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Black Mountain College: nd. 12 x 16" sheet (image size approximately 8 x 10 1/2"), ink and gouche on paper. Signed by the artist at the lower right hand corner. Provenance: from the collection of Robert Creeley, with his ownership signature at verso, as well as the phrase "Black Mountain College EE-UU." Acquired from Creeley by Serendipity Books, with Peter Howard's notes at verso of plastic frame (not pictured).
A striking and unusual painting by the Black Mountain College artist and important member of the faculty, who taught there from 1946 until 1957. The attribution of the work to Black Mountain College in Creeley's ownership signature is significant in that most of Fiore's work from that era was destroyed in a 1953 fire, and the surviving work were collages - making this a rare survivor of his painting work from the BMC period.
The crude matte is heavily creased, and there is a small closed tear to the sheet at upper right margin, not affecting image, and some light additional creasing, but the image is clean and pigments remain bright. Item #26052
Price: $1,250.00


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- In Angels 2200, Quetz ends up asking this to herself. When Hammer sneaks into her hospital room to check on her, Quetz rather than being appreciative or even concerned for Hammer, contemplates pressing the call button on her bed to summon help in an attempt to get Hammer caught and removed as commander of Icebreaker Squad, unaware that they already know she's in here because of surveillance cameras. Hammer talks Quetz down by telling her that if she betrays her, no one in Icebreaker will want to follow her. Quetz then questions herself as to why she didn't press the button, and ultimately concludes that it's because she wants to belong.
- Arthur, King of Time and Space: Morgan of Gore, aka Morgan la Fey, Arthur's half-sister the would-be usurper asks herself one in the science fiction arc.
- The Beast Legion , when Master Surya asks Xeus, whether he'd last for two blinks against Dragos.
- Darths & Droids: While Obi-Wan and Yoda are discovering the Jedi Temple massacre:Ben: Sally, this is serious. You need to play it seriously.
Sally: Just because you do everything Dad tells you to!
Ben: What? No I don't!
Sally: Why are you studying medicine then?!
- In Dubious Company Sal accidentally does this by saying: "Of course I have a home. Doesn't everybody?" By the looks on Walter, Tiren, and Elly's faces, those words were devastating.
- In Evon, in response to Hero protesting that his feelings for Evon are strictly professional, his friend Felvis asks him if that's the case, why is he still with Evon, protecting her, since the job she originally hired him for (retrieving her father's spellbook) was long since done.
- Freefall: This is all it takes for Florence to finally catch a break in her quest to save Jean - because Rousseau Was Right.Florence: Have you met Mr. Kornada?
Mr. Raibert: Yes. Hmm... Yes. It is possible that we have a problem here.
- It may be subjective, as it's an all-caps comic, but there seemed to be an undertone of intense worry there; "Yes! Of course the glass plates we're eating off of are clean. We use only the finest window cleaner on them... Oh, Crap!."
- In Girl Genius, as Tarvek prepares to escape Sturmhalten with Lucrezia-Agatha, inadvertently asks one of these of her. "It's difficult, leaving... all this behind, not knowing when I'll return. You ever get like that?" He doesn't see her reaction, but the expression on her face is one of the few times we see a real emotion on Lucrezia's face.
- Homestuck: Rose actually renders Dave Strider speechless.TT: Have you ever looked into the sky without your shades?
- When Terezi starts sharing her concerns and doubts with Dave, he is unsure how to respond. He finally asks "Do you want me to tell you to be a better human or a better troll?" She avoids actually answering the question.
- Parodied when Rose and Dave finally meet the trolls in person. With most of them acting like idiots, an embarrassed Terezi claims they're usually cooler than this. Dave asks "are you really?" and after a moment she admits no, they really aren't.
- Lil Hal springs one of these on Dirk when the latter is attempting to kill him.TT: I am scared to not exist.
TT: Aren't you?
- Gaia: King Savos has one for Gaia's chosen, San de Vertis:King Savos: "Has it crossed your mind that you may also be one of Eldors magic machines instead of Gaias chosen one?"
- The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: After Galatea outlines her latest plans for conquest, Bob asks, "And that'll make things better?" She starts to answer, realizes she can't think of an answer, stops silent, and then asks dejectedly (he has done similar stunts to her before), "How do you do that?'' Bob: "Hm? Oh, I dunno. You O.K.?" Galatea: "Yes."
- Ménage à 3: Kiley to Sonya. "So how long have you had these latent homosexual urges?" Other characters also pull similar stunts; see the notes on the comic.
- Nedroid has a perfect example in this comicRabbit: Maybe everything is invisible and you're the only one who can see it.
- The Order of the Stick Hallucination/ghost Shojo sets Belkar up for his Crowning Moment of Awesome with the question, "What are you?"."Is that all you are? A race and a class? Another forgettable mix-and-match player character? If you die, will another halfling ranger just happen to show up to take your place? Then what ARE you?"
Elan: I was thinking. Why would Roy LIKE like a girl who is so mean to his friends, and I can't figure it out. Unless you like her more than us. Is that it, Roy? Do you like Miko more than you like me?
- During the "No Cure for the Paladin Blues" arc, Elan asks Roy why he likes Miko. What makes this noteworthy is that since her introduction, most of the team have been vocal about her displeasure of her, but Roy manages to shrug off or ignore their complaints. Then comes Elan who flat-out asks Roy why he like-likes her and Roy can only come up with her being attractive and of the same alignnment before Elan uses simple logic to come up to a potential conclusion and then a question that Roy cannot answer... He's actually happy they're attacked before he could answer.
- Questionable Content has a minor version of this:Raven: Are you always this mean to people you barely even know?
Faye: I am not... uh, I mean, not to every- I'm just- it's... Goddammit, I've been flummoxed by someone with the IQ of a herring.
- Slightly Damned: Without quite realizing it, Sammy asks Kieri to think about Buwaro's feelings for her, and their recent falling out. The question... stings.
- Spina Cage: "Hasn't anyone ever depended on you?" seems to be one for Joven.
- At the start of Three Apples, Applejack tries to cheer up her little sister by explaining that Cutie Marks mean more than simply their appearance. Apple Bloom then asks what AJ's mark stands for, throwing her sister for a bit of a loop.Apple Bloom: So what's three apples?
Applejack: Pardon.
Apple Bloom: Your three apples. What does that make you— ripe?
- In the second act, Apple Bloom hits her with a harder one by asking, "Does anybody like you, Applejack? \ Are you anyone's favorite?"
- In Serenity Rose, this is done three times in as many pages when we're shown excerpts from the documentary "American Gothic"; The creator of a trashy, unoriginal comic is asked how many goth comics he's actually read after he continually derides them, the bassist of a goth/punk band is asked whether every fashion statement has to be political after she repeatedly rails against teenage girls who only subscribe to the lifestyle superficially, and nihilistic maniac superstar Rivet Hed is simply told straight up that "In the 16th century, they burned people like you at the stake."
- Nebula: After a long argument trying to get Saturn to agree to hand over their moons, Uranus finally demands to know what would happen if they just reached out and took the moons, if Saturn would actually try and stop them. After a long, tense moment, Saturn admits that no, they probably wouldn't.
- In the lore of Kill Six Billion Demons, the Hot-Blooded goddess Aesma poses one of these to YISUN, the Top God who created the universe, and it's remembered as the only time in existence that YISUN hesitated. When YISUN tells her in typical gnomic fashion that the universe is not a self-evident truth, she pitches a fit and asks "Then what is it?""My opinion", said YISUN, finally.
- Megatokyo: Just as Miho's about to crash headlong over the Despair Event Horizon following the horde attacking her at school and seemingly killing Piro in the process, Kimiko stops her short with a question that causes Miho to question her entire perspective regarding the futility of fighting against her "story", which has killed and resurrected her countless times over the years.
- Stand Still, Stay Silent: The hostile ghosts stalking the crew with the intent of harming them and their loved ones due to the pent-up frustration from being Barred from the Afterlife ends up of the receiving end of "Aren't you tired?".
- In Season 3 of Survivor: Fan Characters, a livid Montana is about to dump the tribe's supplies into the fire after the other contestants unexpectedly voted out her best friend N over her, until Violet asks her if N would want her to throw away her chances of winning just to get revenge which causes her to reconsider.
- Zarla's Handplates'verse gives us Sans asking one of those to Gaster.Sans: Did you ever enjoy it?
W.D. Gaster: Excuse me?
Sans: Did you ever enjoy hurting us?
W.D. Gaster: ...I do what I have to do.
Sans: That's not an answer... But it's the only one you got, isn't it?
- In the MLP fan comic Trixie Vs, Trixie is visited by The Ghost of Hearts Warming Eve multiple years in a row, to the point that the ghost is forced to resort to showing Trixie the Ponyville of a world where she was never born, which looks exactly the same as the Ponyville from her world and asking her:Ghost: Ok, so you say Trixie is the biggest thing to ever happen to Ponyville, right?
Trixie: Without a doubt!
Ghost: But in a world without Trixie Ponyville is no different. One minus zero is still one. Ponyville minus Trixie is still Ponyville. Do you understand what that means?
- Tower of God: At the Name Hunt Station, Baam has to fight "Kaiser", who runs the place in an unending quest to make amends to her family, who showed her a lot of love until the point she failed their expectations and then abandoned her. Now, she lives by stealing the names of others and making them her servants or ransoming them off; the money goes to her family, who are deliberately not using it to pay off the debt that would free her. Baam asks her whether she remembers the names of the family she so fervently serves, and she replies that of course she does. Then he asks her whether she remembers her own name, and the realisation that she doesn't makes her see the absurdity of the whole thing.
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Discussion in 'GBAtemp & Scene News' started by lagman, Aug 1, 2008.
Anyone know anything about this one? Cool cover...all it needs is a hand next to the balls (or a little blood) and it's a cool baseball murder mystery.
EDIT: Meh...remake of/sequel to GBA game...looks a lot like MLB Power Pros in the RPG mode, to me. Couldn't find any info on the DS version, though.


