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Hello, Today is my first post with Morgan's Artworld Design Team. I am using the new release "Fae12". You can find it here http://www.faeentertainment.ecrater.com/c/1952423/art-stamps-by-morgan-fitzsimons?&srn=0.
I made 2 cards to share with you.
Copics used are E000, E00, E01, E02, R20, R30- skin, RV10, RV13, RV17- lips, BG000, BG01, BG05, BG09- eyes, YR20, YR21, YR24, YR27, YR30- hair, YG61, YG63, YG67- leaves, E43, E44- branch and vines, R29- berries, BG000, BG01, BG05, BG07, BG09- shirt and bracelets.
Gelly Roll Pens used are Gold Metallic, Silver Metallic, Blue Metallic, Sky Stardust for the jewelry.
The tiny pearls are by JOT.
The die cuts were made using Spellbinders dies called Labels Thirty Four and Floral Flourishes.
The papers are by Recollections- goldenrod, blue, Georgia Pacific- white, Pixel Scrapper- digital prints-https://www.pixelscrapper.com/.
The card is 5" x 6 1/2".
Copics used are E000, E00, E01, E02, R20, R30- skin, RV10, RV13, RV17- lips, E37, E93, E95, E97, E99- hair, YG00, YG93, YG95, G99- eyes, YG61, YG63, YG67- leaves, R29- berries, E43, E44- vines and branch, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17, Y23, Y26, Y28- bracelets, YG00, YG93, YG95, YG97, YG99- shirt.
Gelly Roll pens used are Gold Metallic, Green Stardust, Green Metallic for the jewelry.
I used a corner rounder to round off the shape around the image. Then I inked it with Martha Stewart Pistachio ink pad.
The pearls are by Want 2 Scrap.
The background die cut is by Spellbinders called Botanical Swirls.
The ribbon is by Really Reasonable Ribbon. http://www.reasonableribbon.com/
The papers are by Recollections- light olive, olive, Georgia Pacific- white.
The card is 5" x 6 1/2".
Thanks for dropping by. Be sure to stop by Morgan's Artworld Blog and see all the creations by the other DT and join in the challenge. You can find the blog here http://morgansartworld.blogspot.com.au/.
You can find the Morgan's Artworld Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/groups/848616968526756/.
Have a wonderful day! Edwina


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The Wheel of Life turns 'round once more. With every spin, seven days flash by and the forever-carpet of the Future unfurls beneath our feet. And no man knows what awaits him as that great Wheel makes its cycle...
...but it's a good bet that if it's Friday, the Modulator will have posted the Friday Ark.
And so he has. Edition #92 is up.
And be sure to visit Carnival of the Cats, the next incarnation of which will be hosted by Life-Florida-Whatever, AKA Pets Garden Blog, this coming Sunday evening.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Amphibious Assault Vehicle
Marines aboard an amphibious assault vehicle transit to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) during Bold Alligator 2012. Bold Alligator 2012 is the largest naval amphibious exercise in the past 10 years and represents the Navy and Marine Corps' revitalization of the full range of amphibious operations. The exercise focuses on today's fight with today's forces, while showcasing the advantages of sea basing. This exercise will take place Jan. 30 through Feb. 12, 2012 afloat and ashore in and around Virginia and North Carolina. #BA12 (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Vargas/Released)
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It was an "Emperor has no clothes" moment when ICT 'evangelist' Russell Prue lampooned the intention of education secretary Michael Gove MP to give teachers powers to search their students for mobile phones.
Acting out one likely result, he said the girls could hide their phones "down here" (indicating the chest area) and the boys "down there" (gesturing towards the groin) with an accompanying "Go on sir" taunt. "You go down there and you will be on the front page of the Daily Mail tomorrow," he quipped. It was probably the funniest moment at the Northern Grid conference in Newcastle, but some serious points came with it along with the question: "Is the man deranged?"
In his keynote to the Northern Grid Conference, Russell Prue, focusing on ICT (information and communications technology) and learning, said that it was "disturbing" that Michael Gove wanted teachers to search children for their mobile phones, and that they should go in into them and change or delete whatever they wanted. Prompting more laughter, he said of headteachers: "This is a group of people who can barely move their phones into silent mode at conferences when asked to do so by organisers, and suddenly they're going to be able to go into my phone's operating system and delete content. Is the man deranged? It's a question that we all want the answer to at the moment.
With student phone ownership at nearly 100%, bans are 'remarkably ignorant'
"It is the 21st century after all, and with mobile ownership approaching 100 per cent in our sector and I am not talking about you; I'm talking about the children here. It seems remarkably ignorant of us to continue to ban mobile phones in our schools. How big are we prepared to build our confiscation drawers?"
The idea that mobile phones are such a social problem that they require legislation to search for them and censor their contents has puzzled many organisations including trade unions. However, coming at a time when students' phones are increasingly being seen as potential resources for schools, subject to 'appropriate use' policies (created with learners), this legislation is simply outlandish for those involved with ICT for learning.
The absolute silence of the Coalition Government on ICT for learning, let alone as a powerful tool for savings at a time of major budget cuts, has led to doubts about the ability of the Department for Education to build a vision for learning that can engage learners – and teachers too. Russell Prue celebrated the success of many young people in using social networking for career success – despite no help from their schools – and flagged up the acceptance of social media as a power for corporate and business success.
He gave examples of free texting services where learners, teachers and parents could text a simple word into a school system to receive instantly updated information on subjects like "menu", "clubs" or "sports". Many of the firms that could advise them on these services were present at the Northern Grid conference, he said.
After pointing out that blogging headed a Wall Street Journal list of new jobs in the US ("You have to write well enough to bring 100,00 readers back to your site – your 'first' from Oxford means nothing in this list") he also highlighted young people's success online. Like Jake and Chris, who had millions of hits on their YouTube clips of humorous mimes to pop songs and earned a deal with Nigel Martin-Smith (see video of them on the Lily Allen Show, below).
Commenting on their success, he said: "The interesting thing for educators is that they have been renumerated not on their talent but on the opportunity thay have presented to someone else. Now you can watch Britain's got Talent from an entirely different perspective."
He also highlighted the success of Gateshead teenager Lauren Luke who started uploading make-up tutorials to YouTube as an 11-year-old with no help from her school which banned YouTube. Now the Lauren Luke make-up range can be bought worldwide.
The answer, he said, was for schools to move from playing "What's in the teacher's head?" and children accruing facts for two years before being tested, to pushing creativity and innovation and working in teams: "Watching The Apprentice showed that the ones who failed were the ones who couldn't do that."
The value of social networking was even affecting employment recruitment he said. Online job applications for Nandos, the most popular company to work for according to The Times/Sunday Times, require level 7 ICT for graduate recruitment: "The world has changed and it's not turning back."
Corporates and brands were now making their way on to Facebook as a place they wanted to do business, he said, and this meant that they value the skills of young employees who could help them achieve this. Dealing with the worries about Facebook that exist in many schools, Russell Prue directed teachers to Facebook's own resources for educators at facebook.com/educators and highlighted the work of Juliette Heppell.
'You will never have to tell students how to use Facebook'
He advised them to set up their own, fresh accounts: "Don't use your existing name – have a teaching name in the account somewhere. Disable chat because it can't be recorded. You don't friend and you don't write on their walls. Follow some simple rules and it becomes very, very powerful – and you'll never have to tell the kids how to use it."
It was a bravura mix of rhetorical challenge, stand-up humour and provocative asides like "Why are we teaching anything that's available in Google?". But there was plenty of food for thought too, like research from the OECD that indicates that what is most needed by the most challenging children is "confidence" rather than the increased discipline currently on offer.
Motorola Atrix, (see photos above and left) a powerful Android device that has its own laptop dock, a lightweight notebook that is driven by the phone via its own little dock. These are available for around £200 and Russell suggested that technology like this could be an affordable, sustainable option for schools so that they could exploit learners' own mobile devices.And of course there was technology. Russell showed his latest personal device, the
He celebrated the technology changes that were coming through, including the increasing popularity of internet radio which uses significantly less power than DAB radio, making the choice simple for anyone interested in sustainability or saving money.
Of course radio is a subject near to Russell Prue's heart. An expert in the use of creative use of radio for learning, he now markets his own 'radio station' technology to schools through his company, Anderton Tiger. And small companies like his know only too well the adverse effects on sales due to the Gove team's silence on technology and the diversion of the Harnessing Technology grant money to free schools. Add to that schools' fear of the effects of government cuts and you get the picture for many companies working in the education marketplace.
Expert teachers, Michael Gove's dream, ran the Northern Grid teacher sessions
However, Russell Prue's performance was anything but a whinge, despite the trenchant criticism of Government ICT policy (or the lack of it). And, had Michael Gove been interested, he would have seen some excellent teaching. The Northern Grid for Learning Conference was packed with sessions from leading educators showing the high-quality teaching he purports to support, and which is certainly not the exclusive preserve of public schools as his recent performance at the Sunday Times festival of Learning suggested..
Expert practitioners like Joe Dale, Bev Evans, Steve Bunce, Jan Webb, Dan Roberts, Bill Lord and Steve Wheeler shared a wide range of the very best practice with local teachers who, in turn, shared their own discoveries. It all went to show that, despite any issues with Government ICT policy for learning, the genie is out of the bottle and will not be returning any time soon.
Russell Prue provided the conclusion: "Shift has already happened and it's not turning back. Nature is finding a way for us. It's a Jurassic Park moment. He's cut off the funding, he's trying to srtrangle us but actually there are little seeds that we planted a little while ago and they are just working their way through. And the refreshing thing for me is that there is nothng he can do about that."
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Dentsu Communications - Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology
The Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology (STEM) inspires high schools students to become the scientists and engineers of tomorrow by providing them an opportunity to present original research to the most prestigious universities and an opportunity to win scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $100,000.
To promote the competition, the team reached out to the media in every university market and student hometowns, and prepped students for media interviews. "The team focused on making difficult scientific concepts accessible to general audiences without compromising accuracy or misrepresenting students' work," says Jim Miller, senior VP and managing director, Dentsu Communications. Press releases announcing the competition finalists were tailored to each media market. The campaign generated 292 stories reaching more than 310 million people, including coverage in The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
Honorable Mentions
Alliance for Consumer Education – Super Heroes Team Up to Fight Germs: To educate the public on how to stay germ free, the Alliance set up a Times Square event that educated passers-by on proper hand-washing techniques, providing free soap and distributing book covers.
Legacy – truth Orange Summer and Fall Tours 2010: Legacy's PR team provided content to local media as the tour crossed the country. The campaign generated more than 35 million media impressions, including coverage in the Chicago Tribune.
Weber Shandwick for American Airlines – All Aboard the Snowball Express: To raise awareness of the American Airlines/Snowball Express initiative to send families of fallen soldiers on all-expenses-paid trips, Weber Shandwick arranged media interviews with families and American employees, and posted messages on Facebook and Twitter.


