is taken out to our trucks and hauled away. We then drill small drainholes in the cores at the bottom of each block to drain the wall and relieve some of the outside pressure. Drain tile is installed along the inside wall trench against the footing, a thin white plastic panel called rigid sealer is placed in the trench to cover the small drainholes and extends about 12" above the poured floor., or can be taken all the way to the top of the wall. The draintile is then buried in washed pea gravel. The entire length of pipe is sloped to direct water into a buried sump pump located at the lowest point of the system and usually in a corner. An electric connection is made from the pump to the breaker panel. A heavy duty cast iron pump then takes the collected water and automatically pumps it outside through a drain pipe which we connect to the outside downspout. Once this system is installed with the floor re-poured, the system virtually disappears and only the sump pump cover and the discharge pipe are seen.


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SHA Reminded Me How Lucky I Am To Do What I Do
Jamie Glavic is creative and digital content manager of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and also a contributor to the Museum Minute blog.
In this latest installment of "Why You Should Attend SHA" Jamie share that the program helped rekindle her love and passion for the field.
Read her full post here
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Advergames most effective way to attract consumers to brandsOctober 3rd, 2008 - 12:35 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 3 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the University of Missouri has suggested that advergames are more effective as a way of developing positive consumer attitudes towards a particular product.
During the study, researchers found that consumers expressed a strong positive relationship towards brands when they played advergames with strong thematic connections to the products advertised.
In the study, participants played two advergames, both with either high or low thematic connection to the brand.
Thematic connection refers to the degree that the object of the advergame relates to the brands product or services.
For example, the travel company Orbitz designed a game, Find Your Hotel, that has a theme related to the companys travel services. Another Orbitz game, Paper Football, does not have a thematic connection to the companys services.
While games that related to the brand were not inherently more enjoyable than unrelated games, the transfer of enjoyment from the game to a positive attitude toward the brand was stronger when the game and brand were thematically related, said Kevin Wise, assistant professor of strategic communication in the MU School of Journalism.
Game enjoyment led to positive attitude toward the brand when a high thematic connection existed between the game and the brand. This was not the case when the participants played games with a low thematic connection, he added.
Wise said that previous research has focused on content analysis, effects on children and social policy implications.
This is one of only a few studies that examined the effectiveness of specific features of advergames in producing desired results with consumers, he added.
A great deal of previous research has been devoted to the relationship between attitude towards an ad and attitude towards the brand in traditional media. In this study, we tried to extend that research to the world of online games, Wise said.
We found that brand-related advergames facilitated the transfer of enjoyment to the brand, compared to unrelated games. Brand-related advergames are not inherently more expensive to produce, so these findings suggest that they might be more effective as a way of developing positive consumer attitudes towards a particular brand, he added. (ANI)
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233 Kubler Street, River Rim
MLS Number: 728954
Acreage: 0.47
Taxes: $ 3,615.68
County: Gunnison
Listed by: Maggie Dethloff
Breathtaking view from this .47 acre home-site overlooking the East River. Enjoy expansive & unencumbered panoramic views that include Red Mountain, Whetstone Mountain, Mt. Emmons, Gothic Mountain and Crested Butte Mountain. The topography of this parcel, located within the intimate River Rim Subdivision, offers a nice, level building site. With views of the wetlands, where you'll have the opportunity to see an abundance of wildlife, and forever protected Land Trust property to the west makes this location ideal for your mountain home. River Rim is situated within the CB South Subdivision and enjoys amenities that include: skating rink and groomed Nordic trails in the winter months and the park, tennis courts and fishing on the East River in the summer. Crested Butte South's growing commercial area is home to Tully's restaurant, a liquor store, convenience store, Camp 4 Coffee and the Alpengardener. Head out Cement Creek both summer and winter for hiking, walking, biking, cross country skiing and all that the back country has to offer.