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Newtowncashel Drama's production of Jimmy Keary's 'Too Close to Home' played to packed audiences and was a tremendous success last weekend. Full report next week.
We extend our congratulations to Linda Cribben, (Derrygowna) and Martin Curran who were married last weekend.
The death occurred on Wednesday, the 4th of March of John Hand, Newpark.
John was a true gentleman, who lived a full and long life. His devotion to the Church and God was together with his family, his main concern throughout his life. He was a lifelong Pioneer and his incredible popularity was in evidence by the large amount of people that turned out to pay their final respects to the man. John was recently predeceased by his great-grandson Desmond. John passed away peacefully in the loving care of his family. We extend our deepest sympathies to his loving family, wife Mary Ann, daughter Mary-Rose (Kenny), sons John, Tommy, Pauric and Gerard, brother Jim (U.S.A.), sister Teresa (Moran), son-in-law Brian, daughters-in-law Ann, Geraldine, Margaret and Geraldine, grandchildren Brian, Patrick, Róisín, Annmarie, Laura, Sarah, John, Dawn, Derek and Adrian, great-grandchildren Dylan, Sophia, Ciara, Sophie and Shannon, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Removal was on Saturday the 7th of March arriving at the Church of the Blessed Virgin, Newtowncashel at 7pm. Mass of the Resurrection was on Sunday the 8th of March at 12 noon with interment afterwards in St. John's Cemetery, Lanesboro. May his soul rest in Peace.
Flower arranging
Flower arranging class resumes in The Hill on Thursday, 12th March at 7.30pm.
Revision course
An Honours Irish Leaving Cert Revision Course will take place in Longford town on Tuesday, 31st March 10am-4pm. An Bhéaltriail (Oral Irish), Essays, Prose, Poetry and Grammar will be covered and notes provided. For more information and applications please contact Yvonne Ní Mhurchú 087-2642665 or Trudy Uí Fhearghail 087-6475071
Newtowncashel Community games are holding a Monster auction at 1pm on Sunday, 19th of April in the Hall in Newtowncashel. We will be using the funds raised to purchase much needed sports equipment in order for the children of the parish to be able to participate in Events and Activities. Your support will be greatly appreciated and we hope you can help by donating something for sale on the day or purchasing a bargain. We are looking for quality items such as Firewood, DIY and garden tools, Toys, Books, DVD's, Paintings, Household Goods, Vouchers etc. to be auctioned on the day. All items considered. We are also looking for Cakes, buns, jams, tarts etc. that can be sold separately. Items can be dropped to the Hall any time after 12 noon on Saturday the 18th of April. Items can be collected by arrangement with any member of the committee by contacting Christy Hopkins on 086 8399057 or Gary Beattie on 0872050506 or John Morrissey on 0868066698 or John Kenny on 0870507686.
Storytelling takes place every Saturday morning in Ballymahon Library at 11.30a.m. All are welcome. Please call 090 64 32546 to book your place.


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Planet Walls
A little more than Yellow Sweets
A little more than Blue Vines
2 Pirate Swords
2 Raspberry Bow and Arrows
Moon Dirt (you'll have to add)
Short Spike Collar
Mira Statue
Zios Sculpture
Pink Forest Walls
This item isn't wanted by many Jammers. This item only comes in 1 colour and 1 form. This item makes your den look cozy. This is a den flooring item (for land). This item doesn't make it to the top 10 rare items list or the top 10 rarest BETA list. It's very hard to find someone with the item, because I only saw only about 10 people who had it. If you have one of these, depending on your opinion on it, you should decide to trade it away or not, because these might come back in stores!

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100% of Sign Language Interpreting majors passed the national interpreter certification written exam, for the sixth year in a row. (Spring 2016)
1,974 hours were donated by Bethel students to nearly 50 organizations for Bethel's 28th annual service day, Oct. 4, 2016.
25% of undergraduate students come from culturally diverse backgrounds.
36 National Championships have been awarded to the Pilots in the NAIA and NCCAA.
89% of Bethel graduates who have applied to medical school since 2001 have been accepted. This is more than twice the national average.
37 is the number of task force trips on which students have served since 1988.
Three writers from the Bethel Beacon won five awards from the Indiana Collegiate Press Association in the Newspaper Division III for non-dailies with less than 3,000 enrollment. Wesley Lantz '17 won first place for Best In-Depth Story, second place for Best Entertainment Story and third place for Best Opinion Column. Caitlin Halstead '16 won second place for Best Review, and Micah Hershberger '17 won third place for Best Sports Column.
Angelica (Angel) Hedglin '16, a biochemistry and molecular biology major and softball player, was accepted to four medical schools (Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, and Uniformed Services University College of Medicine). She received a placement at her first choice: Indiana University School of Medicine. She was also invited to interview at six other schools
Senior Collin Smith '16 completed a summer communication internship with The Richards Group, the largest independently owned agency in the country who has worked with clients such as the Atlanta Falcons, Chick-fil-A, Home Depot, Caterpillar, Pier 1 Imports, Jeep and Famous Footwear. Part of his internship focused on the production of digital marketing pieces for the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, the company's largest digital account to date. This included managing the production of digital ad units for Dr. Pepper's largest initiative of the year – college football – from start to finish.
Bethel College cross country and track standout Joel Hartman '17 carries the Bethel men's cross country record in the 8K (a record he set in 2014 and broke again four times in 2015) and five Individual Bethel Track and Field records; he is also a two-time NAIA All-American and a five-time NCCAA All-American.
Blessing "Yemi" Mobolade '01 co-founded the Wild Goose Meeting House, a specialty café in downtown Colorado Springs, Colo., and Niche Coaching and Consulting. He is the minister of City Engagement and Worship at First Presbyterian Church Colorado Springs and planted the Movement Church, a network of missional communities. He was recognized as one of Colorado Springs Business Journal's 2016 Rising Stars, received the Colorado Springs 2015 Mayor's Young Leader Award for Economic Impact and is a member of the prestigious Colorado Springs Leadership Institute. He was named the 2016 Bethel College Alumnus of the Year.
Hannah (Miller) Silveus '12 has worked in public health for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, producing such great results that she was featured on the CDC website and offered a position with the National Center for Environmental Health. She spent her first post-college years with her husband, Neil Silveus '13, living and serving on the South Side of Billings, Mont., a neighborhood with some of the largest pockets of poverty and disparities in the city. They assisted with transitional houses for men and women coming out of prison and treatment centers and helped start a Christian discipleship house for college-aged students in the South Side. They were named Bethel's Young Alumni of the Year for 2016. Read their story in the Bethel Magazine.
Kintae Lark '07 runs Inspiration Barber Salon and Inspiration School of Beauty Culture, with the aim of bringing reformation to South Bend, Ind. He requires students to take what they learn outward by completing 10 percent of their work in the community for free. Lark, the former director of Multi-Ethnic Programs at Bethel, is passionate about fighting violence and destruction in the community. In June 2016, he took his barber's chair out to the street, where a shooting had taken place the night before, and offered free "haircuts for peace." Lark also serves as a youth pastor at Horizons Outreach Ministry. He was given Bethel's Timothy Award for Outstanding Service in 2016. Read more in the Fall 2016 Bethel Magazine.
Heather Gilbert '02, the only attorney in Minnesota who is also a court-certified sign language interpreter, started Gilbert Law, PLCC in 2012. Her firm has represented more than 500 clients, most of whom have some level of hearing loss. One of the firm's greatest victories was an astonishing federal court decision for deaf patients in a case against the Mayo Clinic, the first ever decision of its kind in favor of deaf hospital patients in Minnesota. Gilbert was selected to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars list for 2014-2016 for her work in civil rights. Read more in the Fall 2016 Bethel Magazine.
Matt Kopsea '88, a former Bethel College Men's Basketball announcer, was inducted into the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame. He worked as an early sports information director at Bethel and then worked at the South Bend Tribune. He currently writes for the Regional Radio Sports Network and the Indiana Football Digest.
Brock Zeeb '04, '09, became the new director of administration and finance at South Bend International Airport (SBN) in January 2016. He manages administrative, business and financial activities of the St. Joseph County Airport Authority. Zeeb holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and an MBA, both from Bethel. He also played on the golf team under Head Coach Chris Hess. Zeeb previously served as director of economic resources for the City of South Bend, where he managed seven redevelopment areas and $25M in revenue. Read more about him and the airport.
In the summer of 2016, Associate Professor of New Testament David McCabe, Ph.D., traveled with five Bethel students to Israel for a "walking the text" experience. Students earned credit as they visited the Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and surrounding areas, including a lesson on David and Goliath while sitting and overlooking the valley where the story took place. This was McCabe's first visit to the Holy Land, and he says it will give his teaching a whole new perspective and awareness of the locations of the text.
Don Hunter '06, theatre department chair, served as production manager for the 2016 Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare Festival, providing all the organization and oversight to make the event run smoothly. He helped hire and managed a staff of 50 for the show, including the festival's professional company members, union and non-union actors and stage managers, and students from 11 colleges and universities. This was his second year serving in this role.
Professor of Christian Ministries Terry Linhart, Ph.D., edited Teaching the Next Generations: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching Christian Formation. The book champions the role of teaching as a necessary skill for ministers to develop, equipping them to work effectively for the spiritual growth of young people. Twenty-five expert Christian educators, representing a broad array of evangelical institutions and traditions, contributed to the book, including Bethel College Assistant Professor of Youth Ministry Robert Brandt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Math Timothy Ferdinands, Ph.D., was selected by the Mathematical Association of America as a Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) Fellow. Over the summer (2016) he participated in five days of intensive workshops, designed to encourage adoption of teaching strategies that actively engage students. He will also take part in a variety of Project NExT sessions throughout the 2016-2017 school year.
Andrea Helmuth '95, Bethel's assistant vice president for traditional enrollment, was recently appointed to the CCCU's Chief Enrollment Officers Commission. Helmuth is one of six members of the commission, which advises the CCCU on relevant enrollment topics and collaborates with CCCU members to coordinate the annual enrollment conference.
Rebecca Zellers and Samuel Abraham, both assistant professors of nursing, along with MSN student Coreena Schroyer '15, were recently published in The Health Care Manager. The article, "Increasing Registered Nurse Retention Using Mentors in Critical Care Services," discusses the effect of a mentoring program on easing nurses' transitions into the workplace.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) named Bethel Athletics a recipient of the Champions of Character Five Star Award for the 2015-2016 school year. The award is based on an institutional commitment to: character training, conduct in competition, academic focus, character recognition and character promotion, and exceptional classroom performance. The NAIA Scorecard emphasizes the core values of integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship and servant leadership. Institutions must score at least 60 out of 100+ possible points; Bethel scored 86 points for a Silver Star distinction. A total of 171 institutions were awarded Champions of Character Five-Star status.
In the fall of 2016, the Department of Theatre brought the Stratford Festival to Bethel through a 4-day residency. Located in Ontario, Canada, the Stratford Festival is the largest reparatory theatre in North America. Festival staff, including actors, directors, designers and choreographers, brought a series of workshops to Bethel, including fight choreography and Shakespearian text work. Bethel is the first private Indiana college to do a residency with this prestigious group, who has previously done workshops at University of Michigan, Michigan State University and University of Missouri. Bethel's connection with the festival started in 2013 and in 2016, 13 students from 10 different majors traveled to the festival.
Zippa, a career resource for new graduates, has named Bethel College one of the "10 Best Colleges for Economics Majors in Indiana." Out of 162 schools, Bethel ranked number seven on the list, which also included Purdue University, University of Notre Dame and Indiana University. Schools were evaluated in three categories: career results, economics emphasis and school performance. The rankings are based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics and the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.
In May 2016, Bethel's Adult & Graduate Studies office launched a Hispanic Initiative, offering bilingual adults a new option for obtaining a college degree. To our knowledge, the Spanish-assisted business degree is the only one of its kind in the United States. It is geared toward Hispanic adults who have the ability to earn a college degree, but have stayed out of the classroom due to language barriers. Students begin with classes taught by Spanish-speaking professors and class discussions and assignments mostly in Spanish. Near completion of their degree, classes and assignments transition to English. The curriculum is identical to Bethel's business program. The pilot program is funded through a $10,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Elkhart County, along with a $5,000 gift from a private donor.
The new Financial Services Professional major launched fall 2016. The program was created in response to the projected job growth in financial planning careers, expected to have a 27 percent increase by 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The degree will prepare students for jobs in areas such as tax planning, credit analysis and financial planning. Students will complete three internships, made possible by Bethel's proximity to 16,000 Michiana businesses and organizations. According to Associate Professor of Economics Aaron Schavey, Ph.D., the experience students will gain through these internships will set them apart and provide more access to job opportunities.
Bethel College now has study opportunities in the areas of sports ministry and children's ministry. Both are tracks available in the newly redesigned Christian Ministries major, which has been retooled to offer students more options in high-demand ministry areas. In addition, students in the Christian Ministries major can choose study tracks in Biblical Studies, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), or Youth Ministry. All students will have the same strong theological core of classes.
Bethel's Center for Professional Development continues to expand the education and training opportunities available for the surrounding community. Following the continued success of the Hospitality & Tourism two-week training program, now offered quarterly on Bethel's campus, the Center launched a collaborative Building Trades program in April. This program is designed to address the skilled trades gap in Indiana and is offered in partnership with WorkOne and local unions and employers.
In the spring of 2016, Bethel announced the creation of a record label, HCM (Helm Christian Media) Records, and music publishing company, Bethel College (IN) Publishing. Both are an extension of Bethel's Worship Arts major and are designed to support recording projects that will prepare students for professional leadership in church worship, Christian music and the creative arts. The label's first project, Anchor in the Undertow, features original songs written and recorded by Bethel students in the Worship Arts program. The album was produced by Billy Smiley, a five-time Grammy-nominated and 26-time Dove-nominated artist, producer and songwriter, based out of Nashville, Tenn. The songs were recorded at Dark Horse Recording Studios and the Playground Studios in Nashville by Bill Whittington, an award-winning engineer who has worked with Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Tim McGraw, Michael W. Smith, CeCe Winans and many others. For more information and to purchase the album, visit HCMRecords.org.
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I don't like how I can't protect her from mean people, or see what she is doing, and I hope she is always open with me if anything happens. I'm not worried about her making friends, she's just like her dad and has friends everywhere and not an enemy in the world. She's so patient and kind to others, she never judges and includes everyone. She stays away from people that she doesn't want to be around if they are using bad language or doing wrong things. I couldn't be happier with the person she is. It makes me feel like we've done something right.
I took her to school and held it in the whole time. I did so awesome! I came home and got a little teary eyed but I think I let it all out the night before, so that helped. ha. The twins start on Sept 10th and we'll see how that goes....
So here is Kyla's first day of GRADE ONE!!
In a big girl desk!
Laken just made herself comfortable
Emma is in her class again, yay!
And so are some of her other friends!
So that's her first day of school. I'm such a proud (emotional) mom!!


