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Our chat with Nova Scotian trainer, Andy Wallace, on tollers
On the toller's role
"Tolling" means to lure game, and that's exactly what a good tolling dog will do with ducks. It works like this. A hunter hides with his dog in a blind. When a flock of ducks lands far out on the water, he throws a stick or some other type of fetch for the dog to retrieve. Usually after a few throws, the ducks will notice the dog prancing along the shore and begin to swim toward him. It can, however, take many retrieves to get their attention, and that's where the personality of a good tolling dog comes in. Eager to please his master, he'll go as many times as it takes to catch the birds' attention.
On training tollers
They're smart and sensitive. You train them with tone of voice, praise and respect. A heavy hand just doesn't cut it with these dogs. They're born retrievers. Most will retrieve as soon as they can walk. And they'll do anything they can to please a person who praises them. That's why they'll make as many retrieves as are necessary to bring in a flock. They're clever dogs that are easily trained.
On the act of tolling
Three times in my years of hunting, I've seen red foxes catch ducks just by prancing around on the shore until the birds came so close the fox could jump up and seize them. Tolling dogs were developed to imitate this behaviour—with the exception that they don't try to grab the birds.
On loyalty to his dogs
One day, one of my dogs, Blu, and I were duck hunting and Blu fell through the ice when she went to fetch a duck. I couldn't let her drown. She was crying like a baby. I crawled out on my belly over the ice toward her with a tree branch in my hand and finally managed to break enough of the ice so that she could swim to me. I grabbed her and threw her-still with that blasted duck in her mouth-up onto the ice. Then I went through. I was sure relieved to discover I was only up to my armpits. The three-mile walk home nearly froze us, but we made it, Blu and me.
On the future of the toller
There are still some people in Yarmouth County breeding the dogs as Little Rivers. My daughter, Lisa, and her husband are continuing to breed the same strain of dog that I have always bred. My son, Mart, a vet in South Carolina, is also carrying on the Wallace-family tradition. Hopefully, dedicated hunters will keep the breed true to its original purpose.
Want to learn more about tollers? Visit the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club of Canada.


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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
My love
I find myself becoming more and more inspired by how beautiful she is. Her eyes drive me wild and her smile melts me completely. This is a horribly cheesy post I know but I hope that someday she reads this so she knows how much I love her.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Happy birthday 7-11!
Was riding back from school and almost forgot that today was free slushy day. Good stuff, I hope you all had a chance to snag one yourself! Pic below is something I made in class on the back of our syllabus (which has been repeated to me over and over since I've been at this school) anyways enjoy!
Monday, July 8, 2013
Evil Dead
^See that movie if you have not already. Anyways, I'm still alive! Just been away for awhile but now I have blogger for my phone which makes this sooooo much easier so below is some new sketch work to get back into things.
Top left, possible painting idea. Bottom left King Geodra from the old Godzilla movies. Bottom right, a take on Alice in Wonderland, lost in wonderland.
Goodnight and pleasant nightmares!
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I have made a lot of models from spice using SPI2MOD. For the most
accurate model, you should use the VT waveforms and not the 10290. You
will have to give two sets of waveform data. they should be generated
with loads of 50ohm to VCC and 50ohm to gnd (for CMOS). This turns out
to be the same manner used in IBIS (see IBIS cookbook on the IBIS web
page). You should not change the time scale of the input data as long as
you use the same input waveform to excite the signals in the spice deck
(ie. use the same spice deck, just change the load). The only thing you
may want to adjust is the absolute error value in spi2mod (-ae). This
makes SPI2MOD use more points in the resultant file.
For more advice, I recommend you contact the Viewlogic support line or
you can send me more details (like the resultant XTK model).
happy modeling,
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"Judy Curtis is a suburban housewife and mom to five-year-old Casper, with her own dreams of becoming an actress. After passionately auditioning for a role in a local community theater production, she is cast aside by a pretentious theater director. Lucky for Judy, she gets another unbelievable chance to nail her dream role. This film is part of the Glamour Reel Moments series of award-winning films inspired by Glamour readers' real life moments. The series is responsible for launching the directorial debuts of some Hollywood's brightest female stars and the making of these films directly benefits Film Aid international. Directed by Kirsten Smith and starring Anna Faris." -- iTunes Store
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I don't care about politics. At least, I'm not willing to die on the battlefield of what law gets passed or doesn't get passed. The gay marriage thing is tricky. It's definitely not a place I'd want to start a conversation. I'd rather get to know you well, and build mutual trust before we go there. But it feels like a question that we're all being forced to answer.
So, if you must know, I believe that the bible says that homosexuality goes against God's original design for mankind. That it's not what is best for us. At the same rate, I believe having sex with your boyfriend of several years, masturbating, or even thinking sexual thoughts about someone other than your spouse also fits in that category. Homosexuality is not something I find disgusting, or to be the worst possible thing a person could do. Rather, I believe that God created man and woman in his image. That God put certain characteristics of himself in man, and certain characteristics of himself in woman. When the two come together as one—in marriage—a full picture of God is put on display. You can see how that picture would be incomplete if the marriage is between two males, or two females.
That said, I don't oppose gay marriage. I don't think our country should force people to live out biblical principles. Even though I think those biblical principles are what's best for people. Imagine the difference it would make if everyone saved sex for marriage? We wouldn face as many issues with STDs, unwanted pregnancies, strugglin single parenting. Or think of a world without divorce and broken families--something else the bible speaks out against. Still, I don't think it's our country's job to enforce God's rules. If Yahweh truly is a God, then he can take care of that for himself. The only thing that motivates me to try and model my life after the teachings of Christ is the loving relationship I have with him. Even still, if the USA decided to ban using harsh words with your husband or thinking prideful thoughts I'd be in big trouble. To ask someone to follow Christ's teachings apart from relationship with God seems ludicrous to me.
Which brings me to what I do care about. I care about the gospel. The unconditional love that the one in control of this whole universe has for everyone in it. Gay or straight, virgin or prostitute, conservative or liberal, homeless or millionaire, devout Christian or devout atheist. He sees us all the same: broken, imperfect people that he loves with all that he has. I want everyone to accept his gift of the cross to cover for their shortcomings and heal their brokenness so they can begin to live in the richness of personal relationship between Creation and Creator.
No matter who you are, what I want most for you has nothing to do with a law passing, or not passing. It is that you realize how loved you are. That you would understand that you have infinite, internal value. That you would live an amazing life! I believe that someone who knows you better than yourself has dreamt up a plan for you that uniquely reflects who you are and involves love, adventure, and a happy ending. That in the beginning God looked at you and saw that you were good, and that even though mistakes, and messiness get in the way he's willing to work through all of that to be in restored relationship with you.
At this point in my life, this is my view on things. I am no better than anyone else, and no worse than anyone else. This is all something you have to decide about for yourself. Know that I will support you despite any differences we might have. I hope that, no matter what you choose, we can still be friends. Because I believe in tolerance, but I believe that it must go both ways.
Feel free to give me any thoughts, encouragement, or constructive criticism you have for me.
Feel free to give me any thoughts, encouragement, or constructive criticism you have for me.


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When I was about 6 years old my family was on vacation in Santa Cruz, California when I lost one of my first teeth. I was wrapping my lips around a fist full of Sugar Babies when it happened. You would think an experience like that would have made me leery of this sugary taste treat, but not so. I still love 'em.
I don't know why this memory came to mind when I was sewing up this tote, but the chocolaty brown background and lusciousness of this fabric, must have prompted such a response. This Moda fabric designed by Erin Michael has such beautiful, warm Fall colors and the pumpkin orangey color on the bottom is the perfect accompaniment!
This Hang-Up has all the usual bells and whistles. Check out my sidebar to see how my totes are constructed. It measures approximately 14 1/2" x 12". Please feel free to email me at my email address on my sidebar with any questions you may have. This Hang Up sells for $45 -- which includes shipping to the continental U.S. and Canada.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Sold - Sugar Baby
5 comments:
- Raich said...
i loooove this one... i want to make a scrapbook page with it...we'll have to see what kristi pics so i can get one off to her...
- September 17, 2008 at 11:02 PM
- devri said...
lvoe it, I will email your a sample of your tote layouts, they, yes I chose two, turned out cute, a little busy, but cute none the less!!!!!
- September 17, 2008 at 11:33 PM
- Maryam said...
Boom bam baby! That top fabric is so cool. I tell ya, the turquoise color is just my absolute favorite. Awesome job.
- September 18, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- GinGin said...
I love your totes!!!
- September 18, 2008 at 5:06 PM
- Patti said...
Sugar Babies are still one of my favorites too!!
- September 21, 2008 at 6:24 AM
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The U.S. Energy Department has announced it is going ahead with phase two of Central Illinois' FutureGen coal project.
In announcing the agreement with FutureGen Industrial Alliance on Monday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the department is committed to demonstrating carbon capture and storage technologies.
The FutureGen Industrial Alliance is a group of coal and power companies planning to refit a coal-powered power plant in Meredosia with technology that removes carbon dioxide from coal and stores it underground. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas linked to climate change. The project has $1 billion in federal funding.
The alliance and the Energy Department claim the project will help pave the way for other cleaner and more sustainable advanced coal-burning power plants.
Initial plans to build a plant near Mattoon fell through. (AP)


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The winner of the lovely Tea for Two Apron is
Kat said...
Ooh red polka dotty apron. So cute! I love the baking beauty apron in the shop. Pink and cupcakes are two of my fav things!
Lucky Lucky Kat.
(how lucky is that!?! You are IN Australia already)I will go contact Suzy Homaker AU and get your apron on it's way.


