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I am supposed to share pics of my pantry today but I've got to interrupt the daily program to share a little about this weekend.
I mentioned we celebrated two birthdays this past weekend, remember?
First, we attended Chazzy's 6 birthday party. It was a bubble gum theme!
Misty did her thang, as usual :)
I used my beloved apothecary jars to create a fab candy display and we had a poppin' good time with our little sister-cousin :)
I left the bubble gum party and rushed to my parents' for my brudder, Mike's, beer tasting party:
It was a great time with family and close friends. I do, however, want to share something.
This party was a major stressor for my parents. Somewhere along the course of this year, my mom has developed a serious insecurity over her home. She doesn't think it's big enough, new enough, clean enough or, simply put, good enough.
Mind you, we have always gathered at their home for Sunday dinners, holiday dinners, birthdays - you name it. Their home is the heart of our family.
This past year, however, my parents have not hosted a single event at their home. When my mom announced that she wanted to surprise my brother, she also told me she needed my help pulling together some home projects.
I spent every Sunday since mid-August working with my mom to clear out, donate, redecorate, paint, update - CHANGE her home to be good enough in her eyes. My parents and I stayed up until close to 4:00 a.m. the day before the party painting, decorating, cooking and WHY?!
Sure, there may have been some external triggers or some opinions that helped drive the changes but still...
With 60 people inside, outside, upstairs and downstairs, one thing was made clear the day-of the party. Home is not about the standards of others; it's about what is important to the people who live there.
Gone are the days when home was a place for guests to feel comfortable. You know, when you decorated with the opinions of others at heart... Yes, those days.
Homes are like a favorite pair of jeans... They don't need to fit or look great on anyone but you :)
My back hurts and I'm far too sleep-deprived to share the details of our labor but there is much more to come on the updates at the 'rents' place :)
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This was the last week of this change but it was a week of surprises, adventures,good byes, and conference that was a great conference. As for my area the Cria, it is hard right now to find more families. So now what we are doing is looking like crazy for more opportunities of service. I am looking for the small things like carrying the bags of the cute little old ladys or anything to help out the people. My district leader taught of the preaching and service go hand and hand. Jesus Christ was the perfect example of this. He would be on his way to go help a friend or heal someone and he would stop and heal someone, but at the same time he would teach. He showed this perfect love for them, and then he inspired his disciples to improve and live the gospel.
With the current El Niño coming there is a lot of preparation and service to be done to help the people whose houses are not ready for the rain. And there are countless other ways we can help out even if it is really simple. Felix Castillo one of the less actives in the ward is getting closer to being rescued which is being reactivated. We are teaching him all the lessons and he has come to church. He even went to both sessions of Conference on Saturday and on Sunday which is rare for peruvians. It is really funny because many of the members here think that conference is just one session that they just play over and over so that everyone can come and see it at the time most convient.
For conference we were able to go to Chiclayo and I was blessed with the opportunity to see it in English. The funny thing is because my area is so far away there are not combis that come back later in the night, so we went to Chiclayo to the mission office and stayed with the office missionaries and the assistants in there really nice house. The best thing was my companion Elder Flores was ending his mission and he was there because he had to travel from Jaen to end his mission. We had a great time talking, telling stories, and visiting a few places in Chiclayo between the sessions. Elder Flores was in the office before so he knew the area of Chiclayo like the back of his hand. We went and saw some cool things like the picture of this scary loooking statue. It was so cool there was just a park where artists made sculptures about the history and folklore of peru. It was huge. We only had 20 minutes but it was so worth it.
Conference was great... What was cool is they called elder Stevenson, he gave us a visit with elder benson. The best thing was the spirit that was present. I cannot believe how fast it went by. Like I said before it is like Christmas for missionaries. I felt that these 3 men were called by God. Now it is time to put all the we heard and felt into action.
The cool thing is my old pensionista hna. Deydi send me a package. SHe really was like having another mom in peru. She gave me a whole bunch of chocolate and a picture of her family.
I hope you guys are doing well. Ponderize haha, and learn to understand the promptings of the spirit. Also happy birthday Siena,

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Now in the internet age, much is made of the "lost art of the hand-written letter." With all the IMing, emailing, facebooking, and twittering, actually sitting down with a pen and paper and sending someone a personalized note counts as the height of graceful manners.
Relating this to the blogosphere...I'll admit that I am guilty of sending "impersonal" trade packages. Maybe I'll just drop a team-bag into a bubble mailer and send it off. If I'm lucky, I might offer a perfunctory "Thanks for trading!" on a slip of paper that I toss into the envelope.
So.....if the quality scale goes from short boilerplate email (bad) to hand-written letter plus friendship bracelet (very good), how can I possibly place a ranking on THIS?
|Gene Mauch
This is by far one of the coolest things I have received from the card-blog world. It's from TTG @ Friars on Cardboard. It is a hand-collated pack of manager cards, wrapped in white paper, and then decorated with the cover art seen above. If a hand-written item is notable...what can I say about a hand-drawn pack? AWESOME is what I can say. Keep in mind that this whole thing is the size of a regular baseball card and done in ink. And this was a "Just Because" package...no trade was involved.
And with that preview...I was hoping the pack would contain that top card. IT DID.
|1987 Topps Gene Mauch
|Buck Showalter and Jim Fregosi
|2012 Triple Play Sticker - Screaming Manager - #8
Speaking of elementary school, Sherman Corbett and I had the same glasses, apparently.
|1989 Topps Sherman Corbett, 1990 Topps Mike Scott


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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tonight I found out that one of my newly found friends is moving... in two weeks! I feel totally gipped (this is how the mac says I should spell this word... blogger says its gypped and I'm to lazy to go look in an actual dictionary!).
I mean, I've known her for the last 5 years that I've lived here but never had a chance to/made time to get to know her. So I guess it's technically my fault that I didn't realize how great she is before now. The last 6 months we've worked together at church in the same organization and I just ADORE her! I'm so sad I didn't get to know her better sooner. I'm lame. Phoenix, you're getting a really awesome new family in two weeks!
I'm going to start to have abandonment issues if people I like a whole lot keep leaving me!
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- Life Happens said...
I always find it hard to make true friends because it takes a long time for me to trust people. I have friends and acquaintances, but very few close friends.
Sorry your friend is moving away. That's always hard. And there's always Skype!
- January 19, 2012 at 5:47 PM
- Nicole said...
It's so hard to make friends as an adult. About 10 months ago I met someone I wanted to be friends with.. and as a 25 year old woman I called my mom and asked how do you become friends with someone. It was so much easier in school!
- January 20, 2012 at 9:48 AM
- Cheryl Federico said...
It's hard to make friends as an adult. I'm 38 and still struggling to make friends. I have a great job and I like my co-workers but they don't want to have anything to do with me. I have tried to make friends with them by going out to lunch and exchanging cell phone numbers but it's just not happening. It hurts because I miss having friends to talk to and hang out with from time to time. Everytime I put my trust in someone they let me down or they shove me away. I'm trying to stay positive that it gets better and I'm sure in your situation it will get better. Just don't give up.
- March 3, 2012 at 9:06 AM


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G'afternoon friends, I went to our LSS yesterday as it was their Monthy Crop day/evening. I always enjoy myself, the ladies are so fun, and their talents enlighting. Anyway, I just luv this new line from My Mind's Eye, called Quite Contrary, I went to their examples, and they have some amazing talented design team. I think it is just wonderful. This little one is my great-niece, and she is 1 month old in these pictures. Thanks for taking a look. I am pretty pleased on how they turned out. They will be displayed at the LSS for others to see what a wonderful line this one is.
Paper: My Mind's Eye-Quite Contrary. Accessories: Buttons, Brads, Ribbon, Flowers, Kaiser Pearls, MME Die Cut Stickers, Ink for the edges, sewing, Robin Eggs pink ones. Cricut Cartrige for the paper flowers, foam pop-ups.


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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Happy Mother's Day!
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Having children has taught us that cliches are cliche for a reason. The older our boys get, the faster they seems to grow up. I want to catch every moment, not only of their growth, but of all the glory of this little life the four of us are living. Hence, this little place on the web to record those times when we're blessed to see the lights in the trees.