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|Harry Mitts, Jr.
He's under constant surveillance. He would be anyhow by now. They keep a minute-by-minute log of the last days. They were getting set to start doing that for Billy Slagle back in August, but he hanged himself just before they began. Then Ariel Castro hanged himself in his cell. And another guy less prominent. They're not taking chances with Mitts, by god. They're gonna kill him.
Can't have him doing it to himself. The sentence isn't death, after all, it's execution. He's not supposed to die. He's supposed to be killed. Doing it himself? That's how he "escaped justice" in the words of a Toledo Blade editorial.
On August 14, 1994, Harry Mitts shot and killed John Bryant and Police Sergeant Dennis Gilvar, shot but didn't kill a couple of other cops. Just over three months later, Mitts was sentenced to be killed. That's fast enough to raise eyebrows among the folks who have some idea how this system works. But Harry wasn't kicking up all that much of a fuss. At trial he didn't contest the evidence of what he did. Instead, he argued, in the words of the Ohio Supreme Court, "that he was too intoxicated to form the required intent to kill."
His'll be the 52nd killing here in the Buckeye State, 3rd this year. And perhaps the last for a while. The supply of pentobarbital expires now, and there's really no more readily available. So Harry's killing will be the last under the current murder protocol, and while they've said they'll be setting out a new killing plan by October 4 and that they intend to use it on Ronald Phillips in November, new plans mean new litigation and, well, who knows. Harry may be the last for a while.
We can wish he'd be the last forever, the coda to the killing fields of Lucasville. Frankly, that's unlikely. But it might be fitting.
None of that moves this far out of the mainstream of killing and death sentences in Ohio or anywhere else where we put folks on death row. If that's all there were, I'd be holding off on writing this. Maybe I'd do a post-mortem piece after the killing, but not now. Not the night before. What has me writing now is the Bible.
Note the lower case t in the Bible. That's because I'm not interested here in The Bible, Old Testament or New, with or without apocrypha, King James or Revised Standard or the abominable Good News. No, this is about the Bible. The one that Mitts has had since that day in November 1994 when he was sentenced to be killed. The one that was handed to him by a chaplain at the Cuyahoga County Jail the day he was sentenced. The one that he eventually learned was given to him by the mother and sister of Sgt. Gilvar, you know, one of the men he killed.
He got a letter from Cheryl Janoviak, Gilvar's sister, too. She wrote to tell him, to make sure he knew, that she and her mother forgave him. JoAnne Viviano in the Columbus Dispatch.
"As Jesus forgave and still forgives, my mother and I also forgive you," Janoviak wrote to Mitts in 1994. "Had you died on August 14, 1994, your eternal home would have been in hell. In God's mercy, your life was spared, and He spared your life to allow you this time to choose where you want to spend eternity."Last week, Janoviak explained.
What my mom and I did was only a portion of what God desired to draw Mr. Mitts to the cross and the saving, redeeming, wonderful, cleansing grace that is available to all.
God works through people, but ultimately it is the Holy Spirit and his love that satisfies. Unfortunately, in this case, it took a tragedy to get (Mitts') attention and hear God calling him.As it happens, there's forgiveness and there's forgiveness.
Janoviak said she and her mother plan to attend the execution. When asked whether they support clemency for Mitts, she referred to a Bible verse from the book of Romans: "Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God."Look, I'm an atheist. I don't believe in God. On balance, it seems to me that religion has been far more a force for cruelty and pain than for good which has nothing to with the existence of some deity but everything to do with the consequence of believing in her (him? it?). But if I don't believe in god, I do believe (if you've been a reader of this blawg for any length of time you already know this) in grace.
So Sergeant Gilvar's mother and sister believe that their god wants Harry Mitts to be killed by a bunch of prison guards in the morning. And they plan to watch the killing themselves. But they also believe that their god wants them to embrace love and not hate, to turn pain to forgiveness, and to give Harry Mitts what they believe to be eternal peace and happiness.
To Harry, that means a lot. And so he looks forward to being killed.
[M]y reason for desiring to be executed is simple. I'll be in the presence of Jesus, and I will never sin against God again!"Which kind of takes the sting out of punishment, turns it into something more like reward (or so the condemned guy thinks). But, hey, nobody said this thing made any sense.


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Sacramento – Senator Andy Vidak (R-Hanford) issued the following statement in response to the recent murder of Whittier Police Officer Keith Boyer in Los Angeles County.
There's blood on the hands of Governor Jerry Brown and Democrat legislators responsible for early-release laws that ended in the tragic and preventable death of Officer Boyer.
Officer Boyer was shot to death Monday by 26-year-old Michael Mejia, a convicted felon, career criminal and known-gang member, who was recently released from the Los Angeles County Jail.
CBS2 reported that Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said that early-release legislation had an impact on the suspected murder's release from jail. Following is an excerpt from the CBS2 report:
"AB 109 realignment, Prop. 47 and Prop. 57," McDonnell said according to CBS2. "47 stops people going into the [prison] system, 57 accelerates their leave in the system and AB 109 basically changed where they do their time. So people who were previously in county jail are now out on the streets." …
According to Sheriff's Lt. John Corina, from April 2016 to February 2017, Mejia had five probation violations. He served what is known as flash incarcerations for those violations. In a flash incarceration, an offender serves a 10-day jail sentence in county jail for a violation instead of being sent back to prison. Flash incarcerations were authorized under AB 109, which was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2011. …
Boyer's family provided CBS2 the following statement Tuesday. It read in part:
"Keith Boyer's family hopes Governor Brown addresses this tragedy. As Californians, we will not continue to accept his ineptness. The community of those who serve deserve better than to be under the veil of lawmaking that does not ensure their safety."
Governor Brown's promise to the voters about Prop. 57 now rings especially hollow:
"Prop. 57 keeps the most dangerous criminals behind bars," Brown wrote in the California General Election November 8, 2016 Official Voter Information Guide in support of the proposition.
Millionaire-Governor Jerry Brown helped bankroll Prop. 57's campaign of deceit by donating over $4 million of the $15 million used to lie to voters.


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For those among you who are doll lovers, I thought I would share some doll clothes that my friend LaVern has made out of hankies. The three dolls to the right all have aprons on their dresses that are made from hankies.
These ten inch tall Patsy dolls are both wearing dresses that are made of a single hankie. LaVern says that the styles in the 40's, when these dolls were new, were simple and little girls wore their dresses very short, so, voila, a lovely, light weight dress. I especially love the ruffled cap sleeves on the doll in rollarskates.
These sweet Storybook Babies are all dressed in a single hankie as well.
This larger doll has a hankie collar.
If you are a long time reader, you know how talented LaVern is ... she makes dolls shoes, and even wigs. She crochets booties, even for the tiny Story Book Babies. I hope that you got some new ideas for dressing your own naked dolls, you know the ones that you have tucked away somewhere! Well, thanks for coming.