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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL - Does it communicate? I took this photograph on April 17, in 2010, a bit over two years ago. The barn is in Peter's Valley near the Delaware River in New Jersey. I was attending an annual photographer's retreat. I posted other photos from Peter's Valley intermittently in 2010 from May through June . One last shot appeared in July,
If other photographers are anything like me, this photo illustrates the uneasy relationship we sometimes have with what we have shot, or am I alone in this? Reviewing shots the day of a shoot or even the day after is almost always a disappointment. I like to get at least a week out before I comb for keepers and for shots I want to add to this blog. That's a good time to start reviewing and marking images I may want to process. While reviewing "the contacts," I resist the urge to stop, but sometimes I'm stopped by an image that calls to be processed now.
However, it was months later when this photo called, "stop!" I thought I was done with Peter's Valley/2010 shots. It was not much to look at unprocessed, a difficult photo situation, and I prepared myself for an HDR, but after much tugging on tonalities and texture, I liked what I had and put it in a folder I keep for images I may use, and there it has sat, and it continues to draw my eye, but it's one of those images about which I wonder, does anyone else see it as I see it? Does it communicate the things I've come to enjoy in it?
What have I learned about processing in 18 months? Perhaps to be more careful about red/cyan fringing, a sometimes unavoidable issue of lenses and light. In any case, the processing I had done was not acceptable to me. As red/cyan fringing must be handled at the point of converting RAW files into a working format, the task of reprocessing sent me deep into my archives and faced me with a mystery.
I can't recall ever trying to duplicate a particular finish before, but I took that as my goal. The processing had not been simple. My collection of tools & techniques has changed in the intervening time. I've managed to achieve the same tonalities and look of the earlier image, the fringing is gone, and the sky behind the trees is superior here. I'm still not sure if the first final image had been warped into its finished design or if it was a melding of two different originals. Enough to say I am unable to recreate its exact contours, and in that respect this image is different.
I have just discovered other photos from the Peter's Valley shoots that I think worth processing, and the anniversary of that shoot seems an apt time, and an opportunity to revisit from farther off.


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Umina tennis courts are comprised of five synthetic grass tennis courts, of which one also functions as a multi-purpose court.
The Peninsula School of Tennis runs tennis coaching, competition and tennis camps at the courts.
Enquiries regarding court hire or for further information please call (02) 4344 4055.
The multi-purpose court features side-swing basketball towers and portable netball rings and is available for casual hire for tennis as well as other various team sports.
The Umina tennis court facility also features a junior play area, grassed play area and sheltered seating available for carers and facility hirers.
The tennis clubhouse has recently been upgraded to include accessible toilet facilities, access ramps and kitchenette.
The clubhouse is now available for hire by the community for children's parties, mothers groups, community meetings and fitness groups.
Enquiries regarding bookings can be directed to the tennis clubhouse on (02) 4344 4055.
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15 Years Ago
1997 – A crew from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency came to St. Elmo for an anhydrous ammonia spill caused when tanks broke loose from a truck pulling them.
Parents of seniors at Ramsey High School were fighting to keep prayer at commencement exercises.
Outgoing Vandalia Mayor Rich Walker and other city officials hosted a reception for the incoming mayor, Sandra Leidner, and other newly elected officials.
Mr. and Mrs. Burt Powell of Brownstown were celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary.
Dedicated to the mothers of covered wagon days, Vandalia's Madonna of the Trail statue was one of 12 monuments erected in the United States to mark major migration paths.
It's the time of year when "Pomp & Circumstance" can be heard wafting from high school gymnasiums across the country.
Proud parents and family members gather to celebrate the milestones being completed by their graduates, and the schools pass out awards to note those graduates' accomplishments.
On many fronts, it's a fun time. Families are gathered. Compliments are shared. Futures are contemplated. And friendships are affirmed.
A kickoff event for this year's Relay for Life will be held from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday at Family Video, located at Seventh and Gallatin streets in Vandalia.
The event will include balloon animals created by Bill Beard, face-painting, pizza from Lorenzo's and Joe's Pizza, Wii-playing, a cheese tray provided by Liberty Cheese Shoppe and prizes from Family Video, Subway, Jenny's BBQ, Cut Loose Salon, Arthur Young Inc. and other merchants.
It was incorrectly stated in last week's Community section that Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hall had recently moved from Greenville to Vandalia. They moved from Greenville to Vandalia.
We apologize for the error.
It was incorrectly stated in last week's Public Record that Satisha L. Santandrea was arrested for failure to appear in court on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. She had failed to appear in a divorce case.
We apologize for the error.
Vehicles of all types were lined up in the parking lot of Country Market in Vandalia on Saturday for the "Cars for the Cure" sponsored by the Octochem Relay for Life team, including Artie and Stacy Langston's Corvette in the foreground.
The Vandalia Elementary School Honor Chorus presented its spring performance on Saturday evening in the VES gym, presenting popular music from the 1960s-90s.
In the first photo, dancing to ABBA's "Dancing Queen" are, from left to right, Macy Zimmerman, Lanee McNary, Jordan Pruett, Avery Rogers and Karlyn Lutz. In the second photo, August Cunningham rocks out on a guitar. In the third photo, Karlyn Lutz made up half of the Sonny and Cher duo. The chorus was under the direction of Lisa Robbins and Nancy Childress.
The following marriage licenses were issued recently by the office of Fayette County Clerk and Recorder Terri D. Braun:
Ryan Dean Gullion
St. Peter
Donna Kay Viens
St. Peter
Brandon Dean Huddlestun
Valecia Dawn Wilson
Aaron Kelly Centeno
St. Elmo
Candis Crystal Shouse
St. Elmo
Caleb Xon Kuebler
St. Elmo
Tiffany Elaine Hutson
St. Elmo
David Timothy Marley Sr.
A rural Brownstown man who had been convicted numerous times of driving while his license was suspended or revoked has been sent to prison on that charge.
Dennis A. Arnold, 66, pleaded guilty on May 7 to driving while his license was revoked through a plea agreement.
That agreement included a two-year prison term for Arnold, and it also included a two-year term for a probation revocation.
He was on probation for driving while his license was revoked.
The two prison terms will be served concurrently.
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Me and Kurt got our bikes back FINALLY from the repair guy! (Apparently some parts were on backorder) We got them Wednesday, picked up the locks and helmets yesterday and I took my bikes to work today. It was pretty timely because my car is in the shop right now getting a little work done. I was late this morning because getting the bike up from the basement and putting the wheel on and packing the backpack for the day took longer than I expected, but it was a lovely ride. It took 25 minutes and I hope to find a way to make that time shorter. It's a 4.5 mile ride. I'm excited to ride my bike a lot and use my car less.
Yesterday I had my first massage. It was "theraputic" for my crappy back situation. The massage hurt like hell, mostly, so it was far from enjoyable. However, between the chiropractic adjustments and the massage I'm starting to feel loads better. I suspect all this trouble started when I started to go to Good Life Fitness. I don't know what I did to injure myself so badly, but I did! The masseuse thinks it is my iliopsoas muscle. Google it. It's an important one and a hard one to fix.
I am currently at Culvers on a work break. I had a free one scoop ice cream sundae from my birthday that I decided to use on this gorgeous, gorgeous day. Time to head back!


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Ah, The Bungalow Mystery. This one was a yawn, but I'm determined to recap all 56 books...I'm sure I'll finds something to laugh about.
Nancy and Helen are boating on Twin Lakes. A storm comes up, but they are far from shore! OH NO! As they race for shore, the boat runs into a log and capsizes. Thrown into the water, they are stunned, especially Helen. Nancy won't leave Helen, despite the latter's insistence, but they're also running out of time. She shouts for help, and lo and behold, a girl in a rowboat appears. Later, she tells Nancy and Helen that she walks the shore in a storm, ever since her parents were killed in a boating accident. Nancy and Helen are saved saved saved! The girl's name is Laura Pendleton. As soon as Nancy is out of the risk of hypothermia, Laura asks Nancy to solve a mystery. Because Nancy is totally famous, ya know.
Laura's parents are dead and her guardians are nothing like she expected! It seems that they are only trying to get her valuable jewelry. Nancy is intrigued, of course. While engaging in activities at the lakeside hotel with Helen and Laura, swimming, and otherwise enjoying her leisurely between-mysteries life, Nancy ponders the mystery and runs around helping Hannah Gruen with her broken ankle. It isn't really until the end that anything really happens.
- Nancy dines at the hotel restaurant one night before she sneaks to Laura's house, where she will look for clues while the guardians are away. Other diners "observe her with interest" because the exciting prospect sleuthing brings an "excited flush to her face", making her even prettier. Even complete strangers notice Nancy's awesomeness! *snorts*
- Carson Drew is working on an embezzlement case and sends Nancy to visit a few people named in the case to see if they could be involved. I'm sure his superiors wouldn't mind at all that he sent his eighteen-year-old daughter to help on the case. But, as so often happens, this ties into the main plot.