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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Congress exempts itself from liability for criminal acts
"After making a public spectacle of righteous indignation and humbling themselves to submit to the same laws the peons of the populace must follow, Congress secretly reinstated the exemptions they had enjoyed prior to the time when the public shamed them into submitting to the same laws they pass for ordinary citizens.
"Thus, it is now perfectly legal for senators and congressmen to personally benefit from insider information in a number of arenas, including secretive information passed along to them indicating that a stock is getting ready to either crash or skyrocket."
Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.
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Here are a few things I got done last week. This first one was the sketch challenge over at SCS last week. It will be Shelbys birthday card next week. Yep my New Years Baby will now be a full fledged teenager. Though she has been acting like one for 3 years already, it will be official next Thursday. WAHHHH!!! She loves that Sassy Happy Bunny so I made her a Sassy Bunny shirt card. LOL!
OH this was the color challenge, well sort of. It was actually Orchid, Saffron, and Coral. But I do not have any Coral because I do not like it. SO I changed it to Real Red. Nope I do NOT like these colors together. But I had to make a card with that cute little Cardinal:)
A checkbook cover my sister has been begging me for. Hmmm, I did this for a challenge, but I can not remember what it was.
This was the hardest card I ever had to make. My oldest dearest friend Dawn lost her mother a couple of weeks ago. When her dad past away 1 1/2 years ago I made a card for her, and one for her mother. For some reason those cards were not as hard to make. I actually had to put off making this for a couple of days. It is a mother/daughter thing I guess. I was not able to attend the funeral which is also upsetting. It is just too hard to get so far away during the school year/winter. But my sister, and my mom went to show support to Dawn for me. I love you Dawn!! You are in my thoughts always!!


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Oh my goodness....LOVE this! And the texture choice is perfect! You know what I don't like tho? You NEVER can find a plastic ring anymore as a Cracker Jack prize. I keep getting stupid tattoos :(. But it is still my fav snack of choice at a ball game :)
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As before, here's the summary: Expertise is the single best stat to stack to reduce the chance of spike damage.
Expertise is understood by most warriors to be their best threat stat. Druids get a lot of good use out of it too. Paladins...well, not as much, threat wise. Since only about 35% of a prot paladin's threat is generated from melee attacks (melee + SoR is basically it) and it doesn't affect taunting, it's not quite as useful as it is to druids or warriors. For druids, all of their attacks are affected by expertise, and expertise is twice as effective as hit rating for threat generation until you reach 24 expertise skill (or 96 expertise rating). It's one of the best if not the best stat to stack for threat.
For Paladins though, it is still pretty useful, and on a per-point basis expertise is almost as good as spelldamage for threat. But that's not the important thing.
For tanks the biggest issue is not how much damage they take per hit; tanking gear tends to normalize to the point where all types of tanks tend to take close to the same damage given the same boss and assuming the same or similar gear levels. What kills a tank is burst damage. In some fights that burst damage can be avoided or otherwise anticipated so that no other damage is taken at the same time; an example would be Magtheridon, where he brings the ceiling down. The raid can stop DPS until after a blast nova, then get him to 30%, cause a lot of raid damage and then resume as normal. In other situations certain bosses will be reduced more by certain classes; Morogrim and Gruul do mostly physical damage, so a druid's high armor comes into play more as a reduction (as an example). Or Prince and a Paladin, where holy shield all but guarantees every attack will be blocked and reduced more. That's one way to reduce spiky damage - make sure that the damage you take is as low as possible.
The other is to reduce the chance of having that spiky damage occur at all. This means we need to understand where spikes come from. One big source is from being parried by a mob. When a parry occurs the mob that parried partially resets their swing timer so that the next attack comes in faster. How much the swing timer is reset or reduced depends on when the parry occurred relative to the swing timer, but in general it's a 40% reduction to the next attack's speed. When this happens, especially in succession, you'll start seeing a lot more spikes of damage - and when this is combined with a boss's special attacks it can quickly lead to too much damage for a healer to overcome. For many fights you can get a parried attack which can lead to two normal melee hits + a special in the space of 2 seconds, and depending on the boss that can be quite a large amount of damage, somewhere on the order of 15-18k. And bosses on average have a 15% parry chance, so this can happen with some frequency. These attacks do enough damage that it's not enough to block them - avoiding them in some way is the only way to reduce that spike. For our purposes, we'll define a spike as being hit by a normal attack, being parried, and then being hit by a normal attack again.
Every 1 point of expertise skill (or 4 points of expertise rating) reduces the chance that you will be parried by .25%. So it takes 4 points of skill or 16 expertise rating to reduce parry chances by 1%. It also takes 19 points of dodge rating to give 1% dodge, which is the best avoidance stat you can stack. So, what are the chances that you will be hit by a normal attack, get parried, and then get hit with another normal attack? The normal attack chance is simply (1-avoidance). The parry chance starts at 15%. Therefore, the chance that you will be parry gibbed is:
(1-avoidance)*(parry chance)*(1-avoidance).
The typical avoidance level for T4-T5 bears and paladins is about 40%. With no expertise at all, you have a 5.4% chance of a parry gib occurring. With each 1% avoidance you reduce that chance by .18%. With each 1% of expertise, however, you reduce that chance by .36%. Thus, expertise is nearly double as valuable as avoidance in stopping a spike from occurring. This pattern holds true for all levels of expertise vs. avoidance:
Admittedly, another great way to deal with spike damage or the chance that you'll take it is to stack health and mitigation so that the spike damage can be more easily dealt with. That is the concept that effective health is built around, and it's always better to maximize your effective health instead of sacrificing it for the purposes of something like threat. That all being said - expertise is the best option for reducing the chances of some types of burst damage killing a tank.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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I'm sitting in a sinking boat, floating in a stagnant sea. The water is brown and leafy. Mosquitos swarm around my head and take the shape of clouds on the skyline. The shore is almost out of sight. Large green trees guard the sand.
I don't remember what it was like standing there staring out at the sea or winding through the forest, carried by the pillowy floor. I have no idea why I launched this boat or even sat in it to begin with. I don't know where I'm heading because I am not rowing. I am drifting; the way that mud allows for drift. And the only sights I see are sunrises, accentuating brown, and sunsets, dying gray.
I haven't spoken a word in weeks. I examine the thickness of the water; I feel it in my hand. I listen to the cracking wood of the boat when stiff winds move me a foot or so. In the distance I think I see another boat, but it is sailing with some speed. It has a person on it, smiling and speaking out-loud to himself or possibly, someone else – someone he can see, but I cannot. His boat is cutting through the thickness and soaring toward the shore, unaffected by the trapping mud. As he goes ashore, he sees me and waves me in. As he heads for the trees he shouts, "There's nothing out there. I'm going back."
I raise my hand to wave and wonder what he meant. I heard the words, but it made no sense. I turn and sit and stare and watch the water shine like oil; hardly thinking anything at all. And soon, I vaguely remember seeing a man run off into the woods, and I think he spoke of something but I don't know what it was.
I lose myself again in the yellow-orange mist rising from the water and swirling from the mosquito hordes. I feel the urge to tip over and let my weight carry me over-board and sink me to the ocean floor and fall asleep with a heavy sigh and pull the grime and filth over me like a warm and cozy blanket. And so I do.
In the water I don't feel wet and in the mud I don't feel trapped. I breathe deeply and I feel eerily at ease. I feel drained but comforted. And I feel utterly alone.
Peering up I can see the light of the dying sun; forcing its way through the surface of the water. I can see my boat, but I can't remember ever being in it. I feel as though I've been lying here forever. So I stare at the rays of light as they fade away, and I watch the boat above slowly drift away.
Soon, I remember seeing something bright but do not know what to call it or how long ago I saw it. I remember seeing something dark move away like a hovering shadow but I cannot describe it exactly.
I look around the darkness and I feel the thickness that blankets me. Slowly, I get still and close my eyes. After a while I open them but can't remember ever closing them.
I don't know where I am. There is nothing. I cannot see and I cannot feel and I cannot remember being able to.
Suddenly, the sight of the man on the shore appears in the space behind my eyes and I see him there. I understand the words he shouted and they pierce my ears. My mind shudders.
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We kick off the 4th year of the Edmonton Modern Quilt Guild with our regular meeting on Wednesday September 11, 2013, from 7 pm to 9 pm.
Everyone is welcome, current members, new members and guests. We are meeting at Earthly Goods Quilting – 4115 – 106 Street, Edmonton.
We have a full agenda this meeting, so please limit your show and tell to one item. The meeting will include:
- A guest speaker – Rosa from Quilter's Dream Southside will tell us about the Sherwood Park Quilt show and encouraging us to enter our quilts.
- The fabric requirements and maybe the cutting instructions for a Mystery Quilt project that will see clues revealed over the year with a plan to show the completed quilts at the June meeting.
- Deciding if the Edmonton Modern Quilt Guild is going to join the parent Modern Quilt Guild.
- Show and Tell – one item only for this meeting
- Other new business
Remember to bring your name tags!
I hope to see you there. If you have questions feel free to email me at shecanquilt [at] gmail.com.
In the meantime, here is Marianne's lovely quilt, recently added to the Edmonton Modern Quilt Guild Flickr Page:


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I have made a few of these to sell on etsy. They are a great Christmas or Birthday gift, they look great on a jacket or sweater and even on a headband. If you would like to request a different color please let me know I would be gald to work with you. they are $3.50 med. and $4.00 for a large or an ex-large $4.50.
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This Bishop speaks Bosh; Disestablish the Church!
ON a weekend when most Church of England clergymen would have been preaching to half-empty pews, the Anglican Bishop of Rochester was accorded nationwide airing for his views, on radio and TV news, lunchtime and evening. The Bishop,Michael Nazir-Ali, had claimed there were places in England that had become "no go areas" for non-Muslims,because of Muslim extremists encouraged by policies of multi-culturalism.
He named no areas. But as evidence of attempts to "impose an Islamic character on certain areas" he cited the amplification of the muezzin's call to prayer from the minarets of mosques. If that is intimidatory or discomforting to those of us who are non-Muslim, I suppose I should have felt uncomfortable as a non-Christian growing up in an area where church bells rang out loudly every Sunday morning as I was going to Hebrew class. Not to mention the Sunday school processions with Boys Brigade bands blowing bugles and banging big drums.
If there are neighbourhoods where people are threatened if they don't "belong" that's bad. I suspect the culprits are yobbos for whom religious or other extremism is but an excuse. It is still safer being a non-Muslim in areas where many Muslims live than being perceived as different in some areas where the Bishop's co-religionists (at least nominally) still hold unrivalled sway. Indeed, Christian clergyman though he is, the Karachi-born bishop's face alone would make him a target.
It is true that wherever religion provides a cloak for claiming privilege and political power, messages about loving thy neighbour are liable to give way to oppression and thuggery, whichever the brand of faith that's being asserted, and whether its banner is raised by generals, political opportunists, neighbourhood gangsters or members of the clergy themselves. We recently saw on television ugly scenes of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem who considered it their duty to stage nightly harassment of a Christian family. Zionist settlers claim religious sanction for terrorising Palestinians in Hebron. From India comes news that Hindu extremists attacked Christians in the state of Orissa over Christmas, ransacking and burning six churches. Leaders of Iraq's ancient Christian minority had said they would not be able to celebrate Christmas in Basra this year because they feared attack from Islamic militias encouraged by the Iraqi government. From what I remember they did not have this problem under Saddam Hussein. But then as we have seen in that part of Ireland which is governed as part of the UK, Christians are not always gentle, meek or mild when determining which sect should inherit the earth.
As his attack on "multiculturalism" indicates, Bishop Nazir Ali was not calling for live and let live, religious tolerance. Whatever confusion may be sown by well-meaning liberals or not so well-meaning characters using cultural relativism to excuse accommodation with backward elements and half-fabricated traditions, the current fashion for condemning "multiculturalism", like the worn-out stories of "political correctness", is really an attempt to rehabilitate bigotry and chauvinism. Bishop Nazir-Ali himself is on the conservative wing of Evangelism, sharing the Muslim fundamentalists' distaste for gay and lesbian rights, though not of course advocating the Iranian regime's drastic way of "curing" them. He has urged restrictions on the Muslim veil. Not as a secularist of course. Nor is this evangelist content to rely on preaching. In place of multiculturalism he urges government to reassert Britain's "christian roots", whatever these are.
It would not do to remind some of those applauding the bishop that their professed religion was founded by Jesus of Nazareth, in the Middle East, not Essex. His remarks against multiculturalism were welcomed by Tory spokesperson David Davies, but I'm sure he will also be quoted by others further to the Right, like those who went rampaging through Oldham claiming they were entering a "no go area". Being able to quote a "Paki bishop" will only add to their fun.
Labour's Hazel Blears, a "townie" of mine so to speak, has rightly rejected the bishop's claims, and declared Britain is a "secular democracy". I wish. Perhaps she has got confused about the government in which she serves, as she seemed to do when turning up at a health protest in Salford. her heart is on the right side perhaps, wherever her head is. Britain still has the anachronism of an Established Church, headed by that other antiquity the Queen, with MPs regardless of faith or lack of it expected to pronounce on its affairs, and bishops entitled of right to sit in the Upper House of Parliament. Why else, apart from wanting to encourage his views, should the popular media pay attention to the opinions of some cleric, from a Church whose declining attendance makes it doubtful whether it can still claim majority status among believers, let alone the rest of us?
What's worse, this government has encouraged faith schools subsidised by the public, and handed state education provision and resources over to city academies, where wealthy individuals and institutions can impose what beliefs they like. Former prime minister Tony Blair, now a declared Catholic, sent his son to the Brompton Oratory school (no mere state Catholic school would do) and was happy to consign other school students to an academy run by Creationists. His appointment of Opus Dei member Ruth Kelly as Minister for Integration might have been a clue to his subsequent affirmation. Not quite "British roots" perhaps but certainly "Christian" enough.
Hazel Blears is right in a sense, mind you. So far as most people's inclination goes, whether or not they believe in any religion themselves, Britain should be a secular democracy, where your faith or ability to live without it is nobody else's damn business, least of all government's. Bishops, rabbis and imam's deserve no authority beyond the voluntary respect of their particular followers, and religious bodies should have no right to frighten and brainwash young kids. How does that grab you, bishop?
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It's so gratifying to create art with the sole purpose of giving it away. There is nothing as special as a handmade card and the holidays are the perfect time to share what we love with those we love. Let's make some simply elegant holiday cards with a handmade paper stencil. Add fancy lettering and custom messages with your "magic gold pens", you know, the ones that make your lettering magical!
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With minimal supplies, create multiple art images for your holiday cards without a photocopier or printer. Make your own stencil with a studio staple, the #8 manila tag, (size 6 1/4 x 3 1/8) and a craft knife..
As shown in the video:
1) Gather your card making papers (card stock or card kits with envelopes), chisel tip marker, gold paint, a "scruffy" paintbrush, gold paint and gold paint pens.
2) Cut colored cardstock or scrapbook paper to the size of your card fronts.
3) Make a word stencil on the manilla tag. Write your chunky word with the fat chisel tip of the marker, then outline with a fine tip to create a new letter form from your handwriting. *you can also make a stencil of shapes to add patterns to your card designs.
4) Cut word out with a craft knife on a protected surface. I used cardboard.
5) Stencil with gold paint with a scruffy brush, pouncing vertically with a dry brush technique (minimal paint) and quick dry with a heat tool if desired.
6) With your magic gold pens, add additional hand lettered words, sentiments and linear borders to the stenciled print.
7) Write holiday messages, sentiments or personalized notes on the inside of your cards.


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During the 1930s, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart were masters of the gangster role. They made three films together. Two of them, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and The Roaring Twenties (1939), were among the best gangster epics of the decade.
The Roaring Twenties, which was filmed in semidocumentary style by director Raoul Walsh, is about three World War I Army veterans who try to adjust to civilian life during Prohibition. Two of the veterans, Eddie Barlett (Cagney) and George Hally (Bogart) become bootleggers, while the third, Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), returns to a law practice and advances to district attorney.


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"I have decided to leave Ole Miss in order to finish my career closer to my family in Louisiana. I have really enjoyed my time at Ole Miss and want to thank the coaches, my teammates and the whole Rebel family for all their support."
Will this season of frustration ever end? Malcolm really came on in the latter part of the season, notching some huge games against Kentucky and Mississippi State and his defense improved tremendously over last year. I really though he might be due for something of a breakout season next year, probably a consistent 12/7 guy. We'll definitely miss him down low.
While Murphy Holloway is a solid player - with the potential to be very good - he doesn't bring the same physical/athletic tools that Mac did. This opens up the door even wider for Reginald Buckner to start as a freshman next season. He's a long, athletic guy like Mac is. The pressure will also be greater on Terrence Henry to bulk up and be ready to play next season. Maybe we can pick up a JuCo forward between now and next season. It would be nice to have an extra body - and 5 fouls - to use down low.
If night is always darkest before the dawn, then we should be due for a bright season or two after all the adversity we've faced since Trevor tore his ACL in early November.
My revised starting line up for 2009-10 is:
G Chris Warren
G Terrico White
G/F Eneil Polynice
F Murphy Holloway
F Reginald Buckner


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Autograph: Thurman Thomas
Date: 2/28/2010
Location: Hollywood Studios, Disney World, Orlando, FL
Event: ESPN The Weekend
Thurman Thomas signed autographs near the Nike golf swing station set up during at ESPN The Weekend. I did not prepare to get any autographs from NFL players so all I had was the small pad of paper Dick's Sporting Goods handed out for free. Thurman signed a lot of autographs and was very kind. I got creative and found a cheap football card and picture frame and created a low cost way to display the autograph. I have a number of other autographs on pads of paper of lesser known people. Basically, I never pass up an autograph even if the only thing they can sign is a scrap of paper. There is always a way to show it off.
If any of you have any other ideas for creative ways to display autographs you got on pieces of paper please share.


