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Ministry Profile: Ministry Snapshot Dedicated to partner with parents in laying a spiritual foundation so that their children will grow into an authentic follower of Jesus Christ. • Committed to providing children a ministry experience that incites WONDER, provokes DISCOVERY and fuels PASSION! • Devoted to laying a spiritual foundation that equips children to SEEK God, KNOW God, LOVE God and FOLLOW after His Son. • Focused on providing a safe, welcoming and fun environment for spiritual development. • Passionate about equipping volunteers to be spiritual mentors to children. • Eager to encourage intentional family moments. Ministry Experience Experience in both traditional and contemporary churches. The past 13 years have provided me with a wealth of practice and skill. • Experienced in overseeing and leading dynamic and interactive Children's Ministry programs from 150 – 400 kids (birth - 6th grade). • Developed and taught several spiritual milestone classes, for children and their parents, including: Baptism, Home Blessing, How to Read the Bible, and Family Blessing. • Skilled in leading and equipping volunteer teams of 40 - 100+ volunteers. • Experienced in leading a paid staff. • Successfully created and facilitated an enthusiastic and dynamic large group teaching and worship experience for Pre-K, Early Elementary and Pre-Teens. • Prepared and hosted Harvest Parties for over 2,500 people. • Written interactive curriculums and large group productions that encourage children's curiosity through investigation & exploration leading children to meaningful discoveries about the character of God. • Created several successful VBS programs varying from a Bible Times theme to "MOVE" a rocking worship theme with over 300 kids and 100 volunteers! • Overseer and champion of the weekday Preschool/Mommy Day Out and childcare programs. • Created large scale kid friendly environments and themes. Think Disney. Professional Skills • Ability to design and create professional quality digital and print publications. • Proficient in PC and Mac computer skills including all Microsoft programs. • Creative designer for multi-media presentations including the use of ProPresenter4, sound and lighting equipment, and various video displays. • Avid reader of leadership, communication and Children's Ministry books. • Great at encouraging and equipping of volunteers and parents. • Successfully designed and supervised the building of a new Children's Ministry Wing while leading a thriving and growing Children's Ministry, twice! Employment Children's Minister • Golf Course Road Church of Christ, September 2010 to December 2011- Midland, TX 79705 Children's Minister • Heritage Church of Christ, May 2006 to September 2010 - Fort Worth, TX 76244 Children's Minister • Crossroad Grace Community Church, May 2004 to May 2006 - Manteca, CA 76244 Children's Church Director • Whittier Area Community Church, August 2002 to January 2004 - Whittier, CA 90605 Christian Summer Camp Indian Guide (Elementary) • Indian Village at Forest Home, Summer 2002 - Forest Falls, CA 92339 Children's Ministry Intern and Volunteer • Inland Hills Community Church, January 1998 to August 2001 - Chino, CA 91710 Professional Affiliations Christian Education Association www.christianeducator.org Random Acts • Climbed the tallest mountain in Texas with a one-year-old strapped to his back. • Pretty decent storyteller. • Can strum a few worship songs on the guitar that have A, D or C chords. • Ability to talk "Bakugan" and "Phineas & Ferb" with a 7 year for a solid hour. • Hiked up the tallest waterfall in North America. • P90X Graduate. • High School Offensive Football Player of the Year 1997, CIF Div II. • Played the role of George Washington in his 1st Grade recital.


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Afghan Knitting Pattern
Free Knitting Patterns - Easy Strip Afghan
This easily made afghan is knitted in strips and then joined together with single crochet; it is attractive as well as serviceable. The size is about 48 x 70 inches. Use three-fold yarn and size 4 knitting needles. It can be made in any combination of two colors-red and gray, rose and green, beige and brown. The checkerboard or block stitch strip is about 7 inches wide and the moss stitch is about 4 inches wide. Each strip could be worked in sections of two colors or more, if desired.
Block Stitch Strip: Always cast on an even number of sts-for this strip cast on 46 sts in first color.
Row 1: K 5, p 5 across row. Repeat this row 4 times.
Row 6: P 5, k 5 across row. Repeat this row 4 times.
Repeat these 10 rows for pattern until work measures about 70 inches. Work 3 more strips in same manner.
Moss Stitch Strip: Always cast on an uneven number of stitches for moss st, for this trip cast on 29 sts in second color.
Row 1: K 1, p 1 across row. Repeat this row for about 70 inches. work 4 more strips in same manner.
Join moss and block stitch strips alternately with a row of single crochet. Work a row of single crochet around entire afghan after strips are joined; make 2 or 3 sc in each corner.

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I finally got back to Gwiddonyn, my level 23 Warlock, who was sitting on the shore in Ashenvale, not getting any well-rested XP. I killed Ruzuul, got my 20 Mirefin heads, and went to kill Dal Bloodclaw and get Elune's Tear before returning to Astranaar. After that I got the Iron Rod up by Feralas, and went into it to get the flight point. Stupidly, I tried to run back down to Ashenvale, instead of just flying back. I got killed a few times, and finally just ran back to Astranaar as a ghost. As I got close to the town, I decided to just keep my ghost status, and ran thru the Talondeep Path. I turned in "On Guard in Stonetalon" with the Ally NPC by the southern graveyard in Stonetalon, once I had logged out and logged back in. I also picked up the quest from Gaxim for the easy travel quest to Ironforge. I decided not to kill the goblin treecutters for Gaxim, since it's a quest chain that ends in killing Dust Devils in Westfall, and the drop rate sucks. Likewise, I decided not to do the "Pridewings of Stonetalon," because it was going to take too long, and I needed to get to bed.
So, I ran up to northern part of Stonetalon, and before I could get to the flight point, I stumbled across a level 22 Orc Hunter. We traded kills for a bit, and he did pretty well. He kept running around and avoiding my bomb blast areas, which was quite annoying. I think we got 2 kills each, and I decided I had had enough with my second win. So, I hopped a flight back to Astranaar, and tucked Gwiddonyn in the Inn for some needed rest.
Doh!!! I just realized what I've been doing wrong in PvP. Warlocks Fear Humanoids and Beasts. I should have Feared him or his pet, slapped my mind control cap on, and sent him into the middle of a bunch of monsters. Also, if I'm a hunter against a hunter, wouldn't Scare Beast work? Fear is a legitimate spell to use, it just sucks when you go up against someone who uses it.
On a different note, I've been having every character that makes it over to Southshore stay there for while. Why? 3 fishing pools that spawn at least every hour. It's a great place to get the fish tracking book if you haven't picked it up, and the Alchemy supply vendor in the building just north of the inn has lvl 21 greater healing potions for sale regularly, along with the fire protection potion recipe. And, just west of that, the trade supply vendor has the lesser Deflection recipe on sale almost always. I think there's only a 10 minute respawn on it or something, because I can ALWAYS get it when I log on. I finally flew back to Ironforge, since she was getting full of fish and items. I probably got about 45 Firefin Snappers, 25 Oily Blackmouth, 15 Stranglekelp, 18 medium leather, 3 heavy leather, and bolts of wool & silk cloth. Not bad for logging in for 2-3 minutes at a time.
I know it's probably boring to hear about how much gold someone else has, but I am kinda excited. How cool is it to have a level 22 character open their mailbox, select open all, walk away from the computer, and come back 100 gold richer? Clockwrkmage had 257 gold when I opened it, and came back to 360 gold. My warrior is also getting to be rich too, based off of just selling enchanting rods and twink armor. I had also snapped up the mithril shield spike recipe on the AH for a 3g buyout, and immediately relisted it for 20-30 gold. It got bought out, so that was a nice bit of profit. I think the lvl 24 warrior has about 450 gold now.