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DATE ISSUED: July 20, 2010
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 1, 2010
The last two decades have seen significant progress in terms of employment in the community for people with intellectual disabilities. It has now been clearly demonstrated that individuals who were previously considered unemployable in integrated community settings can work successfully. Even for those individuals with the most significant level of disability, through careful job matching and support design, employment has been shown to be a viable option. In addition to demonstrating the viability of employment, it also has been clearly shown that employers and community members are capable of providing the necessary supports and assistance for an individual to achieve employment success, supplemented if required by paid staff and services. This shift towards a greater emphasis on community employment echoes the general shift towards services designed to integrate individuals into their communities, with the same opportunities and responsibilities as all other citizens.
Policy Statement
This policy, known as the "Employment First" policy, establishes that for working age adults served by the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services, integrated, individual employment is the preferred service option and optimal outcome. In the development of service plans and service delivery, assistance and supports for individual, integrated employment will be prioritized.
It is recognized that full implementation of this policy will be a long-term process, requiring a general raising of expectations over time, by individuals served by the Department of Developmental Services, their families, as well as DDS and service provider staff concerning the ability of individuals to succeed in individual, integrated employment. This will require a consistent message across the DDS system regarding integrated employment as a priority; consistent actions that reinforce this message; and an infrastructure, including prioritizing and directing of resources, that supports this effort. This will also require a fundamental shift in thinking from a mind-set of integrated employment as an option for some individuals, to employment as a goal for all.
Service Priorities and Definitions
In implementing this policy, the optimal goal is "integrated individual employment."
Integrated Individual Employment: For the purposes of this policy "integrated individual employment" is defined according to the following criteria:
The individual is hired and paid directly by the employer (i.e., the person is not paid via a subcontract with the service provider).
- Employment takes place in a work place in the community, where the majority of individuals do not have disabilities, and which provides opportunities to interact with non-disabled individuals to the same extent that individuals employed in comparable positions would interact.
- The position is an individual job (i.e., not a group or enclave setting).
Self-employment: This is also an option included under this policy. Self-employment is defined as earning income directly from one's own business, profession, or trade; and not as an employee of a business owned by someone else.
Employment Based on Individual Preferences and Needs: Placement of individuals served by DDS in employment is driven by a person-centered career planning process which identifies an individual's career preferences and choices, and is based on a comprehensive career exploration and assessment process, emphasizing community-based situational assessment. Individuals should be actively involved in the job search process to the maximum extent possible. Placement should emphasize not only job opportunities that are a good match for an individual's work skills and abilities, but also environments that are a good fit for an individual's personality, social needs, and work culture preferences.
Emphasis on Natural Supports: In the course of obtaining employment in the community, emphasis should be placed on work environments with potential availability of natural employer and co-worker supports. Paid supports from service providers should be viewed as supplemental to the existing supports within the work place, and should be provided only as necessary. This does not preclude situations where individuals, because of the nature of their disability, require a significant level of long-term, ongoing paid supports.
Maximizing Work Hours: In providing employment supports, the optimal employment status should be one in which individuals are working the maximum number of hours they are capable of working, and earning the prevailing wage with any associated benefits.
Use of Community Settings for Non-Work Hours: It is expected that through the implementation of this policy, individuals will be engaged primarily in paid employment. However, it is recognized that for individuals who are working on a part-time basis, employment may not fully occupy their weekday hours. For these individuals, it is expected that the priority for activities during non-working daytime hours should be on supporting individuals in other typical adult activities in the community, including volunteer work, recreation, and daily living activities. As with employment, such activities should take place in integrated community settings, on an individual (non-group) basis as much as possible, with an emphasis on non-paid, natural community supports whenever possible. For individuals employed in the community less than full-time who require structured services and supports when they are not working, participation in group/congregate models of service should focus on community integration and skill development.
Employment has clearly benefited individuals in terms of income and economic independence. In addition, given that employment is one of the primary vehicles for community participation in our society; increased employment has also led to greater opportunities for community integration and inclusion. This has not only benefited individuals in terms of building relationships, friendships, and creating a sense of self-worth; but it has also benefited society in terms of creating greater understanding of the wide range of capabilities of individuals with intellectual disabilities as co-workers, fellow community members, and peers.


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I have decided to start a MUSIC CLASS in our neighborhood. Klancee loves to dance and sing so we might as well have other people come too...right?? Plus I hope it will help with winter.
But my horrible confession is that I don't sing....I can stay on key but that is about it. This is way out of my element but I decided to do it for Klancee...
So I am asking for any ideas on things to do with the kids, their parents have to come with them, I am not quite that ambition. Any advice or help or anything would be great, I have found a few songs with cute actions....but that is about all I have got right now.
Thanks for your HELP!!!!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Quilt and Skirt!!
I am 24 Weeks pregnant now....more than HALF way HOORAY!!! I have been making our baby girl a quilt, and Klancee felt left out. SO....... I patched all the scraps together and made this CUTE skirt. Klancee calls it her BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS!! I love how it turned out, and I LOVE this pattern...I am not much of a seamstress......but this skirt is so so easy and fun!! The pattern is a Portabellopixie it is so so cute!!
Here is a sneak peek at LUCI's quilt...I just need to get it quilted and then bind it!! HooRaY...I may just finish it in time!! I loved this pattern for the main reason that I didn't have to match any corners together...and the other reason ....... I LOVE THE RUFFLES!!! This quilt was also so simple!!
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I was wanting a new desktop for my puter and decided to make my own.:) Then I couldn't decide which one to offer... so I decided to offer them both and let you decide which one you wanted. They are 1280x800 but I am pretty sure it will do just fine if you need to squeeze it to make it smaller.LOL
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Monday, September 1, 2014
Matthew Monday: Fifth Birthday
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Many Happy Returns Matthew. May you be always happy, healthy and loved.ReplyDelete
God bless you and your Mom and Dad.
Happy, happy birthday!!!! I guess a little temperature increase can't stop the bat kid!! He must have had a lot of fun.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 2, 2014 at 8:28 AM
Happy Birthday Matthew!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 2, 2014 at 3:46 PM
Happy Birthday, Matthew! I hope you have many, many birthdays and all of them are happy ones!ReplyDelete
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There really is magic in every child's "Fifth Birthday" and having parents like you and your wife only multiplies "The Joy of that Day" whether or not Matthew had a fever.ReplyDelete
Blessing to you Matthew on this Special Day and God willing, next year will be even better.
God Bless you and yours Manny
Happy Belated birthday to dear Matthew! I hope he is feeling all better, Just in time for school :)ReplyDelete
Thank you Victor and Kelly. :)ReplyDelete


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The Perfect Suitcase. Zipped up and ready to go. Sitting right by the dresser. 3
1 Unless, of course, the road trip was to see a Blink-182 concert. Rock-show etiquette clearly states that you can't wear a concert-Tee of the band that you are going to see. If you do, everyone else there will consider you a total loser. EXCEPTION: Rick Springfield Tees at Rick Springfield concerts. (If this is you, clearly being judged is the least of your concerns.)
2 Oooooh … sounds like a potential name of next year's sub-.500 fantasy football team!
3 The Grant Street Target in Orlando is now $150 richer.
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I love that our team, DiyScene, has a collective shop. I was given an opportunity in which to feature the shop in our team blog and am so glad I did! Special thanks to Lynn, Nicole and Kylie for taking the time to answer my questions. Now I can share my findings with you:
What is the purpose of this shop?
The purpose of this shop is to raise funds and awareness for a charity of our choosing. We want to make the world a better place and do our part as artists for the greater good. Diyscene artists donate their items for sale in our Etsy shop, and 100% of the proceeds are donated directly to the designated charity. The artists donate their time and materials, and the customers experience the rewards of knowing that their purchase was part of a larger philanthropic effort.
How does this shop relate to the DiyScene Etsy Street Team?
Diyscene4Charity is a collective of artists that are members of the DiyScene Etsy Street Team. Donors must be active street team members in order to participate in the charity shop. We maintain a team requirement in order to ensure that service delivery is up to our standards: prompt and satisfactory. The shop and its extracurricular functions are also operated and managed by DiyScene Etsy Street Team members. Diyscene4Charity.etsy.com is currently the only collective team-related shop on Etsy. The shop is connected to all things Diyscene. Each item listing also links to the individual team member's shop that donated the item.
How do you decide which charity to benefit and how often?
The administrative team for DiyScene4Charity first reviews and discusses various charities. We then allow the rest of the team vote on their preferred charity. Each charity remains a beneficiary for approximately 3 months before we adopt the next one. If we find a cause with an immediate need, we may select that charity without putting it to a vote.
For example, the devastating earthquake in Haiti occurred right as we were in the process of transitioning between charities. Without haste, we choose to make Doctors Without Borders our next beneficiary because we admire their work and felt that their life-saving work in the Haiti relief effort could benefit from our help.
We only select charities that adhere to Etsy.com's policy on charitable giving.
There is no limit on the type of item that can be donated to the shop. As long as the donor is an active team member in good standing, they are welcome to donate. We do not choose which items are donated. The artists who donate the items choose their donation. Team members fill out a donor application and submit their listing information to our shop admin, who will then list the item in our charity shop.
In order to maintain the collective nature of the shop, each artist can only have a maximum of 3 items simultaneously listed in shop. If one of the items sells or expires, the artist has the choice to donate a different item to reach the 3-item maximum.
How long does the item or items stay in the shop?
Items remain in our charity shop until they are sold, expired, or removed by the donor. Etsy listings are active for 4 months until they expire. Artists whose items have expired are welcome to have it relisted. Once an item is sold, the artist also has the choice to relist it or replace it with a different item. An item is also removed if the donor is no longer a team member.
What do you hope for this shop in the future? (More exposure, more items, etc.)
All of the above! We hope our future brings us more sales, which translate to larger donations. Our goal is to increase our exposure, our internet presence via various social media and promotional outlets, our number of donors and items, and our amount raised per charity. We also strive for strong, dedicated team support and integrated efforts from all DiyScene Etsy Street Team members. Any support from our friends and fans is always appreciated as well!


