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Pattern Recognition: Stephanie Patton and Troy Dugas at Arthur Roger Gallery
by Reggie Rodrigue
Stephanie Patton, "Intersection," vinyl, batting and muslin, 2013, 62 x 60 x 4 inches, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
Troy Dugas, "Rye Whiskey Blue," vintage labels mounted to paper, 2012, 72 x 72 inches, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
Patterns. They've always held a fascination for us. We divine them from nature. We see them emerge in our own lives. We reconstruct them. We interpret, alter and interpolate them.
In truth, being able to see, recognize and interpret patterns is crucial to the survival of the human species. Without some sort of pattern recognition, no higher-order organism could function or survive or be called a higher-order organism, for that matter. This is because pattern is intrinsically linked to organization. Pattern is in our DNA, our brain structure, along with the rest of creation.
Pattern is also that upon which we build our digital lives and affect change in the real world of the 21st century. In the digital realm, we use complex algorithms – a finite set of mathematical procedures performed in a proscribed sequence – to compute vast amounts of data that would otherwise be impossible to do without algorithms. From these computations, we can begin to interpret patterns in the data. By doing so, we can better understand a pattern that may be an invisible or underlying cause of an issue which confronts us such as climate change, traffic flow or any number of other complex problems that are bigger than one mind can bear.
Currently at the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, two Lafayette, LA artists who bring pattern to the fore in their own works are exhibiting: Stephanie Patton and Troy Dugas. Within both bodies of work, the two artists begin with a simple premise, a minimum of materials, and a highly repetitive process. However, their finalized works speak to the complexity, beauty and meaning that can unfold from such humble and rudimentary origins.
Stephanie Patton is a multimedia artists who currently lives and works in between Lafayette, LA and New Orleans, LA. She received a BFA in Painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1993 and an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. After this, she spent some time living in New York City, engaging in the art scene there as well as taking classes with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where she honed her skills as a comedian. In 2001, Patton returned to Lafayette, LA and continues to grow her career as an artist as well as an educator. She also became a member of the wildly successful New Orleans artists' collective, The Front.
Stephanie Patton, "Strength," vinyl, batting and muslin, 2013, 79 x 79 x 15 inches, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
Stephanie Patton, "Valor," vinyl, batting and muslin, 2013, 81 x 81 x 15 inches, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
Stephanie Patton, "Meeting," vinyl, batting and muslin, 2013, 55 x 86 x 17 inches, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
Patton's exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery is titled "Private Practice." The title is now part of a running joke with Patton's work. Her last exhibition at The Front was titled "General Hospital." Both titles refer to soap operas/dramas centered around doctors and medical environments.While the thought of naming one's art exhibition after such processed cheese from television is extremely humorous, there is another point to the titles. They offer a point of entry and a certain amount of accessibility for the viewing of Patton's Postminimalist works. The titles – with their allusions to drama, tension, sickness, healing and recovery – give viewers a clue that Patton's works are more than just exercises in design and pattern.
Most of the works on display in "Private Practice" are quilted and shaped wall sculptures composed of white vinyl, batting and muslin, which hover and undulate before the viewer like some sort of hybrid between a cloud, a work by Frank Stella and a mandala. The works are anodyne, yet forceful and rigorous. Patton has found a way to take soft materials associated with rest and transmute them into a series of objects that speak of strength, presence, perseverance, and healing. It is an impressive feat, and viewing these pieces puts one in the frame of mind to think about, not only the more abstract and metaphysical ideas engendered in the work but, also, the thought, time, work, skill and care that went into sewing and composing it.
Stephanie Patton, "Conquer," Video, 8 minutes 8 seconds, 2013, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
The real tour-de-force of Patton's exhibition is a video, however. "Conquer" is 8 minutes and 8 seconds of gut-wrenching pain and claustrophobia followed by sublime relief and stoic transcendence. The video begins with a close-up of Patton's head, neck and shoulders covered in a tight latticework of band-aids which gives her the look of a badly sculpted, clay bust. She stands before her work "Intersection." The work acts as a formal backdrop to the action in the video. The action begins with Patton searching for an appropriate band-aid to pull. She finds one, and then … RIP! The pain of the action is palpable, and it just keeps going for what seems like an eternity of band-aid ripping; however, it is riveting. One winces and squirms while Patton steadily removes her dummy mask, keeping time with the sounds of her breathing and those nearly interminable separations of adhesive bandage from flesh. By the end of the video, Patton's full face emerges from its cocoon. One can almost feel the blood coursing through her inflamed skin. Her wide, watery eyes stare out at the viewer with a startling amount of restraint; yet, there is also much in the way of clarity, openness and beauty in her gaze as well. It's a brief moment of silent reflection and equanimity … and a challenge to the viewer to move through whatever pain is stifling his/her life into a similar state of unshakable grace.
If you would like to view Stephanie Patton's video "Conquer," please follow this link to the Arthur Roger Gallery website.
Troy Dugas, "St. Jerome #4," European liquor labels on paper, 60 x 60 inches, 2012, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
Troy Dugas, "Fragancia," cigar labels on cut paper, 47 x 47 inches, 2013, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
Speaking of unshakable grace, artist Troy Dugas has that in spades as well. One needs such things to produce work at the same caliber as Dugas' vintage label collages.
Dugas graduated with a BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1994. In 1998, he received his MFA from the Pratt Institute. He currently lives and works in Lafayette, LA.
Early in his professional life, Dugas began working with a particular form of collage that involves using duplicates of the same image, rather than the usual pastiche of dissimilar images and materials that typifies most collage. To put it in mathematical terms (which somehow seems fitting), if the usual form of collage is a process of addition, then Dugas' form of collage is a process of multiplication – amplifying a single element into what seems like an ecstatic, geometric infinity of pattern. In earlier works, Dugas used identical, vintage prints of ships at sea and flower arrangements to create images that mimicked what one would see if one were to look at the original images through a prismatic lens or the compound eyes of an insect.
Today, the focus of Dugas' work is on creating abstract designs, second-hand portraits and still lifes with large quantities of vintage product labels.
Dugas abstract works mimic sacred geometry, calling to mind the sort of patterns one would find in a church, mosque or temple. From afar, they take the form of mandalas and are quite meditative in their overall impact.
For the uninitiated, the shock comes when one realizes that these exquisite works are made of old labels for liquor, cigars, fish and canned vegetables, among other commodities. At first, discovering this is a wonderful surprise; however, if one thinks about the meaning behind such work long enough, one reaches a gray area where marketing and spirituality rub shoulders a little to comfortably with one another. This forces one to wonder whether these are glorified advertisements or the sincere works of an artist on his own spiritual path. Personally, I tend to think the latter is closer to the truth.
In an age where everything, including our own digital lives on social media websites, is a product to be marketed and advertised ad nauseum, it is difficult to find a space for reflection and spiritual pursuit that eludes the dictates of "the market." While Dugas' works are certainly part and parcel of the overall system of capitalism (they are being sold at New Orleans' poshest gallery after all) and are composed of the refuse of this system, they still manage to take the viewer somewhere beyond the daily grind of consumption – a space of pure, Platonic freedom.
