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Western Digital (WD) Philippines unveils it's latest wireless home networking products designed to accelerate movies, gaming and high-definition (HD) entertainment.
According to Nielsen, US Digital consumer report shows 33% of consumers streamed a movie or TV show from the internet combined with growth of tablets, smartphones and Wi-Fi connected devices, a new model of internet usage and entertainment has emerge.
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This is an outfit...as well as a DIY. I found this shirt at good old Value Village. Although it isn't photographed, the back is my favourite! I added all the pearls on the collar. It's not the greatest, but it's good enough for doing it myself. I'm also wearing the new lipstick, Media, that my brother got me for Christmas.
Saturday, 31 December 2011
[DIY] Pearl Collar
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- Anonymous1 January 2012 at 17:48
You look stunning!I absoluetly love the shirt and the collarReplyDelete
you are absolutely stunning! the green works perfectly against your skin and i just love the pearls. i fanned you on lookbook :)ReplyDelete
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Thursday, 21 May 2015
NorDev Event: Bluemix, a Platform for Digital Transformation and An Introduction to CoreOS
When: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 @ 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/222366789/
There will be Free burgers, and the usual free drinks!
6.15pm - Free Food and Drink
7.00pm - Introduction
7.10pm - Bluemix, a Platform for digital Transformation
7.55pm - Break
8.10pm - An Introduction to CoreOS
8.55pm - End
Bluemix, a Platform for digital Transformation
Sukhvinder (@saujla)
In this session, Sukhvinder will describe and show the IBM BlueMix platform, demonstrating how it fits into an innovative organisation and how its DevOps approach leads to quicker time to deployment. Bluemix is IBM's Digital Innovation Platform to enable developers to rapidly build, deploy, and manage their cloud applications, while tapping a growing ecosystem of available services and runtime frameworks.
Attendees can download a free 30 day trial of Bluemix from this link -
Sukhvinder has worked in the software industry for over 25 years in roles including software development, design and architecture. He is now helping organisations take a business outcome focused view of Cloud, including using it as a platform for digital transformation. He is a firm believer in the transformative approach of the API economy and Mobile devices.
An Introduction to CoreOS
Dom Davis (@idomdavis)
Docker, containers and immutable infrastructure seem to be the buzzwords of the day, but while it's easy to get immutable infrastructure in Docker it's not always so easy with the infrastructure that runs the infrastructure. Enter CoreOS, a simple, relatively lightweight Linux implementation designed out of the box to run containers as distributed infrastructure. In this talk we'll be having a brief look at what CoreOS is, why it's needed, and some of the things you can do with it.
Dom Davis is a veteran of The City and a casualty of The Financial Crisis. Not content with bringing the world to its knees he then went off to help break the internet before winding up in Norfolk where he is now a technology evangelist for a small startup. Dom is an enthusiastic and impassioned speaker [read: he gabbles] who uses a blend of irreverent sarcasm and flippant humour to bring complex technical subjects to a broad audience. Whether or not they understand him is up for debate, but he likes to believe they do.
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"In a world of noise, in a world where the treble clef is disappearing, in Carman Moore, music still has a friend. This biography traces the musician's journey from apprenticeship to his becoming one of the world's leading composers- a composer whose range is phenomenal." Ishmael Reed
Carman Moore whom Jazz Legend and 2006 Pulitzer Prize Award Winner Ornette Coleman calls "The best composer in the world," recounts his crossover-filled life from youth to friendships and meetings with such world figures as John Lennon, W. H. Auden, Louis Armstrong and Robert Redford. This great American bio is filled with Carman's anecdotes and wisdom gained from his rich associations. …A great read; short and intriguing! Get Your Copy Today.
CROSSOVER is my Bio— the Bio of an Agent of Change. It has been inspired by family members, friends, and admired ones who have broken away from the conventionally obvious. I get to crossover into the world of popular art once again…the recording studios…the rhythm section and the stringent vocalizing…the sound effects and the final mixing. These all appeal to me at the moment. A rock album. I'm not trained for it: therefore I Am. And this CROSSOVER book? It is a "Who-Am-I?" Bio of exploration, written by someone who is terminally curious.
From the beginning my credo has been "Don't try to predict me. You'll just be wasting your time." – Carman Moore, like America, a crossover/ Because of America, a crossover.
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August 16, 2012
As a queer traveler, you couldn't ask for a more beautiful city to visit. Singapore is clean and easy-to-navigate. It's also culturally diverse and there are several official languages. Citizens speak English, Indian, Malay, Chinese and Indonesian. A cosmopolitan city, there's a plethora of exquisite museums, parks,
cafes and restaurants to enjoy. If you love to get your shop on, the world-class malls (featuring high-end retailers) won't disappoint.
Singapore's Botanical Garden is also a fabulous, beautiful refuge for lovers of flora and fauna. Scientists working on site breed orchards for the gardens and name their blooming creations after dignitaries and other well-known people, including former South African President Nelson Mandela and former United States First Lady Laura Bush.
Although it's a chain, seafood fanatics will adore Jumbo! Chili crab, their signature dish, is out of this world. Other recommended dishes include fried pawns with cereal, bamboo clams with minced garlic and donuts with seafood paste. Is your mouth watering yet?
In 2005, Singapore hosted their first LGBT Pride festival, sponsored by IndigNation. This year marks the sixth season. Unlike most Pride festivals, you won't find the local queer community participating in parades or other flamboyant events because organizers cannot get permits from the government. Typically the schedule includes LGBT lectures and film festivals but few if any outdoor celebrations.
Despite efforts to quiet Singapore's gay and lesbian community, it's easy to hear the roar of The Lion City's mos. The gay traveler will revel in the city's modern appeal and a queer scene that's not just growing, but bursting as the seams.
Author: Jon Fairbanks - Gay Travel Team Member - www.gaytravel.com.


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Saturday, May 01, 2010
9 comments:
- Matty Boy said...
It's the lovely scarf that sets it off so beautifully.
- Saturday, May 01, 2010 9:39:00 AM
- Peteykins said...
It's a shirt! Yes!
- Saturday, May 01, 2010 9:43:00 AM
- Bartman said...
"Click for bigger"
I'll pass on that.
- Saturday, May 01, 2010 3:00:00 PM
- Lulu Maude said...
state mascot?
- Sunday, May 02, 2010 8:37:00 PM
- Fran said...
What's your sign?
- Sunday, May 02, 2010 9:58:00 PM
- Judy Graff said...
Can you do a post on cactus candy or prickly pear jelly?
- Monday, May 03, 2010 10:17:00 AM
- Karen Zipdrive said...
Oh right, I forgot about those huge scorpions in Arizona. One more reason to avoid it.
I think Arizona's best feature is they have plenty of remote desert land for burying thugs who've been knocked off by other thugs.
And aren't meth labs their biggest cottage industry?
- Monday, May 03, 2010 11:10:00 AM
- Peteykins said...
Judy, oh, yum. I love cactus candy. My mother made prickly pear jelly a couple of times, but its flavor tended to be a little too subtle to be worth it. My father attempted to make some prickly pear wine, and I remember the results were disastrous.
- Monday, May 03, 2010 11:18:00 AM
- Jenny said...
What is that fabric?! Is that Kaffe Fassett?
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Human by Naina
The topic of this month was to write something utilizing at least 3 of the following words: White Noise, Black, Dust, Onion.
When I was younger, I asked my father:
Why are we so human?
Now I sit here, alone in my corner,
And think about all that I've been thinking,
And all I hear is the white noise
That's been here for quite a while,
In my head, in a friend's 'guise-
But isn't that what we all want?
A friend, our 'against all odds'.
Why are we human and filled with hate?
Love is the only thing that makes us great.
The songs make sense, you know,
And they fill you with black bile,
But you embrace the feeling,
Because you familiarize.
That's all we need, you know,
A sense of familiarity and comfort,
That someone has been here and grown,
Someone who's loved and knows
What it is to not be loved back.
Are we human, or are we dancers?
'cause I can dance and play the part,
And be anything you want,
Even though that's not my heart.
I have read all about magic,
And how we can be anything we want.
Love is magic no matter what they say,
It is as human as human gets.
I just hope you love someone that's fair;
It can be anybody, you know,
Maybe, even yourself,
'Cause no matter what they say,
You are star dust,
You really are.
When I was younger, I asked my father:
Why are we so human?
Now that I'm older,
I think I've figured it out.
Or maybe that's what I'd like to think.