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It is a little bit tricky to use jni to access matrix in java from c/c++ code. Here is my example:
I really hate the blogger. I can past my source code. Anyway, you can send me email about how to do it.
Here the "tags" is a two dimensional array in java. I would like to access its data and save them to a matrix "tagPos" in c/c++;


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Search Support Group
DePelchin's Post-adoption Search Support Group is a small, informal group designed for those involved in various stages of the search and reunion process. We are here to offer support and guidance to those interested in connecting with biological family members. We welcome anyone in the community who has been touched by adoption, as our services are not limited to clients of DePelchin.
Group sessions are held in the Duncan Room (2nd floor) at DePelchin. We ask for a $5.00 donation for each group session.
For more information, call Angela Coronado at 713-802-7721.
Tue, Feb. 5, 2013
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
(GMT-0500) US/Central
DePelchin - Main Campus
4950 Memorial Drive
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Anniston had her first piano recital! She was the first one to play (out of about 25 kids). She got up there and did great!! She said that she was really nervous, but you couldn't tell. There were about 75 people (or more) there.
We went up to Utah for part of spring break and Easter. Tyler, my sister and I did a duathlon along Legacy Parkway. It was super fun! It was a run, bike, run. It was fun to see family that we hadn't seen in a while, and the kids had a great time going on Easter egg hunts!


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Once upon a time, I wanted a cat doll and that cat doll being unavailable in Japan, I decided to make my own. However, the time passed and I still wanted the original cat doll. Then, one day, the cat showed up on amazon and a store from america agreed to send Sasha Kiki to Japan. Yeah!
That's how I got this doll.
It's made by groove, like pullip and it's really amazing. I like the realistic eyes and the aristocratic outfit.
I still want to have the Baron Humbert von Gikkigen from the whisper of heart and the cat returns, I might get another cat some days to make him.
The background pictures in this videos are from my trip to Versailles. I went there on a muddy and cloudy day so they are a bit gray. You can find more info about the trip in the travel section.
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I am happy to say that the disposition of the shipwrecked Spanish sailors has taken up several chapters so far, and this story is just as engaging as the first volume.
Sock of the Day #7 was knit from Noro Silk Garden.
I'm pretty sure that they were my first experience with Noro, and I learned immediately that the lovely color repeats are absolutely not uniform. I cut bits and pieces from three balls to make these socks even marginally matching (and marginal is the best I could manage). That said, they're holding up very well
with only the minor sorts of repairs that you'd expect in socks regularly worn for 5 years. I hadn't quite gotten my heavy-sock pattern down pat when I knitted these: they're a shade too loose. But they're warm and comfy and pretty. A side note: I've machine washed and dried these for years with no shrinkage, no fading, and no pilling. I have no idea if all Silk Garden yarn behaves like this (Kureyon felts easily). I'm not recommending that you all go out and toss your Noro things in the washer- but it has worked for me. So far. (and we'll see in later SOD entries, that early superwashability isn't always a guarantee of permanent superwashability).


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An-Noor Academy is located at 120 Ethel Rd W, Piscataway, NJ. This business specializes in K-12.


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Wednesday 28th July
We had a later start today, as we were late in last night, so it was an easy start to the day. A 3 hour drive to Luxembourg saw us arriving round the mid, so of course meant we had to have our lunch before we headed off for a couple of hours sightseeing in the city. Of course, it was raining nearly all the way there, and was still lightly showering when we headed off on our adventures. Found the city to be amazing, just like all those postcards that you see of tiny cobbled streets with amazing little shops and restaurants everywere. The streets were so clean! The buildings are of course, very old and predominantly sandstone and some of them were undergoing major restoration/renovation. We managed to do a bit of looking around the town at some of the highlights and also got out to the (?) tunnelled in 1700's and then later extended to a total of 23km in length, of course only a small portion opened up for the public. Apparently were used in time of war as there are all these amazing little cave like openings in the sides of the mountains which is were the cannons used to fire from during times of war to protect the city. Very interesting.
We had a quick diversion on hour way home, we visited an American War Cemetery which was 4k's outside of city and it was a touch overwhelming and quite humbling to see row upon row of white marble crosses and stars (star of david) stretching across the best manicured lawns I have ever seen. Stuff like this puts life into perspective!
My comment on Luxembourg, very photogenic and think I could of spent more time there! Particularly the cup of coffee I had, which was more like a soup bowl!


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"The LGBT community in China is growing and changing. Our voices are being heard like never before. We are coming together in so many ways – starting community centers, organizing Pride events and developing our leadership.
However, most people in China still have very little experience with us or understanding of our movement.
We believe that as our fellow citizens learn more about us they will support our cause and treat us with equality and fairness. That is why a group of LGBT advocates has come together to create a campaign to raise awareness and reduce discrimination.
We launched this campaign for Valentine's Day, 2015.
With your help, we will reach millions and change their hearts and minds – building a stronger more equal society."


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Here, we see a design for a festive wallpaper which depicts a festive line of formal, yet, stylized, pattern of pale-green birds who are perched amidst trees and mistletoe. The background is of black, white and yellow vertical stripes.
This proposed design of pencil. and watercolor on paper is Signed in ink C. F. A. V and inscribed with notes about possible production and variation.
Made in England around 1850, this design is the work of an artist known only as "Voysey." it's unknown if the paper was ever manufactured.


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"The finance of the country is ultimately associated with the liberties of the country. It is a powerful leverage by which the English liberty has been gradually acquired. If the House of Commons by any possibility loses the power of control of the grants of public money, depend upon it, your very liberty will be worth very little in comparison."
William Gladstone to the House of Common's,
via Jedibeeftrix
Update, somebody has come back to me on this with the following,
I was fascinated by your Gladstonian "thought of the day". I presume that in the context of the late 18th C, he was referring to the perennial fights between the Commons and Lords over the purse strings, which were ultimately only resolved by the 1906 Liberal electoral landslide and threat to overwhelm the Lords with Liberal peerages.
But there are similar - diametrically opposed quotes:
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
attibuted to Alexis de Tocqueville
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."
attibuted to a Scottish peer, Lord Woodhouselee (Alexander Fraser Tytler)


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At SkateHut we endeavour to offer the best possible value to our customers, so we will try to price match on request.
How to achieve a price match:
Please read the conditions below and call to price match and have the competitor's website address ready so our sales person can compare the match. If successful, the order can then be processed in full over the phone only.
Price Match Conditions:
- The website that the match is to be made against must have the goods in stock. When comparing footwear or clothing, the size must be in stock.
- The goods must be identical in every way.
- The quoted price of the competitor must include shipping and tax charges.
- We are unable to match against websites outside of the UK, sites selling bankrupt stock, or any 3rd party auction site such as Amazon or eBay.
- Skatehut's price match offer is not a binding contract until payment has been completed, and Skatehut reserve the right to refuse price-matching at our discretion.


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Yha Conwy
Yha Conwy Hostel is a 4-star business property offering a storage room, a free private car park and free self parking. Welcoming decoration marks out this hostel. Guests can take advantage of a designated smoking area, a lift and a meeting room on the premises.
It is located 10 minutes' drive from Parc Llandudno, Llandudno Swimming Centre and Llandudno ski slope. Serving a wide range of dishes, The Raj and Alfredo's can be reached within 5 minutes' walk.
This property has 25 guestrooms including Double Room, Private Twin Room, Private Quadruple Room and Private Double Room appointed with a personal computer, heating, a CD player, a dressing area and a private toilet. The rooms also have a carpet floor. Rooms include access to en suite bathrooms.
A buffet breakfast is served in the large dining room. The panoramic restaurant serves light meals. The comfortable lounge bar offers a terrace and billiards. There is a shared kitchen available.
A railway station is easily accessible.
Guests can take advantage of housekeeping, laundry and shopping service.
A communal room offers a TV and free Wi-Fi. Sports facilities include cycling and hiking.


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TERF Wars and Trans-terrorism
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Undermining the Patriarchy Every Chance I Get -- And I Get a Lot of Chances Please find me at my new blog: hecatedemeter.wordpress.com
O! He's so big, Hecate!
Let him have the Neeche....
With cute pink cheeks like those, he should get everything he wants
You're not the boss of Ubermensch.
One nice thing about being older, you don't sweat the small stuff. You realize that giving the kid the neechee doesn't mean he will be ruined for life.
Lovely picture
he's really freaking cute, that's for sure.
neechee is for everyone, that's my vote. or, buy him a toy. it's never failed for me, boys seem to love toys and cars and trucks and are easily distracted by them.


