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Every great manager has to start somewhere.
I would love to have Inzaghi here. He has been able to squeeze almost every ounce out of his Lazio side to compete with Roma and Inter. He also reached the Coppa Italia final in his first season.
I think that with our crop of players, he would do great things.

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Claude Giroux Scores Ridiculous Backhanded Goal While Falling to the Ice (GIF)
The Philadelphia Flyers and captain Claude Giroux had a pretty crappy start to the 2013-14 NHL season. Through the first 15 games Giroux didn't score a single goal, and the team went a miserable 4-11. Hell, coach Peter Laviolette got fired after just three games.
However, in the 16th game of the season, a 4-2 win over the Oilers, Giroux finally scored a goal. Then the Flyers rattled off five more wins in their next six games, and pretty soon they'd turned their season around.
As for Giroux, he's now up to a respectable nine goals and 30 points. And while he's not going to be winning the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy this year, last night against the Blue Jackets he scored the game-tying and game-winning goals, the latter of which might just be the goal of the year.
Watch as the guy roofs a wicked backhander past Curtis McElhinney at a ridiculous angle…while falling to the ice:
Oh, and I almost forgot—this game-winner also just so happened to be the 100th goal of Giroux's career.
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Friday, August 31, 2012
This scarf is only available on the blog now for $45.00. If you wish to purchase it, you can email me or comment with your email. I am getting ready for the busiest season of the year and Albany Shaker is next week(can you believe it?) and then I will be starting a new circle.
I have signed up with an artist representative in Albany, more information on that soon. I'm living in Whitehall but want to keep a presence down Albany way so I've found a wonderful company to represent me. I'm very excited. I''m bouncing back and forth at the moment with my work, I'm working on a knit scarf and a very lovely hand embroidery piece which is a complete departure for me. I won't share what it is until it's finished but suffice it to say it is nothing like my previous work.
So there you have it. Go on with your busy day, if you decide to go for the scarf without being able to see the beautiful contrasting yarns, congratulations. If you are in the Albany area, the scarf will be with me so you can see the colors in person next week at the Albany Shaker Museum. I will be in the Meeting House.
Have a great Labor Day Weekend and hope to see you sooner rather than later with my next finished piece.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Feeling Stronger
I woke up so strong this morning, like anything is possible. It's a new and unique feeling; one which comes from survival. Doing the one thing you didn't think you could do and surviving doing it. Now I have a lot of choices, first of them finding some gainful employment and charting a life for myself. I still want to do it on my terms so not quite ready to do the conventional corporate thing yet. I have faith in God and the universe that the answer is out there somewhere and hopefully with the holidays almost upon us I will sell enough of my work to keep my head above water while I wait for my marriage to end.
Peter and I have finally reached the peaceful part of our marriage ending, the part where the decisions have been made and we are just waiting for it to be over. It's brought a kind of peacefulness to the process. He's moving on, I'm moving on. We're evolving. I do hope for our son's sake that we can somehow manage to be in each other's life without being in each other's life. I truly hope he finds the wife he wishes he married when he married me.
I'm getting used to living on my own and being alone a lot of the time. I'm not running around sightseeing every day, I'm working. I like working. There are moments in the middle of the night where I think I hear something and then I realize that I am hearing my fear and I go back to sleep. I kind of like that feeling of being able to put the demons back in the closet and going back to sleep. Last night Chopin did it for me. Chopin and peace seem to just fit together perfectly in my mind. Also weaving ends into a scarf didn't really hurt either, it's great to be able to be creative whenever the muse finds you.
It's funny about the Chopin thing, I am still thinking about pianos. While I was in the hospital I played the piano and I have thought of nothing (except hand embroidery and crochet) since. I'm wondering if there is a piano playing gig in my future (fat chance but fun to dream about anyway). I really am fascinated by the piano but maybe that is just some fantasy remembered by a young girl who wished to play the piano and ended up learning the accordion instead. But it's a fun fantasy so when I settle somewhere perhaps I will be able to afford having a piano nearby.
And then there is my work, I am working again. That always makes me strong and probably kept me from completely self-destructing many times in my past. It's humbling to realize just how lucky you are to have had the parents and the upbringing you had and how although you thought you were just this little oddball person in a dysfunctional family, you were a budding artist who had your creativity and sanity nurtured by masters.
So here I am, ready for another day of end weaving and embroidering. I'll have more pictures later when the end weaving is done. I am making a lovely brown scarf, in two wonderfully contrasting colors of brown which I'll explain in more depths when I share the picture.
And finally, I still believe in a loving and abundant God and universe and yes Virginia I still believe in my dreams and am feeling strong enough to believe they may actually come true. Have a great day and live your own dreams even if it's only for a moment or two.
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Labels: authenticity, belief, crochet, divorce, Dreams, hand embroidery, piano, strength, universe
Monday, August 27, 2012
Hand-Embroidered Purse
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It's Taking Too Long
Oddly enough that popped up on my email this morning while I was loading Autumn Tree, which is hand embroidery framed in a 3 ½ x 4 ½ in antique frame available through the blog for $65.00. It reminded me that autumn trees are almost upon us and yes my dreams are taking too long.
