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My babies are 21 and 4 months old...they are so much fun! Hunter's vocabulary has exploded in the past month. My favorite thing that he says right now is answers us when we ask him a question. For example, if I ask him if he would rather have peas or corn for dinner, he will say "pea" or "cor" according to his tastes for that night. How cool is that?! We've gone 18-20 months with not knowing EXACTLY what he wanted because he would point and grunt and now he will actually tell us specifically what he wants...coolest thing EVER to communicate efficiently with your child. Which brings me to the most exciting news in Hunterville this month or the past week or 2 really. He has started to communicate when he has to go pee pee on the potty! I sat him on the pint sized potty one morning when he first woke up and he went pee. I think it was more coincendence that morning, but he stood up and said "pee pee" and we both stared at it and then I started doing the most bizarre off-my-rocker dance moves I could think of to get him excited about what he had just done. This past Monday he started saying "pee pee" all on his own and wanted to sit on the potty and viola he peed again all by himself! So I bought him some pull ups and some M&M's as a treat and for the past 3 days he's been doing awesome! Now he knows he gets "chaco" (chocolate) after he goes pee pee but not only does he want a "choco" but a "boo choco" which means blue M&M. LOVE him! He is seriously non stop chatterbox from the time he wakes up until the time he kisses us goodnight and is off to la la land. I stood outside his door the other night after I had laid him down in his crib and he was saying "mama night night, dada night night pee pee pee pee" and then of course "bob bob" because he loves Spongebob. It was like he was going over the days events in his head. He's such a funny dude to listen to when he doesn't know anyone is listening. :) I'm including a pic of his cute tushie running around after he had gone pee on the potty. I'm not putting the picture on FB because I don't want to totally embarress him, but I figure mostly my family and a few mommy friends read this blog so it's not so bad to show his tush...it's just so cute I can't resist! :)
Onto my Lily girl. God must have known the exact right fit for our family because this girl is it! Where we had our serious, very laid back observant little boy, Lily is the complete opposite in personality. She's the smiliest, happiest, most wanna-be-in-the-action kinda girl I know. She's gone almost a week with no major meltdowns during the nighttime which I'm hoping is the start to happier evenings. She smiles at most anything, but her most favorite activity during the day is watching her brother run, hop, skip, and jump around the room. She could watch him all day I think. It seriously melts my heart to see her so in love with him already. Her favorite person by far is her daddy. (which is the sweetest thing EVER!) Her smile lights up the entire room as soon as she lays her eyes on him. Seriously, I'm chop liver compared to him. When he walks through the door from work and Lily hears his voice she will turn her head completely around just to catch a glimpse of her daddy. She's developing quite the personality! She coos, laughs, babbles, and sings her way through the day. She truely is an amazing baby who has been on a consistent sleeping and eating schedule for months now. She takes 2 naps a day from about 9:30am-11:30am and 1:15pm-3:30pm and then sleeps 8pm-8am. Hunter was the same way so I have no idea what I did to get 2 AMAZING sleepers. I.am.blessed! She's in love with her fingers and toes and anything else that she can get into her mouth. Hunter got his first tooth (2 teeth actually at the same time) right before he turned 6 months so I assume within the next 2 months we'll start to see some teeth on her. I can't believe this...what will I do when she is Hunter's age?
We are getting our first family of 4 photo taken in November and I'm getting so excited! The kids will also be getting single shots for their 6 month and 2 year milestones and some together as long as everyone cooperates. I can't wait!! We hired a photographer to meet us at Botanical Gardens so the colors should be gorgeous in the Fall. I'm used to JCPenney's pictures so this should be a very pleasant change and I'm so very much looking forward to it!
I've been working out/eating healthier for 5 weeks now and although I have no scale at home to use, I *feel* so much healthier and my jeans are looser so I know that I'm making some progress. I'm trying to focus less on the word "dieting" and more on the eating healthier because diet says to me "short term" where eating healthier means more of a life change to me. I really want to look good in our upcoming pictures and since I hate myself in pictures I'm trying to put in my absolute best effort. I hope it pays off. :)
One last exciting little tidbit. I'm getting my 2nd tattoo on October 8th. So very excited! The kids will be staying over with the in laws that night because Daniel and I both work that Friday and Saturday, but that night we would normally do a dinner date just the 2 of us to take advantage of the alone time. Next month though he will be holding my hand while I get a tattoo. :) I've always wanted something having to do with my kids and after 100% deciding that we are done having kids, I feel like now is the right time, plus it'll be my early birthday present. I'm getting 2 small hearts centered on my inner right wrist. The first one will be colored in a blue topaz and the 2nd heart will be colored in emerald green for the 2 birth months of December and May. This way if I need to cover it up for any reason I can wear a bracelet or watch, but it'll always be there to remind me of my 2 wonderful kids and how much I love them! I'm a little nervous about the pain, but I had 2 c-sections so hopefully this won't be nothin'! Wish me luck!!


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Share and share and like: what you've been loving in 2012
Now it's time for your picks of the last year. Here are the five social media moments that got your hearts racing, mouths laughing and fingers clicking in 2012.
Animal magic
Our most popular Facebook post of the year: a photo of a cat in a Lewisham health centre, with an attendant 'sorry, but the cat refuses to leave' sign. Triggered the 'like' reflex in no fewer than 40,000 of you.
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Our second most popular? A dog sitting on a tube seat, like it thinks it's a person. Our third most popular involved mice on the tube. You lot fawn over fauna.
Every cloud…
After the wettest summer in 100 years, we tried to cheer you up with 35 reasons why rain is better than sunshine and 13,000 of you shared the love. Our most popular blog post of the year.
You were as caught up in the Olympic spirit as we were, and made our Opening Ceremony tweet 'We invented grime and the internet! Is there nothing we can't do?' our second most shared this year.
Facts and mini-figures
Our stat 'Lego people outnumber real people by 67:1' was our most retweeted tweet of 2012. You also loved the fact that only archery and karate prohibit booze in the Olympics. Long live drunk judo!
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His teammates' fate — whether all of Penn State's offensive players would have to run sprints to end practice — was on the line and Zach Zwinak was not going to let Cole Chiappialle forget it.
Before Chiappialle got into his stance for his last of three attempts to cross the goal line in Penn State's "Lion's Den" drill, Zwinak turned red, hollered a few words unfit to print for motivation and slapped his fellow running back on the backside.
"You've got one inch," Zwinak screamed. "You better get it."
Angelo Mangiro and guards Brian Gaia and Derek Dowrey dropped into their stances, determined to drive defensive linemen Anthony Zettel, Austin Johnson and Carl Nassib off the ball. Quarterback Christian Hackenberg lined up under Mangiro, ready to deliver the handoff.
Linebacker Mike Hull glared across the line of scrimmage.
The young Chiappialle lowered his head, dug in his heels and readied for the final handoff from Hackenberg. He had been unsuccessful on his first try, as Hull exploded through him, knocking Chiappialle backward after fighting around Gaia's block. On the second run, Chiappialle picked up a handful of yards before Hull rode him to the ground.
This was it.
The whistle blew. Hackenberg pivoted, put the ball in Chiappialle's gut. Linemen collided and Chiappialle put his head down and blasted through the pile and over the goal line. Defensive players clad in blue lined up for sprints as their white-wearing offensive counterparts celebrated. Chiappialle ripped his helmet off and bumped chests with Zwinak, whose veins bulged from his neck.
This is the norm behind the Lasch Building where the Penn State football team is in the middle of its second week of preseason practice. Afterward, a hoarse James Franklin expressed his satisfaction with Thursday's session.
"This is typical camp," Franklin said. "I feel pretty good. The staff feels pretty good. ... I think we've had great energy during practice. Guys are flying around. We've gotten better. I've dramatically seen us get better, especially on special teams. I think our punters, from the beginning of camp to the end have improved and that's going to be big for us. I like where we're at right now."
Special teams drills — specifically punting — were on display during 30 minutes open to reporters.
Redshirt freshman Chris Gulla took turns with freshmen Robby Liebel and Daniel Pasquariello booming balls to sophomore Gregg Garrity and freshman DeAndre Thompkins. All three punters drew praise from their teammates, with most of their punts achieving Franklin's announced goal of a four-second hang time.
On the other end, Garrity and Thompkins fielded each kick cleanly. After practice, sophomore Von Walker — who punted among his other duties at Central Mountain High School — stayed behind with Robby Liebel and worked on his punting skills.
During a live scrimmage, Hackenberg rotated with freshman Michael O'Connor and Trace McSorley. Hackenberg fired a deep ball on the money to sophomore Jake Kiley who made a nice adjustment to come up with the catch underneath cornerback Jesse Merise just as the gates opened to reporters.
All three quarterbacks took equal snaps and primarily worked with a wideout combination of Geno Lewis, DaeSean Hamilton and Thompkins, who played in the slot.
Afterward, Franklin said Hackenberg's throw count is being monitored. The sophomore quarterback attempted 392 passes last season. That's been made easier by having five quarterbacks on the roster, Franklin said. In addition to Hackenberg, McSorley and O'Connor, Penn State also has redshirt freshman D.J. Crook and freshmen Billy Fessler to help handle individual drills when an arm is needed.
The additional reps have made the battle for the backup quarterback position a hot one.
"I've been very pleased with Hack. I think his improvement from the spring and his confidence and his command of the offense, I think across the board is much better," Franklin said. "The No. 2 battle is interesting. McSorley, all the things we thought about him when we recruited him, he's a winner, he's smart, he's picked it up very well, he doesn't panic.
"I think Mike O'Connor has had a great summer. Dwight Galt, our strength coach said he's maybe had the best summer of anyone on the team. But McSorley is right there."
Chiappialle gets in,
Zettel, Gaia scuffle
During the brief 11-on-11 portion that was open to reporters, the offense looked out of sync at times. Hackenberg threw incomplete passes — off the hands of Thompkins and Brent Wilkerson, respectively — on back-to-back plays to open a drive inside the red zone.
Chiappialle scored a touchdown on a direct snap before a scuffle broke out after Chiappialle scored. Anthony Zettel and Brian Gaia got into it exchanging shoves before Franklin jumped in and helped defensive players pull Gaia back. Afterward, Franklin sent Gaia to the sideline to cool off and turned to reporters and muttered, "Perfect timing."
Heavy rotations
Penn State used a handful of offensive linemen during 11-on-11s.
Notably, freshman Noah Beh and redshirt freshman Brendan Mahon swapped in and out with Gaia and Dowrey at guard while true freshman Chasz Wright manned the right tackle spot. Redshirt freshman Andrew Nelson worked as the left tackle. In addition, converted defensive end Albert Hall split snaps with Nelson.
Mangiro, the line's most experienced player outside of left tackle starter Donovan Smith, played center. Smith did not take part in portions of practice featuring contact and instead watched from the sideline in a light blue jersey.
"They're working extremely hard," Franklin said. "They're working together well. They're a very prideful group."
Sitting out
Senior safety Ryan Keiser wore pads but was not involved in the portions of practice open to reporters as he was wearing a light blue jersey.
Keiser joined freshmen receiver Troy Apke and sophomore center Wendy Laurent as other players not exposed to contact.
New look to practice fields
The fences surrounding the practice fields behind Lasch were outfitted with blue covers with different school lettering on them.
Meanwhile, the end zones were painted with a clear message, "Compete."
"We think it looks really classy," Franklin said.