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A reflection on the readings for proper 20C: Luke 16:1-13: St. Edward and Christ, Joliet, IL
There are a few television shows I love to watch. Among them are Gray's Anatomy, The Mentalist and Brothers and Sisters. Each of these had season finales last May that I found particularly dramatic, violent and unsettling. I remember because some of them played in reruns this week as the networks prepare for the season openers. Gray's Anatomy left us in a cliff hanger with one surgeon, a resident, about to operate on her best-friends husband, the chief of staff, who had been shot by the irate husband of a woman who had died in a previous episode.
The story begins as if it were just another ordinary day. The staff arrives for work. Meredith finds out she is pregnant and is excited to tell her husband, mr. Mcdreamy, the chief of staff. But then chaos happens as the shooting spree takes hold. Each scene is filled with some characters falling prey to the shooter while others hide and try to survive.
Although I'm not sure who survives, it seems a number of cast members were "shot" off the series in this episode that left me closing my eyes and turning away. And don't even get me started on CSI. I can't watch that show anymore with the close up visuals of bullets penetrating flesh, or blood clots racing through arteries, and one violent act after another.
Then again, there are days when I can't watch the local news either. Headline after headline of disaster: famine, war, violence, shootings, robberies, disease, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes....the list is endless. I just want to shut the television off and pretend I live in a quiet world where not much happens.
Turning our heads and pretending we don't hear or see is what we sometimes do with our scripture readings. We have readings like this morning, which like every Sunday morning are read well from beginning to end, and yet we sit here in our seats and...what? Do we really listen? Or are these readings just one more way we shut down and close off, unable to be fully present to the confusion that lies within?
Me? If I weren't preaching on these readings, would gladly look the other way. I mean really, what in the world is Jesus suggesting? That we support people who embezzle other people? That we feel proud of and honor thieves and deceit? Does this sound like the Jesus we know and love?
In our reading from Luke we have a shrewd and dishonest manager who is called to account for his work by the owner, who had become aware of the deceitful activity of the manager. In response the manager goes to each of the employees and settles their debts in a way that gives the owner something, saves face for the manager, and helps out the employees at the same time. It's not exactly honest, but it's shrewd and it works.
Now imagine you have just experienced some horrible tragedy – like the flooding in Pakistan or the earthquake in Haiti, you and your children are suffering profoundly. In fact if you don't get some clean water and food you all will die. Soon.
Do you care, in that moment of desperation, who gives you the food? Do you care what is in their heart? If they are good and honest people or just people who happen to be doing the right thing for all the wrong reasons, like to save their own skin? I think we'd want someone to save us and our children no matter what. Thank you for that food and water, we'd say. Thank you.
Now we know that your priests Kathryn and Richard are in Haiti this week tending to the needs of some children up in the mountains. I imagine that the people in Haiti are much like I was suggesting earlier – so stunned by their fractured lives that they don't feel much anymore. There is only so much pain and suffering we humans can take before we shut down and tune out. You all are not there to see the work that Kathryn and Richard are doing. But you have supported them in this endeavor. And you'll hear their stories when they return. Stories of love and care. You all have acted from your hearts. In your support people from Haiti will come to see the face of Christ in Kathryn, and know the hands of Christ in Richard. There will be healing and new life. And maybe you'll go on to do more of this. Maybe this will become just as transformational for you as it surely will be those children in Haiti and for Kathryn and Richard.
Even though you weren't there literally, you will be impacted by this work because you've supported those who have gone to do the work. Children in Haiti will live because you have helped. Children you have never met. Children whose faces you won't know. Children whose hands you will not hold. And yet your help for them will be profound.
Jesus tells us in this reading that what matters most is that we do something. It matters that we do what we can, more than we can, actually. It matters that we not only feel in our hearts but DO with our hands and feet and brains, too. Through us and the power of the Holy Spirit Jesus will be right there with the suffering child and the parents of that child. Jesus tells us story about a master who goes along with acts of justice because it profits the master too – but regardless of the masters profit – justice is served and people are helped. To the people helped it matters not what is in our hearts.
However, what's in our hearts does matter to God. And there is every likelihood that when people experience the process of helping others, even if they initially did it for personal gain, once they experience the benefit of helping others their hearts are changed. Perhaps they even begin to help from a place of love in their heart. They not only love but they act on that love.
I'm hoping that the season opener of Gray's Anatomy has Christina saving Dr. Shepherd from the bullet wound. I hope her hands do not succumb to the fear that is surely in her heart as she operates. I hope that we hear in our texts this morning a call toward hope, a reminder that what is most important is that we do something about the injustices in our world. And I give thanks that your priests are in Haiti helping those children. May the life and love they extend to those kids be yours as well.
(Thanks to Dylan's Lectionary blog and to Janine on the Feminist Theology blog for some inspiration for this sermon)
Saturday, September 18, 2010
It Matters How?
3 comments:
- Robin said...
You inspired me to post - finally - my thoughts on the last Grey's episode.
- Rev Dr Mom said...
I think this works really well. Thanks for sharing it.
And omg, I had forgotten -or blocked- the GA finale,which I watched with my hands over my face.
- Rev Nancy Fitz said...
Truly awesome take on this text. hmm, i wonder if I can use any of it? Or maybe it's just the Grey's intro, but still I think this REALLY WORKS. thanks!
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Homily for the Festive Eucharist at the closing of the Episcopal Women's Caucus
The readings that we chose for the service tonight were all picked specifically for this service because they lift up the role of women ...
There a few elements of life common to all people. Basically they include living, loving, suffering, and dying. All of us experience these a...
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analyze page layouts in manga. It's an interesting read for seasoned comics fans, but perhaps even more useful to people still learning how to read comics. Their insights are a great guide on how to interpret what's happening in a panel (or even what's suggested in the spaces between panels.)
There are two things in what you've said that really resonate with me. Firstly, I'm struck with the import of the door. I almost feel like I'm back in tenth grade, analyzing poetry, but now that you've mentioned its abrupt clarity, I'm convinced that there's some pretty heavy symbolism behind that door being so conspicuously and firmly shut.


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Now I can breath again and blog again LOL. I didn't want to post anything here until I knew she was okay and out of the woods. Thus keeping the previous post at the top until now.
If you want to know all the details of her last week in hospital you can head here to her blog for her post. She'll be posting more once she is a bit more recovered.
Okay so while she was away I did these layouts.
This first one is created with TerrellS Easter Freebie, which is available on her blog (you may have to look into previous posts to find it - if it is still on offer) And the pic is of Hayley at her 30th Birthday party which we attended on the weekend. The next one is with TerrellS Burnt Orange Freebie, still available on her blog. The pics are of my brother, and taken by my niece.
And above is Kianna, Hayley's niece, what a cutie eh!? Did this one with TerrellS Signs of Spring, such a lovely soft collection of papers and elements. And here in the next layout is Michael,(Taz) in his new cycling gersey that he bought for riding to work in winter and wore to the party as the Tour De France. The party was a "come as a country" party cause of all the international travel Hayley has done in the last 10 years. Oh and he won a bottle of plonk for best costume. We even rode to the party on our bikes so it was quite good LOL. The kit here is TerrellS Apple Cart kit.
Okay so we are well apart from being over bloated with the huge doses of drugs I have had to have for IVF. I am suffering from really sore boobs and aches pretty much everywhere. We go in on Friday to have the egg retrieval and it is at a different hospital so it will be interesting - if I can remember any of it sometimes I lose it later on LOL, anaesthetic I guess LOL.
So we have been riding and I have been watching what I eat but I am still not losing any weight, I think it must be the drugs sigh!!!
Michael is on the second week of his holidays and after relaxing totally in the first week this second one is dedicated to getting his assignment done for Uni. Then on the 24th April it is our Anniversary and who knows what we will be doing. Not a lot I don't think since we have already spent out on the trip to Hayley's place and the motel there and we are just on the basic income without the overtime bits and all that we are used to. I will probably be a bit ikk for a while anyway until after the surgery.
Okay I am off to do some house work yuck.
To Terrell!!!! I am so glad you are okay Hun!! Had me really worried there for a while and I was so frustrated cause there was nothing I could do from way over here!! Love You !!
Tracy XXX
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Terrell Is Home & All Is Right With The World
Now I can breath again and blog again LOL. I didn't want to post anything here until I knew she was okay and out of the woods. Thus keeping the previous post at the top until now.


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Please welcome Scott M. Baker today. His current release is THE VAMPIRE HUNTERS: VAMPYRNOMICON, which is the 2nd in The Vampire Hunters trilogy, who, despite the seemingly gentle image his author photo presents (a bunny!) reminds us that not all vampires are brooding and sexy.
Why Evil Vampires?
One of the questions I always get from people who find out that I'm an author of vampire stories is why my vampires are evil when the trend in the market today is toward sexy, romantic, or kitschy vampires.
The answer is simple. I find vampires scary because they are us.
Ever since Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, which contained strong undertones against the repressed sexual urges of the Victorian era, dark vampires have struck a chord with audiences. Their popularity dates back to the early 1930s when Universal Studios, and later Britain's Hammer Studios, immortalized vampires on film. Even today, rarely does a year go by without witnessing scores of books and movies about the undead. Vampires are still the most sought after trend within the genre because they tap into our inner psychological fear that there but for the grace of our souls goes us. Unlike zombies, which are humans stripped of every aspect of their humanity, vampires present the far worse prospect that they are humans merely stripped of their inhibitions. When shorn of our religious faith, our kindness, our familial bonds, and our conscience, what is left but basest of human instincts such as unbridled lust, greed, and avarice? One of the scariest scene's in vampire literature is Stephen King's Salem's Lot when Ralphie Glick, having been turned into a vampire, comes back to feed off his brother Danny.
Some of the most modern vampire incarnations are the most terrifying of the lot. The feral bloodsuckers of 30 Days of Night that torment and hunt the citizens of Barrow for sport and food. The cold and calculating Deacon Frost from Blade, and the heartless entrepreneur Charles Bromley from Daybreakers, both of whom create financial empires to economically dominate humans or turn them into blood cattle. We relate with the plight of Eben and Stella, and Audrey and Edward, and can empathize with their struggle. But at the same time, we are enticed by the dark nature of these vampires because deep down we know we are not that far removed from them. We see the worst of ourselves in the undead.
And that is what scares us.
Blurb for The Vampire Hunters: Vampyrnomicon:
Within the vaults of the Smithsonian Institute lies the key to finding The Vampyrnomicon, the Book of the Undead that contains the history and secrets of the vampires. According to legend, whoever possesses the book can establish a vampire nation on earth - or destroy the undead once and for all. With an opportunity to end the war against the undead so close, Drake Matthews is determined to find the book.
But the vampires also want The Vampyrnomicon. When Master Chiang Shih and her coven of the most powerful and dangerous vampires arrive in Washington to claim the book as their own, the hunters find themselves facing their most deadly enemy yet. With the stakes so high, so is the ferocity of the struggle.
Read an excerpt from THE VAMPYRNOMICON.
Visit Scott at his website: www.scott-m-baker.com
His blog: http://scottmbakerauthor.blogspot.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000252439528&ref=profile
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Now, tell us which fictional/movie vampire you find the most horrific or scary?