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This week I decided I would try another turkey recipe, mysteriously it is Turkey Tuesday. I like to use ground turkey in most recipes in place of ground beef. At Costco you can get a 4 pack for around $20.00, if you buy each package separately at your grocery store they can cost between $6.00-8.00 each.
I have really become a fan of the website Skinnytaste, I enjoy browsing recipes that have been shared on my Facebook feed, then I just click save on the ones I like. Today my recipe of choice is Petite Turkey Meatloaves. I have all the ingredients that are needed for the recipe with exception of the spice marjoram. There are not many ingredients in the recipe so I think I will add some random spices from my cupboard in place of the marjoram.
This recipe was super easy to prepare. After I did my mixing I was able to do a few other things while they cooked. I like putting meatloaf into my muffin tins as they are perfect portions and they also freeze well. I have learned that you need to spray your muffin pan if you don't want a headache after you are done cooking, and then the cleaning is even worst. When I first started using my muffin pan in meal prep I actually bought new ones as I thought that would help the release factor. The new pans are better but the spray is mandatory!
I really love my rice cooker, just set it and forget it. I have started mixing my brown rice with quinoa. It always comes out great and super healthy as opposed to white rice.
Well I have to say that I have tried many types of lil turkey burgers in my muffin tin, but the glaze on these is what makes them so yummy. I also have learned that sauteing the onions is an important step, better flavor, as they onion wont cook well from raw. I recommend giving this recipe a try!! Let me know how it goes!


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Mrs. Leo Howell
East Liverpool Review
Aug. 26, 1953
Mrs. Eula Marie Howell, 55, of 1616 Globe St., died today at 1 a.m. at the home of her son, William Howell on the Calcutta-Smiths Ferry Rd., after an illness of 11 ½ years.
Born in New Cumberland Nov. 18, 1897, she lived in the vicinity all her life.
She leaves her husband, Leo Howell; three sons, Kenneth Howell, William Howell and Jack Howell, all of East Liverpool; two daughters, Mrs. Elmer Dray and Mrs. Thomas Staley, both of East Liverpool; four brothers, Robert G. Brown of Phoenix, Ariz., Clarence Brown of Chester, and Eugene Brown and Herbert Brown, both of Los Angeles, and a sister, Mrs. Carl Hannen of Chester.
Services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Martin Funeral Home by the Rev. M. Rudolph Miller of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in the Calcutta United Presbyterian Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday afternoon and night.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Eula Marie Howell Obituary
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I like good news on a Friday.
The New York Times reported that The House approved $50 million in funds for the National Endowment for the Arts on Wednesday as part of its economic stimulus bill. The plan was passed by a vote of 244 to 188 and is expected to reach President Obama's desk by mid-February. The sum was not included in the Senate's version.
Robert Lynch, president and chief exec of Americans for the Art stated,"We hope Congress can come to a sensible consensus as the bill is prepared for its final vote," "The arts are essential to the health and vitality of our communities, and it is fiscally sound policy to invest in our nation's arts infrastructure."
I hate to write about the "E" word (economy), mostly because this blog is reflective of how the Biggs feels about art: it's for everyone, whichever way you like it, and it's fun (ie, free museum days, white paper headdresses and buying cookies to help girl scout troops). But I'll always welcome encouragement from key people in our industry. Budget planning for FY09-10 is creeping up on my calendar, and a little rah rah is needed.
So anyways, there was a great article in the Wall Street Journal on Michael Conforti, the president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). It was actually written by one of my favorite art bloggers, Lee Rosenbaum of CultureGrrl. Lee breezed through some of the battles art museums in the U.S. are up against, some of them that would make a museum staff member want to crawl under an antique chair and say "a donor can wake me up when the recession's over." LA, Detroit and New York museums are reducing programs, exhibitions and staffing. The Getty is on a job freeze. Even the LA Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the National Academy Museum in New York were on the verge of going bust until getting bailed. Museums are even breaking the "cardinal rule" (as put by lee), and selling artwork for cash. Artwork has only been sold for buying other art in the past.
But Mr. Conforti puts us at ease by saying that this financially difficult period is, "a great time for art museums." They are, he said, "bellwethers for people at moments like this. We saw this happen after 9/11. If we are doing our jobs well, we're the places that people can turn to in times of instability. The reality is that the Metropolitan Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Phoenix Art Museum are not going away."
I think he's right, we're not going anywhere. If anything we'll prove to be what we are here for more than ever before, a community resource.