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So it's been a while since I've written, since as of late there hasn't been too much to say. John and I have been very stressed out with out of town guests and his race coming up, and unfortunately it hasn't left much opportunity for the two of us to spend quality time together. I'm hoping that after next week (his aunt is here till Monday, and John leaves next Thursday for his race, then comes home the following Monday) we'll sort of get back to normal. For a week, that is, until we go to the mountains with friends and then to California for a wedding. Note to self - don't plan anything for a loooong time.
Anyhoo, a few writing updates: Last week I queried another agent. She referred me to another agent at the agency who requested the first 50 pages. Yesterday I got what I consider to be a very good rejection. It still stings (this was the agent who requested the manuscript almost immediately after I queried her. I'd had high hopes for them, but alas, it appears it was not meant to be) but at least I got some very constructive advice from the agent (well, her assistant I believe. But both she and the agent read my manuscript, so that's good). She said things like: "Michelle and I both think the manuscript has a great deal of promise. You are a great writer, and I felt moved and excited throughout many scenes." and "The writing in this text is solid; I believe that working out the kinks in these few scenes could improve your novel even more. If you would like to do any revisions and resubmit, we would be happy to read again. And, for the record, Michelle and I both fell in love with Shakespeare and his sweaters."
So, the long and short of it is that I was rejected - but, at least there is some hope for a resubmission (although I'm wary after what happened with Jill). I'm just hoping that one of the three remaining agents who has the first 50 pages at least requests a full (would it be too much to hope that someone wants to represent me???). I still have three agents who haven't responded, including my top choice, so we'll see...
To sum up, out of 9 queries:
2 rejections based on query letter
3 no responses
4 requests for materials, with 1 rejection so far
Not bad, right?
Fingers crossed for more good news soon...


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Even though it's only been a week since Easter, you may be looking for ways to use all the leftover Easter eggs and chocolate, instead of having it tempt you every time you see it. Easter eggs are more expensive gram for gram than regular bars of chocolate, so it is wasteful to throw it out when it can be used in so many ways. Try some of the following ideas, and don't forget if you intend to use the chocolate for cooking you can always freeze it to use later.
1/. Finely grate chocolate in a food processor. Use this for;
* Hot Chocolate Mix- Add the grated chocolate to hot milk.
* Cake topping- Sprinkle the chocolate over iced cakes and cupcakes.
* Chocolate recipe addition-Add the grated chocolate to pancake, cake, cupcake and muffin batters. Stir or fold through cheesecake, ice-cream and any dessert mix that calls for chocolate.
2/. Melted chocolate. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or slowly in the microwave. Add it to recipes or use it for fondue, ganache, chocolate dipped strawberries. With Mother's Day and any other special occasions coming up try making gifts of homemade molded chocolates, chocolate dipped spoons, rocky road and other confectionery. Add it to warm cream to make an ice-cream and dessert sauce.
3/. Mini Easter Eggs- Chop roughly or keep whole and add to muffins, cupcakes and cookies.
This is a simple basic recipe for a plain muffin mix. I make up a few separate quantities of the dry ingredients and store it in takeaway containers in the pantry, and just add the wet ingredients and the flavourings when I am ready to bake them. Mini Easter eggs or chopped or grated chocolate is a tasty addition to this mix. Add between 1/4 to 1/2 a cup of the chocolate.
Just Add to Me Muffin Mix
2 cups plain flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup canola oil
2 egg whites
1 cup skim milk
Place the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl and blend all the ingredients together well. In a separate bowl use a whisk to blend the oil, egg whites and milk until blended completely together. Pour into the dry mixture. Mix with a wooden spoon just until everything is moistened, don't over stir or beat. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees Celsius. Prepare a muffin tin with a non stick cooking spray or paper muffin cups. Fill each muffin cup 2/3 full of batter. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a couple of muffins comes out clean.
Consider making a double batch and freezing the muffins individually for a quick lunchbox addition or to have on hand for guests.
For more interesting muffins just add:
Banana – add 2 mashed bananas with the wet ingredients
Choc Chip – add 1/3 cup choc chips with the dry ingredients
Berry – add 1/2 cup frozen raspberries or blueberries with the wet ingredients
Strawberry and White Chocolate – add 1/2 cup mashed strawberries with the wet ingredients and 1/3 cup white choc chips with the dry ingredients
Cinnamon – add 1/4 tsp nutmeg to the dry ingredients, bake as per recipe. Mix 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon together in a small bowl and dip tops of muffins in this mixture as soon as they come out of the oven
Apricot – half fill each muffin cup. Drop 1 tsp apricot jam into each muffin pan, add remainder of batter on top
Ham and Cheese – add 3/4 cup grated cheese and 1/4 cup diced ham with the dry ingredients.
Try any variation you can think of. I would love to hear your muffin variations or ideas for leftover chocolate in the comments section.


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What the hell is going on? I'm getting too involved in this. The producers are actually telling a cohesive story! There is a through-line with each of the queens revealing character and motivation as the episodes progress, which advances the plot. It's good reality television. WTF?
Monday's episode actually ventured into my realm of expertise: acting. Having been the Artistic Director of a theatre company for over a decade, the Queen has had many opportunities to cast, direct, write and manage a myriad of different types of productions. And though I try to be as objective as possible in most areas of my life involving people and situations, I find that I am a judgmental, opinionated bitch when it comes to actors and acting.
Beware me RPDR contestants.
I must admit: I was extremely impressed with the dolls in the mini-challenge. It was quite refreshing to see each of the lady boys embrace the premise and "get ugly." Since that aspect of the competition is a bone of contention with the Queen regarding some of the contestants, it was nice to see everyone let go and have fun. Some of those bitches were jacked up
I thought Willam's concept was brilliant. However, imho, there were other teams who had better photo shoots. Nevertheless, when he and Madame LaQueer were chosen I knew the writing was on the wall for one of them.
We'll get to Milan and Willam in depth during my next DR post.
But I'm sure that all of us Reality Show Competition Veterans knew what was coming when the two of them started boasting about their prowess in the fields of acting and television respectively. And LORD does the Queen have a lot to say about both of them regarding their behavior and performances.
But for now, let us content ourselves with a hearty, and well-deserved Condragulations for Ms. Latrice Royale.
This bitch truly has the potential to go all the way. She knows what she's doing, she does it well and she grows with each challenge. Big ol' stereotypical role in this week's setup. But she made it work. She brings energy and commitment to everything she does. What a statement it would make if a Big Queen could take the top prize. You GO Girl.
And it's Sashay Away to Madame LaQueer.
I agree with Madame's exit statement: there are definitely queens that should have gone before her *cough* Kenya Michaels *cough*. But I can't disagree with her being off'd based on her choices and performance in the main challenge. Again, I think the subtle nuances of American culture are necessary to really get ahead in this game. If she could spend more time in the states absorbing pop culture from a purely native perspective, I think she could truly be somebody, be about something and–say it with me–Prance.
Good luck to you, you Pulchritudinous Puerto Rican Princess.