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Saturday, December 7, 2013
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There's death penalty news to discuss at length:
- Racial justice for Marcus Robinson in North Carolina.
- Clemency for Daniel Greene in Georgia.
- Scheduling a hearing on Gary Haugen's effort to reinstate his execution date in Oregon.
- The murder of Mark Wiles here in Ohio to restart our execution engine after six months.
There are developments in other cases:
- George Will says LWOP for kids is always wrong.*
- Judge Kimba Wood dismisses the prosecution of Julian Heicklen for
exercising his first amendment rightspassing out leaflets telling people that jurors have both the power and the constitutional right to refuse to convict criminal defendants of laws they believe unjust (opinion here).
- Tarek Mehanna is sentenced to serve 17 years in prison for
exercising his first amendment rightsaiding terrorists for arguing that killing innocent civilians is a bad idea and translating a tract about jihad because he did those things with an impure heart.
Those are all important things, things worth discussing at length.
And then there's Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. Which is masses of outrage fueled by near total lack of information except that Martin is dead and Zimmerman shot him. Which tells us nothing about why or what the circumstances, physical and psychological, were.
Of course, there's plenty of rumor and innuendo and media exploitation. But none of us actually know anything.
Someone on NPR the other day said that we won't know what happened until the jury returns its verdict, but that's wrong, too. First, of course, there may never be a jury verdict. The charges may be dismissed. Zimmerman might plead to something. The next tsunami might make it all moot. (There are other possibilities, too, legal and otherwise.) But even if there is a verdict, that won't tell us what happened. It will tell us what the jury chose to believe or not to believe beyond a reasonable doubt. Which may or may not have a clear relationship to what occurred that night.
And then there's George Zimmerman's apology. Did he mean it? Who knows? Scott Greenfield gave as good an explanation as anyone of why he likely did it and why it made sense strategically. Beyond that, really, who cares?
The answer, it turns out, is that a whole lot of people do. Here's what one of them said.
. . . First, I think it was crafted and, frankly, I have disdain for a lawyer who takes this tactic (even if it is a good one and helps his client). It's completely self-serving and disgraceful and hurtful to the parents. They don't want to hear that he's sorry for the loss of their son, they want to hear that he is sorry for murdering their son.
. . .
The other thing that REALLY ticks me off about this is the defense line of questioning "do you have any evidence to contradict" Zimmerman's version? Of course not you a$wipes, Zimmerman killed the other evidence by shooting Trayvon dead. It is such a mean-spirited line of questioning that has little to do with justice and more to do with getting their client off.
There is a right way to do criminal defense and a wrong way (ethically speaking). This case and the Casey Anthony case are prime examples of the wrong way IMHO. . . .
That the author of those words (and I haven't taken them out of context; the ellipses are omissions of things wholly irrelevant here), is a lawyer (albeit not a criminal defense lawyer) is a total embarrassment to the legal profession. Because he has no idea what we do or how it works.
I'm not talking a sleazebag like the Fish. Or like David Martin (here, for instance) who first convinced himself, before trial, that his probably innocent client was guilty and then chose to share that insight with the world so we could all join him in feeling good about his client's execution. There are bad lawyers out there. Grossly unethical ones. Ones who turn on their clients or sleep through their trials or sell them out. Ones too lazy to bother or just in it to gauge a buck and who gives a shit. They're a problem, but a different sort.
This guy, the one who wrote that screed I quoted above. I have no reason to think he's like that. He may be a fine person and a committed advocate for his clients. But he's completely missed the point of his legal education.
Because he thinks that criminal defense lawyers aren't doing their job properly, they're doing it the "wrong way" when their work "has little to do with justice and more to do with getting their client off."
Good god.
We've been down this path before, with the would-be criminal defense lawyer who figured her moral compass needed to be switched from moral to sleazeoid before entering her chosen profession. (I hope she reconsidered after the firestorm of invective against her inanity, though I don't know.) But she, at least, wasn't a lawyer. This guy is. And
And if he doesn't, I figure it's probably necessary to lay it out one more time.
We can't lie.
We can't encourage anyone else to lie.
We can't destroy evidence.
But we must, within the ethical rules of the profession, do what we can to get the best possible result for the client - which means, if it's possible, getting the client off.
Even if the client is factually guilty.
Which, of course, we can never really know.
And which doesn't matter to us.
Our job is to defend.
It is emphatically not to seek justice unless justice is defined as "trying to get even guilty clients off," which is a weirdly unlikely definition of the term.
Beyond that, the right way to do criminal defense is to bust your ass working for whatever's in the client's best interest.
Even if it pisses off the family of person who shouldn't have been killed.
And even if it's mean spirited.
And even if it's not nice.
And even if the client is guilty.
*He wrote, in a paragraph too good not to quote in full:
Denying juveniles even a chance for parole defeats the penal objective of rehabilitation. It deprives prisoners of the incentive to reform themselves. Some prisons withhold education, counseling and other rehabilitation programs from prisoners ineligible for parole. Denying these to adolescents in a period of life crucial to social and psychological growth stunts what the court in 2005 called the prisoner's "potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity." Which seems, in a word -- actually, three words -- "cruel and unusual."


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|Admiring long beans at the Accessible Garden.
August 24, 2010.
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Wendy sent me to your great blog...accessible gardens are such a grand idea...for everyone. Thanks for writing about it...what a wonderful tribute to your daughter.
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Certain things happen when you get married. Your parents cry. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about ring sizes. You learn a lot about your relationship. You explore many ways of answering the question 'So when are you having a baby?' (We'll have to get back to you on that, nebnose.) And at the end of it all, you're left with lots of photos, lots of memories, and lots and lots of kitchen appliances.
This is probably even more true if you are known to be foodies. Joe and I met working at the late, great Lechters Housewares, received all sorts of coffee makers, flatware, and slow cookers, among other gifts, from our wonderful and generous friends and family. We love gadgets, and we both subscribe to Alton Brown's Unitasker Theory: the only unitasker allowed in our kitchen is the fire extinguisher. (OK, and maybe that awesome stovetop coffeepot Paola brought us from Lebanon.)
Fortunately, the slow cooker is versatile. Stew? Sauce? A whole chicken? Check, check and check. Our thoughtful friends Peter and Cat gave us not only a spiffy slow cooker, but also The Slow Cooker Ready & Waiting Cookbook: 160 Sumptuous Meals that Cook Themselves by Rick Rodgers. Like many cookbooks organized around a gadget, this one pulls recipes from every corner of the globe and adapts them for American tastes. I'm generally skeptical of this approach, but after two really, really delicious meals, I have to admit that Rick knows what he's doing.
Both recipes are deceptively simple. The recipes are long, and aimed at beginner cooks, with instructions like 'turn on the slow cooker'– so I'll summarize them here but add a few notes. My main criticism is that these recipes go too light on the seasonings– feel free to load up on your spices and aromatics. Also, he seems to be a fan of canned broths. I use them sometimes, but try to stick to fresh– the sodium levels in canned broth are ridiculous, and they tend to be full of additives. The pot roast recipe is gluten-free, if GF beer is used; the chicken stew is dairy free, and also GF if served with rice or quinoa instead of couscous. Read the rest of this entry »


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Staying on a budget to save money is one of the biggest things that we as people have so many problems with. Hearing most excuses like, it's too hard; I don't make enough to save money, I have nothing to save for, and the biggest one of all is when you hear there is no reason too, life is too short to save money. We all have something that we look forward to doing or buying, and usually if we didn't buy that item when we first noticed it, it's because we didn't have the money at the time of purchase. And those are the reasons why we save money, even if we don't have anything we are looking forward to, we can always start early because things come up. Here are ten tips from HowStuffWorks, focused on staying on a budget with a future purchase in mind. This can help us all raise money for the unpredictable future.
The first tip would be to stay focused on saving. Determine an amount that you want to save for the month and create a budget including your income and expenses for the month. This can also be done in companies, many times when I am budgeting for a film and I have a certain budget I try and save a decent portion for emergencies. So first thing I do is budget everything out.
Secondly they say to use cash, cash helps because you can easily discipline yourself to only take out a certain amont and that is all you have for the week in a personal situation. I do this also; take out 25 dollars and that is my personal money for the week. Using cash helps with being able to see everything in your hand and not just using a card, which with a card its easier to swipe that to count actual paper dollars. In business this may be harder to carry around cash all day, usually everyone prefers cards anyhow.
Cut those bad habits out or at least cut down on them. HowStuffWorks says whether its alcohol or tobacco, if you cut back on it that's just even more in your savings account. Most say that you cannot stop smoking overnight. Ok, Fine. Make a pack last longer than usual. In business we can do this by just cutting back on unnecessary things like meeting at a restaurant, do a meeting over Skype; its free, saves gas and dinner prices.
Four, you want to make sure that your not the only one focused on budgeting, if you have a spouse they have to be focused also. It doesn't make sense to save if someone else is going to go back and spend it. In a company it is easy, come together with management and go over the budget with everyone explaining that things will have to be cut back on to save finances.
If you have credit cards start paying down the debt, chose the card with the highest interest rate and pay that one off first, if you have any others pay the minimum each month until the first one is paid off, then do the same to the next. And of course for a company it is the exact same way.
Number six and seven can be fit together, keep your receipts and balance your checkbook. Many times if we look over the receipts that we acquired over the month we can see exactly were all of our money goes. It can get depressing once you realize that a good portion goes to those bad habits, fast food, and just stuff that shouldn't even been bought. Once we see the damage for the month its easier to cut back and really focus on necessary items. Also balancing your checkbook with those receipts and maybe your bank statement for that month will also allow you to see all expenses. This also gets you in the habit of keeping a balanced checkbook, which is a good habit.
With those receipts, look to find something to cut out, something that isn't needed, even look at bills and find ways to cut those down. Maybe open windows during the day with a blowing, instead of turning on the AC. Going grocery shopping one every two weeks instead of going every time you think of something to eat. Planning trips, like going to get groceries, go pay this bill, go to class, and then come home. Instead most of us find ourselves coming home and leaving back out because you forgot something. Going to the grocery store with out a list, this wastes time, makes us pick up random groceries (making us go back later), go home to see that we bought doubles of things and nothing makes a complete meal.
Number Nine from HowStuffWorks says to have a special account, a bank account. "If you find that you keep reaching into your savings, set up a CD or other account with early withdrawal penalties. Banks and other institutions pay more interest if you'll agree to let them use your money for a longer amount of time. Putting your savings into a yearly CD will yield more than a three-month note would."
Finally number ten, encourages you to be flexible, most budgets have to be flexible because we don't know what tomorrow entails. So having an extra little money to the side for those sorrow Saturdays, and Sunday fun days' aren't that bad but use them for what they are their for. Being able to adjust your budget for need instead of wants is okay.
Find more info on the ten steps on their website and use their budget calculator, or read further to find out about how to savemoney at the grocery store.