Dugas is involved in a game of extreme subversion. He begins a work with a pile of the lowest form of art and creates something wholly ineffable and transitive. In the context of our time, there is something truly transgressive about Dugas' work in that it exudes skill (countering the prevailing rubric of "deskilling" in art today), it obviously takes much time and patience to complete it (two things of which most people have very little these days), and most importantly it turns pop culture and pop art on its head. Given enough green bean labels and time, Dugas can create a work of art on par with a Byzantine mosaic or a Buddhist mandala. He metaphorically takes Warhol's soup can and runs with it in the other direction. By slicing and dicing commodity labels into a million little pieces and recontextualizing them, Dugas points to a way out of the consumerist paradigm by diving right into and through it.
Troy Dugas, "Fayum Clos du Calvaire," European liquor labels on wood panel, 48 x 48 inches, 2012, photogrpah courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
However, Dugas has recently decided to go in other directions as far as the type of images he produces. His "Fayum" series is a case in point. The product labels have remained a constant and pattern still plays a key role in shaping the work, but Dugas deploys these to compose representational images which riff on the tradition of Coptic Fayum painting. This type of work flourished in Egypt during the Roman occupation of the country at the tale end of the Roman Empire.
Fayum paintings were typically made of encaustic or tempera on wood panel, and they represented living portraits of deceased individuals. These portraits were painted during an individual's lifetime, displayed in his/her home, and then placed over the head of his/her mummy as a reminder of what the deceased looked like when he/she was alive. Fayum paintings were basically the Graeco-Roman innovation on the ancient Egyptian funerary mask.
While unequivocally beautiful, Dugas' "Fayum Series" complicates an already complex and hybridized tradition. These works have a particular sort of resonance for our time, bringing to mind the collapse of a civilization (possibly our own included); the atemporality of our digital age where information, ideas, art, and design from vastly different eras coexist through various media simultaneously and are equally valued; an exploration of the colonialist impulses of much modern art such as Picasso and Matisse's osmotic response to African art and our own colonialist polemics in the Middle East today; and a porous view of individual identity. Beside the infiltration of corporate logos in these works replicating ancient funerary paintings of people who actually were alive at one point in time, Dugas throws another conceptual monkey wrench in the proceedings by basing some of the works in the series on contemporary arrest photographs found on the internet. It's a chilling touch that begs viewers to answer the uncomfortable question of what posterity and history have in store for them.
Troy Dugas, "Still Life Cactus," assorted labels mounted to wood panel, 28 x 35 inches, 2013, photograph courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
The specter of modernism haunts Dugas' "Still Life" Series a little more lightly than his "Fayum" Series, if no less significantly. Here, Dugas breaks with his convention of using a single type of label. He employs an unprecedented assortment of labels to approximate the varying colors, textures and techniques utilized in modernist still lifes. Dugas' obsessive technique seems to loosen in these works, affording them a sense of playfulness and breezy, if scattered, sensuality.
Together, Patton and Dugas' current artworks afford viewers vital insight into the ways pattern can be more than simple decoration. Before the onset of modernism and postmodernism in Western culture, there was much meaning invested in pattern. Viewed as symbols of status and origin, pattern was used as a tool to visually order and label the world around oneself. Because of this, every pattern had a fixed meaning. This view of pattern generally broke down under the influence of the modernist impulse to purge symbolism from visual culture. Postmodernism then relegated pattern to being a handmaiden to style and design. The beauty of the contemporary use of pattern is that now it has a freedom of use unafforded to it in the past and it can carry a plethora of meanings depending on its contextualization. This is because we approach pattern from a multitude of different perspectives in our own contemporary moment.
With Patton and Dugas, we have two examples of contemporary artists reinvigorating past forms and materials within new contexts. Their works hold the mirror up to our own complex lives in subtle yet profound ways, unearthing and reflecting undercurrents and patterns of reality. We are given the responsibility of recognizing the patterns and determining their significance.
Stephanie Patton's "Private Practice" and Troy Dugas' "The Shape of Relics" are both on view at the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans until April 20, 2013.
A video of Eugene J. Martin's Work at the Turn of This Century
In honor of the upcoming retrospective of artist Eugene J. Martin's work at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, MS which runs from June 5, 2012 to December 1, 2012, we here at Louisianaesthetic thought it would be nice to share a video of Martin's work which was completed at the dawn of the new millennium in his home studio in Lafayette, LA! Thanks to the efforts of his lovely and tenacious wife, Ms. Suzanne Fredericq and her efforts at www.eugenemartinart.com, we have this beautiful document! I hope you enjoy it!
Tameka Norris in "Prospect Lafayette"
Tameka Norris
"Post Katrina Sunset"
double channel video
on view in the satellite exhibition "Prospect Lafayette" at the Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA until January 29, 2012 as a part of the Prospect New Orleans 2 Biennial.
*** Author"s note: To view a review of "Prospect Lafayette" on this site, click here.
Kalup Linzy in "Prospect Lafayette"
"Keys to Our Heart"
single channel video
on view in the satellite exhibition "Prospect Lafayette" at the Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA until January 29, 2012 as a part of the Prospect New Orleans 2 Biennial.
*** Author"s note: To view a review of "Prospect Lafayette" on this site, click here.
Ragnar Kjartansson in "Prospect Lafayette"
a video detail of "Death and the Children"
single channel video
on view in the satellite exhibition "Prospect Lafayette" at the Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA until January 29, 2012 as a part of the Prospect New Orleans 2 Biennial.
*** Author"s note: To view a review of "Prospect Lafayette" on this site, click here.
Our Backyard Kicks Your Backyard's Ass: "Parallel Play" at the T-Lot
by Reggie Michael Rodrigue
On a bright and breezy Sunday afternoon – the day after the opening of the Prospect New Orleans Biennial to be exact – my wife and I made our first visit to T-Lot, a Prospect 2 Satellite in the St. Claude Arts District. If you don't already know, T-Lot is a little different than most art spaces in the city. It's actually a little different than most art spaces on the planet. That's because T-Lot is the only space that I know of that encompasses studio spaces and 8000+ square feet of backyard in the shape of a "T" that can converted into exhibition space. This ain't ya mama's art gallery! It's more like your insane cousin's! You know: the one who's always trying to build rocket ships out of grain silo parts in his backyard and smells like cheetos and red bull … and oooooh, this so makes the difference!
We were there to see the exhibition "Parallel Play," the second annual installment of communal T-Lot madness in which members and a select group of their fellow New Orleans peers blanket the entire compound with art. The "front desk" was an unmanned folding table laid out on gravel in the "neck" of the T. We walked a little further into the yard, and found T-Lot members Stephen Kwok and Natalie McLaurin hanging out on a set of bleachers under an avocado tree that occasionally sent an avocado or two to dive bomb the surrounding area. Apparently, Kwok and McLaurin were gallery sitting for the day, and they took turns assisting us graciously throughout our stay there.