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Doesn't look like much work for a whole day, huh? Oh well, it was fun and I'm this much closer to a finished quilt too. These go in one of my UFO's (the 30's Sampler- Number 1 on my UFO list) and I only have about 12 more blocks to do, so I'm slowly whittling them down.
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Pray To Live
Then there's times like this. When sometimes, I think my life has little purpose. Sometimes I can't believe that I've ever done something on time. Sometimes, I think I'll never get married. Sometimes, the world seems dark and stuck on repeat. Sometimes, I don't believe I've ever been a friend worth having.
And these times seem to dance longer, hang heavier and drag me down. I'll never, never escape to sunlight again. Even if I do manage to get up top and snatch a breath of air, these times tell me it'll only be that. A breathe and then a plunge, back to where I am.
God is the maker of these times. God is sovereign. I don't want to plunge, to drop sharply and drink deeply of the black cup of discouragement. I don't want to ride the wave of emotionalism, to wet my hair in the swell of temptation. God is the maker of these times.
God is sovereign.
I'm going to wait, climb up out and wait on him. I want to hold on tight and become a girl that brings him glory. I want to be a warrior, who gets bloody in the fight of life, fighting for what's right. I will pray, pray, pray for his strength to live, live, live for him alone. I'm going to be okay with not knowing how my life will be, with not hearing affirmation from people. I'm going to listen for his voice and know that he is with me. God is with me. I'm better than okay.
Listening to Brooke Fraser - Something In The Water
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Ruthiey <3ReplyDelete
remember the rollercoaster, and the ground underneath the rollercoaster. It's sound, and that's where your happiness is, because it's God, and God is sound, and doesn't change with temptations and stupids.
Man, I love you so much. You're so encouraging, even when you're in pain.ReplyDelete
And I completely understand. I go between the two feelings (very rapidly, it seems recently--but it's probably because I'm not doing good and I'm tricking myself that I'm fine) and then try to force myself to be fine because I feel like I'm a burden. You are very encouraging to me. You got me to start reading my Bible daily (and I've done it for a few days now =)), and I'm so, so grateful to you for that, because it's something I've never been able to do on my own. Also, if you want some encouragement or just to get out the doubt/pain/whatever, please email me (or call me, whatever). I'd love to listen and try to help.


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If you watched the disturbing video of Jared Lee Loughner, he mentions a "forum".
Loughner video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8qN3o4IhfU
I, and the forum moderators, it seems, believe at least one has been found.
I, and the forum moderators, it seems, believe at least one has been found.
AboveTopSecret.comWe here at AboveTopSecret.com, our owners, staff, and membership find ourselves in the unfortunate position of apparently being one of the largest (if not the largest) repositories of online postings by someone who has been classified as a "monster" (among other things) due to his (accused) actions of two days ago. Online research that began on Reddit, and continued here on ATS has resulted in an overwhelming amount of anecdotal evidence to support the notion that the "erad3″ member account here is Jared Loughner. Indeed, the content found in more than 4,000 Google search returns (including some pages in the mainstream press) have drawn the same conclusion.
This is a rather unique situation, to say the least. I and our staff have been considering if we should provide a public statement, and if we do, what should we say? Especially since we're already being contacted by the media for comment and more information.
The postings of "erad3″ reveal someone who clearly has many questions for which answers have been elusive if not outright impossible to obtain. And despite the best efforts by many of our members, it seemed there were no answers to be found here for which he was satisfied.
As is often typical, recent analysis in the media is rampant with all manner of conclusions, second-guesses, exaggerations, distortions, and missing information. The opinion of the staff and owners of AboveTopSecret.com is that it serves the public interest to provide an easy method to access every post made here by erad3 (normally, visitors must be logged-in to view such information).
Topics authored by erad3:
All aboard with the empty NASA Space Shuttles! (July 13, 2010)
Did NASA Fake the Mars Rovers? (July 12, 2010)
Infinite Source Of Currency!?!? (July 8, 2010)
Why is the year infinite in the date? (July 7, 2010)
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There appear to be no clues in these postings (the last on July 13th, 2010) that would raise any kind of "red flag" (at the time) beyond someone struggling with unanswered questions.
Some will noticed that his account has been terminated. This has been done to protect the integrity of a now widely known member account here: there is now such a great deal of information available which might provide clues to guess the password and either post as him, or obtain personal data.
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hi all!
we are heading out to tour Oatlands Plantation this morning. i LOVE plantations and even worked as a tour guide at one in south louisiana called oak alley – yep full hoop skirts and all! it was so much fun! if you ever saw interview with a vampire then you have seen oak alley. i was working there during filming – pretty interesting. i have toured many plantations in louisiana and mississippi and i am curious if they will be similar or different here in northern va.
today kicks off a new challenge in the Prisma and Other Mediums group on The Outlawz – we had to use fabric on our projects.
in addition i am submitting this to the following challenges:Pile It On: down on the farm SFYTT: sketch Stamp Something: Digi Image Make It Monday: Anything Goes
i added a fabric yoyo layered with felt as my embellishment – topped off with a glittered skittle. yoyos are SUPER easy to make with the Clover Yoyo Makers – you can find them at joanns. you can get the BEST felt in the BIGGEST selection of colors on etsy from Felt On The Fly – love shopping there!
***speaking of Joanns – they have the BEST selection of halloween fabrics in right now***
isn't this image just the best??? it was done by my DT sister over on the Outlawz POM team – anne fenton. best of all – it is FREEEEEEEEEEEE. that's right – just click on her name and it will take you over to the Outlawz thread where you can see this image and all of her other amazing stuff. i colored it with derwent coloursoft colored pencils.
and now a little kitten update – josephine, the momma cat, was adopted this past weekend – YAY!!!! i am so happy for her. she is such a sweet sweet baby. as for our own newly adopted little guy he is just AWESOME. of course i spoil him silly all day long so he can't stand it if he is not in the same room as me. he is so cute and so playful but not in a destructive way. here he is in the top of one of the cat trees with Pezza:
now i better go get my day going! i hope you all can join us at the Outlawz for fun challenges and fab prizes!!!!
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Malaysia Airlines (MAS) launched its inaugural Airbus A380 service between KL International Airport and Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, last month.
The full capacity flight took off for the French capital on March 1, 2013. The 494-seater Airbus 380, the world's largest commercial plane, replaced the 282-seat B777 operations to Paris.
Flight operations between the two cities began 31 years ago, starting with the DC-10 aircraft with a transit in the Middle East.
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) regional senior vice-president for UK and Europe (commercial), Huib Gorter, said MAS would benefit tremendously from its European operations this year.
"We're happy with the aircraft and the load. France is a big market for us. The revenue from Europe alone makes up 20% of MAS's total revenue. But this year, we're targeting 60% of the total revenue from the A380 to come from Europe," he said during a media interview in Paris.
The load factor for the European markets, which comprise Paris, London, Amsterdam and Istanbul, is expected to be about 80% this year.
The A380 has more range, is more fuel-efficient and needs a shorter runway for take-off and landing. It also has smaller engines, so it is easier to manage and is much quieter. Paris is the second city, after London, to operate the A380.
"We haven't done anything exceptional but the flights are mostly full. Nobody wants to offer a discount unnecessarily.
"The passengers from France come primarily for leisure while it's a mixed bunch with the Malaysians. People love the A380 because the seats are also better.
"The airline industry in Europe is cut-throat so we try to work on things quickly," added Gorter.
France has the highest number of tourist arrivals in the world, so the KL-Paris daily flights will augur well for MAS. With the A380, MAS has also introduced first class travel on this route.
The super jumbo has eight first class seats on the main deck, each with a pitch of 89 inches (226cm) and convertible into a full flat bed of 87 inches (221cm) length and a width of 40 inches (102cm). Each seat also boasts an individual 23-inch in-flight entertainment screen with personal closet and storage for coat, luggage, laptop and personal belongings.
The first and business class guests onboard the inaugural flight who booked their meals through the "Chef-on-Call" service had a gastronomical surprise waiting for them.
MAS had three master chefs, Ian Hall Mckenzie, Zahiddin Dris and Michel Quissac, to whip up delicious meals.
Chef Quissac also helped to revamp the menu on the A380 out of Paris. As a special treat, all passengers were given French macaroons as an additional dessert.
To ensure all passengers always have a taste of home, the Malaysian menu selections comprise, among others, all-time favourites like Nasi Lemak, Assam Pedas Fish, Beef Korma, Chicken Curry Kapitan, Stir Fried Chicken, Wok Fried Egg Noodles, Ayam Kechap, Mutton Curry and Stir Fried Egg Noodles with Seared Prawns.
These are not only offered for flights from Malaysia but also for flights out of European, Australian and New Zealand cities.