My dreams are not really taking too long but it is easy to convince yourself that everyone deserves to be an overnight(or several nights) success. But life has a way of happening to us if we don't take charge of our own dreams and our own life, we can sometimes get caught in the mud of other people's expectations for us and yes we disappoint them when we are not overnight successes or on top of things we should be on top of.
I am a free spirited artist who never really held to schedules very well. I have a great capacity to work hard but time management skills are not my forte, therefore I need a lot of inspiration and motivation to do just about anything, including embroider and certainly market myself. So it looks like everything is taking too long, but then you think about all the artists of the world who work so darn hard every single day and never sell a piece of their art it makes me realize I'm not alone. On the other hand I don't want to be one of those posthumous artists whose work sells unbelievably well after they have died. I want to be able to pay my bills with my art. That's it, no posthumous wealth, no million dollar commissions, just pay my bills and yes when you are faced with this job market and no options other than slinging hash or serving it (I'm seriously considering the second option so if you are a restaurateur with a need for a waitress with no experience) art is the answer and yes it is taking too long. Well not really I do have a small nest egg to live off of and a dream.
So you see there it is in a nut shell (a pecan). I am not even good at time management skills when I want to embroider which I love, so how the heck am I ever going to keep up with the kids in McDonalds if it comes to that? I'm not. I wasn't good at keeping up with the kids in Burger King when I was 16 and was called Dining Room Debbie for a reason. So I'm an artist who writes a quirky blog with too many words and I have to figure out a way to make the things I love marketable enough to become a pay my bills success. There probably aren't enough hours in the day to figure those two things out but yet here I am at it again.
I guess I'm just a little melancholy today also, not for the Dining Room Debbie days but for the mom days and my beautiful one and only son is going to be a senior in UAlbany today and this is the first time in his life I didn't make him French toast for the first day (ok sometimes it was the second day) of school. Being his mother was the one thing I was always good at and feeding him was a joy (sometimes I think more for me than him). So forgive me if I look you squarely in the eyes and say yes I know my life is taking too long for me to figure out and you are very disappointed in me, but I'm doing the best I can and would you please give that disappointing person in your own life a hug because they are trying too.
Sometimes we have to look in the mirror and say someday my prince will come, or sometime my prints will sell, or sometime soon I will figure out the meaning of life, but how boring would that be?
Thanks for reading. I am very melancholy and very proud of my one and only son who reminds me even more now that I am not with him every day that he was always the reason I woke up in the morning. Have a great day and remember to be kind to the disappointing in your life.
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Labels: authenticity, children, disappointment, hand embroidery, melancholy, seasons changing, time management
Friday, August 24, 2012
Hello Darkness My Old Friend
This is my latest piece, another tree that has a beautiful little antique frame waiting for it. It's going to be a fall tree with fall approaching. This year has just flown by at such a pace it's amazing that yet another season has passed and a new one is approaching much too quickly.
I am an artist, it is who I am today and who I was at the beginning of the year but it is nice to finally be free enough both physically and mentally to just throw myself into my work and the upcoming holiday season. Yes the upcoming holiday season when the leaves will fall off the trees and snow will fall (perhaps, last year it didn't). I think sometimes when we are artists we expect that life will be perfect and we will figure out the meaning of life and how to pay for it. Sometimes the gray or even black zones take over and we find ourselves swimming upstream against a strong current without even the oar of an embroidery needle handy. That's where I was for much of the year, while I was blogging and waxing metaphorically about being an artist I was a hair away from Vincent Van Gogh (I did manage to keep both my ears though).
Depression for whatever reason is a malady that no one wants to talk about, a secret that must be hidden from the masses hence the happy inspiring work of a hand embroidery artist with dark doors surrounded by light become a silent prayer for one's own sanity to return. Interpersonal relationships left me deeply entrenched behind the dark doors to my own mind only to erupt in the most heartbreaking of ways. I spent a week on the behavioral unit at Glens Falls Hospital.
But as I look back at the week on the behavioral unit I see that I am a lucky soul. I have had one of the most meditative relaxing mediums at my disposal every single day, other artists and ordinary people are not so lucky. The madness becomes overwhelming, they end up in places they cannot comprehend drugged, scared and primally screaming. I guess it is a drawback to being creative that when light is present we are wonderfully productive and wonderfully inspired but when darkness is present we try very hard to keep it hidden and keep our ears on our heads. Many artists deal with depression and frankly who does want to see a piece of art that depicts the anger, hatred and downright toxicity of a marriage gone bad. I guess a writer or a song writer can do more justice to heartbreak then yet another broken heart or even worse a hand embroidered picture of a woman screaming. No one likes the ugly picture of a woman screaming or a man for that matter.
But then again I'm lucky, my week on the behavioral unit was a week in which I met an amazing bunch of people who life has not been kind to, it made me realize just how fortunate I am that one week will probably be my only week, the final straw that made me move forward and out of the prison I had put myself in. It made me realize that for some people behavioral units are a revolving door of drugs, containment and horrors that they will never escape for very long and that even ordinary kind of eccentric hand embroidery artists can lose themselves and find themselves in one short week(or several). It showed me that even people who have lost everything still are valuable members of society and deserve our admiration and prayers for they may not be far from their next behavioral unit but they are strong and resolute and among the living and that too is a gift that many an artist or ordinary person no longer had the strength to endure. So bless them and I hope the lovely people stripped of everything except their hearts of gold will endure and find peace and hope and happiness in the rest of this life or the life that lives beyond.