We were told by them to go back to the "front desk" and avail ourselves of the exhibition list/numbered map. There was quite a lot to see, and it was scattered all over. To follow the list meant criss-crossing the lot over and over again, but that didn't matter because it was like some demented scavenger hunt for art that was pretty kooky and fun. The adjacent neighbors only added to the fun, playing accidental DJ for us while we checked out the art. A stream of funk and rap bounced into the T-Lot from their yard. Natalie McLaurin said they didn't mind their neighbors, and their neighbors didn't mind them. They both liked to party: T-lot's neighbors are Mardi Gras Indians. In fact, we missed the big party/opening they had the night before. Another unfortunate thing was the fact that some of the art was not fully functional because they involved performances or video projections that weren't possible to duplicate in the light of that day. It was made clear to us that "Parallel Play" requires a little bit of shadow play as well. We were sad to hear the news, but there was still a whole lot to enjoy.
Surprisingly, the piece that my wife and I enjoyed the most was a piece that wasn't complete when we saw it! Stephen Kwok and Dave Greber created an alter titled "Alt" that was a ziggurat with terraced sand pits installed in a tent. The artists littered the thing with LED tea lights (all but one of them were out by the time we got there). There was supposed to be a video projection by Greber at the top of it, but that was missing. What was left behind though were "offerings:" loose change, a coffee mug, ink pens, a note book, condemns, an empty aluminum can, a hammer, a cigarette lighter and an empty cigarette pack, etc. Kwok and Greber left instructions in the tent for visitors to leave an "offering" on the alter, something that they felt they could part with. The whole set up was both pathetic and incredibly awesome at the same time. It was also quite beautiful just as it was. My wife and I spent quite a bit of time perusing the sand pits, looking for interesting "offerings" and wondering about the people who left them behind. For me, it felt like ancient history and the present had collapsed into this piece, into one moment of classical elegance and contemporary abandonment. I spent a little bit of time wondering what it looked like the night before with all the LED's a glow and one of Greber's colorfully schizophrenic videos burning on top of the alter. The thought of it, and it made me smile. My wife left an old, empty bottle of Nasonex for posterity.
Kwok had some other smart things on view in the two-story studio all the way at the far end of the "T." Kwok knows that sometimes it's the simplest things that make the biggest impact, and with "FFF" he makes that point. It is a sculptural installation of three white pedestals topped with three different forms of cream: powdered creamer, moisturizing cream and heavy whipping cream. God only knows why this was so interesting, but it was, and my wife was shocked to see the whipping cream atop one of the pedestals tremble when she walked. What was so surprising to me was how such an austere conceptual piece made us feel like kids in kindergarten: "Kids this is cream, C-R-E-A-M! Can you say cream?" Another great piece by Kwok was "Results, " a white long-sleeved shirt decked out in countless homemade pinback buttons with various images and symbols on them. It seemed like the entire world was buttoned to this shirt, and I thought it was an appropriate symbol for the kind of lives we lead today with not only our hearts but the world hanging on our sleeves. Lastly, Kwok presented a video called "Fixed" from his website. It is a grid of staring competitions involving Kwok, recorded over video chat. It's proof that when we humans acquire great technology, ultimately it gets put to the silliest uses – sometimes rightly so.
Hannah Chalew presented a handful of works, all concerned with overgrowth and/or derelict spaces. A topic close to every New Orleanian's heart. Her sculpture "Odin St. Takeover Part II" stood triumphant on its stilt legs, the paper house on top of it seeming to succumb to the elements of time and nature. With Chalew, nature always has the upper hand. She drapes an entire wall in the studio with handmade vine camouflage. A couple of exquisite drawings of derelict spaces line the walls. A beautiful collage/painting/wall sculpture titled "Intertwined" delineates the planes of two houses with Chalew's handmade "vines" without ever giving the viewer a glimpse of the homes themselves. A lone "vine" crosses the gulf between the two invisible houses. Also on view outside is an arbor titled "Relict Landscape" which is made of actual vines planted in the ground and completed with a bench on which viewers can sit and peer out from under the arbor. Chalew is branching out – literally.
Sadly, I felt the work of Natalie McLaurin deployed in the studio space and outside didn't compare to the work I've seen from her in the past. She offered two sculptures of hardened clothing made possible by dipping them in resin. These sculptures also had lights inside of them that we missed out on. They hung from trees. Inside, McLaurin offered some perfunctory drawings that suffered in comparison to Chalew's which were near. A sculpture of a cast of legs in jeans and sneakers and topped off by a paper bag stood near Mc Laurin's drawings. It made me yearn for one of the artist's similar pieces with handmade bird wings instead. One piece that could have worked was a piece of black fabric with mutliple, linear cuts across it. It suffered from a poor presentation on another sheet of fabric. I think if it would have been on a hard surface like a wall, it would have read better. There was another installation of McLaurin's concerning what McLaurin left or gave away during her move from New York City to New Orleans, involving small sketches of these items placed in plastic sheets. This piece lacked something in presentation as well, and I lost interest pretty quickly. I was a little dejected. All the poetry of the last work I saw from McLaurin was drained from this work. What was worse was that she was being such an amazing host to us! I felt like a heel and still do as I write this, but I gotta call 'em like I see 'em. So sorry, Nat.
Another disappointment was Angela Berry's sculpture "Biology of the Everyday," a wooden and cement DNA strand that had about as much life as a neglected coat rack, although it did look like some kind of playground device from the 50's that could poke a child's eye out. Other playground-looking sculptures faired a little better, but not by a whole lot. James Goedert's mutant ladder wasn't so visually exciting. It was simply a wooden ladder with one extremely long side that still didn't manage to get one very far up in the air. Yet, it's title provided a good punchline: "So Long for So Little." Aah, conceptual sculpture jokes! Katie Lerin's "WARP//WEFT" was a jungle gym disguised as a weaving loom, or so it looked. It was just OK.
I really dug Z Bhel's "Wooden Army," a mix of free-standing paintings of people on luan. There was a pothead in the army, and everybody knows potheads are good for a laugh. I imagine they must have been fun in the middle of all the people who gathered on opening night. I can imagine people bumping into them and apologizing to the sculptures.
Amanda Cassingham presented a performance in the form of a pamphlet advertizing the opportunity for the viewer to receive a cookie through the mail for a payment of $3.14 if they feel they "deserve" it. This tongue in cheek offer was just ridiculous enough to pique our interest. We snatched up a "Special Offer" pamphlet and plan on testing this capitalist/ social experiment soon.
I came to the conclusion that Jason Childers is the newest incarnation of Mr. Wizard. His sculpture "XY, ZX,YZ" is two squares made of thin lumber slats bisecting one another. One is vertically oriented while the other is horizontal. What looks like a low-rent, DIY minimalist snooze turns out to be an ingenious sculpture that is also a contraption of daVinci-like proportions. The center of the sculpture is occupied by a shaft connected to ropes which are also connected to the lumber slats that form the squares. Childers assembled the sculpture without the use of nails or glue. He simply cranked the shaft in the center, and the tension exerted on the ropes pulled the squares together to form the final sculpture. Who says art isn't a science and science isn't an art? It's sure not Jason Childers. Granted, it took an explanation for me to even give this thing a second look, but I love it now!