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Spanish Students at BHS-Our First Visit!
Mt. Kearsarge Hike
In September we accepted our first group of 28 (!) Spanish students at Bedfrod High School. They stayed with our host families, went on excursions and attended classes for two weeks. After visiting us, they spend some time in New York City.
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Thursday, December 15, 2016
A cherished memory forever: Little Christmas tree
It was the night before Christmas and in my dreams I slipped lazily and happily into memory lane. Another time had come, and as I stood there the little Christmas tree twinkled in front of my eyes. The tree smelled so wonderful! It gave off the scent of warm pine. The colored lights danced in front of my eyes as they took turns blinking on and off.
I moved, oh so carefully, towards my little Christmas tree, being careful not to step on packages neatly piled in front of it. I had to get as close as I could so as to see everything. My partial sight only allowed me the luxury of seeing things very close up and at best only a few things at a time. Nevertheless, it was enough for me.
I gingerly reached out and placed my index finger on one of the little lights, a little yellow one. Then I took my time at identifying other colors. Red, blue, and green. Then I had to take my time at finding a spot where there were no lights. I found it after a few moments and I held a tiny portion of a branch between my fingers.
Next I looked upwards and found the star at the very top. I stood gazing for quite some time thinking of the story that my parents would tell me every Christmas, the night that Jesus was born. What a lovely memory for me. Then I bent down and felt for some of the packages and finally I made my way to where the manger had been set up. There I spent most of my time, examining each little figure: Baby Jesus in the arms of Mary and Joseph, the three Wise Men, the shepherds, and the animals.
Ah! That was a memory of when I was a child and had enough vision to see it all then. Now I can only recall this memory each Christmas and that's okay for me. At least I have a memory that I can recall and one that I can cherish forever.
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Social Meaning and the Cult of Tim "Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the entire social meaning debate is the degree to which people uncritically defer to Berners-Lee's "intuition" and "vision", that is, to his admittedly incompletely expressed idea about the Semantic Web. Few people think that Berners-Lee's ideas about the Semantic Web are perfectly or completely formed. Everyone, including Berners-Lee himself, agrees that they are intuitions, which implies the idea that he can see further than he can say, that he can reach further than he can grasp, at least for now.
One obvious point to make is that there are a lot of people trying to help Berners-Lee realize his intuited vision and that he wields more influence and authority over this complex process than any other single person. Perhaps that is perfectly appropriate. However, the problem arises when other people, who have less moral authority, disagree with Berners-Lee. I have heard it said several times, although few people seem willing to commit to this view publicly, that Berners-Lee should be exempt from public criticism because the realizability of the Semantic Web rests upon Berners-Lee's reputation more than upon any other single factor. "
As Berners-Lee says:
" ...we are not analyzing a world, we are building it. We are not experimental philosophers, we are philosophical engineers. We declare "this is the protocol". When people break the protocol, we lament, sue, and so on. But they tend to stick to it because we show that the system has very interesting and useful properties (emphasis added).
The architecture...defines an "authoritative" or "definitive" meaning, to which "meaning" in wittgensteinian sense and "intended menaing" in [an] ethical or legal sense generally approach as closely as they can, and close enough for the system to work and be unbelievably useful to millions of people. "
I'm of the, obviously ignorant, opinion that this is a engineering problem that will be fixed or continue to evolve to a better overall solution. Instead of arguing about this I'm thinking "killer app".
Tim Bray: "Whereas I'm repeatedly on the record as being more than a bit baffled by what the argument is about, and have hinted unsubtly that maybe it's at the angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin level, a lot of people who are demonstrably smart care a whole lot about it. Anyhow, I can't ignore it as long as I'm on the TAG, which is at least until we get that damn Architecture document shipped or it's clear we're not going to."
The ESW Wiki's entry on the Social Meaning Group has some background too.


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Hardcore Muslim extremists must be isolated in prison – report
Former Home Office official Ian Acheson, who is charge of the review, told the justice committee that a small number of prisoners among the 12,500 Muslim inmates in England and Wales were targeting fellow inmates with "proselytizing behavior."
The ex-prison governor called for the creation of special isolation units, removed from the rest of the prison grounds.
"There are a small number of people whose behavior is so egregious in relation to proselytizing this pernicious ideology, this lethal nihilistic death cult ideology, which gets magnified inside prison particularly when you have a supply of young, impulsive and often highly-violent men, that they need to be completely incapacitated from being able to proselytize to the rest of the prison population," Acheson said on Wednesday.
Under the proposals, individualized de-radicalization programs would then be given to the isolated extremist inmates.
"It is not about prisons for Muslims or prisons for terrorists. It is a nuanced response that holds out the possibility of redemption," he said.
Acheson told MPs that a number of prisoners had been convicted of non-terrorist offences, but later became radicalized while in prison.
The National Offender Management Service (Noms), the organization tasked with dealing with prison extremism, lacked a coherent strategy, the 100-page report found.
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Acheson said prison personnel lacked adequate training to confront Islamist ideology, and were often afraid that they would be accused of racism if they did. The report recommends the recruitment of more Muslim prison staff as well as better Prevent training for existing officers.
Michael Gove, who was justice secretary before Prime Minister Theresa May's Thursday cabinet reshuffle, told MPs that while he is "extremely sympathetic" to Acheson's recommendations, the plans would need approval from the new home secretary before being implemented.


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After posting our dinner from the other night, homemade bread bowls and broccoli cheese soup, on instagram, I've gotten a lot of recipe requests...so here you go. Knock yourselves out...
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1. 2 [.25oz] packages dry yeast
2. 2.5 cups warm water
3. 2 tsp salt
4. 2 tbsp vegetable oil
5. 7 cups flour
6. 1 tbsp cornmeal
7. 1 egg white
8. 1 tbsp water
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To avoid this, how my mother had fought!
As she felt her spirit soar,
She faintly heard, her mother's roar.
"You won't live for me, your mother!
But don't mind dying for your motherland! "
"Not everyone dies mom, and life has no guarantees."
she had coolly retorted and even now, she didn't rue her stand.
Owning Land
"How did your dadi, know ?"whispered the persistent girl. "She lived there" her dadi said sadly. "Ma!" the girl's father warned.
Excited the girl asked "She lived in the Big House?"
"No." replied the tired granny."She lived in a small house on that land, but her father had planted those mango trees. Then one day, men came with sticks and knives and told them to leave. And then later those men, sold the land to some other people and then the Big House came up with those Big Gates and Walls."
"Enough. Now go to sleep." chided her mother.
"So the Mangoes are ours?" she asked excited, ignoring her mother.
"No" mourned her granny "Those trees have died, and now, its their fruits that have become trees, and anyway we don't own the land."
"So how can I own a land?" the girl asked after few minutes.
Her granny pretended to snore. But she shook her and repeated the question. "You buy with money" came the curt reply from her father.
"But did the men with sticks give money to your dadi's father, dadi?"
"No but those were different times" sighed the granny and turned the other way and faked sleep.
The girl stared into the darkness, unable to sleep, inspite of the suggestive snores.
She snaked her arm around her grandmother's waist. Then whispered "Tomorrow I will go with sticks and own the land near the river. Then I will sell it and make money and buy lots of lands. And then we will plant lots and lots of mango trees. And then my grandchildren and their grandchildren will taste the sweetest mango ever."
Agitated, he said "I will take her to the doctor". But her mother said it would be risky in the middle of the night. "They might stop you and ask for papers." And continued to sponge her brother with a wet towel.
She stared at them anxiously, hoping she could provide a solution. Her mother had told her, to not talk too much about her father, because he was an illegal immigrant. She wondered if they would allow her to take her little brother to the doctor. She was not sure if she was also illegal but didn't dare to ask her mother that, and add to her distress. She stared at the line of ants, on the wall, and whispered, "How do you find out if you are illegal?"
Her captor sneered,"Aaah a fighter, lets find out how much pain you can withstand..."
Later, he casually asked, "So how, is the pain?"
She managed to gasp, "Not greater than the pain, of not having a motherland"
"Oh, you will have one, if you stopped resisting and started accepting" he said, as he searched his tool box.
"Accept!! Accept that your people can do anything to us, because you have firepower? Accept you are mighty and you can strip us of our Identity?" she snarled, before blacking out with pain, from his latest tool.
the soldier's soul wondered,
as towards the sky, it soared.
Did everything happen, to me, in this birth,
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We really opened our eyes big, Bayu Timor was actually a Nyonya Restaurant cum antique shop. We had a warm welcome and the lady boss, Dee Tan wanted to us sit down while she tell us how she fell in love and had the passion of the antiques.
Some of the antiques on ground floor.
Dee Tan with some of the antiques on the first floor.
After touring the ground and first floor admiring the antiques, we were seated at a round table laid with beautiful batik table cloth.
We were served the popular dishes of Bayu Timor, Siam Laksa, rozak, ice kacang and nyonya kuih.
Lemak Siam Laksa. Real lemak, the sourness and taste just nice, yum.....
Rozak or Chinese salad, see the amount of ground groundnuts, the sauce and the prawn crackers. The crackers were real prawn crackers not like those sold in other places. Good!!
Nyonya kuih, nine layers kuih, kuih talam and tapioca kuih. I like tapioca kuih the most. The texture was so smooth without any mixture of flour in it, pure tapioca, finger liking good.
Ice-kacang, full of ingredients; chengdul, maize, red beans and the sauce, real good.
Three of us really had a very interesting afternoon, learnt the story of Dee Tan and stomachs packed full with her nyonya food.
Bayu Timor Galery Sdn Bhd is located in 13, Jalan SS24/8, Taman Megah
The restaurant open for business daily from 10 am to 6pm only.