Thank you to all the artists, writers, musicians and therapists who find a way every day to guide us to the light beyond the dark doors and inspire us to make beautiful uplifting art instead of women screaming. Your gifts that come from your darkness shine a light for the rest of us when we find darkness. If you are an artist and you feel you can't go on another day, please find a way or find the nice soft fall of a behavioral unit where they make sure you are fed, that you sleep, that you are clothed and showered, that you are medicated if you need it and finally that you are alive. Who knows what masterpiece lies in you waiting to be discovered?
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Labels: art, depression, divorce, hand embroidery, mental illness
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Appreciating the Past
I picked this piece to illustrate my point as it is filled with french knots, lovely time consuming, meditative french knots, which can only be done the old fashioned way, one french knot at a time.
We are in an exciting time of technological breakthroughs and we are able to listen to music on our phones, see art on our computers, read books on our Kindles and reach out and touch people through YouTube. But yet I can't help thinking that we have lost something very important with all these technological breakthroughs. We've lost the simplicity of watching Elvis Presley on Ed Sullivan from the waist up, we've lost the feeling of going to a museum and seeing a real Picasso, and we've lost the ability to value the real thing.
Our schools are getting rid of art programs left and right, books and book stores have moved on to the more digital age and I would imagine the school trips to the Metropolitan Opera are now a thing of the past too. It seems perfectly all right in this society to banish art and banish books and music if it doesn't fit into the all too narrow marketplace. We have lost centuries of culture and inspiration while at the same time extoling the nothingness of the Kardashian sisters. They may be interesting to gawk at but cultural icons, hardly. But that is what we as a society have done. We've taken beautiful art and words written by wordsmiths and replaced them with fluffy, prettiness. Gone are the days of Masterpiece Theater and The Twilight Zone, even if they were not your cup of tea, they were interesting and well thought out. Now we have Kim and her ex-basketball playing boyfriend/husband hitting each other (playfully or not) on TV. What happened?
How did Mozart get replaced by Justin Bieber anyway? Justin Bieber has a lovely singing voice and at least we can say that about him but he is simply not interesting enough to have an entire magazine devoted to him. There may even be more than one magazine devoted to his wonderfulness. Meanwhile the beautiful, enduring music of Mozart has been enjoyed for centuries, do you think we'll be able to say that about Bieber? God Bless Him I hope he does cobble out a career that will be remembered by something more than Baby, Baby, Baby.
Millions of artists are being ripped off daily because they are brave enough to put their visual artwork out on the internet in hopes of being discovered and people in other countries are taking their intellectual properties and knocking it off to sell in discount stores all over the world. We are still out here trying to make a difference, trying to remain inspired and be inspiring, but it gets harder every day when all one has to do is look at the newspaper and see garbage masquerading as news. There is a dumbing down that is only possible when you lose the value of an actual Picasso and embrace the generic nature of our society today where it is more normal to look at a Michelangelo on the computer than to visit a museum and see one first hand.
This post came from the early morning listen to beautiful music by Mozart in hopes of staying in bed for another hour or two. It didn't work but did remind me that sometimes technology can keep us firmly rooted in both today and yesterday and that it doesn't have to be a never-ending journey in mediocrity. Please support the arts and music and literature in school. Keep the libraries, bookstores, and record shops open. Go see an uplifting inspirational film in a movie theater and go see a Picasso in person in a museum. Even if the only way we see a Picasso is on the computer at least Picasso will be around in a couple of centuries, Kim Kardashian won't. Thanks for reading.
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Labels: arts, flufff, hand embroidery, literature, music, technology
Sunday, August 19, 2012
A Simple Man
A Simple Man is a song by Lynard Skynard. It's one of my favorites and reflects the outlook I have on life today. All anyone wants in life is to be accepted and driven by what they love. I love hand embroidering, crocheting and spinning a yarn. That is what I wake up every morning hoping to somehow reflect out into the world.
I am truly starting over. There is no backward motion anymore. The time has come to put one foot in front of the other, put the pedal to the metal and try to follow my dream wherever it may lead me. The last week has been incredible. I have so many more possibilities at the end of the week than I had in the desperation of having to find a place to live by yesterday (or seven yesterdays). I have a great roommate/landlord named Richard, a man who has followed his dreams through several incarnations and is about to embark on another one. I have a son who is learning how to live with me a little further away and becoming more independent and making me so proud of who he has become. I have a bunch of artistic opportunities underneath my belt from my previous life and I have a whole bunch of artistic opportunities waiting for me in every direction in my new life. I have my heart, my mind, and my soul waiting to be expressed.
I am a hand embroidery artist, it is a very slow medium but one that has served me extremely well over the years. It's a simple yet complicated medium. Writing is simple and complicated also. A writer has to write enough words to be interesting and yet reign themselves in as to not become a bore. It's a fine line I'm still learning. This is who I am, a meandering trail of thread with a bunch of loose ends who somehow manages to keep it all together no matter how tangled life becomes. That is what being a simple woman means to me.