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As we discussed in the previous post, the Bernoulli brothers Johann and Jakob were both intrigued by the divergence of the harmonic series. Jakob in particular was fascinated by infinite series in general, and he turned his attention to a problem which had been posed by Pietro Mengoli in 1644.
Find the exact sum (and not just an estimate) of the series
In 1655, John Wallis, an English mathematician, had communicated that he had found the sum to three decimal places but he was unable to say anything more concrete. Jakob Bernoulli wrote about this problem in 1689 and it came to be known as the Basel problem, after the hometown of the Bernoullis as well as that of the eventual solver of the problem, Leonhard Euler. There's a lot of literature available on this problem and some of what we say below is from William Dunham's award-winning book titled Euler: The master of us all and the paper by Raymond Ayoub titled Euler and the zeta function.
It was known that the series converges but finding the exact sum proved to be remarkably difficult. Many prominent mathematicians, including Leibnitz, Mengoli and the Bernoullis brothers had tried their hand at solving it but had failed. Indeed, after growing increasingly frustrated with his failure, Jakob said the following about this problem [Dunham]:
"If anyone finds and communicates to us that which thusfar has eluded our efforts, great will be our gratitude"
In 1721, a young Euler began studying mathematics under the mentorship of Jakob's younger brother Johann Bernoulli (who was one of the most prominent mathematicians of the world at that time). In all probability, it was Johann who first told Euler about the Basel problem but it is unclear exactly when he did so. Nonetheless, by 1728 Euler had started working on the problem. It was around the same time when Daniel Bernoulli (Johann's son) wrote to Christian Goldbach that he had found an approximate value of the sum of the series (the value he gave was ). Goldbach replied that he had found that the sum is between and . One of Euler's earliest attempts was to find numerical approximations of some of the partial sums of the series but these were not too helpful. Indeed, the sum of the first thousand terms is but this is only accurate up to the first two digits (the problem being that the series converges very slowly).
We now discuss Euler's solution to the Basel problem.
Theorem (Euler, 1734) .
This is truly a remarkable result and anyone who sees it for the first time cannot help but be amazed. Euler's proof is a shining example of his ingenuity and mathematical prowess. In order to prove the result he used the well-known series expansion for :
Next, he considered the "infinite polynomial"
and observed that for . Now, the roots of the polynomial are given by all such that (and . This gives us and this means that for each , there are two roots. Using this observation, Euler factored as follows:
The next step illustrates Euler's foresight and his genius, for he expanded the right-hand side as follows
where the remaining terms in the expansion on the right are not relevant to the problem at hand. Euler then compared the coefficients of in the above equation to get
which gave him the celebrated solution to the Basel problem. This was a triumphant moment for Euler and it truly established his reputation as the foremost mathematician at that time. While the general reaction on the result was that of amazement, a few remained skeptical. In his proof Euler had performed manipulations on infinite series considering them as polynomials and Daniel Bernoulli objected to this approach. Euler himself was less convinced about the rigor of the method so he devised other proofs justifying the formula. He also looked at the $p$-series for .
These ideas were used by Bernhard Riemann in the 19th century in studying the Riemann-zeta function
in connection with his investigation of the distribution of primes. In this notation, the solution of the Basel problem reads as . Remarkably enough, in 1740 Euler gave a more general formula for calculating if is an integer:
where are the Bernoulli numbers.
Since then a number of modern proofs have popped up. A nice summary of some of the available proofs is given by Robin Chapman in his article titled Evaluating . Interestingly, while we know the sum of the -series when is positive and even, not a lot is known about the sum of the series when is odd. As far as I know, there is no exact formula for .


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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Waltzingmouse April Pajama Party
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Oh Nancy! This is so cute and clever! I never thought to have that medallion behind that fancy scallop die cut window and to top that you made it a shaker! Your stamping is beautiful and I think your photos are amazing! You always amaze me with your beautiful designs!ReplyDelete
Nancy sounds like you had a busy day and glad you found a bit of time to craft . I can just see you now in your craft room, have fun!ReplyDelete
Love ,love ,love your card! So smart to stamp the medallion framed with the fancy circle. Don't you just love that die!
Gorgeous, I love the colours and the shaker is a brilliant idea :)ReplyDelete
What a fab shaker!ReplyDelete
Wonderful medallion and beautifully colored. I love the feathered nest concept!ReplyDelete
Whoa...love it!! The colors are fabulous with the white BG and that die...gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Oh, I love shakers, and the little chickies are so stinkin' cute!ReplyDelete


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It's 2:30pm. Another day at work, another day at school, another lunch down the calorie hatch. Hell yeah I'm full! But don't fret, I'll be paying for it later at my school's gym after 6.5 hours of class and 5 hours of work before that. I'm getting to that dangerous point when I'm about to go crazy from NON-dieting. Yes, many of us go crazy from dieting, which is understandable because it's a serious bitch; but you know you've officially gone off the deep end when you go periodically insane from non-dieting. It's awesome for a month or two, you try to forget your obsessive habits, eat dessert more than usual, and skip the gym visits. But ohhh NO NO! Once you notice your pants feeling a little snugger than the month before, the feeling of inferiority creeps back into your mind like the fat little kid in all of us creeping into the cupboard for some midnight cookies and milk! And you're the angry mother waiting patiently with a belt ready to give yourself a nice hard spanking. Who are you to think you can escape? You're back on the dieting roller coaster, so buckle up, ladies!
How many times have you heard the phrase "Inner Beauty". I think it's use is pretty redundant since model backlash began some years ago. Obviously anyone writing about inner beauty as it relates to women is only rebelling against the serious pressure that this society puts on females to look a certain way, and trying to help us all cope with the fact that we will never be a god damn Victoria's Secret model unless we were born in Brazil with a body type that makes up less than 1% of the entire human population. It's seriously amazing that even though these people are literally walking genetic mutations, they are all we see in commercials, magazines, movies, television and more recently, music. Because we all (women AND men) have become sensitized to seeing these hotties daily, it's almost a shock when we see an average sized actress in a commercial. Tell me you don't do a double take when you see the chicks on the Dove campaign for "real" beauty...yeah, we're all guilty. Our minds automatically detect something a little "off". How do you think this translates to real life? With the younger generations living their lives through social networking, it seems that being ultra thin is coming WAY back in style. Kids who are 12 look 16 and are shamelessly posting mirror pictures of their tiny bare mid-drifts. I'm not hatin' because I would be lying if I said I didn't ever want to look like some of these lucky gals, but it's pretty sad for a 12 year old to even be considering their weight, let alone flaunting their bony bods around the community. SO YEAH, we get a ton of feedback from smart sources telling us to BE PROUD of our bodies, concentrate on our minds and be happy with our "curves". You know what, I'm just sick of it. Telling me to be proud of my curves is the equivalent of telling me to love my fat rolls, and I'm just not okay with it. Everyone just needs to admit that American society is obsessed with looks and that if you're skinny and good looking you get more opportunities at generally everything. So, yes, I will continue to try to concentrate on my inner beauty and the inner beauty of others, but I'm sure it will be difficult. And I know it will also be difficult for you, as I've heard the running jokes about overweight people as they pass by as we all have, and I've been insulted by these comments myself at times. Where was my inner beauty then? It certainly didn't help me out. &I know that you all know when Victoria's Secret fashion show is airing, and that you're patiently awaiting the evening when you will confirm your self loathing doubts and watch in awe of a woman you will likely never be. It's likely that she'll never do anything more substantial than walking while being thin, but you'll still feel shitty. At this point just think, I N N E R B E A U T Y!
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Oh, I've been here before.
OH HI! You all know me, Searching for inspiration are we? procrastinating? Killing time? Killing self? maybe, but maybe not! I just thought that if I joined a blog and told people how I REALLY feel I might be able to "sort it all out". You know, the shit that eats away at you daily but you just bury it and hope that one day you'll achieve that impossible goal, and PRESTO, you're totally cool. Yeah well that hasn't happened yet, at least not for me. So here I am, waiting for encouraging comments ablaze. This blog is basically going to be about my 10 year battle of the bulge. My obsessive thoughts about food and my bod and how all the people around me seem to be fighting the exact same losing battle or simply fueling my ever growing fire. I am a successful confident woman, right? Why should it make me completely uncomfortable when I see a girl walk by who is half my size? BECAUSE I WAS CONDITIONED THIS WAY! It took years of vanity obsession, teasing, boot camps, dieting, running, losing, gaining, measuring, weighing, rejoicing, guilting, familial "pressure", familial "blockage", and competition with models, LITERAL MODELS, to get here! I am thoroughly aggravated. I am thoroughly INSANE! And I am ready to talk. LET'S DO IT.
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Wednesday, 2 January 2013
A New Start
Having been caught up with my overseas trip, the silly season over the Christmas period, and work being incredibly busy, I can now take a few moments out to wish you all a very Happy New Year for 2013. I wish you all that you wish for yourselves. The above is a snapshot of the wonderful firework display over the Brisbane River that greeted the new year.
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mommy: "why are you beautiful?"
eden: "because of my lipstick and Jesus in my heart."
(hanging with sissyin their favorite climbing tree)
CAPTIVATE: to attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence. We have been blessed with a friendship and love that captivates us each day; and now as parents we have discovered a whole new level of love! Our children hold the keys to our hearts! As you read this blog we hope that you can become as captivated as we are in the blessings we find in each other!