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Pictures of my quaint little town, taken with Nokia N-97 - 5 mpx and Nokia N-70 - 2 mpx mobile cam. Karwar is the Head-Quarter of North Kanara district in Karnataka state, India, on the shores of the Arabian Sea. Surrounded by Western Ghat (mountains) on the East and South, the River Kali to the North, and the Arabian Sea, which comprises a chain of Islands.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Crown of Clouds
Posted by Yogesh Naik at 11:48 AM
Labels: clouds, Karwar Arabian sea, Karwar Monsoons
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- John said...
Looks like you are having some heavy weather over there; it isn't much better here in the UK the last few days, but we hope we can beat the Aussies in the second test today.
- July 20, 2009 at 1:18 PM
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Friday, 22 March 2013
One of the things we do locally in CAMRA, when not imposing fantasy rules on what people should or shouldn't drink (we are pro choice Folks, remember that) is to have an active social side, with various tantalising trips out to this or that town, renowned for the quality of its watering holes. Sometimes even, we visit a brewery to see if we can organise a piss up in one. Such an event happens tomorrow when we visit (snow permitting) Magic Rock.
I am expecting that along with cask beer, we'll be offered some keg. Do I care about that? No, of course not and hopefully my colleagues won't either. Of course we believe in cask beer and always will do, but you know, sometimes it is good to get outside your comfort zone.
As I said, I am looking forward to it. It's Magic Rock* after all
Of course, keg is sipping beer and cask supping beer. That's a given. An easy little aide memoire, brought to you by this blog, as a public service.
* I'm told we'll get to taste their new lager. Yum yum. I like lager.
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- RedNev said...
"Fantasy rules on what people should or shouldn't drink (we are pro choice Folks, remember that)". Absolutely right, but I sometimes see non-real beers are slagged off in local CAMRA magazines. One in the North West routinely refers to beers that aren't real as "zombeers", which is simultaneously juvenile and bad mannered.
We're off tomorrow on a trip to Lytham Brewery, as their Berry Blonde won Beer of the festival last October. We left the trip until March when we knew the weather would be better.
- 22 March 2013 at 15:07
- py0 said...
I take it you chaps won't be voting in favour of motion 4 then?
- 22 March 2013 at 15:11
- Cooking Lager said...
"I must point out that we're not fighting against anything, we're fighting for something, There may be some members who give a different impression and I apologise to the general drinking public for the fact that we've recruited those people."
Have a guess who said that. Seems more an acknowledgement than a fantasy, fellas, but if anyone can overcome the nutters, it's you two.
- 22 March 2013 at 16:24
- Phil said...
I hope it's good. I'm a huge fan of MR generally, but the one time I had one of theirs on keg it was... adequate. Perfectly fine. (In other words, a huge disappointment by their standards!)
- 23 March 2013 at 09:49
- Stuart Ross said...
Shame about the weather! I was looking forward to the visit.
I've had to go into Sheffield to drink a load of High Wire instead.... (keg) ;-)
- 23 March 2013 at 14:10
- m.lawrenson said...
"One in the North West routinely refers to beers that aren't real as "zombeers", which is simultaneously juvenile and bad mannered."
Good old Central Lancs CAMRA. I took their quarterly mag to a craft beer place in Lancaster and the manager's face was a picture when he read it.
Don't blame me, I just live here. The fact my local branch are still fighting the 1970s Keg Wars are one of the reasons I'm not involved in what they do.
- 23 March 2013 at 23:51
- RedNev said...
M Lawrenson: that's the one! As a CAMRA mag editor myself, I wasn't going to name it. As TM says, CAMRA is about choice, so I'd argue that such an attitude is not consistent with CAMRA policy.
- 24 March 2013 at 17:35
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- 24 March 2013 at 17:43
- RedNev said...
In answer to PYO, no I won't be voting for motion 4. Recognising and respecting other people's choices of drinks doesn't mean that CAMRA has to change its definition of real ale. People who like craft keg are free to set up their own group, rather than change the aims of a campaign for a different type of beer. I similarly won't be demanding that the Cats Protection League starts taking in dogs.
- 24 March 2013 at 17:46
- m.lawrenson said...
Red Nev : You should read the latest edition of Ale Cry. One of the members is putting himself up for the NE saying, basically, CAMRA is slipping.
As evidence, he uses a photo of the continental beers stand at the Wigan Beer Festival. This is proof that Evil Keg is infiltrating CAMRA. Apparently, the likes of Schneider Weisse are the enemy these days.
- 24 March 2013 at 18:03
- RedNev said...
I must let my friends in Wigan CAMRA know about this!
- 24 March 2013 at 18:29
- Benjamin Nunn said...
'Pro choice' is absolutely right.
'Pro *restricted* choice' is, however, dangerous and wrong. And for that reason I do think CAMRA should actively campaign against breweries making good beers (or any beers for that matter) keg only.
I drink mostly cask with a little bit of keg, and I'm worried that we're starting to see a situation where pro-keg brewers are doing their blandest beers in cask and their best beers in keg in an attempt to manipulate the market and perpetuate myths about cask beer which are just as damaging as some of the prevailing myths about keg.
Should CAMRA care if brewers are doing keg? It's not an issue in itself, but when it's keg *at the expense of cask* then it becomes a campaigning issue in my view.
- 24 March 2013 at 21:55
- m.lawrenson said...
I think the Cask Fundamentalist wing of CAMRA do more harm than good sometimes. Beer drinkers of my age (37), didn't go through the battles of the 70s, trying to part the seas of Red Barrel and Trophy Bitter in order to get some decent beer on sale. Fighting against Punk IPA simply because it comes in the same containers Watney and Whitbread used in 1971 will baffle many of the younger generation.
Another thing my local CAMRA do is praise any place that starts doing cask. Many's the time I've read in Ale Cry a news item saying "[such and such a bar] has put two handpumps on, serving Greene King IPA and Marstons Pedigree", as if another place doing nationally available brands is some kind of triumph.
I hope that one day they'll be an organisation called "The Campaign For Interesting Beer".
- 24 March 2013 at 23:14
- py0 said...
m.lawrenson - How about the "Campaign for Revitalisation of Ale" or "CAMRA" for short? Basically means the same thing as "The Campaign for Interesting Beer".
- 25 March 2013 at 10:35
- Bailey said...
'Revitalisation' originally rejected in 1973 for being too hard to say while drunk...
- 25 March 2013 at 10:44
- RedNev said...
Those who wish to amend CAMRA's aims and policies should put motions to the 2014 AGM (you're too late for this year). If you want the campaign to change, that is your only option; comments on blogs, letters to What's Brewing, resigning from CAMRA in disgust or not joining on principle will not change anything.
- 25 March 2013 at 15:47
I feel that the CAMRA campaign for cask beer could become more relevant in the future if more do follow Brew Dogs lead , which may or maynot happen , although I expect it will. Campaigning for interesting beer would be ridiculous as who defines it, an elected God of Beer each decade ? (maybe Tandleman)
This week surely the benefit of CAMRA has been shown to all who like a good cask or any beer in a pub.
Saying that I do see that it has an image problem which needs to be dealt with, but hey youngsters do seem to be watching Game of Thrones in their droves so maybe Nerdy is the new King.
- 25 March 2013 at 17:07
- Tandleman said...
Me? God of beer? I just know what I like.
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ABOVE! And Immortal City. ;D Still wish they'd stuck with the original cover. Just imagine that cover model, all over B&N . . . perhaps they changed it because adolescent girls just would not be able to handle it.
Hahah you may have a point there!
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This is a huge step towards full operational independence.
Iraqi Special Ops Forces, Air Force Conduct Joint Medevac Mission
By Army Spc. Jeffrey A. Ledesma
BAGHDAD, March 31, 2009 – Iraqi special operations forces and their air force partners teamed up recently to conduct their first joint medical evacuation from the Iraqi capital.
Flying a newly refurbished Mi-17 helicopter for the March 20 mission, the Iraqi air force pilots transported an Iraqi lieutenant from Baghdad to the Joint Base Balad medical center to undergo surgery.
"Iraqis coming together for this mission means we are going forward to achieve our independence," an Iraqi special operations forces officer assigned to the Iraqi medical center said.
The patient said it made him feel good knowing the respective Iraqi forces were working together, because sooner or later Iraq is going to have to run things on its own.