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Winchester's Tourist Guides welcome all
Always keen to develop their professional skills, Winchester's Blue Badge Tourist Guides have recently attended a disability awareness course tailor-made for tourist guides. The course was arranged by Winchester City Council's award winning Tourist Information Centre (TIC) in conjunction with the Winchester Area Tourist Guides Association in order to increase the range of guiding services available for customers with disabilities.
The Welcome All training course was part of the Welcome to Excellence range of customer care courses provided by the tourism skills partnership of Tourism South East and recognised nationally by the tourism industry. It covered a range of sensory, mobility and learning difficulties, giving the guides the understanding and techniques they need to communicate more effectively with their customers.
Elizabeth Proudman, Chairman of the Winchester Area Tourist Guides Association, said: "We found the training extremely useful, particularly as our trainer was also a qualified tourist guide. It showed us that there are many simple adjustments we can make which will benefit, in many cases, all our customers and not only those with disabilities."
The guides have already introduced an 'Armchair Tour' for those who have an interest in the city's history, but are unable to walk. 2003 also saw the very successful pilot of a tour for those with visual impairments, with the help of staff at the Great Hall, which involved a variety of props to touch and feel. It is hoped that the Welcome All course will prompt many more such developments.
Alison Woods, Tourist Information Centre Manager, said: "This training course is just one of the City Council's initiatives to prepare itself and its partners for the final implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act in October 2004. It follows on from a large-scale Disability Awareness Day held at Winchester Guildhall earlier this month, which helped to raise awareness of the needs, expectations and rights of those with disabilities who live in or visit the Winchester District."
Winchester's Blue Badge Guides regularly lead groups of visitors and residents around the District of Winchester. Their love of history, sense of humour and passion for the city is contagious and encourages visitors to return time and time again. Regular tours take place throughout the year, departing from inside the Tourist Information Centre. Tickets cost a modest £3 and accompanying children are free. The guides can also provide private tours or talks for groups and can accommodate any number of people and cater for special interests and foreign languages.
Full details of guided tours in the Winchester District in 2004 are available from Winchester Tourist Information Centre, located in Broadway. The TIC, which was named 'Tourist Information Centre of the Year' for the South East Region at the end of last year, can be contacted on 01962 840500 or e-mail email@example.com. Tour details can also be found on www.visitwinchester.co.uk.


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Kamis, 20 September 2012
Vilanova praises reaction of players following Spartak Moscow triumph
Tito Vilanova has voiced his satisfaction with Barcelona's 3-2 Champions League win over Spartak Moscow on Wednesday, but stressed that they were by no means at their best just yet.
The Catalans grabbed the lead early in the first half via Cristian Tello, but an own goal from Dani Alves and a strike from Romulo put the away side in front.
However, Lionel Messi then came to the rescue for Barcelona as he netted a double to help them to victory in their Group G opener.
"The performance was good, but not the best. We played well, opening up the pitch. The best thing was the reaction of the players," Vilanova stated at a press conference.
"It's a good feeling because it's important to start with a win. They were difficult to unlock and made things hard for us with a couple of counterattacks.
"We had a lot of chances. Teams only employ this kind of approach when they play us."
Vilanova then went on to discu ss the fitness of Gerard Pique, who was forced off after 12 minutes of play due to injury, and stressed that Barca will use youth players to replace the centre-back during his absence.
"We will use players from the reserve team [to fill the void created by Gerard Pique's injury]. Hopefully he recovers soon, but, if not, we will use our young players."
Barcelona resume match action on September 29 when they lock horns with Sevilla.
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This weekend i participated in a wedding. For those of you who are unfamilliar with the ceremony, it stands as the last legal type of slavery. Even so, the whole event shed new light on how people spend their last day as free men.
The event took place at the Malancrav Mansion (for those of you who have any detour throughout Transylvania, i strongly recommend a visit), with a traditional church ceremony, some strange rites of passage of Saxon heritage, that involved blocking the road with a string, on which rugs were hung and a price was negotiated for safe passage of the convoy and many more.
The kicker was the evening at the mansion, which was properly documented, taking into account the fact that the groom was a photographer as well as half of the guests :)) Perhaps, for those of you with high romantic hopes of meeting a non-alcoholic, non-smoking, non-drug using Prince Charming, there's still hope. For the rest of us, enjoy the ceremonies. It's the last time you'll see them smile benevolently.


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Founded 2005! Weirdness. Unmapped roads. Whispering rocks. Deadening fog. Ghost pirates. Lonely islands. THINGS in the WOODS. Home of Stephen King, Rick Hautala, and Glenn Chadbourne. A place where the four seasons really know how to live. Maine: the way life should be! This site is a nexus for conversation about Maine's unique strangeness. History, mysteries, legends, current events, cryptozoology, & more.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
REVIEW: Mark LaFlamme's Box of Lies
LaFlamme was born in Waterville, Maine, and continues to live here with the rest of us loonies. Clearly this has affected his brain, and has fertilized his imagination to an ungodly level. As if that wasn't enough, for the last 17 years or so he has been writing the Lewiston Daily Sun's crime beat, and has been the author of their "Street Talk" column for many years. The influence of this journalistic work on his fiction is a straightforward approach that takes the reader on roads that would never have been taken otherwise (one hopes).
I know in the past I've compared some of his storytelling skills to Stephen King's, but truly his voice is his very own, and a strong one at that. Unmistakable and somehow honest even though what he tells us word by word is a string of lies. That, I suspect, is because he knows the truth, intimately. Working the crime beat in Lewiston, Maine, is a hard way to learn about reality, yet that is what he does, every day, every late night shift. Yet somehow within him a spark of light still lives – though perhaps that light simply serves to throw darker shadows as he speaks in these stories.
Page by page in Box of Lies, LaFlamme giveth and he taketh away. Is what we imagine real? Is that which we think real imagined instead? In "Table for One," LaFlamme turns the fancies of the paranoid mind of the restaurant diner into solid worse-than-you-could-imagine reality. In "Pepper," a visiting alien finds out what makes Earthmen tick. In "The Bender Argument," LaFlamme gives us a scenario that posits what you might get if you like philosophy a little TOO much, a story which would make one hell of a nightmare movie, a perfect Twilight Zone episode, and would make Philip K. Dick himself proud.
Those of us who spend time musing about the unknown histories of our local street people may notice that LaFlamme has the talent to transmute these blanks into new stories, such as Elsy in "Find a Penny," wherein we find out what happens when you can't tell a bad penny from a good one until its spell is woven in intractable time. Others of us who wonder what happens in communities after the press is done reporting on the latest icy winter sport fatalities will find out perhaps more than we wanted to know in "Bone Lake," where the search goes on for the dead that have left land for the cold dark waters.
The 28 stories in Box of Lies vary in size from 5 pages to 31 pages in length, which gives a wonderfully varied pace to the collection, and subject matter ranges from the graphically horrific to the futuristically normal, which reminds me of some of my favorite horror/weird fiction authors' collections, like Ray Bradbury and Stephen King. But when I asked him if he prefers writing scifi or horror, LaFlamme answered, "I'm constantly telling people that I don't write either. I don't set out to write horror or science fiction. It's just that my characters tend to do things that are: A) horrifying, or B) in defiance of known physical laws. I like to think of myself as a perfectly normal writer whose characters misbehave. I even tried to write a romance once. The heroine ended up dead, hacked into a dozen pieces and shipped to Venus. Not really. But that sounds pretty good. I might write that one."
Like me, he has pondered why Maine does seem to stand out from other settings. "There IS something about Maine. It's rugged. It feels isolated from the rest of the world. The people here have their own way of doing things. I think that gets overplayed in Hollywood sometimes, but there's no doubt that living here is conducive to creativity. And perhaps lunacy."
Some folks who read LaFlamme's work in the Lewiston Sun Journal develop the idea that he's from away, but that may be due to the fact that he, like many Mainers, has felt the need to roam. "I spent some time in the south - Charlotte, NC and Newport News, Virginia, specifically - but didn't last long down there. Like so many others, I came back. It was almost a subconscious decision, some homing mechanism I don't fully understand. Someday, I'd like to move out to California or Arizona. Could I stay out there? Remains to be seen. In the meantime, I'm here in Maine, my roots getting thicker by the hour."
Since I couldn't figure myself out why none of the big publishers has picked LaFlamme up yet, I asked him directly. He said he hadn't initially planned to stick with his independent publisher, Booklocker, beyond his first book The Pink Room, but "six years and four novels later, I have no plans to go anywhere else. Why would I? Right now, I have final say on things like title, cover and layout. Once my novel gets through tweaking, editing and design, it gets to the market fairly quickly. It's out there getting read and making money instead of sitting on some big publisher's slush pile along with five hundred others. It's the golden age of indie publishing, although too few people know that right now." For LaFlamme, going indie has allowed him to focus his time on book writing instead of spending futile hours trying to craft proposals to big publishers and agents, a gamble which doesn't often pay off in the floodtide of material coming through their office doors each day.
LaFlamme made an observation on the newly rejuventated state of independent publishing in a growing electronic book market: "A lot of authors are turning down respectable offers from traditional publishers these days because they like the freedom and earning potential of the indie way. And yet, a lot of people still believe that authors are self-published because they have no other choice. There's still that stigma, but I suspect it won't last forever. With more and more indie authors out there, chances are good that your next favorite book will be written by one of us. Hopefully by me personally. There are plenty of authors doing extremely well just by selling their books on Kindle. Look up Amanda Hocking, Joe Konrath or John Locke to find out just how well."
In September 2011 he released his newest book, Delirium Tremens, which lands solidly in the horror genre. This latest accomplishment from LaFlamme leads readers into the terror-laden life of alcoholic Stephen Boone, soon to die if he doesn't cease his liquor habit. Problem is, if he stops drinking, all the dead people that visit him when he's sober will come back. A Catch-22 erupts when spirits of a mother and daughter involve him in the details of their murder, and there is no going back. You can find this book on Amazon in either print or electronic versions, along with his prior volumes, such as Box of Lies, Dirt, and The Pink Room. You might even find copies of a few of his titles at your local independent bookshop, such as Portland's Green Hand Bookshop. You never know!
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I've been reading Mark LaFlamme in the Lewiston Sun Journal for about two years now, and I can tell you that his writing skills and imagination are on a par with ANY of the more established authors, including Stephen King.
He paints elaborate, meticulously detailed mental portraits with his writing style, and you find yourself in the middle of whatever his subject happens to be, whether it is lower Lisbon Street, Lewiston; Up Country, or down on the Coast.
I am a Native Mainer who is currently living in CT to be near my, now 20 month old, granddaughter, but he's correct about moving away. I'm in my mid 50's, I've moved away 4 times and moved back 3 times.
Who knows if I'll ever move back to Maine again because I do love Florida. We lived in Key West for 17 years just prior to coming back to Connecticut, but, as Mark said, the roots of a Native Mainer run deep. I've never specifically planned to move back, but somehow I just keep winding up there.
Marks' writings always bring me back home whenever I'm away and I'm grateful that he has chosen to grace us with his talent by telling us his "stories".
By the way, from Whispering Pines to Pirates, there are enough strange things related to Maine so that Mark would never have to write fiction if he chose not to.
Like they say, Truth is Stranger than Fiction, and Mark LaFlamme's "edge of your seat" fiction includes a great deal of truth.
L. Barry King
West Haven, CT