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- A proof of the trade paperback cover
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Darfur doctors fired by State for striking to improve food and working conditions
Striking Darfur Doctors Fired By State
(Khartoum) - Authorities in South Darfur state have sacked doctors who went on strike last week.
Over 30 doctors went on strike on Thursday after the state ministry failed to pay them their three-month allowances. They also complained about poor working conditions.
Speaking to Sudan Radio Service in Khartoum on Saturday, the Health Minister in South Darfur state, Mohamed Harun, said the doctors were sacked for participating in an illegal strike.
[Mohamed Harun]: "This strike is illegal; if you didn't get your salary for August does that mean you want two months salary for August and September? we told them to form a committee so that we can work with them. They formed a committee and I met them on Sunday and we agreed. After two days, we paid them their allowances. Then on Wednesday, they wrote another letter saying that they are going on strike on October 1. And because of that we decided to dismiss them."
One of the doctors who went on strike, Dr Mohamed Omar, told Sudan Radio Service in Khartoum that they took industrial action to pressure the government into improving doctors' working conditions.
[Mohamed Omar]: "Our aim is to get our incentives. If I say that I don't have food or even a meal does that mean that I want additional pay? Our problem is food and working conditions. So if the minister said that they have other doctors, then let those doctors come and work."
Dr Mohamed Omar was speaking to Sudan Radio Service in Khartoum.
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DIWANIYAH, Iraq, April 7--US forces launched an air strike in the central Iraqi city of Diwaniyah Saturday as clashes between Mahdi army fighters and US troops continued for a second straight day.Casualties.
An Iraqi army source said US planes had bombed houses in the city's Al-Jhumuriyah district, "destroying two them", adding there was no immediate information of casualties.
The Iraqi military source said clashes were pitting US forces against armed men in Diwaniyah's Salim Street and southern areas of the city including the Nahda and Wahda districts.In other words, here we go again ... again!
A curfew continued in Diwaniyah for a second day and hospitals were calling in doctors to report for duty, the Iraqi army source added.
US forces swept through the city on Friday, arresting nearly 30 fighters and killing three fighters as part of the crackdown aimed at crushing the Mahdi Army.
Over the past year, Diwaniyah has seen repeated clashes between US troops and Mahdi Army fighters.


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Expedition 2009 – day fourth and five – 30th – 31st of December 2008
The group moves from Kampala to Kasese and from Ibanda inside the Rwenzori Mountain National Park. the 31st night the group stay in Nyabitaba Hut.
Expedition 2009 – day three – 29th of December 2008
On 29th the group have been working on the preparation of the luggage and of the scientific staff for the expedition, waiting for the "lost laggage" arriving in Entebbe airport.
The group is hosted by the ONG AVSI. L'Umana Dimora is working with AVSI to the organization of an educational congress to be taken in June/July 2009 in Kampala.
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Expedition 2009 – day Three – 29th of December 2008
All the day spent in Kampala, working at the organisation of the expedition and waiting for the lost luggage coming from Entebbe airport.
Expedition 2009 – day two – 28th of December 2008
The group of three researchers arrives in Kampala in the night of the 27th hosted in the NGO AVSI, from 30 years active in Uganda, in particular in medical and educational projects. Unfortunately one luggage did not arrived and some scientific staff will not be usable in field !
Expedition 2009 – day one – 27th of December
This is the fourth expedition to the Rwenzori Mountain National Park. The group is composed by myself, Giorgio Vassena, president of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Alpine Club, and by two volonteers of the Environmental Association L'Umana Dimora, Filippo Bernini and Benedetto Omezzolli. The group start from Milan Malpensa airport to Entebbe.
The tasks of the expedition are:
– To check and download the data of the meteorological station installed by the University of Brescia and by the Italian Alpine Club in the location of Bujuku, in the Rwenzori National Park.
– To check the presence of GPRS signal close to the summit of Mount Stanley, to plan the next location of another meteo station
– To install termometers to check the temperature of the rocks in Mount Stanley (under the scientific supervision of the University of Milan, Proff. Claudio Smiraglia and Guglielmina Diolaiuti)
– To install a permanent geodetic reference point for crustal measurements by GPS in Mount Stanley


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Do you know someone who might be interested in helping direct and guide ocean policy and management issues along Washington's Pacific Coast?
If so, Ecology is seeking nominations for membership on an advisory group for ocean policy.
Advisory group will help State Ocean CaucusThe group will advise the State Ocean Caucus – an interagency team made up of state agencies with a management role or expertise in ocean and coastal issues.
Ecology coordinates this team and is forming the advisory group on behalf of the State Ocean Caucus.
Looking for people to represent broad range of interestsWe're looking for people interested in and knowledgeable about ocean and coastal issues on Washington's Pacific Coast – western Clallam and Jefferson counties, and Grays Harbor, Pacific, and Wahkiakum counties.
We need people to represent a wide array of coastal and ocean interests including:
- Local citizens
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The unpaid advisory group will meet about four times a year. Members will serve up to a three-year term and may be reappointed.
A special selection committee will review nominations and make appointment recommendations to Ecology Director Ted Sturdevant.
How to nominate a candidateWe must receive all nominations by Tuesday, September 27, 2011.
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You've got to hand it to medical science - its always moving forward - they've discovered the checklist!
From this link:
"Which hip is being repaired? Is this the right anesthesia? Do we have all the right surgery tools?
Answering such basic questions from surgery checklists — and involving everyone as a team, even patients — saved lives in Veterans Affairs hospitals, according to one of the most rigorous studies of patient safety in the operating room.
Surgery deaths dropped 18 percent on average over three years in the 74 VA hospitals that used the strategy during the study. Surgery team members all created checklists and discussed them in briefings before, during and after surgery. "
What's not said here is that surgery teams without checklists killed more people with easily preventable mistakes than those with checklists.
Its astonishing that these articles don't outrage people.
What, you're a doctor, one of the most highly educated and trained professionals in the world, and you run your surgical practice without the benefit of a simple checklist?
After all, soccer mom has a checklist when little Johnny goes to camp. You and I take one to the grocery store. Why doesn't her surgeon have one?
Read a little further and you'll find this:
"Teamwork problems are ubiquitous in health care but in operating rooms, they're so problematic because ORs are so hierarchical. They're full of ritual and for so many years it's been the surgeon (who) dictates," Pronovost said.
The VA's program began in 2003 and over time has been adopted at virtually all of its 130 surgery centers. Before sedation, patients identify themselves and the reason for their surgery, hear the checklists being read off, and can speak up if something doesn't sound right. The idea is to give everyone in the operating room an equal voice in helping ensure patient safety."
Ritual? Really?
You mean like this?
It's good to see that all that money we're spending on new health care laws has a good foundation in history.
Imagine if we simply passed a health care law that required surgeons to use a checklist like the one described in the article. Imagine a world the patient or a nurse know more about what's going on than the surgeon - like person who's being operated on (no - my left arm!).
I have experience with this. Several years ago I broke my left wrist. A trip to the ER left me with an appointment to see a specialist who had to do surgery.
After some consultation the surgeon and I agreed to have him put a metal bracket in and re-set the break.
The morning of the surgery sees me in the giant bullpen of "out patients for surgery" with many dozen of people where there. Once I am called into the OR prep area I am installed in a bed and set up with IV's and other things.
I joke I need a red marker to write "NO" in big letters on my arm.
No one laughs.
Then someone says "don't do that! Don't write on your arm!"
Eventually the surgeon comes in. He checks me over a bit and then takes my broken arm and writes mysteriously on it (doctor scrawl I suppose).
"What's that for?" I ask.
"So we operate on the right arm." he says.
"But my left arm is broken" I joke.
He didn't laugh either.
I've read up on this a bit - one day in the Borders - and its not just the VA hospital, either:
"Jauhar feels responsible when he botches the blood pressure check on a patient who later dies during an aortic dissection and when he misses the high blood sodium level of a man who then suffers irreversible brain damage."
Ah! Medical science also has its own idea of responsibility as well. No doctor ever causes a problem - they merely misidentify or miss characterize one.
Read the part in the book where they handle failures.
I guess that's why they call it practicing medicine.
I'll have to keep all this in mind.