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Anyway I've been concentrating on the French Allies, particularly those at the Battle of Gross Breeren. (guess which battle is next...). A big thank you to Spanish Wargamer Rafael Pardo's Website, bags of info on the units & battles in question - well done! http://www.rafaelpardoalmudi.com/
I've also been climbing through the attic, (Yes, not a pretty sight being 266 lbs of Man Flesh, through years of lifting weights, the hands & knees can't take the strain though....) looking for my Anschluss 1813 Books, they are Out of Print now. I've found ALL the books on the 1813 Battles, including some 1809 Austrian Campaign, BUT I can't find the 'Ebb & Flow of Battle ' 1813 Module 2 Rules/ Army Lists. Obviously being Leipzig, they are BIG lists. Gutted, I've now scoured EBAY, Amazon, but no luck. I guess I'm going to have to get along to some game shows... If anyone has a copy & you want to sell them, then please leave your email address.
Well here's the latest efforts. Some re-paints, some new paint jobs, some new flags. Of course courtesy of the Splendid WarFlag! http://www.warflag.com/napflags/index.htm
|Saxon Light & Heavy Cavalry
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|Love those flags
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|2 Divisions, 4 Brigades
|Polish troops, now with the proper flag...
|Imperial Guard - Empress Dragoons & Guards D'Honneur
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Running and walking have very different strides and thus different shoe requirements. When walking, the first impact is on the heel. PROSPECS builds walking shoes with a firm heel cup (unlike running shoes) to keep the foot aligned from that first impact. When walking, the foot is on the ground longer during every stride than in running. PROSPECS' patented MoveFrame TM Technology holds and supports the foot to keep it from pronating and supinating, keeping the foot and joints balanced and properly aligned. When walking, the impact on joints is merely the body's weight, while running has an impact of three times the body's weight. Running shoes are primarily focused on absorbing the shock of that impact. They are not designed for the need of motion control in the foot or a steady platform.
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Volume 17, Number 42 | March 11 - 17, 2005
Police blotter
Bronze plaque
The management of the office tower at 65 Liberty St. between Broadway and Nassau St. told police that the bronze plaque, valued at $2,000, bolted to an exterior wall, had been stolen sometime before 7 a.m. Thurs. Feb. 24.
Deli break-in
Thieves broke into the Grand St. Deli and Mini Market at 42 Grand St. near Thompson St. during the early hours of Mon. March 7, opened an A.T.M. and made off with $15,000, police said.
The robbers forced open the locked metal gate, broke the glass front door and pried open the automated teller machine, police said.
Desk lift
An employee in the office building at 451 Greenwich St., near Desbrosses St., told police that her wallet, which contained personal documents but no cash, was taken from her work station where she left it at noon, Thurs. Feb 24. She recalled that a stranger had come to the office earlier for a pick-up.
Lost at A.T.M.
A man who had placed his wallet on the counter while using an A.T.M. in a lobby at Liberty and William Sts. at 11 a.m. Thurs. Feb. 24 found it missing when he reached for it after completing his transaction, police said.
Soho auto break-in
A woman who parked her 2004 Dodge Intrepid on the northwest corner of Thompson and Watts Sts. on Sun. Feb. 27 found the lock of the door on the drivers side damaged and unspecified property missing when she returned at 2:45 p.m., police said.
Naked theft
A woman who was in Naked Lunch, a bar at 17 Thompson St. near Grand St. at 3 a.m. Sat. Feb. 26, left her handbag on the bar before she went to put her drink down on a nearby table. The bag, with $180 in cash and personal papers, was gone by the time she turned back to it, police said.
Lost at Lennys
A customer at Lennys, a bar at 108 John St., told police her wallet with $550 in cash, a $500 blank money order, her passport and other personal documents, was taken from her bag at about 4:30 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 24.
Laptop stolen
An unknown suspect entered an office at 64 Fulton St., sometime before 7 p.m. on Tues. Feb. 22 and made off with a Sony laptop computer, police said.
Subway pickpocket
A passenger who boarded a southbound No. 6 train at Bleecker St. on Thursday morning Feb. 24 discovered that his wallet was missing from his rear pants pocket when he changed trains at Brooklyn Bridge, police said. The wallet had credit cards and other personal papers.
Albert Amateau
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I guess the only thing that really mattered is that she liked it, and she did.
On Saturday, July 2nd, we headed to Tallahassee with my Mom and Dad to meet my Aunt, Uncle, Cousin, and her two kids at Chuck E. Cheese. We figured the kids would have a blast playing the games and being together. The kids and the adults played lots of games and won lots of tickets. After all the playing was done, we let Emma open her presents. She got lots of cool things! We didn't take many pictures, but here are a few that we did get.
Yes, that is an iPhone that you see, but, before anyone freaks out and thinks that I have lost my mind giving an 8yr. old a phone, let me explain. I just recently upgraded my iPhone from the original one, which you see Emma holding, to a new iPhone 4. Emma loves to play on our phones, so when I got my new one, I decided to just hold on to my old one, and reinstall it so that she could use it as an iPod touch. This basically means that she can only use it when she is connected to Wi-Fi and that there is no phone service. We were able to find her an app that she can use to text us and other family members that doesn't cost anything. By having these features only available when she is connected to either our home Wi-Fi or my parents, we are really able to keep an eye on her, while at the same time, allowing her to have fun. So far it's working out great, and there haven't been any major issues.
This was our group! Me, Ike, Emma and Madeline aren't in the picture, we forgot to get a shot of us I guess. It was really nice to be able to get the kids together to play. After all the fun, we had Olive Garden for dinner! Yummy!
Thanks so much Lightfoots for taking the time and money to drive all that way to meet us! Emma had a great day!


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University of Iowa News Release
June 21, 2007 (Updated June 22, 2007 11:24 AM )
Purdue Provost Sally Mason Named University Of Iowa's 20th President
The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, today named Purdue University Provost Sally Mason, 57, the University of Iowa's 20th president. The appointment takes effect Aug. 1. Mason's salary was set at $450,000.
Mason will succeed David Skorton, who left the UI in June 2006 to become president of Cornell University in New York. Gary Fethke, retired dean of the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business, has been serving as interim UI president since Skorton's departure and will remain in that role until Mason moves into 101 Jessup Hall later this summer.
Today's announcement took place in the Richey Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union, with members of the Board of Regents, members of the UI community and other well-wishers in attendance. Photos of the announcement, Mason's vita, is available at http://www.uiowa.edu/uipresidentialsearch/welcome/, which will be updated throughout the coming week.UITV, which covered the announcement live, will rebroadcast the event on its Iowa City and Cedar Rapids cable channels at 7 and 9 p.m. tonight (Thursday) on UITV. The video will also be available for online viewing by 7 p.m. Central Time Thursday at mms://winmedia.uiowa.edu/president/2007president.wmv.
Michael Gartner opened the Board of Regents meeting by welcoming a packed crowd, which included an estimated 150 UI faculty, staff, students, members of the community and media. After the regents gave Mason unanimous and enthusiastic approval, Mason and her husband, Ken, were escorted into the room to a standing ovation, thunderous applause and the Iowa Fight song. Escorting them were Barrett Anderson, UI Student Government president, and Crystal Edler, chair of the Executive Council on Graduate and Professional Students.
The Masons were decked out in black and gold, Sally Mason wearing a black suit accented by a gold shirt and Ken Mason dressed in a gold suit and black slacks. As she was escorted to the front of the room, she paused along the way to shake the hands of faculty, staff, students and other well-wishers.
Gartner thanked his fellow regents, the university community and the UI Presidential Search Committee, as well as Fethke for his dedication and commitment as interim president.
"For the past year, has been the acting president, but he's been anything but a caretaker," Gartner said. "He's established momentum that will help Sally Mason when she takes over in a month. He has been an absolutely terrific president ... I can't believe that anyone could have done a better job than Gary did."
Gartner said that when Mason spoke during her presentation last week, she was the only one of four finalists who, when she spoke of education, had a "spark in her eyes. She was the only one to use the word 'passion.'" Gartner called her an outstanding scholar and a leader and in particular praised her passion and her "thirst to excel."
"I don't think the UI could have come up with better candidates and a better president," he said.
Before Mason took the podium, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver made remarks and thanked everyone involved in the process of selecting the UI's 20th president. Culver said he was honored to be one of the first Iowans to congratulate Mason.
"I would like to welcome you and your family, and we are proud to have you here," Culver said. "It has been challenging and sometimes difficult, but in the end, we have a fantastic president that everyone can be proud of.... Iowa's world-class regent universities play a vital role in our state's future so it's critical we have the best people running these institutions.
"Today, I am proud to have such an outstanding person and proven leader to join them (the presidents of the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University), and I look forward to rolling up my sleeves and partnering with you to make this university as successful as possible."