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Friday, January 06, 2012
State of Downtown 2012
Join the Downtown Sacramento Partnership and local community and business leaders for the 14th Annual State of Downtown breakfast on January 17, 2012 as we identify priorities for downtown revitalization. You'll hear from Mayor Kevin Johnson and keynote speaker Larry Baer, President and CEO of the San Francisco Giants.
State of Downtown 2012 | Vision to Reality
With a sound strategy and unified vision, large-scale public projects have the power to transform downtown districts into vibrant city centers.
Date: January 17, 2011
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 am
Place: Memorial Auditorium • 1515 J Street
Larry Baer, President & CEO of the San Francisco Giants
One of sports' leading visionaries, Larry Baer, President and CEO of the San Francisco Giants, will discuss his role as one of the driving forces behind the vision for AT&T Park and the success of its reality and how Sacramento can learn from his story. View his full bio.
Table of 10 (breakfast included): $650
Floor Seat (breakfast included): $65
Gallery Seat (program only): $25
Or call the Downtown Sacramento Partnership at 916.442.8575
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One of the things that consistently amazes me about downtown Sacramento's inability to be itself and realize any new urbanism success is the summoning of people whose professional experiences are in no way relevant to the needs of the downtown. With the volume of urban strategiests that could provide smart growth and Main Street revitalization strategies, I wouldn't pay a dollar for this event as reminds me of how glad I am that I left Sacramento immediately after graduating high school for a community that believes in local business, building rehabilitation, and small-scale revitalization rather than cram-that-arena-down-their-throats vision of Sacramento's uninformed leaders.
- January 07, 2012 12:16 PM
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- January 07, 2012 12:39 PM
- M.E. said...
I totally agree with you Brandon. Michael Ault and the Downtown Sacramento Partnership are a failure.
- January 07, 2012 12:43 PM
- Erin said...
Well, I think it sounds pretty interesting. Though probably not interesting enough for the prices they are charging.
- January 08, 2012 9:15 AM
- wburg said...
I liked the one I attended a few years ago when Christopher Leinberger was the featured speaker. Admittedly I convinced my work to pay for it, and this year it's pretty obvious the focus will be "all arena all the time" so I won't bother. Maybe if they get Donovan Rypkema as the featured speaker I'd go again.
Brandon, if you aren't seeing any "new urbanism success" in Sacramento, you haven't been here in a while. Yes, there are plenty of Chamber of Commerce types who still think that Sacramento can succeed by attracting suburbanites downtown to do some silly thing like shop at a pedestrian mall (or drive on a formerly pedestrian mall) and then go back home to their suburbs. But we're not all like that, honest! Some of us are working rather actively to promote local business, building rehabilitation and small-scale revitalization, all in the name of central city livability, and we'll drag the rest of the city kicking and screaming into a very interesting future.
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I once knew a head writer for Melrose Place, and the loopier and more brazenly superficial the show's plot and character contortions became, the closer they got to how this crazywoman really saw the world. It's a realization that's stuck with me, and I always wince when people talk about what some TV show or other "means" or "says" about "our culture." Given the rareified hothouse of talent that creates them and the self-interested media channels that promote them, I see TV shows more as a mirror of their writer/producer's souls, not mine.
So excuse me if I don't lose much sleep over Ginia Bellafante's theory that
Television has become an extremely inhospitable place for middle-class children, and in some sense, for the demanding ideals by which they are now raised - a gory receptacle for any and all of our collectively sublimated parental ambivalence.All it tells me is that I should be extra sympathetic if the kid ever brings home a damaged little friend who's daddy writes for Law & Order: SVU.
Against our new universe of Humvee-inspired strollers, television constructs a parallel one, in which children are routinely maimed, killed, abused, mocked, mistreated and kept central - but according to a contravening morality. Sometimes actual harm is averted, but the message is always clear...children are trouble, make trouble, provoke trouble.
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It's 2:54 pm and I've had a day. Not in a bad way, but definitely a full day.
I got my varicella vacine this morning at Walgreens and I got in, got the shot and was on my way. But when I got to my car I read the receipt and it said the shot she gave me was mmr not varicella. I frantically googled varicella and mmr to see if they were medically synonymous; they are not. So I just about had a melt down because it took so much for me to actually go there and do that and speak to like five different people. I almost started crying and decided that this was it, I just wasn't going to go to college. It was clearly fate.
I went back in and signed in again, and patiently waited an hour to get the right receipt because apparently the only issue was the nurse charted it wrong, despite having actually given me the right shot.
I drove directly to health services and turned in my proof of immunization and as I walked back to my car, I logged into my uwg to make sure all of my holds were actually off.
Then I drove to newnan and moseyed around habitat for humanity to see if I found a large desk that trumped the one I was planning on getting at goodwill. None did but they did have some good things, Chris and I will have to come back some time.
Now about that desk.
I must preface by saying that this desk is 60×40 inches give or take half an inch.
Three different people asked me if I could take it home today and each time I said "yeah, given I can take it apart" and two of those people were like "uh it doesn't come apart?" And I was like "well it has screws (and is clearly a mass manufactures desk that has letter labels on the different parts that almost definitely coordinate with its set of instructions for a person to put it together in their own home)" and I'm still not quite sure if that was a really dumb sounding answer or a condescending answer. And one guy even went so far to tell me "WE can't take it apart for you, you can try to take it apart, but we can't." And "you're gonna need a truck for this you just have that little bug" And I was just like "yeah ok I got it that was the plan anyway"
So they put it on the ground outside and I took it apart in ten minutes or so, just like I knew I could. And went back in to get someone to help me actually pick it up to put in my car.
It's such a victorious feeling to be able to do something people tell you repeatedly you won't be able to. I mean, this was just a desk, and that was just goodwill, and they are just not used to some lady buying a huge desk and insisting she will be able to take it home in her VW Beetle. But it's, you know, a metaphor.