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Consider the following:
Space Has Refused Repeated Requests To Comment On His Support For The National Energy Tax:Paul Lindsay, NRCC spokesman: "It seems that the only people who are able to get an answer from Zack Space these days are the special interest lobbyists who bought his vote for this job-killing tax increase. It's bad enough that Space is doing nothing to stop his party leaders from forcing this devastating bill through Congress at the expense of Ohio families, but it's even worse when he openly ignores repeated requests to provide them with an explanation."
SATURDAY, JUNE 20TH: "It is unknown how U.S. Rep. Zack Space, D-Ohio, will vote on the legislation. However, Space, a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce - from which the act originated - voted in favor of the bill in committee during a roll call vote May 21, during which the act was approved by a final vote of 33 to 25. Space could not be reached for comment." (Ian Hicks, "Wilson Will Not Vote For Energy Bill," Wheeling Intelligencer, 06/20/09)
TUESDAY, JUNE 23RD: "But U.S. Reps. Alan Mollohan and Nick Rahall, both D-W.Va., and U.S. Rep. Zack Space, D-Ohio, haven't said whether they will vote for the bill. Messages left with the offices of each congressman were not immediately answered Monday." (Joselyn King, "Mollohan, Rahall and Space Still Mulling 'Cap and Trade,'" Wheeling Intelligencer, 06/23/09)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24TH: "Messages left both Monday and Tuesday with the office of U.S. Rep. Zack Space, D-Ohio, seeking his stance on the measure have not been answered." (Joselyn King, "Members of Congress Waiting On Final Version of Energy Bill," Wheeling Intelligencer, 06/24/09)
Space Was "Lobbied" By Special Interest Groups To Support The Legislation:
"Also stepping up their lobbying are interest groups supporting the legislation, such as the Blue-Green Alliance, which represents labor and environmental organizations including the Sierra Club, the United Steelworkers, the Communications Workers of America, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Laborers' International Union of North America and the Service Employees International Union……In advance of the vote to report the bill out of the Energy and Commerce Committee, members of the alliance lobbied Bart Stupak of Michigan, Zack Space of Ohio and other industrial-state Democrats on the panel. They are now focusing their attention on undecided Democrats. Lee Guisse, a Steelworkers member employed at a plant in Ohio, said she had come to Washington to meet with her own congressman, Democrat John Boccieri. She planned to present him with a packet of 350 signatures from fellow steelworkers supporting the bill, wrapped with a bow made of a hay-like twine, a nod to Boccieri's position on the Agriculture Committee. 'He's having a hard time with it, just as Zack was,' Guisse said." (Coral Davenport, "Obama Lauds Energy Bill Before It Reaches House Floor," CQ Politics, 06/24/09)
HYPOCRISY ALERT – Space Railed Against "Corporate Interests" During His 2006 Campaign For Congress:
"Our government in Washington, DC is broken. Politicians and their lobbyist friends are looking out for themselves at the expense of Ohio families. As your Congressman, Zack Space will accept no gifts, trips, or meals from lobbyists and will never put corporate interests ahead of working families." (Space for Congress Website, 2006)
Is this the hope and change that you voted for?


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The results are in, which means it's time to get that Acme Wound Salt out.
Yulia Tymoshenko, the Joan-of-Arc-cum-Cruella-Deville of the Ukrainian Orange Revolution, is looking shit out of luck. At this writing, the Ukrainian Central Election Committee has counted 97.56% of the votes and she's still behind to ex-con-villain-cum-comeback-kid Viktor Yanukovich. Not only is his 2.56% lead unlikely to turn inside-out and put Yulia in the president's chair, but, with European observers reporting that the voting has been largely clean, it's unlikely that she can contest the vote and look anywhere near sane — an image she has, of late, continued to undermine.
The many delicious layers of crazy have been thoroughly covered in this election, but the framework that makes the most sense anywhere other than Ukraine — and conveniently overlooks any, erm, nuance — is the West-versus-Russia one, and it goes something like this: In 2004, Russia rather overtly backed Viktor Yanukovich; he won in a rigged election until Victor Yushchenko and his braided sidekick Tymoshenko — the two darlings of the West — summoned thousands onto Kiev's Independence Square (the Maidan) and won the day, wrenching Ukraine out of Russia's orbit, validating democratic ideals, and, the West hoped, putting it squarely into the stiff-armed embrace of the Europeans. But! Yushchenko sucked as a president, Tymoshenko proved expert at making herself odious to just about everyone, and now Yanukovich is back, this time as a fairly-elected president — right? — promising warmer relations with its historical neighbor, Russia.
And because it's not a geopolitical victory until you gloat and gloat some more we have this:
Today, the domain Maidan.ru is for sale on the Russian e-Bay analog, molotok.ru.
It is, let me emphasize, a Russian domain name, advertised as "a good address to start a revolutionary web portal." Over the course of the day, a dozen bidders have driven the price up from $30 to almost $1,500.
But who, pray tell, is selling this thing? One Jason Foris, who has not sold or bought anything on molotok.ru in the last seven days or, probably, ever.
Because, you see, Foris is none other than a nom de guerre for Russian internet wunderkind Konstantin Rykov, who long ago got in bed with the Kremlin and never got out. Now he's leaking this apparently spontaneous — and painfully obvious — Ukrainian-bound bird-flippage to Vesti, a Russian-owned TV channel, and hawking it up and down Twitter where, luckily, few seem to be buying the schtick. (That, or the schtick that proceeds from the sale should benefit the Yeltsin Fund, a lame attempt to join the 90's-bashing so commonplace in official media these days.)
So, as if the Ukrainian elections weren't crazy enough, Rykov arrives to pummel you over the head with his dance in the end zone: we won, he seems to be saying ever so subtly; we won and you, Ukraine, you and your Western ass-kissing and Orange Revolutions, YOU. LOST. "Eat it," you can hear him saying, wiggling hither and thiter. "Eat. It."