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Thursday, December 3, 2009
Have a Heart, Teach
Her eyes were puffy and bloodshot and watery. She couldn't breathe through her nose. Her face was flushed a dark pink. The kid looked sick.
"Suck it up," responded the teacher.
The little girl had to wait until lunch time, when the class was in the cafeteria and she had access to other school personnel, to ask to go to the clinic. The teacher on duty in the cafeteria took one look at her and immediately excused her to go to the clinic. At the clinic, they determined she was ill. Her mother was called and the girl was sent home sick for the day.
The point: What's up with this teacher? Who says "suck it up" to a kid in fourth grade, especially one who's clearly under the weather? I mean, at least say something like "Try to hang in there, okay?".
What's with the tough talk? The teacher needs to take an empathy pill and drop the militant tough-guy approach. This is fourth grade, not boot camp.
Or am I just too soft-hearted?
6 comments:
- Amanda said...
You're absolutely not too sensitive. I can't believe that. I mean, I would maybe tell my siblings or friends to suck it up if it was minor and necessary that they wait (or they were being a major whiner). But you don't, as a teacher, tell children who are obviously ill to suck it up. You just don't. First, what if it wasn't just a cold but something more serious? Where time was of the essence? And you should be thinking about all the healthy kids too - it's better for everybody if sick child gets treated.
Ugh. If I were that child's parent, you can BET they'd be getting an earful and so would the principal.
Oh, and PS - can you update your link for me?? pretty please? :) I moved my blog from wordpress to blogger!
- December 3, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- gudnuff said...
Thanks for the validation! (I'm so needy...)
Doh! Sorry. I'll fix it right now. :-)
- December 3, 2009 at 1:55 PM
- Christie-The ChatterBox said...
Not needy or sensitive at all! I probably would have asked too because I would just want to make sure that I'm not crazy for thinking that teacher is an absolute ass! And they wonder why both flus are running rampant? Sorry I've been away...but I always come back!!
- December 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Debbie said...
No. You're not too sensitive. When you can look at a child and plainly see they are sick, it is past time to be kind.
- December 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM
- A Lawyer Mom's Musings said...
Err, it's awfully hard to "suck it up" through a stopped-up nose.
- December 24, 2009 at 12:39 AM
- CatrinkaS said...
Around these parts, you get sent home for saying you feel... anything 'off,' the swine flu paranoia is so high.
And "suck it up?" Never appropriate. (I might have said it to my own 10-yr-old before, but then... i know who I am dealing with in that scenario. I promise I wouldn't say it someone else's kid. Esp not one that looked not right...)
Oh, and Happy New Year. And welcome back!
- January 3, 2010 at 3:47 PM


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CLEVELAND, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Asdrubal Cabrera and Shin-Soo Choo had two hits and two RBI each Saturday to lead Cleveland's 6-3 win over Detroit, its fifth win in a row.
Soo Choo hit a fourth inning two-run single and Cabrera hit a two-run single in the seventh.
Jhonny Peralta knocked in a run and one scored on a balk by losing pitcher Justin Verlander (10-17) in the second inning.
The Indians' Ryan Garko got three hits and Grady Sizemore added two hits.
The winner was starter Jeremy Sowers (4-8).
Jensen Lewis, the last of five Cleveland pitchers, recorded his 11th save.
Detroit scored on Magglio Ordonez' first inning ground out and Curtis Granderson's two-run seventh inning homer.
Placido Polanco and Gary Sheffield both had two hits, while six others had one hit for the Tigers, who have dropped eight of nine.
Tigers Manager Jim Leyland was serving the second of a three-game suspension for inappropriate conduct on Sept. 15 and 16 against Texas.


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Last year was absolutely insane. I did waaay too many shows and kind of lost track of my focus for a while. I did however have a BLAST with my favorite crafty vendors at all the shows and learned a lot as usual.
2013 is a fresh new year. Things are already looking promising as I get my studio cleaned up and ready for my open house, coming up in just a week! (better get on it!) Recoverie.com is in the works, and should be up in a few weeks! Also talking with some potential SF wholesalers which could be a great opportunity. Not much to complain about, although I could use some more sleep per usual : )


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"A First Look at the Finalized BP/Berkeley Deal
by Student Campaign to Stop BP at Berkeley ( info [at] stopBP-Berkeley.org )
Wednesday Nov 14th, 2007 6:05 PM
Details of the agreement between public university and giant oil corporation
In anticipation of public pressure, the University of California, Berkeley has published what it claims is the "full text of the Master Agreement" it has signed with the immense oil corporation BP today. This deal inaugurates a ten-year partnership between BP (formerly British Petroleum) and UC Berkeley, along with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, creating an Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) to develop marketable energy technologies based on genetic engineering technology.
While it remains to be seen whether this is in fact the complete agreement — the proposal that led to this deal was kept secret until it was leaked to the press, and then was published by the university in censored form, with large sections invisibly omitted — what is published is more than enough to confirm EBI opponents' fears.
The agreement text, released online at http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/11/14_ebisigning.shtml, does not include any mention of "the public interest" or "the public good". It does not even pay lip service to any sort of public accountability or transparency — except where it states that "No notice of any such [Governance Board] meetings [is] required." (p.6)
Under this agreement, UC Berkeley invites scientists and engineers who work solely for BP (formerly British Petroleum) to work in the new EBI building in Berkeley on secret, proprietary research for BP's eyes only. These researchers will have access to researchers working on publicly funded, open research, as well as the university researchers funded by the BP project. The agreement's text tells us that "[The Proprietary Component] shall be operated under the sole control and discretion of BP." (p. 4)
Professor Chris Somerville, who is being hired away from Stanford to head the institute, bypassing the normal tenure process, will "be familiar with certain BP Confidential Information ... to ensure that such plans are consistent with the commercial goals... of the Partners" (i.e. BP).
The Governance Board will have 4 members from BP and 4 members from the other institutions, and will approve the budget and overall direction. The Executive Committee (which will determine which projects are funded) will initially have 2 members from BP, 3 members from other institutions, and require a 2/3 majority (i.e. 4 out of 5 votes) to do anything. Any changes to this structure must be approved by the Governance Board. So BP has veto power at both levels, and can not be overridden.
There is one bright spot in the agreement, though: if Berkeley were to "reasonably determine that continued association with EBI was not in accord wth its fundamental principles, then ... within 180 days... Berkeley may terminate this Agreement... effective upon receipt."
A First Look at the Finalized BP/Berkeley Deal
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I'm going to clean out my brain and my photo files right here on my neglected little blog over the next couple of days. Hopefully this will help me to get back to updating regularly because so much is happening and I don't want to miss this stuff! In no certain order:
Meet my Dad's dog Daisy Mae. She became his in May...
...on the same day that Ella graduated from preschool.
During the entire hour plus of graduation silly Sarah insisted on wearing her own personally devised clip on earrings. The hairbows attached to her earlobes looked terribly uncomfortable and she verified that they were in fact hurting her. Her words, "These things are killing my ears, but aren't they just the cutest?!?" Where do they learn this stuff??