So now that I am a simple independent woman I can't spend quite as much time bloviating and must spend more time being an artist, finding some income and writing a few interesting things about life and seeing where all of it takes me. It's not easy, it's kind of complicated but as Lynard Skynard says it's something to love and understand. Either I have a dream or I don't. Either I go for it or I don't. Either it reflects who I am or it doesn't. It's time to figure that all out and fly. See you tomorrow (or later).
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Taking Care of Business
Richard has told me it is a lovely ride and closer than Saratoga. Every time I venture out from Whitehall I am floored by the beauty and tranquility of this beautiful place I am now calling home. The beauty of the mountains, the centering nature of Whitehall and the idea that you can drive a 1/2 hour in every direction and find beauty and peace is just amazing.
There are a lot of business opportunities for anyone so inclined, I myself am trying to decide whether I am so inclined. Part of me says yes in a heartbeat and the other side says as much as I love it here will I still love it months from now. Time will tell. In the meantime I am doing the artist thing and loving it.
Taking care of business is my mantra for the day. Working on this piece(and the new scarf I bought yarn for yesterday), getting some lamps and t shirts so I don't have to go to the laundromat quite so often although my embroidery loves the laundromat and just trying to take care of myself. I slept 3 or 4 hours in a row so even that is getting better. Taking Care of Business is a song by Bachman Turner Overdrive.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
It's a Beautiful Day
The sun is shining on the water, I made some great eggs, and I've been embroidering for hours. What could be more beautiful? I don't have any pictures to share my phone is upstairs and I am in the galley room. It looks like a galley, I'll have to ask if that was the intention or not. The house is built on the water which I found fascinating really. I find everything about this place fascinating. One of the cats disappeared for hours only to be found somehow under a bench next to the kitchen. It was wild and woolly but all's well that ends well.
I took a ride to Cambridge yesterday and the ride is even more beautiful from up north than it is from down south. Beautiful mountain views, farms, green everywhere. Just took my breath away. Every time I venture out in my car I am in awe of the countryside and Richard(my landlord) says the view up north outshines them all, I don't even know how that is possible.
The sleep patterns are getting slightly better. I'm sleeping more, not really more hours in a row, but more sleep on the whole. I'm feeling so much better and so much more peaceful. Hardly any anxiety at all and considering where I've been the last few weeks I think that is unbelievable (but true none the less).
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Labels: hand embroidery, upstate ny, Valley Artisans Market
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
In the Still of the Night
Hence the powers that be and my insurance company decided not quite. So I started the week of hotel, which was ultra cool having a jacuzzi and a really cool bathtub to soak in. And somehow in desperation and a realization that I couldn't live at home(I think I can visit and probably be a friend to the experience but I can't live in my old home) I answered a listing on Craig'slist and ended up overlooking some water, eating ganache on my birthday and marveling in the still of the night about how the heck did I exactly end up here now.
I've started to sleep again, not straight through but more and more each night. I've started to embroider again, more than I have in months, I've started to dream again and I looked out the window last night in the darkness to see lights shimmering on the canal and realized I may not be here forever but this is where I am supposed to find myself in the moment. I have a new friend who is a chef, hence the ganache. I found some vintage fabrics, hence the upcoming pillows and hearts. I found myself as an artist and I found peace. Honest to goodness peace with being myself and hoping for the best again. And yet I still don't really understand how I ended up with a room overlooking water, with a trusty dog and a bunch of trusty cats and a friend all in the blink of an eye. In a place where you can buy vintage fabric. Do you know how hard it is to buy good vintage anything anymore?
I'm going to go shower and clear my head and start my day, back to CP to see my son, see my therapist and contemplate what to bring with me to my new home. Have a great day and I'll see you later on Facebook or here with some pictures of work instead of my great new view. Deb
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Labels: finding oneself, friendship, hand embroidery, history, peace, vintage fabric.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Good Day Sunshine
I am still at a crossroads in my life, as lovely as Whitehall is it is not the destination of my dreams but it could be the destination of anybody with a dream. There is so much freakin opportunity here it is teeming all over town, maybe teeming the wrong word to use but bursting out is more accurate.
Everywhere you look there is a vacant building waiting to be moved into. An artist coop(my personal favorite), a book store, a record store, a yoga studio. Any kind of dream is available here. I would love to come back here in a couple of years and find all those things and more right here in Whitehall. But first I have to leave, not quite yet but I'm going to be doing mini roadtrips in every direction and see if there is a dream waiting for me somewhere along the path I'm traveling. Everywhere you look there is a mountain and I will find them and then come home to sleep. If and when I can ever get some sleep. For those who care(and there are a few) I am not sleeping through but sleeping more.
Obviously this is the piece I'm working on and Good Day Sunshine is a song by Paul McCartney. I know grammatically this blog post was a slog but whatever. Have a great day !
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Labels: birthday, hand embroidery, starting over
Saturday, August 11, 2012
A New Beginning
A view like this.
A meal like this.
A trusty dog.