Mason beamed as she stepped up to the podium.
"It is difficult for me to describe my excitement, my enthusiasm for the University of Iowa and for all of you," Mason said. "But I think I can perhaps sum up all my deepest feelings in two heartfelt words I intend to shout loud and often in the years ahead - go Hawks!"
Mason later quoted the late space pioneer James Van Allen, who said, "One of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in ... a universe without bounds."
Said Mason, "The possibilities for our university are also without bounds. We can take our university as far as our passion, our energy, our imagination and our determination allow. The only limitations we face are those we place on ourselves."
Mason said her appointment is a very personal accomplishment. Her father was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia who came to the United States as a child and never had the opportunity to finish grade school. Her mother barely finished high school.
"I am the first person in my family to receive a university degree," she said. "And now I am the president of one of the world's great universities. Standing here before you today, I can't help but wonder what my parents would think if they could see me now. I think they would be very proud. Very amazed. But also very proud."
Mason said her first priority as president is to meet with students, faculty, staff and administrators to learn more about the university she'll be leading, a task she said she's already begun. She also plans to meet with alumni, friends of the university, Iowans and community leaders.
"I will travel throughout our state to learn what the University of Iowa can do for our rural towns and major cities," she said. "It will be an exciting time for me to hear your ideas and your dreams, to learn your vision for this university and its place in our state and in the world. It will be a time for me to share my passion for the job that is ahead."
Mark Salisbury, UI doctoral student in the student affairs administration and research program, said he was happy with Mason's selection.
Jack Evans, a member of the Board of Regents, called today's announcement a "big day" for the university and for the state of Iowa.
"Dr. Mason is a distinguished scholar who has a long career in higher education leadership, and I, for one, am excited to see what she'll do to make this fine institution even better," Evans said.
Iowa Sen. Bob Dvorsky, D-Coralville, said he's been very impressed by Mason.
"She hit all the high notes in terms of Iowa as a university of hope," Dvorsky said. "I think she's an excellent choice, and I'm looking forward to returning Iowa to being one of the nation's top 10 public research universities."
Iowa City Mayor Ross Wilburn also said he's looking forward to getting to know the new president better and hopes to set up regular meetings with her.
"In the past, it's been a good way to touch base on where the city and the university interface and talk about how we can work together," Wilburn said.
In a statement to the Purdue University community, Purdue President Martin C. Jischke called Mason "among the top people in higher education today."
"As provost, her impact on Purdue University has been profound in many ways, including increasing diversity, recruiting top faculty, doubling the research program, advancing engagement and improving the learning environment for our students," Jischke, a former president of Iowa State University. "She is a major force behind our Discovery Learning Center in Discovery Park. Sally and her husband, Ken, are major donors to the Learning Center. Her work at Purdue has helped to transform this university, so it comes as no surprise that she is being selected for this wonderful leadership opportunity at the University of Iowa. I believe her impact on the state of Iowa will be every bit as great as it has been on our state of Indiana."
As UI president, Mason will lead the largest of three Iowa Regents' universities and home to the world-renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop, one of America's best hospitals and the Iowa Hawkeyes athletic teams. Founded in 1847 as the state's first public institution of higher learning and located on a 1,900-acre campus, the UI today is a comprehensive public university committed to high-quality teaching, research, and service.
The UI currently enrolls close to 30,000 students and several UI programs rank among the nation's best. Its faculty includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, four former clerks to U.S. Supreme Court justices, two National Medal of Science winners, and four Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
During her tenure at Purdue, Mason invested both professionally and personally in diversity and innovative research and education.
She raised funds for and implemented a number of major diversity initiatives at Purdue, including creation of a Native American education and cultural center and a Latino Cultural Center, joining a black cultural center already on campus. She started two programs funded by the National Science Foundation that work to increase retention and graduation rates among students in science fields, especially minorities. And she recently implemented a new initiative that focuses on recruitment, including more minority faculty appointments, professional development programs, and incentives for teaching and research on diversity.
In 2004, Mason and her husband gave a $2 million gift to create the Sally K. and Kenneth A. Mason Fund in support of Purdue's Discovery Learning Center (DLC). The DLC, one of 10 interdisciplinary research centers in Purdue's new Discovery Park, was created to advance research that revolutionizes learning in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math). Through externally funded research projects, innovative programs, and collaborative partnerships, the DLC is seeks to redesign educational practices and create innovative learning environments that, according to the DLC's Web site, "have immediate impact and nurture lifelong learning for students and citizens of a global community."
In April 2005, Mason announced that the Indiana Commission for Higher Education approved Purdue's plan to become the first university to offer graduate degrees in engineering education. The move came on the heels of Purdue's creation of a Department of Engineering Education in 2004.
And in February 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Mason to be one of 14 members of the President's Committee on the National Medal of Sciences. The committee reviews nominations made by members of the National Academy of Science, academia and the general public and makes recommendations to the president annually.
A native of New York City, Mason received her bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Kentucky in 1972, a master's degree from Purdue University in 1974, and a Ph.D. in cellular, molecular, and developmental biology from the University of Arizona in 1978. After two years at Indiana University in Bloomington doing postdoctoral research, she joined the University of Kansas in 1981. During the span of her 21 years at KU, she served as a full professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences, acting chair of the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and finally, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
In 2001, Mason returned to Purdue, where she is currently a professor of biology and provost of the University. Her responsibilities there include oversight for all of the academic programs on the West Lafayette campus and those on the four Purdue-affiliated regional campuses. She has received a number of teaching awards, including a Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Award, an Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, and a prestigious Kemper Teaching Fellowship.
Mason is the author of many scientific papers and has obtained a number of research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Wesley Research Foundation. More recently, she has served as principal investigator for several large statewide NSF grants and grants from the Lilly Endowment in Indiana.
Among the many national and international organizations of which she has been a part, Mason has served as president of the Pan American Society for Pigment Cell Research, president of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, member of the Advisory Committee to the NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), member of the NSF Advisory Committee for GPRA Performance Assessment, member of the executive board of the NASULGC Chief Academic Officers Group, and chair of the board of Inproteo, a start-up company collaboration between Eli Lilly, Inc., Indiana University, and Purdue University.
The search for the UI president was chaired by UI College of Dentistry Dean David Johnsen. The other search committee members of the UI Presidential Search Committee included Professor Jonathan Carlson, College of Law; Professor Lee Anna Clark, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS); Professor Elizabeth Chrischilles, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health; Associate Professor Sarah England, Physiology and Biophysics, Carver College of Medicine (CCOM); Professor Ed Folsom, Department of English, CLAS; Leonard Hadley, retired Chairman and CEO, Maytag Corporation; Dean Linda Maxson, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor Paul Rothman, DEO, Department of Internal Medicine, CCOM; Professor Gene Parkin, Department of Civil-Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering; Cheryl Reardon, Assistant to the Dean/VP for Research; Professor Jarjisu Sa-Aadu, Department of Finance, Tippie College of Business; and Sarah Vigmostad, graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
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The screw after cleaning and before repainting. I have a bit to learn about docile diesel inboards, but I love the relaxed put-put and the gorgeous noise of the exhaust bubbling under the stern. She runs on the smell of an oily rag. I took her to the dockside fuel stop today after a few trips and she would only fit twenty dollars worth in the tank.
The current project now (apart from adapting our new house and shed for our things) is the restoration of the deck and timber trim.


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For finding your mother, there's one certain test.
You must look for the creature who loves you the best.
-David Kirk
Last week, my friend was telling me about her friend who tried in vitro several times unsuccessfully before adopting from Costa Rica and most recently from the states. The friend said, "Tell Heather that if she does in vitro, she should use donor eggs."
I think in her situation, she must have had egg issues (which I do not), but I thought about this suggestion and how sincerely she must have wanted us to have success. But to me, if you are going to use donor eggs, you might as well adopt.
That's not to say that using donor eggs for some women isn't the best choice for them. In fact, my infertility counselor did just that and said she couldn't have been more pleased with her choice and that her daughter was the most amazing, wonderful daughter she could ever imagine. It's very important for some women to be pregnant to the extent that they use donor eggs or donor sperm if the issue is a male factor.
After years of infertility and having heard lots of opinions from lots of people, I have concluded that every woman makes the right choice for herself with her husband or partner. There is no right or wrong way to become a mother. Whether she does in vitro, uses donor eggs or a surrogate, adopts domestically or internationally, or chooses not to have children at all, it is her choice and she has made the right decision.