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Kid gets hot sauce instead of ketchup, girl doesn't want to see her shadow, ice-covered home and a friendly snowball fight. Those are the stories trending on March 15.
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Countries move forward on cybercrime treaty
STRASBOURG, FRANCE, 11 MARCH 2009 - Countries are ratifying the only global cybercrime treaty slower than expected, but many are closer to implementing it, a senior Council of Europe official said Wednesday.
The Convention on Cybercrime, adopted in 2001, defines legal guidelines for countries seeking to establish effective laws against computer crime. The Council of Europe (COE), an organization composed of 47 European countries, has spearheaded a drive to help countries either create computer crime laws or bring existing ones in line with the treaty.
So far 24 countries have ratified it, with Germany being the latest one earlier this week. Twenty-three others have signed it but not ratified it. The COE was hoping that as many as 40 countries would have ratified it by the year, but the pace has been slower than expected, said Alexander Seger, head of the COE's economic crime division.
"When we look at every single case, there is an explanation," Seger said during an interview Wednesday at the COE's International Conference on Cybercrime in Strasbourg, France. "On the other hand, I also believe countries should have made stronger efforts."
There are other reasons. One is that countries must have fully implemented laws complying with the treaty before they can sign it, Seger said. That's different from other international treaties, where countries can often sign on before complying, he said.
It means that nations must first revise their own laws, a process that takes time and can be disrupted by changes in administrations.
"There are sometimes long discussions that take place," Seger said.
Since 2006, the COE has provided legal expertise to help countries comply with the treaty. The first phase of the project, called the Project on Cybercrime, ended last month. The Council, Microsoft and Estonia provided funds for the 1.2 million (US$1.5 million) program, Seger said.
The second phase of the program started last month and will run through June 2011. It will again focus on legislative compliance and other initiatives, such as the 24/7 Network. Under the treaty, countries are required to have a computer security professional on hand at all times in order to assist other countries with breaking cybercrime investigations.
Many countries are very close to ratifying the Convention. Countries outside the COE are invited to accede to the treaty, which means they conform to it like a COE member state.
In a few weeks, Serbia's Parliament is expected to ratify the treaty, Seger said. The Dominican Republic has also passed a good computer crime law, putting it on the path to accession.
Strong progress is also being made in Asia, where the Council expected less enthusiasm since the treaty originated in Europe.
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Your day can comprise 18, 27 or 36 holes with flexible reserved tee times for parties of 12 or more.
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Ever feel that way? I do. Whether I'm writing, editing, graphic designing, or dealing with life, some days, the toll seems greater than the outcome.
When we write, there's unbridled joy that bubbles to the surface. We remember why we love this craft, forget the sorrow and frustration while basking in the glow of a fresh creation. The idea that this is ever a chore seems alien and odd.
And yet…
Only days (or hours) later, we're thrust into the misery of word amnesia, unable to string more than two measly phrases together. And even those flatten and squish beneath the tread of our creative demand.
Are we pushing ourselves too hard? Not hard enough? To which deity did we forget to sacrifice?
It's a question I've been troubled with the last few weeks, largely because I have my hands in a lot of pies, and most days, I love my life. Even the brightest days, though, must yield to night. I am renown for overtaxing and overstressing myself, taking on more than I can reasonably handle.
I daresay, many of us do. Sometimes, we take on more story than we "should," unaware at the beginning what this simplistic tale will cost. After all, it's nothing more than words on a page, and we don't even have to use ink and paper anymore. Writing has one of the lowest costs of entry of any craft.
Ah, to live so foolishly again, eh? Once you've spent a few sun-moon cycles as a writer, you know better than to ever think the only price of your art will be the hours spent in front of your computer.
Good stories—the kind that will grip readers and make us proud—live with us, 24/7. There is no escape. We can't eat, cook, watch television, hang out with friends, travel…not without some part of us fretting over the next plot point, daydreaming about the upcoming scene, pondering the choices we would make if faced with the same quandary.
I believe Master Yoda said, "Do or do not. There is no try." Truer words, eh, my fellow wordsmith?
We aren't trying too hard. Not when the story matters. There's no such thing as doing too much. Not when we can do more. Not when the cost is having to live with having done less.
We often talk about how many books you can churn out in a year, how many novels you have to publish to break even, how many stories will equal a series. But I find myself wondering, how much can you sacrifice to make those books and series? Because if we're really trying, then we know the price demands our very soul.
I don't know about you, but when the day is through and I'm sitting down to pound out some words, there are days I don't have much left to give. So I carve out the tiny bits that float to the surface and hope they're enough.
Are we trying too hard? I would argue that's not even the question. Rather, is our soul in our work? Are we "bleeding" on the page? And if so, how much blood can you afford to give this year?
For most of us, that's a much harder question to answer. As it should be.