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It's been a weird day.
Last night I went to bed a bit after 9 pm, because I was getting up at 3:45 am to catch a 4:45 am shuttle to LAX. I was supposed to be going to Oregon for a week-long workshop, at which Ken was to join me mid-week, riding back from Pittsburgh via a customer site in Illinois.
At about 11 pm, the phone rang—it was our friend Ernie, who was staying up to track Ken in to the IBR finish. He told me Ken had gone down, that the police had confirmed that he'd gone down but was "on his feet and talking" (or something to that effect), and that he might be going to the hospital.
It gets a little fuzzy after that. I know I was texting back and forth with Ernie, and eventually Ken got to the ER and I got to talk to him. He was a little groggy but actually sounded pretty good. The diagnosis so far: broken collarbone, cracked ribs, sore all over.
Although I wasn't sure whether I was going to fly to Virginia, I realized I sure as hell wasn't going to Oregon. Sometime around 12:45 am I called the friend who'd insisted on taking me to the Oxnard Airport (where I'd get the shuttle) and let him know he could sleep in. I cancelled my flight (I love Southwest = no penalties).
Meanwhile, I'd been texting with the friend I was to be meeting in Portland and sharing a shuttle to Lincoln City. She was at the airport in Atlanta, debating whether she could even afford the trip (because she and I and another woman were to be sharing a room, and going from paying 1/3 to 1/4 of the room to paying 1/2 would put her in a bind). I told her I'd pay her my share, and we'd figure that out after I'd slept and could do math again.
I called the special insurance Ken had for the rally, which pays to get him and the bike home, and got the basic info we needed.
Then I tried to call Ken just before 1 am but his ER room phone just rang and rang (his cell phone is either still attached to the bike or is in pieces across I-95 north of Richmond). Finally someone picked up and said he was off getting x-rayed and would be back in about half an hour.
So every half hour I called and he still wasn't there and about two hours later I finally got hold of him. I think by that time they'd transferred him into a regular room. We discussed the insurance info and goodness knows what else.
After that I had a glass of wine and stared mindlessly at the TV and put a note on the back door telling our tenant/cat sitter she didn't need to come in and feed the cats. At 4 am I went to bed, setting the alarm for 11 am.
At 6 am, Ken called because he missed me.
Between 8 and 10 am, five different people called.
It's a testament to the wonderful friends in our lives that I was fielding so many phone calls, texts, emails, Facebook messages, etc. (Plus other folks were keeping up via Ernie.) I don't begrudge anyone's attempts to contact me, even if every time the phone rang in those two hours, I wanted to weep from pure exhaustion. Thank you all for your love.
By 10 am, I gave up, and got up to feed the cats (Grimoire was going to waste away, don't'cha know) and feed myself, because I was starving. Then started the next round of phone calls and texts and business, trying to sort out getting stuff off of Ken's bike at the tow yard when the tow guy was about to go out of town for a day and a half, etc. We're extremely fortunate that my eldest niece and goddaughter Megan lives in the DC area; she and her husband will head down to Fredericksburg tomorrow to see Ken and see to the bike. The tow guy said he needs a signed statement from Ken or I (although he doesn't have a fax machine, so…?), and Megan and Josh are both JAG attorneys, so Ken and I laughed and laughed at what the signed statement might end up looking like (and how many pages it'll be). If Ken is indeed released tomorrow, they'll be able to help him out.
I made it through lunch before I passed out again for two hours, which made the cats happy. All of my sleep has been punctuated by weird dreams, which doesn't surprise me.
I've spent most of the afternoon in a fog, poking around on Reddit and wandering around the house. There's nothing I can do to help Ken, so I vaguely feel like I should be doing something useful, like finishing a short story (it was for the workshop, but even though I'm not going, I ought to finish it and submit it elsewhere) or designing some covers or…but no. The brain isn't there.
It's 7 pm, and I've ordered myself a pizza, and I'm going to pour myself a glass of wine and watch random stuff on Netflix until I crash. Tomorrow I'll figure out what to do next.
Congratulations to Derek Dickson, the 2013 IronButt Rally winner. Well played, sir! And to all the riders, I raise my glass of wine to you. You all had a hell of a ride.
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Next year might be dubbed the year of the flexible, as roll-up displays and digital signage made of electronic paper debut. Ultrathin displays and e-paper took center stage at the Americas Display Engineering and Applications Conference here last week, with researchers reporting progress and predicting a 2006 deployment. Conference goers also heard of advances in LCD technology and in military-grade head-mounted displays. Nick Colaneri, associate director of the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University in Tempe, outlined progress at that Army-funded center for the process development and pilot production of flexible backplanes and displays. Their target technology is organic transistors that can be fabricated at a cool 90°C, as well as other low-temperature formulations. The center will begin qualifying its second-generation TFT pilot line in 2006 and start prototyping with it in 2007. Flexible Display Center member companies are also providing facilities for research on electrophoretic ink for paperlike displays at E-Ink Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.), and on cholesteric liquid crystals for reflective and near-infrared displays at Kent Displays Inc. (Kent, Ohio). Unlike electrophoretic ink, which is monochromatic, cholesteric liquid crystals create full-color reflective displays without filters. SiPix Imaging Inc. (Fremont, Calif.), described progress toward commercial production of the company's full-color e-paper. SiPix's Microcup Electronic Paper is flexible, high-contrast and offers nearly a 180° field-of-view, but also is ultralow in power. Because it needs power only to change a pixel's color, it has zero standby power. Military head-mounted displays were described by Primordial (Saint Paul, Minn.). Its Primordial Soldier heads-up vision system applies tactical overlays, including annotations that label friend from foe on a soldier's HMD, perform automatic threat assessment and provide statistics on vulnerabilities. A revolutionary improvement for LCDs harnessing the human visual system was unveiled by Clairvoyante (Sebastopol, Calif.) The company's PenTile subpixel renderings reduce by one-third the number of pixels needed for a given resolution.
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Just sent in what may be the last assignment of my time as a (matriculated, at least) student. It's been one of my better roles, I think, and with quite the run, even this last two year re-staging in Richmond. As with all shows, there's a bit of a crash at the end, especially when you don't have the next gig lined up yet, but you just have to trust that the hard work you put in to your previous roles will pay off in the next casting session, and keep working hard on your own skills and knowledge in the downtime. As with all good roles, this one has helped me learn many things about myself, has challenged me in many ways, and inspired me for future projects.
I look forward to the upcoming roles, and perhaps a good cast party in the meantime.


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Here's a few flyers from DC's hardcore punk heyday. I'll scan more when I get the time. Which should be in a couple weeks.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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This is the best time of year for tomatoes and so many more fruits and veggies. You want to devour them all up as soon as possible, for you know that their season is fleeting and before long they will be gone for another year. So the next best thing is freezing and canning.
That is exactly what I did when I made a fresh tomato and basil sauce. I enjoyed it fresh that evening and froze the remainder to enjoy later in the fall.
Tomato Basil Sauce
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 a medium yellow onion, diced
6 garlic cloves, minced
pinch red chili flakes
2 bay leaves
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp red wine
2 lbs of fresh tomatoes, chopped
pinch of sugar
handful of fresh basil, chopped ( or chiffonade, if you want to get fancy)
Saute the onion, garlic and chili in the olive oil in a large pot. Add the red wine and reduce to half. Add the chopped tomatoes ( and a couple of ounces of water if you think it needs it to get going) and the sugar, bay leaves, salt and pepper. Simmer on medium until the tomatoes have softened and it resembles a sauce ( about 30 min). Add the the basil and simmer for an additional few minutes. Serve over pasta. Or let it cool to room temperature and put in a freezer safe container.


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Let us pray today's collect.
Keep your family safe, O Lord, with unfailing care, that, relying solely on the hope of heavenly grace, they may be defended always by your protection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
I hope you enjoy the new day we set aside for prayers.
Please leave your prayer request below. If you do not leave your prayer request in time for my hour of Adoration, not to worry, I'm praying for you anyway.
A gentle reminder of this page as well, to pray for those who have had procedures which leave them unable to have children.


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|from mirror.co.uk
Is it me, or is the dog shit situation at least as bad as it was in the fifties? We went for a local walk yesterday, it being a fine sunny day with birds twittering on every bough. As ever we found ourselves walking with eyes glued to the ground to avoid treading in dog shit.
There are large green areas near where we live and of course they attract lots of nimby dog-owners. Nearby pavements seem to suggest that some dogs couldn't quite wait until they reached the grassy bits where kids play and dogs shit.
Many doggy folk seem to pick the stuff up in those little plastic bags, because they swing them casually as they walk - look at me, I'm a responsible dog person. Well so they are. In fact I quite admire their insouciance. However, some obviously don't bother with all that.
Maybe the defiantly bagless dog-owners sneak out at night, because we never actually see a dog being allowed to shit on the pavement while the owner stares abstractedly into the middle distance, scratching his latest tattoo.
One of the dogs must be a real monster if turd size and canine BMI are correlated, so I'm not surprised the owner gets away with not picking it up.
Out in the Derbyshire hills, walking is a much more relaxed affair. If you don't mind sheep, horse and cow dung that is. Which I don't, because I don't dislike farmyard smells - nowhere near as bad as the stink of dog shit packed tightly into in the treads of your walking boots. It's something to do with a vegetarian diet I believe. Does it apply to humans though?
I think the whole thing has something to do with climate change.


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|(Photographs by Bonnie Guidry)
Two Civil War ironclads, through their miniature descendants, repeated their watery dance of death last weekend at a state park north of Baton Rouge, La. (Click photos to enlarge)
Models of the CSS Arkansas (left, above) and the newly built USS Essex tangled Saturday at Port Hudson State Historic Site. The Picket recently wrote about the gunboats ahead of the event.
Also on display were other 1:32 models made by Robert Seal, including (left to right), the CSS Manassas, the USS Barrataria and the USS Osage. They took part in naval operations on the Mississippi River during the Civil War.
|USS Essex is about 6 feet long
On hand for the event were (left to right) Robert Seal; Marvin Steinback of the park; Dwight Landreneau, assistant secretary of the Office of State Parks; and Bill Toups, who lathed the cannon.
Pat Seal, Robert's wife, quipped that the USS Essex model, while under construction, was on saw horses in the living room for months until she banished it in order to put a Christmas tree. It received the final touches on their dining room table.
|Marvin Steinback is dressed for the part


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first we went to a outdoor market in tammisaari. it´s a small town near us.
then we had a visit in a flea market,
i loved the atmosphere there
i would have liked to have this
and that
but this is what i bought
to go shopping
i would have liked to have this
and that
but this is what i bought
to go shopping
tammisaari, finland
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Jaisalmer: Home Minister Rajnath Singh will arrive in Jaisalmer on Friday to review the security situation along the India-Pakistan border with Chief Ministers of four states whose boundaries touch Pakistan and top BSF officials.
During the two-day visit, Singh will hold meetings with top BSF officials and chair a meeting with Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, officials said.
The Home Minister will tour border areas of Rajasthan and will visit border outposts to asses the situation along the India-Pakistan border.
Barmer Collector Sudhir Sharma said the Home Minister will hold meeting with BSF officials in Barmer on 8 October.
Elaborate arrangements are being made for the visit, he said.
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This weeks Photohunt Theme is Support
It's quite ironic that this photo hunt is on Support, as P and I are going through a really rough time in our lives and we both need a lot of support.
You will find so many things in this photo that symbolize support ironically. The most notable, the Lions Gate Bridge span which has supporting cables holding it altogether. Secondly, the shadows of P and I leaning on each other. There are many supports in the habour along with all of the lights which support our eyes when it is dark at night.
I probably won't be around most of the weekend. I'm off to photograph. I'll try to check in as I can. Whatever information I can, I will pass along to P.


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Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Census Substitutes
1703-1838: The Convert Rolls
Eileen O Byrne, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1981. A list of those converting from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland. The bulk of the entries date from 1760 to 1790.
1740: Protestant householders
This applies to parts of Counties Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal and Tyrone. Arranged by barony and parish, it gives names only. Parts are at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, The Genealogical Office, the National Library of Ireland and the Representative Church Body Library.
Much more available at the link above.