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Northgate Mall
Cincinnati, Ohio - circa 1970s
Stylish and swanky interior view of Johnny Bench's Home Plate restaurant, in Northgate Mall! Northgate is currently undergoing a major new year-long renovation makeover project that kicked off in April of this year, and is estimated to be completed by Christmas 2007. The mall has seen a few minor updates over the years, and one other major renovation (in 1992) during its lifespan so far.
Yep, I'm sure by now every last drop of vintageness has long been squeezed out of her.
Mall history: 1972 - present
Current website: here
Current aerial view
Resource articles: 1, 2, 3, 4
Previous entries: none
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Man assaulted at house in Barcroft Terrace
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- Anonymous6/18/14, 1:13 PM
Wait? Did the assault occur at the house or the park (i.e. MS-13 hang out?)ReplyDelete
It was inside the house.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/18/14, 2:42 PM
This is another reason to get these people the heck out of our District. Zoning should be called in and shut that place down and exterminate the vermin.ReplyDelete
They provide absolutely no value to our community.
Return the SOBs to sender.Replies
- Anonymous6/18/14, 4:00 PM
Sadly the district welcomes this type of housing situation. Heck they even want to build more housing so they can stuff multi-families into one apt. with more kids overcrowding our schools even further while the taxpayer flips the bill. Time for new leadership who will address and do something about these issues plaguing the community. Zoning won't do crap either, if they did overcrowding schools would be eased considerably. Enforcing laws, huh, county/district officials won't stand for that.Delete
"exterminate the vermin."Delete
Whatever this individual did, this kind of rhetoric is obscene and hateful. No human beings should be called vermin. And no one should judge other people based on their ethnicity. BTW if we had considered having fights a disqualification for coming to america, we would have closed the doors sometime back in the 1830s.
- Anonymous6/18/14, 6:55 PM
No, i suggest we exterminate you.Delete
- Anonymous6/18/14, 4:48 PM
No one menitoned ethnicity. I interpreted the above blogger's note as being specific to the individual, which I would qualify as undersirable.ReplyDelete
And for all of you that think this "vermin" is appropriate trash for us to live amongst, then you should leave your front door unlocked. Maybe even start a machete collection that you could provide to your welcomed visitors.
I am not sure what is more dangerous to our community; the trash or the idiots in Mason?
- Anonymous6/18/14, 6:00 PM
living next to a boarding house for the past 2 years , I can verify that if these homes are emptied of Human residents, there will be LOTS of vermin to exterminate.ReplyDelete
I've lived in my house more than 20 years, yet now have snakes, rats and roaches on my property.
- Anonymous6/18/14, 11:02 PM
This district is going to hell.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6/18/14, 11:39 PM
Because the common denominator of ALL that is wrong is the Gross Penny.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous6/20/14, 9:33 AM
I completely agree and I've voted for her the entire time I've lived in Mason District. She needs to go. If ANY party puts up a decent candidate, I will gladly vote for them just to get rid of a Bad Penny.Delete
- Anonymous6/19/14, 9:35 AM
You need to look at what is going on at the Texas border now. This problem is only going to get worse unless we have our own "regime change" in Mason District and the country more generally.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous6/22/14, 6:20 PM
Amen to that. A complete overhaul of leadership in the Mason District is exactly what is needed.Delete
- Anonymous6/19/14, 10:48 AM
A meals tax to provide more services to the vermin?ReplyDelete