Another artist who blew me away was Elizabeth McLellan, who presented a few large-scale drawings on paper on one of the fences in the back yard. Using charcoal, sediment and natural pigments, she conjured a world of decay and apocalypse that, despite the subject matter, was beautiful to behold. In the drawings old homes and streets succumb to epic dust clouds in a mix deft representation and sublime abstraction. Stunning!
My wife and I almost missed the last piece of the show, a prismatic and mirrored tour through an alleyway the follows the side and back of the two-story studio. The piece is attributed to WNFG and is titled "Mind the Gap." I have a suspicion that WNFG is referring to the treachery of trying to walk down the alley which included a one to two foot drop on one side. Whatever, the case, it was a great little installation that cocooned us in color, light, sky, dirt and images of ourselves, and was the perfect end to our visit to the T-Lot.
There were other pieces of art at T-lot that were OK. There were pieces that were completely missing. I'll leave all of these to rest.
On the whole, exploring T-Lot's adult playground was a fantastic experience, and yes – their backyard definitely kicks your backyard's ass – unless you have one of those giant pools with a light show and a volcano or something! Then, you win.
"Parallel Play" is on view at T-Lot, 1940 Saint Claude Ave., New Orleans, from Friday, October 14 at 6:00pm – Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 10:00pm
Stephanie Patton at The Front
Video of patrons viewing artist Stephanie Patton's video "Heal" in her solo exhibition "General Hospital" at The Front in New Orleans. You can hear Patton off camera making quips about the video to the patrons. In the artist's full video, she squeezes lemons and makes lemonade for nearly two hours. At the end of the video, she takes two lemon halves, stuffs them with cotton batting and sews them together to make them "whole" again. This video captures the lemon "surgery."
on view in Patton's solo exhibition "General Hospital" at the Front, 4100 St. Claude Avenue • New Orleans, LA 70117 • Saturday & Sunday 12 to 5 pm until November 6, 2011
*** Author's note: You can read my review of "General Hospital" here.


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A steam explosion inside a snow soaked steel plant was so powerful it caused metal fly. There was no fire, instead nearby workers got their burns from the steam. It was strong enough to kill one of them.
"That's the best we can guess at this point water met with molten steel. We just don't know why," said Chief Bill Lundy, Portage Fire Department.
Firefighters theorize water may have entered an arc furnace where steel is melted. It may have gotten through a leak or from snow on steel scraps stored outside.
The mill typically runs around the clock but work is now suspended.
"The mill has been turned back over to Beta Steel, going in inspecting area to check the cause," said Lundy.
It is the second deadly explosion at the mill in the last 15 years. Investigators from the Occupation Safety and Health Administration are expected at the mill on Friday morning to help identify the cause of the latest blast.

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Jane Campbell, VBSR Executive Director, sent this message out today.
VBSR Members and Friends, Earlier this afternoon VBSR, Vermont Business Roundtable, Vermont Chamber of Commerce, and Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce issued a joint statement to media, our members, and the public.
Please find the complete statement below, and as always, please feel free to reach out with questions and comments. Thank you for your continued support of VBSR.
Vermont- Vermont business associations representing small, medium and large, businesses and their employees across Vermont find the recent Executive Order signed by President Trump to be contrary to the economic and humanitarian values that have defined our state and our country since its inception. The statement is issued jointly by the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce (LCRCC), the Vermont Business Roundtable (VBR), the Vermont Chamber of Commerce (VCC) and Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR).
As a state whose history is steeped in the legacy of those fleeing religious and political oppression, and as a state whose history is woven throughout the American Revolution's fight for personal liberty and freedom, our Associations reject the underlying assumption that one's race, religion or culture should create an automatic bar to entry into our country.
We believe that diversity makes us stronger, economically, socially and politically. We are disturbed by the reality that those who may be viewed as 'different' could be singled out for harassment, violence and rejection. As a business community, we want it known that we embrace all those who desire to work together in promoting the common good.
We respectfully request that the President rescind his Executive Order and work to find more effective ways to protect our country, our values and way of life that many have died defending.


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BULLFROGS meets every other Wednesday 6:00PM-8:00PM in the Youth Room (Room 1 – Ministry Center).
BULLFROGS is a Middle School Youth Group led by the high school peer ministry team for 6th-8th graders who want to meet new friends, grow in faith, and have fun. It is a little smaller and more informal than the MERGE Middle School Ministry program.
FREE. No pre-registration. All 6th-8th graders are welcome. Just show up and join the middle school community.
BULLFROGS Dates 2017:
-August 2 -Jan. 17 -May 16
-Sept. 13 -Jan. 31 -May 30
-Sept. 27 -Feb 7 -June 13
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About a week ago, we brought you a horrifying story about how Obama's Muslim spy ring was discovered at the White House, after 3 brothers were hired by Democrats to do IT work for Congress. But then when top secret information started being copied from Trump officials' laptops to an external server, alarm bells were immediately rung, and the 3 infiltrators were ousted. But now disturbing new information is coming to light, proving just how far Obama's plot to take down our president goes, as he tries desperately to keep his dirty talons wrapped around Washington D.C.
Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo was first to break the story last week, where she discussed how an investigation had been launched into the 3 brothers, Abid, Imran and Jamal Awan, where she disclosed the horrifying details of what's at stake now that these 3 infiltrators had accessed our nation's highest government secrets. But now the disturbing truth is coming out about who was funding these 3 Muslims, and it all ties back to one person, Barack Hussein Obama. The Angry Patriot has more:
House Democrat IT staffers involved in a security probe secretly took $100,000 in Iraqi money! The rogue congressional staffers had administrator level access to the computer network which served the House of Representatives, and they stole untold amounts of sensitive records, The Daily Caller reports.
The $100,000 in Iraqi money was reportedly given to the IT staffers in the form of a loan given from Dr. Ali al-Attar. The Islamic political figure funneled the funds through a company which possessed supposedly "impossible" to decipher electronic financial transactions the IT staffers themselves controlled.
Pakistani brothers Imran, Abid, and Jamal Awan provided IT services for then DNC Chair Debbie Wassernam-Schultz since 2005. Imran Awan is reportedly the ring leader of the tech services company run by the brothers.
What's even more alarming is that the Awan brothers have worked for DOZENS of House Democrats where they had COMPLETE ACCESS to homeland security and foreign affairs committees. At this point it is unfathomable what all they have managed to steal, as literally hundreds of top secret information files have been copied over to their external server. But not only that. After getting paid by Iraqi terrorists to spy on our government, they also started getting paychecks from Congress after becoi
Not long after the Awan brothers started working for House Democrats, Imran and Abid's wives, Hina Alvi and Natalia Sov, started getting paychecks from Congress! Just four years after becoming the Democrats' IT guys of choice, the Awan family also started running a car dealership in Virginia full time.