I have considered all these options (except for not having children), and I've concluded that I don't necessarily NEED to reproduce, although I would be lying if I said I wouldn't be thrilled if Craig and I could have our own children. Being pregnant would be a beautiful experience. But I don't need it. I just need to be a mother.
As a teacher, every year on the first day of school, I look out at the sea of faces in my class, and they're just that . . . faces. Names on a roster. But I know this is the only day it will feel like this. As soon as we start working and talking and listening and joking, they become Daniel and Jordan and Brady and Chris and Darius and Maddie, and I love them. And they're not just faces anymore. They're crazy, hilarious, young people with stories and dreams. Sometimes it's painful being a teacher when you want kids so badly and haven't had them. It's hard to explain to 7th graders why you're choked up when they're giving a speech. "It's because I'm so proud of you and your mom is so lucky to have you."
When I told a girl in my class, Alexis, that we were adopting, she said, "Mrs. Curry, Halle and I were just talking last weekend about how you'd make such a good mom."
Gulp. Does she know that's what I desire more than anything? That it's my single most important purpose in life? That I'd give anything to be a mommy?
I've known wonderful mothers in my life. My own mom, for starters. The mom of all moms. In one word, I'd describe her as happy. Joyful. Full of life. OK, that was 5 words. She's selfless and fun loving, and will back you on anything.
My husband's mom. Strong. Fierce. Loves with a passion and would do anything for her children. She's hardworking and would give you the shirt off her back.
My sister. Giving. Forgiving. Like a mama bird – delicately nurturing her chicks. Teaching them to fly and proud of their independence.
My sister-in-law. Mama bear. Don't mess with her cubs. She's loyal, but she'll kill you. Don't mess with her cubs.
There are many different ways to mother, but the common thread is love. When children are loved, they are secure. Regardless of style, love is the most important thing.
I've thought a lot about our referral, when we get the name and picture of the child being referred to us. It can be unnerving to think someone else is choosing a child for us. Will she be the right one?
The answer is yes. For one second, she will be just a face and a name. But then she will be my daughter. Forever. She will make me happy, joyful, and full of life. I will love her with a passion and do anything for her. I will nurture her and be proud of her. I'll be a grizzly. I will love her.
How do I know this? Because that's what mothers do.
And I will be her mother.
Not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone,
but still miraculously my own.
Never forget for a single minute,
You didn't grow under my heart – but in it.
-Fleur Conkling Heylinger
This is an inspiring video about a family who wrote a book called "From Ashes to Africa, " about their experience going from infertility to the most purposeful parenting one could imagine.


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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME Premiere Music Video For "Astral Body"; NEW Album Out Soon!
Between The Buried And Me unveil the first official video from the North Carolina band's epic NEW album, 'The Parallax II: Future Sequence' (set to be released on October 9th via Metal Blade Records), for "Astral Body" premiering today via Alternative Press' HERE.
The visually stunning four-minute clip was directed by Wes Richardson and builds upon the story laid out in 'The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues' (2011 EP) and the forthcoming, 12-track concept album 'The Parallax II: Future Sequence'. "Quote from Tommy explaining how the video ties into the overarching story of The Parallax," explains singer/songwriter Tommy Rogers. "Words words words."
Between The Buried And Me have released a series of behind-the-scenes clips documenting the recording sessions for The Parallax II which are viewable on the band's YouTube page at www.youtube.com/btbamofficial.
Exclusive pre-order bundles are available now at www.merchconnectioninc.com/btbam and www.metalblade.com/btbam (the sites have different packages available) with digital pre-orders available via iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/preorder/id556666908).
We recently spoke with the bands frontman Tommy Rogers about the bands NEW album 'The Parallax II: Future Sequence', here is what went down!
Video by: Zulie Alvarez (www.zuliephotographierocks.com/)
The band kicks off a European tour on October 1st in the UK followed by Japanese, Australian and New Zealand dates.
All dates below with Periphery and The Safety Fire opening:
- Oct. 1: Reading, UK at Sub 89
- Oct. 2: Wolverhampton, UK at Slade Rooms
- Oct. 3: Glasgow, UK at The Garage
- Oct. 4: Newcastle, UK at 02 Academy 2
- Oct. 5: Manchester, UK at Club Academy
- Oct. 6: Leeds, UK at Cockpit
- Oct. 7: Bristol, UK 02 at Academy
- Oct. 8: Southampton, UK at The Brook
- Oct. 10: Antwerp, Belgium at Trix
- Oct. 11: Amsterdam, Netherlands at Melkweg
- Oct. 12: Cologne, Germany at Luxor
- Oct. 13: Munster, Germany at Sputnikhalle
- Oct. 14: Copenhagen, Denmark at Vega
- Oct. 16: Stockholm, Sweden at Debaser Slussen
- Oct. 17: Gothenberg, Sweden at Sticky Fingers
- Oct. 18: Hamburg, Germany at Logo
- Oct. 19: Berlin, Germany at Lido
- Oct. 20: Prague, Czech Republic at Rock Café
- Oct. 22: Bratislava, Slovakia at Randall Club
- Oct. 23: Budapest, Hungary at Durer Kert
- Oct. 24: Wien, Austria at Szene
- Oct. 25: Munich, Germany at Backstage
- Oct. 27: Novara, Italy at Rock'n'Roll Arena
- Oct. 28: Zurich, Switzerland at Dynamo
- Oct. 29: Stuttgart, Germany at Universum
- Oct. 30: Frankfurt, Germany at Batschkapp
- Oct. 31: Paris, France at La Maroquinerie
- Nov. 2: London, UK at Shepherds Bush Empire
End Tour
- Nov. 4: Austin, TX at Fun Fun Fun Fest
All dates below with Animal as Leaders opening:
- Nov. 8: Osaka, Japan at Avenue A
- Nov. 9: Nagoya, Japan at 3Star
- Nov. 10: Tokyo, Japan at Aube
- Nov. 11: Tokyo, Kichijoji at Club Seata
- Nov. 13: Perth, Australia at Amplifier
- Nov. 14: Adelaide, Australia at Fowlers
- Nov. 15: Brisbane, Australia at The Zoo
- Nov. 16: Melbourne, Australia at Corner Hotel
- Nov. 17: Sydney, Australia at The Metro
- Nov. 19: Wellington, NZ at Bodega
- Nov. 20: Auckland, NZ at The Kings Arms
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Do you Remember the Twenty-First Night of September--Thursday Thoughts
For all the newbies out there...which probably isn't anyone...I ask 5 questions, you answer the questions in the comments section. It's fun, easy, and interactive. Let's get it on!
1. How many years have you been married? Or if you're single (Noj), how long was your longest relationship?
2. What was the best date you've ever had? Worst date (I think I've asked this one before)?
3. How were you proposed to? Or how did you propose? Or how would you like to propose?
4. If you were to get married again, would your wedding be the same? If no, how would it differ? Or if you're not married, how do you envision your wedding?
5. What's a memorable present you have received for an anniversary or wedding or whenever? What's the best present you've ever given?
5 comments:
- jeff said...
1. smsmh and i will be celebrating 12 years this november.
2. best date? hmm...i'd have to say the first date was the grooviest.
3. i knelt down on one knee on her doorstep.
4. i would change NOTHING, it was an amazing wedding.
5. smsmh made me a shadow box commemorating our first marathon in australia together.
- Noj said...
What, am I your only single friend left?
1. 6 months.
2. Best date was with a girl (can't remember her name) that took me to a hockey game...ha ha, just kidding Dave.
3. I have no idea, never planned it out because never was close to propose to anyone.
4. M.Night Shyamalan will be there and more people will be paying attention to him that to my bride and I. But his gift (a new corvette) would make me easily forgive him
5. Never made it to a significant anniversary :(
- Meredith said...
Noj! I thought it would have been the sorority party I took you to!
1. Uh duh! It's our fourth wedding anniversary.
2. I don't even remember if it was a date, but Dave and I spent an evening splashing in the rain and mudpuddles. That's when I knew I was in love.
3. Dave proposed to me in the whisper arch at Hayes Hall on the Oval.
4. If I were to get married again, I would probably have something really intimate and at some destination.
5. Dave is really great at giving gifts and I have loved all of them.
- Dave said...
Got some duplicates here, obviously!
1. See Above
2. That was a good one, Meredith! I'll go with our first "official" date at Spinnaker's. As for worst, maybe a certain New Years Eve? Thank goodness for late-night pizza.
3. See Above. I had to make up a story about meeting our friends to get her down to the OSU campus that day. :)
4. I'd probably keep it pretty similar, though maybe a little smaller. There's a bunch of people who were there that I haven't seen since.