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Monday, 31 July 2006
Sunday, 30 July 2006
Harriet's season
when the sun came out today the hills were alive to the sound of butterfly wings flapping, the blues are probably common blue and silver studded blue but very pretty against the yellow ragwort and purple knapweed. The large orange butterfly is a slightly worn out dark green fritillary.
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Saturday, 29 July 2006
visitors enrapt
this morning's visitor, a young kestrel eyeing up a tasty fast food morsel at the bird table. Our surviving apple trees are cropping very heavily this year.
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Labels: birds
Friday, 28 July 2006
knapweed and marbled white
the much more common knapweed, with its hairy bracts and unserrated leaves, a marbled white and honey bee
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saw wort
very like knapweed but the bracts lack the combs, and the leaves have small serrations. It was once used extensively to make dyes. It is not common, and we have only found it in this one place (Penny's piece) mixed in with the bladderseed.
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tamar valley
the Tamar from Greenscombe woods, running through Luckett meadows, Devon and Dartmoor in the distance
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Labels: Greenscoombe, scenic, Tamar
Thursday, 27 July 2006
August moon
these activities start under the auspicious influence of the new moon (the sturgeon moon, can this be right?) Surgeon moon maybe, for all our friends in hospital.
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Labels: scenic
harvesting begins
... as the fine weather shows signs of ending so the massive machines roll out to take in the harvest. They seem like great herbivorous dinosaurs plodding across the landscape, men perched on them like birds pecking at the parasites on buffalo
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006
silver studded blue
... and this is (probably) a silver studded blue butterfly. We seem to have done plants and moved to insects.
and a cousin
probably a meadow grass hopper (in that it was in a meadow although when I think about it I do not lurch about so why am I a lurcher?) This picture was taken with a Nikon Cool Pix 880 on its macro scene setting so you don't need a very flashy camera to get good close ups. Even I could take a good picture.
anyone for cricket
this is a bush cricket, although I am not sure whether it is a dark bush cricket or a brown bog bush cricket, probably the latter given that this was in swampy terrain, although when I checked out the cricket link I was caught out by the variety and left feeling completely uncertain. The thing on the back is an ovipositor (I think) indicating that this is a female.
Monday, 24 July 2006
enchanter's nightshade
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evening walk
another evocative image from last night's walk. We do not want to shout about what we think, we would rather whisper it softly and wait for you to come with us, join in and feel free.
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Sunday, 23 July 2006
... and finally on this lovely July day, a skipper (hesperiidae), skipper for their darting about flight, this is the large skipper feeding on some knapweed in the Greenscombe meadows. Like lurchers they are described as primitive, being hairy with prominent eyes, and moth like ( as opposed to moth eaten).
this chirpy individual (probably a female) is a whinchat, very noisy and tuneful but shy. Chat by name and chat by nature
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Labels: birds
Summer evenings
summer evenings, bright hard light making the grasses shimmer in the hedgerows. Has there been a summer quite like this in recent years? And then we met the Rationalist out walking; I must say he is not nearly as scary in the flesh as he seems on the page. He told me he could see now why I got second prize ... do I do irony?
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although knapweed is common it is a colourful plant. Knap means knob apparently. The bracts (the bits surrounding the petals) are marvellously complicated and shaped like little fringes or combs. Much loved by bees and butterflies. These sensible plants develop as males and then change to females, and were used to predict proximity of appropriate suitors.
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small copper
not our community PC but a small attractive butterfly, feeding on some ragwort. Is it my imagination or is ragwort taking over the planet? The meadows are full of butterflies and moths at present.
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Labels: flora, insect life
Saturday, 22 July 2006
sheeps bit
sheeps bit again but a much better photo taken in the lane up to Duchy College, and showing the delicate flower structure. It is in exactly the same place as two years ago. The sound of music from Whiteford is washing over us tonight, and then there will be fireworks to celebrate my birthday, and Cassie will hide her head under the bed and Uncle Max will have a fit.
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Stoke Climsland and environs
This is not perfect (you can see the joins) but this a panorama of the village looking North West taken in May 2001 (4 BS) . It is about 5 photos joined together. It shows that Stoke Climsland is an absolutely enormous village with shops and houses and parks, not the tiny village described on Spotlight ...why have they named a programme after me and why haven't I been interviewed yet?? Anyway, Whiteford is to the left but not on this view from the Church tower.
love Spot (1.1 today)
Friday, 21 July 2006
flowering nutmeg
this is an exotic species, known also as himalayan honeysuckle. There is a large specimen near Old Mill, presumably a garden escapee, and several smaller specimens in the woods nearby. It is not nutmeg of course, if only we would all be rich.
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tutsan and Whiteford
toute saine in Norman French, which means all healthy. The plant has antiseptic properties and was used to heal wounds. It looks quite exotic but is a native shrub. The berries are fleshy and turn black when ripe. The leaves are said to have the scent of ambergris when dryed. It is common in this area, and especially around Whiteford where an enormous concert is being held in honour of our birthday, I think, with TV cameras and everything.
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006
hemp agrimony
hemp agrimony is flourishing in the heat. It is a rough and violent purgative, or made into an ointment with hog's lard. The forest of long styles make it unmistakeable. Named eupatorium cannabinum for a famous Greek.
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Tuesday, 18 July 2006
probably common centaury, another very pretty little flower, used extensively to cure all sorts of wounds including one suffered by the centaur Chiron, hence its name. It is very common around here but slow to flower except in this hot bright weather. These are certainly not dog days.
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this slightly ragged looking butterfly is a comma, named for the almost imperceptible white comma shaped mark on the underside of the hind wings, smaller and less restless than the fritillary we saw on Sunday. By the way we were infested with ticks after our very long walk, hundreds of them, black ones orange ones red ones; it is very uncomfortable having them removed one by one, so watch out. Any ideas for the perfect tickicide? So far we have tried fairy liquid, WD40, frontline spray and spot, we refuse burning and freezing options.
Sunday, 16 July 2006
well what do I do now, actually I was checking the purity of the water and doing my seal impersonation. Did you know seals and dogs are probably very closely related and just about as intelligent as me. And we (well our wolf forebears) were here before there were any people at all, then the rivers were clean. Mum is doing her killer whale thing in the background.
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Inny flow
this rock, hidden by the flow of the Inny, may be a bad sign of too much nutrient in the water. The red is due to algae, which if they bloom poison the water. Not good for a world heritage site.
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Labels: water
holly blue
another blue plant, skullcap. This one patch is deep in the woods by the Tamar. It is barely noticeable but it's in the same place every year. Skullcap for the odd little pouch shown in the close up below which is supposed to look like a roman soldier's leather pouch (scutellum)
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Saturday, 15 July 2006
sheeps bit
and finally on this day of pretty blue flowers, a little patch of sheeps bit growing in Gunnislake. Lisa Chaffer told dad where to look, which was very kind of her, although he had to drive up and down through upper, middle, and lower Dimson repeatedly to find it.
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tansy leaved phacelia
phacelia, a strange looking exotic found in grass seed, and very abundant in this field above the village
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Friday, 14 July 2006
and turning from one proboscis to another this is an elephant hawk moth, probably small ( deilephila porcellus) but it is hard to know, that decided to volunteer to be Harriet's supper tonight. It escaped and flew off very happily to find more elephants to eat.
brother Frodo
... we paid a quick visit to see Lily and Frodo in Downgate. Frodo has had the house renamed in his honour, although Melon Frodo doesn't seem quite right to us. He is very like his mum.
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Labels: dogs
a sunny day
Stoke Climsland, Duchy College, Venterdon ..my universe as seen from Kit Hill on a sunny bright day.
Wednesday, 12 July 2006
I have never seen this insect before but there were a couple at Kit Hill Quarry today. I think it is a broad bodied libellula, a member of the darter dragon flies ... in a quarry near you ...get out and see it, take a walk.
Tuesday, 11 July 2006
betony tastefully set off by red grass. It is very abundant and bushy in this strange field, betoine poupre in French, a member of the woundwort family and much used in herbal medicine
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noisy moths
on the betony was this largish moth which was making a very loud thrumming noise, presumably to scare us away. We cannot identify it but it has an odd yellow mark on its wing. Any ideas? Is it possibly a humming bird hawk moth? Maybe not, but it was very noisy. And it has alien looking green eyes
bladderseed field
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field scabious, another common but beautiful and complex wild flower, growing in our hedgerow. Why scabious? Well, because the juice was once regarded as a cure for scabies (in Latin scabiosus) and other itchy skin complaints.
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Sunday, 9 July 2006
old mill
on the path down to Old Mill. Almost everything you could ever want to know about this area is at the link, except the number of dogs who have won prizes. The lurcher environment domain of the English Indices of Dogivation 2004 focuses on the quality of dogs in the area using measures such as the quality of barking, chasing around and performance at shows. These Indices use lower level Super Output Areas which splits England into 32,482 smaller areas, and each of these areas is ranked, with rank 1 having the worst dogs and rank 32,482 the best dogs.
In these Indices the Stoke Climsland Ward is split into 2 parts - the part which contains the rest of the world and some of Stoke Climsland Parish is ranked at 11,620, and the part that contains the rest of Stoke Climsland Parish and Venterdon is ranked at 32,483.
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the italian connection
eddy spinoni posing for Dad on the promise that he will show the picture to Harriet, and support Italy tonight, so "go the blues". It is not clear that I know what blue is given my dichromatic vision and lack of reference cones at appropriate wavelength, but so what the hell, France and Italy look all the same to me.
Now what about that portuguese dog called Ronaldo and his australian friend Roo?
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Posts about my father's battle with cancer starting February 7, 2014.
Winter Woes
Battle Plans
One Down
Going with the Flow
Bitter Cold, Low Blood, and the Beating of Drums
Endurance Run
The Hard Part Has Arrived
Emergency Room Blues
Draining Times
Spinning Wheels
Hurry Up... and Wait
Something Approaching Normalcy
Raggedy Man
April Snow
Time Isn't Flying
Pumped Up
Going Backwards
Second to Last
It's Always Something
A Week Gone By
Still a Long Road to Travel
Knowing is Better than Not Knowing
Never a Dull Moment
Stuck in Place
Not Looking Good
That's Not the Headlight of a Train
Repeat Season
July Refuses to Go Gracefully
A Slowly Developing Picture
Complications, Part 2
Waiting for...
Laboring Along
Frayed or Fried?
Beautiful Pictures
Paint it Black Friday
February Already?
Spring Is Coming...