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Monday, 21 October 2013
Spiderman 2 Opening Credits
The Spiderman opening credits is very good as it refreshes you memory of what happened in the first film or gives you a brief understanding to people who did not watch the first video.it shows a series of images that are key points that happened in the first film.They have made the opening credits seem like you are going through a spiders web. As the images are being shown on one side of the screen they are showing the credits next to the images,but before this starts Columbia films is shown before the credits start because they are the one who have put the money behind the film.tThen followed by the films title and after the title is shown the credits start.Starting with the producers(Laura Ziskin,Avi Arad).I feel that the images are good but they take up all your attention and you do not read the credits so you miss all the people that made the film as you are focused on the images.As all the lines pass other the screen it becomes very difficult to read the credits as some of the letters are enlarged.
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|Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort via Kiwi Collection
You know, the kind where you tee off on a breathtaking course, stay at a stellar resort and dine in the finest restaurants? I'm guessing almost anyone who plays the game does from time to time. Or perhaps, constantly.
Alas, these luxury golf trips are, by their very nature, extremely expensive, and the lush green fantasies they inspire, rarely transcend the seaside greens and cloistered villas of the would-be traveler's imagination.
However there's a unique new website that may allow some of those fanciful daydreams to become realities, albeit only for a select subset of daydreaming golfers.
The site is MissTravel.com and you may well have heard of it. It's certainly provocative, and quite polarizing if the Twitter buzz is any reflection. But I'm not here to opinionate.
The fact is, Miss Travel has garnered quite a bit of media attention, quite quickly. In its three weeks of existence it's been featured on CNN, Foxnews, and practically every morning show known to man. The news, gossip and travel blogs have been buzzing about it as well, with posts appearing on HuffPo, Fodors, Gawker and International Business Times, to name just a few. For those who've somehow missed it, I'll let Miss Travel's attractive animated representative explain the concept:
So that's what were talking about, a kind of market-driven dating site, built around the travel niche.
Not surprisingly, most of the press coverage for Wade's sites has had a cynical, sanctimonious, or just plain outraged edge... as has much of the Twitter banter, and ironically, that's probably part of the reason the membership is growing so quickly.
However, it seems to me that quite a few of those claiming to be scandalized are merely resentful that this particular site so openly serves... facilitates... glorifies... the inherently unfair and exclusionary side of the way dating generally works in our social world.
I'm guessing the gorgeous young woman who meets her wealthy older date on Miss Travel isn't any more likely to be a Gold Digger than the one who meets hers on eHarmony... or at a party... or at church, but yet that was the descriptive used by numerous bloggers and commentors when referring to Brandon Wade's latest venture. Some of them even went so far as to employ the Kanye video with Jamie Foxx for context.
The fact is, human egos are fragile things to begin with, and the dating scene, like nothing else, tends to heighten their fragility, so it's not surprising that so many men were quick to scoff at the idea that they'd ever have to pay a woman to spend time with them... while numerous women scorned the idea of being judged by... and selected for... their beauty.
My point is that Miss Travel is arguably an honest, open acknowledgment of the way


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Last weekend, my Sprouts and I hit the road for a much-needed getaway. What a TREAT!! Our destination: a sweet little vacation rental in lovely Hood River, Oregon.
My kids were excited to see their Aunties, watch the kiteboarding that Hood River is famous for, and explore; I was excited to just get out of town, spend time with family, hang out somewhere besides my own boring house with maybe a little wine-tasting and porch-sitting thrown in.
In keeping with the blog, I'll mostly share the foodie part of the weekend, but rest assured, we did much more than just eat!
So, because I wasn't sure what items were available in town, we brought all our own food (And because my kids can eat anyone out of house and home in mere minutes.) I also wasn't sure their Aunties - my sisters - were grocerially prepared for such an onslaught. (Yes, I made up the word "grocerially, don't go trying to Google it.) Fortunately, I'm blessed with siblings who will willingly eat - and even cook!! - vegan food which made the weekend even better!
The first night, after settling in and enjoying the view of the river, my Middle Sprout whipped up some most delicious pizza, complete with Daiya vegan (and very melty) cheese and Trader Joe's Roasted Red Pepper Spread.
Being that one of my sisters is gluten-free, they had also made a savory lentil loaf before we arrived, and we ended up crumbling some of that and putting on the pizza too!
I would have been fine with just the lentil loaf but the Sprouts had created the weekend's menu and were pretty determined that we must have pizza. No recipe here, but it is purty to look at...
The next day we spent reading, drinking iced tea, updating FaceBook (because that's always important, right?) being lazy (hey! it's vacation), driving around the beautiful countryside and orchards, wine-tasting, vineyard-visiting, hanging out at the river watching the fine-looking, suntanned, muscular...*ahem* I mean, ...watching the kite-boarders and flying the trainer kite (learning the "kite" part of kite-boarding). I also discovered the Full Sail Ale and Tofurky factories in town and decided NEXT time we're going to HAVE to tour them! (Ran out of time this weekend!).
Supper was a bucket-full of my Sprouts' favorite, most requested "mom-special", my Taco Salad (I'll post that recipe another day). Literally, we made it in an ice bucket, the house didn't come with a great selection of mixing bowls. Vegan, gluten free, everyone went back for seconds or thirds tonight.
Sunday morning, way too early, two of the Sprouts headed to the river with their Uncle (who's an amazing and award-winning kite-boarder himself) to learn the fine art of wrestling a huge kite while balanced on a surfboard while wrapped in a harness and a wetsuit while trying to stay upright, while trying to dodge other kiteboarders, windsurfers and the occasional barge in the river, all while trying not to eat a face-full of sand on one of the many sandbars in the river, all while maneuvering the wind gusts that the Columbia River Gorge is famous for... Easy.
We'd talked about a bike ride, a hike and helping sort the recycling, but again, we just ran OUT of time. But vacations aren't meant to be too busy, right? Hopefully our schedules will allow another visit!!
I'll leave you with the beautiful (and yummy!) vinaigrette potato salad my sister made for lunch; light and refreshing with crunchy celery and onions, sweet red peppers and a little bite of arugula - perfect after a hot, wind-and-sunburned day on the sand bar, or maybe a 4th of July BBQ.
(Yes, I was hot and sunburned because I was taking pictures, and working very hard on NOT wiping out headfirst in the rather "refreshing" waters of the Columbia River!) Anyway, I thought I'd share the recipe, this one's definitely a keeper - as is my sister ;-).
Summer Vinaigrette Potato Salad
With Arugula
3 pounds waxy-type yellow potatoes (Yellow Finns or whatever you have available)
2 ribs of celery, finely diced
1/2 cup finely diced sweet red bell pepper
1/4 cup finely chopped sweet onion
1/4 cup olive oil
1 Tablespoon white wine vinegar (or rice wine vinegar for a milder taste)
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
1 Tablespoon minced chives
1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
a handful or two of fresh, small arugula leaves cut in a chiffonade. (For great instructions on how to chiffonade beautifully, I like THIS link:)
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
couple pinches red pepper flakes
In a large pot, cook the whole potatoes in boiling, lightly salted water for about 20 minutes so, or until just barely fork tender (I like them more firm for this salad). When they are done, drain them and set aside to cool for 30 minutes or so, warmer potatoes will absorb the flavors and dressing better.
When potatoes have cooled enough to handle, slip peels off (it should be easy - or skip if you want) and cut them into bite-sized cubes, whatever size you prefer - I like the slightly larger chunks my sister used, they had a nice bite to them. After you cut them up, put them in a large bowl and add the remaining ingredients, and toss gently.
Taste and adjust if you want more vinegar, salt, pepper, whatever. Cover and chill for at least an hour to allow the flavors to blend before serving.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Summer Potato Salad With Arugula
Last weekend, my Sprouts and I hit the road for a much-needed getaway. What a TREAT!! Our destination: a sweet little vacation rental in lovely Hood River, Oregon.
Posted by Tofu Mom (AKA Tofu-n-Sprouts) at 9:39 AM
Labels: potato salad
2 comments:
- Matt (My Veggie Kitchen) said...
There is a little vegan market in Hood River called Mother's Market that I've started to frequent when we head east. And I think they even have Daiya.
- Jackie said...
Yum! I love your recipes.


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Search For Silence
This video is an a kind of infomercial produced by the US Navy in the 1960's. It's titled "Search For Silence" and discusses the issue of Noise pollution caused by airplanes.
This subject is important issue in Santa Monica because we have all the airplane noise from Santa Monica Airport, not only from the increase of jet traffic, in addition to airplanes using propellers (prop planes), and how to implement noise abatement.
See also: Noise Pollution
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Investigating options on noise pollution created by jets and aircraft. Some great footage of airplanes, Jets and the US Navy This Public Domain video was produced by The US Navy in the 60s. This video is very rare & hard to find, & I am assuming that this is the first time available on the internet. I personally had this transferred from 16mm film. ENJOY!