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New England Food Vision at The Festival
SBN is excited to be partnering for a third year with the Food Solutions New England (FSNE) regional network to present "The New England Village" at this year's festival. The Village follows on the Massachusetts launch and announcement of FSNE's "50 by 60" vision at the 2014 Link Net. A New England Food Vision calls for our region to build the capacity to produce at least 50% of clean, fair, just, and accessible food for all people in New England by 2060.
The New England Village will highlight a select few of our New England vendors as a sampling of how easy it is to support and celebrate our region's interconnection, making a vision of 50 by 60 come to life! The New England Village is a feature of the Link Net demonstrating how states in New England are working together to realize A New England Food Vision: 50 by 60.
Meet the Authors of a New England Food Vision in the "50 by 60" Gallery, where you can take a closer look at the Vision.
Meet vendors from around New England and learn more about our regional food system. Featured vendors and exhibitors in year's New England Village include:
- Edible Wilds, Millinocket, ME with artisan food items sourced from wild and native plants of New England that include baking mixes, salsas, syrups, more. Nature at its best!
- Green Bee, Brunswick ME with carbonated beverage sweetened with honey collected from their own beehives. Wild blueberries sourced directly from the fields of Maine make its Blueberry Dream a true taste of Maine!
- Popzup, Dover, NH with GMO-free, sustainably-farmed popping corn with variety of sea salt popcorn seasonings (like maple, curry, and sriracha) to spice it up. It's microwavable!
- Lost Art Culture Foods, Providence, RI with fermented vegetables from local farms that will delight your taste buds, bring little zest to your cooking, and nourish your body!
- Ackerman Maple Farm, Cabot, VT with maple cream and maple syrup crafted in their sugar shack from their family-owned 6,400 taps and 76-acre hillside of Vermont's sugar maples. How sweet it is!!
- Vermont Amber, White River Junction, VT with its artisan toffee. The ingredients are carefully selected from a co-op that supports local area farmers. Tempting flavors range from salted sesame to spicy ginger cookie to pumpkin seed chipotle!
- World Farmers, Inc., Lancaster, MA with bounty from the immigrant and refugee farmers on the Flats Mentor land. Harvest includes seasonal vegetables and cultural crops like amaranth /callaloo, pea tendrils, and water spinach to add to plates. Greens, greens, and more greens!
- Cape Ann Fresh Catch, Gloucester, MA with the freshest sustainable seafood available through its Community Supported Fishery (CSF) will serve up a few dishes from sea. Fishcakes, anyone?
- Fungi Ally, Hadley, MA with fresh mushrooms, dried mushrooms, mushroom grow kits, spawn, and mushroom extracts. Mushrooms, mushroom, mushrooms!


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While browsing through some magazine I picked up in the bookstore, I found a little ad for a free Swami Dayananda app for Android phones/tablets available from the Google Play store.
Go to the Google Play store, search under apps with the term 'arsha vidya' and it will come up. When you download it, you get fee access to 10 of Swamiji's essays series. The vast majority of everything he has written is available as ebooks and they are very very cheap. The Gita home study course is available for less than $3 per volume.
If you want your Vedic wisdom 'to go', now is your chance.


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Davao City is one of my favorite places here in the Philippines and this is the hometown of our President Rodrigo Duterte. Davao has plenty of beautiful places that are not well known. The Philippine Travel Exchange (PHITEX) chose the Davao City because of the safest and lots of beautiful places here and for the tourist to check out how wonderful the city is.
The bed is very comfortable to sleep in and the ambiance is very relaxing.
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Welcome to the Wake Forest University Pediatric Neurology Residency Program!
Do you love
child neurology? Are you interested in a
program that will make you an excellent clinician and involve you in
research? If yes, our Child Neurology
Residency Program here at Wake Forest Baptist Health is looking forward to
meeting you!
with Wake Forest Medical School, our Program is committed to providing the best
clinical training in child neurology in the region, offering exposure to a
diverse patient population and opportunities to engage in clinical research. It is an exciting time to join the field of
child neurology, and our Program provides a strong basis in general neurology
and additionally exposure to several nationally recognized subspecialty
Based at a
medium-sized academic center, our Program has excellent training that is
personalized and flexible to a physician's career goals and interests. Our Program's categorical positions are
combined with the competitive Brenner Children's Pediatrics Residency Program and Wake
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from a larger network of residents.
This is a
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followed by a three-year Child Neurology Residency Program. Our Child Neurology residents undergo
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representing every major pediatric subspecialty.
Neurology faculty are passionate
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Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke, Headache and Epilepsy. Our Pediatric Neurology faculty includes seven board-certified pediatric neurologists: three pediatric
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Clinic recognized by the TS Alliance, and one of the few MEG programs
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neurology department continues to grow with new faculty who are devoted to
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Allison Brashear, MD
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — After a four-year review, the U.S. State Department on Friday said it does not believe there would be significant negative environmental impact from a Canadian company's plan to boost the capacity of an oil pipeline that crosses the U.S. border in northeastern North Dakota.
Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge Energy Partners asked the State Department in 2012 for a presidential permit to transport 800,000 barrels daily on an existing 3-mile section of pipeline on the company's Alberta Clipper pipeline that carries tar sand oil from Canada across northeastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin.
The State Department's supplemental environmental impact statement announced Friday was "coincidental" to President Donald Trump's action to advance the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, Enbridge spokeswoman Lorraine Little said.
"It's been long process to get to this point," Little said. "It is what it is."
Todd Leake, a Sierra Club spokesman in North Dakota, said he believes Trump's fingerprints are all over the State Department conclusion.
"All pipelines are politics and money," said Leake, who farms about 80 miles from where the pipeline crosses into the U.S. near Neche, North Dakota. "All recent approvals of these pipelines go right back to the Trump administration."
The State Department is taking public comment on its draft environmental impact statement for 45 days, until March 27. The State Department issues presidential permits for projects that cross the U.S.-Canadian border.
The Alberta Clipper pipeline, which also is known as "Line 67" was completed in 2009 at a cost of about $1 billion. The company wants permission to expand its current capacity on the line where it crosses the international border from about 450,000 barrels daily to 800,000 barrels a day. While awaiting the nod from the U.S. government, the company has been rerouting the additional barrels through a 1960s-era pipeline along the same route for the 3 miles.
That pipeline already has a presidential permit. If approved by the U.S government, the Alberta Clipper would transport the additional tar sands oil without being transferred, and the old pipeline would be rebuilt, Little said.
Opponents argue that oil sands extraction exacerbates global warming because it takes more energy to produce and generates more carbon dioxide.
The Keystone XL, which had languished for years under the administration of President Barack Obama, also is designed to carry Canadian tar sands oil, and Trump last month invited its builder, TransCanada, to resubmit its application to the State Department for a presidential permit, and the company has said that it will.
Trump also last month instructed the Army Corps of Engineers to advance work on the Dakota Access pipeline. Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners on Wednesday got final permission from the Army to proceed with a crossing of the Missouri River in southern North Dakota.
The work on the $3.8 billion project had been stalled for months due to opposition by American Indian groups and their supporters.