Ok so I was freakin out 2 hours ago because I am in my new apartment. I am here alone(hopefully that's not a mistake to say so). My landlord/roommate had to work, I am locked out of my room and can't figure out how to turn the lights on in the room I'm in now. So what else would Debbie do but panic. But DebraAnn looked out the window(after panicking) realized the lodge across the street was having a chicken barbeque and ate. Drank a little wine. Ok and whined a little too. And realized I have a big old couch a tv and a really good air conditioner(not to mention a sweet as pie dog) on this very hot day and am thankful for the new opportunity. I'm sure my new landlord/roommate will come back for his dog and 4 cats. Yes he likes cats and has 4 of them because he can't stand the thought of euthanizing them. He's a chef and a bartender although I had to wing it earlier when I made lunch on the industrial size stove. Which was an experience all by itself, lighting pilot lights and being a big girl all by myself. I'm ok and very tired so I'm sitting on the couch getting ready to lie down and sleep out the darkness with the tv keeping me company. I hope you are all well. I'll have something more insightful and embroidered tomorrow(as my embroidery is in the locked room). By the way had a great trek to Vermont which is literally only about 10 minutes away. Feel really good about this. Deb.
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Labels: bravery, dog, embroidery, new beginning, Vermont(I love Vermont)
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Composition in photography and using the "Rule of Thirds"
Traditionalists will tell you to follow the "rule of thirds" This rule says that the image should be split into nine imaginary parts by two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines. The important compositional elements (or photo subject) should then be placed along these lines on their intersections. (the red ares of the diagram)
Rule Of Thirds
.Proponents of this technique claim that aligning a subject with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition rather than simply centering the subject. For a more detailed explanation of the rule of thirds check out this link to
Remember though that composition in photography is a very personalized thing and you don't have to follow this rule, in fact many non traditional photographers choose not to. Think of your viewfinder as a canvas and decide, along with our subject, what to include, what to partially include and what to leave out entirely. Partialy included objects can create intrigue causing the viewer to wonder what is just outside the photo.
Hidden Reflections
The theme of this photograph on the left was reflections. It is a good example of having a partially included object in the photo to create or add interest. The boat itself was to large to include fully in the photo, but by partially including it extra reflections that are not immediately obvious are added to the photo. The extra reflections of the river and trees run along the side of the boat.
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As well as not getting close enough to your subject the opposite can also be true. A good example of this would be the photo on the right. The photo creates interest by having the dual reflections contained within the glass of water. This effectively creates a picture within a picture that encourages the viewer to look closely at the detail within the photo. However in this case less is definitely not more as the bottom of the glass is missing. Had the photo been taken from just a few inches further back the entire glass could have been included in the photograph also.
The bottom line
The bottom line then is that composition in photography is individual to the photographer taking the photo. Remember the rule of thirds if you think it does in fact add to your photo. Don't distract from your main subject by giving giving it too small a canvas area or including clutter. Try to create mood by the use of different lighting. Try to intrigue people by maybe creating a picture within a picture that has to be found. Try to create interest by rewarding the person viewing the photo more as they look more closely into it. .


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The FDA has finally approved apixaban (Eliquis, Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer) to reduce the risk of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. The action comes after the widely-anticipated drug had been plagued by delays at the FDA but well before the PDUFA deadline of March 17, 2013. Eliquis is the latest member of the new generation of oral anticoagulants, which also includes dabigatran (Pradaxa, Boehringer Ingelheim) and rivaroxaban (Xarelto, Johnson & Johnson).
The FDA said that apixaban should not be taken by patients with prosthetic heart valves or by patients with AF caused by a heart valve problem. (Recently the FDA added a contraindication to the dabigatran label against using the drug in patients with mechanical heart valves.) The FDA said that the most serious risk associated with apixaban, as with other anticoagulants, is bleeding, including life-threatening and fatal bleeding. Patients taking apixaban will receive a patient Medication Guide. The FDA is advising health care professionals to counsel patients about the signs of symptoms of possible bleeding.
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A disaster of unprecedented proportions has just occurred. Canada is in a position to show leadership and respond very strongly in support of those affected. That leadership should start from your office.
The Canadian Forces has the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) on standby, but the call isn't coming. This team of 200 personnel is specifically configured and mandated to assist in situations like what is occurring around the Indian Ocean. They are sitting idly by, while other nations and other Non-Governmental Organizations are taking the lead. The $4 million that Minister Graham announced is a drop in the bucket, and we should be providing hands-on assistance, as well as a lot more money. To be sure, Canadians are responding individually, but leadership at a higher level seems to be missing.
The excuse that deploying DART would cost money that could be better utilized by on-site national agencies is only partly true. The cost figures quoted, when government is trying to justify inaction, include things like salaries and other fixed costs that will be paid whether DART deploys or not. The real reason that we are in our now-customary role of dithering is much more fundamental. We simply can't get there from here, because that capability has been allowed to wither, and it would be another international embarrassment to show how weak we have really become.
Our strategic airlift capability is virtually non-existent. Our fleet of 32 C-130 Hercules, which are not even strategic airlifters, can muster only 6 - 8 serviceable aircraft on most days. It would take several dozen C-130 chalks to deploy DART, depending on the destination. We have been embarrassed in the past, when even small-scale deployments have been aborted due to lack of serviceable aircraft.
Our strategic sealift capability consists of two supply ships, overdue for replacement, and several smaller warships, not designed for the task of personnel, equipment and supply transport. All are over-committed, in any event, and are not available to respond in a timely manner.