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Bankruptcy Remains on a Credit Report for Up to Seven Years Reports Iowa Bankruptcy Lawyer
Des Moines, IA (Law Firm Newswire) July 6, 2012 – Many debtors wonder how they can remove a bankruptcy from their credit report. The short answer is they cannot.
Many debtors that declared bankruptcy want to know how they can get rid of that notation on their credit reports noted Iowa bankruptcy lawyer, Kevin Ahrenholz. The answer to that question is they cannot get rid of the notation. It is a record of what happened in the debtor's financial life and becomes part and parcel of their credit history. The only way it could be completely removed, would be if the debtor did 'not' declare bankruptcy and the reporting notation on the file was wrong. For instance, two people with the same name may find themselves in such a situation. However, it rarely happens.
That means that once the notation is made that a debtor declared bankruptcy, it goes into their credit jacket and stays there for a minimum of seven years. In other cases, it may be in the record for up to ten years. Foreclosures are another damaging 'mark' added to a credit report. However, with foreclosures, the more time that passes after the foreclosure, the better it is for the debtor Ahrenholz pointed out.
The type of bankruptcy declared also affects a person's credit record. For example, with a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, it is considered to be a 'one and done' deal. Filed, processed, discharged and done. In a Chapter 13 filing, the debtor is paying their creditors back for anywhere from two to six years. If an individual wants to re-establish their credit sooner, rather than later, it is usually in their best interests to file for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy and be done with it quickly.
While many debtors feel it is more honorable to pay their debts off over a period of several years, and they feel more comfortable doing it that way, it leaves them hanging in the wind as far as being able to get credit. They cannot move forward and start re-establishing credit. They have to wait until the Chapter 13 is done, several years later before attempting to repair their credit. Many people filing a Chapter 13 bankruptcy do not know about this until later.
Make it a point to talk to a qualified Iowa bankruptcy lawyer about what options are available and make an informed decision about moving forward. By law, a bankruptcy must remain on a credit record for seven years. If it is still in the records after the seven year period has expired, the debtor may file a complaint, in writing. The credit reporting agency is then obligated to remove it.
Kevin Ahrenholz is an Iowa bankruptcy lawyer and Iowa bankruptcy attorney. To contact an Iowa bankruptcy attorney, Iowa bankruptcy lawyer, or set up an appointment, visit http://www.iowachapter7.com or call 1.877.888.1766.
Kevin Ahrenholz
309 Court Ave., Suite 805
Des Moines, IA 50309
Offices in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Mason City, and Vinton.
Consumers in debt need to be aware of a scam that is taking place in this country by offshore criminals in the Far East, perhaps India. This may be some of the fallout from the disclosure of personal information at Target in recent weeks. Anyone who used a credit card at Target between certain dates in November and December may be at risk for having their personal information accessed and provided to offshore criminals who perpetrate these scams. One such scam involves someone from the Far East with a thick accent placing a call to a consumer who might be […]
- Debt May be Added After Bankruptcy is Filed Indicates Iowa Bankruptcy Lawyer
When a debtor files for personal bankruptcy, it only addresses pre-bankruptcy debts. Some types of post-petition filing debt may be added later. There are two routes to declare personal bankruptcy: Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. Chapter 7 is a liquidation plan that sells your assets to pay creditors and Chapter 13 is a re-payment plan, with money paid to the trustee on a biweekly basis. Those funds are then paid to creditors. Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cover all debts prior to filing. However, only some types of debt may be filed later. If you have hired a bankruptcy lawyer, […]
- When the Debt Load is Too Much, Bankruptcy Protection May Be the Best Answer
It's always good to pay your debts, if you can keep up with them. But if your debt is simply overwhelming, it may be time to file for bankruptcy. These days the main trigger for someone filing for bankruptcy is that they have lost their job. There are other reasons which may lead to bankruptcy, such as health issues, divorce, death, poor business decisions, a bad economy, foreclosure and following bad advice. No matter what the reasons are that lead someone to file, the process for bankruptcy remains much the same for everyone. The differences lie in the circumstances that […]
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Dit verslag is overgenomen van het Engelstalige liveblog van Peter Boel.
14:16 Decisive round starts
Today it will be decided which four players will qualify for the semifinals that start tomorrow. Thomas Beerdsen en Roeland Pruijssers, who are facing each other on the top board, have the best chances. Arbiter Frans Peeters announced that between players with an equal score the TPR will be decisive for these qualifications.
Tournament director Loek van Wely gave the comouter percentages for Ivanchuk and Wei Yi in the previous two rounds:
Round 4: Ivanchuk 74%, Wei Yi 49%
Round 5: Ivanchuk 46%, Wei Yi 57%
There were a few amazing results in round 5 of the Open: Machteld van Foreest scored 81%, and the tournament leader Roeland Pruijssers 85%. The winner however was Jonathan Carlstedt with 88%. For round 6, Pruijssers had the best score with no less than 91%.
Dick de Graaf won the game prize for his highly entertaining game with Migchiel de Jong from yesterday. Harmen Jonkman got a special prize for missing an artistic mate in 3 against Lucas van Foreest (see yesterday's live blog).
14:39 Sicilian and Italian battles rage on
For the third time in the matches, Van Foreest and Adhiban play the Italian, and Wei Yi and Ivanchuk play a 2...e6 Sicilian.
Instead of 5...d6 Adhiban now chose the more direct 5...0-0 6.0-0 d5, the choice of many top players these days. A line came on the board that Van Foreest has had on the board with black, against Delchev. But instead of 10.Nbd2 the Dutchman opted for the risky pawn grab with 10.b4, 11.b5 and 12.Rxe5. Game on!
In the Taimanov with 6.Nxc6 Ivanchuk again went for the usual set-up with ...qc7 and ...d5. Instead of Re1 and e4-e5, the line Wei Yi chose in Game 4, he has now taken a sharper, more open set-up with 9.Qe2 and 11.f4. Now, after 13.Bg3, Ivanchuk can also go for a risky pawn grab with 13...Qb6+.
15:17 Draw on board 1
Not unexpectedly, Thomas Beerdsen and Roeland Pruijssers, who are teammates at MuConsult Apeldoorn, just agreed on a quick draw. With that, Pruijssers has qualified for the semifinals and Beerdsen has a very big chance to do so.
Thomas Beerdsen
Commentator Hans Böhm briefly interviewed Thomas about the situation. The draw wasn't pre-arranged, the latter said. 'I wanted to try for a win but when the position quieted down and Roeland offered the draw, I accepted. I know I cannot obtain a GM-norm if I play the semifinals (since for a norm you have to play 9 games in one tournament, and the semifinals are regarded as a separate tournament, PB), but that chance wasn't too big anyway since my average opposition wasn't too good. Besides I want to aim as highly as possible, GM-norms I will get anyway, I hope.'
15:20 Saduakassova on a roll again
Things are already looking good again for Dinara Saduakassova. In a KI a tactical liquidation has taken place, which left Black, young Luis Engel, with a shattered pawn structure.
15:56 Things are getting hot for Ivanchuk
Wei Yi is making a good attempt to draw even in the match. With 18.Bd7 and 19.e6 he has driven a wedge into the black position, splitting Ivanchuk's pieces into two groups. And Black's king is starting to feel the draft.
Full concentration...
16:09 Ernst looks to be winning
Sipke Ernst has crowned a liquidation with the win of an exchange, and he has big compensation for it too. If he wins he will have 5 points, which is probably not enough to reach the semifinals.
Sipke's opponent, Ivo Maris, in better times.
16:12 Wei Yi is winning
Wei Yi is going to collect Ivanchuk's kingside pawns - it looks hopeless for the Ukraine genius!
17:08 Wei Yi crashes through!
Vasily Ivanchuk has had to resign. The Ukraine GM looked totally crushed after he resigned. 'A complete collapse', he said.
Wei Yi said immediately after the game: 'Instead of 22...h5 he could have tried 22...Nf6.'
Here Ivanchuk played 22...h5? after which his kingside was laid bare for the white bishop and queen. Instead, 22...Nf6! was possible: 23.Bxh6 Nxd7 24.exd7 Rf7 and if Tf1-f3-h3 then the king goes back to g8. 'This was an excellent chance. It's still very unclear', Ivanchuk sighed. 'I stopped calculating after 23.Bxh6. How could I miss this? White may be slightly better, but it's still playable.'
Wei Yi agreed that this line would still have been very unclear. 'Especially as I was in time-trouble', he added.
The match will now be decided with, in the first instance, two blitz games with a time control of 3 minutes and a 2-seconds increment. Of course the other game, Van Foreest-Adhiban, has to be finished first.
Wei Yi has taken a seat in the audience, awaiting his turn to play blitz!
16:55 A second playoff?
Jorden van Foreest has managed to keep his extra pawn, but Adhiban's attack along the light squares looks dangerous. Still, if Jorden gets in Rd8 this looks like a draw - which would mean a second blitz playoff!
17:10 It's blitz!
Van Foreest-Adhiban was also drawn as expected. That means we're going to blitz on two boards. The playoffs will be played in turns. First Ivanchuk-Wei Yi will start at 17.20h, then Van Foreest-Adhiban at 17.30h. The time control is 3 minutes and 2 seconds' increment. Keep posted for our live coverage!
18:14 Ivanchuk and Van Foreest win playoffs
Vasily Ivanchuk and Jorden van Foreest were both too strong in blitz for their opponents. The playoffs alternated between the two boards, in front of quite a big audience.
In the first game Wei Yi won a pawn but got under pressure and used a lot of time. Ivanchuk ended up a few pawns to the good and missed (or didn't want to play) the pseudo sacrifice Rxf5 for a lot of moves. When he finally played it, it was soon over.
Jorden van Foreest opened the first game with the London System, and overpowered Adhiban with white and won a piece.
In the return game Ivanchuk played the Scandinavian with black. Both sides castled queenside, but after Ivanchuk's 14...e5 break in the centre White was in trouble. He couldn't keep defending the knight on f5 and after 18...b5 Wei Yi shook his head and resigned.
A remarkable recovery by Ivanchuk!
Adhiban was slowly working on an attack in the final game of the other match when Van Foreest started grabbing some pawns. 24...Nxc3 was incredible - White could just take the knight. And two moves later 27.Qd7 would have won on the spot. After this Van Foreest was really on fire and countered very sharply to the win: also 2-0! So Jorden van Foreest has finally won his first match in Hoogeveen.
18:41 Saduakassova and Kollars qualify for the semifinals
Dinara Saduakassova and Dmitrij Kollars both won their game today and so have qualified for the semifinals, which will start tomorrow. Should be quite interesting! Their opponents will be, as mentioned before, Roeland Pruijssers and Thomas Beerdsen.
And... Machteld van Foreest won her fourth game! She countered well against Alef Boer's furious attack and remained material up. This means she has drawn level with her brother Lucas... the big showdown may still be in the offing!
19:35 Paintings for the match winners
At the prizegiving of the matches, Vasily Ivanchuk and Jorden van Foreest received a painting of them and their opponents made by the Dutch artist Frans Drummen.
The 'losers' got another prize: Wei Yi and Adhiban Baskaran will be playing a Basque match tomorrow in the Marriage Room, while Ivanchuk is going to play checkers with Jan Groenendijk tomorrow at the province house in Assen.
'It was nice to see Vasily play the Sicilian', Van Wely said. 'You asked me - I had no choice!' Ivanchuk replied laughingly. 'Only in blitz I allowed myself a Scandinavian'. And yes, it brought him success.
'Hoogeveen is a very nice place', the Ukrainian said after his remarkable recovery. 'It was a big pleasure to be here.'
19:42 Pairings for semifinals Open
The pairings for the semifinals of the open tournament, that will be played tomorrow, are:


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32.—(1) A person engaged by way of business in the rearing, production or treatment of animals intended for human consumption, or in a business in the course of which any commercial operation is carried out with respect to animals intended for human consumption, shall kept a record of particulars relating to the administration of any authorised veterinary medicinal product to such animals or batch of animals which record shall be made as soon as practicable after administration and shall include the following information—
(a)date of administration;
(b)identity and quantity of the authorised veterinary medicinal product;
(c)name and address of the supplier of the authorised veterinary medicinal product; and
(d)identification of the animal or batch of animals to which the authorised veterinary medicinal product was administered.
(2) The owner of an establishment of initial processing of animal products shall keep such records as are sufficient, either alone or in combination with records or information held by some other person, to enable the animals from which those animal products were derived, and the farm of origin or departure of those animals, to be identified.
(3) The persons referred to in paragraph (1)(b) and sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (2) of regulation 4 shall, in relation to hormonal substances and beta-agonists, keep a record in chronological order of—
(a)quantities produced;
(b)quantities purchased or otherwise acquired and from whom each quantity was purchased or acquired;
(c)quantities sold and to whom each quantity was sold; and
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The Thomas Crown Affair
The Awful Truth (okay, that should probably fall under the "A"s)
Thoroughly Modern Millie
That Darn Cat
That Thing You Do!
The Thin Man Series
Tammy and the Bachelor
What are your favorite "T" movies?
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The Three Muskateers (1993)
Tommy Boy
Top Gun
Trading Places
The Truman Show
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improve (up)on something
to make something better. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) Do you really think you can improve upon this song? No one can improve on my favorite melody.
improve on
Make beneficial additions or changes to, as in The company is trying to improve on the previous model. [Late 1600s]
improve onor improve upon
To make beneficial additions or changes to something; make something better: We can improve on this room by painting it. I improved upon the recipe by adding more spices.


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The belief that sleep improves our health backs to the time before history. Today doctors urge to take it more seriously because they have realized that sleep is essential not only to health but also to beauty. What is more remarkable in this regard is the effect of a deep enough night sleep on skin and fitness, two most important issues to every young or middle-aged adult, in general, and women, in particular.
How does sleep affect your skin?
Sleep affects your skin in many ways including:
- More skin rejuvenation
Skin rejuvenation [The skin rejuvenation is a process that takes place to remove the visible signs of aging like wrinkles and lines leaving the skin with a younger appearance] takes place more rapidly during sleep. Your body has the ability to repair damaged cells, specifically the skin cells, while sleeping.
- Less wrinkles
Research has shown that wrinkling accelerates from am to pm because in the evening you have spent more hours being exposed to earth's gravity than in the morning, so the face literally falls with gravity as the day progresses. During sleep, the direction of earth's gravity is reverse, so you get a chance to reverse that.
- Prevention of dark circles and bags under eyes
Lack of sleep makes dark circles and bags under your eyes, as well as sagging skin. With having about 8 hours of sleep a night, you will prevent these negative consequences.
Three sleep tips for having a healthy skin:
- Sleep 8 hours a night
Eight hours of sleep every night is considered the average amount of sleep an adult requires. If you want to keep your skin wrinkle free and beautiful is a, and/or if you want to prevent those dark circles under your eyes, set your schedule and manage your time as you can have eight hours of sleep every night.
- Sleep on your back
The fact of "less wrinkles while sleeping" works better if you sleep on your back. This way, the direction of earth's gravity is so that it would compensate its bad effects on facial muscles and skin during the day. Sleeping flat on your back also prevents your skin from those sleep wrinkles and fold lines that happens when you smash your face into the pillow. It would be perfect if you sleep without a pillow, but if it's difficult, use a very thin pillow.
- Try a latex mattress
All latex mattress as: Casper vs Leesa vs Tuft & Needle vs Brooklyn Bedding mattress
- Try to have a continuous deep sleep
All benefits your skin gets from sleep happens when you have a continuous, deep sleep. With fragmented sleep, your body can't function normally as it's supposed to do during a sleep.


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The front of the ring has a wonderful asymmetrical design of diamonds set on either side of an oval amethyst. The amethyst looks blue in the photos, it is actually purple.
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The space around the stones is open so they seem to be floating within the top and bottom bands.
Ring size 7.25, the band is 3/8" wide in the front and tapers gradually to 1/8" the back. The amethyst measures 4mm by 3mm, the diamonds are between 2mm-4mm.
Marked 14k inside the shank, total weight is 5 grams.
Very well made and in excellent condition, no damage and minimal wear.
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-- Hitachi's Professional Series Projectors Offer Large-Venue Performance And Are Sold With A One-Year Continuous Usage Warranty --
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 9, 2010 — At InfoComm 2010, Hitachi America, Ltd., Digital Media Division, Business Solutions Group is exhibiting its projector offerings for digital signage applications.
In the Digital Signage area of Hitachi's booth (#C5056), the company is displaying content with a CP-X10000 Professional Series projector. The CP-X10000 projector, along with the CP-WX11000 and CP-SX12000 Professional Series projectors, are designed specifically with digital signage in mind. In fact, all Professional Series projectors are sold with a one-year continuous usage warranty, ensuring that users can operate their Professional Series projectors on a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week basis, a common necessity for digital signage.
The warranty comes as an addition to Hitachi's standard, 3-year, normal operation warranty and is ideally-suited for digital signage applications when continuous operation of video hardware is critical. The Professional Series projectors range in brightness from 6,500 to 7,500 ANSI lumens and offer networking functionality with Hitachi's proprietary PJMan software.
"At InfoComm, attendees expect new advances in digital signage, and our Professional Series projectors represent the next step in the evolution of projection technology for signage applications," said Ray Soltys, director of sales for Hitachi America, Ltd., Digital Media Division, Business Solutions Group. "The performance reliability of the Professional Series projectors, combined with the one-year continuous usage warranty, provides systems integrators with an ideal solution for digital signage."
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"They can take our lives, but they will never take our freedom." ~ William Wallace
~ Bob Fiddaman, Author, Blogger, Researcher
"They can take our lives, but they will never take our freedom." ~ William Wallace
~ Bob Fiddaman, Author, Blogger, Researcher
Citizens Commission on Human Rights Award Recipient (Twice)
Humanist, humorist
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
More Advertising Woes for GlaxoSmithKline
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If the latest news regarding GlaxoSmithKline's false claims with advertisements wasn't enough to shake your head in disbelief then this latest should leave you scratching the scalp on your bonce!
James Williams, who writes for the Atlanta Wellness Examiner, has recently told of his journey into the world of GSK marketing where he stumbled upon a GSK advertisement on a children's gaming site!
Williams writes:
"My friends' son, who is eight, was playing an online game yesterday. It was a harmless activity where he had to breakup icebergs to save the crew members on a stranded ship.
While he was waiting for the game to load, I noticed that an advert appeared in the gaming window. It was on the screen for precisely 10 seconds before the game started.
The wording on the advert read: This time, talk to your doctor about VESIcare. This medication, produced by GlaxoSmithKline, relates to blocking the symptoms of urinary leakage."
I've viewed the website in question, nitrome.com, and it is most definitely aimed at young children, its background being a mish-mash of cartoon images set against a Christmas type scene, normally reserved for kids advent calendars.
Last year I reported that Lola's Land, a UK children's website, were promoting Glaxo's Cervarix. Strangely, Lola's Land has now been removed as has the promotion for GSK's Cervarix. Slogans that ran on Lola's Land included; "Remember chica, this is a totally life-saving, revolutionary vaccine!" and "Let's fight cervical cancer together and arm ourselves against it!"
It does seem rather odd that this website has now been removed, don't you think?
Lola's Land was registered to Freida A Tallon, the contact address for Freida being none other than British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. Now why would a TV Company promote a pharmaceutical product?
Here is how Lola's Land promoted Glaxo's "totally life-saving, revolutionary vaccine!"
So, it would appear that GlaxoSmithKline struck a deal up with the UK government and British Sky Broadcasting, a deal that, at the time, told the young readers of Lola's Land, how dangerous Cervical cancer was and how they need not worry as a "totally life-saving, revolutionary vaccine!" was just around the corner to help them.
With this in mind, I have wrote to the registrant of Lola's Land, an address that has a bskyb domain.
Dear Freida,
Researching GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix vaccine I stumbled upon your name as the registrant of Lola's Land - I had previously wrote about Lola's Land on my blog here - http://fiddaman.blogspot.com/2008/09/lolas-land-promoting-hpv-vaccine.html
I notice that Lola's Land has now been taken down. Could you tell me why please?
Could you also tell me why British Sky Broadcasting were behind such an advertising venture?
Many thanks
Bob Fiddaman
Author of Seroxat Sufferers
I will of course let you all know should I receive a response from Freida Tallon.
'THE EVIDENCE, HOWEVER, IS CLEAR...THE SEROXAT SCANDAL' By Bob Fiddaman
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Altadena Works/Made In The USA.
Modern Haul
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- Andy said...
- September 14, 2009 at 1:07 PM
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Very cool!
I love this!!
- September 16, 2009 at 5:25 AM
- toriisogi said...
I love it!
- September 16, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Alan said...
Those are absolutely beautiful. The packs should use metal hardware, but I'm being overly picky.
- September 17, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- R4TH said...
the packs use metal buckles and metal d-rings with a 'black oxide finish'
- September 17, 2009 at 8:41 AM
- Alan said...
the buckles which caught my eye were the ones on the rucksack holding the top flap down. They certainly look like plastic, but I may be wrong. This is a seriously good looking pack. Thankfully i won't find one for sale in Minnesota as I'd have to buy one if I put my hands upon it.
- September 17, 2009 at 8:11 PM
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Here is a little preview of what I have decided to do with them.
this album uses only three brown paper bags.
I went with a "You are my sunshine" theme for this one.
Now I need to decide how to divide this project into three sessions.(Friday, Monday,and Wednesday) I will be back with a post about our classes. (I really am excited to see what the children will come up with)