Chiefs of staff for dozens of Democratic lawmakers who employed the four were informed last week that a criminal probe was underway into their use of congressional information technology systems, including the existence of an external server to which House data was being funneled, and into the theft of and overbilling for computer equipment.
There's no doubt that these individuals have close ties with Obama, and were put in place to keep tabs on what's going on in Washington. Obama infiltrated our government with several Muslim Brotherhood agents while in office, so why would he stop now? Not only was Obama's closest adviser Valerie Jarret known to have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, but Obama appointed Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Elibiary as a senior member at the Department of Homeland Security, a man who tweeted his support for ISIS.
Source> Freedom Daily


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Shoepeg & Green Bean Casserole
Oxmoor House
Perk up your usual green bean casserole with the addition of shoepeg corn and sour cream, then top with a buttery cracker topping.
How to Make It
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8 September 2013
Chocolate Truffle Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Icing
I know what I want to be when I grow up. A professional baking-batter-eater. It may not be a thing yet, but I'll make darn sure it is by the time I'm a real adult.
I was going to call this future job of mine a cake-spoon licker but that seemed too restrictive. I would be missing out on all the cookie doughs and brownie batters of the world, and that just wouldn't do now, would it?
In an endeavor to make this future job as achievable as possible, I'm getting in as much practice as I can. That's where today's bake comes in. My-oh-my this batter is a good'un. It starts out pretty similar to a good staple cookie dough (feel free to put in a little practice and lick a spoon at this stage, my fellow budding batter-eaters). With the addition of buttermilk, cocoa powder and melted chocolate the mixture suddenly transforms into a delightfully soft and much thinner cake batter. After baking it produces richly flavoured and seriously moist cupcakes. Before baking it's a scrap-the-bowl clean kind of batter.
At this point I also feel the need to point out that "spoon-licker" is also too restrictive a title - I employed many utensils to make sure I got every last bit of this batter (don't pretend like you've never done that either).
Cupcake Ingredients:
75g dark chocolate, melted
50g butter
120g soft light brown sugar
1 large egg
120g plain flour
1.5tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
100ml buttermilk
4 heaped tsp cocoa powder
0.5tsp coffee granules
1tsp vanilla extract
Start by preheating the oven to fan 160 and lining a 12-hole cupcake tin.
Melt the chocolate either in the microwave or a bain-marie and set aside to cool.
In a large bowl beat together the butter, sugar and egg until evenly combined. Fold in the flour, baking powder and salt, being careful not to overmix. Carefully add the buttermilk and vanilla (it will splash if you beat too energetically, learn from my mistakes). Sift in the cocoa powder and fold in.
In a small bowl, whisk the coffee granules with just a splash of water to make them dissolve. Add this to the large mixing bowl in mix a few times to incorporate.
Divide the batter evenly between the cupcake liners (leaving sufficient for good taste test). Bake for 20 minutes until well risen and springy to touch.
Remove from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.
I cut out the middle of these beauts and filled them with a really tasty and much healthier yogurt truffle mix. They were then topped off with the remaining of the truffle mixed with salted caramel. Yum.
Filling and Icing Ingredients:
150g chocolate, dark or milk - whatever your preference
150ml natural yogurt
caramel sauce
fleur de sel (or any other rock salt)
Melt the chocolate either in a bain marie or a microwave. Whisk in the yogurt and stir until fully combined.
Allow this mixture to cool in the fridge for about ten minutes to firm up slightly.
Meanwhile, cut the middle out of each cupcake, making sure not to cut all the way to bottom. (Feel free to eat the middles - chef's perks).
Fill each of the holes with the light and tangy truffle mix. You will probably need just under half of the mixture.
With the remainder, mix in some of the caramel sauce. I'll admit, I was lazy and used store bought but Waitrose's caramel sauce is gooooood. I mean, sneak a spoon in whenever no one else is around kind of good. Add as much or as little of this as you like. I mixed in about 2 tbsp.
Swirl this all over the top of each cupcake.
Then drizzle with more caramel sauce and sprinkle on your sea salt. Now eat...lots.
2 September 2013
Birthday Cake
On Wednesday it was my birthday and, yes, I made my own cake. It was one of the highlights of my day. I'm that much of baking nerd (is there even such thing as baking nerds?)
This year I decided on a chocolate malt cake. I love maltesers, they are by far my favourite chocolate, so I decided to try and replicate the flavour in cake form. I went all out and threw a hefty helping of malt powder into both the cake and the buttercream icing.
I asked for a new camera for my birthday since I've been having to borrow my brother's to take photos for this blog. It's a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ30EB-K and whilst I'm only just getting to grips with it and learning how to use it properly, I'm already in love with it.
Back to the cake;
250ml buttermilk
60ml sunflower oil
2 large eggs
1tsp vanilla extract
220g self-raising flour
100g caster sugar
150g soft light brown sugar
95g cocoa powder
1tsp baking powder
3tbsp malt powder (I used horlicks)
100ml freshly brewed coffee
Preheat the oven to fan 160 and grease and line 2 9-inch cake tins.
Whisk together the buttermilk, oil, eggs and vanilla in a large mixing bowl.
Sift together the flour, sugars, cocoa, baking powder and malt powder until lump-free.
Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until everything is evenly combined.
Pour in the coffee and mix again. It will be a very wet batter but don't panic, it's meant to be.
Divide between the two tins and bake for between 20 and 30 minutes, until the edges are just beginning to shrink away from the tin and the top springs back when touched, but the cakes are still moist and fudgy.
Leave to cool in the tins for 10 minutes before removing and cooling completely on a wire rack.
Buttercream ingredients:
250g butter
500g icing sugar
5tbsp malt powder
2tbsp cocoa powder
100g dark chocolate, melted
Cut the butter into smallish chunks and drop into a food processor. Blitz for about 30 seconds until well softened.
Add the icing sugar, cocoa powder and malt powder in batches of roughly thirds, blitzing each time until fully incorporated.
Lastly, pour in the melted chocolate and blend again.
At this point, the buttercream will be quite soft so you might want to put it in the fridge for 20 minutes to firm up a little before spreading on the cake.
Once the cakes are completely cool, it's time to ice. Place one of the cake layers on your serving plate and spread about one third of the icing on top, going all the way to the edges. Put the other cake layer on top and spread another third of the icing on that. Use the last third of the icing to cover the sides.
If at any point your icing is getting too soft, bung both the cake and icing in the fridge for 10 minutes to firm up a little. It might also help to build the icing up in thinner layers, rather than spreading it all on at once.
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From Inland Sea it is possible to rent a small fisherman's boat which brings you to the drop-off point. There you will find a very long tunnel of more than 100 meter long. You won't get lost as the tunnel is straight and you will never loose your sight from its mouth. There is also an opening somewhere half way where you can surface and breath good air.
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Faculty Awardees
Tanya Titchkosky, recipient of 2016 Reviewer Award for Outstanding Journal Reviews awarded by the Liverpool University Press for her role of reviewer during the peer-review process for Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies.
George Dei wins prestigious Whitworth award for profound impact on race and education.