5. Well, I just got an iPod from Meredith, which I'm very excited about. :) But all her gifts are good ones!
- Michelle said...
Congrats, Dave and Meredith!
1. 5 (as of August)
2. Probably helping to chaperone the church youth group at an amusement park. (I think it was Cedar Point.) Brian and I got stuck on one of the carnival type rides in the rain--it was hilarious!
3. Well, he tried to take me to a park in Westerville, but there were too many other people around, and he'd recently had knee surgery and he really couldn't get down on one knee very well, so he waited until we got back to his house, and gave me the ring and sort of knelt down there. it was still very sweet.
4. I probably would have a bigger reception with a live band and dancing. The wedding itself was just about right, though.
5. Oh, that's hard to say. Brian is really good with gifts. I guess it's probably the necklace he gave me after our son was born. It's beautiful, and I was not expecting it at all. I'm not sure about the best present I've given. I'm not nearly as good at that as Brian.


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Yes, you feel alone and that does not mean you are broken, feeling alone is something totally natural, you only need to embrace it and take it in like a real champ and learn to live with that horrible and black void that used to be your heart, just as simple as that.
Watching the sunset by yourself is something beautiful and life changing that you can to to start accepting loneliness into your life, take it in like an old friend, enjoy your moments with it and make the most of them, thing about life and how your'r does not affect the world at all.
Walk alone at night and think about all the stupid things that you have done in your life and the things that had lead you to this moment and current state, is no big deal, lots of people have done stupid things and they are still alive.
Life is too short to spend it around people that make you feel bad about yourself is better to be alone that with a bad kind of company.
- let the bygones be bygones
- enjoy life
- be alone if you really want to
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Last but not least, this one represents a lost innocence or childhood, how little kids are let alone to live by their own in this world, or maybe the photographer just wanted to see all the artistic potencial of that cute teddy bear, i don't know.
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Early Years
What the Parents Say
Parents are Delighted by Moorland School
Returning to work and the thought of detaching from Isabel was one of the most emotional decisions, but this was made reassuringly easier by the dedicated, loving team at Moorland Nursery.
- Charlotte Cunliffe
The team at Moorland have provided exceptional flexible care for our children around our busy demanding lives and careers. The location is beautifully rural and safe, giving our children an enriched experience of the outdoors. We would highly recommend Moorland Nursery.
- Stephen and Megan Yates
Our daughter loves Moorland Nursery, and for us as a family this has been the best decision as we see our little girl coming home from nursery excited, happy and confident.
- Gemma and Matthew Brown


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League City, Texas (PRWEB) March 08, 2014
The construction trade show ConExpo-Con/Agg has returned to the Las Vegas Convention Center, transforming it into an adult playground filled with everything from crushers to cranes and massive tractors.
But representatives with EHE Auctions say its online auction platform is the key to getting a great deal, regardless of whether you're a buyer or seller.
"EHE Auctions offers turn-key, stress-free online marketplace for buying and selling used heavy construction, farm and industrial equipment along with commercial vehicles," said Milissa Wise, Director of Operations for Expert Heavy Equipment, the parent company of EHE Auctions, which is owned and operated by former Marines.
Wise went on to point out that although the ConExpo-Con/Agg Trade Show is one of the biggest trade shows in North America, in more ways than one, that does not necessarily mean that the very Review are there.
More than 2,400 exhibitors at the trade show are showcasing the latest equipment and technology from every major construction industry, attracting contractors from across the county.
According to media reports, it generates approximately $160 million in non-gaming revenue, drawing more than 125,000 guests. Some exhibitors even say that their annual sales quotas are met during the convention.
"My question for any buyer is do you want the best price for the best equipment?" Wise questioned. Wise went on to say that it's a great event to attend to see what's new, "but when it comes to getting the very best deal possible on used heavy construction, farm and industrial equipment, Expert Heavy Equipment and EHE Auctions are the two best resources, without the travel costs."
Wise noted that with its auction platform being online, the company is able to be extra flexible and provide additional options that may not be available at the ConExpo-Con/Agg Trade Show.
In fact, EHE Auctions has partnered with WeGoLook and National Equipment Registry (NER) in an effort to provide customers with peace of mind when bidding on used equipment online.
WeGoLook has agents that will take a complete set of photos and a video of the machine so everything is disclosed.
In addition, EHE Auctions has a partnership with NER provides IRONcheck reports to ensure the machines being offered are not stolen and have no outstanding liens.
For more information, please visit: http://eheauctions.com/.


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October 24, 2008
Authors for "The Infinity Swords"
Here at long last is the lineup of authors for our first Carnivah House anthology, "The Infinity Swords."
The City on the Sword, by S.C. Bryce
An Awakening of Shadows, by Deven Atkinson
Quoth the Magpie, by Barbara E. Tarbox
Under a Persian Sun, by Ty Johnston
The High Price of Miracles, by Sue Penkivech
Gift of the Unspoken God, by Jason Thummel
Sanctuary, by Ellie Tupper
Plus …
Keeper of the Blade, a new action-packed fantasy story by Gere McClellan
White Willow, a new John Humble story by TW Williams
The Sword Cult, a new Calthus story by Steve Goble
We'll have sword-and-sorcery, high fantasy, some weird science fiction, some mystery and modern-day horror to bring your way — all swirling around a pair of dimension-hopping swords seeking one another out to complete the battle to rule the multiverse.
The editorial decisions were not easy at all, and I can think of several stories we probably would have purchased if our budget was bigger. So, please congratulate our paid authors, and I hope you'll be reading their work when we get the book out there.
More details regarding release date, etc., will be forthcoming when we get them ironed out.
— Steve


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7th October 2016
after the reapers
a downpour
of crows
All our sorrows, joys, tears and laughter will pass like clouds. This blog is dedicated to my beloved husband, Ralph, who was always the light of my life. Please feel free to comment or ask questions. I would be delighted to hear from you. Just hit the comment button below any posting. Left clicking on an image will bring it up larger in a separate window. There is a translation button (below on the right ) to enable you to read in your own language.
2 comments:
- Bill said...
"downpour" is so right.
- October 8, 2016 at 2:50 AM
- Grace said...
Thanks, Bill. That is exactly how they appeared to me.
- October 8, 2016 at 7:08 AM
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"Do anything from an atc, altered art project, handmade gift, card, tag etc. as long as it has Bows on, at least 1 bow that you have handmade. There is tons of ways you can change the look of bows, a flat bow , a big bouncy bow with lots of layers, simple little bow etc i think you get the drift now?"
I love big flowing bows, there are some blogs I visit where there bows just make me sit and stare at them trying to figure out how they make them so pretty! Me.. I do good to tie a knot most of the time. I really worked hard on this bow, and it still looks sad and flat to me, but it is technically a bow! I started by using one of the newer Magnolia images, don't you just love that these are larger? Colored with my Copics, I tried to use the same colors as one of my favorite pattern papers from K&Company. I have to really think hard when using this paper as I don't ever want to run out of this paper stack, called "Classic K". I used my new Martha Stewart small scalloped heart punch across the bottom of one of the patterns, then the gorgeous rose pattern, I found a darker piece in the stack and used it as mats behind the image and the wonderful sentiment, love this one from Rubber Stampede. I sewed everything down with either blanket stitches or straight stitches.
Now that bow... the ribbon is a Martha Stewart satin ribbon, tied over and over and over again until I settled on this one. And just because it had to have them, I stacked some Prima flowers, with jewelry spacers and mini brads.
I hope you will run over and check out all of the other DT work! There are some spectacular bows to see!
Me.. I am off to Sunday Breakfast, then home to make a cake for my nieces Birthday party - then off to the party then home to play with Libbie, Bonnie and Gato -
Hope you have a great Sunday -
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The following quote presents some very insightful and useful principles regarding success in whatever arena applied. It is an encouragement to those who may think they don't have all it takes.
Two of my sons are engaged in missionary ventures and both would tell you they have developed in ways they never foresaw. They had one object steadily in view but God brought twists and turns never imagined requiring nearly all of the principles above.
Photo I took in Thailand, quote from Getting On In The World by William Mathews, LL.D.


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I owe "Wicked" an apology.
I may have judged too harshly the blockbuster musical about the witches of Oz, whose 10th anniversary national tour opened Friday in Chicago, nearly a decade to the day after "Wicked" opened on Broadway.