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1. Five Posture Cues To Perfect Your Exercise Form
The reality is, great exercise form is just the ability to maintain good posture throughout the movement.
"If you get into a good postural position, odds are your form is good. And odds are the right muscles are doing the right work".
2. Regulation of Food Intake, Energy Balance, and Body Fat Mass: Implications for the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Obesity
"Obesity has emerged as one of the leading medical challenges of the 21st century. The resistance of this disorder to effective, long-term treatment can be traced to the fact that body fat stores are subject to homeostatic regulation in obese individuals, just as in lean individuals. Because the growing obesity epidemic is linked to a substantial increase in daily energy intake, a key priority is to delineate how mechanisms governing food intake and body fat content are altered in an obesogenic environment".
3. What Trainers and Gym Owners Need to Know
"The mouth is the source of all calamity. If you talk shit about people, your employees will talk shit about you. Then employees will start talking shit about each other. Pretty soon employees will start talking shit about customers. Before you know it nobody will feel safe around you. Congratulations! You have completely toxified your business".
4. Saturate, Incubate, Illuminate
"Our goal is not corrective exercise and our goal is not screening. Our goal is no negative results from conditioning and professional fitness coaching or athletic coaching. Unfortunately, no single program can achieve this every time for everyone, which is why data is critical to maximizing results through program modification".
"Now, while not giving a fuck may seem simple on the surface, it's a whole new bag of burritos under the hood. I don't even know what that sentence means, but I don't give a fuck. A bag of burritos sounds awesome, so let's just go with it".


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January 8, 2010
Lazy Friday
I had a pasta/salad mix with the leftover Ronzoni pasta, baby spinach, turkey, shredded cheddar, and lite peppercorn parmesan ranch dressing. Yum!
It didn't keep me satisfied for long though, so I needed to have a midday snack.
I ate some leftover refried beans mixed with a little bit of shredded cheddar and some enchilada sauce. It was good but apparently my tummy was a bottomless pit today because not too long after I was ready for dinner.
I made english muffin pizzas (my own version) topped with melted pepperjack cheese, red onion, and grape tomatoes.
Unfortunately the tomatoes were a few days past their prime and were pretty yucky so I took them off, but it was still a tasty meal. I dipped the pizzas in some lite ranch dressing.
Again, I was STILL hungry! So, for dessert I had some oats mixed with a tablespoon of Ovaltine and a teaspoon of white chocolate peanut butter.
YUMMY! This combination was great but next time I think I'll use a little more Ovaltine and a little less PB.
I'm happy to report that I actually spent some time on my fitness yesterday. Nothing crazy, but I did a lot of arm work--bicep curls, leg lifts, jumping jacks--that kind of stuff. I used to follow a tae-bo workout tape and loved the way I felt after, so I usually incorporate tae-bo moves into my routines too. I am going to try my best to try to turn my lazy day around with some exercise. We'll see!!
Tomorrow's grocery day...are there any must-haves that should be on my list??
In other news, Katie from Faith Food & Fitness is having a Chobani giveaway. Check it out: Chobani giveaway
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Must haves for your grocery list: onions, (red and yellow), celery, carrots and low sodium chicken broth - oh, and spinach and eggs - You can wip up a great stracciatella soup with the spinach, eggs and broth and it's delicious! also, hard boiled eggs are my "go-to" snack - just the whites though (about 20 calories), I don't like the yolk too much - I loved your blog today and I too felt like a bottomless pit - It's the weather - your body is telling you to fatten up for the cold days ahead - Oh and also, ANY of the Kashi cereals are great - I usually have them for afternoon snacks - you're awesome! I love you !ReplyDelete
So proud that you got a workout in! You'll be a gym-bunny in no time!ReplyDelete
I had a bottomless pit day earlier this week. I couldn't stop snacking til I figured out what food would really satisfy me.
On my typical grocery list: Yogurt (Greek and regular), bananas, some type of seasonal fruit, lettuce...nothing too crazy. :o)


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Here is a little doll I made for my daughter. She adores her. I am loving the Everyday paper doll cartridge by PC.
I used EDPD to make the doll at 5 inches
I used the Career button to make the dress, jacket, and shoes
I used the Cheerleader hair and cut off the bangs
I used purple mini brads for earrings and Peachy Keen Stamps for the face.
My daughter is in love with the doll.
Thanks for looking.
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It's that time of the week again! Time to vote for YOUR favorite for this week's photography challenge!
Ashley Jean
Vote will end 10/4/10!
They are all so great! Wonderful picks and it's a hard choice on who to vote for.
YAY! What great company to be in. Grabbing my button!
Yeah! Thanks so much. It won't show the button on my blog. I think something with the code might be wrong.
Ashley Jean's photo spoke to the Mother-love in me!!! (and grandma too!)
I can almost hear her saying "you come too Mum?"
Yay, thank you so much Faith!!! Congratulations to all the other fabulous photos.
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Joel had the day off work for the holiday. Well, day off his office job, but he definitely worked all day today. We are pretty tight on time, so thank God we had this bonus day to get things done before we move in. Joel stained the entire house today: two bedrooms, a small hallway, a large living room and a dining room! What an amazing guy... :)
Here are some pics of the floor in its new color. First one taken tonight and second one earlier today in the daylight.
I am pretty pleased with the way they turned out, and really can't wait to enjoy them. Joel still has to do the poly coat tomorrow night (after he gets off work!). And we would still like to paint the walls and put in new vinyl flooring in the bath and kitchen before we have to move in Thursday! Cross your fingers for us. ;)
A word about color choice. What I really wanted was a dark coffee brown, but it was almost impossible to find in stock anywhere. And it was logistically simpler to stick with the Minwax brand, but that also kind of limited my color choices. The first one we tried was Jacobean. We got a sample and Joel tested the colors in a hidden corner of one of the closets.
I found it was too 'black' and not 'brown' enough. So... looking at the samples in Home Depot, I thought maybe Dark Walnut looked browner. Doesn't it look browner? I thought it looked like it might be browner...
From left to right, this is Jacobean after 5 minutes, Dark Walnut after 20 minutes and Jacobean again after 15 minutes. What really confused me was that Dark Walnut @20 and Jacobean @5 look so much alike. I really could not tell them apart at all.
It did look a little browner so, even though it wasn't as dark as I would've liked, I said - let's go for it, English Chestnut it is!! And the floors turned out really great. Darker than I thought they'd be, so that was a nice surprise. :)
Now... what color to paint the walls?!


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Last night (November 12th), SOUNDGARDEN CBS-TV's 'Late Show With David Letterman'; a longer performance is available on the 'Live From Letterman' webcast. Video footage of the bands entire performance is available below. The bands NEW album entitled 'King Animal' is available now (Tracklisting & Album Cover HERE) via Tom Whalley's NEW record label, a partnership between his Seven Four Entertainment and Republic Records. 'King Animal' is available for streaming in its entirety on iTunes.
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Biographical entry Jepson, Edward Kane (1814 - 1895)
MRCS June 3rd 1835; FRCS June 28th 1855; LSA 1836.
- Born
- 1814
- Died
- December 1895
- Occupation
- General surgeon
The son of George Jepson, surgeon, of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire; he studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon under Earle. He practised throughout his life at Durham, where he was in partnership with William Green and later alone. He was Medical Officer to the Sherburn Hospital, and after its reorganization, Surgeon to the County Hospital. He was also Medical Officer to the Penitentiary. When the Public Health Act was brought into operation, he became the first Medical Officer of Health. In 1889 he retired to Scarborough and died there in December, 1895, or January, 1896. His eldest son, Edward Jepson, MD, who had succeeded to his father's practice, was then Mayor of Durham.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- U.S.-listed shares of Asian companies were slightly higher Tuesday, lifted by strength in U.S. stocks that outweighed weakness in the technology sector.
U.S. stocks were stronger after the Federal Reserve lifted its benchmark overnight lending rate, the federal funds rate, by one quarter of a percentage point, in a widely expected move. Read about stocks.Read about the interest rate increase.
The Bank of New York Asian ADR Index rose 0.45 points to 97.51 points.
Communications shares were mixed, with wireless shares tilting lower. Linktone LTON fell 6.25 percent, SK Telecom SKM, +1.23% rose 0.2 percent and China Unicom CHU, +0.00% climbed 1.7 percent. China Mobile CHL, -1.34% and Sunday Communications SDAY were lower.
Fixed-line shares were mostly lower, with KT Corp KTC, -5.69% down 1.2 percent, Chungwha Telecom CHT, -1.07% down 0.1 percent and Philippine Long Distance Telephone PHI, +0.84% down 1.6 percent.
There were few gainers, with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone NTT, +1.05% Mahanagar Telephone Nigam MTE, +0.55% and City Telecom CTEL leading the way.
Energy shares were mostly lower as the price of oil spiked to a new high. Petrochina PTR, +0.95% the only gainer in the sector, rose 0.1 percent. China National Offshore Oil CEO, +0.16% dropped 1.4 percent and Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical SHI, +1.07% was 2.9 percent lower.