D.W. Livingstone. "Changing Wokplaces ina Knowledge Economy: Occupational Clss Structue, Skill Use and the Place of Professions in Canada". SSHRC Insigt Research Grat 435-2015-0732. Awarded April, 2015. (with Tracey Adam and Peter H. Sawchuk).
Njoki Wane wins the David E. Hunt Award for Excellence in Graduate Education at OISE's Teaching Excellence Awards.
Monica Heller is elected President (2013-15) of the American Anthropological Association, the world's largest academic society of anthropologists.
Monica Heller, recipient of the 2014 Prix du CRCCF award.
John P. Portelli wins the 2013 OISE David E. Hunt Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.
Alison Prentice (Professor Emerita) is appointed Member of the Order of Canada on June 28, 2013.
Tanya Titchkosky, 2014 recipient of The CDSA-ACEI Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability Study and Culture: http://www.cdsa-acei.ca/tanisdoe.html
Miglena Todorova, 2014 recipient of the "Professor of the Year Award," University of Toronto, Scarborough College.
Njoki Wane, "Off the Clock" - A Global Effort in Embu, Kenya.
Alumni Awardees
Anne McGuire (PhD 2011) wins the first Tobin Siebers prize in Disability Studies in the Humanities at the Modern Languages Association for her book "War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence"
Kate Cairns (PhD 2011) wins the 2013 Alice Wilson Award from the Royal Society of Canada.
Paloma Villegas (PhD 2012) wins the 2012 OISE Leithwood Award for Oustanding Thesis of the Year.
Michael Mcgarry (PhD 2013) wins the 2014 Canadian Philosophy of Education Society Dissertation Award (To read, write, and cast accounts: Foucault, Governmentality and Education in Upper Canada/Canada West).
Student Awardees
Academic Excellence
Laura Kwak (OISE) 2013-2014
Best Student Paper
Laura Landertinger, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) for "The Best Student Paper" presented at the annual NAISA Conference in 2014
Dr. E. Bruce Hendrick Scholarship
Terri-Lynn Langdon, Ph.D. candidate, recipeint of the Dr. E. Bruce Hendrick Scholarship.
Excellence In Leadership
Jacqui Spencer, recipient of the Leonard Braithwaite Award for Excellence in Leadership.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Marissa Largo, Doctoral (2013-16)
Ashling Ligate, Masters
Averie MacDonald, Masters
Amanda Parris, Masters
Jaclyn San Antonio, Doctoral (2013-16)
OISE Muriel Fung Student Appreciation Award
Harriet Akanmori, PhD student (2015)
Francisco Villegas, PhD Candidate (2014)
Cindy Ruvashtre Sinclair, PhD Candidate (2013)
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Kate Zankowics, winner of the University of Toronto Women's Association A&C Coman Scholarship, 2013-2014
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- D.W. Livingstone. "Family Binds and Glass Ceilings: Women Managers' Promotion Limits in a 'Knowledge Economy'.Critical Sociology (2016) Vol. 42(1) 145-166.
- D.W. Livingstone. "Reconnecting class and production relations in an advanced capitalst 'knowledge economy': Changing class structure and class consciousness". Capital & Class (2016) 1-25.
- Megan Boler. Post-election analysis.
- D.W. Livingstone. "Exploitation, Stagnant Wages and Underemployment in Advanced Capitalism: A Canadian Perspective". Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research. 27 (2015): 46-54.
- Razack, Sherene. Dying From Improvement - Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Boyd, Dwight R. Becoming of Two Minds about Liberalism: A Chronicle of Philosophical and Moral Development. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Bakan, Abigail B. and Enakshi Dua. Theorizing Anti-Racism: Linkages in Marxism and Critical Race Theories, University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Matt Ratto and Megan Boler (Eds.). DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014.
Vivienne Bozalek, Brenda Leibowitz, Ronelle Caroliseen, and Megan Boler (Eds). Discerning Critical Hope in Educational Practices, Routledge, 2014.
Dei, J. Sefa and Paul B. Adjei (Eds). Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development': Speaking Differently, Peter Lang Publishing Press, New York, 2014.
Dei, J. George and Mairi McDermott (Eds). Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning, Springer 2014.
Njoki Nathani Wane. Indigenous African Knowledge Production: Food-Processing Practices among Kenyan Rural Women, University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Wane, Nathani Njoki, Francis Akena Adyanga and Ahmed Ali Ilmi (Eds). Spiritual Discourse in the Academy: A Globalized Indigeneous Perspective, Peter Lang Publishing, 2014.
Asabere-Ameyaw, Akwasi, Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, George Sefa Dei and Kolawole Raheem (Eds). Indigenist African Development and Related Issues: Towards a Transdiciplinary Perspective, Sense Publishers, 2014.
George J. Sefa Dei and Arlo Kempf. New Perspectives on African-Centred Education in Canada. Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press, 2013.
William Hare and John P. Portelli (Eds.). Philosophy of Education: Introductory Readings. Edmonton, AB: Brush Education, 2013.
Njoki N. Wane and Larissa Cairncross. Equity in Practice: Transformational Training Resource. Oakville, ON: Nsemia, 2013.
Njoki N. Wane, Jennifer Jagire, and Zahra Murad (Eds.). Ruptures: Anti-Colonial and Anti-Racist Feminist Theorizing. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense, 2013.
Njoki N. Wane and Erica Neeganagwedgin (Eds.). A Handbook on African Traditional Healing Approaches and Research Practices. Oakville, ON: Nsemia, 2013.
Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw, George J. Sefa Dei, and Kolawole Raheem (Eds.). Contemporary Issues in African Sciences and Science Education. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense, 2012.
Rosemary Clark, David W. Livingstone, and Harry Smaller (Eds.). Teacher Learning and Power in the Knowledge Society. Notterdam, Netherlands: Sense, 2012.
Roland Sintos Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, John Paul Catungal, and Lisa Davidson. (Eds.). Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
David W. Livingstone and David Guile (Eds.). The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning. Notterdam, Netherlands: Sense, 2012.
Brenda L. Spencer, Kenneth D. Gariepy, Kari Dehli, and James Ryan (Eds.). Canadian Education: Governing Practices and Producing Subjects. Notterdam, Netherlands: Sense, 2012.
- Martin J. Cannon and Lina Sunseri (Eds.). Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2011.
George J. Sefa Dei (Ed.). Indigenous Philosophies and Critical Education. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.
Alexandre Duchêne and Monica Heller (Eds). Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit. London: Routledge, 2011.
Monica Heller. Paths to Post-Nationalism: A Critical Ethnography of Language and Identity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.
David W. Livingstone (Ed.). Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work. New York: Routledge, 2011.
- David W. Livingstone, Dorothy E. Smith, and Warren Smith. Manufacturing Meltdown: Reshaping Steel Work. Winnepeg, MB: Fernwood, 2011.
Tanya Titchkosky. The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Njoki N. Wane, Arlo Kempf, and Marlon Simmons (Eds). The Politics of Cultural Knowledge. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense, 2011.