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Part II Post
Morning, y'all! It's now Tuesday, April 5th, and I'm adding Part 2 to my original Part 1 Affinity Readalong post. This is actually the second of two, and therefore, the last post of this readalong. Of course, I'm not done with the book! That would just be madness to actually be on schedule. The good news is, after Greyson's first virus, everyone seems to still be standing. After some hellish weeks at work, also still standing (I seem to be saying that a lot lately). The good news is that Greyson is on a perfect, wonderful, awesomely timed schedule and falls asleep prompty at 8pm, so I usually still have some energy to paint my nails or, OH, read!
So, what do y'all think? Have you finished? Still working on it?? I wanna know! I'll post my official review when I'm done. Getting there!
Part I
Hey folks! It's finally here! The Affinity Readalong is underway. I'm sorry it's quite late in the day, but as usual, I'm scrambling to keep up with work/home/reading balance. That said, my portion of this will be quite vague. I'm not quite through Parts I and II but I certainly already have some impressions of these characters and this novel.
First off, I am absolutely, positively entranced by prison. Don't want to go there myself, but I initially picked this book for myself because it's set in a prison during this time period. After reading about the real, and now defunct, Millbank Prison, I was even more excited to dive into the pages.
Thus far, the setting is right up my alley. I've just passed the portion where Margaret Prior gets to see exactly how the new prisoners are brought into the system. Their hair is cut, they're examined by a doctor, they're stripped of all their possessions. It's a frightening thought, for sure, but also quite fascinating to see how these women are indoctrinated into their new "home." I've also been quite interested to "meet" some of the prisoners and learn of their crimes. Of course, Selina Dawes is at the center of it all.
Someone mentioned the other day (on Facebook or Twitter...sorry, my brain has left me) that they'd struggled with knowing who was speaking in the beginning. Jill! Ha! It was Jill. My mind is not completely gone! And at first I had that issue as well. It threw me to switch back and forth between Margaret Prior's journal and Selina Dawes' journal? I guess it's her journal. Chronicles of the "spirits" who have visited her, their cause of death, and so on. Fascinating, but confusing in the beginning, nonetheless.
The pacing of the whole thing strikes me as very "Wilkie Collins." I'm repeatedly reminded of The Woman in White as I'm reading. I'm really at quite a precarious spot to be "discussing" because I just want to know so much MORE at this point. I want to know more about Dawes' living situation and her fellow mediums. I want to know more about Margaret Prior's dead (and supposedly haunting) father, I want to know more about Prior's past! More, more, more!
And as I type, my Nook is charging in my office. I will most definitely be using my lunch hour to do some more reading and get caught up with everyone.
How's it going so far? What are your thoughts on the characters, writing, setting? How does this stack up with others of Waters' novels you've read?
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011
The Affinity Readalong, Part 1 and 2 (Finis!)
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I was beyond thrilled and felt like a kid counting down the days until Christmas until the end of July came where I got to head up there (all expenses paid too!).
The time finally arrived and although I was sad to leave Carl and especially Joni for the first time I was very excited. I met the group of 5 other artists that night while we had a bbq dinner and the next morning we hopped in the 4x4 truck and climbed 1800m to the Mt Fidelity Research Station overlooking Rogers Pass.
Zu was our Parks Canada guide, leading us to the peaks and valleys of Mt Fidelity so we could photograph, sketch and paint. It was absolutely incredible the scenery and thought that as this mountain is closed to the public, there was the sense that no one else has or would be standing in the same place I was sketching. I woke up twice during the week to watch the beautiful sun rise over Rogers Pass.
Next post will be about the Art created from this trip and the opening night at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Center!
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Meet Max
We added to our family over the weekend. We now have a new little puppy roaming around Casa Cline. Max is a 4 week old Goldendoodle Lab mix, and he is just the cutest little thing. He and Maggie, our Golden Retriever, seem to be getting along well, which is a good thing. I'm glad that they will have a friend to play with when we are gone. Our cat Callie is not as sure about this new creature however. She has definitely been more reserved, and is in full on stalk mode most of the time. I have been catching her following Max from a distance. I think it will just take one time and the puppy will understand that Callie prefers to be left alone...luckily for Max Callie doesn't have any front claws!


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Of all the books I've reviewed on here, there are none of them as sweeping as Don Quixote. I began Book I back in June of 2006, and started Book II in January, so it's also been one of the more drawn out reading experiences of my life. That said, it's also been one of the most satisfying.
Summarizing Don Quixote is quite difficult, because describing the basic framework of the story doesn't even come close to doing it justice. Often described as the first modern novel, it manages to touch upon literary devices and genres that have only rose to prominence in the last 50 years, not bad for a book completed shortly after the King James Bible. Between the poetry, the interstitial novels, the occasional breaking of the fifth wall (and the indirect insertion of Cervantes himself into Quixote's word), Don Quixote as a literary powerhouse can't be overstated. But, is it any good?
I found Don Quixote to be an enjoyable read. At some points, particularly in the largely satirical first book, it read just as quickly and easily as any modern novel. In the second book, written not only to complete the story but also to make a statement about deceit, human cruelty, and plagiarism, the novel takes a darker turn, and the jokes played on Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza become so overblown that they inspire sympathy for the once-comic characters. As a result of the weightier second book, it's a bit more difficult to get through, particularly if you tackle it right after the first. I found that once I took some time off and approached book two on its own terms, it was well worth the read.
One last note: if you're considering reading Quixote, I recommend this translation (Edith Grossman). I had started several others previously, and found them amazingly dull.


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I doubt anyone is even around any more to read this blog. No big surprise! I have not blogged in almost one year. I could list all the reasons but basically they all involve time. Life with 4 kids is fun and busy. Plus I am now the Social Media Manager for Wilton Armetale. PLUS a blogger over at Mudpies and Tiaras.
Anyways, I want to get back into this personal blog. And to start I want to share some stories about Benjamin. He is a joy. He is so unlike any of us! He is a comedian and cute a bug!
We got some baby chicks so we can start getting our own organic eggs. He named his chicks....Windmill and Donald Bennett! Donald Bennett??? No one knows where he got it. Ha!
He was singing "The Wheels on the Bus" like this....."The driver on the bus says 'gimme your money, gimme your money, gimme your money'. The driver on the bus says 'gimme your money or I will spank you.' ". Hmmm...bus driver is an blackmailer evidently!
The other night I had beans as part of our dinner. He sat there fussing and saying "I don't like beans. These are gross." We told him he did not have to eat them. He said, "But I want to." So he tries a bite and says, "These are great! I love beans! Beans, beans. beans!"
Finally, he wants to go on a date with Nana and Gampy. Guess what his activity of choice is....pig washing. LOL! He wants to go wash pigs with them! I have no idea how, but my parents are going to try and make it happen.


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I am thoroughly enjoying my new garden, planted by Mother Nature and no weeding necessary!
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World Of Technology
Interesting Technologies Around The World
10 Graphs Show What It's Like To Turn 30
The folks at
The Bold Italic
have created oh-so-scientific and very hilarious charts outlining what it means to turn 30.
1. Is there a polite way to tell someone you don't care about their baby?
2. Fine dining.
3. Sign me up for 9 p.m.
4. A definitive guide for how to feel at brunch.
5. It's hard to tell which end of the arrow is better, but hey, the outcome is the same.
6. Your online dating searches become a lot more interesting.
7. Less IKEA and less worrying? Sounds perfect.
8. This one is closely related to how old you mother thinks you should feel.
9. That moment of intersection.
10. Ah, the web of priorities.
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