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The Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter maps the vertical distribution of temperatures, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere as the orbiter flies a near-polar orbit. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
From ScienceDaily.com
ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2010) — One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily maps of global, pole-to-pole, vertical distributions of the temperature, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere.
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Sherri Shepherd: The Kid Is Not My Son!
Sherri Shepherd's already ugly divorce-custody battle got even uglier over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, as the recently unemployed comedienne filed a legal petition to effectively sever ties with her unborn child.
In May, Shepherd's estranged husband, writer Lamar Sally, filed for divorce in Los Angeles. In addition to suing Sherri for custody of a son the former couple is expecting via surrogate sometime this month, Lamar wants their prenuptial agreement nullified on the grounds of fraud.
In legal documents filed in New Jersey last week, Sherri countered that Lamar tricked her into entering into a surrogacy agreement while secretly plotting to divorce her once the baby was in utero. It's all a plan to get the out-of-work scribe a hefty bounty in child support, the funny gal argues. Since the baby was conceived using Lamar's sperm and a donor egg, the ex-Viewster can't think of a single reason why she should have to support a child she has no genetic link to.
Under the terms of the couple's prenup (You know, the one Lamar wants thrown out), Sherri would retain full physical custody of the newborn. But she no longer want that right. Tattling tipsters tell TMZ that Sherri, 47, has no interest in seeking custody of the baby boy and doesn't want to be considered one of the parents.
She's hoping that a judge will revoke any parental rights, in spite of the surrogacy agreement she signed. Food for thought: Sherri opted to file her divorce petition in the Garden State, which does not recognize surrogacy arrangements.


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Could Boomer III be in the cards? Consider that Wells has a huge fan monitoring the situation from Tampa. Hank Steinbrenner admitted yesterday that Wells, who recently made appearances on "Best Damn Sports Show Period," has crossed his mind as a possibility for the Yankees' rotation.
"I've thought about it," Steinbrenner told The Post. "I saw him on TV, and I did think about it when I was watching."
DO IT, you crazy bastard! Show me you really are DBG's son.


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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Saint Patrick, March 17th
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.
Gen. 12: 1,2
I bind unto myself today
The strong Name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same
The Three in One and One in Three.
I bind this day to me forever
By power of faith, Christ's incarnation;
His baptism in the Jordan river,
His death on Cross for my salvation;
His bursting from the spicèd tomb,
His riding up the heavenly way,
His coming at the day of doom
I bind unto myself today.
I bind unto myself the power
Of the great love of cherubim;
The sweet 'Well done' in judgment hour,
The service of the seraphim,
Confessors' faith,
Apostles' word,
The Patriarchs' prayers, the prophets' scrolls,
All good deeds done unto the Lord
And purity of virgin souls.
I bind unto myself today
The virtues of the star lit heaven,
The glorious sun's life giving ray,
The whiteness of the moon at even,
The flashing of the lightning free,
The whirling wind's tempestuous shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt sea
Around the old eternal rocks.
I bind unto myself today
The power of God to hold and lead,
His eye to watch,
His might to stay,
His ear to hearken to my need.
The wisdom of my God to teach,
His hand to guide,
His shield to ward;
The word of God to give me speech,
His heavenly host to be my guard.
Against the demon snares of sin,
The vice that gives temptation force,
The natural lusts that war within,
The hostile men that mar my course;
Or few or many, far or nigh,
In every place and in all hours,
Against their fierce hostility
I bind to me these holy powers.
Against all Satan's spells and wiles,
Against false words of heresy,
Against the knowledge that defiles,
Against the heart's idolatry,
Against the wizard's evil craft,
Against the death wound and the burning,
The choking wave,
the poisoned shaft,
Protect me, Christ, till Thy returning.
Christ be with me,
Christ within me,
Christ behind me,
Christ before me,
Christ beside me,
Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ in quiet,
Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
I bind unto myself the Name,
The strong Name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same,
The Three in One and One in Three.
By Whom all nature hath creation,
Eternal Father, Spirit, Word:
Praise to the Lord of my salvation,
Salvation is of Christ the Lord.
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- Canon Tallis said...
I have loved St Patrick's Breastplate and made it my prayer ever since our parish organist, Mildred Andrews, pushed me out with the collection plate just after the first verse, bringing the congregation to their feet so that the power of the choir's singing would shake them to their very soul as it was shaking mine.
Patrick is one of our great Anglican and British saints even if what we think of as Anglicanism might seem to some to lay centuries in the future. The unpopular truth is that the roots of classical Anglicanism have always been in the centuries past, in Holy Scripture as interpreted in the lives and writings of the Catholic fathers and ancient bishops, the Creeds and General Councils; in Antiquity, Consent and Universality. We can only give it a sacramental and real presence by praying and living the faith with the same intensity as the saints, known and unknown, have done before us.
Sucat deserves better of us than having his birthday into heaven turned into a national alcoholic orgy.
- Sandra McColl said...
Wot? Nothing about wearing silly green plastic hats and going to so-called 'Irish' pubs and drinking till you can't stand?
- poetreader said...
His day is always within Lent, which would seem to call for the kind of austerity I believe Patrick would have approved. He was most certainly not given to carousing.
- Canon Tallis said...
The lives of all the great Celtic saints were very austere which is why the alcoholic binge to celebrate his feast seems very inappropriate. I have always wondered why those who claim him for their own feel this a proper way to honor his memory or his name. Worse, in modern times they have become those believe in the use of violence against their neighbors.
I must admit that I was also a bit put out by the green of the vestments on the blog since his proper liturgical colour would have been orange from the saffron dyed robes of those he brought to the Lord.


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Saturday, June 11, 2011
My Husband the Woodcutter
My husband is all about the Madrone, but I prefer to deal with something a bit lighter like Fir or even better would be some of the Lodgepole that my in-laws have out at the back of their ranch. It's all stacked in a "deck," ready to be split with a borrowed splitter. This is the easiest possible wood practice - John cuts the lengths, I roll or carry them to the splitter where he sits on a log-stool and splits piece-by-piece as his dad runs the controls. His dad is funny and whenever there's a break he makes jokes like, "The crack of dawn only lasts so long, but the crack of John lasts forever." My husband's pants are always falling down.
After the wood is split, we throw it into the back of a pickup. When there's enough in the pickup, John gets in and starts stacking it. He's very particular about the stacking and seems to distrust my stacking ability each time, until we get near the end and he says, "You are doing okay." Doing okay is a compliment from John, as is "Pretty good for a town this size," when he finishes a meal. As I'm a person who is fairly confident in my abilities, I don't need a lot of compliments, but I do get prickly about having to prove myself over and over. I sometimes wonder if it is a test. Test this, you big dork... Okay, that was a joke...
John is a lot of fun to work with. He makes up jokes and songs and really enjoys the entire wood-getting process, even when it's the boulder-Madrone and he's splitting each piece by hand. He is very strong and I feel a certain sense of pride when I hear that crack! as the wood splits - my husband is like Superman, is what I think. I sure hope Superman comes home soon, because I've slept without him for 3 nights and just thinking about his lovely, freckled shoulders made me feel like crying this morning.
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As mentioned before on this blog, Mark Dayton tends towards, well, let's be polite and call it "erratic" behavior.
*cough* He's nuts! *cough*
His goofiness was on display again Thursday night, as outlined by this TV station report. Enjoy.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Dayton's flakiness, instability on display
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- AnonymousOctober 11, 2010 at 3:50 PM
The thought that this very dysfunctional man could actually be elected Governor of MN (although there was Jesse.....)just stuns me!!! And the fact that the teacher's unions all are staunch Dayton backers - - makes me more than a little frightened for the quality of education in MN....... The teachers don't think - they just march to the demands of the unions!! In return for great political paybacks in the form of bailouts, of course!ReplyDelete
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Jade got into agility! I have no clue if she will do anything, but she can be around other dogs off leash, so we are going! I had to give her training resume on more than one occasion and since she is under 3 years old I was praying they accepted her.
Woo Hoo!
Here are some things I have been told to practice before we attend.
Sit stay
Down stay
Touch (hand)
Targeting (touch something else) like a coffee can lid
This document teaches touch but also moves into targeting
This video is what I don't want to teach, but it reminds me of targeting:


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For the first 13 months of DD's life we lived in a tiny one-bedroom apartment. I did playpen time with her, but it was limited in its effectiveness because she could see me. Still she did fairly well being content to play there. When she was 15 months old and we were settled in our own house where she had her own room, I implemented room time
I took her into her room and got out some toys. I showed her how to play with them and got her settled. Then I left. I would leave her for 5 minutes, and she would cry at the door the whole time. Then it got to the point where when I would take her to her room and get out the toys she would run out the door and refuse to stay and play even if I was there because she knew what was coming.
I knew I needed a different approach. So I would tell her, "It's time to play in your room now," take her hand, and lead her to the bedroom. She became so much more willing to go and stay with that one little change! I realized I needed to respect her and explain what was going to happen. Then I would show her the toys and ask her to give me a hug goodbye. Then I would tell her I was leaving and tell her when I would be back. Even though she couldn't tell time I would tell her I would be back in 5 minutes. She would still cry at the door but she wouldn't try to run away anymore. Then I upped it to 10 minutes to give her a chance to get over it and play. It seemed 5 minutes wasn't long enough to settle down in. I did this once or twice a day and once she started playing even a little I quickly increased it to 15 then 30 minutes.
In only a little more than a week she would happily stay for 30 minutes, though she would usually stand by the door near the end of that time waiting to get out. At 17 months old (probably before that--I don't remember exactly when) she wouldn't cry at all and when I would say "it's time to play in your room" she would walk there herself with me. I didn't have to carry her or hold her hand. She gave me a hug goodbye and never even whimpered.
Around 18 months old we had some trouble again. We had taken a week-long trip, so she hadn't had room time for that week. That could have been part of the problem or it could have just been due to being 18 months old. She would cry and scream and cling to me when I would try to leave. After I would leave she would stop crying before too long but refused to play. She just stood at the door the whole time. She got to the point where she would stop crying if we told her "no fussy" from outside the door, but that whole time she wouldn't play, just sit beside the door. It was a month before she didn't cry when I would leave. I started leaving a book or a toy right next to the door since I knew she wouldn't leave the door. At least that way she would have something to play with there. I also started playing music for her. I'm not sure if it helped or not, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to try.
Things started going better, and at nearly 20 months old there was a real improvement. One day when I told her it was time to play in her room. I went with her and got out her toys. She stood holding the door and said "bye-bye" and as soon as I walked out she shut the door herself! That had never happened. She had a good time playing in there for a long time too. At some point I went up to an hour of room time a day, probably around this age.
Sometimes she still complains about it if I'm not consistent enough, but continuing with room time is so beneficial in many ways. I don't use it as discipline for a bad attitude, but on days where she is cranky I notice a big difference in her attitude after she had room time. It helps her disposition so much to have some time alone playing. Also, I work at home as a medical transcriptionist (you can read about what I do on my website: http://
successworkingathome.weebly. com/what-is-medical- transcription.html), and room time is such a nice chunk of time to be able to work uninterrupted for a while!


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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Islamic Republic condemns the death of innocents in the US or anywhere else in the world. "Pursuant to Islamic logic, the Islamic Republic of Iran opposes any blast or the killing of innocents be it in Boston in the US or Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria and condemns it," Ayatollah Khamenei told a group of Army commanders on Wednesday. "The US and other so-called human rights advocates remain silent on the massacre of innocents in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, but they cause a ruckus after a few blasts in the United States," the Leader stated. Ayatollah Khamenei underscored the "contradictory" behavior of the US and its allies regarding human rights issues, calling their position on the Islamic Republic "illogical". Press TV has conducted an interview with Dr. Kevin Barrett, with the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance from Madison to shed more light on the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview. Press TV: I want to get your reaction, A: to Ayatollah Khamenei condemning these Boston blasts and B: his pointing out of these double standards by the United States. Barrett: I think that Ayatollah Khamenei is absolutely right. I could not have said it better myself.
In fact, the video of the horrible carnage in Boston resembled the videos of what has happened after US drone attacks when wedding parties and other gathering of innocent people have been attacked by the US. So in some cases, these bombings are almost identical and in some cases, the perpetrators are individuals who may be working for the US or other Western intelligence services. Raymond Davis, a CIA agent, was arrested in Pakistan last year as he was orchestrating terrorist attacks on markets and mosques that were going to be blamed on Islamic extremists.
Press TV: Mr. Barrett, do you believe that Americans see through their government's hypocrisy? Barrett: More and more do. Polls show that about one third of Americans..., actually Scripps poll shows that it was 36 percent, which is more than one-third of Americans believe that 9/11 was an inside job. So at least one-third of the country understands that they are being lied to in an absurd and Orwellian fashion and another one-third does not really support these US wars of aggression. It is only about one third of the American people who have been effectively brainwashed.
I think that more and more Americans are actually going to be coming around to accepting that what the Supreme Leader of Iran is saying is a lot more honest and truthful and realistic than what they are hearing from their own leaders here in the US.
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Illustrated posters from The 2012 SKETCH BOOK
In 2012, Peter Delgado and I passed a sketchbook back and forth on a monthly basis. The sketch book was a Moleskin day planner and each day in the year had its own page allowing us to do one drawing a day. To make things even crazier we decided to have a theme for every day that year to spark our creativity. Instead of just compiling all of these sketches into an online zine I decided the best way to show off this book is to group together all of the drawings which have the same theme into posters.
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Well it's official now. The scandal plagued Manitoba Hydro has now been hit by am official strike on the part of the IBEW. Two other unions, the CEP and CUPE may also come out soon, and the sooner the better so as to focus the minds of management away from their political scandals. Here's the latest news on this matter from our local Winnipeg Wobbly Blog. Stay tuned there for updates.
Local: Manitoba Hydro on Strike!:
As reported a day or so ago, workers organized in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 2034 who work at Manitoba Hydro, have gone on strike.
As reported a day or so ago, workers organized in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 2034 who work at Manitoba Hydro, have gone on strike.
Please join the Solidarity with Manitoba Hydro workers! facebook group to show your web support. We're a little late with this notice, but there still is time to get to one of the meeting places to show up when the media is around tonight:
How you can help:
How you can help:
Tomorrow, Saturday October 3 at 2:00 pm please join us as we stretch our legs for an hour outside of Manitoba Hydro's new Corporate location ......"Hydro Place" at 360 Portage Ave.
The longer the line..the shorter the strike!
To show your support and solidarity….join your brothers and sisters on the picket line this evening at 6:00pm at any one of our 24 hour locations.
*35 Sutherland. The media will be showing up at this location at 6:00pm.
*Central Dispatch Center 951 Grant Ave.
*System Control at 453 Dovercourt.
On Monday please go to the picket location closest to your residence.
The longer the line the shorter the strike!
If and when the branch organizes some solidarity support, we will post it up here.


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CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. John Orozco officially made the United States Olympics Gymnastics team on Saturday. His former coaches and teammates at World Cup Gymnastics in Chappaqua have been closely following Orozcos road to London and now eagerly await his performances in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Jason Hebert, head coach and director at World Cup Gymnastics, worked closely with Orozco as his primary coach in the gymnasts last three years at the gym. Hebert realized Orozcos potential as he watched him mature at the gym and as he worked with him individually.
We knew that John had the ability to be if not the best American gymnast, at least in the top two, Hebert said.
The two mens working relationship came to an end when Orozco tore his Achilles in Aug. 2010. He then moved to an Olympic Training Center in Dec. 2010 where he went through rehab for four months.
It was a really sad, sad day, a very terrible way for us to end our career together because we already had plans of him moving on to the Olympic Training Center even before his injury, Hebert said.
But the plan came to fruition anyway when the 19-year-old officially secured a spot on the U.S. Olympic team at the Olympic Trials in San Jose, Ca.
Hebert watched Orozcos performances while he was at a friends birthday party. Orozco started to suffer cramps in his arms during the final event, the parallel bars, and Hebert watched intently with the eyes of a coach.
Even as the other partygoers looked at him like he were crazy.
I was yelling at the TV. I was like, No! No! because he started to fall. Everyone else that was at the party, they were looking at me like, What? It looked like he did a great job, Hebert said.
Hebert was relieved but not surprised when the announcement was official.
Its not like I was hoping that it would happen. I knew it would happen, Hebert said. It was just like, Okay, its finally done. He reached his dream. I was thinking to myself, Now, whats part two of the dream?
Hebert said with Orozcos talent, part two is for the young man to win a medal in London. And his former coach expects Orozco to shine at the Olympics.
Hes used to performing at his best under pressure, Hebert said. The highest level meets, he always performs his best.
Matt Maucione coaches a girls team at World Cup and was Orozcos teammate at the gym. The 25-year-old cited Orozcos work ethic as the reason for his amazing success.
While other gymnasts would be kind of slacking off or fooling around in the gym, John was always really, really focused and he always had his goal in his sights, Maucione said. It was very, very easy for other kids to do it for the fun aspect of it but John was always really, really serious.
Maucione noted how gratifying it is to have his fellow gymnast achieve such a high level of success and said Orozcos accomplishments can only bolster World Cup Gymnastics, where numerous pictures of and articles about Orozco decorate the walls.
You might not hear World Cup be mentioned by the sportscasters in the actual events, but anybody that knows of John, they know about World Cup, Maucione said. And its just really, really great to be a part of that.
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I've opened a shop over at Etsy! There's not much in it yet, but I'll be adding some dolls as soon as I've managed to catch up on other orders.
Very many thanks to Heather for pioneering this one, and taking the nervousness of a new venture down by several notches.


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Happy Birthday!! Happy 2nd Birthday to little Miss O. She had quite the party at a local gymnastic gym with a special surprize visit from Anna and Elsa! Miss O is the daughter of our veterinarian and it has been fun watching her grow into this animal loving little human. French for Sugar Did all […]
These are awesome and hilarious shots! Such a great time to have captured for these kids. Great job!
Such a cute theme for a birthday party! You captured all the thoughtful details so well!
These are so adorable! Fantastic job capturing all of the excitement!
What a fun day! Cute smiles and perfect pictures!
What fun images!!! You captured her party PERFECTLY!!
This looks like such a fun place for a toddler birthday! You documented it perfectly in these photos!
Aw these are so fun! Makes me miss working at the gymnastics academy back in TX so much!
Awe, what a sweet little princess! Love her Frozen themed party!
What a great party! A little girls dream!