Njoki N. Wane, Energy L. Manyimo, and Eric J. Ritskes (Eds). Spirituality, Education and Society: An Integrated Approach. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense, 2011.
- Adyanga, Francis Akena. The Catastrophe of Education in Civil War Areas, Uganda: The Impact of Civil War on Education: A Case Study of Acholiland, Northern Uganda, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
- Megan Boler (Ed.). Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.
Cankech, Onecan A. The Origin of Wrongs Against African Women: An Enquiry on Black Women's Role and Contribution from Antiquity. Foreword by Molefi K. Asante, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
George J. Sefa Dei (Ed.). Fanon and the Counterinsurgency of Education. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense, 2010.
George J. Sefa Dei (Ed.). Learning to Succeed: The Challenges and Possibilities of Educational Achievement for All. London, UK: Teneo, 2010.
George J. Sefa Dei and Marlon Simmons (Eds.). Fanon and Education: Thinking Through Pedagogical Possibilities. New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
Roy Moodley and Rinaldo Walcott (Eds). Counseling Across and Beyond Cultures: Exploring the Work of Clemmont E. Vontress in Clinical Practice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith, and Sunera Thobani (Eds.). States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2010.
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Dwight R. Boyd, Professor Emeritus of SJE, on the publication of his book Becoming of Two Minds about Liberalism: A Chronicle of Philosophical and Moral Development.
Maya Chacaby, SJE PhD student, who was featured in Maclean's Magazine as a professor who is bringing Ojibwe culture to the classroom. See the story here: http://www.macleans.ca/education/how-one-york-professor-is-bringing-ojibwe-culture-to-the-classroom/.
Farai Gonzo, SJE PhD student, who was featured in the Toronto Star as part of the Scholars-At-Risk Program. Gonzo is doing her PhD in how community radio in Toronto might better serve immigrants from Africa: http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2015/10/23/scholars-at-risk-throws-lifeline-of-learning-to-those-whove-faced-danger.html.
Congratulations to Rusa Jeremic, SJE PhD student, whose artwork has been published in The Harper Record 2008-2015. The book can be found here and Rusa's art piece is on page 229: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/harper-record-2008-2015.
The University of Toronto Students for Barrier Free Access (SBA), Board of Directors is delighted to support the ongoing public disability centric events of the Department of Social Justice Education (SJE), with funds made available for this purpose in 2015-16. This award is to support future events while acknowledging and nurturing the collaborative relation between SBA, disabled students and social justice scholarship. Please watch for future event notices, and please visit http://www.uoftsba.com.
Lauren Bialystok, Assistant Professor, for her Huffington Post article on the Ontario Sex Ed Curriculum protests. Read the article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/misha-abarbanel/sex-ed-curriculum-protest_b_8123292.html.
George Sefa Dei, Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto, was awarded the Carnegie African Diaspora (ADF) 2015 Fellowship. This award is dedicated for educational projects at African higher education institutions.
OCUFA distinguished 2014 Status of Women Award of Distinction and the Lorimer Award, awarded in recognization of women who have improved the lives and working conditions of academic women and, by extension, their students, colleagues, families, and friends. Winners include:
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Tanya Titchkosky, 2014 recipient of The CDSA-ACEI Tanis Doe Award for Canadian Disability Study and Culture: http://www.cdsa-acei.ca/tanisdoe.html.
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I made a total of $476.45 in Amazon Associates for the month of August 2014. Not bad! It's a little more than last month and about $10 less than the month before that. Summer is so slow for me and with the month ending on a holiday weekend, I didn't expect a lot of sales or shipping on Amazon's part.
I hope to see an increase in September but only time will tell. Christmas is only 114 days away and that's the time of year that I have the most sales to look forward too! This will be the first year I am on my own without Squidoo so I'm really looking forward to see how well I do without them.
So how about you?
Are you looking forward to Christmas sales?
9/1/2014 10:24:28 pm
Well done Lesley! Hopefully September will be a better month. I noticed last year that my Amazon sales increased month on month from September onwards. There are so many factors that can affect sales during the summer. Despite everything that's getting thrown at you (Squidoo, Zujava etc.), your focus and determination has remained strong and you are an inspiration to everyone :)
Lesley Stevens
9/7/2014 01:07:49 am
Thank you Mary, I really do try to stay positive because I know that God is in control no matter what. Thank you so much for your kind words.
Lesley Stevens
9/7/2014 01:08:37 am
Yes, the sales tax issue is the main reason I am not doing FBA, its just not worth it to me and I truly do not enjoy the prepping, packing and shipping aspect of it.
9/4/2014 09:09:31 am
Well done!!
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9/7/2014 01:08:50 am
Thank you Staci!
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9/5/2014 05:28:20 am
that's awesome!! i need to use my associate account more often. way to go.
Lesley Stevens
9/7/2014 01:09:13 am
You really do because the sales add up over time, they really do.
9/6/2014 04:30:43 am
UGH...I can't even think of Christmas now. Blech
Lesley Stevens
9/7/2014 01:09:43 am
Christmas is awesome when you are making money and not spending it! You need more Amazon links on your Madhouse blog.
Lesley Stevens
9/9/2014 05:29:39 am
Its not bad for August at all, and I'm on my own now, so I'm really proud of how much I make. God has been faithful every single step of the way. I can see how He used this terrible event in my life to build me up into a better blogger and internet marketer.
9/11/2014 07:08:15 am
You have done an amazing job! God is so good!
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Hi Aleksey,
Would you consider a steeper slope setting for your "crossovers"? I can't suggest a good figure without hearing it but a guess would be about 12db or 18dB/octave or so. I don't know if it would be a nice addition to the sound and controllability or make it worse. Maybe you've already tried something along these lines...thanks, Kyle
OK - Aleksey, just curious. I didn't remember exactly what it was, you mentioned it somewhere else, 12db/octave. So then steeper would be either 18db or 24db per octave - if it adds bands then I assume the cpu consumption would increase proportionally, I don't think us users would like that tradeoff! Nevermind then - you've already thought about this and optimized soniformer.
I'll download the 01AUG2005 beta tonight! Thanks for the update - I'm using soniformer to tame a bass guitar resonance in a live mix where one note of the bass guitar caugth the room the right way and boomf!!!
OMG - the new v2.3.3 is incredible! I sent you an email about a couple of items on it. I am not believing the nice changes you've made - I just starting to go thru them now...thank you! -Kyle
OK - thanks Aleksey - after you tweak it this new Soniformer is gonna surprise a lot of folks!
One more comment on the original topic of this thread. I understand that you don't believe this to be a good idea so I'm not trying to change your mind...unless :) if steeper slopes mean that there won't be full coverage across the full audio spectrum then wouldn't we have a type of parametric multiband compressor? Assuming the center freqs can move (I don't know the design so this may not be possible now) then there would just be a bunch of stackable band pass compressors. Kind of like on your parametric EQs, bands can overlap or band may have space in between...we may have discussed something similar to this before possibly - I'm forgetting now.