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This week, the City Council approved the rezoning of 111 blocks of the East Village and Lower East Side. Will a follow-up rezoning of Chinatown and the Bowery be far behind?
The Brooklyn Paper reports that residents of Carroll Gardens and the Columbia Waterfront District want development over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to connect their neighborhoods. But rather than Bloomberg's proposed housing, the neighbors want a park.
Jonathan Bowles of Task Force Member Organization Center for an Urban Future answers your questions about immigrant entrepreneurs on City Room.
And, for your Friday fun, may we present Atlantic Yards Deathwatch. (No, we don't know who made it).


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More new character figures from the Fall/Holiday release from Tonner Doll Company:
Tangled is a new Disney character figure who uses the flat-foot Ellowyne Wilde™ body with green eyes and long blonde rooted hair. She's adorable, limited to 1000, and retails at $189.99. (Yay for you, Charlie--will Martie have a new friend?) She includes ballet slippers, not shown with her flat feet. (Ellowyne collectors--do you imagine a renaissance faire Ellowyne in this outfit?)
My Tara is currently in stock and is limited to just 350 dolls. A new addition to the Gone with the Wind collection, this doll uses the Vivian Leigh sculpt, retails for $199.99, and has rooted brown hair and green eyes. She is dressed in a green dress with faux pearl accents. She includes a straw hat, petticoat, matching shoes, and hose.
Deathly Hallows Ron Weasley is limited to 500 and retails for $159.99. He has a non-removable wig, grey blue eyes, and is dressed in a plaid jacket, jeans, plaid corduroy shirt with ribbed collar, and brown shoes.
From the Marvel collection, X-23 retails for $159.99 and is limited to 300 (a small edition size for a Marvel character, I think). She uses a raven Breathless sculpt with green eyes (with rather gorgeous facial screening), and she's on a 16" cameo heroic body. She includes a set of cameo skin tone hands as well as her black fist/claw hands. Her boots also have attached resin claws.
Dorothy™ is a new addition to the Wizard of Oz collection and limited to 500. She retails for $179.99, and she's steampunk themed! She has the Judy Garland head sculpt and something called a Cheerleader body (I'll have to get back to you on that!). She has brown painted eyes, saran hair, and a fantastic outfit. I just love her.
There is also a Scarecrow, with photos coming soon. Limited to 500 and $189.99, he uses the Matt O'Neil head sculpt and body. He'll have black hair and blue eyes, and also a steampunk style outfit, including a sword. The names of these dolls are subject to change, per the licensor agreement.
These dolls are available for preorder now. All except Scarlett have shipping dates to be determined.


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One word sums up the St. Louis Blues rather neatly: defense.
And that's why the Sharks need to play clean, tight-lipped hockey to pull off an upset over the Blues in their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series, which kicks off in St. Louis today at 4:30 p.m.
"They're arguably the best defensive team in the league," defenseman Dan Boyle said. "It's going to be hard."
The Blues were not only the top defensive team this year, they put together one of the stingiest seasons in NHL history. The team allowed only 1.89 goals per game, a fraction above the NHL record of 1.87 set by the 1953-54 Toronto Maple Leafs and the 1955-56 Montreal Canadians. In between the pipes, the Blues' spectacular goalie tandem of Jaroslav Halak and Brian Elliott set two modern NHL records: total shutouts (15) and fewest goals allowed (148).
But the Blues weren't always a defensive juggernaut, the screws tightened after Ken Hitchcock took over behind the bench just 13 games into the season. Hitchcock is a system-oriented perfectionist, who likes to clog up the neutral zone and pounce on opponents' mistakes. If the Blues score first, they're deadly. They'll slow the game down like football in the mud, forcing opponents to dump, chase and earn every single shot. And they like to hit.
"They're not fancy," Sharks assistant captain Ryane Clowe said. "They play a real strong-man's game."
The Blues put together a 43-15-11 record under Hitchcock without having a single player score more than 55 points this season. They also won all four matchups with the Sharks by a combined score of 11-3, while recording two shutouts in the process.
"They had our number a little bit this year," Clowe said.
He said the keys to breaking the Blues' trap are matching their patience, discipline and willingness to grind it out along the wall. No passes through the middle, no sloppy turnovers, no odd-man rushes going the other way.
"It doesn't have to be pretty," Clowe said. "We can punt the puck a few times and go chase it down."
To win the series, the Sharks will need to take at least one game in St. Louis, where the Blues hold a 30-6-5 record this season.
The Sharks struggled on the road this year, posting a 17-17-7 record; but they managed to pull off clutch wins in Dallas and Los Angeles last week when it mattered most.
"We know we can do it," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. "It has to happen at some point."
Game 1: Today at St. Louis, 4:30 p.m.
Game 2: Saturday at St. Louis, 4:30 p.m.
Game 3: Monday at Sharks, 7 p.m.
Game 4: April 19 at Sharks, 7:30 p.m.
Game 5: April 21 at St. Louis, 4:30 p.m.*
Game 6: April 23 at Sharks, TBD*
Game 7: April 26 at Sharks, TBD*
(All games televised on Comcast SportsNet California, radio broadcast on 98.5 FM, 102.1 FM)
*If necessary


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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Ditko's "Thor"
Did you know that Steve Ditko drew Thor? Oh, yeah....but not Marvel's THE MIGHTY THOR. This Charlton turkey from 1973.
Ditko was no doubt at the height of his powers in 1973, but this book is definitely NOT representative of that. It's very obviously a lackluster assignment which Ditko attacked without gusto. In fact, if this were an oil spill, this issue would be an Exxon Valdez if not the BP job: it's a disaster! I think his Bob's Big Boy art was better. But as a novelty/oddity, take a gander!
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Russ Stanton, the vice president of content at Southern California Public Radio, which operates KPCC and three other stations, is leaving at the end of the month and will be succeeded by executive editor Melanie Sill.
The announcement was made on Wednesday afternoon in an email that Bill Davis, president and CEO of SCPR, made to the staff. He said that Stanton was leaving "to pursue an opportunity in the commercial, for-profit space." The new opportunity was not identified. Stanton's last day will be on June 30.
Stanton, former editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times, joined SCPR two and a half years ago. Davis wrote that Stanton "has been a transformative figure at SCPR, accomplishing more in 30 months than most public radio content leaders accomplish in 30 years." He wrote that the radio audience had grown, and SCPR greatly expanded its mobile and digital offerings.
"Russ and Melanie have led the effort to nearly double the size of SCPR's Content Division in less than three years," Davis wrote. "In doing so, SCPR has grown into one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse newsrooms in the country, building out full desks covering crime and public safety, emerging communities and immigration, local business, politics and government, education, and health care. And, last but certainly not least, we are in the process of launching our new arts & entertainment program."
Sill is the former editor of the Sacramento Bee and the Raleigh News & Observer, and was Stanton's first hire, Davis noted.


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Hopefully the house will be completed I know the builders are going full tilt, so fingers crossed!
Anyway I've been doing a bit of colouring in and made a Christmas card using my new Lawn Fawn stamps and dies!
I love the expression on the little bunny's face! Had fun colouring the baubles and glittering them up!
So I'm having ago at the LawnScaping challenge!
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Kentucky's quartet of freshmen continue to be recognized by some of the most well-known NBA Draft prognosticators on the web.
ESPN's Chad Ford, DraftExpress.com's Jonathan Givony and Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix all updated their 2013 mock drafts Wednesday, and all three analysts (for the most part) kept UK's four freshmen in favorable positions.
It seems Nerlens Noel's season-ending knee injury has not eliminated him from the No. 1 overall pick discussion. Givony still has the UK big man in the top spot. Immediately after the injury, he told the Herald-Leader that he was in no rush to drop Noel from that position.
"He's a seven-foot, freakishly athletic big man with an unbelievable motor," Givony said at the time. "He's got phenomenal shot-blocking instincts, he's a very good rebounder and he's a very good finisher around the basket. All those things are pretty rare."
Ford and Mannix have Noel at No. 2. "Assuming the rehab goes well, Noel continues to be a likely top-three pick and still has a shot at going No. 1 overall," Ford wrote.
The NBA "lottery" consists of the first 14 picks of the draft, and there's still a chance UK could have multiple players go in that range.
Alex Poythress, despite his uneven season, remains UK's No. 2 prospect according to all three analysts. Ford has him at No. 13, and Givony and Mannix peg Poythress at No. 15.
"Poythress continues to drive us and everyone else in the NBA world crazy," Ford wrote. "We all want to love him, but he can make it so, so hard."
Mannix has similar feelings: "Few players have disappointed NBA scouts as much as Poythress, whose strengths (scoring in the paint, offensive rebounding) and weaknesses (poor ball handling, inconsistent perimeter shooting) are the same today as they were at the start of the season."
Willie Cauley-Stein is No. 16 on Ford's board and No. 20 on Mannix's list. DraftExpress.com does not include Cauley-Stein in its 2013 mock draft, but Givony tweeted Wednesday that his board "attempts to project who might actually be entering the draft." If Cauley-Stein does enter the draft, Givony has him ranked as the No. 21 overall prospect. DraftExpress projects him as the No. 10 pick in the 2014 draft.
Ford bluntly states that Cauley-Stein should return for his sophomore year.
"But if he comes out now, someone is going to gamble on his combination of length and agility in the first round," the ESPN analyst wrote.
Goodwin is ranked by DraftExpress (18th) and ESPN (20th), but is not mentioned on the Sports Illustrated list, which only includes the top 20 picks.