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Missouri's low vaccination rate leaves children vulnerable, experts say
October 11, 2010
by Alan Bavley
Kansas City Star
Missouri has fallen woefully behind the rest of the nation in vaccinating preschool children, which health experts say leaves the state's children vulnerable to a resurgence of infectious diseases.
Just 56.2 percent of Missouri children 19 to 35 months old received all their recommended shots last year, according to new survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That compares with a national rate of 70.5 percent. The highest level of full vaccination coverage — 78.1 percent — was in Missouri's neighbor to the north, Iowa. The rate in Kansas, 71.7 percent, was statistically similar to the U.S. figure.
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June 13, 2010
Spell Me A While...
for a year before I even opened them...
now I can't leave them alone...even though I'm not actually
"stamping" with them...
Their little tiny letteriness is inspiring!
And are they ever descriptive! Naughty boy!
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What a great mosaic, love the lettering so cute Have a wonderful week:)ReplyDelete
Love that word, letteriness! I have those tiny stamps too but never would have thought of such a creative use of them. Great photography!ReplyDelete
Glad I'm not the only one who buys things and doesn't open them for a year. Ha! Those are great and I can tell you're having a good time with them.ReplyDelete
Cute post and mosaic. I am sure your kittie is not evil.ReplyDelete
Very creative! I can think of a million things I'd like to stamp with those.ReplyDelete
"nice kitty~~pat~~pat" She didn't mean it, honest!
Poor kitty with your descriptive word. :-)ReplyDelete
Looks like a fun thing to play with.
Playing with those stamps could be addictive. Think of all the things you could say.ReplyDelete
Omigosh, what a terrific idea... and I laughed out loud at your "evil" kitty! :)ReplyDelete
What fun! I love letters and stamps and love your mosaic!ReplyDelete
I would be playing with these too! They make for the loveliest photos! EVIL made me laugh :)ReplyDelete
Clever! Just love it!ReplyDelete
I love what you have done with these letters; creative and entertaining, as I had a good chuckle over Evil :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 13, 2010 at 6:33 PM
They are cute little letters! What fun.ReplyDelete
Happy Monday and best wishes for a beautiful week,
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Those are fun!! I was making words with scrabble letters last week, I guess because I had sooo much extra time on my hands! LOLReplyDelete
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What a creative mosaic! And I can't believe your kitty is actually "evil"...well, maybe. (:ReplyDelete
now this is a gal who loves her camera!ReplyDelete
(i can relate)
lovely pics!
Hi, very clever mosaic. lol Way to funny...Evil Kitty lol Hope you have a great new week!ReplyDelete
What a clever little mosaic. I love it!ReplyDelete
I have these stamps and love to use them for stamping. Cute how you used them!!ReplyDelete
love how you are using your stamps...i do believe i have a set of those too...somewheres...ReplyDelete
No way is that sweet cat EVIL ha! I have it's sibling!ReplyDelete
Another great idea...now where did I put mine??? I've had mine for years and love this idea.ReplyDelete
Deb :)
How clever you are! Too cute!ReplyDelete
Love the way you have displayed them.ReplyDelete
I LOVE this! What fun you must have had creating this! Happy Mosaic Monday!ReplyDelete
Back Porch Blessings,
adorable - this is way cute! So creative!ReplyDelete
Oh I see! Those are the stamps themselves! Ha! I was admiring those little blocks of wood and wondering where you got them!ReplyDelete
I guess I'm kind of stamp ignorant! Well, I say get out that pink ink and get stamping! :)
I love your mosaic...what a fun way to use those cute little letters. Very clever.ReplyDelete
What a rough mosaic, wonderful shots :)ReplyDelete
Kitty looks too cute to be evil.ReplyDelete
WEll you sure brought a laugh to all of us I bet!ReplyDelete
Those darn kitties LOLLL
Thanks for the fun hon...looks like you had tons!
lovely mosaic!! I like a lot how the letters look likeReplyDelete
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What a great idea, you have inspired me to take my little tiny alphabet stamps out of their package. :) Love the last shot, evil............ lolReplyDelete
What a cute idea, love it!ReplyDelete
Lol- silly naughty kitty!!ReplyDelete
It is fun to spell out tiny things, isn't it? I just did a post with letters last week, too.ReplyDelete
Such a clever post ~ I love the way you create such funness (I know it isn't a real word, but that IS what you do!).ReplyDelete
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Hello from Sweden, just fpund your blog, and I like it. You are in my favourite map, have a nice day =)ReplyDelete
I have those same stamps - and now I know what to do with them!ReplyDelete
... evil cat is adorable!
- AnonymousJune 16, 2010 at 5:00 PM
hi.. just dropping by here... have a nice day! http://kantahanan.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
belle découverte ton blog!!ReplyDelete
bonne journée
Now, he's just sitting there minding his own business! :-)
I have the very same stamps and ....YES they are still in the box they came in but I hope you don't mind but what a great idea...Can I borrow it??? I hope you said YES! I love your blog Have a great day ~Wendy at blissangelsReplyDelete
I have a little set of letters that have been in my drawer for oh, maybe 18+months. You have inspired me to get them out and paly with themReplyDelete
Those are just adorable! And your little "assistant" is cute as can be. Mine love attention too, and are always right in the middle of each project crying "pet me, Mom!!!"ReplyDelete
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Once we left Denver, we made our way through the mountains and to a cute little town of Glenwood Springs. You'll find this along the highway, right after exit "No Name". Random! This small town is centered around the world's largest hot spring pool! Although, we only actually spent one day at the springs due to time, it was an amazing spot and I really hope we get to go back sometime.
First, heading into Glenwood Springs we went through every season of the year – we went from a hot Denver, to a cold Golden, to a raining Breckenridge to a SNOWING Vail! Then we hit the warm, sunny Glenwood Springs.
Once we were settled in and had a good nights rest, the next morning we headed to Glenwood Hot Springs. I will say, if you don't stay at their lodge, it's not super cheap to spend the day there – but it's worth it and its your entertainment for the whole day! I would recommend getting the all day package that includes unlimited slide rides plus lunch! It's really worth it.
Glenwood Springs is made up of 4 pool areas, a large swimming pool that is a mix of spring water and fresh water. This is great for kids, as it is not too hot – it's not cold by any means, but it is just right! They have a deep end with diving board for swimmers, lanes for those who want to do laps and then a very large area for everything else!Next to this area is the hot springs hot tub. It is pure spring water, at a very hot temperature. You are only encouraged to stay in for a few minutes at a time. Kids are welcome, but Lennox wanted nothing to do with it – it was too hot! Then they do also have a kid area, that allowed them to swim around and splash, in an area that was shallow. Lennox made some friends in this spot!
Lastly, they have the 2 slides. I went on both and Lennox was allowed to go on both, but we didn't let her go in the blue one. It goes SO fast, with no tube and you get so much water in your face, she would have been terrified! I was scared and I'm a grown adult! The green slide though, with a double tube, was right up her ally. I think if we let her, she would have gone on it ALL DAY LONG. Seriously, over and over and over again! IT was so fun. You get plenty wet and go very fast, but you are in a tube so it's a little safer for kids. They also can wear floatation devices – perfect! Warning, the water is VERY cold!!!
Other than swimming, they have mini-golf, temporary tattoo station, snowcones, ice cream, pizza, etc. All the food was good and the prices were appropriate.
I would recommend getting there early too, so that you can get a good spot and chairs – they fill up fast! You can even rent a cabana if you have a lot of people!
So that was Glenwood Springs. I really hope to get back and would recommend going 100% if you are ever in the area!


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The personal objects in Matisse's studio form a secret history in his art
This book is the first in English to explore the essential role that Henri Matisse's personal collection of objects played in his studio practice. The artist traveled with his collection even to temporary residences, and letters to family members often included requests for objects to be moved to where he was working, revealing them to be critical creative stimulants. Featured frequently in the modern master's bold paintings, drawings and cutouts, and influencing the development of his work in sculpture, Matisse's objects formed a secret history hiding in plain sight.
Works that span Matisse's entire career are presented here alongside the objects that inspired them, from Asian vases and African masks to intricate textiles from the Islamic world. An introduction and five chapters take readers through studies of the object as actor and the studio as theater, the importance of African art in Matisse's renderings of the human form and his sitters' inner selves, and the invention and transformation of his own language of signs. With lush illustrations and archival images, Matisse in the Studio provides exceptional insights into the artist at work.
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Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a painter, draftsman, sculptor and printmaker before turning to paper cut-outs in the 1940s. He followed a career-long path that he described as "construction by means of color."Ellen McBreen is Associate Professor of Art History at Wheaton College, Massachusetts.Helen Burnham is Pamela and Peter Voss Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.Ann Dumas is Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and President of the Dedalus Foundation.Claudine Grammont is Director and Chief Curator of the Musée Matisse, Nice.Hélène Ivanoff is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Frobenius Institute of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt.Marie-Thérèse Pulvenis de Seligny is the former Director and Chief Curator of the Musée Matisse, Nice.