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Until 2013, I had no idea how magical walking can be. It all started when my company went through large-scale layoff and I was back in the market searching for work. Knowing that a lot of us were in the same boat, searching for work helped tremendously in coping with the job search blues. As they say, misery does love company. But I have realized that no matter how big or small a struggle is, at the end of the day, we as a person have to deal it and face it all by ourselves. Loved ones and well-wishers try to help, but at the front-end, it's all us, only us. And it was the same here. There was a lot of help from all fronts, but I was the connecting point of every single interaction that was required. Job search can be exhausting in more ways than one can ever imagine. All of a sudden you become the busiest jobless person. Unfruitful job search attempts, rejections after tedious long interviews, inquiries and status reports from not-so-well-wishers often were of no help. The mood changes like a sine-curve every single minute of the day.
One chilly afternoon that winter, I realized I needed to get away from it all, just for a few minutes. I bundled up with layers and multiple pairs of gloves and winter hats and got out for a stroll. I walked around for over two miles and came back feeling a whole lot better than when I left. I kind of liked that walk a lot as to how it made me feel afterwards. I went back for a walk the next available free day when I had an afternoon off. I came back more cheerful than I had been that entire week. Couple of more afternoon walks and I started to notice a pattern. Every time I returned from a walk, I was feeling better than when I started the walk. The cheerful mood only lasted so long, but it felt great. However temporary that positive mood lasted, I wanted to feel that more often, on more days. I made it a point to find some time on daily basis from the job search tasks and networking events to go for afternoon walks at least 4-5 times a week. And for whatever reason (which I found out later on), afternoons were more exciting times for walks than mornings or late nights. I didn't enjoy the morning / late night walks as much. I realized that only after a few weeks when I started to notice a pattern. I kept on looking forward to the afternoon walks just for the sunset colors I got to see. And if it were cloudy, the sunsets were even more gorgeous! I felt like a kid with icing filled cake in front. To keep myself motivated, I started documenting the walks by taking random photos of daily sunset colors. My walking route wasn't that picturesque or anything with so many electrical towers on the way, but then I improvised. I started to shoot silhouettes of those towers at sunset and every day that's' what got me excited to go for a walk again. I can't remember exactly when but just during that winter, I fell in love with walking and sunset colors. Things have changed a lot in last three years but the love for walks and sunset colors still remains. I haven't gotten so bored of either one of those yet. These days, I don't get to go for daily walks or as often as I'd like but it's the best outdoor activity I have found in recent times and I absolutely look forward to my late afternoon/evening walks even today.
Thinking back to 2013 experiences, I think anything that happens is for the best and sometimes seemingly difficult experiences are in fact blessings in disguise. I feel thankful for those experiences.
Some photos from my afternoon walks from Winter of 2013-2014: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kanan/albums/72157643386874535/with/13616887793/
More photos from recent lunchtime and afternoon / evening walks at https://twitter.com/kananjani/media


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Today is National Punctuation Day; act accordingly!
I found the list of suggestions for How to Celebrate National Punctuation Day to be extremely helpful, and the sight of Punctuation Man breaking with the AP to endorse the serial comma to be oddly inspiring.
Shunned by the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook, the serial comma is still widely accepted by educators, grammarians, and literary circles, including Strunk and White's The Elements of Style and the Chicago Manual of Style.
I will not, however, be cooking the official meal loaf of Punctuation Day, despite how, uh, tasty it looks . . . Question mark, indeed!