Your government continues to pretend to support the requirements of the Canadian Forces. At times like this, the truth will out, and we are again embarrassed on the world stage. The many Canadians who are working and contributing selflessly in response to this disaster (and others) have nothing to be embarrassed about. I can't say the same for our nation, as a whole, and the buck stops at the PMO. Sir, you can fix this, in playing a larger role in the current crisis and in being able to respond more appropriately in the future.
If it's not possible to get DART to where they're needed today on Canadian Forces aircraft, find a way to get them there on someone else's. I suspect that most readily available aircraft are already being hired, but we should try. The deployment of DART, and a lot more money, would demonstrate some national leadership and will that used to be our hallmark, and which we have lost.
Please stop pretending and actually fund the Canadian Forces requirements in the areas of strategic airlift and strategic sealift. This will take several years but, like so many overdue programs, they simply have to start immediately. You may recall that a previous Minister of National Defence, John McCallum, quietly cancelled the strategic airlift program. I doubt that he did that alone. You may also recall that potential new strategic sealift assets were misrepresented as traditional aircraft carriers during the last federal election. I understand the politics of that, but it is counter-productive to what should be our national objectives.
Also, please have someone look at an out-of-the-box supplementary solution of agreements with airlines and shipping companies to treat their equipment and crews as national assets in times of emergency. They could be under contract to National Defence or Foreign Affairs on a cost-recovery basis and fill in gaps that cannot be covered by National Defence capability.
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Another political standoff in Washington appears to be over. Senate Majority leader Harry Reid announced Thursday that lawmakers have agreed to approve an emergency budget for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Due to a partisan budget issue, more than 4,000 FAA workers were out of work for the last two weeks -- waiting for Congress to pass the aviation authority's budget.
Laid off worker Patricia Henn accused lawmakers of leaving Washington for the summer without approving their checks. "Congress did fail to pass our authorization. We rely on Congress to authorize the FAA to do our job," Henn said.
At issue was a plan to cut government subsidies and union bargaining rights at rural airports. Republicans argued the cuts would save the government $16 million dollars a year. But Democrats said the plan unfairly targeted small communities. Besides lost wages, estimates show the standoff cost the government $30 million a day in lost airline taxes.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood practically begged lawmakers this week to come back. "Come back to Washington! Leave your vacations just for a couple of hours! Come back Congress, help your friends and neighbors get back to work," he said.
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"Everyone wants to play hardball and the hardball hurt us," said Tim Rickford, a Cleveland airport worker.
While few details are available, the budget compromise comes after increasing pressure from President Barack Obama.
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I have a 27 year old daughter with Cri Du Chat Syndrome. Several months ago, she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. She is currently very stable on 6 units of insulin in the morning. Her first HBA1c was 9.3 and her most recent one 6.6. Management is not a serious issue at present although her severe skin-picking is likely to become a more serious one in the future.
Have you seen or heard of another person with Type 1 Diabetes or perhaps even Type 2 who also has Cri Du Chat syndrome? I know it does occur in Down's syndrome since one of the friends she live with in a residential home, has Down's and is a Type 1 diabetic but this was so unexpected.
I am the Co-ordinator of the support group in Australia for this syndrome and am eventually going to get questions from parents who know us and although I have made enquiries with the major groups in other countries around the world and some of the people who carry out research into this syndrome and none have seen this before, I must satisfy myself as far as possible that it is unrelated so that I can reassure them. I am reluctant to post this to our own message board or in the chatroom for fear of worrying parents already dealing with a severely challenging syndrome, especially since it is not a condition reported as occurring with Cri Du Chat.
So far as I can find out the Cri du Chat Syndrome carries no special vulnerability to Type 1A or autoimmune diabetes. The Cri du Chat Syndrome is associated with a deletion on the short arm of chromosome 5 and susceptibility to autoimmune disorders is conferred by specific patterns for MHC antigens on the short arm of chromosome 6.
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The Upper School Seattle Academy Red Shift Robotics Team (Tesseract 2856) is set to compete this weekend, March 10-12, 2017 in the FTC West Super-Regionals Championship at the Tacoma Convention Center. It's been an amazing competition season for students on Team Tesseract 2856 who are coming off a First Washington State Championship victory back in February securing their spot in this weekend's championship. Learn more about the 2016-17 FTC game rules here
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28th July 2007 @ Takki's hometown, Hachioji, Japan.
We arranged to meet at the station in the morning, and got some パン so that we could eat on the train. We were supposed to alight at Yamada station. Funniest thing was: When we already REACHED Yamada station, NONE OF US got off the train! ^^ Instead, the 3 of them started talking about Yamadataro Monogatari lol~~~ until the train moved off, and I saw the signboard "Yamada" moving away from us… then it hit us!! LOLOLOL~
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By: Kristie Chipera
Walking through show rooms, tasting some of the food featured in Better Homes and Gardens, touring agencies and sitting down with advertising and public relations professionals is an experience not granted to many preparing to enter into this industry. However, the opportunity to do so was granted to the University of Iowa's PRSSA members and was just one of the many advantages students from the organization were able to experience this past semester.