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Saturday, June 30, 2007
Visualizing social interactions
Everyday we are part of multiple communication graphs (emails, tel calls, blogs, IP traces) and play different roles there. What is the structure in them, and what are suitable signatures we display? A recent study of usenet groups provides some answers.
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OUR MOTTO: " The best way to undermine the foundations of a false creed (History) and successfully attack it, is to lay it open to the eyes of all and exhibit it as it really is. Error never retains its hold over the mind except under the mask of truth which it contrives to assume. When deprived of the mask that has covered its emptiness and unreality, it vanishes away as a phantom and an illusion. " (Vide: The Life and Legend of Gautama by Bishop P. Bigandet )
Monday, July 12, 2010
APPRECIATION - by " Arsha Vidyabhushana" JATAVALLABHULA PURUSHOTTAM, M. A.
Lecturer in Sans/crit , S. R. R. & C. V. R. COLLEGE, VIJAYAWADA
The venerable author of this book, Sri Kota Venkata Chelam Garu, has been working with single-minded devotion to salvage the ancient history of India from the ravages of modern Indologists, both European and Indian. He has shown, in this and in his sixteen volumes preceding this, that a fairly accurate history of our country can be constructed from the material available in the Puranas and other ancient literature and that the innumerable errors and deliberate distortions of facts in what now passes for Indian history are due to the prejudice of foreign Indologists against our Puranic and other indigenous literature and the consequent neglect of the historical material contained therein, during their attempts to construct Indian history.
The author and many others that are critical of these Indologists should have bowed at their feet if they had achieved the little bit that they have done in constructing our genuine history without the aid of the Puranas. All that is worth anything in the history they have written is drawn from the Puranas. Sir William Jones, who laid the foundation of Indian history, openly acknowledged his indebtedness to the Puranas. It is no exaggeration to say that without the aid of the Puranas even the outlines of Indian history could not be drawn.
It is a pity that all old records in the world, except the Indian, were ransacked and given credence to, by our Indologists and it is this misplaced hope and trust that were responsible for the imperfectness and incorrectness of Indian history as it now obtains. If the Indologists had shown to Indian literature at least half the respect that they have shown to foreign records, their labours would have been a thousand times more successful.
Why, then, should the Indologists discard the Puranic accounts generally? The reason is not far to seek. The European scholars who were accustomed to the Biblical idea of the age of the world and the chronology of Greek and Roman histories that are matters of less than three thousand years were stunned at the Puranic chronology that dealt with lakhs and crores of years, which sounded more astronomical than historical, to their ears. It is this that was mainly responsible for their attempt to cut down our chronology without any compunction. Crores of years were all of a sudden reduced to thousands and hundreds and dire historical facts were represented as primitive myths. Not a few of the early European Indologists were influenced by imperialistic motives in their attempt to minimise the hoary antiquity and greatness of India which was just then becoming a subject nation. A superiority complex in the subject nation might one day lead to a rebellion against its masters and an attempt to regain its greatness.
The logic with which Sri Venkatachelam Garu has proved the genuineness of the three post-Mahabharata eras is irrefutable. The Yudhishtira Era, the Kali Era and the Saptarshi Era have been continuously and consistently followed in our country and the author asks what prevents the historians from pursuing the history of Bharat along these Eras. By summarily repudiating these Eras, the historians could effect a cut of 1200 years in the post-Mahabharata chronology. The author, in a closely reasoned discourse exposes the hollowness of the theories of our Indologists in this regard.
Equally admirable is the author's attack (in his work on Kashmir history) on the date of birth of Buddha so boldly asserted in our text-books on history. He unfolds to us evidence from a number of ancient sources which carries Buddha so far back as the 19th Century B.C.
By disproving the identity of Chandragupta Maurya with the Sandrokottas of the Greeks and by carrying back Chandragupta Maurya to the 16th century B.C., the author has cut at the sheet-anchor of the Indian chronology of European Indologists.
The author proves with incisive logic and glaring illustrations the hollowness of the common charge that Indians sadly lack historical literature. He shows that Magadha, Kashmir and Nepal have got historical records, which are as reliable as any other historical material in the world.
The author has shown that the Yavanas, Sakas and some others, that were supposed to be nations or tribes outside India, were the original inhabitants of India in the provinces bearing the respective names of these peoples and that the so-called Yavana and Saka lands etc., outside India took their names from their inhabitants that migrated from India and occupied those lands. This is one of the original theories of the author.
The author has devoted a special chapter to correlate the evidence of the astronomical works with the Puranic accounts in order to support the chronology he has established in the place of that propounded by Indologists. The author holds that the Mahabharata war took place in the 3138 B.C., and the Andhra dynasty reigned from 833 B.C. In both these dates he deviates from the lndologists' view to the extent of some thousands and hundreds of years. So he feels it his duty to show strong evidence to support himself. He shows that the Brihat Samhita and Garga Samhita agree with the Puranas in the statement that the Saptarshi Mandala was in the constellation of Magha when Yudhishtira was reigning. He tells that the Puranas are definite that Andhra dynasty began 2300 years after the commencement of the Yudhishtira Era (i.e. in the beginning of the 24th century from the war of 3138 B.C.) and that the Saptarshi Mandala again came to Magha during the reign of the Andhra dynasty. The Great Bear takes 2700 years to make one cycle of the 27 stars.
It is thus clear that the scientific works on Astronomy as well as the Puranic accounts are in favour of the author in his bold deviation from the dates established on the vague theories of the Indologists. This is all the more noteworthy when we remember that Sir William Jones pledged his word to revise his views if astronomical evidence could be found to contradict them.
Many students of Indian history might have never dreamt that there was an ancient inscription--the Aihole inscription--of the Ist century B.C., which supports the author's view that the Mahahharata war took place in 3138 B.C, and that Kalidasa existed in the Ist century B.C. The author shows that those scholars who would not accept these dates chose to read "Saptabda" in the place of "Sahabda" in the original inscription.
The author's challenge in the fifth chapter not merely bristles with emotional fervour but is backed by intellectual strength and seasoned with a sense of responsibility.
The author may appear to be too critical towards the Indologists, here and there. But we should remember that in such contexts, he is only defending our ancient authors' historical literature which was most unsympathetically and disrepectfully dubbed by them as a forgery or concoction or interpolation, simply because it was not to their liking. The author, in most cases, has turned the tables against these Indologists and has shown that there were forgeries, concoctions, misrepresentations and misinterpretations by these very scholars. After all, the historian's duty is to present the truth and expose the falsehood, as Kalhana, our ancient historian, has said in his Rajatarangani Sloka:
" శ్లాఘ్యః సఏవ గుణవాన్ రాగద్వేష బహిష్కృతా
భూతార్థకథనేయస్య స్ధేయస్యేవ సరస్వతీః " (Rajatarangini I-6)
The present volume is a mine of information which may benefit all sorts of readers, particularly those in the field of Indological research. There is a common notion among our research scholars in Indian history that it is a sacrilege to question the chronology determined by the European Indologists. These scholars forget that the early European Indologists themselves were conscious of the weakness of their theories and most of the dates that they assigned were, in their own opinion, tentative. The subsequent scholars, with superstitious loyalty to their predecessors, accepted the latters' theories as gospel truths. Thus what were once guesses or tentative hypotheses were later
considered to be sacred gospels. Sri Venkatachelam Garu's works cannot deter those students and scholars of our ancient history who bear in mind the following memorable words of the late justice Kasinath Triyambak Telang, who is noted for his sobriety and openmindedness in Indological research. "It appears to me, I confess, that it is these 'likings' and 'satisfactions' and 'foregone conclusions' lying in the back of most of the logical artillery which European scholars have brought to bear upon the chronology of our ancient literature, it is this that is temporarily doing damage to its antiquity...Not only hypotheses were formed on the weakest possible collection of facts, but upon such hypotheses further superstructures of speculation are raised. And when it is done, the essential weakness of the base is often effectually kept out of view."
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I am a great fan of Sri Kota Venkata Chelam Garu's works and i have referred to his work in many of my publications, listed below.My latest book on the Origins of Astronomy , The Calendar and Time, also contains the Proposed skeleton of Indian Chronology.which is based essentially on his work> I am considering editing his most important works , since they are written in a a style of English , that would discourage occidentals.ReplyDelete
Sri Kota Venkata Chelam Garu,
This Volume is part of a series on the distortions in Indian History
Volume I was titled "Astronomical Dating of Events & Select Vignettes from Indian history" Edited by Kosla Vepa PhD
Available from Amazon and Lulu.com
Volume II The Colonial Paradigm of Indian History
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Volume III The Pernicious Effects of the Misinterpreted Greek Synchronism
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Volume IV The Reality of Knowledge Transmission
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Volume V The Origins of Astronomy, the Calendar and Time
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Volume VI The South Asia File
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Volume VII The Dhārmik Traditions
Volume VIII Selected Essays from ICIH 2009.
Volume IX Souvenir Volume of ICIH 2009 (while supplies last)
Volume X Philosophy and Motivations for ICIH 2009
- gdprasadNovember 26, 2010 at 12:27 PM
This comment is in answer to some comments, which are long and not restricted to the contents of this blog, and hence I will not like to publish.ReplyDelete
An example , I feel, is the first comment to the this posting.
Such comments and questions can be sent to me directly to my email address, which follows, to get answers.
I am a grandson of Pandit Kota Venkata Chelam.
The reason I decided to put the important contents of his books in a blog are that most of his books are now out of print and are not available for purchase.
The books also contain repetitions of some of the topics.
My effort was also to give the readers the contents of his books in a clear manner, without repetitions. So you can know his important writings by reading the blog postings.
However some of his books are available for download.
You can try to read some of his books here by searching for Kota Venkata Chelam and Kota Venkata Chalam in
For more help in downloading the above books contact me directly at gdprasad(at)gmail.com
I thank sri kota venkatachalam garu for enlightening us about our real historical background.I hope his great books will again be available in good book stores so that the present generation -at least some-can study them--k.s.murty.ReplyDelete