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Tap Tap Photo is the iPhone and iPod touch application that lets you flip the world around, zoom in and out and enjoy the best photos of the world !
Now seeing the nicest places on earth couldn't be easier!
Just zoom into the area you want to explore, tap tap on the screen
and up to ten of Panoramio's most popular photos on that area will
show up. Just tap on any of them to enjoy the pictures.
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- johnny0 said...
Have you considered releasing a version with just the globe? That is pretty sweet.
Hooking into other data sources would also be interesting. Cities, country names, places of geographical interest, etc. this would make a really nice atlas.
You should get together with the guys who did the CIA Worldbook app.
- October 23, 2008 at 1:56 AM
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Dominos Pizza Delivering the Gift of Time
Dominos cleverly suggests that when you place an order you're not just getting a pizza but also 30 minutes back in your day.
When Dominos Pizza (DPZ) went public in 2004, it already operated 7,400 units across the world. Since then it has expanded by nearly 1000 stores, brings in over $1.5 billion in revenue, and has enjoyed a 14.7% rise in sales for 2007.
For the 9th year in a row, Entrepreneur Magazine listed it a top 10 franchise opportunity. And while the pizza certainly keeps customers and investors coming back, it's Dominos persistent emphasis on fast delivery that sets it apart from competitors.
Most notably, Dominos resurrected the rhetoric of its famous 30 minute delivery "promise" that defined the company's message over a decade ago. Back then, if your pizza was late, you'd get your money back. Unfortunately, the pressure to deliver resulted in car accidents and law suits, so it made sense when Dominos swept the campaign under the rug. But now it's back-although without that pesky guarantee.
This time around, Dominos cleverly suggests that when you place an order you're not just getting a pizza (or Breadsticks, Cinna Stix, Buffalo Wings, or Oreo Pizza), you're also getting 30 minutes back in your day. Free free-time! And according to the financial numbers, the new ads seem to be working. As Hoofy and Boo find out, it's convenience, and not necessarily a piping hot deep-dish, that keeps Dominos Pizza's phones ringing.
In this week's World in Review episode, Hoofy and Boo talk about what they would do with an extra thirty minutes in their days.
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If hankering on glitz and glitters of gems and Jewelry is your cup of coffee , then here's an amazing chance for you to witness the statuesque masterpieces of jewelry which Jaipur is famous for. The Glamorous Show of Gems and Jewelry is right here starting from Friday 19th July to Monday 22nd July at B.M. Birla Auditorium,Statue Circle, Jaipur. The show timings would be 10.00 am to 06.00pm (10.00 to 12.00 noon Business Hours)
Jewellers Association Show'13 is a dynamic tradeshow which makes Jaipur the focus of the world jewelry industry. This event will highlight the art of jewelry making apart from focusing on a wide variety of precious metals and colored gemstones and showcasing new trends and technology in the jewelry industry. It will be a great platform for the exhibitors to network with their trade partners and consumer clients.
This year being the 7th edition of the Show will showcase a breathtaking variety of loose color gemstones, gold and diamond jewelry, platinum jewelry, silver jewelry, studded traditional jewelry and much more along with equipment and machinery used in jewelry manufacturing. It will attract over 26,000 visitors including buyers, traders and retailers from all over India. It would be an ideal shopping destination for jewelry lovers.
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Asalam Alaikum
I would like to congratulate you on this holy month RAMADAN.
May Allah bless you and accept your fasting and prayers!!
Let's try to increase our iman and devote our time for the sake of Allah.
Ramadan will be the best opportunity to get closer to Allah SWT.
'When Ramadaan comes, the doors of Paradise will be opened and the doors of Hell will be closed, and the devils will be chained.'
Fasting, praying at time, reciting Qura'n, giving charity, avoiding haram, smiling, praying at the msajid, feeding the poor, controlling your desires, being a good Muslim should be in our daily basis during this month to reflect our lives for the years after!
Ramadan should be a refreshing start where we remind ourselves to the true purpose of life which is to please Allah!
May Allah accept our deeds, better us as Muslims, and grant us paradise.
Ramadan Kareeeeeem!!!
Best Wishes,
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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Since yoga is ultimately the connection of body, breath and mind, anyone can do it and everyone can benefit from a well designed practice. We often confuse yoga in the West with asana (yoga postures), which is only one of the tools of yoga. Yoga encompasses that and so much more—meditation, pranayama, ritual, chant how we relate to others, and the list goes on.
So yes, everyone can benefit from doing yoga. Even asana, which is the most physical of yoga tools, can be done by the vast majority of people if appropriately applied. That's what I love so much about Viniyoga, the style I teach. The word, translated, simply means "proper application and adaptation." Viniyoga can be adapted to every individual.
How one approaches yoga practice does change over time. In our younger years (the sunrise stage of life) our yoga tends to be more fitness and form oriented. As we age to the mid-day stage of life, it will likely become more therapeutically based with an increasing focus on breath and pranayama. Finally, as we approach our sunset years, our yoga should take us ever more internal through meditative practices.
Yoga practice helps us stay healthy while we live in this world while simultaneously preparing us for the great transition to the next. But regardless of age, body type, injury, fitness level or goals, yoga is a tool that that can help anyone!
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In The Last Throes Of Preparedness
Just found out going to ride up to Pueblo in my brother's new used really nice Subaru. Driven it a ways but not far. I like driving a bunch but it's sure nice to get some total window time now and then.
It would be nice to get something decent for lunch. Hard to do sometimes. Anyway gotta go. I'll be bok. Nary a cloud in the sky.
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Have a good time down there O-Fly, hope it an enjoyable and safe trek. Have several friends who are considering something similar, as maybe a I so look forward to your feedback. Keep a detailed journal, please.Delete
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That was a cloud formation that I had not seen before. Needed to go to a different vantage point.It was cold and the lazy was around.
It's nice here...I have lots of outside stuff to get done before winter.ReplyDelete
Soon it will be over. I got most of what needed to be done done. I just put Stabil in the car. It's going to be sitting for four months.ReplyDelete


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I've got bidness today. Lots of it. Had to get myself up at 8:30 which is insane for me with my diurnal rhythms set to night owl. Got an MRI on my brain to see if they can spot the reason for the tremors and jerks I've developed and take drugs for and for the muscle weakness on my left side. Hell. I don't care if I wave spontaneously at strangers. I'm gregarious, after all. Those who love me take it all in stride. They're very used to my various quirks and eccentricities.
Some epilepsy is in my mother's paternal Drury genome but I don't think it's that. Having been very much active around horses and having several car wrecks (and a sky diving incident that almost made the papers), have pounded my collection of appendages, including my head. Picking and singing in bars and bartending while drinking my share of whatever altered grain, fruits and nuts, and my continued admiration for a good bottle of wine have also probably added to neuron dysfunction. Ain't life fun?
So. After getting bombarded with photons for my tremors, I had a cat scan to find out if I'm trying to pass kidney stones - also probably due to the gallons of wine must I have imbibed over the course of years. I've switched to whites. Easier on the head and your poop has a more natural shade to it.
Took costumes over to Cindy. Yes. I'm retired, but agreed to do this special one thing for her. 1880s Appalachian don't you know, complete with drawers, brogans and petticoats. Took care of some chores here at home and will try to slip in a nap before I go off to protest tonight during rush hour.
This is not some of my normal daily bitching. I'm attending a Move On protest in Brandon for a Peace Vigil to stop the war. As if it will do any good. I'm tired. And frustrated. I was taught that you always fight against inequity and engage yourself in local politics and bigger issues. This is also a genetic thing I think. But I will go out on US 60 with the rest of the peace marchers and wave my signs. I will dress in sensible Florida weather clothing and wave my sign at rush hour traffic. I'm as hopeful about this bringing about the end of the Iraq invasion as I was about sending off 9 letters demanding that Congress and the Senate impeach the remaining idiots left on duty at the White House on 8/18/2007.
But, I'm my mother's daughter and will go out to brave the crowds and the heat. She and my dad always said to open your mouth and never let bullies get away with their crimes. I want those good young men and women home. I want them to be treated well and compensated for their wounds. I want them to have their benefits upped instead of cut into. I want them to get the mental care they'll need to cope with life after war. I want them to know that I don't blame them for the shit of a mess in Mesopotamia. My reward will be one of Alexander's dirty martinis to add to the calcificaiton in my kidneys afterwards.
March on.


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1952-1959 Topps "Shoebox" Collection Including Stars (409)
Starting Bid - $400.00, Sold For - $4,350.00
Shoebox collection" of 409 Topps baseball cards, spanning the years 1952 to 1959, highlighted by numerous stars and key cards, including 1953 Topps #82 Mickey Mantle, 1954 Topps #250 Ted Williams, and 1956 Topps #135 Mickey Mantle. 1) 1952 Topps (thirty-five cards): twenty-three cards range from Good to Vg-Ex (averaging Vg), twelve cards in lesser grades. Keys: #2 Runnels (Vg-Ex), 10 Rosen (minor ink marks on the reverse, otherwise Ex), 20 Loes (Vg), 26 Irvin (70/30 L/R and very minor moisture stain in lower left corner, otherwise Vg-Ex), 31 Zernial (Gd), 36 Hodges (slight tilt to the picture, otherwise Vg-Ex), 48 Page/cor. (Vg), 372 McDougald (Gd). 2) 1953 Topps #82 Mickey Mantle (Fr-Gd). 3) 1954 Topps (sixty-three cards): forty-one cards range from Good to Vg-Ex (averaging Vg), twenty-two cards in lesser grades. Keys: two #1 Williams (80/20 L/R and tiny tear on right border, otherwise Vg and the second has writing on the front, otherwise Gd-Vg), two 10 Robinson (crease in the lower right corner, otherwise Vg-Ex and the second has two hole punches near the top border, otherwise Ex), 13 Martin (Vg), 32 Snider (Vg), 36 Wilhelm (Ex), 37 Ford (miscut, otherwise Vg), 50 Berra (Gd-Vg), 100 Hodges (Vg), 128 Aaron RC (Fr), and 250 Williams (20/80 L/R, otherwise Ex bordering on Ex-Mt). 4) 1955 Topps (eighty-five cards): fifty-two cards grade Vg to Vg-Ex, thirty-three cards Pr to Gd (averaging Fair). Keys: #31 Spahn (Vg-Ex), 47 Aaron (Vg), two 50 Robinson (one is Ex and the second has two staple holes, otherwise Vg). 5) 1956 Topps (208 of 342 cards in set, plus two duplicates, for a total of 210): 78% range from Vg-Ex to Ex-Mt, 22% Vg (some slightly lesser grades). Keys: #1 Harridge (Vg), 5 Williams (Vg), 10 Spahn (Vg), 15 Banks (Gd-Vg), 20 Kaline (95/5 T/B, otherwise Ex), 30 Robinson (Vg), 31 Aaron (Ex), 33 Clemente (80/20 T/B, otherwise Ex), 79 Koufax (Ex), 101 Campanella (Fr), 107 Mathews (Ex-Mt), 113 Rizzuto (Ex-Mt), 120 Ashburn (Ex-Mt), 130 Mays (Ex), two 135 Mantle (one Ex-Mt and the other Gd), 145 Hodges (Ex), 150 Snider (very slight tilt to the image, otherwise Ex-Mt), 164 Killebrew (Ex), 166 Dodgers (print marks along the top border, otherwise Ex), 200 Feller (80/20 T/B, otherwise Ex), 240 Ford (very light wax stain on the front, otherwise Ex), 251 Yankees (90/10 T/B, otherwise Ex-Mt), 292 Aparicio RC (Vg-Ex). 6) 1957 Topps (5 cards): two #1 Williams (one is Ex and the other Vg), 10 Mays (Gd), 20 Aaron (Vg-Ex), 95 Mantle (Fr). 7) 1958 Topps (4 cards): #5 Mays (Vg-Ex), 30 Aaron (Pr-Fr), 52 Clemente (Vg), 150 Mantle (Fr). 8) 1959 Topps (6 cards): #50 Mays (Vg-Ex), 212 Aaron/Mathews (Vg), 380 Aaron (Vg), 478 Clemente (Vg), 561 Aaron AS (Fr-Gd), 564 Mantle AS (Fr). This is a very substantial mixed-grade collection of early 1950s bubble-gum cards, which has been stored away for many years, completely unpicked, and including many highlights and several of the key cards of the era. Total 409 cards. Reserve $1,000. Estimate $2,000/$4,000. 36 861 1934 World Series" Pinball Machine SOLD FOR $4,350.00
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