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Just what the B&B needed, another Gay member.
- Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 1:45:00 PM EST
My sister just got a blue eyed husky!
- Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 6:45:00 PM EST
Oh, please let the huskie become a permanent resident! I've wanted the guys to get a dog or a cat for the longest time!
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hey my bunnies are sweet on eachother too! (two guys)
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I'm so glad the boys are gonna get a dog. Hopefully it stays.
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Hi sorry to be a fun sucker, but such a fine cartoon deserves good grammar: the correct spelling is Dalmatian, not Dalmation.
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Took a walk with Polly over in the direction of Mr. Alloway's their tenant's house — Mr. Dean is not able, at his age to labor much, he has his farm rented to Mr. Alloway who works it on the shares —
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Tuesday. May. 30. 1865
Mr. Limley Wilcox was in this morning and told us that the late rains had thrown down some of the trestles between here & Marietta so that trains cannot get through & passengers have to walk round — advised us to wait a few days before attempting to go home — Mrs. Lewis was here to spend the day. she is a very pleasant lady — Her husband a Methodist minister formerly on this Circuit, is now a chaplain in the army, and is expecting soon to return to his family as his regiment is about to be mustered out of service — Miss Maria Brawley, a friend of Annie's, was here to tea.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Monday May. 29". 1865.
Walked out with Mr. & Mrs. Dean & Annie to see their farm. They have got a hedge of young willows set out, which will be very pretty if it proves to be a success.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Sabbath. May 28" 1865
As there is no preaching today at the village, Mrs. Dawes and I staid at home with sister Polly — Annie however went to teach her sabbath school class & Mr Dean to prayer meeting
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Saturday May 27" 1865
This is Ephraim's twenty-fifth birthday may he enjoy many happy returns of the day — We climbed the hill back of Mr Dean's house and had a fine view of a part of the old Farm and the surrounding country. Mrs. Emily Wyatt wife of John Wyatt Esq. having died suddenly was buried today — Mr. Dean & Annie attended the funeral — We took a walk to the graveyard on the old Farm — Dr. L. Fulton has erected a very neat marble monument to the memory of his late wife Louisa Cutler Fulton — In this old grave yard the Ames's, Walker's, Rice's and other of families of the old settlers have found their final resting place — And here lies my father's brother Charles a man of superior abilities and fine culture who was smitten down by consumption in the prime of life —
|Ephraim Cutler Dawes
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Friday May 26" 1865
Rained again today. But this only insured us a quiet day to talk, and visit with Polly so we enjoyed it very much.
Monday, May 25, 2015
Thursday May 25. 1865
According to previous arrangement Mrs. Dawes and I went to Amestown to-day. We came by railroad to New England Station, brother William was with us going farther west, and Col. R. R. Dawes came with us to make arrangements for sheep-washing & shearing of the flock upon the Old Farm in which he has an interest. We saw a number of derricks, tanks, and other indications of activity in the oil business, along the line of railroad and also on the road to Amesville. They are now boring for oil near father's old saw mill, but I believe they have found none. There has been a great deal of oil obtained a few miles from here on Sharps Fork on the "Joy farm" and in some other localities —
Mr. Dean came in his large wagon for us to the Station & not only took Mrs. Dawes, the Col. & myself, but also a machine for rolling up wool, in his roomy vehicle. The rain began to fall when we were about half way from the Station to Mr. Dean's house and by the time we reached the latter place we were very wet not withstanding our umbrellas — Sister Dean & Annie gave us a cordial welcome, and a nice warm dinner — Finding that Mr. Wilcox had washed the sheep, after making arrangements about Sheep Shearing, Col. Dawes concluded as the rain had slacked and his business was accomplished he would return to the Station and take the evening train home — which he accordingly did —
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Wednesday. May. 24. 1865
We had company here to tea this after noon viz Mrs. Burgess, Mrs. W. D. Bailey, Mrs. W. D. McClure and Mrs. S. C. Dawes.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Tuesday May 23. 1865
Lucy Dawes and Martha Colville came on the 11'o'clock train — Martha is making my black gingham dress —
Friday, May 22, 2015
Monday, May. 22. 1865.
We have enjoyed Mr. Wickes' visit very much — he left for home this morning — William has gone again to Chillicothe — — Nancy went home in the P. M.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Sabbath May 21 1865
Rev. Thomas Wickes the Congregational minister of Marietta preached for us from the text "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth" — an excellent discourse — Mr. Hitchcock, the music teacher, conducted the singing — full choir —
Mrs. Wickes came home with us. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bailey came in to talk with him about Christ's second coming — a very interesting conversation.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Saturday May 20. 1865
William who has been away all the week on RailRoad business at Chillicothe and Ironton came home last night. Still rainy — Ephraim was here to dinner also James Walton who got $15 of the money his mother sent —
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Friday May 19" 1865
Mrs. Dawes went home. Mrs. Cutler and Sarah spent the day at Mr. Burgesses. Nancy cleaned the old kitchen to-day, having cleaned the sitting room yesterday — I got dinner. Mrs. Rosa Roberts and Mrs. Mary (Devore) Carpenter came and staid to dinner. Heavy rain — I wrote to Annie Dean telling her that Mrs. Dawes and I would go to Amesville next Thursday.
Monday, May 18, 2015
Thursday May 18". 1865
Showery — A train of cars passed up with returned soldiers said to be from the horrible prison-pen at Andersonville. Who can say what the poor fellows have suffered there! One shrinks from the recital of the cruelties which they have endured. Mrs. Dawes came with Mrs. Cutler from Marietta and we wrote a letter of eight pages on Genealogical subjects to Rev. Abner Morse of Boston. He is just now occupied in making out the "Cutler Genealogy". We sent him a draft for $50 to aid him in getting out his work.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Wednesday May 17" 1865
Planted pansies in my garden — Mrs. Cutler, Lucy Dawes & Sarah Cutler went to Marietta. Emeline McClure came to see me and I went with her to call at W. D. Baileys — The boys finished planting corn.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Tuesday, May 16" 1865
Lucy spends the day here. The trial of the conspirators who assassinated President Lincoln, by a Military commission, is now going on at Washington. Reverdy Johnson acts as counsel for the criminals also, a son of Tom. Ewing is engaged to defend one of them —
Friday, May 15, 2015
Monday May 15" 1865
Lucy came on 11 o'clock train — Jeff. Davis has been caught in Georgia endeavoring to make his escape to the Sea coast. He was disguised in petticoats.
Here is an account in Harper's Weekly about the capture of Jefferson Davis.
Here is an account in Harper's Weekly about the capture of Jefferson Davis.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Saturday May 13. 1865
William, Lizzie & Sarah went to town and James P. Walton came home with them. Ephe has returned to Marietta from New York and Washington. A. S. Bailey was here to tea. Mr & Mrs Cutler & Sarah went riding in the evening.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Friday May 12 1865
There was frost last night — Mrs Dawes & Katy went home. I sent a boquet to Mrs Hayden Smith — tulips &c. Mr. B. C. Bailey came to tell us that Miss Julia Stone is dead and will be buried at 11 oclock — Mrs Cutler, Maggie, and Sarah attended the funeral going down on the train. I made a boquet of white tulips & spirea, which Mrs Cutler took & which was laid upon her coffin. William came home this evening.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Thursday May 11" 1865
A rainy day. Busy with Mrs. Dawes writing to Rev. Abner Morse on genealogical subjects. Katy Andrews is having a fine play with Sarah —
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Wednesday May 10" 1865
Set out dahlias — Mrs. S. C. Dawes and Katie Andrews and Mrs. Hattie Perry came on the train & were here to dinner — Mrs Perry returning to town by the afternoon train — A rainy evening.
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Tuesday May 9 1865
Mrs. Cutler & Sarah went to Mr. Burgess's to dinner, to eat veal-pie and did not come home until after supper — We have had so much rain lately that there has been little opportunity for gardening but it is pleasant to-day & I spent the after noon in the garden which now contains about two acres all of which is under the care & management of John Kunz our German gardener, except the flowers, which department belongs exclusively to me. We have a good deal of choice fruit —
Friday, May 8, 2015
Monday May 8" 1865
William went to Cincinnati to day on Railroad business. Bettie Gates went home. I gave her a fine boquet of tulips & spirea.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Sabbath May 7" 1865
A Methodist Minister named Munroe from Parkersburg preached for Mr. Curtis. He seems a loyal earnest man.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Saturday May 6" 1865
A Thunder Storm with heavy rain last night which occasioned a slide of the Railroad track near Repperts, this prevented the Cincinnati train from getting down till 8 o'clock this morning — Col. Dawes here & Bettie Gates with him. He took her & Sarah into the carriage to go over the hill to see the sheep & lambs, but a shower prevented them from going farther than the mill. William went to Big Run with Waters and Norris to look over the coal property they own there.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Friday May 5" 1865
Rainy — William went to town. Martha Colville went in the afternoon to Marietta. She is going to sew for Mrs. S. C. Dawes & will be there two weeks.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Thursday May 4" 1865
Busy in the garden. Nancy has cleaned her own room & the upper entry to-day. Investigations by the War Department prove that Jeff. Davis knew and approved the assassination of President Lincoln as did Saunders, Clay &c in Canada — President Johnson has issued a proclamation offering $100,000 for the capture of Davis and $25,000 apiece for four others. William came home — a thunder shower this evening.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Wednesday May 3d 1865
A pleasant day. Mrs. Cutler went to town and got from Cadwallader's the pictures for Annie E. Cutler's Memorial. She brought me a pretty black, striped with white gingham dress & a net. My little scholar's Sarah Cutler & Lucy Bailey began Botany today. Sarah Emerson called to see the tulips her brother Capt. Geo. D. Emerson is with her. — — Mrs. Terril is here washing bedding —
There is quite a stir in the neighborhood about a piece of villainy perpetrated lately upon Joline Hopkins. His credulity was imposed upon by a well-dressed man and woman who pretended to be able to point the place where treasure had been concealed by the Indians — They wrought upon the superstition of the family until they fleeced them of about $3500 mostly borrowed for the occasion from Bill Scott — This money was put into a chest which was locked and the key given to Hopkins who was forbbidden to open it for a certain number of days on pain of breaking the spell which was to double their money &c. These impostors made off with themselves two or three days before the time appointed for opening the chest. On examination the greenbacks were missing and their place filled with old spelling book leaves & blank paper. Mr Hopkins now saw they had been swindled and started in pursuit, being obliged to borrow money for the purpose — Bill Scott went over at once & took a mortgage on Hopkin's farm to indemnify himself — unless the Swindlers are caught and made to disgorge the loss to Mr. Hopkins will prove a serious one, and may result in obliging him to sell his farm.
Maggie Voris here to tea.
|This is the photograph used in Annie's Memorial.
Little Sarah Cutler with her sister, Annie Cutler.
Annie died January 11, 1864
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Tuesday May 2. 1865
Very cold last night, but a dense fog saved our fruit from injury — William went to Chillicothe — Major Dawes went on the morning train. He is going East to Washington and New York — His health has suffered from too close confinement to business. I hope the trip may do him good.
James Walton came down for his Spring coat which Martha has made for him —
Mrs. Cutler & Sarah went to see Maggie this afternoon and then in the carriage to singing school. Mr Hitchcock the teacher has just heard of the death, from wounds recieved in battle, of his brother Myron Hitchcock — therefore no singing school.
Friday, May 1, 2015
May 1st 1865 - Monday
A very early spring. The fruit trees are done blossoming and are out in full leaf. We have been using lettuce from our garden for some time — The potatoes, onions, beets, and peas are growing nicely. I have more than a thousand tulips in blossom now. The Reeves Spirea is also out in bloom and is very beautiful. Mrs. Cutler and Sarah at Mr. Burgess's — Maggie Voris got home from Cincinnati to day — Major Dawes here to spend the night.
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Well we just got back from our summer vacation to the Seattle area to visit family. We had a great time hanging out with everyone and doing some fun activities.
We did some horseback riding.
We spent one day at the lake playing in the sand and water. This little guy loved it.
Went downtown and visited the Seattle Aquarium.
We also spent a day at Wild Waves Theme Park and got in some fun rides and water slides. On our way home we drove down part of the Oregon Coast and was finally able to see the ocean after the morning fog lifted. It was beautiful.
We also spent most of one driving through the Redwoods. We had a great trip. Wish we would have had more time to see the Redwoods. We just got a glimpse.
Now we're back to the grind. Happy Summer!!
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Bông Cải Xanh Trứng Cháy
Vietnamese Broccoli Frittata
1/2 cup chopped broccoli
4 eggs
1 green onion, thinly sliced
1/2 clove garlic, minced
1/2 T vegetable oil
salt, sugar, pepper to taste
Heat oil in a medium pan until bubbling hot but not smoky, add garlic, stir until fragrant, add broccoli and green onion, stir fry for 3 minutes or until nicely cooked. Add salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle sugar to the pan and let it melt so it will form a crunchy crust later. Beat eggs evenly in a bowl with some salt and pepper, pour into the broccoli and cook on each side until golden brown. Serve with steamed rice.