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On Saturday 11th of March 2017 at 1.30 am I recieved the phone call that I had been dreading from the hospital - my father Peter Lloyd had passed away at the age of 85yrs from cancer.
I was truley sorry that I was not there for him at the end, I had cared for him for 2 yrs continually and working full time 6 days aweek for 50 hours with no help from Social Services what-so-ever, so when he was…
It has been a while since the last blog post (over a month ago!), and I'm sure you understand just how bust we've been and not just on the book.
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The road has been slow and difficult, and we strive to continue to build and develop…
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Music Therapy | atlanta child photographer
In today's world, there is so much going on. Not that this has never been the case before, but things are different. I'm sure most of the bad things that are going on now have always been going on. The only difference is that the information has become ubiquitous because of the popularity of smart phones. Cameras are everywhere. Being the person I am, I try not to let all of these things get me down. I mean, what kind of life would that be if I were constantly upset by all of the negativity around me/us? It wouldn't make for a very good one in my opinion.
Just to be clear, I don't ignore what's going on. Basically I try to look at the bright side of things. One of the things I like to say is "There is something good in everything and everybody. For some things and some people, you just have to look harder/deeper to find it." Lately things have been getting a bit, how should I say this...difficult. I figured as long as I concentrated on doing what I needed to do, all would be fine. I thought my frame of mind was good, but I'm not so sure now. For those who don't know, I do believe in God. A higher power. What I also believe is that God speaks to me through music. One of my beliefs is that God speaks to all of us in a way that we will hear and understand Him and my way happens to be via music.
At any rate, I believe he spoke to me today. While I was washing dishes and listening to music (this is a must because I really dislike washing dishes), the song "Shake It Off" came on. When the singer got to the lyrics that said "You can't dance with the devil on your back so shake him off." I felt some kind of way. Actually my eyes welled up with tears and I felt this weight on me that wasn't there previously or at least I didn't know it was there. This incident made me reassess the things that are going on in my life and around me. I had to truly consider how I actually feel about them. Even though I know everything will be alright, that doesn't absolve my subconscious from feeling the effects and essentially hiding them from me.
For the most part, I am fine, but I think it was important for me to acknowledge how I feel deep down inside. Those types of feelings can creep up on you and next thing you know, you're in the hospital because of stress and fatigue and lord knows what else. To be honest, I'm a pretty laid back kind of person. I try to stay away from negativity and to spread positivity. I also tend to not panic in situations and just wait to see what I can do or what happens. Finally, I try not to worry about things that are out of my control. To me, that is a waste of energy.
As they say, this too shall pass. I'm confident that that is the case and I'm fine with it. How can we appreciate the good if we don't experience the bad? Anyway, I will continue to listen to my music. When it's time again, I'm sure God will speak to me. When I'm down, confused or in need of enlightenment, I know He's there, waiting for me to turn on the radio. If He has no message for me, I can still listen to the music to put me in a better mood. Music relaxes me or pumps me up, whichever I need at the time. What does music do for you? Better yet, what's your therapy?
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Challenges of local government units in the fight against corruption
This Institute for Democracy and Mediation report assesses the current capacities of local-government units in the fight against corruption, and the capacities and knowledge of CSOs as regards their contribution to good governance at the local level.
Index of Good Governance in Macedonia
Macedonia's state healthcare insurance fund scored the best marks for adopting principles of good governance among the country's 19 central government institutions, according to a Center for Research and Policy Making study.
PASOS releases booklets on ethics, quality standards
PASOS has published two guidebooks for think-tanks, one a code of good governance and one based on a set of principles for ensuring quality control over policy work. "Thinking Ethically" and "How to win respect and influence policymakers" were released at the annual PASOS members assembly in Warsaw November 26.