Thanks for the new version! -Kyle
I tried this new beta demo...this thing is an extremely versatile tool, I had no idea how nicely it would develop past v2.
One bug maybe? In the knob mode, it seems like the "High" & "Low" banks have been switched (or mislabeled).
Brian, I'll fix that 'reversal' soon.
Kyle, steeper bands in the current implementation will sound a bit like a speaker cabinet - pure comb filtering FX.
Nice! Fantastic new beta! Aleksey, you are full of suprises. I thank thee from the bottom of my heart. The new 4 orders is a very useful addition.
Is it a bug that when all are set to 'off' it still uses about 7% CPU on my Athlon 3200+ Barton?
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I am going to be doing a bit of Christmas shopping with my sister and meeting up with a cousin I haven't seen for far too long. I am very excited! I hope she likes her cupcake gift box, beats a Christmas card hands down!
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They are both AW09 but I am sure you'll be able to find them on eBay if they take your fancy.
Ha! Oh dear. Me making like a leopard at the request of my boyfriend... because of my leopard nails obviously. Not that you can see them but anyways.
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Racing fans arrived at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia on Saturday, August 28, expecting to see round 12 of the AMA Progressive Insurance Flat Track Championship Series. However, a mid-afternoon cloudburst had turned the half-mile oval into a swamp forcing a one-day postponement of the event. Promotor, Rick Yeager stated that with more than an inch of rain Saturday afternoon on an already wet track, there was no way to prepare the surface in time to avoid postponement. He explained that track preparation for motorcycles is different than for auto races. Rolling out the track leaves the surface too rough for the bikes. Fortunately, the remainder of the weekend was dry. After track preparation and practice laps were completed, the first qualifying races commenced at about 3 p.m. on Sunday.
The audience was somewhat smaller than it would have been for Saturday evening races, but the fans who turned out enjoyed an afternoon of very competitive racing. There were lots of thrills and a few spills, thankfully with no serious injuries.
The top three finishers in the Harley-Davidson Sportster Performance class were Christopher Hart of Farmington, New York, Robert Lewis of Tarboro, North Carolina, and William Seyle of Hanahan, South Carolina. Hart led the final 9 laps of 12 for his third win of the season.
A field of 38 riders was entered in the Progressive Insurance Grand National class. Qualifying heat races were won by Jared Mees, Bryan Bigelow, Kevin Atherton, Chris Carr, Joe Kopp, and Ken Coolbeth. Heat race winners were Mees, Jake Johnson, Carr, and Kopp. In the semi-finals, Glen Schnabel, Rich King, and Shaun Russell led the way.
During a break in the action, announcer J.B. Norris interviewed Austin Kathkart of Kansas City who had finished second at the Sedalia race 51 years earlier on a Harley. Austin observed that today's bikes are a lot faster. He didn't remember how much he won for his second place finish but thought it was about $100, good money in those days. He said he probably spent it getting ready for the Springfield Mile the next weekend. J.B. kidded Austin a bit about his difficulty remembering how successful the Indian riders were against the Harleys back then.
When the Grand National final race began, defending series champion Chris Carr took an early lead followed by Joe Kopp, Jake Johnson, and Johnny Murphree. Carr held the lead for the first nine laps, but then slid out of the groove and allowed Kopp and Murphree to pass. Three laps later Murphree claimed the lead, passing Kopp on the inside in turn one. On lap 20, Mike Hacker and Kevin Atherton tangled and went down bringing out the red flag. With six laps remaining, Murphree pulled away on the restart and was never challenged for the win. Kopp finished second followed by his teammate Ken Coolbeth. Carr and Shaun Russell rounded out the top five.
After the awards ceremony, Murphree who hails from Paso Robles, California, was interviewed by J.B. Norris.
J.B.: How long were those last six laps?
Johnny: It seemed like they lasted an eternity, but I could tell after the restart that there was nobody as close behind me as there was before the restart. I was just riding around thinking, man if I can just keep this rhythm going, I might be able to do this all day.
J.B.: Johnny, you had a tough first part of the season, but now you're hitting your stride--second last week and a victory today.
Johnny: Yeah, that's kind of what we were looking for after the first part of the season. It was tough to get everything going, but it's good to finally get some results. We've got a lot of strong people behind us-Coziahr H-D/National Cycle, Troy Lee Designs, Shoei Helmets, Hap Jones, Poli Trucking, Motion Pro and American Supercamp. We've got a lot of guys in there who are really kicking down and making this team what it is. And of course my mechanic, Mike Wheeler--he's unreal! He's got the bike working perfectly. Now all I've got to do is my job.
Major sponsors of the event were Yeager Cycle Sales, Budweiser, FedEx and R.K. Stratman. The Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club also donated $1,000 to the purse for the Sportster class.
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Musharraf has used nuke-instability threat to perpetuate his rule: Imran KhanNovember 22nd, 2007 - 2:41 pm ICT by admin
Islamabad, Nov 22 (ANI): Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has charged President Pervez Musharraf of using the threat to Pakistan's nuclear assets as a ploy to further his unconstitutional rule.
"This is Musharraf's last attempt to establish that he's indispensable for the West in the war on terror," the Daily Times quoted Khan, as saying in an open letter to the nation.
Khan handed over the letter to his sister when she met him before his release from the Dera Ghazi Khan Jail, on Wednesday.
Khan praised the judges of the superior courts who had preferred deposition over taking oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO).
The deposed judges deserved admiration because they tried to provide relief to the common man by taking suo motu notices of their problems, he said, adding that their reinstatement was necessary for the country's prosperity.
Khan had said that he would continue his hunger strike until the deposed judges were restored.
Only independent judges could ensure the freedom of the press, he said.
Khan urged the nation to join hands with journalists, lawyers and other forces for the restoration of the judges. (ANI)
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He was arrested after an attack outside Mojo's bar, in West Kirby, Wirral, in the early hours of the same day.
A 34-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious head injuries and today remained in a critical but stable condition.
A 30-year-old man was also arrested but was later released without charge and will face no further action.


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India undeterred by US opposition to IPI pipeline: Iranian officialDecember 5th, 2007 - 12:35 pm ICT by admin
Rome, Dec 5 (ANI): India is to go ahead with its plans to import Iranian natural gas through a pipeline across Pakistan, undeterred by the US opposition to New Delhi dealing with Tehran, a senior Iranian gas official has said.
"At the end of this week, we have a meeting with them," Nosratollah Seifi, the Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC), told reporters here.
"Every time we asked whether they were under pressure from the US they said 'no, we will follow national opportunities.' And that is what they are doing," he added.
Seifi said that the NIGEC was currently meeting Pakistani and Indian officials over the operational agreement for the pipeline, and some disagreement between the two neighbours remained to be resolved.
Although, India is concerned about transit fees that Pakistan wanted to levy on the gas, Iran believes that the project is on track.
"They had some negotiations about the cost of the transit and transport that Pakistan claimed," The News quoted Seifi, as saying on the sidelines of the CWC World LNG summit.
"That is why they want Iran to observe the meetings," he claimed. (ANI)
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