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I lift up my eyes to the mountains- where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip- he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord watches over you the Lord is your shade at your right hand the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.The Lord will keep you from all harm he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. Psalm 121
This verse makes me think about Peter walking on the water. He was perfectly stable until he looked away from Jesus. The moment his eyes turned towards the waves he began to sink. Matthew 14:29
A couple of interesting facts.
- Waves and storms were not uncommon in this lake. The disciples would be intimately acquainted with storms and the power they hold.
- The disciples also had seen miracle after miracle that Jesus performed and knew of his power yet still had difficulty trusting Him completely.
Frozen, staring at the waves Peter was beginning to sink. Panic filled his eyes with complete fear and desperation, the waves continued to roll in, then he cried out "Lord save me!"
Jesus responds to his cry, "It is I". This phrase "It is I" is the Greek version of Exodus 3:14 "I AM." This is Jesus saying, "Don't worry. It's me. I'm not a ghost" and more importantly, "I am the Lord God of the universe. I created the wind and the waves and I sent the storm. Remember, I called you out of the boat!"
How often are we looking at the waves, helpless, beat down, afraid and alone? Look up!
Can it be that simple? Looking at the author and perfecter of our faith, the one who created all things, does it make a difference?
I believe it does. In the midst of the storms, looking up causes us to take a moment to regroup, take a breath, get perspective and remember that He is God. That He is trustworthy and He has it under control.
I lift my eyes up, where does my help come from? It comes from the One who loves us!
Storms keep coming like waves rolling into our lives. Storms of;
Will you allow them to overpower and stop you, or will you Look up and allow Jesus to take you by the hand and walk you through?


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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
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- Toni V.S. said...
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- November 22, 2016 at 3:53 PM
- thefensk said...
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- November 22, 2016 at 3:54 PM


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The DIY Ombre trend is one of this seasons biggest looks, whether you choose to ombre your hair, nails, clothes or accessories, you can't get away from the ombre effect! I decided to try my hand at ombre nails this week with my favourite colours of the moment Mint and Jade. I used two coats of O.P.I Alpine Snow as my base then I sponged on Essie's Mint Candy Apple and blended this with O.P.I Fly, the look was finished off with Essie's Carnival to give the ombre some sparkle!
What's your favourite ombre colour combination?


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Ahead of the budget session beginning Monday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said Friday that a decision on forming a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the irregularities in 2G spectrum allocation will be taken in a few days. "A decision on a JPC will be taken in the next three or four days. Government is consulting opposition parties on the issue," Bansal told reporters at the pre-session press conference.The Nov 9-Dec 13 winter session of parliament was crippled by opposition demands for a JPC to probe into the 2G spectrum scam and the government refusing to relent. No business could be transacted during the session.The budget session starts Monday with President Pratibha Patil's address to a joint session of parliament. The pre-budget Economic Survey and the railway budget will be presented on Feb 25 and the general budget on Feb 28. The session will be conducted in two phases with a recess from March 16 to April 4 and will conclude April 21. "The session will have 29 sittings, 17 in first half and 12 in the second half. A total of 75 items, including 66 bills, have been identified for being presented during the session," Bansal said.'Fight against corruption won't end with formation of JPC'Though the Centre has indicated that it is ready to appoint a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to go into the 2G Spectrum issue, NDA on Thursday announced that its fight against corruption would not end with the constitution of the JPC."We are given to understand that the government would appoint a JPC when the Budget session of Parliament starts. However, our goal would not be achieved with the appointment of JPC. We will continue to fight for complete eradication of corruption," senior BJP leader L K Advani said here tonight, addressing a massive rally organised by NDA-BJP against corruption.Asserting that there will be no compromise on corruption, he said NDA's campaign would continue to get back the black money stashed away in foreign tax havens. Recalling that he had written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to reveal the names of those who have stashed away their ill-gotten wealth in foreign banks, Advani said the Prime Minister, however, expressed inability to reveal the names.The BJP veteran said he was happy that the Supreme Court asked the government to disclose the names of those Indians who have deposited their money in foreign banks.Attacking the Prime Minister for expressing helplessness in checking corruption in the name of 'coalition dharma', he charged that Manmohan Singh was seeking excuses."I feel sorry for Manmohan Singh's helplessness. Morarji Desai and Atal Bihari Vajpayee too ran coalition governments. They followed coalition dharma but never indulged in 'bahaanebaji' (seeking excuses)," he said.Referring to the comments made by the Supreme Court on issues of corruption in various cases, Advani said it is for the first time in the history of the country that the apex court has made remarks against the government.Speaking on the Telangana issue, he said the party is committed to give separate statehood to the region in the event of NDA coming to power in the 2014 general elections.The previous NDA government could not give statehood to Telangana as its alliance partner Telugu Desam was not in favour of the demand, he said.Criticising the Prime Minister for saying that "he did know that corruption was taking place", NDA Convener Sharad Yadav cited Chanakya as saying that the ruler who expresses ignorance should be thrown out."Manmohan Singhji, NDA has no enmity with you. But it is true that corruption is taking place from Delhi to the village level," he said.He took exception to the Prime Minister allegedly saying that "only little loot has taken place and a mountain is made out of a mole hill by the opposition and media."Promising that the NDA would root out corruption and give a clean administration to the people, he appealed to the people to strengthen NDA and elect the coalition to power in the next general elections.Training his guns on the Prime Minister, BJP president Nitin Gadkari asked how come Manmohan Singh could not stop the 2G spectrum scam though he was aware of it and had written a letter to then Telecom Minister A Raja.
Ikato Y Kiho, first Naga to join National School of Drama in New Delhi
I must be the perfect role model: Ikato Y Kiho is the first person from Nagaland to study in the prestigious


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My question is, hopefully, simple. How do you do it? The daily posts on your blog, Facebook, and other outlets? How do you manage the torrential downpour of queries *(let alone dealing with the ones who don't read the QueryShark forums and responding to the ones who do)? How do you manage to do all that and maintain connections with your clientele while shopping their books around to publishing houses/editors who also require a certain depth of connection with you? Even on vacation, you put SOMETHING on for us to look at, completely flying in my smug little face when I thought for sure you'd not put up anything while on vacation or at ThrillerFest. All the while, I cringe at having a definite daily word count!
We aren't even talking about reading or how you manage home life *(which I have a growing suspicion that you must live in a hovel under your desk at the office).
Lastly, as a fun little tid-bit, what kind of shark are you anyways? Keep ripping up the seas!
How do I do it?
Time goblins. I buy the minutes you squander from a team of traveling goblins who steal those extra minutes and resell them. I don't have 24 hours in a day; I have 36. Every time you come to your senses after drifting off into some sort of vacant stare, well, thank you. Those are now my minutes, and I intend to use them to torment you.