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Friday, October 19, 2012
7th Global PR Conclave
The preparations are afoot for the Public Relations Council of India's 7th Global PR Conclave at Hyderabad in 17-18 February 2013. Our heartiest congratulations to Mr MB Jayaram, Chairman Emeritus PRCI, Ajai Agarwal.National VP, Capt Rakesh Gulati, Zonal Chairman South & Mr Narayanan Chairman Hyderabad Chapter.
The calendar is full for PR practitioners to be part of various knowledge series. While Bangalore has engaged various colleges to be a part of PRCI student wing, Varanasi under the leadership of Dr. Vishwanath Pandey is organising a two-days workshop at Benaras Hindu University in January 2013, on "Paradigm Shift of PR".
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Discovering Polish Culinary Paths
Among other things you discover when you chat with her, Warsaw culinary luminary Magdalena Tomaszewska-Bolałek is a Japanologist, a journalist, a food anthropologist and author of four books including the award-winning Polish Culinary Paths. 'My main goal is introducing foreign cuisine to Poles and Polish cuisine to the rest of the world,' she says. 'It's very important to me to promote Polish cuisine and to build bridges between the cultures.' Seems like she's doing this very well…
Relishing Polish heritage cuisine at Opasły Tom
'We forgot, for a while in Poland, how to grow things,' says Warsaw restaurateur, author and Opasły Tom co-owner, Agnieszka Kręglicka. 'But this is turning around now. We're starting to see a return to traditions and a focus on real food. Gastronomy is now growing really quickly. In Warsaw we're seeing about 100 restaurants a year opening.'
KukBuk: a Polish culinary success story
KukBuk grew out of a 'a pure love of cooking, eating and communicating round food.' The intention was to merge cultural, culinary and lifestyle elements. We meet editor Agata Michalak and publisher Daria Pawlewskaat at the Warsaw offices of the award-winning magazine who share the story of KukBuk's unexpected, unprecedented success. Then we visit Wilanów Palace.
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You may think that picking the best email address for your company relies heavily on a great domain name. What if I told you other factors come into place as well? I've encountered the last example this very week! I bought a book 500 Social Media Marketing Tips by Andrew Macarthy. As much as the author's knowledge of social media is exemplary, and has a great domain name for his online presence (AndrewMacarthy.com) where he dropped the ball, in my opinion, was at the end of the book. There he invited his readers to write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com. This is just the latest example where I've seen an expert not getting all the possible benefits.
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There are countless times where I've seen dentists use a free email service address on their business card, construction workers putting a sticker on their truck or business owners just telling you this awkwardly long email address from a free service. Free doesn't have to do anything with the wrong choice, everybody loves free, but can you imagine Jeff Bezos operating from a "email@example.com" email address. Surely, there's a way for him to send and receive emails from @amazon.com? You don't have to be a billionaire to do the same!
I am not exaggerating when I say I received hundreds of offers in my inbox for various services. Web design, SEO, domain registration, social media, copywriting, and can you guess what gives the spammer away each time? Their email address! Here are just some of them: email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com… I could go on and on. Do you want your clients to perceive you as a spammer?
Imagine having an email address on a premium domain name. Better yet, I'll share a story. One time, someone contacted me from a two letter .com domain name. I dropped everything and ran to read what the email was about! Obviously, this was a person and a company of great importance, so I will keep their details private (since the nature of the email was private as well). People still check where the message originated from (including newsletter, autoresponder and marketing automation) and I think it is safe to assume you will get more replies to a legitimate sounding email address. For example, if you cold-email a potential investor or client, do you think they would be more inclined to answer firstname.lastname@example.com or "email@example.com"?
Your business stands a better chance if you conduct all your communication on your company's domain name. Not to mention if you go ahead and promote your email on business cards, stickers, and ads.
There are countless articles online about choosing the best domain name, and they can surely help you since the domain name is an essential part of picking the right email address. In this post, I will focus on the email, and I will dive deeper into domain names another time. In short, the domain name should be:
Don't take this as rules set in stone. Just the other day I've accidentally found about "MyWifeQuitHerJob.com." This domain name obviously doesn't fall into the category "short," not even by a long shot! However, after I read some free content, I got fantastic value from this website! I also got the story and remembered the name in a heart beat! I got it! His wife quit her job, and now they are making so much money, and they are blogging about it on "My Wife Quit Her Job"! Brilliant.
Here's what exactly I mean by that. Let's say you have a long domain name like the one I just mentioned or something like FourHourWorkWeek.com. And let's say your name is "Alexander The Great." Your email shouldn't be firstname.lastname@example.com. How is that going to fit your business card? How will someone write this down if you are sharing this over the phone or radio? What Alex needs to do here is register a domain name Great.com, and create an email "firstname.lastname@example.com." Or, if Alex, or in this case Tim Ferriss want's to keep promoting FourHourWorkWeek.com, he can use firstname.lastname@example.com. Short first name, nickname or some other generic short word (info, email).
Using personal emails on company websites also makes sense with serial entrepreneurs, bloggers, affiliate marketers and online entrepreneurs. If you have ten websites that all generate a significant income for you, and you want everyone to be able to reach you. Surely, you can create emails on all ten domain names, and have them redirect to your best email address. Then later, you reply from that email address so that it appears like you are answering them from the address where the email came in (check "Send mail as" in a paragraph below). But here it also makes sense to use that same best email address on all ten websites, such as firstname.lastname@example.com
For example, my name is Goran Duskic. I own a domain name duskic.com. Now I can use my email firstname.lastname@example.com on all 10 of my websites, and it makes perfect sense. If someone wants to reach the owner of this website (DoradoHosting.com), they can just write to email@example.com. Or firstname.lastname@example.com, and then just have those messages redirect to firstname.lastname@example.com. This way I am not promoting DoradoHosting.com website, but if I own ten websites, it's going to be very hard to have ten business cards, ten email addresses and ten of everything else.
In some companies, there are people with the same first name. Then you can add the last name to the prefix, and even separate it with a dot. Here are few examples:
Another example are positions that frequently change employees. Therefore in some cases, it may be wise not to connect an email address to a particular person, and create an email for that department, such as:
And of course, there are more generic examples that work well, like:
If you are thinking technology is preventing you from using an email address on your domain name, that means that you've decided to use gmail.com, yahoo.com, outlook.com domains. Let me ask you, have you heard of "Send mail as"?
Inside of Gmail, there's this option called "Send mail as," that allows you to reply from the same address where the sender sent it to. There are some "SMTP steps" so we don't have the time or space to go through that in this post, but if you want to set this up yourself, you can follow Google's instructions on this post. What this functionality allows you is to send emails from your Gmail, but the receiver will get an email from "email@example.com" instead of "email@example.com". Have in mind that this is different from installing G Suite or Office 365 on your domain name, which you have to pay. Think of "Send mail as" as the "free technology" + "my branding."
This leads us to the choice of the right technology. Too often do I encounter people with @gmail.com or @live.com emails. And then when I ask them why they don't use their company's domain name, the answer is "I am used to this service" or "I like Gmail's functionality." The two, do not have to be separated. As I have demonstrated in the "Send mail as" section, it is free, and it's not that hard to setup. For example, if you are a client of Dorado Hosting, we can set that up for you for free.
Besides "Send mail as" feature, there are also solutions you have to pay for, as I already mentioned G Suite (previously known as Google Apps) and Microsoft's Office 365. After you create a paid subscription, you need to install it on your domain name. This doesn't interfere with your website in any way. I don't want to get too technical on you, but let me just explain that the website runs on an HTTP or HTTPS protocol (you've seen that in the address bar of your browser), and the email operates through a POP3, SMTP protocol. After all, POP means "Post Office Protocol."
Setting up a service like G Suite involves changing your MX records (Mail Exchanger), so it's more complicated to setup than "Send mail as." MX records are another type of resource record within the Domain Name System. G Suite and Office 365 allow us to seamlessly send text messages from one email address to another, without touching the website server. That's because MX doesn't impact the website or even touching the dedicated server that hosts the website. Are you now beginning to understand why I am sharing this technical information? Just one thing though, if your domain name expires, your email will stop working, regardless of being separated from a different service from your website.
G Suite pricing starts at $5 / month
Having a separate email service (like G Suite or Office 365) means that if your website is unresponsive, your emails are still working! This isn't the case with the "Send mail as" option. To receive the message, the original server hosting the website and email must send the message to your Gmail account.
I know this was a bit technical, but as I mentioned, too many times I've seen people blame technology as their cause for fumbling. Technology is here to help, not the other way around! Put your best foot forward and promote your company, not Gmail, Yahoo, MSN or your local telecom provider. I remember one time, a company owner shared his email address with me. Big mistake, it had a telecom provider's domain name. I teased him by asking if he loved his telecom provider so much that he wanted to give them the extra promotion? He exclaimed how he, in fact, hated them because he has all these issues with them and then went on for five minutes listing issues with them, but he had no choice but to stay with them due to the contract. Don't be that guy.
Before we part ways, I just wanted to mention one last thing when it comes to emails. Don't become a slave to your inbox like I was. If you are having trouble handling mountain of emails coming your way, don't stress! You are not alone in this! Here are several steps and ideas you can take to handle your inbox. http://duskic.com/blog/productivity-tip-how-i-beat-email-and-got-my-life-back-inboxzero/
Let's just sum up quickly what you've learned here today. The domain name is the most important part of your email (half of your email address is the domain name). It's great if the domain name is short, but also to every rule, there is an exception. FourHourWorkWeek.com or MyWifeQuitHerJob.com. What ever you do, don't let that domain name be a service provider. Put your best foot forward by promoting your company or one of your brands. Don't let technology stop you! Use "Send mail as" option if you are tight on a budget, or get a paid solution with added benefits. For example, your email will work, even if your web shop, company website, blog) is down. And lastly, don't become a slave to your email.
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Learn to Dance
Have you always wanted to learn how to dance? Or maybe you have a date that wants to go dancing and you need to learn as quick as possible.
You can choose to learn to dance Salsa. Look sexy and sophisticated when you Salsa with your partner. You will learn that Salsa dancing is dancing that is in one spot versus all over the dance floor. When the Salsa music picks up speed you will take smaller dance steps. You will learn how to do the hip movement that is needed to Salsa dance as well. You can learn how to Salsa in no time with the right dance instructor. Have fun wearing sexy Salsa dance clothing as well.
You can also learn to dance samba. Samba is not just one dance but a few different dances. You will learn all the moves of Samba dancing and be able to hit the dance clubs and impress the one you are with.
Would you like to learn how to dance jive? If so, you better bring your energy as the jive dance is a very quick dance that will give you a run for your money in your energy department. Jive dancing is basically swing dancing at a much faster pace. Jive dancing came about due to the Jitterbug dance.
Learn to Foxtrot which is a very elegant dance, in that, the Foxtrot is a very flowing dance that two people do across the floor. You will learn how to Foxtrot and dance very smooth when dancing the Foxtrot. You can learn how to dance different types of Foxtrot dances.
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The Senate has confirmed Roberta Achtenberg as an assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The vote was not close, but closer than it should have been, 58-31. Almost all of Ms. Achtenberg's opponents voted "nay" because she is a lesbian.
A few may not have. Several said in Senate debate they really objected to her views and/or her efforts to withhold United Way funds from the Boy Scouts until they accepted homosexuals. But Sen. Jesse Helms, who led the fight against the nomination, made it clear, perhaps inadvertently, what this fight was all about. Before the Senate debate began, he said he was opposed to Ms. Achtenberg "because she is a damned lesbian and I am not going to put a lesbian into a position like that. If you want to call me a bigot, fine."
We do. The senator from North Carolina is clearly a bigot by almost any definition of that word. We are not surprised at his crusade against the nomination. We are not surprised at the speech and vote against her by Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, either. He clearly relishes the idea of casting the issue of homosexuality in partisan terms. We suspect his expectation of making political capital out of this is mistaken. Most Americans have come to believe that people's private lives are their own business and none of the government's.