Sixteen PRSSA members seized the chance on November 9 and traveled to Des Moines to visit five of the top public relations agencies in the area. These agencies included Innova Ideas and Services, Two Rivers Marketing, Flynn Wright, Hanser and Associates Public Relations, and The Meredith Corporation.
"You are all lucky to visit so many agencies. I had no clue what an agency was when I started as an intern," said Jessica Moffitt, account service representative at Two Rivers Marketing.
With bagels in hand, the day started out at Innova Ideas and Services. The agency, whose portfolio includes the Fight Like a Girl brand, also specializes in crisis communication and issues management.
"Whether you're in PR or marketing, you can no longer talk at your audience. You have to talk with them," said Nicole Torstenson, director of strategic marketing and public relations at Innova Ideas and Services.
PRSSA members saw a presentation that tackled topics such as the ways Innova stays ahead of the game by preparing for a number of possible scenarios that their clients may encounter. Each situation is assigned a detailed strategy outlining the best response for crisis communication. The presentation was followed by a tour of the agency's modern space before heading off to the next company.
Two Rivers Marketing makes its home in a 32,000 square foot industrial style building, originally constructed in 1935 as a General Motors parts warehouse. Many of their clients are largely industrial based and unlike many other agencies, Two Rivers Marketing has a space that offers a symbolic connection to their clients, such as John Deere and Vermeer.
Their workspaces group staff by the clients they work with, separating pods by distance, rather than walls. The employees truly do immerse themselves into their clients' businesses and their products. They know the importance of being knowledgeable of their clients and are aware that while maintaining their clients' social media accounts, they must become experts in the company and its products, as well as the industry.
PRSSA members learned just how dedicated the employees are to their clients, going as far as learning the trades first-hand by taking classes and even learning how to operate their clients' machinery.
PRSSA stopped next at an agency whose large glass paneling overlooks Des Moines' Sculpture Park.
Flynn Wright is a small agency. Its size allows their employees, who all bring something different to the table, to grow individually while relying on each other's strengths to move the company forward. With clients, ranging from Dunkin Donuts to Mediacom, one of the agency's primary objectives is to research the best ways to reach a client's customers.
After a tour and overview of the modern and colorful agency, students were left with a bit of reassuring advice before heading to the next company.
"Don't feel like you need to have all the answers," said Mara White, director of public relations.
Flynn Wright may qualify as a small agency, but across the city, Hanser and Associates took the prize for the smallest company of the day. The family-run firm may have just six employees, but it is Iowa's leading public relations firm and has taken the "Best" or "Runner-up" awards as "Best Public Relations Firm" in Central Iowa for 11 years standing.
They handle between six to 12 clients at a time and concentrates largely on healthcare and financial services, although Megabus is one of their largest clients.
Back across town at the last tour of the day, PRSSA members were able to get a rare behind-the-scenes look at the Meredith Corporation. It is the leading media and marketing company serving American Women whose publications include Ladies' Home Journal and Better Homes and Gardens.
The tour included walking through halls covered with a timeline of the many magazines of Meredith Corporation, stepping into their model kitchen, peering into showrooms, and even sampling food baked and photographed for a magazine spread. Students were in awe, not only of Meredith's large building, but the vast number of props and sets within the facility to be used throughout the year for different photo shoots.
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Bruderheim School is now closed for the summer break
Our office will reopen on Aug. 27, 2018.
If you have questions about registration, call the school office when we reopen. If you have any other school-related questions, contact the Central Administration office at Elk Island Public Schools at 780-464-3477.
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Kindergarten classes start Tuesday, September 4
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Haven't registered for the 2018-19 school year yet? That's ok, there's still time. Simply complete the New Student Registration Form. For tips on filling out the form, see How to Register a New Student.
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If you're a parent, or know of a parent, who needs help purchasing school supplies, we can help. EIPS has once again partnered with the United Way for the 2018-19 Tools for School campaign. Annually, Tools for School provides backpacks filled with school supplies to students in kindergarten to Grade 12 whose families have limited resources. When classes resume, the backpacks are respectfully distributed to students who've order them. To place an order, contact the EIPS Central Administration office at 780-464-3477.
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Families are invoiced for school fees at the beginning of every school year. Fees are due within 30 days of the invoice date. The simplest, and most convenient, way to pay schools fees is by logging in to the PowerSchool Parent Portal and clicking on "Student Fees." If circumstances exist where you are unable to pay your students fees, you can apply to have fees waived by submitting an Application for a Waiver of Fees.
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All families using EIPS Student Transportation services for the 2018-19 school year have received a tentative route schedule and the applicable invoice—transportation fees can be paid online by logging into the PowerSchool Parent Portal or at the EIPS Student Transportation office.
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Sherwood Park, AB. — Costs of school supplies can be significant for families, particularly if more than one child is attending school. In recognition of that fact, Elk Island Public Schools (EIPS) has consulted with schools throughout…
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Sherwood Park, AB. — During the summer break, June 29 to August 27, all schools within Elk Island Public Schools (EIPS) will be closed. The Central Administration office building will remain open throughout the summer to complete…
EIPS Students Combine Coding with Creativity at Second Annual Coding Quest Arcade
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Some clarifications on the cloggers post from yesterday: I never meant to say that a critic-blogger is inherently a clogger — there is some fine and passionate film writing out there on the Internet that deserves to be read. So when FilmBrain asks, "Do you trust a review from Manohla Dargis or Jonathan Rosenbaum based on where they're published, or from years of reading them?" Of course, the answer is because of their years of experience — and if that experience exists strictly online, so be it. But most cloggers out there don't have that track record.