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At this time of year many people are baking gingerbread biscuits and I thought I would share my recipe. This one uses ground cardamon as well as the ginger and I sometimes bake these during the year as well not just at Christmas. During the year I just use a non Christmas shape cutter but at Christmas I like to make these into Christmas trees. This recipe is easy to double and the cooked biscuits freeze well.
Gingerbread Biscuits
125 gm Butter
1/2 C Brown Sugar
1/4 C Golden Syrup
1 egg Yolk
1 3/4 C Plain Flour (Sifted)
2 Tsp Ground Ginger
1 Tsp Ground Cardamon
1 Tsp Baking Soda
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
Cream the sugar and butter until the mix is pale and creamy then add the golden syrup and egg yolk and beat until well combined.
Add the dry ingredients and mix well then tip out on your bench and knead till smooth. Roll into a large ball and wrap in cling wrap and chill for 30 minutes in the fridge.
Remove dough from the fridge and roll out on a lightly floured bench to about 5mm thick. Cut out your shapes and bake for 10-12 minutes. When cooked allow to stand on the tray for 5 minutes before moving the biscuits to a wire rack to cool.
You will need to roll out all the dough scraps as you go and if the dough gets too soft to handle just place back in the fridge for a few minutes.
Friday, 12 December 2014
Gingerbread Biscuits
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yum yum no carb recipe pleaseReplyDelete
We made these today and the kids said they were delicious...I'm on a liver cleanse so none for me but they smelt great and they loved them. Regards Kathy A, BrisbaneReplyDeleteReplies
Kathy, Glad to hear they were a hit maybe you should stash some in the freezer for yourself at a later date, although you could just make them again as I think they are good at any time of the year.Delete
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Superb weather over the weekend brought over 30 visitors to Pauanui from around the region and a selection of these are included below. From Ardmore came the well known Beaver ZK-CKH and regular visitor R44 ZK-HOX, from North Shore A36 Bonanza ZK-NAZ, the exotic Slepcev Storch ZK-STO from Matamata and from Hamilton the 1983 Zenair CH200 ZK-ZEN.
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WASHINGTON — A top Senate Democrat unveiled a $156 billion economic stimulus package yesterday that awards rebates to senior citizens living off Social Security and extends unemployment benefits, setting up a clash with the White House and House leaders.
WASHINGTON — A top Senate Democrat unveiled a $156 billion economic stimulus package yesterday that awards rebates to senior citizens living off Social Security and extends unemployment benefits, setting up a clash with the White House and House leaders.
As the House planned a vote today on a plan that would speed rebates of up to $600 to most income earners — more for couples and families with children — Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus set a vote for tomorrow on a bill with the add-ons.
"My proposal will give America's seniors the same rebate as any wage earner," said Baucus, D-Mont. "The White House says we mustn't slow the economic stimulus agreement down, or blow it up. I agree. We're going to improve it and get it passed right away."
The move was in defiance of admonitions from the Bush administration not to risk derailing the deal with changes, and it threatened to slow what was shaping up as an extraordinarily rapid trip through Congress for the stimulus measure. The Senate hopes to pass its version by week's end.
"I strongly support chairman Baucus' efforts to garner bipartisan support to improve the House agreement, and I intend to take legislation to the floor as quickly as possible to strengthen the economy," said Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
The president and House leaders agreed last week on a proposal to provide rebates to 117 million families and to give businesses $50 billion in incentives to invest in new plants and equipment. The goal is to help head off a recession and boost consumer confidence.
Senate Republicans and Democrats — kept on the sidelines as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Minority Leader John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, cut the deal with Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson last week — were eager to put their stamp on the high-profile package.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader, urged senators to refrain from trying to swell the size of the package.
"A number of senators have expressed a desire to add tens of billions of dollars in spending on contentious programs to this package, but we don't have the time for ideological debates. In order for this plan to work, Congress needs to act, and act at once," McConnell said.
Republicans, though, were among those calling for additions to the plan.
"Many of these additions have bipartisan support, and I hope that the president will recognize that the White House needs to negotiate with the Senate as well as the House," said Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, who backs both the rebates for seniors and the unemployment extension.
Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, a Finance Committee member, called the unemployment extension "critical" and said she supported ensuring that the rebates reached the elderly.
Adding rebates for senior citizens living solely off Social Security checks — who are ineligible under the plan hatched by House leaders and the White House — caused Baucus to reduce the size of the rebate to $500 for individuals and $1,000 for couples, instead of the $600-$1,200 rebate plan agreed to by Bush and House leaders. People would still receive an extra $300 per child.
In another key difference, Baucus' plan would send rebates to all Americans with earned income of $3,000 or more, while the House plan gives only partial rebates to individuals with adjusted gross incomes of more than $75,000 and couples with incomes in excess of $150,000, and no rebate at all to the wealthiest taxpayers.
President Bush was pushing for Congress to move quickly on the agreement without additions.
Still, pressure from the elderly and labor unions — both politically potent forces — spurred senators to act.
David Certner, AARP's legislative director, said senators were responding to a flood of elderly people who have contacted lawmakers about the stimulus plan and asked, "'Why aren't seniors part of this rebate package? We're hurting. We spend money.'"
The Senate measure includes a 13-week extension of unemployment payments for those whose benefits have run out, and a 26-week extension in states where the jobless rate exceeds 6 percent.


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Ok, so on to yesterdays art project I completed for my GYPO class. I tried some new things with this one. The original has a little more of a yellowish tinge to it that my computer doesn't seem to be picking up. I'm just letting you know because viewing it from here looks like most of it is just a drawing but in reality most of it is acrylic paint. I had never painted a "scene" on paper before so decided to try it. I almost trashed it after the first coat of paint since my first layer of gesso was not smooth and really showed steaks from the brush... but since I was short on time I kept going and was pretty happy with the end piece. I brought out details in the bird and some in the leaves below with graphite and charcoal.
{follow your heart ~ mixed media}
Of course this one has a meaning like almost all of my others. Notice that the bottom part of the piece is darker and their is a darker band in the middle of the bird... well this represents the weighted down feeling we have. There are so many times we have dreams or really want to do something but we don't... we find ourselves coming up with reasons why we can't... we hold ourselves back. The colorful rays signify following our heart, taking the leap of faith, forgetting about all the other stuff on our mind and just going for what we really want. Lets face it your not going to get anywhere if you don't fly.