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The leather pant, something that I myself never expected to be a staple to include in my own wardrobe. They're an unexpectedly versatile piece that can take you from day to night AND to work, this particular pair is by MVN.
Paired with a crisp white shirt and loafers this is a fail safe work outfit - though if you're in a more corporate office, you might need to throw on some heels. In 3.1 Phillip Lim shirt, MVN pants and ASOS loafers.
Let's be honest here, I'm not the biggest party animal so on the few occasions that I do go out, I always make sure I'm in something that's pretty comfortable and simple. I will try and get away with flats and sneakers for the night where possible as exemplified by the below. In a Glassons top, MVN pants and ASOS loafers.
I've alway been a jeans and tee kind of person on weekends and never really thought I could incorporate leather pants into that mix. But here we are and I'm definitely loving it, that added texture gives a little more somethin' somethin'. In a basic tee (mens) by Cotton On, MVN pants, and Windsor Smith slides.


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Nothing stirs Democrats' anger like the fearmongering rhetoric Bush/Cheney employed on the march to war. "The Iraqi regime's record over the decade leaves little doubt that Saddam Hussein wants to retain his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and to expand it to include nuclear weapons. We cannot allow him to prevail in that quest. The weapons are an unacceptable threat."
"Can we afford to ignore the possibility that Saddam Hussein might provide weapons of destruction to some terrorist group bent on destroying the United States?"
"Every nation has the right to act pre-emptively if it faces an imminent and grave threat."
The problem with this rhetoric is that it belongs to Senator John Kerry, the Democratic front-runner. He voted for unilateral war in Iraq, citing the same basic rationales offered by the White House. The only difference was that Kerry simultaneously expressed ambiguous "on the other hand" doubts. Ever since his vote, he has elaborated nuanced explanations as to why he didn't actually mean what he seemed to be saying.
Does it matter? Maybe not. Democrats are so anxious to oust Bush and infatuated with "electability," many seem eager to skip past important substantive questions. If Kerry locks up the nomination in the next few weeks, one can expect him to move swiftly to the center, broadcasting to wider audiences why he is not one of those peacenik liberals Republicans like to demonize. To avoid "buyer's remorse" later, Democrats might ask for clarification on three fundamental matters before it's too late.
Kerry supports Bush's new doctrine of pre-emptive war. True, the Senator did question whether the Administration had sufficient evidence to invade Iraq and did urge further diplomacy, but the war resolution he supported in October 2002 required neither. Headed "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq," the resolution consigned open-ended, undefined powers: "The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to–(1) defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and (2) enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq." Kerry's claim that he was not giving Bush "carte blanche" for invasion is believable only if you haven't read the text.
Lately, Kerry has further embellished his antiwar credentials, denouncing Bush for "ideological pre-emption," claiming "the vote I cast was not a vote to go to war" and opposing $87 billion for the Iraq conflict. Yet he also continues to defend the concept of pre-emptive unilateral war. He belittled Howard Dean's insistence that "a true international coalition" (Kerry's words) should have been the condition for war. "For Howard Dean to permit a veto over when America can or cannot act not only becomes little more than a pretext for doing nothing–it cedes our security and presidential responsibility to defend America to someone else," Kerry explained. Which is it, Senator?


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Yongzhi Huang
Postdoctoral researcher
My research focuses on exploration of underlying brain function related to pain and its modulation. Pain, in particular chronic pain, is one of the most serious health issues and it causes suffering worldwide. Through my work, I aim to understand underlying neurophysiology in chronic pain and analgesia through advanced neurophysiological approaches and neuromodulation techniques. Recently, by using local field potentials (LFP) recorded from patients with chronic pain undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS), we were able to show how neural oscillations in sensory thalamus contribute to pain relief. I am also interested in the function of thalamocortical networks in pain perception and pain modulation.
My critical goal is to understand the mechanism of neural circuits related to pain perception and its modulation and further help to relieve human suffering.
Recent publications
Characteristics of local field potentials correlate with pain relief by deep brain stimulation.
Journal article
Huang Y. et al, (2016), Clin Neurophysiol, 127, 2573 - 2580
Measuring complex behaviors of local oscillatory networks in deep brain local field potentials.
Journal article
Huang Y. et al, (2016), J Neurosci Methods, 264, 25 - 32
Characteristics of thalamic local field potentials in patients with disorders of consciousness.
Conference paper
Huang Y. et al, (2015), Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2015, 3779 - 3782
Tremor dependant nonlinear interaction in deep brain local field potentials of Parkinson's disease
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Wang Z. et al, (2014), Proceedings - 2014 7th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2014, 399 - 404


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"This scampi is reminiscent of the Southern dish Shrimp and Grits, but cooked in the French manner. The recipe comes from L'Albatros in Cleveland, Ohio and featured in "Bon Appetit" magazine."
Shrimp Scampi With Preserved Lemon and Polenta
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 4.5 (8 ounce) bottles clam juice (4 1/2 cups) or 36 ounces vegetable stock (4 1/2 cups)
- 2 1⁄4 cups water
- 3⁄4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 1⁄2 cups polenta (coarse cornmeal) or 1 1⁄2 cups yellow cornmeal
- 3⁄4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
- kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 12 extra-large shrimp, peeled deveined butterflied, flattened
- kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup fennel, finely chopped
- 1⁄2 cup plum tomato, finely chopped
- 1⁄3 cup shallot, minced
- 4 teaspoons preserved lemons (Quick Preserved Lemon)
- 1 large garlic clove, minced
- 1⁄4 cup Pernod (or other anise-flavored liqueur) or 1⁄4 cup dry white wine
- 1⁄2 cup heavy whipping cream
- In a large saucepan, bring clam juice, water, and cream to a boil over medium high heat; gradually whisk in polenta.
- Reduce heat and simmer polenta until thick and tender, stirring constantly, 15 to 20 minutes (halve the time if using cornmeal).
- Stir in hot pepper sauce and season with salt and pepper; cover and keep warm (if it becomes too firm stir in warm water and stir over low heat).
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat; season shrimp with salt and pepper and add to skillet.
- Sear about one minute per side, then remove to a plate (will not be cooked through).
- To the skillet, add fennel, tomatoes, shallot, preserved lemon, and garlic.
- Saute until fennel is tender, about 4 minutes.
- Add Pernod, or wine, and boil one minute; add cream boil one minute.
- Return shrimp to skillet, toss until opaque in center, about one minute.
- To serve: spoon polenta onto plates, top with shrimp and sauce.
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CACI International Systems Engineer - AWS in Fort Meade, Maryland
Job Description
As a Systems Engineer, you will analyze functional business requirements, processes, and design specifications for IT activities within an Amazon Web Services environment.
More About the Role:
In this role, you will create and update AWS billing accounts, diagnose and develop resolutions to issues presented by tools, and develop and implement customer automation scripts and/or diagnostic tools
Identify, resolve, and enhance problems and/or inefficiencies within existing systems.
Design implementation of new systems, and participates in analysis, design and development/construction of next generation IT systems.
Understand and balance customer IT needs with commercially available IT products realities to derive requirements and system specifications that are implementable by the architecture and engineering teams.
You'll Bring These Qualifications:
Experience with Amazon Web Services with an understanding of account creation, networking, and security management services
Demonstrated experience in Systems Engineering with solid background in the analysis, design and development of next generation IT systems.
ITIL V3 Certification or subsequent versions
Bachelors degree and 5+ years related experience
What We Can Offer You:
We've been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation's highest priorities.
For over 55 years, the principles of CACI's unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.
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CACI employs a diverse range of talent to create an environment that fuels innovation and fosters continuous improvement and success. At CACI, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is proud to provide dynamic careers for employees worldwide. CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.