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Sunday, February 27, 2011
I'm Beat! But in a good way
Goodness! Mark and I just got home from shooting our first DVD for Dragon Door, titled "Learn to Swing". It was a fabulous experience and working together was only made more fun because I got to pick our co-star, my best friend, Fawn! Fawn flew out from icy cold St. Paul to rainy So. Cal to help demonstrate the two workouts I designed and lead for the end of the DVD.
Nicole DuCane did an awesome job as our make up artist, Fawn and I never looked so good. After over 9 hours of taping and training that ended with a photo shoot, my make up hadn't moved the entire day! So multi-talented, but I'm sure Nicole's not going to give up her day job as VP of Marketing for DD, but maybe next time I see her she'll show me how to do a "smoky eye"!
I can't wait to see the finished product which may be completed fairly quickly as the shooting went along smoothly. I'll post more photos and details in the next following days and weeks. But for now, I'm taking a nap....
8 comments:
- Haley said...
That's awesome, Tracy!!
- February 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM
- Nicole said...
Oooh I can't wait! Sounds fantastic!!
- February 28, 2011 at 3:12 AM
- Juci said...
You guys look gorgeous!
The shooting must have been fun. Can't wait to see the DVD.
- February 28, 2011 at 4:09 AM
- Tracy Reifkind said...
Thanks Haley!
- February 28, 2011 at 4:56 AM
- Tracy Reifkind said...
Nicole, seems like a dream this mroning! Mark and I waited so long to get this project done, and it was all we could ask for and more.
thanks for your comment
- February 28, 2011 at 4:58 AM
- Tracy Reifkind said...
Juci, Fawn looked amazing...I'll drag her to Hungary one of these years.
I can't wait to see the DVD either!
- February 28, 2011 at 5:00 AM
- Jen said...
So fun to have a dvd with you, Mark and Fawn! It's gonna be a treasure!
- March 1, 2011 at 12:44 PM
- fawn said...
Really enjoyed our time together this last weekend Tracy. Wish it could happen more often. I miss you already!
- March 1, 2011 at 6:16 PM
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LIVING China
The end of the year is approaching, which also means it's the holiday season now. holidays to say bye to the old year and wave to a new start.
the school start to get Christmasy with all the different decorations. At the mean time, the preparation for Chinese new year performance are undergoing. It seems like that when you talk about Chinese style, there are some stereotype impressions that you can't avoid. Bright red and golden colors, embroider, Chinese traditional dress, Chinese dragons, etc.
Are those Chinese? Yes, those are the most iconic symbols of China. However, are those enough? I don't think so, they solely can not just stand for the LIVING China!
Coincidently, I saw some well-known brands designed some limit edition items just for Chinese new year. I have to say, they used almost all the recognized Chinese factors in their products, but according to the feedback from the most Chinese people, it's not what we are expecting!
I also remembered that in a lot of non-immersion Chinese classroom, the teachers put in a lot of efforts to make Chinese class fun by introducing Chinese culture. So they teach a lot about making Chinese crosses, cutting Chinese paper cutting. But to be fair, how many of you still see a whole lot of people doing this in China themselves?
As Chinese teachers, our mind is so locked by the so called"Chinese image" that we forget to show people the REAL LIVING China, where is also high speed, international look and exploring something new while inheriting the tradition.
Also keep in mind, you're the living China!
The post-methods era
Recently while checking the students' Chinese homework, I find that although being in fully immersion program from quite a young age, they are still suffering from the negative transfer from English grammar to Chinese sentence structure.
For example, the Time and Place are usually placed in the end of a sentence as adverbial modifier in English. While in Chinese,for the most case, those are placed in the beginning of the sentence. Another example, "都" and "所有" can both be translated in to "all" in English, While in Chinese, the semantic orientation of "都"points to the content in front of it; "所有" is the opposite way. the kids are mixing them up and since they learned "都" much earlier, they tend to use it under most circumstance.
Immersion is aboslutly great way of learning a second language, especially when the learner are in a young age. The effect can be amazing, showed by their natural pronunciation, their accumulation of vocabulary, and the speed they pick up the language.
But is there any perfect way of second language teaching? The answer seems to be no. No matter how immersed they are in the target language, it's still their second language. The negative transfer from the mother tongue seems like unavoidable. Will grammar teaching really be so bad to ruin the immersion method?
Of course, I don't mean going back to the "grammar translation method era", making the second language class really boring and hard. Immersion is definitely a big progress. But it should be more like a "post-methods era", we should use all factors that are beneficial in all different teaching methods.
So, what about some easy grammar in Immersion class? I don't seem to see the harm!
The science Fair
After learning about "scientific methods" for a week, all the fifth grade students had a science fair on Tuesday.
"Scientific method" is the way that helps you to think like logically and meticulously, like a scientist. First, you come up with a question, and then, you make a hypothesis about your question. Of course then, you'll need to think a plan to prove your assumption. After those, you can conduct your experiments. It's necessary to have more than one experiment to get the conclusion. You'd better have only one variate each time so you can know the factor that made the differences. And from the results of the experiments, you may be able to verify your hypothesis and get a final conclusion.
When it comes to science, we usually will think about computer science, energy science,etc. Something modern, something huge. But actually, not only those things are science, it can be just something near around us.
Some of the kids use the above method steps to see where in the school has the most germs,or what pop can do to your teeth, some even tried to figure out whether their doggy is left handed or right handed.
Science can be something make huge differences, but it also can be something small but good. In short, all things that can make you life easier and better, that's SCIENCE! We may not become the kind of scientist that make magnificant differences to all human kind. But thinking like a scientist sure will help to make your own life better in many small aspects.
What if I fail?
Thursday morning, we got a really sad girl in our class. Cause she didn't pass her reading level test. She didn't even attend the math class cause she was sobbing so hard.
She told me that she had been in Green reading level for almost a year, she put a lot of efforts in but just can not move on to the White level.
I then told her what happened the first time I took my drivers' license test. I feel pretty ready before I had my test, cause just as the way she thought, I assumed that I had put enough time and efforts in practicing driving. But guess what? I actually didn't pass. My movement is not fast enough so I may block the normal traffic.
I told her that the examiners are more experienced than me in driving. If they think that I'm not ready, then maybe I do need to practice more. This is a way to protect me and also others to be safe. The same for you, if you just move to the next level in spite that the professional persons saying you're not ready, you may will struggle with the vocabulary and you'll not feel the joy of reading.
Sometimes, we didn't actually put enough work in to get what we want. What's even more cruel is that sometimes, you may still fail even if you really worked hard. The world maybe is actually protecting us in this special way. The aim of education, the meaning of growing up is not only about achieving more. And how to face F properly is a part of it to!
Who's a risk-taker?
Maybe I should talk about politics here, but as a racial minority, a Chinese, a non-citizen here, I did hear a lot negative things happening to my compatriots after the election.
I have a friend whose teenage daughter is in Woodbury High School, where there are a lot of international students. This use to be the peculiarity that makes the school so different among high schools. But he told me that right after the election day, some of the students just told their "pre-schoolmates" that "I think you may will be deported!" Isn't this hurting?
While in the same week, When we are teaching our IB schools' attributes in our class, something warm just happened, easing the underlying anxiety in my heart.
The attribute of the week is Risk-takers. Our goal is to let the students know that being Risk-takers opens more possibilities in your life. When we are trying to ask them to give some examples about being risk takers, one of the students said," I think all our teachers are risk takers. They leave their own home country and come overseas, facing all the uncertainty, just to become our teachers and provide us a better opportunity to learn another language."
I was really touched by this answer, knowing that you as a foreigner or non-American, your work is recognized and they appreciate your courage instead of thinking you may need to be deported. BIG Thanks to those people for being so open-minded!
The "p" word
Is this a little bit awkward? Haha, yep, the students in my class are learning about PUBERTY! This a a period of time that everyone will face on their way growing up. But it seems like that the majority of people are not ready when they are on the edge of going over there. That might be why a boy asked teachers to use the"P" word instead of " puberty"~ LOL
This week, they learned about the changes that will happen to them during adolescence. They're also told what actions to take when it happens.
After the video teaching, they asked a lot of questions. I can tell that they are curious, but they are also shy. They're looking forward while they are somehow scared.
Since it is awkward, can we skip teaching this? The answer is absolutely NO! Getting to know those things can reduce their panic when the really face it. And it's also better for their communication and understanding between each other.
In China, the proper school education about puberty is still kind of lack. We really need to make this up, soon!