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Our plans for a decorated table
inspired by The Netherlands
for the Hope Lodge Holiday Bash
at the Harmonie Club
at the Harmonie Club
on December 8 in New York City!
Sneak Peeks...
Sneak Peeks...
We will decorate a table at the annual Holiday Bash for Hope Lodge on Tuesday, December 8. This fundraiser and gala will be held at the swanky Harmonie Club in New York City, and in their beautiful, historic ballroom. A group of us interior designers have been chosen and invited to decorate a table, each honoring a different country and to be designed inspired by that part of the world. Together with my business partner Susan Young, (we co-own textile and home wares company Root Cellar Designs), we chose to depict The Netherlands, tapping into the beautiful antique plate pattern Blue Willow. This pattern shows Chinoiserie scenes and made in an all blue and white color pattern, so with that in mind, we custom created a trio of fabric patterns for the tablecloth, dinner napkins and seat covers to inundate guests with a wonderful experience. Inspired by the many dish patterns that came out of historic Holland factories, we created a Chinoiserie toile pattern in a vivid orange and pale blue and white color way. The orange shows the vibrancy of the Netherlands, their signature color. If you cannot make this wonderfully philanthropic event, but want to support the cause, please stop back to take a look at our recap of the event.
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Root Cellar Designs fabrics for our table
we'll don the table with our Blue Willow plate collection
When we think of the Netherlands, we are reminded of antique windmills,
blue willow plates and vibrant orange so we combine all this together with custom made pinwheels (showing our fabric designs), pinecones and a cornucopia for vintage and modern wares.
Blue Willow plates were made in historic holland factories hundreds of years ago telling the story of a young Chinese couple's tragic love. At first glance the pattern looks Chinese, but the design was first created in England, later in The Netherlands where some of the finest collections of Blue Willow were produced in factories. The blue design stands out against the ecru colored plate, telling a tragic love story, a classic "forbidden fruit" tale between a young boy Chang and Kwang-se (Chang worked for her wealthy father). They fell in love, eloped, and the Gods turned them into birds (depicted on the plate) to save them from Kwang-se's father killing them.Hope Lodge on Facebook
This annual gala benefits Hope Lodge, and learn more about Hope Lodge below:
Hope Lodge via Cancer.org:
"There are 32 Hope Lodge locations throughout the United States offering cancer patients and their caregivers a free place to stay when their best hope for effective treatment may be in another city. Not having to worry about where to stay or how to pay for lodging allows guests to focus on getting well. Hope Lodge provides a nurturing, home-like environment where guests can retreat to private rooms or connect with others. Every Hope Lodge also offers a variety of resources and information about cancer and how best to fight the disease. If there is not a Hope Lodge in your area, please call the American Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345 for more information. You may also enter your treatment center's zip code on cancer.org's Find Local Resources page".
About The New York City Hope Lodge: "For many, treatment at New York City's medical centers provides the greatest hope, but requires that they are far from home, adding the additional burden of travel and lodging expenses. That is why the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge Jerome L. Greene Family Center offers lodging at no cost for cancer patients being treated in Manhattan. The Hope Lodge main floor is a peaceful communal space where guests can relax, read a book, or spend time with other guests and visitors. The main floor offers many thoughtful amenities including."
For years, my son Miles performed in an annual piano recital at Hope Lodge and performed to the guests during the holiday season. It is a homey, well-lit spacious home with 60 private guest rooms. Each floor has a community kitchen and dining are with a quiet lounge and even a laundry room.
our table design:
we will arrange ilex orange berry branches, delphiniums, blue thistle and blue hydrangea on our table. A special thank you to Dawn Melanie Designs for their generous donation of flowers to our table
Happy Nesting
a practice run creating our table with custom made paper windmills (showing our fabric designs), table linens, antique plates and more
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table linens and pillows for the holidays!
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table linens and pillows for the holidays!
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Seth tried so hard keeping it a surprise for me, but he blurted out one day that we were headed on a Eastern Caribbean cruise for our honeymoon! I had never been on a cruise before! He explained to me that we would spend 7 days out on the Allure of the Seas, one of the biggest cruise ships of Royal Caribbean. We would visit St. Maarten, Puerto Rico and Haiti!
In preparation for the cruise, I did some research on different ideas of things to bring and what to expect! I compiled my own Cruise Packing List and packed separately the night before the wedding. After an amazing wedding night, we drove the next day to Denver to fly out to Miami, Florida!
I still remember driving up to the port. You reach the most gigantic, beautiful ship you've ever seen. We drop off our suitcases to have it picked up to be sent to our cabin and get checked in. We pass along with hundreds of people, filing in to the ship with workers there to greet you every step of the way. When we crossed the bridge to get onto the ship I felt like I was boarding the Titanic, in the way that's anxious and excited to be traveling across the sea to new land. We found our room with an amazing view of the ocean! We immediately went and explored the ship. There were cafes, casinos, restaurants and bars. There was a basketball court, mini golf, ping pong tables, zip line, swimming pools and a flow rider! Each night they had different entertainment with divers and acrobats, comedy shows, musicals and concerts!
One morning, I requested breakfast in bed and the food was delicious! All you had to do was write down what you wanted and leave it out the night before. The food prepared on the ship was so yummy and unique that it made the whole experience come together. Chefs from all over would take over for a night and you could experience cuisine from around the world. The cruise implemented certain nights to be "formal nights" where everyone gets dolled up in fancy dresses and suits and heads to dinner. Eating out became so much more meaningful!
I've always been in love with water and the ocean. I loved sitting inside my cabin window at night and watched dark waves crash into the side of the ship while sea foam bubbles up through each wave. If you haven't gone on a cruise yet, I'd suggest you start planning one now, it's an incredible experience! Everything is taken care of for you and all you have to worry about is having fun. Cruising is a crazy way to travel. I didn't take as many pictures as I would've liked, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes you should just live in the moment and enjoy the here and now. We met so many people from all over the world and they became our cruise buddies. We'd either run into each other at dinner or meet every day on the Flow Rider. It's amazing to be on such a beautiful big ship and enjoy the best that the sea has to offer!
Thanks for Reading!
Love, Nick
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A 14" custom order - mixed rainbow hair which looks awesome with her sunshine-themed top!
This was my 62nd Waldorf doll. Every so often I count them all up. She's arrived at her new home, and is hanging out, waiting for a birthday.
And then this little one happened -- a 10" custom order.
Her pink and purple outfit is just adorable!
I'm just about done with the queued dolls for the spring -- soon I'm hoping to put some lambs, monkeys and mermaids in the shop!