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Well, it took us all of five minutes to be back on the ground in Boston to get the full flavor of what it's like to live here in Boston. We missed our connection last night in Memphis, so when our Northwest flight landed this early afternoon at Logan we made our way to NW's baggage claim office. I picked up my bag off the floor of the tiny office and headed out the door when a tour guide from Collette Vacations barged in right, pushing past me as if I wasn't even there.
No big deal, I know. At least around here it isn't. But we just came from spending five days in a city--Austin, and for a lot of people around here that's in Texas and yes, that's also in the United States--where people were so polite, so friendly, so accommodating, that it makes you achingly aware of just how rude people are to each other around here.
We were just in a city where total strangers talk like friends on the bus, on the street, in restaurants. Bus drivers are actually friendly and give advice and information with a smile. Yeah, people on the bus and on the street look at each other in the eye and actually smile at each other. Once I blogged about doing that in Boston and how people looked away when you looked at them on the street and got a load of comments including that they probably thought I was crazy. No, Boston, you're the crazy one. Or rather, you're the rude, inhospitable city, and I'm not the first one to say it.
Music, theater, gardening, travel, current affairs, and my personal life, not always in that order. I try to keep it interesting, I rarely hold back, because one thing I truly believe in is the shared experience of this reality we call life. We're all in this together, people. More than we even know.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Another Angry Town Moment
Posted by John Greiner-Ferris at 5:08 PM
Labels: Action Bob Markle, actionbobmarkle, Angry Town, Boston, Collette Vactions, John Greiner-Ferris
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You need to remember that was Austin, though. It is a very sophisticated, cosmopolitan town and very new. Austin has its charm, but so does Boston. JMHO.
- September 30, 2008 at 7:39 PM
- John Greiner-Ferris said...
i don't know, starstruk, i find most places more polite and friendlier than boston, including nyc...again, just my experience...
- September 30, 2008 at 8:55 PM
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Recording to an Elluminate presentation on how to use Moodle.
Stephan Schmidt shows how to build a course in Moodle 1.9 that helps practitioners work around the 'scroll of death'. This is part of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework e-Gems series.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Think Outside the Square with Moodle
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- Bronwyn hegarty said...
Sarah this will be very helpful for staff. I will be sure and take a look soon.
- Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 9:16:00 PM GMT+12
Sarah this is great. I am currently researching how to use Moodle better and finding this link here was fab :)
- Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 9:26:00 PM GMT+12
- Sarah Stewart said...
Glad this is of help, Bron and Jen :)
- Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 10:58:00 AM GMT+12
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It's just five days until our annual Meet & Greet, and we are so excited!We can't wait to see everyone.
The event will take place this Sunday, April 27th, from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, in Nordhoff Hall on the Cal State Northridge Campus. We will be in the Campus Theatre. (Those who have been to the Meet & Greet in the past, do take note that we are in a different room this time!) For directions, please click on the "Map of CSUN" link on the right side of this page.
This a fun event that gives TADW families, both new and returning, a chance to meet other students, as well as TADW faculty and staff. We will answer any questions you have about the program, and the directors and designers of our shows will be there to give everyone some insight into their visions for the productions. We welcome anyone enrolled or just interested in TADW at this event, parents and students alike.
We hope to see you there!
In other news, development of this summer's productions is going swimmingly.Our production staff has met to finalize scripts and mull over designs for sets, lights, and costumes. This summer's shows are going to be fantastic!
|TADW staff in deep discussion during a March production meeting
|Set designer Kyle Wilson shows off designs for Beauty and the Beast
|A preview of a set design for Beauty and the Beast
|Chris Halsted dazzles the TADW staff with his musical stylings at a Cirque des Pirates production meeting. Arrr!
|At TADW we take our jobs very seriously.
|TADW staff cracking up at a reading of Cirque des Pirates


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I made a banner the night before to hang (at Elaine's near insistence, although it would have been fine with her if I'd xeroxed something, but we just don't have one in the neighborhood, so I sewed something). I used my godmother's copper pots to display the jewelry bags and Chow Chows, and sparkly FashionMistas were all over the table.
It was pretty cold in the gymnasium of the church on Mulberry street where this is housed, so our table was missing fuzzy wool hats and gloves. But to my surprise, the sleep mask got the most traffic, especially by men! It was fascinating watching people pick up, turn over, open, close, show to friends in foreign languages, Katie James products. Here are some of our observations on the traffic around the table:
- Men liked the sleep masks, which do have a lingerie quality...(silk taffeta, sexy black strap around the head)
- If a boyfriend told his girlfriend to say, buy a new sleep mask (while holding up the Katie James sleep mask), she not only refused, but turned her head in a huff and went to look at ugly over-ruffled purses. Each time a man suggested to a woman that she like something, she nearly hissed. We soon learned to telepathically send couples away.
- When one person comes to look, they are a magnet for other people.
- People don't really like to be talked to. They barely tolerated smiling. And by tolerate I mean stay at the table. There's a balance between acknowledging them, talking to them, and pitching to them. There's just no trust anymore in the world.
- Reading works. Read a magazine and be really into it, and before you know it, you won't have noticed someone touching your products who'd been there for 30seconds. And she'll stick around when you look up from your magazine and will be ready to hear the wonderfullness of your products.
- Being on the phone can also work. Gives the person time to be anonymous at your table.
- Push your website. Suggest they can buy online at their convenience. Elaine says that she's had sales years later from the markets she's been in.
I'm not a shark sales person, which may not be a good thing, and I've got a lot to learn about closing the sale (I was actually afraid to get a sale and calculate tax). But it was super fun talking shop with a designer who's been doing this for 14 years. And fun to see what tricks work (picking up the jewelry bag and playing with it attracted eyeballs and bodies), and what flop (displaying the jewelry bag inside out to show off the pockets...only caused confusion). Feel free to chime in if you've had market observations!
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The first day of the Official Twilight Convention in Nashville was so much fun! This is the first event like this I have ever attended. I've already decided I'd love to do so again, maybe as a volunteer.
The convention hosts, Hillary and Hannah Hindi of The Hillywood Show, were gracious and very welcoming. Leah Gibson, who plays Nettie in Eclipse, was graceful and a true lady. Very sweet! She had one question and answer session today and is scheduled for another one tomorrow. I found her to be very down to earth and very real.
Nikki Reed, who plays Rosalie Hale, is just inspiring. She quit smoking two years ago in effort to become a better role model and take better care of herself. She admitted in Q&A that these choices changed her relationships with a few fellow cast members. Boy, do I know how that feels! I never thought something so simple as a Twilight convention could bring me to so many realizations about myself.
I've noticed that everyone eventually finds a group of friends, like minded individuals they spend most of their time with. I can't help but feel that I'm still looking for my group. I know I'll find it someday.
Fan-girl moment: in her Q&A session, Nikki Reed answered a question I had submitted. I asked for advice she might give a student actor. She was honest about it, with the first words out of her mouth. "Run. Run far away very quickly." She then went on to talk about what an inconsistent business it is, with no guarantee of a paying job from day to day unless you luck out and hit it big-and even then it doesn't last forever. Of course, as she continued, she spoke of passion; doing what you love and loving what you do. It was so amazing to get such clear cut advice from someone who is actually working professionally in my field of interest.
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I can't yet confirm who the pretty face is on Michelle's arm, what with the "Brazilians and their baby-daddy dramz" as of late, but I can tell you about Michelle'e pretty face. (UPdate it's Jesus Luz?!?)
Celebrity makeup artist Daniel Martin did supermodel Michelle Alves' pretty, natural makeup. He accentuated the eyes with Lancôme Color Design Eyeshadow Quad in Haute Sunset, a palette of neutral, peachy and beige shades. To create definition, he lined the eyes with Lancôme Le Crayon Khôl in Noir and added a few coats of Lancôme Ôscillation Mascara in Black. A dusting of Lancôme Blush Subtil in Miel Glace was applied to the apples of the cheek. Daniel used Color Design Lipstick in Love It and Color Fever Gloss in Rose Jolie to create a high-shine, pink pout.