"Wicked"★ ★ ★
Location: Oriental Theatre, 24 W. Randolph St., Chicago, (800) 775-2000 or broadwayinchicago.com
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday through Dec. 21. Also 2 p.m. Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16. No performance Nov. 28
Running time: About two hours, 45 minutes with intermission
Tickets: $40-$270
Parking: Pay garages
Rating: Middle school and older, some scenes might be too frightening for young children
The grand, sometimes glorious spectacle -- based on Gregory Maguire's prequel to L. Frank Baum's classic tale -- with its pop-inspired score by composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz ("Pippin," "Godspell") and a droll book Winnie Holzman felt bloated with its myriad plot lines and bombastic ballads. However well-intentioned the musical's portrayal of female friendship may have been, I objected to the depiction of women as vacuous, vindictive and selfish. Understanding the satirical implications, I was irritated nevertheless.
Eight years later, I've mellowed. I'm still not entirely comfortable with the stereotypes. But I appreciate more the evolution of the unlikely friendship between Jenn Gambatese's pretty, superficial and slightly dim Glinda the Good, and Alison Luff's smart, crusading Elphaba the Wicked, whose green skin has made her an outcast in Oz. (In typical teen flick fashion, Elphaba's beauty is revealed when she unbraids her hair and takes off her glasses).
Their relationship plays out like a Lifetime movie: forced to room together at Oz's Shiz University, they come to appreciate their differences, set aside their prejudices and grow emotionally as a result. The terrific duo of Gambatese and Luff -- whose performances exude a warm, youthful spark -- make it credible.
The endearing Gambatese has a lovely, operatic soprano and a flair for comedy. Luff is a vocal powerhouse whose Elphaba is tough, vulnerable and ever-authentic.
Charmer Curt Hansen plays Fiyero, the big-man-on-campus who goes from shallow to substantive. Jaime Rosenstein plays Elphaba's embittered sister Nessarose, who's in love with the kindly munchkin Boq (Jesse JP Johnson). John Davidson (of TV's "That's Incredible") plays the Wizard, a genial, blow-dried despot whose appeal is apparent. Playing his spinmeister Madame Morrible is Kim Zimmer ("Guiding Light"), whose performance suggests she's the real power behind the throne.
Original director Joe Mantello helms the slick, fast-paced production featuring Eugene Lee's original set (whose industrial, cog-and-wheel design underscores the political subtext), Susan Hilferty's costumes, James Lynn Abbott's dance arrangements and Kenneth Posner's murky lighting. Visually, it's all quite arresting.
Thematically, "Wicked" has a lot to say. Not just about friendship but about prejudice, power and political oppression. For all its dazzle, Oz is a totalitarian state that defines "good" as acquiescence and "evil" as resistance, something its citizens -- blinded by more than green neon -- tolerate. It's as overwhelming as the multithread plot, which could use some trimming.
That said, "Wicked" has some fine moments in the irresistible "Popular" and the anthemic Act I closer "Defying Gravity," which unfolds like an arena rock encore. But the real gem, and the show's emotional high point, is the lovely "For Good," in which Glinda and Elphaba acknowledge how they have changed.
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"Smaerd" Illustrator Visits Village Books
by Dave Wheeler2/3/2009 11:15:12 AMSomething curious is afoot, and Bryn Barnard wants to show you what it can look like. Each night you sleep, whether you realize it or not, you are visited by the inhabitants of a land called "Smaerd." Regional sister-act Andrea von Botefuhr and Angela Russell have created a literary world beyond their own Bainbridge Island that stretches to the furthest corners of your imagination. Partnered with Know Wonder Publishing, who commissioned Bryn Barnard as illustrator, Smaerd has become a reality you can take home and explore.
On Sunday, February 1, 2009, Village Books hosted Barnard to promote The Land of Smaerd, an inspirational picture book for all ages about dreams and the power of positive thinking. Geared toward younger audiences, Smaerd uses fantastical art and bright verses to show children how they might shift their perspective to manifest a new, positive reality around them. The collective creators of Smaerd hope to empower children to face their unique nightmares and bad dreams, and to actively engage them through art.
The Land of Smaerd, illustrated by Bryn Barnard.
The tricky part, said Barnard, is to "take the author's verbal ideas and manifest them as images." With his experience primarily centered around illustrating his own books on catastrophes, Dangerous Planet and Outbreak, Barnard was elated to discover the myriad fantasies and word pictures in Smaerd. This is his first project in the realm of metaphysical ideas. He worked closely with von Botefuhr and Russell to develop illustrations that resembled the pictures floating in the ether of their heads.
He pointed out a depiction of a girl standing below a whale soaring on butterfly wings. "This is one that they were very specific about." While initially Barnard had conceptualized five different protagonists for his illustrations, all of different ethnic backgrounds, the writers encouraged him to compress all the features into a single character, one in which all children might recognize themselves.
Bryn Barnard read from The Land of Smaerd at Village Books.
Photograph by Dave Wheeler
The book is a veritable wonderland of enchanting landscapes, and, as one looks closer, one might agree with poor Alice, who found herself in a different Wonderland, thinking, "Curiouser and curiouser!" In the artwork, Barnard embedded dragons hiding in hillsides and emphasized the natural complexities of spiraling Fibonacci sequences. The intricately designed mandalas featured in the book were created by Russell, one of which she created shortly after her original conception of Smaerd in the fifth grade!
After reading the story, Barnard sat to paint an image from the book. He described his layering technique using acrylic and oil paints while intermittently narrating a sneak peak at his forthcoming book for fall 2010, of which he is both writer and illustrator, The Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World, from Knopf Publishing. The new book will describe the magnificent innovations Muslims have made throughout history, from crank-shafts to sandpaper.
Barnard demonstrated his technique in creating the illustrations.
Photograph by Dave Wheeler
Visit Bryn Barnard Studio to learn more about Barnard, his art, and his books. For information about upcoming author events, visit Village Books or Neighborhood-Kids.com Activities.


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Here's your chance to properly retire your American flag. The County is co-sponsoring the efforts of Chapter 641 of the Vietnam Veterans of America to collect American flags which are no longer usable. Just deposit your flag in the large wooden box in the EOB Lobby (101 Monroe Street, Rockville), and the Chapter will conduct a ceremonial American flag disposal on Flag Day, June 14, from 11am-3pm at Battery Cycles, 7830 Airpark Road, Gaithersburg. The ceremony is open to the public, so feel free to stop by.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Properly Retire Your American Flag
Posted by Councilmember Nancy Floreen
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I had an overwhelming flow of email over the last week from my readers asking to tell more about ballet/dancer's life and pregnancy. Many wanted to know what it is like to be pregnant and dance, and what I thought about it.
I wrote this post over the course of a week. It is long, but I hope you read it all. Many takes on what a dancing pregnancy can be like, and ... I've personally experienced almost all. I hope you enjoy it.
"I feel so blessed to be able to have this experience, and at the same time continue doing something I have such a passion for," said Kent.
While performing during pregnancy is not a big deal in other art forms, dance - particularly ballet - is definitely a stretch. Many performed in early pregnancy, but few went as far as Julie Kent . Excerpts that reveal more from Kent's interview:
"What does it feel like to dance pregnant?
TC: I always thought I would have ant but the momentum of my career took hold, and I kept thinking, "Next year," or "One morn New York season." then it
How do you feel now about your decision?
TC: It's an incredible experience. It's my best role yet. With your body being your life, it's hard to take that plunge. In some respects I wish I had started earlier because I'm not sure how many years Thompson will have of watching me dance.
Did you perform during your pregnancy?
TC: No I had a miscarriage the year before. When I got pregnant the first time I kept dancing and teaching. Dancers always think they're invincible! I was feeling good, but the baby just wasn't strong enough. So when I got pregnant again, I really did nothing--nothing for a dancer I taught some but took it easy.
I dream for paid leave that would allow one to be easy on one's pregnant body, and paid leave to be able to stay with the baby at home for at least the first short few weeks. I dream of all directors allowing for children in the studio, or at least providing with the child room. I wish for the words "ballerina" and "mother" , said in the same sentence , to bring smiles to director's faces instead of frowns.
Please, share this post wherever you can - tweet, fb, blog, email.I sincerely hope that , one step at a time, the awareness rises. As a mother of four AND a professional dancer, I hope to see this change happen. And I know that many more are hoping and waiting for it as well. Let's make the change , that is long overdue, together.