FilmBrain also notes, "Many of the better 'cloggers' have been writing for some time — long enough to decide if you trust them or not as critics." That maybe so, and my problem isn't with veterans, but the increasing proliferation of amateurs who might not have the cinematic knowledge to adequately review a film.
The fact is that there are dozens of print critics who appear on Rotten Tomatoes who I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot poll, but then again, their opinions are determining a film's "tomatometer," which other people are then reading or re-publishing, giving a badly skewed overall picture of a film's worth. The same is happening online and in greater numbers. Because, as we all know at the Thanksgiving dinner table, everyone's a critic.
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A comprehensive socio-economic investigation into the issue of farmer suicides in Maharashtra by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences finds that while the victims hailed from diverse class, caste and income categories, the reasons for their poverty and indebtedness were remarkably similar
A new survey on farmer suicides in Maharashtra by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai has come up with a far greater estimate of farm deaths in the state than previously cited, either by the state government or by media reports. The survey found that 644 farmers committed suicide in Vidarbha, Marathwada and Khandesh regions of the state between January 2001 and December 2004. Worse, only 20% of the suicide victims' families received any compensation from the Maharashtra government. The TISS survey has cited government apathy, the absence of a safety net for farmers, and lack of access to information related to agriculture as the chief causes for the desperate condition of farmers in the state.
Widely regarded as the most comprehensive survey on farmer suicides (it relied on both primary and secondary data), the survey focussed largely on socio-economic variables such as family composition, education, history of agriculture, cropping pattern, landholding, input costs incurred, expected output, holding capacity, history of loans taken by the head of the household and causes for taking the loans, mental state of the person, addictions, and any other information the family wished to share.
Acting on a public interest petition filed by the All India Biodynamic and Organic Farming Association, in December 2004, the Bombay High Court requested the TISS to submit a report on possible causes for the suicides.
A team from the TISS's rural campus in Tuljapur, Osmanabad district, spent eight weeks in 12 districts in the three regions of the state reported to have witnessed the largest number of suicides in early 2005. It investigated 36 of the 644 cases of suicide, studying their causes and the reasons for the desperate state of farmers. The TISS submitted its findings to the high court in March 2005.
"Just getting the total number of deaths that have occurred in the past few years was a tedious task. We arrived at the final number of 644 after extensive cross-checking in the field," says Ajay Dandekar, who led the survey team. The government did not have all the figures, and the data it had seemed far too conservative. The team's correspondence with district collectors asking for figures and details of deaths was either met with silence or, as in the two cases where it did receive some information, proved wrong on cross-checking, Dandekar adds.
Key findings of the TISS survey:
While discussing the links between farmer suicides and the larger economic scenario, the TISS report observes that heavy rural indebtedness is not a phenomenon that came about overnight but one that has its roots in the credit policy being followed by the country over time. With the decline in investment in agriculture, there is a direct shortfall in credit given to cultivators. This is clear from the Planning Commission's Tenth Plan documents -- total investment in the agricultural sector as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) declined from 1.6% in 1994 to 1.3% in 2001. Also, allocation to agriculture and allied sectors from the total outlay for the Five-Year Plans has fallen from 14.9% during the First Plan to 5.2% during the Tenth Plan.
Field data suggests that crops have failed repeatedly over the past four years. This was not entirely due to the failure of the monsoons. It occurred also because of a reduction in land productivity owing to overuse of fertilisers and pesticides, and the reliance on hybrid seeds and, to some extent, genetically modified seeds such as BT cotton. "Thus crop failure becomes a cyclical phenomenon and not a one-time occurrence," the report says.
Moreover, regions where suicides have occurred have little irrigation. Almost 60% of irrigation projects cater to western parts of Maharashtra that produce sugarcane and account for just 30% of the total area under agriculture in the state.
In its final recommendations to the high court, the report suggests that a compensation of Rs 2.5 lakh be given immediately to each of the bereaved families. It recommends the constitution of a committee comprising experts in the field, activists and government officials to distribute the funds.
Since the investigations revealed that the suicides were not properly recorded and investigated by the government, the report suggests that a team put together a list of the deaths. It requests the court to direct government insurance agencies to create an insurance safety net assuring a minimum life support system to cultivators.
The report asks the court to instruct the state to provide information about cultivation to farmers through e-networks. It says the government must be told to propagate alternative low-cost organic farming in these areas through its agencies and voluntary organisations.
The report concludes: "Any relief is a short-term measure. Long-term measures should be the rehabilitation of a system, in this case the agrarian production system itself." Until the Indian government overhauls its agricultural policies, the situation will not improve, says the report. It suggests that the high court direct the central government to frame policies that encourage marginal and small farmers, as millions of them have no livelihood options outside the agricultural sector. These policies must support cultivation so that farmers stay out of the debt trap. The report recommends that the court make the Indian government party to the present suit so that it is forced to take cognisance of the magnitude of the problem.
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