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Hi Ho Free Rangers
Gott Poultry, Morecambe, Lancashire, summer 2000:
I was told 80, 000 birds go through the factory every day. I saw some of those carcasses hanging up on a wire travelling to their eventual burial place in a plastic tray to be packed and shipped off to supermarkets across the land. I worked in the cooked meats section picking chicken wings. At lunch we were seperated from the staff of the non-cooked meats section by a glass wall in the canteen where the two sides stared at eachother seemingly with a cool hatred of one another. Derrick had showed me around, a man who had been there for 22 years since leaving school. It seemed like a life sentence to me in a place where they'd left their souls at the door. I only lasted a day...
I only lasted a day because I woke up late the next day and the agency I was with didn't send me back. I probably wouldn't have lasted long anyway, the stench was enough to turn your stomach, the cold of the chillers enough to sap your energy. It didn't put me off chicken though, I love chicken, it's probably my favourite type of meat and I love meat.
These days I work in a supermarket reducing meat that's going out of date and checking other meat soon to be going out of date. I see lots of chickens there, dead, wrapped up on the shelf ready to be bought and devoured. I still love chicken. It appears to me that most customers love it too and have always loved it, you don't need to work in a supermarket to know that- it is Britain's number one meat. We've been eating and loving it as a nation for centuries. Demand has increased so much that in order to meet supply we keep thousands of chickens couped up where they piss on eachother and have no life at all! The thing is, I've known about this for as long as I can remember as have most of the customers that have been buying chicken for as long as they can remember. Anybody who didn't know is either kidding themselves or burying their head in the sand like a chicken. I don't particularly care enough about the welfare of the birds to stop buying this type of "standard" chicken.
Enter Sir Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Up to this point-when four programmes went out on Channel 4 early January 2008, all of which I watched by the way- it seems the nation had no idea you could buy free range chicken(it's been available for years you know). It's undeniable that free range chickens live a better life. They run around in open fields and have a longer healthier existence- until we kill them to feed ourselves. I'm not advocating uneccessary cruelty to animals, I just don't feel strongly enough about it to get worked up. You see, at the end of the day the free rangers go to the same abattoir as the "standard", pissed all over themself chickens that taste so bad. Before free range chickens became so fashionable did anybody in your family tell you while they were eating that their food tasted foul. Of course not!
I believe the issue is a taste thing. It's got nothing to do with cruelty to the animals. I hold my hands up and say, unashamedly that I love to eat "standard" chicken knowing full well how they were treated in their lives. If I want to have my chicken and eat it then demand must meet supply, simple. I don't believe free range chicken is so much more amazing in taste that I'd pay the extra few quid a week to pay for the difference. For all these points I'd have become a vegetarian by now otherwise. I'd have stopped eating chicken and all other meat after my day in the chicken factory if I was really bothered. It comes down to some middle class idiots who have been sucked in by Oliver and Fearnley-Whittingstall. Going free range is not going to change the world, it's not a matter of life or death, for us.
It's a middle class fad(though I believe it's going to stick around for quite some time) propogated by a taste issue, not the treatment of the birds. It could be a clever marketing ploy by Oliver for Sainsbury's to make more money or maybe a financial boost for Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage business. That may be a cynical view but that's exactly what's happened in my supermarket, the middle classes have gone nuts for free range chicken. Unfortunately, for them, supply doesn't meet the demand. They don't seem to understand how this is possible! Surely the whole country has now gone free range and "standard" chickens can't be selling at all! Well, I have news for you all, "standard" chickens are selling just the same as ever. I neither reduce or throw them out any more or less than before the Oliver/Fearnley-Whittingstall campaign, contrary to the belief among the free range lobby.
Why am I writing this blog? Because I'm fed up of every day being shouted at, complained to about and having to explain about the supermarket buying policy for a minority of customers. It really is a mostly middle class minority that are up in arms while other middle class and working class customers alike continue to buy apparently SUB "standard" chickens and WE are obviously wrong. I don't like to attack any class system but even if I did care about the treatment of the chickens before they are put on my plate, I or my family couldn't afford to buy free range chicken. Meanwhile I have to listen to this handful of customers complaining they can't get their free range chickens and have never seen them in stock since those Oliver/Fearnley-Whittingstall programmes aired. They have been in stock every day but have been bought too quickly by others also caught up in this taste craze. You can't produce thousands of free range chickens overnight,and this is the point;it would only be thousands more- for the whole country- of Hi Ho Free Rangers wanting this to my mind. The other millions of us, working class and middle class, will go on eating our "standard" chickens without losing much sleep. I'd much rather worry about my family, friends and what's happening to other human beings in the world than the well being of our food.
Hi Ho Free Rangers, if you want to put your money where your mouth is- go totally free range. Put back your cheap sausages, stop buying cheap lamb chops and bacon rashers and give other animals the same thought you are giving to those poor chickens. Better still, become vegetarians and fuck off out of the meat aisle and leave me alone!
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I'm grateful to the SECOND AMENDMENT TELEVISION web site for letting me know about this video.
The M-14 was MY rifle throughout my first two years serving in the United States Army!!!
It was issued to me at Fort Lewis, Washington when I began my Basic Combat Training at Company "D", 3d Battalion, 1st Brigade, where I qualified as a "Marksman", and again when I was taking my Advanced Individual Training in Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Repair (MOS 31 L 20) at the Southeastern Signal School at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
In Kaiserslautern, Germany, where I was assigned to Company "A", 11th Air Defense Signal Battalion, 32d Army Air Defense Command, I improved my aim with the M-14 and qualified as "Sharpshooter".
When I arrived at the Phu Lam Signal Battalion in Saigon, Republic of Viet Nam, the Army's weird bureaucracy dictated that, as a newly assigned soldier, I would be issued my M-14 rifle, and then IMMEDIATELY turn it right back in, so I could be issued my M-16 rifle.
That had to be one of the most amusing and unexplainable moments of my military experience.


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A Sophisticated Flying Machine: A series of incremental technological changes has brought this configuration into existence.
This post by GilDodgen on Uncommon Descent gives an indication of the central place that Irreducible Complexity (IC) has in the ID theoretical canon; everything in ID theory seems to be either an aspect of this principle or a detail. This is what GilDodgen says:
The more we learn the more it appears that almost everything of any significance in living systems is irreducibly complex. Multiple systems must almost always be simultaneously modified to proceed to the next island of function. Every software engineer knows this, and living things are fundamentally based on software.
Evolution in the fossil record is consistently characterized by major discontinuities — as my thesis about IC being a virtually universal rule at all levels, from the cell to human cognition and language, would suggest — and the discontinuity between humans and all other living things is the most profound of all. Morphological similarities are utterly swamped by the profound differences exhibited by human language, math, art, engineering, ethics, and much more.
GilDodgen then goes on to suggest that the vast differences between human beings and other primates are evidence of the discontinuity imposed by IC.
In biological terms the crucial concept is structural stability; that is the ability to self perpetuate. But this is only possible if the components of a biological structure serve to promote self perpetuation and they can only do this if they work; that is if they function correctly.
Crucially for ID, GilDodgen assumes that functionality only comes in absolutely isolated islands; that is any change of a structure that goes beyond a certain small threshold entails a loss of functionality and thus a non-viable unstable structure. Thus if IC is true then there are no incremental entry points in or out of a stable structure. Thus IC structures (by definition) have no stable precursor structures incrementally separated from them. Ergo, evolution cannot happen.
The inverse of the notion of IC is Reducible Complexity (RC); RC requires that the domains of functionality/stability are so connected that there exist ways of incrementally modifying a structure and yet a stable structure being the result. The RC conjecture is that there is class of functional/stable structures that form a fully connected set and that a broad range of structural complexity is found in this set; if such exists then a barrier to evolution is lifted.
Of great significance to ID theory is this quote from GilDodgen: "Multiple systems must almost always be simultaneously modified to proceed to the next island of function". That simultaneous modification is the only way to reach the next island of stability is, in the mind of the ID theorist, sufficient evidence of the complete isolation of islands of stability in a huge sea of non-viability; for to jump the gap between islands of functionality using random changes would require the simultaneous adjustment of several features in just the right way. The probability of these changes coming together is utterly negligible and thus a barrier of improbability isolates the islands of stability. The only thing that we know capable of jumping the space between the islands is intelligence.
Currently I have several issues with the concept of IC. The following points are really areas of research rather than killer arguments against IC.
1) If the only way to reach a near neighbor stable structure is by a very rare simultaneous change of features, then the IC case holds. However, if a route exists to a stable neighborhood structures via a "path" consisting of a series of incremental changes to single features ,each of which results in a stable structure, then we have a Reducibly Complex connected set of structures. However, these "single feature change" pathways are likely to be a relatively rare occurrence in the space of all possible changes, thus giving the impression that they don't exist.
2) Human technological advance has only been possible because the limited quantum of human intelligence (call it i) can leap the gap between islands of functionality. But, and here is the important point, i is not large enough to leap the gap between stone age spears and GilDodgen's aircraft in one leap. However, it is clear that the islands of functionality in technological configuration space are close enough so that given the quantum of human intelligence, i, the human mind can leap the gaps in functionality leading up to an sophisticated flying machine. It is conceivable that there are structures out there that can never be reached by the human mind because they are effectively irreducibly complex with respect to the quantum of human intelligence i. Nevertheless, it is clear that given human technology, large parts of technological configuration space are connected enough (i.e they reducible complexity with respect to i) to make technological evolution possible. It seems that IC and RC are not binary opposites but come in degrees. Fortunately for us technological configuration space is reducibly complex with respect to i. But, and this is the 64 billion dolllar question, is biological configuration space sufficiently connected with respect to the blind watch maker?
3) Human Intelligence itself appears to employ a kind of evolution; it makes a series of incremental adjustments to its concepts, concepts that are either selected or rejected; search, reject and select is the general evolutionary algorithm.


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Macarthur and the Illawarra's brightest young rugby union players descended on Camden Rugby Park on Saturday hoping to come away grand final winners.
The venue played host to several grand finals including the under 12s match which featured cross-town rivals the Camden Rams and the Campbelltown Harlequins.
It was the fifth time the two sides played each this year, with Campbelltown winning three of the matches – 39-26 (round two), 19-12 (round seven) and 31-26 (semi-final).
The other match in round 15 ended in a 24-all-draw.
The grand final, like the round 15 clash, was a tight contest that eventually saw Camden prevail over Campbelltown for the first time in 2017, in a 31-29 thriller.
The defeat was also the Harelquins' first of the year.
However, it wasn't all bad news for the Campbelltown club with several other sides emerging victorious.
The under 10s overcame Tech Waratahs 38-0 in the first game of the day at Camden Rugby Park.
The under 11s took to the field immediately after and beat Kiama comprehensively, 65-0.
It was also a dominant display from the Harelquins under 13s side who also beat Kiama 43-20.


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