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Here's what the president said during a Q&A session at a Cleveland town hall event last Wednesday:
I don't think I've ever said this publicly, but I'm going to go ahead and say it now. In Australia and some other countries, there's mandatory voting. It would be transformative if everybody [in the U.S.] voted — that would counteract money more than anything. If everybody voted then it would completely change the political map in this country.I guess technically he doesn't actually endorse mandatory voting here although it's hard to understand why he mentioned it right before saying how it would be a wonderful thing if everybody voted. In any case, the dreadfulness of endorsing compulsory voting, complete with fines and prison sentences for those who fail to show up at the polls, is exceeded by the reasons why he wants everyone to vote:
The people who tend not to vote are young, they're lower income, they're skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups. They are often the folks who are scratching and climbing to get into the middle-class. They're working hard.One can understand why Mr. Obama wants these particular people to vote. When they do they tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, but I could never understand why anyone who cares about the well-being of our republic would want them to vote. The demographic the president identifies is usually not only the most politically disengaged they're also the most apathetic, least informed, and least invested in their communities. If they do vote their ballot is often based not on an informed consideration of the issues and candidates, and what's best for the country, but on the basis of emotional appeals or self-interest, the candidate's looks, charisma, sex, race, or age. None of these are good reasons for voting for someone - voting for president is not like voting for homecoming queen - but they're often the only reasons the uninformed can think of.
Here's a simple test: If someone can't name their state's U.S. senators and their district's congressional representative that should tell them that they really don't know enough yet to vote responsibly. If someone doesn't care sufficiently about voting to register on time, to secure an ID, to study the issues, to read a newspaper or its electronic equivalent, why should we make it easier for them to vote? The only answer is that if the uninformed can be compelled to vote it would guarantee political hegemony for whichever party promised them the most free stuff, and we know which party that would be.
We should not be encouraging people to vote who have no idea what they're voting for. What we should be encouraging people to do is to educate themselves on what's going on in their country and the world. If they do that then they'll be self-motivated to vote and the government won't have to make it easy or force them to do it. They'll care enough to do what's necessary to cast their ballot. Every adult citizen should be eligible to vote, but only those who are informed and engaged should be encouraged to vote, and those who are informed and engaged won't need much encouragement.


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It's about 2:00am, I'm all alone, and I come across a single man and his dog with 2 water jugs in the middle of the upper Millcreek wilderness. What a great event.
The Millcreek 50k is a low-key, no-entry fee, informal race that starts at 9pm and runs through the night. This year was an 'up' year so we started at the base of the west route up Grandeur Peak. About 40 or 50 folks started out (? unsure on the numbers here) with a low-key "Go!" and off we went ambling down Wasatch Blvd on the pavement for about 5 minutes or so before the trailhead. On the way up Grandeur I found myself in 3rd place behind Jared Campbell and one other guy who had a decent lead going up the steep grade. I plugged my headphones in my ears and just focused on maintaining an easy, relatively unlabored effort up the climb. About 2/3 up the 3000ft climb I caught up to them and we hiked together conversationally over the summit which we hit in about 56 minutes (estimated 50 minutes from the trailhead?). The sun had fallen below the horizon and we flipped our headlamps on just prior to the descent. Being a weenie on the downs I took my time and quickly lost sight of these guys. (Jared had one week prior finished 75 miles of the Hardrock 100 and certainly wasn't showing any signs of it- pretty damn impressive. I continue to be incredulous at the feats some of these ultrarunning folk pull off).
The descent was fun and I started really enjoying the feel of the evening as it cooled off and the increasing dark shrunk my field of vision to the narrow field of my headlamp. I ran fairly leisurely along pipeline, again reminding myself that this was just to be a relaxed training run and was pleased to finally catch back up to Jared heading up towards Elbow Fork. We ran together through the aid station at mile 9, crossing the road to run the steep up and down over to Terraces. We then began a tough climb up to Baker's Pass, passing the other fellow who'd been running with us in the process. I took the lead here and without really intending to started pulling away. It was a long climb and by the top I couldn't see any lights below me. At this point, under halfway through the race, we had already logged over 7000 vertical. I stopped for a bit, turned off my headlamp, and enjoyed the feeling of being on this ridge between Gobblers and Mt. Raymond in the full moonlight in the middle of the night without another soul around. Spectacular.
The course then followed a long, rolling, and side-hilling traverse over to Dog Lake with views into Big Cottonwood Canyon. The course markings were sparse through here and the trail was pretty overgrown: more than a few times I wondered if I was on the right trail but figured given my estimated whereabouts and direction that I was heading in the right direction anyhow. Took a couple benign diggers on this section but was feeling great. I had filled 2 bottles at mile 9 but was running low at this point and thinking it would be nice to restock with some water at Dog Lake. Coming into Dog Lake I took a mistaken right instead of going straight (no course markings here) and ended up losing some time noisily poking around some tent sites (sorry to the campers who made a couple questioning grunts). Little did they know there was a stinky ultrarunner poking around their site at 1am.
I finally got my bearings and had to backtrack a bit to the aid station, crossing paths with Jared in the process who was just heading towards Blunder Fork and then Desolation. It was one dude, his dog, and 2 jugs of water just hanging out in the middle of the woods all night. Amazing. Thanks to all the volunteers who supported us out there. I drank a full bottle then filled both of them and headed out. In my meandering I started having a bit of a rough patch and suddenly for the first time in the race didn't feel so great. The descent to Blunder Fork felt alright but I felt pretty out of juice on the steep climb towards Desolation. I ate some Shot Bloks, drank some water, and gradually started to feel better. By the time I got on the Wasatch Crest I felt great again and started picking up the pace. Having Jared now in front of me was a great carrot and I started actually feeling the competitive juices flow at this point. It was mainly downhill, much of it on pretty sweet singletrack so I just let it fly and for the first time in the night tried to run fast (which isn't saying much). Felt good on the descent to the Big Water trailhead but never caught sight of Jared- pretty amazing to be able to descend like that 1 week after a long effort at Hardrock. Rolled in to the finish in 6:18, about 7 minutes back from Jared but still over 20 minutes under the old course record. I then immediately ate 2 delicious hot pancakes with syrup. I tell you man, this was probably one of the coolest events I've ever done. Jason Berry was there having been forced to drop out at Dog Lake after taking a nasty fall and hurting his back. He, Jared, and I drove back down to the base of Millcreek together.
Needless to say, didn't get much sleep over the rest of the night but the legs felt pretty damn good the next day regardless. With a quick jaunt up Mt. Wire this AM that put me at over 17,000 vertical for the week and about 35,000 vertical for the last 2 weeks. Definitely wasn't doing that shit when I lived in Iowa...
Here's some photos from the Wasatch in early summer:
|Unnamed peak above Neffs Canyon
|Lake Blanche
|It's July!
|Twin Peaks
|Mt. Wire
|Nice buttery singletrack around Red Butte


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Mr & Mrs Herd, Greater Manchester
After two years of other agents failing to sell our home, we had at last found the right team. You certainly put all other agents in the shade.
AN INDIVIDUALLY DESIGNED DETACHED HOUSE THAT HAS HAD NO EXPENSE SPARED IN IT'S CONSTRUCTION Enjoying one of the most idyllic positions in the area boasting open woodland to the rear this opulent property affords modern indulgence built to the highest standards yielding eco-friendly, sustainable living which is a true credit to the current owners, This Prestigious bespoke detached family home offers a wealth of style and design throughout including a host of quality fitting and extras. The property has been cleverly extended providing spacious and versatile living accommodation comprising a welcoming entrance hall, cloakroom/ w.c, lounge with double doors opening up to the conservatory, A formal dining room, dining kitchen with integral appliances and utility room to the ground floor. On the first floor there are four good size bedrooms; with the master benefiting an en-suite showeroom and walk in wardrobe and additional family bathroom serving the remaining bedrooms. During its construction the property had installed a fully wired internet, CCTV and HD video streaming network which feeds all rooms. The driveway approach provides off road parking for several vehicles, beautifully landscaped gardens to the rear which are private and not over looked with uninterrupted woodland views. The extensive garden is laid mainly to lawn with decorative raised flower beds and shrub borders with a variety of al fresco dining options, also an ornate water feature with remote controlled cascading waterfalls and well stocked with fish. A versatile and well planned addition to this already impressive family home is a self-contained building currently used an office and has a subterranean water harvesting system, but could serve a multitude of uses including a teenage suite or granny annex, Internal viewing essential to avoid disappointment.
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