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Seagalogy by Vern
Looking back at a distant youth, my mind strains to remember its first encounter with Steven Seagal. Was it the patchwork of naval fisticuffs known as Under Siege? Perhaps the pugilistic tremble of Nico/Above the Law? Maybe the virgin trip to a place called Out in Out for Justice? Actually, although I'm hindered by a memory stumbling blind in the crannies of time, I do believe the most likely candidate to be Hard to Kill. The fable of Mason Storm, the coma, the beard, images that poke through the mist of time. A grand training montage and fleeting images of Kelly LeBrock ride into the mind's eye, objects hitherto indistinct, now shifted into focus.
Then it becomes clear, this was a youth marked by Steven Seagal. Recollection represents a past mutated beyond the pedestrian crawl of reality. In place of the song of the ice cream van is now the musical thud of Seagal kicking a man. Forgotten songs are blotted out by Seagal's sagacious words whispered aplenty. Toys and the cherished plastic of childhood are supplanted by idolatrous mimicry of Seagal's every stance, every wobble of leg, every elbow shook in defiance of the Man. Life as a kid progressed spotted by the cheer of aikido combat and trenchant knee-face collisions; I was a sponge in a basin of Seagal.
With this history in mind, it's clear I couldn't ignore the publication of Vern's adventurous new book, Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal. It was to be read, a simple glance at the cover with its schematic of Seagal guaranteed that. Avoid this and a life of incomplete Seagalogical knowledge awaits, that was the warning. Thankfully a speedy purchase was enough to eliminate the risk.
Vern's fame and notoriety comes primarily from his contributions to that hub of joyous internet movie geekdom Ain't It Cool News. His reviews, often of the action and horror genres but not always, are words brandished like weapons, words slicing through the mire of cinema. His irreverent commentaries have become a staple of AICN, yielding Vern massive popularity. He's a self-proclaimed outlaw film critic, a man resistant to the prevailing ways of understanding cinema, to the accepted methods by which a film should be judged, to the drab form that mainstream film criticism assumes. He strives for an individual voice, creatively free to entertain and educate in whichever way necessary. Vern's rogue journalism has now spawned Seagalogy.
A weighty tome of some 400-pages, the book charts Seagal's manoeuvres in and out of cinema over the past twenty years. It's not a biography, although biographical information is imparted here and there. Seagalogy is a film by film study, running chronologically from Above the Law (1988) to Pistol Whipped (2008). Vern creates a narrative of Seagal's filmography using a modified auteur theory where these films are presented as distinctly Seagalian: specific motifs populate his filmography, recurring frequently and making possible, where eyes are attentive, an effortless discernability. When you watch a Hitchcock, you know you're watching a Hitchcock. Similarly, when you watch a Seagal, you know you're watching a Seagal. Even in variations over the course of time – Vern describes a movement from theatrical action films concerned with political issues to straight-to-video action films replete with convoluted stories and excessive dubbing – a degree of distinction remains; Seagal's auteurship is indelibly written all over these films.
Seagalogy's major achievement is that it functions as an impressive political gesture. By this, I don't mean the overtly political comments Vern makes, the digs at the Bush administration, the references to American imperialism, the leftist disdain for the specious logic of big business – these are laudable aspects but such rhetoric is present elsewhere in superior form. No, it's in the realm of cultural politics that Seagalogy strikes an inspirational blow.
From chapter to chapter, film to film, Vern revels in the wash of low culture, celebrating its very essence and elevating it to the level of art. He eschews a tone of superiority, letting this much scorned corner of culture free from its imposed bondage, bringing to an end the oppression wrought by elite arbiters of taste. The enthusiasm that saturates every word is sincere and has the effect of generating in the reader a new respect for Seagal's filmography (and other films of similar genre and position on the culture hierarchy). Political themes and assorted social commentary can mingle with cheesy one-liners and gratuitous violence we are told. There is no irony when the Iran-Contra scandal is cited in the discussion of Above the Law. Nor is there irony when Hard to Kill's villainous senator is represented as a figure analogous to George Bush Senior. There's a genuine respect exhibited for the ability of these films to make serious statements on important events happening in the world.
That said, there's no shortage of humour here. While Vern avoids elevating himself above the films and resists writing a book composed entirely of mocking observations and derisory suppositions, he does indulge in the odd bout of ridicule. Naturally, instances of dodgy dialogue and sequences of cartoonish violence are open to myriad jokes and wry remarks, you'd be insane to pass up such an opportunity. Yet even when these are seized upon and Vern pokes fun at Seagal's omnipresent ponytail, he does it with an endearing smirk, with a courteous nod of the skull, a cheeky wink in the eye. It reads like the gentle mocking exchanged between close friends. Plot holes are picked out as fodder for mirth, the unsubtle use of Seagal stunt doubles is material for sly asides, obvious examples that'd have even Seagal chuckling in agreement. Despite the mix of jokes and earnest analysis, there is a consistency in Seagalogy – Vern's passion never falters, it permeates the entire thesis, making the book more than a mere comedy article.
Form as much as content facilitates the reappraisal of Seagal's cinema that Seagalogy initiates. The prose is light and accessible, bereft of any tint of pomposity, yet buoyed by a keen intelligence. In the vein of writers such as Chuck Palahniuk, Vern succeeds in saying smart things in very simple ways, writing without ostentation or circumlocution, expressing insight in formidably basic language, conveying his interpretations of the Seagal canon in a concise fashion. The avenues by which he finds enjoyment in the shoddiness of some of the films, discovering hidden glimpses of coherence in the disordered, endeavouring to extract from the badly edited a linear narrative, are coated in accessibility and an enthusiasm that's highly contagious.
The celebration of low culture has emerged as a fashionable pursuit in recent years, a vogue stretching from the blog world to as far as the tallest of ivory towers. We can look at Slavoj Zizek's perennial disclosure of the tents of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the use of cinema, television and dirty jokes, or Fredric Jameson's inquiries into science fiction. But regardless of the politics behind their disquisitions or the specific examples they wrench from popular culture, their work remains bound up within an institutional mode of discourse, adorned with academic rhetoric – bourgeois whispers carrying insight after insight on a carpet of restricted readership.
Vern's everyman voice, by contrast, can be digested by all and doesn't require citations of Hegel and Althusser to bolster its argument. The depth of his examination can be seen in the way he picks out minute details hitherto concealed by pace, pausing the action to identify newspaper headlines and diary notes, factoids that either enrich the story or cause an already confusing narrative to become that bit more confusing. He also humanises the productions by reminding us that there are genuine ideas that go into making these films, interesting and ambitious ideas that are in the end beset by financial and logistical obstacles.
The political gesture of Seagalogy is that of a fist shaken at elite naysayers who disregard the aesthetic worth of films of the sort that would feature Seagal, cultural products that are deemed to be low culture and often refused a chance to exhibit their worth. Action flicks, horror flicks, comic books, heavy metal, computer games, these are regularly subject to scoffs from elite opinion, looked down upon as homogeneous feed for the stupid masses, brainless sludge to keep the proletariat under the thumb – even Adorno held this view. I mean, I like high modernism as much as anyone, but I'd be just as inclined to watch Hell Comes to Frogtown as I'd be to read The Flowers of Evil; both are wonderful, individual works of art and merit many hours spent in their company. Sure there's shite out there, but a work of art is shite in its own right, not by way of its genre classification or the cultural presumptions associated with it. We must not forget that there's just as much creativity involved in the development of computer games or graphic novels as in, say, theatre or art cinema, and that the former have the ability to excite and enthral just as much as the latter. While I myself am given to extreme hyperbole and heavily ironic gestures, my passion for the cinema of Bruce Campbell is as sincere as my passion for Nabokov (I mention Nabokov not to neutralise the former but to create a field of equality and balance).
I'm reluctant to intellectualise Vern's achievement too much since he is himself in part parodying academicism, just point some eyes at the book title or the footnotes that intermittently appear. But Seagalogy remains a sublime triumph for those concerned with the political shades of culture, with how the very hierarchisation of culture is a site of class struggle and needs to be fought against. Vern's combination of diligent analysis, sardonic humour and welcoming prose make for a great addition to an attempt to stomp out cultural snobbishness. People are not dumb, they happily embrace the dual characteristics of Seagal's filmic history, at one moment buzzing off the energy emitted off the fighting scenes, at another laughing at the corniness of it all. Vern puts it perfectly at the end of the book when he reviews Seagal's gig in Seattle on the Mojo Priest tour: ruminating on the fans in the crowd, the ecstatic worshippers of Seagal, he writes: "A lot of them knew it was funny what they were seeing but they were genuinely appreciative of Seagal." It's funny but we love it, Seagal and Seagalogy alike.


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