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Thursday, 31 May 2012
New Designs!
Introducing some rather 'Dapper Chaps'.
Now available in the shop :o)
Another newbie is our bright and fun 'Bird Shapes' screenprint.
Available in the shop right now :o)
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012
It's twins! :o)
We have been watching Mrs Seagull sat on her nest for what seems like months until the other day we noticed she was up and about with two adorable balls of fluff rustling about :o) Awwwwwww hello!
Uh Oh they seem to have spotted the Paparazzi ;)
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Maker's Boutique this Saturday!
Come along this Saturday (June 2nd) to the Unitarian Church in Brighton, we'll be there along with a lovely bunch of local makers, pop in and say hello :o)
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Sunday, 27 May 2012
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Football Mad Dad?
Is your Dad football mad? With Fathers day just round the corner we've designed a card that uses the pitch markings to spell out the word 'DaD'. Perfect for footy fans.
Now available in the shop for just £2 :o)
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Friday, 25 May 2012
A very big house in the country...
Hello! Sorry for recent blog neglect! I was really ill for a few days (Jam has it now, booo!) and then if you follow us on twitter/instagram you'll know that we've just had a little holiday to the countryside. We were lucky enough to be able to stay in this AMAZING massive cottage in a beautiful little village near Bath which belongs to the owner of the company I currently work for. Our days were spent lazing around in the beautiful garden, playing snooker in the games room (well, Jam playing snooker, me attempting to just hit a ball..) and generally pretending we'd won the lotto and retired to the country! Here is our trip in pics...
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside!
hello DODO screen prints, all available in the shop!
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Thursday, 10 May 2012
The Great Escape returns! :o)
Brighton's Great Escape 2012 Starts today! YAY. Here are some super quick highlights of last year...
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Saturday, 5 May 2012
Brighton Children's Parade
Today was the Children's Parade in Brighton and I was soooo relieved to have the day off work! We stumbled across it last year and our tiny minds were blown by the sheer size and amazingness of the whole thing! It is certainly a far cry from the little Village Festival procession I walked in every year when I was little (I remember being a dinosaur with a cardboard box on my head..) This is an all-singing, all-dancing, all-drumming and all-whistleblowing carnival! And it goes on foreveeeeeer. I think about 80 different schools/youth groups. We spotted our friend Jen with her school and their Wall-E inspired float..so cute! It almost makes you want to pop some sprogs out so you can send them off to school in Brighton and get to walk in the parade with them!!
P.s. we have added THREE new screenprints to the hello DODO shop today! :o)
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Spectacular new architecture, re-visiting favorite haunts, and reconnecting with friends I haven't seen in many years were all great reasons to spend a weekend in Las Vegas in the desert summer heat. For this weekend, our headliners were all starring behind the bars, with not a tuxedo or sequin in sight … it was all about the single malts, camaraderie and catching up.
Eiffel Tower Restaurant at Paris Resort and Casino has one of the most exciting and dynamic views in Las Vegas – overlooking the Fountains of Bellagio. At regular intervals throughout afternoons and evenings, the entrancing displays of water and light mesmerize, even from across the street and out of earshot of the explosive water canons. Nursing single malt Scotches from the bar's impressive selection is a wonderful way to wait for "show time", then realize the next show is only 15 or 30 minutes away, and continue nursing. Our favorites on the last visit were Laphroaig 15, The Balvenie 12 DoubleWood, Oban 14, and Macallan 18. An added bonus on this visit was spending time with two of our favorite (and very knowledgeable) bartenders – Carson and Noel … enthusiastic guys who enjoy what they do!
Across The Strip from Paris is The Bellagio. To match the bright summer flora, both real and super-sized fantasy versions rendered in glass and other media in The Conservatory, our party of four chose light, floral single malts, perfect for summer – Glenfiddich 12 and 15, Glenlivet 12, and Dalwhinnie 15. The Bellagio Café looks directly onto the wonders of The Conservatory, so people watching was also a great past-time, as our conversations flowed.
Crown jewels of the newly opened City Center are the Vdara and Aria Hotels. From each venue's lobby bars we enjoyed viewing and discussing pieces of The Fine Art Collection – grand displays of public art by foremost artists and sculptors. Older whiskies seemed to be the order of the day here, so Highland Park 18, Glenlivet 25, Macallan 18, and The Balvenie 21 were enjoyed as we discussed Big Edge by Nancy Rubins (a colossal collection of about 200 canoes) and Silver River by Maya Lin (an 87-foot long depiction, in reclaimed silver, of the entire Colorado River.)


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I just received the following information in an email. Please share with your school counselors, student service coordinators, and faculty as needed. Picture is posted that came with the email.
This Friday, May 1st, please join the First Lady's Reach Higher initiative in supporting National College Signing Day for students who are the first in their family to go on to post-secondary education. Wear your college shirt, take a picture, and post on social media with the hashtags #ReachHigher.
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It was supposed to have been their blockbuster follow-up to "The Wedding Crashers", but MTV must now regretfully report yet another Hollywood divorce: Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are out of "Outsourced."
"It was developed for Vince and Owen, but they're not doing it anymore," director Hank Azaria revealed.
"The Simpsons" voice actor has put his acting career on hold to shoot "Outsourced," a comedy that marks Azaria's directorial debut. "It's about these two guys who work at a factory in Southern California," Azaria said. "Their jobs get outsourced to Mexico, and they decide 'Well, we like Mexico. Let's go down there and work down there'. And they become like the Norma Raes of Mexico."
While we can't be sure whether that means a Sally Field cameo is imminent, Azaria's statements make it depressingly clear that Vince and Owen won't be re-teaming on screen anytime soon. Asked which stars would be replacing them as the laughable laborers, all Azaria could offer was "We don't know yet. We'll see." The project is scheduled to begin shooting in a few months.


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Week 9: February 28 - March 6
February 28- Cold season hitting hard. The kids and I have been sick for what seems like forever. Ty had an ear infection in both ears, myself.. dealing with the endless cough. Seems like ever since Ty started school, we get sick very often!March 1- With every kiddo of ours, I've always taken a picture of their itty bitty feet around a month old or so. Just wish they could stay little like this forever!March 2- I've been wanting to put this outfit on Veyah, and although it's still a little to big, it fits enough to wear it. I just love the little Ugg boots! Everything is so cute when it's "itty bitty" size.March 3- Our little stinker. Mr. Mischievous. Prez sure knows how to push a Mama's buttons. At times I think of how much he'd go for on Ebay, but at the end of the day, I look at him and all I can do is laugh-- pure payback for all the troubles I gave my parents.March 4- One thing I enjoy buying for the boys is SHOES. But, with boys being boys, it's not like they don't "break em' in", so having a wide variety of shoes is always a good thing, especially since they don't last very long!March 5- Veyah's looks are changing so much. She's our little chunk-uh-munk. This girl loves to put down some food! Awesome appetite. Any chance I get, I'm snapping pictures of her. I consider myself her personal paparazzi!March 6- I've been working on Veyah's room this past month, and her dresser was finally completed. I've been wanting to do a picture with her sitting in the drawer, since I had one taken of me when I was little. She was a good sport! Always is.


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|New shelves ready for their finish.
Still hammering away on the building. And still without a chimney. Hopefully this month will see the installation of the chimney and we can get to work testing the boiler. In the meantime I have been working on painting, shelving and cellar doors. The shelves are coming along nicely. They are constructed entirely of 1"x12" pine boards and finished with a mixture of pine tar and beeswax. The mixture gives a nice luster finish that is waterproof and slowly gives the wood a honey color.
I have also built both doors for the cellar. Quite a task if one happens to be working alone. I did manage, and even got one hung. It was an adventure hanging that first door. I got it in place only to discover that it was rhombohedral! Everything was parallel, just not square. Not sure how I managed that, but a little trimming and it went in just fine.
The other door is nice and square. It needed another coat of paint and has to have about 1/8 inch shaved off the width. Hopefully, tomorrow it will be hung and we will have a cellar that can be closed!
|One cellar door!
|The wildflowers seem to like the slope behind the brewery.


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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
In Praise of Pimento Cheese
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Thankfulness and Community in Good Times and Bad
"Community is an interesting thing in the sense that as humans, we depend on it to provide a certain sense of our well-being, yet at the same time we struggle to define or reinvent our place in it. Given the opportunity to look at our place and function in our community, people have the chance to see their value because what a community is really composed of is relationships.
In difficult times and when tragedies befall us, it is most important as individuals to reflect on what our relationship is to our community and to fulfill that role by whatever means we have at our disposal. The culinary community has a unique opportunity at those times to be on the front line of trying to help revive and nourish people in need. Food can very quickly comfort and console people and help give them a little strength to start rebuilding or recovering from what has hurt them."
--Drew Robinson, Executive Chef--Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q
Our good friends at CNN's "Eatocracy" gave Jim 'N Nick's Executive Chef and Pitmaster, Drew Robinson the opportunity to speak about the very beautiful opportunity that humans have to reach out to each other in times of trouble. Last year, following the terrible storms that raged through Alabama--leaving entire towns leveled and thousands of people homeless and struggling--Drew, along with teams of people from Jim 'N Nick's decided to venture out from the restaurants and take food to the devastated communities. The blessings and lessons learned from the efforts were deep and Drew was inspired to share his thoughts to the folks at Eatocracy.
Now that it is a time of year to reflect and give thanks, CNN decided to re-post Drew's beautiful words for us to ponder today. The above is an excerpt from that post and you can read the rest of it here:
Thank you Drew and CNN for reminding us of what matters and why cooking is not only fun and delicious, but really, really matters.


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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Illustration Friday - Farm
Well - would you look at that. Here I am complaining about friday not coming soon enough, and when it comes - I don't make anything until now. :P How sad am I. Anyway - I guess I'll make another one tomorrow or something. I like this topic. Just been hegg busy this week.
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What up Muffin..... I dig this picture.... Soft and Rough at the same time.... Colours are great also... good stuff.... PEACE!ReplyDelete
Great composition and colors. Wondering how you made it...ReplyDelete
that's really cool - so hard to see but worth tryingReplyDelete
Nowland, thanks a bunch. Soft and rough, that's how it should be. ;)ReplyDelete
bill - thanks! I like that comment. :)
Illustraionblog: thank you, - I had the sketch of the winged pig from some old stuff, and i took it into photoshop and played around with the colors a bit. Also added some texture that i painted and used blending mode to get the effect i wanted. :)
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