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News Corp, Majors Prepping Download Site: Reports
News Corp. is working on a joint venture music site between the four major labels and MySpace, according to PaidContent.org.
The site would be similar to Hulu.com, the video venture backed by News Corp. and NBC Universal, which is now in beta.
The music venture would be operated by News Corp.-owned MySpace with EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group providing music and getting a content equity stake, according to PaidContent.
Music downloads would be available DRM-free and ad-supported. No label has yet signed on for the venture, but PaidContent cites unnamed sources who say that could change in a matter of weeks.


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What's better than one Beckham? Two Beckhams! David and Victoria's eldest sons, Brooklyn and Romeo, hit the red carpet for the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in London sans parents, and unsurprisingly they both looked very dapper.
For the special occasion, the brothers coordinated in all-black ensembles. Brooklyn wore skinny black jeans, a simple black tee, a leather jacket, and a long chain necklace to complete his look. Meanwhile, younger brother and Burberry model Romeo differentiated his outfit by choosing a motorcycle jacket with a fur trimmed collar. Great style certainly runs in the family.
Brooklyn also commemorated the evening with an Instagram. "Such a fun night with my little bro," he wrote alongside a photo of the two of them in front of the Star Wars logo (below).
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Como scores a hat trick | Como
Como has added to its collection of BCO (British Council of Offices) awards by winning no less than three awards at 2013's regional ceremonies.
One of the BCO's primary objectives is to define excellence in office space. Their annual awards programme provides public recognition for top quality design and functionality and have become a benchmark for excellence in workplaces.
The refurbishment and fit out of Microsoft's Thames Valley Park campus building won the 'Fit Out of Workplace' category in the South West, Thames Valley & South Wales Awards. According to the BCO, the judges felt that the creation of a fresh environment to nurture future expertise was a worthy recipient of this award.
At the London & South East Awards, Great Portland Estates 'One Sixty' project won the 'Corporate Workplace' award and was commended for providing a building which suits the tenants business needs perfectly.
Also at the London & South East Awards, the 'Refurbished / Recycled Workplace' category was awarded to the Land Securities '123 Victoria Street' scheme. This category is for corporate or commercial buildings where significant works have been carried out to adapt the existing building to modern office use. The scheme was described as 'a sparkling jewel in the heart of Westminster'.
Steve Root, Como's managing director said: "This is a fantastic result and we are delighted to have worked with great clients and consultants to achieve this. Congratulations must go to all involved in delivering these projects."


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Darren Aronofsky isn't afraid to get real when giving advice to filmmakers at a masterclass. Check it out.
- Poor financing is not an excuse
"The difficulty of telling stories on film is no longer a financial problem…There are no excuses anymore. You have the power now. So the question then becomes: now that you have that technology and that power, what are you going to do with it?"
- Focus on stories that only you can tell…
"…Find a story that is true to your heart and true to your soul that is very personal…Filmmaking can take you into the mind of a six-year-old girl from Iran or a 75-year-old man from Canada, and that's the great beauty of what we do"
- …But be prepared not to make any money
"The reality is that if you tell personal stories, you don't make a lot of money, unles you're very, very, very, very, lucky and happen to have taste that connects with lots of people"
- Characters should be built from the realm of the personal
"You can only understand a character if you make them human, and making them human is making them feel the same emotion we all feel, all over the planet, no matter where we're from."
- …As well as the realm of the ordinary
"It's about finding those ordinary people who you think are ordinary, and really looking closely at their lives to find that they're actually extraordinary"
- Most importantly, make your characters relatable
"…Finding a universal character is just finding a character that is truthful and honest"
- When choosing a camera, think long-term
"We're not just storytellers––we're visual storytellers, so you have to think about the look of the film and how that helps to tell the story"
- Don't limit the sources of your inspiration
"As a storyteller, you want to expose yourself to every type of art that you possibly can. That's our job, to experience as much as possible and then figure out a way to use it and adapt it to tell the story you're telling"
- As a director, you're just as responsible for an actor's performance as the actor is
"The most important thing between actor and director is trust…It's about having a comfortable relationship with an actor where both you realize that you're just trying to do the best possible work"
- Make time to find the grammar and language of your film
"You need to figure out a language that tells the story the best possible way… you have to try to figure out all these different tools you have and how you can create a language that's best for the movie."
- Filmmaking is like telling a joke
"Usually, with a joke you set something up, you set it up a second time, and then the third time you put a little twist on it. I think that works with languages and cultures around the planet.
- Make as many shorts as you can
"Making a great shot is very different that making a feature, but you do learn a lot…It's a great way to sort of see what connects with audiences and what doesn't connect with audiences."
- Kill your darlings!
"I have a saying: 'The film isn't done until you cut your favorite shot'… You have to be completely open to losing everything in the edit room"
- Your biggest mistake as a director was probably making the movie itself
"When you start off with an idea you get so excited by it that it actually makes you kind of naïve and stupid, and you think you can do it. But then when you finish a film and you look back on how many issues you had to deal with, it's just endless"
Check out the full article at No Film School.
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The Human Side of Being
The study of being is a vast subject. It opens the entire spectrum, the length and breadth and depth of personal improvement, individual introspection, self-evaluation and self-examination. Understanding being is likened to finding the core of one's existence; it seeks a place where you have to pa Continue Reading »


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Into The Sea pages 17 February 9, 2017
Two more pages finished, well one of them was the tiny end of the row page that only takes me an evening to stitch which is why I'm doing one picture for both of them. In January I've been able to ...Continue Reading
Flosstube Video: Gamer Nouveau June 5, 2016
This time a double length 40 min long "Flosstube" style video. Just me cross-stitching with some relaxing ambient sounds of a virtual Hufflepuff commonroom in the background (one for Harry Potter fans). Ambient sounds created at ...Continue Reading
Flosstube: Stitch in Time May 22, 2016
Another 'flosstube' video of Nikki stitching her Stitch in Time cross-stitch, recorded May 15th. ...Continue Reading
Whispers Fiddly Flowers September 26, 2014
I've been looking forward to getting started on the dress of Whispers I think I had this strange idea that it would be really simple and I'd breeze through it in no time. Well I forgot about the flowers didn't ...Continue Reading
Whispers 12 pages complete February 3, 2012
I'm now ahead of my schedule for the year. Didn't take me long did it? I've finished page 12 of Whispers which didn't really take that long at all owing to the blocks of blue in the background. If you look ...Continue Reading
Giving in May 14, 2010
Last week I finished sunkissed and the sensible thing to do would have been to concentrate on Train of Dreams and the quick stitch of Fairy Tales. Instead I gave in and started Faces of Faery 70, another Heaven and ...Continue Reading
New frames and framing pictures March 15, 2010
Some good news this week I finally framed Woodland Enchantress. I found a place online which had just the type of frame I wanted which was a relief after the local framer I used closed down and relocated out of ...Continue Reading
Giving in to temptation February 14, 2010
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We reported a few days ago that Mickey Rourke may be participating in this years Wrestlemania. Frequent RBM reader and professional wrestler Chris Jericho got wind of this and did not take Rourke's words lightly. In the above video from Larry King, Jericho calls Rourke out, telling him that he has no respect for him. Rourke handles it like a champ but Jericho keeps poking and poking and poking. My favorite part is at the end when Rourke calls Jericho "son."
You can't tell but Rourke is not wearing any pants.