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... to the east side... to the deeeeluxe lofted space in the shop! Yeah, we'll be moving' on up! Yesterday was another very big day for Origami Vinyl. [cough-cough-Pete Townshend-cough]
After a more hectic morning than you should know, Jeremy and I welcomed the arrival of the spiral staircase. My version of welcoming consisted mainly of photo-documenting, while Jeremy's included helping to corkscrew it through the doorway.
Sparks literally flying
Not Pete Townshend [cough-pete-effing-townshend!-cough]
Still not Pete Townshend
Likewise not Pete Townshend, Sean came to install the vinyl-only record shop's all-important vinyl-only sound system. Because we're keepin' it real.
Sean and Jeremy sound systeming
Sound check 1...
Check 2... Note the wall mounting... just another fine example of Jeremy's woodcrafting skills.
Stair installation complete
Sean test-running the stairs
Pete Townshend [cough]
Cue music...
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November 19, 2016
SETBACKS: PART OF THE PROCESS by Bryan Norford
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It was wonderful to hear your 'voice' once again on the blog. You write so eloquently and always have something of substance to say. You are missed!ReplyDelete
The word eloquence, or eloquently, also came to my mind, Tracy, and then I notice you used it. But that's just fine, because some words, thoughts and opinions bear repeating. I'll be back to read this again, Brian, because I may need this encouragement as soon as tomorrow. :-) Thanks.ReplyDelete
Thank you for this. Being true to yourself is a hard thing if you want to make money but for me, that's the only way the passion stays alive.ReplyDelete
Take care and you will be in my prayers with your health concerns.
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" My daughter, I am urging people to get serious now about having a relationship with me, for I am telling you that so many will not recognize me when our Father will send me back.
Tell people to stop thinking of me as an abstraction. I am a real person.
Tell them to turn to me with all their hearts instead of relying on dead Scriptures.
I can see the masses fall for their false messiah in the same way they did on the very day I was sentenced to death.
Only true disciples would understand the fine distinction between Yeshua bar Abba (the true Maschiach) and Yeshua bar Abba (better known as "Barrabas")…child, I am telling you that many individuals will be fooled by a diluted version of me in the last days. A veil of blindness will cover many eyes.
During the days that precede my return, the enemy will send somebody capable of doing miracles, among other great deeds and claiming to be God. The ones who only know me theoretically will be very vulnerable. My sheep, the ones who know my voice cannot be deceived for they actually know who I am.
As for the other ones, I am urging you, call upon my Name and get to know your Savior, because if you fall into the man of sin's claws, it will be too late."
"Lord, my love, I can sense the emergency of your words as a spirit of evil is gaining more and more souls. Please save the ones that can still be saved. Have mercy, dear Lord for the yet unsaved souls."
"Many individuals wrongly think that reading Scriptures regularly automatically confers Salvation. I'll reiterate it: Scriptures do not save nor does regular attendance to an assembly. Although some so called " spiritual leaders" will keep them captive by fear, these people ( with a few exceptions) are very far from me. They have no idea about who I am. They have prejudiced opinions about who I should be as well. These people are in great danger, because they proclaim that they are saved because of the Scriptures. However, I am not their personal Savior. So how can they even dare to say that they accessed Salvation? If I came in front of these individuals, asking them: "Who saved you?", they would reply: " I am saved because of the Bible…"
If I replied to them: "Your Bible doesn't have any power to save you, only Yeshua can bring you Salvation", some of them would call me a "demon".
The Holy Spirit is absent from their souls. I would like to urge them all to get to know me for real, as a person. Once the man of sin will appear with his fake prodigies, it will be far too late.
People have to remember that Scriptural knowledge is nothing. Proficiency creates a vacuum when people accumulate it and don't apply it with their hearts.
I desire humble and thirsty souls, not Scripture parrots."
As I kept speaking with my Lord, I was transported into a tiny street of Jerusalem. The sun was shining and my feet were making noise while hitting little white stones that were on my way.
I stopped and stood before a pink door. I could see red flowers at the right side of the door. The pink door was beautifully decorated with wrought iron.
My ear then caught the Hebrew word Shaar, which means"door" or "gate".
Why our Lord had taken me here I was really clueless.
I spoke again to Yeshua in the morning:
"Lord what is the meaning of that pink door I was standing before in Jerusalem?"
Yeshua then replied to me:
"Shin is the letter of the Shema. You need an ear to hear. Ayin is the letter for the eye. You need an eye to see. Finally, Resh is the letter of "rosh". It is the head, the beginning.
Child, you have been praying for me to open you new horizons. Here I am bringing you in front of a door. A new door will open for you."
"Thank you my beloved. Why is the door pink?"
"My daughter, pink is not one of your favorite colors, is it?"
"No, you are right, Yeshua. Pink is definitely not among my favorite colors."
"The pink color is showing you that the door I am opening will not be opened in a casual way. It will surprise you in many ways."
"Thank you my Yeshua. May my ears be willing to listen and my eyes wide open to see what you prepared for this new beginning.
You are the door, my Yeshua, and I will enter thanks to you. I praise you, my sweet Lord."
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yo, big d, good to see you out here under the spotlights and in the smoke, just like an 80's hair band-without the annoying sounds.
antartica stories and good spirits were the order of biz last time we spoke in person. i'm looking for more of the same in about 14 weeks. and can't wait for a certain package from littleton to hit the loading docks here at the design and fabrication facility.
hey, as a self-proclaimed "jack of all" (of which many of us certainly are-proclaimed or not), maybe you have by now realized (in your sagacious wisdom which comes with being older than i) that doing every-single-dang-thing yourself is hugely inefficient. i'm finally getting there, where i'd rather make/sell/service the widgets i understand and then pay someone else to do those things i'd have to learn or no longer have facilities to accomplish.
you ever have thoughts like that?


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Yes, Fargo. Yeah, sure, you betcha.
Hi all...it's been forever since I've blogged. Or at least it seems that way. Life has been full. This week has been especially full...with deep sorrow of losing a family member to cancer (way too young with a beautiful family) and lots of other joy and surprises and answers to prayer. I pray the good stuff will play out sweetly...only time will tell.
Just the other day, I wrote as my facebook status...
Trying to soak in the beauty of today. There is joy in every little moment. It's actually amazing how the deepest sorrow can coincide with the greatest of joys. I am overwhelmed. Thankful for the hope and promise we have in Jesus Christ and the blessings of today.
So much to ponder this week.
I pray wherever you are, there is a peace and comfort in your heart from the One who gives it so freely.
Big hugs tonight,


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Benefits of Prison and other Comments of a Ridiculous Nature
I don't really follow celebrities and entertainment and such. Occasionally I will see a story and read about it, but usually not.
However, I saw a headline that said Paris Hilton was cold and lonely in prison.
Poor dear.
I guess she's not used to sleeping anywhere that isn't one of her daddy's hotels.
Her family said they were going to send her a care package with an eyepad whatsit so she could sleep at night.
Dude, it's prison. It's not supposed to be fun. I'm all for humane treatment and respect of civil rights, but give me a break. She acted wrong and these are the consequences. Period.
The best part of all was her comment that she could do Pilates all day because she was so bored, and that she could eat even fewer calories because the food was so bad.
I can see it now: The Prison Diet. If you only have crappy, nasty food around, you probably won't eat it. The latest, greatest bestseller. I bet the canned green bean producers will be happy. Mmm-mmm good.
Then again, I'm not hearing her comments about the food a couple of weeks in.
Should there be "benefits" from prison? One should hope so. A chance to get off drugs. A chance to re-examine your actions and behaviors. A good lesson in consequences. A chance to earn a GED. And so on. The point of punishment isn't purely punishment, to make you "really sorry." And the point of prison is not to lose weight.
I don't feel sorry for Ms. Hilton in the least. I wouldn't be sending her care packages, other than the basics (which a scented eye cover is not). Not if she were my wayward child. The lesson I hope she learns is that her shit stinks too.
And if she comes out saying that the best part of prison was her weight loss, I just might lose it. I'm guessing she meant it as a joke, but really. It's like being thankful for cancer because the chemo made you lose weight. Which an editor of Vogue, I believe, actually said. She felt good because she could finally wear the clothes that were featured in her magazine. I guess you could say that's one of the "benefits" of anorexia: you get to fit into really small clothes. But when you look at the suffering involved, it sure ain't.
Which kind of brings up a good point: anorexia isn't a disease in which one intentionally tries to fit into really small clothes. That's sort of a side effect. It's not a cause (i.e., seeing the small clothes and trying to fit into them).
At the end of the day, I hope Ms. Hilton does learn her lesson. And I really really hope that losing weight in prison isn't one of them.


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Life.Paper.Scrapbook is a brand new Australian, quarterly, online publication. It's dedicated to showcasing designers from all around the world to inspire each other, explore current trends and techniques and most importantly to celebrate our love of scrapbooking and paper crafts. This is a place to share our style, designs and creations with like minded crafters from around the world.
The first issue is set to go live in late March and in the mean time our blog will be a place where we will be showcasing products, designers (from all around the world) and things that catch our eye. There will also be two challenges each month and prizes too!
I'm really excited to be part of this team. You can find my fellow team members up on the Life.Paper.Scrapbook blog today.
The call for submissions for the first issue is open until February 27th, so give it a try and maybe your project will be published!
As promised I'll also show you some more pages I made last Sunday in the Donna Downey class, starting with a photo of Donna and me. Please don't pay attention to my sleepy head :-) I had to leave home 7am that morning and traveled 3,5 hours to get there...
These two pages are made with Pan Pastels and a mask. The left page is one layer of Pan Pastel, the right page two layers.


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German native Johann Heros von Borcke returned to Virginia in the 1880s to revisit his comrades in arms and the sites of his service with General J. E. B. Stuart during his time as a major in the Confederate cavalry. Mr. Earnest took his audience on a journey back to the years of the Civil War.
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